#like im p sure they did it in s1 too but idk just felt more subtle this season

[shapes-nd-colors]

I just finished Perfection and I gotta say I really like the way that Chloes bullying like permeates Marinettes and others insecurities and stuff. Like when Marinette is talking down to herself she says how she's being "ridiculous" over and over and like that's shit Chloe says all the time about her and even though in these later seasons the class like fights back against her bullshit I like that it shows just how much of a negative impact her antagonizing has had on the people around her

[rqs902]

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i didnt know lou jiongze was on season 2 lol however briefly 

also i think its kinda bittersweet that already from s2 ep 1 cai xukun is labeled as the most popular and hes already trying his best to fight for being known for his talent rather than just his popularity… similar to what he talked about in the final nine percent show….. hes been fighting this fight since 2016 wow

so yes im starting s2 HAHAHAHHA i cant believe winning s1 was basically meaningless bc all top 15 are recognized rather equally lol… and sad that wang guangyun isnt coming back??? or jinhyung? i was looking forward to seeing more guangyun tho :( does this mean i gotta watch tntb to see him again...? 

realizing this, ive suddenly gotten the urge to rank the top 15 in my own personal bias list LOL…. ok halfway through i realized how hard this is gonna be, because i dont think i know them enough to actually rank them in a detailed manner… i think of it more in tiers like 1-2 are like my actual favs (TT) and then 3-6 i have very soft spots in my heart for them and then 7-10 are from afo so i feel a bit more familiar with them than the rest 11-15 i just dont feel very familiar with?? but i do have a positive impression of like all of them…. i do think language barrier comes into play too

wu muti

yu gengyin

liu ye 

zhao pinlin

cai xukun

zuo qibo

tian shuchen

gouchen haoyu

zhu yunlong

he yifan

wang guangyun 

dai jingyao

zhao fangzhou

jo jinhyung

park yongju

uhhh wumuti is just too perfect!??!? and beautiful and cute and i love his facial expressions and his eyes and his reactions and his dancing and his stage presence and his relationship with his mom and it’s interesting to see how mature he is for his age, and sometimes it feels like hes got a lot going on behind that cute exterior ahhh but yu gengyin is like just so smiley with his smiley eyes and hes just so boyfriend / boy next door and his supportiveness and his voiceeee and hes so underappreciated wtf

also can we talk about how pinlin went from always being picked last and feeling unwanted to having the teachers fighting over him in season 2? wow progress :’) but really so proud of him

on another note… COME ON HOW COULD NONE OF THEM PICK YU GENGYIN!????????? EXCUSE/!!!!!!?!???? hes a recognized main vocal!!!! and hes improved so much with his facial expressions and his dancing is p good now too and he has stage presence!!! idk why they would pick some of these other randos ugh i dont understand!!!!!!! but also tbh i was really hoping when he did get picked, he wouldnt get picked into the group with all the newbies but alas…….. AAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH now i have to care about that group TT im literally screaming at my computer bc im SO MAD

but yea theyve really set it up to make the newbies not likeable???? why would you go around insulting the s1 kids who are already trained and already popular… its only gonna get you antis lol……… sigh these newbies are just there to add drama. if any of the s1 kids actually got eliminated in ep 1 i think everyone would riot lol (isnt zuo qibo like one of the most popular kids too? and they pretended like they were thinking about eliminating him HAH) this show should be grateful so many of them even came back =_=

but yea ive started listening to a swin playlist on youtube and picked out a few songs i like, but tbh i think they have a lot of songs but a majority of them just arent my style? idk i felt that way about some xnine songs too, like i really like the kids but the songs are just not…. for me…? idk EDIT LOL I TAKE THAT BACK SOME OF THESE ARE GROWING ON ME including the silly one about the seaside??? I thought it was a joke song at first but then I saw a dance practice video for it lol and the choreo is terribly cute to the point that its prob torture HAHAHAHA im cry

one things for sure, the new world mv is so extra but theyre so beautiful HAHAHAHHAHA 

[fragmented-connections]

I wasn't going write this, but after seeing @isamukuro post I just needed to get this off my chest. 

this..this is what actually hurts me the most. As a woman of color, especially coming from an African immigrant background, discovering Alluras character was everything to me. I saw so much of myself in her, and more importantly so much of what I wanted to become. I literally only started watching Voltron because of a this gifset of Allura in s2. It showcased her determination, leadership and I just.. I just feel like this season really took everything that I love about her and just destroyed it. 

