#drama teaching

[lily-s-world]

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[casebasket]

don't know when we went from queerbaiting to

whatever the fuck this is

but i am so emotionally drained this "getting dumped by my idiot blonde boyfriend" year my dudes

like it's leaps better than before but jesus christ. at what cost.

[laniidae-passerine]

Our Flag Means Death Season 2 Episodes 6 + 7 Reductress Headlines

[hemlock-dreams]

Why didn't Peter tell MJ he was Spiderman? Dating her put her at risk, it would have been better if she knew so she could try to take safeguarding measures.

I mean, that's the crux of so many superhero/civilian relationships in mainstream comics, isn't it?

The realization that the superhero doesn't respect his civilian love interest enough to give them the full story because their narcissism and performative martyr-complex won't allow it.

Because people who put a mask on to go fight crime have control issues. And giving MJ all the information would give her the power of choice, putting them on equal footing, and Peter's black-hole of a guilt complex won't let that happen.

And because H!Peter loves Mary Jane, but only so much as what she represents- a 'normal' life that he can take off and on whenever he pleases. She's not really a person with needs and desires that he respects, just the representation of a life he can put on a pedestal and worship. (Also because writers need that "drama" of Superheroes having to constantly choose between their loved ones and the suit.) The superhero can never choose their loved one, because the moment they put their own happiness over the suit, their run as a superhero is effectively over.

[hotgirlmeg]

not surprising how chappell roan has now made two videos explaining what she said (which...if you were smart you would know there was nothing wrong) and people are STILL saying she's a republican/tr*mp supporter...like there is no help for some of you

[breannastewart]

just some vets and their rookie, feat. jewell + nneka + nika 🥹

[heretherebedork]

... This show is doing such a better job of this than any existing BL. How are they this good? They did the 'I don't want to reconcile for your own good' thing so well and the 'I hate you but it's because you keep leaving me' thing and then he just punched the shit out of him and it was perfect because he needed and deserved it. And the fact that he was always mad because he got abandoned and not the reasons Saint always assumed and just all of it? The love that Shin has for Saint that he tried to turn into hatred after he was left but never could and how Saint hates himself so much but still love Shin so much and loves him so much that he feels like he has to leave him? Ugh. My entire heart.

And they did it so well. Ugh, the emotional catharsis of it all.

[greykolla-art]

I love your art so so so much! For an OFMD suggestion, how about Ed waking up beside Stede after they've reconciled and not believing Stede is real?

Oh your MIND! I wanna kiss it!🌹

I was watching Please Like Me (s2 e9) and a character said something similar to this, it just felt very cute and real. ❤️

[skrifores]

“You have to at least consider the interpretation of Ed as an abuser…”

I don’t have to do shit, hope that helps.

[kori-senpai]

The two moods of saying something cool like "No one meets Blackbeard and lives to tell the tale." - "Technically I'm already dead, darling." Or my actual thoughts while drawing: 'Hah, snake tattoo headed for that booty'

[plantsjustwannahavefun]

I keep seeing so many people here getting angry that this season is "vilifying Ed", and it's depressingly fascinating to see how others can watch the same show and somehow see something completely different. Is it simply the lack of media literacy? Is it the inability to appreciate and enjoy complex, nuanced, morally grey characters without willfully blocking out anything even slightly unpalatable about them to the point where the character they think they love isn't really that character anymore?

