#man this season is so good

[contakaidigon]

Episode 10 hijinks (with bonus Gorgug from last ep because I had to)

[ID: A page of sketches on a grey background. 1: Adaine is lying on a message table, with Lydia massaging her back and saying "Just relax, man." Kristen is lying under the table, laughing, pointing her phone up at the hole in the table where Adaine's face pokes through. A bubble to one side shows Adaine's face in the hole - she looks tired and grumpy. 2: Riz I sitting next to Sklonda in a car. He's leaning back with his hands over his face while Sklonda looks at him in concern. 3: Fig is on the phone to Hallariel, a confused expression on her face. She says, "Have we ever had a conversation before?". In the background, a tiny Fabian with large, teary eyes says "…Mama?" 4: Kristen stands at a podium, gesturing outward, saying "Students of Oakshield Middle School…" 5: Gorgug looks nervously at Riz, who is standing next to him. Riz is holding the medal of wit artificer infusion, and is shaking. His eyes are big and filled with tears. 6: Aelwyn has one arm around Adaine and is holding her close, ruffling her hair with her other hand. Aelwyn's expression is affectionate, and Adaine is holding her arm, squirming. 7: A redraw of the "Mom holy fuck!" meme, but its Gorgug kicking down the door to Porter's office and yelling "Porter holy fuck!" /end ID]

[effable-as-f]

I started FULL sobbing at Passion and Hyperfixation moving in together and adopting all the wayward interests FSJFGFKGGFJHJFJGHD

[ningadudexx]

I love these ominous snake people

[menequillo]

Tumblr is having asexual discourse while twitter is having bisexual discourse.

Queer people will never be free at this rate.

Asexual people are queer.

Bisexual people are queer.

Have a lovely day.

[0rczy]

The only thing keeping me sane during these last couple of episodes is the relationship between these two (I just finished episode 66. What the actual hell. How is this podcast genuenly so terrifying at times)

I tried imitating CarooDraws' artstyle for Ron btw!

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: ↳ "So was I. I was angry, just like you. I led us across this bridge, thinking things could change. If I hadn't… your parents would still be alive. I know you wanna hurt the topsiders for what they've done to us. But who are you willing to lose? Mylo? Claggor? Powder? Nobody wins in war, Vi."

[saragrosie]

As promised, incredibly stupid s4-5 drawings

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

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The way Anthony has his entire chest puffed out his like a proud peacock, simply because he’s so proud to have Kate by his side, and in his arms, all happy and smiling

[neurotic-sinkhole]

you cannot convince me that a SINGLE ONE of these npcs existed before the moment brennan said they did. those gymnist criminals are 100% dm "fuck i need a guy right now" moment. the 30 year old 80 year old doctor? improv, baby! the cuck pig, 100% new idea on the spot. and i love it.

[ppjeterka]

my thoughts re: the main cast of the new nhl amazon docu-series

[greencarnation]

eleven is fascinating to me because he came right off the back of tens horrible traumatic breakdown after he lost everything and he immediately tried to establish himself as the opposite of that. he is funny and goofy and almost childlike, and he bulldozes on in his adventures with amy like nothing happened at all. but then something happens and his masks slips and it's like oh! the core of this man is still anger. he is so so angry all of the time and this façade is the only thing stopping him from being consumed by it. he isn't over any of it and he hasn't moved on. he is wearing a fez and laughing but under that all that exists is age old anger and grief and it is going to consume him

[catastrxblues]

i’m sorry but colin suddenly became an entire nervous dork again while talking to pen under the tree in ep 3 despite having reinvented himself as cool capital r rake™️ at the beginning of the season is sooooooo

[jestroer]

Bisexual wives of all time

[zombie-bait]

Full Moon

Ok so I don’t normally post about Helluva Boss but the newest episode touched on an interesting concept I haven’t necessarily seen represented in media. Back when I was on Twitter (derogatory) a few years ago there was this now deleted viral thread where someone discussed how their struggles with mental health affected their relationship with their partner and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. 

This is such a good, short example of how anxiety and depression can play tricks on you. It becomes so easy to envision yourself as a nuisance, a constant burden to those closest to you because they cannot possibly genuinely enjoy your company, right? But in doing so you create this arbitrarily cruel version of the people you love, people who would otherwise never behave like this outside of your own mind.

It's mean. Because your mind wants to be mean to you under these circumstances. It wants to put everyone else's emotions and desires above yours, both in worthiness and validity. And that starts bleeding into your understanding of other people, especially those you care about.

Now. Helluva Boss.

"Can I get a fucking MINUTE to think after everything you put me through you pompous rich ASSHOLE? Treat me like one of your little butler imps, you can’t just dismiss me like that! I mean, you royal fucks think you can do this every time, like you can just play with our feelings because we’re smaller and not as important. Well I’m not letting you, BITCH! Let’s go!" - Blitz

I find it really interesting how Helluva Boss decided to approach this conflict between Stolas and Blitz. Obviously, the difference in power matters. It's the underlying tension of their entire relationship and their lives. Stolas is burdened by the mountain of expectations thrust upon him from a very young age while Blitz is constantly reminded that he can NEVER be part of that world, that he is "smaller and not as important" not just in Hell's hierarchy but in his own life and family. Stolas very literally has power over Blitz (through the grimoire, the arrangement, his position in society) and Blitz uses their relationship as an excuse to reverse those roles. But that power dynamic, in one form or another, never truly goes away. And for Blitz, it's a lot easier to paint Stolas as this manipulative symbol of power and himself as nothing more than Stolas' plaything. It's easier to be angry than to be vulnerable and accept that someone might care about him.

"Dismiss" is the keyword in that quote. All that Blitz has been able to process is that Stolas has decided to end the relationship that they have. He feels ls like a choice has been taken away from him so he lashes out because he's not ready to emotionally tackle what the rest of Stolas' offer might entail. If Stolas hates him, just wants to play with him, then he is justified in his anger, his self-destruction, his isolation. If the world is mean, you're "allowed" to be mean back.

But

In that moment he forgets that Stolas is someone he actually cares about. Someone he's known for way too long and clearly wants to keep in his life, no matter how reluctant he can be to admit it. Someone who is not innately cruel or manipulative but sad and desperate for connections in a lot of the same ways that Blitz is. And Blitz immediately sees that he's miscalculated something.

Somewhere along the way the fictional version of Stolas that he's allowed himself to be mad at and the real one that he's not ready to admit he cares about have merged into something real that he has actual power over. Stolas can get hurt and Blitz can be the one who does it. He has once again allowed his greatest fears (which Stolas so frequently symbolizes) to co-opt his loved ones, to give him an "out" even though he didn't actually want one in the first place.

I'm definitely not the first person to say this but I think this is an example of the miscommunication trope done right. Their individual struggles are what cause them to be unable to connect during this conversation or to even have a proper conversation in the first place. There is no convenient misunderstanding or third party fabricating this rift. Both of them have preconceived ideas of what the other one is thinking but those ideas are flawed and rooted in self-hatred. They also both shutdown in their unique ways when the conversation starts heading in the direction they'd feared it would.

Blitz and Stolas work because they're both fucked up in similar ways, because they want similar things. That's the same reason why they're uniquely designed to hurt one another. A fear of rejection and a yearning for happiness. To borrow a quote that has been used by literally everyone from Spiderman to Evangelical preachers, "hurt people hurt people."

anyway, I really liked this episode.

(twitter thread screenshots sourced from this reddit post)

[jay-wasstuff]

Every person's reaction to the H*nd H*lding being different is funny asf

[hansoeii]

I'm very much not normal about loki and mobius right now