#into every fucking frame of that montage

[tojisteddy]

reader! who’s stuck in a rom com x male lead John Price cw: meet cute, sfw

reader! who’s stuck as a back up character with one single line in rom com and keeps getting transported to different movies. And they’ve tried to get out of whatever simulation or timeline they’re in. Trust me, your favorite narrator, you’ve tried. From going against the script by interrupting the main cast when they’re about to say their line, or showing up drunk or just plain not showing up to the important scenes multiple times but nothing ever workers.

Reader decides to just play their role in every movie theyre thrown into, praying to whatever higher power is out there to save them. But their true personality pops out as soon as theyre alone. All is fine and well with the world until the main male lead, John Price, starts noticing readers little quirks.

Reader mouthing everything the the other characters are about to say, rolling their eyes at the female leads choices she makes even when the friend group they’re apart of is supposed to be supporting her, or the funny way they say their one, singular line and John can’t help but laugh on the inside because, what the fuck is going on with them? Why are they acting like that?

Was he missing something?

And one day he decides to ask the reader about it. And maybe it’s your 10th time running through John’s movie, so you’re completely zoned out to what’s actually happening around you because you know it like the back of your heart— some party scene, the female lead has dragged you to again and John is supposed to be arguing/flirting with her at the bar for the soon to be montage of them proving each other wrong. Blah, blah, blah. Instead, he comes next to you on the lounge seat you’re sitting on; whiskey in hand, the big, muscular, handsome bear sits next to you and you barely notice him.

You still keeping your eyes on the bar, anticipating the interaction you’ve seen plenty of times, peering through the dancing randoms who are never important. Nursing your second glass of wine because you had to have something in your system to go through any of this agin. You feel a tap on the shoulder, your eyes meeting the prettiest ocean blue eyes.

“Who are you looking for?” His voice is so utterly perfect, rustic and deep, just like it is when he’s talking to the female lead. But your head snaps from him to the bar and back to him. Then back to the bar and back to him. The most confused look forming on your face. You can’t even make up an answer to maybe get him back to the script because you’ve never been actually acknowledged by the male lead in any movie.

“That’s not apart of the script.” You say, words haughty as ever.

And oh— John Price likes that. In fact, he adores your voice and the way your tight outfit clings to your frame and that you gave the most arbitrary answer to his very simple question.

Congratulations reader! The director is finally changing its cast members— time for you to be the main character.

a/n: idk if anyone will like this but it was on my mind cause I thought I had writers block. This was a good break. Reader! I’m gonna get you outta those movies!! Idk how yet, but I’m gonna try!!

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[gothamundernightlight]

Random Shit the Waynes Do on Social Media

Dick:

- The white whale of D1 and Olympic gymnastics athletes; always stitches their stunts and challenges, executing them perfectly, but no one knows who he is or who trained him

- Shares pictures of random children, and the whole internet becomes a detective trying to figure out if Bruce Wayne adopted another kid or if his gymnastics students won another trophy

- Photo montages of Haley being the cutest, which slowly transitions into Haley in whatever cute hat the internet can send to Dick’s PO Box

- Random video of him skydiving while giving tips on what to do if your chute doesn’t deploy. He never deploys his chute doing the video and no one can tell if it’s a bit or not.

Jason:

- AI Voiceover text posts providing surprisingly insightful analysis into classic literature

- A full six part rant on the Broadway adaptation of “The Great Gatsy”

- Random selfies complete with wildly made up backstories of any and every new injury he has

- Prank war on Damian specifically (this was intended for Talia but his finger slipped and now the whole internet loves it)

Tim:

- Randomly goes live to do study/work/research with me sessions complete with an actually decent Lofi soundtrack that no one can find (He totally mixes it himself but won’t admit it)

- Did ONE social media vlog for WE’s marketing division and it went so viral he gets forced to do more. The dead eyed stare he gives the camera with every stupid dance the intern teaches him makes the video top-tier

- Cute couples videos with Bernard

- Skateboard tricks (and fails)

- Screenshots of text conversations between him and his siblings discussing the most random shit??

Cass:

- Dance routines/pre-show/GRWM videos

- Shakily filmed videos of her kicking Dick’s ass and everyone just calls her a baddie in the comments. She doesn’t know what that means but she appreciates the love.

- Her and Steph’s late night food runs with the two of them just belting out to a song in a dark parking lot

Steph:

- Posts riddles and puzzles and how to solve them. She’s really good at it. Riddler hates her.

- Apartment tour of all the purple shit she owns. She’ll never admit that the room she’s showing off is her Wayne Manor bedroom, so everyone believes she just has a moderately sized loft apartment somewhere and she just never shows the kitchenette

- Her and Cass’s late night food runs with the two of them just belting out to a song in a dark parking lot

- POV shots of her going up to the boys asking them random questions. Dick matches her energy. Jason tells her to fuck off. Tim is barely conscious. Damian always has an overly rational answer to take the fun out of it. Duke just stares blankly at her (he always comes back later with a proper answer now that he’s had time to think about it). Bruce just stares blankly at her

Damian:

- Art reveals that never get many views but he’s still proud of nonetheless. Dick always comments on them to hype him up

- Accidentally recreates a popular vine that went viral and it’s just him insulting fellow GA kids under his breath but one of them says hi to him and he’s instantly polite back. His most popular video

- The multi-part experiment of him trying to Pavlov Tim, and when it actually works, Tim just chases Damian around the manor. The video cuts to black frames after Tim takes a flying launch at him

- All the pet videos. There are so many. People try to cancel him for exploiting them, but Damian clearly demonstrates that he would never force his animals to participate for views and how they will just leave if they don’t want to do something. Batcow is in the background just two-stepping unprompted

Duke:

- Every morning without fail, he posts a daily sunrise pic of Gotham, with a positive affirmation caption. One day he’s sick and he wakes up to a thousand messages of people panicking because their favorite poster has disappeared. He never misses a sunrise again

- Passionate rants about local government. Will not shut up about it. He might be an anarchist, but he’s forever remain optimistic that one day the systems that define society will one day actually work for all people. Bruce has every single one saved so he can implement Duke’s ideas into reality

- Boxing videos of him training with Luke. It’s never meant to be a thirst trap…but sometimes it is

- Dumb selfies. Duke unironically loves taking them, no matter what face he pulls, what filter he uses, not even caring where he is. This gets him in trouble the one time he posts one of him leaning off the edge of a high rise roof

Babs:

- Constant lectures on cybersecurity and internet safety. She teaches this at the library as a volunteer but feels she can reach a lot of people by building a platform

- Computer build stuff. Brands reach out to her for her reviews and she thoroughly discusses each product in length

- Rarely posts about her disability, but absolutely tears people to shreds when they make ableist comments about her. The only time she brings it up first is when City Hall takes over a month to fix their elevator and she calls them out on it

Harper:

- Electronics repairs. She constantly takes things apart to teach people how to fix it, and this can range from toys to cars. On more than one occasion , her video has been interrupted by someone who planned to be using the vehicle she’s just taken apart

- 2 AM hair dye/maintenance sessions. She constantly gets comments from men being like “Therapy works too, y’know” or “No, you’re so beautiful? Why would you do that to yourself.” She responds to the comments with a video of a gun pointed at the camera with the sole caption being “Fuck Off.”

