#rewatching GO and having Thoughts

[lemonycranberries]

no but. queerplatonic ineffable husbands is so important to me. so precious. you don't understand-

[hinamie]

back on my free! brainrot

[bikananjarrus]

can i just say it felt so fucking GOOD to have good, well-executed, fast-paced (!!) lightsaber fight choreography. the fights were exciting! each character had their own distinct style that matched their abilities and size! they were fast!!!!!! hands down the best saber fights we’ve seen in live-action sw in a long time.

[anne-is-confused]

Captain Francis Crozier, at Furthest North.

[humming-fly]

Delighted to discover that the way shadow unlocks new abilities in sxsg is a perfect parallel of the pringles iron maiden

[figrollandacuppa]

Some guy called Wade commissioned this from me. All he gave me was a coupon card to some taco place and told me this would keep him going for a month at least? And then he doodled on it and sent it back to me??

[lycoris707]

oh jee, sure hope there aren't more previously unseen critters here-

(read that with the sound of metal pipe falling)

first, no ink drop version:

now for the thoughts

just like with Lux, I was initially working on something else with him, but at some point decided to draw inklings instead

I am gonna post the other stuff at some point tho

hopefully

[beeduoo]

i really like that one tiktok

[mythoughts-consumeme]

Something something how Frankie's hair matches Donnie's jacket and how Donnie's hair matches Frankie's jacket. They're both always together even if no one realises it because they've become so important to each other that they subconsciously choose things to wear or have around them that reminds each of them of their brother. How that makes the death at the end even more tragic because they're finally apart, but Frankie still has the jacket to remind him of Donnie, so he'll always be there but never again physically, something something.

[lilacthebooklover]

hey so do you think the reason why lucifer couldn't come to heaven with charlie is because he knows lilith is there?

lilith being in heaven was foreshadowed from here. charlie mentions it and lucifer looks over to the portrait of lilith. he knows she's there- and looks so guilty in this shot because charlie isn't aware, and he won't tell her. lucifer knows where lilith has been for those seven years, knows that lilith (from what we can infer) left both him and charlie to ascend to it, knows that he can't face her again as he is. by gosh does this man have a lot going on

[shyvioletlife]

It doesn't matter how much time passes, I am always in awe over the way that drosselmeyer is written in princess tutu. He is omnipresent from the word go, his meddling eyes watching the show with us and giggling about this wonderful tragedy that is set to unfold. Every time his eyes appear on the screen it feels not just like a god staring down the characters and making them dance to his whim, but like he is looking you, the viewer, dead in the eye and taunting you. A playwright who wants nothing but beautiful terrible tragedy for all involved inviting you to attend his latest theatrical debut.

I feel to the core of my being every time the characters lament their lot in life, doomed by the narrative, because that fate is not something ordained by uncaring gods. Drosselmeyer wants to see his characters grasp at any chance of hope or happiness only so he can watch the look on their faces as it slips from their hands and out of reach. He cares very deeply about their strife because he has hand crafted it just for them. As every episode passes I feel the desperation of the characters as if it is my own

The thought of undermining Drosselmeyer becomes insurmountably daunting, too, the longer the story goes on. The closer his work is to completion the more power he seems to hold, and the knot tightens its grip around every character in the story to a painful degree by the end. To become such an overwhelming threat as the final villain of the story is truly a work of art, and by the end of my watchthroughs I am always booing and yelling at the guy every time he comes on screen. Even though I know how the story goes I am wracked with the desire for Drosselmeyer to get his comeuppance and the cast of princess tutu to wrench their fates out of his grasp, and the catharsis of the end is as true and harrowing as any tragedy that man could hope to write.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

The Terror x Maya Angelou

Created for @theterrorbingo prompt: "Wherever thou goest."

