#fav character in the whole pilot

[stepperthenobody]

I watched the pilot a week ago and I already love him- He’s so baby girl material-

(First time trying to draw chess piece middle aged dude)

Dead wife 😀

Dead wife 2 😀

I like drawing tired chess pieces and chess pieces couples 🙂 AAAAA THEY’RE SO C00T ❤️❤️

Full page ✨✨

Anyways I will draw more of them in the future-

[lamelarts]

Dancing together through times ✨👏💃🕺

1 - My outfits

2 - @ anhaidule’s pirate au

3 - @ SETuYUyu’s actors au

4 - @ Joetastic_’s present video.

In another timeline where Jimmy isnt there to cause trouble jdjdj I think their relationship would gradually become better over time with each other 👏 Where Curly starts to open up more to her hdjdjd they then understand each other and help out when needed 💜 Anya then becomes his co-pilot and the whole crew lives happily ever after 😩

Lol i just wanted to draw them together hehe my two fav characters so why not 👏 i first intended to draw one set of outfits only but got too ambitious so three more were drawn 😭🙏 Hope u all like the result 🥺💜

[natsredbra]

Ik you’re a primarily writing account but would you do a short character rank?

AHH yes! ive been waiting for an ask like this

warning: apparently controversial opinions, i pulled this out of my ass so these are characters i care about enough to talk about, sorry not sorry; general spoilers for s3!

credits to all gif owners!

15. Gen Nolastname

Just shut up. You have three lines and you’re bitching in all of them. I can condone cannibalism but not being mean to Natalie. She’s hot tho

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14. Travis Martinez

Now THIS is what they’re gonna call controversial and wrong…….honestly I don’t even dislike him anymore but he’s not as importnant to me as the rest of them

13. Jeff Sadecki

Same points as for Travis, but he’s funny

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12. Laura Lee

Again, I did like her character but I didn’t get too attached to her

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11. Melissa Hat

I knowww that some of you love her, and seeing as she’s gay (aka the only reason she’s above LL) I probably will too once they explore her character some more……but for now she’s a little boring, though she does seem to be getting a storyline since last ep

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10. Ben (Coach Scott, whatever, tiktok likes to whine about it)

Okay now we’re getting somewhere…….proud to say i was never a Ben hater, never will be and I never understood it. Sure, he had shitty moments but it can’t compare to what the rest of the group has done. Also his death was all too sad.

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9. Misty Quigley

Hmm honestly I was NOT a Misty fan on my first watch, but when I revisited for the second time she grew on me tbh. I’m still not too crazy about her, she’s annoying as she is relatable at times, I know that people either love or hate her but very middle of the road for me

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8. Akilah Nolastname

Stop she’s so adorable and amazing, I literally have nothing bad to say about her!!! If she had more storyline she’d be WAY higher up

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7. Mari Ibarra

NOW we are getting to characters that I LOVE and can’t choose between. Ugh ugh Mari my absolute love……..only reason she’s this low is because I like the mains/other characters better but from this point on they’re all the goats

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6. Jackie Taylor

Deserved so much better arghhhhh!!! Jackieshauna is one of the saddest ships/dynamics on tv i kid you not. My comphet femme lesbian <3

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5. Taissa Turner

I don’t have much to say about her but somehow she is the absolute mix of girlfailure and girlboss! She’s so me and probably the character I associate with the most along with Nat, it pained me to see her so discarded on that poll I made……still, one of my all time favs

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4. Van Palmer

She and Tai are very interchangable, but this feels right tbh…….she’s so nerdy and awesome and wholesome and and- anyway, if she dies I DIE BITCH. (she won’t she wooooon’t!)

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🥉Shauna Shipman

Any of the ones under this could potentially change for any reason, but let me tell you my top 3 will NOT. ever. I go on record saying that, it has been this way since the pilot. I love Shauna Shipman, nothing she could possibly do would change my opinion of her, y’all are pussy as hell always asking for complex characters and then completely dismissing her. I totally understand hating her at all BUT at the very least you could appreciate all her layers, she really is interesting and no one can deny that

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🥈Lottie Matthews

(lmao jackie checking her ass out in this gif) ANYWAY i love lottie so bad, my schizo femme lesbian gf who is bonkers. It’s so funny to me how they all call her crazy and talk shit but in the wilderness her word was LAW. Like she really jumped in with the whole “Shauna will lead us” Babe Shauna led them after that! She also loves our other gf and did it to protect her smth smth power throuple…….anyways not to go on a lottienat rant, she’s my pookie.

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🥇Natalie Scatorccio

LOOK AT HER! JUST. LOOK AT HER! She’s so cute and kind and i wanna mwah mwah mwah her until her trauma is healed……..I’ve seen so many people say that we only like her cause of her looks, as if that’s the only thing to like about her. Shauna’s trauma is very talked about (as it should be) but I feel like no one really mentions EVERYTHING that Nat’s gone through anymore, she went through so much both in and also out of the wilderness. Her battle with addiction is also very overlooked, and it’s so heartbreaking to know that the longest she’d been clean was against her will. She’s also very understanding, patient and mature compared to some of the other girls, doesn’t hold grudges and never let’s, as she calls it, “dumb girl shit” cloud her judgement when she’s helping someone. Most hinged of them all since the beginning, they are and always were so unfair to her - though this szn it’s more serious then simply singling her out

[sidsinning]

I watched the Hazbin thing

It's not bad at all, most of the songs are really catchy, the universe and plot are both interesting, the characters are quirky and distinct. I am excited to watch the next batch of eps when I have caught up.

- it just feels super rushed? Tonally gave me whiplash at times too (please work on the transitions from dialogue to song 😭🙏) (Stayed Gone is perfect I ain't talkin about you dear)

I think it's bc this was made with the already existing fans of the lore and pilot in mind who were waiting for the answers to questions they've had for years about twists, theories, character motivations, etc. (Also feels like the characters are established in a way the show expects you to know who they are already)

Personally I enjoy the whole demon extermination plot but I wanna get comfortable with the hotel itself first and it feels like we haven't done that

Also sidenote does it make sense when I say this show is very Tumblr-coded

It's not a positive or negative just a vibe descriptor I'm a resident here as well

My fav is Alastor

ALSO

I very much appreciate an American adult cartoon that actually wants to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye

It's not ugly yay

[pharawee]

I usually don't do yearly recaps because my memory sucks December is one of the busiest months for me and I'm lucky if I get to gif at all but this year I thought I'd take a look at all of the gifsets I did in 2024 and see which shows, pairings and moments I liked the most.

