#rebuild me better

[spacedlexi]

maybe if i just put these screenshots together youll understand why i think their relationship just Works so well as it pertains to the characters and themes of S4 in general

neither of them know what theyre doing, but theyre figuring it out Together. the old ways are dead. and together theyll build a new future thats worth fighting for

[hero-of-the-wolf]

listen hear me out—

what if eow takes place after the original loz?

[closetsof-backlogged-dreams]

give me a merlin that's more devoted to magic than to arthur. give me a merlin that is willing to put justice over arthur's well-being. give me a merlin that, instead of being obsessed with arthur and what he could do, who he could become, is obsessed with returning magic to camelot. give me a merlin that loved arthur, but not more than his destiny.

give me an arthur that loved his father more than anything. give me an arthur that believed in everything his father did. give me an arthur that would allow the oppression and genocide and discrimination because he believed it just. give me an arthur that loved merlin, but not more than his legacy.

give me an arthur that's a worse man.

give me a merlin that can't be devoted to a such a man.

give me a storyline where the "two sides of the same coin" may complete each other, may be able to slot their opposing shapes together perfectly, but can turn those jagged edges on one another just as easily.

give me an alternate timeline where merlin gives up on arthur.

give me an alternate timeline where arthur gives up on merlin.

give me an alternate story where they end the show having destroyed one another, because it was never going to be a happy ending for either of them. then arthur dies, and magic returns to camelot, and merlin, by the end, learns to be happier than he ever could have before.

(then give me arthur returning. give me them hating each other, but still forced to be around one another. give me them relearning those opposing shapes, those jagged edges, and once forced to slot them together again, relearning how to love each other a millennium and a half later. give me them being forced to resolve all the old feelings of betrayal and regret and turmoil without a battlefield splitting them down the middle. give me reparations, give me atonement. give me it all.)

[hanyonzhu]

angel

[a-shade-of-green]

yeah so that scene where mike kicks down the fort in his basement in s1 is definitely supposed to be paralleled by will taking down castle byers in s3. just if anyone cares about when mike turned his back on being a kid.

[supermaks]

Kit do you not rep Charles anymore 😭

Of course I do he’s prime I just need a break from his team and that fucking dog

[ellipsiseffervescent]

Building a unit 2 model got me rewatching the franchise. Here are my headcanons that you didn't ask for but I need to share (obvi peace to ur headcanons if u disagree):

Shinji: she/he/they pronouns- doesn't attach to labels like that. Femme but low energy about it

Asuka: he/they trans masc enby. Tbh their relationship w femininity reminds me of mine as a teen-a source of attention. 3.0+1 Asuka has an edgy masc look that feels natural to their nature, like now they don't need to earn attention thru gender performance.

Rei: she/her cis. I can't seperate her ties to childbearing and traditional gender roles.

Kawouru: he/him gender trickster. He feels joy that no one can figure out if he's trans. Occasionally wears traditionally feminine clothes like sun dresses.

Mari: she/her trans girl who's always referencing trans girl memes

Also attached is a shipping chart I made for the main cast here it is (with a blank version for your use feel free to take (: )

[whyeverr]

I know, I know, it was his idea to bring Cora back to his place, but I think something might finally be clicking for Dawson...

"Oh my god, Dawson, the grill is dis-gusting! You really shouldn't let it get this bad—"

...Cora is a genuinely lovely person. But as casual as they have set out to keep things, it's seeming like she might be investing more of herself into this than Dawson realized. And Dawson is maybe feeling a teeny bit more into things with someone else?

(And besides, helping out with sourcing medicinal plants and books about herbalism doesn't just automatically get you a 50% stake in profits. Where'd she get that idea?)

[cyberpunkboytoy]

My DID-having ass is experiencing so much world-envy for the fictional country of Vaugarde I'm going to throw up

[atopvisenyashill]

HELLO pls pls share ur aegon and carl thoughts 😭😭😭 but only if u want to..

okay because the lil fandom joke is they’re both the last man standing right? they get put through insane physical injuries - aegon suicide swan dives TWICE and lives, carl gets shot in the face - they outlive most of the other characters in the story, and live through it with cockroach like luck until the very ending of their conflicts, left physically scarred by what they’ve been through, with nothing but a daughter they can’t connect with and a world that is already forgetting about the danger & horror aegon & carl have just lived through. and before they can really figure out what the good thing to do is, the story ends.

i think there’s a lot to be said for how both of their violence is enabled as children for different reasons. obviously talking mix of shows & comics/books here but we get alicent, viserys, & criston (probably otto too tho we don’t see that as much) modeling abhorrent behavior, and rick, shane, to a lesser extent lori, all modeling Heroic Violence, then smothering aegon and leaving carl unsurpervised so when they start acting out the violent behavior they’ve had modeled, no one tries to stop it from continuing. aegon is enabled by the fuedal society he lives in, carl’s by the apocalyptic breakdown he’s living through. To see the world as Us vs Them and to react with violence at any threat to Us by Them.

the main difference here being that both lori & rick are vastly superior parents than alicent & viserys are, and carl’s violence & callousness scares the shit out of them (rightly, he’s out here murdering unarmed kids!!!) and carl is eventually in a place (like a literal place, the prison specifically) where other adults (again vastly superior parents & people than the ones aegon is with) like hershel, maggie, daryl, tyrese, and glenn, are all at least attempting to keep an eye on him while rick loses his mind and lori, ya know, dies.

but most notably, the thing that carl has that aegon doesn’t, can’t ever have, is a parent who actually parents him. carl’s saving grace, the thing that saves carl’s soul is his stepmother - obviously in the comics it’s andrea but i’ve always found the michonne/rick/carl story line in the show to be superior in this case. michonne who has all this maternal love and nowhere to put it, carl with the desperate need to be a child and no one to look after him. like, michonne literally entering the story holding baby bottles and formula so rick’s child doesn’t starve to death. rick can only trust michonne once carl gives the okay, michonne can only start to love rick once carl accepts her presence at the prison. “if you’re okay then i’m okay.” michonne has to become carl’s mother and best friend before she can become rick’s lover and partner. it has to happen in that order because even though rick is the main character, carl is his reason for existing. and michonne, already a mother, can see that. many people see carl as a tool to get to rick but only michonne sees carl as a child in need of love. but no one ever looks at aegon and sees a child in need of saving or a young adult in need of help. so while carl ostensibly gets to live in the new world and help make it better, aegon has to die because no one ever gave him the tools to ensure he could live. he doesn’t have a michonne. he can’t for the story to work.

there’s also the gender thing too - i tag carl as “carl grimes patron saint of agender children everywhere” i feel so seriously about carl the they/them. aegon’s whole life “being a force fem” but the thing is so is carl’s. aegon is the ignored daughterson being puppeted by his family forced into a marriage he doesn’t want and to have children he doesn’t want all so his family can social climb, but in order for rick grimes to be the hero of the walking dead with this world ending, all consuming, death defying love for his son, his son needs to be the damsel in distress forever. so bad shit just keeps happening to carl so rick can be the hero and rick can grow as a person and carl is beaten down over and over again-until rick has this world built on The Terrible Things He Did For Love and therefore can’t exist in this world of love, and finally carl has to live with the one brutal trauma he can never get over - his father’s death.

because carl isn’t the main character in his own story, it’s rick. and aegon isn’t the main character in his own story, it’s rhaenyra. so once rhaenyra & rick die, they have to keep going to make the tragedy go on because the tragedy is the point. they can’t even be the tragedy of their own stories! because aegon usurps his sister then is left with just a daughter he can’t name as his heir, and rick builds a haven made out of corpses to save his child only for someone else’s child who he orphaned to make an orphan out of carl, and now carl can’t even show his daughter his entire face out of fear and grief.

rick dies and carl’s story has to end soon after, rhaenyra dies and aegon’s story has to end soon after. they are the last man standing but they are not the main character, and they do not get to have catharsis. they just get to be over.

[pkmn-redirect]

Whoops! Life happened!

Sorry folks, no update this week. My day-job has been kicking my butt for the last few weeks- and trying to survive that + keep up with doing this in my free time have really taken it out of me. So we're skipping an update to give me a chance to catch up. Thank you for understanding!

Next update WILL post on 6/22/2023! We'll see you all then!

[fadeintolight]

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[kakusu-shipping]

I wasn't even keeping up with the MHA manga but I did read the last three chapters without context and I've already decided how to fix the ending for my Self Insert

[gch1995]

Why do you care about Vader's feelings so much? He doesn't deserve dignity. I hope Lucasfilm makes a story where he's captured by the Rebellion and brutally tortured until he's crying for Shmi. They'll use force suppressing devices and make him feel like the worthless slave he is

I care because Star Wars is primarily Anakin’s story, whether you like it or not. I care because Luke’s entire character arc in the OT films is pointless if Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda were always meant to be the perfect mentors, who did nothing wrong. I care, not just about Anakin’s feelings, but the feelings of every other Jedi recruit who had serious issues with the way the old Jedi Order and Republic operated.

I care, because if the Jedi are supposed to be the good guys, in spite of their flaws, then we should ultimately be rooting for them to rise again with Luke Skywalker. Because Anakin’s arc and feelings in the prequels are no longer treated as valid in the Disney era of Star Wars, that means Obi-Wan and Yoda are treated as being completely right all along, and the new Jedi Order cannot grow with Luke Skywalker in the current canon. The same bad choices and mistakes keep being made in the current canon because he follows his blatantly misguided predecessors, which was not implied at the end of the OT movies at all. While I would never agree that mass murder/genocide is the answer to deal with stopping them, because the current canon narrative ignores all the serious issues Anakin and his predecessors had, at least in part, because of the blatant corruption within the Order and Republic they grew up amongst, I’m also not too thrilled that Luke rebuilt the Order because he’s repeating all of their misguided choices and practices in current canon as a result.

[arsenicflame]

answering those asks last night really got me back on thinking about how i would structure the plot of s2 (and beyond) in a way that would fix all the things i dont like

i do not have time for thissss

[moe-broey]

Idk I also just hate the future actually. My ass is Always living in the past or simply day to day 💪💪💪