#i know my opinions are wrong lmao

[meowshroom1230]

A series of unfortunate events

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imagine you told someone in the early 2010’s you shipped Old Man Mcgucket and Stanley Pines… I think you’d be nailed to a triangle shaped cross and sacrificed

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

And the thing is. Speaking on a meta, Doylist level now. In actual Inuit shamanic practice, cutting out one's tongue (or any other body part) is not a real thing, at least not that I can find reference to anywhere. In fact, actual angakkuit have their own secret verbal language that they use to communicate with spirits (including their tuurngaq). Plus, shamans serve very important interpersonal functions within their communities, so removing their ability to speak would be worse than pointless.

So why is it a thing in The Terror? Well, the most obvious purpose is To Be Scary And Gory because Horror Genre. But fabricating a random "barbaric" practice (that doesn't even make any sense) to assign to indigenous people for shock value would be quite a choice for a show that punishes its characters for believing such lies (DON'T YOU KNOW THEY KILL CHILDREN EDWARD. CAN YOU IMAGINE. WHOMST COULD EVER DO SUCH A THING—), so I have to believe something more is going on here. What that something is, I'm not knowledgeable enough to say.

But I know it must be something. Because the following is an excerpt from an oral history series published by Nunavut Arctic College, Inuit Perspectives on the 20th Century:

In this chapter, the elders talk about shamanism and how one could become an angakkuq. In most cases, angakkuit did their own recruitment, identifying interesting potential candidates and offering to turn them into angakkuit (the person was always free to decline), [...]. The selected candidate would start to see their tuurngaq. In some rituals, the person becoming angakkuq was stabbed (they would not bleed) or shot (their tuurngaq would intercept the bullet).

Might the fact that the tuurngaq in The Terror failed to protect Silna's father in the first place (and failed to protect the Inuit family later as well, in both cases only attacking after the damage had already been done) imply something in itself? Plus the fact that Silna is very clearly not free to decline becoming an angakkuq...... plus the fact that her people banish her, yet allow Crozier to stay, another needlessly cruel and impractical act, just like the tongue-cutting...... It all feels like a deliberate statement. What that statement is would be the task of someone smarter than me to decipher.

[cheriecoke]

tbh i knew gege was up to no good when he killed off nanami bc “he had no room for more development”

[hussyknee]

FYI if you're watching MasterChef Australia, the Sri Lankan Australian contestant Savi is a friend of mine and kind of a stealth idol because everything I seem to be online (a ball-busting, bombastic, proudly brown, unapologetically fat, sexy decolonizer lady) she actually is irl. It's funny because she was a few grades below me and found me intimidating when we were in school and now I'm the one perpetually in awe of her. Do watch if you can and root for her! She's a delight!

[knife-em0ji]

Look I've been day drinking so perhaps I'm being meaner than I should but. Someone I find completely insufferable follows me on my SWars sideblog and I have no idea why. They act like they're Jesus on the cross because they have unpopular opinions re: ship dynamics and think they're ontologically correct while the rest of us are wrong. I say the rest of us because I also subscribe to/find mindless entertainment in the ship dynamics they loudly purport to hate, and it's baffling to me why they follow me. Like my guy. Are you hatefollowing me or have you just not realized yet I'm one of those freaks who wants the wrong guy to get gregnant

[firefl1ezz]

i just. hit s+ rank in splatoon and i never honestly thought this would happen?? am i cool now.. do i get to be a part of the s4? do i get to be watered down to my running joke all the time?

[asterdeer]

i deserve financial compensation for every time a radio makes me hear hozier tell a woman “you treat your mouth as if it’s heaven’s gate / the rest of you like you’re the tsa”. i didn’t live through years of baby it’s cold outside discourse just for this shit to be the song of the summer. fuck dude

ETA: rbs turned off because 2 terf rbs is 2 too many jesus christ

[valkyurii]

when i see someone put both radahn and malenia in s tier on their boss ranking list

[alicentflorent]

FTWDs final season could have been so much better if it was revealed that Troy was running padre and controlling madison (as revenge) this whole time. He knew enough about nick and Alicia to make madison think padre knew who and where they were this whole time. And here are some other reasons how this storyline would make sense and be more interesting:

- Troy has a military background so him taking over and running a military base makes more sense than two teenagers building it up by themselves because all the adults died.

- taking and training up children to be solidiers also would make a little sense because of his own fucked up upbringing and the idea he has of the type of people who were made for this world. He would have probably had the same idea as shrike, that the kids stood a better chance at padre than with their “weak” parents. The mother of his child dying for being a good person and not getting to raise their daughter (who would not be named after his abuser) could have also played into this idea of the kids being separated from their good parents.

- shrikes radiation cure experiments: Troy ran walker bite experiments before, just to see how people would turn. So it would also make sense if the work we see shrike doing was something he approved of or an idea he himself came up with. As for shrike, it would make sense that she turned out this way if she’d spent years being mentored by someone like troy otto instead of becoming evil and stealing children just because her dad died.

- the scene where madison smashes the glass to expose “padre” would have been such a good and shocking reveal if it was Troy. Imagine Madison finding out that Troy is not only alive but had been the one running this the whole time!

There’s also a lot of other things I would have done differently for the other characters too and I would have liked Madison to have a little villain era and do some really fucked up shit as she tries to take down Troy and padre. How dark would Madison go? Would she survive with her humanity still intact?