[frankiebirds]

what an incredibly normal and not at all autistic thing to say! (lying)

[scullysflannel]

thoughts on mark/helly and mark/gemma?

people b saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends!

they’re inseparable from the context of each other, and then some; despite the season literally ending on a choice, I don’t think markhelly or markgemma are as interesting on their own as the totality of mark/helly/helena/gemma is. the end of the finale hits so hard because it’s where that blurriness runs into a wall. the severance procedure has made this an either/or situation because there is literally no way for both versions of mark to walk through the same door. but he loves both of them. I think we should be torn!

I’m torn, severance style, in the sense that I’m pretty clearly a gemma girl (I imprinted on her. to be honest it wasn’t even just “chikhai bardo”! I went into this season very focused on getting that dead wife out of there. we are who we are), and!!! (not but, and) in my head I know markhelly defying an oppressive and dehumanizing existence to find love is the whole point. my thoughts on markhelly are basically this post. love and light, but as a work crush, markhelly didn’t really move me until they brought in helena and mark’s wife to muddy it up a little. but once they did that, they had my attention. and they earned the purity of their rebellion too. they’re stealing their humanity back.

trying to hold contradictory truths in the holding contradictory truths show has been revealing! it's made me feel at odds with myself, which I think is what makes severance great tv, but I haven't always felt like I'm in line with the way people talk about it, because that tension has really been part of it for me, and I don't know if it has been for everyone. but I don’t watch tv to "win" it! and what’s good about severance is that every win is also a loss. what I want to see emotionally isn’t always the same as what I want narratively anyway, e.g. one thing that I want is to see mark and gemma back together, but I lean toward thinking the show shouldn't actually give it to me in the end, because mark has to suffer the consequences of trying to bury his pain by severing himself. he didn’t want to face his grief, so he created a version of himself who can’t remember it, and who, as a result, doesn’t listen to that grief. it's narratively right! what happens at the end of season 2 is a victory and it's a huge loss. the show about the folly of not wanting to feel anything uncomfortable wants you to feel it all equally. but I think it also knows you won't, because feelings don't work like that

[wolves-in-the-world]

the thing about eliot spencer as a character, right. the thing about him.

(and as always your mileage may vary on my analyses so if we disagree that's cool actually)

is that he is in fact a somewhat emotionally constipated idiot who is occasionally sensitive about his perceived masculinity and gets defensive about emotional intimacy around other men (largely hardison, who's much more comfortable expressing affection and embracing a softer kind of masculinity), but eliot displays enough emotional awareness and sensitivity and respect for women etc etc that anyone who's been subjected to that era of television will put on rose-tinted glasses without even looking twice.

(and he is, don't get me wrong, incredibly emotionally aware for a professionally punchy guy with enough trauma to sink the titanic. it still startles me to see.)

on top of which we have the layers and the accessories and the excellent hair with the secret braids and the way he barely has an ego and he's good with kids and protective of his team without taking it too far, and some of us never stood a fucking chance.

[lyxchen]

She was only in 3 episodes but Ji-yeong really made such an impact for me. She is such an interesting and tragic character. Like we meet her and she is so casual and unbothered by the games where every round she could literally die. And she makes fun of the religios man and tells him that he can pray as much as he wants but he still did what he did and then we learn about her father and then it makes sense. And she asks about Sae-byeok and her family and she suggests telling each other their story because one of them is gonna die anyways but she keeps forgetting about that fact. And then she tells her story and we find out she got abused and was in prison for killing her father but can we really blame her? And she just got out of prison and I feel like she needed this. Telling somebody her story, what happened to her. She suggests they tell each other the things they could never tell anybody else and asks specific questions on purpose, like if Sae-byeok has ever seen a dead body because she knows in return she is going to be asked that same question and she listens and then she tells her own story. And then she loses on purpose for Sae-byeok. And at first she's like "come on let me have my cool moment here" but it's not cool because she's about to die and then in the end she finally shows her emotions and gets sad and says she has nothing to live for, no goals for what she's gonna do if she wins. Sae-byeok was probably the first person she got closer to in a long time and so she dies so that Sae-byeok can go on and I just think for such a small role that was only present in one third of one season making such a big impact is incredible writing and incredible acting too