#good choice watching The Good Place

[reds-burrow]

First of all, thanks for your answer to my last question! I've started watching The Good Place for very important research purposes.

An open question for you & the SHC community at large - if you had to assign a theme song to each sorting, what would you choose?

This is such a fun ask that I'm going to go ahead and post it (even though I don't have much of an answer for you right now) so that others can answer.

I expect songs that express Secondaries are less common than songs that only focus on a Primary. Most of the songs I can think of at the moment that include Secondary lyrics are songs from musicals, where there is a story attached with some plot puzzle or obstacle that needs to be addressed. (The second half of "Wait for It" from Hamilton is a Circumventing Secondary watching a Straightforward Secondary with envy. "Master of the House" from Les Mis describes a stereotype of a Snake Secondary cheat/toady. The beginning of "Dancing Through Life" from Wicked is a Improvising Secondary, likely a more even take on a Snake. "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog is a Badger Secondary song.) Then again, there are a fair amount of Lion Secondary songs outside of musicals since breaking down walls to be true to yourself is a beloved song theme ("It's My Life" by Bon Jovi is one of many).

Otherwise there are plenty of Badger Primary songs about wanting to belong or about showing love to your fellow human being (Jason Mraz's "Look for the Good" is a personal favorite). And there are lots of Lion Primary songs about believing in yourself and letting your heart guide you ("Wild I Am" by Vocal Few always makes me think of Lions, possibly even a Double Lion, for obvious reasons), just as there are plenty of Snake Primary songs about doing anything for the ones you love (Is "Anything for You" by Ludo too on the nose?). Bird Primary songs are the ones that question the meaning of things or are advice songs that list out rules to live by ("Humble and Kind" by Tim McGraw jumps to mind).

Anyway, as someone who is awful at remembering lyrics, I'm not the best person to answer this. So y'all please share your thoughts! I'm eager to hear what others come up with.

[morganbritton132]

I think one of the most interesting ways to write Steve’s parents (or his mom, at least) is as a deeply flawed person with good intentions.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a fic where they’re just bad people. Sometimes that’s all you need for a good story and this is not a criticism of anybody’s interpretation.

My personal preference in writing his parents is as people who are trying to be good parents.

Like, im currently messing around with this AU concept where Steve has a really complicated family dynamic. In it, he has bad parents. His mother made a choice to follow her husband because she thinks it’s the only way to preserve her marriage and thus preserve a good life for her son. It’s not malicious neglect but it is neglect. She’s trying to do the right thing but she’s making the wrong decisions. In the end, she’s still hurting her child.

A couple years ago I wrote this fic about Steve spiraling into a severe depression and his parents are trying to help him. They just don’t listen. They don’t understand what he’s dealing with and they make the wrong choices when trying to help him. Everybody that tries to help him makes the wrong choices, but with the best of intentions. Steve says repeatedly throughout the fic that it’s not his parents fault they don’t know how to be parents.

It’s really fun to write and it’s really cathartic if your relationship with your parents isn’t easy.

[buddiesmutslut]

I’m being so ffr rn, if the show runners definitively show that Buddie is not going to happen?

I’m probably not going to be watching anymore.

I mean it when I say that they’re literally the sole reason I watched this show in the first place. I saw a billion TikTok edits of them & was like “Idek these characters I need to watch this show and see what’s going on over there.”

And like, it’s a fun show, I’m not saying it isn’t, but first responder shows are a dime a dozen. There are other shows that have queer characters and found family and wild adventures. Granted, they don’t have Buck & his bi arc, but I’d still read fanfics to get my Evan Buckley fix lol.

I don’t need them right now, I’m so down for the slow burn, will-they-won’t-they & the pining & the yearning & the build up and the GOOD foundation. I want to see Eddie figuring himself out and dealing with his repression and figuring out he’s queer (& Demi, pls God. I hope if I just say it enough, I can will it into existence somehow) before anything happens with the two of them, but if they take definitive steps to have one of them like, marry someone else or something, I think I’m gonna head out. Find me on ao3 for the rest of my days lol.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have a big google doc thing where I keep track of media and stuff (putting everything in loosely ranked categories), which is mostly just for my own reference so I know what tv shows I've already seen before, etc. and I never really look back through it, typically just a quick "okay, watched two movie in the past 8 months, need to quickly slap them somewhere in the lists. okay. done. save document. exit". But today I was actually reading through some of the old notes and there are like... MULTIPLE places where my comment is basically "It would have been good if it were about elves" or "I wish there was a fantasy show made in this same style" or "It's well made, but I just keep thinking about how I would like it more if everyone was an elf or was in old 1700s costumes" or etc like...... lol.... Most biased media ranking system on earth blatantly made by someone with an extremely hyperspecific range of narrow interests. It'd be like if a food reviewer only had 5 foods they actually liked, so they'd just go to a pizza place and be like "eh, the pizza was okay, but I just think it would be better if it was cereal instead. :/ ...2 out of 10"

