#i am not a secret to be kept

[scribbling-dragon]

missing ranchers forever and ever and ever (a redraw of THIS from a year ago)

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[boxalienist]

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Padmé Amidala mourning Anakin Skywalker

Art reference:  Bela Čikoš Sesija - Mourning of Christ

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[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[elle-thereafter]

Also, finding out in 4SD that Matt told Laura secret Matron stuff makes me take that look back over her shoulder in the Downfall prologue as the predecessor to the Matron way, way more seriously. If I may borrow the immortal, ineffable words of Taliesin Jaffe: I have ideas.

[wikitpowers]

“And you made me someone who has to keep a secret I never wanted to keep. I was raised by someone who had so many awful secrets, and when I started my life as a Shadowhunter I wanted to do it openly, and honestly. But now I’m just someone else with secrets I can never tell. Just like my dad.”

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i don't know what order to start Dissecting, so i'll just start with:

it's absolutely fascinating how the dynamic Wally & Barnaby had - to my knowledge - before the update, and a dynamic i'd seen speculated elsewhere and generally accepted, has been completed turned on its head

see, given that Wally is the "main character" and Barnaby is classified as "his best friend", i got the feeling that Barnaby kind of... tags along on Wally's 'shenanigans'. that he's the sidekick, the best friend. especially since their dynamic has been previously & briefly described as "Barnaby is very polite to Wally." he's the Companion.

but the audios sorta paint a reverse picture. in the Interview, when Barnaby enters stage right, he completely bowls over Wally's introduction and dominates the interview. when the interviewer asks how the two of them are handling the fame, even outright asking Wally, Barnaby doesn't hesitate to answer the question himself, and only about himself. Wally doesn't get another word in edge-wise until the interviewer explicitly singles Wally out.

(now, an argument could be made that Barnaby knew that Wally was somewhat overwhelmed with all of the questions, and tried to take the reins to give him a reprieve. but, considering that the interview seems to be very early on the possible timeline - like, very soon after Welcome Home debuted - i don't think this is likely. i doubt Barnaby and Wally would've had the time to solidify their dynamic or really get to know each other that well yet)

and Barnaby continues to take point in pretty much all of their other conversations, too. like in the mystery Howdy/Barnaby/Wally audio, their interaction gives off the vibes that Wally is Barnaby's sidekick, his tag-along.

(on a related tangent, it's fascinating how the website described the episodes as "[beginning] with Wally introducing the focus or theme for the day before coming across other characters who would join him on his escapades until the end of the day." but from pretty much everything we've seen so far, it seems like He's the one who's just along for the ride, bouncing from neighbor shenanigan to neighbor shenanigan instead of having his own adventures.

of course, if the 14 audios are present time, which is honestly somewhat likely, this could be because the show isn't running. they aren't doing episodes - they're just existing, doing their things. no need for Wally to take point in any way shape or form. tangent over)

in the 14 audios with Barnaby, he doesn't even acknowledge Wally until the very end - which, of course, could be because that's how the scenes are set up. except that in some of them, the characters do directly acknowledge Wally's presence outside of the endings. Eddie in 5-14, Howdy and Poppy in 1-14, and Frank in 4-14 (technically, since he was infodumping to Wally at the very start before Barnaby interrupted). you'd think that a guy would try to include his best friend a little more!

maybe i'm reading into it too much. & given what we know about Wally as a character, it would make sense for Barnaby to be the go-getter Main Guy of the two. but it really seems like its Barnaby & Wally instead of Wally & Barnaby. he's just kinda... there. going along with whatever Barnaby is up to.

but also, on the other side of things - & it's occurring to me as i type this, it's interesting how in a lot of audios, Barnaby seems to seek Wally out. in "Just So", he shows up to fetch Wally. in 4-14, Barnaby interrupts Frank and Wally's gardening session, almost as if he's stopping by to check on his little buddy. in 7-14, Barnaby calls Julie's house (presumably) searching for Wally, or at least checking in once again. something to consider in all of this!

