#he's too savvy

[arcxnumvitae]

We know you’re a babygirl Ruaidhri

"Anon" || Baby girl-pocalypse

"And you would be correct. Now dote on me."

[thepromisedbride]

rip to the person from tmagp ep5 but if you get a mysterious invitation to a private horror film in a black envelope at your house from a contest where you had only given them your name and you go anyway then you fully deserve whatever’s about to happen

[juniemunie]

Broskis ts!underswap is so fun. every single part of it is *chefs kiss*

I went in completely blind and honestly i think it was the best move i could have made

i love how its just swapped roles but not personalities so it leads to stuff like this its so creative

Anyways have some more self insert sansnomaly (and chara)

[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

[brainrotcharacters]

whatever level of insanity odysseus was under when he spat "you don't think I know my own palace? I built it" I'm down

[decarabias]

shuake 🤝 inhun/457

toxic/doomed yaoi where an antagonist known as the black mask infiltrates the protagonist’s core group under the guise that they have a common goal but ultimately betrays them

[flurrin]

you've appealed to my emotionally curious nature. what else do you have to say about ladyhawke

There's really a lot like. If you want to read it from an asexual perspective, it's a VERY ace movie, with the couple only getting to kiss at the very end and kissing Mouse and Imperius as well to show this is a common gesture of affection rather than sexually motivated.

There's the costuming work where the heroes all wear black, the villains wear white, and Imperious and Mouse both wear gray because that's how they see themselves morally--Imperius thinking he's stained by an unforgivable, inescapable sin, and Mouse knowing he is a pathological liar.

There's the fact that all three leads have animal motifs and Mouse is the only prey animal--and that a mouse is in the regular diet of both hawks and wolves, to carry the idea that he's scared of both of these people at first--Navarre because he's laconic, stubborn and unfriendly, Isabeau because she's intimidatingly beautiful and walks with wolves.

Wolves were seen as the devil in medieval Europe, something the film gets across pretty well just through Mouse's sheer terror of them (and setting his introductory encounter with the wolf in a scene where he witnesses its violent capabilities firsthand helps bridge the time gap between him and the audience--like WE already know wolves were really victims in this time period, driven to extinction in certain areas).

In the original ending of the film, which i KNOW they TRIED to make but couldn't ultimately pull off for whatever reason, the Bishop was not killed, but merely turned, himself, into a mangey, decrepit, pure white wolf. That alone. I could talk about that for hours. My god.

I really love this film. The sad truth is it would genuinely benefit from a remake, if for the sake of digital effects alone, but I don't trust anyone in modern Hollywood with it.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

the never stop blowing up vhs is where cute twinks go to get harmed

[savs-avvy]

maybe ill clean this up later, but for now. @bruhstation

[ghost-bard]

Love being an arcane warrior in dao i love swinging a giant maul around and being in armour but also casting walking nightmare and horror on my enemies i think swords are cooler but the affect of a maul is funnier than big sword in my opinion. I have like 3 affects (at the minimum) going on at all times and then i do an aoe chug some lyrium just in case and bludgen some guy to death. What.

[fear-is-truth]

BABE BABE BABE what are our thoughts on andrew garfield?????? specifically as spider man but LORD he’s fine oh my godddd im clinging to the walls foaming at the mouth i just watched him in the amazing spider man and ive consumed so many fics my brain is mush 😭😭

hmmm he’s my favourite spiderman, and i really liked him in the social network tho the main reason i watched was mark zuckerberg & the actor who played him jesse eisenberg

and yesss he’s pretty goddamn fine ☺️🤍

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

The way Ewan knew about Aemond being babygirl ...its giving "Girl...what were YOU doing at the Devil's Sacrament?"

[chidoroki]

Istg if this is them years in the future I’m gonna lose my damn mind.

[milkbreadtoast]

my s class hunters does a really good job at gradually raising the stakes without feeling like a pointless power creep and keeping me extremely invested and i keep saying this but I really do think it's bc it's a story grounded in love at every turn... the bond between the han brothers especially is extremely compelling and beautiful and makes me feel like a knife is being stabbed into my heart and twisted all around... i love them so so much 😞💔❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[eggtargaryenii]

I don't think I'll keep this scene because I feel like I may be too much of a disservice to rhaenyra's character? but it is a really fucking funny dynamic lol

[personnotfound]

Y'all keep saying that Jon lied about his age when he didn't? Where does it say he lied? In Mr Spider he says that people are often surprised at how young he is. That isn't lying about your age. People think I'm a decade older than I am all the time. And the wrong gender. Sometimes they even think I work at target! I didn't lie about working at target! I just took my winter coat off after three hours of circling the mall and happened to be wearing red. Jon happens to have greying hair and carries himself like Dracula's less cool shut in cousin.

He's not a liar he's a loser. Get your facts gay.

If you're going to correct me site a source like a proper acedemic. Please. I am on my fifth relisten while I wait for Thursday. I have been specifically listening out for this and I'm on MAG 97 and haven't heard him actually say he LIED.

Martin did lie though for sure. It's Plot that he's a silly goofy little guy who lied on his resume to work at The Paranoia Institute and thus, naturally, got the job.