✨FAV BLS OF 2024

1000 Years Old: 2024 was supposed to be the year of vampire BL (going by all the announcements and pilot trailers) but in the end only this one aired (edit: wait, I forgot about OMG! Vampire to protect myself 🥴) - and it was neither spicy nor particularly spooky. Instead, it was all heart and quirkiness and when it was over I cried for a week because of the bittersweet ending.

Playboyy: This show is truly a masterpiece, with layers of subtext and social commentary. Also, it's fun and camp and sexy and ridiculous. I'm so glad it's going to get a second season.

Caged Again: How come that a little show about a penguin and a panther is legit one of the best - if not THE BEST - Thai BL of the year?

Knock Knock, Boys: I came for Best and Seng and Pak but then Almond and Latte bewitched me body and soul. Kongthup now owns me.

Every You, Every Me: I don't know what I was expecting (well, okay, a whole lot of Mick & Top - which is exactly what I got) but it surely wasn't crying my eyes out for two episodes right in the middle of the show.

Spare Me Your Mercy: Long awaited and currently still airing - I actually love this show a lot because it reminds me of all the detective dramas (esp Endeavour and Grantchester) I used to binge. Morse but make it queer is actually all I ever wanted.

7 Days Before Valentine: This show's depth and artistry and stageplay-like character absolutely blew me away.

I Saw You in My Dream: WeTV absolutely blew it out of the water this year with their many diverse productions, and this unassuming and charming little show with a supernatural twist (love me one of those!) was no exception.

Monster Next Door: Big Thanakorn in his first main role with his first acting partner in an extremely fun and all around lovely Kongthup/WeTV production. And I just love how nuanced it was when they could have just stuck with the whole introvert/extrovert cliché.

✨FAV PAIRINGS OF 2024

Hope x Save (Jack & Joker): These two completely took me by surprise, especially because I had such an intense reaction to Pee Phiravich's character in La Pluie. I had originally set my eyes on PromMark and while I definitely ate up their crumbs, HopeSave just checked all of my boxes: morally grey antagonists (at least for a while there), doomed by the narrative (until they actually got their happy ending, yay!) and ride and die for each other.

Pete x Kenta (Pit Babe): I'll be a PeteKenta truther until the day I die (see all of the checkboxes above), and if Change2561 didn't subscribe to the branded pair model, they'd agree with me. As things are I'm actually kind of meh about Pit Babe 2. I bet KentaKim won't have knives at each other's throats!! (PeteWay is delicious though.)

Prom x Nont (Playboyy): Uhhh, that's a lot of the same checked boxes. So maybe I have a type. Thanks 2024 for making me realise. Also, I hope these two make each other worse in season 2 (before they get their HEA because ultimately I'm vanilla like that).

Latte x Almond (Knock Knock, Boys!): Oh God, these two. I was prepared to be ride or die for Thanwa and Peak but then LatteAlmond barged in with a pink sex toy and it was over for me. They just have so much heart and so much sincerity between them (and while their dynamics are different in Caged Again I'm really enjoying Nokia and Jaonine there too for pretty much the same reason + their incredible comedic timing).

X x Namping (Every Me, Every You): It's probably a good thing we got these two for two episodes only because we might not have survived a whole 8 or 10 or even 12 episodes of them. Plus, the anthology-like character of the series made a sad ending possible in the first place, and I really appreciate it - even if it almost destroyed me.

✨FAV MOMENTS OF 2024

Twins: For a moment there we had FrameRyan and it was beautiful.

The Sign: Chalothorn stole the whole show for me and then when he inexplicably vanished I kind of stopped watching. Whoops.

Deep Night: I have seen the throuple light thanks to SeijiPanKen.

The Rebound: Frank Thanatsaran's acting (but also that scene...) overshadowing pretty much everything else (and now he's with Star Hunter which... you know... ehnnnn 🥲)

To Be Continued: Fluke Pongsapat and Junior Khajbhunditt starring in a way underrated 8-episode netflix show with one of the most beautiful love scenes ever, and I've been wanting more of them ever since.

Two Worlds: Kongthup giveth and Kongthup taketh away (aka for one and a half episodes I had Phupha and Khram and now I will never know peace).

Century of Love: Offroad Kantapon as a sultry fox spirit.

Sunset x Vibes: When Star Hunter remembered Fong and JJ exist and then they stole the whole entire show (there really wasn't much to steal though...).

The Sign: Whatever was going on between Heng Asavarid and Nat Sakdatorn in this scene BUT I NEED MORE (pls Idolfactory I'm begging you release Heng from his solo actor prison).

Two Worlds: Kongthup choosing violence by giving Pak and Mon one of the spiciest love scenes of the year.

The Rebound: THESE TWO (boxes checked!! But also I need more Nammon in my life).

Kidnap: GMMTV's strategic placement of Papang in a suit.

The Hidden Moon: Whenever that tiny low-budget show got surprisingly deep and artsy (and also spicy).

My Stand-In: When I watched a whole show for one (1) character that wasn't really a character at all. Oh, the tragedy of it all (and yes, I'm still scared of Ming).

Pit Babe: When I made several posts about the Pit Babe novel but then I actually ended up loving the villains more than the main characters. I'm watching Pit Babe 2 for them and them only. Winner of my heart here I come!

Aaand that's it, my first ever yearly (Thai) BL recap - which actually ended up way longer than planned (guess my memory isn't as bad as I thought. Then again, I had my gifs to fall back on).

2024 was an amazingly diverse year for Thai QL (along with the wonderful news of marriage equality in Thailand finally becoming a reality) and looking back I now realise (not that I was ever seriously worried) that gmmtv's monopoly is actually way more of a blessing than a curse because not only did it cause WeTV to heavily invest in their own productions, it also leaves more than enough room for innovation and creativity via smaller and indie companies (along with the truly big players finally paying more attention - see: Spare Me Your Mercy). Innovation which in turn enriches gmmtv's portfolio as well (judging by their line-up for 2025 the years to come). In short: the Thai BL ecosystem is truly thriving.

