#i just can't wait to see more of this bc it's gonna reveal a whole side to this little puppet previously unknown

[the-acid-pear]

I have yet to keep inspecting the sweepstakes, I need some air and food first, but I might as well share what I've been thinking about Mike today, because I heard of an interpretation saying Mike was a camera man for Spamton which ... Is very interesting. Like for me this makes me think of Mike as someone who admired Spamton, someone way smaller than him, definitely younger imo, who simply excitedly followed along with the orders given. I mean, up to a certain point. I mean this feeling is reinforced in the q&a when asked about Mike, that makes Spamton get very defensive, almost protective. In my eyes it almost creates this almost platonic familiar bond dynamic whatever. But like this is just a shot in the dark, bc what we know is, 3 lines, period. But if when chapter 3, 4 and 5 come out and Mike is there and I'm right about these things then I'm gonna feel like a god tbh.

[kiankiwi]

What would Jacob be like as a dad? I love him sm :(

FINALY SOMEONE ASKED ABOUT JACOB!

I'm gonna do hc's because I miss writing actual fics!

from the moment he finds out your pregnant, he's understandably scared bc DUH but he's also OVER THE MOON

he's constantly talking to the bubba and rubbing your belly (with your permission because he knows you might not always want to be touched bc of how much your body is changing)

Whenever we go to the store for ANYTHING, he has to take a detour to the baby section to grab the bubba a "present" and even if we're like "baby, we don't need to get all this" he gives us his famous puppy dog eyes that ALWAYS works on us and he KNOWS it does so he abuses that power whenever he can

He is SO grumpy whenever he can't make it to a sonogram appointment due to scheduling and filming and stuff so we make sure we're allowed to FT him during the appointments so he can still be "there"

I picture him being on the saltburn set during the anatomy scan (I don't see us doing a gender reveal party, we just find out at the appointment because jacob is so excited and can't wait) and when he finds out it's a girl (he's so girl dad coded) HE DOES THE NATE SCREAM (BUT IN A GOOD WAY) and he just walks around a bit screaming and cheering and we're like "don't make me laugh! I'm gonna pee! don't make me laugh!"

And because he's so excited, he goes to the store on the way home and buys ALL the cutest girly onesies and we have cupcakes in celebration

I feel like he'd LOVE old-timey names like Theodore, Arthur, Elanor, all the grandma/grandpa names lol

He turns into handyman Jacob and keeps the nursery a surprise from us and he does the whole thing himself so that we don't have to worry about it

That's the thing about Jacob as a dad, if he can do something to help us or take something off our plate so we don't get stressed out, he does it! Even when baby is born

Throughout our entire pregnancy, Jacob was reading all the books and researching all the things including how to help during labor and when we finally go into labor, he's a SUPERDAD. He distracts us, he asks us all the right questions and holds us and when it gets way too intense, he puts his face close to ours so the only thing we can focus on is his face

We're DEFINITELY scared to give birth because Jacob is a gentle giant and we're so scared to give birth to a baby giant ... spoiler alert, we're okay

JACOB IS SOBBING once bubba is born and is torn between focusing on us or the bubba

I feel like Jacob during our labor throws up from anxiety a few times because he's trying so hard not to show it but he's sooooo anxious

He takes ALL the nighttime feeds and changes and stuff, he calms the baby down whenever we need a shower or a nap, ANYTHING he can do to help us, takes bubba on walks while we go to the store and he gets us coffee and flowers and a card and stuff

He's basically the greatest dad

IMAGINE him babywearing that tiny bubba.... such a big boy and a tiny bubba napping on his chest while we do chores

God this was so fun! I hope you enjoyed. <3

PLEASE send me more Jacob dad thoughts !!!

@mooodyblue @arianatheangel-girl

[paragonraptors]

YEHAW DA:V REVEAL THOUGHTS BELOW!!

Overall: Feeling so excited for this game. I'm climbing up the walls. I can't believe that was 20 minutes, it felt like 10. Need this in my hands yesterday.

What I liked:

-Holy fuck wow wow wow the hair looks like nothing I've seen in a video game before.

-Combat seems very different but also a natural progression of gameplay past. Real-time turn-based was always a little on the clunkier side, and while it never really bothered me, moving towards something more ME-style was expected. Very excited about being able to aim a bow. Would like to know what difficulty they were showcasing bc I'm considering jumping right into a Nightmare run.

-Now that I've been soulsborne-pilled the prospect of a parry mechanic has me buzzing.

-I feel like people are gonna dunk on the "stiffer" animation, but I prefer it so much more than the BG3/HZD constant wobbling. It'll make the key performances stand out instead of mostly jangling keys in front of a baby and letting the big moments get lost in the sauce. (Not that the aformentioned games didn't have good animation, just. If your characters don't need to move their whole body to convey dialogue I'd prefer if they didn't.)

-The sublety in the facial animations is CRAZY.

-The roleplay dialogue seems really reactive!! And the cuts to inject the unique dialogues feels smooth. I'm sure there will still be moments where it's easy to tell, but still cool. Seems like they're gonna be paying more attention to your personality type like DA2 too.

-So excited about Harding and Neve as companions and can't wait to meet everyone else.

-Neve's staff/wand makes me excited to see what kinds of focus options we'll get as a mage AAAA.

-God the costumes have so much swag. One of my hottest of many BG3 takes was that the costumes were overall flavorless. (Really hoping they didn't change the Grey Warden uniforms though that would really disappoint me.)

-Cinematography looks fantastic. Lots of well set up shots.

-NGL I felt something when Solas showed up. Wasn't expecting that. And while not perfect, I liked his interaction with Varric. Their relationship from Inquisition really slips under the radar if you're not bothering to look.

-Varric has never gotten over the trauma of what happened with Anders and it breaks my heart in a good way. God you could see it in his eyes!! [chef's kiss]

-However, I definitely have to kill Solas now for what transpired in this preview.

What I'm iffy about:

-The voice peformances feel a bit stilted. Not really what I'm used to from Bioware and I feel like it's important when the animations are more subdued. Hopefully this feeling will change when I get more of the game.

-The dialogue also felt a bit dumbed down. "Solas is doing his ritual!" "Yes. Solas' ritual. The ritual that we have to stop." Again, hopefully this is symptomatic of a tutorial level/trying to onboard newbies quickly and not the whole game lol. While I prefer this to dialogue that tries to sound smarter than it is, I'm really hoping we see an overall improvement from Inquisition.

-Sort of wish they went with the Andromeda dialogue system instead of bringing back Inquisition's, but I do like that it seems all dialogue options are getting tonal indicators again and they're not as easily conflated with morality. (Though I imagine people will STILL interpret it that way.)

-A little confused about them introducting Minrathous' panopticon shit and then immediately swerving into Solas' ritual. Would have liked some breathing room on that kind of worldbuilding.

- While I'm generally open minded about the change, I Do Not Love not being able to switch to playing companions. Might turn around on this if your ability to issue them commands opens up the closer you are to them/the more you grow into a leadership role. I do like that it seems you will eventually be able to command when they use abilities a la OG Mass Effect bc that was my biggest beef with the Andromeda gameplay, esp on Nightmare/Insanity difficulty.

-Not crazy about the new Pride demon design where are their leggies.

-Not really a Criticism, but they are definitely setting up for Varric to die and while I get it, narratively, I'm NOT HAPPY. Dragon Age has been almost allergic to scripted deaths so it's also gonna feel like being dunked in an ice bath. EVIL STUFF. IN DENIAL.

[helpmyinterestsareverywhere]

Just realised I never actually gave a real verdict on my thoughts & feelings of Dragon's Rising Season 3 - I just made like 4 posts with Spoilers & then dipped LMAO

SPOILER-FREE VERDICT: holy shit. They are doing THINGS and they are doing them well. It's a FANTASTIC start to S3 & I'm clawing at the wall waiting for what they do for the next 10 episodes. It's seriously so good. Im so excited‼️‼️

SPOILER VERDICT:

- me every 3 seconds with every episode

ALL MY BABIES ARE FINALLY BACK!!!! UGH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.

