#i haaaaaaaate this show

[howldean]

love when my good posts about spn racism go around and i have to endure white peoples tags in my notes about how sad and angry this makes them and how unbelievable it is no one ever noticed or did anything about all the racism. and wow i guess things were just different in 2005. and then tie it into the homophobia for the beloved gay white angel. like well uhm first of all not only did i notice immediately but i had a visceral reaction to a black woman calling some white dude master and wearing a collar but i can see why you wouldn’t pay attention to that and second the 2005 part is probably the least important thing too because these stories were perpetuated into 2020 stories as well. sucks that makes you feel icky though! imagine that’s ur whole life!

[gingersnapwolves]

okay, that was a fantastic villain reveal but more importantly how dare you

[blackgumball]

i know the oscars are bullshit (obvious entry level stuff) but every year it STILL makes me so mad. right now im thinking about, well whats the POINT of it being a 'best of film' award when so many genres are underrepresented? when was the last time someone won best actor for a comedic role? when was the last time a horror movie won best picture? WHATS THE POINT OF THE OSCARS???

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

GHOSTS SEASON 4 CAME OUT IN THE UK ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

GHOSTS SEASON 4 STILL HASN’T SHOWN UP ON HBO MAX

HOW DO I LIVE

[theloopcrew]

ALRIGHT YOU GUYS CALM DOWN. I'LL FREAK OUT

[akari-hope]

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[thelaurenshippen]

@invertedparadox

#YOU GET IT#i’m not getting into whatever decade old discourse bc been there done that#BUT#ultimately#joel was in the wrong but i wouldn’t have done any different if i were in his shoes

you get it!!!!!

yeah, sorry, I can't come in to work today. yeah, I've got to think about how the tv adaptation of the last of us expertly made you comfortable with joel's violence through making you care about ellie enough it all feels justified so that by the time he gets to the hospital, you're genuinely conflicted about the carnage he enacts, some of which may not have been strictly necessary at the level of brutality he carries it out. yeah, it's gonna be all day

[desire-mona]

more modern poets hcs for greenie!

charlie -

charlie used to post like "annoying gay ppl vs normal gay ppl" memes, had a huge turnaround and they cringe when they think of that time. mentioning blaire white or kalvin garrah would make him jump

has an "i <3 milfs" design of every article of clothing, could make an entire i <3 milfs outfit. shirt, hat, pants, socks, belt, shoes, hoodie, you name it.

todd -

todd is nonbinary bc he is autistic and autistic ppl generally view gender differently. not debating this. this is a fact and this is canon. they/he/she todd anderson, what of it.

chronic procrastinator when it comes to anything besides school. they will put off doctors appointments, finishing tv shows, even charging their phone.

neil -

doesnt use tiktok but he watches todd scroll thru her fyp sometimes and gets very mad at those "acting pov" videos. hes like "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN ACTING POINT OF VIEW" "POINT OF VIEW YOU ONLY HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF WORDS???????? WHAT DOES THAT MEEEEEAN"

i see ppl saying that neil would be a swiftie but i would like to suggest that he's a big ethel cain fan, a collection of songs that tell a fictional character's story? tell me thats not right up his alley

meeks -

i dont think this is the type of math meeks bases a career off of but i do think he rly pays attention to architecture and city layouts and stuff. will forever complain abt how inconvenient it is to have a car centered society and how every place should be walkable OR have public transport

collects records despite not having a record player, tapes despite not having a walkman, and cds despite using his cd player maybe 3 times a year. quite honestly its just to have a physical collection of his music taste

pitts -

pitts went thru a "nice guy/ vaguely incel-ular" phase in middle school, but he didnt talk to a singular woman in those years. by the time it went away there was no harm done to anyone but himself and a very annoyed meeks who had to listen to how girls "only go for assholes"

he has a fashion sense so good that ppl online *ask* him to post fit checks, he doesnt do any if theyre not requested of him. pitts is also the one with the biggest online presence, most notably tiktok and twitter

knox -

type of guy to constantly post shit like "like for a tbh" or post anonymous question things on his story. nobody interacts with any of it so he usually just deletes them after half a day

haaaaaaaates texting and will either send very long voice messages or just ask to call whoever he's talking to (me fr i send ppl voice msgs almost exclusively)

cameron -

cam is suuuuuuuper creeped out by ai "art", especially the ai washing feet commercial during the superbowl, which he had nightmares about for a week

his parents are constantly trying weird diets (most notably keto) so he has the weirdest assortment of random ingredients in his pantry. has come up with the strangest "meals" any one of those boys have ever seen

[princessefemmelesbian]

