#fate: the winx saga season 2 episode 1

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Round 1

Propaganda why Charlie Morningstar is insufferable:

"Her entire personality was rewritten to be insufferable. She behaved like an idiot who didn't understand anyone or the problems they had. Her ideas were shit and so were her dramas."

"I know her whole character is naive and innocent. I even liked her at first. But with every rewatch I find her more annoying. She is waaay too naive and doesn't listen to anyone else's concerns like Vaggie's or Lucifer's, instead just believing everyone will listen to her. I might be alone in this, I just hate this archetype of naivety and innocence to this degree."

"She was insufferable in the the Masquerade episode. It infanticided her so much, it ruined any enjoyment I might have had in her. She is supposed to be an adult woman trying to safe sinners meanwhile she acts and is treated like a toddler??"

Propaganda why Bloom Peters is insufferable:

"Look at this image and tell me this looks like winx

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjRjMjg2MGEtMmQ1Yi00Yjc0LTlkZTItNjQzYjAwNjQ3MGU0XkEyXkFqcGdeQWRvb2xpbmhk._V1_.jpg"

"Bloom (and entire show) is written like the director gave a middle aged conservative man $100 to write what he thought “woke” teens would like."

"God. GOOOOOODDDDD. Netflix's take on Bloom is one of the worst character assassinations I have ever had the misfortune to witness. She has a fuse the size of a hydrogen atom. She gets angry at people when they try to assist her, ranging from accusing a passerby of 'mansplaining' when he tried to help her find her class to YELLING at the person who saved her life from her own out-of-control fire powers. She wanders off to chase a lead on her ~mysterious backstory~ in the middle of a zombie invasion. She did not realize she was adopted when no one in her family has red hair. She treats her roommates (particularly Aisha) and classmates and parents like shit, and ignores their needs constantly (like insisting on having lunch and important discussions in a crowded room with Musa, an empath who can't turn her powers off, and Terra, who has crippling social anxiety). She begs an adult for help and then insults them. She suuuuucks. (Also her parents suck too, but this isn't about them. Fate!Vanessa you and I will fight at midnight about taking away Bloom's door I don't even blame her for accidentally setting you on fire.)"

"Her sins:

1. Main character of one of the worse live action adaptions I’ve ever seen

2. Not like other girls x1000- she likes ✨reading books✨ and ✨going to vintage stores✨ and gets in a fight with her mom about how she doesn’t go to parties and have friends like a ✨basic bitch✨

3. Gets so mad at her mom that she loses control of her powers and nearly kills her parents in a fire

4. A guy told her she was going the wrong way to get to class and she accused him of “mansplaining”

5. Shitty and boring fashion sense, little to no bright colors and not a single glittery top

6. Season one “Transformation” is just a dozen different camera angles of her awkwardly floating with cgi fire around her

7. I didn’t watch season two, but a friend who did told me she develops a savior complex and has an unnecessary amount of make out scenes at random times"

[thisgameissonintendo]

here’s the thing about me + lockwood content

before lockwood & co. i wasn’t really in the mood for editing. yes, i did come up with videos and photo edits but i wasn’t really enjoying it much. it was the same all over again. a new episode - a new video. don’t get me wrong, i loved the show (still do, it’s magnum p.i. i’m talking about) but i’ve been editing that for years now. 

every now and again a show was coming back with a new season. the umbrella academy for example. i did my usual “new season = one edit with number 5“ and then stopped (because there’s not really much content to use when there’s 50 main characters and you’re only willing to sit down to edit one of them). 

then outer banks came back, i thought “hey, time for a new rafe edit“. he wasn’t in it much. i didn’t come up with a video. fine, okay, back to magnum p.i. (which i still LOVE to death, don’t get me wrong, i would always come up with edits, it’s my 2nd favorite show now) but sometimes it’s nice to have different characters to work with. 

wednesday was released and i really liked that, especially tyler. i made some photo edits and a few videos (4 or something). and what then? back to the old routine? 

no, lockwood & co. was out. i remembered i had seen the trailer a while ago and liked it so i clicked ‘play‘. and look where we are now. i don’t know the last time one character has sparkled any interested in me and got me this motivated. a new one as well, might i add. i don’t do well with new characters since i always have to kinda let them get to me first, you know. it’s quite the process, too, when you want to edit. you have to get the episodes, the scenes you wanna use, you have to select 0.04 seconds from episode 1 and then 0.02 seconds from episode 8 because you think they could work really well together. so it’s a lot to think about even for short videos or photo edits (find the right episode for a certain scene, take screenshots, have ideas of what you wanna do with that screenshot, find good fonts, effects,…) i think you get me. it takes a lot of dedication (for me) to accept a character. and it’s not like i don’t like most of them. i like a lot. for example i’ve enjoyed characters from titans, fate: the winx saga, the sandman, hsmtmts and so on. 

so, what i usually do when i watch a new show is play it in the background. i don’t know any character - i’m not interested in any of them. i press ‘play’ and scroll through instagram or twitter. however with lockwood & co., i didn’t. i had my phone sitting right next to me but i didn’t click on instagram. i didn’t click on twitter. i actually watched the show from the first second on. for some reason it was very special to me, i can’t explain it. it felt like i had found THE show (and character) for me. the one show that could get me back into editing, actually loving what i do and create. and it did. look where i am now. 