LLOYD‼️‼️ ONI RECOGNITION‼️‼️ HE SPOKE ABOUT THEM & THEIR RELATION TO THE FSM - WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO A ONI/DRAGON LLOYD HERITAGE REVEAL TO THE OTHERS I JUST KNOW IT‼️‼️ uuuughhoughh Lloyd... my favourite traumatised pathetic wet cat of a man. How is he still kicking I will never know. HIT HIM WITH MORE TRAUMA PLEASE‼️‼️ although. Maybe scale back and don't kill him again because OH MY GOD. HE HAD HIS SOUL EATEN??? WHAT THE HELL?? he can't go ONE day without everything happening to him. ALSO! I really hope The Fact that Thunderfang ACTUALLY managed to eat his soul & get the Source Dragon energy comes back round to bite the Ninja in the ass. It probably won't but GOD they could definitely do something with that.

PIXAL AND ZANE. they're so in love it's actually disgusting /pos - let them kiss you COWARDS THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH SOULMATES FOR LIFE ooooooough I'm rooting for them so much - but also how dare they play built to protect like that I'm gonna kill them.

Sora and Frak were. Interesting. But I GET it. They're brought together through weird circumstances, Sora most DEFINITELY still had some wariness due to Frak being with Ras before & Frak desperately trying to prove himself to show that he's NOT a terrible person, just manipulated & misguided due to finding Ras first ouuuugh I love them. Their relationship, of 2 guys who have the same best friend but have never met, is SO GOOD. THEYRE AWKWARD, THEYRE SNIPPY AND SARCASTIC, THEY ARE NOT COMFY TO BEGIN WITH!!! & that's PERFECT! honest to god - it's 100% the vibe when you're new to a job (Frak) & desperately trying to make friends with your coworkers your age but desperately trying to seem normal oooough they're so weird. honestly I would have LOVED to see how they kept progressing it BUT!

SORA & ARIN. I can't lie - REALLY wasn't expecting Sora to go with Arin & Ras. BUT! It's probably bc I honestly didn't expect Arin to go back to Ras. I wasn't expecting him to go with the Ninja, no way in hell he does NOT feel comfy with them at the moment still & he's still mad at Wu, but I REALLY thought he'd go his own way bc he is just SO FED UP with Ras. (Aren't we all?) BUT the fact that they DID go together is really nice, my babies☹️ they're best friends they love each other so much they mean so much to me. I hope they leave Ras in part 2, I hope Sora can convince Arin to find his own way - OH! WHAT OF 1 OF THE NINJA FIND SORA BY HERSELF & TELL HER THAT ARIN'S PARENTS ARE ALIVE & SORA TELLS ARIN & ITS A WHOLE PARALLEL TO THEM FROM SEASON 2 WITH THE LYING & TRUST OOOOUGH. just a thought.

JAY! Jay. Jayyyyyyy... I saw someone say, on twitter I think? I dunno, that if we didn't know Jay = Rogue the reveal would have been AMAZING & I 100% agree - like HOLYYYYYY SHIT they've done him SOOOOOO well I love him. The whole thing with him in the last fight, STILL MAKING TERRIBLE PUNS??? NYA'S EXCITEMENT AND HAPPINESS OVER HIM STILL BEING IN THERE DESPITE THE MEMORY LOSS?? UGH DOOMED JAYA PLEASE BE UNDOOMED SOON I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

Kai, Nya & Wyldfyre... OOOOUGH they're so silly. Nya & Kai were at each other's THROATS this time - I was a little wide-eyed every time they had their arguments, BUT I've seen SOOOOO many people say that they were ACTUALLY acting like siblings this time round & since I don't have those (hi yes im an only child) I'm gonna believe everyone else bc I don't completely understand how siblings work‼️‼️like TRUST I've seen siblings arguments and I would NEVER imagine doing that to someone and having us actually talk to eachother again afterwards but I guess that's just how you guys work. Freaks. ALSO! Despite me LITERALLY just saying i dont understand sibling dynamics lmao - Kai & Wlydfyre. Are definitely siblings. They WERE giving father & daughter when first introduced but NO WAY anymore. They are SOOOOOOOO older brother & little sister with a BIG age gap. I love them so much - ESPECIALLY Kai's attitude towards her & Roby. He was SO ready to kick ass when Roby got messed with & Wlydfyre was upset ouuughh...

MORRO: I didn't realise how much I missed him? He's not a character that I like. Think about a lot (like the main guys) but I've never hated him. But holy shit wow they've done him good they did him so good I LOVE his character. ALTHOUGH! WHY WAS HE EATEN AT THE END?? Brought him back JUST to kill him??? WILD do the writers even like him. DARETH: why. I have a... love/hate relationship with him tbh - I straight up never know how to feel about him he's so fucking strange. I've missed him. I wish he didn't come back. I hope he annoys the Ninja again. I hope he dissappears forever <3 ARRAKORE: UGH IVE MISSED HIM SO MUCH. I really love him☹️ he's so sweet and nice and the fact that he's ONLY doing good wishes UGH I CANT WAIT FOR HIM TO REBUILD DJINJAGO HES SO GOOD AND COOL. I want him back forever and he needs all the screen time ever actually

Anyway yeah LOVED this season‼️‼️ can't wait for part 2 gonna go back to rolling around on the floor in writhing agony /pos

[bonsiii-art]

Did you saw the new update of kingdom? What's your thoughts of the story so far?

I DIIID, completed the first part not too long ago! And holy hell, does it just make me excited to see how this all gets wrapped up in the second part. ᵈⁱᵈ ⁱ ˡⁱᵗᵉʳᵃˡˡʸ ʷᵉⁿᵗ ᵗʰʳᵘ ᵗʰᵉ ᵉⁿᵗⁱʳᵉ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ᵃᵍᵃⁱⁿ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗᵒᵒᵏ ⁿᵒᵗᵉˢ﹖ ʸᵉˢ, ʸᵉˢ ⁱ ᵈⁱᵈ.

First off, I wanna say that the Candy Apple reveal was really funny to me bc when I first played, I was like " Apple Faerie is so cute!! :V". But then, I thought " Wait, a character that was never showed in any of the promotional material leading up to this update AND has an apple motif like the villain cookie they're going to release??...suspicious." Man, it would've been really crazy if they actually hid Candy Apple's identity up until release for maximum impact. I was a little dissatisfied with Shadow Milk's lies in Beast Yeast Ep 2; Beast Yeast EP 7 completely turned that feeling around like omg ┌(。Д。)┐ I wanted Shmilk to really dig into Pure Vanilla this time around and the writing team delivered! It hurts so bad that Pure Vanilla really just wants to save everyone but everything that was shown to him just illustrates that he can't with the way he is now. Shmilk wants him to see that and believe that he's doomed with no way out. PV, likely in the second part, will push through that and persevere, finally accepting truth with a more optimistic outlook. I think the concept of time being mashed together within Shmilk's relm of influence is really cool :P. Because that means we're gonna possibly see Pre-Corrupted Shadow Milk and also that it makes the whole thing about Truthless Recluse even sadder. Looking back on TR's actions and words, he helps bc there's still a part of him that wants Gingerbrave and co. to succeed in saving their PV. And after they fought, TR is even more sure that they could. But they can't save him specifically. He who is part of a doomed future. I want to look over other scenes that Shadow Milk was in before this update later so that I get a better grasp of his character to draw more stuff. But this chunk of story we got gives me plenty to think about. Thinking mostly about what PV said when he was thinking of the Fount of Knowledge and how Shadow Milk responded. I'm not sure if I have it right but I have a feeling that Shmilk's corruption began with his loneliness. Trying to escape from his stress as the pillar of Knowledge, he attempted to be like those who embrace ignorance. And when he couldn't even find understanding there (referring to him being derisive towards the cookies who lived in 'blissfully in oblivion'), he went ballistic. There is no cookie that could truly understand his experiences and he's been sour about it ever since. He sees PV in the role he used to be in except, in his eyes, in a more bastardized way. Like the witches are spitting in his face as he sees PV smiling, full of hope. Also, kind of outlandish theory here: Y'know how all the beasts (so far) are like "that's my soul jam, give it back"? but what if the reason Shadow Milk isn't saying any of that is bc he already has the soul jam? The Beasts torture the Ancients physically and mentally in order to re-obtain the soul jams but if Shadow Milk already has it, then all that's going on in EP 7 is like a victory lap for him. ��_⚆

ALSO NEARLY FORGOT!! When is that Black Sapphire guy gonna come into play?? Is he just gonna be another Shmilk lackey or is he actually gonna help us? I'm kinda hoping he's the latter bc he's only got the other half of the update to make his mark and I would love a reversal of expectations-

[motelroomjesus]

Okay so.... I read the entire The Heart Killers novel in one sitting. How did I do that??? By ignoring my responsibilities, BUT I had a lot of fun LMFAO

I'm excited to see how they adapt this to the screen. It really is your typical assassin story, but the classics are classics for a reason! Unexpectedly fluffy for the premise, but also this a f4f (freak4freak) romance. Really excited to see how they manage to show the sex on screen because zoo wee mama..... the boys are crazy. Anyway, reading the novel has solidly cemented Fadel as my favorite character, such an unexpected side to him that I think all the viewers have already clocked just from the first two episodes.

