#not that I doubt it any second

[bkdkdump]

Fuck, AFO was evil EVIL from the womb

[aimasup]

Suffering from Epic the Musical gave some very odd and sudden inspiration for this. crack scenario. The only thing stopping Bill from killing him on the spot is our suspension of disbelief

better roll a 20, stan. There's lives at stake

[rollforjackass]

sometimes i wonder if all those times that john constantine allegedly appeared to his writers irl weren’t actually meant to be read by them as an endorsement of their talents or his personal acknowledgment of their influence in his life (the way i used to generally romanticize those stories to mean), but were maybe more intended as like…..a Straight-Up Threat. or, more charitably, as some kind of flying-too-close-to-the-sun warning. just because it’s funny to me to think how (almost) every writer who “encountered” him decided without question to fuck off posthaste, and equally funny to wonder how — assuming he actively chose to make himself known to them, rather than merely running into them on accident — constantine wouldn’t have seen that reaction coming from a mile away.

i mean, if anyone should know best about constantine’s penchant for bringing down disaster on anyone & everyone around him, it would be him and the people who officially contributed to enforcing that penchant, right? so it’d just be common sense for the intelligent, meta-aware fictional character to think: “if i — the living breathing embodiment of a rockfall zone caution sign — go up to the dudes who made me this way, they will probably (wisely) assume my presence indicates that they are now in higher-than-previous danger of being hit by falling rocks — a danger which will only increase the longer they stay within my immediate proximity — and they will surely feel compelled to bugger off accordingly.” at which point he could logically conclude that there are undoubtedly better, less-mortally-endangering methods of paying respects to his creators than popping out of a sandwich bar stairwell and scaring the shit out of alan moore.

(unless john thinks his writers would get just as much thrill from that kind of adrenaline rush as he does, given they thought to make him that way; which, tbh, i would not put past him to assume. or unless he simply does not care to expend all the extra energy on plotting a meticulously inoffensive approach just to tell someone ‘hi’, which i also would not put past him.)

as much of a shit as he can be, i can’t really picture john constantine making the conscious decision to put the fear of god into the writers who made him without a really good reason for it. he doesn’t believe in fate or destiny or anyone pulling his strings, so even if he didn’t like something they wrote, i figure he’d just set his mind to changing it rather than lending credence to the writers’ supposed influence over his life by taking his grievances up with them. so if constantine were running around the real world actively jumpscaring the people who are most likely to genuinely fear him, knowing they’re the people most likely to genuinely fear him, i can only imagine it being a choice he makes to jar his writers out of some complacent drift that’s been leading them over the line between fiction and forbidden knowledge; or something to that effect. a scare tactic, but a preventative one.

anyway, all this said to provide context for the entertaining mental image i had of constantine rocking up to some stranger’s party in 2009 all cool & confident, thrice-assured of his ability to rattle his writers just by showing his face, only to have to beat the hastiest of hasty retreats with fresh horror in his soul after notorious freak-shit woman-hating character-mangler peter milligan gets one good look at him and comes barreling down the pipe trying to ask what john thinks of the college-aged deviantart-emo wife.

[personthattoleratesme]

Dan has seen Phil basically everyday for 14 years and still looks at him like he has a secret giddy crush and it makes me feel insane

[aroacettorney]

gentlemanliness leaves the man's body when he stops masking as a noble or royalty and sees an opportunity to match the other person's freak /j

[guardianspirits13]

*deep sigh*

I cannot stand this character. It feels like a triple threat of ill-written dialogue, bad delivery of said dialogue, and an excess of unnecessary screentime, but I have to say what solidified this for me was her scene with Fisk in the most recent episode (7).

Seeing such an ill-developed character juxtaposed with the masterclass that is Vincent D'Onofrio just hurt to watch. What I keep coming back to is that Charlie and Vincent are so deeply familiar with their roles that they can make mediocre dialogue work with their characters. Every single other cast member is left with no backstory or character development to speak of, and thus practically nothing to influence their acting choices to give them even a chance to make good on bad material.

I think this was my favorite episode thus far. Until this point I wasn't sold on Heather as Matt's love interest or as a character in general, but they gave her some time to grow and I feel a bit better about her role in the series. There is a good balance of action and emotion, we see hints of Kingpin poking through Fisk's mayor facade, and Matt gets the privelege of expeiencing more trauma. (Has he ever dated a woman who hasn't committed at least one homicide? The world will never know)

Now with Mrs. Angie Kim, it feels like she is only there as a plot device- a third party to investigate goings-on and inform others about it. I really wished the absolutely asinine "hostage negotiation" in episode 5 was a fluke, but she's just a non-character with zero personality aside from a vague tinge of Awkwafina-brand humor. She seems to serve a combination of the roles that Karen and Brett fulfilled in the original series, without any of the substance that made them likeable characters. Her whole character just feels like a microcosm of everything I dislike about this show.

