#it only took a whole season

[splatoonusna]

How do you feel about the Neo Splatana Stamper to Splatana Stamper Nouveau official change?

[sapphicstoria]

i don’t understand how people constantly say Jonathan is a bad boyfriend, when he’s one of the only people who has ever cared about Nancy’s dreams and aspirations besides Karen. Have they had their issues? Sure, but to say he’s a terrible boyfriend when all he has ever wanted for her was the absolute best, is crazy.

[brieulee]

Once Upon a Time drives me fucking insane because WHY is there so much wasted potential!!!! Jefferson just disappeared?? They turned August into a child and we like never see him again THEY COULD HAVE GIVEN HENRY A FRIEND LIKE HE ONLY HANGS OUT WITH HIS GRANDPARENTS AND HIS THERAPIST

Actually speaking of his therapist the POTENTIAL they had with Regina and Archie?? Like they were kinda cute and now they don’t even talk to each other like even as friends or anything?? WHY

AND GRAHAM he deserved sooo much better (no not his relationship with Regina pls never speak about that) RUBY TOO CAUSE WHY DID THEY DO HER LIKE THAT

But you’re telling me that 3 people in this town knew everything and they never talked to each other?? Why did Gold and Jefferson never talk in Storybrooke?? Like Rumple was literally the one to introduce him to Regina in the first place

AND WHEN GRAHAM WAS REMEMBERING WHY DIDNT JEFFERSON GET HIM? GRAHAM WAS LITERALLY RUNNING AROUND THE WOODS CHASING A MAGICAL WOLF like if Jefferson had gotten him on his side Emma might have been less inclined to think he was a psychopath

Same with August!! If he had literally talked to either of them things could have been fixed so much faster or they at least would know they’re not fucking crazy like make a little “in the know” club it could’ve been fun

[project-sekai-facts]

Do you think An's mourning went too quick?

if we consider the amount of time between lutf and oyf (a few days), then maybe. first off, you gotta consider genre and storytelling here. vbs is very shounen-like, not that i really know anything about manga but they're basically always working towards the goal, most conflicts are resolved within the event, maybe with some things lingering afterwards but the main conflict (for lutf it was obviously the truth around nagi's death) is always mostly/completely resolved.

also in terms of event pacing, the next event had to be their arc ender (both lutf and oyf are very clearly rushed but the 2nd arc enders are an issue with like 2 other units as well so this is not a vbs exclusive problem). they didn't have the time to stretch out an's grief to more events, plus there was already the in-universe issue of taiga leaving for the US like 3 days after lutf. and yes, an did have let's study hard, but that was always going to be 1-A focused since they didn't have an event yet and needed it before there was no more 1-A.

however, there are multiple card stories and area conversations that show an grieving, and we get to see this in events like break down the wall and the ending of over rad squad to some degree. obviously less intense since time has passed, but there's still an obvious impression that she's mourning nagi. also this.

and as i said earlier, maybe. people grieve differently and for different amounts of time. people will also show it differently. a few days is a bit quick, but again you can put that down to the storytelling. in this kind of game that needs to tell its story quickly you don't have that kind of time. for the type of person an is and the age she is at, i think it was handled quite realistically. i do think it was rushed, but i don't think An would spend a very long time in a state of mourning. also lutf plays with the idea that she kind of already knew. she didn't know nagi was actually dead so she couldn't experience it fully, but there was always that slight sense of anger and denial at nagi having left without saying goodbye and never once talking to her for years. she was already grieving nagi, she just never once seriously thought about the situation.

