#it's a GREAT season except for when it's not

[rainbowdrop]

Saiki K from... Saiki K and Senku of Dr stone

They lit say they dont care about love and anything or that they find it interesting or yk something along the lines that show their indifference about dating ANYONE, but they get shipped anyway and it's a bit frustrating when I see it, like they just have really got platonic relationships... Like Senki and Gen... They make and incredible Duo and the complement each other and they think alike when they make those plans, but there isn't even a slightly show of romantic love, care? Yes. Worry? Yes. Closeness? Yes. Trust? YES. But they are not romantic, he says in the first season how he doesn't care about love, rejecting like two or three people and not seeming even the slightest romantic interest in anyone, he just care for his friends and he trust them!

And Saiki also says he doesn't care about love, it's again just a great group of friends that he grow to care and accept that he care for them, it's him starting off as just someone who just wants to be "normal" and by that he just acts dry to everyone and as the story goes he learns to open up and show that he care and that he consider them friends!

Luckily we have the awesome Lilith from The Owl house and I thank that she is an exception, but I think people don't act with her that way bc... She doesn't have someone for people to ship her with, like the ones more close to her are... Her sister, Hotty, Steve wich he is like what.. barely and adult or at his maximum he is 25? And Lilith is like... Around her 40-50's? Then a bunch of teenagers... And at the start of the series Belos-... Like I'm happy we have her but at the same time I think it's because she isn't show with like a particularly... """"""Adequate partner""""""" bc if she had one...

the way fandoms are desperate to make all aroace characters romance and sex favorable but then dont do anything remotely similar to any other identity is astounding. hmm i wonder why

PLEASE dont derail this about shipping characters of other identities please let this one post be about an aroace struggle

[sibred]

So, I started rewatching Babylon 5 with a DnD friend and for the first time, I noticed Commander Sinclair (played by the late, great Michael O'Hare), is DUMMY THICC. Now, I don't have a PC setup, so below are the crappy photos (and one gif) I took with my phone that turns everything blue, but I needed the Internet, and specifically Tumblr, to know.

S1E8, in which Sinclair is tortured in his own mind, had some of the best shots.

Am I making a big deal about nothing? Probably. It's not like there's a beach episode where he shows up in speedos or anything (except in my dreams). And he's only got the one season. But still, I think it was impressive for him to never skip leg day or avoid ass shots in the 90s, when as far as I know, that wasn't much appreciated in men on TV. So I feel the need to make up for lost time and sexualize that old man.

And as I move on to Season 2, I must say goodbye to Sinclair. I hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave.

[calissarowan]

Evil princess Icy headcanons

Dyamond gets restored at some point in or just after season three; Icy whips out the sob story and waterworks (she has an onion slice hidden in her gloves, she can’t cry on cue), and Bloom’s heart melts, because Icy’s not evil, she’s just sad and traumatised and a lost princess like her, she’d better save her planet! Then Dyamond is melted with the power if the Dragon Flame and Bloom’s feels so good watching Icy hug her moms and sister, and it’s all a happy, tearful reunion. Until Icy tries to impale her, because psyche! She can be evil and love her family! And her moms do precisely nothing aside from pointing out and weak spots in Icy’s defence and keeping Sapphire from trying to fight too.

All the citizens of Dyamond are behind her, and if she ever kills the Winx, she will be able to run through the streets doing that long chain of high fives thing. There will be a planet-wide holiday and a street party, and Icy will go on chat shows where they’ll replay all her best villain moments.

Icy actually cares a lot about her subjects, and is gonna make a pretty great queen one day. Everyone else can just get frozen solid, though.

Darcy and Stormy are welcome on Dyamond at the palace any time, and they both have rooms and Darcy has already got half the cute guys there wrapped around her finger. Stormy likes to try on all the crowns in the castle, and all the armour. All three Trix are expected for dinner once a month, family dinner, no exceptions. The queens had the three paroled from jail once to make dinner. Then she just never gave them back and threatened all out war if anyone tried to take her girls.

