#literally no clue what the target audience for this post is

[thatpodcastkid]

Magnus Archives Relisten 9, MAG 9, A Father's Love

Julia Montork.

That's it end of post.

Jk jk this is my MAG 9 analysis. Spoilers ahead!

Facts: Statement of Julia Montauk (not Montork) regarding the actions of her father, serial killer Robert Montauk (not Montork). Statement given December 3rd, 2002.

Statement Notes: This episode utilizes two horror tropes that are rather common, but not often seen together. This is a Serial Killer horror story, but also a "Discovering A Family Member" story. Serial Killer stories are self-explanatory, following the vicious actions of a single killer, drawing fear from the nature of their deeds and the fear that anyone could be next. "Discovering A Family Member" is the name I use for horror stories in which someone discovers that someone in their family is a monster, literally or figuratively. Think Mom and Dad or We Need To Talk About Kevin. The combination of these two tropes makes it so the audience witnesses a serial killer story from the inside out. We aren't afraid of who the killer is going to get next because we don't need the other characters. Rather, the fear we feel isn't that of attacked townspeople, but of a child. We are not afraid because we might be attacked, but because the person who's always protected us might be the thing we need protection from.

Something that really stood out to me in this episode is how much Julia expects of her childhood self, repeatedly pointing out things that should have bothered her or made her realize what was happening. Of course, hindsight is twenty-twenty and it's easy to see all the clues after the mystery's been solved, but there was no way for her to know back then. Especially because she was a literal child. This is a very real feeling though. It's common for people to hate or blame their childhood selves for doing things wrong or not knowing enough, even though there's no way for a child be as intelligent or mature as an adult. Julia expresses a very genuine feeling, if not an entirely rational one.

The heartbeat audio at the end of the statement was so incredible. Such a gradual and effective sound. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the first time an outside noise was used to create effect in the series.

Entity Alignment: This is the first Peoples' Church of the Divine Host Mention, and a pretty solid Dark episode, but there's some stuff that doesn't make sense to me.

(Unrelated, but one of these things is the Church's name. We have "The Cult of The LIGHTLESS Flame" and the " Peoples' Church of the DIVINE HOST." One of these groups worships darkness and one of them has a person acting as a spiritual host for all their desires and it's not the ones you think.)

The shed glows when Robert Montauk performs his ritual. For a Dark ceremony, this doesn't really make a lot of sense. The only explanation I can really think of is that this glowing area is somehow "stealing" the light from others. But I don't fully understand how the murders and heart collection truly fuels the Dark. There's probably another aspect that occurs during the tortures Julia sees in the photographs, but I guess we'll never really know.

It's never confirmed that Montauk is a member of the Church, but it is confirmed that at least some of his victims are. Additionally, the light goes out in his cell when he is murdered. I theorize that even if Montauk was a member of the Church, he wasn't killing for the Dark, but rather targeting its members to get revenge for his wife and to protect his daughter. The ritual may offer protective forces against the Dark, which is why the shed glows.

The line that really stuck with me in this episode was "The Darkness was inside." The idea that the darkness isn't an absence of light, but a presence of something else. In a weird, poetic way, Julia foreshadows that the lights going out isn't something that just happens, but fear entering a room.

I also love the use of the Dark as a childhood fear throughout the series. Even in episodes where it attacks adults, many of them still cite feeling like a child again. This is because fear of the Dark is a very primal, instinctual thing engrained in our psyches from the moment we are born. It also makes the stories so relatable. When Julia says she "did as I was told" and went straight to bed, only wandering out to get a drink of water, when the fear crept in, that's something every kid has gone through. It keeps with the recurring fear of the mundane in the Magnus Archives. It's not during the big moments that the fear will get you, but the during the little, everyday ones.

Character Notes: I love Julia. I love her. I think about her all the time. That's it end of post.

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I'm interested in the one called 'omg is this just captain Marvel 2? because that's a very funny title lol

Hope you're having a nice day!

it's such a silly title, i agree lol

so yk how in captain marvel 2, the three of them get linked and like swap locations? so basically the concept for this is like that, except it's jason getting linked to au versions of himself and they get tossed between universes. initially it was more of a timeline swap of red hood!jason flipping with robin!jason but the more i thought about it, the more i thought, wouldn't it be so fun if like i had three jasons, each from a diff universe, because, hear me out:

Universe 1: red hood!jason, roughly comics canon, post alfred's death but other than that i haven't thought out/may not think out exact time, so like not enemies of the Bats but still yk, things are a lil rocky/fragile/uneasy

Universe 2: robin!jason. kid has no clue what the future holds. i'm not 100% sure, but i'm thinking this will be after the Felipe Garzonas incident but before he finds out about his birth mom's existence, bc i want there to be some fractures present bc...you'll see.

Universe 3: bluejay!jason. he never died as robin, same age as red hood!jason, solid relationship with the Bats, maybe seems like a "happier" universe.

the first swap would shuffle them all forward one + it's a mind swap not a body swap so like physically they'd all look the same on the outside, so it would go red hood in robin!universe, robin in bluejay!universe, bluejay in red hood!universe which would be so fun, bc i think red hood would initially think he's just gone back in time, robin would be thinking he's gone to the future and sees that he does turn out "good", and bluejay would be the only one to know he's in an au and furthermore, that his family is treating him...differently.

this is one of those that i like so much it twists into, 'literally only you are interested in this concept, cue, nobody wants this', BUT i really, really like it so. target audience? me, myself, and i lmao

tysm for the ask babbles, hope you're having a great day!!

