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[yunvind]

The Distortions

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[morganmnemonic]

I can't stop thinking about the relationship between Jon and Helen as perhaps one of the most important ones in the entire show. They are narrative parallels for each other, and they both know it. They've both known it from the very start!

Helen walks into the Archives, paranoid, unsure of who to trust, and Jon sees himself in her. And he thinks "If i can help her, maybe there's hope for me too." Then he can't save her. The next time they meet, she's a monster. They're both monsters. There was never any other way their stories could have gone, their fates entwined from the very start.

And Helen answers his original thought with one of her own: "Maybe if we can help each other, there's hope for us both." But Jon looks at her and sees everything that he fears becoming, and so he turns her away, and refuses to accept that their stories are still one and the same.

Helen went to the last person who was ever kind to her, the only person who both knew her as a human and had the context to understand what she'd become, and he hated her. He hated her because he liked Helen, and told her that she couldn't be Helen.

So she stopped trying to be Helen, and embraced being a monster. Reveled in it even. Then Jon wakes up from a six month coma, more monster than person, and tries so hard to cling to the things that mattered to him when he was human. Even with no support, even with the entire archives staff against him, he chooses humanity and compassion over and over again.

And this is a direct threat to Helen's world view. Their stories are entwined. If Jon can continue to be a person even after everything he's been through, then she could have clung to her humanity too, if only she'd tried a little harder. And that terrifies her! She wants to conceptualize herself as someone who was completely overwhelmed by forces beyond her control, who never had a choice but to become a monster. She want's to be an innocent victim. But Jon argues with his actions that they'd both had choices.

And, Jon, in turn, holds out hope that she might make better choices until the very end.

This is the conflict between them for all of season 4 and 5. Jon wants to prove that they can both be decent people, and Helen wants to prove that they were never going to be anything but monsters. This is why she's so devoted to trying to goad Jon into enjoying his newfound godhood. She knows that they are the same, and wants that to mean that he has a spark of evil inside of him, and not that she was always capable of doing good.

When Jon kills her, she loses her life, but wins the argument. Helen is nothing but a dangerous monster who needs to be killed for the good of everyone, and in the moment he decides that, Jon dooms himself to the same fate. Their stories are one and the same. "If i can help her, maybe there's hope for me too." he thought. But he couldn't help her, refused to, even, in the one moment when it actually mattered. And thus, there was never hope for him.

[terriblerealestateagentphotos]

Property includes Larry, who has been waiting for the circus to go by since 1994.

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[sydneighsays]

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[originalcrime]

my new henchim divorce era-esque wishlist item for 8b is giving chris a big stroppy teenage “i wish you never came back from afghanistan” meltdown. i want him to fucking lay into eddie and then collapse sobbing in his arms that he didn’t mean it while eddie is also sobbing. i want eddie to whisper, “christopher, i want you to come home with me. please, come home with me.” i want chris to choke out, “i don’t want to live in your stupid new house.” and eddie says, “not the new house. i want us to go home.” and eddie feels like this is the most selfish thing he’s ever asked of anyone, but it’s all christopher has been wanting to hear

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[destructo-range]

'helen is so underdevelopped as a character!' 'helen's boring!' stfu u just don't like her bc she's a woc and because she doesn't behave exactly like michael. yall put so much effort into developping michael's character inside your minds and completely look over her because she's 'poorly written.' stop.

[see-arcane]

I thought I was reaching in Dracula that Jonathan got bitten by Dracula and that during his hospitalisation by the Hungarian nuns he got the "poison in the blood" as Mina calls it diluted by the holiness of the place. Because no one ever talks about that possibility. AND THEN IT HAPPENED. In Nosferatu 2024. I feel a sense of not being crazy! Someone else saw that possibility.

Everyone say thank you to Bobby Egg for not just reading the book but actually making use of really neat concepts Stoker left around for us to pick up

[johndead]

Oubh helan. Helen. Hello.nh helin

[rovermcfly]

german ghosts only having white ghost characters* is disappointing but I think it's really cool that the living leads are both people of colour. I do hope if they get more seasons they'll remedy the subtle whitewashing of german history, but they did make a clear statement about the german present and future, which is that people with a migration background are german and that they can represent the average german, the german audience, and german quirks without question.

*EDIT: Meltem Kaptan who plays the ghost griet also has a migration background, but it's unclear/unlikely if the character does too

[danskjavlarna]

Cupid as an estate agent.

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You might fall in love with this collection of vintage Cupids.

[polkadotjohnson]

Gotham - Mad City: Ghosts (2017)

[terriblerealestateagentphotos]

"We always liked the idea that the preparation and the consequences happened in the same room."

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My father, a real estate agent, and his clients were discussing a purchase in our living room. The clients grew increasingly dissatisfied with the negotiation, turned into harpies and flew away, breaking through our roof.