Tritannus just stared at Icy for a full ten minutes when she got off the phone with her mom having explained all her evil plans and signing off with ‘Love you too,’ and Icy had to explain the concept of a loving and supportive family. Tritannus still doesn’t get how they support her being sociopathic to everyone and trying to rule the universe. She invited him to the monthly dinner and her parents took one look at this depressed, emotionally neglected teenager with anger issues and said ‘Well, looks like he lives here now.’ Tritannus is now also an unofficial member of the family. (Also I don’t really ship them, so he’s just Icy’s friend that lives there now.) He lives on Dyamond now. I won’t offer an explanation for why no Oblivion, but he just lives on Dyamond and gets harassed by Sapphire wanting to do his hair every day.

Stormy is Sapphire’s idol; she follows her around and tries to imitate her, and Stormy loves it. Darcy’s tried to get Sapphire to idolise her, but Sapphire wants to be Stormy. Together, they’ve messed with just about every royal guard in the palace.

Icy was invited to the Summit of the Realms in season 5, and nobody could kick her out. She spent the whole time making snarky comments.

Sapphire and Miele have teamed up to help their big sisters, and they are actually friends. Flora almost fainted when Miele mentioned she’d been hanging out on Dyamond.

@elsa-fogen, I know you liked this au.

[major-comet]

#wash sarge and donut would have beaten felix to death with hammers i tell you what

elaborating on my tag from the other day because i haven't been able to stop thinking about it (also i forgot about lopez he would also participate in the hammering). part of the reason I think felix was so successful at at least mostly tricking tucker/caboose/grif/simmons is because everyone on that team was suddenly thrust into a position of responsibility that's frankly pretty new for all of them, even grif who has technically led a squad before and tucker who did all that desert bullshit. so they were all pretty preoccupied with that, and didn't have the *time* to examine felix all that closely. it's so easy to take someone at face value when you meet them under extreme stress.

wash and sarge *are* leaders already, though. leading a squad of hopeless soldiers for the new republic is nothing new for them. (and I wonder how the team assignments would have been changed? would lopez have had a squad of his own, or would he and donut have been lumped together since donut can dubiously speak spanish - great opportunity for comedy, if you ask me. OR would sarge have assumed responsibility for what would have been grif and simmons' teams along with donut and lopez, with wash then taking what would have been tucker and caboose's teams. which could lead to parallels of when grif called matthews simmons, except it's sarge or wash calling one of their soliders by the name of one of the missing four. most emotionally impactful would probably be bitters or palomo respectively.)

wash and sarge are very different people, but i like to think that every now and then their leadership brains come together on the same wavelength, even if they get to that point in very different ways. wash and felix would fucking hate each other, and sarge inherently is wary of anyone not properly aligned with a team (because it keeps ending fucking horribly for them, damn freelancers)

we also know that donut and lopez love getting up to some fuckshit from time to time - i think it's part of the red team rulebook. lopez spent a solid season or so as an antagonist, he would be ecstatic at getting to actually do something about this annoying son of a bitch. team sanctioned violence. and donut has one of the highest on-screen kill counts of the reds and blues by that point, he would've had the hammer in his hands before sarge even thought of it. (also i think felix probably would have been like, extra mean to donut because he's an easy target? and i think sarge and lopez would have one of those like "hey you can't make fun of him like that, only we can do that" type of moments that would have prompted absolutely zero self-reflection about the way that they treat donut, as is standard with these sorts of moments.)

i can clearly see the reunion between the two groups. tucker's like "yeah so we've kind of just been hanging with locus. guys fuckin Scary but eh. scary is kind of just normal for us these days. speaking of scary - the doctor chick keeps trying to jump simmons and grif to study them - keeps calling them "medical miracles" or some shit. otherwise? not a lot. what have you guys been up to?" and wash is just like. "oh, not much." and donut interjects about how the four of them totally pounded a guy together and the others have to be like "WITH HAMMERS. WITH HAMMERS." locus might even be there for the reunion, since he wouldn't have had the heads up about the guys leaving the rebel base from felix - y'know, on account of the hammering. sarge would start monologuing about everything they'd been up to, and simmons would seethe with renewed jealousy towards lopez and donut, as he perceives them as sarge's favorites out of all his kids. all would be right in the world.

has anyone thought about what if Felix and locus swapped what parts of the reds and blues they dealt with, like what if locus took caboose tucker grif and simmons, what then

[cloysterbell]

Yes okay Doctor Who S6 is very hit or miss, true, but there's no denying that Matt puts his whole ass into his performance as the Doctor

