#he shouldve been at the club…

[rowrowronnie]

some eddie and abner doodles james gunn i will never forgive you

[haliaiii]

daisuke sketch for fun

[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

[whatkindofnameisella]

the fact that verity is canonically 24 at the start of assassin's apprentice is insane to me. he shoulda been at the club.

[shizunitis]

honestly I think Bingqiu is the most raw and fierce romance compared to Wangxian and Hualian. Like honestly I think Binghe is perhaps the most human romantic of them all.

imagine your shizun dies. imagine he dies in your arms to protect you. imagine you love him so much you would have destroyed the world to bring him to your side and he dies to save you. imagine your shizun loves you so much, has so much goodness in his heart, all for you, that he gives his life to help you in a moment of crisis. imagine you hold onto him and finally confess your love and anger for him as you should have done the moment you saw him again, all pretenses dropped, and he’s dead.

imagine your shizun is now a corpse, and you take care of him every single day, and you exhaust yourself for him, and then he comes back. and when he comes back, there are so many other things he cares about. you don’t give a shit about them. you just want him by your side. imagine you did all of that. not to repent, but to bring him back.

and he leaves. he asks you to leave, even. you! who’s waited for five years for him to come back to you! he asks that you don’t follow him. he asks that you be patient. that you be smart, that you prioritise, that you wait!

after you’ve had your whole life scrutinised and your very existence scorned by the highest people in the cultivation world, after the very act of your birth was cursed, shizun leaves, again. imagine that happened after you’d tried to help the very people who hate you, all for shizun. imagine shizun asks you to leave after all that, and the next time you two meet, he sends you away, and when you hang back, you hear him laugh with others.

imagine, then, that you break down under the weight of it all, and hurt him again. and then imagine shizun wakes up, and comes to chastise you for not waiting by his side.

i would’ve started sobbing with snot and kicking my feet like a toddler during a tantrum. how binghe kept himself from doing that before maigu ridge will forever astound me

[actualbird]

one thing about my ideal luke (i.e. the one that lives in my head and that is injected with all my myriad specific headcanons) is that i fully believe the NSB groomed him. i cannot be convinced otherwise, personally. luke pearce was sixteen years old and in a new city for the first time originally to go to university but then he gets caught up in a transnational case and then recruited by the government security organization and did i mention that he was SIXTEEN YEARS OLD, sixteen years old and very probably highly impressionable and ive said this before in previous posts and even in my fics but he was too perfect for the NSB: so scared of being a burden, so wired for service to make up for his existence, so noble and predisposed to wanting to be a protector. the NSB found him and all they'd have to do is push him deeper into the thought patterns he already had and offer their organization as the outlet. it was too easy.

i also theorize that the NSB is evil (or at the very least not as benevolent as they make themselves out to be) but thats a whole other post topic

[confusedmothboy]

hes 29!!! he shouldve been at the tavern!!!!

[kennywhoremega]

Mentally, I'm still here. Honestly you can just leave me here...

[flwrsworld]

by the way when apollo's part came i burst out laughing man did NOT give a fuck 😭

[abattoirstars]

[weirdbabs]

i need trump to die i need trump to die i need trump to die i need trump to die

[problematic-president]

Rip john quincy adams you wouldve loved apple by charli xcx

[loverofsoups]

“This is all to say that i grew up in a house surrounded by people, but i know what its like to be completely alone.”

[rigginsstreet]

When [the paramedic] told me “we’re gonna move you now” there was a “thank you” that came out of me that was just like, in that moment I was like “Oh. That is it. Thank you for letting me play that Jason.” I knew it was gonna be much different after that for me. -Scott Porter IT’S NOT ONLY FOOTBALL: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS AND BEYOND

[champmorado]

look i love dilfy chick hicks and i absolutely understand if you hc him to be a middle-aged man during cars 1

but the reason why i hc him to be 35 during that time is because a lot of the tragedy with my chick is how he "sped" through his life

he was barely able to enjoy his childhood, he was forced to be fully independent by the time he was a teenager, and the moment he became eligible for the piston cup circuit he dedicated his entire life to it, to the point where it became the only "stable" part of his identity

and now he clings onto the past as a way to make up for all the years of his life that he "wasted", where he was alive but wasnt able to *live*

also he has a lot of really weird views and feelings about aging so he feels like his life is already over, when babe it is not. its not over until youre dead

citing sources for my post:

chick repeatedly calls strip "old man" as an insult. in the comics he straight up calls him senile. hes canonically weird about old ppl

also in the comics, chick says "i always gas it-- im a race car" and "i always attack everything full out" and that indicates to me that chick doesnt know how to slow down and get out of the fast lane

this is silly but i dont want ppl to think im spewing bullshit when it comes to Deep Analysis about my fave characters.... i make up a lot of headcanon crap but i always try to base it on canon characterization

[tinukis]

during 3d2y, luffy never slept alone. either he bundles up against the animals he befriended or they cuddle with him or just both

it feels lonely. it is lonely. but it was 10x better than to be without a sign of life. they helped keep him warm on the colder nights and winter seasons. they listened to his stories he had about his nakama. theyre reactions were always priceless