I'm gonna talk about some characters and plot spoilers now so don't read under the cut if spoilers ruin your life

Okay, so already they've deviated just a bit from the novel, I'm assuming due to time and filming constraints (u know the usual). Mostly with Fadel and Style's story, it's nothing major tbh they just got the ball rolling pretty fast on them. They've stayed true to the characters, especially Style! Style is just as flirty and bold in the novel as he is in the show, which makes the bomb of him being romantically and sexually inexperienced in every aspect all the more shocking, even to Fadel. Their first sexual encounter together was rough until Fadel realized that he was Style's first. It was a really revealing moment for both those characters to me as a reader. It's the first time we see Fadel falter in front of anyone and the first time we see Style fully drop the confident mask he puts on. A very vulnerable moment and it's definitely the catalyst that propelled them MUCH closer to each other emotionally (and physically 😵‍💫).

Oh, FADEL...... He is so shxkbdksn. I love him to bits, like honestly. He is so deprived of affection. He is genuinely so soft hearted whether it's about his brother or his lover, he's constantly looking out for them. Even when he confronts Style later on, he's not even mad. He's so genuinely filled with sorrow and sadness that it's come to that, what he thought was the conclusion of the only love he's allowed himself was genuinely heartbreaking for him and it was apparent despite the tough assassin facade he was trying to keep up in front of Style. He is SO devoted and loyal. Love him BAD.

Bison, also seems to be presented pretty novel accurate so far. He seems too carefree and naive, but he's had a knife in his hand just in case the whole time. He really wants to live a different life. He wants out really bad and, unlike Fadel who made that decision after Style, Bison came to that before he even met Kant. He wants to fall in love and do laundry and cuddle with someone. He just wants true freedom. It made me feel even worse when he finds out of Kant's betrayal because he chose to let that guard down despite the gnawing feeling he had in the back of his head that he can't trust anyone. He took the chance on Kant and it ended up biting him in the ass. Also, we need more power bottoms I LOVE U BISON !!

Now Kant...... I can't say I liked him all that much until the end of the novel. 😭 He's genuinely selfish unless it's about his little brother and very much gives every man for themselves. He's all about self-preservation. He had no problem pulling an unknowing Style into dangerous undercover police informant work, did in fact drug Bison at one point, so yeah not on my nice list at all. I do think he had feelings for Bison at the beginning, but they weren't significant enough for him to stop what he was doing. He ends up redeeming himself a bit at the end. He tried to get the Captain to let him off the hook for this mission to no avail, and you know with the whole u kidnapped me and beat me up bc I betrayed u but I still waited for u to come get me at this abandoned house u left me at for hours so I could confess my love for u bit, but still. Very up and down feelings for him as a reader.

The bdsm was actually interesting to read here too. Sane (kinda), safe (sometimes) and consensual was really the name of the game here and I'm grateful for that. Were things a little under negotiated? Yeah, but I'm willing to look past that considering what s&m dynamics look like in other series and novels 😬 There was also a brief description of subspace that I found kind of nice. It was interesting to see these aspects of sexual dominance and submission present in a novel from a genre that often foregoes diving even an inch into safe kink (and sex) practices.

Also that masturbation scene is NOT in the novel from what I recall, so THANK YOU JOONG AND JOJO !!!!!

Crazy, but expected plot twist, and yet I was still at the edge of my seat. Granted I am easy to entertain, but I really enjoyed reading this. I actually would recommend this novel to others. It was just fun 😽

[silverzoomies]

totally gonna send you random headcannons of my xmen dr based off of stuff i see you reblog

im forced to move into the mansion to stay safe and i only agree to it under a few circumstances:

no classes for me

my own room with my own private bathroom

access to a kitchen bc i love to cook/bake

some times i can’t sleep so i’ll randomly bake cakes or cupcakes or whatever it is i’m in the mood for and i like to believe peter will bother me while i do it and he tries to help but he ends up splashing batter all over the kitchen

when we celebrate his birthday for the first time together i bake him a giant twinky cake and he cries (he gets sick from eating over half- lets be real the ENTIRE cake but that’s okay we still love him)

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH DJFIEHFIJRJR !!! y'all, please keep sending me stuff like this. it makes my entire week, you don't even know !! 💗💗💗

you have nooooo idea how jealous some of the students are gonna be !! like, c'mon !! you get a private bathroom ?? that's just not fair !!

your baking habits are so frequent, the students forgive you for stealin' the private bathroom. as long as you're makin' tasty treats they can indulge in, you're alright in their book

one night, you're up late and baking. that's when peter spots you. you're mixing some good good in a bowl. lost in your own, little world. got the radio on at a low volume, listening to some tunes

but it's like...3am. you know that, right?

i mean, it makes sense for him to be up. he really doesn't need to sleep when his energy is so limitless. but you? what, did you have a bad night or somethin'?

peter just wanted to grab a quick soda, rush back upstairs, play some mortal kombat (on the arcade cabinet he obtained 100% legally, fyi)

but - guilty as charged - he's a sucker for sweets. and now...you've made him a little curious...

this becomes somewhat of a habit

at some outrageous hour in the night, you'll bake again. peter'll be there, leaning over your shoulder. he'll pester you. tell you all these (slightly exaggerated) stories of all the cool stuff he's done

he sticks around, at first, just to taste test everything you make. but after so many nights - he kinda just really likes hangin' out with you

eventually, he tries to help. but cooking is a slow process. you tell him a thousand times - he needs to be patient !! he can't rush the process !!

next thing you know, you're turning around at the sound of a casual "whoops." there's batter everywhere. flour. a few broken eggs. he's licking unmixed batter off the whisk. he makes a face when it doesn't taste like yours

"i followed your recipe to a t, dude. i dunno how i bombed so bad!! i even added a little extra vanilla"

"peter, you used the whole bottle"

"so? what's wrong with that?"

seriously? what did he even do wrong?? who can complain about more vanilla ??

on his birthday, you tell him you have a surprise for him. and his first, immediate assumption is-

"is it a cake? it's a cake, isn't it? definitely a cake. what kind? did you make your own frosting? how big is it? it's huge, right? please tell me i don't have to share-"

and again, you remind him he has to be patient. which makes him antsy. but...fine !!! he's (kind of) willing to wait, if it means he gets somethin' tasty out of it

you reveal it's a giant, twinkie cake. same recipe as the originals, but even better. you put your own little spin on it. made it extra special. and this is...LEGIT SO CRAZY !! it's totally AMAZING !! like, how did you even know ??