Like if there's anything this AITA has shown me it's that you guys don't give a shit about us. And by "us" I mean who else? Trans women and lesbians. You don't fucking care about us. You fucking hate us. You think we're all evil gatekeeping and eat trans men with our morning coffee. Some of y'all haaaaaaaate to see a bad bitch who isn't on her hands and knees licking men's boots every hour of the day, 25/8, morning noon and night. Y'all just love to say that lesbians can fuck men and are okay with fucking trans men and how attraction doesn't have to get in the way of who y'all fuck and all that shit and how there's no harm in having an entire ass fetish for raping lesbians and trans women and it's got to a point where a trans man feels comfortable hopping on AITA and showing his entire full ass saying that he fucks lesbians without telling them that he's not a woman because he has a self-admitted dykebreaking kink and it gives him a "thrill" and you still damn near break your necks to tell him that noooooooo, it's okay, lesbians still fuck men, what you're doing totally isn't rape at all, dykebreaking kinks are harmless, it's not that big of a deal, it's okay to prioritize your safety and all that dumb horse-trotting shit, and then you love to spread lies about transfems sexually assaulting your partners and being pedophiles just because they want to invite kids over to their pools or saying they're creepy just because they like to wear maid outfits and lingerie or are eavesdroppers or want to be part of a polycule, and then make a 4-chan-esque reference to trans suicide rates on top of all that shit while describing trans women as big and scary and muscular and dehumanizing them like they're cats and bitches will be eating it up like it's fried curry. Like you all can fuck off with your "queer community" and "happy pride" and "we're all in this together" like it's High School Musical up in this bitch, unless you can accept the existence of women who don't like men, don't want to be men, don't center men, etc., then your pride acceptance is worthless. Legitimately y'all can all get fucked.

[horizon-verizon]

https://www*tumblr*com/atopvisenyashill/755863047969636352/if-you-could-erase-one-popular-fanon?source=share

haaaaaaaate how often I see these takes. It's a complete reversal of the real problem. George created the key 5 to show westeros through the eyes of 5 people who are marginalized from it. Who are so often erased and DISMISSED by conventional narratives. THEY will be the drivers of any of the change the fandom CLAIMS to want to see at the end. And both the show and fandom chose to not only ignore it, but dismiss the importance of, recharacterize, and sometimes outright vilify the five in favor of the more conventional characters.

I agree. It's hella annoying, and it's funny, I just wrote about this HERE, but more abt "fitness" to rule.

It's so funny when people claim they wish to see some sort of change in these feudal systems but then reject or misunderstand this basic notion of marginilized people teaming up to destroy a ecological evil. Sure...

[steveheadcannons]

some 90s head cannons for steve x reader

- they come down hard on both sides of the door argument after seeing titanic. i don’t even care who’s on which side i just think it would be funny that it is a recurring argument for the rest of their lives that just lays dormant for years until it comes up with a new group of people.

- steve would dress as jerry seinfeld. like their closets would be exactly the same. solid or color-blocked button ups that are a size too big tucked into tight levi’s with a buckle. god damn.

- he would go to the ends of the earth to get you the princess diana beanie baby and you would cry when he reveals it because you loved her and you love him.

- you dragged him to see the lion king in theaters because the lions looked so cute and HE ended up crying. he grumbles years later when you eventually show it to your kids but sits through it. his eyes water up, and your oldest notices and begins to panic and cry their self. you watch as he makes it a teaching moment about how adults cry about things too even movies and you somehow fall more in love with this man who was just born to be a father.

-watches full house with you but gets annoyed at how cute you think john stamos is. like full on jealous.

- dustin goes through a grunge fuck the establishment phase in college that’s both exhausting and hilarious

- steve, robin, and dustin LOOOOOOOOOVE austin powers. quote it constantly, play the soundtrack. you like it fine but find it funnier how much they love it.

-dustin and his college friends and/or the party ironically get into pogs but then it turns very unironic

-robin is very good at bop it and steve HAAAAAAAATES it. they usually only bring it out after they smoke. he will always challenge her and then completely fail at it because of his abysmal reaction time.

-they do not escape pesto mania

[autisticbokutoenthusiast]

thought too hard about the armand/daniel rest scene and started sweating so much im lightheaded i haaaaaaaate that beautiful wonderful everything show

[matt0044]

I hate, hate, HAAAAAAAATE the “paid shill” card.

It is always used to dismiss any other opinion other than your own when it comes to, say, certain movies or shows that “fell off.”

Like… you know people can like Star Wars stuff post Disney buyout, right? Disney doesn’t need to pay off anybody period. Any culture war chud is a joke to them at worst and free advertisement at best.

They barely even pay their own workers low on the food chain.

Point is that framing fans of the Disney stuff as “paid shill” says more about you than it ever will about fans who didn’t foam at the mouth angrily over Rise of Skywalker.

