#if it has no defenders then i’m dead

[jewelsigaveu]

​i find it especially funny when pretentious folkmore stans hate on ttpd with the criticism that she was “making better music when she was singing about fictional people”… for the better part of the album she is doing the exact same thing she has done on folkmore, fictionalizing her lived experiences. there is even one continuous storyline running through certain songs in a similar vein to dorothea-ttds & august-cardigan-betty, you just have to actually pay attention and look beyond your myopic attempts at paternity testing. neither was folkmore her first attempt at straying away from her usual direct diaristic songwriting in favor of “fictionalized” storylines that still took inspiration from her own life and feelings. speak now opens with her singing about being worried about paying the bills

[ewwww-what]

What are you like, four different dogs?

[eddiespornstache]

no but eddie would not let himself drink juice. what makes you think he would let himself go to therapy, something he knows from past experience will be hard but ultimately helpful and beneficial to him?? he had to open himself up to wanting to feel joy for his own sake before he could start taking any tangible steps to keep feeling it. because not fighting to bring christopher back from texas has always been about eddie punishing himself

[doomed2repeat]

The more people complain about the entrapment line the more I want to defend it.

[fulgurbugs]

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[sockdooe]

I don’t know if maybe it’s just me, but is anyone else seeing a rise of people claiming that they could do a better rewrite of Voltron and then immediately say they’d make K/L cannon or Adash/ canon?

I don’t know about anyone else but I genuinely don’t think making ships canon would make the show better.

In fact I think It’d make it worse.

And considering shiro isn’t even mentioned in these and if he is it’s just to be Keith dad…. Is telling.

[immakuronaakuma]

Rewatching Wish for the 30th time.

Magnifico’s villain arc wasn’t a matter of if

It was a matter of WHEN

Asha may have been a key part of his villain arc, but if it wasn’t her, it would’ve been someone else. He overreacts to the citizens questioning him and turns to dark magic during a song number where he talks about not being respected… by a kingdom of people who adore him, trust him, and some of whom are in love with him (something something “so you had a bad day”).

Magnifico may have seemed like a benevolent king, but past “At All Costs” and all through the movie, we see that this benevolence is all a big front, much like King Candy in Wreck it Ralph being a jolly and caring leader only to have a vendetta against a little girl who wants to race (and then gets revealed to be a huge fraud).

He reacts badly to being questioned even if the one questioning him is making good points, such as Asha’s suggestion to just GIVE BACK and I repeat GIVE BACK (gotta emphasize that because if I see one more post or stupid picture declaring that Asha wanted everyone’s wish to be granted and ignoring the part where she did not fucking say that, I’m gonna find your address and mail a pipe bomb with glitter and streamers attached) everyone’s wishes so they have a chance to make them come true and since he can take people’s wishes, he can see and stop any bad ones that’ll bring harm to Rosas.

Combine his refusal to accept criticism or basic questions with the petty cruelty he shows Asha and her family, from giving her a front row seat to witness her Saba’s disappointment at the Wish granting ceremony and later confirmation that he won’t grant his or her mother’s wishes, and the scene of him crushing Sakina’s wish, where he didn’t even know he could gain power from destroying the wishes, he just did that to add a layer of cruelty on the asshole cake.

And if it hadn’t been Asha, it would’ve been someone else. Magnifico had been an underlying villain throughout the movie and probably some time before it, all it took was people bruising his ego for him to go off the deep end and go from “benevolent king” to “cruel tyrant”. Funnily enough, there are people like Magnifico who, even without forbidden magic or an evil, star-stealing staff, they’re still wicked inside.

[ropebunnykant]

i fear the ending of agatha all along is once again making people confuse “i didn’t like the ending/the ending made me sad” with “that was bad writing”

[zukkaart]

We don’t talk about Korras brute strength enough. She could have been the avatar without bending and just snapped spines left and right

[lyssasdrafts]

elain archeron core

[autistic-fool-with-ideas]

Unfriendly reminder that while Azure’s description of events was absolutely biased, the things shown were not because THEY ARE IN THE SCROLL OF MEMORIES. AN UNBIASED THING THAT CANNOT BE MANIPULATED.

Please y’all Azure is just an unreliable narrator because he’s biased and probably doesn’t have all the details, not because he’s some master manipulator asshole

[seaghosst]

misako ninjago ….oughh

[mangosundae]

I’m sure it’s nothing but anyone have guesses for what these blacked out bits are??? I assume they’re spoilers or unused ideas but like Why Leave Some Of The Letters In, Tobias. anyway yeah the newsletter was GREAT and has briefly filled the gaping void in my chest that will be here until chapters 3 and 4 come out.

[azure-firecracker]

So I asked my dad if he thought he was more like Mulder or Scully, and he said that he thinks he’s more like Scully (my dad is a mix but he said Scully because he’s very logic/evidence driven) but he wishes he could say Mulder because he’s obviously more clever. 

And I just…did not appreciate that interpretation because I don’t think that’s their dynamic at all. Like, yes, 95% of the time it’s Mulder who figures out the supernatural stuff going on with basically nothing to go off of and it’s very impressive. But I think something that often gets overlooked is that the supernatural is Mulder’s field of study. He spends all of his time reviewing old X-Files and has been deeply interested in conspiracy theories since he was a kid. This is what he is an expert in, so it makes sense that he’s usually the first one to the solution when it comes to the supernatural.

Scully, meanwhile, is essentially working outside of her field. She hasn’t spent her life researching X-Files and conspiracies. She doesn’t think to look for monsters and aliens everywhere she goes because that’s not her field of study, but I don’t think it makes her less clever. We’ve seen time and time again that Mulder is just as out of his depth when it comes to science as she is with x-file weirdness (maybe even more so), it’s just that they’re working predominantly in his field.

I think my dad should see Mulder try and do an autopsy or find a cure for alien parasite worms and then see if he still thinks he’s cleverer.

This isn’t hating on Mulder by the way, but I think Mulder and Scully are very much equal in terms of intelligence and I don’t want Scully not getting the credit she deserves.

(Also I’m still on S2E15 as I write this so no spoilers please!)

[claiireluv]

defending him isn’t enough I need a gun

[singhallelujahh]

“It often happens, as we have learned in the daily exercise of the apostolic ministry, that, not without offense to Our ears, the voices of people are brought to Us who, although burning with religious fervor, nevertheless do not think things through with enough discretion and prudence of judgement. These people see only ruin and calamity in the present conditions of human society. They keep repeating that our times, if compared to past centuries, have been getting worse. And they act as if they have nothing to learn from history, which is the teacher of life, and as if at the time of past Councils everything went favorably and correctly with respect to Christian doctrine, morality, and the Church's proper freedom. We believe We must quite disagree with these prophets of doom who are always forecasting disaster, as if the end of the world were at hand.

In the present order of things, divine Providence is leading us to a new order of human relationships which, by the efforts of men and even beyond their own expectations, are tending towards the fulfilment of its own higher and unanticipated designs; and everything, even human differences, leads to the greater good of the Church.”

— Pope St. John XXIII, upon the opening of the Second Vatican Council (October 11, 1962)