#honestly one of my favourites in this season

[did-sm1-say-catfish]

thanks for the tag!!

3 Ships I Like?

hilson, destiel, and johnlock. wow i feel like this is some kind of holy trinity

First ship?

hmm... deathbringer x glory. I used to read the wof books way back when so no fandom no nothing just pure unadulterated heart eyes.

Last Song I Heard?

i honestly have no clue because i play music while i sleep so. maybe head over heels by tears for fears?? i dunno??

Favourite Childhood Book?

probably the mo and dale mysteries. please tell me someone else has heard of them. please. oh btw i met sheila turnage (the author) and i got to ask her abt sum stuff. that was such a cool moment for me :DDD

Currently Reading?

not much. theres this one franz kafka book i've been reading for like a year and i'm still not done. someone bully me into finishing it please.

Currently Watching?

supernatural. i just started season 9 and ooh lordy this show has me in a chokehold.

Currently Consuming?????

uhh. OH SHIT MY COFFEE IS DONE BRB. i spilled my coffee all over myself had to change my shirt. IM BACK. what did i miss.

Currently Craving?

tortellini

@starry-scarl3tt @apple-sapling @dr-robert-chase-s-hair @star-cluster-nyx @idiotspacecowboy @imtylered @kiran2917 @cameronmitchelljohn @talkshowgirlboy @itsjustcnow np tags!!

9 10 Fandom Folks to Get to Know Better

Thanks so much for the tag @schofielded !!

3 Ships I Like

Okay so I’m currently writing for Anderperry so they have to be at the top of the list, Reddie is my beloved which I fear will follow me throughout my life so they’re next, and hmm idk what to put for my third one since I like to read for a lot of ships and have barely written for others. I think I’ll go with a surprise pick and say Boreo! Tragic gays for the win

First Ship Ever

Omg I actually cannot say it was too embarrassing. The first one I’m willing to say is Larry which is also embarrassing and I regret it but I fear the fanfic was so good sorry.

Last Song I Heard

Drums of Death by FKA Twigs. I am addicted, something about the beat is just so good.

Favorite Childhood Book

This is kind of hard for me because I mainly had author phases as a kid rather than just one book that I adored. Looking back, though, I would probably say The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo was my favorite. Her descriptions were so good that it made me want to eat paper like the mice.

Currently Reading

Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva! It’s a queer Bulgarian novel I’m reading for my around the world goal and I’m really enjoying it so far!

Currently Watching

Just finished watching Swing Girls (2004) so I’m counting it since I’m between TV shows right now. Anyway the movie was so cute and feel-good, I definitely recommend!!

Currently Consuming

I had fried chicken for dinner if that’s what this is referring to. Anyway it was good!

Currently Craving

A strawberry limeade with added coconut and cream from Sonic 💔 I don’t have my car rn so I am stranded sadly

No pressure tags: @neil-perrys-suicidal-tendencies @vinesandvellichor @good--merits-accumulated @lc-27 @axe-76 @dreadedwhim @poetrusic1959 @yawping-poets-society @scriptscraps @neilperryismine + open to anyone who wants to join!!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.

(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)

[evagelieneinthesky]

Usually, when we talk about the most heartbreaking part of Fleabag finale, we talk about this:

It is incredibly heartbreaking. But we all knew it was coming. And so did Fleabag. Which is why, even with the massive heartbreak, she accepts his decision. She knew he loved God, and no one will come in between that. She knew they could never be together. She had known that from the start. She neither expected nor hoped to be in a relationship. She just wanted to let him know, that she loved him. She wanted to let him know that he was loved. By her. No conditions. No matter what. Which is what makes this scene so heartbreaking.

But I think the most heartbreaking part comes right after:

These four words are enough to break her apart. Fleabag had spent most of her adult life thinking that she was unlovable. And then there comes this man, whom she loved, despite her heartbreak, telling her that he loves her back. Something she almost never hears. And this too is coming from a man, for whom admitting that he loved someone, like romantically loved someone, was a big deal.

And at this point, everything that they have been through, just becomes infinitely more profound. This is the moment, we, the audience and Fleabag, realize, that she was loved. By the man who finds her in moments where she loses herself. By someone who made her feel infinitely better about herself. By the man who made her see life in a brand-new way, who made her see herself with more love. The full realization hits, and that is what makes her (and me) breakdown. She isn't sad because it didn't happen. She mourns, because it did happen. She was loved.

