#im rooting for the wrong character ik

[angryborzois]

can't stop thinking about how cool the izana vs mikey battle is gonna be when its animated

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

[drearygenie]

psychoanalyzing paralyte (my favorite kinnie)

(i do have kyborg week's day 3 but ill post it tmr)

(obvious spoilers for up to the very end of infinights)

prattle is obviously pretty neglectful of luce, because his priority was always boulderay

even when he reached out to luce after she left, it was for the sake of boulderay. he couldnt care less that she had a life outside him. also the fact that they meet in the sangrianite mines, meaning he's already distrusting her power. then why does he want her to be mayor? he figures that AHEm can shape her into a perfect mayor (he did it for brink, meaning he was already trained to teach people how to turn into leaders). what matters is that prattle would rather put the lives of luce and all the innocent people working in the mines than trust his daughter not to hurt him (i dont say himself because he's already dying from the sangrianite).

and after Luce has her big tantrum(i only bully her because i kin her), prattle asks her to help these random people become diplomats even though she herself wouldve likely done a better job. so Luce thinks he still doesnt trust her to do that job right. that makes Luce bitter.

so she fucking steals prized artifacts from the countries boulderay is supposed to ally with !! and mayor prattle, does he care that his daughter just committed a crime? NO ! he cares that a crime was committed and now he has to clean up after it. if he had ANY faith in her, if he believed that she had potential to change, he wouldve held her accountable. but why would he? shes not his problem. shes a threat to boulderay and everything will blow over once she dies.

she doesn't care about prattle's well being either. i mean, she knows he's dying and she put locked him up into a cold prison. hes just a weird delusional old man to her. and when she executes her plan, the people who she was supposed to count on, the infinights, rejected her. (ik this isnt chronological shh) and this is where she parallels her father. as soon as they stopped listening to her, the infinights became tools. they are pawns that if she plays right, can be used in her favor. but you know, i think she still was rooting for them somewhat (grisleve, ifykyk).

so when she went to jail, was she remorseful? NO! so the big money: why was she doing all this?

easy. she didnt want to be a leader. she didnt want to help people. she wanted to prove Prattle wrong. she wanted to prove that she could do what he did and better. little miss luce "im here once again to save everyone's ass" prattle built herself a savior complex with her insecurity.

and what i found super interesting was her character arc. because she obviously didn't become a more moral person. (murder, still believes she's a great leader, still using her gloves, etc). what changed about her was her motivation. she stopped believing she needed to prove prattle wrong.

ok ill stop projecting now

[silly-lil-scribbles]

(copied from my liveblog post)

ik the fears don’t really work here but for simplicity im using them to get my point across

so obviously this feels pretty lonely adjacent, but i actually feel like corruption is a big part of it too (which i think tells a lot about the tmagp universe in general, ill get into that in a sec). but like the corpse was talking about how her family wouldn’t care or help, which plays in to the main point of the corruption, which is something you rely on becoming, well unreliable, or rotten in a sense. which also ties in with the lonely because both have large themes of abandonment in some way. where the corruption is about mistrust in a way, not being able to rely on the most important things (such as how the victim spoke about starvation, like in some way this kind of starvation cant be helped with eating almost. it’s different. which is scary, the thiught of having no control, and not being able to save yourself from the starvation because actual food cant help you anymore) the lonely is more about just plain abandonment. again, just like the corruption, its a different kind of unreliability. in a dumb metaphor way, the corruption is like a relationship with someone who is abusive but youre stuck with them, and the lonely is like a relationship where the person is distant and although they say they care about you, you know its empty. and nobody can see this but you, and as you start to mistrust your own mind, you lose parts of yourself. and that my friend is where the spiral ties in. the spiral is also rooted in mistrust but like the corruption, its not knowing yourself, losing yourself. the shattering of your own sanity is a lonely thing. its like youre stuck in a movie and youre the only person who knows. everyone is saying youre wrong to the point where you start to wonder if you are. everyone else in the metaphorical movie cast has no control over themselves and you start to wonder if theyre even conscious. and then, you start to wonder if youre even conscious.

the reason i said the tmagp universe feels like the corruption, is because its like a new start. but its not. small things are just plain wrong, and more and more characters feel off, and they don’t belong here. and some of them know this, im sure. you know something is wrong here but youre stuck and you don’t even know if this is you. again, ties into the spiral (stranger too).

i hope this was coherent at least somwhat lol

[closetsof-backlogged-dreams]

tiptoeing my way into your ask box: should merlin have revealed his magic in the sins of the father episode

THE WAY I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS ASK😭😭😭😭 mbbb but im here now!!! so hi:))

ok so this is the second ask youve sent me that ive literally never thought of once in my life so prepare youself for a brainDUMP

my answer is completely and irrevocably: yes. i can't imagine myself having another opinion on it, because i think you found the only episode in the entire series where a magic reveal would have been a natural and understandable choice, by both the writers and the characters (except for of course the last episode, but i have many feelings on the execution of the actual magic reveal, of which are for another ask lol).

but because im an unnecessary bitch, i'm going to answer this question twice with the same answer (why? because im a nuisance to everyone around me, thats why) by interpreting the question differently. the first interpretation? should merlin have revealed his magic in the sins of the father, as in should MERLIN have revealed his magic. was that the right decision for him to make in this episode? would that have ended in the best outcome? would that have improved the situation? just morally, was that the right choice to make?

i thought about it, and at first i was torn, because arthur was a wreck at this point. he felt angry, betrayed, devastated, and rightfully so. is this really the best time for his best friend of probably over a year, by this point, to admit to him that he was born with magic? and while this definitely would have been a tricky time to do it, i think this is the only episode in which arthur shows completely empathy and compassion towards magic. for once in this series, he doesn't blame magic for all the wrongs in the world, or even reservedly believe that magic may not be a thing to persecute for but can certainly never be trusted—he is fully open to magic and believes that every negative thing he ever knew of it, all stemming from his father, is completely wrong. obviously, this is because he took his hatred for magic and swapped it with his respect for his father due to the switched roles they had in his life (magic: the deceiver, the killer, the villian; uther: the protector, the victim, the hero; but yk, swapped in this episode) but that doesn't make his open mind to magic (IN THIS EPISODE!!) any less real.

so, ik that was a lot lol, but if merlin had told arthur about his magic at this point, i think itd be one of the only times when that revelation would cause arthur to feel angry and betrayed not really because of the magic, but because merlin hadn't told him. and i'm sorry, at any other point in the series, imo, that wouldn't be true. the deception itself may be the root of the hurt, but the magic would just be salt in the wound.

and!! not even to mention the fact that arthur was going to kill uther. instead of lying to him, merlin should have admitted that he has magic, told him not to kill him, explained whatever information he knew (yk, about nimueh or literally anything because he definitely knew more than arthur did, atp). would arthur have felt the betrayal twofold? of course, but i do think that this would have hit him hard enough to stop on his rampage to kill uther. it definitely would have been difficult to get him to STOP long enough to tell him lol, but i think merlin could have done it. all in all, it definitely would have been difficult to execute, but i think overall it would have been the right choice for all the right reasons.

