#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?

[originalcrime]

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

[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.

[doomed2repeat]

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

[fulgurbugs]

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[akkpipitphattana]

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

[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)

[youngyoo-apologist]

OG Choi Han they could never make me hate you cause if some random rich boy was yelling at me and telling me my family deserved to die like a day after it happened and all I wanted was to know how I could get help I’d beat him up too

This plus the added fact that the Harris Village people were the first people to take Choi Han in and take care of him after years and years in the dark forest. Like he’s obviously not going to be mentally stable after all that, and he was so young when everything happened to him like I cannot blame him at all. I don’t think I can ever hate OG Choi Han like ever, he’s flawed, he has problems, but I love him dearly. He deserves the world. This kid who had to fight for his life, was taken away from his family, and in the process had to give up parts of his own humanity to survive, and like went to war two years later, they could never make me hate u OG Choi Han…

Like yeah violence is bad I guess but OG Cale had it coming(saying this as an OG Cale fan, I love him, but he was mean as hell when he was younger!)

If I’m honest, I think they were both in the wrong to an extent. Like OG Cale shouldn’t have said all that no matter the circumstances, and OG Choi Han shouldn’t have beaten him up so much. But u say mean shit and you get hit, that is how it will work when you’re talking to the guy who just saw his entire village get murdered like idkkkk man

I understand where OG Cale was coming from, but he had many issues and while he wasn’t an awful person, he was capable of doing bad things because of his own internalized pain and emotions that he never got to properly process because of his emotionally distant childhood and relationship with his father who should have been there for him more when he was younger.

Okay speaking of his childhood, Deruth isn’t the WORST father in the world but there are a lot of things he could have done better. I think a lot of Deruth’s flaws come from his fear of failure and messing up. He’s scared of doing the wrong thing, and so he sticks to doing what he knows and using what he knows best. That’s why he uses his money, that’s why gift giving is his way of showing affection, he knows that it is one thing he cannot mess up.

The problem is that money and gifts is NOT what OG Cale needed. I think what that guy needed the most was a parent who wasn’t afraid to talk to him, to ask him questions. Not to say that Deruth gave up on OG Cale, but I think in a way he gave up on OG Cale by giving up on himself. Deruth didn’t trust himself to have the capabilities to talk to OG Cale, which is why he never did. It’s because that Deruth was scared, and didn’t trust himself, that he could never face OG Cale

If Deruth was able to trust himself a little more, and pull himself together, I don’t think OG Cale would have turned out the way he did. As a kid, he probably thought the only way he could help his family without relying on anyone(no doubt this whole ‘I have to do it myself’ thing came from the fact that he couldn’t rely on his father when his mom died, and instead was acting as a pillar of support for his father when it should have been the other way around) was to sabotage himself, the only heir. If he was shown to be unfit to be heir, then everyone else would have no choice but to direct their hatred towards him instead of his family.

If Deruth had talked to his son at least ONCE when he was a kid, asking him why he was upset or why he did the things he did, I think OG Cale would have told him. Why? Because he’s a kid!! A kid will obviously want to rely on his father, if he just had one sign telling him that he didn’t have to do it alone I’m 90% sure OG Cale would have said something.

Basically, while Deruth isn’t the worst father, he’s not really a great father either. I think he does do his best, but he has issues with communication lol

OG Cale and OG Choi Han are both complex characters and had their own reasons to behave the way they did. The thing is with people is that they’re complicated and have layers, so the situation with them would have layers behind it as well with multiple co-existing truths and stuff

[wisegirl-seaweedbrain]

i’m tired of pretending that oliver wasn’t right for putting a ring on it. did yall watch the show?? did u see felicity?? stop LYING.

[apocalypse-boogie]

I have so many Derek Morgan opinions y’all don’t even know.