(I don't know if any of this even makes sense)

BONUS:

The Hot Priest will never know that she saw The Fox, and immediately knew it was for him. He will never know, that the woman he loved saw something that apparently only he could see, and KNEW it was for him.

[zirafail]

s10 lister is when he starts venturing into peepaw territory mhm mhm yep

(sorry for the break between edits! s11 will come eventually but yes this series is still going 💪)

[stranger-feathers]

This is a man who (probably without fully realising) limits his own choices because he's determined to expand his little brother's.

I really like this part because it also reminds me of another reason why some people fail to get Jonathan, in addition to the difficulty of empathising with a character who's very different from them.

There's a very specific episode in the show that exemplifies this character trait, but a lot of people miss the implication of the scenes because they're not back to back. In episode 1 of season 2, Joyce says that Jonathan is supposed to choose what they watch for movie night. However, when we do actually see Jonathan before movie night, he's not choosing the movie he wants : he's letting Will choose one instead. It's such a precious piece of characterisation for the entire family, and opens up a lot of discussion about the chicken and egg situation of how Jonathan and Joyce ended up co-parenting Will : how much of it is due to Joyce genuinely needing his help; and how much of it is due to Jonathan's own initiative, even when it's unnecessary ? It's honestly one of my favourite characterisation choices in the show, even if it's a small detail in the grand scheme of things. (there's also something very interesting to be said about the fact that Will doesn't even end up choosing the movie, and how that relates to his own feelings towards being the "baby" of the family but that's another discussion)

Unfortunately, the main issue with getting this characterisation across comes from presentation : a lot of people simply don't remember the first scene when they get to the second, and just like that this subtle writing choice gets completely ignored by the general public. There's something very lowkey about how some characters are characterised, and that's one of my favourite part of the show, but it also makes me sad when it clearly prevents some people from understanding and empathising with them.

Jonathan is one of the characters that suffers from this the most in my opinion, which is a shame considering his character concept is already less palatable and relatable for most; especially compared to Steve who's both easier to conceptualise as a character and presented more straight forwardly to the audience.

It really fucking sucks as someone who likes both Steve AND Jonathan, but sometimes the fandom lowkey makes me hate Steve - whether it's by demonizing Jonathan/attributing his best tributes solely to Steve, or by wildly mischaracterizing him.

Yes!

Steve has his own, entirely valid, good qualities, many of which he actually shares with Jonathan: being brave, protective and loyal.

He's also practically intelligent and observant (realising the recording was coming from inside the mall), and he's done what a lot of young lads do. He was a bit of an arsehole in high school, and now he's grown up and grown out of that behaviour.

What that means is that he's a fairly ordinary kid. That's the whole point-he's the normal small-town boy who ends up doing battle with interdimensional monsters.

Jonathan, by contrast, gets so much hate because he's not ordinary. He is primed for the Upside Down. He's not ready for what happens to Will...but he's been expecting things to go wrong his whole life because they always have. When the GA calls him weird, or ugly, or boring, what they really mean is 'I can't relate to what he's been through so I don't have any sympathy for him'.

He's intelligent, sharp, witty, spiky, strong and compassionate. He has a moral centre because his father never did. He's a dad before he's a high-school grad; a mother's helper before he gets to be a child. This is the young man who organised his little brother's funeral, and still made sure his mother ate. This is the young man who had his spine cracked wide with a surgical stool, and tried to save his girlfriend through the pain.

This is a man who (probably without fully realising) limits his own choices because he's determined to expand his little brother's.

The constant erasure of Jonathan's complexities-his constant relegation to the background by large swathes of the fandom-hurts, because that's exactly what happens to kids like him. To kids like me.

Jonathan is different by design. The whole Byers family (sans Lonnie) is different by design. They are the ones best equipped to deal with all of this because they know the darkness that lies beneath normal life. It's not a shock or a surprise to them. The whole concept of the show is about a family that's been beaten down by people who don't care to understand, responding to the Upside Down in a way only they can.

Jonathan doesn't get to have the redemption arc Steve does, because (aside from the photo debacle) he doesn't need one. He doesn't need to grow up, because he's already had to. His outlook on life is more mature, more cynical, more responsible, because it's had to be. From the first episode, Joyce is already in the habit of focusing on Will because Jonathan 'can take care of himself', so his needs don't show on her radar. Not only does that mean she doesn't see them: it also means that Jonathan doesn't have a good handle on his own needs either.

