#kinda theyre from ep 5 but still

[funsizedshark]

pacing around in circles muttering to myself about daniel and louis and the years between the first interview and now...... daniel telling armand "he didn't even want me in the end" after offering to get on his knees for him instead... they didn't fuck but for decades "i really thought we did" / "do you want to now?"... daniel is old and dying in a penthouse full of impossibly young beautiful immortal beings and louis still laughingly offers something that daniel thought for years he'd gotten already. and then it turns out that not only he didn't, but something in him had assumed they did have sex and never explored that further and he's gone through this entire second interview so far under that assumption because that bridge has been crossed already. except it hadn't and when louis says "do you want to now" you can see the change in his expression like for the briefest of moments he really is considering it

[dullahandyke]

thinking about akudrive and feminism which is a thinly-veiled way of saying im thikning about doctor

[thesimulacrasimp]

Okay, I literally just watched a spooky month short and i wanna kinda break it down a lil bit, cuz we learned ALOT through it. Again, sorry for my terrible english 😭🙏

Okay so in this shot we see Kevins parents (rlly cute) and we see "Rad's bday" on calendar (which is apparently in september, knowing that Kevin started working in candy club in the same month), that means that he knew Radford for a long time, even before he started working in candy club.

Okay, thats really funny, but when Skid and Pump appeared in this short with different masks i was like: "YOOO they finally revealed their hair styles. Wow these fan predictions were really close!" until i remembered that their hair styles were already revealed a long time ago in the house pictures.....

Okay so through Pump we now know that Skids father is dead. Not missing, not left - dead. <= another question that have been answered.

Lila looks so tired, poor soul (SHE EVEN WALKING IN THE STREETS IN SLIPPERS 😭)

Ok, now its my fav part. We saw all the moments w Skid and Pump in candy club. First part of it were just the moments that we have already seen or that have been mentioned (like when Skid n Pump got alot of fake blood in the place), there were also some others moments weve never seen, but i dont think theyre really important since they all happened before even eps 4 and 5, so i dont think i need to break them down (especially because of this stupid fuCKING PICTURE LIMIT—) BUT! The things i WANT TO talk about are all the things that happened after ep 6 - the things we still havent got to. And if its actually the foreshadowing (is that the right word for that?...) for what will happen in the future eps then its kinda a dissapointing cuz we got spoiled, and FUCKING AMAZING at the same time, like I have VERY mixed feelings about this, but i more like it than hate it tbh. SO im gonna break these things down like they are actual spoilers for future episodes, but that can be not true, who knows.

Okay, the first thing we see after ep 6 is another winter situation (the hole from Moloch is still there 😭) w hatzgang, Skid n Pump, and Susie, while the whole place was acreeting w some weird roots w eyes?? Then i suppose Roy was tormenting the poor kids as always, and Susie got mad at him and left, and then Rob and Ross did the same thing while Roy looked offended n pissed (which i cant show you becuz of a FUCKING LIMIT—)

Then, Lila, Jaune, John and Jack came to the candy club. I cant really tell what couldve happened, but Lila n Jaune looked really mad, and then STARTED ARGUE FOR SOME REASON, like I literally have no idea what couldve happened, it could be anything.

Then there was a literal fnf scene, like an actual rap battle between the spooky bois and bf (which i also cant show you, CAN U GUESS WHY?? :) ). I honestly think that this is a simple joke and nothing more, but who knows, maybe it will actually happen in spooky month, that would be pretty cool.

Okay, then the Spider. Like, we already all knew that its gonna be an episode vilian at some point, so its not really surprising honestly. Really curious how its gonna be portrated tho, like what is it gonna do, what its motives and goals are gonna be, what characterization are a LITERAL SPIDER gonna get - its all really interesting.

Then a cult. Also not really surprising tbh, like I think it was obvious that they were gonna get to Kev at some point, interesting why tho. Like how could he be useful or harmful for them? (interesting detail is that after a scene w the cultists Kevin still stayed in the club, so the cult tried to get him but failed? I wonder why and how.)

Okay... MOTHER. FUCKING. SKID'S DAD. HOLY SHIT IM SO EXCITED FOR HIM. If we look at the shot it seems like Skid came here to introduce Kevin to his dad (cute)

And then i suppose Dad got a candy bar for Skid and they both left. Really curious how is Skids dad gonna introduce himself to his son, how Skid is gonna react (well even by these 2 shots we can see that he is really happy, but im more curious about the first reactions, im in for some wholesome fluff please!!!). And Lilas reaction is also reaaaaaally interesting (if she will even know)

And the last shot is this. I also dont think it really means anything (maybe foreshadowing that Kev is gonna die??), the only thing that intrigues me is this sky, like I dont even know what it looks like, some sort of black hole? A fissure? Some ultimate evil that comes from another world? A 4th wall break?? Who fucking knows. But it does look interesting.

And soooo ummmmm idk what else to write, I think i already said everything i wanted to say so.. Bye? Tnx 4 reading?? Ig???

[menofprogress]

Here are some of my hot (or maybe tepid) takes about arcane:

(Under the cut bc i got wordy lol)

-the show could have used another season or like at least 5 more eps per season. Thats not a dig at the creators bc we know they were already forced to cut stuff out, but imho it shows a little, esp in s2. I fully believe Sevika was one of the biggest victims here, i genuinely believe she had an arc in s2 act 3 that was fully cut. And her being one of the biggest defenders of zaunite independence also means that by cutting her they basically gutted that storyline.

-the sheer lack of time with some characters also means that i simply did not connect with some of them, which made their deaths kind of underwhelming. Like i gasped when loris, isha, elora and sky died, but i cant say i was actually sad. That might be a me problem, but i need a little more time and info on a character to feel literally anything about them.