I know I’m just talking into the void here because no one care about this shitshow but I just hate it when shows have a plot that could have been good, maybe even great but then completely miss the mark and fans come with better theories and ideas with minimal effort and thought.

[princekirijo]

I'm curious and I personally don't know the investigation team that well so:

Feel free to reblog and put your reasons in the tags :3

[iriswestallenn]

I keep forgetting how annoying it is to watch a currently airing show with a large fanbase on tumblr. Stop tagging the ship name with silly complaints that make no sense. How is that fun for anyone who just wants to browse the tag in peace?

"Ugh Luke saying they're acting like a married couple is fanservice." A child? Saying a variation of 'Annabeth and Percy kissing in a tree, k i s s i n g' lmao please be serious. THEY ARE KIDS, teasing each other. Were y'all never teased when you hung out with another kid and your friends noticed y'all were looking a little too friendly? Oh brother.

"They're pushing Grover to the side in favor or percabeth :(" Huh? Did you read the books? Grover (i love) barely does much. If anything the show is giving him way more to do and say. The actor who plays Grover I genuinely think is the best actor out of the three, he's doing a very good job. Any Pan mention, the moment he found Ferdinand, all great scenes.

"It's not a slow burn! They're already too flirty." Once again, children. They have only hugged and even though I'm a lunatic that is reading into everything because I love percabeth... Not a damn thing came out of that hug lmao there was no nervousness, no 'how do I act around her/him now that I've hugged him oh no' type feelings. She was happy he was ALIVE. Simple.

Also the actual actors are finding their footings with each other as each episodes go by so there's a naturally progression happening both on and off screen. The actors also have said again and again they read all the books so they know their characters are endgame and probably are playing into that a bit. Maybe they don't even realize they're doing it because they were TWELVE at time of filming.

I wonder why so many people are so bothered by show-percabeth especially if they're fans of the books. This couple is the IT couple. They are hyped. Their story, what they do and go through for each other is legendary lmao so what exactly is the real issue? Do you not want parallels to happen? Seeds planted, sOME smiling??? Do you not want Annabeths found family brother who witnessed her shove Percy into the ocean just not mention he notices they seem to have gotten closer?

Very peculiar...

[best-enemies]

Just watched S09E11 of CSI, 'The Grave Shift', after last night's 'One to Go'. I don't think I'll ever recover from Grissom, my favorite character, leaving the show, but his exit was still beautiful and so, so Grissom. Him just telling the team "Yeah so, I'm leaving" and having little moments with each of them, warmed my heart (the character that represented me the most was David, who had to bolt out of the room after Grissom said, "I'll miss you, though", barely managing to hold back the tears before leaving).

And oh my god. His reunion with Sara. They didn't even need words and it was absolutely perfect. Watching Grissom feel physical pain from his break up with Sara broke my heart -- you can see how much he loves her. I hate that they'll break up again; I don't remember how or why exactly, but it feels unnecessary, but I'm comforted by the fact that, ultimately, they'll end up together for the rest of their lives.

One of the things I love about this episode is how they all paid a little homage to Grissom and, near the end, Nick, who was offered Grissom's office, invited Greg and Riley to share it with him. Fits right in with Nick's sweet personality. I love how he says they need all the good energy from that place. He's really Grissom's n#1 pupil ♡

(Shout out to Hodges, one of my favorite characters from this rewatch, walking in and bringing the pig fetus saying it belongs there. I love how bitter he is after Grissom left and how he's not willing to get over it any time soon. Forget David, Hodges is the character that represented me the most, lol).

I need to say, my brain completely ignored the fact that, when Grissom offered Ray Langston a job as a CSI he said that it was an "entry-level job". Instead, I thought he'd get the job as the team leader and it was weird for me to see him being so inexperienced at a job. But all of that is because, one, I haven't rewatched CSI in ten years and forgot about like, 97% of the show and two, I have rewatched Hannibal way too many times and got used to Laurence Fishburne playing a boss, and a damn good one. I do like his character, though!

I'm not a fan of Riley though. I don't know why, she seems mostly competent at her job, fit right in, but at the same time it's not really like she fit in? I felt like maybe she could have had some adaptation into the team, after all she was replacing a long-time team member, Warrick (will talk about him later). Her introduction and adaptation into the team felt a bit sudden and "inorganic" and maybe that's why I don't love her sassy remarks and sort of 'cool girl' personality. Yeah I love Sara but I don't love Riley for the reasons listed above. That could change, though!

Warrick. Oh, man. For Gedda/For Warrick were the most painful episodes to watch and I stalled for months. Some of the team got to have a nice last moment with him, others didn't. It broke my heart how at peace he was in his last hours, hanging out with the work fam, feeling relieved for not losing his job, which was a huge part of his life. I do hate that it had to end like that for him. I get that his death represented the loss of innocence, and that that team wasn't going to last forever... but it's just really painful. To know that he didn't have anyone else, only his soon, which we don't know if he was able to see often...

Too many things happening at once, too many changes, and bumpy ones, but I hope we'll get into a smooth road once again.

[dolorianwolf]

A tear in the membrane, allows the voices in

[tanzakukun]

“It’s a contrived plot, simple as that”

Actually, it doesn’t matter what it is or what the author even intended. As a reader, we’re supposed to play with interpretations and looking at things from what we can learn and understand from the characters.

[louismygf]

just recently watched this is us with my college friends