i’m very emotional about this, i cannot even find proper words to express how thankful i am for all of this. i wake up in the morning and am excited about the evening because that’s the time of day i 1) have time to re-watch the show 2) read the books (again) or 3) edit. so this whole saving campaign is not only a matter of stopping netfl** bullshit with unnecessary cancelations, it’s also a matter of heart for me. lockwood & co. is my comfort show. i’ve found it after so many years and i didn’t even know i needed one but i did. lockwood & co. is not your ‘typical ghost show’. lockwood is not your typical good-looking, dick-ish protagonist, he’s way more. he’s the reason i’m doing all of this. i’m trying my best to help with whatever i can because they all deserve to come back for at least one more season. so, every day i stay up until 3-4am, get up at 9am the same day and i don’t regret a single thing. i wanna do this. and i know we can all help them get a new season, together.  

it’s been four months (and two days) since the release of lockwood & co. in these four months i’ve been the most creative i’ve ever been, i’ve met the most kind people on social media and i’ve never loved editing more than i do now. and all thanks to anthony lockwood.

[savethegrishaverse]

UPDATE, I POSTED THE WRONG GRAPHIC! This week: Stream Season 2 of Shadow and Bone AND stream Season 2 of Fate: The Winx saga!

In our ongoing mission to #SaveShadowAndBone and #SixOfCrowsSpinoff, we have a new targeted initiative this week! From May. 6-12, we're calling on everyone to stream Season 2 of Shadow and Bone on Netflix over and over again! Do NOT stream Season 1 this Saga! IN ADDITION, stream Season 2 of the Fate: the Winx Saga in an effort to help our sister fandom! Streaming the episodes of each show opposite the other might help remind the platform we aren't bots, so let's get to work!

Why streaming this week matters:

1. Focused Impact: By concentrating our streaming efforts on Season 2 exclusively, we maximize our collective impact. Netflix tracks metrics for each season separately, and we want to ensure our viewership numbers for Season 2 do the most to get us trending in the Netflix Top 10.

2. Data Speaks Volumes: Netflix values concrete data. Our concerted streaming efforts this week will communicate a clear and undeniable message to the platform that the Shadow and Bone community is a force to be reckoned with, and that we lend our support to our sister fandoms as well!

3. Viewer Engagement: High streaming numbers indicate engaged viewership, showing Netflix the depth of our commitment to the properties they keep needlessly cancelling!

Whether you’re actively watching the show or streaming it in the background, make sure the volume is on (lowest setting or plugging in earphones works if you need quiet), and don’t skip through to your favorite parts. The show must be watched all the way through, from start to finish.

Other save campaigns have found success this way, and so can we! As Kaz Brekker says, “When you can’t beat the odds, change the game.” Let’s do this!

[missmahgenta]

How NOT to write a story

Using a bad Netflix show/Fate: The Winx Saga as a basis

Part 1 - How NOT to start a Story (episodes 1 & 2)

Introduction

Like I said on a previous post, I decided to leave that live action Winx show on while working on some assignments. The show’s quality left a bitter taste on my mouth and the persistent thought of “Man, I could have written something better”. So I decided to use this shit show as a little guide of mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, based on each episode. I would like to preface this by saying that I’m not a professional writer or anything like that. I’m at best an amateur with a huge mouth and a desire to avoid working on stuff I should actually be working on, so ignore any typos because my brain is small and lacking it’s thinking juice. That said, grab some water and grab some blankets, because this is going to be long.

“The first sentence/scene is the most important!!”

The idea that the first scene in a movie/series or that the first sentence/page in a book is the most important is not baseless. From setting the tone of your story to quickly grabbing your audience attention, the beginning of the beginning is going to set up expectations. That said, it’s not enough to simply show a quick action scene expect that to be enough. Whatever you choose to show on the very start of your narrative, it better be relevant later on in more ways than one. I’m talking about the narrative’s themes, arcs, world details, the antagonistic forces, etc.

Now, at first glance Fate’s opening doesn’t seem so bad. It does an okay job at grabbing your attention with some action related to one of this season’s 3 main antagonistic forces. That falls apart, however, when you notice how:

1)The scene as dark af and visually unimpressive. This is meant to take place at a campsite on a magical plane of existence, yet it looks like any normal forest. Idk, put some magical and sparkling moths or something, because otherwise it just doesn’t look like we are in the ‘Other world’ (stupid name but this point isn’t about it)

2)It’s kinda misleading. Blood does appear later on, but not with this touch of gore. It also induces the idea that Fate is a suspense story among other things, and while I guess it has some elements of suspense, it’s all so spaced that it will only disappoint anyone that was looking for, well, a suspense story.

3) The guy that gets killed has little relevance later on, and I honestly think that that’s a waste of potential. I mean, why have him killed if you’re just make a murder mystery with someone else later on? What if instead he was related or friendly to one of characters we meet? His death could have been a stepping stone for someone’s character arc, or at the very least not something that could have been written out with minor modifications.