now, onto the second interpretation of the question: should merlin have revealed his magic in the sins of the father, as in the WRITERS should have revealed his magic. and that answer is a resounding fucking YES!!!! im so so sorry, but merlin and arthur's relationship was ridiculous. i can (and will with the slightest prompting) go into an insane amount of depth and detail into why i hate their relationship development despite being obsessed with their dynamic (most of the time) and why i think as the MAIN DUO OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING SHOW deserved better, but i'll try to keep it short and sweet. in season one, their relationship was developed almost perfectly. sure, there definitely should have been more time from the first episode and onwards of actual contempt between them, but besides that i think the writers really did a very good job at building their relationship and dynamic.

then comes the giant fucking spiky, iron wrecking ball that is season two. immediately, all the trust and obvious affection and friendliness built in the first season just... disappears. i honestly think that a change in their dynamic was necessary! but with the current canon, there is absolutely no reason for it, and the changes that there were, quite frankly, sucked. they were completely unnecessary. but start off season two with them being all chummy and just genuinely good friends, and merlin starts to feel guilty for not telling arthur about his magic. (that's another thing about this goddamn show. i honestly can't think of a single time merlin expressed any actual guilt for lying to arthur about his magic for an entire fucking decade?? for the most part, all he expresses his fear at the possibility of arthur finding out, which makes me want to kick scream chew on someones eyelids and just generally maul someones face, but whatever ig. but this guilt could definitely result in some distance and loss of trust, and then it keeps building and building and building until... BANG! fucking magic reveal!!

its also perfect for the reason that, im sorry, i dont believe for a fucking second that season one arthur (MY arthur, thanks) would even LET merlin not tell him about his magic for TEN GODDAMN YEARS. he would sniff that shit out and wait patiently for merlin to spill before confronting him after like a month. because in season one, arthur definitely wasn't ready for a magic reveal. they weren't close enough, there wasn't enough trust, arthur hadn't grown enough yet, all the things. but season two? proved the perfect opportunity for all that to happen, and then on you can have ACTAUL GOOD CONFLICT instead of the entire conflict being "oh well merlins secret🥺" ........................SHUT THE FUCK UP

anyways, i think thats my whole opinion?? overall i just really think that the magic reveal should have happened longgg before the finale and this episode is the absolute perfect place for it to occur:)) thank you sm for the ask!! i had a lot of fun with this one if you couldn't tell lol. sorry for forgetting about it😭😭 so glad your back tho, and cant wait to have you lurking in my inbox again!!!

[sixofsol]

@johaerys-writes tagged my main (@heypax) for this, but since ive talked about my fics more on this blog i decided to do it here instead !

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

26!

2. What is your AO3 word count?

151,778

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I mean, I haven’t written anything for anything but six of crows since like year back… But! I do miss writing patrochilles, and tsoa is the fandom i’ve written the absolute most for! If we’re looking back, I’ve written hadestown, steven universe, haikyuu!! and a bunch more years ago.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

we were shotgun lovers // I’m a shotgun running away - six of crows, wesper, 772 kudos

like moss climbs a tree - song of achilles, patrochilles, 446

i want someone to try, and let me down easy — six of crows, wesper, 405 kudos

from the outside looking in - the song of achilles, patrochilles, 371 kudos

twisted roots and sunny days, the song of achilles, patrochilles, 363 kudos

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

YES if i dont miss when i get them (i dont have the email motifs on) i always do ! it means so much someone commented and i always love having a lil conversation about this thing that i wrote.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

as much of an lover i am of hurt no comfort i very rarely write it lmao but a lot of my tsoa fics had sad endings. autumn’s coming around is the first one that popped into mind, but that’s at least slightly open ? i’ll hold your hand while you drown, less so.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I feel like a lot of my fics have equally happy endings haha, the one that came to mind was our hair tangled in the breeze, simply because its a happy ending canon complaint tsoa fic which is a feat lmao

8. Do you get hate on fics?

nope the closets ive ever come was when i was 12 and people were like nice story but god your grammar and spelling is terrible! which was fair!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

nah I’m a fade to black kinda girlie

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I never anymore but well,, Once upon a time i was 14 and obsessed with glee and sherlock and well….

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not as far as ik

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope !

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

nope, but I would enjoy trying!

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

…this is hard because wesper has been running around in my head for a year but simply cause ive been obsessed with patrochilles longer im still gonna say them

15. What's a WIP you'd like to finish but doubt you ever will?

I’d love to continue for everyone im about to prove wrong, and I think I even have a mostly finished chapter lying around somewhere, but I’ve just not had the inspiration rip.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I’m good at writing characters in general, especially when it’s from their pov. first person pov my beloved.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I’m not really a person who uses a lot of metaphors of writes flowery language, but i wish i was!! i love very beautiful language and poetic writing but i just don’t do that that much im pretty straight forward, which isn’t a bad thing but I wish i could expand a bit more.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

takes me out the story way too much, it’s fine if it’s like one word every now and then but nah. ive read a couple of young royals fics, and as a swedish speaker its a bit jarring to suddenly have swedish words there lmao

19. First fandom you wrote for?

If non published count, harry potter. if only published, glee!

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

i’m gonna be fair to myself and choose one for soc and one for tsoa.

autumn’s coming around for tsoa and a fire died last winter for soc, which ironically are my least popular fics in the respective fandoms!

thank you !! and im tagging @leglesslouie @jackwolfes @wesperbrekkered @deathless--aphrodite

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

this isn't about natsu on his own but more of a natsu and lucy theory (or hc(?? since ik it won't be true) and the importance of their relationship and status as -both- mcs had mashima done things with a little more thought

basically it roots from anna's 400 year plan and the reason she decided to send the kids to that specific time to kill acnologia and it was because lucy is alive in this time

I don't believe for a second that anna was "the most powerful celestial wizard to ever have existed", not with lucy in the picture -and having seen literally not a single instance of anna using her powers- my hc starts with anna seeing through the eclipse gate and discovering one of her ascenders will hold an inmense ammount of power and unique relationship with the celestial keys when she grows up and that's when she makes up her mind, she will send the kids to a timeline where her most powerful family/clan(? member will be alive and be able to help them

and now onto the natsu part sorry this is getting long ndhsjf

I think zeref creating natsu was ultimately what made him lose his final straws of sanity tho I can't remember if this was canonically implied

but I also think he was sane enough to realize making so many demons as tests to revive natsu made him completely unable to raise his brother and in his last moment of conciousness he decided that anna and the dragons were far better options, even if it meant natsu was deliberately being used as a war pawn, so he used whatever remained of his power to make natsu more powerful to be able to survive this war and hopefully being able to kill him as his way for atoning for not being the brother natsu deserved to have

and there you have it, pretty much natsu and lucy's relationship was threaded by fate and the plan was for the dragons slayers to kill acnologia under the support of the actual most powerful celestial wizard that has existed or will ever exist

you can think of little moments under this pretext, like why was lucy's father set up on bringing his daughter back after finding out she's part of fairy tail, or how natsu and lucy together was the catalyst a handful of characters needed to surpass their traumas

idk I like them both a lot be it platonically or romantically, mashima could've expanded their relationship so much more 🤧 but anyways hope you liked my derrangedness

I know u sayin a lot right now but i have to let u know in the midst of your paragraphs i zoomed tf in on this point specifically

Cause i sorta wrote a whole ass essay some time ago bout that and it activated my neurons.

Anyways! Onto your actual ask!

