#one of my fave episodes for sure

[snek-eyes]

Queen instrumentals playing in Give Me Coffee or Give Me Death

(instrumentals arranged by Eos Counsell)

(insp. / template / BoRhap breakdown)

[fighting-naturalist]

Daniel in "Resurrection"

[guardian-angle22]

911: Lone Star S4 E14 | The Case of the Stolen Pudding Cup -> The Crime Exposed

[mariocki]

Colin Baker makes some excellent faces as an unnamed town hall clerk, assisting Frank Marker with his case in Public Eye: The Man Who Didn't Eat Sweets (5.9, Thames, 1971)

[lucianalight]

Magic, storytelling, Time and Death

or my scattered thoughts on Agatha All Along 1x07

"The felow of time is an illusion."

"Your path winds out of time."

This is consistent world building. Sth mcu lacked for a long time. Now I don't know whether this was planned or not. But the way they handled Lilia's connection to time, is consistent with Loki Series and general world building of mcu.

For someone out of it, time is an ever changing chaotic tree. The flow of it is only felt by people who live in it. And for each of their choices a new timeline appears. And if someone go back in time, they can't really change their past because then their future becomes their past and a new timeline appears which wouldn't be theirs.

I spent some time thinking about whether what happened to Lilia was time slipping the same as Loki. It's not. Loki could move through time and space and could cause changes and control the events to a certain point.

Lilia's task is not to control but to see. She can glimpse through her life but can't change anything. Which brings us to one of the central themes of Loki series this episode touched: The connection between magic and storytelling. The safe passage spread is basically a cycle of hero's journey. And in this trial the hero is Lilia. As the coven are the travellers in the Road and as Agatha is the protagonist of the story.

What makes Loki the god of stories in mcu is his ability to rewrite the story, the story being the singular "sacred timeline", by letting everyone write their own stories. Therefore what a divination witch can do is reading others' stories as well as writing their own.

This connection to stories also shows itself with the theme of the trial. Sure it's because of the stereotypes Lilia hate too but it also speaks of the power of stories. I found it interesting that all of them were cosplaying as classic evil witches except Lilia who I assume is Glinda. A hint to their personality? Like the new Maleficent movies show her as a character who is both a hero and a villain. Perhaps hinting at the same potential for Billy/William and his identity issues? Not to mention there's sth weird going on with Billy and the Road as others mentioned before. Billy starting all the trials. Lilia appearing just a he wished she was there. The blue lighting in the road. Lilia's cryptic "because you need me now". It could simply be sarcasm but it could mean sth more.

But then this means Jen would be evil? And I'm highly doubtful of that. She isn't set up like that. It would be a good twist though. What is certain about her is that she is the path ahead. Seems like she plays a vital role in future episodes and possibly gets her powers back. (She's also Lilia's sister in craft. Not just as a witch. I think that broom exchange possibly creates a deeper bond. Another evidence against her being evil).

The destination is Death. I'm curious about how they're going to explore the concept of Death as the original green witch. She's set up to be an antagonist and seems like to be the big baddy at the end. I have some doubts though. All roads lead to Death(unless you're Loki :D) but it's not necessary a bad thing. Why Death would be the antagonist? Isn't meeting it what we all have in common as Lilia's teacher said? And that in a larger scale makes all of us, all the living, a coven? "We are one" etc? Someone said Rio Vidal means the river of life. It is such a poetic take on Death to make it what brings everyone to the hypothetical sea. I don't know why she would be a villain and not a neutral entity.

Speaking of Death, is Wanda really dead? Yes, no, maybe(Thor's answer every time someone asks him whether Loki's dead :P :D ). The only other person aside from Agatha who we are sure saw her body is Rio. But she never said Wanda's dead, she said "that witch is gone". Maybe this means the scarlet witch is gone but Wanda survived?

If she returns though she's going to have to deal with Billy's new mom, her ex bestfriend turned enemy turned adoptive mom to her son and Billy's mommy issues with two of his moms.

Before the destination though there will be a great transformation. It was about Lilia in this episode but also it's about Agatha our main protagonist who is being more truthful and visibly protective and lowering her walls and yet Billy doesn't trust her and questions everything and it hurts her. She represented the obstacles in tarot. Her grief, sorrow and heartbreak are her obstacles.

The episode takes us through the story of its hero in a nonchronological order as she experienes it. And the hero goes through her journey and bravely faces her fear and overcomes it as she forshadows what's about to come. It's starts and ends with falling. A full circle. A story arc within a story arc.

[jessiesjaded]

The Master's Sun (2013) Happy Halloween! 👻

[rings-of-power-realm]

We may not get Elrond tomorrow guys people are saying he's not listed on imdb (which he isn't as I checked but I dunno how accurate that is) Maybe hopefully he'll appear at some point in the ep??! I've been looking forward to this all week

[deanpinterester]

i was going to make a post telling yall to stop calling godzilla minus one a low-budget film (because it isn't) but then i remembered disney regularly drops 12 million for ONE EPISODE of their shows without nearly the same cultural impact so. yeah godzilla is low-budget as far as i'm concerned idc

[syncogon]

hibike euphonium s3 ep 12 - HOLY SHIT

i was doing the "can i guess who's who" and from both narrative and sound editing and in-universe-vote perspective i was pretty sure kumiko was the second player so when rEINA PICKED THE FIRST-

[harapeveco]

Ngl this is fr how reinochi’s dynamic is in my mind (and fics)

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

I am not immune to holiday alt Prof. Sycamore pokemas 😔🫵💖💖💖

/don't hmu on how my pulls are going I'm going through it rn SDKFSDKFSDNFS

[jennbunni]

Do you have feelings for Creek? Yes, actually

That feeling is schadenfreude

[shima-draws]

I finished watching RTTE and I am. Emotional

[koszmarnybudyn]

Do I think Gorgie having enough of Jon's bullshit and them not talking anymore is a good decision? Yes. Will i still think about it forever now also yes.

