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#no for real though#how? idk#cdrama#kdrama#thai bl#bl ships#fanfics#rewatching previous shows#chinese drama#fangirl problems#my memes#dashing youth
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Season 6 Buffy really just needed someone to give her good information about kink and BDSM and shit I'm not saying it would solve all her problems but I do think it would help with several of them.
#dylan says things#btvs#I had forgot just how deeply ashamed she is of enjoying kinky sex#like obviously she's ashamed of her relationship with Spike but she is also explicitly so worried about the type of sex they're having#its wild to rewatch the show there's so much i just didnt fully process or understand in my previous go through#cause the first and previously only time i watched it all the way through was in late elementary school#which btw. absolutely insane to be 11 years old watching Buffy and Spike fuck a house down with your parents sitting on the couch with you
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on not being able to save those you love, even from themselves
“I've been inside his head. That guy's a piece of shit.”
“It doesn't matter. I-I don't want to be someone who leaves people behind. I want to be someone who saves his family. And for better or worse... he's family.”
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1 - Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body / Virgina Woolf, Final Letter to Her Husband // 2 - Nick Schager, The Boys Recap: Don’t Forget Your Second Wind // 3 - Adrienne Rich, For the Dead // 4 - Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care / The Boys, Assassination Run / Lena Oleanderson, Love in the Thoracic Cavity / Friedrich Nietzsche / @ell-hs, x / unknown // 5 - The Front Bottoms, Twelve Feet Deep / Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human / Walter Benjamin, One Way Street (tr. Edmund Jephcott), Selected Writings, Vol I: 1913-1926 / lillie, via Pinterest // 6 - John Le Carré, The Looking Glass War / Bring Me the Horizon, True Friends / starparkdesigns, via Instagram // 7 - Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart / The Crane Wives, Tongues and Teeth / @neuxue, x // 8 - Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (1964 - 1980) / Molly McAdams, Stealing Harper (Taking Chances, #1.5) / The Mountain Goats, Training Montage / Hael, Who Made You A Monster? // 9 - Bares, Montage // 10 - Aeschylus, Agamemnon / Garth Ennis, Preacher / D.N., excerpt from a book i'll never write #71 / @catradoraism, x / Poor Man’s Poison, Black Sheep // 11 - The Mountain Goats, Up the Wolves // 12 & 13 - Natalie Young, Notes on Earth Life // 14 - Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire / unknown / David Fincher, The Social Network // 15 - Margaret Atwood, "Hesitations outside the door", Power Politics / @theartistichuman, x / Jorge Rivera-Herrans, No Longer You // 16 - unknown
as always please let me know if any links break, any credit is incorrect, or if you’re aware of where a missing piece of media is from :]
#oh i had to rewatch The Scene so many times you guys#please as ever send your thoughts and prayers for my emotional state in the form of reblogs#these two have me in a chokehold and have since the show began years ago#and ohhhhh. the grief of betrayal. the heartbreak of not being able to stop the betrayal. of not being able to save your betrayer#'it was my job to stop you. from hurting everyone. from hurting me. and i failed.'#cant wait to see if hughie is gonna be season 2 angry and betrayed or season 3 reverent and guilty or season 4 holding tight and forgiving#towards butcher or something new entirely#hope you guys enjoy this one!! definitely taken me the longest of any previous project#but im p happy with the finished product :]#fizz web weaving#the boys#the boys spoilers#billy butcher#hughie campbell#web weaving#the boys web weaving#butchie#the boys fanart#web weave#the boys season 4#the boys s4#victoria neuman#hugh campbell#the boys tv#the boys amazon
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Teen Wolf
1x04 Magic Bullet ⎮ 5x10 Status Asthmaticus
#teen wolf#scott mccall#derek hale#theo raeken#twedit#twgifs#mine#my gifs#i rewatched magic bullet the yesterday and for some reason the fact that they describe peter and theo the same way never clicked for me#on any of my previous 50 watches of the show#like i could probably tell you exactly what was said in both scenes just off the top of my head but the similar language only just clicked#this time#anyways teen wolf is a prestige show you all get it
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id like to thank ninjago episode snake jaguar for everything but nothing all at the same time