- Gym videos. She and Dick work out together and he’s the ultimate hype man

- Outfit montages of her getting ready for a random gala and she’s always pulling off the most masc-looking suits that look gorgeous on her

Helena:

- Target practice. She does all kinds of trick shots and crazy crossbow stunts in a wide variety of outfits. Her most popular video is of her in a corset and platform heels.

- Her and Steph bonding over all things purple

- Outfit of the Day posts. The girl has expensive tastes and she absolutely shows it off.

Bruce:

- Occasionally does promo stuff for WE (because Tim refuses to do all of it, and their social media intern won’t back down)

- Shares absolutely wild stories from his college years that somehow always get proven to be true even when the whole comments section is just like “this seems false???”

- Kid tour. He saw one mom do it and felt sad bc he’s never get the kids to agree, but somehow they all did (Alfred bribed them.)

- Shares everything from each one of the charities he’s involved with. Has reposted every single one of their posts on his own personal channel. It raises them hundreds of followers each time.

- One of the kids posted a video montage of Bruce being Brucie and it’s so utterly humiliating? But he won’t delete it because all of the comments say he’s their favorite billionaire and that’s more than his own kids will say.

- Random Pride Month post. Every year it catches people by surprise and every gossip magazine always wonders if Bruce is coming out. He’s just being an ally (and potentially is in denial).

Alfred:

- Prefers not to use social media, but one of the boys filmed him doing random things to teach the internet how to do things properly, like making the bed, doing laundry, etc. Is the internet’s favorite grandpa.

[cerastes]

I still think it's really cool how Amuro starts as the shittiest pilot alive (because he's a 15-year old) that only gets carried because he's in the biggest, fattest stat stick in-universe at the time (a few retroactive additions made in the future notwithstanding), enough that even its crappy vulcan guns are tearing Zaku IIs apart, and when he starts getting a bit too cocky, Char and Ramba Ral show up in objectively inferior pieces of junk and absolutely deliver his pizza, they just drag his face across every available surface in Planet Earth like he's a Yakuza mook, all because they are simply that much better at piloting, and the thing is, Amuro takes that very seriously.

He goes from shitass kid in an unfortunate situation that doesn't want to get in the robot to the most unwell child soldier in the war, which is really saying something, but most importantly, becomes so good at piloting the Gundam that the Gundam physically cannot handle Amuro's piloting. They need to apply "Magnetic Coating" to its joints so they don't fucking snap away from the main frame because Amuro, one, moves too damn well but also in too extreme a way for the frame to handle it, two, despite being equipped with two sabers, a shield, a beam rifle and vulcan guns, Amuro is a stern believer in introducing most everyone in thagomizer range to his Rated Z for Zeon hands, the single most official pair of hands in the business, tax free. He KEEP going Ip Man on these dudes, he does NOT need to do a Jamestown on these mother fuckers but he INSISTS. Somehow even the Gundam Hammer, which is a giant Hannah Barbera cartoon flail-- Ok, look at this thing, words do not do it justice

Even this god damn Tom and Jerry prop is less savage that whatever Amuro decides to do the moment he's done throwing his shield to get a free kill on someone and it officially becomes bed time forever for the unfortunate sap at the business end of his ten-finger weapons of mass destruction.

The RX-78-2, "Gundam" for its friends and family, even has a top of the line cutting edge Learning Computer that 'learns' alongside the pilot and their habits. This data extracted from it was so absolutely fucked up that it completely revolutionized Mobile Suit combat afterwards, which is a wholesome thing to think about when The Best Combat Data Ever came from a really angry, really stressed 15 year old that doesn't even like piloting. He was 15! He made Haro with his own hands! Amuro literally just wanted to make funny cute spherical robofriends! Amuro was out there trying to make Kirby real, but fate had other plans for him. His cloned brain put in a pilot seat is one of the setting's strongest 'pilots'.

They made fucking Shadow the Hedgehog with his brain, god damn.

By the end, Zeon is rolling out Gelgoogs out of its mass production lines. These things are in the Gundam's ballpark in terms of overall specs (or "power level"). Amuro is bodying them as if they were episode 1 Zaku IIs.

AND THEN HE GETS FUCKING PSYCHIC SPACE POWERS. Not that he needed them, he bodied a couple Space Psychics without any of those powers before awakening to them. But heaven's most violent child was not done evolving, whether he liked it or not.

Char bodied him in a souped up Zaku II at the start, a machine objectively inferior to the Gundam. Amuro more or less one-sidedly beats the shit out of Char when he's in a custom Commander-type Gelgoog that you could consider to be equal spec-wise to the Gundam. Amuro is the embodiment of Finding Out. He is Consequences. You tell him he better make it hurt, better make it count, better kill you in one shot, buddy, he needs half a fucking shot. The complete transformation. One could consider the central 75% of the show as long drawn out training montage turning a kid into the Geese Howard of giant robots.

[killjoys-makesomenoise]

oooh. sam/adam being caught kissing!!!

The rough cut was nearly done; Ben just needed to find a couple more clips to fill out a montage sequence of Sam and Adam chasing after him. Ben grinned to himself as he scrubbed through the footage. He had already tagged most of it as cuttable. Useless. They ended up with so many hours of unusable footage every season. Sam and Adam had spent the afternoon looking in an entirely wrong district, being cursed and breaking into arguments. Overall not great content but Ben needed something to cut back to while he showed his own footage. Also Ben’s not going to lie, he did find some sick pleasure in seeing Adam and Sam so worked up and frustrated. Ben might actually have to save a copy of this footage for himself—regardless of if it ended up in the show or not.