-on the other hand: we need to accept that sometimes background or minor characters are just that. No they werent robbed, no they werent underwritten, theyre simply not that important and thats OK bc theyre characters, not real people. You dont need to give equal attention to all characters for it to be "fair". And i sometimes feel like ppl think they HAVE to bemoan this. esp when its a female character a lot of fans talk about "sidelining" or "theyre using them as a plot device!!" Buddy, sometimes characters are literally just there to move the plot along, thats not inherently a social justice issue. (Ive seen this the most with sky and lest and like.... sorry, they were never gonna be more important than this. They can still be your fave, but just bc you wanted to see more of them doesnt mean they were sidelined for nefarious reasons)

-however sometimes the problem isnt that a character got too little screentime. S2 is a perfect example to show you can do a lot of character work in less time (viktor, ekko) and little character work with a lot of screentime (vi, sorry). Viktor and ekko were missing for entire episodes and managed to have full character arcs and vi was kind of there the whole time, but stuff just happened to her? Like she does do a lot, she looks incredibly cool, i liked watching her scenes, but her motivations, her goals and her values are ALL over the place. I love caitvi, but it did kinda ruin vis integrity when she threw away core beliefs (she becomes an enforcer, she temporarily agrees to kill jinx, she participates in chem warfare against the undercity) for cait. Hmmmmm.....

-i wasnt that deep in the fandom in s1 so i might have simply missed it or i might just not be following assholes, but the "jayvik shippers hate mel" thing never made sense to me. NOT because i dont believe it, bc i sure as hell have seen enough mlm shippers be fully misogynistic or racist, but the way ppl (mainly meljay shippers lbr) talked about jayvik shippers being horrible to mel like it was this HUGE thing confused me bc i personally have seen like 2 fanfics where they horribly mischaracterise mel to be a viktor-hating bitch, but thats it? Like, was that an actual problem or was it ppl deliberately misunderstanding stuff? (One specific example: ive seen someone accuse jayvik shippers of being misogynists bc they accused mel of manipulating jayce and sidelining Viktor. Which is a canonical thing happening in the show. Like ofc you can word it in a way to make mel a horrid evil bitch, im sure there are ppl who DO hate mel and think she is an evil succubus, but this person in particular just seemed upset about the fact that ppl were talking about things that mel canonically did.) This is a genuine question, bc from my pov after s1 mel was one of the fan faves and jayvik wasnt THAT big of a deal until s2. I literally saw a hundred times more jayce hate than i did mel hate, but maybe thats not the universal arcane fandom experience? Like, again, i HAVE seen (for lack of a better term) fujoshis get wildly hateful towards female characters in the vicinity of their ship, i was just pleasantly surprised that the arcane fandom seemingly DIDNT. So the unrestrained resentment and bitterness of some fans after jayvik "went canon" caught me off guard.

-the reason i ask this: i saw a video where someone talked about some rando homophobic timebomb fans who apparently resented caitvi for getting a happy ending instead of jinx and ekko. So i commented "i s2g het-shippers act like theyre an oppressed group sometimes" to which another person responded "well jayvik fans were really shitty about mel, soo...." and i was so fucking confused bc what? The video wasnt even about mel or jayvik?? They just heard me make a snarky comment about het ships and immediately felt called out. But yeah thats what prompted my question.

-i dont get the thirst for the fish man. I get the salo thirst even less. I cheered when jayce bonked him.

-i actually dont want jayce or viktor to appear in future projects. While i love the idea of them being ~not dead~, i think any further canonical storylines about them would devalue the extremely emotional ending they had. Like, imagine if they only bring one of them back?? What then?? No, i actually prefer post-canon fix it fanfics in this case. (Cough cough esp bc this way i can still plausibly delude myself into them being actually canon and yall KNOW it probably would not stay this way if their story continues)

[wrennnies]

HEY TUYS IM NOT DEAD

so in the last month ive been on holiday and then got sucked into inazuma eleven, since i was alresdy playing it ill give a short summary of what i thought (plus inaxuma eleven 2) and also the anime!!! (though shorter bc i watched it in a dub of a language i barely know) ill try and play all the inazuma eleven 3 games, i only watched the first season of inazuma eleven go tho.

inazuma eleven 1: it was great!!!! unfortunately ive been endeared to bobby shearers. also i thought the erik plotline went nowhere but i was supposed to get him before kirkwood.... the last battle i beat by mere happenstance, whoops!!! i lovedit tho. ALSO someone pls answer this: are zeus like.... genetically modified humans????? cuz it neverr gets answered, ray darks way of speaking was SO VAGUE. like is the research abt the boys or the steroids????

also nellys so cool i love her. the anime was super cool, but i was confused with its 127 eps since i only played the first game so i thought it mightve been like some anime only stuff??? turns out theres more than one inazuma eleven game.

i think the anime adapted the game pretty well, from what i could understand but i thought celia was way meaner abt jude in the game??? idk if its bc she has the “im gonna end ur life” face all the time in that game that made me think that though.... probably since shes like way more "innocent and cute" in the second game (todd ironside is so wrird i HATE HIMM in the first game)

anyway inazuma eleven 2!!!!!

great game, i called shawn shibuya since i didnt know his english name, or his Japanese one for that matter. the reason i chose shibuya was because i played twewy right before seeing him, and he looks like a shibuya.

speaking of which, i had some names for the people i didnt know the names of!! heres a list of the more interesting ones:

shawn: shibuya

victoria: peach (because her name sounded like peach in the localisation)

sue: girl inlove with erik

dvalin: hades (he looked like a hades)

hurley: dry sea (same reason as victoria)

darren: knockoff mark (look i didnt know anything abt this guy)

knockoff axel (i dont remember his name im sorry but his hairs kinda styled the same way????)

archer: giacomo????? giakomo???? i literally have no idea who or ehat a gyacomo is i just saw him and said "giackomo" SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHO GIACOMO IS, maybe i mixed gakupos name and komo os name together???? but WHY????

camilla: kori (i played time hollow before this and they looked kinda similar)

anyway back on task i really liked the girls, even if they got their ass kicked most of the time... like everyone else 😭😭 also jack was so sexist like WHATTT least mark was like yeah u come over here NOW.

