#pythoness94

[king-mera]

what are your thoughts on frozen empire? What are its failures?

Oy Vey…

I've already ranted my thoughts both in posts and in private, so what can I say that hasn't already been said? I'll just try to summarize my main gripes.

The cast is bloated with too many characters and none of them have enough screentime to properly showcase or develop their personalities. It's honestly a shame too, because Afterlife set up Phoebe, Trevor, Lucky, and Podcast as the new main four Ghostbusters to parallel to the OGs, who could be their mentors. Instead we got the Spengler family, along with Nadim, and lars. It's not as tight and focus as it should be, in my opinion. I don't hate Lars, but his inclusion bothers me in particular because his role could easily be filled by other characters. I don't know why he's being pushed as "the new Egon" either when Phoebe was already shown to have so much in common with him.

Speaking of Phoebe, what the Hell were the writers trying to do with her? In her first appearance she was funny, clever, and brave. She had a temper sure, but only when she was pushed to her breaking point. She also knew how to be a team player, working with her friends and family to prevent the apocalypse. In just her second appearance, suddenly she's snapping at her parents, recklessly causing damage, arrogantly taking all credit for saving the world, and preferring the company of a ghostly stranger over people. Disturbingly enough, she develops a morbid fascination with becoming a ghost herself. Where did this come from? She behaves more like Rowan North from the 2016 film. What happened to the determined young girl who stood up to the god of destruction and refused to die? Now she's locking herself into a metal box and painfully electrocuting herself in a scene that resembles self-harm or suicide. All this to separate her soul from her body just to be closer to this girl she's hinted to have a crush on.

Phoebe never needed a love interest of any gender, explicit or implied. It doesn't serve her story when there were so many other interesting things about her that could've been explored instead. How does she live up to the legacy of her grandfather? Is she worried about repeating his mistakes? Does she struggle to be taken seriously as a child doing an adult's job? There were already two other romantic subplots that deserved focus anyway: Callie with Gary and Trevor with Lucky. Adding a third one at this point just comes out of nowhere. Not to mention all the other elements of Phoebe and Melody's relationship that make it weird, like the age gap between the actors or the fact that melody is DEAD. Even if you ignore the flirty undertones and interpret their interactions as platonic, it's still a toxic situation because Melody is only manipulating Phoebe to release the real villain Garakka.

Garakka fails to impress me, too. He has little in the way of personality or motive. His visual design has a striking silhouette at first glance, but it's rather plain compared to other ghosts in the series. There’s nothing about him that suggests the culture he’s from (what was a frost giant/lich doing in India?). I don't understand why they make such a big deal out of his horns either, they're the source of his power yet he's able to do things without them. The horns are also conveniently locked in the same room as his orb, so he's able to quickly retrieve them. They might as well have stayed stuck on his head the whole time! What's so scary about this guy anyway? He's cold, naked, and skinny. That's not scary, it's just me stepping out of the shower.

Well, I guess Garakka deserves some credit for killing that random store clerk. The only on-screen kill in GB film besides Shandor in the last movie, and it’s some poor innocent bystander. Normally I wouldn’t mind such a thing, but it sucks that Phoebe and Nadim are indirectly responsible for this dude’s death through their irresponsibility. All the characters seem incompetent here. The Firehouse and the new lab don’t have adequate safety measures, and apparently Egon never thought to plan ahead for if the containment unit got full. That last point is a non-issue that just wastes time since the lab has backup units and Garakka breaks the main one from the outside anyway.

There are several moments that come across as mean-spirited and cynical, from Podcast crushing the old lady’s watch (that belonged to her late husband) to Lucky and Trevor cracking sex jokes about Nadim’s dead Grandmother. I complain about Phoebe’s attitude, but it’s not like she has a good support network. Her parents are dismissive of her and Ray doesn’t ask her what’s wrong when she asks if he ever wondered what it’s like to be a ghost.

We get a happy ending when Garakka is trapped and Melody crosses over, but it rings hollow when nobody acted as they should. They only acted how the convoluted plot demanded them to.

Oh and those mini-pufts, how I despise them. They were fine in Afterlife but now they’ve overstayed their welcome and become the new minions.