[gallifreyshawkeye]

Intro for anyone new, Hiya/Update for anyone from "yon olden days"

The tldr: my kids have brought new joy into old fandom and old hobbies and my older kiddo has asked me to finish the series PROPERLY and make Alec Hardy not sad anymore (😆) and to write Tentoo whump (child, you have NO idea what beast you have unleashed!).

So I have found myself coming back to this blog thanks to my kids after a hiatus of several years due to (partly) said kids taking up an increasing part of life, as they should, on top of everything else. BUT, they are now late elementary and early middle school age and I decided a few months ago it was time to properly introduce Doctor Who to them as a show to watch. So we started properly with Rose and Nine and they were hooked harder than I could have ever hoped. They chose to watch nothing else until they had binged ALL thirteen seasons in about only four months! It was amazing!

It was also really cool to watch it again from as fresh and unbiased a perspective as I think I'm ever going to get. 11 and 9y/o's aren't influenced by other fandom perspectives, I refused to give them any spoilers along the way, and the whole experience was overall just such an unexpectedly refreshing and renewing one I can't put it into words. It's also been fascinating to get their takes. Here are a few:

- Ten is both their favorite Doctor, but Twelve isn't far behind at all, and my 9y/o son has them at almost a tie. In fact, when I asked each of them which Doctor they would want me to write a fanfic about, my son picked Twelve.

- They both haaaaaaaated the hand waving-ness of Moffatt's grand story arc conclusions: the Doctor being brought back by Amy simply remembering him, the soppy/cheesy way Clara got the Time Lords to give Eleven more regenerations, the entirety of Amy's pregnancy, and for that matter River having regenerations simply by being conceived in the TARDIS they never bought into. You should have seen the skeptical looks on their faces when they heard that line given as an explanation! It was quite priceless! And like I said, I gave no spoilers, no personal opinion ahead of time, nothing. I deliberately let them simply watch the show for what it is.

- They both liked Bill and Nardol way more than Clara

- Both were super confused by the the absolute mess of character arc in Chibnall's era. Not so much for the Doctor, they thought she was ok, just kinda bland, but the Master. They were in complete agreement that nothing he did made any sense whatsoever.

- They were in disbelieving shock and over the moon when David Tennant showed back up as Fourteen when Thirteen regenerated, and they were FURIOUS that they were going to have to wait six whole months before the specials came out 😆

As an added bonus, my 11y/o also has become quite the David Tennant fan. They were so devastated when Ten regenerated, they immediately wanted to watch something else DT was in, so in the process of listing things off, I mentioned MAAN as something him and Catherine Tate did together that was non-angsty and even after emphasizing that it was Shakespeare, they still chose to watch it (not that I was complaining! ;) ). They were literally sliding off the couch with laughter at the absolute comedic perfection that is DT and Catherine Tate in MAAN, and it's been all things David Tennant ever since! I got lots of things thrown at me during the course of Broadchurch because of, and I quote, "His stupid sad eyes and his stupid face!" and I have been ordered to write a proper ending that makes him properly happy. So maybe I'll have to dust off the epilogue fic I'd been writing all that time ago and finish it off for good.

Meanwhile, Doctor Who has been rewatched from the beginning nearly all the way through again and is pretty much the only show my son currently chooses to watch besides his favorite Minecraft YouTuber (Grian, for anyone interested and who knows that realm of things).

So it's been in the process of both my children falling into these fandoms as much on their own as it is possible for children their age to do so, that I have found myself back here. It started because I was looking up some of the whump gifsets I made of Ten in the episode 42 to show my 11y/o, and partly as a confession of sorts to them of how deep into the fandom I used to be.

And then the specials came out and there was Fourteen's beautiful face and big sad eyes (yes my 11y/o has a phenomenal point!), and now I've also found myself relistening to all the Eighth Doctor audios, and idk, whatever the combination of reasons I've found a new joy in it all.

And it's all combined to make me feel like I can write again, like something's been freed or been unlocked. I can imagine scenes and character arcs and come up with new characters and revel in meta minutia that will never explicitly make it onto the page but is vital for plot consistency.

I feel like I found part of myself again.

[beecreeper]

3, 7, 10 for the durgetash asks!

Teehee *kicking my feet and twirling my hair*

Briar and Ferox infodump under the cut!

3.) What did durge think of the little wannabe tyrant at the beginning? Someone competent or someone who tries really quite hard?

Briar and Ferox had totally opposite reactions to him initially. Briar thought that he was someone with more intelligence than sense. Someone so caught up in planning and control and doesn’t seem to see how easy it is to gum up his gears with just a little bit of unpredictability. Thought he had a big head and delusions of grandeur (unlike her, whose delusions of grandeur were real, thank you very much.) She found this all very amusing and was excited to mess with him and put him in his place. As time went on, she came to respect his plans and just how thorough he was, in addition to being surprised with his ability to improvise when needed and how quickly he can change the plan.

