#mel’s musings

[kinardsevan]

Can I say they really tore Tommy down in the break up scene? He looked so bad, the clothing and the haircut made him seem so much older than he is, they really did a number on him for no reason at all. Don't choose a good looking actor if you want to make him uglier LOL

You wanna know something funny? You’re in the smaller camp on this 😂😂😂 I’ve had SO many comments said to me about how hot he looks in that scene. And I don’t think it’s about aging him, I think it’s just the natural progression of Lou. I didn’t mind the haircut and we’ve called his outfit straight up slutty (in the “take me to bed” vein).

Everyone’s entitled to their opinions, though.

[relicsongmel]

AU where N kills his shitty dad via vehicular homicide. the Down With G-Cis bus who’s with me

[kinardsevan]

So I’m split 50/50 on this at this point. Because we don’t have crystal clear answers on ANYTHING, and there is a part of me that’s like “leaning into the trope actually makes sense for everything else they’ve done with this story”. But then obviously the interviews are so ass backwards, and and and…

Lou’s answers also aren’t crystal. He said he was back at SWAT, which he quite literally is right now, so it’s not like he said it and he went back weeks later to shoot SWAT. His answers about “opportunities” isn’t clear either because working actors by nature, always have opportunities. We have no idea if 911 includes those opportunities (based on my theory of this being a fake out, I mean).

I will say though. When rewatching the breakup from the understanding that Buck is very starry-eyed and “look at you, you magnificent Gay Man”, the breakup is easily understood for me. I vibe with @spectres-fulcrum’s theory. It actually makes a SHIT ton of sense. Further, I’m not gonna lie… if someone told me they wanted to take the next step in a relationship (and that step was moving in together), but I Love You hadn’t even been said… I’d be checking for a fever. It unfortunately comes across as not understanding the seriousness of the suggestion. Like obvs our little shipper hearts were smashed when Tommy was like “not only can I not live with you, but it’s unlikely that I’m the person you’ll choose to stay with”. When you couple the fear with the reasonability of what he’s actually saying, it makes sense.

This is why I’ve said that at its core, if the people writing the story have a brain and didn’t just throw shit at the wall (which will remain to be seen), there has to be a come to Jesus moment about their feelings for one another. Buck has to address whether he actually loves Tommy or if he was just along for the ride because Tommy made everything so easy. (I feel like we as the viewers know they’re in love, but it has to be expressed. And then there needs to be some level of effort in the story where Tommy is pulled into the fold.

I say all that (again) to point out that if this is NOT what the show is doing, and they just split them up because they thought it would make good drama (or some other shitty excuse)… that’s not just dropping the ball. That’s proverbially shitting the bed. And if that’s actually the case… imma see my way out (probably).

So yes, I hold out hope that everything we’ve been told over the past week is to keep us distracted. But I also know that when I reread those same quotes and rewatched the breakup with a clear head (and not from my shipper standpoint), things felt clearer.

In closing…. They did still massively fumble the way they were trying to communicate the issues in the relationship. This was not done well by any stretch of the imagination. But we’ll see what they settle on doing next.

ngl if it turns out that Tommy was coming back all along and that this was all part of the romcom ‘breaking up then making up’ trope i’m gonna be so embarrassed for getting this sad 💀 but that’s what i get for catching up with a series for once ig

[fazedlight]

Sapphics are always telling their girlfriends to jump

[meleficents]

I am sitting at my lunch table with friends recently made. They feel so familiar to me in a way that makes my heart warm. We’ve only known each other for a little over a year, but we are already so connected. We’ve all picked up on each other’s lingo, integrated parts of our personalities, and talked about what seems like every possible topic. We are telling stories already told and making jokes already made. Every facial expression has already been shown, but they’re funny nonetheless. I am sitting at my lunch table and I am looking at my friends. They’re laughing at something that none of us remember, and I am sure that I am laughing too. I feel my cheeks hurt, my stomach aches, and tears that once stayed in my eyes are now running down my face. We are all honking like geese, smacking the table that has somehow now split in half. I am sitting with people who I feel I have known for my whole life and my chest is warm. We tell each other “I love you” every day and it isn’t sarcasm. The words are said wholeheartedly with zero hesitation. This table in a high school cafeteria is surrounded by love, a love that is evergreen.

[melverie]

Lesson 10 and 11 were great btw

tbh I wouldn't mind if the rest of the season continues on like this

[kinardsevan]

Honestly just to piss that group off, (and as someone this has happened to before), you know what the best blow off to that would be? Buck having a moment at some point with Eddie where he goes “come to think of it, I did have feelings for you… like five years ago. And then it died, and we’re just friends and that’s all we’ll ever be”. Because that would be far more real to the narrative.

i kind of hate that bddie has become part of the never ending "why can't men just be friends?" discourse, because I'll be the first to point out that media is hardly running short of fictional straight men with close platonic bonds.

but my problem with bddie post s7 is not that it demeans the value of male friendship or whatever, it's that the analysis went from thoughtful (if sometimes outlandish) interpretations of stuff actually happening on screen (the well collapse, the shooting, the will, 3min 17secs etc.) to "oh my god, they expressed an emotion in the same scene! bddie canon!" with the added icky implications of suggesting that the newly out queer man simply must be in love with his best friend.

never mind how many of the "queer readings" that cropped up after buck's bi awakening seemed motivated, more than anything else, by the desire to demean or dismiss the canon representation actually happening on screen.