“Well, the first 2 minutes were not the best, but there’s the whole rest of the episode ahead! Just because they were bad, doesn’t mean that the rest of the episode will be!”

That’s true. Like I’ve said before, the idea that the first scene in a movie/series or that the first sentence/page in a book is the most important is not baseless, however it ignores the fact that your audience can pay attention for more than a few seconds. “It gets good later on” is something we all probably heard at least once, is it not?

In Fate: Winx saga, however, the opposite can be said.

“Let’s speedrun our characters introductions!!”

Just after some guy gets murdered, we cut to a little montage of our main cast arriving to Alfea, and I think it was good, surprisingly. It could have shown a bit more of each the girls personalities and possible struggles, but it wasn’t bad (until it was). Despiste this show being about the Winx Club, the first character that our protagonist, Bloom, meets is Sky, her love interest. Not Stella, the girl who she met first in the og show and who was supposed to tour her around (something that happened for 2 minutes, while showing nothing of Alfea because Stella being a bitch is more entertaining that a fucking school for fairies). Not Aisha, who is her roommate and the only character who is sensible in this entire cast. Not ‘Terra’ nor Musa, but Sky.

Then again, they did remove the ‘Club’ part of the title, so it’s very clear where their priorities lies (and it’s definitely not ‘showing real and genuine friendships between women).

Fine, whatever. At least Sky is an important character to this show. Riven, on the other hand, is not. I always found him annoying in the original show, but in this iteration he’s just the worst. And yet he’s important enough to also make an introduction before any of the other girls? Ugh.

Then we have Beatrice, one of the other antagonists in this season, and you can tell that by the way she talks and glares at others. But her introduction is just…there? She goes to talk to Farah/Faragonda, says some shit and leaves, and that’s it. I don’t want to compare this iteration of the IP with the original show too much, because I think it could have still worked even with so many differences and spins and twists, but damn, it’s just so dull when compared to the original. It’s not threatening, nor funny, nor mysterious, nor charismatic in any other way. It doesn’t even hints at what her deal is. It’s literally “she’s a villain, bye”.

The rest of the main girls introductions are fine, and it shows well what their purpose is in this iteration. Aisha is there to babysit Bloom, Terra is there to be the girls main punching bag, Musa may have some future character arc and is there to say obvious shit (I don’t think I need miss Empath’s help to know said character is upset when they are visibly upset), and Stella is there to be a bitch constantly.

The main problem with all of these characters introductions is that: they happen so, so fast, with barely any room to breath. And speaking of barely any room to breath…

“So like, how do we explain this to the audience?” “Eh, just tell’ em”

Sometimes, exposition is inevitable. Sometimes, you need to sit down an explain wtf is going on for a few paragraphs, maybe a page or two. Fate: Winx Saga doesn’t take a few paragraphs or a few pages to explain it’s lore, backstory, world building, or anything really. It’s entire first episode (out of six, mind you) has many chunk a of pure, and I mean PURE, exposition. And unlike the story’s suspense, it isn’t sprinkled across the episode.

You have a scene where someone is explaining things to Bloom, then the scene changes, and they start explaining something else. You don’t get the joy of discovering something by yourself or seeing the information naturally unravel before your eyes. The information is laid on your plate like pasta without any sort of sauce, and just as you finish eating, more and more is placed. And the worst thing is- they don’t even say anything really interesting? If the pasta was like, some high quality shit, it would still be a drag to eat so much of it in one sitting, but at least the starting bites would at least be somewhat enjoyable.

It’s uncreative, boring and doesn’t flow well at all. And to have all of that right from the beginning would make anyone watching it for the first time likely decide to drop it immediately. Seriously, take this episode as an example on how not to relay information to your audience and don’t do what they did.

I’m sure the world you have built is super interesting and detailed and full of nuances you just can’t wait to share with your audience. But restrain yourself. Too much is going to make what could be appealing into a turn off.

This post has been foi on for a while now, so let’s end on a cliffhanger!

I still have a lot on my mind regarding this show and writing tips and pitfalls in general, however I think that it’s best to restrain myself and leave stuff for other posts. With that said, I’ll probably talk about the writing of the characters and the worldbuilding aspect of it more in depth next, so maybe come back next week?

Also, just saying that if you enjoyed this show, I am very happy for you. Seriously, I may despise this piece of entertainment for many reasons, but I still found some enjoyment there (even if said enjoyment was seeing my friends suffering a bit) and I must say, I was even s bit upset when they canceled it so soon. What I’m trying to say is, something doesn’t have to be ‘good’ for you to be allowed to enjoy it and don’t feel ashamed for liking something that most found dumb or whatever other negative descriptor you have in mind.

Anyways, that’s all for now. Have a fabulous day/night and keep creating, even if it’s not something you consider to be perfect!

[bloomvalyria]

How would I fix Fate The Winx Saga?

Fuuuuck that’s a big question. I have so many things I would do to fix it.

The first being that I never would’ve done live action. I think making it live action is a dumb idea because it will never live up to anyone’s expectations including Straffi’s. Instead, I would go with the idea of “adult animation.” Despite what Straffi deludes himself into believing, Winx’s main demographic is young to mid-20s adult and animation for adults is big right now. Take that bull by the horns and fucking GO. THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE RAINBOW.