"i could kiss you right now, y'know that? i could, and i might. right after i dig into this bad boy. just you wait."

he doesn't think before he acts. ever.

he devours the whole thing before you can remind him to pace himself

normally, his rapid metabolism saves him any aches and pains. he can swallow down a whole pizza - or two - and be just fine

but this cake...this is a really, really big one. you went wayyyy above and beyond with it

he'll be keeling over in bed later, writhing in tummy achin' agony. but your baking is so worth the suffering

[thealogical]

goddd thank u im so glad u agree the finale waa bad.

like yeah ruby had no arc. she had huge fears of abandonment - but turns out her biomum loved her and named her and immidately reconnects when she finds out. wouldnt it be stronger to have her biomum not want her, or to suck, or to be dead or something? and ruby could learn that shes worthy all on her own?

also why is ruby finding her biomum not connected to 15s struggles with his own "adoption"?

and the show is like ohhh you were stupid for ever thinking theres something supernatural about rubys mum she's not important/special!! like we all only thought she was special bc the show told us that!

the season as a whole theres a huge lack of the doctor like. looking at clues and figuring them out (so we can understand him as a character). like he does it in ep1-3 and 7 lots but theres so much of the series where he does nothing! we dont see him figure out he needs the outside metal, we're just suddenly in a scene about him getting it. we dont see him and ruby figure out a plan to defeat sutekh, they did that offscreen!

also making sutekh destroy all life and then they bring it back easily is unsatisfying yknow? have them work to stop him killing everyone! have them do things (like in sutekhs original episode pyramids of mars).... instead of giving the doc and ruby stupid plot armour.

and sutekh being wrapped around the tardis since the 4th doctor is such a strange and baffling retcon lmao

anyway god sorry this is long im just glad u also didnt like the finale bc so many ppl on here have been praising it and i dont get it

I know this ask is pretty old and at the time I agreed with you but I couldn't really think of much more to say. Looking through my inbox and seeing it today though made me reflect on the writing again and you touch on some problems that I've been feeling with the show even more since watching the new Christmas special.

Nothing is set up properly, our heroes aren't shown figuring anything out, and the pacing is all over the place.

When the show was first revived it followed a classic, serial, monster of the week style formula. The Doctor and companion(s) arrive in a place which contains some sort of threat. The setting is explored by our protagonists and hints at the threat are dropped slowly, increasingly building tension until the identity of the threat is revealed and the rest of the episode is dedicated to running from the monster and figuring out how to beat it. I can't speak for Moffat and Chibnall's time as showrunners, but this is how the average episode goes from series 1 to series 4.

This format is well-paced, it has set up and pay off, and it's compelling because the viewer is always along for the ride. We figure out the episode's mysteries at roughly the same pace as our heroes because the writers gives us roughly the same information that they give the protagonists.

The new episodes pretty consistently fail at these fundamental principles. There is often a great disparity in knowledge between the protagonists and the audience.

Why are all these accidents happening around Ruby? It's Goblins that feed of accidents, which the Doctor already figured out off screen.

Why is all the music gone now? Oh wait we already saw at the beginning of the episode, its Maestro. Guess we have to wait for the Doctor and Ruby to figure it out. How are they gonna beat them? Oh like they have to play a special chord, a fact they figure out randomly and then the Beatles do it for them I guess.

Oh man how's the Doctor gonna get off this landmine? Ah an AI ghost fixes it for him cool.

Who is this mysterious woman following Ruby and why is everyone who interacts with her changing like this? Lol lmao the writers couldn't think of any answers so I guess we'll never know.

Wow, how are the Doctor and Ruby gonna beat Sutekh? They figure it out off-screen. RTD seemingly wanted to prove he could be just as much of a hack as Moffat with this one.

How is the Doctor going to save Joy and deal with this ominous briefcase? We get a whole montage about his life while he does this, and he still fucking figures it out off-screen goddamn you Steven Moffat.

These episodes feel too fast paced and unsatisfying to watch because they're all pay off, no set up. We barely get a chance to figure things out, because nothing is established. In episodes where we do get sections of slow build up, we usually either already have the answers that our protagonists are looking for, or the build up was pointless and the characters figure out how to win by magic. The pacing in many episodes is exhausting because you're being given a million questions and none of them are answered, our heroes just figure it out off screen or suddenly by magic and the show has to play you some overbearing dramatic music to tell you how important the moment is because the writing does nothing to invest you in the plot.

I was hoping for a return to form from this series, but it seems like we're just getting more smug nonsense. It's really disappointing.

[ezra-editss]

"Dean doesn't reciprocate" MY ASS

I'm just kinda gonna write down my thoughts about this. I'm in season 7 now, I know what happens in the very last episode, but nothing else so I don't read any posts about the show here yet :) (just so yk and don't accidentally spoiler me) Oh and I do this mostly out of memory and some notes that I took, so this might be a little chaotic :,)

Okay, so the whole season 6 fight was crazy to me. The way Cas was watching while Dean kept on defending him. And he knew how much Dean trusted him. ("The worst part was Dean. He was trying so hard to be loyal, with every instinct telling him otherwise.") It hurt him, but the whole time he was, again, protecting Dean. And yes, he hurt Dean, but I think it was as bad for Cas to hurt Dean, as for Dean to be hurt.

Then, Dean apologizing for the others? They (thought they) were wrong and Dean had kept on trusting Cas, so why was it him who apologized? Because he knew it meant more to Cas when he did it? Idk.

Cas wasn't able to lie when he looked in Dean's eyes.. come on? Also, the fact Dean wasn't actually mad when he found out was really interesting. He was just extremely sad. Yes, his trust got broken and maybe he was just tired of it all, but it didn't seem like that to me, I felt like he usually got madder.

I love how they always share those sad looks when they go apart after the fights btw, such a best buddys thing to do.

It was really hard for both of them. We can see that Dean can't sleep that night and that Cas comes back to talk to him alone, because it only matters to him that Dean understands.

Oh and the "I'm doing this for you, Dean." I don't even need to explain his motives, because he reveals them himself.

Then the scene from my edit. (at the top) (it's kinda laggy, bc it's slow-motion, but anyways) They both have teary eyes a lot, but this is different. Dean turns aways because he knows he's gonna cry and Cas disappears before he really starts crying, but they are both fuckin crying about this. They're both just sad and want this to end. Even when Dean said he's gonna stop him and so on, it was way less threatening than usually. And Cas kept coming back when Dean was in danger.

But Dean still cared as well. In the first episode of season 7, when Cas asks for help, he pretends he doesn't care about him anymore for a bit, but you can clearly see that he still does. You at least can see it when he thinks Cas is dead. He's devastated.

It's kinda funny how Bobby's there but Cas very obviously only cares to make it up to Dean. Like he always says "they're my friends" but in reality he means Dean.

AND THEN.. Cas tries to protect everyone else again and sends them away but DEAN STAYS. I think he knew that there wouldn't be anything he could do, but it didn't matter.

Cas dies again. (give my man a break, please) Dean keeps the god damn coat? I think he might've done it, because he was hoping that Cas would come back again. Anyways, scene was devastating.

In the judge/court episode about Dean's guilt, I immediately hoped Dean didn't feel guilty about Cas too, but was pretty sure he did. My worries were confirmed in episode 5.

So yeah, I suppose that's the part where I am, I guess I have to wait 'till Cas comes back now :,)

I don't think anyone read all this, but I hope I didn't make any grammar mistakes, bc English isn't my first language, so I sometimes get stuff mixed up (I definitely made the tenses confusing). Anyways, rant end.

[mondothebombo]

hAH HI MONDO

I was hoping you would reblog it because you’re the author, I wanted to bug the most. >:)

Picked 4 questions cause I’m greedy 

When you think you’re all alone:

5. Is there any scene you're excited about writing?

11. Is there any scene you can't wait for people to react to when reading? Why?

15. Do you have any unwritten scene that you think about a lot?

20. Give a vague description of something that will happen without revealing too much

Not a question, I’m very excited for any more Wytyaa. If it gives you motivation I’m waiting for next chapter to come out to do more animatic/animation. :D

Going to rework what I already have be more fitting and better quality, I’ve been practicing my animation because I want it to be the best I can do. You should see the mysterious animatic I’m working on when it release it it’ll show you where I’m at :)

That song touched me in a way, I love how the resilience echoes in your story. I want my art to make people feel things. I’m very committed I promise it’ll be finished one day.

