#no spoilers but it's pretty goofy

[lexosaurus]

if my first EI fic was too dark for you, my second EI fic should be right up your alley 👌

[mettywiththenotes]

Smiling as he decays everything

[vita-divata]

GOJO !!

[r0semultiverse]

FLAPJACK IS A CANON UNIVERSE TO THE ADVENTURE TIME MULTIVERSE!

[anastacialy]

alright that last post had me thinking. i understand a ton of people wish penelope and colin got more screen time directly. believe me, i get that! i am always the first to say we should have gotten ten episodes, not eight, just to let the other plots and especially scenes with colin and penelope breathe a little more. but. i keep hearing a lot about how some of the other plots were "completely unnecessary" and "didn't add any value" and that's just plain incorrect. i think a lot of people who i see saying this just sort of... don't understand? narrative foils?

for those uninitiated, a foil is "a literary device that compares and contrasts one character with another to reveal their traits, values or motivations of one character through the comparison and contrast of another character." think of this like a mirror, or a photo negative.

if you are looking for foils of only penelope and colin, we've got plenty, though many other characters foil each other, too. this is bound to happen naturally in a show with so many characters, but for this post i'll focus on them first and foremost: - the mondriches: many wondered what the point of the mondriches plotline was, and though i simply enjoy having them on my screen, (they are incredibly cute together) their narrative purpose is very clear. their son is now a baron, and they must navigate the world as not someone with title, but as the mother and father of a titled lord. penelope and colin, we learn by the end of the season, also have a son, who will be the new baron featherington. it is the very same solicitor that delivers the news to alice and will, who threatens to take away the chance at keeping the estate from the featheringtons. the titled son plotline was clear from the beginning, though it was a "mystery" which sister would turn out to be the mother of the new lord featherington. (mystery is in quotation marks since i doubt anyone actually believed that it wouldn't be penelope). either way, they are foils to another family, and other main characters.

still, they are not finished in their role, as they also serve to illustrate the struggle of working members of the ton, and the argument to give up a business you love in order to remain in good standing. in this, will is penelope's foil, and alice is colin's. though i love both alice and colin, they initially do not understand what it means to give up something you have worked unbelievably hard for, and see their partners giving up their businesses as the easy, clear choice. alice contrasts colin by winning her argument, and convincing will to let go of his bar. will contrasts penelope in the same way, by letting go of something that was important to him in order to make room for other ventures. while will and alice come to a compromise that prioritizes alice's desires (hosting balls to entertain rather than keeping the bar) penelope and colin come to a compromise that prioritizes penelope's desires (revealing her identity as whistledown and getting permission from the queen to continue writing). yet, both pairs have made the choices that are right for them, and both feel satisfied by the compromises.

and the last note on the mondriches' purpose: they show us what is expected of families of the ton, to inform penelope and colin's arguments later in the show. we are shown alice and will being given separate bedrooms, as many of the other families have been shown to have, though it hasn't been quite as clearly remarked upon until now. in their plotline, it is quite a big deal that they are expected to sleep separately, as they haven't before, and do not wish to now. they ultimately decide that they will share alice's designated room — and later, we see that after they argue, it is likely penelope's room that colin is sleeping in front of, rather than going to (presumably) his own. now, it is unclear whether this was simply a set limitation or not, as we never see an interior of colin's bedroom, but it's likely that he had long since decided they'd be sharing penelope's, as that is the room he chooses to introduce to her in the mirror scene, and the sitting area of that room is where he places his desk, whereas hers is inside the bedroom proper. (we only see this and their drawing room, but i don't doubt that the house is larger than was shown, given the size of both those rooms and the hallways that connect them.) - violet, agatha, and marcus: let's see, a brother and a sister, where the sister's best friend wants to be romantically involved with the brother, and all three of them are being weird about it. now where have i heard that one before? in these moments, agatha is a foil to eloise, marcus to colin, and violet to penelope. through them, we can extrapolate ways eloise may be feeling about penelope and colin's relationship, as violet and agatha talk it out, whereas eliose scampers off to scotland quite quickly. the contrast here is that violet and marcus are very timid and reserved in their relationship until they obtain the 'blessing' of agatha to pursue it, whereas penelope and colin dive headfirst into marriage before eloise and penelope reconcile their damaged friendship. however strangely, though, the foils here seem to swap characters often: marcus also mirrors penelope, as it is him who wronged agatha, not violet. another comparison within these three are violet and agatha mirroring penelope and colin, as violet has to outright state to agatha: "i hope you know that my care for you is not contingent on your aid. i am here for you, agatha, always." which shares a sentiment with what penelope states to colin later: "it is not what you do for me that makes me love you. [...] just being you is enough, colin. i do not need you to save me, i just need you to stand by me." agatha and colin, here, both assume their value lies in what they can do for others, rather than simply being themselves with those closest to them. - benedict, tilley, and paul: what, do you not want to see benedict kiss a guy? the fuck?