And with that, may 2025 be even queerer than 2024 with tons of marriage proposals and actual marriages (PorschArm here we go!), and a favourite little (or in gmmtv's case not so little lmao) BL niche for everyone.

I hope you had as much fun with BL in 2024 as I had. I really appreciate everyone's commentary posts and meta and fanart and gifsets and tag games and reaction posts, even if I didn't spend as much time on my dashboard this year as I wanted to. I'm so glad tumblr BL fandom exists. ILU guys. Only the bestest and kindest things for you in 2025!🌈✨

[dykedvonte]

I keep seeing fanarts of ppl's OC's being on the ship, so do you think that if there was 6st crewmember (specifically, another woman) Anya would've been more safe? Like, someone to actually call Jimmy's begaviour out, someone Anya might wanna trust? Is there a possibility something might have changed (even if a little) or it would not have mattered at all?

-💀

I feel like the game would make it part of the commentary on where she would believe and help Anya but still be sort of dismissive? Like the whole “don’t waste time crying and being scared keep going and move on, don’t let him win”. It’s supposed to be positive and reinforcing but sometimes it does more damage in those times of mourning and grief, it feels patronizing, like you don’t understand what you’re going through but they do. Even if they did call out his behavior it’s still on Curly to act and while another voice would help, it’s still 4 against 2 on guys that don’t get it until they have to vs women who always have to.

I don’t mind mouthwashing OCs but I do get a bit bored as they tend to be borderline saviors or like Jimmy aligned. They are either more complicit than Curly or just Jimmy haters for no reason, outside of what the creators know about what he did to Anya. I am never irked by OCs but in a story like mouthwashing you really need to think about what your character adds to the commentary, especially if they are there during the crash. It’s nice to have like characters on Anya’s side more whole heartedly and interesting to see characters who placate Jimmy but sometimes it’s one note.

I can’t and don’t want to police peoples OCs it’s never my intention when I comment on trends I notice, but I do feel like the way people make their OCs interact with these two characters and especially Curly, really show a grave misunderstanding of the narrative and these characters as people vs roles in the story. Still, I know people just make up characters for fun and that’s fine. Great even, but I guys I’m focusing more on OCs that are supposed to have those serious dynamics. My favs tend to be pretty-Tulpar or post-Tulpar au OCs.

The inevitably of the crash is on Jimmy. He did that not because he wasn’t stopped but because all his means to kill Anya were taken. The gun, the axe. Even if Curly did strip him of his co-pilot privileges and try to keep him contained there’s only so many people. An extra body helps but they have jobs they have to do, he’s the only one steering the whole ship and Jimmy would likely have an out: food, bathroom, etc. He’s not new and if he couldn’t crash the ship directly, who’s to say he wouldn’t sabotage something else? A clunker like the Tulpar wouldn’t take much. An extra person helps but it’s just another thing that prolongs what a person like Jimmy is willing to do to shirk responsibility.

It’s more than just needing someone to stand up to him and think that’s what is missing when it comes to inserting a character into the mouthwashing setting.

[seraphw37]

a shiro-focused incoherent rambling !!!

from. the biggest shiro fan ever in 2025 ^_^ joke

ok firstly sorry for how disjointed this will be, secondly id love to hear anyones opinions on this so please dm or comment or anything!!!!

with how little attention there is to the other paladins aside klance, its no wonder that shiro is so one dimensional to the fandom. i mean like even in the show he’s not a greatly written character. we dont know his motivations, background, family, what he does for leisure, we see all of the other paladins have hobbies but NOTHING for shiro. his character is majorly inconsistent and that can just be blamed on kuron. he gets entirely shafted for s8 after his clone was allegedly the one we saw for like 5 whole seasons. i’m just saying he’s extremely underutilized and written. we harp on lance and hunk not getting any arcs but at least they have substance. i’d wager the shiro we see around the paladins isnt truly him either, yet we never get to see him outside of “commander” mode. theres a reason why adashi and curtis x shiro content depicts him so differently, because he would probably act less strict around those his age who he is close to!! he was traumatized as a literal pow by fucking aliens for a year or more for fucks sake.

“shiro after being broken up w by his fiance, taken as a pow, got a new alien hand, became a dad for 4 troubled teens, the leader of an alien warship robot that supposedly will save everyone from the genocidal maniac, dying and being stuck into the shadow realm, his clone becoming evil, being resurrected only to not have an arm and white hair, then returning to earth to find out his ex fiance died, getting a new robot hand, having to pilot another warship robot and then finally retiring at 28 probably.” - me literally making fun of how insane shiro’s story is

SPEAKING OF FUCKING SHIRO’S STORY. I OWN THAT BOOK. it only mentions his days at the garrison briefly. fucking nothijg before that. hobbies? HE DOESNT HAVE RHEM. favorite color?? we only know his “fav” animal bc of that stupid trivia thingy oh mu gooodddddd shiro shiro what did they do to you.

actually ny initial point was just for the fandom to treat him more like a guy. he definitely had maladaptive coping mechanisms. he’s worse than keith, keeping everyone at arms length away. he HAS to be strong for everyone! he’s the only decorated piloted on voltron! the oldest human!! they all look to him for support. we see him sillier at times and id like to think thats the real him. imo, shiro is considerate, loyal, a bit stubborn, curious, strong-willed, resilient, passionate, silly, charming, humorous, disciplined, generous, intelligent, and responsible. but he is also self-sacrificing, emotionally reserved, exhausted, having to choose between saving more people or his team in a literal war, would be the type to abuse substances for coping, probably depressed and canonically disabled mentally and physically (PTSD). he could’ve been so good for rep and then they just … didnt do anything w him. lol! so funny thanks voltron writers. um no conclusion thats it thanks

[iwantyouto-eatme]

my thoughts on the latest episode…

spoilers under the cut‼️‼️‼️

okay cause im so overwhelmed by it all. MARI IS PIT GIRL???!!?!! honestly should’ve guessed it it made a lot of sense to be her. when she took off her jacket and it was the pit girl dress i had to stop and prepare for what i was about to see. the dripping she heard all season was 10000% foreshadowing her death when she’s dripping in blood.