There are good things to say too, but what I'll leave off with is that I pray the next few episodes and next season are far enough removed from the rewrite debacle that they can regain some more momentum from the original show.

[insomnova]

people on twitter saying the acolyte was good. was it actually good or did the flashing lights and sweeping shots convince your fried attention spans that something magical was happening on screen

[milksnake-tea]

sometimes i think about the way sunday is 100% fine with doing fucked up things as long as he thinks the people he’s doing those things to deserve them

[imfluffytrash]

In my opinion, the fandom demands too much from Tattoo compared to the rest of the characters.

He didn't want to help Jack or the debtors in the first place, his priorities were his mother, his best friend and himself, which is fair. Of course, it wasn't right for him to try to involve an innocent person in this mess, but I think it's important to highlight he was not acting out of malice but out of desperation. He didn't know Joke prior to their "ring heist", not on a personal level, and currently he doesn't know much about him either while Joke knows all about his life situation.

Tattoo stole something he shouldn't have from the rich in order to escape the nightmare he's been living in because of them (the threats, the beating, the never-ending pressure), he put Joke in the spotlight but he couldn't avoid getting caught. Now, the same people that have been disturbing him nonstop want his help returning the necklace he stole to get rid of them, they convince him through another beating that includes Hoy and, potentially, his mother. Who wouldn't want to escape? Why feel like he owes them something? By making these types of decisions he may end up in greater danger than at the start, but he is not able to think of another solution and does not want to suffer anymore. Joke understands this, that's why he forgives him over and over again, he is familiar with the feeling of being trapped no matter what you do.

I get Hoy's point of view, I also value qualities such as honesty and loyalty, and I'm not trying to defend everything Tattoo has ever done and will do, but I think there's little discussion about his motivations although the series focuses on disadvantaged environments and the consequences of living in poverty.

I rarely see characters like Aran or Hope being held accountable even though their actions / intentions / motivations are immoral or, at least, questionable. People seem to like them because they are handsome and violent and confident, but they have not yet shown redeemable qualities.

[verdiesque]

we (me) need to bring back listening an entire opera in one sitting

[sockdooe]

That’s my favorite … tha

[faaun]

Trying 2 be so normal rn

[skitskatdacat63]

Zootopia 2 teaser. ....

[chester-i-hardly-know-her]

crane wives songs ranked by how much i can make them about the magnus archives because that's the level of obsession i've reached part 1: safe ship, harbored (1/2)

one person said i should go through with this so let's go! i'm gonna split the albums in half to make the posts not as long. they are still going to be long. lyrics are in italics!

can't have it all: interesting one to start off! i feel like it kind of works, but i don't know how to work some of the more specific lines (i think you'll have a ring on your finger but not now, for example, which could work for something, i feel, but i haven't thought of it). but there's things like, my mind's made up, though my head still aches / and all my love you tried to take but / you can't have it all that just. really feel like they work with the themes of having to make awful choices and going through situations that take so much from them. could work for the finale choice even. you won't find me where you left me, no, i'm long gone / you can't bind me in the state you kept me for so long. which puts me in mind of like. all the ways they're trapped in situations where some of them are able to leave even if not all of them, like with the institute and the lonely and the web and the apocalypse. unfortuately they are often bound in horrors that are harder to leave. could work i think! 6/10.

the diving bell: on the entity side of things, very much readable as vast or buried with their whole shared custody of the ocean, or the general act of giving yourself fully to the fears. i will drown for you / sink to black from blue / and let the water win. like as a metaphor for a relationship it's very much one where the singer gives up everything in the process of loving something far greater than themself and drowns. i feel the need to mention jon's door with an ocean behind it metaphor, but it's hard to make it fully work for him given the line is i am not afraid to give you everything, and i feel like there's. definitely fear involved in that situation. only a few characters aren't somewhat afraid of their entities, though there's also some that are but might say or think they aren't. you could apply it to a relationship between characters, but none specifically come to mind that fit both the ocean theme and giving yourself up entirely? given the general entity themes work well but i have no specifics i've thought of, i'd say overall 5/10.

new colors: i have half a mind to climb up in the sky / and steal new colors away from the sun. like colours but if colours hated you? aside from that, it's like. don't tell me that i can't / i need this so damn bad. wanting new knowledge/experiences like that could be a little bit eye. needing it is a bit jon, even. referencing him destroying the dark sun potential. and of course there's the line i'd give up my sight to see, which can work from a few angles, depending on if the eye is the sight or the seeing. giving up the eye to get a clearer view on things or the other way around? can work with melanie literally giving up her sight to escape as well. i'd give up my air to breathe is not a line i instantly connected to the buried and daisy getting clarity there, but i got attached to the interpretation. can also be read as giving up their life, which makes it fit a whole lot of other situations too, which is good given the line repeats. then there's the second verse, folks round here are mean, spit fire and gasoline / but all i want is solitude. like yeah. that's pretty s4 martin. first line has desolation links but can work with the more negative times in the archives, or avatars in general with the context of the whole verse. a lot to work with here. this was a 7 at first but given i started planning an animatic in my mind the more i looked at it, it gets bumped up to an 8/10.