I’d love to get started….. But dang looks like someone gotta write the next chapter XD

Oli thank you so much!!!!! asdfghjkl i totally get it don’t worry and i gotchu. i make it a point to write at least a little portion of it everyday bc i’m so excited abt chapter 7, but there’s just so much i wanna cover it’s gonna be a long ass chapter

5. Is there any scene you’re excited about writing?

very much so!!! i have a plan in place for how i wanna have the others find out about skybound, or jay and nya telling everyone about the horrors, but it’s a ways off from happening

11. Is there any scene you can’t wait for people to react to when reading? Why?

there’s a few actually! there’s a nya centric portion that’s gonna start the next chapter that i’ve very proud of bc i’m taking inspiration off of personal experience. another scene where i expand on the fact that mustache told nya what jay wouldn’t. and im super excited to get to everyone else’s pov to everything, especially cole bc his and jay’s relationship is something i cherish

15. Do you have any unwritten scene that you think about alot?

since chapter 8 is going to dip into the seasons following skybound, im very excited to explore the fact that nya saw jays birth mother when she and kai went back in time in season 7. and im gonna deal with the whole ninjago decoded debacle

20. Give a vague description of something that will happen without revealing too much

the team is gonna take a trip to the hospital bc mustache wasn’t always a pirate

thanks for the ask! :D

[golbrocklovely]

since this anon kinda gets into some bridgerton spoilers, i'm gonna put it behind a keep reading so in case you haven't seen it yet, nothing is spoiled for yall :)

i'm gonna make a whole post on my feelings for part one bc omg i have so many, but i'll go into some detail about how i feel now.

BOOK SPOILERS ARE IN HERE (so if you don't want to know anything at all about this season/book, turn back now)

i was interested to see how things played out with eloise and pen strictly bc in the books, since LW has been doing it for so long, eloise isn't all that upset at finding out about pen being her.

but in the show, i was curious to see how they would make el and cressida work. and i think it sort of works. but my whole thing is, i can't stand c. like i get why she acts the way she does, but compare her to pen who is basically in the same situation.

pen also comes from a family that is mean to her and doesn't treat her well. she is also in competition with the ladies of the ton (and not only them but her own sisters at one point) to find a man, and yet she isn't mean. she doesn't pick on others to make herself feel bigger. her and c are basically one in the same, but the difference is that pen is internal with her negativity while c boasts herself as something more while simultaneously not feeling like she measures up.

this obviously brings into the question LW, but i think in a way pen isn't really saying anything the ton isn't already thinking. she's just making it widely known. in a way, she's the gossiper for all ppl - the rich and poor. so while yes, she can be mean in the LW columns, she's really only saying what everyone was saying to her and around her. and even then, she's also bringing herself down by reporting on herself and her family, which puts her in even more negative withstanding.

i kinda wish they would have kept c mean just for the sake of being mean, not have the audience try and pity her in a way. i think it would have been more entertaining if she was just rude bc she was never taught to be nice, rather than it being a desperate ploy to get a man before everyone else while being deeply insecure. idk. in my own personal experience, while you have bullies that are bullied themselves, which is why they act the way they do, some ppl are just destined to be dicks lol

and pen will definitely reveal herself as LW to colin, and probably her family and the bridgerton family. but i don't see it being shared with the rest of the ton only bc that kinda defeats the purpose of the show. in the books, there is the whole carriage scene, but then she continues being LW even tho colin thought they both agreed to her stopping it then and there. but regardless of that (since that won't work in the show), i think she'll reveal it right before they get married, and some form of drama will occur.

also.. and don't take my word for this since it hasn't been confirmed or anything, but i heard there's gonna be another carriage scene so……… maybe we'll get that from the books after all lol

(plus the mirror scene... plus an apparent montage of them fucking so............... i'm sat and ready)

as for what's gonna happen in part two, i have seen some spoilers so i won't say them since i highly doubt you want to be spoiled, but from the little preview they did show (plus some bts i've seen that has been going around twitter from some news network that went on the set to film them do part 2) i think like the books c is gonna confess to being LW and that's what makes pen pass out. and then she's gonna try to counter c with her own LW column calling her out, and then she'll get caught by colin. i think a variation of that is gonna play out.

i'm just hoping that by the end her and eloise are friends again. bc their scenes in this first half… i literally cried twice. especially at the "would you like to come up" part. it just hits a bit close to home in a way for me.

i just can't wait for what's gonna happen. like i need this second half NOW.

[auraxins]

4.7 archon quest live react utc!

okay I started this a little while after starting the quest but I'm talking to atossa now

my original theory was the missing guy was dain but this dude has lived in the village for ages so it can't be LOL

and THEN i started thinking oh could this be a wanderer type situation ,,,, but who knows 🤷‍♂️

if this quest goes deep into traveller sibling stuff like that animation that dropped suggests I'm so not gonna be stable after this btw LMAO

well duh paimon of course the abyss is involved this is a dain quest didn't u pay attention 🙄 /j

DAINSLEIF HOW I HAVE MISSED YOU

God he's just as pretty as ever ,,,,,,

has his outfit gotten more detailed or am I just forgetting things 🤔

ugh I need to kiss him

it's so hard to pay attention to what he's saying when he looks like that 😪😪😪

ALSO IS IT JUST ME OR DOES HE HAVE A HUUUUUGE CROTCH BULGE 😳 not that I'm looking or anything I swear it was just so prominent

anw I support big dick dain theory

DO NAWT ASK IF WE BELIEVE OUR SIBLING BETRAYED US OMFG what do I respond what do I SAY

I'm going w I want to have faith in her 🙏 truly I think the traveller understands their sibling so intimately that they're still trying to reason out that they're in the right with whatever they're up to ,,, but it's also understandable that they might feel betrayed bc clearly their sib can contact them if they really want to and they're just choosing not to ,,, 😔 idk bro it's complicated

"there's still hope for the two of you to reconcile" 🥺🥺🥺🥺 I WANT TO RECONCILE 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

omg sinner lore cmon tell me who it is I wanna KNOWWWWW is it someone we know already or what

vedrfolnir is a Very mondstat sounding name,,,,

DAINSLEIFS OLDER BROTHER ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

WHAT . THE . FUCK .

STOP ARE WE ACTUALLY ABOUT TO GET GENUINE KHAENRIAH BACKSTORY RIGHT NOW I WILL SCREAM AND BAWL MY EYES OUT

five sinners of Khaenri’ah ooooo

RHINEDOTTIR?!?! OH MY GOD?!?!?!?!?!?! I KNOW WE KNEW SHE WAS INVOLVED BUT LIKE OH MY GOD SHE WAS INVOLVED INVOLVED???

oh my god is that why albedo looks the way he does w the blond hair and the blue eyes is it bc he's been modelled in dains brothers image ,,,,, (<- delusional theory hours)

god fuck i love abyss lore so much this is why i still play genshin man

ooooooo okay so they weren't directly involved in the cataclysm but that in itself IS the problem bc they could have helped stop it I see i see im with it 🧠

our sibling WAS travelling with dain though right ... we're not gonna get slapped with oh yeah we showed u them w dain this whole time but it was to throw u off bc its really his brother ... right ....

well surely the purpose of the loom of fate is to rework the world. like. loom. fate. kinda an obvious name if u ask me

oooo yes please be to do with the leylines I LOVE when shit is to do with the leylines

OOOOOOOO WAIT DID THE ABYSS TRY TO IMPLANT SOMEONE INTO PPLS MEMORIES USING THE LOOM AS AN EXPERIMENT PERHAPS

christ paimons yawn just fucking exploded my ears

omg dain got implanted w memories of The Guy ,,,

"and it appears he has the ability to "implant" memories into the minds of others" THATS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING DAIN

we would work so well together bbg

omg we're gonna go look for the eye

of all places he chose the outside of the chasm?? hmm.

DAIN?!

BBG DAIN WHAT IS HAPPENING TO U

he's being fucked with isn't he .... im abt to throw HANDS w someone aren't i

this domain description is scaring me maybe i don't want the answers to be revealed bro

oh we r fully In the chasm now huh

don't get me wrong it makes sense I just also feel this was way too obvious of a location for dain to hide smth so sensitive LMFAO

WDYM THE MECHANISMS HAVE CHANGED OVER TIME

why do I feel like dains brother has like. possessed him or some shit rn. just a bad feeling I have LOL

I'M NOT COMFORTABLE HERE LADS I FEEL VERY BAD VIBES RADIATING FROM THIS ALTAR ROOM

NEW ABYSS LECTOR??? Big fan big fan

I do NOT want to leave u rn dain I fear for ur safety

UM

HELLO?