Sam in the footage set up a truly abysmal shot of mostly his knee and calf, which then became an awkward shot up his shirt when the camera fell over. Ben snorted and grabbed for his coffee, he remembered he had just skipped this whole video during his first run through because there was another clip in the same location (set up properly by Adam). As entertaining as Sam‘s bare stomach was, there was little chance of it being usable for the show.

Sam probably just uploaded it by mistake. Ben was about to skip to the next clip when he noticed something. There was a tiny sliver of Sam’s face visible that wasn’t covered by his pecs and the inside of his shirt. Sam was rubbing his head in frustration, clearly annoyed at himself. But then there were Adam’s hands. Pulling Sam in for a hug? It was difficult to tell since the camera was still mostly showing up Sam’s shirt.

Ben restarted the clip and arrowed through frame by frame. There was Sam’s knee, then the camera flipped and he got a great view of Sam’s flat stomach, the hem of his underwear, the soft looking sparse blonde hair on his chest. Which was pretty nice looking Ben had to admit.

Then Sam moved back slightly and the camera wasn’t entirely under his shirt. Sam’s face was visible now, or more accurately the bottom of his chin. Sam rubbing his head and frowning. Then Adam’s arms, no, not hugging, pulling Sam’s hand down. Ben put his headphones back on and unmuted the audio track. Adam was talking, much kinder than the usual in game tone he took with Sam.

The view returned back inside of Sam’s shirt as they moved. Ben tutted, annoyed, he didn’t need to see Sam’s sexy sleek body right now, he was solving a mystery. Adam was still talking, saying something about the day being almost over and that they could reset in the morning.

That was sweet, Adam was always good at making Ben feel better at the end of a long day. Sam shifted again and his face was in view once more, only this time so was Adam’s, because they were kissing.

Adam and Sam were kissing.

Surely it was a trick of the camera angle. But then why would Adam’s face be so close to Sam’s? The clip ended abruptly when Adam picked up the camera and shut it off.

Ben scrubbed back to the couple of frames that showed them together. It was undeniable, just the tail end of a kiss and then Adam pulling back and grabbing the camera to reset the shot. They probably didn’t even notice it got captured because most of the screen was Sam’s torso and rose bud nipples. What the fuck. Ben was never going to get this edit done now.

[edzidolka]

Will you give an in depth explanation of why you dislike Asterix and Obelix: The middle Kingdom pretty please?

I WILL!

Ok, so the worst part is...I don't remember that much��� I literally watched this movie nearly two weeks ago and I already forgot what happened in there. And in my opinion...this is one of the biggest problem with the movie: it's forgettable. For example: there is no scene you could remember because it's good, epic or make you invested. No. I remember only ONE scene, because of how awful it was, but I'm gonna tell you about it later.

Ok, a plot. I remember the story was really basic and predictible. The main conflict wasn't good delivered. I didn't feel any danger or seriousness of the situation. A whole story is...really boring. Sometimes just you need to say that. I always want to search for true reason why I don't like a piece of art. But sometimes the reason is...something is boring. Just like this movie. Good grief, it's so boring. And looks boring. Frames, montage, colors...looks so uncreative, it hurts.

You know what also hurts? Characters. What did they do to these poor characters? Asterix and Obelix aren't characters to me here. They are so souless, so flat. Their interactions, relationship...was so uninteresting. I didn't feel they are husbands best friends forever. This is not what Asterix and Obelix supposed to be. In my opinion you can make a movie with basic plot and clichés, BUT characters have to be intresting. You need to feel them, see their personalities, their goals. You need to cheer for them. But what's the point of the movie if plot and character suck so hard you can't even listen to them talking? I'm so sad for these actors cuz they tried but script was so awful. New characters aren't interesting. I hope there will be one...just one character I will like. But nope. There wasn't any. Every single character is so poor written. Even in God Save Britannia had this cool Miss Macintosh. I LOVED HER. She was interesting enough and very likeable. Do you remember names of new characters from TMK? Cuz I don't.

Oh, and speaking of characters...what the FUCK did they do do poor Caesar??!!! My man!! Vincent Cassel, I am so fucking sorry. This is one of the biggest crimes in my opinion. Caesar can be a goofy sometimes and I love it. But don't make him stupid af. This is a very powerful character with a lot of personality, charisma and you feel he is threat to Gauls. BUT HERE he is soooo goofy, so stupid ...and...this fucking pigeon fart/shit scene. Oh. My. God. This scene/joke pissed me so hard xD I know he was silly in Mission Cleopatra but you still can tell he is the Boss here. He has a charisma and you can like him.

Ok, next. Relationships between characters are so weird and there is no chemistry. Oh, and romance. Why? Just don't to it or do it right. Romance is not so easy to write. You need to feel chemistry between characters. Those emotions. I'm sorry, all this stuff didn't work for me neither :(

And...Falbala subplot??? Excuse me? What was that? XD I don't even know!

Oh...and jokes. I smiled only on We Will Rock You/Antivirus joke. That's all. Jokes are so unfunny :( And this is so sad cuz Asterix comics and movies are funny. The jokes are so bad delivered. Even GSB had some funny moment. Sorry, but ID boat joke always makes me laugh so hard!

Eh...

This movie...is just...it's there. It exsists. Don't recommend it to anyone. Watch all animated adaptations and Mission Cleopatra instead.

If you enjoyed this movie, I'm so jealous of you. I'm serious. I want to tell that joy too. Anyway...

Thanks for coming to my TED talk!

Thank you for message and sorry for my grammar mistakes. English is not my first language <\3💖

[accio-victuuri]

i’m sure we can slice and dice this video and analyze every frame to fit the cpf narrative. and maybe i will do that at a later time but let’s be real here. i mean. this part of the vlog.

who. did. it. remind. you. of.

all the vibing. all the chill dancing like he’s just feeling himself and the music. the hand movements. the fuck.

it’s so wang laoshi. i’m sorry. i know he (xz) is not the only person in the world who can get caught up in the moment/music and move his body to it but this is just too familiar. it’s like how wyb starts his freestyles when he is loosening up his body. i’ve watched him enough times to recognize it.

and add the music and what it potentially means. it’s another layer, like it’s okay, i’ll just dance and think of the love of my life and everything is gonna be alright.

plus the question again! that question, did you figure it out? this is not the first time it happened. and we are reminded of what wwx asked lwj, "Lan Zhan, next time we meet, you have to think of a name for this song. I've already thought of one." 😭😭😭😭

oh wait i’m not done. what a wonderful world. yep, a nice song that’s all about appreciating what’s around you and it’s beauty. but the coincidence in the lyrics.