Honestly we share a pretty similarish school of thought on the situation there as a whole. With regards to how the heartfilia's got thrown into the mix (and Anna. I have, mixed thoughts on how she was used in the final arc and just her being there in the present the whole time. Home girl would've been a much more interesting character if her role stayed in the past and her connection to the dragons expanded on but! Gettin off track!)

I think the only part here where we may differ majorly is around where you said this-

but I also think he was sane enough to realize making so many demons as tests to revive natsu made him completely unable to raise his brother and in his last moment of conciousness he decided that anna and the dragons were far better options

It's just in my head I always found it so hard to wrap my head around the idea of Zeref doin all that to just give away Natsu. It always felt so hard to believe that mans literally undid the fabric of death to give away his hard work.

(Note this is not a jab at you for using it! It's just me disliking it in canon lol, I personally don't like using that reasoning. Plus with my mental characterization of Zeref he doesn't feel like the type to atone or fix his wrongs to me so can't really see him doing certain things willingly. Forgive me i'm sittin on a whole ass different characterizations and plot beats that im holdin onto for the thing i'm writing that i dont wanna rlly let loose yet)

But like, you're right! Natsu n Lucy work as a neat package deal of MCs! Two weirdos! Blah blah the demon and the star child, blah blah the writer and the guy who's a book. Daddy issues but in opposite directions! It's fun that they're linked with each other! Wish it was used more :)

[jovenshires]

you are named jovenshires. very little joven recently. this ask is a prompt to talk about joven (pretty please)

ooooh dangerous territory here anon. very dangerous territory.

so the reason there has been very little joven content is bc (and i would like to apologize to the stan community in advance) i don't watch the og smog content. ik ik i should, but i still don't even watch any of the old smosh content they're in bc it just makes me so sad. don't get me wrong im still following them all everywhere but. ya know. one day i will get there and i'll be able to stomach it but fr i am so sensitive to that shit y'all have no idea akldmfkf

but anyway! you didn't ask for my backstory you asked for me to talk about joven and so i will!

i don't think i've ever really talked about like. Why i like joven so much or what drew me to him. so here goes that. attempting to put it into words for the first time is crazy bc i've just had this In My Brain for like half a decade. so first things first - i've always been drawn to people who take up that position of being a heel. you know; the butt of the joke, the silly guy. (do you all see the spencer transition.) like if you knew my friends, they're all like that, too. so yeah, joven was a pretty clear fave choice. he was always being picked on, he was always the contrarian, and it made me want to root for him when no one else would. he was the odd one out ya know. obviously it was mostly a bit / he was not actually being bullied and they were all friends NDKNKNF but still, the character was fun to watch and easy for me to fall for.

but like also. there's something ab him that's so genuine at the same time. like he puts on all this bravado and this big show but he just seems like a genuinely really nice person. obviously parasocial relationships i only know him so much etc etc but like... the part of himself that he Showed that was kind and gentle really appealed to me. i think frequently and i just rewatched a clip of that one stream where he and boze played a horror game and she had a full panic attack and he stopped the whole thing and was like. 'okay breathe with me.' like he seemed to actually care for his coworkers and friends in a way that he sometimes couldn't help but let slip through and i found that really endearing.

and, of course, i really appreciate anyone who's passionate. smth smth babygirl your encyclopedic knowledge is a sign of mental illness but also so sexy. his love of comics? his absolute unwavering (and often undeserved don't get me wrong) confidence when he speaks? whew! i just really love a man who at least thinks he knows what he's talking about. like yes please tell me all about batman i'll pour us some wine and listen sir

anyway, all that's to say - even though it's tattered around the edges, the love never died. it's still there <3

[imrllytootiredforthis]

hey cyrus, i am a big fan of your artworks and i just have to tell you about how much i love them im sorry pls bear with me.

I absolutely admire your writing style. It's constantly unpredictable, captivating, and invigorating. Since that's really more to my taste, I especially enjoy your fiction when the main character—the ID0L—is the centre of the story, rather than the reader. I appreciate how you adhere to the hashtags you use. I'm always pleased by you, as are probably many other readers.

My favourite work of yours is "night at the bar" (if im not mistaken). I adore how you portrayed Felix in that fanfiction, and I adore, adore, adore the character of the "reader." It's interesting to see the reader in the role of the villain once. I don't know why, but I really enjoy the vibes in the moment where the reader pulls a random guy close to them for a kiss as Felix approaches them it's so JQGDHWGAHAGAI WANNA KISS FELIX BUT IK SCARED RI FALL IN LOVE BUT I WANT HIM I WANT HIM TO BE MINE.

That specific fic of yours reminded me a lot of cigarettes after sex's songs. it's enticing and exciting at first but suddenly those feelings turned into remorse and bewilderment. but as both parties be completely transparent with each other, they started to learn to love and cherish each other. I love it i love i love it so much.

Please writw more, we're all rooting for you cyrus. Im sorry if there is any grammar mistakes, im still learning english and i might have some words wrong.

Thank you, thank you, i cannot tell you how much of a confidence boost this gave me<3

I'm so glad you enjoy them! Comparing 'night at the bar' to cigarettes after sex's songs-honestly i love that so much, and that was totally the type of vibe i was going for while i was writing it

I find that in a lot of fics (not all, there are plenty of other amazing writer's that do this) the reader is very sure of themselves, very confident and always kinda knows what to do and how to react. I find this unrealistic in a lot of ways and portraying the reader in the light of making the mistakes/in the villain role is something that just feels more authentic if that makes any sense

I am writing more, i have a few half-made fics and ideas that i'm getting through rn, i'll try to get them out as soon as i can-and i really hope that you'll enjoy them :)

and again, thank you so much for this feedback, i really love to see what you guys think of my writing and your thoughts on them<3

[milknhaney]

man tell me why the FUK i've never read this !!?!??!?!? (probs bc I don't like love triangles but i still took a risk and read it and IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT OKAY—im sorry im putting my comments on here instead of tags bc idk if it'll fit :33—

FIRST OF ALL hyuck and reader's relationship was so cute and I was so mad I thought reader wasn't gonna end up with him bc they deserved each other (and I was rooting for him not just bc he's my ult but just bc the story made me lean toward him)

like no offense but no way can mark just come out of nowhere and take reader, soulmate or not 😔 (I still feel bad for him in the end don't get me wrong, but I rly just liked her with hyuck more)

And at first i was like okay y tf did hyuck just leave reader like that, y didn't he fight?,,, and i was thinking that the bonding they fkn had with not having a mark made him go oh shit this is what she deserves AND THT HURT

bless director jo for being understanding && CHENLE IS SO CUTE IN THIS UTTERLY ADORABLE & YEEUN BEING A GIRL'S GIRL

okay this may just be me overthinking but how i interpreted her still leaving her pic with hyuck there instead of getting rid of it was like,,, some kind of foreshadowing of some sort idk, like oh she's gonna keep holding onto him in some way

throughout the whole thing,,, I was trying to imagine wat hyuck was going through :(( esp starting from when he couldn't take her out for the lunch

the signs of her moving on I WAS ACTYALLU YELLING like how can u make us love her relationship with hyuck and have her hating mark for more than half of the story and then doing a 180 was gonna RIOT ngl

But when she couldn't say ily back to Mark I was like wait a min is something gonna happen 👀

