#chuck is bad writing

[thatweirdguyinthebushes]

Genesis, Valzhyna Mort | Better Call Saul

[lycoris707]

not feeling great, so have a wild life Gem doodle

the BAMs got their designs, so others will too

also as for the animatic stuff, I moved the deadline to "we'll see how long it takes" cuz it turns out I made a grave error in my calculations, so the previous schedule was literally impossible to pull off

[glitter-stained]

Oh hey check that out:

This is from BoP(1999) #34

Fanon invention my ass

[feeneeweenee]

Better Call Saul: The Most I've Cried In a While.

If it isn't clear, there WILL be spoilers during every moment of this post. I would love to talk about my thoughts on the show as a whole, and reflect on how I've connected with the characters... especially Jimmy McGill.

Fresh From 'Breaking Bad'

Being introduced to Better Call Saul after Breaking Bad was inevitable, of course. Going into it, I think I had the same assumption as everyone else: "Wow!! The silly, funny, very unserious lawyer got a show all for himself!! Finally, some comedic relief from the heartbreak I felt from Breaking Bad! Thank god!!" Well, safe to say I was extremely wrong. A couple episodes in, I'm learning to mourn "Saul Goodman". I LOVED Saul, I thought nothing he could do would make him seem worse or better than he already was. I thought he was at his peak all around, so seeing him go from Saul Goodman to some dude named "Jimmy McGill" was whiplash, and I rejected it, thinking: "wow, he's not cool yet. This is so sad to watch." Seeing him wear browns, blacks, navy blues and greys really made me shun his core character already. I remember feeling bored, and as if I wouldn't like the show, given the mindset I went in with. Boy, was I wrong.

Learning Jimmy

As I watched more, I came to realize the TRUE Jimmy McGill. His difference in morale, mannerisms, approach to life, more or less was a lot more genuine. A little fucked up? Sure, but human and real. I've come to realize slowly but surely during S1 and S2 that Jimmy was a man who had a heart, despite him constantly ricocheting between being a con-artist, and man with a lot of love to give. When he was slipping back into his bad habits, breaking the rules was fun to him, and that's all he ever wanted life to be as his Slippin' Jimmy self: Fun. When his brother Chuck gave him a new life, he tried his best to win the approval and respect of him. At this moment of time, to my knowledge, Jimmy had no habits of doing crimes. It seemed as if he was a clean slate. When he was at his best, learning and growing with Kim Wexler mid-relationship / early marriage, he would become very self aware. Did he still manage to get into the wrong corners of life despite trying to live straight? Yes. It was really hard to watch him put effort into his own betterment, yet still be pulled into the cartel by Lalo, Nacho, Mike, etc. Having Jimmy's selfish and scheming behaviors fueled due to Kim Wexler in the later part of their marriage especially, Or even when Chuck could never show true belief and trust in Jimmy and his law degree. A lot of corners her turned, and a lot of corners he'd meet either someone he loved that didn't give him enough wiggle room, or people heavily associated with crime. I learned to love Jimmy as a whole. He was and still is amazing.

The People Around Jimmy

As I went on watching Jimmy do his thing: Getting in trouble, repeating his wrongdoings just in different fonts despite having the right support eventually, all while also seeing a lot of potential in him to be an honest man, I started building resentment; Especially when Kim wasn't part of the scheming or continuance at all. At a certain point in S3, I started seeing the pattern of "Jimmy fucks up, Jimmy feels bad mostly because he was caught, Jimmy lies his way through it all, and now Jimmy is apologizing, and he will do this again BUT WORSE in the near future." He was the biggest asshole in my mind come S3. I felt it ebb and flow throughout, feeling it strongest in the middle of S5, and towards the end of S6 with the divorce papers scene specifically. Through every character that interreacted with Jimmy, I felt their emotions towards him. Through Chuck, I felt betrayal and resentment. Through Kim, I felt loyalty and pain. And through Howard, I felt as if i was overextending my hand towards someone who needed help, however they never knew to not bite my hand. More or less, all my emotions can be boiled down to feeling attached and trusting, accepting and helping, then pain and betrayal over and over again until I just couldn't see what Kim saw in him anymore.

A Good Guy Deep Down (?)