I see trees of green. red roses too. I see them bloom . For me and you. And I think to myself. What a wonderful world

literally the first part. green and red combo. 🔴🟢

….I see skies of blue and clouds of white

…..The colors of the rainbow

blue sky & white clouds which is a cpn we love to interpret and of course the 🌈. dude, it’s a bjyx song. lol. xz found it. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

finally, are they clowning us? they saw us editing past vlogs with the bgm of bystander. so they did a lovely montage of sorts at the start of the video that would be a perfect music video for bobo’s song! well, thank you!

anyway, that’s all for me now. happy clowning ^^

[realchemistry]

"Masks" - A few things about tonight's episode and what's ahead

~9-1-1 spoilers ahead~

Let me get this out of the way first: Eddie sucking on that ring pop... I never understood the "don't ask me the color of anything" and "babygirl" concepts more than I did then. Also: both Buck and Eddie having the same Christmas picture of them with Chris and abuela? I'm fine. The ending montage with Eddie being alone looking at his pic from Halloween with Chris... no, I'm really, I'm okay.

The BuckandEddie of it all:

It's interesting that they kept pairing Eddie up with other members of the team during calls but Eddie was all over Buck still. Like... they are partners, and they continue to be like at the pumpkin call (LUBE? PLEASE, I AM BEGGING), but Eddie was with Buck at the hospital (both for Buck and Denny) and at Buck's loft and at the station too.

Buck and Eddie are always entangled in each other's business but this season's been like a whole other level. The framing, the dialogue, everything about them is pointed as fuck and it's no coincidence (the lube, I can't get over it!!!), of that I'm sure.

This episode, which had a lot of Buck and T, had a ton of Eddie in between them which allowed us to see their dynamic and it was a sight. We had Eddie in the hospital room, by Buck's bedside, asking the doctor questions, while T was on the other side of the door, observing. Eddie was there to tend to Buck's boils and reassure him it'd be fine and even bet and shake on it to try and keep Buck from spiraling while T was just... there. Eddie was apparently distracted on his phone, sucking on a freaking ring lollipop (looking at Buck like that!!!!!) but he was actually well in tune with Buck and what he was doing and Buck protested his boyfriend's claims that he had been picking on his boils but he didn't argue with Eddie about it at all.

So yeah, Buck has a boyfriend that could fit right in, being a firefighter and getting more into the 118's business and sharing time with Buck and his BFF in the whole wide world. This episode showed in part how T didn't fit exactly right (why were they not sleeping on the bed, I'm so confused...), how Buck realized that and sent him a message that he wanted him to. And I think they will make it past the next episode, actually, because I have a feeling that if tptb are going where we all think/want them to go with Eddie, they might want to establish that on its own.

And they would also want to do what Oliver said and take it slow on the Buddie front, and I know it's been slow enough, but Oliver and Ryan have alluded to wanting the story to develop naturally and to not have them be bi/gay and into each other because of the message that could send. I have a feeling that means reaching Buddie after both have time to go through self-realizations away from each other and having Buck be in a relationship actually serves that scenario better. At least for a little while, then they can let the pining begin.

Some other things:

The thing about this show that I both adore and dislike is that I know every main is gonna be okay (there was only ever one exception to this) and they're not going to kill one of their children either. So I simply couldn't get into the mindset of feeling sad over Denny dying because I knew he wasn't going to.

I love that we got more HenRen and I wish next time Karen and Eddie share a scene, it'll be a less tragic one. I love Denny so much, the actor is so good and such a cutie, I'm glad he got to shine. It's also funny that once you get old enough in the show, you're fair game to be in harm's way. Rite of passage.

Chim was so scary and cute and great as well. I just think Kenny's so good at everything and the show sometimes failed to properly take advantage of his skills so I'm glad they're finally getting to showcase his range fully and all at once.

Peter was also having the time of his life being a carefree version of Bobby, and I'm here for it.

Josh's whole costume being Eddie's mustache. Plus Buck also having one. Ryan, the man that you are.

Maddie, once again, going for the kitty ears.

The teacher... I know her pain.

About the next episode ~more spoilers~:

They really are having an "Eddie Begins" type of emergency on an episode called "Confessions" which will focus on Eddie. I'm sure it's gonna be just fine. I'm sure nothing major will happen with my favorite character in the world, Eddie Díaz. I'm sure.

[nijigasakilove]

Amazing finale here that addressed almost every single concern I had about the series very well, while being thematically and narratively consistent. It’s so trendy and cool to shit on this series and the people doing it often completely misunderstand the entire point of the show. That’s not to say you HAVE to like this type of story or the writing, idc it doesn’t affect me, I loved it, but if you’re gonna shit on something, at least understand where it’s coming from and be intellectually honest. I got my happy ending tho so I won 🤷🏾‍♂️

VERY LONG FINALE ANALYSIS AHEAD, TLDR:I loved this show.

Crazy how I predicted pretty much everything we got here. When I told y’all “growing up is realizing skinner is the good guy” everyone laughed and called me a madman, you’re not laughing now lol. Just like irl, the US government are the bad guys and seeing the shit they tried to do/cover-up would make anyone lose faith in their country and the world. All this to cover up war crimes and violating the Geneva convention while using the excuse “well they’re doing it, so why can’t we” gross.

That’s just the biological weapon aspect of it. Don’t forget the Hundun project which I also accurately called as basically being the anime equivalent of the black widow red room. I’m still confused on Axel’s connection to it, but the Axel v Soryu fight was a nice sendoff from stagelski and mappa. I’m gonna miss the choreography in this series, but more importantly it told me everything I needed to know about the Hundun program and Soryu’s backstory. The shot of he and Axel having one last convo there at the end in the rubble is gorgeous.

1 of 2 issues I did have with this finale is the Lazarus team all being at Schipol when the bio weapon went off, surviving and coming back and yet no one mentioned that in the episode where we saw Skinner at the airport lol. Up there with Hersch not mentioning that she knew skinner earlier as odd choices to make narratively, but oh well.

So sight is a big theme in this series. The end stage of Hapna poisoning is the starry milky eyes condition, but also the main point of the story was skinner trying to get someone else to see everything he’d been through, the good and bad sides of humanity. The Lazarus team did that through their adventures, which critics often called “pointless filler episodes” but this show was never meant to be a straight line shot to skinner, because he’s not the big bad. Humanity is.