Because, uh... Season 1 already "vilified" Ed plenty. Except "vilify" is the wrong word, of course. It wasn't in any way malicious or mean-spirited, quite the contrary, it was often played as comedic (until the end of episode 10 when it was anything but) - Ed was always meant to be a sympathetic character, he's a protagonist after all, and the show's portrayal of him is very compassionate. It merely refused to sugarcoat or shy away from his darker side. He's literally history's most famous pirate, you don't become one by being nice and treating everyone gently. He ambushed and strangled his own father to death when he was like 9 years old (100% deserved and justifiable ofc, but it still bears saying it out loud like this just to comprehend how unhinged this actually was). He loves torturing and maiming people for fun, and sometimes even animals (that scene with forcing a turtle to fight a crab). He didn't give a fuck about his crew members dying to satisfy his whim to meet Stede. He entirely failed in his role as a captain in ep 4. He effectively played a double agent with Izzy and Stede for a while before changing his mind. He attempted to murder Lucius. And while you could try to argue his punishment of Izzy was at least to some degree deserved, not only cutting Izzy's toe off but forcing him to eat went beyond punishment, it was sadistic torture.

So, yeah, please just read all that and take it in. And then remember once again that Ed is also a traumatised, lonely, depressed, sensitive, creative, curious, deeply passionate person yearning for true love and for something different in life... just like Stede. He loves music and can play the piano. He wrote a very vulnerable song and sand his heart out. He likes his tea with seven sugars. He enjoys fashion and dressing up. He has such a limitless sense of wonder for the world. He went on a trek with Stede just to make him happy, even though he hated nature and was in a shit mood that day. He wants to host a talent show. He wants to become free. He's clever and funny and fascinating. I love Ed.

Yes, it's possible to reconcile those two sides of him and accept both sides as the "real" Ed. You have to reconcile the two sides if you want to enjoy him as a character, because if you don't, you're going to either detest him to the core (which would make enjoying the show practically impossible since he's sort of a main character...), or you'll only be able to enjoy a diminished, crippled, cardboard cutout version of his character, which would be such a pity and a massive disservice to the creators of this show who worked hard to create interesting, multidimensional characters.

Not to mention you'd be missing one of the core messages of the show - the idea that people still deserve love and can be loved even if they're imperfect, or not necessarily good people. Because love is a human condition. It's not a sole dominion of "good" people. "Bad" people can fall in love too - even if, just like them, that love isn't exactly "nice" or "pure", and neither are the relationships that stem from it. They can be messy and exasperating. But "bad" people can also grow and change because of it. That's what OFMD is ultimately about - growth and change, learning to accept yourself but also become better. That can't happen if the character is already 100% perfect the way they are.Ed is far from that. So is Izzy. They can both become better, and they both still deserve compassion and understanding, because that's the environment people need to become better.

So, if you're mad that at the start of S2 the crew are sympathetic to Izzy's suffering and want to help him instead of kicking him when he's down, and what Ed did to him is being acknowledged as cruel and wrong... congratulations, you have completely missed what OFMD is all about.

[peaceandlove26]

total YURI island

[maruren]

HB, Big Boy ૮⍝• ᴥ •⍝ა

Accept your chaotic pack and live happily ever after.

૮´˶• ᴥ •˶`ა ૮₍ • ᴥ • ₎ა ૮₍ 𝁽ܫ𝁽 ₎ა ૮ ◕ ﻌ ◕ა

[thelongbrightdarkness]

It's funny what turned up in my study after having watched "Under the Vines", "Rings of Power" back-to-back. 😉

[afza147]

Ep5 when the phone rings(5)

So beautiful words🥹 plus he signing her name for the first time🥲

[total-drama-brainrot]

see the thing that really gets to me is the fact that they went out of their way to show us that cody and sierra could work as a pretty efficient and competent team when sierra's infatuation/obsessive tendencies weren't clouding her judgement.

in japan? the two made a whole commercial with not even the barest of bones materials available to them, with only the manpower of their duo as opposed to the other teams' collective efforts, and still won.

in drumheller, post jet explosion? cody engineers a whole ass air balloon to carry the two of them across a whole country, and they both pilot it as a team almost the whole way to mexico without issue.

it's such a waste of their teamwork capabilities when sierra is reduced to a roadblock for both cody as an individual and their team as a whole. what i'm trying to say is platonic coderra would've been unbeatable if the narrative hadn't encouraged sierra's less palatable behaviour.