#it def has it flaws

[saltcxrcle]

additional thoughts from three months after initial post:

omg i also forgot to add when i first posted this but this also reinforces that the narrative's perspective is being told/through dean's perspective and how much the narrative favors dean over sam, especially in the later seasons while the earlier seasons (i would say but forgive me if im wrong) show each of the brother's perspective more equally until we hit season 4ish (i don't want to say season 4 definitely but my point still stands).

I haven't talked about how the narrative favors/is told through a certain perspective (because, 1) im not trying to start discourse 2) i want to state my opinion but knowing this fandom that the conversation surrounding it will not be productive and devolve into something else entirely), but trust others (mainly mari lol ) have heard about this for sure. maybe one day ill make another post about the POV in which the narrative is told through

i truly want to do a more thorough retrospective of season 8 and about the narratives POV but i have to finish the show before i do another rewatch but trust that those essay(s) will come eventually :)

a little retrospective about sam and season 8 (if you even care lol) 

thoughts are under the cut bc i yapped

okay when first watching the beginning of season 8, i was intially mad at sam for not trying to look for dean when he was in purgatory for a year (as did many others to my knowledge) but after sometime away from that season and just not being on tumblr for a solid month made me form my own opinions LOL. look dean had every right to be pissed at sam for just leaving the life behind and not trying to find him or kevin, like it get it, he has every right to feel that way, but sam had no clue was in purgatory and thought he was dead

we as the viewer know where dean and cas are, but sam does not. the writers ultilzed a little device called dramatic irony and in this case, the audience knows what happens to dean and cas, but in sam’s perspective, dean and cas died in front of him after saving the world again 

sam admits that he was lost after losing his brother and friend and had no clue what he was doing and just drove the impala until he hit a dog (paraphrasing here but hopefully you get my point). although i don’t entirely love the sam and amelia plotline (admittledy i skipped the flashbacks), it showcases the cycle that he is desperately trying to get out of hunting but ultimately gets sucks back into. 

like i get the rationale of being angry at sam, hell i was too, but what were we expecting out of sam? him hellbent on finding his brother when he has no clue if he’s alive or try and find and save kevin?  which, objectively he should have done that, but subjectively sam had experienced so much loss at that point that so yeah, i can see why that wasn’t at the top of the list of priorities. so no, i don't and shouldn't have expected sam to do that.

besides dean made sam promise him that if he died or vice versa that you don’t try and bring the other back because we’ve seen the consequences of their attempts of resurrecting the other (don’t get me started on season 9, i think i might blow a gasket if i even try and talk about it) 

so yeah that’s my little two cents on that matter and yeah i unfortunately love these pair of idiot brothers (and maybe i like the taller one a bit more at times) thanks for reading :P

[song-of-baldy-ron]

I feel bad for the people who didn’t like Veilguard because personally my soul ascended to a higher spiritual plane when Neve Gallus called my Rook “trouble” for the first time

[dewwshi]

i liked the sparring scene from the start of siege of darkness a normal amount

[something-unholy]

I just came to the realization that James Wan directed both Saw and Dead Silence and that's probably why both puppets are named Billy

[pensymbols]

if i had to give a ppe presentation on anything itd be about how nicos fatal flaw isnt holding grudges but being loyal and how percys isnt loyalty its holding grudges and in this essay

[vt-scribbles]

There's gotta be a term for "I want this character to be fat/gay/a poc/etc but they're not exactly the nicest/best person and I fear people will accuse me of 'demonizing' that person 'because' of their body type/race/sexuality/gender despite the design and character writing being completely unrelated"

Edit addition: I guess this can be summed up as 'it sucks that the urge to make representation for people is constantly squashed by the reality that people will see 'imperfect representation' and freak out. It happens every time a piece of Queer media gets popular.

[ambiguousintentions]

Idk man the other thing too is that the argument of “well they had less episodes so they just had to streamline the story and that’s why the pacing’s bad!” doesn’t quite work because each episode of the live action is approx an hour long- for a total of 8ish hours for the entire season.

