#he does want her to quit it but

[willowser]

i also think that katsuki's baby isn't like. scared of him.

even though she's trying to stick her fingers up his nose and touching his face with damp, sticky hands and pulling on his hair, when he presses his nose to hers and huffs out like an angry bull and tells her quit. it. she just LAUGHS. because that's just her silly dad 🥺

or she starts shrieking just because and he gives her the wildest, most surprised look and she just giggles away. and he presses his mouth to her little ear and tells her, stop y'r screamin' and she pulls away to grin at him, fiddling with her ear before letting out another scream just so he'll do it again 🥺

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

space sweepers but they're delivery people and are at no point on screen through the entire movie

[the-last-butter]

HC they first met a year or two after Yelan got her vision; post fighting the in abyss but when Kaeya was still navigating his identity from Kaeya, Brother and Right hand of Diluc Ragnvindr to Kaeya Alberich, Cavalry Captain and Quarter master of the Knights of Favonius.

[rosefires20]

My brainrot today is thinking about just how incredible for a character Eowyn is.

Genuinely. The series might not have many female characters but the ones we do get go so fucking hard.

To me, Eowyn is literally the definition of defining being a woman for oneself. She rejects the roles she is given despite acknlowdging the importance and its mostly because she knows part of the reason is that she is a woman.

The reason why she is obsessed with Aragorn isn't because she loves him but because she wants what he has. She wants the freedom and courage and bravery that Aragorn has at every turn. She literally has multiple conversations during the Two Towers about how what she fears most is a cage. All this girl wants is the freedom to be and not be forced into a role. The best thing is that she literally gets that.

The segment of Return of the King about Eowyn and Faramir is literally about her piecing together what she truly wants. She doesn't want Aragorn. She wants freedom and the ability to choose. Faramir does nothing but encourage that in her. Their love story is literally one of the healthiest love stories I've seen in a long time because at the heart of it, their love is a place to return home to for both parties. Both go off to lead and help their people for a considerable amount of time before returning to each other but that does not diminish their bond. Even Faramir, I believe, falls in love with her bravery and dedication to her loved ones. The reason she went to Pelenor Fields and Gondor with the troops of Rohan was because she had things she wanted to fight for. She wanted to fight for herself, her people, and her loved ones. She is the one who protects Theoden after he is killed so that his body gets the treatment it deserves. She encourages Merry and helps him go to the battle because she sees her struggle in Merry. They feel helpless standing around when there are things to be doing.

Let's also not forget the fact that she was around Grima Wormtounge just as much as the King was. She was exposed to the same poison and awful words that eroded the king. It's even implied that her care for him is part of the reason why Theoden was savable when Gandalf showed up. She had the same power and bravery as everyone else even if she didn't see it in herself.

Then at the end of the day, SHE decides where she wants to go and what path she wants to walk. She walked the path of a warrior. The path of a princess/ruler. The path of a caretaker. But in the end she decides which elements truly mean something to her outside of gender definitions. That is what makes her character so incredible to me. In this she literally kills one of the biggest enemies in that battle with such a badass line.

[starflungwaddledee]

some rather strong first impressions were made.

required reading for the magical "voice" headcanon and another for starstruck's signature in particular. asked by @trainerbob23 !

[critter-wizard]

ep 43 had me tearing up in a fucking shopping centre ‼️‼️

b+w alt version that I truly couldn't decide if I liked it more . Also I included a lot of thoughts in the tags but they're somewhat incoherent<3

[clairedaring]

Ming + being proactive in getting to know Joe and his works

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.03

[transsexualcoriolanus]

okay but "would i were a man, i would eat his heart in the marketplace" is like. The Line of the play. it's beatrice's anger and frustration and, most importantly, her complete lack of power as a woman. her best friend and cousin was humiliated, abused, and left for dead, and there is nothing that she can do, because, even if she's allowed to make fun of the men when people find it funny, she ultimately has no power as a woman. and no one understands, no one believes her, no one gets the absolute rage that she feels on behalf of hero. to the men it's all a game. and it's this line that makes benedick understand. after that line, he goes from refusing to hurt claudio to promising to fight him, because he understands. he sees when no one else does that beatrice has no power. and he agrees to fight his friend, not because he wants to, but because he sees that she can't.