the love stuff was cool, i savestated to ge everyones dialogue lol... i think my favs either toris or celias, its hilar that they dont even CONSIDER celia to be gf material 😭😭😭 but thats fine with me, love her. i liked how nathans mental breakdown was done in the anime betterr than the game since he left himself and bot bc he got the shit beat outta him. also SHAWN FROSTE. KIND????? HE CALLED CLOISTER DIVINITY "CLOTH EARED BEGGARS" AND TOLD SOMEONE THAT THEY HAD A FACE ONLY A MOTHER WOULD LOVE FUCK YOU MEAN KIND???? blunts more accurare i think. hes also scottish so i thought hurleyd be welsh since shawn was scottish and hes north uk so i thought west would be welsh... even if that makes no sense. AND SOUNDTOWN IS SO FUNNY like "hed kill the coach to get that key" lmao???? some of the character sprites are.... interestinf!!!! victoria definitely looks better in the anime 😭😭😭

nah but to learn that these orphans were just cosplaying their ocs while bombing schools is insane LIKE THET GET NO REPRECUSSIONS???? THEY DESTROYRD SCHOOLS ANDI KNOW THEYRE ALL LIKE 12 BUT STILL???? also dvalin is such theatre kid, they ALL ARE.

aliens destroying the world via football is honestly so level 5 i think they found their footing.

linas eng voice does NOT suit her LMAO itsl like a teenagers voice like thats a grown ass woman bro

caleb is cool tho love his insane sprite

like did jordan EVER apologise for destorying a bunch of schools??? i prolly shouldnt say bombing cuz they werent bombs...

also i thouggt for SURE this franchise would be more popular like ONLY 2,861 FICS ON AO3 FROM A SERIES THAT LARGE????? FUCK OFF... LIKE PROFRSSOR LAYTON HASLIKE TEN THOUDAND OR SMTH STUPID??? and i also need to know which game i can recruit professor layton to football fight with me

and jordan was done SO DIRTY in sesson 3 LIKE NOOO COME BACK :(((((

and i thought axel x mark would be WAYYY more popular than it is???? like i cant believe caleb x jude is the most popular thing on ao3 😭😭

also i cant believe jordan and xavier adopted kariya and its ONLY MENTIONED IN THE DISCONTINUED GACHA GAME???? like isnt that breaking SOME sort of workplace relationship rule?????

im glad to see nelly and mark together, tho it makes me a bit sad to think what silvia wouldve thought bc she def was there when it happened, i also read some of the fandom pages for them and he gets married to camilla in an au???? like GOD silvia cant catch a BREAK

also go was really good!!! hate that pikachu fucker though. /j they got people that arent british!!!! and i got spoilt via my sister. cant believe hurley whirley wasnt in season ine tho wtf. caleb also lookslike a middle aged mother when hes older lmao. i also hate that fuck ass dog for a moment i thoight he was gonna start talking like a certain other level five dog i could name, SHERLY.

and im guessing tenma isnt in orion bc hes dead since axel wasnt alienating himself to save him that time....

i got spoilers and i thought that shawns dead bro was actually alive 😭😭😭 in inazuma eleven

descole and stahnguns secret love child is also cool, love the new captain even if hes rich and plays piano

and i think thats it!!!! thanks for reading if uve read this far lol

[nowordsformylove]

jonesmith analysis ep 31-32, 1-10 (part 3)

its here :D

episode 31 aka the shortest episode ever but I had a lot of fun pulling stuff from this one :)

"girls make him break out in a rash" Davy & Mike sensing another fag:

this ep was just Mike torturing Davy heh

Peter: "you know, it's going to be tough to replace a man like Frankie. after all, where do you find a guy that can't sing, act, or surf?"

Mike: "you could go out for the part, Davy."

^ came for him out of no where

manhandling and dragging him around by the scruff of his neck. I love that Mike rolls his eyes in the first gif.

also I love when the guys scoop up Davy at the end and tie him to the volleyball poll (a compromising position for him to be in). Mike shouldve pressed his crotch against Davy when he grabbed him from behind 🙄😔

ep 32

love Mike aggressively manhandling him here, he goes for a full choke... I also think Mike being goofy during the radio show and Davy giggling at everything he says is so fucking cute.

SEASON 2

ep 1 not anything specific to jonesmith I’d say since Davy is kidnapped most of it. I do love Mike's line deliver on "David means business, baby"

also when theyre singing and it looks like Davy is yelling into his ear.

ep 2

using my one video per post early bc theres no way to convey this through a gif

this ep was a great jolenzmith ep as they quite literally say "we're all in this together"so I’d feel too bad cutting Micky out of the jonesmith analysis BUT I will include this frame bc its so cute and silly

ep 3

this scene where Mike tries to barge into the room like a knight in shining armor there to save Davy and Davy is just chillin.

^ my gif doesnt do his little voice break justice.

Mike touching Davy's arm here during the scene where theyre telling Davy not to marry this random girl and Davy's like no im not gunna.

their adorable shenanigans in the background pointed out here.

ep 4

Davy descibing Mike as "comfortable and familiar" cuteee.

damsel in distress bit

Davy straightening Mike's tie is so cute to me and the little hand pat after gahhhhh so soft "take it easy Mike, dont be nervous" I love them

ep 5

waist grab

ep 7

whatever he was doing here

Davy Jones 🤏👏 all ground up.

when they go back to Ella Mae's house and Davy's pants get caught on the nail so he calls out to Mike for help AND his cute little "hiya Mike" when everyone comes running outside. literally only acknowledging Mike in these scenes. I know, he only got two eyes.

ep 8 i love this ep all of the guys are super touchy with each other. I was determined to include every tiny little scene they were in physical contact but it was genuinely too much so i picked my faves (and its still a lot).

Davy's deathgrip on Mike's wasit, as he should.

Mike grabbing Davy when hes startled, role reversal.

kinda went crazy with gif making this ep 🙈 whatever. love is stored in the grabbing of each others arms.

ep 10 gay ass episode

finger sword fight. an analogy to a different type of "sword fighting"

Davy big smile Mike teeny little smile wahhhh. from HERE.

Mike draping his arm over Davy. I am in a coma from this scene

Davy resting his chin on Mike's shoulder AUUGGHHHHHH. + them being cute dorks.