Like Jon was told not to sewer his support system, he kinda tried to fix it, failed, went into a coma and now hes not really human and everyone doesn't trust him/like him/think he's sus as hell, and to be frank he did dig that hole himself. But god is it painful to watch the dirt go up.

[brokenhardies]

A Change In You (Feel So Alive)

Summary: DW Spoilers. A collection of segments from various parts of the Fifth Jane’s memory, all around one small moment

Word Count: 1031

titled after change (in the house of files) by deftones bc i have no chill

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The Doctor never stayed. Jane was aware of that. Always bouncing around universe to universe and coming back to Earth with a snap of his fingers. She vaguely remembered Trenzalore, but even then, he kicked her out before she could stick around - probably proving that he wanted her to be like him. Always travelling but never staying. He only stayed for Christmas dinner once, with Amy and Rory, and probably never stuck around since that was the year before they ‘died’ of old age. 

Jane had been aware of that when the Toymaker stopped her heart in place, brainwashed her to be his perfect little soldier. She didn’t remember what she did while under his command, but the second she broke free of his shackles she asked the Doctor - the old one with his spikey hair and pinstripe suit and thin legs - if there was any way to repay their families. 

The new one said no, that was UNIT’s job. He’d moved on. Which was good, finally.

The Doctor had always seemed stuck in the past – memories and faces that darted around like flashes on a TV screen. She’d met the old man - his first incarnation - grumpy and uptight but with a trickster’s grin that proved to her that he was her dad. The cricketer was an interesting man - with celery on his lapel, no screwdriver and a surprisingly mature demeanour, considering that the Doctor told her that he had been young before the ‘time crash’ happened. War was… War, forever stuck between life and death, peace and sanity, the name of the Doctor. Then there was pinstripes and scruffy charm, bowties and alien joy with deer-like dexterity, punk music and Scots accent, forever grumpy at the world but caring behind the scenes… And her. Her mother, all colour and brightness and joy. 

Jane didn’t have time to grieve her before the reprise. Didn’t have time to grieve the Flux, or the Timeless Child, or the lie that had surrounded her origin. Both her and the Doctor. But that didn’t matter - back into the breach, it seemed. 

He was always running, and dear God, she just wanted him to slow down… Which was probably why the Toymaker saw her as a perfect specimen for his stupid, foolish game… Until she let go. If Donna and Rose could let go of the Metacrisis, so could she! And she did, letting go of all the grief and anxiety and the anger at the lies and the bitterness at her parent for not stopping. 

Before she regenerated, she remembered all the people she’d lost up until this point - Rose, Amy, Rory, Clara, Bill… Jenny, who was like a sister to her and that she hadn’t thought of or heard from in such a long time. It was a leap of faith, she stepped into the edge, feeling her body morph and change as she broke the porcelain trap…

And there she was. Lost, confused, standing in the UNIT control room in her old clothes and a new body. Able to control her movements, she ran to get to the Galvanic Beam before he did and–

Zap. Her first words were a cry of “No!” He’s had enough pain, can’t you let him rest? She was held back by guards and screamed “Let me go! I need to see him!” as the Toymaker taunted and taunted and taunted and– It was too late. He was going to change, again, and live with all that grief and guilt and torment…

“Unless…” A familiar voice - her previous incarnation - reminded her, “He can finally let go.” 

It seemed like a ridiculous conception. The Doctor? Letting go? Of all the grief and torment and pain? We’d be stuck up here for aeons before he did that… And then, the new Doctor’s head popped out of the old one’s shoulder. 

“And in years to come you might find yourself revisiting a few, but just the old favourites, eh?” Was what the Curator had said to the Doctor, what felt like all those years ago. Jane - then James, still reeling from regeneration energy - probably didn’t realise why he’d said that. Why he’d specifically mentioned the ‘old favourites’. Regeneration for her was like coming out of a long nap, waking up disoriented and unable to feel correctly. 

And when she saw the Tenth face again, she didn’t put two and two together… Until that happened. Until Fifteen came crawling out of Fourteen’s shoulder, pulled by her and Donna and Mel, in what was supposed to be a myth - but honestly, considering the pair’s track record, most myths were made to be proven. Ten didn’t want to go… And Fourteen got to stay. 

It took a while for him to realise, up until Donna dropped all pretence and just admitted that the face came back to stay for once. Jane never thought she’d say this to the man who turned her into a living doll and weaponized her guilt and anger as brainwashing tools, but thank you Toymaker for giving them that hammer, she wasn’t sure how the Doctor would live without the TARDIS - his wife, his sexy. 

When the new one said that Sarah-Jane was gone, Jane may have teared up. Sure, she wasn’t Jane’s biological mother, but she was the closest thing Jane had to a mum for the formative years of her life. And she loved her. The Doctor loved her - even if he dropped her off in the wrong location. He never said it out loud until today, and hearing both of them say it? Warmed her heart. 

Then, off he pops, back to Earth, brand new TARDIS and all. They get the one with the jukebox though - it seemed like something they’d both enjoyed - and as the new Doctor - her new Doctor - flicks the switch… Jane talked for what felt like the first time in ages.

“So…” She swallowed, new voice was hard to get used to, especially one without an accent that matched her dad’s, “Where are we going?”

“Somewhere amazing.” He grinned. 

“...Yeah, after you get dressed.”

He snorted. “You still look like a craft store threw up on you.” “And you’re still not wearing pants.”

[mishtershpock]

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