[todayisafridaynight]

rate the outfit

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

if 9&10 were "dont wander off", and 11&12 were "the doctor lies", 13s rule #1 is "dont question me"

"have we not had a good time together" shes pointing yaz to the rule that yaz very well knows is there: we can travel if you dont ask me any difficult questions. yaz knows this is the rule - "because you ask too many questions", "this team structure isnt flat" - but she also was the one to invite the doctor into her home so im pretty sure she also knows shes not gonna kicked out that easily. she has some leeway. which she has been using between revolution and flux, which is why the doctor reminds her of the rules

i dont think she'd kick her out though. she wouldnt. i think it's just that the more you break the rule, the more unpleasant she becomes to be around, and eventually youre gonna walk out on your own. she doesnt want you to, she'd rather you stay and dont ask questions. but if youre gonna try to ask questions anyway, i think thats whats gonna happen

and yaz must think so too. because she does back off. because she doesnt want that to happen either. and it does anyway

[druidberries]

clementine realized she was starting to develop feelings for manuel and was planning to ask him to be her boyfriend. they all had planned to go out for halloween together so on halloween night she would finally ask him. clementine asked yoltic what he thought but his response wasn't exactly what she was hoping for. he believes manuel will only break her heart, clementine wants to be exclusive with one person, manuel on the other hand isn't so interested in that...

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[laugtherhyena]

Speaking of oc and Laios's party interaction, here's a silly thing i doodled a few days back.

[purplerakath]

Cobra Kai - And my Dissection of why Demetri felt so... wrong.

If you like Demetri, and all the ways the writers gave him flaws that just- never were really explored, you do you. His actor is nice enough and people are entitled to their opinion.

But for me he was just one mistake after another writing wise. And I want to explore them. As how we got here is honestly worth looking at.

I'm planning to talk all six seasons so spoilers for all across his story. And Hawk's story because they aren't really separate narratives.

The Basics

So... a usual thing in writing is to talk about what a character wants compared to what a character needs. Their drives, how those drives determine their actions. Sets who they are.

What are Demetri's?

I mean it, he has short term motivations in the early seasons (S1-S3) but after that he's just... there. And often those early season drives are very 'in the moment' and lack any deeper impact to them. This isn't exactly a problem, because he's not really a main character. But it makes him feel very hollow.

He would like Kyler and co to stop bullying him, but he doesn't do anything about it. He just enjoys the fruits of Miguel and Eli's labor. He likes girls talking to him, but he won't work to make that happen. It happens in spite of him. His plan is to enjoy life when he's 25 and rich in the tech sector (a mindset that feels worse in hindsight).

If he left Miyagi Do after the events of Season 3, to just do his own thing away from the the others nothing realistically changes about the show. He isn't relevant because the writers didn't make him relevant.

Demetri vs. Karate

All of that is, understandably, bad. But that puts him in line with Chris, Mitch, and the other 'characters who vaguely exist' on the show. And those two don't cause me as much trouble. What makes Demetri worse? Well next is his relationship with Karate.

Demetri is the only character with an actually antagonistic relationship with Karate, that thing everyone does. The only character close to Demetri as far as 'hating Karate' goes is Antony. Who shows a bit more 'growing to appreciate' Karate as his part of the plot goes on.

At the start of Season 6 the only reason Demetri is trying at all is Yasmine would break up with him if he was a loser intentionally. This is, by far, the biggest issue for Demetri as a character in the show. He cares about Karate once in one scene in Season 2, and then immediately isn't invested again after he's not shoving it in Eli's face, and is never invested again.

I'm not doing a full section of Demetri and Yasmine's relationship. Short version is they used it as a joke because the image of them making out is surprising and that's it. There's no actual narrative behind it, it does nothing for his character, it's just there.

Demetri vs. Hawk

So Eli in Season 2 is a lot, excluding pathologized diagnosing of Eli's behavior isn't super helpful and I'll try to avoid it. He created an image of himself as a badass, and protecting that image matters to him. He likes not being the lip, he likes deciding his own name, he likes being seen as more than a victim.

And he runs a bit wild protecting it and becomes a huge jackass. Characters on this show are flawed and do bad things for fairly legit (but not absolving) reasons.

However, Eli becoming a monster doesn't change how much of Demetri's purpose in the show was trying to hammer Eli back into the sad pathetic loser that relied on Demetri for everything, and that's kind of fucked up. Because he started it before Eli went evil, and he continued it after Eli became good again.

And that's a serious red flag on Demetri as a person. As a character this would be fine, if like Kyler dating Sam, the show made it clear that this behavior is wrong and clearly a red flag. The show painted all of it as either 'Demetri is a good friend' or 'Demetri standing up against Evil Bad Hawk.'

And this is their relationship through all six seasons. Because the entire basis of their conflict in Season 6 is Eli (who has grown and changed so much over the show) is not sure he would be happy going to MIT for college, and wants to explore other options.

Demetri does change his college plans in the finale to stay with Eli, but it's not attached to any other real growth on Demetri's part.

How to Fix This?

There are two fixes to this, and they are completely contradictory in nature. As is all complicated writing things. The first and harder option is to make this an arc. Demetri learns to find value in Karate, and as he learns to understand why Eli took to it, he figures out that Eli being so reliant on him was comforting, and his lashing out is due to being lonely.

