#can't recommend this series enough

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okay so. SO. Last week I became obsessed with the Pitt, and I binged all of s1 just in time for the finale on Thursday night and!! I found my FAVORITE fic in the fandom so far: and yet i fight, yet i fight by a_gathering_of_flowers

As a Trinity Santos lover, and someone obsessed with the dynamic between her and Langdon (enemies to frenemies to besties arc WILL be theirs TRUST), I am in love with this fic so much. I won't spoil too much about it in case you happen to be a non-Pitt follower of my blog, anon (in which case...wyd, go watch the Pitt!!), but basic premise is: Santos and Langdon become roommates and slowly but surely warm up to each other...also SOOO much Santos backstory (speculative ofc, because there's a lot we don't know about her, but!! I love it sm!! Canon to me until we know otherwise). Obviously, spoilers for the entire series (minus the finale, but imo it could still potentially happen in the future, even with a certain plot point that the finale reveals)

Also, dropping a bonus Flash series that I adore (bc idk if you like the Pitt, anon, and I wanna give you smth): Pieces of a Broken Mirror by RetroactiveCon! It tackles the aftermath of the Mirrorverse arc SO SO WELL, letting Iris save HERSELF and addressing BOTH her and Barry's trauma after the whole thing (which is great, because even in the fandom, Barry's 6b trauma gets overlooked a LOT). I love it so much

writer truth or dare ask game!

[theokusgallery]

For a little while now the only thing about Sanders Sides I ever saw was artwork of hot characters you post to this blog. Today I decided to actually look up what this series was, with the hope of finding more things related to sexy snake people in cute outfits. So imagine my shock when I looked it up and found that it's all related to that guy from Vine that I watched YEARS ago. It's certainly not what I was expecting but after watching the first two videos in that series I have come to find that it actually a little bit interesting. So thanks for getting me to look into this further

Anyway, I also wanted to say that your art is great. Whether it be characters in interesting fits, ship art, or the cute daily basil posts, your art is always such a joy to see even if I don't know the characters. So keep up the great work.

Oh, I should probably actually ask something uuuuhhhhh…. how did you find out about Sanders Sides?

Hi ! First of all I am so sorry. I'm SO sorry. Picture me groveling at your feet apologetically here. I'm SO SORRY. That I gave you the impression that SaSi was about sexy snake people in cute outfits. Getting into Sanders Sides and being surprised that Thomas "that guy from Vine" Sanders is the one making it is a near fandom-wide universal experience I think.

Also— glad you're enjoying the series!! The first few episodes are very old and my two favorites are two of the latest canon episodes (which still means they're old but whatever), and seeing as you said you only watched the first two, I do want to say: sexy snake guy is real. He doesn't look like that, obviously, he looks just like the rest of them but in another outfit, but he is 100% the hottest one of them. To me. In my very very unbiased opinion. It DOES get there and he's the best character and he's very important to my two favorite episodes. If you end up watching more, please please please feel free to tell me your thoughts, I want to hear all about it.

And thank you for the compliments on my art, I'm glad you enjoy it! <3 I've been moving from fandom to fandom a bit fast lately so it's really nice to know there are people out there who enjoy seeing it regardless. I've definitely done much more ship art for "SaSi" (read: KTSAWTG) than I have for most of the other fandoms I've ever drawn for, lmao.

To answer your question: I have no idea!

[gamerbot-22]

I walk up to the mic

I tap on it. Feedback reverberates throughout the theatre.

I lean in and say

"Everyone in the Dungeon Meshi adventuring team is autistic"

A scattered chorus goes "You're coming to that conclusion now?!"

[necrotic-nephilim]

Tell me why Kara Zor-L is one of my your favs! I'm been meaning to make the jump from the CW show to the comics. Any recommendations?

- @cicero-in-gotham

@cicero-in-gotham oh i would LOVE to!! Kara Zor-L is my darling beloved.

firstly for suggestions, i'll be honest Kara can be... a hard character to read for. you have to slog through a lot of really shitty "male gaze" content to get scraps of interesting stuff. the top comics i'd recommend are

Power Girl: Power Trip

Power Girl Returns

Power Girl (2023)

some people like Harley Quinn & Power Girl. i'll be honest... i did not. and Power Girl (2009) has... ups and downs, is the nicest way i'll say it. but it's also solid for what it is. certainly better than her New-52 content so i can't really complain.

anyhow, i always am enamoured by characters who are disconnected from their "family", especially due to trauma. bc no one really counts Power Girl as part of the Superfamily. and even within the Superfamily if people are talking about the "outcast" of the family, they always say Kon. (which, eh? maybe New-52!Kon but i wouldn't say the main Kon is an outcast, his issues are internal) but to me, Kara far better suites that role. it's one thing to be one of the last survivors of Krypton. it's another thing to be one of the last survivors of your entire *universe* as well. she lost everyone, *twice*.