Kallura was a second main reason why I loved this show, it was so beautiful and the dynamics between them are so soft and meaningful.. and to have all that broken down this season is so heartbreaking. For k/a to be endgame just makes so much sense. For all of that development, the subtle and non subtle moments, the parallels between their respective storylines; all that we’ve seen from them from s1-s4 to just be wasted, and ignored like that makes absolutely no sense and it really hurts. This is why I feel with my gut that k/a was supposed to happen, and then the creators changed their minds and we started to see those changes in s6. Their relationship would have been a great and beautiful one-the creators really messed this one up. 

Watching Keith become like this after all his growth hurt and was so ooc that I couldn't stand seeing him on screen. Keith was never harsh like that with the paladins and especially with Allura. He was always so soft spoken with her and tender; even in s2 when they had the falling out because of his heritage he never once blamed her or was harsh. And for them to make him bring up Alfor-Alfor who was everything to Allura and make Keith call them both weak? I'm sorry but thats truly disgusting. if they used this as a way to dismantle all that they built up for kallura this shouldn’t have been the way to do it. Not only did they  ruin Keiths character, but they also destroyed any mean of friendship between the two of them. Ugh writing this hurts yo. I really can't believe this what we got. 

Even with Lance becoming Alluras love interest makes me so upset for many reasons- mainly because I really truly do not see any chemistry between them. If the story was written differently from the start and Lances character change started earlier on, and more importantly Alluras feelings towards lance, I might have bought it a little. but because we haven't really seen any romantic feelings of interest be projected  from Allura towards lance until this season, it doesn't add up. I really don'teven want to dwell too much on a/l, it just makes me feel bad for Allura like she just has to settle. it leaves a bad taste in my mouth is all. It would have been made to be a really great friendship, and would have been great growth for lance but yeah I'm ...im just over it. And plance sweet plance, they really did us dirty with that. they gave us all those moments between them for the first half of this season to just to amount to nothing. they could have been so good, so good I tell you.  So much for “lance dosent know what he wants.. , he will be a first choice.” yeah ok. And the same thing for romelle and hunk, all those similarities and jabs and then nothing? Im so baffled at the writing of the relationships of this show now, how did it come to this.

And What really truly upsets me and makes me internally scream is axca and Keith. I really I'm confused and outright angry at them for making this a thing. Like for a/l I kind of get but this? they never had conversation. not once. all the moments of her saving him those 2 times really are interpreted as payback/debt and they were glaring at each other the whole time. please miss  me with that bs. lm legitimately upset at this paring and honestly can't believe its a thing. They really switched out Allura for her. Wow. 

At first I wasn't going to even finish this season after ep6 but my friend convinced me to keep watching, and I wasn't going to write this but after seeing all of the posts from the tag I just felt I need to join in and more importantly just vent and find closure lol, I really never expected to get so worked up over this show and I guess I just need to stop getting too emotionally invested in characters I love. I still think its great seeing the k/a and p/l fan bases still have hope. You guys are the purest part of this fandom and I'm so glad that I was a part of it. Idk if I'm going to finish this show, I think seeing Alluras character go through this would just hurt to much. *sigh* So I guess this is I wanted to get off my chest, and I'm probably going to be off this account for a while. But ones things for sure, I'm still happy that I knew the Allura from s1-s5. She was great and I love that I still got to know her. And I love k/a, like so much and the k/a from s1-4 will always be canon to me. And like I said, I know it in my gut that after the show ends the creators are going to admit that they were going to go with it kallura but decide to “change or spice it up! -because no one wants k/a or p/l. And even if they don't admit I know its the truth. if you have any sense you would too. ugh. I hate this lol. Lessoned learned. I’ll remember not to get emotionally involved with shows where the majority of its fanbase is so ugly to the point it makes the show runners change their initial plot making us all suffer by writing something far worse. ugh. rant over. I know I'm going to get past this, but for now my heart just hurts. 

[thedegenerateasexual]

chapter 3 opens with stiles lying to coach about scott's whereabouts and listen this dialogue really is spot on like the writing style i don't love but she's got their way of speaking down PAT like their exchange is so funny i wish i could c/p it all

OHHHHH MY GOD FIRST DEREK POV SECTION HELL YEAH THIS IS WHY I'M HERE

teen wolf is over but i still get new officially liscensed derek hale content. this is the last time

mostly this is a recap of the shit kate pulled in 1.05 but also he recalls peter being a prankster with a wicked sense of humor. tbh if only it was that instead of "manipulative dick"

he's still working out bc he wants to be ready to tear her apart ):

ok so he had the same fire dream as scott (despite the fact that he "never dreams" that's pretty interesting idk if i buy it tho) and apparently his woke him up at 3am, "the hour of the wolf" WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN

oh, this is interesting: in his dream, he actually fought the alpha, and while he was thinking "i can't win this" his "wolf brain" (lol) was thinking: "Kill him. Before he kills you. Because he will. He will come at you and at you— / There will be many Alphas, other Alphas; each one you kill will bring another. There will be blood on your hands forever. This one, today; another one, tomorrow. / And on Wolf Moon . . . legions. / Humans will try to destroy you. / If they fail, an Alpha will succeed."