You can make it romantic if you want. But he has to realize he was using Eli, and that is bad. And it wasn't fair of him to hate Hawk for being more outgoing than Eli.

This means Demetri is doing Karate to be close to his best friend/boyfriend, he's doing it because it makes him a better more rounded person, and he actually is invested in the plot.

Or you cut his screentime to make him on par with Mitch, Chris, Yasmine, and Moon as 'a character that exists' but not 'an actual protagonist.' The gulf between him and even the kid squad (Antony, Kenny, and Devon) when it comes to motivation and character traits is massive. He doesn't have a balanced 'rival' to him the way Migeul vs. Robby, Sam vs. Tory, or Kenny vs. Antony work.

Eli is defined by the extremes between Eli and Hawk more than he's ever defined by his rivalry with Demetri.

If he just isn't as much of a player in the series, the flaws in his writing would just be less obvious. But he's given so much screentime and they do nothing with it. Parts are also just written without a full grasp of what he did? In the same ways Zara is a much worse person in practice than what the writers wanted.

Demetri being a comedy character doesn't help his case either, annoyingly. But that's less about the character and more about the writers just not giving him really solid comedic bits. His best repeated bit was 'pop culture reference' into 'Daniel points out that reference does not support Demetri's point.'

[sludgekludge]

What's your thoughts on Octavia?

she sure does exist

ok real talk, she's inoffensive, but not really a character archetype i care for, the moody goth teenager. i don't hate her though and her situation strikes a chord. brandon (i believe? correct me if im wrong) calling her a cockblocking bitch or whatever was like. kind of insane and offputting. she's in a really sad situation with a shitty dad but the narrative is so determined to defend stolas over everything and now she's in the wrong for being upset over it? gonna use this to jump off and ramble about stolas abandoning his daughter at every turn because i don't really have much to say about via on her own and i've wanted to complain about this like, forever

like 'stolas is a good dad!' when he:

actively has an open affair in front of her that seems to have kickstarted constant fighting between her parents. stolas does not seem to comfort or communicate with octavia over this whatsoever until she literally runs off crying over it in loo-loo land. even then, he's still fixated on specifically blitz protecting him. go look after your fucking daughter instead of whining about the bodyguard you don't need, dude.

tangentially, invites his affair partner (a stranger that is playing a part in actively disrupting octavia's life and relationship with her father) to what is meant to be a daddy-daughter day (ignores the fact she's not having a good time and then acts surprised when she tells him such) and flirts with him sexually in front of his (underage) daughter. seems to ignore octavia's worsening mood in favour of blitz until the aforementioned tears. has little to say for himself when confronted but assures her he won't abandon her. lol. lmao, even.

promptly forgets about something important to her and abandons her to once again in a foreign place to have sexual banter with his affair partner. is an all-powerful demon who could've pulled blitz away from funny sitcom shenanigans at any point to go look for octavia, but has to be reminded by blitz (sexily, for some reason) that they should go look for their daughters after the sitcom shit is cut short by accident. maybe via can't exactly be killed or hurt but literally anything else could've happened to her while she, a presumably quite sheltered teenager, was running around the human world for the first time by herself. she has to get a pep talk from a stranger (the daughter of her fathers affair partner, by the way) about how her dad might be a fuckup but totally loves her, despite having just spent the last afternoon fawning over blitz instead of worrying about octavia. this stranger is also the only adult bothering to look for her in any capacity. octavia would have spent the entire afternoon lost and alone if it weren't for loona being the only one to give a shit.

'what about my daughter', noticeably just kind of goes home with blitz after everything in mastermind and makes no effort to even call or text her. 'erm he was probably traumatised and exhausted-' literally everyone was just under the impression blitz was going to die. i'm sure they're all traumatised and exhausted. stolas lost his powers and his stupid ass house for a little bit, not even forever, over an affair he actively exploited a power dynamic to consciously have, not caring about how it effected his daughter, or the potential future consequences thereof. hitting the impeccable 'i wont abandon you my daughter who i definitely care about' then instantly forgetting she exists 2 seconds later because he of a hole he dug for himself. the point is he once again prioritises blitz over via. was it that easy to forget about her?

tangentially, if you want to believe that stella is an abusive mother (we haven't seen it in the show but i wouldn't be surprised if they wanted you to perceive it that way) then stolas is doing all of this while allowing stella to have octavia. alone, might i add.

via is objectively right to worry stolas is going to abandon her for blitz because he Does. she doesn't appeal to me as a character persay but her situation is miserable enough that i can't bring myself to really dislike her

[cult-of-the-eye]

My toxic trait is that I fully believe that all the tma avatars would've been fixed if they were raised by my mother (vaguely derogatory)