[astro-break]

Thoughts on the 11th ep of Hypmic Rhyme Anima+. Spoilers beware

Season 1 | Ep.1 | Ep.2 | Ep.3 | Ep.4 | Ep. 5 | Ep. 6 | Ep. 7 | Ep. 8 | Ep. 9 | Ep. 10

eyyy separating them into their gumis! the gentaro and jyushi interaction is cute and i love how worried jyushi is about hifu thats so sweet of him

i love how thats the part that kuko focuses on www

LMAO ramuda's cute

i love how ichiro's accent just slipped out a bit there its cute

hm i still think kaibyakumon is in the right

Hey look at that! we finally got why kenji is so invested in them. would have liked to see more of the three but ill take what i can get

honestly i wanna ship akira and satoru so bad wwww they have so much ship potential

YES. THANK YOU RAMUDA. just let them destroy each other my goodness

idk if this show wants to villainize or humanize kaibyakumon. like on one hand everyone's against him on principle but i don't see why they should be?? Ramuda is right, hes the answer to 90% of the casts outside problems

RIP HITOYA LMAO

i love how samatoki is probably the only consistent character here and just wants to be the one to punch the government in the face www

ugh i really wanted ramuda to have won that argument. it suckksss they really went with the most boring path

poor doppo, i feel so bad for him

even poor hifumi can't stand to watch ripp

i love seeing rio in his element, hes kinda cute like that

lmao rei being waving off his own son as if hes just a brat

man i do hope that they get their just revenge. it would be nice but unfortunately impossible just because of the nature of this sort of anime

LMAO HES SO EXHAUSTED THAT HES HALLUCINATING OH NOOOOOOO i feel so bad for doppo sometimes

wow for all that talk of stealth rio just blew up a whole wall

OOOOO GUMI SONG!!!!!!!!!!

hmm i don't like the last two songs as much but there is intresting wordplay to be found in ciaro's verses, especially one as an anti-governmental piece

damn so it seems like the last three episodes will be just the gumis going to each place and fighting off the others

oooo theres a bit of rio's rap ability on show with that shelter

HAHA DICE PUSHING RIO AWAYYYY

OH FUCK ARE THEY CORRUPTING THE DATA TO THE POINT WHERE THEY"RE KILLING AKIRA AND SATORU??????

ey look at that!! I did sort of predict the mass hypnosis! granted its subliminal messaging but im fine with being wrong once in a while

LMAO GAMBLER LIFE

damn theyre still gay after death

the "whos gonna answer my questions" has the same vibe as "who else will I eat icecream with?" thing from kingdom hearts wwww

bro i want a season just about these two idiots

hmm intresting design for scuro i do like it

man now i really do like akira and satoru. they're cool. I hate this bc i know in the end they'll die and kaibyakumon will get his ass kicked to preserve the status quo. i do hope that the anime does use this as a jumping off point tho bc the premise is pretty fun

tho they probably won't. as i said status quo as long as the source material still insists on the current status quo of keeping chuuoku in power. The drama CDs do seem like its building towards a conclusion but its not enough for any meaningful change yet.

tho the anime is original content and thus exists in a separate sphere from the CDs. Its entirely possible that they may move ahead and start shaking things up but i doubt it

lol why the dotsuhon ed they got so little screen time this episode ripp them

[cosmicrhetoric]

i went into the series/wano knowing about gear 5 so like. idk i knew the whole time that the series was going to reach an insane height and i kinda know around what ep it happens and i still have almost 100 episodes of wano left but man i cannot see how theyre going to escalate it from here. like how could this possible get big enough to contain gear 5 when by the time the akazaya strike down kaido it already feels like we're at a peak

[luckyqueenreign]

So I played ep 4 and 5 and I'm kinda put off Lewie my couple I love the rush I find him boring. So I choose that I'm only into boys and Bella doesn't try flirt with me like in the last seasons and I living this because probably she is going to be my villa bestie and I love our moments. Yeah Ozzy talking about his brothers... So one of them is coming? Ivy still giving me the ick.

So I don't know where to put Amelia because she seems geuine and like she really cares about MC but the Zeph thing wasn't even that big yet. Cause we only know he was into her and that's it. If this is the case only I can forgive her.

Ohh Roberto... My new partner until Marshall arrives. Hoping the date is gonne be streamy and good. Also meet my Mc who plays with hearts this season.

I love Bella and Grace and loved getting to know them better / hanging out with them more this volume butttt I wonder how this friendship is going to go when I eventually have to steal Ozzy from Grace 😩 I kind of wish we got a few more moments with Amelia this volume esp to talk about our date with Roberto. is it just me but fb seems a little lost rn in how theyre developing that relationship. on one hand it seems like theyre close but then on the other it doesnt. idk but rn I love Amelia and trust her. The Zeph thing we all knew was coming and honestly this is so much better than what we all assumed. Love your MC! 💖💖

[satoriberry]

TOKI NATION WE ARE GOING TO BE FED !!

btw gonna treat this post like a live tweet thread where i'll be commentating everything with screenshots hopefully!!

omggg pre-episode hype lets start this shit!!

ok so we're already starting off kinda bad with them replacing this amazing character entry with this made-up scene with them in a hallway ALSO THEY TOTALLY SKIPPED THE PART WHERE TOKI WAS LIKE "thank you for making this team feel like a real one" and shit

AND THEY ALSO SKIPPED THESE SCENES!! WAHHH I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE HIM SWAYING :(

nothing to say just aryu being the best character ever

THEYRE BOYFRIENDS YOUR HONOUR11!1!!1!!

my pathetic little meow meow

SILLY LITTLE UNICELLULAR CREATURE IS BACK!!!

