#i am the one who knocks

[moistvonlipwig]

the ozymandias phone call is a rly interesting moment in breaking bad to me for many reasons but one of the biggest ones imo is the fact that like.....a huge part of walt's abuse of skyler has been making her out to be the bad guy. he continually puts her in a position to look like the 'bitch wife' who is shutting him out for 'no reason' or the 'bitch mom' who is taking away flynn's shiny new car or the woman who 'cheated' on him with ted (nevermind that she had already separated from walt and he was refusing to sign the divorce papers and the 'cheating' was a tactic to get him to do so).

additionally she is an imperfect victim and he damn well knows that and uses that to his advantage multiple times to get her to do what he wants. marie has already slapped her and berated her for her complicity in walt's crimes and she doesn't even really understand the full extent to which skyler helped him. and both walt and skyler know full well that no one from the outside looking in (except perhaps jesse) would ever be able to understand why skyler did what she did even if they knew the whole story. because people don't hold compassion or understanding in their hearts for imperfect victims, which is to say, human victims, because no human is perfect. which is one of the things that can make abuse so isolating for the victims -- the shame they feel about their own actions & the fear of how others will judge them. the reality of the abuse becomes an unspeakable, shameful secret that only the abuser & victim know, so the victim comes to rely on the abuser even more, because at least they know the truth.

so the ozymandias phone call is interesting because in that moment walt makes skyler a perfect victim. for the first time, he makes himself out to be the bad guy (which he undeniably is, but which he has refused to appear to be in front of flynn prior to now). the way he talks to skyler on the phone is both true and a lie; he is sanding down her complexities to feed marie, flynn, & the police an abuse narrative they can understand and sympathize with. the abuse he put skyler through never quite looked like that phone call, which is how skyler knows he's putting on an act, but he did abuse her, and in this moment, despite its performative and dishonest nature, he is also, paradoxically, being finally honest and admitting what he did to her, and letting the other people in their lives see their dynamic for what it was. it doesn't heal the wounds he inflicted on skyler, it doesn't absolve him of what he did to her, it probably doesn't even make it easier for her to talk to anyone about what he did to her -- but he speaks aloud the truth he had previously made unspeakable, and he makes it clear, at least to the people who love her, that she was not the bad guy. she never was.

[oncelerswifesblog]

My two favourite things! Breaking bad and The Lorax! “I am the one who keeps biggering.”

[mindlessdweeb]

Radiohead vs. Sirenhead epic rap battle of history

[friendlyneighbourhoodanteater]

Yo Han = icon

How is he giving Not-Like-Other-Girls and I-Am-The-One-Who-KNOCKS energy?

[lorethelorekeeper]

We need to FORGE Neville

[lic-rine]

I think I might actually have autism

[superbeans89]

[lina-transverse]

Walter White: I am the one who knocks!

Batman the Brave and the Bold Batman: "You'll be able to do plenty of knocking Heisenberg; from your cell in Iron Heights Prison."

[moistvonlipwig]

for the record i think claiming walter white is a "sociopath"/has aspd or npd/otherwise lacks empathy is a fundamental misreading of his character. if walt truly lacked empathy and remorse he would not need to do a tenth of the self-justifying he does. he jumps through wild logical hoops to justify his actions to himself because he DOES feel bad about them. lalo and todd are imo the only brba/bcs characters who actually lack empathy and remorse which you can see from the fact that they DON'T feel the need to self-justify. because why would they? in their minds, they do what they have to do to achieve their goals. too bad some people die along the way, but oh well! it is what it is.

meanwhile walt is permanently teetering on a balance beam composed of lies he has told himself and he knows deep inside that if he falls off that balance beam and admits to himself that his actions were unjustifiable then the guilt will consume him. that's also why he's so obsessed with the idea of "contamination" as seen with the rot, the fly, etc. -- because part of him knows all his actions are contaminated and he doesn't WANT them to be, he WANTS to excise his guilt but he never can because he can never stop self-justifying long enough to accept his guilt for more than a few minutes. he knows he's the problem deep down but he just cannot accept it so he keeps digging his own grave ever deeper and deeper in a futile effort to get away from himself. a lot of his words and actions actually spring from his desire to justify his past actions and make himself feel okay about them. if he felt no guilt or empathy then he wouldn'ta done half the shit he did lol

[mindlessdweeb]

MORE TUSK MEMES ‼️‼️‼️💯💯💯💯

[dietlemonadee]

Breaking bad reference ily

[frostcoldhere]

Who do you think you're talking to right now? Fr, who do you think I am? Do you even know how much I make a year? Gyatt, you wouldn't even believe it if I told you. If I just stopped showing up to work, a company big enough to be on NASDAQ would go skibidi toilet. Poof! Gone without me. Clearly, you have no clue who you're dealing with, so let me put you on: I'm not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. You think I'm the guy who gets shot when he answers the door? Nah, fam. I'm the rizzler who KNOCKS!

[takemetodragonstone]

absolutely dominated the family monopoly game today. 💪😎💯💯 applications for my hand in marriage are now open

[sarinataylor]

i've been on this site longer than some high schoolers have been alive. i do not need a badge to celebrate how many posts i see or make

[superbeans89]