Learning about him embodying his Gene persona in a negative way, yet still having the effort to hide from authorities, made me the most bitter. The extent he would go, and the people he would continue to rope into his wrongdoings was a painful view. However, I needed to keep in mind that Gene was right after Saul Goodman, not Jimmy McGill. Like Kim, I had all the belief in the world that Jimmy can be a good guy deep down. I really thought I saw Jimmy McGill in his fullest and truest ways just how Kim did. But once the ending started rolling around, I realized I was just another Howard, Chuck, Richard, Cliff, etc, who could not understand him to his fullest. I often find myself wondering if Jimmy was being true with his actions at the end of the show, even though the 86 years of jail time he has received was by his doing. He could have had seven years, but he confessed to a mountain of crimes, made himself clear as day, gave Kim the fresh slate she needed, and accepted the 86 years. Whether it was for Kim's approval and love, or because he truly did believe he deserved every single one of those years, is unclear. It could be a little bit of both, but I'd like to believe that it wasn't for Kim's affection; But rather, because she inspired him. I will say though, I disliked how fast he became self aware and willing to accept his consequences. I'm not sure if the crew had to wrap this show up quickly, had a different way of expressing his deep regrets and pain via flashbacks or whatnot, but it was paced a little oddly from my perspective. What gives me reassurance to the authenticity behind his change of heart, is in the final scenes everything remains black and white, despite him being in the presence of Kim. Only the lit cigarette shines orange, signifying to me that the memory of sharing cigs with her, and anything else associated with this action in the past, makes him feel alive. Or maybe, it's as simple as everyone else puts it: There's still something between them.

Final Notes.

What I will say, however: it's made me raise an eyebrow to the way he'd only indulge in his bad behaviors when he has the love, or the rose-colored glasses, of at least one individual in his life. With a singular person in his corner, he feels confident and free to commit crimes, whether or not said person knows of it. As Saul Goodman, being the richest he's ever been, had the love and acceptance of thousands. While fully committing to being plain and simple Gene at the beginning of his runaway, he had no one, and he had no crime to be involved with. With Kim, however, he truly tried changing, and still is; By telling her everything, even if it makes him anxious. Staying out of trouble, trying to get Lalo stuck in jail, having 86 years of prison time, giving her the best ending she could've gotten despite the situation he got both of them in, the list goes on. Unfortunately, their relationship was the epitome of an "Addict and Enabler" dynamic, where Kim loved not only his company, but what he brought with it: crime, bad behavior for selfish gain, and fun, all while Jimmy had an addiction with con-artistry he could never seem to fully put down even with her not participating at first. While Kim still loved him as a person, even showing restraint and disapproval of Jimmy's deceiving ways in the earlier moments of their relationship, it evolved into getting married for the "we can't testify against each other" benefit, and they both started wrecking havoc. Kim loved Jimmy a lot, which is why I think his addiction to con-artistry made her, in a way, relapse with the same actions practically reestablishing the same type of criminal co-dependency she and her mother had with one another. She didn't want to lose him, but she was also fighting against her own urges to join in earlier on, hence the neutrality towards Jimmy's actions, and coming to his rescue in court whenever needed, but obviously looking stressed while doing so.

This show has truly broken my heart in ways Breaking Bad wish it did. The story telling, the connection to the characters, the world building, all of it. The way Kim and Jimmy's relationship was tampered and maneuvered with all throughout, in order to tell a rich and cultivating story full of dynamic characters and complex emotions, really moved me. In reality, this show was meant to encapsulate the most heart-breaking, beautiful, yet gut-wrenching romance. I'd like to think that Kim visits Jimmy in prison a few times a year... but I'd also realistically think that Jimmy will always be going from 'trickery' to 'truth'. Both phases being fleeting, just in a different, lighthearted manner with the cell he resides in for the rest of his life.

Thank you for reading <3 ~Fini

[balletdoll]

day 10 of @chucktober2021 countdown to christmas: tokens!

it’s the thought that counts…?

[mamawasatesttube]

Not to dwell too much on timber but why do you think writers keep being weirdly misogynistic in how they use tim's past gf to hype up timber?

well, i mean, i think that would just be the fact that the writers aren't questioning their internalized misogynistic biases, i.e. they are simply being misogynistic. dc of today seems primarily interested in creating very shallow stories, and the thing about that imo is that seeing what someone considers shallow often will reveal what things they do not question.

at least in my opinion, one pitfall of writing m/m is that it's very easy to stop caring about women. which, like, yes, your central relationship does not involve women, but that shouldn't mean they stop having depth as characters or matter to the characters in the relationship. however, when you're fundamentally uninterested in telling a story with depth, when you just want to flanderize everyone to tropes in order to get panels posted on twitter, of course you flatten the women into yaoi cheerleaders. so writers like megfitz or brendan hay bringing up tim's exes just to prop up bernard is like... yeah of course you'd do that. lmao. like, i don't think these writers are going out of their way to intentionally shit on female characters. theyre just not thinking about them at all. which is, in a way, almost kinda worse?