But if I’m stuck in live action land, the edgy bullshit has to go. Half the cast has to go. And we’re sticking with the actual fucking plot of the show. Like why did it take 2 seasons to even mention Icy and Darcy when they’ve been involved since literally episode 1 of the cartoon? That’s a crime against humanity itself.

Calling the Magic Dimension The Other World? Ew.

Sebastian Valtor? Bite me.

It needs to be a direct translation with very minor differences. Otherwise it shouldn’t be done at all.

[mars-gifs]

January to-do list!

Commissions:

Working on now:

Zaria in PLL: Original Sin (season 1): public / posted

Danielle Campbell in Tell Me a Story (S1): private / giffing 8/10

Waitlist:

Danielle Rose Russell in Legacies (seasons 2-4): private 

Danielle Campbell in The Originals (seasons 1-5): private

Danielle Campbell in Tell Me a Story (season 2): private

Ester Exposito in Elite (seasons 1-3 + extras): public 

Nick Robinson in Maid (season 1): private

Mariya Andreeva in Sophia (season 1): private

Jon Hamm in Black Mirror (season 2, episode 4): public

Personal projects: (to work on when possible)

Madelaine Petsch in Jane: paused (75%)

Madelaine Petsch in Hotel for the Holidays

Thomas Doherty in Legacies (season 2)

Emeraude Toubia in With Love (season 1) (re-downloading)

Sadie Soverall in Fate: The Winx Saga (seasons 1-2)

COMMISSIONS: 0 slot(s) available

🧡 Mars says: There's been a lot of delays on my commissions due to the holidays and a family emergency the first week of January that had me out of my home until this week. Working hard now to finally catch up!

[bibaybe]

D-J OC Fandoms Masterlist

Derry Girls

Kira Regan

age: 15

character type: main character, plot bunny

gender and pronouns: cis woman, she/her

sexuality: queer

love interest: james maguire

faceclaim: piploy kanyarat

series: n/a

summary: Kira grew up in Thailand with her single mother, Isra, long abandoned by her father. She got used to being ignored young as her mother spent her nights dating around. When trying to be the perfect daughter didn’t work for her, Kira decided to turn it on her head, acting out in an effort to get her mother’s attention. And for a while, it worked. Okay, so maybe the attention wasn’t good, but at least her mom noticed when she wasn’t home at night now. That is, until Alby Blanchfield came along. A wealthy, Irish businessman, Alby swept Isra off her feet and within months, the two were wed. Before she knew it, Kira was dragged to Derry, Ireland and enrolled at a school for girls. Three years later, freshly fifteen-year-old Kira has made a reputation for herself at Our Lady Immaculate. Constantly making a scene, Kira has made it clear that she’d rather be back home than in Derry. Outcasted and alienated by her peers, Kira spends most of her days seeing how far she can toe the line without getting detention and spray painting graffiti around town. But when she hears that not only is there a new boy at their school, but that he pissed in a trash cane during detention, Kira is determined to befriend a fellow rebel. Surprised to learn that James is certainly not a badass, she decides to adopt him, only to find herself adopted by his friends instead. As the five begin to get closer and Kira finds herself beginning to enjoy her days with them, Kira finds out what being a real Derry Girl means.

links: playlist / tag

ship links: playlist / tag

Fate: The Winx Saga

Basil Guerrero

age: 18

character type: main character

enters: season 1, episode 1

gender and pronouns: genderfluid, she/he/they

sexuality: queer

love interest: beatrix, stella of solaria

faceclaim: lizeth selene

series: n/a

summary: The youngest of five, people always expect Basil to be spoiled rotten. Instead, they’re known within the family as the accident, their mother’s mistake, the family fuck-up. With her entire family being earth fairies, Basil’s mind magic easily expose her mother’s infidelity, blowing up with the family. Resented by his mother, unknown to his birth father, and barely tolerated by their “father”, Basil has known since they were young that they were a mistake their parents regret. The only thing that kept them going was their siblings’ tales of Alfea College as they began to pass through their halls. When the day finally came for her to go off to Alfea, Basil promised himself he would finally let loose and do everything he’d been staunchly kept from. Partying, making friends, using their powers - nothing was off the tables. But when they take it too far and dive too deep into hot, bad girl Beatrix’s mind, Basil finds herself bearing information that could save or destroy the school.

links: playlist / tag

ship links: playlist / tag

Ben Madison

age: 21

character type: side character

enters: mid season 1-2 (side)

gender and pronouns: cis man, he/him

sexuality: straight

love interest: logan suarez

faceclaim: thomas doherty

series: n/a

summary: Logan's exboyfriend who originally got her hooked on drugs. When her mother got him expelled from school then paid his family to leave Solaria, he left Logan behind and didn't think much about her. He'd never cared about her as much as she loved him, anyway. But when he transfers to Alfea College and runs into Logan, he takes it as a chance to get her loyalty yet again. The one thing he didn't expect was having to compete with Riven for her affections.