This whole movie feels like a bad dream and as far as I'm concerned, it's not canon.

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I made this! It's about me btw, if you even care about that. :]

@sykatz @pythoness94 @purple-racoon-80 @miwiromantics can you guys watch this pleaaasseee? :3

This is the song to anyone who would like to know:

[mr111202]

My fellow Ghostbusters fans!!

After seeing @pythoness94 post about a lack of Trevor Spengler fics, I decided to contribute to the cause by writing and posting my own. If you like Trevor and Fleetwood Mac, then you might enjoy this!!

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ya'll know you have a good friend group when you match this part of Dear Arkansas Daughter-

"you with the dark curls" ( @i-promise-i-am-not-on-drugs )

"you with the water colour eyes" (me lmao)

"you who bares all your teeth in every smile" ( @pythoness94 )

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hello internet!!! I wanted to give a brief update because I've been MIA for quite a bit, and in particular @pythoness94 -- you've tagged me several times, and I wanted to let you know I'm still going to get to those and respond sometime!

anyway, to explain why I've been gone for a bit. I got an irl full-time job and I am exhausted hahaha!!

in all seriousness though. I won't disclose what job I got on the internet obviously, but it's the first job I've had that I've really started to think I might love, and I'm pouring my whole heart into it.

stay safe internet friends! I think I'm gonna consider this a temporary hiatus until I'm used to my new job, but if nothing else, I'm going to be back with a vengeance when the next season of stranger things comes out. if you're a United States citizen and you're of voting age then please do your research and get informed ahead of the upcoming election, if you have prescriptions remember to take your medications, if you have regular access to water make sure you DRINK it and stay hydrated!! byyye

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@pythoness94 that kinda made me think of you somehow

we're running out of time to fuck it we ball....

[king-mera]

if a third ghostbuster movie happened, how would you develop Trevor's character outside of him being a adult? Would you have a ghost possess him and use him against the family, making them realize they don't really know Trevor? Would you have Trevor move out and develop as a person while Phoebe deals with the fact that she doesn't know what to do since Trevor was always there and now he's not? What would you do?

Technically Afterlife was the third movie in the main series (not including 2016). Frozen Empire was the fourth and the next film will be the fifth.

If you ask me, Gil Kenan had the chance to develop Trevor’s personality in Frozen Empire, but completely blew it by making him a one-note comic relief dummy. I have my own rewrite of FE that attempts to better explore Trevor’s character here. My expectations for the next film are extremely low right now, but if I was in charge of making it, I’d go for a more lighthearted tone to make up for how dreary and mean-spirited FE was. In fact, I’d ignore the plot of FE entirely outside of maybe including Melody’s matchbook as a background cameo among other props.

Now as for your suggestions: I wouldn’t have Trevor be possessed since I already had him get possessed twice in my own stories, and he got mind controlled by a siren in the Back in Town comics. Having this happen to him again would just be redundant. (That being said, if you want to write about him being possessed in your own story, go ahead! I’m not stopping you.) Moving out could be a good way to show that he’s become independent, but since he’s a Ghostbuster and loves working with the Ecto-1, he doesn’t have a good reason to leave the firehouse. The only way I could picture that happening is if there weren’t any hauntings for a few years and he had to find work elsewhere. Perhaps he'd become a race car driver or an engineer for a successful automotive company. It would be a nice subversion of how the Ghostbusters are often down on their luck when out of business, like in Ghostbusters 2. I'd only have him away for the beginning, though. The next supernatural crisis would quickly bring him back to his family. FE barely showed Trevor interacting with Phoebe, so I'd rather leave the angst to a minimum and just have a fun time showing their sibling dynamic here.

I'd make it clear that Trevor is a valued and respected member of the team. I'd show his skills and ingenuity for solving problems, and not just make him out to be an idiot. I'd also show him being a good friend to Podcast and develop his relationship with Lucky (personally I ship Trevor and Lucky, but romance isn't my strong suit). Most importantly, I'd want to make him funny! Ghostbusters is supposed to be a comedy after all. Maybe him and Phoebe could share some inside jokes, or he could surprise people by making smart remarks they don't expect.