[prongsmydeer]

Things I Loved About Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024):

I still can't believe they called it Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Tim Burton said: I have the opportunity to tell a 36 year long joke and he was right

Considering it's been 30+ years, I think it does a really good job in keeping with the spirit of the first film. I loved the cartoonish changes in storytelling method, like suddenly it's stop motion or dubbed in Italian. Perfect, thank you

Also, I love that even with a big budget, they still used a lot of practical effects!!!

I love the homages to both the cartoon and first film (lots of dialogue and gag references, the waiting room and tilted hallway, Lydia's dress)

Loooove how Delia and Lydia have grown closer, with Delia sympathetic to Lydia's relationship with Astrid, and her actively rooting for Rory to be dumped LOL. It made me giggle when Lydia texted Astrid with the same urgency Delia texted her

A lot of what makes the first film for me is the Maitlands, and how they are inherently nice people, just trying to figure things out. I think they do a good job of having the Deetzes take up that mantle

[uthseikoashx-goingmyway]

episode 1 of season 2 of amc interview with the vampire, you are everything to me and more

[scoobypineapple]

Not to be that person but like, I cannot believe they had clawdeen kiss deuce in mh2 when she quite literally had no chemistry with him in comparison to draculaura or toralei

[xo-cuteplosion-xo]

Y'all I am never going to shut up about how pretty this episode was

First we have the omg The squeal I let out scenes

To the aesthetically pleasing

To the oh... oh holy- well shit

[welcometoteyvat]

love that clorinde got a good story quest she deserves it

[i-am-a-whimsy-boy]

it's probably nothing but I THINK HALF OF MY FATHER-SON PAIRING JUST GOT WRITTEN OFF THE SHOW AND I DON'T THINK I'M OKAY WITH IT

[blackbatcass]

can you believe dc finally gave me a story where dick, steph and cass get to hang out. and it was a fucking. backup in a tom taylor issue

[cabincryptid51]

[thecryptidbard]

Just finally got to watch the new Halloween Ghosts episode and oh my god this might truly have been The Most Episode of Television of all time.

[blackstarising]

unapologetically a theo apologist here but the way some of y'all are a little TOO comfortable calling tobert Sketchy 'N Suspicious..........................................................

[regallibellbright]

So I’ve been doing an Animorphs Book Club this year, and we just got through the absolute gauntlet that is Books 19-23 With Bonus Hork-Bajir Chronicles. (For those of you who are familiar with the series but not numbers, that’d be Cassie and Aftran having philosophical debates in the wilderness, the David Trilogy, and Tobias being confronted with the idea he might ACTUALLY have a relative who cares about him, only to have it cruelly yanked away.) The club-runners had mentioned that this week would be going back to comedy mode. (Poor, poor Cassie, who got ONE really fantastic book to shine in 19, one that was at least plot-critical in 4, and some good moments especially outside her POV but has mostly gotten pretty mediocre one-off comedy books for her POV so far.) Somehow, that did not prepare me for JUST HOW Wacky this book is.

… Yeah, I’m going to assume the Helmacrons aren’t going to be recurring characters with which to define Cassie’s arc going forward.