#claire arc

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Anna: Alright then everyone~ How has your engagements with your assigned quarries been going?

Indigo: Miss Aven has shown some slight improvements in her opinion of our dearest brother!

Beryl: Sweet treats and sweet words go very far to improve opinions~

Olivia: Juno was doodling Jaune in her notebook!

Claire: Mallory is still uninterested, but her brother Marion is very intrigued by the nerdiness Jaune has-

Jaune: *Opens Door* HEY! You guys Aren't having your "Jaune's Harem Council" meeting in here are you?

Anna: ...

Indigo: ...

Beryl: ...

Olivia: ...

Claire: ...

Anna: ... No?

Jaune: Really? *Lifts up Viol, the youngest Arc sibling* then why did Viol say that you were?

Indigo: SNITCH!

Beryl: BETRAYER!

Anna: Vi-Vi! Why would you tell him!

Olivia: 'Course the only time she opens her trap is to talk to Jaune ...

Claire: I let you play on my computer!

Viol: *Blows Raspberries*

Jaune: Guys, you don't need to do that. If I fall in love, I fall in love, if someone falls in love with me, they fall in love with me, and if a bunch of people love me? I'll love them back. There's no need for this. I gotta go take out the trash now, you should clean up. *Sets Viol down, closes door*

*Everyone stares at each other*

Jaune: *opens door* Also I'm not into older women, stop trying to get me with your teacher.

Beryl: She's only twenty three!

Indigo: And very lovely!

Beryl: A romantic at heart!

Indigo: All you'd have to do is serenade-

Jaune: *Leaves*

*Everyone stares at each other again*

Anna: Same time next week?

Olivia: I miss Saph.

[rayghosts]

WHY WAS THIS SCENE DELETED

[skylessknights]

Sydney + her reactions to Claire

"I just need your focus like you need mine. I-I don’t want to share it. I’m sorry.”

[brokentrafficknight]

Arc family pyramid

The Pyrrhamid even

[swan2swan]

One week ago, Chaos Shipping took an extremely unexpected turn.

[quietwingsinthesky]

it ever hit you out of nowhere that castiel is living in a dead guy's body and the show just does not care. it does not care. jimmy novak might as well not exist the moment he or claire is out of sight. cas stole a guy's body and his face and his life, and we can't ever talk about it or discuss it in detail because of how fucking horrifying it is that sam and dean's best friend just walks around in a dead guy suit. there's not even a human soul in there anymore. it's just a corpse. stone-cold body snatcher indeed.

[schelofthesea]

witchs heart chibis ❤️

[mamawasatesttube]

i do deeply believe, from the bottom of my heart, that in the leadup to new krypton arc, kara zor-el definitely at least once told reactron to kill himself. and i fully support her in that

[elizabeth-mitchells]

oh they loved each other so fucking much

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

Pretty in pink

Another reason why I always knew Clairmy was never gonna be endgame.

This piece of meta has been sitting in my drafts for months. Since I watched S2 for the first time, back in January. After yesterday's teaser, I thought I just might dust it off and hang it out to dry in the sun, so here it is and actually, this is much better timing because I get to supplement it with more and newer meta I came up with later on.

So, the second I heard the first few tunes of the soundtrack I just knew.

The Bear | Pop | 02x05

Storer wasn't subtle.

I just knew that C was gonna end up with someone else, or just letting him go, and when I heard Carmy saying these words:

and they rang soooo untrue and unhinged and even forced or coaxed coming from him and in that context, so OOC, etc... I took it as all the confirmation I needed to firmly stand my anti-clairmy ground even before I got to know her.

It was obvious to me that that was not Carmen Berzatto talking, but The Bear Jr., the kid in HS who grew up isolated and under Michael's shadow.

He was coming from a place of complete and utter stuckness, a stagnant position he regressed to, the second his frustrated HS sweetheart won this battle:

He wasn't necessarily lying when he said he liked her, at least not consciously:

But the TENSE was the problem. He said "I like you so much" when it was the HS stuttery kid the one talking, the one who wished SHE talked to him more, so he didn't have to because he was too shy. He should have said liked if he was being honest with himself and her.

He should have told her something along the lines of: "I had a crush on you in HS, and when you came onto me, I choked. This is so not the right timing for me to do this because I'm tied up with the restaurant, and I just... instead of telling you all of that, I took the easy and cowardly way out and gave you the wrong number. Sorry."

BTW, that's a pattern he will have to outgrow because of Syd if he doesn't wanna lose her. He will have to start telling the woman he loves in proper timing how he feels and why and do the chasing if he must because Syd, unlike C, is NOT A CHASER, she's a walker (pattern she will have to outgrow herself too, as I mentioned → here). No more room for the shy kid, he's gonna have to man up in S4.

After delivering those lines that to me were OOC and plain blatant, he turned into Logan to fit in the party and in C's life (or make her fit into his, whatever).