OH MY GODDDS

LUMINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE U LOOK SO HOT WHEN UR EVIL

AND WE GET HER VOICELINES TOOOOOOOOO

picking aether once again a choice I will never regret

THIS IS SO INTENSE BROOO

I'm not gonna lie I thought for a split second we might be getting a taste of playable dain there ,,, of course I was too hopeful 😪

omg the disembodied voice,,, whoever is doing this put their whole va-ussy into it icl

the fact that we're not just. back in the world map rn. and this is a "special story mode" map. is scaring me a little icl

everyone remembers him now and he's not gone missing ??? and he was WITH SOMEONE??? bro what is HAPPENING RN

genshin don't make me piece this together by myself u KNOW my theories are full of shit

we're in someone else's memory was right omg okay maybe I'm not full of shit after all

OKAY YEAH I'M ACTUALLY PIECING THIS TOGETHER PRETTY WELL NOW maybe I am smart /j

Holy shit an actually good npc design??? he's kinda hot icl

HES GOT THE KHAENRIAH EYES

is this... is it .... is he .......

CARIBERT :(((((( WHAT IF I EXPLODE

WHAT DOES THE NOTE SAY I CANT READ THAT

oh this place is pretty,,,,

bro I'm feeling so many big emotions rn

omg NOW i can rly see kaeya's hair colour on him it wasn't so noticeably Blue in the other lighting

delulu theory x2 is kaeya the loom /j

I FUCKING KNEW THE LOOM WOULD WEAVE LEYLINES !!!!!

caribert :(((( mf I thought we were done w u making me cry in ur last quest

I'M BAWLING HE JUST WANTED A NORMAL LIFE

sobbing and screaming "even the form you see before you is nothing short of an illusion [...] an imagined version of what I would look like if I had had the chance to grow up" IM NOT WELL RN

I'm omw to hyv hq to make caribert exist in teyvat fr I can't handle this shit

UHM.

CARIBERT DID YOU FUCKING SIDELINE US SO DAIN COULD BE AMBUSHED BY LUMINE????

OH NO

OH GOD OH FUCK WHAT THE FUCK OH MY GOD?!?!?!

I FUCKING KNEWWWWWWW DAIN HAD THE EYE ON HIM AND NOT IN SOME RANDOM LOCATION

BUT WDYM INSIDE HIS BODY LUMINE BETTER NOT HAVE RIPPED IT OUT OF HIM

BROOOOOOOOOO CARIBERT IS A DICK I TAKE EVERYTHING BACK FUCK YOU DUDE

oh goddamnit maybe he's not a dick he's been nice to the hilichurls 😔

still PISSED at him though

I'm going to kms actually

NOOOOOOOO NO NO NO NO I'M GONNA SOB SCREAM THROW UP

STOPPP HE CANT TOUCH HERRRR :((((((

"I'd love to hug you too" IM NOT OKAY RN I CANT DO THIS

oooo okay so our sibling wants to use the loom against celestia that tracks but like. how?

o shit she's so right u would think the whole furina focalors thing would have angered celestia but they're just. quiet.

STOPPPPP OUR NAMES BEING PERSONALISED IS A CANON THING BC OUR SIBLINGS THE ONLY ONE WHO CALLS US BY OUR REAL NAME WHAT IF I KMS

"for some reason I'm not interested in asking questions rn" IDC DUDE IM INTERESTED TELL MEEEE /j

"why can't we continue our journey together?" my meds aren't powerful enough to fight this shit rn /j

TWO KIDS IN THE TREE??? WHOMST???

"I don't know how to face myself sometimes let alone my own brother" I'M BAWLING AGAIN

UHM. FUCKERY???

BRO THE GLASS CRACKING OVERLAY I like that, nice touch

DONT FUCKING TELL ME WE WONT REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN HERE FUCK THIS SHIT

THEY REUNITED AND WONT EVEN BE ABLE TO REMEMBER IT?!?!? HOYOVERSE U HATE US FR

im never playing genshin again what the fuck /j (<- loves it)

PAIMON YAWN JUMPSCARE AGAIN

DAINS INJURED :( BUT HE LEFT :(((( BBG COME BACK :(((((

we literally only don't remember meeting our sibling that's so fucking tragic what the shit man

"I'm not sure why but it almost feels like I lost something" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I CANT DO THISSSS

caribert left a memory for someone as to what "happened" :( his legacy can live on in the village :((((((((

now what IM interested in is whether the loom of fate is going to have any significance in natlan or whether we're still going to have to wait til the 5.7 dain quest next year to find out what's going on with it bc if it's complete NOW why would they wait a whole year to put their plan into motion

aw atossa really loved caribert huh :(((

THE PICTURE?!?!?!?! I'M GOING TO END IT ALL RIGHT NOW.

fuck me what a quest,,,,

as usual ty to anyone who bothered to read through the brain vomit LOL ily <3 im gonna go uh. cry a lot now, goodbye 👋

[taegularities]

Day 3

I'm reading the cmi for first time AND OMG gurl I'm loving this jjk ffs so much like wow who thought I could stumble upon some good shit on like this

I'm done till cmi~light ✨✨✨✨ seriously 3 damn days it took just to be here

SWEAR these two dorkes like hell they are such idiots and clowns in love how they are not obvious to eachother but to whole world I'm sure even if stranger sits with them for moment they wouldn't able to tell...

The way (yn/oc) tells jk how he also treats her so good in (cmi light) like gurl 🐥👊🏻 what in hell you were expecting!??? A LOVE CONFESSION not in hell baby he is doing he is DUMBASS I cracked up so bad on his bant ass reply like "yea I treat Every women same as you" you ain't no special girl mf 🤭🤭 fuck man i felt second hand embarrassment for BOTH THEM because first of all why our gurl asking those dumb questions when WE know we gonna get dumber answers for that.... jezz that boy WHY HE IS SUCH idiot tell me he gets better on because no way our oc is falling in love with his super idiots ass (besides those delicious moves and sure that 🦴🔫 are very rare can't blam her) but still WHY HE thinks he not good or enough for oc or what's with so much not so required insecurities and looks like boy's all smartness 😒is in his peepee and hands only and god's be good not again those dumb secret why can't he be more open.

The scene in cmi-light gurl where jk appears from nowhere reminds of some old romance movie sitting of where this fl is all sadden up in her own misery sitting outside and suddenly another moment she try to move on and gets up but sees there the ml is all snuggled up in the sunset all the sun light covering him and all she could see is his outline and there he is waiting for her it was so good that it's making jump and paint like I wanna do sketching or water painting of that scene

Anyways I will let you know if I ever able to create one but seriously I WANT THAT SCENE HAPPENING REAL LIFE 😭😭 maybe to us or someone anyways bye

lesson to be learn never to be so desperate kids

🦴🔫 anon

lmfaoooo omg yeah, the story is kind of an idiots to lovers and a bit of a slow burn thing 😭 not sure how to react to the jk slander and the multiple mentions of the word 'idiot' lmfaooo i created the guy in a way that even i fell in love hard 🤣 you'll know why he's not so open!! he's been through a crap ton that makes it not so easy for him to speak his mind and "act" secretive, which is ofc frustrating for both, but also valid since they haven't been in this thing together long enough for him to reveal such bad trauma. be patient!! 😋

i'm happy you've been reading!! lights is somehow the chapter where most people drop by and leave a couple kind words hehe still one of my favs, too!! i hope you enjoy the rest (and them being idiots bc it's far from being overrr 😂) and thank you for going through my beloved magnum opus!!! you described the scene in lights so beautifully, too, bc yeah oc really did breathe that sigh of relief :') if you ever paint anything like that, i'd love to see it :) hope to hear from you again soon 🤍

[theskyexists]

Went to see across the spiderverse

In retrospect, a film about parents dying and preventing it from happening was..

Anyway.

It was incredible animation of course again. The first part was honestly AMAZING. With Gwen. She looked so breathtakingly beautiful. And her dad????? The EMOTION. And also, wtf. But think they wrapped it up too quickly actually.he HUNTED her and then tried to arrest her (stupid cop!) when she saved people and even when she showed him who she was!!! And she left him for it - rightfully she said: I guess there is no one for me here now. And he didn't apologise. He didn't say: I was wrong. I'm sorry. I was worried sick. I'm your dad first and a cop second - a cop no more. GWEN!!!

