#interested and intrigued

[nataliescatorccio]

"That's the first appearance, legibly, of like the masks from the sequence in the pilot. So, that is the first indication of who is who." - LIV HEWSON

[riickgrimes]

I know who you are. You're Fire and Ice, right? Which one's which?

CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[dreamsy990]

drew some of my fav ody designs! wasnt originally meant to be also replicating the styles but thats sort of just how my brain works. except i didnt copy the lineart styles of anyone here so its DEFINITELY a bit uncanny for a couple of these (LOOKING AT YOU QINNY IM SO SORRY) but whatever

the designs featured here (from left to right) belong to: me, @gigizetz, @neal-illustrator, @irunaki, @bigidiotenergytm, @qinnyanimation, and @foopsie-daisy

[ladystoneboobs]

so, one aspect of catelyn which i think is underrated (certainly the biggest adaptation loss which nobody talks about) is her, let's say superstitiousness, or better yet, let's call it genre-savviness, being one of the few adult characters open to magic and the supernatural in this fantasy world. we first meet her in the godswood, home of gods which are not truly hers, yet she is still very aware of their power. when she and ned talk of the deserter he killed, he hopes he won't have to go with the nw to deal with mance rayder, but she has even more fear of that idea bc there are worse things beyond the wall than just wildlings. ned scoffs and says she's been listening to old nan too much, but she's right. we already know from the prologue that she's right! and here she is, understanding the genre of their world better than her husband, who was actually born and spent his earliest years in this northern land of deep magic, listening to old nan's stories. same with the direwolves, where she was uncomfortable with them at first, but later believed in them as guardians from the old gods even after robb had lost his own faith. and once again, we know she's right even if she doesn't know the evidence to back up her instincts, bc summer and shaggydog did not fail bran and rickon and robb was almost certainly a warg like his brothers. (perhaps making it more fitting that she's the one brought back as a fantasy vengeance monster, not ned and robb, the most unbelieving dead starks.) and in her 2nd agot chapter, everyone focuses on her ambition in wanting ned to agree to the hand job (pun intended) and sansa's betrothal, and while she does recognize the value of their daughter being a future queen more than ned does, that's only her stated argument bc she thinks it's rational enough for ned to listen to. (if ambitious matchmaking were as important to her as to her father she never would have made those frey betrothals fandom loves to blame her for.) in her own head there's a deeper urge driving her. she keeps thinking of the dead direwolf with antlers in its throat, an omen which filled her with dread from the first she heard of it, before robert's arrival, and thinking of it again is what makes her desperate to convince ned not to refuse robert. she had to make him see. and really, she's not wrong, as jon snow would say. the dead direwolf was an omen of ned and robert getting each other killed. it's just one of those misread portents, with no way of knowing the danger to ned was in his loyalty to robert, not conflict with him. BUT the next time she's dealing with baratheons, she knows exactly what she's talking about. it's catelyn, not brienne, who sees the shadow slaying renly, and explains that it was stannis who did that through some dark magic. with no way of knowing how it was achieved and no prior expectation that such a thing were ever possible, she realizes with no hestitation that stannis was guilty and that his red witch was capable of pulling this off somehow. really, the only instinct of the supernatural she's wholly wrong about is her insistence that varys gathered his knowledge through some dark enchantment. however, though that might offend varys, given his own personal experience with a sorcerer, i'd say it's a reasonable assumption without knowing the dude had children moving through walls everywhere like oversized rodents. and imo it just shows she had a healthy respect and awe for varys's power which most other characters lack.

oh, oh, and let's not forget that she also believed in the curse of harrenhal, from her own childhood and the stories old nan told her kids. "and every house that held Harrenhal since had come to misfortune. Strong it might be, but it was a dark place, and cursed. 'I would not have Robb fight a battle in the shadow of that keep,' Catelyn admitted." sure, that wasn't enough to save robb, but he did not die from the curse of harrenhal. that doom was meant for his enemies from tywin lannister to roose bolton.

[meltesh28]

just need to get it out of my system.. ruan mei in cheongsam...

[koipudding]

i do think jing yuan finds love easily. not in a playboy way; in the sense that he finds something to admire and adore in all of his companions. He loves you, he loves yanqing. he loves qingzu and fu xuan. he loves the finches that perch on the birdbath. he loves the people who serve him at the dim sum place.

