#rob wills

[nyaaamato]

orpheus & eurydice

[000marie198]

One thing I absolutely love about this franchise is how the characters include their respective dragons into literally every conversation both casual and serious. It's never just, "Where is Hiccup?" It's always, "Where are Hiccup and Toothless." It's never, "The ingredients are in your satchel." It's, "The ingredients are in Toothless' saddle bag." Not just, "How are you holding up?" but always, "How are you guys holding up?" It's not, "How about an impartial judge for the Thorsten challenge? For the love of Thor take me with you." Instead it is, "How about a couple of impartial judges for the Thoston challenge? For the love of Thor, take us with you."

In most other media that involve an animal best friend, this is usually absent or not displayed as thoughtfully, the animal is usually missed in discussion or not included in such dialogue pieces but Httyd never does that. Dragons are always treated and included as equal individuals instead of just pets and I love that.

[isagrimorie]

Because the whole Tuvix wank is rearing its head every week on Trek forums, I finally decided to rewatch this episode. I mostly avoided it because I am So Tired of the wank and how it's been relitigated for YEARS.

I was over it when it first popped up and I was even more over it with the way it's used as a bludgeon to promote 'psycho Janeway'.

But what's left out in the discussions is Kes's part in all of this, from the jump, Kes was troubled with the merging of Neelix and Tuvok, and anytime Tuvix tried to make advances, she just kept getting more uncomfortable.

(When Tuvix unconsciously touched Kes's shoulder, it looked like she had to consciously not flinch.)

To Tuvix's credit, he did give Kes space and respected her wishes but she was not happy with the whole merge because her relationship with Neelix and Tuvok is different.

We don't see the other people grieve but we see Kes's grief and confusion, which was shared by Janeway. But also, the moment the EMH had a solution to separate the two people in Tuvix, Harry jumped at the chance.

And he's already spent weeks with Tuvix.

The irony is that Janeway was coming around to thinking of Tuvix as an individual but the cure presented itself, but also as the Ship's Captain she has an obligation to care for her crew and absent or not that meant advocating for the two voices who couldn't speak up: Tuvok and Neelix.

Kes was the deciding factor. Kes made her plea to separate Neelix and Tuvok.

Kes was the biggest reason why Janeway decided to separate Tuvok from Neelix.

It was such a cop-out from the Doctor that he refused to do the procedure he made and pioneered. And forced Janeway to execute it instead.

Janeway is clearly not happy about the decision and she's caught between a rock and a hard place.

In Nothing Human Janeway verbalizes it.

"Any consequences of this decision will be my responsibility. Dismissed."

Janeway's constantly put into a wheelhouse of trolley problems, as the only high-ranking Starfleet officer, she is the final authority. In Nothing Human everyone is locked in an endless debate about the morality of using the Cardassians' methods to save B'Elanna's life. Meanwhile, the clock was running down to zero and B'Elanna could have died more.

(Honestly, the story should have been more B'Elanna, Doctor, and Janeway-centric than it was. Nothing Human is a weird episode. Especially since Seven was barely in it and seems to be the Acting Chief Engineer -- amusingly enough because the writers thought they killed Joe Carey between s2 and 3. Alas, poor Vorik, he's not getting any promotions either).

TLDR: Janeway is constantly living through what the Doctor of Doctor Who is living through. Or as the 12th Doctor once said: "Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose."

[dukeofthomas]

"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.

(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)

[messangerforthestars]

“We need more morally gray characters” you guys can barely handle topaz and jade.

[monstergirls-and-men]

Uuuuh, send me stock images ya'll wanna see turned into art or something, idk.

My brain is literal mush rn. I'll give you a kiss and free art 😘

*bonus points if you add what character you want (any media welcome 🙏)

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier as Martin Evershed ACKLEY BRIDGE

[boyguk]

me watching eurovision 2024 go up in flames

[sforzesco]

it’s by divine intervention only that I’m not constantly posting about the bullshit cycle of Filipino politics here because the fucking presidential family is turning my home province into a puppet state and the wife of the assassinated governor is gearing up for a dynasty run in office and people are going to vote for her because they feel bad that her husband got murdered instead of seeing authoritarian assimilation and a dynast take over for what it is. The next election is not an election if all the players ahead of time have begun to form a united coalition with the backing of a fascist family.

instead I simply crack Crassus open like a walnut and start yelling really loud into his rib cage.

