#i love repression

[scullysflannel]

Just watched Elegy, great episode..the conversation at the end is brilliant in its restraint as always but I can't help but be a little angry at mulder here, not just in his hypocrisy (he's literally lying about the ova in that moment) but I can't help but think of Paper Hearts and how very present she was there for him and yet here, she is in her car crying alone, has to be one of the most upsetting moments for me so far..obviously scullys isolation is more her fault than anyone's but she deserved a kinder response here..sorry for the rant lol

what is the kind response in this situation? maybe calling her out is a type of kindness too, even if it's hypocritical. my default position when Mulder isn't as attentive to Scully as he could be is that it's a sign of respect for her. it's misguided, but he means well. he wants to let her have her pride. what I love about the Mulder and Scully story in Elegy (I'm ignoring the case) is that they're both still clinging to their usual coping mechanisms — Scully to her stubborn independence and Mulder to not prying — but they're breaking down. Scully is putting herself (and Mulder) at risk by not telling him what she saw, and Mulder is leaving her to fall apart on her own because he can't figure out when she needs him. obviously I hope he's at her door to apologize five minutes after she gets home. but I think being honest with her is a sign of respect too, because he's admitting that dancing around the issues isn't working. it rules that their big conversation about how they need to have an honest conversation is so restrained that they're still sort of dancing around it, and the fact that Mulder can't even admit what he's actively hiding from her is rich, but the feelings are raw enough to get the point across. they're both so scared. nothing else matters to him. he needs her to know that she shouldn't just tell him what she thinks he wants to hear, and ultimately I think Scully gets more out of hearing that than she would out of some blanket display of sympathy. but again I hope he's making her tea by the end of the night.

[ruoyeming]

A lirtle wangxian wip cause I've been rewatching The Untamed <3

[hinamie]

sidelong

[hoarder-of-dragons]

All characters from any media are asexual unless they say outright, "I'm sexually attracted to this/all gender(s)".

[ministarfruit]

day 24: plagued by the horrors ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[bruciemilf]

What’s your favorite interpretation of Thomas Wayne? As of now, mine is ‘parent who threatens you relentlessly but would snap if something actually happened to you’

Thomas sometimes takes Bruce to the hospital because A.) Alfred needs a break, and B.) he needs a little intern to fetch him things.

Except Bruce just keeps making grabby hands at all the scalpels and surture scissors. “Bruce, put that shit back down or I’ll knock the white off your teeth, sit down!”

Bruce doesn’t. Thomas doesn’t do shit, naturally.

“See?! See what I have to fucking deal with, Leslie?!”

“He tripped, by the way. “

She’s never seen Thomas run so fast since the night he met Martha, chasing down her car so he could propose to her.

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

i think im having a stroke

[brambeag]

unfinished mural

[gwendolynnderolo]

edwin’s little gay panic film reel that plays in his head every time someone mentions the cat king is an entire mood

[maxedes]

kinda love that almost every driver is experiencing some form of ✨the✨horrors✨ right now & their fans are bashing each others heads in about it on twitter dot com

meanwhile my silly little guy:

[sweetlullabyebye]

Kinda wild that Edwin realizes his love for Charles and confesses to him like, the day after. Bro is not losing time

[milkbreadtoast]

choose your protag..... YOU COULD WRITE A SUPER LONG META ESSAY COMPARING/CONTRASTING THESE 2 BUT I WANTED TO MAKE A SHITPOST FORGIVE ME🤧✌️

[paranormaljones]

Yet another thing I find absolutely wonderful about how Jonathan Stroud wrote Lucy Carlyle is how he betrays her with the narrative.

In The Screaming Staircase, at the start of her story, Lucy gives us an idea of how she wants to be perceived; unaffected, unbothered, unburdened by fear or particularly revelatory emotions. She drops horrifically painful realities about her childhood on us as if she were describing a dull gray rock she found on the ground. She tries very, very hard to school her emotions around Lockwood and George. And if she had been written by anyone else, she might have fallen prey to the "strong independent female character" tar pit of a stereotype.

But then along comes Annabel Ward's ghost.

And the narrative looks at Lucy and says "I know how you wish to present yourself, but that's not who you are."

And Lucy is repeatedly shown to be incredibly Sensitive in so many ways. She is under the influence of the ghost of Annie Ward, but the emotions are still partly Lucy's. And most of the time she has the emotional intelligence to differentiate which feelings are hers and which ones are Annie's, and where they overlap. She chokes up with empathy on multiple occasions in the process of uncovering what happened to Annie Ward. She becomes enflamed with the desire for justice for someone who was murdered decades before she was born. She's shown that by her very nature, her emotions are her strength and not her weakness. Because she has a narrative that loves her and isn't lazy about her. She is the narrator and she tells us who she is, but the narrative shows her and us who she really is.

[coffeebanana]

Sorry if some of these overlap a little/if I left out something obvious kajbdsjkd I tried my best haha. And that's why there's an "other" option!

[reebmiester]

"Bruce is terrible at communicating to his kids that they are family instead of a job, that he's their father and not their boss, and that he views them as his children, not just his wards-" BITCH where do you think he LEARNED that from

[lesbianshadowheart]

Glinda needed so badly to be loved by everybody that she gave up her only chance at a love that was genuine