"my ball" omg he spoke engurish!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA RRPAH ROAH AORH RURFFURUFFURUFF AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA **** ****** ******** **** AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA anyways :3

WHY IS HE LIKE THIS WHY IS HE SO ":3" LOOK AT THE WAY HE'S SO CUTE AAAAAAAAAAAA ok lets keep going

BOYFRIENDS EEEEEEEE ^0^

and we finish off the episode with an additional time that talks about nagi's road to being a highschool dropout.

final opinion: it was good! the animation wasn't as lively or as rambunctious as i expected, considering how many goofy moments there are as seen in the manga, and it feels a bit rushed (also apparently they crammed 5 chapters in this episode??? idk twitter said so), but i still enjoyed the buildup of the match. though, i feel like there's been a steady drop in animation quality starting from ep 13 (am i saying that because they've been doing aoshi dirty? yes. yes very much.) BUTT!!! still a nice watch. solid 7.5/10 :3

[halliescomut]

Secret Crush on You Ep 5

-The straw stealing. My dude you need to get that shit under control!

-Yes Nuea!!! Be very forward! Toh is being dense as fuck.

-Sky's being too cute....and Jao thinks so too. ☺️☺️ Oh saucy Sky, I like that too.😏

- Again the fits are on point!!

-Jealous Jao hehe. We see you. But this driving is not safe.

-Both Nuea and Toh think they're being so sneaky. Doofuses. Apparently it's the whole group that thinks they're sneaky. All those excuses to leave Nuea and Toh alone. 😄

-Oh my God...Toh needs to get it together. I swear if this show is just 14 episodes of miscommunication I'm gonna lose it.

-Nuea really gonna cockblock all his friends, but he still gets to room with Toh...rude.

-This is a really nice hotel.

-Nuea is gonna give Toh an aneurysm...he knows what he's doing. Toh is so sweet and stupid. 😂

-The beach day was cute.

-I love Sky's friends teasing him about Jao. Very adorable. Hopefully Jao will figure out that he's serious.

-Toh got himself a real kiss during the dare game this time. *squeeeee*

-I'm glad Nuea keeps being bold, but I really am getting frustrated with Toh. Like dude, recognize you're a catch and stop assuming Nuea can't like you.

-See Jao gets it. Tell him babes!!

-Another Ad shot, but it's combined with an ab shit, so I'll accept it.

-Fogging up his glasses 🤓😂😂

-I swear I'm gonna kill Toh. He's being creepy again.

-That chin grab they do sometimes in Thai BLs...it's kinda hot.

-Theyre both pretending to be asleep to try and be touchy with the other...I swear it's too cute and too funny.

-Did they just purposely show that Nuea was blocking his dick so Toh wouldn't feel it??? If that was the intention, that's true gentleman behavior.

-The sleep prayer 😂😂😂😂

-Jao's shy about his figure, but that cake!!!

-Jao what the actual fuck my dude!!!

-They clearly reshot this scene a couple of times, because their hair and clothes dried immediately 😂

-We all see what you're doing with that massage ruse Nuea. Poor Toh, but you're not the only one with that problem babe 😏🍆

Okay, let's see...

I love a vacation ep, so 8.5/10 for that. Everything was v. cute.

I'd say 8/10 for awkwardness, mostly because they ran from each other every time they did something embarrassing.

[castlebyersafterdark]

the kali episode is so divisive. i saw a YT reaction where the person was so so so excited and tearing up when el mind-searched and found mike and hop, like YES! theyre who you should be with! go home go home! and it made me wonder whether the entire point of the episode was to make you desperate to see el go back to hawkins, back to the real vibe and tone of the show. if so, a wild move, making viewers sit through THAT much lame-ass superhero big city stuff - that's almost an avant-garde thing to do, making the audience literally feel as fish-out-of-water as El did. if so, respect.

but if the writers actually thought the whole kali storyline was actually badass, then... yeah it's a total flop. im sure many viewers skip that ep on rewatches.

considering most people think they genuinely forgot will's birthday and it wasn't an elaborate plotline like we bylers believe, then maybe its skeptical to think the duffers' intention with the kali episode was so artistic. but theyre pretty good at pulling emotional punches in other ways, including getting us super invested in these characters within the first few mins of episode s1e1... so i like to believe that the kali episode was a deliberate macguffin. after all, how could anyone prefer that tone to the cosiness of hawkins?

even s4 itself was meant to make us itch for the gang to get back together. people hate russia, nina, even california storylines... but clearly youre meant to! i mean, theyre compelling viewing, but youre meant to want the gang to get back to hawkins (which would also make the ending where they potentially leave in s5 even more bittersweet). hawkins has become home from home for the viewer, too, which makes the danger people like eddie, will and hellfire club face even scarier, because it will feel like our very homeostasis has been disturbed too - as though WE, too, are on the run from witchhunters and the law.

for a show that requires emotional alliance with our beloved outcasts, this sense of danger is essential for the stakes to be high! i think lots of fans here seem to want a viewing experience where they witness will etc in danger but don't actually experience any discomfort themselves, which... well, i don't know how that would be possible in a way that would still make you invested in the show.

This is an interesting take and one I ne er honestly considered? Taking you to this unfamiliar location to feel the same way El did. I mean, effective if intentional? Season 4 certainly worked, to that same point. I enjoyed the Cali plot line but very much the whole endeavor was overall "we gotta get them all back to Hawkins" as an undercurrent to the whole thing. So yes, agree with your points about the stakes and relating to the feeling of Hawkins as home, which makes emotional connection to what's going on very effective. Agreed.

I am, admittedly, one of those audience members for format TV who doesn't jive well with a location deviation. It disrupts my brain. Like, anytime the FRIENDS characters left NYC whether it's London or Vegas or the beach... I kinda wished they were just back at the city, even if important or interesting plotpoint arose. Which is wild because in the city - what does it matter? It's most filmed in the setting of apartments anyway. Other examples, but that's the easiest that comes to mind. When the setting's such a part of the show, feels weird to depart. People are thrilled season 5 is contained back in Hawkins, for understandable reason.

I do wonder how intentional things certain things are. It puts the Lost Sister episode into new context if it was meant thematically to be that jarring for narrative purposes. Because the writing was so odd, there was a lot of weakness in that episode where otherwise the season is so strong otherwise. I guess for me, I didn't gain enough connection to what El was dealing with and working through there just to reach her outcome and decision by the end of it - evident by how I've skipped it during almost every rewatch. Controversial, but I've done that. So, perhaps it very much was intended the way were conjecturing, but even so it didn't work for everyone watching.