Each episode of the original series is approx 20 minutes long for a total of 7ish hours for the entire season.

So for that first season, both iterations had the same amount of time yet the original still had the better writing and pacing.

[skuntank]

Aware that my interpretation of Diantha keeps getting a little meaner over time and I want to do something abt that. It is 1000% to do with my own self-perception shit and I realize that but even if she struggles, and has weird emotional problems like I do, and has been built up to be a very complex character in my head, I do not want to see her as a mean person bc she isn't.

[asocial-skye]

me at the Wedding Impossible tag:

[semiotomatics]

idk abt yall but im still not over the fact that the internet lets you communicate w ppl literally all over the world, ppl you'd never have a chance to talk to otherwise. its just so cool to me!! i absolutely adore talking to ppl abt their cultures n their homes n their lives n getting to share mine in return. i know that as our online lives have gotten more complex the "internet culture" has kind of superceded a lot of ppls irl ones, at least when interacting in online spaces, but i rly hope we dont lose that desire to share pieces of where we came from w others. i think doing so not only enriches our own lives, but enriches our relationships w others as well.

[clover-46]

it’s so funny watching people shit on jjk on tiktok and twitter (i have not looked at the fans opinions on here) when most of these same fans are gonna tune in tonight for the leaks. lmao if you’re so unsatisfied just drop it 💀💀

[percabeth4life]

I saw a post, which I can no longer find, that talked about how Percy’s fatal flaw of loyalty doesn’t apply to things like “you’d destroy the world to save a friend” but rather applies to things like his first prophecy blatantly warning him of betrayal but him never really worrying about that and then following Luke into the woods despite the fact that he still had doubts over that line coming into play, or him not being able to really think about there being a spy in camp because he just can’t fathom betrayal (and following Nico right into Hades’s palace, despite Nico being really shady right then), which I thought was an interesting interpretation

Yeah I saw that post! I think I queued it. Def an interesting view of it, better handled than everyone focusing on him "destroying the world for a friend" (which he proved wrong book 1, and 3, and 5).

[lesbiansanemi]

So I’ve been rewatching kill la kill and I’m honestly so mad the first time I watched it I was like, 15. I’m having such a good time with it, and being able to admire the animation and the themes without immediately labeling it as bad because there are boobs on screen because I hadn’t completely shaken off the strict southern Baptist upbringing in that regard yet. I def was not appreciating anything about it

But on the other hand I like that I know enough about the main plot beats but not remembering many details so I can really unpack things as I watch it and appreciate it more than I could if I was going into it COMPLETELY blind

Idk! The point is I think it’s a really interesting series and it was def one I needed to rewatch before I actually had an opinion on it

[dailyoyo]

all that said. despite so much of this stuff being heavily future-based. i find og jsr more fun to actually Play LMAO

[boltmyth]

the thing about nate is that while he pretends not to love attention and glory and praise he's still a son of zeus? he thrives on those things, which is something he learned during the war, but also something he had to let go off for the sake of survival when he came to camp half blood. it's really difficult for him to keep to the shadows, to keep to himself and pretend to be anything other than extraordinary. he has the arrogance of a god, which he hates. but it's there. no matter how much he tries to fight it. no matter how much he has to hide and pretend it doesn't exist. when the secret of his parentage is revealed, part of him is relieved not just because he no longer has to lie, but also because he knows he doesn't have to hold back anymore, which also means people will most likely look at him with awe again, something he has missed ever since he came to camp. his mother always made him feel special and during the war he had such an important role and then after he was basically treated as a god for fifty plus years, only for him to arrive in a place where he had to pretend like he was only average at best. it's still definitely something he struggles with, especially as his distaste for the gods and the mythological world grows, but it's something that never quite leaves him and something that he will always keep fighting against...

[flowered-mp3]

y'all ever just watch someone self-sabotage themselves to the point where it's hard to watch