what id like to complain about is fucking shauna shipman. i hate you. her being antler queen was quite obvious tbh. like who else could it be. people saying it would be nat clearly don’t know her character. she cares about the others too much to want to hurt them. and she doesn’t have the will power to lead them like that. shauna has been trying to take jackie’s place as the team captain since they crashed. especially after jackies death she saw a place available and filled it. also omg the fact that when mari dies she couldn’t give less of a shit?! the change from teen shauna to adult shauna is insane cause what she just got over all that shit she did to her “friends” and became a “better” (barley) person?? if shauna has no haters im dead. this is NOT a safe place for shauna apologists. idk if u can tell how much i hate her rn

lowk VERY surprised lottie wasn’t antler queen. my suspicions were between her and shauna and im honestly glad she wasn’t. lottie has too much on her back rn my poor girl doesn’t need anything else.

misty quigley my baby. i love her so much if anyone hates on her i will shoot them. i used to find her SO irritating but now i have a deep love for her. adult misty may not be my fav but teen misty has my entire heart.

nat (sexy as always) ate up this episode. the scene that we saw in the pilot of misty smiling being because nat found out how they could be rescued made me so happy. the whole time i expected it to be like because she was part of the whole cult shit in a lottie kinda way. but she’s just being the absolute icon she is and serving cunt even in the wilderness.

im a little worried for nat next season. yes she’s gotten help and the girls will be rescued (hopefully 🙏) but shauna is fucking crazy and I wouldn’t doubt that she’s gonna try and kill nat for fucking up her plans or whatever

there’s an elephant in the room id like to talk about but ill break down if i do (COUGH COUGH TRAVIS TALKING ABOUT JACKIE AND BASICALLY CONFIRMING THAT SHAUNA AND JACKIE USED TO MAKE OUT DURING SLEEP OVERS HEJAJDJEJDW)

im in desperate need of another season the fact ill be 19 by the next season genuinely terrifies me. hurry up i cant stand waiting paramount :c

[mostlywhump]

got any favorite laramie episodes? i can't stop watching "the confederate express" & the one in season 2 where slim gets pushed off a cliff.

also, is there any robert fuller whump in wagon train or emergency!? thanks!

Hey thanks for the ask!!

I’m procrastinating homework so I drew you up a quick list of my favorites from the shows you’ve mentioned. Two notes:

1. I’m a Jess girly so almost all of the Laramie favs are Jess-centric, but I’ll mark some of the more nuanced ones.

2. There are other whumpy eps of Wagon Train (ftr Coop is only seasons 7-8) and Laramie, these are just some of my personal favorites.

emergency 2.4 Virus - Dr Brackett gets a mysterious illness and also passes out knocking over a chair.

emergency 6.12 Lose Ends - Dr Brackett ends up in a car wreck with a concussion. Very nice moment where his medical coworkers realize that he’s one of the crash victims.

Wagon train

7.09 The Eli Bancroft Story - beat up and then left to die in the desert with a few other people. Found by friend and gets head cradled which I’m a fan of. Lots of angst.

8.05 The Barbara Lindquist Story - I made gifs of part of this ep (because it’s so good). He gets knocked unconscious and then shot in the leg (and left in the desert again) which gets infected and he almost loses his leg but not before being pale and delirious for awhile.

8.10 The Richard Bloodgood Story - this one was kind of weird, but there’s a lot of angst and he gets shot in the shoulder in a very satisfying way.

8.23 The Katy Piper Story - he’s not the main character of this one but he does get shot with an arrow and his friend is pretty mad about it.

Laramie

1.10 The General Must Die - Shot Off horse. People think he’s dead.

1.11 Dark Verdict - Jess has angst, Slim gets hurt, Jess feels terrible about it.

1.15 Night of the Quiet Man - shot in stage coach robbery offscreen. Found unconscious on the ground in the aftermath.

1.27 The Protectors - pistol-whipped and thrown off moving train.

2.5 Ride Into Darkness - beat bloody and then knocked unconscious and left for dead in a house fire.

2.9 License to Kill - nice scene of Jess yelling at Slim while Slim bandages his injuries for him. special bonus: Jess falls off horse from exhaustion and has to be helped up (against his will). Underrated swamp scenes.

2.26 Killers Odds - ambushed and beat up. Carried into house and cared for by Slim and Mort. Iconic scene.

2.27 Bitter Glory - shot in the shoulder

2.31 Men in Shadows - this is the only episode since the pilot where Slim punches Jess. Jess doesn’t hit him back and Slim feels awful. I remember seeing the tension in this scene for the first time and being like “this show is DIFFERENT”

3.26 Turn of the Wheel - both of them get hurt. Both get protective of each other.

4.1 Among the Missing - bad head wound. After care.

4.6 Lost Allegiance - broken ribs for whole episode also falls off horse

4.19 The Fugitives - Slim gets shot and Jess tries to tear the town apart about it.

4.20 The Dispossessed - Jess gets knocked out and has cute hair, but mostly I just like that the episode is focused on both of them equally and they aren’t disagreeing on anything. Wish there were more like this.

4.25 Edge of Evil - Jess gets thwacked but he’s also just kinda cute in this one especially.

4.26 Broken Honor - Falls off a cliff and carried to safety. All cut up and bloody with a fever:

4.29 The Marshals - shot in the chest. Most of the episode is people being angsty about keeping him alive.

[sockboioioing]

Some doods

i was messing around with human forms of the sins, i thought it’d be cool to think about them being like. Ancient kings of long lost countries or something, idk

Trying to figure out Vaggies old armor for back when she was an exorcist. i wanted to make it more angular than lute’s cuz she ended up getting too curious about heaven and turned ‘evil’ for an angel in my rewrite, so shape language yada yada. I also added those horn thingalings as a bit of foreshadowing. I just wanted to give her an actual reason for being cast out instead of “feeling sympathy for a conveniently placed sinner child” i wanted to tie in the thing sera said to emi about how she “didnt want her to look too closely into heaven or else she’ll end up fallen” and allat

Im actually obsessed with my redesigns for pentious, like hes probably my fav alongside Rosie and Mimzy, he looks so silly! I wanna make his crush on Cherri waaay slower developed than in the show, cuz it was out of nowhere tbh. His love language is throwing bombs at each other ❤️

Mammon’s human form is probably my favorite of the sin’s human forms just cuz of how stupid he looks, like he was just ripped out of a fairytale or something