[tsunael]

When the skies spit out some new mystery, you can bet that I'm comin' to find you. After all, there ain't nobody else who handles the unexpected quite like you do.

[raindropren]

I've realized that everyone's second season and onwards, there is constant talk of "nothing carrying over" and you can tell everyone kinda thinks that everyone else should forget who they were last season.

y'know, other then them. everyone has sorta been very, "Don't hold a grudge against me for past seasons! it's a totally different season!" and then they turn around and talk about their grudge towards a different person because of a PAST SEASON.

i love it. everyones alittle hypocritical!

[spoopy-nevermore-dump]

Well well well, look what we have here

:)

[besotted-with-austen]

Mrs Danvers: and so Manderley burns! You thought I would have let you live your happily ever after in this fancy house? No! This was Rebecca’s fancy house! Hers! And you will not-

“I”: *beat* well, we were going to leave it anyway, so————okay?

Mrs Danvers: *record scratch* …Pardon?

Maxim de Winter: yes, we are going away for a while-maybe a few months, a year even? Better to get somewhere else and let everyone forget about what happened.

Mrs Danvers: wait a second-

“I”: maybe selling the house would be the right thing to do!

Maxim de Winter: I mean, it’s more Rebecca’s mausoleum than my family home at this point.

“I”: and you could have kept being its unspoken mistress like you were before! Shame you are burning it down! With Rebecca’s precious memorabilia inside!

Mrs Danvers: *slow realization*

Mrs Danvers: you did not win-

Maxim de Winters: Rebecca’s nightgowns are quite inflammable.

Mrs Danvers: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[20s-turtle-posting]

obsessed with this. April doesn’t know what happened to her boys except that they were attacked and are now MIA, so she got out all these pictures of them and an old newspaper (which im going insane over btw it isn’t always addressed in the show but like!!! so many people know of them!!! theyr in the newspaper!!) to look over

please take note Raph’s huge smile, Mikey yucking it up for the camera, the candid shots of Leo, Don’s professional little pose, and the picture of Splinter as well

[hlxtn]

day 786361249757 of thinking about chicoree fics

[sizzleissues]

in the pursuit of not sounding crazy - we made a deranged noise. Pack it up boys, they all think we’re psychotic now. Time to go home. Maybe next time your love won’t make someone feel bad - maybe try not crying. I haven’t seen normal people but damn - sure is probably real if I were to watch it

[potplant-at-dreamkeepers-cottage]

So I have watched Salaar only once (can't watch it again for some time), but I am so so obsessed

But I have some questions

At the end of movie, Deva is revealed to be Dhaara Raisaar's son, who would have become the 'karta' of Khansaar. And I don't understand how he couldn't have known that

He is clearly well versed in Shouryaangas' customs (that sword ritual he performs at the end of movie, same as others), and his and his mother's association with Dhaara was known, given the fact they came for her after Dhaara was assainated

Considering the royalty Mannar siblings grew up in and the fact that the Shouryaangas know about him, they look at him as their leader (Bhaarava and his men recognis him, were Looking for him), the possibility that both Deva and Vardha are/were unaware of his parents and supposed destiny is not sitting right with me.

Even if the possibility that Deva's parents were estranged, how could he or anyone else around him, not have known

[the-gay-prometheus]

Actually I'm ok with the fact that I didn't get to go to NYCC for Alex's panel because, having reviewed the footage, I think if I was there in person I would have simply actually passed away

[asurrogateblog]

oh so paul wrote an opera? that’s fun. and it’s a semi-autobiographical story about a fictional character who is definitely him but also not? uh-huh. and it heavily involves themes of WW2 trauma, education, the death of the protagonist’s father, and the struggle to maintain healthy relationships? wait stop. wait wait wait a minute. oh god. oh no. isn’t this where—