#fleabag destroyed me and this is the consequence

[in-kyblogs]

For the top 5/top 10 meme: top character growth/change arcs!

Oooh I love this.

1) Fleabag. Well, everything about that show really. But I love mostly that the first part of her growth happens off screen, between season 1 and 2, and then we see her again when everything starts going to shit once more. She lets go of us in the end and we let go of her, and that tells us that she has grown even if her story doesn’t have an happy ending. Yeah that’s my favorite one. Accepting that even when things don’t go well for you it doesn’t mean you’re doomed and learning to not self destroy over it is a very powerful arc.

2) Nora from Past Life. At the end of the movie she is in a place where she can be better resolved than at the start. Confronting her unresolved feelings didn’t make her doubt herself, instead she is firm in the choices she made for her life without this having to mean that she can’t be emotional and sad over the things that couldn’t come to be. You can see that movie is written by a woman, no man can write a love triangle that insightful without demonising any of the character or infantilising the female protagonist. Really a breath of fresh air

3) I’m gonna go Anakin Skywalker for the corruption arc. Yeah those movies have problems and yeah they could have been written better, but for his corruption I think all the emotional beats really hit and for a character you already know is doomed there are enough instances in which you can hope that he still could be saved, and that is devastating exactly in the right way.

4) Zuko from atla. I know but just that show shaped my teenaged mind and I will never forget it. His arc is still one of the best redemption arcs and a masterclass in how to write a character that was, for all intents and purposes, a villain at the start.

5) I’m gonna include here an italian book by Alessandro Baricco, it’s called Novecento and really it’s more a theatre play than a novel. It’s one of my favourite reads ever and it kind of flips on his head the theme of a character growth arc, because the protagonist tries to change everything about his life and in the end chooses to remain exactly the same, with extreme consequences. I’m trying to be non spoilery because it really is a great book and everyone who can should read it: there is an English translation by Ann Goldestein!

@platoapproved Thank you I had so much fun with this! 🫶

Ask me my "TOP 5/TOP 10" anything!

[steveharrington]

Haven't watched Fleabag. Is it really that bad?

i won’t say it’s Bad but i do not like it personally! i know i’m in the minority here bc like all my friends were absolutely obsessed and i see people online who are obsessed and that’s fine to each their own AND i will say some of the writing is really funny! i love claire! but i really just don’t like phoebe waller bridge’s signature character where she’s just like an asshole to everyone and she steals her friends boyfriends …. and that’s her whole thing…. like i can get behind characters who are assholes, but i need something Beyond that. like both fleabag s1 and another one of her shows called crashing are about her character destroying other peoples relationships and then when it has consequences her being like :(( and to me that’s just not entertaining to watch and i never feel compelled by her characters in the slightest. plus i just don’t like her style of comedy i feel like it’s very outdated and 2014-esque like the constant vagina jokes and quirkiness idk it’s not my thing! last thing i’ll say there’s a line from fleabag that people Love where she says “women are born with pain built in” and i absolutely fucking hate it. i hate it so much. and i genuinely think that one monologue soured me on the whole show

[storkmuffin]

Disjointed summary of thoughts on Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny that I watched on a plane.

Oh, Nazis again? The weird CGI to graft Harrison Ford's de-aged face onto whoever that body is makes me feel creeped out. Poor Thomas Kretschmann adds yet another Nazi to his English language resume. That woman who was Fleabag which I didn't watch looks a LOT like Vita Sackville West. I hate this useful brown urchin trope (Teddy). Oh it's time travel and not aliens this time. Indiana Jones meets Archimedes. He thinks about Rome like all the other white men do because he doesn't like himself or his life and imagines he'd be someone important back then when he absolutely would not. Indiana Jones is a singular cause of death and mayhem to people around him all the time (be a friend of Indie and you're likely to be killed) so it's deserving that his son predeceased him.

In sum: This shouldn't have been made. I hope they stop making these where white people with a pet brown urchin go destroying things with no consequences in other poorer countries on a madcap caper.

[universalcas]

I don't know where to put it now.