links: playlist / tag

Logan Suarez

age: 19

character type: main character

enters: season 1, episode 1

gender and pronouns: cis woman, she/her

sexuality: pansexual

love interest: ben madison, riven

faceclaim: alba baptista

series: n/a

summary: Logan Suarez has always been pushed to be the best. Daughter of Ira Suarez, Queen Luna’s press assistant and close confidant, Logan’s always been pushed to be top of the class, always the most sociable, the most everything in an effort to keep her mother’s perfect image preserved. But as the pressure began to build, Logan started taking pills to stay awake and hanging around, and quickly dating, notorious bad boy, Ben Madison, who quickly moves her onto harder substances. Soon, a glass of wine on the weekends turned into a beer mixed with Adderall every day as Ben started bring her parties with him, her mother beratings becoming more intensive as Logan’s grades began to drop. It wasn’t until Logan walked in on Ben with another girl, had a mental breakdown, and wandered into one of her mother’s dinner parties completely wasted that Ira finally noticed what was happening. After swearing her guests to secrecy, Logan was promptly checked into rehab and forced to dump Ben, even pulling strings to get Ben expelled from their high school. When she was finally allowed to return home five months later, Logan was determined to take control of her life. First up? Getting into Alfea College and as far away as her mother as possible. Two years later, Logan is finally settled into her new life away from Solaria and her mother’s influence. With a new last name and a deal in place with Ira, she no longer has to push herself to the limit. Throwing herself into learning more about her classmates and the history of fairies, Logan accidentally finds herself the person everyone comes to for information. But when new girl Bloom and her friends come asking for information about Rosalind, Logan finds herself intrigued enough to finally start working towards the one thing she’d been avoiding: friends.

links: playlist / tag

FRIENDS

Octavia Mancini

age: 27

character type: main character, plot bunny

gender and pronouns: cis woman, she/her

sexuality: bisexual

love interest: rachel greene

faceclaim: alyssa milano

series: n/a

summary: n/a

links: playlist / tag

ship links: playlist / tag

Haikyuu!!

Keiko

age: 17

character type: main character, plot bunny

gender and pronouns: cis woman, she/her

sexuality: straight

love interest: toru oikawa, koshi sugawara

faceclaim: n/a

series: n/a

summary: Keiko wasn’t expecting her third year at Karasuno High to be much different from her first two. The only difference was supposed to be making her band her first priority and quitting the girls’ volleyball team. But then some creep sidles a little too close on her walk home and she makes the mistake of telling her mom, who decides she needs a babysitter to make sure she gets home safely. To make it worse? She asks her next-door neighbor, Kageyama, to walk her to and from school, which would be less embarrassing if he wasn’t a goddamn first year. Sure, he's her best friend, but he's younger then her! And it doesn’t help that he has volleyball practice after school, which means she has even less time to practice with her band. At least Kageyama is fun to tease though, right? And the team isn’t half bad either - especially Sugawara. But when Keiko finds herself offering to help Yamaguchi with his serve during her off time, she finds herself being absorbed into the world of competitive volleyball in a way she hadn’t been last year. Balancing the band, her social life, and her new tutoring gig is starting to pile up and at some point, everything’s going to have to come tumbling down

links: playlist / tag

ship links: toru oikawa - playlist / tag || koshi sugawara - playlist / tag

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Daphne Hayes

age: 50

character type: side character

enters: n/a

gender and pronouns: cis woman, she/her

sexuality: straight

love interest: graham hayes

faceclaim: gabrielle union

series: my minds polluted (all i've got is the music)

summary: Joshua and Quinn's mother. Workaholic, but overbearing in her children's lives. Can be controlling at the beginning, but gets better over time.

links: playlist / tag

ship links: playlist / tag

Joshua Hayes

age: 17

character type: side character

enters: n/a

gender and pronouns: cis man, he/him

sexuality: straight

love interest: n/a

faceclaim: benjamin wadsworth

series: my mind's polluted (all i've got is the music)

summary: Son of Graham and Daphne Hayes and older brother of Quinn Hayes, Joshua is a popular jock who mainly keeps to himself when at home. He and Quinn have been pretty distant over the last few years, but Joshua would still do anything for his little sister, even if it means lying to their parents about what she's really been doing after school.

links: playlist / tag

Quinn Hayes

age: 16

character type: main character, plot bunny

enters: season 1, episode 1

gender and pronouns: cis woman, she/her and they/them pronouns

sexuality: lesbian

love interest: ashlyn caswell

faceclaim: madison reyes

series: my mind's polluted (all i've got is the music)

summary: Quinn was never meant to see the text that spun her life around, leaving her wondering which was up. When’s your family leaving? Can’t wait to see you xx As her mother and little brother cheerfully visited their grandparents that weekend, all Quinn could think about was her father at home alone. When they got back, Quinn confronted her dad, who begged her not to tell her mother, emphasizing that it would ruin their family. So, for two years, Quinn has held on to this secret. Overwhelmed with the weight of keeping her father’s secret and her parents’ increasing pressure on her, Quinn pushed her friends away, throwing herself into maintaining her family’s perfect image. But in a moment of impulsivity, longing to be seen as more than East High’s Ice Queen, Quinn finds herself trying out for the school musical. Sure, she’ll never get a part, but people will see her for once. Except she does get a part. As Kelsi, in fact. And before she knows it, the cast are worming their way past her defenses and into her heart as she struggles to balance the musical with her everyday life. And when she finds a bracelet in her father’s bag that her mother would never, ever wear, tensions come to a boiling point as Quinn struggles to decide whether its finally time to tell the truth.

links: playlist / tag

ship links: playlist / tag

[faytalepsy]

Thank you for the tag @nyctophilic0vitnir

Rules: list eight shows for your followers to get to know you better.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The show of shows for me. This got me started with watching shows and loving shows and is just such a big part of my childhood. I've seen every episode multiple times, and rewatched with my brother, my sister, my friend.

Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D: Nearly the same here. (Excluding the last two seasons because they were whack but I adored this show)

Hubert und Staller: Nobody is gonna know this one but it's a German comedy crime show and again my attachment to it is because me and my mother and sister used to watch it together and have the greatest time.

Star Trek: Voyager: I adore Janeway with my whole heart is all I have to say here.

Fate: The Winx Saga: Made it onto this list because Silrah became my absolute OTP and is now ruling over my fandom life. Also, this show is the reason I met one of my best friends and it made the Winxsource server happen. I love all the little people in my phone so much.

Big Bang Theory: Please before you judge me.....this show accompanied me through a rough patch of my life and I used to always watch it whenever I was so mentally bummed I couldn't make the effort and concentrate so it just had to be on this list. The intro still makes me instantly relax.

La Casa de Papel: Season 1+2 of this show were peak Netflix

Motherland: Fort Salem: My latest obsession.....it's sapphic witches okay!!!!!!!

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Sadie Soverall on Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2

as Beatrix on Fate: The Winx Saga [S2|E1]

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The kiss in 2.01 where Bloom is practically manhandling Sky around and he's like - wait - then just stares at her and then they're falling into bed and he's concealing an injury and she notices and he's like cocky take your shirt off first and then she's like BOI take your shirt off and lemme see and he goes okokoko - invented romance

[themagnificentartofshipping]

What the fuck just happened. A bunch of new characters and one of them gets like murdered(via bloodbending type shit)in like the first 2 minutes.

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why do you hate the netflix show? i'm genuinely curious, as my wife adores it and was also a huge fan of the animated series growing up.

I mean the TL:DR of it is I just think it's a bad show. I found the pacing strange, I didn't like half the characters so it was hard to root for them, Season 1's plot was so awkwardly paced it was boring, but in Season 2 there were like 3 different plot points per episode and I found them hard to get invested in. The LONG answer: my 3 biggest problems with the show were (!):

The blatant racism/whitewashing

This is pretty self-explanatory and I've gone over it before , so I'll keep it brief; the show's whitewashing was the biggest turnoff for me. Musa and the fake out Flora (because Eliot Sal WAS originally Flora, hope whoever made that change got a bonus) were awful, and then the treatment of Dane and Aisha's characters sucked (being taken advantage of by Riven and turning into a huge asshole, and Aisha being turned into Bloom's life coach). We got a little more diversity in Season 2, but by then it read more as a response to backlash than anything else. Same with Dane and Aisha; Aisha gives a little speech in Season 2's first episode where she says she's done being Bloom's life coach, and then proceeds to get a boyfriend who's secretly evil and lies to her all season. And Dane acts like an asshole for 2 scenes before he's shoved to the side as a supporting character.

2. Homophobia

Again, recap from my last rant; Season 1 was very straight. The Bloom/Sky/Stella love triangle took center stage, the only non-straight character was Dane, who I'm 90% sure was bisexual but we'll never know because not once in Fate: The Winx Saga does anyone say the word 'bisexual.' The closest we get is Dane saying he finds both Riven and Stormy Beatrix hot. But Dane, Riven, and Beatrix turn into this awful polyamory thing that goes on for like an episode and a half before it breaks up, and it's never spoken of again. Season 2 gives up an openly lesbian character, Terra, but her love interest (a female specialist whose name I don't remember) is in her own on-again-off-again relationship. Terra and the girl do get together, but last the audience knew the relationship was on! So Terra gets a girlfriend, but said girlfriend is a cheater. Gay rights? oh, and #JusticeforFrancesa

Those are the serious reasons, and with those out of the way I would argue the other really big reason I didn't like Fate was

3. THERE IS NO FRIENDSHIP

At the end of the day you can take away magic, the Specialists, and a lot of supporting characters from the show because the core of it - the reason Winx Club works so well - is because these six girls are best friends. The show is about them going through school and breakups and universe-saving together, and kicking ass at it because they have each others back. It is the show's central theme, it's where the best writing is, and where some of its best moments come from (for me at least).