Knew this series would end with a very chill conversation with skinner here at the end. Puts up no fight, isn’t aggressive and just hands the cure over. Plus, the team get to stay together and get pardons!! Guess humanity isn’t completely irredeemable, right? This is also consistent with Leland’s desire for the team to stay together after it ended which we got like 5-6 weeks ago.

Now my other issue with this finale is there’s ZERO chance you’re developing and distributing a cure that fast. Logistically, it’s impossible. Millions would’ve died, especially in developing countries in the global south where infrastructure is poor. Really even 30 days would’ve been a massive stretch, but with that short a time frame unless you’re in a massive urban area you’re fucked 😭 but I got my happy ending so whatever. Love the ending score and montage and the memorial to Nobumoto Keiko who wrote Bebop and passed in 2021.

Good ending all things considered. I think axel was undercooked as an MC and Doug never got an episode focusing on his backstory, but it was a fun ride.

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[aiceofspades]

cry | dean winchester x f!reader

headers: @strangergraphics-archive

pairings: dean x british!f!reader (not established)

overview: you're crying, and the one person you don't want to see you cry is the only person around that can comfort you.

genre: fluff, angst??, just comforting really

author's note: first of all i'm british so i write from my perspective and the reader's problems are a little personal so if you don't like or you don't resonate with what the reader was crying over then ignore them or pretend they're something else. enjoy!! <{•_•}>

you were crying, hard. over what? everything really.

firstly, your uncle had died recently and his funeral was in less than two days. you didn't know how to feel really, and even though you weren't that close, you had a lot of common interests—every time you heard the star wars main theme you couldn't stop thinking about him.

secondly, your friends — previously best friends — who lived in a few towns over had basically ditched you. you'd all met in a small diner near the bunker, and while they'd taken you under their wing, you knew that their feelings for you weren't as deep rooted as your were for them. after all, they'd grown up together, so why would they let a total stranger, who is also british, like you join their clique?

thirdly, a photo of the girl who had tried to make a shot with you had appeared on your phone's "one year ago" montage. her stupidly gorgeous round face and her reddish hair that framed her cheeks perfectly reminded you of how you'd treated her; you hadn't done anything horrendous but you'd called it quits after a 3 month 'talking stage', only saying that you couldn't see a future with her instead of being truthful. in actual fact, you couldn't face her admiring you and complimenting you—it was all just too much for your precarious mind. you felt rotten inside every time you thought about what you did and you kept seeing her face everywhere; in TV shows, in movies, and even in your dreams like someone high above was trying to get you to realise how badly you'd fucked up.

and finally, you were blue most of the time these days, and the only things that could make you feel joy again were sam and dean. but if you went to them now, whilst you were crying, you were sure they'd turn you away. you imagined them saying things like, "it's probably her time of the month, she's emotional 'cause she's a woman, she's crying over stupid things like all women do," and just thinking about talking to them about your problems sent a wrath of bats around your stomach. there was no one that could help you out of the blue except yourself, and you weren't prepared to leave it behind yet.

you'd never gone to anyone about your problems, not even your family back home. you'd just kept it inside you until it bottled over once (or twice) a month at night when you were tucked up in bed, away from sam and dean's probable judgemental opinions. so here you were, at your designated time to cry for the month, letting it all come out.

but you'd left your door slightly ajar unknowingly so that if someone was pressed up against the gap then they could see everything you were doing. at this moment, you were sat at your desk with your knees under your chin, rocking back and forth, tears streaming down you reddened face—you were an ugly crier, after all. and of course that someone who was pressed against the door frame was dean.

he slowly sat down against the wall beside your door, listening to the heartbreaking sobs coming from within. he could picture you struggling to breath from all the emotion and tears coming out of you as he heard you take in huge gasps of air.

it was past midnight, so you thought it was clear to cry as loud as you were doing so because sam and dean should be asleep. but dean had taken a trip to the kitchen an hour ago to have a beer before he retired for the night, finding his own kind tumbling down into the darkness. he'd seen your reflection through the door in your floor length mirror opposite the door but he just couldn't bare to come in the room as he knew you'd leave the bunker and never talk to him again if he saw you crying.

little did you know, dean finding you in the middle of your monthly crying session wasn't a rare occurrence. somehow, he managed to come across you crying every time you felt your emotions overflowing, like God was guiding him to you. but all he did was sit outside your room, waiting until you fell asleep with a pounding headache from crying too hard. he even felt himself growing soft inside due to the amount of times he'd heard your heartbreaking sobs and desperate gasps for air. but he just couldn't bring himself to give you warmth and safety you so desperately needed.

but this night was different, he could feel it.

he stood up quietly from his position on the floor and glanced through the door gap again. you were still hugging your knees and rocking back and forth on your desk chair. he felt courageous for a moment, so he opened the door.

you glanced up, your sobs quietening. when you realised who it was, you turned yourself away from dean's gaze. you brushed your tears away with the back of your hand whilst you could hear dean moving closer to your shaking form.

he whispered your name and it hung in the air between you both. you turned your head slightly to look at him and he was standing with his palms upturned slightly towards you—a silent invitation. you took it.

slowly but surely, you stood up and made you way towards him, body shaking. he tucked your head under his chin when you reached him and one hand cupped the back of your head whilst the other rubbed your back. you slowly circled your arms around his torso, feeling his warmth through the back of his shirt whilst your tears stained the front.

after a while, you pulled back from his chest, seeing him staring at you intently with furrowed eyebrows. you broke the silence with, "my mum used to rub my back when i was upset."

"s'okay, sweetheart," he said but then he noticed you wanted to speak again but your were hiccuping too much. "take your time," he gently said, rubbing your back again.

"you shouldn't see me like this," you spoke after you'd calmed down a bit, staring at the wet patch you'd made on his shirt. "i'm an ugly crier and you of all people shouldn't see me."

he cupped your cheek with his hand, thumb brushing the tears away from your cheek bone. "why shouldn't i?"

"because you're- you, dean."

he chuckled, smiling. "what's that supposed to mean, baby?"

"you know, the pet names don't help at all," you revealed, smiling slightly. "but you're you, aren't you? i wouldn't mind sam seeing me cry, but this feels illegal."

"why?" he simply asked, but he already knew the truth and you knew that. his hands moved down to hold yours in his.

"because... it feels awkward saying this out loud, but i like you, okay?"

"i sure hope you do because it would be awkward otherwise."

"why?" you countered. he smiled when he realised you were using his own words against him.

"because i like you too, dumbass. have you just realised?" his smile dropped when he thought back to why you were crying. "so, do you wanna tell me what this is all about? you don't have to if you don't want."

