#followed by fake death

[senadimell]

Silly silly sidenote of the day:

I am still not over how funny people were about Cruella. Using it as an example with which to lambast a whole genre of corporate-generated IP-protection is quite funny to me, not least because it wasn’t even a remake and was the most entertaining live-action anything Disney has recently produced imo. I’m generally not a Disney live-action apologist, but every single person talking about how Disney has betrayed them and how Cruella is the culmination of anti-creativity acts like the tragic backstory was meant to be taken seriously, as if there wasn’t a funny-music montage over the mother’s over-dramatic death-by-dalmations scene peppered with Flynn-Rider style narration about “this is the story of how I became evil” or whatever. I doubt any person using it as an example of how Disney is failing itself has actually watched anything other than soundbite clips of the trailer.

(For the record, there wasn’t even any dog-resenting in the movie, so it’s not even really a backstory because there’s no clear “this is how I fell in love with fur-as-fashion” moment. Also, all dogs end up adopted by the titular character). It’s not actually a remake, unlike many other films I could name. It doesn’t even tie in with any of the earlier films, such as the one where Cruella goes to modern pavlovian electroshock therapy and turns into a fawning puppy-lover before eventually being triggered out of her conditioning by a big ben (I think) and eventually being baked into a walking wedding cake by dogs.

Anyways, Cruella was a silly movie and it knew it was a silly movie and the only parts that were serious about it was the fact that the main character was slowly having a mental breakdown and her friends were worried about her.

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Okay okay, you all might've noticed I'm hyperfixating on 2010 Spartacus again. Here are some scattered thoughts on it, and also a desperate attempt to get my followers to watch it.

This show was so ahead of its time, guys. If this show came out today, the fandom would be insane I'm telling you. A Starz original series about slaves starting an uprising that's literally all about mostly naked men fighting and killing each other in the most brutal, bloody, hyper-masculine ways, but then also fucking each other and no one bats an eye because it's Rome? And also the main gay couple are the only characters that live at the end??? And go start a goat farm?? It's like an uno reverse bury your gays. It's a bury your straights. Bury your everyone but the gays.

Alright a decent amount of gays die as well, but not the mains!!

The fandom would be in the trenches. There would be Barca/Auctus vs Barca/Pietros ship wars. We'd be rioting over the Ashur reboot right now because it's not the nagron on their goat farm show we all wanted. I'm telling you this shit would rival Our Flag Means Death in its cultural impact.

I mean, it's also a pretty poignant show with great themes on freedom and humanity as well, but that's a whole other post.

[worstloki]

My issue with Thor not ‘realizing’ why Loki was acting off in Avengers 1 isn’t that Thor didn’t recognise Loki was acting unlike himself—Thor did note that—or that Thor didn’t figure out what was wrong—he did try asking—it’s more along the lines of Thor giving up, and that he accepted Loki was bad now within two days while knowing something was off when Thor himself behaved just as bad for much longer before without any specific compromising event.

[thevelaryons]

I love that Addam is positioned alongside Corlys during the war, whereas Alyn remains by his mother’s side. Addam is fully engaged in his identity as a Velaryon and Alyn keeps himself at a distance. But in the end, Addam proves himself to take more after his mother (and is ultimately buried at Hull where she lives). Meanwhile, Alyn goes on to become Corlys 2.0 (right down to being buried in the sea).

The juxtaposition between them is such a great detail.

[rithmeres]

inexplicable urge to reread the hunger games

[ms--lobotomy]

If I made a taglist, would anyone want in? I know I tag @squishyowl every fic because I need to credit them for the dividers lest I go the route of James Somerton, and @angronsjewelbeetle is usually there because he is pretty much my enabler at this point. Who else wants to be tagged?

[dykevanny]

had a really funny idea for an ask blog ft. Vanny and another plex employee oc,,

[scribblingsky]

[ The boy with his pale white skin that the summer got rid of,

I desperately desired for him to possess me.]

Modern AU bingqiu shoujo rei paro

[redkelpfish]

Reverse Robins is actually funnier when it’s only like three people who have swapped roles and are stuck in either the Wrong Genre or the Hilariously Right Genre They Aren’t Meant To Be In Stop You’re Too Powerful (i.e.: Steph not giving a shit that Bruce let her die). Everyone else is simply vibing, just at a new and fresh age

[clownjacket]

If Kipperlilly DOES end up betraying Porter/Jace as part of a secret other scheme she has (whether good or evil) and it has to do with saving Lucy, I just know she’s going to be a bitch about it and pull a ‘sorry, I only save High Five Heroes’ before leaving her other friends to die or some shit. And then she will take her final form: Magic Betty from Adventure Time, betraying her allies and saving her frost gf at the expense of the world. It would also parallel what Ankarna is going through (‘your girlfriend’s out of town, it sucks’, becoming a little imperialist rage machine under the influence of Porter/Sunstone but not being able to fully turn on Lucy despite going against her values and turning into a violent weirdo). This is my wish. My dream. I am manifesting it. Magic Betty Kipperlilly I believe in you.

[splattergutz]

vinny falling in love with evil incarnate while also having a complicated history with religion (religious trauma in the fairmount iteration vs him praying in the princeton iteration) is something that can be so important

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

current favorite thing about Psych: Shawn and his on-again off-again unofficial sometimes boyfriend Despereaux

[hedge-rambles]

Ianthe's fight with Silas

Ok so I was rereading this post from @thewinterstale because it's very good and I was reminded of something that's always bothered me about the fight scene between Ianthe and Silas in GtN: How on earth does Ianthe just whip out teleportation?

This is never explained nor even referenced again and it doesn't appear to be like...a thing necromancers can do.

Except, it is, and the method actually fits quite neatly with the one way we know it's done. Lyctors can move from point A to point C without going through point B, because they can travel via the River. It's a whole thing to do, with wards to keep away the ghosts (ravenous lava fish etc.) but it is a thing none the less.

The River is described as an oily, disgusting, bloody soup, not too dissimilar to the "rain" that comes with Ianthe and Silas falling out of the ceiling. Staying in it any length of time is extremely dangerous, but how dangerous would it be to travel a couple of metres? We never see it done by other lyctors but presumably because it's a lot more effort than just walking across a room, but this was not exactly a normal situation.

Did Ianthe, self professed limnal magician, manage that feat in her fight by detouring via the river? Was she even aware of what she did? And was that what caused Colum to go full possessed? I just reread the fight scene and Colum does totally grey and still as Silas siphons him, as normal, until Silas sticks his hands into Ianthe's horrible fat puddle.

Silas knelt by the puddle, and - silver chain starting to warp and buckle on his perfect white tunic - thrust his hand into it. Colum made a noise as though he had been punched in the gut.

It's only after she pulls Silas through the wherever that Colum starts moving again, while still being heavily siphoned, which...y'know we never saw that afore actually? And it's extremely shortly after that that he becomes obviously possessed. What happens when you open a door to the River, in a place as metaphysically shaky as Canaan House, in the presence of a person being siphoned, Eighth style, and pull their necromancer through the limnal spaces? I wonder...

[depressed-werewolf]

The hero stood on villain’s doorstep a bouquet of flowers in hand. They offered the criminal a shy smile.

“Hi, Villain.”

Villain could do nothing but stare at them in shock.. “You… you’re alive.”

[nilesmoon]

he's the newest specimen in the my lab. I hate him.

[grimalkinmessor]

Modern AU Matsulight hc where Matsuda has a tumblr where he posts and reblogs pretty aesthetic things and every other day he just posts like eight different pictures of Light