[mintedwitcher]

I just saw a "life hack" video (I hate that term but that's what the OP called it so) for an alternate way to open a pull-tab tin, by slotting a fork/spoon through the tab and using it as a lever to open the lid. I thought it was pretty great. Pull-tabs are my enemy in the kitchen, mostly because nearly every time I open one by hand, the momentum of the lid opening causes the contents to splatter. It irritates the fuck out of me. Now, I have a hard silicone hook tool to open them, which I love, but I've never actually tried using a fork or a spoon to do the same job. So, I thought it was pretty cool that OP was sharing this.

Tell me why there are hordes of angry, defensive assholes in those comments making fun of it. "How to make an easy job harder!" "Just open it by hand like you're supposed to!" "The Laziness has peaked!"

First of all: disabled people exist. Elderly people exist. People with mobility, dexterity, or strength issues exist. Just because you're not one of them (yet) does not mean these ideas are useless or lazy. And the implementation of these ideas by someone who is not disabled or elderly does not make someone lazy, either.

Second: just because you see something posted online does not mean it's automatically made for you! See there's this thing called a target audience, which means a select demographic that the content is aimed for. And to help determine who that audience is, we normally use these things called context clues. In this case, clue number one: can you easily open a pull-tab by hand? Yes? Then this isn't for you, move along.

This should not be this complicated. If a tool or an idea or a 'hack' is not 'useful' to you, then it's not for you. You're not the target audience. If you can find use for a tool or an idea or a 'hack', then congratulations, it's for you! Use it! It's literally that simple! But we should not have to be explicitly labelling every little idea with "THIS IS FOR XYZ" for you to even consider that maybe, some things just are not for you.

[tonycries]

hi! ur work is literally amazing to the point smut is the bonus so my question is how did u start writing on tumblr and establish yourself/ writing? the problem i currently have isnt that inspiration per se but the fact that most target audience usually opts for smut(which i can do and do://) but i want to start conceptualizing oneshots etc i just fear it has no impact and feel stuck. any advice?🫶

Hiii lovely, so if I'm understanding this right, you're asking how to build and audience and have an impact right? Correct me if I'm wrong ahah.

But honestly I'm afraid I don't have any tips for you other than to post consistently and to post what you love. Because I just started writing randomly one day on Tumblr less than two months ago, and was like oh?? I kinda like?? This?? Lemme keep?? Doing?? It???

So, I genuinely have no clue how I went from 0 followers to 5k+ but I'm so so so grateful for it and absolutely adore y'all.

Best of luck, Anon. Do what you love and you can reach the impact you want, I'm sure of it.

[nintooner]

I finally watched the Mario movie 😭 The drive-in we went to was a little bit crappy (the audio had this crackling in the background), and there was a little bit of rain in the middle of the movie but none of that ruined the experience

(Obviously this post contains Mario movie spoilers, if you haven't seen it yet)

As a lifelong Mario fan, I was literally smiling like an idiot throughout the whole thing, because of course I was 😆

I kinda wish I had some Mario fan friends to watch it with so we could have gushed about all the references together haha (I watched it with my parents, and they're Mario fans too, but not as intensely as me, so they only picked up on some of the references)

Let me tell you I internally popped off when they had the Captain Toad theme playing during Toad's introduction scene. My boy Captain Toad got a reference 😎

Also Gusty Garden in the credits had me humming along, I always can't help but sing along to that song (If I was in the car by myself, I would have been singing it out loud lol)

My favourite part of the movie was just the brotherly love between Mario and Luigi, that shit was so wholesome 😭 It really reminded me of their bond in the Mario & Luigi games

Peach was a bit of a girlboss as I feared, but I feel it ended up being justified since she's been living in this world her whole life, while Mario is brand new to it and has no clue what's going on at first. And by the end she and Mario (and the rest of the gang) are working together as a team

Speaking of, I was pleasantly surprised to see a tiny bit of Peach backstory 😳 The implication that she's from the "real world" too... I feel like they could explore that more in a sequel. Also I loved how protective she was of the Toads, since they pretty much raised her... More wholesome shit

And it was bizarre but cool to see Mario and Luigi's family! I knew going into the movie that their dad was voiced by Charles Martinet, and I could immediately tell when I heard his voice. Eternal respect to the absolute chad Charles 🫡

Obviously Bowser slapped, but you don't need me to tell you that, you already know it 😆 He was the perfect combination of intimidating and goofy. And the wedding outfit from Odyssey...! The king of fashion... And that Peach love song... He's so multitalented!

And of course, since my favourite Mario character is... well, Mario himself, I just loved him throughout the whole movie. They portrayed him pretty much perfectly. He's so funny and cute and determined and just a loveable everyman. That's kinda the whole appeal of his character; that he's a regular working man in this crazy fantasy setting, and despite his ordinary-ness he always gives it his all and saves the day! And Chris Pratt did a really good job on the voice, contrary to what we all feared upon hearing the voice cast announcement – it's obviously different to what we're used to, but a great alternate take on Mario imo

I really liked the bickering relationship between Mario and Donkey Kong, that was really funny 😆

I also popped off a little when they had that quick Diddy, Dixie & Chunky Kong cameo. Just completely unexpected lol (Sad Kiddy wasn't there though 😔 They left him at home 😔😔😔)

This movie was a love letter to Mario fans! And apparently kids really love it too from what I've heard, so it hit the mark for both of its main target audiences: kids and Mario fans

My mum had but a single complaint: No Waluigi (He's her favourite character)

I assured her that he'll probably show up in one of the inevitable sequels 😆

[melonthesprigatito]

I think it's funny how the Pokémon fandom sometimes…. forgets about how there's an entire younger part of the fandom too?

Funniest thing I saw was before Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl came out when the Pokémon YouTube released a trailer introducing Team Galactic. The top comment of the video was this.

And there were lots of other comments all mocking Gamefreak for releasing a trailer about Team Galactic, essentially commenting things like "Everybody knows about that, why would you even show us this."

Except…. Sorry to make people feel ancient, but a ten year old kid interested in playing BDSP when it came out wouldn't have even been born yet when the original Diamond and Pearl came out.

Heck, I was a literal infant when Ruby and Sapphire came out. I had no fucking clue who Team Magma or Team Aqua were around Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire's release. If I had've saw a trailer for them I probably would have been like "Oh wow these guys look cool. I wonder what their deal is." (Actually I probably would more likely have been like "OMG PIRATES!!!!!!!!" And BDSP is post MCU making space look awesome so I can almost guarantee there was at least one kid who was like "OMG SPACE!!!!!!!!!" when they first saw Team Galactic.)

So releasing a trailer for Team Galactic made sense to me because a lot of the target audience probably never heard of them.

(And that's not even getting into the fact that the Pokémon fandom is pretty vicious to anything post Gen 5 despite them being a lot of younger fans' first games.

It was pretty miserable being a young Gen 5 fan in 2013 because everywhere I looked people were calling it the worst game ever and harassing people who enjoyed them. But now history is repeating itself with the newer games and I'm really worried about my youngest brother (who's first game was Sword) interacting with the fandom in the future. Just makes me sad, you know?

I'm just glad his experience of Sword so far was me trading him cool Pokémon, giving him tips on how to beat the Gym Leaders and me pretending to be a Gym Leader and making up a team of Electric Types so he could battle me online with his team and giving him a paper Gym Badge when he won. His favourite Pokémon is Boltund and he has a poster of it from a Pokémon magazine that he has in his bedroom.

He is entirely unaware of all the negativity surrounding Sword and Shield. I hope it stays that way for now. )

[knowlessman]

a whole month? …eh. I believe it. bnha s6e21-25. (maybe I should start posting these on masto or something, when I start watching something else anyway? or biksy, but character limit… maybe having a character limit again will be good tho)

okay that shot of the spears through the windshield and then swinging the camera to the side to show all might jumping out, that's some Good Shit, I legit thought maybe he was dead for a sec there -- yo. not to ref a movie that is probably triggering to watch for many people, but All Might just did the ending of Punch Drunk Love to these jokers (I have no idea if I would call it a "good" movie, but it is very watch-an-autistic-person-have-some-very-bad-experiences-but-then-be-kind-of-awesome-for-a-minute and… idk, I kinda hope not many people find it funny)

"I can't sense any murderous intent" eagerly listens to try and pick out That One Edgy Japanese Word I Know hellyeah

"I don't need to run. I just need some time." blinks whytf is he doin squats. little shit has too many powers, I forget what all he's got in there

nagant: "I'll hold this guy who was torturing his own daughter for money hostage!" "not really; shoot the little bastard, see if I care"

"If you can decide to apologize to Eri, I'll do what Lady Nagant promised." …uh. tell me you're not about to inflict this guy upon Eri, no way in heaven or hell does he deserve that

"in two months, I was supposed to deliver the target" okay lemme get this straight. you were supposed to not only capture deku, not only hold him prisoner, but hold him for TWO. MONTHS. yo, a full-scale custom-built SCP chamber probably couldn't hold this kid for longer than a week.

(all for one's proximity hologram and bomb) now imagine if that proximity sensor had been set off by a squirrel. they get here and it's been a smoking crater for a week and there are no clues as to why. EVERYBODY gets to look like an idiot. -- I think this is why I'm so tempted to make my ttrpg villains really stupid. the perceived stakes plummet, but it's just so damn funny.

(deku fighting the guy what controls ppl) "if there is one thing midoriya needs right now…" clearly it's an assist from very literally the last ally I would want in a fight involving human shields -- bakugo (talking about deku and all might): "those two shouldn't be left alone together!" dude. …dude. … 'XDDD DUDE. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CHARACTER SUPPOSED TO BE? WHAT WAS HE EVER SUPPOSED TO BE?

"I'm fine." yeah, you're doing just peachy. you just got bodied by a handful of normies with sticks and stones.

"deku, there's still stuff I need to say to you" OH IS THERE, MISTER BAKUGO? AFTER ALL THESE FUCKING YEARS YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY? AFTER ALL THESE YEARS YOU STILL HAVEN'T SAID ENOUGH? -- "It's not something that'll work itself out just by saying it out loud" oh fuck you. god damn it. -- …now that he's trying to kill himself like you told him to. now. fuck this guy. -- now that he's trying to kill himself for, what, the umpteenth time probably. fuckin rock lee dumbass is always doing this

THIRTEEN HAS A HUMAN HEAD????? what the fuck. the vacuum cleaner is just a fucking anime character in a suit with a buzz lightyear whoosh helmet. is the fucking washing machine also just a whole-ass human in a costume

-- it took me a hot three minutes to dig this up and vomit words onto it so yall better laugh. ah who am I kidding, everything I do I do for me

"UA can move!" dude. what did you spoil that for. you don't just outright tell the audience that you're gonna put an entire setting on legs. you bide your time and then just do it. -- …oh. you just installed a subway system. my guy, is it even an anime if you're not animating something that people are living on and entering it in a slapfight?

