#i'm totally normal about this show

[dead-end-street]

USERDRAMAS: EVENT 18 - MUSIC ↳ XUE FANGFEI & XIAO HENG in THE DOUBLE (2024) dir. Bai Yun Mo, Lu Hao Ji Ji, Ma Shi Ge

If I fall short, if I break rank It's a bloodsport, but I understand I am all yours, I am unmanned I'm on all fours, willingly damned Loving you's a bloodsport (yeah yeah, yeah yeah) Fighting in a love war (yeah yeah, yeah yeah) BLOODSPORT – RALEIGH RITCHIE

[spideyl0u]

date idea: we watch band of brothers and you can listen to me ramble about fun facts and behind the scenes knowledge i have for 10 hours

[made-ofmemories]

I still can’t quite comprehend the fact we’re getting new mando content in less than 12 hours

[appropriatelystupid]

[sunnyirry]

Ep 16 in a nutshell

[essektheylyss]

just had to give a gentle nudge about research ethics on discord. with an Essek profile pic. I'm still laughing.

[imerian]

My (very old) loscar brooch (?) that i just now made doodles for

More pictures under cut

[piptoost]

So :) I finished Supernatural finally and now my world is crumbling down around me :))))))) MY ATTACHMENT TO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS I'VE WATCHED 15 SEASONS OF BE DAMNED I cannot beLIEVE that Dean went out like that. Like everything was GREAT???? And Sam and Dean were doing great and then BAM Dean's dead. EXCUSE ME???

[sleepystede]

My mom saw something OFMD related that I commented on on Facebook and she texted me this:

UM NO MOM IT'S A COMPLETELY NORMAL REACTION.

[yyenky]

Imagine a team called “Prost” with Ayrton Senna as its main driver. The combination between the names that starred in the greatest rivalry in the history of Formula 1 would have a chance of becoming reality, if it weren't for the fatal accident with the Brazilian idol in Imola, in 1994. The guarantor is the Frenchman himself Alain Prost. In an interview with the International Automobile Federation's “AUTO” magazine, the four-time world champion reflected on his career in the category and revealed that days before the fateful San Marino GP he sounded out his former rival about the possibility of commanding him in a team. Little did Senna know that, at that time, the retired "Professor" was already negotiating the purchase of Ligier, which would become "Prost" three years later.

– Funny... Maybe a week before the accident we were talking on the phone and I said to Ayrton: “You know, it would be funny if one day I had a team and you could be my driver”. And we laugh about it. At that time I was already negotiating the purchase of Ligier, at the beginning of 94. It would definitely be fantastic - he confessed.

Declared enemies on the track, Prost and Senna became friends off the track shortly before the Frenchman retired. The Australian GP episode that ended the 1993 season was symbolic. In the race that marked the “Professor’s” last appearance in F1 and the Brazilian’s last victory, the three-time champion called on his rival to join him on the top step of the podium. It was the beginning of a friendship, as intense as it was fast, interrupted by the tragedy of May 1994.

– Our relationship was exceptional, especially compared to when we were racing! And I guarantee that our relationship would be very, very good if Ayrton was still with us. There is no doubt about that – said Prost, showing a feeling of affection, according to the magazine.

(x)

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy

[borgialucrezia]

peaky blinders — 5x05 created by steven knight

[greenconverses]

Richard saying, "we're going to end up in the same place, it doesn't matter how we get there" pissed me off so much ISN'T "HOW WE GET THERE" THE ENTIRE POINT OF STORIES?! ISN'T THAT WHY THE ENTIRE DAMN BOOK EXISTS?!

So, shocker, I have Thoughts about this post of his. My knee jerk reaction when I saw it last night was an eye roll and an urge to rant, which I kept contained because I'd already ranted and we gotta space that stuff out from time-to-time.

And now that I have had a full night's sleep and I am slightly less cranky, I'm gonna have to go on record and... DEFEND part of his logic, gasp.

For those not in the know, RR wrotes this reply to question on Threads (lol) a few days ago about changes to the plot in the sixth episode that apparently bugged a lot of people:

And like, I'm deeply annoyed about the "it won't change anything" bit because OH MY GOD STORYTELLING which is a whole other thing but I do have something to say about the man's logic and the difference in the show premise vs the books that I think is flying over a lot of people's heads.

The plot of the show is Percy saving Sally and doing a quest along the way. Sally and Percy's relationship is the A plot, the mythology and conflict among the gods is the B plot. Percy knows from 1x02 that his mom is alive and that changes his priorities immediately; we see him start to care about the overall quest and his place in the world in 1x05, but he's still pushing forward because of his mom. You have to add another pearl to pay off that A storyline, to promise audience members that Percy is going to succeed until he doesn't.

Percy in the books has a feeling his mom is alive or that he can get her back from the Underworld, but doesn't know for sure. The quest and the setting up the overall Big Three backstory is the main plot of the books and what we the readers are focused on. I wouldn't even put saving Sally as a B or C plot in the original TLT. Percy doesn't get confirmation that she's alive until they're down in the Underworld and Hades reveals he took her for leverage, so then only having three pearls becomes a brief but important conflict.

This is where we're seeing a lot of the issues with the show's plot come to a head. It's fine to change the priority of the story from returning the bolt to saving Sally, because it delivers the same result in the end anyway, like Rick says. But you have to bulk up other parts of the script in a way to make up for it and the show has not delivered on that part. (See exhibit A: my rant about any lack of mystery with the monsters.)

I think the most egregious change that he says doesn't matter is the trio missing the deadline. In the books, we're told that natural disasters and weird things have been happening since the bolt disappeared as Zeus and Poseidon fought, and stuff was getting worse the closer the deadline came. We are briefly shown this in 1x05 with Ares and in 1x06 with Luke saying things are "bad" at camp, but imo, it doesn't feel super heavy. The consequences of missing the deadline is that gods go to war and bad shit happens! Lots of mortals are gonna die! Doesn't that matter?

The show could've stepped outside of the Percy and Sally storyline for little bit to give more of a perspective about what was happening at camp or the outside world to bring that weight - you're not limited to just Percy's POV storyline in the medium of a TV show! (Of course, we can step outside of it to give a LMM cameo/stinger because priorities but I digress.)

They didn't and I'm not sure how they're going to "solve" Zeus's response to Percy missing the deadline 'cause like... this is the unreasonable king of the gods that Rick has started yet another series based on the premise of him being a petty bitch who wants to ruin Percy's life. Is the guy gonna walk back starting a war? Is he waiting to start because Poseidon asked nicely? What's the consequence to the world going to be? Clearly nothing, since Rick said the story is going to end how it was always going to end, which is just poor storytelling.

[theravenzzz]

Sinister Mark doodle that I did earlier today 😋

[flufflecat]

Today I got to have an entire 3 message long dm convo with Alex Hirsch. I am never getting over this high.

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

my brain, unprompted, while i'm enjoying a nice glass of wine and typing away at my little stories: hey remember how the loki show explicitly stated that if a post-ragnarok loki had survived thanos he would have chosen to isolate himself for fear of hurting the people he cares about, spent literal millenia alone on a deserted planet until he missed his brother so much that he couldn't take it anymore, and by then he just so happened to be really, really, really good at conjuring a magic illusion of the fucking entirety of asgard? the same asgard that'd been destroyed for thousands of years at that point? remember that?

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