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[wendynerdwrites]

For the record, I am NOT an Emilia Clarke stan AT ALL BUT

...Making fun of her for losing the Emmy is fucking asinine. Look, I’m not thrilled with some of the stuff she says either. I have made that clear. I was literally mocking something she said the other day. But she cherished the fuck out of Daenerys as a character and had that character destroyed. And anyone who wants to argue that the writing for Dany was good can eat my ass. I have made it very clear how I think Dany is nowhere near the hero people think she is, but I’m not going to pretend that the show didn’t make almost every wrong decision regarding her characterization for several seasons. The writing Emilia had for seasons assured her that she was playing an altruistic liberator and feminist icon. They left out almost all of the overtly questionable shit Dany did in the books and internal strife and then all the awful shit she did in the show was framed as “YAS QUEEN!” BS or didn’t have their actual implications and circumstances addressed at all. So yeah, I do kind of get where Clarke has been coming from. On top of that, they had Daenerys get murdered via embrace with her lover, had her “choose fear” over being spurned by a man, and had her replaced by an “emotionless” dude who was left out of an ENTIRE SEASON OF THE SHOW. So yes, sorry guys, but there was a TON of sexism surrounding Dany’s writing.

The whole show has been soaked in misogyny for a long ass time and Daenerys is no exception. Does it annoy me that Clarke was defending that bullshit until it was her character that went down? Sure. I totally think she says things that are questionable at best and are loaded with double standards. No question. But she fucking loved Daenerys for a lot of VERY good reasons. And she is hardly pulling her feelings from her ass. The fact that Daenerys was a feminist character screwed over by shitty, sexist writing is a pretty popular (and fairly defensible, to an extent) take, especially for show-only people. Thousands upon thousands of people agree with her and she is far from the only person saying such things, okay? So of COURSE she is going to add her voice to that discourse.

Is Dany’s storyline just sexism? Hell no. I’ve met many Dany stans who have admitted she is a tyrant well before season 8. But that doesn’t mean that she wasn’t an extremely important character and to pretend that Emilia Clarke, of all people, doesn’t have more reason than anyone (save for maybe GRRM) to be salty and unhappy about how she was written is absurd. And while it wasn’t “just” sexism, there was a shitload of it in there regardless.

I know some people are going to say, “Well, she can feel whatever she likes, but to say so publicly is unprofessional”. Alright, fine, but then you have to apply that same standard to Kit Harington calling the final season “Disappointing” and saying that his response to season 8 was to not even watch it. You have to apply that standard to Peter Dinklage mocking the shit out of D&D and season 8. You have to take Ian McElhinney to task for going public about how he literally wrote a letter to D&D back in season 4 about killing off Barristan. But no one does. I wonder what those other actors have in common.... hmmm...

Emilia Clarke was just given the scripts she was given. And she poured her heart and soul into that character. Daenerys Targaryen MADE HER as an actress. She spent a third of her damn lifespan playing Daenerys. Not just the scenes we saw on screen, but countless hours of multiple takes, filming deleted footage, rehearsing, table-reading, memorizing lines, costume fittings, makeup, effects work, screen tests, press, award shows... Imagine spending eight years of your life being told “YAS QUEEN! FEMINIST ICON!” doing all these iconic moments where your character frees slaves, makes grand speeches about destroying evil men and leading people, then in the final hour being told “BTW, your character is a mass-murdering psycho now. Go study speeches by the most evil men in history to rehearse.”

You think, with Clarke’s schedule, that she has time to consider all the implications and obvious consequences of everything Daenerys does? She doesn’t write or direct the show. She has to devote all her energy to portraying the character in the script. And she was doing this despite the fact that during the run of the show, her brain nearly exploded twice. Like, literally. She survived two aneurysms and had to undergo painful treatments and surgeries, had to process all of that trauma and then go back to work as if nothing was amiss.

So excuse her for maybe being pissed that the rug was ripped out from under her regarding a character she was so devoted to.

Talking about it does not warrant losing an Emmy. She wasn’t saying anything that countless other people weren’t. You don’t have to agree with her, but mocking her for it is fucking gross.

Also: The Emmy’s are complete horseshit. The actresses on GoT are ALWAYS shafted at them, and always have been. You want proof? Lena Headey, the best damn actor on the show (sorry Dinklage fans, but I feel like he got really tired of his character --- for very good reasons--- after season 5 and he seemed like he was sort of phoning it in in seasons 6-8. By the very high Dinklage standards, anyways. Not that he wasn’t good, he was, but not season 1-5 good. You could see his frustration with the writing on his face. Meanwhile Lena was consistent throughout the whole show, and I will put Cersei’s best moments up against Tyrion’s any day), has nothing. Lena Headey doesn’t have an Emmy for playing Cersei. You know what part of GoT DOES have Emmy’s? The episode with the line, “You want the good girl, but you need the bad pussy”, for writing. Seasons 5 and 8, for Best Drama. Consider that for several seconds. So pretending that the Emmy’s has anything to do with merit or “professionalism” is delusional AF.