"will things go back to the way they were before the inevitable collapse of a civilization where most people are born with instant-kill powers and they get exponentially stronger over time?" got any other stupid questions?

…yeah. still don't understand Stain. "look! look at what that woman is doing!" yeah, she's taking down the I Am Not Here sign because of hero worship. hell, trust a zealot to break out of prison, find a post-apocalypse, and have zero inclination to find out what's been happening since he was gone.

no spoiler, eh. no Marvel post-credits scene, either. …no cliffhanger. -- s7 is 21 eps. …thought about taking a break and watching something else, bebop or dungeon meshi or something and then coming back to finish this, but idk. guess I'll see.

[cauqhtz]

(Just using this post as an example not targeting this person directly)

Am i the only one who despises "books are always better than the movies" types? Im so confused on why they want to alienate the people who LOVED the movies without having read the books.

Anyone can say the books are better than the movies right? The books spell everything out for you. I mean you can literally read what they are thinking. But the movies? You have to use just a tiny bit of context clues and thinking power. Especially with this movie.

The movie was beautiful. Clearly a ROMANCE movie.. and for some reason.. that makes the movie a shit movie? Because apparently the book is the opposite.. its not really focused around romance so much as it is politics and the struggles with sexuality.. i even heard someone say that the movie was made for "straight audiences " which is weird as fuck..

First of all. ALTHOUGH THE MOVIE WAS BASED ON THE BOOKS. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME FUCKING THING. NOT ONLY THAT BUT WE DONT CARE ABOUT HOW YOU LOVED THE BOOK AND HATE THE MOVIE. WE GET IT. YOU READ.

secondly. We have enough struggles with all the -isms and -itys in real life. No one wants to watch a movie about that shit. Especially when movies and books are supposed to be used to escape our reality. 😕

The whole straight audience shit is weird as fuck also because she said it was made for straight people bc they didn’t make it abt the struggles with sexuality.. like straight ppl don’t struggle with their sexuality.. ? Also im tired of reading about the same trope with gay relationships. It’s about time they switched it up. THE FUCKING STORY IS FICTION. ITS NOT REAL.

Another thing.. its a romance movie. The movie was so fucking intimate i felt like i was intruding on their relationship. I havent seen a romance movie with that kind of emotion in a long time. So please please stop shitting on every book made movie. Its so fucking annoying. No one ever asks either. Plus its fucked up to the actors and the writers who worked very hard on these movies.

ESPECIALLY 2 straight men playing as gay men? Do you guys not know that men are being murdered for being gay? They are literrisking their lives and you people are shitting on their hard work.

if you have watched red white and royal blue, PLEASE read the book

i know that book fans are annoying when we say stuff like this but i promise it has so much more depth, reads like a romcom, is a million times funnier than the movie and has some characters that werent included that are fantastic and deserved to have been portrayed at all

every scene you liked is i promise, better in the book

also if you hated the movie, give the book a chance its fantastic

[mjulmjul-reblog]

Cooper, Emmanuel. The Sexual Perspective: homosexuality and art in the last 100 years in the west. 1986. // Bernini, Gian Lorenzo. St. Sebastian [sculpture]. 1617. // Ortberg, Daniel Mallory. The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian [...]. Retrieved via the-toast.net. 2015.

[demadogs]

So it seems like everyone who has been vecna’d so far has a secret/thing they feel guilt and self-loathing over. (Chrissy bulimia, Fred the guy in the car, Max Billy, etc.) So thought experiment: who in our Scooby gang has something they’d feel GUILTY about? It doesn’t seem like to me it would be something we the audience have never been given any kind of clue over. So like I just can’t think of anything for say, Dustin - if he is harboring anything that serious, we have never been tipped off about it. Lucas either. Ericka no (not enough screen time to even say). Steve MAYBE Barb but he doesn’t seem to feel how Nancy does about that, and we already have it happening for Nancy anyway. So for me I am left with Will (ugh my poor gay son, and possible guilt about upside down connections), Mike (internalized homophobia/not being able to love El the way she wants him to? Something else? It’s so hard to know what’s going on in his head), El for her fear she’s just someone who hurts people etc etc, and Jonathan (his secret from Nancy, though it doesn’t seem quite that dire to me)…….that’s it? So 4 of them, excluding Nancy and Max who it’s already happening to. Agree? Disagree? Did I forget someone who would qualify based on what we know? (P.S. Robin also could have gay-related trauma ig but idk she seems the healthiest to me, like she is only worried about society’s perceptions rather than wrestling with accepting herself personally.)

i literally never realized chrissy’s was bulimia omg i thought she was throwing up from panicking after having a vision and her trauma was just an abusive mom wow that went right over my head.

anywho yeah i think the only other logical vecna subjects are will and mike because like you said theres not much trauma that we know of for anyone else, and i really think the audience would be aware of the trauma instead of just randomly revealing that one of them is severely suffering from something. the only way it could be something we “dont know” is mike if thats how they reveal hes gay but thats been implied so its not like that would come from no where.

i made this post talking about why i think mike is more likely be to vecna’d than will because most of wills trauma is upside down related and vecna seems to torment with more human trauma. he also tortures with guilt and shame. nancy and max both feel guilty for barb and billy and chrissy probably felt shame for her ed. i dont think will feels any shame or guilt for what he went through because its something that happened to him, not something that he did. he has severe ptsd but because he was a victim not because of guilt.

