#but they DIDN’T

[daenerysoftarth]

Tbh hotd s2 was mid. I’m really disappointed that they didn’t focus on any of Jace’s escapades in the north,,,, only like 2 scenes with any starks whatsoever. no scene of aemond returning to kings landing w the news that he killed Luke + the reactions of the council once they realized war was inevitable (a scene I was personally looking forward to). even the side plot of alicent defecting—while not in the books and imo a good choice on the parts of the hotd writers—was very underwhelming and didn’t live up to the potential that it had. completely wasted gayle rankin’s talent, turned alys into just a generic goth girl who whispers riddles without her own development or independent scenes,,,,,, daemon spending allllll that fucking time in harrenhal, only to end up going back to rhaenyra in the end,,, it threw the pacing of the whole show off and felt like a complete waste of time,, AND NO NETTLES

[lumiilys]

Once again thinking about how, for so many years, Stede felt broken not being able to love Mary the way he was expected to. Feeling trapped in a loveless marriage after hoping he would be able to marry for love, to the point where he would sometimes cry himself to sleep. And how meeting Ed completely turned his life upside down and let him experience joy and love he never thought he would be able to…

Uh. Anyway. That’s why I love when people draw art of Stede and Mary miserable in bed together and then Stede and Ed all snuggled up and happy in bed together. And I would have loved a parallel like that in the series!

[aurore-dupin]

I’m deeply normal about Ema Skye so here’s some thoughts about her design and Phoenix.

When we meet her in her first design she has her bow that is a design reference to Lana’s scarf. And like you’d think that if you would bring the character back you’d put more Edgeworth design influences on her, because of her affection for him. In the Investigations series, however, she is in a red tie like Phoenix (the tie is striped but you see where I’m going). In her AA4 design, now that Phoenix is disbarred, she completely looses almost all blue from her design switching to a green waistcoat instead. I say almost because she still has her hydrogen button and it’s blue.

Because the one thing she keeps is the one that matches something that Phoenix always has, the Oxygen pin that she gave him to record.

[nocturnalxsociety]

I think it’s such a waste to spend all that time making archie understand that he can explore a man’s body and then not have him end up dating the other man in his polycule. I mean they never say he’s not dating jughead, betty just never tells us if they fuck. They could very well fuck but that’s not her business. Maybe she didn’t want to out gay archie

[inamindfarfaraway]

thoughts on best boy The Spot?

SUCH A GOOD VILLAIN.

When he’s a lighthearted probably-just-a-villain-of-the-week, he’s hilarious. I particularly loved him begging the store owner not to fight him off with a bat because this is his first robbery, please don’t make this a bad experience for him. He’s never done this before! It’s like he’s apologetic for the robbery being so inefficient, not the crime itself. His insistence that he’s Miles’s Nemesis instantly reminded me of The Panda Redd’s Lord Death Man videos. Him innocently saying “Oh, I love chai tea!” after Pavitr’s rant and Pav screaming “No!” and attacking him cracked me up. Despite his supervillain nemesis dreams, he’s so… polite and affable. Almost Doofenschmirtz-esque at times. Tell me Doof wouldn’t apologize in the exact same way for the “I came to India on a journey of self-discovery” faux pas.

I love that he’s the bagel guy. I treasure that moment with its bagel sound effect and I’m so glad they brought it back. He would cry so hard watching Everything Everywhere All at Once.

But the fact that he’s intertwined with Miles’s origin story and each of their superpowered conditions are unintended consequences of the other’s actions is highly relevant to the narrative, where the rippling consequences of your actions are a major theme. It’s kind of a fundamental Spider-Man thing, after all. It’s genuinely unsettling when he begs/demands Miles to look at him, really see him, and take him seriously. Even if he then literally kicks his own butt. It hits a lot harder after we see how isolating and distressing being an anomaly is to Miles himself. You can understand why Spot would obsess over their connection. Him starting out laughable and growing to be epic is an echo of Miles’s development in the first film - complete with a mostly black appearance upgrade when he gets the hang of it.

The tone blending is so masterful with him because he is also, somehow so scary. When he stops acting silly and friendly, it’s chilling. His powers are terrifyingly effective and dangerous and it seems like he hasn’t even fully unlocked their potential by the end of the movie. His appearance is silly (“Are you some sort of Cow Man?”) until it’s not; until it sinks in that he is a reality-rending cosmic abomination full of resentment, pain and spite, and his lack of a face or even eyes makes him feel more disturbingly eldritch than cartoonish. I cannot wait to see what he’s capable of in Beyond, and I hope the beautiful imagery puts Lovecraft to shame.

[pwurrz]

people are using the “learn to separate fiction and reality” to justify genshin’s and more specifically hoyoverse’s racism and whitewashing of african cultures and. well. i can’t say i’m even a little bit surprised.

[thymeisasocialconstruct]

It very quickly developed from ‘We need to keep the girl out of Targent’s hands because the Azran Legacy is powerful’ -> ‘We need to unlock the Azran Legacy with Aurora’s help.’

[fancylala4]

Weebs on twitter are so annoying.

“Why are you calling the characters from digimon their English names? The dub sucks and it ruined the franchise in the west!”

Who gives a fuck? In the end of the day, it’s how people were introduced into the franchise and became long time fans of it! I get it. You want to feel special for reading subs and watching it like a real Japanese person or whatever you stupid weebs think but no one fucking cares that you hate dubs and think it “ruins” the anime. It just makes you look like a loser.

As far as dubs for kids go, digimon was one of the good ones and people still can call the characters by their English names. I’m pretty sure toei is still using those names for the new dub, so what is the fucking problem other than your a weeb?

[sweetonsugden]

Supernatural S5x15 “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”

Dean: “you gave yourself your own nickname? You can’t do that.”

Digger: “who died and made you queen?”

Why did the writers even choose the word queen instead of king? They purposely be fucking with people 😂

[starbuck]

was completely mystified for days by my cousins being like “let’s watch a movie!” and then BOTH OF THEM proceeding to stare at their phones throughout the entire film, glancing at the screen only whenever the dialogue or a musical cue implied that something Important was happening, only to realize that the issue is that modern films don’t rely on nearly as many purely visual elements as older films did, so my poor cousins missed over 50% of the jokes because i didn’t think to warn them that, when watching films directed by people who got their start before films had dialogue, you actually need to WATCH them to understand what is happening.

[leonkennedy]

the reason hoyo didn’t give childe his fight with clorinde is because she would’ve kicked his fucking ass

[6flyingosprey6]

Ok but am I the only one who think that the egg event won’t end?

[qnpc04]

all the people whining and crying about bad ‘messing up the canon’ need to close their eyes and take a little breather … come on now follow me .. breathe in ……………….. breathe out

[bisexualvampires]

it’s almost 6am and the rain has kept me awake for hours and ???? i just totally?? forgot?? that there was no destiel kiss in the confession scene. stupid as hell

[asmywhimseytakesme]

It’s annoying when someone goes through the mental effort to summarize a concept in a succinct understandable way and then people dismiss it as something anyone could have said because it seems so simple after someone finally put it into words.

It’s sad that articulating concepts simply is a skill that by it’s nature leads people to dismiss it as a skill.