"um... i just feel like everything is getting to me and i have a habit of bottling things up and letting them boil over."

"oh, sweetheart, i know you do." he rubbed your arm gently. "i don't want to sound creepy, but i've heard you crying before. i haven't said anything before 'cause i've respected your privacy but today felt different."

"as much as i hate confrontation, i'm glad you opened the door," you said, reaching out to grab dean's flannel and touch the buttons on it instead of looking him in the eye.

"stop that," he gently said, taking your hands away from his shirt. "look at me. if you want to cry over anything in the future, tell me. as much as i'm a strong and manly-man, i don't want you to cry on your own and i'd rather sacrifice my masculinity for your happiness."

"is this dean winchester getting soft in his old age? my, i thought the day would never come," you joked, brushing the hair on his hairline out of his face.

he closed his eyes. "do you wanna talk?"

"um, i wouldn't want to give you any of my problems–"

"what did i just say, sweetheart?"

"sure, then. if you want."

he nodded, bringing you closer to him again by wrapping his arms around your shoulders. you rested your cheek on his shoulder so you could talk.

you cleared your throat and began explaining the problems.

after you finished, he pulled back, hands on your shoulders, and said, "do you feel better?"

"um, in all honesty, no." as much as you didn't want dean to worry, you felt that he deserved the truth. "but i've been like this for a while so it's normal. i'll get better eventually. and thank you," you added, your hands finding his own.

"you don't need to thank me. but don't bottle it up, yeah? it's like that saying, 'is it better to speak or to die?' i'd rather you talk my ear off than drown in your own problems. you'll get better with time, i promise. if i did, you can too."

"i believe you, dean."

he stared at you for a minute before speaking again, "do you want me to stay?"

you nodded, feeling too awkward to say yes out loud.

so even though you were still sad, you felt at home. and as you fell asleep with dean telling you some childhood memories of his, you knew that you would get better.

[chaifootsteps]

Oh my god

No way

Viv

She just liked a fucking nasty ass frame of Angel *smiling* during the Poison montage while in Val's arms.

What the fuck

Okay, every Stan who went into that fanfic and argued that Viv was capable of handling SA never can speak on SA ever again

The chains, leashes, BDSM, borderline porn/fetish art are one (very big thing) but *that*

Uhhhhh... yeah. Can we just admit she gets off on Angel's abuse like Raph? Cuz... yeah. Also the stan who posted that is *very* into Valentino and has made comments on Raph's posts. 💀

It says something that she could have avoided a lot of trouble for herself by just outright saying that it was always a sex thing for her and Raph, or at the very least not pretending it was anything deeper.

[scoobydoodean]

What were the theories/takes on how Supernatural would end when Season 15 was announced?

Well. Not the way it did I can tell you that. Right after everyone was just like “What the fuck was that garbage”. But also it depends on who you ask. But from my perspective:

15.18: Massive excitement and shock, transitioning into people literally not sleeping for a week straight out of sheer excitement.

15.19: Well that was not as good as 15.18 and some of it was kind of stupid, anti-climactic, and seemed to throw away a seemingly clear nod to a different way of defeating chuck and why is lucifer here again??? Also where is CAS.

NO one thought Cas would be omitted from 15.20 tho. People were like “Nah there’s no way”. Like Misha had claimed he wasn’t in it but of course he would say that bc spoilers. So people thought he was just lying as one does. And they were like “Dude no one freak out Cas will totally be in the next episode.” And like. EYE assumed he’d come back bc how could you do that then NOT bring him back???

Then 15.20 aired and everyone was like “What the fuck was that bullshit” except the bibros who have no sense and were instantly making rusty nail gifsets while sobbing about how touching it was that dean died scared and young and bloody for no fucking reason at all. And that day the alliance between deanpositive bibros and deanfans ended forever. 👍

I will say some sort of destiel thing seemed like a forgone conclusion pretty early in the season. And ik some of y’all will be like “WeLL iT wAs AlWAys ObViOus tHAt DeStIEl WoUlD hapPen” but shut the fuck up. If you climb off your high horse for a second—it was a different time on tumblr. The brothers faction was telling people they were “delusional” for thinking destiel was “real” every day for the last 11 years and also a lot of destiel shippers never thought the network would go for it. The pizza man recap was DIFFERENT because it wasn’t just narrative (tho that was also pretty heavy in last few seasons). But Cas’s line about the pizza man loving the babysitter played followed by a montage of Dean eating pizza???? I mean. I wasn’t into shipping at the time (bc frankly most people i encountered were just not that fun about it) and EYE still went “yeah okay”

But EYE personally didn’t think they’d have the balls to explicitly frame it as romantic. But they had one ball. A single ball i guess.

That’s how I remember it anyway. But also different people’s experiences will be different. I was just a meme account at the time so I had like 10k followers and not all of them shipped destiel but even EYE was getting mail after 15.18 asking me if the confession was actually romantic and couldn’t it have been familial?? And what’s going to happen next???? And I was like “This is a McDonalds”. And everyone who actually answered mail like that being like “Bro they wouldn’t dare not bring Cas back and I think X and Y will happen” got loads of hate mail after 15.20 for being wrong which is very stupid bc no one could have predicted that flaming pile of rancid garbage.

[byneddiedingo]

25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)

Cast: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin, Tony Siragusa. Screenplay: David Benioff, based on his novel. Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto. Production design: James Chinlund. Film editing: Barry Alexander Brown. Music: Terence Blanchard. 

Spike Lee's 25th Hour is a "day in the life" movie, and a very good one. The day is the last one of freedom for Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) before he goes to prison for seven years. He spends it with his girlfriend, Naturelle (Rosario Dawson), his friends Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Frank (Barry Pepper), and his father (Brian Cox), and also makes a visit to the Russian mobsters who got him into the business of pushing drugs. It's also one of Lee's best films, less celebrated than Do the Right Thing (1982) or Malcolm X (1992), but worthy of being mentioned in their company. The only reservation I have about the movie is that Lee doesn't let his powerhouse cast bring their solidly written characters to life without indulging in a few distracting cinematic tricks. He and his longtime editor, Barry Alexander Brown, can't seem to resist techniques like freeze frames and moments in which the action is repeated from a different angle. There are showy montages and tour de force episodes, some of which work, like the "fuck you" episode in which the embittered Monty anathematizes almost every racial, social, and economic group in New York City. And the film ends with a beautifully realized sequence in which Monty's father proposes to help him escape and imagines the life he might live. But other episodes don't quite work, like the long take in which Jacob and Frank talk about their friendship with Monty, a scene that must have involved careful preparation on the part of Pepper and Hoffman, But it's staged in front of a window in Frank's apartment, which somewhat improbably overlooks Ground Zero, where crews are clearing away the rubble of the World Trade Center. I couldn't help being distracted by the scene outside the window instead of concentrating on their dialogue. Still, the movie, which was planned before the 9/11 attack and completed and released afterward, beautifully integrates that event into the theme and tone of the film, which deserves to find the audience it never quite did when it was released. 