[itsmalachitenow]

MORE CHUCK HEADCANONS!

You guys seemed to really like my last post, so I'm sharing the other headcanons I've gathered for my personal take on Chuck since then. Get ready for angst!

Chuck did, in fact, hit Gus with the Ghost Train. It was an accident, and to this day he's incredibly broken up about it. Gus, on the other hand, isn't nearly as upset about being dead. He will, however, use his death to guilt Chuck into doing things for him because he knows just how awful Chuck feels about it. Any time Gus wants a new game system or toy, if Chuck isn't too keen on getting it for him, Gus will just bring up that Chuck ran him over and now he's stuck here, and Chuck will look utterly miserable as he climbs into his wheelchair to leave the Ghost Station.

Chuck is very talented at many different types of instruments, including but not limited to: piano, trumpet, saxophone, violin, harp, french horn, clarinet, cello, and oboe.

He can also sing very well. He is a baritone.

Chuck's true full name is Carlo Toscanini. He prefers the Chuck nickname, though, because it sounds like a train noise. He likes train noises!

Because he's been alone for so long, Chuck is incredibly self conscious about needing any kind of help because he's disabled. Especially when he's in his chair. The idea of being helped and not having to do it all himself is completely foreign to him, and he absolutely abhors the idea of needing to rely on someone else to help him do what he sees as 'basic things'. He would rather struggle by himself than swallow his pride and ask a loved one to get involved.

Related: If you touch this man's wheelchair without asking him first, he is going to run you over with it.

Chuck will never finish his 'magnum opus'. He is a perfectionist, and hasn't had what he considers a 'good' piece in decades because he's constantly going back and changing them, never satisfied with the results. Even if he does finish a musical composition or opera, he will always find some fault with them afterwards and not want to dwell on them. Being alone for so long with no real audience for his works other than Gus (who doesn't really understand or care as much because he's a kid) means he's his only critic, and he will always be his worst critic.

Chuck makes his own coffee and is a total snob about drinking anyone else's. It tastes like diesel, but it'll keep you awake for three days straight.

This man does not have a consistent schedule for anything other than 'work'. Food, sleep, self care, all of it comes second to his job and to his music.

He has chronic insomnia, and horrible nightmares whenever he does drift off to sleep, so Chuck prefers to just keep going for as many days as possible until his body physically cannot stay awake anymore.

Because he's lived so long, Chuck can barely remember any of his early life, and that terrifies him. He remembers the name of his hometown, he remembers he had a father who was a conductor, but everything else is a blur. He can't remember his parents' names, their faces, whether he had siblings or not...those memories are gone forever, and Chuck will never get them back.

His biggest regret is not saying goodbye to his family the night he left to join the Train.

Chuck is also terrified of going back to his hometown, because he knows it will be entirely different from what little he remembers. If he never returns, he can always pretend it's still the way he was when he left it, and ignore the gravity of his choice to join the Ghost Train.

Because he's scared he'll forget other things, Chuck is a compulsive journaler. He writes down the day's events, no matter how trivial, and gives a massive amount of detail about every person he interacts with. He only started doing this about a hundred years ago, once he realized he couldn't remember his family anymore.

Chuck has a small apartment in the Ghost Station. It's small and cramped, but it's a place for him to stay when he's not working, and also for any lovers or loved ones to stay if they're 'living' with him. He has a room entirely dedicated to all of his journals, though the manner of sorting them is known only to Chuck.

[dollhousemary]

“The Dollhouse” — a dialogue poem between Chuck and Metatron, for today’s prompt of the same name!

this poem was inspired by a good handful of other things, namely Supernatural 11x20 "Don't Call Me Shurley", "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo, and a philosophical dialogue between Socrates and one of his students, Euthyphro :)

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[dirtyoldmanhole]

closeup of a gunter/corrin piece i'll never finish ~ tweaking corrin's design a bit, just a touch more otherworldly.