When you learn to make yourself small to keep everyone else afloat, you lose the ability to tell when you're sinking.

And a big chunk of the GA seems to see this and go 'Oh, he's sinking, what a loser!' because it's become normal for him to sink. They see his character as the oddball tragic foil to Steve's everyman charm, when they were supposed to see it the other way around. Jonathan was supposed to be one of the central characters for once, and to take that away from him because he is the way he is...misses the point entirely. You're supposed to sympathise with Jonathan. You're supposed to watch the show and think deeply about the harm we do when we exclude people. You're supposed to learn from him.

Yes, Jonathan does struggle to be sociable, and charismatic, and open! He does struggle to express himself! That's the whole point: he is a child who's been through more in 16 years (as of S1) than most people in small-town America have in a lifetime. He is the way he is because he trudges through Hell and keeps going.

Because he'll be damned if anyone he loves ends up there with him.

[kidovna]

that loki finale (and s2 in general) might just be my favourite thing the MCU has ever done

[wizerdbattle]

I very badly wanted Jo to have a hashtag feminism arc where she latched onto Poppy and acted as her assistant... the power would go to Poppy's head and Jo would slowly absorb pieces of Poppy's terrible personality and they would both get worse... yeah I would have liked that a lot I think :)

[slashingdisneypasta]

Hey... what's your favourite urban legend or ghost story?

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[matsui-sinclair]

hello fellow ape-heads today i bring you a humble offering of all the episodes of the short-lived 1974 planet of the apes tv show all on a google drive for free :)

the series is about two astronauts, peter and alan, who accidentally travel forward in time to the 3080s (about 900ish years before the first movie) and befriend a friendly ape named galen (played by roddy mcdowall). the episodes follow the three of them as they travel across future california, running from the gorilla cop urko as he chases them down for upsetting the natural order of ape society.

all these episodes are already up on archive.org but i don't know about anyone else but that website is sooo slow for me so i just went and downloaded all the episodes. but then my laptop didn't have enough space so i moved them to a hard drive and it got tedious for me to reconnect it every time i wanted to rewatch an episode, so i just thought for ease of access i'd upload them to a google drive, and i figured other people would probably be interested in watching so here you go!!

i first heard about this show because the youtube channel ape nation is currently going through each of the episodes so if you want you can watch along with his weekly reviews!

i absolutely love this show so much and i never see anyone talk about it on here so hopefully this means people can watch it and i won't be alone in my appreciation for it anymore 😭😭

so go forth and enjoy the glory of the 1974 pota tv show!!

[artemx746]

Honestly I think they shot themselves in the foot with only having 8 episodes idk who decided that 8 was a good amount but it definitely isn’t. 10 probably would’ve been the best amount since tlt has 22 chapters so that’s about 2.5 chapters per episode which also gives them time to add stuff in.

[welcometothe-playground]

Umbrella Academy season 4 reaction

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

So y'all know that I am morally opposed to the gabnath ship (and Gabriel in general) but oh my god it's such a FASCINATING dynamic to study.

[fulcrum-art-fox]

“He likes you, Ava. That’s why he hasn’t killed you yet.” Ok this might just be me but that statement makes zero sense when applied to Adriel, but it fits Lilith herself so well. Adriel doesn’t really interact with Ava very much this season until the finale, and when he does I never got the sense he liked her very much at all, not even in the standard villain “you are a worthy competitor” way. But it fits Lilith way better. Despite herself, despite her rivalry and jealousy, despite all the terrible things Lilith does to Ava, deep down, she’s still her sister. Ava takes Mary’s “she was my sister of course I hated her” to heart, but so does Lilith. When the tarask showed up in season one Lilith didn’t hesitate to lay down her life for Ava’s, and when Ava has made the biggest sacrifice in season two and is almost certainly dying, Lilith helps Beatrice get her to the arc so she can go somewhere they might be able to heal her. She might talk big game, but when push comes to shove, Lilith can’t see Ava die

[raidensharkgun]

Pressure makes Diamonds as they say..

you killed my girlfriend..prepare to be SEALED! - Tachibana (probably)

[introverted-reads]

crowley would love my "jesus in a strip club giving head pin"

[raisinushigher]

stupid garbage brainstorming for possibilities w gandhi + abe in future seasons . normally id type the words out onto the drawing afterwards but this is just so cringe and self indulgent thst it doesn’t matter enough to do that