Fate...does not do that. They started the series out making Sky the one to show Bloom around Alfea and introduce her to things instead of Stella, sidelining one of the strongest friendships in the series for the sake of a love triangle. And it only goes downhill from there! I get the whole 'take an episode or two to figure out where we stand as friends' but by the end of the 1st season these bitches are still fighting over the dumbest shit! We start out Season 2 with Stella using invisibility spells again so she's not seen with the other girls - I don't even think Stella likes any of them by the end of the series! Sure everyone goes to classes and plans dangerous missions to save the world together, but outside of that it doesn't seem like they even like each other. There are moments sprinkled throughout where they're supposed to be genuine friends, and they're easily some of fate's best stuff (the car scene in 2x01 is an example). But they're also awkward, because 20 minutes ago they were sulking in their rooms and yelling at each other about their lack of communication. They aren't deserved is the point I'm trying to get at here, and the only way they do feel deserved is if you a) already know their friendship dynamic because you watched the animated series, or b) you follow the actors on social media, where they actually talk and hang out like best friends.

The strongest friendship in this entire series isn't any of the girls - it's fucking Sky and Riven. Because they were pre-established best friends, had arguments throughout season 1, but by the end of season 2 had come back together because the world was in danger, and they both knew despite everything, that they would have each other's backs. Do you know how badly you have to fuck up, where one half of your best friendship is the queerphobic, predatory asshole character, and the other half is a slice of untoasted Wonder Bread?

Do you know how mad Riven would have been if Sky went to not-Omega with Bloom in the season 2 finale? He would have been fucking pissed and ordering everyone to a classroom to give his 30-slide power point on how to get them back within 3 days. Meanwhile Bloom doesn't actually say goodbye to the Winx girls, she just writes them letters and says goodbye to Sky in person (because it is well established that Bloom and Sky's romance is more important than the girl's friendship, let's be honest). And then girls are all hugging and Stella's crying that Bloom's gone and I just thought 'you spent more time with Beatrix than Bloom this season Stella, why the fuck are you sad.'

This is all a longwinded way to say the central theme of friendship was pushed aside for CW-style romance, which made the core cast of girls unable to connect, which made the show bad.

Fate had the same overall runtime as a single season of Winx Club. Later seasons are bad, don't get me wrong, but those original 2004-2007 seasons had twice the character moments, more concise plots, and felt way more fun than anything I saw Brian Young put out these last few years. I would watch an original season (and even season 4! sue me!) any day over Fate the W inx Saga.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, and probably don't show your wife this.

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MASTERLIST OF SCREENCAPS, PT2.

Click here to go to part 1.

I hope its useful and helps you find what you need! Don't forget that besides these packs we also have individual posts, from since the beginning of this blog in 2017!

FULL SEASONS SCREENCAPS.

Looking for Alaska, Whole Miniseries.

Heartbreak High, Season One.

Fate: The Winx Saga, Season Two.

Pistol, Miniseries Complete.

Panic, Complete.

The Bear, Season One.

The White Lotus, Season Two.

GAP: The Series, Being updated.

Wednesday, Season One.

Young Royals, Season Two.

Gossip Girl, Season Two.

MOVIES SCREENCAPS.

Passengers, 141 Screencaps.

Red Riding Hood, 334 Screencaps.

Can't Buy Me Love, 240 Screencaps.

Coraline, 780 Screencaps.

Jennifer's Body, 670 Screencaps.

The School for Good and Evil, 896 Screencaps.

The Nightmare Before Christmas, 609 Screencaps.

Monster House, 540 Screencaps.

Fear Street: 1994, 377 Screencaps.

Corpse Bride, 924 Screencaps.

Fear Street 1978, 489 Screencaps.

Fear Street 1666, 433 Screencaps.

Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost, 403 Screencaps.

Beyond the Universe, 481 Screencaps.

Clouds, 642 Screencaps.

My Policeman, 810 Screencaps.

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, 800 Screencaps.

Holidate, 401 Screencaps.

Last Christmas, 397 Screencaps.

Falling for Christmas, 722 Screencaps.

Pearl, 441 Screencaps.

The Lost Girls, 190 Screencaps.

Disenchanted, 700 Screencaps.

Let it Snow, 370 Screencaps.

20th Century Girl, 403 Screencaps.

Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday, 305 Screencaps.

Dear Zoe, 202 Screencaps.

Something from Tiffany's, 279 Screencaps.

Hotel for the Holidays, 373 Screencaps.

The Princess Switch 2, 580 Screencaps.

Sharp Stick, 228 Screencaps.

Cow Belles, 289 Screencaps.

LOOSE EPISODES.

Only Murders in the Building, 96 Screencaps.

Never Have I Ever S03E01, 109 Screencaps.

Hunters S01E01, 81 Screencaps.

High School Musical TMTS, Season Three Almost Complete.

The Rings of Power. First three eps.

Christmas in 2 Broke Girls, 86 Screencaps.

Christmas in Friends, 109 Screencaps.

Christmas in TVD, 166 Screencaps.

The Addams Family '64, 233 Screencaps.

Pretty Little Liars S05E13, 220 Screencaps.

MISCELLANEOUS: INTERVIEWS, VLOGS, LIVE AND GAMES.

Ross Lynch, 36 Screencaps.

Taylor Swift JIMMYF, 45 Screencaps.

Claudia and Kennedy Walsh Xmas Vlog, 140 Screencaps.

Jenna Ortega in Technicolor, 58 Screencaps.

Jão VEVO Performance, 94 Screencaps.

Xmas w Claudia + Kennedy Walsh, 104 Screencaps.