i adore characters who feel like imposters and Kara is *peak* imposter syndrome. everything about her identity is constructed around not feeling like a "real" Super, or a "real" Zor-L. she has to live with knowing she's on an earth that has Supergirl, meaning they don't need her. she didn't wear the S crest for so long even on her own earth, because she felt like she didn't server it.the only thing she feels like she has going for her is her sexual appeal and so it's so amped up she lacks a personality outside of it. she has been isolated again and again by her trauma and she struggles to face her grief, masking with humor and oversexual appearances. i find that to be so interesting. she lost *everything*, twice. and now she's an imposter who will always hold herself at a distance from the Supers because she doesn't want to make them uncomfortable with her existence. she has to live on an Earth and know everyone is... slightly off. she has Clark, but it's not *her* Clark. she has the Justice Society of America, but it's not *her* JSA. and she doesn't have her best friend, Helena Wayne at *all*, because this earth has Helena Bertinelli as Huntress. (unless you count New Golden Age stuff but that's future timeline nonsense)

i find Kara's lack of identity interesting, and the way she just sort of drifts. she has done a lot of things, but lacks a sense of self importance bc she will never view herself as a "real" Kryptonian of this universe. she's just so neat to me. i also love the JSA personally, they're one of my favorite superhero teams, so i love any character connected to the JSA, they're always so underrated.

the Power Girl Special (which is collected in Power Girl Returns) is like, genuinely one of my favorite single issues ever. that comic just lives in my bones. it also has one of the *best* internal monologues i've ever read. something something comics are art. this is cutting some stuff out but just to show you have beautiful the writing is, this is an excerpt from that comic

people tend to think of hatred as love's opposite. but i disagree- i think hatred is just love's sharpened edge. it's the same passion. the same potency, the same intensity. just a different flavor. so no, hatred isn't love's opposite. grief is. grief is the void left behind after something you once loved was violently ripped away. grief is what happens in love's sudden absence. love is when your cup runneth over. but grief is hollow. a chasm. there is no negotiating with grief. it does what it wants to you, when it wants. you will never outgrow or outrun it. but... you can find ways to grow around it. i never got to say goodbye. i was loved, once. i was once loved so much that my life was prioritized above all else. i will never feel worthy of that love or sacrifice. but i'm realizing now that to freeze or falter in the shadow of that love is the only way to fail their sacrifice. i have to live in the light. i can step out into the sunlight, and still carry them with me.

like that is??? so Character to me. she is Everything. i'm just. so unwell over her internal struggles and how she faces the world, i cannot recommend her enough. she means the world to me and that comic has stuck with me since i read it for it's conversation about handling grief. i am begging everyone to be a Power Girl fan i know she's confusing but once you get the hang of her backstory she's so cool i swear-

[inafieldofdaisies]

Invasion (2023) | Season 2, Episode 8 “Cosmic Ocean” | Favorite scenes

"In Hindu mythology, there's this sage, Markandeya. One day, he climbs up and out of the belly of the world and finds himself looking out through the mouth of the great god, Vishnu. The cosmic ocean. His mind snaps with the enormity of it. He stumbles. Falls back down the god's throat. Smack-down to earth. He spends the next several millennia searching for a way back out."

[saysflora]

The Box of Delights (1984)

[musemelodies]

a summary of the big good wolf:

mickey: haha, i can fix him. :D

big bad: (eats an entire town)

[hxroic-wxlls-fxrever]

//Also, in my fanfic reading days, I read one fanfic where Kamina (from Gurren Lagann) got dropped into Madoka Magica, and he ended up being such an inspirational force for the group that Sayaka managed to willpower her way back to being normal after turning into a Witch. 10/10 peak cinema, would read again.//

[vivvy-of-the-lake]

damn, you wouldn't believe the hands that trans bocchi fanfics have

[floralovebot]

What character in any media do you think is similar to garth?

I thought really hard about this but honestly I couldn't come up with a good answer.

I really wanted to say bbc's Merlin, and tbh I do still think they have a lot of similarities with their personalities and story arcs, but it's not the best answer. The thing about Garth is that he's a Good person - not just good, but "pure of heart". And like,,, that's hard to find unless you're specifically looking at children's media aimed at like,, five year olds. Anyway, while Garth and Merlin share a lot of similarities (extreme selflessness, tragic destinies, people around them being Mean, abandonment and isolation being major elements), Merlin also has a darker side to him that is just so,,, Not Garth. And in the later seasons, he starts to become very somber and cold.