Despite their insistence it wasn't a backdoor spin-off pilot they scrapped after bad reception, I will always have my doubts. If Kali doesn't return but all the other threads are addressed, it might put it into that context as you suggest - such as Birthdaygate and for me the biggest thing they need to convince me of is the Henry/Vecna plot line being planned from season 1. THAT'S where I'm waiting to be completely sold on regarding the writing of the series being incredible or circumstantial. A couple things need to happen and I am hoping will happen, otherwise I learn towards certain things being made up as they went along. We shall see.

[thesimulacrasimp]

Ah shit, here we go again!

HAZBIN HOTEL EP 5-6 SPOILERS WARNING‼️

Ok i literally was waiting so much to see Lucifer n Lilith being a really happy and cute maried couple and now yall telling me that THEY DIVORCED??????? IM LITERALLY CRYIN WHAHT??? 😭

and OMG LUCIFER. HES SUCH A BABY, SWEETIE, SCRUNKY, CUTIE PATOOTIE!!! HES SO SILLY, I WISH I HAD DAD LIKE HIM. JUST LOOK AT HIM OH MAI GAHD

And his voice is really cool too! Not really what i expected him to sound like but still good! N the way he speaks is really funny too:

"Oh the applause! Oh please, thank u, thank u.. oh gOD WHO AM I KIDDING, THIS SUCKS!!"

"Daughter callin-- Da-DAU-DAUGHTER CALLING??? OH---"

"TAKE THAT, DEPRESSION!"

"Oh my golly!! You like girls!! SO DO I, WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON!!!!"

Hes ABSOLUTELY my 2nd fave character after Vox. Hes such a sweetheart i cant---

Also can we talk about how Alastor said "Fuck you" to a KING OF HELL? LIKE I KNOW THAT THIS KING IS NOT REALLY KINGING BUT STILL I WOULDNT HAVE BALLS TO SAY THAT TO LUCIFER HIMSELF.

Also the fact that Alastor was immediatly so pissed when Luci just steped into hotel is really strange. Maybe something happened between them that we dont know so far? Cuz purposely making Luci mad literally 5 secs after u met each other is really weird.

AND OMG THIS SONG IS TOTALLY NEW FAVOURITE BY NOW, THEY LITERALLY DID AN ELECTRO SWING SONG LIKE HELL YEAH!!! N THE FACT THAT LUCI OUT OF NOWHERE STARTS PLAING VIOLIN AGGRESSIVELY AND THEN SHUTS ALASTOR UP WITH AN ACCORDION IN THIS IS THE BEST TGING EVER.

i dont know how i think bout Mimzy rn. All i gotta say is she have a really cool singing voice!

And this shot is really adorable

Ok we actually now know from Husk that someone actually having Alastors soul! Just think about it: someone have AN OVERLORDS SOUL. Not ex-overlord like Husk, AN ACTUAL OVERLORD. Is this even possible??

This last song made me cry (again). I feel so bad for Luci, he was abandoned by heaven n he just doesnt want the same fate for his beautiful daughter, cuz she is the only thing he live for (i want him to be my dad so much omg..)

Also when Lilith took little Charlie away from Luci, it was sad, but it actually made me think, what if Lilith will be an antogonist? What if she will be the bad person? Maybe the main vilian even. I think if that will actually happen everyone will go CRAZY. But thats just my lil thought.

Ok, 6th ep! I actually didnt expect that we will see heaven so soon!

Ok but sir Pentious is GOT CRUSH ON CHERRI BOMB??? WHA??? THAT WAS SOMETHING I REALLY DIDNT EXPECT

Also i expected heaven to be much more strict place with many rules, where noone is alowed to swear. But turned out that its actually just a hell with better people and more rules, thats all. And its actually really strange that u can swear in heaven. Im not talking about Adam n Lute, cuz theyre exterminators and clearly just awhul ppl, this guy infront of heavens gates actually said fuck. Maybe im just wrong, but isnt swearing unacceptable in christianity?..

Also HELL YEAH we nailed it! We were right about Vaggie being a fallen angel. But the reason why she fell.... She was an exterminator and literally just didnt kill one child (which is really shows us that she have a kind heart) BUT SHE WAS EXPELED FOR IT IN SUCH HORRIBLE WAY.

I JUST DONT HAVE ENOUGH RAGE TO DESCRIBE HOW MUCH I HATE THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS. I REALLY HOPE WHEN HEAVEN DECIDES TO REDEEM PPL FROM HELL, THEY BOTH WILL GO TO FUCKING HELL FOR ALL THOSE VILENCE THEY BROUGHT TO WORLD, THAT WOULD BE FUCKING HILARIOUS.

Also Cherri Bomb is being kinda toxic friend to Angel n i dont like that.

ALSO ANGEL STOOD UP AGAINST VAL!! HELL YEAH, SLAY SPIDERBOI!!! IM LITERALLY NOT SCARED OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIM WHEN HE WILL GO BACK TO HIS JOB!! IM NOT SCARED AT ALL!!!!

Ok this last song WAS SO EPIC!! ESPECIALLY WHEN CHARLIE N EMILY DID UNO REVERSE ON ADAMS SONG FROM EP 1!!

AND THAT PART WHEN ADAM REVEALED THAT VAGGIE IS AN ANGEL WAS SO EPIC TOO I LITERALLY GOT CHILS

and Charlies reaction to that was actually really heartbreaking

And everything ended up with Adam winning. I really hope that justice will overtake in this whole situation and Charlies plan will work. And im really interested to see Charlie n Vaggies relationships after that reveal. I honestly think that Charlie will forgive her, but its still really interesting.

Wow, it took me long enough to make this post.. I really like direction this show goes, n i can not wait for the next 2 eps!!