#alek art#lego ninjago#ninjago#sensei wu#ninjago wu#zane julien#previous master of ice mention#2024#(going to do this everytime) FOR CONTEXT : dr juliens 1st death and garms banishment took place in a similar time frame#so wu wouldve been young when he met zane for the first time#also i am very aware zane is ooc here ! prior to getting his powers and them actually settling in his body and mind.. he was a bit of a#jackass in my eyes. we see bits and pieces of zane snark in the series itself BUT like. dr julien described zane as acting different post#getting his powers. and we know elemental powers can mess with how someone behaves. kai being a hot head... so yeah#really wise whimsical old man stuck in the body of a 19 year old#VERSUS#egocentric grown ass man with no friends who lives in the woods and is a robot#they become friends. zane calls wu 'kid' every sentence#i forgot that wu doesnt visit zane often in canon. uhhh basically in my version bc avg zane fan thing to change canon: wu goes to dr julien#house and sees zane. he knew ice had 'gifted' zane his powers and how that could really fuck up a person. he shows up everyday for a week o#two and him and zane talk while zane swims or cuts wood or whatever. wu says their house is in the way of his walking path as an excuse#eventually wu stops showing up and dr julien passes and life goes on as we see them in canon#does rhat make any sense at all ? probably not i have a horrific headache#uhh at the time of writing this we are on s7 (on rewatch) so if anything changes ill lyk . lolsies#ask me about them please
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"Let's call it The Blacklist. That sounds exciting! That’s why we’re all here, of course. My wish list. A list I’ve been cultivating for over twenty years." THE BLACKLIST 1.01 "Pilot/Ranko Zamani (No. 52)"
#I cannot promise to do this for EVERY episode as I'm rewatching but. I might try!#for all its faults this show is really REALLY something early on. and gorgeous. gd look at him#james spader#the blacklist#raymond reddington#*#tbl*#<- my tag for these ep recaps#this is my third rewatch but both of the previous watches I wasn't crazyyyyy into red until a couple seasons in for some reason#(which looking back is?? what was wrong with me. was I not seeing him?????)#so. I am excited to finally worship s1 red the way he deserves
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Parks and Recreation | Season 7 (2015). Greg Daniels and Micheal Schur
#parks and recreation#parks and rec#parksandrecedit#it was ok#it was an ok final season for a show that probably could have ended with the previous one#but it's still A LOT better than most sitcoms' final season#also we got to say goodbye to basically everyone which was nice#tv shows i watched in 2023#rewatch#i made this#i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world
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HOLY SHIT? got around to watching the new episode and it’s one of the best in the series. im absolutely shocked it’s so good
#camp camp#i had no expectations for the episode. thought it would be not very good consider the shows previous writing#but easily the best episode. nothing even compares to it#like CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED i would have never guessed#it’s so fucking good i cant do this#AND EVERYONE ELSE TOO :’) ahhhh ah it was so fun to watch everyone again#and neils earring gag LMAOO how it ended was so goofy. im a big fan of his loserness#also preston just like me fr fr 👍👍#GODDD I cant get over how good it was#ALSO THE ANIMATIONN😭😭😭 every scene was so well animated. like the quality of the series JUMPED it rules#i need to rewatch it to get my full thoughts on it but dear lord im so happy with how it turned out#and max starting gymnastics :’) that’s so cool. i was hoping he’d be into photography but also something new is nice
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2x14 // 2x15
i love a callback
#i was just rewatching oceans 9-1-1#poor chim spent the entire previous episode folding laundry. only to have the cops throw it all on the floor.#honestly i would be so pissed if i was him#911 show#chimney han
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it's really funny that we're just screeching about mulder and scully in the year of our lord 2022
#we've managed to be more normal about the show on previous rewatches#discord shenanigans#msr#I ramble sometimes#the x files
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If I had ridiculous amounts of time and energy (and also a working tablet) I'd totally be making tons of QSMP animatics to songs from old 90s / 80s movies.