Personally, I feel like the Garth/Merlin parallels are at their highest during the earlier seasons!

[hawkinslibrary]

forgot how much i love fanvids. i used to spend so so much time on youtube watching them and i'm kinda falling back into that habit now. there's sooooo many good st ones out there too. people are so creative and the editing skills and attention to detail are amazing

[reservoirreputation]

We're cutting the cord on Netfilx at the end of this month, so I'm trying to focus on original series and movies from the platform. I've worked my way through Midnight Mass, after putting it off for years, and guys.

If you only use Netflix for one month, this is a must-see series.

Like many Flanagan projects, it will enrage you, tire you, make you ball like a baby. Both feel beaten down and inspired, and the meditations on grief, of very human flaws, thematic elements mirroring each other and coming together so neatly by the end. This is the level of cathartic sorrow that I could only dream of touching (and god help any readers if I figure it out), but it's still so damn hopeful. You never leave a Flanagan series feeling that all is lost ('Usher' may beg to differ, but we shall see, it's up next). There is always hope, a sense of comfort, a sense of reassurance even through all the tears. Netflix has seriously fucked up, letting this guy go.

I wish Mike Flanagan and his recurring actors the absolute best, because that's exactly what they are.

[owlyflufff]

still thinking of how I finished reading the Trigun Maximum manga last month but that series is forever engraved into my very soul like it's so raw, emotional and I haven't been the same ever since-

[leftoblique]

✔ Best treatment of Holmes as a complex, eccentric, troubled, sometimes funny character (who isn't always likeable, but isn't just an asshole)

✔ Best modern update of the Watson character

✔ Best wardrobe in any Holmes adaptation, period

✔ Best modern exploration of Holmes and Watson as platonic life partners (especially cool considering they went with an opposite-gender pairing)

✔ Queer and trans actors thrown in just because they could

Bonus: Lucy Liu ate in every scene

“i wish we could see adaptations where sherlock holmes hates the rich and is allowed to be kind to those around him and uses his abilities to support society’s underdogs” elementary was doing this back in 2012. this was only episode 4.

[klysanderelias]

Yeah ten episodes into Kolchak and I have to say, the actual meat of the show is kind of bad - it's formulaic to a fault, there's very little tension or drama, and the monsters are anything from disappointing to just being directly racist.

But every scene in that news office is so much fun.

I'm so fond of Tony, of Ron, and Emily especially, watching her straight up screw over other coworkers because she likes Kolchak is just so endearing - watching the two of them interact is just great tv because there's so much to chew on in their relationship.

I think that in general, having watched ten episodes in relatively short order, I think that this show really benefits from being an 'on in the background' sort of watch, and one that you're not really watching regularly. Watching it closely together really highlights just how railroaded the plots are, and how similar the structure is from episode to episode, and honestly as far as I can tell there just isn't any real continuity that would make watching it in the correct order particularly valuable. It's quite literally a monster of the week show, possibly one of the most textbook examples, and I certainly wish it wasn't just one-off stories that have to be wrapped up in 45 minutes.

Out of the ten episodes I've watched, maybe 3 of them are really worth watching - The Ripper, Firefall, and The Devil's Platform. The rest of them are again just kind of 'put it on in the background while you're cooking' sort of tv, it's really not worth your full attention.

But looking at the list, the second half of the show looks... well, I can't really say PROMISING, but it at least looks like it might start moving away from some of the more stereotypical stuff. The first ten episodes are like, vampire, werewolf, alien, indigenous spirit, voodoo, satanism, etc, and it's all very boring and often deeply racist, but I'm hoping that episodes like 'The Knightly Murders' or 'Demon in Lace' start to get into something a little more interesting - I think that the show really struggles to be interesting with a lot of the 'usual suspects' of monster shows. I'm not saying that a vampire episode CAN'T be novel, just that it wasn't in this case.

And it makes me wonder what the reboot will be like - my guess is that it'll be flipped, Kolchak himself will be indescribably awful to watch, and all the characters will be flat and stilted, and the effects and plots will be much better. I never watched much Supernatural, but I'm expecting the same sort of Season 1 Supernatural vibe - all of these characters are annoying and bland, and the showrunners put all the effort into making the visual effects stand out with what they had to work with at the time. Again, it's Ringu vs. The Ring for me.

But we'll see, and we'll see how I feel about this show by the time I'm done with all 20 episodes. It's possible that as the show goes on, it gets more played out and by the end I'm sick of it, because I'm already feeling some exhaustion with how repetitive and unoriginal it is, but I'm hoping that they either start taking bigger swings, or they get weird with it.