[my-current-obsession]

every time i see bakudeku compared to k/ance (now specifically in terms of them getting shafted in the ending and/or accused of queerbaiting) i take psychic damage

[jimmyspades]

The season 4 premiere of Boston Legal is like psychological terrorism. Alan being begged to have a baby. Word salad. Sex in an elevator TWICE. Shirley/Denny moment that makes me sob. Infidelity. The arrival of Carl. Guys looking at each others’ dicks. Alan saying his penis has been a bad boy. Carl’s hair. One of the greatest guest appearances on the show by Craig muMs Grant. Alan calls himself fat. He wears a dress just for fun. Big dance number. I feel like I’m being hit with baseball bats the entire episode.

[sskk-manifesto]

!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lavenderjewels]

really appreciating kenjaku this season. physics defying hair, a thirst for all experimental sorcery and science, constantly looking like a cat that’s about to smugly knock over a glass

[unproduciblesmackdown]

among the boundless billions zaniness like laugh track as it definitely has that moment of expressing "rolling my eyes as The Left makes a kerfuffle of Acting like they have a stance as a veneer over the true belief that [xyz] is cool & chill actually" like what, approximate 0.000% chance wendy isn't, as usual, given the Objective Stance of "yeah yeah ohh we are cancelling involved parties talking about how we Don't watch this But. we all love this damn epic movie & already have it memorized so shut the fuck up, kids today" like. don't wanna really delve into how much billions thinks taylor or anyone is "really" trans / nonbinary like not too much benefit of the doubt in this material including what does provide info abt that specifically

& the general like [head in hands. what do you think any of this could possibly be about (you're the one that made your show at all about Power)] of "yes, it's bad/wrong to be someone that someone has done something to / victim of something" like that to be anti misogyny All Women Must Be Epic Winners b/c there's something to be proved: that they don't Deserve to be victims (of misogyny), not taken as a Given. while when we see some epic winner men stepping on other men (who need not all be guaranteed Winners so as to say misogyny is wrong), that's often Good, well beyond any assumption that various forms of basic disrespect / violation / patterns of emergent/entrenched power difference as Bad (for being things done to people, not for there being people they're being done to), & generally billions has to take an extra step when ppl get shitted on & tell us the Specific Cases when it was undeserved actually & someone was being mean to a specific person who didn't deserve that. & the specific cases when hey guess it wasn't that bad(tm) or when hey It's Okay that you're someone something was done to, in this case. & tell us what we were supposed to know all along like when someone who something was being done to (wrong Of Them, whether b/c they inherently deserve it no matter what, &/or b/c they failed to be someone who could make it Impossible to do anything to them, which, how do you do that besides being The Authority / Superior yourself, exactly? nonrhetorically? what if the in group vs out group / fascism / authoritarianism protected Me?) was actually being treated Too Well b/c ah well the abuse meant you were getting any attention, maybe it meant you were claimed as any superior's property, maybe it meant you weren't Already disposed of, as all Losers were in the end, You're Welcome.