[july-19th-club]

tonight we watched episodes 5 and 6: she has changed her tune on silver, instead repeatedly saying "he is such a character" from various angles whenever he is on screen. loves how fake he behaves and the fact that there's nothing behind it but the ability to be really good at being fake. INCREDIBLY busted up over billy but also said 'you wouldn't talk about how much you love these episodes if he had actually died' . prescient of her. for the first time i noticed a part of the bryson/guthrie betrayal that i never had before, which makes mr scott's presence in the hold make more sense. ella very stymied and upset over scott's tangled web of loyalties, and all i could tell her was that he has more interests on the islands than eleanor and that all would become clear in time. watching this time i thought about his cold-blooded arithmetic in refusing so many times to help emi and the other captives, weighing the lessened chance of his family's discovery against his potentially lifelong enslavement. and then helping her anyway because she reminds him, probably, too much of his daughter.

[ocelotegg]

the notes on that post about the vietnam war veteran going back to vietnam for vacation and getting pranked by the tour guide are driving me CRAZY. "what if he was drafted and he has ptsd" was he drafted to vacation 60 years later. or did he go back of his own free will knowing full well this could be a triggering environment for him? it's almost like he has agency and has chosen to fly to vietnam and take + pay for this tour through an area with VC tunnels and then proceed to be so shocked and offended by a (relatively tame) prank that he yelled at the tour guide For Ten Consecutive Fucking Minutes

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[spaghett-onaplate]

kinda wish this one guy was gay

[musical-chick-13]

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[boygirlcreature]

Something about sobbing into your partners arms and saying that you don’t want to die hits different

[icewindandboringhorror]

It always seems a bit unbalanced on The Great Food Truck Race when there will be multiple teams who are cooking a wide variety of complex dishes with 10 different components and a bunch of prep work, and then there's that one team who like... exclusively serves plain crepes with some premade nutella on them, or plain waffles with just some whipped cream and cut up strawberries lol...

[the-greendalehumanbeings]

i was convinced by twitter to rewatch avalon high and apparently it was filmed in AUCKLAND of all places, so now i kinda have to agree its one of the best disney channel movies ever.

[zenyuumi]

Had a silly idea and could not go to sleep without drawing it 👍

[carvinglittleholes]

pondering sobmuch rn cuz i think i could trail into infinite tangents abt music just on this little flame but music critics make no sense to me since I think you have to have a good amount of nutskin to do that shit because what if your OPINION is WRONG???????????? and people make FUN OF YOU FOR IT???????????? FOREVERRRR???????????????? I can't be the guy who wrote the first article calling zeppelins music half-stolen dick tunes and then watch as they blow up the entire world I think I'd kill myself no joke but maybe those critics not the rolling stone weirdos but the ones who write books upon books or like I dunno blog posts for ten fifteen years just because they want an excuse to talk about and delve into the history + meanings + magic + whatever of whichever music they've latched onto like wow you can be happy and make money doing it I didn't know you could do that except no nobody is happy nobody will be happy we will never experience music again BC WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WHEN GARTH DIES

[shidoukanae]

backtracking through TME again and im still utterly in awe of Helene and her writing

I thought by the time i reached episode 72 that her story arc was mostly cleaned up. We got to learn that she does care about Lyla and that she's basically the asshole with a heart of gold stereotype wrapped in a few layers of pettiness and a faint hint of immaturity on her part.

...But now im realizing there MUST be still a lot to her character to go. There's just no way there's not. Between the missing event that turned Helene against Lyla and the way Helene warned Lyla not to trust or get close to her...not to mention we still haven't addressed the reason why OG!Helene destroyed the world in the first place...man, I LOVE that there's still more to her character to go

Helene is literally everything I have ever wanted to see in a character wrapped into one. I'm still shook she exists, that the whole of TME's plot never forgets her or shelves her potential.

She's a gal who has never gotten the chance to really mature into the person she should be due to Lyla's continued existence. She's petty and mean but her original saintly nature seems to be still intact. She's a walking contradiction: both cruel and kind and brave yet afraid. The amount of complexity and depth invested into her is honestly astonishing. And I wouldn't be surprised if she's heading for a villain arc considering her ties with her mother and the hints that she has a hand in the deaths of the empire's mages.

And I just,,,, god,,,, I want to create characters on the same level as Helene (and as the rest of this cast, actually). And while im currently in a rut with OC stuff due to being overwhelmed (and in a "what's the point" mindset lmao), this manga is SUCH an inspiration for me and all i wanna do is cling onto it and hope it never ends :'D

[dullahandyke]

thinking about akudrive and feminism which is a thinly-veiled way of saying im thikning about doctor