mike is completely different. he definitely feels guilt and shame from his internalized homophobia. he probably feels guilty that hes been lying to el and not breaking up with her and he feels ashamed that he loves will instead of her. hes a perfect target for vecna.

the only thing holding me back is the fact that finn said he only met jamie bower a couple times. but maybe he is cursed just not completely? like he has the visions but isnt actually greeted with vecna.

i hope its him instead of will because if its will its probably related to liking mike but we already know that. it would be so much better to make it mike. and i dont think will feels nearly as guilty for loving mike and being gay than mike does so it would make more sense.

it would be SUCH a great way to reveal it to the audience because to anybody whos like “what the hell this came outta nowhere” the vision could show flashbacks of all the moments that they missed. that unreciprocated kiss at the end of s3, “its not my fault you dont like girls”, soft moments with will like “crazy together” and the hand hold, will telling him that its scary to open up to people, not being able to tell el he loves her. it would really make them be like “oh holly shit” and they need that moment. god itd be so good i want it so bad.

[princeescaluswords]

Obvious Metaphors

@thehollowprince I saw your post about people defending the Accords in Captain America: Civil War and I just had to comment more in depth. Some people criticize the MCU for simplistic writing, but I feel that, at a certain point, they have to write for their audience, and parts of it will still miss the theme.

CA: CW's anti-fascist message is literally telegraphed to the audience and people still miss it. Everyone remembers the scene, they put parts of it in the damn trailer. Secretary Ross lists the following disasters "New York, Washington D.C., Sokovia, Lagos ..." and implies that they are the responsibility of the Avengers who fight these battles with no supervision or accountability. The Sokovian Accords are supposed to address this.

Except -- and this is the idea that most people miss -- the Accords wouldn't have prevented a single one of those disasters. In fact, they could have made things significantly worse in most of them.

1. New York. Does anyone argue that Loki wouldn't have invaded Earth with the Chitauri if the Accords were in play? He targeted New York because he needed to use the self-sustaining generator of the Stark Building to open the wormhole, because Loki loved drama, and because he wanted to spite those who would become the Avengers, but it would still have happened. The casualties and the damage wasn't caused by unsupervised superheroes.

And, if the Avengers followed the bureaucratic mandates passed by the WSC, Manhattan would be a smoking radioactive crater.

2. Washington D.C. Hydra's whole plan was to eliminate anyone who could resist them with the Insight helicarriers. Yes, Captain America destroyed them above a major city before they could start killing millions of people, but I don't think anyone can argue that he didn't have many options, and that wasn't due to his operating independently.

And if tried to tell me that Pierce wouldn't have a failsafe in place to stall the U.N. from activating the Accords, I don't know what to say.

3. Sokovia. The unsupervised activities of superheroes was not the cause of Ultron. The mistakes Tony (influenced by Wanda) and Bruce made had nothing to do with their roles as super-heroes, but their roles as scientists. Tony didn't even try to put Ultron in the field.

As for during the final battle? What if some governments freaked out that Nick Fury had managed to get a helicarrier operational off the grid and insisted that he stay away. The casualty count would have been much greater.

4. Lagos. This is laughable. The disaster in Lagos wasn't a result of the Scarlet Witch's lack of training or reckless behavior. It was caused by an evil man willing to blow himself up out of spite. If someone expected the Accords to prevent accidents like that from happening in counter-terrorism operations, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Any audience member who thought about it critically would have realized that screenwriters made a point of having Secretary General Thunderbolt Ross deliver the Sokovian Accords to the Avengers, after the man spent years chasing the Hulk to turn him into a weapon for the U.S. Government was to underline that the Sokovian Accords were a power-grab by governments seeking to put superheroes in service to their agendas, using the genuine fear of the populace to these world-altering events to justify it.

You know, just like fascists do.

If that wasn't a big enough clue, there was the way that Zemo turned bureaucratic procedure against itself to gain access to Bucky.

But I guess that some people just have to defend the ability of a privileged white man to endanger others in order to fully express his feelings.

[thund3randrain]

Oh honey, you have no idea

Yeah, thought I wouldn't see this did you? Thank you tumblr algorithm

The entire point of this side of the marauders fandom is tearing away the good bits of the Harry Potter series from R*wling's disgusting hands and and making a bunch of shit up. That's the point. She has gone on record to say she hates us and we live for that

I also adore you putting this in the tags:

What the hell is this? Like genuinely what are you blabbering about?

This is what happens when posts breach containment and don't hit the target audience. You, love, are not the target audience. This post is not meant to be seen by someone who has no clue what I'm talking about, and is tagged as such.

You literally went looking for posts on a tag about something you have no idea about. Evan Rosier and Pandora Lovegood are characters mentioned briefly by name that we gave characters and designs and personalities to add to our fanon amalgamation of delusion

Rosekiller wasn't even the main point of the post, Jesus H Christ. Us just making up head-canons about obscure characters doesn't do any harm in the slightest.

Sorry if us enjoying this fandom upsets you, I am very happy clinging to these characters we pulled out of our collective asses.

Have a nice day love, go enjoy the media you enjoy and I'll do the same <3

what the actual fuck is rosekiller no one will ever reach the level of absolute delulu that is the boomer potter fandom

[indecisive-behaviors]

Originally I was just going to add this as a reblog to my previous post about the parking lot scene in KK2 but it’s almost 2k words so now it’s getting it’s own post. Be forewarned- this is fucking long.

