#i have feelings

[guzhufuren]

Wooyoung

cr. jwydiaries

[bucky-obsessed]

This-

This scene destroyed me, I love it so much!

[so-many-ocs]

grabbing new writers by the shoulders. it is important to write what you love and to love what you write. if you spend all your time trying to make something other people will approve of you will hate yourself and everything around you. learn at your own pace. you have time. i’m proud of you

[misty-slays-blog]

Sauron’s dynamic with Galadriel is so different from his interactions with others, especially in the way he doesn’t rely on manipulation or flattery to get what he wants. With Celebrimbor, it’s all about exploiting vanity, and with Mirdania, it’s obvious he’s thinking of her as a tool. He picks up on her interest in him and uses it as another way to achieve his goals (I don't think she'll survive the end of the season RIP), but even then, he can’t help but compare her to Galadriel, which says a lot about where his mind is.

But with Galadriel, it’s like he’s stripped of those usual tactics. The teasing ("cease comparing me to a horse"), the unpolished interactions, and the vulnerability of the log scene when he basically admits (almost to himself, he hardly even looks at her) that he feels better around her... all of that feels more honest. It’s like he can’t fully maintain the mask around her. He almost seems caught off guard by the depth of his own feelings.

[winchester-reload]

But, what is peace without you to still my restless heart?

[v4lta01]

Grew up with them <3

[pedgito]

PEDRO PASCAL as EZRA Prospect (2018) dir. Zeek Earl & Chris Caldwell

[watchyourbuck]

Buck has gotten to live and die in that hospital, but not in the way it usually goes. Yes, he’s lost and gotten his pulse back in there, he’s wandered its hypothetical hallways while in a coma, he’s broken through glass to finally breathe on his own and return home. But he’s also watched his sister get married, and he’s also kissed a man. His man. The place where he almost lost it all exactly a year ago,,, becomes witness of the way he finally allows himself to live.

[68spidey]

If you're not poking at your buddies while they're already annoyed, then are you really in the military?

[captain-grammar]

it's heartbreaking listening to ben talk about how much he identifies with outsiders, people who are different, people who are othered and don't fit in with who other people think they should be.

it's heartbreaking to hear him talk about how badly his childhood fucked him up. how he has abandonment and trust issues. how he went to therapy because how he was treated as a kid fucked him up so badly, he literally cannot remember huge chunks of his past because his brain, trying to preserve some sense of self, shut down and blocked it out.

but it's empowering and heartening to hear him take institutions like private schools and the armed forces and their ilk to task. to call out the classism and the snobbery and the grown men who bullied and belittled him. they are archaic. they are ridiculous. they are abusive. they are staffed by elitists who train and groom impressionable kids to become the next generation of out-of-touch elitist to keep that "good old boys" club going. molding kids into government drones, yes-men or politicians to keep anyone who wasn't born with a silver spoon in their mouth down.

it's empowering to hear him talk as someone who was forced inside the ivory tower, hated everything it stood for, and is ready to raze it to the ground.

he wasn't made for that. you watch anything he's written and you know he has compassion and feels deeply and has some fucking humanity about him. giving a voice to stories that we never got to hear. i'm glad he walked away from what it seems like every adult in his life was trying to push him into. i'm glad he gets to be himself.

[skialdi]

Another sketch commission 💜

[lililovesthings]

Seriously though WHAT IF Aziraphale mourned Crowley when he fell?!?! Like this...

What if Ed is still mourning Stede and he doesn't know that he's coming for him?!?!

I am also aware I now need to watch What We Do in the Shadows...does this involve a broken heart too????

[definedvines]

i think the thing that bothers me the most about the.... "resolution" of naoto's character arc in persona 4 is not simply that they "aren't really trans," but the way they weakly attempt to explain this. They really brush it away as "ohhh guys they really did want to be a woman this whole time!" when instead if you read it closely, it feels a lot more like them feeling like "i really do wish i was born a man, but that's just not the case, so i have to swallow my pride, accept my circumstances and deal with how it is." which... sucks, and is probably why they try to explain it away in a way that doesn't feel right or connected well.

we've seen stories be able to execute just fine the sort of plot where a character has to pretend to be a man for a certain reason and in the meantime is also struggling with gender roles, while still very likely being a cis woman, like mulan. the thing about naoto that's different is that being a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth ties heavily into their life... they connect it very emotionally to the characters in fiction that they looked up to, and i mean come on, the true feelings their shadow said in the TV really say it all... naoto is willing to go to extreme lengths to present as a man, permanently, and it's weird to think they'd have all these feelings and desires just simply because their working field is misogynistic and they just had to do it to get far in their field, or whatever.

[kaleidoscopeminds]

i'd set myself on fire just to keep you warm ☀️

[alliwantistowearcomfypants]

I'm not gonna lie, I think mandalorian should have ended at season 2. It just buttoned up so well, and the message was incredible. It was touching and sad. And then, like a month later, it didn't matter. Season 3 was so disappointing to me, and I think a big reason for that is because it lacked that simplicity the first 2 seasons had. The show was just about a damaged man finding his humanity and helping various people along the way. I know that not everyone loved the simplicity, but I think it was the best thing the show had going for it. Star Wars often suffers from stuffing so much crap in the story that it forgets to add character arcs.

The first 2 seasons are super character focused. The plot is so intertwined with Dins' character growth that it doesn't focus on the big picture. But in s3, Din barely has any growth as a character. There's stuff happening left and right, but Din doesn't really have any emotional stakes in it. Him trying to get his mandalorian status back feels hallow because we literally just watched 2 whole seasons of him breaking away from it. One of the biggest character moments for him was taking off his helmet for grogu. He's telling grogu that he matters more. That he would give it all up for him. It's so touching and feels like his character's natural progression. And then we're supposed to care when all of a sudden he wants back into the morally questionable pseudo cult he broke away from for his baby? I don't care! That plot point also resolves itself in like 3 episodes with little to no confluct, so now what. He wants to help Bo Katan. Ok. Why. No idea. He's kinda just there, watching things happen around him. There's no inner conflict or tough decisions he needs to make. His character arc is over, and you can tell the writers didn't know what to do with him.

The show is honestly focused more on bo katan than din. Which, no hate to her, but I'm not here for her. She's treated like a wronged princess, not like a deeply flawed terrorist who saw the error of her ways way too late. She literally aided in getting her planet overrun by crime leaders and sith. And the show just brushes past that. They don't even mention Satine, which could have been a great way to humanize Bo. Have her struggle with the fact that she got her sister killed. Have her wanting to restore mandalor for her sister, who died trying to protect it. It would have been so much more impactful if Bo Katan's motivation was out of guilt for getting her sister killed and planet overrun. She could have slowly opened up about her complicated relationship with her sister. She could have had an obi wan kenobi type arc. Learning the only thing she can do is move forward. Try to right her wrongs. Restore Mandalore in the name of her flawed but deeply devoted sister. I do not understand why they didn't at least touch on Bo's personal ties to the planet. She feels so one dimensional, and they could have easily made her more interesting. Or at least motivating.

My biggest problem with the show is that I didn't really care. I didn't care about Bo Katan's goals or Din's. And I think the biggest reason is because the show forgot to add character moments that tied them to the things they want in a personal way. Also, Din's baptism thing was stupid. Just cut that out entirely. No one wanted that.