#not dead yet spoilers

[blairwaldcrf]

NOT DEAD YET - 1x13

[bookersebastien]

who watches not dead yet bc i am LIVING for the slow burn reluctant roommates to friends to lovers that is happening for nell and edward

[royxrizafan]

I know this “Not Dead Yet” season has been wonky, but it really shone through with this finale

I finally watched the last two episodes and couldn’t agree more! It felt like it got back to the heart of the show (and characters). Loved that the last two ghosts of the season (including Duncan!) actually influenced the plot and Nell’s personal development. The bit with Cricket talking about Monty’s obit really hit home too 😭 and the bit at the end with everyone showing up for Lexi. It really got back to the heart of the show, and why it’s best when Nell is connected to her ghosts.

And with Duncan potentially knowing Nell’s secret, I’m hopeful that iiiiif there is a third season, her power - and what it means for her character- will be more central like it was in season 1.

Also just so many funny moments: Nell and the corporate efficiency guy’s scenes, Lexi at the hospital, Nell taking career advice from ghost!Duncan, and I love Dennis best when he gets into editor mode.

I hope they get another season so they can pull out of the sophomore slump and get back on track!

[martinsblackwood]

I can really be... anything you like.

[densewentz]

a quick silly sketch based off my earlier post about the Cat King having a mistaken identity crisis when Edwin and Co. don't recognize him in his new cat form post-esther

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

[widogast-ta]

The Bright Queen is such an interesting contrast to Ludinus, because by his worldview, she should be on his side. 

She was also alive during the Calamity. She also lived with the immediate post-war devastation of the fighting (we don’t know where Ludinus lived for sure, but she’s arguably even more familiar with it. It’s called the Wastes of Xhorhas for a reason). She doesn’t worship any of the gods; indeed, Lolth personally hates her! She has plenty of reasons to hate the gods, or at least not care if they die.

But critically, she knows that Ludinus is a huge dickhead, and knows he is her enemy.

[otto-doctavius]

“hey are you ok?” NO im thinking about how soft Logan was by the end of the film

[solitairedeere]

i was never as optimistic about the ending of bnha as some villain stans were, but i never thought it'd end so badly it left me wondering why horikoshi ever bothered to humanize the villains or make them complex characters at all.

like-- i expected that at least 1-2 of the 3 villains who were heavily foreshadowed and outlined by the narrative as people to be saved would be, you know, actually saved. i didn't think that was a high bar. i've been let down before in fandoms where everyone was certain a character would live and then they didn't, so i tried to keep my hopes low. AND YET.

what happened to tomura was upsetting, but i wasn't that shocked after how disinterested the manga has seemed to be in him for like, the past 100 or so chapters. a bit surprised, because you'd think if anyone would succeed in the 'saving' mission it would be the MC, but whatever. dabi, well, they've spent a lot of time showing the way his quirk destroys his body even before this arc, so that also sucked but at least it didn't feel completely out of left field.

........but they're not even letting toga live???

i just-- what have we even been doing here? when zero out of the 3 characters that were marked out for saving were actually saved, you have to acknowledge that something has gone seriously fucking wrong with the storytelling. not even just from the perspective of a villain fan but from the perspective of someone who likes stories to be thematically consistent or satisfying in any way.

you can set up an expectation of these characters being saved and then subvert that and turn it into a tragedy- if done well that could even be worthwhile and interesting. but you can't turn it into a tragedy and then just... keep trucking along with the happy ending messaging and act like anything in the manga has been resolved and that the characters have somehow successfully completed their heroic origin stories.

like, maybe i shouldn't have expected this much from a shounen- at the end of the day it is still a shounen so i didn't expect to feel that it truly satisfactorily wrapped up all the themes it brought up around societal ills. but i expected it to at least resolve those things in a shounen-y way where they punch the problems and help these specific people and then you can feel good assuming that the state of things will continue to improve in the post-canon world of the manga.

instead we got... uh, none of that. the story refused to answer a single one of the larger questions it's been outlining for the past 400+ chapters. in the end, it was all flash and no substance, which again could've been fine, if it weren't for the way the story seemed to spend significant chunks of time trying to delude you into thinking it had substance.

truly makes me wonder what horikoshi thought he was doing the entire time. can it really all be blamed on burnout? the most that can be said for this ending is that it is, well, an ending. fuck dude, it is that.

and that's just... such a sad way to end a project that took up 10 years of your life.

[mainyqn]

A Stranger

(Happy Anniversary In Stars and Time!!!)

*whispers* hey did you know i made this for the really cool and awesome project that just dropped for the hit game In Stars And Times Anniversary that you should download because its free and has alot of awesome people behind it?!!!!!! Go check it out!!!!!!

[aricatastrophe]

TPOT 15 WAS AN EPISODE (SS REDRAW!!)

og sceenshot under the cut

[blairwaldcrf]

You kinda shrink when he's around. He forced this whole dinner party on you, and you let him finish your stories, and you don't want to watch your favorite shows. It's not like you. You're usually much more snarky and obstinate.

NOT DEAD YET - 1x13

[idliketobeatree]

i just can't get over how edwin secured the best possible outcome for exerting magic on that cat. he has a gorgeous trickster wrapped around his dainty little finger so badly, the punishment was waltzing through the town, pointing at kitties and going "!" while wearing a fancy golden bracelet? yeah yeah he cannot leave at an unfortunate time, but the boy's been to hell and back and frankly, more dangerous things are waiting for the squad behind the corner. it all appears so lovingly tame in comparison. there are not that many cats around; they travel in perfectly countable twos and threes, practically getting in his way. not to mention the darling boy could have just– get it on and over with from the start. and the offer is still on the table if i understood the vibes?? my takeaway is that you may die repressed but gay thoughts will always catch you and it's all going to be okay

[dawnatlas]

I really think the damage caused by learning jean had a sister and then 20-odd pages later finding out she's been dead for years while jean was being tortured in a cult is completely unrepairable. ill never stop thinking about them.

they never got to grow up together. she would've been 15 in tsc. hes still a teenager and she never even got to be one. this is the only universe jean didn't kill himself, so it's the only universe he learns about her fate and has to live with that knowledge. FUCK

[obibail]

"He said that's your style. Never quite lies, clever half-truths that let you convince yourself you're doing the right thing."

[ghostlyeris]

that's safe enough for a bad kid