caleb trask: this song apparently references a book, which does add layers if you want to look further, but the context doesn't change the themes of the song itself, that your blood/past shouldn't hold you back from living. "when the azaleas bloom," he said / "when the flower blossoms spread / that's the day … / i'll love you" yeah. you can s4 jonmartin that. if you might then you may, there's no reason to live bound in chains / cause you're not alone, we're the daughters of sinners, we're the sons of saints. you could do fun character contrasts here. because there are so many characters who come from good or bad or complex places both in and out of the context of fears, enough that i am not listing them because it would be most of the cast. and many characters that hold themselves back from being happy because of all the horrors and guilt (though, no reason to live bound in chains could also be more sinister depending on context (like how helen discusses things in s5 especially)). so you got bad in your blood / brother, you're one of us. obviously there's not being alone in having a bad past, but it also brings to mind that moment in 185 where jon's like "you're one of us" to martin about being with the fears. blood don't mean nothing(/a thing) / in the end. this is gerry voice in 111. hi gerry you are one of the ones i thought about for the earlier line. gonna give this one 7/10!

counting sheep: are you sleeping, brother john? john like jonathan sims? he sure was sleeping (dreams) (coma). now this is interesting, and i think it might be the first where it works to twist the meaning a bit. you may think i've already done that but i feel like there's a difference between changing the literal things (making something about the fears instead of a metaphor or relationship etc) vs changing the emotions behind it, like if something in you's fast asleep / afraid to be who you will be / it's a losing battle, so why are you still fighting? is changed to, instead of being who you truly are, to becoming an avatar, then it becomes more negative. but it does very much work. this is what puts a character song on the hear me out cake to me (post i just reblogged if you need context). not the rating, but how much i'm willing to twist the the core of it to make that rating higher. this one may be on there for me. also the feign contentment for a while / that's all you know how to do lines feels early season martin to me. as well as the prentiss situation with morning comes a day too soon / you're back inside your tiny room / waiting for something, so good at doing nothing. the wool being off their eyes could relate more to learning about the fears maybe. or more like how it actually means in the song. even with tilting my head and having a beautiful mind there are parts that are harder to fit, but i like to think about it, so we're doing decimals now because. it does say jon. 5.5/10.

hole in the silver lining: ooo this one is interesting for tma. given the phrase refers to clouds, the themes could maybe lean more lonely with that, given the whole song is about pessimism. i might find nothing when i start looking / but i'll turn it over in my hands until / my fingers wear it through. the imagery here also puts me in mind of like, textiles, weaving, unravelling the wool of said cloud. so the visuals are quite web to me when i imagine them. given the web does tend to cause doubt, that's also fun. leave your doubt at the door / don't you take another step. there's lots of themes with doors. lots of themes with doubt. a quote from 139 about agnes came to mind so i looked for the episode where that was discussed and god. obsessed with jon's thoughts after the statement. "but I’m so full of doubt, it feels like there’s no room for anything else, and i'm sure martin is the same." "maybe… we’re the opposite of agnes. maybe our doubts are exactly what we need. if that’s the case, i’m an amazing chosen one." augh. so yeah. could work very well. love it. though given it's vague enough to work with quite a lot, it feels not quite specific enough for me to give higher than 8/10.

[au-set]

"... shut up." "im gonna tell mr. knight that the sage is bullying me again!"

owen sketchhh yes im aware the sleeve isnt sleeving and im too dead inside to change it... i forgot how much i hate my handwriting in kanji/cn

im workin on a diff owen art that makes me wonder: does owen have a moe gap or does kizu owen count as a completely separate identity?

[crownspeaksblog]

I really hope that in season 2 something comes out of the daemon choking rhaenyra scene, i really really hope that the show doesn't treat it like he made a little oopsi, like it's an unsignificant, tiny moment of anger that almost means nothing and that i should move past it..

Also I hope that the writers know that i wrote off the idea that aegon could ever be sympathic the second we were told he raped someone. I hope rape isn't supposed to be one of his character quirks. I hope.

i wouldn't be afraid of this happening in another story but with this shows/this worlds track record of making men do evil shit and then moving on like it didn't happen, especially since daemon is the one who delivered the news of lucerys' death, i worry, alot.