#kinda hate the ending but its whatever

[boffeeceans]

Thinking of Eddie, who is terrified of the ocean, bt despite his fear, he still accompanies Billy to the beach, just never goes in. Over time, they get a little further, closer to the water, until he's standing right at the shore, water lapping at his ankles.

One day, when they're both chilling in their towels; Billy tanning, Eddie lathered in sunscreen and reading a book. And then Eddie just gets up, starts walking towards the water. Billy doesn't get a chance to ask him what he's doing and wants to go after him, but something is telling him to stay put.

Eddie walks up to the shore and then keeps walking until the water is up to his hips. He stands there, hands on the surface.

Billy takes the Polaroid camera that Eddie keeps in his bag at all times and takes a picture. To any outsider it's just another photo of the beach, but considering the fact that the first time they came out here Eddie didn't want to go in, and Billy, thinking he was just being stubborn picked him up and took him in anyway. Billy had never seen Eddie cry that hard and hasn't since.

But here Eddie is now, just standing there.

After a few minutes, Eddie comes running back. The second his ass meets the towel again, Billy asks if he's okay.

Eddie wordlessly takes Billy's hand in his and holds it to his chest, his heart pounding rapidly, but he's smiling so brightly.

"Why?"

Eddie shrugs and picks his book back up, as if it means nothing, as if he's done it many times before. "For you."

For him...

Later, Billy folds up the Polaroid and stuffs it in his wallet. He never leaves the house without it, looks at when he gets angry, starts to doubt, starts thinking that Eddie may just be better off without him. Eddie did that, faced might just be he greatest fear, not for himself but for him, for Billy.

[scruncheduppaper]

i love stanford pines can we please get an amen in the chat

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

Every time I see a post lamenting how Viv used to draw weird furry erotica, or the 2012 ass "pedo bear" style comedy that was always a joke and just fandom bullshit. How Stella obviously was supposed to be fucking her brother but its been pulled back on, or how ValAngel is obviously kink shit(even if we're also taking it very seriously at the same time)

Like, everything about this show was supposed to By Freaks, For Freaks. From the character design, to the edgy humor.

But fandom culture has changed a lot from when Viv first started out in that OC's tumblrina time. Ship and let ship has almost completely died, purity culture and the normalization of second degree murder has resulted in a creative landscape thats so fucking terrified to be seen as "problematic", that art is being pushed aside and sanitized because no one has fucking basic reading comprehension.

I mean, that whole thing where people were telling Bryan Fuller that he's the reason that gay conversion camps are good and should come back full force. The amount of trans women I saw on Twitter become publicly accused of "cp". A youtuber at one point SAVED the "cp" on her computer, edited the "cp" into a cutesy thumbnail, and distributed it. So, either its not csem and she fucking knows it and wouldn't have saved it and reposted it but really wanted to to tell people to kill this one specific woman, OR this is how seriously these kinds of people take things like literal csem.

Like, is Vivziepop annoying? Yeah, kinda. Is she not necessarily the best writer in the world? No, not really. But she's not a pedophile or some serial abuser because she's a furry. I'm genuinely so baffled by people watching a Furry Show and then being like, "omfg......she drew.........furry porn?????". I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of the reason Hazbin/Helluva turned out so wonky(outside of amazon)is just, Viv didn't feel safe or comfortable actually expressing her art and telling her story. There's so many people who would jump for joy if she killed herself, because they think snakes are a good enough reason to kill someone. Not to mention, the baseless accusations about stupid and meaningless things muddies the waters of actual abuse or things that could be legitimate problems. There's a 50/50 chance the thing Viv did that was problematic will be "drew pictures" or "has bad working conditions" and both of these tend to be held to the same standard of shit we need to take her down for.

I hate how you can't critique anything anymore, because saying you're "critical of the media" is more often then not, just a fucking dog whistle for "omg pls pls give me the opportunity to harass someone for not giving in to the thought policing I PERSONALLY have made up." Instead of someone who actually likes analysis and media criticism.