#i talk#QSMP talk#I'm listening to ''It's a B-Movie'' from The Brave Little Toaster rn while getting ready for bed#and I'm just like dang an animation of QSMP members and/or the Eggs trying to escape the Federation set to this song would slap#Especially that bit where they're like#''There goes the sun / Here comes the night / Somebody turn on the light / Somebody tell me that fate has been kind''#And then they get dragged back in#Also holy frick the Brave Little Toaster movie came out in the 80s!??! I'm turning to dust as we speak#Anyways the music from those older movies is still great#I'd love to have a QSMP ''episode'' that has the same vibe as those old cartoons#Me @ me: For the love of all that is holy please don't make a QSMP AU for all these old shows#Me @ me: Ok but what if–#''Worthless'' is also a really good song from The Brave Little Toaster#ALSO Me @ me shoving my previous ideas aside: BUT A TRANSFORMERS ANIMATION SET TO ''Worthless'' WOULD SLAP#That song always made me so frickin sad#I always felt so bad for those cars#I still do but I remember kid me just being so fascinated by The Brave Little Toaster#The flower scene made me frickin sob the last time I rewatched it
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still bitter that SKMD wasn't made into another season/partner series to TLK and was instead made into a rushed movie that had endless potential but just kinda flipped cause it didn't have the time it needed to truly flourish.
#i just rewatched it#and I'm still mad#I'm pretty sure it was a funding thing#they rushed the last 3 books the show was based off of into one movie#(whereas the previous 10 were divided between 5 full seasons)#hence the choppy and rushed timeline#I could totally see the movie being turned into a short partner series thats a few eps long (3 to 5 eps maybe?)#maybe we could actually flesh out Athelstan and Ingilmundr (or however the fuck you spell his name) and their relationship#flesh Uhtred and Sihtric and Finan post time skip (where was sihtrics wife and kids? what about Finan and Ingrith? etc.)#more of Osbert and Edmund (please they were so cute)#just flesh out the timeline as a whole#it would have been worth it#tlk#the last kingdom#skmd#seven kings must die
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one thing I will say that I kind of miss about the previous seasons is how the episodes used to feel a bit more self-contained, like their own little movies, which I'm kind of missing a bit in s4. lucy prebble at one point in the succession podcast described it as them having a sitcom-like feel to them, because each episode is built around one specific event; and while that's definitely still there in season 4, the way each episode does truly pick up almost exactly where the previous one left off time-wise, and the way that Logan's death and the children's grief is the red-thread that closely connects the episodes, kind of makes it feel like one long movie rather then 10 separate episodes. which is interesting and makes sense considering the focus of the season is supposed to be the children dealing with logan's death and consequent absence, and it's puts a slight spin on the formula they've used for 3 seasons and I think they've done that really well - so it isn't even a critique on my part, but I personally still really loved and kinda miss the way the episodes each felt more like their own thing, previously, ig
#i think this is one of the reasons the show is sooo rewatchable to me. there's some kind of event for anything#and the way the events happened felt a bit more natural with them being days weeks or even months apart previously#while now it does feel like a not-insignificant amount of time is dedicated to explaining why there are so many Events this season#like sure they've explained why we have norway after the wake and then investor day and the election soon so election party and the#funeral and etc and it all makes sense but i also don't really like the fact that there needs to be explanations for all that#its a bit of a pet peeve ig. like i just dont really want to have shiv explain to matsson#why they're still doing investor day i feel like they could've cut that#minor gripe. but yeah#succession#this also sounds like i'm saying there isnt a red-thread that connects the previous seasons . which is not what im saying obviously#but yeah. im probably over-explaining myself. the episodes used to feel more self-contained which i liked. they feel more connected#now which i also like but i miss how they used to feel as well
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On the Changing Nature of the Borg
I was thinking about Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard yesterday, and I was once again struck by one of the things that disappointed me about the show: The complete retcon they gave the nature of the Borg.
I'm far from the first person to make this observation, and when I complained to friends about it last night, I was a little worried I might be doing the S2 writers a disservice. Maybe I was misremembering the details from the show and putting too much of my own interpretation on top of it. Or I might have latched on to somebody else's criticism and not checked to see if it was supported by the text.
But then I rewatched episode 2x09, "Hide and Seek" today, expecting to have to look very closely for the details that support my reading - only to find that I didn't over-interpret some throwaway line, this is a key piece of dialogue.
So, here it is: my thoughts and feelings about what happened to the Borg in season 2!
Spoilers for season 2 of Star Trek: Picard ahead, obviously. Also quite a bit of saltiness. (I have tagged this post accordingly, so please take this as your sign to blacklist that tag and/or stop reading if you're not in the mood for saltiness ;) )
Let us begin with a quick walk through the history of the Borg. [Edit: That was a lie, I am incapable of "quick." Prepare yourself for a verbose trek through the history of the Borg.]
In TNG, they were introduced as practically a force of nature. They didn't hold grudges, they weren't ambitious or greedy or megalomaniacal. They didn't spread across the Galaxy because they wanted to be conquerors or rulers. They simply spread. Like a virus, or an invasive plant.
They added new technologies and biology into their collective to improve themselves and their chances of survival. Assimilation was akin to evolution for them. (I know this is not how biological evolution works. I'm using it as shorthand. )
These Borg didn't care that people might not want to be assimilated because for one, their objections would be overwritten once they were Borg, and for another, they had no chance of escaping their fate, anyway.
This first, original form of the Borg, in my opinion, was the most truly alien they have ever been.
This characterization started to collapse a bit once First Contact decided to introduce the Borg Queen as a weird psycho-sexual horror component, making the Borg less of a force of nature and more of a nominally collective hive-mind that operated like a person would.
Voyager definitely added to this interpretation of the Borg, making them more beholden to the moods and wishes of the Queen. They were no longer simply a dispassionate alien organism, moving through the galaxy in a quest for self-improvement because that was their nature. Instead, their characterization became more human, pursuing specific goals, strategies and motivations.
On some level, I completely understand this choice. Making your main series villain a force of nature rather than a character with personal motivation is difficult to pull off, especially when that isn't the main story you're trying to tell. But it did end up taking the Borg one step farther away from their original alien-ness.
One thing Voyager added to the mythos, though, that I find deeply fascinating is that instead of having the Borg Queen lust for power and control, or having her act out of fear and self-preservation, they instead focused on the concept of Perfection. In "The Omega Directive", Seven of Nine explains that to the Borg, the pursuit of Perfection is almost spiritual.
According to this interpretation, the Borg don't simply search out and assimilate new species because of an "evolutionary" drive for self-improvement. Instead, they are on a quest to reach a state of absolute perfection. They add new technologies and biological diversity in the hopes of coming closer to this goal and one day finding this most ideal state of existence.
These Borg don't care about your objections to assimilation, because they are convinced that their vision of perfection is universal. Every species must obviously strive for perfection and they can offer that, so why would you ever want to resist? They have no concept of the fact that others might not define perfection in the way they do, might not strive for it at all, or that "perfection" at the cost of giving up all individuality and sovereignty might not be an acceptable trade-off for people.
(And no, Voyager is not internally consistent about this. Barely any long-running tv show is entirely internally consistent. But the point still stands.)
On some level, this drive also brings the Borg closer to humanity: less dispassionate virus and more colonizers who come to extract value from “lesser cultures” and impose a more enlightened way of life on them because They Know What's Best. Still, I think the relentless, uncompromizing pursuit of a nigh-spiritual ideal of Perfection and utter disinterest in personhood and self-determination of other people make the Borg into a formidable and, at the end of the day, alien villain.
Which brings us to season 2 of Star Trek: Picard.
The thing that rubbed me the wrong way about the way the Borg were characterized here is summed up in an exchange between Jurati and the Borg Queen:
Jurati: "Millions of species, planets, and still you always needed more." Borg Queen: "Perfection takes time, dear." Jurati: "This was never about perfection or evolution or any of that bullshit. It was never enough, because you're just like me. Lonely."
And that's it. In all of five sentences, we have retconned the entire history, motivation and fundamental nature of one of the main alien species of the Trek universe.
Everything we have been told about the Borg, everything they have said about their reasons and their character, none of it was true. They have been lying to all of us and to themselves this entire time. They aren't a force of nature or a people/collective organism in pursuit of a higher ideal. Instead, it was all a single woman's misguided quest to not feel alone anymore.
Now, I understand that for some people, this revelation adds a new layer of complexity to a villain that had grown somewhat stale. And I have seen others argue that they like the idea that the Borg collective is actually all about connection. If that's you, I'm not saying you're wrong or trying to ruin your enjoyment of these characters.
But personally, I find this development rather disappointing. This plot twist retroactively changes not only the philosophy, psychology, and raison d'être of a fascinating alien culture but also the narrative significance of the Borg in the Trek cosmos.
Before, they were in conflict with the Federation because they refused (or were unable) to look outwards and see that there was more than one "correct" mode of existence, and that the life of people different than them had worth. Now, the conflict arises because they refuse to look inward and acknowledge that what they are really looking for cannot be achieved through conquest.