[mcytegg]

does anyone remember the time 4c said smt abt not just wanting to better the server, but how he wanted to better its people. or am i just saying words, making shit up, etc etc

[fallmisery]

Catherine Dubois on Montréal fans booing Abby Roque. At some point she joked and said they wouldn’t let her at the press conference again because she replied to a question asking about the playoffs with something like “if the guys (habs) can’t give the fans playoffs, at least we can.” 😂

Link : https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6LrD_ermBF/?igsh=MnNzNXJoM3VuNHFm

[itsslivernotsilver]

maybe i should rewatch pantheon

[ninyard]

I think andrew was kinda selfish for not doing his best in the court like the foxes were killing themselves just to get a score and there was andrew who wouldn't care less if the other team scored a goal like i get that he didn't care about exy that's fine but omg those kids were trying😑

them on the frontlines while Andrew’s in the goals like SUNSHINE LOLLIPOPS AND RAINBOWS

Yeah I mean. Andrew doesn’t really give a shit. And he certainly doesn’t care about how much work his teammates have to do to compensate for him not giving a shit. At least pre-TKM anyway.

(To be fair to him he was also fighting for his life during some of them matches.)

[markantonys]

it continues to baffle me how many readers advocate for the show entirely cutting the andoran succession arc, aka elayne's ONE big Main Character storyline that she leads herself (vs. being a sidekick in nynaeve's storylines). what would you do if i started advocating for cutting mat forming the band of the red hand? you wouldn't be so happy about that, would you? well, that's the equivalent of what you're suggesting for elayne, just gutting her entire arc and reducing her to a secondary character.

some readers really need to learn that "i don't like this storyline" doesn't automatically equal "this storyline is just unimportant filler that can and should be cut from the show" (and that "i like this storyline" doesn't automatically equal "this storyline is crucial to the series as a whole and the show will be unwatchable if it's cut")

[hermidetta]

it is the middle of the night and there is a knock at bernadetta's window. once, twice, thrice—as many as it takes to rouse her, then a faint, tentative quirk at the corner of their lips and a wave in greeting from the boy standing outside her room. “i've got something to show you,” yuri says to her, at a time when the only people who should be awake are the scoundrels and thieves. and they're certainly not the kind of people to be following into the dark, but they still ask, “wanna come?”

and yuri has plans, certainly, of leading her through the maze of winding tunnels beneath the monastery until they emerge reach a small field of flowers they'd found outside garreg mach's walls. but she can come or not—they will never push. they'll leave the basket hanging from their arm for her regardless of any answer or lack thereof.

part way through putting it together, they realized they don't quite know bernadetta as well as they did when they were still children, and the result is a collection of pastries they think they remember her liking and the odd item here and there—some new needles and threads, a few packets of flower seeds, a little hoodie similar to her own academy uniform that seems sized for a stuffed bear rather than a human.

(if she says yes, though, she gets one more gift: a secret. she gets yuri sitting cross-legged on a blanket they'd brought so they could sit on the grass and look at the stars, glancing sideways at her. “it's not my real name, you know.” their gaze shifts away. “yuri. and it wasn't jules either. but i suppose you could've guessed that by now.”

a shake of their head, then they move on as though they'd never even said it. “anyway, it's lucky the skies were clear tonight. i've got plenty of talents, but even i can't control the weather. and i might like to look at them, but i don't actually know that much about stars.” one hand planted behind them to brace their weight, they lean over and use the other to point up to the sky. “i can always find that one, though. it's one of the brightest in the sky: regulus.” a pause, but yuri cannot so blatantly offer her that knife to their heart just yet. they pull away. “you got a favorite, bernadetta?”)

⠀ ⚘ birthdaydetta 2k24 ♡ ⠀

she comes. of course she does. of course she wants to, if the way her eyes light up at yuri right as she opens the window is any indicator. and here is what most do not know: the back window of her room is a special, secret gateway, an entrance and exit just for bernadetta herself—bernadetta, and yuri.

"yuri! you're here!"

it would be a boldfaced lie for her to say she had not wished to see them on her birthday. it may be a childish whim for those who are no longer children in a garden, and for that alone she keeps tens of thousands of wishes and words under lock and key. but so many of her other friends had paid her a visit. bernadetta could make a hundred more of them and she would still be a bit lonelier each birthday without the first one she'd ever made.

"yeah, i do!"

so of course she comes. she tumbles out the window in her excitement-that-may-also-just-be-clumsiness, and she most certainly does not have an embarrassed tint in her cheeks as she pats the stray leaves off her skirt.

she knows yuri is busy. their greeting, the fact that they had taken the time out of their day to even see her, that was more than gift enough—but the basket on their arm staggers her breath and sends her into disarray. all of the treasures inside, each a carefully curated fragment of her. none of those fragments had been lost to time. even sweeter, yuri's memory.

yes—this is her gentle friend, the one she will always follow into the dark, the one whose knife she would trust against her throat again and again because maybe there is no love without violence. maybe there is no one capable of a violence any worse to bernadetta than herself, anyway.

so of course she accepts the basket, too. she accepts it with no small stream of stammered gratitude, and in the night her treacherous eyes wander to where the handle had hung from yuri's arm. if she announces her motion with a weak clear of her throat—if her thumb and forefinger reach out to pinch just their sleeve, unintrusive, as unassuming as possible, just the tiniest pinch of it so that she would not trip and fall, then bernadetta will be thankful if yuri does not laugh too much for it. (she falls regardless. she falls, and falls, and falls with both feet planted on the ground. she would forgive them regardless. always, she forgives them.)

even when they speak amidst sweet flowers, yuri's blanket soft beneath them, bernadetta would forgive them for whatever she knew, and for whatever she did not. that is why she takes what they do decide to name, taking it into cradled hands like another gift, because everything from them to her is. (she does not realize the irony of it all, so ready to take a knife herself that she cannot see that it is the handle, not the blade end that is teased in her direction.)

"regulus,"  she echoes softly, with a twinkle of marvelment, testing the sound of it on her tongue. it's nice. gentle, like fingers that might untangle thorns from her hair or wipe tears from her cheeks. she likes it.  "one of the brightest, huh?"

she cannot revel too long in its majesty, however. not when yuri's voice lingers in her head like a bad habit. but i suppose you could've guessed that by now. a pause suspends the air until finally, she addresses it. she must.

"... yeah. i knew."  her voice, hushed and tender—fond, despite everything; fond, despite the unspoken barrier; fond, because a name was special, but not moreso than the bearer behind it. any wall, any lock, any knife and bernadetta would care infinitely more for who stood behind them all.

yes—bernadetta had already guessed that she had never been given their real name. but they had always given her so much more. she has never felt anything as real as that.

"that's okay. i mean, no matter what... wherever, or whoever you are... as long as you're safe and happy, that's enough for me. i just wanted you to know that, too."

wherever they are, whoever they are, it would not change that they were her dear friend. how could she ask them for anything more? when all life must have done to yuri for years is take. they might have learned its rules, learned how to play foul and keep sharp, but life still took. it took too much.

and because she could not bear for it to take even more from them now, she skirts ahead of the topic just as yuri had.

"so, um! when i get lost and can't find you, does that mean i can look for that star instead?"  eyes squint at the sky, and her neck tilts as if trying to memorize regulus from different angles, different forms. it kept its unmistakable glow either way. almost like the very friend who sat beside her.  "i don't know much about them, either, so i never had a favorite before. hm..."

then bernadetta turns her head to yuri, a cheek squashed atop her raised knees. when she smiles, gray eyes crinkle into crescents that join the canvas of stars above them.

"but i think i like regulus, too."

[aobaseijohs]

update for all of u who started watching the dragon prince then dropped it: the elf is out of the coin

[dxppercxdxver]

i wish you'd hold me when i turn my back the less i give the more i get back your hands can heal, your hands can bruise i don't have a choice, but i still choose you

[*blasts a second beam and unlesbians your sharpes* you all have to like jane gibbons as much as me now you have to]

[ruffboijuliaburnsides]

when you watch a relatively good lil video essay about something you love, and they've got a lot of the details right but the very basic stuff is wrong... like bruh, how did you miss THIS?

[mayomkun]

Finally done with teen wolf rewatch. Phew

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

just learned that people are like legitimately pissed that mackenyu buffed up for season 2 ???

[siren--squid]

Going Through It in a way that only danvis can fix I think