(im copy-pasting from the FFN version to paste long quotes lol i dont wanna retype them. bless whoever decided to do that im only sorry they couldnt get thru all 19 chapters)

anyway this sounds like alpha pack stuff? i would be floored if they had thought that far ahead back in season ONE but theyre doing jackson's parents so maybe they did????

aw, apparently derek has a sleeping bag. this poor guy i hope he's not too uncomfortable ):

OHHH WE'RE GETTING TO THE GOODS we're back to hale fire angst

gonna c/p a long section:

There are a few people I'd like to kill, he thought, but no way would he put himself under the control of an Alpha he didn't even know. And besides, what he'd told Scott was true: as a werewolf, he, Derek, might be a predator, but he wasn't a killer. There was a difference, and anyone who'd been born a werewolf and raised by werewolf parents would know that. Scott had simply been bitten, apparently at random, and if he, Derek, didn't teach him how to deal with it, Scott would wind up either under the control of the Alpha or dead.

Dead, because Derek would kill Scott himself rather than allow him to expose the existence of werewolves to the humans who lived in Beacon Hills. Scott had threatened to tell Chris Argent everything. That was when Derek had taken Scott to see Uncle Peter, make him see that the Argents were ruthless killers. Eleven members of Derek's family had died in the fire that had swept through this house six years ago. Men, women, children. Not all of them werewolves.

And none of them deserving of the hideous, fiery death dealt to them by the Argents.

like...oh my god. derek is truly in a kill or be killed mindset holy shit it's Bad he's like so hellbent on getting revenge!! his anger is using him, not the other way around! like sure  helping him keep control, because he wants it that badly and feels that strongly about it but when you are considering killing sixteen year olds There Is A Problem we do not kill children! that's bad! even the argents SAY they don't kill children and most of them are batshit insane!

would also like to take a moment to appreciate the "i'm a predator but i don't have to be a killer" bit bc that became his anchor in My Fanfiction instead of anger and i love that he says it as early on as s1, repeatedly, what a good choice i made

about kate: "cold-hearted bitch. if ever someone deserved to die..."

and then he immediately growls JUST AT THE THOUGHT OF HER and redoubles his workout routine efforts by switching his push-ups to single-hand so he can be Ready - "or the next time the fire came, it might devour him too"

good GOD we haven't even gotten to the kate angst yet and i'm already feeling #validated this was my exact interpretation of season 1 derek he's a fucking asshole because everybody fucking died and he doesn't want to be next because he's got to avenge them

more interesting werewolf lore via derek's internal monologue: "But that wasn't the entire dream, he reminded himself. I dreamed about other Alphas coming after me. Why? It' s not a crime to kill an Alpha. I'm a werewolf. The way we progress in status is through challenge. If my opponent won't back down, it's within my rights to take what's mine in any way I can. Even death." i...don't think that's how it works really? like by the end of the show alpha are implied to be more like parents and the thing to do is wait for them to pass and have the power be handed down to someone else in the pack like how laura got it after their family died. they're not animals and to people killing another person is a big deal?? i can see why among other reasons they decided this novel wasnt canon

he's so stressed he went out to jog shirtless (an important detail that they felt the need to mention) and now he's monologuing about how even though his life is horrible he wouldn't trade it for the life of a human for ANYTHING i love this born werewolf boy it's just so intricately part of who he is you can't take it out of him anymore than you could take the demon out of jesse he just wouldn't be the same person season 4 must have been so AWFUL for him ))))):

ohhhhhhhhhhh boy. "he used to work off all the extra testosterone by swimming laps. Tthat was how he had met HER"

i read a meta about this and it was not pretty i'm ready to be validated and also very sad

derek smells a real natural not-werewolf somewhere in the forest is it that white one from earlier why is there a wolf in california

haha then derek smelled scott ("spying?!") and got mad and wanted to shift, but he didn't because it's day and you never know who's watching, or plotting. "like i am"

this poor guy he's like so distinctly miserable

i don't really like the STYLE of this writing and i feel like the PLOT is going to be cardboard-thin at best but the CHARACTERS are coming through loud and clear so on that front it's very well done. i actually am enjoying myself a bit which i did not expect