My thoughts/review on eps 1-2

My thoughts/review on eps 3-4

My thoughts/review on eps 7-8

[john-bitchester]

Supernatural 06×11!! Never bothered to write down the name of the ep. To lazy to find it. It'll be a surprise<3

This is one of them episodes where you get the feeling you missed about 5 episodes at thr beginning

Like dean im sorry what medical,thing are you undergoinging that you need a possible death letter to ben

Even tho you don't look injured

Okay

So theyre killing him

To talk with a reaper, im guessing

But where is sam

Like I can understand why he doesnt do it with sam, bc he woukd never understand the urgency of death in the same way

But the guy is not even in sight

Look at my boy growing up! Finally memorising his chants and spells

DETH I LOVE YOU DEATH

Charact3r of all time i swear

Holy shit

The actor of death is so good

Like to be able to portray a man with such power, and understanding that that power doesnt come from wealth, or magic or following

But from the simple assurance that you are

You will be the last being on earth, and therefor no one hoods any power over you ever

NOOO I NEED TO KNOW

Is death depressed

Oh my god

I think bobbie will die

There is literally no reason to put him in this episode

This is not a 'we are a family epsiode'

This is not an 'i need information' episode

So why else would bobby need to be there

I think dean will have to kill bobby

Love that balthasar is a sastiel kinda guy

*deep sigh* saaaaaaam‽ stoop

We will put you in timeout again

[Because Michael and Lucy are hate-banging it as we speak.] ('It' being whatever's left of Sam in the cage)

No

No

Im unwell again

Thats all the proof i need

Sam (or at the very least his soul) got raped in the cage

I also find it very intriguing how this indicates that michael, the angel, the guy who's meant to be 'good' and 'pure' is also hate torturing/raping sam('s soul)

That says a lot about the heavens, don't you think

Oh my god

I needed a second again irl to recover

Fuckshit

So

Oh my god

Fuck

This is what im thinking

Sam‽ will try killing bobby, and dean, being death, will have to be the one to actually allow him to die (touch bobby)

Sam‽ will try killing bobby, and dean, being death, will have to be the one to actually allow him to die (touch bobby)

Ending up in an impossible circle

So either of the two has to not do the thing

But if dean refuses to let bobby due, they still cant get sams soul

But if he does let bobby die, they can get sams soul, but not put it back

I have the feeling that death will still help dean

That the point wasnt the challenge, but the lesson

Oh my god did death just give dean a lesson in suicide idiation stage 2

Frothing at the mouth

AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAAAAAJAHDKJGRUBUIBGREUKBGRSUKBERGKUB4G3UBKG4EILNG4EKBIRWOUBASCUBUKDSKFDS

I am so not normal about death

The way he can compose himself to be gentke, cruel, powerful, funny

Ibet4khbgeaiuhlkubuobluobEuob.g4ea

Fucking knew it

Ofc sam would get his soul back

Okay

So, sam is screaming as his soul gets out back, bc we know that souls and bodies hurt

But what if

What if

This is sam experiencing the pain of his soul in the cage, bc death hasnt been able to put the barrier up yet

What if for judt a couple seconds, sams body remebers, before it gets locked away

[pilotheather]

im going nuts again so i guess s8 onwards (since s8-s9 is what ive seen the least times) rewatch whislt i rot.... just have this on in the bg

ep 1

i forgot how muddied this first episode was. its all over the place.

i will say i also forgot how hard they leant ino trying to prove a point with clara LOLLL. i dont completely hate it. its a bit grating but i sorta respect it

as i feel with like a lot of clara from s8 onwards

THE SCENE WITH THE HOMELESS MAN IS WORSE THAN I REMEMBER HELPPPP ME

as with clara again ok that bits funny i forgot . hes like youre a cunt clara. youre self obsessed. shes like WHAT THE FUCK. wheres my PRETTY BOY GONE. matt smith is not pretty.

i actually have never really liked the paternoster gang. like i do. i like the concept of them. but i hate how they just sort of appear in the show out of nowhere. partially cuz its emphasised so much how like.. the doctor trusts them or theyre close or whatever. and idk. maybe i wouldnt mind. but also whenever the doctor interacts with them i feel like there's no chemistry.

(and look. sometimes i just sorta hate an obvious set up for a spin off. it kinda makes me grumpy.)

i forgot the insane yuri moment out of nowhere also. actually that wasnt so bad but thats the other part about them thats always a bit ... help.... moffat writing this shit with one hand on his dick as usual

otherwise thes some good scenes in this i forgot about. but still its so messy. one of those where its like i think it could do with another rewrite or two to tighten it up.

i think i forgot clara and 12 are funny as fuck. get his ass

(although seeing him with such short hair is scary. grandpa wheres your mane)

oh missy i missed you. i didnt watch season 8 live. i wish i knew what the fuck people did

ep 2

"you shoot people and then you cry about it afterwards" get his ass

sorry i do like you danny. my boot boy.

i forgot he was lame as shittttttttttttttttt dannyyyyyyyyy

I FORTGOT HOW MUCH OF A CUNT HE WAS

doctor i saw into your soul. and you were a HATERRRRRRR !!!!!!!

sorry the ep is over now i dont know. i guess i kinda like it. i feel like theres a lot of eps in this season that its like. its not bad its not good but i kinda just forget it exists. SORRY LOL

i love love love it whenever they say "YOU are a good dalek" to him. like please. get his ass.

ep 3

one thing about this season is the aesthetics start going crazyyy the chalkboard rules bro. the entire tardis does. like i like how it matures a bit as capaldis era goes on but god. so delicious

god i hate claras little theme tune sometimes.

sometimes its good sorry sometimes im like bro she just walked out you dont need to

i do like how stupid goofy this episode is. like what is even occurring. you guys are so silly for this one.

I LOVE when he gets petty and jealous. grow up old man.

ep 4

"and from you that means something" CLARA THATS CRAZY. THATS A CRAZY THING TO SAY. HELP ME GOD ITS FUNNY.

23 WELLS!

a lot of people hypelisten. i think i have mixed feelings on it.

ep 5

youre insane btw i just saw captain john hart in the preview. what an insane, insane pull.

i feel like i dont remember much of trhis ep either but thats insane cuz i love heist eps. guys remember the farscape heist ep. UGHHH LETS ALL GO FARSCAPE MAYBE

ok god im flagging i hzve to sotp

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

ok some more thoughts on the eps (under read more cos of potential spoilers lol)

starting with the slightly more negative stuff so i can end with the things i like lol

there was a lot of over explaining of some basic who things, which i didnt mind that much considering they were being told to ruby, but but it did definitely feel like 'rtd is trying to introduce this to a new audience so he's kinda spoon feeding them everything' which is a lil frustrating as a long time fan lol...

on a similar note some of the flashback things in space babies were completely unnecessary given they were from the literal same episode pfft... like at least in the 2nd one they used flashbacks as voice overs which worked a lil better, but i'd still rather they just relied on the audience to understand the call backs without having to SHOW them u know?

the cgi babies mouths were weird, i didnt like them... i also wasnt the biggest fan of the music notes as tentacle like things coming from maestro... surprised i havent seen anyone complain about this given how vocal some of y'all were about the use of cgi in chibnall's era....... hmm

speaking of, i think some of the pacing issues in chibnall's era have stuck around a bit because that 2nd episode esp started off really well but then fizzled out in the middle, and the resolution went on for waaaay too long lol (also after maestro said that in ordered to defeat them they needed a musical genius, i kinda assumed the doctor and ruby would turn to eachother like 'hmm who could we go to who's a musical genius in 1963...' and then it cuts to john and paul wondering around the studio or smth... like idk there wasnt much connecting tissue between the sections, it just hung around on the kinda boring 'music battle' between the doctor and maestro... and like i get theyre trying to make ncuti's doctor more of an action-y style hero, but that felt too much like the battle with the toymaker.... also yes maybe i'm also mad there werent more scenes with the beatles in them SUE me lol! like literally most other episode (think of the van gogh one) the feature figures from history, theyre the main focus of the episode so it kinda sucked they were barely there :///////)

the musical number at the end of that ep wasnt my fav i'll be honest.... like it was fine, but in the xmas ep it made sense to have a fun musical number and it worked with the rest of the ep, but this one just felt like 'well the story's over ... but we still have 5 minutes left to fill so random song and dance number!'

final thing that i didnt love was (and bear in mind i know nothing about filmmaking lol) that some of the shots and edits felt a bit off? or didnt feel like they worked in a scene or just could have done with a retake from a different angle ... like especially some of the maestro scenes, like the performance was so good but the camera didnt seem to really be working with them very well? and in general some of the conversation scenes had the vibe of what you see in theatre lol? like where characters talk to each other via looking out at the audience lol... and like i dont mind that kinda theatrical way of producing scenes usually, but in moments when it's an intimate conversation between two characters, it did feel a tad weird lol...

edit: another thing i didnt mention but i did recently see a post talking about this, but i did think it was odd that most of the beatles ep is set in the 60s but it doesnt actually discuss the doctor being a black man in what was a very tough time to be non-white lol... like not only does the beatles music directly come FROM being influenced by black artists in america (smth they even discussed lol), but a part of the episode is about how important music is to humanity, and nothing shows that more than the way music the african slaves' sang whilst on plantations was adapted into blues/jazz and then later into rock n roll/pop... like music was an act of keeping a part of their humanity alive when they were being brutally dehumanised... (and like in part i get why rtd didn't go into this, as he hasn't the best history of dealing with black characters... but it WAS a notable absence and does kinda tell me the doctor being black isnt going to play into anything, which sucks, since chibnall did at least make it so the doctor being a woman DID massively alter the way she was seen... i might make another post about this lol)

ok things i liked!

nan-e was seriously great (cant remember what the actress is called but she does such a great job!!!! in a way i'd love for her to show up again she's such a fab character lol)

the whole resolution of the space babies ep was really great tbh! also the reveal the bogeyman is actually made of bogeys was legit really funny lol! even the fart at the end like yeh it's childish but who doesnt love a fart joke lol?

ncuti is great at acting all suave and confident one minute only to be on the verge of breaking down the next, aka the literal epitome of the doctor lol! also love his relationship w/ ruby ofc

ruby was great too! tho atm idk if we've really gotten a true grasp of who she is as a character u know? atm it does feel a lil like the whole clara mystery thing where her character comes 2nd, but i'm sure as the series goes along we're gonna get more lol

loved that cilla black was in the devil's chord ep!! that's it tbh just loved that

also loved that the doctor mentioned his family this early on, specifically susan! i do kinda wish they had used a flashback sequence when he was talking about the genocide cos i kept thinking 'wait... is this the time war or is this what happened w/ the master at the end of the (???cant remember the number.... 12th?) series??' which was several years ago and would have been great to refresh our memories on.. also meant we could potentially have seen jodie again lol!

i saw someone on .... somewhere complain about the 4th wall breaking but i actually really liked it lol! especially the non-diegetic comment! idk if i want every episode to have that, but i enjoyed it in that one! one thing about rtd's first era that i appreciate is that he experimented a lot with the format of each episode... which meant we got things like love & monsters, which like,yeh, it's..... An Episode for sure, but i appreciate that it's told from a different perspective! so in a way it feels like he's doing that kinda thing again, where each episode feels connected but still distinct from one another, if that makes any sense??

i liked the fake beatles song about the dog lol... partly because it didnt even sound that far off of something they wouldve written on a later album (by paul) pfft... kinda sucks they didnt buy the rights to at least one actual beatles song, even just to play a few secs of it lol...

overall, neither episode blew me away, but they weren't terrible either lol... i'm also shocked how similar this series is to chibnall's era, which is why it's so bizarre to me that people continue to be like 'oh doctor who is finally back!' like bitch for one it never went away lol!??! and for two, a lot of issues people had with chibnall's (and to some extent moffat's) era are still there, but now cos it's headed by rtd again people arent complaining about them the same way they did before... idkkkkk

i've also already talked about this, but i do still think the releasing at midnight thing is fucking dumb, especially for us british fans! i get that maybe that's a stipulation from disney but it doesnt mean i have to like it... also didnt like that 2 episodes were released at once like ???? why lol idkk

i'm still looking forward to the rest of the series ofc!