[drfrankensteinvsthequeerborgs]

honestly for me one of the scariest things about Supernatural is the seeming inevitability of the cycle of violence, John knows this is an appalling way to raise a child but he does it anyway, Sam gets away for a few years only to return loving the job, Dean does to Jack the same things John did to him. and a sizable chunk of that is Chuck forcing them to become the worst versions of themselves but it’s terrifying how they can end up being the very thing they swore never to become

[winchesterride]

I was reading comments at a antiwincest video on tt and there were lot of people saying: "every time the show made an incest joke/fed the Winchester a piece of my soul died."

Honey are you fine? I think you have a soul missing

[thegcng-arch]

sorry if i am more distant in ims/disco i am really just not feeling well mentally. even if i'm active on the dash sometimes responding to personal messages is just too much for me. i am sorry if i have upset anyone because of this. if you are concerned about my lack of responses or delay time in responding please just ask.

[everythingdestroyingme]

You can't kill the writer and still have a story

I don't see this take a lot on here so I thought I would share.

Chuck makes it very clear that no matter how hard you try, you cannot escape the narrative. That no matter what you do, there is always someone else writing your story. Which in the case of a television show, such as supernatural, is very true. There is in fact a writers room making all the decisions. Now season fifteen is often stated to be out of character for nearly everyone involved. While I tend to agree, I like to look at it as coming full circle in a narrative saying that the characters are controlled by the outside force of a writer. What the writer says, goes.

Season 15 does give us some examples though of characters that supposedly broke free of their intended narrative, Adam marrying someone new for example. This is a plot device mirroring Destiel in my opinion and is absolutely a red herring for freedom.

If Chuck is a representation of the show writers for supernatural, who are indeed Gods of this universe they created, omnicient, omnipotent, and unkillable by anything they've created, so is Chuck. The out of character behaviors seen can be explained by Chuck faking his death. He got smart, saw the only way to win was to make the Winchester think they won, and be complacent.

This also confirms Destiel of course, because Dean has to loose Cas to loose everything.

Chuck is still writing their story even after they believe they won, because you can't kill the writer of the story and still have a story.

[rickyyysaurus]

"this fic changed my life" ON MY ANGRY BIRDS YAOI ONESHOT???? GIRL WHAT DO YOU MEAN IM GENUINELY IN HYSTERICS????

[multiple-spouse-wounds]

i wrote some more about gay lawyers

[egginfroggin]

I feel bad for the Elite Four in the Broken AU variant of WTST (initial post here).

First they get to deal with this weird guy with knives for sideburns and who anyone can see from a mile away is Not Okay.

They lose.

Weird Guy becomes Champion. Is basically a ghost around the League, and nobody can corner him and get him to open up and accept help in any way.

Deal with this weird guy for two years.

Walk in one morning, the Champion is giving off major Piano String Tightened Too Much vibes and refuses to elaborate, insists that he's fine, goes off to do whatever it is he does in his room that requires so much paper.

Couple months go by. It's never resolved. Kind of becomes the new norm.

New challenger!

It's another funky bean pole with knife sideburns!

Cue immediate flashbacks to the day that the Champion treated them all to the Pokemon battle equivalent of a murder.

Become really anxious.

Oh and this one is smiling.

It is all teeth and no mirth.



Anyway, they lose. Again.



They later learn that that was Emmet, Champion Ingo's twin brother, who -- according to Elesa -- disappeared three years ago, wrangled Palkia and Dialga into Pokeballs in ancient Sinnoh, gave Cynthia's ancestor the beatdown of his life, stuffed Giratina into a ball, then went and pelted Arceus with Snickers Balms (you're not you when you're hungry) before stuffing IT into a ball and demanding that it send him home.

He's a little blunt, but he's a very nice person to know, really!

He isn't sorry for siccing his freaking massive Garchomp on your team with no qualms about whatever destruction may follow, though. He was in a bit of a mood. Trying to get to his brother. Family matters, you know how it is.

Yeah.

Anyway Ingo was concerning because he was on a downward spiral, Emmet is concerning because apparently he's yelled -- mutely, somehow, maybe aggressively signed or something -- at Legendaries and had his demands met by them and that is simply not a normal thing that happens to people.

But it's okay now, he has no interest in being Champion, Ingo's been hauled away to therapy and isn't coming back for the title, Alder can return, if he wants, Ingo and Emmet just want to work with trains and relax now.





A couple of years go by.

Guess who's starting a Battle Facility based around Unova's subway system?