#give me new episodes

[itstivan]

where were all these influx of fanfics back in 2022-2023?!?

WHERE WERE ALL THESE INFLUX OF FANFICS DURING THOSE 406 DAYS?!

[ghosted-jazz]

I am not immune to this car salesman fairy and his traumaised iPad kid

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Alas, this beautiful dream could not last.

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

[charactercandyart]

happy valentines day <3

[gunsatthaphan]

"do you agree? - yes."

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[bunnyspine]

hello im still alive kinda had an artstyle crisis

new mha oc, her name is June!! ^_^

I'll post her more in the future

☆ #mha #mhafanart #mhaoc #myheroacademia #myheroacademiafanart #characterdesign #oc #originalcharacter #art #digitalart #anime #animeart ☆

[witchofthemidlands]

my mum recognised the actor who plays the barmaid in “73 yards” from something so i looked it up & it's the same actor who played one of the main cannibals in countrycide & seeing as one of my first thoughts about ruby heading down into that town & towards the pub was a visceral reaction that bombarded me with flashbacks of jack, owen & gwen barricading themselves in a desolate pub in the swansea countryside to fend off the cannibals i have been laughing about this for the last 10 minutes.

[exasperatedoctopus]

Can we contemplate the world-building implications in Transformers Animated when Sentinel gives all his little bootcamp victims their names? Please? I’m squinting suspiciously.

Did they not have names before?? Do you not get an official name until you get official military training??? You get an army nickname and that who you are forever, no takebacks. Bumblebee is a bumbler one time in front of Sentinel and that’s his life forever now.

[embv]

I think everyone’s subscribing to the “Helena Infiltration Theory” WAYY too quickly. I kinda feel like a lot of the oddities in the way she was acting could be chalked up to something else, and defaulting to “that’s not Helly” feels a lot like… I don’t know, like brushing off character flaws by saying, “No, [X] is possessed! That’s not actually them!”

I’d probably buy into it a bit more if she didn’t have that moment in the halls with Mark where she fervently said, “We’re not the same, actually. Us and the outies, we’re not.”

There are reasons why Helly would want to lie about her identity, and chief among them is the fact that she hates her outie—desperately wants to place distance between them, desperately wants to convince herself that the person she saw wasn’t her.

But there are compelling reasons for both angles, and I can’t say that I won’t be scanning future episodes for hints to either prove or disprove this, so… cheers, 🥂.

[annepi-blog]

Okay, after seeing so many cool gifs and art from Dead Boy Detectives from my tumblr mutuals, I gave the show a chance.

I watched it and oh my god it's awesome and I love it so much.

Then I go on tumblr to look into fandom and find out that Netflix canceled it... WHY?!

If I understand correctly, it wasn't unsuccessful, maybe less than expected, but still a lot of people watched it. The ratings from critics and audiences are very good. And they had already ordered season 2 and it is completely written.

I know everyone has different tastes, but seriously, they make weird reality shows with questionable content or that weird Gwyneth Paltrow show that spouts pseudo-scientific nonsense that is actually dangerous and just advertising for her company.

And didn't Netflix recently announce how much money they've made from new subscriptions since they stopped the sharing?

Seriously, I hate this new throwaway culture of streaming services so much...

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Desperately need to know how Buck’s first Pride month went actually. It was in the off season of 9-1-1, but I still wish we could have a mention of it somewhere. Since the doomed Glee exchange with Josh, I’ve kind of assumed that Buck “researches everything and tells his family what he learns” Buckley didn’t go looking for more knowledge about the queer community. Which is obviously an absolute travesty and dare I say verging on character assassination?? This man was canonically obsessed with natural disasters after he and the kid he loves like a son were nearly killed in one. There is no reason that I can tell for him not doing his own research, and it isn’t helped that his first queer relationship was with this rubber ball of indifference and lack of care for Buck or his discovery of his queerness. I am in no way saying that Tommy should’ve become Buck’s gay guru, but I do sincerely doubt that he was making Buck’s first Pride month as a fully realized bisexual man anything more than a typical June. So, it should’ve been on Buck’s canonically curious characterization to do that work, to learn more about who he is, and the others in his new community. You’re telling me that Buck wasn’t bringing books to the firehouse to read in down time? He wasn’t extolling new facts he’d read to a bemused and fond Hen and Chimney, and then listening with abject joy when Hen shares something she’s learned in her own experiences? He wasn’t dragging Eddie to go shopping for tiny Pride flags with which to decorate his locker or loft or Jeep with at the end of May? He wasn’t talking about recipes for rainbow-colored or multi-flavored treats with Bobby in the middle of every shift? He wasn’t texting Maddie his stream of consciousness every time he watched a documentary about something he thought might pertain to him (and exasperating her with his continued obliviousness about his feelings for. somebody. in the process)? He had no reason not to Be Buck about being bisexual. Seriously, give me the 118 firefam and co. at Pride immediately because this is just ridiculous. He was on a search for the key to happiness not even a season before his first queer experience, and he didn’t even lean into that happiness, that joy, that curiosity!!!!!!! Oh Tim, I am in your WALLS

[catocappuccino]

Her favourite colour is yello w

[shadowsketches]

💥Partners in Crime💥

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

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