THE WAY I STARTED SCREAMING WHEN SHE FOUND THE RING IN THE DRAWER I WAS LIKE FUCK R U FUCKING KIDDING ME PLS

AND THE FUCKING IMPORTANCE BEHIND IT AND THE BIRTHSTONES I ALMOST STARTED RUNNING LAPS IN MY ROOM

OMG WHAT IF SHE NEVER FOUND THE RING

the parallels between him asking (almost demanding) to see her mark at the beginning and then later when he was scared to even look at it

AND IMAGINE MY TEARS WHEN HE REVEALED HOW HE WAS GON PROPOSE I HAD TO TAKE A BREATHER BRO R U—

"my love" "ding dong" 😭😭😭

rly thought reader was gonna settle with mark just bc of the soulmate mark and i was like girl u literally said soulmates are bullshit in the beginning? wat r u doing,, BUT THEN SIKE (im sorry Mark 😭)

mayhaps,,, mark was just a platonic soulmate? (even tho ik these marks r not for platonic but im trying to look at the bright side)

anyways, the writing, the story, the characters, EVERYTHING WAS SO WELL DONE/THOUGHT THROUGH—like how tf does this not have more notes?

invested

❧ word count: 23.1k

❧ warnings: cursing, uh suicide mention but like nobody actually attempts or genuinely considers it, it’s a passing sarcastic comment but it is used in a harsh and insensitive way in a heated moment (and quickly passed over) so please be careful if you need to!

❧ genre: twist on a soulmate au (matching tattoos), love triangle (donghyuck x reader, mark x reader), mostly angst, a lot of fluff in there somewhere

❧ extra info: inspired by one of my favorite fics ever, cobalt and charcoal y’all should definitely go give it a read if you haven’t already (i literally think abt this fic like twice a month bc it just hit me so hard the first time i read it)

❧ update 06/15/23: this previously had a former member as the third leg in the triangle, but has now been revised to be mark instead

sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places

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[mossdogs]

alright so i watched the eps (spoilers under the cut)

i kinda liked these, they arent terrible. sexy ed felt like og ch at times and that was great! seems like they r finding their footing. ALSO MR B SAID WESLEY!!! THREE TIMESSSSS!!!!!

my issue however is w the pairings. it seems like they said "oh right!! these two couples!! we forgot abt those!!". as much as i like cleo and frida together, it was... a bit rushed?? same w harriet and confucius, in their case it felt... random. there was no sign that they had a crush on each other (asides from those bits from the intro) and im not sure why they did that (probably to introduce another love triangle or smth who knows. maybe for the drama). it rubs me the wrong way i dont have a good feeling abt them ik that when they rush a couple in this show its cuz they r setting some shit up. i dunno im still not rlly attached to them but we'll see w time.

oh and the joa/nfk breakup!! that was a tough one. i stopped rooting for them ever since joan had that sex dream w abe cuz i knew that some shit was coming, so it didnt affect me as much as it could have. it was handed.. pretty well! if they dont get together again, at least they can be friends and find other ppl. lord and miller mentioned that they play w couples a lot and that they r always changing whos dating who so i find it logical that they want to experiment w other characters too.

anyways besides that im biased for cleo/frida so im glad that they r canon, i can make an exception and forgive the writing in their case, confucius/harriet hasnt grown on me much yet. mr b and scudworth r the best part as always their b plot carried ep7 pretty much, i dont care abt the rest gb

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Watch with me: Duy Beni episode 3

1. “We did it for you” - OZAN STAND TF UP!

2. These lot are so dumb for recording their attacks 👀 no money in the world can stop the consequences once something goes viral or leaked. This is so unrealistic.

3. I LOVE BEKIR 😭😭 the way he walked out like a Roman Prince! Roman Bekir 😭😂 Bestie <3

4. Bekir has Ozan’s blood boiling 💀 he is trying so hard to break him and Bekir keeps being Bekir lmao.

5. That lowkey stand off between Ozan and Kanat? Yeah their friendship is on thin ice.

6. Melisa is a disgusting person …but?? why do I like her ? It’s defo the actors charisma bc even tho I love the villain … she’s not the type of villain I would root for.

7. Yup. You see that shit Ekim is saying to Bekir yeah? Solidified my dislike for her. Don’t force your problems on everyone else … already bc of you he was attacked (multiple times). He would have been attacked at some point … but rn he is being attacked because of YOU … and that’s how you treat him? I’m pissed

Like I understand she’s upset … but Bekir clearly has his own coping mechanisms … it’s sick to speak to him that way

8. Kanat, bro, ik you have a mission … but pls say thank you to the waiters.

9. Melisa sis. Pls date ozan. This man hates you 🥲

10. I lied. I ship Ayse and Orijinal 🚀

11. Not Leyla crying over a man she’s never met. Wrap it up. You both live in Istanbul and never met irl? Stfu

12. I was right! Aziz is cat fishing Leyla using kanats pic

13. Did I miss something??? Is Leyla also cat fishing???? Why is he calling her meltem??? Wtf is going on

14. There’s being in love with someone and then there’s leyla. She’s obsessive and possessive af. I’m genuinely scared

15. Aziz HATES Kanat … like he says it … but this ep he showed it

16. That scene where Riza forced kanat-Aziz mum to change her outfit broke me 💔

17. Melisa going to ozan for help instead of Kanat??? OZMEL = CHAIR!!! SIGN ME UP RN.

18. Personally, I thought that the parents have their own bullying group and were involved. I still think this … but maybe the kids are tryna protect their parents 💀

20. Aziz and his mum have me bawling. Like the way I’m crying.

21. We don’t know much about the mum zzz but I think that she comes from a rich family and riza used her etc.

22. AYSE is good! 😭🤣 she couldn’t even stay in character im finished

23. I like that we are learning more about Ekim … especially her background

24. Are we sure that Leylas father is not Sedar? Bc who in their right mind will go off over some random child. Bc even if there’s a sense of community blah blah … him forcing Ayse to work in a sweat shop over her is ducking SICK. IM PISSED

25. Checkmate scene makes me think aziz doesn’t really like Leyla??

26. Okay will finish the rest of the tomz

27. Wtf is wrong with Leyla. Honestly I’m sick of her

28. Ozan 🥺 ik you would be a better bf

29. I think Mel really likes Bekir and they will become friends

30. Ozan making an effort to greet mels dad. GET TOGETHER ALREADY

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just rewatched raya for the first time in a couple months and I thought I'd give some random thoughts lol

- I will literally never watch the English dub again because I loved the bahasa Indonesia one so so so much. the voices were perfect and it filled a hole in my heart istg

- the plot feels really fragmented and I wonder if it has to do with how the work was literally fragmented with each person off in their home for the second half of production

- I was initially mad about having SEAsia blended together, however now I think that this is a good first step. having a movie come out that was just one of us probably would have caused some bitterness and I'm somewhat glad we can all just share this piece of representation until we all get up there and make our own :)

- the trust message feels a bit too nuanced/confusing for a kid's movie tbh. it felt like it always framed sisu as correct for randomly trusting ppl and raya as having trust issues when... yeah??? ofc she has trust issues? both of them had flaws in their outlook but it felt like raya was constantly criticized for it

- I didn't know that there were deleted scenes and other extras and they were so fun!! I loved seeing what aspects of the movie were from what culture :) seeing it say that pencak silat was the martial art that raya's was based on made me so happy!