obviously referring to winston where it's spelled out all the abuse towards him was deserved, & More than he deserved in the case of rian having more access & taking advantage of that, all for billions' enjoying its own sendoff there of, again, maximizing violation & violence short of [real violence is physical & leaves bruises / draws blood / Literally kills] which would be distasteful in general But doesn't it make wags look like the winner & winston the loser is that the former's completely unrelated completely impersonal ego blow gets way amplified taken out on winston, the most vulnerable recurring character when spyros as [first & ultimate Everyone Hates Him role] is more entrenched in there & billions still magnanimously pities tuk, as it does winston too, just not quite as much. again that like completely surface level realized power fantasy of forcing the mirror up to the Inferior so they're like nooo my inferiorityyyy & in doing so like, the projection in that lmao, we get it re: the valuing of & need(tm) for such Power Tripping & Reaffirming My Superiority & My Ego Restored; Everyone Claps like good god. & then for all ben & tuk are the slightly softer Two Too Nice Boys duo to the rian & winston quant duo, also like too nice i guess but not as much, ben is in charge of tuk but Any instance of rian being in charge of winston outstrips them in that "yay interpersonal abuse" dynamic, like then in the end billions may be like "yeah it's possible to be mean to them unlike how being mean to winston is actually Nice b/c he deserves everything he gets, we only vicariously enjoy it vs Feeling Bad for tuk & ben sometimes (still magnanimously & it's Not That Bad / just goofin)" like ben & tuk still Fail by not being people it's impossible to do anything to. & not Exceptions who anyone is really being Too Mean to. like if they were women, in which case, no problem surely with a "positive" kind of victim blaming where there is something Inherent that Will be victimized so hey how about to cancel that out there's this special Paternal Protection you Need always, Or Else? :) but instead they are men who are asian & is ben gay & w/tuk & winston nobody mentions glasses or fatness but billions doesn't really do much or very in depth textual mentioning of Anything, even w/nonzero mention that there may be gender & race in this world. a gay man, once. no disability. we just Know who are the inferiors who deserve it when they're treated inferiorly, or if they don't, they start deserving it when they fail to stop/avoid it, but if you start mentioning the factors behind who we all totally agree is inferior like whoa nobody was Saying any of that? being the real agent of oppression on the basis of the factors only You spelled out, much? nonbinary? i never say anything about the Gender Binary when i'm subscribing to it, sounds like You've created & enforced it. obfuscation & deflection onto [so Just Normal nobody has to label, explain, or argue it] couldn't serve a purpose & protect the existing power differences as they are. maybe You're the problem? perhaps you brought it upon yourself & now you're causing too much trouble standing up for yourself while everyone else's criticism is laser focused on you as the prior & continuing negative actions done to you are taken as a given / unquestioned / covertly protected to overtly encouraged?

anyway so wild if the Completely Normal(tm) Victim Blaming is uncritically recreated & oft embraced for "if you're watching this & don't wish you were axe / find him appealing" [billions as a sequence of vicarious power trips] purposes in this series....but a bit wild considering like this is your multiseason show that wasn't just purporting to be those power trips for [enough demographic & apparently specific personal tastes overlap w/creators] & was at all purporting to question the matters of power at play in the material, or yknow, at least to not be completely superficial material while said material is textually & thematically all about power difference being leveraged, how, the consequences, & so on. thus i will have to intermittently talk about it forever like this like lord unbelievable. & the funny little & sometimes less funny less little characters it has trapped in there so that those of us who were never meant to be in the audience can be cursed with this knowledge. like i have some feedback. "imagine not victim blaming" & "imagine adjusting your perspective can go beyond superficial layers added to politely defer to some other ppl while they're present but really like cmon do they deserve that. am i not just saying what we're allll thinking"

[shame-kink]

pisses me off so much much that i’m not immune to people arguing about steven universe

[keeps-ache]

they are in arizona :)

[hammysamhah]

please god I need someone to make a villain dareth fanfic bc bro I think he deserves a villain arc after being shat on so hard constantly by the ninja when he is nothing but loyal to them (as much as he can be anyways)

or just. a dareth fanfic about anything I just desperately need a dareth fanfic that isnt a shipfic 😭🙏

[tambourineophelia]

in addition to that, remember how i found out my ex has a kid through his whatsapp icon??

(the kicker is, i only looked at it because my fucking grandma told me on the phone: oh you know how i kept his number, because I always thought...* well looking at his new picture I might just delete it now...)

well at christmas i wanted to send myself some pictures i took with my mum's phone (with permission of course) and what do i see? she TEXTED HIM MERRY CHRISTMAS. we broke up over three years ago! ma'am this man didn't even send you a fucking condolence card when dad died! he does NOT get a merry christmas!!

so I told her that. she was a little snappy about it, which annoyed me because sorry, this is -my- old heart break, I'm not texting your exes either?? (or my ex's parents for that matter) but then! she said: but I DO wonder what kid he's holding there...

and I was like mum, what the heck, that's obviously HIS kid, what other child would that be

and she was SO CONFUSED. MOTHER! WHAT

[johnny-and-dora]

it’s truly wild how much sway a finale has in making or breaking a show’s legacy and the way it’s talked about FOREVER. i’ve never seen a single episode of how i met your mother i exclusively know it as the show with the really bad ending that pissed everyone off…same with got…maybe sometimes the unexpected twist ending…is worse

[wistful-pigeon]

it's 2am and I have plans for tomorrow (today at this point) and yet instead of being asleep I'm just laying awake, setting my phone aside to give sleep another try only to grab it again and aimlessly read fanfiction

So. Typical Sunday night for me