Really interesting that the first film already had the theme: being Spiderman means experiencing certain fundamental things. And the point of being Spiderman is getting up again. (Nvm the weird thing about everybody can be Spiderman....uh..I always thought that was weird in that first film. Bc the whole point was that no you cant it takes a certain something)

But. Now they're taking it to the next level of course. And it's getting VERY meta. In order for a spiderworld to exist - some spiderrelated events MUST happen.

But actually Miles is an anomaly so he REALLY CAN WRITE HIS OWN STORY. Like Gwen says: HE REALLY CAN DO ANYTHING. And. He really can change canon. (Also explains why he's so OP yeah)

But also - didn't he already lose Uncle Aaron? But that's a different event? So Uncle Aaron is Uncle Ben. And then there's a police captain and a kid. Who's often related to the love interest. The question even is, why didn't Miguel gun for Miles immediately. Probably didn't know how to 'fix him'.

Stupid idea to tell Miles anything anyway tbh.

They really got rid of Aunt May quick to isolate Miles again.

I loved Hobie like - almost in retrospect. HE WAS ACTUALLY PUNK ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT!!!

Loved the moments of betrayal. Especially between Gwen and Miles. And Peter and Miles. and Peter and Gwen. And Gwen and Spider-Woman. 'we're supposed to be the good guys!' YEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!! That's also why I thought they wrapped Gwen's dad's thing too soon because dude, that was like a huge awful betrayal and they handled it almost like some regular fight between a kid and her dad. Especially coz GWEN had to be the adult in the room when he walked away - like WHAT. And how did her speech lead to him quitting. There should have been one more beat about firstly: Gwen being like: oh god he's gonna die anyway and secondly: something changed - Miles changed it. Or - I changed it (because. I met Miles?). To tie it all back.

It was incredible action, emotion, tempo, character moments etc. BUT I'll say it.

The ending was weak. Couldn't have been anything else I guess. They definitely could have done worse. The windowed narrative was pretty good, and the reveal etc. it all helped..but still weak and a little disappointing.

'There's always a way'. But how? I guess you got Spot which is a new element in the multiverse. Might be able to do something about....holes in the canon. eyyyy. If he weren't a supervillain for idk stupid ego reasons.

Miguel is not funny. It's actually amazing that it's commented on and in fact right around that comment the jokes around him fall flat.

Interestingly he seemed to be injecting himself with spiderdna I guess as more permanent inoculation against glitching

Loved Nueva York...

I also can't think of a way the ending could have been better. I just didn't think they'd cut it off. Didn't realise it was a series and not a whole story. Then suddenly I get this uneasy feeling like wait uh we're slowing but we're not there yet by far....

I think maybe my brother is right and they should have spent less time on Uncle Aaron putting on a record and more on Gwen getting ALL the buddies from ALL the worlds - interspersed with Miles getting getting more 'threatened' and that speeding up and up and then we get the reveal. BAM. And something about Gwen coming for Miles. Actually I think probably the windowed band story might have been bad actually here because tbf this ISNT Gwen's story anymore. We switched povs. I really absolutely LOVED Gwen as the main character at the beginning there. I adored it. Holy shit. But we switched. And they should have made her reference something Miles said. Not (just) her own personal story. Because it's not (just) about her anymore at that point.

Hah. What a thing to say from me who realised during those first ten minutes how POWERFUL a Spiderman story about a girl was to me suddenly - told so incredibly - even if at super high speed. Her internality is so different from what Miles sees ... Genuinely felt so - well whatever. Im glad enough we got ten minutes of her story, of her as main character. Still can't really expect more.

Also absolutely called that teleport mixup the moment I realised he wanted to use the going home machine

Also just really loved Miles' world. Brooklyn. the bbq, the streets it's all so homy and particular. His parents are a great team but damn they really shouldn't use that for ganging up on him. I feel like this film doesn't deliver enough comeuppance for parents, not enough grovelling. Why was there that moment with Gwen and his parents? It didn't land fully - because at that point I didn't yet know that the film was ending.

[tumblezwei]

making fun of that fucking "Debunking Lesbian Robin" thread bc I'm bored and it's late. This is long but not nearly as long as it could have been.

First off, I find it incredibly funny that the thread starts like this.

Like yeah, harassment sure is bad, huh? I would sure love it if that same energy was directed towards the queer people who headcanon Robin as a lesbian and are now getting so much shit for it.

I'm also excited to see what "evidence" has been altered or left out! Surely there's so much of it and it's not just speculative bullshit you pulled out of your ass!

Their first point is "Robin's design is more than just the colors on her cheek," which no one has ever tried to claim ever. They detail some aspects of Sunday's design and how he takes a lot of queues from Ena the Order, who was absorbed into Xipe during the Swarn Disaster. They also bring up the theory the Sunday may be an Emanator of Order. Why is this important to their overall point, you may ask? Because of this

That's right, folks! Unlike Sunday, with his clear allusions, Robin's design queues are superficial and hardly carry a resemblance to Xipe at all! Except for, you know, her entire color palette, her hair, the gold lining and the star decals. But that's not the real striking thing about Xipe's design is it?? No, no, no, the real clue is their halo!

You see, the thing that connects Robin to Xipe isn't literally everything about her design, but the fact that those three dots under her eye represent colors missing from Xipe's halo!

oh, wait, sorry, I meant that those three dots are in Xipe's halo and their colors are in the same order as on Robin's face.

Let's ignore how that is absolutely not the same shade of pink, it's a stretch to say it transitions into white, and neither that yellow nor that orange match with the orange on Robin.

Now you may be asking that very same question that OP presents: "why?? Why do you think they didn't add obvious references to Xipe throughout her whole design did they make it so subtle???" good thing they have an answer!

So! To make is clear, the three dots on Robin's face can't be a reference to the lesbian flag because

1. They made Ena references super obvious on Sunday

2. they didn't make Xipe references obvious on Robin if you're blind and/or have an agenda

3. Robin's eye decorations represent the colors missing from Xipe's halo

4. Robin's eye decorations represent the colors on Xipe's halo

5. Robin's design actually takes a lot of inspiration from Ena's design like Sunday because uh, fuck that Ena/Xipe parallel thing they had going on earlier I guess.

6. Those Ena elements exist to. Trick Sunday into believing Robin "supports" Ena. The being that has been absorbed into Xipe for millennia at this point and is, quite literally, part of the Harmony already.

7. But she also might be hiding(???) the fact that she, a prominent and outspoken member of The Harmony Cult, whom all can use the powers of the Harmony, is an Emanator of Harmony.

See??? It all makes perfect sense. Sunday gets to have eyes all over his design bc it's less of a reveal that he's connected to a supposedly dead Aeon, than it is for Robin to have obvious connections to the Aeon that her entire life is based around! Because it makes more sense for her to have strong connections to fucking Ena, which is why they had to make the references to Xipe so fucking subtle.

The rest of the thread is "you can't say Emily Dickinson is a lesbian because that's Bad and Disrespectful."

Thanks for the wikipedia summary of her writing style, I'm sure you're a long time fan.

But what's fun about this second half of their thread is the tweets directly after.

So she couldn't have been a lesbian because 1) the time period in which she wrote these poems is unclear, bc as you know, no one is gay after 11pm, 2) she fantasized about being a man, something that obviously excludes you from having an attraction to women.

And look, I'm not gonna sit here and speculate about Emily Dickinson. I don't know enough about her history and I'm not gonna try and make statements about her sexuality or her gender identity. All I know is that those two points were fucking dogshit lmao.

Also love "there is no clear documented history of the poet" right before "their personalities don't even match." And it's even funnier when they then go into detail on how those two poems are deeply connected to robin as a character and are obviously important to her theming, but it's just a few lines from two poems so it doesn't have any significance you stupid idiots.

The rest of this thread is just shadowboxing against nobody. Ending this long thread about how Robin isn't a lesbian by saying you can headcanon her as anything.

