I don't have any deep feelings or analysis this week. I've had a terrible week. I'm exhausted. I'm questioning my future (or lack thereof). I miss my girlfriend, who I haven't seen in over a month. This episode makes me miss her like a limb.
This episode was so sweet...it was so gentle. It knew we were all fragile, and it held our hands through the pain. Like Jom, it smiled while saying goodbye. Only one more episode left, really. One last time with Jom and Yai.
I cried the entirety of the last 15 minutes of the episode, even though I'd read the novel and knew it was coming. It's so bittersweet; having to leave just after the dust has settled. Having to say goodbye when you've barely started to live.
But this episode highlighted just how much Jom, Yai and everyone else has grown. Jom caused ripples, he changed lives. He made friends and those friends changed lives. They changed his life. These are not props to his story, they are his story. His community. His friends. His lover. His allies. Even FK has become someone who lovingly waves goodbye. Even Prik tears up when watching him dance with the man he loves.
I've been following IFYLITA on air since the first episode. Just like Yai, I'm not ready to say goodbye. I'm not ready to leave 1928, to leave Ming, to leave Maey, to leave even Hope! But sometimes you must leave. And you have no choice. But what a beautiful time it was.
The music when Jom was drawing, and the final letter broke me. They love each other so selflessly. They want nothing but the other's happiness. They have created love where there was tension and unfairness. They deserve better.
But this is what they got. This is what they have. And, truly, we are all so beautifully lucky to get to fall in love, even for a little while.
I'm not ready for next week. I'm crying right now.
Will never get over how Starscream and Skyfire's relationship is always doomed. There's never an iteration of them where they both stay on the same side at the end. They always end up being against each other, tearing each other apart (whether intentionally or not). They always end up losing each other, be it by a snowstorm, by the war, or by death itself. They never receive a happy ending together, one if not both of them is doomed to suffer.
Skyfire is doomed to be an Autobot, by forces out of his control. Starscream is doomed to be an Decepticon, by his own self destructive tendencies. They are both doomed, because of who they are. They always try to save the other, in their own way. But it never works. They are doomed to fail, whether they stay together or not.
Given the way that Headshaker Huaisang goes to Jin Guangyao (and LXC) for solutions to so many of his problems, possibly/probably including struggles with running a sect, do you think maybe the Headshaker persona was as much a part of the revenge plot as it was a veil to hide behind? Like, oh you killed my brother, the head of the Nie sect? Fine. YOU run the sect then 🙃 It needs a leader and you killed him so now it's YOUR fucking problem, and I'm going to make it an incredibly annoying problem. Not a single cog will turn smoothly 🙃
Thinking about how if Shermy Pines. And like, if he is the baby, he’d be born in the 1970s and be 40 by 2012 and he’s already a grandad. He had to be a teen dad in the 80s (after a severe economic recession) and then his kid ended up being a teen parent by 1999 (Which is 8 years before ANOTHER SEVERE ECONOMIC RECESSION LOL)
Also he was born into a pretty broken family, probably rarely if ever saw his brothers. Do you think he ever saw Stanley before he had to start pretending to be Ford? Do you think Ford visited from college??? Because he didn’t seem confident facing his father until he made millions, so like???
And, like, do you think Filbrick and Caryn changed as parents by the time they raised Shermy? Because it seems like a trend that as parents get older they mellow out a bit, so Shermy probably has a completely different experience with their parents then Stan and Ford, and talking to them is just “is this seriously the same parents???” (Imagine the silent resentment that’d cause 😭😭😭)
Personally I headcannon that Shermy had a daughter (Mabel and Dipper’s mom) and not a son like it says on the wiki because c’mon. Can he just have a daughter. Idk why this is important to me but… c’mon. Can he just have a daughter. It just feels right to me.
hey guys. I don't mind people reposting my gifs on other sites to express their own love for sam, I love to see it actually, but please do not use mine for archive/gif accounts. thanks xx