I plan on making Husker and Angel’s relationship develop slower as well, and i recently watched a video about the original pitch of the story, and i liked that way better than how it played out in the show, like just little things that grow their bond together more and stuff like that. I also think it would be a good juxtaposition with my redesign of Al pushing this whole smiling thing, even thought he’s physically unable to smile himself cuz of how his mouth is in his sinner form

I also recently watched a video where Al’s pilot singing VA sang “you’re never fully dressed without a smile” from Annie and ive been going insane over it, like that song is so him coded its insane

I also rlly miss Al’s pilot voice cuz it felt more 30’s to me and i miss the stronger radio effect a lot 😔

Luci, Al, and Charlie true form concept doodles, along with a lil Chaggie doodle below cut

I was fooling around with the true, more demonic forms of some of the hazbin characters, and i wanted to draw a bit of chaggie so i did that too loll, i wanna say trueform!lucifer is like. Founding titan sized

I gave vaggie a tweaked version of her pilot getup if u couldnt tell

[loulooser]

Here’s some things about me!

My name is Lou online

I’m a MINOR. A MINOR. STOP BEING WEIRD TO ME.

I’m agender

My favourite colour is green

I really like music, drawing little guys, cooking, talking, trans people, watching movies, making friends, wearing clothes, playing games, Spider-Man, being gay etc

I really DISLIKE disruption to routine, super loud people, drum and bass, hypocrites, knowing I’ll die some day, being lonely, socks (no fr I hate hate HATE socks so much), doomed siblings trope (for fucks sake give me a break), John Walker, etc etc

My favourite band is twenty one pilots I am normal about them I SWEAR anyways going on six/seven years of fanhood (since 2018)

I’m a huge Marvel nerd

My top five marvel characters in no particular order:

Phillip J. Coulson (actually my all time fav), Wanda Maximoff, Natasha Romanoff, Loki Laufeyson, Spider-Man (not including spider verse people, that’s a different tier list, butAndrew is the best of the three spider men)

Some of my fav books/series: Gone (Micheal Grant), Itch (Simon Mayo), all of Alice Oseman’s stuff, AGGGTM (Holly Jackson), The Angel Of The Crows (Katherine Addison), all of Darren Shan’s stuff, Skullduggery Pleasant, Ketchup Clouds (Annabelle Pitcher) etc etc also I really like comics (spidey and also Kate bishop’s specifically) (I’m not rich enough to read loads)

My favourite movie is fantastic mr fox

I really like Diggers (the machines)

Favourite animal is rabbits I want one so bad I will name him Peter

My favourite show is Agents Of Shield

I cry a lot (at everything, it sucks and I hate it)

I love love love Les Mis. Watched it in London in October 2024 and I will never recover. Stewart Clarke the Javert that you are <3

I would like to own two cats and my own small apartment one day, a cheetah esc print kitty called Jason (Statham) and a black cat called Liho. Both are references and if you get either PLEASE send me an ask saying so ily

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So recently I watched this pilot short: Epilogue of endings. It’s about 12 minutes long, created by a group of animation students over a single summer. I had never heard of the project before it showed up in my youtube recommended.

It changed my brain chemistry. I watched it 9 days ago and I can’t stop thinking about it to save my life. The music? Spectacular. The voice acting? Perfect. The art? astounding. The characters? I’m already emotionally attached. Hotel? Trivago.

Listen, I don’t tend to watch of a lot of things anymore unless I’m with other people, and I have this weird thing about engaging in new media, I think because a lot of what I’ve been watching recently has been kinda disappointing, or very… I don’t know… it’s hard to describe. It just feels like a lot of studios are making characters shallower, relationships strained, and half-assing their world building. A lot of media that I’ve taken in recently is trying very hard to make itself seem edgy and serious and that’s not what I want right now and definitely not what I need.

But this 12 minute pilot? This is everything I never knew I needed. The characters feel like real people, with complex motivations and interpersonal relationships. They’re flawed, but they’re trying their best with the situation that they have. They have things, other people that they care about and would fight for, they have motivations and backstories that you can see the breadcrumbs of, but have not been revealed yet, and the breadcrumbs are so good you can’t wait for the whole loaf. The world-building is exquisite, built up enough that you can see the beginning, but still drawing you in with more questions. 

I have a more detailed review under the cut, with SPOILERS, but I highly recommend that you go watch the pilot. It’s 12 minutes of time well spent in my opinion.

So the first scene. We’re introduced to Lucy, Blu and CG. I think Blu is already my fav, lol. In this scene, we see the three characters playing eye-spy while walking through a forest. It’s a pretty innocuous scene if we didn’t pan up to the sky and see the sun having broken open and Lucy becoming emotional over having to leave town, and presumably the rest of her life behind. Blu doesn’t answer her.

So Lucy clearly doesn’t know what’s going on, and I’m wondering if Blu has limited information himself. Maybe even Blu doesn’t know why or how any of this is happening. Maybe Blu literally can’t answer her question because he doesn’t have the answers. Maybe it hurts, being so helpless and out of control, so he’s in denial to a certain extent, trying to pretend that everything is fine. He’s trying to keep this little girl, happy and safe and alive, while also presumably dealing with his own shit, and no he’s not doing it perfectly, he’s flawed, as people and characters should be, but he’s trying and so far she is alive and safe to a certain extent so way to go Blu! I think this will probably cause some tension between the two down the road, but for now they just keep walking.

I wonder where they’re going, if anywhere specific? Why did they leave town specifically, we see there’s lots of danger pretty much everywhere, did something happen?

Anyways, then we get to this scene of someone fixing what appears to be a subway train. He stops, pulls out a journal and we get some exposition stuff. We find out that the world ended, and how. And WOW. This whole thing was gut-punchingly realistic I feel. People blowing up the competition trying to race off into space when it’s announced that the sun is going to die out? That’s something that unfortunately I can see people doing. I wonder/hope that this will become a plot point again later on, and we’ll find out what happened to all those people. But anyways that’s not even the craziest part; the fact the sun broke open and released a whole bunch of eldritch horror monsters??? Yep here we go. And then the next thing hurts. Like a lot. Because the narrator says that ‘people who hoped to live out their last days in normalcy quickly found out that their life-style was no longer sustainable’. That shit made me want to cry. The want for a peaceful death, a calm death, a painless death, but having even that ripped away from you. This setting that these characters are in is awful and very terrifying, and we can see how it is hurting them, torturing them, but I got to give props to the world building. It’s good writing. They set up the plot, the problem, what’s been going on the past couple yrs, some mysteries, to both the viewers and the characters, and in doing so give us some idea of the characters that we do have. Because the characters that we do have are trapped. The characters that we do have are abandoned. The characters that we do have are survivors. 