Ferox on the other hand was initially quite impressed by the way Gortash seemed to have plans and contingencies for everything. A little annoying in how arrogant and proud of himself he was about it, but he had to admit that he *did* seem to live up to it. Ferox really started to soften to him when he noticed just how hard Gortash was trying to keep all of that up, running himself ragged with constant working and planning and tinkering. It added a layer of empathy on top of the respect he already held for him, plus even more admiration because it's one thing to just be competent and it's another to be a hard worker and insanely dedicated.

7.) Somehow we all hc that Durge and Gortash attended some kind of patriar function together. What was the thing they showed up to really and how did it go? How many deaths did he have to promise durge for them to agree?

For Briar, I imagine she invited herself as a power move without thinking through the repercussions. Gortash, responding in kind, was like “yeah okay, you can come. Let’s review all the politics and ranks and etiquette you’re going to need to know when you’re there >:3" and she was like “oh shit this is actually hell but I can’t back down now.” She haaaaaaaates the crowds and how slow and stuffy everything is, but makes her own fun by seeing just how much trouble she can cause, like trying to subtly undermine and embarrass Gortash in conversation and doing just a liiiiiitle murder? Just a busboy? Come ooooon Gortash let me murder just ooooone person. Also she probably got high beforehand and sneaks in her own booze. Regardless, she has a better time than she expected and they do it again. It’s like a fun challenge to try to play within such strict circumstances.

For Ferox I imagine the vibe was more like Gortash needed him there for something, like he had an assassination plan or maybe he just wanted to intimate people with his big scary boyfriend. Ferox was really apprehensive and uncomfortable because he has absolutely NO idea how to act in polite society. A high society party is about as far out of his element as you can possibly be. He would have spent the whole night stock still and stiff and glaring into the middle distance, which definitely would have helped the intimidation gambit Gortash was going for. Wouldn’t have taken any bribing to get him there, though. Gortash just needed to explain why him being there was necessary to the plan and Ferox would have gone along with it, however begrudgingly. Like doing a chore.

10.) Did the tyrant ever try to impress the serial killing godling and exactly how horrible did it end for him? What sorta things did he do solely for ��the sake of cooperation” with glaring obvious ulterior motives?

Oh man, I think for both of my durges, Gortash was pretty much constantly trying to impress them, especially early in the partnership when he was peacocking what a good ally he would be. Showing them how much power he has and just how far he’s willing to go for more, how few lines he won’t cross. And, I mean, he literally promises them the world! But I also don’t think that’s unique to durge – I think Gortash is always trying to impress everyone. He NEEDS to build himself up as great.

Naturally, though, he would change precisely what he does to impress people based on that he thinks they’ll like. For example, I think Briar would have inspired some of the more sadistic things he does, like that one dismemberment experiment. Briar was more likely to press him on it, daring him to go further or challenging him herself. They often had a dynamic of trying to one up each other. For Ferox, he would have impressed him with scale, like blowing up a whole building and taking out half a city block.

[loisfreakinglane]

GoT!

HAPPY DAY AFTER GOT FINALE ANNIVERSARY DAY

The first character I first fell in love with: 

i was in love with sansa from second number ONE

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: 

absolutely theon. what a fukcing JOURNEY we went on with him like good god

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: 

god. a lot probably? jaime's on this list lol. he's fine but i'm not emotionally invested in him at all. idgaf

The character I love that everyone else hates: 

she's loved by many now but my god stanning sansa was a fucking WAR back in the day. otherwise tho? catelyn my love. oh man and ppl turned on samwell SOMETHING FIERCE toward the end there but i adored him all the way thru. hizdahr was right. cersei was an iconic villain i love her. MIRRI MAZ DUUR WAS THE HERO OF THE LHAZAREEN PEOPLE.

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:

100% dany. it was wild going back to my s1 liveblog bc i really was rooting for her initially. but her slow descent into villainy wasn't in a fun baddie way alas

The character I would totally smooch: 

robb. grey worm. margaery. missandei. OBERYN

The character I’d want to be like: 

master of disguise, lord of secrets, always in a fun outfit, secretly playing the long game for the good of the realm? LEMME BE VARYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The character I’d slap: 

my hand would fall off from all the slapping i'd do in this show. and it would be worth it.

A pairing that I love:

sansa/happiness

A pairing that I despise: 

every single sansa/gross elderly man ship. every last one. also i haaaaaaaated what jon/dany did for both of those characters. it's a yikes from me