I'd love to complain about Hazbin/Helluva, I think it kinda sucks!!! I'm genuinely heartbroken that something that was obviously meant for Weirdos has been appropriated by puritanical babies, like they're horny housewives ashamed of themselves because they like 50 shades or whatever.

[moeblob]

Deacon loves two things: Ymber and digging himself a grave.

Fulj hates one thing: Deacon.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

I think Peggy and Daniel are really cute together I just can't hardcore ship them bc all that energy is stored in steggy. I'd be happy if they said Daniel was Peggy's husband in the main timeline. But it's so wild to me that Daniel ended up with Daisy. And I LIKE it?? Like. If you had told me in 2016 when I started watching marvel.... when I had just discovered my love for Peggy Carter and Daisy Johnson.... when I was watching AC and AoS for the first time..... that AoS would end with Daisy Johnson in an endgame canon committed relationship with Daniel Sousa (introduced in the last season which was shorter than usual already so there was not much time to develop it) ?????? And that I would Love it????? That is the fakest sounding thing they could've done and they pulled it off and I still think about how wild it is daily

[zymstarz]

yeah sure that's how i'll [re]come out

[mephoj]

something something iii devolving and crumbling as a season with the pacing and forced conflict etc. Could've been an interesting way to tie back to the fact this is the one season mephone is running All By Himself (from what we know anyway) and how its all just a failing desperate grasping attempt for him to feel in control of something for once even though its not working and he's accidentally hurting others by dragging them into it . but unfortunately it is just crumbling because it Kind of sucks

[fitzrove]

Started watching a "problem with greek myth retellings" video and it began with a blurb montage like "Condemned by the misogynist guys of history, this is the true girlboss feminist story of [A WOMAN]" and like. brb writing one of those about crown prince rudolf. It's ok he's like a misunderstood girlboss to me<3

[skitskatdacat63]

Fernando S2E1 - "You'd Better Hope I Don't Win"

[gu6chan]

maybe its sample bias but i think it's kinda funny how most people I've seen who've played drakengard because of nier are making ending e THE endgoal and more often than not the main if not only reason they're playing the game at all and when they finally get it they're like "this is it the single most impactful, greatest moment of all gaming. im wiping tears from my eyes this is it" and then you see the drakengard fans who've played drakengard because they like drakengard and you ask them about ending e and they're like "eh. it was okay, i guess"

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

last years pride i had a sexuality crisis and this year a few days later im having a gender one. fuck.

[harpieisthecarpie]

you know tbh thought the girl[blank] meme had some funny uses but as someone who dodged the gender bullet it's weird as hell how hard popular culture trendifies the gendering of maturity

like it's always happened but seeing how it leaks into people's irl speech via zeitgeist garbage is augh

why is a guy in his 20s a "man" but a chick in her 20s constantly gets called "girl".

tho tbh wouldn't care as much if it was purely cishet bs, but trans women keep getting called trans girls no matter their age, same with trans men.

(edit: tho tbh sometimes its the reverse where ppl call transgirls women and transmen boys. Truly depends on the flavor of transphobia that person holds. The point is how their language affects their perception of non-cis ppl, particularly their maturity)

i know this is NOT a new observation but my brain is bleeding from the concussive shocks of seeing women critiqued solely bc they're "not a girls' girl". yeah! she isn't!!! she is 28 with a full-time job and more nuanced morality than highschool infighting!!!!

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

I wanna relisten to the magnus archives because I love Jonny's writing very much but at the same time I have deep personal vendetta against Alex, and the fact that I now know JonDaisy won't be end game AT ALL despite me holding out for it for irl years lmao.

And the ending being a unaware metaphor for never finding personal autonomy because the manipulative societal expectations of "romantic love" are more important then overcoming addiction and being yourself I guess, and it makes me sad. Also I still hate Alex

[marsbotz]

trying not to go crazy and start killing people every time i see another mane 6 redesign post

[lacking-hydration]

that postal movie is so inconsistently ok

[mayplantstarrwaters]

teenagers are always fun and wear fashionable clothes you guys just hate to see the younger generation having fun without you