And then we pan out to see the narrator having an interaction with one of the Monarchs. And this scene? Gave me chills, man. I was so creeped out by this. Acedia’s ‘I do not like that response,’ Mole’s utter helplessness to do anything, his clear, potent fear of the creature, the way that it just lightly touches him and he flinches. Then the frustration that we see on his face after it leaves, the anger that turns into tiredness and then hopelessness? Someone needs to wrap this man in a blanket stat.

And this is where I’m starting to think that Blu doesn’t really know the full extent of what’s going on. There’s a good chance that Mole knows about the Monarchs because he’s being held prisoner by one. It’s possible that Mole is seeing the world collapse before his very eyes, while Blu is just seeing the aftermath and not knowing why and I can’t say which is more terrifying.

The ‘I have influence?’ line is peak. I love it so much, I can’t even say why. That whole little interaction with Lucy saying that she takes after Blu, Blu being so genuinely touched and CG being low-key offended is perfect and I love it. It shows how close they are, how much they care about each other.

The the… zombie ppl??? I love the detail of how unlike a lot of teenage protagonists, Lucy listens to Blu, and gets out of danger. She trusts him to handle the situation on his own, and knows that the best thing that she can do right now is get to safety. There’s an implicit trust there, in spite of her clear issues with Blu not telling her things, and this is what I’m talking about when I say the character relationships are complex.

Oh fuck. The transitions? The way that it cuts from one character to another, each unintentionally completing one another’s scentences, and unknowingly engaging in conversation. It’s amazing storytelling, an amazing presentation and for some reason it just confirms to me that these characters are family. They fit together like puzzle pieces. I don’t know what else to say.

We get more info on our mysterious narrator, Mole, who is an amnesiac, and clearly going through it. During this scene we see a crumpled newspaper of what seems to be a younger version of him, winning an award for his dedication at being a subway motorman. His name is crossed out in black ink, so we can’t see it. Which makes me question, did he do this to himself? Is his amnesia a trauma response to everything he’s going through? Did something happen to the point that his brain decided shutting down and forgetting everything was better than remembering this one thing? And it hurts, because in the picture in the newspaper he looks so happy. So young. So alive. It’s a stark contrast to the man we see with bags under his eyes, talking to himself and becoming increasingly distressed. I read through the article, and again, props to the team, some other people might have just did random letters or whatever but they put in a whole ass-story, giving the viewers more info about Mole than even he has. We know he was a dedicated subway motorman. We know he was inspired by his father. We know he had a sister. But these answers only serve to bring up more questions? What happened to his sister? Was his father still alive at the time of he end of the world and what was their relationship like? Because there’s a chance that their relationship was really good, and that’s why he went on to become a subway motorman, but there is also the possibility that he was pressured into doing so, and the way that he complains about being on a train when the world ended makes me kinda lean towards that option.

Then we see CG and Lucy walking around the underground tunnels and we get more info on them. We find out that CG was created by Lucy’s mom, which begs the question of where is Lucy’s mom???? What happened to her? Is there a chance that she’s still alive? Does Lucy know what happened to her mother?? Or is this just another thing that Blu is keeping her in the dark about? Does Blu know what happened to Lucy’s mother???? Or— as you can see I am totally normal about this woman. Anyways.

CG is a fun character, optimistic and bringing a lighter atmosphere to the show, but there is just something… off about her in this scene. The disregard for the danger, the naiveté, the joyful voice in such a horrible situation, feels so wrong to me. I wonder though if CG chose to be like this, or a certain amount of it is her programming? Does CG know what happened to Lucy’s mom? I think CG was created to be take care of Lucy but it seems to be the other way around here, why is that? 

And then we get info on Blu. Blu was a solider during the war when ppl were trying to get all the resources to race off into space. I wonder if Blu had believed that he would be granted a place on one of these ships. (If he managed to survive of course.) Or had he been in the military prior to all this, and was just pulled along? This makes me want to know more about his belief system before and after the end of the world. Also it is implied by CG that Blu is carrying a lot of pressure, and I wonder how that will be dealt with later on… hmm… 

Also the music that plays when Blu uses his arms to pull down the wall? Amazing, I love it, I love the scene, I love the fact that he’s a cyborg, I am so invested in these characters already it’s killing me.

Then we see Mole almost (accidentally) kill Lucy and CG. He’s out of it, he’s the only person running the trains, he didn’t expect to have to watch out for anyone, I think that we can give him a pass on this. Blu doesn’t think so obviously.

(Sidenote: the way that Lucy curls into Blu, as he protectively shields her is so cute, my heart, help)

Blu is pissed. His tone doesn’t change too much, it’s light, but there’s this threatening undertone there that kinda creeps me out. Mole tells them he doesn’t have a name, before Blu forces him to tell them that its Mole. Wait… is he called that bc Moles live underground? Anyways, Blu wants to leave him to die there, which shows an interesting side of his character. Prior to this we’ve seen him take a protective, fun role as Lucy’s guardian but here we see this apathy towards someone who is obviously not doing so well. A lot of other people would be excited to find another living person in the apocalypse, but he’s fine just walking away. Is this just because he almost killed Lucy? Or is there something more going on here? In Blu’s bio on the rainbott instagram, it says that Blu was ‘left to die in a mysterious incident’ and it’s interesting that he feels fine leaving someone else to die in such horrible conditions. Again - complex character writing, props to the team.

But Lucy doesn’t want to leave him. This shows her compassion and maybe too her want for connection with other people. Blu resists; ‘Lucy that is the most unimpressive man I have ever seen,’ this line has no right to be so funny, esp with Mole just staring at him in the background. Did he hear that or is he too far away, too out of it? Then he relents, perhaps solely because of Lucy, or maybe also because of his own want to do the right thing. He doesn’t like Mole, he makes that obvious, but if Lucy want’s to adopt this strange hobo man, fine, if it makes her happy. He’ll do whatever it takes to make Lucy a little more happy.