Olivia Rodrigo MetGala22, 93 Screencaps.

Billie Eilish Beauty Routine, 75 Screencaps.

Billie Same Interview 6th Year, 137 Screencaps.

Millie Bobby Brown Lie Detector, 102 Screencaps.

Elizabeth Olsen for IGN, 33 Screencaps.

Elizabeth Olsen's 5-minute easy radiant skin routine, 113 Screencaps.

Elizabeth Olsen was raised on Musicals and Sitcoms | W Magazine, 77 Screencaps.

Iman Vellani on Ms. Marvel’s POWERS and How The Marvels Fits into the MCU (Exclusive), 45 Screencaps.

MUSIC VIDEOS.

Britney — You Drive Me Crazy, 61 Screencaps.

Taylor Swift — Anti-Hero, 110 Screencaps.

Taylor Swift — Bejeweled, 98 Screencaps.

Sabrina Carpenter — Nonsense, 118 Screencaps.

Hailee Steinfeld — Coast, 87 Screencaps.

Camila Cabello — Havana, 55 Screencaps.

Sabrina Carpenter — Skinny Dipping, 75 Screencaps.

XG — Left Right, 189 Screencaps.

Rosalía — Con Altura, 61 Screencaps.

Twice — Set me free, 131 Screencaps.

Ive — Kitsch, 162 Screencaps.

Jisoo — Flower, 114 Screencaps.

CHARACTERS SCENE PACKS.

Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout, 323 Screencaps.

Robby Keene, S03, 101 Screencaps.

Jules Millin S19E02 — Grey's A., 56 Screencaps.

Isadora Artinan — ELITE, All Scenes in S06.

Judith Grimes — TWD, 118 Screencaps.

JOY in Once Upon a Small Town, All Scenes S01.

Mariana Foster GT S04, 118 Screencaps.

Mariana Foster TF S04, 76 Screencaps.

IU in Persona, 102 Screencaps.

Anita — Bom dia, Veronica S01, 139 Screencaps.

TRAILERS

Elemental (2023), 29 Screencaps.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 67 Screencaps.

Emily in Paris S03 Announcement, 43 Screencaps.

Emily in Paris S03 Trailer, 122 Screencaps.

Scream 6, 30 Screencaps.

Barbie Teaser, 44 Screencaps.

Renfield, 108 Screencaps.

You S04, 97 Screencaps.

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Fate: The Winx Saga - Season 2

Spoilers for FTWS Season 2

I only recently discovered Fate: The Winx Saga and, to be honest, I had not expected to enjoy it as much as I did.

There were many things I liked about season 1, but what really drew me to the show were the adult characters, specifically Farah and Saul. I was intrigued by their shared history and how obviously they cared for each other. Sure, the show focusses on the students, but I had hoped to learn a bit more about the teachers as the story continued.

Despite how season 1 ended, I still went into season 2 somewhat optimistic. After all, it’s a show about fairies and magic, so there could have been a way to bring Farah back to life. I had fully intended to stay away from spoilers, but I think I managed to get to episode 2x04 before I caved and went online to see whether Farah would come back or not. And I’m glad I did, even if it was just to avoid being hit by the full force of the emotional rollercoaster that was her brief return.

Clearly, I would have liked her to stay on the show, but if it wasn’t to be at least we got closure and a proper goodbye. I can live with that and I do appreciate the effort that went into making those final scenes possible.

What I do have issues with though, is Saul’s behaviour in season 2. Season 1 established that Farah, Saul and Ben went through a lot together. They are friends. Farah and Saul had a lot of shared scenes in season 1 that showed just how close they are. And suddenly in season 2 Saul doesn’t seem to care anymore. WTF?!

I have a feeling season 2 may not have been what the creators had originally intended. They had to recast some roles because the actors couldn’t return due to scheduling conflicts with other work they were doing and Eve Best got cast in HotD, which probably (understandably) sealed Farah’s fate. I’ve also seen other posts on here saying that they originally announced 8 episodes, rather than the 7 the second season now consists of. So it seems like they had to make some changes that weren’t necessarily planned and that may have impacted the story they were able to tell.

If they had to cut down the number of episodes, they would have had to condense the story. It’s understandable that they would do so where the supporting characters (e.g. the teachers) are concerned. After all, the show isn’t about them. But did they really have to do it to an extent where Saul seems OOC compared to season 1? It wouldn’t have taken much, just one or two lines to show that he actually cares about what happened to Farah. A noticeable reaction to the news of her death… But there was nothing and that really bothers me.

The same goes for why he ended up working for Rosalind btw. I mean, yes, I can come up with all kinds of reasons for all of the above. For example, at first, he was too busy to escape to go look for Farah. After he got captured, he worked with Rosalind to protect Sky. When they finally found out about Farah, Rosalind was dead, he had the Blood Witches to deal with and maybe he tried to keep it together in front of the students. Those are all good reasons that may have worked, but the show didn’t give us a single one of those. Instead, they made him seem very different from the Saul we saw in season 1. And while I’m all for headcanons and fanfics, I don’t like having to come up with them just to make sense of what happens on the show and I don’t think I should have to. That’s the show’s job.