- one day I want to dress up as raya bc istg that's what I look like :o I love the character design in this movie. almost cried the first time I watxhed bc omg that's me. wtf. that's my eyes and nose and hair??? I am so attached because of this??? and chief Benja looks just like my papah so it's just T-T yeah...

- raya barely did anything wrong. maybe im saying this bc I also have issues with needing to control things. in fact... probably... but still lmao imo she wasn't at fault for sisu's death bc namaari was about to pull the trigger.

- tuktuk being a pill bear is such a cute concept and I love it. he's just so cute. me and both of my sister's have plushies of him :)

- I'm still sad we didn't get fun music tbh. esp after watching encanto it feels like a lost opportunity even tho ik the tone of this movie was a lot darker. speaking of which, I love the cinematography but I kind of wish there were more bright colors?? idk, again, I don't know if it would match the vibe lol I wonder if we'll get a bright and happy movie one day. that would be fun. our cultures are so bright and beautiful and despite colonization and violence we have so much happiness to share

- not to beat a dead horse, but yea the jokes... aren't great. not a fan of them bc they rlly take me out of the immersion. why couldn't we just get funny jokes that aren't based on being #relatable. not everything needs to work for western ppl. we could have had inside jokes only we got.

- sisu's design also isn't my favorite but honestly I don't like how everyone acted about it. it really wasn't as terrible as ppl made it out to be and it's still clearly a dragon with SEAsian roots. that's not a European dragon that breathes fire

- the food makes me so happy :) I was eating longon and lychee and actually shrieked when I saw it on screen and I had Tom yum for dinner and that's so fun bc I was thinking about how much I wanted to try their soup and apparently that's what it's based on!!!

- I wish they had actually used a mix of different languages instead of making things up. like they could have had a word from each country or smthn instead of making up a random word. would have felt way more connected.

- the lack of SEAsian VAs makes me sad. partially why I love the Indonesian version so much is it alleviates some of that discomfort. I don't think the performances were bad (for the most part. I'm looking at you random really deep voiced girl from the market) but it just makes me so so sad. we had a thing for once and they just went. nah east Asians instead! like... why. it's not like we're not in the industry. ik Kelly Marie tran and awkwafina and Benedict Wong are popular but y'all rlly could've gotten a SEAsian for at least the side roles :(

- oh also the awkward way they say their names and made up words makes me so uncomfortable lmao. I think this every time I see a cartoon about a culture with another language but goddamn could you just give them an accent so the mixed in words from another language feel more cohesive? they managed to do this in encanto so goddamn have them roll some Rs sometimes lmao

- I love Boun and Tong and Toi and Benja and the ongis and it kind of makes me sad that there's only content for raya and namaari. sort of feels like yt queers just took the queer bits and decided that the rest of the cultural stuff wasn't as interesting.

- on the flip side some of the fanart is so fucking cool and I'm glad there's so much good stuff! and these characters are gay. so gay. they are just. so lesbians. the eye contact. the tension. the hand holding. the undercut and cat lady jokes (while western oriented) are yeah. theyre friends to enemies to lovers your honor. there's nothing else to be said

- the droon being an allegory for colonialism is something I just saw and that's rlly interesting. next time I watch I'll have to keep that in mind. would really change how I look at the movie I think. would add a layer of depth that could be interesting to think about.

in conclusion, I love this movie sm, it makes me cry every time, and I'm so fucking glad my little sisters have a south east Asian princess to look up to :)

edit: there have been many videos made recently about raya and in my watching of them, I noticed all of them said that the cast was almost fully east Asian including Kelly Marie Tran. a lot of issues that people have had are that she is east Asian and claiming the seasian princess but???? she is seasian?? I just checked and she's literally vietnamese?? I'm so confused why has everyone been acting like she was an east Asian coopting seasian roles?? help??

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S2 05

Joyce byers put every single one of Will's drawings on the fucking fridge she has an ENDLESS supply of crayons and markers and I JUST NOTICED THE TAPE ON THESLEEVES

gOD Hes. DRENCHED

his bowl cut is so dry <3

MIKE IS TRYING TO MAKE HIM FEEL SO MUCH BETTER AUGASKHDJH

also are the Byers just ALWAYS sitting to the left of Nancy/Mike i cant remember their last name rn but ?? For some reason theyre like ALWAYS on their left???

HOPPER WEN TINTO THE SHIT HOLE FUCKING ROOTS KNOWING DAMN WELL THE UD IS POISONOUS BC HED BEEN THER EBFEORE AND JUST DIDNT THINK ANYTHING WOUL DHAPPEN?????????? SIR

AUGUAHDHKJASKJHD KJHADS NOW EL IS GONNA HAVEA KHTUHSADL HARKDJSHF SK

THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS !!!! I ADSHASDLKJH im sorry i cant accept romance unless theyre polyam i don't make the rules

KSJHKSJDFHSDFKJH ONLY A MONTH

HIS LITTLE HOOD AND SLEEPING BAGGGG EeverY time i see Joyuce with a phone and stuff IM JUST!! LIKE !! GIRL WALK AWAY ITTS GONNA EXPLODE

dONT!!! say THATTT about my dad hes gonna be OKAY

Im entering this space now with the knowledge that something is gonna happen to Bob I just know it and im grieving him already he hasnt even shown up in this episode yet or the last one buT IM GREIVING MY IDEA OF THIS PERFECT HAPPY MAN WHOMST I ADORE

NOT THE CIGARETTE BREAD CRUMBSSSSS AKJHDALKDJASK JH

give that bitch a nicotine addiction

LUCAS' FAMILLLYYYYYYY I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AND LUCAS JUST BEING ABLE TO LEAVE A MEAL LIKE THAT????

GIRLLLL NOT YOUR CAT IM SO SORRY !!!!!! This is the first time that Dustin's done something that i JUST LIKE I UNDERSTAND I GET IT obviously not wanting to upset his mom BUT,,,, baby boy ..... you gotta clean that up now .... you gotta bury that ????

HOW do they handle a second uh. DIAHDkjhd Egg beast. D'art.

IM ALSO KINDA SORRY TO D'ARTANGAN HE'S... ACTUALLY JUST A BABY WHO DOESN TKNOW ANY BETTER HES JUST DOING WHAT HE'S SUPPOSED TO!!!!!

EL girl did you HITCHHIKE ????? YOURE. insanely fucking lucky holy fUCK??? i mean she could have exploded them but STILL ????

Is that the same hosue that Hopper and Joyce visited??? I don't remember it being .... Like this ????? IS SHE GONNA EXPLODE THE DOOR EL PLEASE YOU CANT JUST DO TTHAT okay nvm that was more peaceful

OOASDIAKDJAHKJD Im assuming that Terry is repeating something she saw and wanted desperately to remember and ik the lab room with the kids in it has rainbows on walls or th epain kind alooks like that BUT ????? its SOMETHING obviously

THIS bALDING man. i LOVE when theres always a guy who'se like oh I know EVERYTHING you dont even KNOW and they.... actually know don't shit

MONSTER HOUSE LOOKIN' ASS IS BACKKKKKK

PULLING A FAST ONE ON MAX FOR LUCASSSSS i take it this is when he's YEAHHH GONNA TELL HER THE TRUTH ABOUT WILL !!!!!!!!! AND EL !!!!!!!!