Mole’s ‘it doesn’t want me to leave’ scares the shit out of me, and the way that he just freezes up when Acedia shows up… 

The scene when it talks about humans really creeps me out, and makes me worried even more about Mole. Calling him ‘entertaining’ and saying that he ‘belongs’ to them. It sounds like it sees him as a toy at best, and reminds me of the way that Mole said earlier that the Monarchs had the power to ‘turn Earth into their own personal sandbox’. Did Acedia get rid of Mole's memories for that purpose? So that he would 'belong' only to them. I wonder though, why Mole, and if there were others, if Mole had to watch those around him die, or worse when they gave an answer that it didn’t like. I wonder what Mole has had to do to scrape by and survive, what he’s been through. But Blu pulls him along anyways, kind of against Mole’s will. Like obviously being with Blu, Lucy and CG is better than being with a horrifying shadow monster, but aforesaid horrifying shadow monster is going to be pissed at him. I wonder how he’s going to react to that, if he’ll lash out at Blu or worse, Lucy for rescuing him because now it’s gonna be angry and he’s gonna have to be the one to deal with the fallout of that.

Then the scene where Blu pretends to buy tickets to appease CG? It’s for comedic relief, but again it makes me think about Blu. Is he doing it because he knows CG will be annoying if he doesn’t? Or does he genuinely not want her to be hurt? I’m not sure. 

Then the campfire scene. Lucy looks away when Blu removes his mask, Mole tries to lean in to see what’s behind it. Blu doesn’t like this, I assume it’s a sensitive subject, but Mole is again, kind of out of it. Mole is scared of Blu and Blu clearly knows this, even kinda uses it to freak him out. I’m looking forwards to see that relationship developing, maybe one that contrasts Mole’s relationship with Acedia, I dunno, someone who cares about him in this really twisted way that hurts him, and someone who at first doesn’t care at all(at first), but still takes care of him in spite of it. I dunno… just vibes.

And Lucy’s little ‘what if we tell ghost stories around the fire’ breaks my heart. It’s like she too, is in denial to a certain extent. This is just a fun camping trip not the end of the world. Everything is fine. Everything will be fine.

Then the post-credit scene. There’s presumably, something left of the government that is working to try and deal with the Monarchs, which gives me hope that there might be a way to stop them, a way to stop all this death and destruction. I am curious about what’s left of this order, what the gov was like during the war, and how they’re operating now. Also the way the commander calls the droid C21, and the way that CG is called CG, and the way that he says ‘find the girl’ and C21 frowns and does this have something to do with Lucy’s mom??????? What does any of this have to do with Lucy? Does she know more than she’s letting on, or does not even she know what she knows??? Help I need answers.

Also all the characters in the credits. I desperately hope that they find the main cast and all become friends pls.

CG’s little song is beautiful and I think that it embodies the heart of the show. Like I said earlier a lot of the stuff I’ve watched recently tries very hard to be dark and edgy and a dystopian show where all the characters have been trapped and abandoned and tortured is the perfect setup for some grim and gritty TV. But it’s… not. The characters are funny and lighthearted and smiling in spite of all the shit that’s going on around them. The characters are trying to be nice, to be good. They are connected, they are a family. It is a dystopian setting for sure, but I think that the story is about family, about love and caring for each other. The story is about Blu, Lucy and CG playing eye-spy. The story is about Lucy smiling when she tells Blu her mom said he was a bad influence. The story is about CG wanting Blu to get some rest and take a break. The story is about Mole’s desperate panic at trying to stop the train before it hits Lucy, and Lucy not wanting to leave him to die. The story is about four people sitting around a fire, listening to music.

I really love this story, and I hope to see more of it one day. It’s really beautiful.

[natsuki208]

So I just binge watched Hazbin Hotel! 🔥 🏨

Now, before any haters come and get me, hear me out. One of my friends here has been super into it since the beginning of this year, and I already watched the pilot so I have to pull through with the rest… and let me say that they’re not wrong to love it!

(Warning! Spoilers for the show below cut)

This show was a real step up from the pilot, that’s for sure! The animation has improved, some of the character designs are amazing (I still like Charlie’s pilot design more), and the music is top notch!

You heard me, this is some of thee most catchiest songs I’ve listened too! I cannot decide which one is my favourite (‘More Than Anything’ and ‘Poison’ come very close).

The characters are the biggest highlight for me though. Despite being demons, they are charming in their own ways. Some favs include Charlie, Vaggie, Angel, Nifty, Husker and of course Sir Pentious (my snake boy got into heaven! 🥹).

So on a whole, this show definitely exceeded my expectations despite all of the online hate I’ve been seeing. I may or may not watch it often, but hopefully every once in a while, I’ll watch it again to see this found demon (and fallen angel) family.

9/10! Will watch a season 2 when we get it.

[katyaromanoffpetrova]

Hey bae, I promised I would send this so here I am🫡

The album Clancy by Twenty One Pilots is soooo Kat coded imo. So yk how I get carried away with asks right? Today I shall give you explanations of every song I think is Kat coded and why😁

Next Semester: while the beat is up tempo and catchy it’s actually really fucking sad. It’s about how he(the singer) almost attempted to unalive himself. Which obviously has similarities to Kat’s backstory. But then the song goes “can’t change what you’ve done, start fresh next semester” which is obviously representative of how Kat has gotten past everything she’s done wrong and is now in a better place.

Backslide: one of my favs off the album. It’s about slipping back into that darkness he’s felt previously. He says “I don’t wanna backslide to where I’ve started from, there’s no chance I will shake this again” which I think really represents Kat’s mental health and it being such a slippery slope. And then (my fav part of the song) in the chorus it goes “‘cause I feel the pull, water’s over my head…..” and then it goes “I’ll take anything you have if you could throw me a line” which is like when Kat checked herself into the mental health place just desperate to get better.