TW for discussion of PTSD, child abuse, neglect, injury, and death, in relation to topics surrounding the show, under the cut-

Obviously, Cobra Kai is a show based around the premise of “what happened to that Lawrence kid after he got kicked in the face?”, which is honestly a pretty cool idea for a show. Johnny’s story is never explained past sitting on the sidewalk with his head in his hands at the tournament, and there are no real context clue’s to figure out what may or may not have happened.

In the show we get to learn early on that Johnny’s life spiraled after the tournament, going from bad to worse to “holy shit how are you still alive”-dropping out/never going to college, working jobs he seems to hate, becoming an alcoholic, presumably many dead end relationships, and not being there for his kid. And yeah, obviously, this would be a hard pill to swallow for anyone watching the show if Johnny had just lost the tournament. If we never got the scene in KK2, he would have just been some kid who lost a tournament- we see at the end of the first movie that(through tears holy shit Billy) that Johnny is the one who gives the trophy to Daniel with his famous line, “You’re alright, LaRusso.” There’s a level of grudging respect in that moment that isn’t lost on anyone who sees that movie- that Johnny, who throughout the movie only sees Daniel as some whimpy kid, gets proven wrong and respects that. If we didn’t have that scene, there’s reason to believe Johnny would have apologized, tried to make amends, Something, even if it was just being less of a dick at school.

But then, we get the parking lot. We get a far off shot, intended to distance you from the scene, framed over Daniel’s shoulder. This makes sense, Daniel is the main character, the protagonist, the underdog hero- why wouldn’t it be framed in his perspective? But the scene is about Johnny. We get the shouting match, the back and forth- “No, you’re the loser man.”- and again it’s fairly obvious how Johnny sees this situation. This is a man who we assume(and is later confirmed) to be a surrogate father figure, who set his friend up for failure, and then basically forced him to do the same by targeting an injured opponent, and forcing him to fight without honor. This same man presumably follows a teenager out to the parking lot, to harass him, to tell him he’s off the team, to tell him he’s a loser, that he’s nothing.

But at that point, Johnny knows the truth, even if subconsciously. At the end of the day Johnny knows that Daniel LaRusso was a worthy opponent, and that regardless of the cheating and manipulation, Daniel could have won anyway, and did win, despite of it.

And then Kreese grabs him, too fast to react to, Johnny too surprised even knowing that Kreese is the bad guy here, not believing that he would ever willingly hurt him- and Johnny isn’t strong enough to fight him off, none of the boys are, so Johnny is forced to suffocate for almost a full 30 seconds(which I double checked for the record- also as a reference, 30 seconds is about the average time it takes for a person voluntarily holding their breath to pass out- this does not account for the oxygen lost during a struggle, and the lack of preparation from both surprise and panic. The only silver lining here is the fact that Kreese was most likely compressing his windpipe, not his jugular, which would have made him pass out in about 5-10 seconds, and would have caused permanent brain damage or death in about 15).

Now, PTSD is a complex thing. I’m not a psychiatrist, and what small amount of information we have is all we have to work off of, but I feel fairly comfortable in saying Johnny mostly likely developed it after the incident. This not an uncommon take in the fandom as far as I’m aware either. But, if we assume this, we also have to assume that after the fact nothing would have been done about this. Not just in the sense that we still don’t really know everything that happened right after the tournament, but that in the early 80s, PTSD wasn’t really a thing yet.

Sure it was absolutely a condition that existed, but Post Traumatic Stress Disorder wasn’t even added to the DSM-III until 1980- and for a long time afterward, was only seen as a condition that affected primarily war vets. Even after an event as traumatic as having a man you considered a father trying to kill you, in public, without remorse, would not have been seen as something to warrant the diagnoses, let alone treatment.

Johnny Lawrence was 17 when Kreese tried to kill him, and this boy would have been offered no resources beyond filing charges with the police. And as we see in KK3, either this didn’t happen either, or someone(presumably Silver) got the charges dropped. So on top of almost being murdered, Johnny had to live with the fact that the man who did that to him was still out there, and to top it off, still ran a dojo at least for a few months after the event. The only relief he could have gotten is after Kreese faked his death.

And sure, Mr Miyagi may have gotten Kreese to let go eventually, but as several people have pointed out in comments and tags, left him and the other boys alone with Kreese still standing there in the parking lot and just... drove off. Kreese has already been established to be a psycho with no problem hurting children, a little bit of glass might not have prevented him from trying again.

So why did I talk about all of that? Because it all contributes to why Daniel LaRusso works as a credible antagonist in season 1 of Cobra Kai.

Think about this- Johnny blames losing everything on Daniel in season 1, but we specifically get a shot in KK1 and later KK2(”You’re alright, LaRusso” and “I did my best” come to mind) where he seems to be at least mostly accepting of the fact that he lost(with what was actually an illegal kick but that’s a rant for another time). So why does he blame him for everything 30 years later?

Because 30 years later, Johnny is forced to go outside, go to work, and pretend like he doesn’t see what feels like every street corner(including right outside his apartment mind you), a literal billboard sized reminder of what happened to him.

The rest of this is mostly speculation but it makes sense in my head so bear with me.