Max is still giving me baby egg vibes

LUCAS IS SUCH A STORY TELLLERRRRRRRR

KSJHKSJDHFLKSDJ JOYCE LOOKING ALL OVER THE PLACE BECAUSE IT LOOKS INSANE AND BOOOBBBBB BO BO IM

ME NOT READY FOR WAHTEVER HAPPENS TO/WITH HIM !!!!!!!! he is BEYOND SWEET and he jUST wants to help he wants to help so bad i ador ehim i adORE HIM

THE PUZZLE MASTER HAS ARRIVEDDD

HES SO CONCERNED HE'S SO LOVING AND HES TRYING SO HARD NOT TO ASK QUESTIONS AND THEN HE'S IMMEDIATELY LIKE OH WAIT FUCK NVM I GET IT

H OPPER BIRTHING HIMSELF OUT THE TUNNE LLL where the fuck is he ... gonna come out of im gonna lose my mind if it's near Dustin

FUCKING ERIKKAAAAA I LOVE HERRRRR DAKJDHAKSJD

im still so skeptical of Terry and El's relationship and this being home and whats wrong with Terry and IM LIKE AKJSDASLDJALSKDJH idk what to think or whats the truth i gotta wait to watch more so i understand more theories and shit bc i dont even knoWWW HWO HALF THE CHARACTERS ACTUALLY AREEE

but something just feeLLSS WRONNGGGGG like .... ,,,,,,,

IS SHe stuck in the UD like Will??????

BOOOBBBBBB HES SO. I AM GONNA LOSE MY MIND WHEN WHATEVER HAPPENS HAPPENS TO HIM EM I AM GONNA BE SO UPSET I HATE THAT YOU LEFT ME :)))))))))) WITH TTHAT AN DNOTHING ELSE

I want to do cocomellon shit to Ted's brain (negative) (explodes him) (explodes him) (explodes him)

IS THIS WHEN STEVE ADOPTS THE CHILDREN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW CLOSE HE AND DUSTIN GET THIS IS IMPORTANT I LOVE DUSTIN SO MUCH I AM GOGIAHSD LOSING MY MIND

Hopper IS you gIVE UP i fyou paSS OUT IF YOU DIE ANYTHING IM GONNA . IDEK . AUUGGHGHHAKSDJASIUHDASKJDH

MAXXXXX GIRL I MEAN YOURE SO RIGHT FOR NOT BELIEVING IT AKSJDHASKDJH BUT GIRLLLLL PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ohhaSDKJADH

EXPLODES BILLY WITH MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is this the Russian plot that i've seen mentioned a few times or is there more like the ,,,, the lab doing their best to be like ooOoOooOOO The Stinky Russians Will Get THeir Hands On It ,,,,, Cold war bullshit ??????? or is there an ACTUAL russia plot

This guy is RIGHT to insist that like you know you gotta convince people that you're telling the truth - but AKJSDHAKSJDH HS SO ASKJHDKAJH FUCKING FUNNY

oh yeah i dont think dirt's supposed to do that KJSDHKJDSHFKSJDFH

TERRY HELLO GIRL OH did she? actually miscarry???? okay okay c section baby that is VERY alive OH BUT THEY TOLD HER THAT THE BABY DIDN'T MAKE IT. YEAH SEQUENCE OF EVENTS JUST LIKE I THOUGHT. OH THE RAINBOW ROOM IS THAT !!!!!!!!!! THAT WAS THE GIRL FROM THE FIRST SEASON

EXPLODES HIM EXPLODES HIM EXPLODES HIM EXPLODES HIM EXPLODES HIM EXPLODES HIM EXPLODES HIM

BOB IS TRYING SO HARD OOAIFUAKDHS ADKLHFKHJSDA

OKAY OKAY OKAY OKAY

CRASH THE CAR BREAK THINGS ITS FINE

BOB DOESNT EVEN ASKDJHAKSDJH KNOWWWWWW HES JUST GOING ALONG WITH IT

IF HE

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AHAHSKDASKJH

HES JUST GOING ALONG WITH IT HE JUST HE LOVES JOYCE SO MUCH ANDHE TURSTS HE EVEN IF HE DOESNT UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON !!!!!!!!!! HE JUMPED INTO THE HOLE TOO I JUST GOD I ADORE HIM SO MUCH IF HE. IF HE GE,,,,,, IF SOETMHGISNSD HAPPENS TO HiM I tNIS HSAE

I AM FRAGILE. I AM FRAGILE. I AM FRAGILE.

WHO THE FUCK !!!!!!!!!! IS THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHITE VANS COMING FOR KIDS AGAIN FUCKING ON THE NOSE BULLSHIT

PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE PPOISDFJLKD I AM MAKING THE SAME NOISE AS THE VINES IM JUST MAKING SOUNDS AND SCREECHING

ASKDASDHKSJHFDSKJHF BOB ISNT EVEN JEALOUS LIKE GOOD FOR HIM GOOD FOR HIM GOOD FOR HIM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BRO THE . FACE WILLIS M AIKGING AKSDJHASKJHFD OG DFKH STOP

IT FROZE ON IT

IT FU CKING DROZE ON HIM MAKING THE FACE STOP

THERE IS. music? at theending but its not a SONG it's like a half in the UD and half not ????? ig bc it closed on Will seizing and his connection to the vines that are no longer "in" the UD?

(also bob is safe i live free another day)

Stranger Things S2 01

this is just me live blogging watching ST none of my thoughts are v coherent enjoy <3

STARTING OFF REAL INTERESTING BUT REAL TALK when you have like a cool haircut how do you expect not to be found if u do a crime???? LIKE I LOVE YOUR MOHAWK AND I GET IT U DONT WANT TO COVER IT BC OBVIOUSLY BUT!!!!

this is NOT the focus obviously its about the fact theres other kids from the lab BUT AKSHDAKSJDKH

DUSTINNNN!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH IM SO GLAD WE'RE STARTING ON HIM KISS KISS KISS

not the reagan sign STOP STOP ITS BEEN 2 SECONDS I HATE TED THATS HIS NAME RIGHT FIGHT KILL DESTROY BITE BITE BITE BITE

also the boys have grown SO MUCH !!!!!!! i forget there was actual real time between when these were filmed KSJHD im so excited to see Will and his perpetual bowl cut

JOYCE MY MOM!!!!!!!!!! SHES SO PRETTY AND SO CONCERNED I JUST LOVE HER

THE CHIP EATING DUDE FUCKING !!!! REMINDS ME OF THAT FUCKER FROM MONSTER HOUSE???????