Routines In The night: when he sings “walk the layout” he isn’t talking about a building but actually viewing his mind as a place to explore. “Some doors have “stay out” spray-painted in white” refers to bad memories and trauma which I think portrays Kat very well. Like she gets in her head a lot and has to be careful not to think so much about all those bad memories

Vignette: this one has major substance abuse themes which obviously represents a certain time in Kat’s life. But a line that gets me in this context is “….To pitch the greener grasses and hope that she would agree” in the song context this about him being scared to lose his wife to the greener grass, aka people not as broken. Kat has had so much guilt and fair over what her state does to Nat :(

The Craving (Jenna’s Version): is about his wife and honestly Kat could’ve written this. It’s about realising that he’s the ‘unstable’ one and the one who needs some extra support. “But I swear that I will give more than I take away” really gets me because we all know Kat has felt so guilty over how much support she’s needed.

Navigating: is basically about the never ending battle with mental health and trying to navigate that. “But when our fingers touch, I feel my way back home” is just very cute and could be about Nat bringing Kat back to reality when she has her panic attack moments.

Snap Back: is about relapse and being afraid to lose all the progress you’ve made with overcoming your demons. Representative of Kat having hard times and break downs but having to continue to fight and not lose her progress.

At The Risk Of Feeling Dumb: this is about having to check on your friends and make sure they’re okay but the chorus is from the perspective of the person with mental disorders. The whole chorus represents how Kat feels imo, just her not wanting people to drop anything for her and not wanting them to see her when she’s in a dark place.

This may be my longest ask yet tbh but you should expect this by now.

Also if anyone has album recommendations pls gimme🤲 not just u but anyone who reads this and wants to comment. I need more music👹

Omg I'm so impressed by your dedication 🤯 This is crazy. I listened to big parts of all the songs and although some of them aren't really my thing, l do see the connections you make to Kat.

I don't really have to explain it because you did so amazingly in your own explanation of the songs, but it just shows once again now complicated of a character Kat actually is. Her mental problems aren't just that: hers. They affect so many people in so many ways, and there's so much more to it than you'd think.

Leaving the past behind and starting over, being afraid to fall back, being scared your wife will leave you for someone better (and understanding completely), wanting to protect your loved ones but also needing them to survive.

She's so many parts in one, and that those songs portray a lot of them in one album is crazy

[andreal831]

Just read your recent post about Katherine and I have a genuine question: Why is it that whenever you’re talking about the bad actions of a character you like (Elijah, Hayley, Rebekah, etc) you brush it off as “just bad writing” yet whenever it’s the actions of a character you dislike (Katherine, Klaus, Damon, etc) you jump straight to “They’re horrible and irredeemable!” Why not just accept that none of the characters in the TVDU are good people no matter if they’re presented as being more moral?

I've said it numerous times, all of the characters in TVDU are bad. They have all done bad things, even the most virtuous seeming characters. That being said, I've also said that we can still discuss morality in the show. I get some people just want to enjoy their favs and not have these discussions, but that's not how I prefer to enjoy my shows. I like to have these deeper discussions where we analyze more than just "they are all bad."

Even the most monstrous people can still have standards and lines they won't cross. A line that I will not accept for characters is rape/SA. Again, I'm not saying that everyone has to have the same standard, but that's my standard. It's why I can differentiate characters like Damon and Katherine from the rest of the characters.

To your point, I have brushed off some behaviors in the past as bad writing because it directly contradicts already established characterizations/lore. Now, I did mention that there is some bad writing in relation to Katherine, however, one of the very first things we learn about her is that she raped Stefan. We learn this about her before we even meet her in real time. We also never learn anything later that directly contradicts these actions. In fact, most of what we learn reinforces it.

Katherine is a selfish, narcissistic character who craves power. Yes, we can look at her past and understand why she became that way and we can blame the Mikaelsons, but at the end of the day it is an explanation for her character, not an excuse. We also never see her feel guilt or even acknowledge the harm she did to Stefan, rather she attempts to gaslight him. Same for Damon, he even becomes somewhat friends/family with Caroline, yet he never acknowledges or apologizes for what he did. We also see a pattern of both Damon and Katherine reveling in their power over mortals or even their loved ones. Katherine has a million chances to make it right and never does.

Sure we can chalk it all up to bad writing because the writers were so problematic in their view of SA/rape. But we can even compare it to Tyler. Tyler in the pilot episode SAs Vicki. This is one of the first things we learn about him as well. The difference is, we see character growth. I don't think he ever gets the chance to apologize to Vicki, but we him grow as a character to the point that I couldn't imagine him behaving that way again. Again, I just don't see that same growth in Katherine and Damon. I could still see them doing that all the way into the last episode.

In my post, I did set aside the SA and focused on her character as a whole and still don't particularly enjoy her. Much like Damon, she has some iconic lines and comedic relief, but both characters lacked depth to me. I know a lot of people like to create headcannons for them and flesh them out, and that's great, I just don't for those characters. To me, there were just so many other characters I connected with more so I didn't need to try and excuse their actions away. Again, I am saying this from my perspective.

I do tend to discuss the Mikaelsons/TO more and talk about the bad writing there a lot. But I've also talked about bad writing when it comes to Klaus. TVDU is full of inconsistencies and bad writing. The writers are problematic and I think that is important to take into consideration when consuming media. However, I've never claimed it changes canon and I will never tell someone they have to have my headcanons. I analyze the show in a way that makes sense for me, like we all do. It's important to acknowledge we all consume media through a biased lens. I've never claimed to be above this, but I do try to keep my analysis based on the facts and my understanding.

Thanks for the ask and keeping it respectful!

[jjclopelover]

I already made a post about this, but yeah

in season 1 episode 8 I think, when they drive to the tarmac JJ in the Twinkie talks about leaving for Mexico and he says the word "abscond" which just means leaving, but that word is super old and had its usage peak sometime around 1850s I think

so, the guy that always says everyone else is smarter than him, and always plays down his intelligence, randomly uses words that only well read people would know nowadays

and, now I'm just thinking, because we know Pope reads a lot (seeing him read Kafka in the Pilot episode), that JJ just casually reads the same books as Pope just so he can talk to him about it, so that they have a shared interest

because other than that he really doesn't strike me as the guy that would just read Kafka or something else for fun.

He only does it to impress Pope.

YES! The whole "JJ speaking Spanish thing" is one of my fav traits of his character. And I could 100% see JJ reading books and learning new languages even, to impress Pope. While Pope wants general validation, JJ wants Pope's validation.