[danmeichael]

jiang cheng's sexuality or desire for a relationship are secondary, he's actually an eternal bachelor because people are scared of wei wuxian going sweeney todd on them if they break jc's heart.

[galleylapresident]

AU where young Spandam, in a fit of uncharacteristic ethics, runs away with as many child recruits of CP9 as he can convince to follow him. The children in question—twelve-year-old Blueno, ten-year-old Lucci, seven-year-old Kalifa, and five-year-old Kaku—are initially unsure about following Spandam, but he convinces them to follow him with the paperwork authorizing him to do whatever it takes to obtain the plans. Having been trained to do whatever their commanding officers tell them, it doesn't take more.

Having acquired the children and getting to Water 7, Spandam finally realizes that there's no going back from what he's done. Yes, he was authorized to do whatever it took to get the plans, but kidnapping child recruits before their training(and brainwashing) is complete is definitely against the rules. He tells himself that it's because Tom takes children as apprentices, so the easiest way to get a hold of the Pluton plans is to use one of them to gain his trust, but really he found out that the CP9 trainers were about to send Blueno and Lucci (seas, he's not even teenager) off on their first missions. Spandine had put Spandam through hellish training but at least he'd waited until Spandam was fifteen. Whatever tiny bits of conscious and morals that survived Spandine couldn't allow him to let children kill people for a government he doesn't even believe in.

So he took them and ran to Water 7. Faked plans left behind said he was headed for the West Blue, but seas know he didn't have the funds to get that far. He sold his stolen government ship for scrap and meant to buy a new one but didn't have the funds, leaving them trapped in a dying city with limited options.

At least, his options are limited until a kindly fishman decided to take a chance on a clumsy single father with four clearly traumatized kids and brings him on as an older apprentice. Maybe the kids can keep Franky out of trouble and Franky can help teach them how to be kids again.

[sideblogformentalhealtshit]

Am I the only one who despises "pervasive drive for autonomy" as an alternative to "pathological demand avoidance"?

PDA takes away so much of my ability to decide for myself what to do; it robs me of my autonomy. I struggle with doing things I enjoy because I make them into demands in my head, I can't watch weekly-airing shows because I tell myself that I have to, that I love this show, that I need to watch the next episode, and then no longer being able to. Because my brain has decided that it just Must go into fight or flight because... I am trying to decide what to do.

It just feels... gross, I guess, to dress it up as "i just have a strong sense of autonomy, i just don't like being told what to do ^_^" when it is genuinely disabling to me, not just in when other people try to influence me, but also when I want to do something and PDA prevents me.

[furby-organist]

// hot take, we were robbed of alastor thanking angel for defending niftty from valentino and we were robbed of him letting valentino know what's up.

nothing grandiose necessary, just a "i'm aware that you looked out for niffty the other day. it's appreciated" with the implication that angel has made his way a little further into alastor's good graces,

and a "may I advise you that the housekeeper is my charge, valentino, kindly refrain from approaching her in the future" with the implication that there's no active beef on the matter but there will be if it happens again

[rafyki]

Btw one of the (many) reason I love Jack and Joker so much is that I relate to it bc I too am poor and would very much love to have someone to come and help me

[awkwardbiseggsual]

So im rewatching Hannibal, and I'm at the scene where Jack takes Will to see Katz

Then there's this scene where he takes off Will's straight jacket, and that reminded me that Will must've taken Hannibal's straight jacket off while running away in the red dragon arc..

Now I'm mad we didn't get to see it

[fullscoreshenanigans]

(Chapter 22 Bonus Scene | Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 Q&A)

Thinking about how the photo Ray took of Isabella burned up with plant no.3, so the only pictures the children possibly have of her in the human world are mugshots stored in headquarters' database that might have been updated every year on her birthday.

How surreal it is to see her like that, grappling with memories of the complicated woman they knew—the good and the bad—and the young girl staring back at them who resolutely held her head up high to prove she had what it took to survive in a demon's world, knowing all the unspoken pain behind her eyes.

Yvette's portraits of her quickly become their preferred visual references.