Where before they assimilated civilizations in a quest for utmost perfection no matter the cost, now they are assimilating masses of people in the hopes of creating a chorus that will drown out the loneliness.
Don't get me wrong, that sort of twist can make for an intriguing villain arc, but firstly, it needs to be executed with a lot more care than season 2 made room for, and secondly, it works a lot better for individuals or groups of individuals than for a species that is ostensibly a telepathic hive-mind.
(Seriously, the in-universe implications -- for the Prime-timeline Borg, the Federation, the xBs -- are staggering and are glossed over completely on the show. Then again, this is the same season that doesn't bother to show (or tell) whether Agnes Jurati chooses to remain with the Borg Queen out of a genuine desire to create a new collective or as a desperate bargain to save her friends. You know. The culminating moment of her character arc in season 2. But that is another rant.)
At the end of the day, I don't feel like this newly-revealed secret motivation adds a fresh layer of complexity to a well-known villain. Instead, I think it takes away many of the aspects that made the Borg intriguing, both narratively and as an alien species, and turns them into something much more human and, frankly, much more banal.
#take 2#the first time round tumblr somehow published the previous draft from before i deleted all the outtakes at the end 🙃#star trek picard#star trek picard season 2#the borg#borg queen#agnes jurati#star trek meta#star trek picard meta#meta musings#picard saltiness#long post#i worked very hard to avoid the phrase 'the power of friendship' in this rant and i want you all to know that#i'm trying to show a modicum of respect over here!#seriously though. i was a little shocked when i rewatched the ep and heard that bit of dialogue#it feels a bit like such a cheap shot at all the writers who created and shaped the borg#'WE are going to tell you what's ACTUALLY going on with these characters.#and it's not this evolution or perfection bullshit'#i know agnes is trying to provoke the queen#and other shows (not to mention season 1) have also turned established canon on its head#but again: it's a question of intention and care. and i don't feel like the writers gave that development enough room and respect#to make such a line seem like anything but a 'your ideas about these caracters were *dumb*' type callout to previous creatives#also doesn't help that it's not the only time in s2 where it feels like the writers are being mean spirited about previous characterization#anyway#/salt
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Daredevil #18 - "There Shall Come a Gladiator!" (May 1966)
Written by Stan Lee and Dennis O'Neil Art by John Romita Sr. (pencils), Frank Giacoia (inks)
#daredevil#daredevil comics#matt murdock#foggy nelson#karen page#john romita sr#frank giacoia#frank ray#dennis o'neil#marvel#marvel comics#stan lee#back issues box#foggykaren#karenfoggy#it's a stretch and i never know what to properly tag them. but i put this out there like as pity for those who do enjoy them romantically#like it's not and never will happen. but for those still holding on in their hearts THIS IS FOR YOU!!! bc i care. despite how snarky those#those previous comments may sound. it isnt though it's sincere i promise. sorry about the state of your shipping i know youre pining for#the first handful of dd issues and the first half of season 1 of the show. where compared to comics they genuinely had chemistry#whereas matt and karen in that show... had zero... they showed karen's crush on him but not once matt's return of it so it felt#so bad and forced... in the show it should have been fogs and karen. instead of made up for the show marci. WHO'S RACIST AND ANNOYING.#SORRY TO GET INTO SHOW SHIT IN THE TAGS i thought too hard about it. anyways THAT comics accurate romance could have been done better.#bc in the show... i still root for karen and foggy in my heart when i've rewatched or think about season 1 �� ANYWAYS
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The more I rewatch, the more I'm surprised nothing was ever done with Minato's teammates
#another thing of note in my naruto rewatch#just seems weird that every generation starting with the sannin has importance witheach member#except Minato's gen#like yeah Kakashi's dies#but we know their stories to that point#and yknow the whole Obito thing#also i know it was to keep people reading for the final reveal#but man is it so obvious Minato is Naruto's dad#honestly even without showing his colour portrait#Itachi and Kisame admiting they're there for the 4th's legacy was what confirmed it early on in the rewatch for me#mainly because it's so well hidden without any previous knowledge#but one thing that annoys the fuck out of me#is that no one has told Naruto who his dad is at least?#like idr maybe it gets addressed later in shippuden#but it's so annoying and absolutely unfair to Naruto#and atm I'm real annoyed with Jiraiya for not saying anything
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