#foils etc etc

[allseeingdirt]

i NEED to get more narrative foils

[divineandmajesticinone]

D & Leila Meier Link & Charlotte

Two sides of the same coin...

[teenagenutant]

the last two 3-turtle fusions- van eyck (leo+mikey+raph) with the mystic mojo and kepler (donnie+leo+raph) the sci-fi guy! plus some doodles

[aardvaark]

i don’t mind suspending my disbelief for leverage’s person-sized ventilation shafts bc that’s pretty standard for the genre, but that doesn’t mean i won’t laugh a bit at some of the egregiously large vents. particularly in the crowning acheivement job (lev: red s2 finale) because - well just look at this lol! harry and parker, two adults, can kneel side by side in those vents. parker can sit upright.

that museum was made for vent crawling purposes. that’s just an extra room in the museum they forgot to decorate. the leverageverse has a thief union that successfully lobbied for a better working environment. these vents double as a playground for museum-goers’ children. i was crying with laughter thinking about this and harry’s vent crisis was NOT helping me remember that there was a serious heist thing going on lol, i love this show.

[molinaesque]

Cooper and Lucy mercy killing turning ghouls

[nyxofdemons]

okay so the main criticism i've been seeing against episode 8 is that beelzebub (among other things) is "too nice" to be the sin of gluttony, because she's an attentive hostess, because she expresses worry over blitz's excess drinking, etc., and i wanna talk about it.

the thing is, i feel like this complaint is rooted in the most basic, somewhat cliche idea of the sin of gluttony, and a somewhat boring approach to bee's character in general. the idea is that, as the sin of gluttony, bee should be encouraging over-indulgence, excess, and the self-destructive aspects of party culture and drinking.

but she's the queen bee. she clearly explains that she can feel the "energy" of everyone at her party, and i think that's very important to analyzing exactly what gluttony means to her. instead of indulging in food and alcohol and drugs and being selfish (as gluttony is generally expected to be about), bee feeds on the ENERGY of the demons around her. and in order to get the best energy she can, she needs to be making sure everyone is actually having FUN and having a good time. gluttony, in this sense, is about EXTRAVAGANCE, having the best quality of everything, rather than just everything in general.

i also think this is why she was so put-off by blitz's actions. when he chugs the entire barrel of alcohol and then is absolutely wasted beyond all reason for the rest of the party, he's NOT actually engaging in her sin. he's not being gluttonous; he's not drinking to have a good time or to indulge or to have fun - he's drowning himself in alcohol because he's trying to forget and ignore all his problems, which is a sin much more akin to pride. his energy feels bad to bee because he's not having fun, he's deeply hurt and trying to distract himself by being self-destructive, which is NOT what her sin is about.

(also, remember, this is supposed to be part TWO of the finale. meaning, this episode (and the introduction of bee's character) directly goes hand-in-hand with the introduction of asmodeus, who's entire club IS about indulgence and depravity and everything you'd expect from the sin of lust. bee and the gluttony party are meant to be a direct foil to the energy of ozzie's.)

[cryptablog]

[hazelcallahan]

Vision. The top of the triangle. Charting a course, and having the wisdom to navigate it. This form is your base, child. Your eyes see what others don't.

[jack-kellys]

like ok yeahhh a delancey being davey’s ex or whatever bc he didn’t know what he was getting into. ok

i raise you: in-denial bisexual jack kelly w/ toxic secret relationship oscar delancey. because. they DO know each other. and they both hate themselves a bit. and they both know that about each other. so there’s this awful sort of comfort in their toxic masculinity because they can relate to each other And take it out on each other. constantly threatening to out each other. soul-searching silence after a night together. already knowing each others secrets from years of growing up together but differently.

jack being able to crawl out of that hole because he Finds his family, while oscar’s left bitter and in it because he’s still afraid to. yk

[the-bitter-ocean]

Two sides of the same coin!

[thermodynamic-comedian]

tmagp 16 includes two scenes of two very different characters reacting very differently to disturbing situations. alice still tries to joke, but is genuinely upset about what she saw and doesn't really try to hide that. lena immediately resorts to anger, the only acceptable emotion to express, but she's clearly scared about what gwen did. idk i think it's cool that we get two scenes showcasing how different these two characters are as people. office of incident assessment and emotional response lol

[gulava]

You don't...mind? Should I?

[divineandmajesticinone]

25 Ji, Akasaka de/ At 25:00 in Akasaka (2024) I 1.06

"I'll get your bag."

[molinaesque]

Lucy MacLean & The Ghoul (Cooper Howard) | S01E02 // S01E08

"You coming?"

[chaos-lioness]

In general I have not been engaging with this show in a fandom way but I gotta say Molly Cobb is absolutely my blorbo. My skrunkly problematic fave. Rotating her in my mind etc. one of my favourite ‘asshole’ characters of all time. I’m so glad they didn’t have her die of space cancer or in a fiery test vehicle crash and instead she got to round out a good decade of flying very large vehicles very fast by stalking around NASA with her fuckin. Seeing eye wolfhound and spending time in her brass tub with her weird husband (who I also love.) good for her.

[rosebridal]

Souji Mikage and Thistle Dunmeshi you are the same person to me