I don’t find it funny that Emilia lost. Granted, I don’t really have strong feelings on her winning or losing, because seriously, fuck the Emmys (I also don’t have strong feelings about shows and actors I love like Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Fleabag, Alex Borstein and Phoebe Waller-Bridge winning because once again, fuck the Emmys). But I definitely have strong feelings about people mocking her for it. It’s stupid, unfair, and gross.

And for Sophie/Sansa stans joining in: Sophie lost too. And congratulations, you are now in the same league as people who make fun of Sophie over Dark Phoenix bombing. Feel good about yourselves?

[winchesterprincessbride]

Beauty Is A Beast

Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, hunter reader, reader’s father, reader’s brothers Shawn, Mark, Daniel

Pairing: Sam x Reader

Summary: The reader doesn’t keep a promise to her Father to give up hunting after his death, and a witch uses it against her.

Words: 719

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Her family had hunted monsters, demons and the stuff of nightmares for generations.  As soon as she was old enough, her father gave her “the talk”, a gun, and helped her memorize the complicated Latin of an exorcism.  She wasn’t old enough to drive, but she jumped headfirst into a life of blood and violence and never looked back.

Her loveliness and gentle smile had been the downfall of many a creature. Her innocent appearance hid a will of iron and a determination never to be bested by anything.  She learned from her mistakes.  As her skills increased, so did her confidence.

One by one, her brothers died in the line of duty. Shawn was gutted by a werewolf in Dallas.  Mark’s neck was snapped by a demon in Wyoming.  Daniel’s throat was ripped out by a vamp in California, and she and her father barely escaped with their lives.

They stopped at a fleabag motel frequented by prostitutes and addicts to patch their wounds and grieve.  As she stitched her father’s arm as she had done so many times before, she felt nothing, she had seen so much evil and death in her life she couldn’t feel anything anymore.  

Her father looked at her with tears in his eyes. “I’m done, Y/N.  I’m fifty-eight, and I’ve given my life and my three boys to hunting.  The monsters just keep coming.  Let someone else save the world.  A psychic I met years ago told me I wouldn’t make it to sixty.”

Y/N looked at her father in disbelief. He was the strongest man she knew. “But Dad……”

“I can feel it in my belly, eating me up inside. It’s cancer. I just want to spend whatever time I have left with you.”

She stayed with her father as he grew sicker and weaker, giving up hunting entirely.  When the end was near, and he was a shell of the man he once was, he grabbed her arm in a surprisingly strong grip and whispered, “Promise me, Y/N, when I am gone, you will get out of the life and find a good man and be happy. PROMISE ME.”

She nodded, kissing his emaciated cheek. “I promise, Daddy.”

“Bless you, my beauty,” he whispered and breathed his last.

She had no intention of following through on her promise.  Hunting was her life, and there was nothing tying her down anymore.  She grew hard and cold, taking case after case, killing without thinking of the consequences.  

But promises have power.  You never know who, or what may be listening.

Time passed, and she never hunted with anyone again, always preferring to work alone.  She was hunting a particularly nasty witch that had killed a bunch of people who she held grudges against.  Her power was staggering.  Every time Y/N would get close, the witch would manage to escape.

This cat and mouse game went on for weeks.  Finally, she managed to track her down to a rundown cabin in the center of a deserted woods.  The witch had filled the woods with many supernatural creatures under her control as protection, but Y/N managed to fight her way to the cabin, her gun loaded with witch-killing bullets.

She snuck around to the back of the cabin and picked the lock to the old root cellar. Creeping up the stairs, she held her gun cocked and ready.  The kitchen door flew open, and she was whipped around, slamming hard against the wall.

“Did you think I didn’t see you from the moment you entered the woods, little hunter?” The witch spat.  “You shouldn’t have broken your promise, my girl, you have given me all the ammunition I need to destroy you!”

“Do you think I came without magic of my own?” Y/N screamed back.  

Both Y/N and the witch shouted words in Latin. Y/N’s spell freed her from the wall and she dropped to a crouch, getting to one knee and firing a shot at the witch.

Right before the bullet struck the witch between the eyes and she fell backward, her eyes wide and surprised, a blast of energy hit Y/N square in the chest, lifting her off the ground, surrounding her by a white light, and she screamed in agony as her body began to change.

Part 2

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