#it's refreshing to say the least!

[tariah23]

One of the main reasons why I used to avoid Isekai’s, and fantasy works in general, like the plague is because of how over saturated they’d become with things that didn’t feel like they even belonged to the genre to begin with… it’s not too hard to find works that stand out but so much of those works have been pushed down and forgotten, it just sucks.

[lunabug2004]

I think what makes me even more frustrated while rewatching ST and seeing all the characters just disregarding Mike and his warnings is not only the fact that he's always right so you would think they would learn to listen to him, but also the fact that he's so sensitive to knowing when stuff is related to the the lab or the Upside Down specifically.

Like in s2 when Dustin is showing off Dart and Mike instantly has a bad feeling. Then that feeling is confirmed by Will. But despite all of that all the other kids (even Will which is kinda crazy) try not to hurt Dart. It's so entirely frustrating to watch. Mike seems like he knows it's UD related when Will is gone after finding Dart, too (& he's also the one to find him, I swear those boys are like magnets). Also in s1 when Mike tells the boys they should leave and they insist on staying in the school. Then what? The bad guys show up and El is lost for a year.

Istg Mike has a sixth sense or something but anyways, you would think that the characters would pick up on these things and take Mike more seriously. I know the mains are mostly kids so like... they can be dumb (Mike can too, don't get me wrong) but it's just so annoying.

[atsukunaritai]

ワンルームエンジェル　第１・２話　　　　　 　　　one room angel - ep. 1&2

[peachviz]

all new doctor who does is make me cry it’s ok

[laylajeffany]

Morticia and Gomez managed to keep their children in public school for so long through generous donations to the PTA fundraisers.

And every year for Teacher Appreciation week, they pass out stacks of cash to Wednesday's teachers; like a promise each year from the previous grade level, that while you will be nearly driven out of the profession by her leers, corrective sass, potential violence, and barely-legal antics, you will at least be heavily compensated for it -

Like hazard pay.

Once Wednesday is at Nevermore, the gifts get a little weirder - crossbred plants that shouldn't exist to the botany teacher, impressive 500-year-old swords from a family collection to Coach Vlad, and Larissa Weems receives an entire wine cellar because they are aware that their girl drives her to drink.

[makeoutstopcrime]

a sincere thank you to this show bc yes tim and lucy are navigating these UC obstacles but they’re doing it together with honesty and vulnerability and open communication

not going to mention any other shows by name but I’m sure we can all think of several others that used these kinds of plotlines as ways to pull some ooc-type shit with our faves for the sake of ///drama///

[gammija]

only tangentially related to this ep, but - i have an Avatar concept around the cold/freezing water/hypothermia and drowning, and Ive discussed before which Fear that would most closely align with. A lot of people said the Buried or the Lonely, maybe the Vast, mixed with Dark.

Water and cold can be hard to categorise, even aside from how the categories are arbitrary lines drawn between fears etc etc. Cause these motifs have shown up with the Vast, Buried and Lonely, and probably others on occasion too.

But I think the cold an sich, and cold water especially, are most closely related to the Dark. Just like how Manuela describes the darkness as not the opposite of light, but the absence of it, the universe's natural state; so too does she talk in today's ep about how cold is not the opposite of warmth, but the lack of it. Cold is stillness, quiet, numbing. Dark.

...and also;

109, Nightfall: "As soon as my foot hit the water, I fell into it completely. It was colder than anything I had ever experienced, and the torch slipped from my hand as my vision immediately went dark."

140, The Movement of the Heavens: "I gripped the head of my foul adversary, and forced it down, into the dark pool before us. There I held it, the water so cold upon my skin the marks have yet to fade."

143 Heart of Darkness: "... I began submerging the first of the sacrifices in the brackish water it had blessed with its stillness."

143 ,, : "There is another world, a world of still and quiet darkness, where no heat touches..."

Other Fears statements occasionally also feature water, sometimes even cold water (though it's always accompanied of a mention of how dark it is, too), but it's not as much of A Thing as with the Dark. And I think it's a cool motif which they should get more credit for!

@a-mag-a-day

[svtskneecaps]

thank you for bearing with my purgatory posting and i'm also glad to see i'm not the only one who still has this fungus eating away at my brain matter. seeing other purgatory posting in the tag makes me feel better lmfao.

i'm not done btw, posting will (probably) continue as i revisit vods. wanted to extend a thanks in the interim, since i know how contentious the event was in the moment. i kinda thought the general consensus was most people hated thinking about it, but there's been a weird amount of engagement and yknow other people talking. makes me happy to know i'm not alone here!

[devilsrecreation]

May I offer you a smiling Makuu compilation in these trying times?

[webawee]

okay ngl, it's kinda entertaining to see how when i make a single post about ao3 i immediately get like 10 notes

it's so fascinating

it makes me so happy to see that we're all in this together

[cosmic-ships]

COME ON CINEPLEX !!!

[gromlyn]

I love going to a progressive seminary so much 💖 it's just so fucking cool to be able to learn about theology that isn't yknow. actively harmful. like today in my intro to christian theology class we mostly talked about black liberation theology and mujerista theology- aka theologies christian spaces I've been in in the past would've never touched with a 10-foot pole. going from a white american protestant evangelical upbringing to this is difficult to wrap my head around ngl. I feel like I was lied to for my entire life. I am so happy to be learning something better

[zoekrystall]

Hate how I didn't even think until now abt how zelda was alone as a dragon for so many years until the present. I wonder way too much abt how everything was for her and esp now as a dragon like mineru did say you lose yourself completely iirc but reg the tears shed do I believe it's not fully true. Maybe depends how strong your spirit is. Like yeah she can't really communicate well anymore but she recognizes us and her eyes. Her eyes I still can't get over them they're so full of emotion that's absolutely her eyes. Like. You're still inside that dragon when you become one if you try your best to remember is what I think (or want to believe). It's 5am I am not going to try to explain my already barely coherent thoughts better. Too much possibilities where I think some border on denial. I am a fluff not angst person. Anyways I wonder how long all those years felt what do you do as a dragon did the sages try talking to her dragon form or like anything-

[ethanhuntfemmefatale]

thinking again about my beloved tracy thephiladelphiastory. what it means for a girl disillusioned by her father to say 'the right time to decide on someone is never.'

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Head in my hands. What if I split Chapter 4 of "Love will cost an arm and a leg" into two parts.

[perfectly-clear-from-here]

not me purposefully getting off my face drunk just to write this house party chapter realistically. downing another can solely for research purposes.