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE REMINDS ME OF THIS ASKJDHASKJHDKAJSH

Will is so tiny ..... and little? oh hes being teleported into the fucking upside down again baby boy im so fucking sorry also ilu but why would you just walk outside away from wher eyour friends WERE to look at the horrifying shit world you were trapped and almost died in ????? aSDKJH

Im gonna have to DM you on discord or something so i can properly save all the things you have to say about the timelines and how the Russian shit plays into that because was anyone calling El (im assuming he's referring to her) is Russian??? IK this is possibly the third (?) timeline we've seen (genuinely let me know if i can do that its ok if not i forget tumblr has Dms)

ALSO WHO IS THIS GUY IM CRYING HES!!! WHAT A PI??? WHO ARE YOU

NANCY AND STEVE ALSO BESTIES IM CRYING STEVE IS hes trying so hard are they dating my brain is so full of queer shit that im so deadset on platonic hetero relationships - i paused for one second and unpaused and they kissed SO THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION

idk what relationships to pay more attention to bc the dynamic between Mike and El interests me the most because of how compulsory everything feels and how El is going to navigate a completetly new environment and how Mike will cope with that? (im assuming its not well)

OH is this the !!! the guy that i see people talk about all the time YEAHHH THE BLOND MULLET MAN AND MAX what the fuck is his name Billy??? He looks trans

CRYING AT CHECKING OUT H IS ASS GIRL WAHT ASS HES FLAT HE HAS NOTH ING AKDSHASKHDKAJSH and those jeans are supposed to be supporting cheeks

I love Mr Clark so much and everyone who looks bored in his class just doesnt GET IT

BUT ALSO MAX I GET IT QUEEN the boys all staring are so good I FORGET THEY GO AS THE GHOST BUSTERS FOR HALLOWEEN

JOYCE MY MOM WHO IS THIS GUY HES??? GOOFY AND SHES SO HAPPY ??? BOB !!! i have no initial bad opinions of him bc hes silly and goofy and he makes Joyce so happy and she deserves to be SO SOSOS OS HAPPY and nothing but happy

IF i have to endure another god damn Hopper flash back im gonna throw up and scream and cry and lose my mind and I won't recover and I'll never come back

Im in call while I watch this episode because i really wanted to get through while and actually use my brain bc i don't that often - but my roommates bird is sitting next to her mic and farting really really softly into it and its making me lose my fucking mind

CORN MAZES WHEN YOURE TALL LOOK SO EASY AND LESS SCARY WHENEVER IM IN A FUCKING CORN MAZE ITS TERRIFYING AND I CANT SEE SHIT BC IM LIKE 2 FEET TALL

NANCCYCYY AND JOHNANATHANANSDNSAKDJ BESTIES BESTIES BESTIES BEST FRIENDS IM MAKING THEM A FRIENDSHIP BRACELET ITS THEIR FAVORITE COLOURS AND THEY NEVER TAKE THEM OFF

ADN STEVE TOO!!! IM SORRY YOURE A THIRD WHEEL BUT its the start of season 2 how do we feel about polyam relationships between them where the audience for that point me in the correct direction

DUSTIN IS RIGHT ALSO I LOVE HIM i love his little hats - MAX IS ALSO RIGHT

God i feel so ba for Will like to be??? singled out like that especially in elementary school? hell.

WHERE ARE THEY GOING TOGETHER WHAT IS HAPPENING ISNT THIS THE LAB ??? ougHHH THAt needle sound was unecessary

REALLY starting to see how this might be a different timelinei have no idea how ???? Joyce would.... trust them??? UNLESS THIS IS A HOSPITAL no its not ho films ina fucking hospital like this

also theyre mentioning the upside down

I understand needing to go back to the only place that fully understands that it exists and you need a place to talk to someone and also monitor him physically without being dismissed as insane - but i dont understand how Joyce OR Hopper would trust the Lab again after everything happened??????

I'm glad that he's actually getting help, and im glad that Joyce and Hopper are there to make him feel safe and support him given everything but !!!!!

this iS THE. He has PTSD. when did they get the word to describe that akjhaskjdh NVM HE JUST SAID IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALSO IS PRETENDING LIKE EVERYTHING IS NORMAL HELPFUL BC IT SURE THE FUCK IS N OT FOR ME ????????? also who is this DR hes kinder but "i need you to trust me" to JOYCE AFTER THE BRENNER SHIT ???

also them NOT MENTIONING IT WHEN THEY LEAVE BUT JOYCE UPSET ABOUT THE WHOLE "i need you to trust me" THING B UT NOT BRINIGN UP BRENNER?????? susususususus timeline shit anyway EM @ me tell me wahts up kiss kiss mwuah mwuah

OH they've upped their guinea pig game on entering the upside down and the gatelooks fucking uglier and uglier LOVE THE TORCH glad it works but no wonder the gate looks angry???

DUSTINNN I LOVE H IM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

ough i have a feeling her older brother is gonna ..... trigger me a lil but we'll get through it

THEM BOTH HAVING A CRUSH ON HER!!!!!

If YouR fRiEnD jUmPs OfF a ClIfF 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

THEYRE GOING OVER TO HAVE DINNER WITH BARBS FAMILY STOP STOP STO PST OPST OPST IM GONNA CRY Oh they hired a P.I okay yeah the bald guy he..... HIS CARD STOPPPPP

realizing they defenitely can't tell her parent's what actually happened to her an di hate that im gonna oaufkahd girl im so sorry im so sorry im so osrry UPSET BC SHE AS A CHARACTER DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE I WISH THEY HADN'T DONE HER DIRTY LIKE THAT

all the photos of her would make me so ill to look at like god NANCYYY THE GUILT AND B LAME GIRLIEEEE

also Mike rebelling after experiencing that kind of trauma and losing Will and El even though Will came back he's not the same of corse he's struggling - calling it with the !!!! WALKIE TALKIEEEE girl i miss her too

YEAHHH ITS dustiNNNN BUT HE AKSHDKAJSH

DUSTINNN IM KAHSDKJH I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM SO MUCH HES SO SILLY !!!!!!!!!!!!! HES THE SILLY IN MY HEART

HONESTLY props to him again for not like invesigating something that was probably gonna be HORRIBLE he'd survive a horror movie

JOYCEEEEE IN MY FAV SHIRT SHES SO KISS KISS KISS KISS

Johnathan is such a good brother bro BUT ALSO WILL IS SO RIGHT I GET IT I GET IT I UNDERSTAND TREATING IT LIKE ITS NORMAL MAKES IT WORSE !!!! SOMETHING HAPPENED PLEASE ACKNOWLEGE THAT and JOHANATHANNN HES THE FREAK AND A WEIRDO

STOPA SDADKSHJ iT S THAT WHY YOU DONT HAVE ANY FRINEDS SHUT UP STOP STOP /POS

BOB i love you so far and ik that being a step parent in these situation (even tho hes only dating Joyce its the same) is so hard especially when there are kids involved BUT YOURE DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB

AND THEYRE ALL WATCHING THE MOVIE TOGETHER AHHH

ew the phone the trigger GIRL YOU GOT THIS ITS OKAY ITS OKAY BUT ALSO THATS SUCH A HORRENDOUS RINGTONE WHAT THE FUCK

love me a tech who accidentally ignores the alarms going off (i couldnt hear the song playing it feels important - unintentially placing importance on all the music in this show now thank u em)

OohuaAHDAKJH OH WILL IS GONNA get ,,,,, yoinked back again isn't he ouguhadhAKHDJS interesting that it really only affects the *outside* like doors are now portals in a way ? i cant remember if it affected the inside of the arcade immediately or not

OH MIST LOOKING MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wood Waffle Hours !!!!!!!!!! OH NO CABIN HOURS??? IS SHE. IS SHE. BIG EYE BALL EMOJIS LET ME SEE MY GIRL LET ME SEE THE BABY GIRL !!!! this entire scene makes it seem like shes a fucking AKSJDHA freak ass creature

