#death trap.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[asthedeathoflight]

I think an underrated angle on 2x05 is something that either Jacob or Assad said in some interview somewhere, which is that in that episode Louis is addicted to heroin. Thats why he has that whole stash of drugs that he gives to Daniel, that's why he gives Daniel the drugs even though he's already got him alone. He didn't just use those 128 boys for sex he was using them to get high. Bring them home, get them to shoot up, and then drain them to get that secondhand high.

It clarifies something that's always confused me about that scene, which is why Armand saves Daniel the first time. He wouldn't save Daniel as a person, he clearly knows Daniel needs to die, but he's not seeing Daniel as a person there. Daniel is just a substance. He rips him away from Louis to stop him from using.

And i think that adds a whole other layer to the fight he and Armand have to think that this is Louis on a bender, with Armand cleaning up after him because he's not stable enough to. Louis in the bed for a week isn't just healing from the burns, he's going through withdrawal. Him at the table with Daniel giving him the "bright young reporter" speech is probably the first time he's been sober in months.

It adds another layer to Armand's desperation, that Louis has been running from both Armand and himself in this way, and of course Armand wants to erase that memory. Of course he wants to pretend that that fight never happened. Not just to protect himself but in a way to protect Louis from having said those things. When he describes the fight to Louis afterwards, he says "you said the worst things you've ever said to me." And he doesn't really know how to forgive Louis for that so he just wants to bury this rock-bottom moment and move on like it never happened. After all, Louis was high, he didn't really mean it, but if he remembers then maybe he might think that he had a point. Better to wipe the whole experience away.

[mequetrefis]

free him

[sop-soap]

TMA begins with a lure, but TMAGP begins with a warning.

[dullahandyke]

If I was luxord and I found out I wasn't being sent to castle oblivion I'd have been pissed. Oh no it's ok, send the others to the card-themed hellhole. I didn't even want to go. I'm sure fucking marluxia has it handled

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: slasher

[quantumshade]

girls when. figurative death in doctor who. lost to a parallel world. memory erased. stuck in another time period. in between one heartbeat and the next.

[soapbubbles511]

And now free

[catboymoses]

I know this might hurt to hear for some but the ending of Falsettos is the necessary climax and conclusion to all of the men's character arcs.

Bill Finn didn't write it just to be a downer ending. He wrote it so Marvin would have to overcome his misogyny and take on a caregiving role and so he could learn to rely on his family for support.

He wrote it so Whizzer would have to overcome his pride and allow himself to be cared for and loved. To bring him and his family together.

He wrote it to knock Mendel down from his g-d complex. To show him he doesn't have the answers, that he has to help his family process their feelings instead of just pretending everything is fine.

He wrote it to teach Jason to give up his king, to concede, to learn from his mistakes. To teach him about being a man.

Whizzer's death happens at the end of Jason's bar mitzvah because it symbolizes all four men finally growing up. Becoming men. It is their final step out of falsettoland. Ignoring the ending robs them of their growth.

[transguyhawkeye]

chungledown bim is so much more viscerally terrifying to me than any other d20 villain or entity like theyve faced threats that are actively tearing reality apart at the seams but one level 20 gnome warlock singlemindedly dedicated to (and optimized for) shitting in a 17 year olds mouth is so much higher stakes to me than anything else i could imagine. if every other character we love has to die in order for fabian to evade him then i think that price is worth paying

[sofapup17]

Homoerotically staring into your eyes and promising that I'll find out whatever you're hiding you murderer

[butch-with-a-deep-voice]

Seeing so many older butches at Pride today was so important to me. Butches who were there during multiple queer rights movements here in Canada. Butches who are now grey, but still laughing, holding their chins up high, puffing their chests as they make space for the other women around them. Butches who protected their community long before I even had an idea what gender even was. Butches that saw me come up to their little tent, and smiled at me. Joked with me. Looked me up and down and nodded in approval. That moment was so important in a way I don't fully have words to express. I hope I can be like them when I grow up.

[meagancandraw]

You ever think about how neither of them got to say goodbye?

[cutleta]

[the-jonestown-holotape]

[clownsuu]

Don’t mind me just have some doodles-

Cw the spooky (?)