[rayroseu]

from this post asset credit

idea where Knight of Dawn is chosen to be in Pomefiore, i think he fits the dorm outfit so well🥹✨💖

[vaguelyaperson]

melvika but mel deciding she needs to utilize sevika's strength and/or connections in some way, so she immediately looks to figure out sevika's angle, how to approach her enticingly enough, make it worth her while... and thus becomes one of the first people to figure out that sevika's more than just some scary hired thug. that moment she first encounters the woman she's been told is/was silco's hired muscle and immediately sees how calculated sevika's entire hedonistic intimidation act is, but at the same time not even mel can see exactly what's behind the act. maybe cause for a long time, not even sevika knows. maybe cause to be a zaunite and survive is to become what sevika is presenting - she's just better at keeping it put together than most.

[kinardsevan]

not me reading this scene in the drive-thru as “on my way to you” plays. no, not at all 😭😭😭

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“Hey,” Evan says softly, reaching up for Tommy’s shirt. He wraps his hand gently around the collar, pulling him down lightly until Tommy is hovering just above him.

“Hmm?” He can’t help the smile that crosses his face, being that close to Evan’s face. So fucking gone on you, he thinks as he brushes his hand through Evan’s hair again. “What, baby?”

“I love you,” Evan responds. “Marry you, spend decades with you, try desperately to have your babies even though that’s not genetically possible, love you.”

Tommy laughs as Maddie and Chimney make disgusted comments, and then leans down and kisses Evan, barely getting more than sliding his tongue against his bottom lip because of the exhaustion of the day, but that’s okay. He leans over into Evan’s ear so that the other two can’t hear him.

“Marry you, spend decades with you, keep working on making that baby happen anyway, love you,” he whispers back before kissing Evan’s cheek and then standing back up.

[kinardsevan]

I want to addend this with my headcanon, that Tommy has known from that first kiss that he was setting his life on fire by pursuing Evan. The way he reacts after that first kiss, homey was already down bad and they’d had like 3 interactions.

It’s what feeds so well into the rom-com trope of breaking up thinking you’re saving yourself pain, but you’re already in too deep because they’ve been in too deep from step one. Those two idiots never stood a chance 😂

I keep having thoughts about what might've happened to Tommy to get him that spooked about the moving in conversation, and I figure maybe the last place he lived was an ex's house, but that's not the whole story.

And the place he's in now, it's important to him. There's a lot of reasons he freaked out that night talking to Buck, and a big one is the thought of giving up that little space he carved out for himself after the last time he got his heart broken. Because it wasn't just a breakup, it blew up his life. Maybe he came home to find his ex with someone else, maybe the guy just kicked him out with no warning and no explanation. Tommy spent weeks, months, trying to figure out why he wasn't good enough, throwing himself into work and not telling anybody he was living out of his truck.

He didn't really think of it as being homeless. He had his stuff, his job, he showered in the locker room and spent his weekends at the laundromat combing through realty websites and apartment listings. It wasn't like he was sleeping in a cardboard box or anything, he was...fine. Mostly.

He doesn't realize how Not Fine it was until he's three months settled into his new place, and he just spent four hours looking everywhere for a charging cable he's only now remembering got stolen out of his truck the day after his ex dumped him. It all hits him at once, and he breaks down.

The next few years are spent building. Turning the house into something that feels like his own. But using it to isolate himself. It's his, and no one else's. And that's what it will always be.

[relicsongmel]

Actually you know what. Given that Grossberg in 1-4 says Robert Hammond used to work for him back in the day but never explains where he went afterwards (before being murdered at least). There’s a very real possibility that Kristoph used to study under him and that explains why he’s Like That

[catherine-sketches]

So in my “will-i-won’t-i” with Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss (where I procrastinate and don’t watch the shows and only absorb the content through TikTok, Tumblr and sometimes Twitter) I came across Staticmoth/ VoxVal.

I saw the scene with Angel and Valentino. His abuse and disgusting behavior. I have an idea on how this moth asshole behaves.

And I have seen some people think that their relationship would be toxic, that Vox and Val, if the predictions are correct and become (or are revealed to be) a couple, would beat the shit (physically, mentally and emotionally) out of each other on the regular, but I think the idea that him and Vox having a healthy relationship could be such a punch to the gut plot wise.

Because that would mean Valentino IS capable of understanding consent. He KNOWS what working with someone else means without disrespect. He FULLY knows what sex is supposed to be like.

But that’s is between equals. Vox? His equal. Fellow overlord.

Angel? His property. Why would he give a shit about his thing?

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

Meljayvik art world AU with painter Mel, sculptor Jayce, and photographer Viktor... yeah!

[kinardsevan]

I love this concept… I just have one pet peeve with it 😭😭😭😭 I took woodworking last year, and my prof (who I LOVE) literally builds elaborate chairs. But even if Tommy was doing something basic, it would take him longer than one night to finish one. My prof takes 8-9 months for one chair. Unless you’re suggesting Tommy just building something rudimentary (like a summer chair), which I would assume not since we’re suggesting he would fixate like Evan has…. He would finish a few chairs, but it wouldn’t be a bunch.

(I say this all affectionately and with no hate whatsoever)

Buck is baking to deal with the breakup, but what do we think Tommy is doing?

[blood-starved-beast]

Do you think Nemesis fantasizes about being the Knight to Melinoe's Princess and being quest-given to fight Chronos for her or something. Then she sees Melinoe out on the Run somewhere covered in blood and bruises and such and it fills her with unfathomable rage.