These are just my ideas. I don't know what the future holds in store for Trevor, in canon or fanon, but I hope it's brighter than where he is now.

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So I was talking with @pythoness94 like two days ago about how food with strong smells and bad textures are awful, but we still want to smell/touch it before eating. And I thought about Mike.

Mike, who plays with his food when he doesn't eat. (Aka 90% of the times we saw food near him btw :[ )

Mike, who most likely has sensory issues. (Look at his clothes, most of the tissues used are pretty soft and confortable)

And so I thought, "yep, that's him."

So yeah!

Now, imagine tinny Mike bringing food to his nose so he can smell it, and poking it with his fork so he has an idea of the texture. Then trying it out, and eating it with a happy hum, bouncing his legs slightly under the table. Or, deciding that it won't do it and pushing the plate away from himself.

(Think about Karen and Ted getting more and more annoyed by that, and ending up not even bothering to make him eat at least a bit. Think about Mike, going to bed without anything in his belly because "if you're not hungry for your food, then you're not hungry for your dessert either.")

(Think about Mike now, 14/15 years old, needing so much food to grow up in a good health, and almost never eating anything because the texture or the smell of it makes him deeply uncomfortable and yiky.)

[purple-racoon-80]

@i-promise-i-am-not-on-drugs @pythoness94

this is us btw, when we all inevitably meet irl (yes, I got the picture off Pinterest, don't come at me)

[i-promise-i-am-not-on-drugs]

Me when @pythoness94 @purple-racoon-80

girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived

[i-promise-i-am-not-on-drugs]

Saw this on Pinterest, and thought it was pretty cool! So, tagging game. :3

I saw alcohol, spirit, and devil.

That's.... Promising?

@sykatz @miwiromantics @pythoness94 @purple-racoon-80 @scroofy-was-here @apurplesloth @sillylittlerock @its-celery @the-party-of-losers

And anyone who wants to joint! :)

[i-promise-i-am-not-on-drugs]

Was taking about Dora the explorer being fucking blind (don't ask) with my friend @pythoness94 and made this

Which made me do that

Anyway, Mike Wheeler's oblivious ass needs glasses so he can see Will and himself pinning over each others. :)

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hiii ✧.⋆.˚⭒Describe yourself and than each of your your moots with an image!

Hiii!!｡⁠*ﾟ-★

Sure! I'm only going to describe the moots I talk with often tho, or there's gonna be way too many!! Sorry to all the people I can't put here, I love you all, but there's so much of you!! (⁠｡⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)💕

(I'm only gonna put some "if ykyk" picture, because yes)

Me:

(that's my beloved Rory)

@sykatz

(silly kitty <3)

@pythoness94

(hesitated to put a bear, but this is funny so yea)

@purple-racoon-80

(you that one time you woke up at fucking THREE IN THE MORNING and REFUSED TO GO BACK TO SLEEP)

@miwiromantics

(overpriced cookie dough....save me, overpriced cookie dough....)

This was fun! Once again, I'm sorry for everyone I didn't put here!!!! We might not talk a lot, but I love you all!! Thank you for being here, and thank you for the ask, anon!! <33

[i-promise-i-am-not-on-drugs]

@pythoness94 @purple-racoon-80 that's funny :3

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OKAY SO, I HAVE THING TO SAY AND A FRIEND TO DRAG ON TUMBLR!!

So my friend @pythoness94 (who is an amazing Mike-centric fic writer) is writing that one work in particular that made me SAD AS FUCK and I almost cried, IN PUBLIC, MULTIPLE TIMES!!! because of him, even tho I only read the first chapter yet, and apparently IT'S NOT GETTING BETTER ANYTIME SOON!!!! So I'm angry at him for making me almost cry and hurt my favorite character. >>:(

(Tho it was worth it because the way this man write angst is just *chef's kiss*✨)

Here's the fic btw, 10/10, would definitely recommend: Amazing Mike fic that almost made me cry in public multiple times in one chapter

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@sykatz @pythoness94

me, watching my mutuals post ceaselessly about a fandom i’m not in: