#klaus my beloved.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

klaus hargreeves is such a fucking mood honestly. this bitch has no idea what's going on and i am HERE for it

[laurrelise]

unfortunately it has been decided that this is one of the funniest scenes in the show, sorry i don’t make the rules

diego’s hand slowly bringing the knife into frame? peak comedy

luther’s “what the- put the knife away” literally never fails to make me laugh

don’t even get me started on klaus’ damn condoms

[1-jar-of-stars]

The Stages of the Umbrella Academy.

homer, the iliad / Road to Hell, Hadestown Original Broadway Cast / Alan Moore, Watchmen / Disco Elysium / Matthew Stover, Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

[noididnotsignupforthis]

no because you don't understand- lila and five being siblings after the violent past they went through? yeah no one touch me or them i will cry

[amsibee]

I can't believe it's over!!! I wish they had explored all the umbrellas' new lives more :( Like you gave us fun concepts... do something with it??? Let it leave an impact, even when they get their powers back???.. Anyways, Germaphobe-Klaus was such a cool idea, and I'll miss him and the family deeply :(

[greelin]

you would think this site would be all over this guy

[nobrain-onlysteven]

This is an appreciation post. I would die a thousand times for Jesper and won’t be convinced otherwise. Now appreciate this Christmas Kuzco

[pandorasfruit]

Umbrella Academy season 4:

I finished the entire season a few nights ago, so lets talk about some things;

I haven't checked in with the fandom in any way, but from most of the tiktoks i've seen, not many like this season. Completely understandable, makes sense, especially after seeing that weird (a lot of people used the word:) predatory relationship which went down between Five and Lila. I definitely did not see it coming, and though I don't find it predatory myself, as they are both consenting adults, since Five is in the body of an (i think) 20-something year old, but has the mind of an (if i remember right) 60/70 year old(?). I think how it happened can also be an excuse; they were trapped together for (what felt like to them) 7 years. Not to mention that Five had probably been lonely for some time now, and though Lila claimed that her marriage satisfied her, I really don't think it did.

This all however, is totally not an excuse for their behavior. Lila was married with three kids, and Five was the brother of her husband. They were in-laws, which does add to the weird pile.

The only thing I really enjoyed about their "hang", was their travels through all the different timelines. And now we have another academy (The Phoenix Academy), that's just a fun thought. I would have loved to see an episode where they explored the different timelines with different academies.

In other news: I love Luther.

I'm sorry, but I just do. I think the way he desperately tries to keep everything together when it comes to their family is commendable. In previous season, I always hated how he excused Reggie's behavior, but now that he's left that behind and focuses solely on his siblings instead is adorable. Both and he and Allison have given up on the whole incestuous relationship they had, and now they don't even mention it nor acknowledge it. Though normally I would say that that's not a healthy way to deal, I think it's actually better to just leave it all be.

Yes, I know he's kind of pathetic. Yes, I know he is also somewhat selfish. No, I do not care. He's trying very hard to be cool older brother Luther and cool uncle Luther. I think his whole descent into sex work should have been talked about in a better way, but somehow he always brought it up as a thing he enjoys doing? I'm not going to go into prolematic things that the writers have been doing, but this is definitely one of them. There's nothing consensual about sex work, and it should never be shown as something that one might enjoy doing.

This is one of the first actual seasons, however, where we get to witness Diego doing his thing! (I know we've seen him do some other tricks, but they never been this detailed.) I was so shocked to see him do his little spin in the air to redirect the bullets during the second episode, but I was disappointed to see that Lila did NOT care.

Talking about Lila and Diego, did anybody else catch that one part in the first episode about how they basically had the twins accidentally? Diego explains to Luther that though he loves Lila and his kids, he feels exhausted and not at all satisfied. Then he explaines that they had the twins through Lila telling him that since she was breastfeeding, she couldn't get pregnant. It's unclear now if they were both mistaken, but just the way he was talking about it, it felt like to me that he felt betrayed by Lila. I'm pretty sure that Lila was aware that she could still get pregnant, she just knew that she wouldn't be able to convince Diego, so instead she did this.

Viktor is as cool as ever. He's always been very cool, but thinking back to all other old (pre-transition) Elliot Page roles, its so noticiable how uncomfortable he was in his body, and getting to see him now, playing a male character, whos not only accepted by his siblings but Reggie too?! Amazing. And him bonding with Reggie? Delicious, I ate that right up. Reggie calling him "boy" (and other masculine nicknames)? Love, love, love.

This is one point for the writers and Netflix, this is exactly how Hollywood should handle an actor coming out, and I hope that this will be an example for future media that will feature transgender actors in the middle of transitioning.

Klaus is our little weirdo who DESERVES a break. He needs it. Please.

We get to see him clean this season, but I did not expect him to behave like this while off drugs. Honestly, I'm not sure I expected anything. I guess I kind of just thought he'd do drugs anyway? Or that he'd get clean but still behave somewhat the same way.

Poor Klaus was also a character subjected to sex work this season, it just made a bit more sense this time. He definitely did not enjoy it, that was something they made very obvious, but they still couldn't do it just right. It was awful watching him have to make a choice between getting money to pay off his debt and leave or a sole condom for "dealing" with costumers. They didn't make it obvious how many clients he really had, but through dialog, you could kind of guess that he had way more than the one girl whose money he tried stealing.

I loved seeing his relationship with Allison this season. And I loved his relationship with Claire even more. I felt the scene where he went home to rob Allison's place so he could get money to buy drugs was realistic, but since I've never had any experiences with addiction of that kind, I won't speak on it.

The villains of the season were kind of nothing if I'm being honest. I loved their sense of style, but other than that they were basic, text-book style villains, who were mostly around to just help the story along. They weren't too memorable, but neither was Reggie's wife? Partner? I'm not sure who she was, or if she counts as a villain or not? I didn't really understand her role, but I did like how she treated the siblings the first time they met.

Then there is Ben and Jennifer.

I feel like we never really made Ben an official part of the siblings, even though he is supposed to be. His relationship with Jennifer was very cute, but once again, it was not too memorable, even though it was supposed to be the main story of the entire season. I find it weird how it all looks unplanned while also being completely planned? Like, you'd assume that ever since season 1, this has always been the story of Ben's death, and yet it still feels like it just wasn't? It feels like they were putting this whole thing together blindly, and then someone thought of the right thing and that was what made it all make sense.

And I don't like how things with Jennifer went unexplained! What does that fucking squid have to do with anything???

But anyway, other than all that, this season was a very basic example of a Netflix series. It was entertaining but not deep. It was a good watch, but I don't think I could ever do a re-watch. I think it was overall, just nice.

[algaeful]

diatom art created by klaus kemp

[sailforvalinor]

…says the guy whose first idea for a revenge plan was “use my inheritance to build a fake future London in an underground cavern beneath the real London, lure an archeology professor there by claiming his future self is a mob boss ruling London with an iron fist, cosplay as the future iteration of his 13-year-old protégée, and con a scientist into thinking I’m helping him get back his dead girlfriend with a time machine while all the while I have his coworkers (who I’ve kidnapped and believe they’re working on a time machine that’s they’re last hope of getting home) secretly make me a giant mech to destroy all of London with”

[loving-jack-kelly]

also the way all of the hargreeves sibling love each other so so so so so much and are so incapable of communicating that with each other because of how fucked up reginald left them. they'd die for each other they'd kill for each other they'd die or kill to avoid having to say I love you out loud.

[enobariasdistrict2]

I don't know what to do. I really wish that you were here to tell me... little wolf.

[blorboazula]

I love my own little post-show-but-everyone-lives (yes! Sharon too!) ficverse because Agatha goes from planning on killing them off to, after a Road, trauma and bonding, spoiling the shit out of her coven.

[spraypaintstainonawhitewall]

if i had a nickel for everytime a queer immortal with daddy issues, a soldier boyfriend and an affinity for eyeliner accidentally started a cult, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice

[blandices]

I hate how good klamille is because Klaus do not deserve a fraction of the incredible woman Camille is.

Also rewatching s1, seeing how terrible he made her feel is so hard. Leah is so good as Camille. Truly tragic that we couldn’t see more of her, but oh well.

And ok, I hate klaroline as much as your next regular citizen; but Klaus abused Camille too.

Klamille shippers are so chill but still please do not erase what he did to her. He was not good to her. I very rarely saw anyone talk about it, and again Leah Pipes’ performance was so good it hits even more.

Klamille is definitely Klaus’ best ship and according to me the most interesting of all the tvdu. He still doesn’t deserve her.

[welcometothe-playground]

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