Jing Yuan who loves the starskiff driver for always letting him nap. Jing Yuan who feels eternally grateful to Qingzu for feeding mimi, and loves her like she’s a sister. Jing Yuan who is fiercely protective of Bailu and Yanqing. He doesn’t want them to be taken advantage of. Jing Yuan loving Fu Xuan for not prying into his love life. He loves Fu Xuan because she’s steadfast and brazen and he is reminded of himself at that age.

Jing Yuan who cant bring himself to love Blade or Dan Heng, who struggles to disconnect from Jingliu. Jing Yuan who finds himself shielding Dan Heng and parrying Blade. He finds his eyes burning when Jingliu is around. (Jing Yuan, who still loves Dan Feng and Yingxing, his teacher and baiheng. But is making room for Dan Heng and Blade. Has made room.)

Jing Yuan doesn’t have a “real” family now, but he carves one out of the people he meets, he makes a home for himself in his routine. In you.

[mikimeiko]

Dept. Q | Season 1 (2025), Scott Frank and Chandni Lakhani

[shinynewmemories]

I believe Katniss had a pre-reaping crush on Peeta because girl went from THIS....

....... to knowing his name, how many siblings he has, how much he can bench, how he does in school competitions (and exactly who he loses to), the color of his eyes, etc.

[dasketcherz]

okay, fiiine... your sister's not so bad, goggles.

[wncestnoir]

okay, hear me out. i remember the first time i watched the spn pilot and i was like, “what in the actual hell is the woman in white talking about when she says sam’s gonna be unfaithful?” and of course, now being all deep in my wincest feelings, my brain immediately went there and i’m like- what if she didn’t mean physically? what if she meant emotionally? like, what if sam was low-key emotionally cheating on jess with dean, and he didn’t even realize it because, to him, loving dean was just like… breathing, y’know?

[nataliescatorccioapologist]

Just watched the Yellowjackets FYC Q&A with the cast and writers/showrunners and one thing really stood out to me. The showrunners were asked about their plans for a post-rescue storyline next season, and they emphasized that they want to explore how time feels different while living through trauma. They specifically said, “time is elastic based on emotion,” and noted that certain time periods in the next season will feel more “magnified.”

I took this to mean that, although only about two months remain before the group reaches the nineteen-month mark when we know they're rescued, we shouldn’t assume that these remaining months will be covered quickly, and this doesn’t necessarily mean that most of Season 4 will be post-rescue. These final two months in the wilderness are likely to be the most traumatic and emotionally charged yet. Winter is upon them again, Shauna is leading the group into pure depravity, violence is at an all time high, and Natalie just called for rescue— an action that is bound to create nothing short of full-on warfare within the group.

With the idea that trauma stretches time, it would make sense for these final two tumultuous months in the wilderness to unfold slowly across most of the season—if done right. We've already seen this concept at play: Season 2 spanned only a few brutal months of winter, but the emotional weight and intensity of their survival made it feel dense and drawn out. In contrast, Season 3 moved through spring, summer, fall, and into early winter at a much quicker pace, reflecting a period of relative peace and stability for the group in the warmer months. The rhythm of the show mirrors their psychological state—when trauma is high, time drags; when things are calmer, it flies.

[laureala]

AMELIA SHEPHERD at Jo & Link's Wedding

in Grey's Anatomy 21.17 — Love You Like A Love Song

[godslush]

It's 4am and I bet you couldn't possibly figure out who my favorite disaster gremlins are.

[roxxanne696]

Parallel Lines

When I- first saw you...

I didn't know that you would become so damn important to me...

When I- first saw you...

I didn't know it would become so damn hard to let you go one day...

[homehauntsyou]

j2 got asked abt the job application on dean’s desk in 15x20 and jared said that they debated on whether it was sam or dean’s but ultimately decided that it was something sam left in there while “soul searching” in dean’s room after his death and said “dean lived and died the way he lived and died. i don’t think he had a foot out the door.”

[justaz]

im not a fan of modern merthur but the idea of them meeting in modern times and introducing themselves to each other and them laughing and bonding over their names being connected to the myth of king arthur and camelot is just so cute