And listen, I do not care if she is or if she isn't. It is incredibly likely we will never get a concrete answer. And I think that anyone sending death threats is overblowing the issue. But also, I always find it incredibly funny how it's always the queer fans that are the bad guys. It's always those damn lesbians being too aggressive with their headcanons, we have to put out threads like this to tamp them down and make sure they know their place. You can do whatever you want! As long as you're doing it within the parameters that we have set. If we think you're being too loud about your opinion? To confident in your interpretation? Well, that just won't do.

Your thread was ass, your design analysis was ass, your lore speculation was ass, take this energy and put it towards denouncing that weirdo that thought the appropriate response to queer teens having a lesbian headcanon was to make a corrective rape joke.

[ananke-xiii]

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#i don’t think the narrative itself wants us to think he’s inherently evil but more like.. he has the potential for it yknow #to keep us on our toes or whatever. and I also think it was laid out more as how the others viewed him than how we are supposed to

yes, totally yes! Although I have to admit this is one of the cases where the actor does the heavy-lifting, he manages to make us feel on our toes (is he? is he not?) but if I think of s14 as a whole I can see that the "There's something about Jack and this something is Bad" frame was installed around him from the very beginning and nothing of import happens to actually make us really think "oh no wait, the big reveal will be that he is not Bad" (I'm talking about S13-S14 only).

This is why I always say that the whole snake thing was more about Cas than it was about Jack because we see that Jack wants to do "What the Winchesters Would Do" but Cas doesn't see that. However, with all due respect to the snake (I'm talking in in-universe terms and following SPN wobbly morality, not real-life stuff), compared to the atrocities that regularly happen on SPN it was too much of a small thing to make a definitive statement about a character, yk (in the end it spoke more about Jack's suicidal tendency rather than his moral stances)? Now I'm not gonna start talking about whether WTWWD is a good tenet to live by or not, lol, just pointing out what you said: the viewers know more about Jack than the rest of the characters (see "Don't Go Into The Woods") although this "more" is not a deep insight into Jack's inner life, just enough facts + the actor's understanding the assignment to make us wonder a little bit.

#but towards s15…Barf. that’s where the narrative stopped being interesting bc it stopped letting jack be morally ambiguous like the others

Okay, I've got a little secret to reveal: the reason why I don't talk much about Jack in S15 is because...well, it's not that I forget that he's there but also I kinda do? They did the same thing with Michael in S14: first he's there, then he's not, then he is but he's inside Dean's mind, then he's back, then he's in Rowena and then he "dies" (I was under the impression that absorbing grace didn't mean that the angel died too, see Cas, Jack and Chuck, but apparently it killed Michael in all his entirety? Okay!)... I mean, it's probably only a me-problem but, if I think about it, I cannot honestly say that Michael is a real character in S14. Same thing applies to Jack in S15.

# my POINT IS. when we get these different sides to jack they don’t seem contradictory#it doesn’t feel like he’s a whole new character. it feels like just another side of him that he doesn’t usually let ppl see #he’s still a sweetheart with deep empathy for others even when he’s Kentucky frying the vessel of his evil father

Yes, he's no different than Cas, Sam, Dean and even Mary. I mean, let's be clear, they ALL have a pretty heavy dark side even when they're not manipulated, vesseled-up, de-souled and brainwashed. If there is one good thing that SPN shows is how Love doesn't necessarily mean Hugs, Warmth and Comfort but that there is a rather violent aspect to it that can be very baffling and disorienting. Why is this side denied to Jack? Why is it different with him? Or, better, why can't the characters (and the story) acknowledge violence rather than evil? I mean, the show is pretty much pro "the end justify the means" but then Jack shows up and all of a sudden we need a PhD in Moral Philosophy to be able to understand him. The line that they draw regarding violence is so volatile that it's very weird to me that the same line must be a fixed one for Jack and Jack only. This is why the "evil" bit is so infuriating to me, because they make it sound like it's not a concept but a reality, something solid and true and indisputable but at the same time violence, which is very much real, is more often than not justified (see Cas and Donatello). With all its complexities and definitely weird choices, S10 did a better job at exploring this theme than the totality of Dabb era. To me, of course.

#and in s15 they just threw it all awayyy to make him the clear cut ontological good god figure#they didn’t even resolve his issues!!! HE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE!!!! OUT OF GUILT!!!!!!! but no he’s fine he’s in the raindrops

Yeah, don't get me started on the raindrops, lol. It's sad because the ultimate message that I got is that Jack is just another vessel that's definied by what it (the vessel, not Jack) contains: Lucifer's DNA? Bad. No archangel grace? Good. No Soul: Bad. Michael's grace? Also Bad. A fucking bomb: mmmh Good or Bad, depending on who's gonna drop it. Amara + Chuck powers? Very Good. I know that bodily autonomy is another core theme in the show but I can't help feeling it was so biased towards Jack and, I mean, it was a shame because I think they came up with a pretty interesting character who could've done so much more interesting stuff.

Thank you for these points, as always lots of good stuff to ponder and be angry about, lol

So these are just memory-based, impromptu thoughts but I want to write them down as a starting point for when I'll finally write about Julia Wright and Jesse Turner.

I've said that I don't really like the general vibe of S14 regarding Jack because I feel like the story heavily relies on a false dichotomy that I don't personally find compelling. I'm talking about the trite "good vs evil"/"nature vs nurture" dilemma. The presence of evil is posited as an unquestionable presence while good is only present via its absence. By paralleling Jack with Nick the story implies that Jack is both evil by default (because of Lucifer's influence) and he can't do anything about it because he ultimately depletes his soul, the last symbol of human choice, to help his family out and to fix his mistakes.

Jack's story reaches its climax when he accidentally kills Mary and Cas says that what happened was due to "the absence of good". I think that it's a good summary of the whole season.

I'm absolutely not advocating for a real "good vs evil" dichotomy because that would be even more boring, but I just want to point out the unfairness of it all and how it flattens Jack out as a character: if you tell me that he's evil from the start but you also remove that one thing that could've created real conflict then you're basically saying that this character cannot change. And if he cannot change how should we understand his story? Or, to be more honest, how should we find it interesting?

So, of course, I've tried another way.

Although I still stand by all this, I also have to admit that not only does Jack tick all the items off the "Evil/Monstrous Child" trope list but he also happens to be a good Antichrist figure. In a way, he couldn't "only" be a Nephilim, he also had to be inherently connected with Lucifer and The Evil because he was written, I think, having in mind a conflation of the lore about the Antichrist, the Nephilims and their respective connections to the biblical/christian concept of World Ending.

So this got me thinking about all the ways in which Jack's an Antichrist figure and how it relates to the Alternate World where Apocalypse did very much happen. Not only does he help fighting that specific war but his birth is also precisely what opens the rift to a world where Apocalypse is sort of an on-going thing.

I was deep into my musings and speculations when I realized that, while this justification serves to make Jack a more distinct character, more disentangled from his father'/family' s looming presence and with his own individual attributes, it still doesn't free him from the comparison with another character: Christ.

For all its creative usage of God, SPN has always been careful when it comes to the other son of God, at least according to Christianity. Apart from the archangels and the angels, in the world of SPN God's son is the one&only Lucifer.

I don't know how to interpret this but even if I want to see Jack in this light I'm still not free from the above-mentioned false dichotomy: the "anti" part of "Antichrist" is very clear and very present, thank you very much, however, it's the Christ part that's still... absent.

If the absence of good left Jack to face his only other alternative (the certainty of evil), the absence of Christ leaves Jack with the only possible choice: he has to become Christ as well. This puts Jack in the uncomfortable position of being both the Antichrist and the Christ in a way that doesn't result in a unity between two antithetic parts but as a way to sacrifice what he certainly is (the Antichrist) for who he is not (Christ).

The moment Jack "chooses" to save humanity he's actually going against the very reason he was brought into the world for: to end it. This should settle the issue, right? Jack is actually free to choose? Well, I don't know.

For the narrative Jack can only be either Lucifer or Christ: the first is Bad and Sure, the second is Good but Absent so in order to be good, to make good present and manifest, Jack must kill who the story tells us from the start that he must be, someone who cannot change: in other words, in order to be good Jack must be willing to sacrifice his (supposedly) Evil Self, he "must" kill himself.

I feel like, although in different terms, this is the same route the show went with Dean and, as you probably know, I find that route very problematic.