#legacies rant

[bennettmaximoff]

I definitely think Legacies “Monster of The Week” format was one of the many reasons it ultimately tanked. There wasn’t an actual real threat throughout any of the seasons that truly challenged any of the protagonists. Malivore wasn’t a present antagonist, his design is horrible and goofy, and having him as an antagonist for three seasons straight resulted in the plot becoming boring and repetitive. None of the villains are rememberable either.

Julie & Co tried to copy the Buffy format, but flopped because her world building and storylines were god awful and lacked substance as per usual. Malivore and The Hollow are in the same category imo, both are antagonists introduced to expand the lore of the tvdu, but only created more confusion and completely destroyed the already established and somewhat decent lore. People love to talk about Cade when referring to the worst villains of the tvdu, but at least he was charismatic and gave us an interesting storyline.

Malivore just felt like a plot device used to show how amazing Hope is bc her unique and special tribrid blood is his only weakness. Inadu should have been expanded on further and been a major antagonist for Hope to defeat instead of them just killing her off in TO. A powerful 1000+ year old entity is just able to be defeated because someone killed themselves?? Continuing The Hollow storyline in Legacies would have made people receive the show better and actually connect it to TO bc the show feels disconnected from the other ones until S4.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Okay okay okay.. but listen. What if Shen Yuan had a harsher System and was forced to convincingly play Shen Qingqiu, making Luo Binghe detest his existence, but when Luo Binghe returns from the abyss to enact his revenge and has Shen Qingqiu on trial at Huan Hua, unfortunately for everyone (and fortunately for us), they drug Shen Qingqiu with truth serum and accidentally spiral Shen Yuan into fanboy rampage of epic proportions about how great Luo Binghe is.

[backjustforberena]

Corlys and Rhaenys at their daughter's wake, with their grandchildren. DO NOT REPOST.

[ravenelyx]

Sebastian is the type to get random bursts of affection.

At the beginning of your relationship, he would suppress them, he'd be more reserved, scared to be too annoying, too clingy, too inadequate, too much. But eventually, he would relax — he would feel more at ease and gradually act on them more and more.

And one of his favourite activities is snuggling.

You could be sitting on the sofa, and he'd sit down too, and guide you between his legs, wrapping his arms around you from behind, and he would nuzzle your hair, your neck, your cheeks, eyes closed in bliss, and place very lazy kisses everywhere his lips can reach. Nuzzle, kiss, nuzzle, kiss, over and over again.

Or he would gently push you to lay down, and rest his head on your chest, face hidden in the crook of your neck so he can breathe in your perfume, lips brushing slightly on your skin, and he'd hug you like you're a giant pillow, and cuddle with you until he feels like he has fallen all over again. Because what's important to Sebastian is to feel you close, no matter how, no matter what.

[sxturn-to-mxrs]

GRAYSON'S USERNAME IN TBH IS NOT RANDOM

so guys in the brother's hawthorne when gray and gigi were talking on a site, i thought gray's username was random generated one

but, it's not :D

lemme show u what i mean

let's divide this into two parts

Nonerrata and 575

the word for errata means list of errors so non-errata means no error

575

is the format for a haiku

AND GUESS WHAT

gray chose to create a haiku as a challenge for his thirteenth birthday where he said that there's "no room for error"

CONCLUSION: nonerrata575 is directly related to ^this conversation

credits for the theory: my irl friends and me :D

[iz1331]

Gonna have to rewatch Beetlejuice and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice back to back to compose a list of "movie canon" that were deemed not brought back/continued in the sequel.

For example: Like how the sequel "disregarded" the fact that only those who "died of suicide can become civil servants in the afterlife".

NO ONE CONFIRMED THAT! It was just a throw away line by Otho, WHO WAS A FRAUD AND KNEW LITTLE TO NONE OF THE SUPERNATURAL!

The sequel even subtly corrected that misconception. Not everyone in the Civil Service in the Afterlife died of suicide, several were wrongly assigned that cause of death.

Miss Argentina was the only significant character that had an accident in Beetlejuice that we've seen who works as a civil servant. And maybe the flattened guy, but not sure if that was an accident or not. He looked quite jovial for a flattened guy.

Case in point: we have Wolf Jackson, and he certainly didn't die of suicide, yet he works as a self-proclaimed cop and runs the whole police joint there.

The earlier scrapped concept of Betelgeuse hanging himself was just that. An idea/concept of how he died. They never used that in the film, thus it's not canon. It's considered fanon in the fandom cause it's been more than 30 years of no solid confirmation of a sequel and we were hungry for any scrap of Beetlejuice material that we can consume and use as inspiration for art and stories to feed ourselves over the years until news of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was announced and got released.

The sequel answered some questions and gave us new content to work with. For both the characters and about the Netherworld/Afterlife in the Beetlejuice universe.

I'm all for creative liberty and freedom, make a canon divergent or write an Alternative Universe of it all, but don't just shit on the sequel and say that it's an "elaborate fanfiction" like the screenplay writers didn't put a lot of thought in it that even Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara finally, after DECADES of turning down script after script, found THIS story for the sequel to have the most potential and having the right tone as a follow up for the movie that meant so much to all of them.

Everyone who worked behind the scenes in creating the film from props, set location and design, puppetry, stop-motion, costume, stunt people, make-up, lights, sound, extras, production, marketing, EVERYONE put a lot of effort and passion and did AMAZING work on this project. I'm still amazed by every large and miniscule details I discover every time I rewatch it.

Was the story of the legacy sequel perfect?

Of course not.

No sequel ever is. Someone will always find something to complain about and that's just how things work in this industry, in this world.

But, was it fun? Was it both new, and brought the same feel from the original? Did the actors brought to life the characters we've loved for more than three decades and counting? Did it introduce new characters that fit the ensemble and had the same eccentric aura of the Beetlejuice world? Was it a relief that the story didn't just end 30 years ago?

Yes, it did. For me. I loved it. It's not perfect, but for someone like me who's a bit of a perfectionist on my works, and then finding the imperfections actually making the finished product better than I expected, it means a lot.

And for what it's worth, at least the time and love and the littlest of delusion I invested for Beetlebabes actually had something to show for. A one-sided romance it may be, at least I now know that Betelgeuse isn't harboring any lasting ill will towards Lydia for all these years.

That Tim also saw it that way. That Michael and Winona were open to this dynamic and relationship between the two characters/roles that they love and cherished to play.

Also, people change. No one stays the same. Life throws curve balls at us, and yes, to FICTIONAL characters as well. People mellow with age. One person or experience can change someone, even when they've been dead for 600 years.

[xo-zozo]

bro i do hate skye but GIRL. WHAT GENES DOES SHE POSSES TO HAVE FOUR KIDS AND ALL OF THEM TO BE ABSOLUTE MEALS. AND CAN I GET SOME?

[myokk]

“She’s tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me”😤😤😤

(Regency AU with Eloise and Sebastian inspired by my slow trek through Bridgerton these days & @bassicallymaestra ‘s AMAZING regency inspired art😮‍💨😇🙏)

[dittanyinbloom]

MC: Sebastian! Please stop with this dark arts nonsense. You’re scaring the baby!

Sebastian: What? You’re with child?

Ominis, appearing out of the darkness unannounced: I’m the baby you absolute twat.

[a-usernamelol]

it is always incredibly irking to me when I see a post with NPC characters and its like “for the (insert NPC) GIRLIES ❤️🥰💦” “For the LADIES 😘😍🥵”

Hi! 👋 Hello! 👋 GUY here! Gay trans MAN here!

Here’s some Ominis for EVERYONE because EVERYONE deserves their favorite character, and I’ll be posting pictures of other NPCs too ❤️

HAVE SOME FREE OMINIS BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE❤️ PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH

[al-luviec]

compiled whatever this is (and I run out of tag space)

meh HoT gifs (3/?)

[theetwinkleboy]

and another member of the lov gets what they thought they wanted but at what cost. spinners has been the most interesting to me so far because it parallels so neatly with izuku’s. both of them feeling powerless and accepting a quirk because that’s what they thought they would need to be powerful and change things. both of them sitting across the table from each other, scarred and broken by the quirks that they accepted. spinner realizing too late that it wasn’t a quirk he needed to save his friend—it was just him. and maybe not accepting those quirks in the first place would have put him in a better position to save shigaraki (but all for one didn’t want him to save shigaraki, so). shigaraki’s murderer and his best friend. hm.

but also, to have it come back now, to have spinner say this now TO izuku, in the same chapter that izuku is like ‘how can we stop this from happening again (how can we stop the next person lashing out before they get past the point of no return)’ and tsukauchi is like ‘we can’t without more heroes’ like NO! that’s not the answer! spinner told him the answer. it’s not in a quirk or in more heroes. it’s being willing to reach out and see someone for who they are.

[anghraine]

me, to myself: I've been ranting for over 20 years about my gripes with the Peter Jackson LOTR movies and especially their tremendously influential (mis)handling of Gondor, Aragorn, the legacy of Númenor, Elrond, etc, and been consistently annoyed by how much their fans insist on uncritical glorification while also trying to present themselves as fandom underdogs who must defend these inescapable behemoths from the smallest slight. Maybe I should try to focus on other things and put them behind me.

[news: Jackson is making a new LOTR project involving Aragorn and Gollum]

me: alternately, maybe I will never be free

[sleepyphoen1x]

If Hogwarty Legacy 2 won't have mini Albus Dumbledore in it, i don't want it.

[ravenelyx]

Sebastian Sallow is the type of boyfriend who would randomly kiss your neck, not in a sexual kind of way, but in a "I'm going to make this so disgustingly wet and so unbearably ticklish that you're going to hate me, but I love hearing you giggle" kind of way

[bodhrancomedy]

Of all the hills, this shitty game is too much?

I mean, FNAF was a big part of my teenage years, but as soon as Mr C donated to anti trans shit, I dropped it. I loved Firefly, but once I saw the Confederacy angle and the Orientialism, it changed it enough it didn’t bring me the same joy again. Father Ted was a massive part of my childhood, but I gave that up when the writer targeted us.

I still read the wikis and o still sometimes watch them, but I don’t put my money down. It’s so easy. I appreciate it might not be for others, but it’s so much easier to not sink 60 quid into a video game that supports a bigot.

Like, it was such a basic request to support trans people and Jewish people and disabled people and POC. And you can’t do it? And have the gall to still claim ally ship?

Wow.