When we get introduced to Robby, it’s made pretty clear that Johnny has not been in his life for a bit. In season 2 we get Johnny’s heart to heart with Miguel, where he divulges that he missed the birth, because he spiraled after his mom’s death. This however doesn’t suggest that he stayed gone, especially knowing that it wasn’t long enough for Robby to not consider seeking out his dad. Because tacked up to the fridge, is a picture of Robby in his soccer uniform as a kid. It’s an early detail you can see in previous episodes, and says a lot about how Robby grew up. To be fair, this could have been given to him by Shannon, and not taken himself, but it’s the sport Robby’s playing that makes me question this. KK1 dedicates an entire scene to Johnny being on the soccer team in high school. Soccer, while maybe not as important to him as karate, is still part of his character. Robby does not know karate in season 1, Johnny obviously didn’t share it with him, but that doesn’t mean Johnny didn’t share anything with him.

So Johnny’s back in his kids life, maybe doing better for himself, maybe cutting back on the drinking. LaRusso Auto is already established to exist at this point but it’s in Encino, a place Johnny has no reason to go to, and probably doesn’t want to. He’s trying again and things are okay. But Robby knows enough about Daniel to know that going to him will piss off his dad. So Johnny had to have talked about him at some point. The billboards here are what’s important- they’re in the first episode, the first scene montage, Johnny draws a dick on one of them as some petty revenge.

The first billboard goes up in the late 2000s to mid 2010s. Johnny sees it, maybe he has Robby with him at the time, maybe he goes home and says something there, but he says something in a way that sticks with even a child as being important. More billboards go up. Dealerships starting popping up more and more. Daniel’s face, and by extension, the memories, the flashbacks, become inescapable. Johnny, for a third time, spirals again. Before he even knows what’s happening, he’s lost his relationship with his son. And it’s all Daniel’s fault. Of course Daniel doesn’t do it deliberately, but the constant reminders are enough to send him back into a tailspin and Johnny blames him for it.

Because it’s Daniel who is a constant reminder of his failures- it’s Daniel who caused him to lose the tournament and almost get killed, Daniel who put up the billboards that trigger his flashbacks, it’s always Daniel Daniel Daniel.

And then Johnny gets it in his head that he wants to be better. He opens a dojo, teaches Miguel and the other kids, wants to try again- and he almost succeeds.

Johnny up to this point has not deliberately antagonized Daniel in any way. Sure he named the dojo Cobra Kai, but Cobra Kai is all he knows. Besides Johnny doesn’t blame karate for his failures, his best memories are Cobra Kai and he’s trying to be better than Kreese. So what’s the harm in this really? His building is in Reseda, there’s no reason for Daniel to ever be there, he doesn’t do it out of spite, it’s because he lives there and rent is cheap. He doesn’t know about KK3, doesn’t know about Daniel’s own trauma. This isn’t an attack. Johnny sincerely just doesn’t know.

Enter Daniel, stage left. Daniel makes no attempt to talk to him- he simply makes demands and accusations, before he starts making active attempts to put him out of business.

Sure, we as the audience know Daniel has good reasons to not want Cobra Kai back. But Johnny doesn’t. All Johnny knows is that the kid he picked on in high school- who won, who got everything Johnny wanted, who grew up to be successful, has a wonderful wife, two kids who love him, a thriving business- is doing everything he can to make his life hell 30 years after the fact.

And this could only have happened because in 1986 John G. Avildsen decided to add in a scene meant for the original movie into the sequel, for absolutely no fucking reason.

[1d-discourseoftheday]

Fri 15 Jan ‘21

Everybody is listening to NOBODY IS LISTENING!!!! (I know, so cheap, that's on par with New Direction headlines, I'M SORRY OKAY. Never again.) Anyway the album debuted at #1 on the worldwide itunes charts and in dozens of countries, there's more awesome merch (socks! masks! mugs!), and Zayn (or various manifestations of him) are everywhere. He tweeted “Just wanna say, it feels great to share this with you all! everyone’s support and love means a lot, here’s to a great year hope it better than the last!” and he's out there answering comments (that'll be him; would a PA bother with those fancy fonts?), but is it him texting people back from the snippet number? Unlikely... is it him in the listening party chats? IDK but there's definitely a Zaynbot (well, staff in this case) in there as well (if you don't believe me the “we appreciate you” is a clue lol), is it him doing all the boring promo retweeting, ehh, and so it goes throughout the promo, Zayn is everywhere but where is ZAYN?? I feel like the blurring of the line between the man and the various bots would make (human) Zayn pretty pleased, the man loves a robot after all! HOWEVER, it would be a special kind of robot that would select the “I'm fingering myself” tweet (in which he was NOT tagged) to answer (“ya wha?”), and how lucky are we to have the real ting among us for this brief moment: who else, I ask you. WHO ELSE. And, of course, we got the biggest pure Zayn shot of all: the ALBUM! He also liked a tweet about the fact that Tightrope samples an Urdu song (by Mohammed Rafi), and reposted a fan's story from a NIListening listening party ft homemade party hats that were markedly classier than the no doubt expensive custom-made ones from Zayn's bday party, and a sexy new publicity pic was posted. We also got footage from a truck all tricked out to be a NIL-mobile! The back of the box van is filled with an installation of mirrors and NIL faces and black light and a spinning platform-- footage from there showed very few people present and they spoke of having a COVID-safe release party but given that there was a pro camera team present, there's speculation it was perhaps used to film a video or something as well. But whether or not that happened it does seem they drove it around to use for private celebration, a lot of people from Hadid circles posted about being there and there being a kid dance time and stuff. Lots of cool trippy footage from inside.