[pencildragons]

excerpt from the (hopefully) soon-to-be-posted 2nd chapter of my foxquin fic the silver is white, red is the gold (quinlan is the guard's general and also has another padawan); cw ahead for mentions of body horror/corpse desecration, mind control, and memory issues

This is the sixteenth time this has happened, this vanishing without a trace, for hours or days on end. No one knows where he goes; the SecFeed vids show nothing out of the ordinary, the tracker in his armour says that he’s in his office, and not a single vod sees him come or go. In the end, it had been the SecFeed that had tipped them off to something being wrong. One of the original squad members that had been deployed from Kamino with him—a slicer, Imantu—had spent most of his time watching the ‘Feed, and eventually had come to Fox and quietly told him that, every fortnight since their deployment ten weeks beforehand, the vids would loop twice for five minutes. Fox had known better than to suggest it was simply a glitch; ten weeks had been more than enough time to establish that nothing ever happened by coincidence on Coruscant. Imantu had sliced through the encryption that wasn’t supposed to be sliced, and—found things that weren’t meant to be found. He had come knocking on Fox’s office door late one night, had brought Thorn with him, and presented his evidence: Fox was the one looping the ‘Feed. Fox had sat there for a very long time, scrutinised by his slicer and his commander, and told them shakily that he hadn’t done it. He had clearly been rattled enough that Thorn and Imantu had taken him at his word, and that had seemed to be that. Except that that night had been the last time anyone saw Imantu alive. They found his body nineteen days later, rotting in some mid-levels rubbish pile, eyes gouged out messily, every finger broken. Worst had been his tongue, ripped from the root and found a few metres away. The medic on duty said that it had been removed while he was still alive, same as his eyes, which—well. He doesn’t blame them for throwing up on his floor while giving their report. The next day, Thorn had inserted himself into Fox’s beat, had made him crawl down a manhole into a sewerage tunnel, stripped them both of their armour, then dragged him half a kilometre through stinking, knee-deep waste before he would answer Fox’s demands to tell him what the fuck was going on. Finally, when they stopped, Thorn had produced a holoprojector from his blacks and wordlessly handed it to him. The truth of it was undeniable: shot from an oblique angle—Thorn refused to tell him, but he guessed some sort of hidden recorded—was Fox, doing something at the main ‘Feed monitors, dated to twelve minutes after Imantu had last been seen. He had been wearing full trooper armour, but black instead of shiny-white or Corrie-Guard-Red, face hidden, but the tell-tale flexing of fingers and stretching of the neck and the roll of his gait as he limped out of frame were perhaps more telling than even his face. Thorn had clearly prepared for the uncertainty, though, because a montage of vids began after that. Most of them were from helmet-cams, all focused on Fox, flexing his fingers, stretching his neck, limping away. When you’re identical in every way to a billion other beings, reading body language becomes very important, and this could not have been more damning than if Fox had stood in front of his Commanders and announced that it was he, Commander Fox, who killed Imantu in cold blood.

[babes-boy]

pitbabe 2 ep 9 reactions under cut

once again i need to talk about it

not a reaction but i fucking knew willy had time powers and everyone was all "he can teleport" "he has special senses" WELL LOOK AT HIM NOW

HE KIDNAPPED CHARLIE

kenta :((

winner is really into this whole evil henchman thing huh

kenta u stupid self-sacrificial idiot. even babe can see ur wrong here

everyone keeps referring to charlie's "special cells" but what does that even mean?? does it have to do with his power being taking other people's

how will charlie's cells improve the drugs????

am i supposed to feel bad for willy rn?? bc it's not working

not charlie goading him omg

okay i lied it's kinda working

what do you mean "even if he's a corpse" tony

kenta escaping is so hot wait-

okay anyway babe is also proving there are 2 spots in the pack for a reckless self-sacrificial idiot

pete is that supposed to be comforting??

where the hell is babe going??

is willy actually trying to negotiate with tony rn?? bae you know he has 0 hesitation about killing you

it's really interesting how tony refers to his henchmen as "stray dogs" he did this with kenta, and now he's doing it with willy. i would say more and make a connection but i gotta focus

"try playing fair for once" willy, honey, you're going to die

alanjeff :((

i forgot about this chris being tony's child subplot omg

chris honey ily but you have no right to ask that rn

i still need to know his relation to way. don't think i've forgot the clone/twin theory either

babe :(((

kenta baby you are not slick. maybe it's on purpose though

THE ALANJEFF PICTURE ON THE WALL sorry i'm so incredibly normal about them

OMG JEFF FOUND OUT okay they're finally going to talk about it

ITS THE SCENE FROM THE TRAILER

can we get a walkthrough of the houses in this show i need to see if that was actually a framed poster of alan holding a drill and working on a car

alan :(( this is not going to go well i can feel it

chris i'm still suspicious of u btw don't think i've forgotten

pete has every right to not trust you omg i'm just shocked he trusted you for so long

the researchers are so cute i love them i hope they aren't evil

kenta pookie what are you up to now

NO HE GOT CAUGHT UGH WHY DID HE GO BACK

KIM IS SMOKING THINKING ABOUT KENTA!!!! we need a montage of all their domestic moments

we're kinda getting it??

oh my kentakim :(((

where is sonic dragging him

while i understand where sonic is coming from i need to know why he feels so strongly about this? iirc dean was the one who pushed him but i don't see how that continues

THE SCENE FROM THE TRAILER

okay that was a lot less intense than i thought it'd be

why is chris just chilling in pete's house

babe you're still there :(( honey :((

HE CAN'T SLEEP WITHOUT CHARLIE :(((

hallow super gt street thunder never fails to make me laugh and idek why

is charlie in the car???

no he isn't ugh

is it just the four of them asknf

i hope kim shows up and kicks winner's ass (again)

jeff using his engineering powers for evil (good) is everything to me actually

can willy not freeze time to escape???