So, my point is that when I heard the Pretty in Pink soundtrack I immediately drew these parallels:

Duckie is Carmy and Andy is the C person. IDGAF who was gonna play Blane, I assumed that character was gonna be introduced to us later in the series, or not at all. But Andie and Duckie do not end up together because they are not right for each other even though they grew up together. They are just not right for each other because coming from the same place doesn't determine shit in life, the choices you make do. In the movie, they didn't choose each other. PerioT. That was a hell of a musical foreshadowing and I thank the sadist for it because the second I associated that musical piece of data with ep 01x03 I was like: “OK, how much more obvious can you be, Storer? Really? Try harder, please.”

Because why would he give Molly Ringwald such important lines in S1 if Pretty in Pink was not a huge lead we needed to follow in S2 when the same plot of one of her biggest hits made a cameo on the show, right?

So, anyway... I always knew these 2 were endgame:

Waayyyy before Syd said it. Actually, Syd didn't say it bc we don't know who she was talking about, it was STORER who did that in the teaser, HE IS THE ONE WHO SYNCS UP THE MUSIC WITH THE FRAMES OR SIGNS OFF ON WHAT THE EDITORS SYNC UP AS PER HIS REQUEST AND HE'S THE ONE WHO DECIDES WHO ARE ENDGAME ON HIS SHOW. So it's Storer who yesterday told us Pretty in Pink doesn't get the guy, which was pretty obvious, if you ask me :)

Bonus track: Syd is his redemption plot. Syd is his endgame, sure, but first, he has to grow up to be the man he can be as opposed to the bear he is. I always said his whole redemption arc is Kierkegaardian:

And he even looks like him, c'mon!

Remember to follow my tag #Gingerpovs 💋

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

If I could be arsed to learn how to edit videos and had some kind of mic, I would 110% make a two part video essay series on the politics of Jurassic World because MY GOD, there's so much to dissect.

The first part would be about how the park is the epitome of neoliberal futurism for techbros, including the way the park so easily falls apart though I doubt that aspect is purposeful. Everything is aesthetic first and function second, and we can't possibly use any of the reliable infrastructure we've already come up with because a train is not gonna get us to Mars, but a monorail might.

And the second would be about the buckwild terrible gender politics going on. The movie is deeply unsympathetic to Claire seemingly because she's a woman who prioritised her career as it's both centre to her character arc and also an inciting event of one of the plots. Not to mention the whole Zara thing or the Owen and Claire thing or the stupid "him, I meant him, line. The movie is rife with misogyny, but it feels like that specific misogyny was isekaied over from backlash to second wave feminism.

I could talk about it all for so long because in a way, it feels like a perfect time capsule for 2015. Back when people took Claire running in heels to be this feminist statement to be made fun of and not just a deeply misogynistic movie trying to sell you feminism. And back when Elon Musk managed to get away with his "I'm the real life Iron Man" shit, and people believed he was smart and all his plans would come to fruition. 2015 was a great time to be a tech bro in Silicon Valley with people just throwing money at all your fake promises.

Yeah. See. This is what I mean when I say I could talk about it forever.

[jobrrr]

Wish we got to see more of this

[bitchthefuck1]

you know what, I actually will talk about this because it's bothering me. The issue with focussing so heavily on syd and carmy's potential for a romantic relationship isn't that there's something inherently unintellectual about romance or whatever, it's that a lot of people seem incapable of doing that without immediately flattening the story and ignoring or intentionally misreading any and all nuance for the sake of that romance. Every scene suddenly becomes about how it impacts their relationship, every analysis is done through a romantic lens, every frame or line of dialogue becomes about finding some easter egg or hint that "proves" these people should start dating. Their dynamic is absolutely a fundamental part of this show, but if you can only see it as a will-they-won't-they, you miss so much of what the story is actually trying to say with these two.

There are good versions of this story where their relationship is romantic and there are good versions of this story where it isn't, but as soon as you decide them being together is "the point," you lose the ability to actually judge the story for what it is, not what you want it to be.

[hsslilly-blog]

Claire, rising star, a long play

★★★ she knows she's powerful, she's got your time in her hands // 25 tracks, 88 minutes

⭐️ SIDE A:

1. claire | morphine // 2. emails i can’t send | sabrina carpenter // 3. out of time | slayyyter // 4. get naked (i got a plan) | britney spears // 5. femme fatale | twin temple // 6. bubblegum bitch | marina // 7. she's a carnival | siouxsie and the banshees // 8. material girl | madonna // 9. drive my car | the beatles // 10. money, money, money | abba // 11. celebrity skin | hole // 12. the family jewels | marina // 13. what is it about men | amy winehouse

⭐️ SIDE B:

14. national anthem | lana del rey // 15. marie | glen campbell // 16. pretty in pink | the psychedelic furs // 17. fascination | the beaches // 18. stupid cupid | connie francis // 19. this masquerade | carpenters // 20. dream a little dream of me | doris day // 21. witchcraft | frank sinatra // 22. just like heaven | the cure // 23. o baby | siouxsie and the banshees // 24. like a prayer | madonna // 25. swan song | lana del rey

[brokentrafficknight]

[dearinglovebot]

so you’re saying darius lives in an isolated depression cabin without any regular contact with his family and he’s constantly wrecked by the weight of his guilt after tragedy… someone get him and claire in the same room I want to see what happens