Today's Harry news again slants towards TPWK video chat rather than movie studio sponsored romance-- in what little Holivia news there is we get an interesting backpedal focus on being told that if Olivia and Jason were still together when Harry came into the picture (if this were real which it isn't) he “didn't know” and, in so many words in big old headline type, “Harry is blameless.” Furthermore, the idea that this might be “just a phase” for Olivia has been introduced. That astrologer was pretty on the nose in some predictions, but May or June for a Jason/ Olivia reconciliation seems awfully conservative to me; I'd be very surprised if we had to wait that long! Anyway, if they're trying to redirect Harry news to be about his music, I'm on board! Today we got more from Gabe and Ben Turner; Gabe says “He works to a really high standard but he’s unbelievably kind to literally everyone, all the time. Even if he’s under pressure, he never drops his standards of the right way to behave and being kind to people... You watch the way he is with the runners, producers, sound people, whoever… He’s treating them with so much love and respect that everyone works as hard as they possibly can to make his vision come true because he’s so joyful to be around” which could sound like more damage control, except that it's exactly what everyone who's ever worked with him says, so we know it's true. Ben tells us that the Golden vid was supposed to be different-- “the initial idea was Harry driving around LA with different people getting in and out of the car, people who were significant to the album or his life.” I guess it's handy they had the idea already right there to recycle for Holivia pics; but also I'm glad the video was what it ended up being instead of that. They also tell us that the TPWK vid was always going to be the final piece of the Fine Line era (“It was always supposed to be the last thing on the album run as an ending beat”) but that it ended up being held back longer than originally intended because the album did so well (and probably because of the way things were stretched out by COVID) and how that ended up being strange- “the video has stayed the same but the world has disappeared.”

An affordable candle from Target has been found that allegedly smells like... Louis? Reviews specify that he smells like “clean laundry” (I have to admit I have heard that said before) and vanilla and so does the candle, which is called 'cozy nights' and is said to also be 'a cute color' (it's white). I might want to pair the candle with a slight eau de wet dog, cause in MY fantasy Louis hangout Cliff is for sure there too, but the target candle buying audience may be fantasizing about, uh, different scenarios than me...

And finally, Niall on Niall; “epic... jesus I'm way too much“ (yes with laugh faces) plus he comments on his 14 million spotify listeners-- “next time we're gona get much higher.” He also posted to suggest folks should give Heartbreak Weather a listen so it seems he hasn't yet given up on getting higher numbers THIS time.

[dreamwreaver]

I both agree and disagree,

Season 2 introduced new concepts that both the rest of the season and following seasons failed to either capitalize or even follow up on.

To quickly sum up:

The transition from duo to five man band is clunky, I get the temporary thing until the end of s2, post that they should have all become permanent holders

On that note, the scrapping of I believe gagotor where fu was supposed to call in the three temps and set them on their path to becoming full fledged holders

Lila not being referenced at all when her being in Paris the whole time is kind of vital to the finale

The power ups, originally useful but basically negated through unification

Unification having no real in universe drawback, even excluding Marinette plot armor dupain-cheng. I get it, she's the main protagonist, she can be special, it's the fact that no other character experiences any fatigue which is the whole reason for not unifying all the time

Unification being as common as it became because then what's the point of recruiting completely new heroes? You have the 5 man band just allow them to unify when needed.

The inconsistency with Mayura's appearances. Even a token conversation where they agree to use her sparingly would have helped or a single "I want to help" "no you're too weak today maybe tomorrow" would have done it

Fu's lack of empathy in the s3 finale. The whole predicament is because of him and you'd think he'd be a good enough person to notice mayura literally fainting and hawkmoth being concerned about her and be like, "huh, that shouldn't be doing that

But if I had to pick a singular moment. Time tagger. That's the episode. Because once they established there's a miraculous that ALLOWS YOU TO TIME TRAVEL, that discredits Gabriel's entire mission. Gabriel should have been targeting the guardian for that miraculous. Or, better yet, it shows that gabriel could at any time create an akuma to go into the past and fix his mistake. We know that the powers he grants much like ladybug's creation power are limited only by his imagination. Why doesn't he ask that of nathalie? There is no in universe reason for him to be consistently going after magical jewels when he has the power to create a time traveler. And while yes, you could argue time tagger makes the same statement, that occurred at a time when we didn't know from an audience perspective why gabriel was doing the hawkmoth thing. We had no clue it was to save emilie by rewriting reality so it never happened. First we had no clue, then we were led to believe he just wanted the jewels to revive her from the death sleep. Nowhere was it ever explained that his plan was to rewrite reality and create a utopia.

And that's my rant, sorry to hijack the ask lol.

When I like to imagine rewrites of a show, I usually try to take them from around the point when things went to shit. If you had to pick a moment to rewrite everything about ML forward from, where would you pick? Personally, I'd pick before Chloe went back to being evil, but I feel like you have a way more educated answer.

I suppose it'd be around the second half of Season 2, as that's where a lot of the show's biggest problems started to manifest.

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I’m alright with either she/her or he/him, they/them is also fine. Apparently, that was big enough clue-in for the poor reading comp crowd, so while I feel it is not of importance, I’m nonbinary, yes.

Late 30′s, chronically ill but still working adult with neurodivergence. I’m both busy and Busy, and always sick. This limits my brain power and ability to be here. I have an active RP blog that I won’t be sharing to keep responsible distance. That is always going to be my priority, it is my primary hobby.

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