DID BABE VEER OFF THE TRACK?? or was it on purpose?? idk jack shit about racing tbh

is winner leaving?

BABE FINALLY KICKING WILLY'S ASS?? DESERVED!!

DID DEAN JUST DIE?! WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK

next week okay i hope dean doesn't die

okay charlie's safe

WHY'S EVERYONE CRYING DONT TELL ME DEAN FUCKING DIED

NORTHSONIC KISS NEXT WEEK??? RAHHH

okay well what the fuck

[bengiyo]

Tokyo in April is... Ep 4 Stray Thoughts

Last week, Kazuma and Ren began their FWB relationship. It has strict rules about how they interact. Ren doesn't face him during sex, the lights stay off, and Kazuma leaves after. They stay friendly at work with no mention of it. They also hook up every day. Kazuma seems to recognize that there's something huge holding Ren back, and decides to be patient and present for now. Meanwhile, Ren put the whole company on his back to save an ad campaign after their actor was caught up in a scandal.

Trigger Warnings for this episode: Striking a minor, discussion of sexual assault, implied harm and suicide attempt, aftermath of implied sexual assault.

One of the fun things about a show where the characters are in an active sexual relationship, is any time you're present for the sex you immediately know that there are emotional stakes in play.

I love Kazuma. I like that he can feel that Ren was tired and needed closeness. I love that he turns that into an opportunity for Ren to do something for him instead.

I'm expecting the color gays to say something about this orange shirt matching the shelves later.

I'd be overwhelmed if I was Ren, too. He has fairly-valid reasons to believe that his feelings were one-sided. He's been protecting his heart in this arrangement, but now he's forced to see how real Kazuma's feelings (which have been expressed clearly since they met again) are.

See, and I totally get Ren misunderstanding Kazuma as teens. This feels a little like Lee Wan and Shin Ki Tae in Our Dating Sim, where Wan just could not comprehend that Ki Tae could also like him.

I don't have the words to convey how sad I am that Ren believed he coerced Kazuma into sex, and felt he needed to say that to their parents because he needed to be honest about all of the events that transpired to ensure that Kazuma received effective care for his condition.

It's awful to watch, but I appreciate a mom striking the self-proclaimed assailant of her son.

An exacto knife? Fuck me.

That was intense. I like delivering the history Ren has kept to himself as he breaks over the answer he's always wanted. That Ryunosuke guy had clearly heard of Kazuma before.

Kazuma is such a boy. They got the jock-turned-diligent-office-worker energy correct.

A home cooked meal shot from the side with the kitchen available in the back. I know that this is probably a fairly standard Japanese apartment layout in Tokyo, but this is sending me all the way to What Did You Eat Yesterday? I like this shift after such a heavy sequence.

Finally, a show for the quiet gays like me. I'm not surprised the same director as Our Dining Table is involved. Those boys were also Quiet Gays (Yes, I know Minoru is bi. Let me have fun). After a rough week or two at work, just taking a day to lazily enjoy each other's company is so nice compared to some date at a sponsored location.

Ren is staying over and we're getting a domestic gay montage. I am living!!

It's hard not to notice that Ren never removes that wristband now.

Oh, timing Kazuma saying that the only thing that matters to him is Ren as Ren strokes Kazuma's sleeping face is the most touching "it's mutual" thing I've seen in a while that also reflects the characters. Kazuma will say it. Ren will show it.

The framing around a coworker leaving, ominous energy about Sanada, warnings from the pissed former employee, the info in the past, and now the actor facing over 1300 sexual harassment charges.... Implications unpleasant about Sanada and that management may already know.

Yes, please dry his hair. You are a BL boy who almost died from being soaked in the rain ten years ago. We cannot repeat our mistakes.

This conversation about just taking a bath was refreshingly gay for me. I like the tacit acknowledgement about mess.

Ah, and there's the overt confirmation about Sanada. That women looked out of it.

DRAMA NEXT WEEK WITH WORK.

This was simultaneously an incredibly sad and heavy episode, but also one of the softest and most domestic things we've had in a while. The Japanese teams are really good at that balance. You can feel Ren finally softening and letting Kazuma in. The rapport between them is solid. They feel older than a lot of the pairings we've had in Japan despite just being in their mid-20s. This is really such a fantastic show.

[kimberlyannharts]

misc thoughts on #122 -

= Billy's actions do get framed as wrong I THINK but he still does that awful "yeah I'm sorry I guess but YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I DID IT YOU'LL UNDERSTAND EVENTUALLY" bullshit that's been so prevalent in these comics and pisses me off every time. Oh was it ~hurtful~ for Aisha to call you a traitor? It probably hurt when Kiya and Alt-Trini kicked her ass and knocked her out because of what YOU told them to do, asshole

= Also if shattering the Grid really gets fixed as easily as "oh well the last remaining Egg will fix it" then Necessary Evil and the Omegas truly were giant wastes of time, weren't they

= Though while we're talking about it I have no idea of what the consequences of Billy shattering the Grid were besides everyone being pissed off at him (and Kiya and Alt-Trini might be out of the picture now; they don't show up in this issue and no one talks about them). Taking what was the foundation of an entire event - really, the foundation of the entire SERIES after Shattered Grid ended - and reducing it to two issues at the end of this one is definitely going to be a major part of my writeup

= We really didn't need the whole "Slayer and Ari fight" thing considering how fast it gets wrapped up

= Where the fuck was Kim. Tommy, Rocky, and Adam get one panel. good god the finale is going to be doing a lot of the heavy lifting of "actually feature the goddamn MMPRs"

= Jason gets weird over seeing Zack/Trini are together now. Make them a polycule you cowards

= Bulk calls Taylor hot??????? why do we need this??????

= obligatory Shattered Grid "everyone is here" scene is finally here but also kind of a shame that the guys they picked up in the montage were apparently the....ONLY guys they picked up lol

= Related to that we got further confirmation of characters who were previously just captured like Shelby and Danny are corrupted so truly what was the point of them just being captured

= Terona gets weirdly angry over Kendall....asking about Grace? "WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT HER??" Is this. like. a problem? That Kendall wants to know about Grace? Grace was the head of Promethea, why WOULDN'T Kendall know about her?

= I did like the memorial for the 1969 Rangers though, that was nice

= Same with how the issue didn't really give us any Salum/Maxie scenes, but them playing with Ari's kid in the bg was cute

= So was the "shocking cliffhanger that will leave you stunned" just......Ari opening the Void? Because that's not shocking. That's just what....needed to be done lol