HER HAIRRRRR SHES SO CUTE STOPPPP HOPPERS LITTLE SMILE IM TEARING UP AND CRYING ACTUALLY LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT THEM LOOKA T THEM OUGHHAHAHHHHHHHH IM HEAVING

thank u for reading these were my thoughts

[kindlespark]

god. long post as i port over some twitter thoughts but. im catching up on tuc2 and i just don't want to gloss over the fact that d20 wrote a white woman becoming the chosen one of a culturally asian tradition and organisation. like it was already :/ in the first season but tuc2 making it clear that sofie made said organisation change bc they were doing things wrong makes it feel worse lol!

it's easy to not understand the full ramifications bc dnd is a theatre of the mind and i don't have to physically see a white woman at the head of an organisation with explicitly asian roots but i don't want to and can't ignore what they've made text here. deeply sucks as an asian woman to have to watch asian people be, if not villainised, distrusted and implied to be wrong for wanting to hold onto a tradition that a white woman is trying to change/improve upon, even if said tradition is outdated

like if sofie WAS asian everything would be fine bc asian media often has that trend of change vs tradition and seeing a young asian immigrant woman in america work to change the harmful parts of her culture and embrace change would've been everything to me. and ik we can't exactly retcon it now and im not saying we allow emily to suddenly play an asian woman but like. instead we just got a deeply uncomfortable and harmful narrative about white saviourism where two white people are at the forefront of a fight about asian tradition

like. if they'd just made more asian characters present in the conflict, if they'd had more prominent asian characters that also wanted change introduced earlier, if they didn't just try to ignore the racial dynamics they accidentally set up in the 1st season..... all im gonna say is it sucks to watch as an asian immigrant!!

[sepialunaris]

Besides the crazy stupid plot twist and dumb character actions I think the big problen why Jurassic World is a failure of a narrative is that it constantly confuses its own tone and what idea it wants to convey. And as a whole it just sounds like singing praises to capitalism and pinning problems on other aspects instead of the root of the problem.

So JW is said to have been open for 15 years, and its said people are bored with classic InGen retrosaurs hence initiating the creation of Indominus, and yet from the other perspective people are enjoying the retrosaurs just fine? It is not even hinted a bit that they did not not enjoy them besides that bit of exposition.

And our audience perspective character doesn't work. Gray and Zach seems to come from a middle-upper class family and yet they never visited the park for years despite having a family member as a high level staff? Knowing their son is obsessed with dinosaurs? And the only reason they were sent there was because it was an excuse to cover up their parent's divorce? In the case of Darius Bowman from CC it makes sense, but this is weird. It's kind of nitpicky, but okay my point is, what makes them ineffective is that they are new eyes to the park and Zach cannot represent "ahh ppl who already seen this many times get inspired to see the beauty of ugly 1993 retrosaurs" because he has never been there either. So its just weird to include their POV when it deosnt complement the Indominus narrative and if it does it feels forced and loose.

And its more bizarre when the movie seems to be more obsessed with showing "oh my god look at this capitalist paradise! John Hammond's gentrification deeam fulfilled!" and panning on random buildings and starbucks with the Jurassic Park theme. Besides "do you have dinosaurs in your dinosaur park" it just wooshes the anti-capitalist social commentary of JP, more crazy when its loads of product placement. I know that they did plan a panning shot with dinosaurs which would've been effective and narratively fitting rather than *pan to giant building* so idk why they even did that. And so idk if this movie wants to criticize capitalism and consumerism combined with the privatizing of the genetics could give way to ethical and environmental issues or do they want to say "god powers are allowed for capitalists if they are nice" (ahh and based on leaks for JWD, its the latter. They made John Hammond a messiah for protecting his unethical business from the 'bad capitalists' omg)

There's also the issue of 'authentic' dinosaurs (hence why I keep mentioning retrosaurs from the start 😂, i want to talk about this too). The scene with Wu and Masrani works, but ultimately the whole movie fails it. It is lifted from one of the few good scenes from the oroginal movel with Wu and Hammond, and concerns about how ALL dinosaurs from this park are genetic hybrids from the start. And well it would've worked well to explore the ethics and capitalism approach but honestly with the whole movie as comparison it just sounds like "guys this is the reason why they are not realistic and feathered please dont ask us about it again." The fact that they are hybridized retrosaurs get ignored and thrown under the rug besides that one scene, and we never again explore how unnatural all of them are as the movie time to time again keeps promoting a division between "legit" dinosaurs and Indominus, the character Lowery keeps pushing. And the latter... aslo shows how much they want to praise the first park and John Hammond despite it being a metaphor of capitalism failing from wanting to conquer nature, despite it being the exact same thing as modern JW. "They didnt need these hybrids they only had real dinosaurs" is already an errornous statement since all of them were frog hybrids, so if its wrong... what was the point of bringing it up? JP didn't just fail because Dennis Nedry sabotaged it, it was bound to fail for its attempt to control nature as Ian said. However JW attributes the singular creation of Indominus as the reason for its failure (and by attribute hoo boy how many plotholes did they engineer to pin it the blame. Suddenly it knows its being thermally monitored? Or does it just releases electromagnetic energy to make ppl around it dumb or jam cellphones, god im rambling), and if they continued making retrosaurs it would've been fine? So what was the message? "Its okay to mix dinosaur dna with frogs but don't add to much to the mixture"? "Its okay to play god with capitalism but dont go too far"? Instead of mentioning both concepts as unethical and the concept of Indominus as an already flawed concept pushed even more unethically, the increasing level of tolerance for playing god already shows a shift of morals from the JP and JW. So once again its 'capitalism is actually good, its just the evil ppl thats the problem'

It honestly just erases the brilliant potential of how that narrative could be engaged. Of course its obvious the park would want to promote their retrosaurs as legit and Indominus as a different flavor despite both being hybrids but the latter being pushed to the max, so both of them are bound to have intersecting problems. However not everyone would've been fooled by such promotion. And yet from our POV only Wu was aware of it; the view of them as retrosaurs is treated as an understatement to be ignored as we are only allowed to see things and agree with opinions from the POV of Lowery or the kids against Hoskins' cartoony "lets convince our president to use dinos to steal oil" idea.

It could've honestly touched on many aspects of de-extinction or concepts like the Chickenosaurus, as well as the complex moral dillema around many genetic issues, but the movie just wants to shy away from it and impose a black and white morality of "Indominus bad unnatural" and "retrosaurs good natural." Not unnesary military commentary that doesn't work (dinosaur's effect in the environment would be more devastating than them acting as military weapons so pro-US imperialists can be proud (one bullet will kill them, I swear yeah ik this is a 'scifi' franchise, but the logic hoops you need to jump from that. One raptor died from getting hit by a rocket launcher as they should. So what US wants to use these bags of flesh as weapons to steal oil? There is nothing they can do that dogs or dolphins can't do better). The only time its kinda shown is when Indominus is killing Apatosaurus for fun, but... real animals like humans, dolphins, chimps do that too. And the movie treats this as something unnatural or makes it evil. Scorpios rex despite being ugly actually accomplishes the ecological horror of having an invasive creature invade an ecosystem (despite the ecosystem itself alr being flawed and superficially created) and being able to reproduce through parthenogenesis). And I doubt they would touch on this in JWD despite the variance of animals they will show, as even Atrociraptor is not going to be called out by name in that film, that they can change its name in post production.