#s3a

[rosie-eclairs]

For years I've loved S3 Alternate, and was more than happy to see it get a &K half being worked on, after only having DEZ for the longest time! But there was a few thing in particular I wanted to see: The jingles for the S3 half, and the Big Arms music!....using the S3A motif made by marcb0t While I can say I did the invincible music justice, I can't nearly say the same for the big arms track...I just can't put down what's stuck in my head, hence the very plain sounding track up above. -c - Maybe one day I'll get it out of my head and make it real!!

And maybe I'll make a few more soon! Who knows though, I might be moving shortly 0c 0

[voidfxndoms]

This episode always hits me like one of those Japanese bullet trains

[bridgertonphd]

BRIDGERTON 1.01 | "Diamond of the First Water"

[evilrobotalienclown]

I love will in primavera,, literally everyone is going damn dude u guys were close that sucks wanna join me in killing him?? U could also stay and recover normally. Like you don't have to do anything. and will is just like. no how fucking dare you. leave us alone im gonna sail the ocean to find him explore his family trauma wax poetically to him try to stab him and give him (my) head!! go kys before I do it myself. strange little gay man

[boobchuy]

something I've found a bit funny if u compare the kids designs in toh, gf and A are how dip and mabe, being 12, are so tiny compared to how lanky toh and A kids are even w them only being a few years older. toh's designs is a bit less jarring 2 me since it's more realistic, but if u put the mystery twins beside calamity trio it's silly how the latter look so l o n g in comparison

[kizo2703]

S3A was really a total disaster in writing and it's really a shame that lexa wasn't killed off before (the best would be at the end of S2 as it was originally planned) and then the whole season would be dedicated to the conflict between the Arkers and to ALIE. Because clexa "lovestory" and grounders shitshow ate out six episodes for nothing. (not to mention that their "lovestory" was toxic as hell and that it was just a question of time who of the grounders would kill whom of them two!) 🙄 But yeah, it was done under influence of certain fandom... 🍍 Wasting of time, but what did we expected from jroth?

Accidentally tripped my way back into my t100 obsession, and am once again begging everyone to remember that Clarke didn’t just mean irradiating Mount Weather when she said “what I did to get them here”. Of course she means that part, but she also means killing Finn, letting the bomb drop on TonDC without warning anyone besides Lexa, even leaving the 47 behind when she was forced to escape in order to get the rest of the Delinquents a real rescue, lying to Bellamy about Octavia being in TonDC, telling Bellamy to. his. face. that it’s worth risking his life to take down the Mountain with the Grounders, and any number of other specific wrongs Clarke would 100% feel she had done. Bellamy’s “what we did” is unbearably kind, and does not even pale as an example of their partnership and love for each other, but he is only thinking of one part of Clarke’s enormous guilt to bear. As is his right. He did just help her commit genocide, he’s not going to be on top of his game (understanding Clarke), nor is he going to necessarily see many of these burdens the same way Clarke, in her special brand of self-deprecation, would.

It does feel as though we as a fandom focus on the same thing as Bellamy. Fair. Genocide of the entire Mountain is certainly going to be more devastating in the way of guilt than lying to Bellamy about Octavia’s safety, or even killing the boy she loves/loved. But Clarke spends much of season 2 either battling for a voice at Camp Jaha, forcing Lexa to take the alliance seriously, or trying to find any way to reach the 47 and get them all out safely, and she has Bellamy and any number of allies and friends alongside her for much of the journey, but the choices she makes for the 47 are largely still hers alone, especially once Bellamy goes into the Mountain. She has many reasons to feel guilty, and not all of them are choices she and Bellamy made together, so his support, while meaningful, doesn’t actually encompass all that is haunting Clarke.

[teacups-and-saucers]

On Hannibal S3E03, Secondo:

Very interesting thing about Secondo: it begins and ends with a conversation between Hannibal and Bedelia about betrayal, forgiveness, and love.

On Betrayal and Forgiveness

One of the themes this episode seems to linger on is what it means to betray, to be betrayed, to forgive, and to be forgiven. It makes sense, given that Will's last words to Hannibal in Primavera are "I forgive you."

At the end of the Secondo, Hannibal says,

about Mischa. What I understand from this is that Mischa's death influenced him to become a monster.

Similarly, Will's betrayal in Mizumono caused Hannibal to lose himself completely: not only did he try to kill Jack and Alana, he killed Abigail, and left Will nearly bleeding to death—all because he felt hurt and betrayed by what Will did.

If that is what it means, to Hannibal, to be betrayed, what does it mean to be forgiven?

On Betrayal and Love

In Hannibal's past, he is driven by his love for Mischa to become a monster because of what was done to her. In his present, he is driven by his love for Will to return back to being a monster, bare from his person suit, at a chance to be understood and accepted.

Here we see where the betrayal between Mischa and Will is similar: Hannibal loves them both, and that is what makes him 'betray himself' so to speak—do things he would not have done if not for them.

Interesting to note as well that this theme of betrayal, forgiveness, and love comes after Primavera—where the first course was the bitter taste of betrayal, the second course was the taste that comes after the sting of betrayal washes away: the echo of love. In other words—there can be no betrayal without love.

With that, I think this episode might be when both Hannibal and Will truly come to terms with how they have been changed by the other, and who the other has become to them.

On Forgiveness and Love

Will learning about Hannibal's past and accepting the parts of himself Hannibal has touched, and Hannibal taking in what it means for Will to be doing that and, as a result, revisiting his own childhood, ties the themes up perfectly. To revisit one of Hannibal and Bedelia's most iconic exchanges from the beginning of this episode:

Both betrayal and forgiveness do not happen without love. With how Will and Hannibal learn to love each other by accepting the parts of themselves the other has touched, forgiveness comes as a consequence. But forgiveness doesn't erase betrayal—it just allows for a quieter moment for the betrayed and the betrayer to confront it.

[mccallhero]

favourite ouat scenes: 13/?

[usafphantom2]

A U.S. Navy Lockheed S-3A Viking from Anti-Submarine Squadron VS-37 SAWBUCKS during Operation Desert Shield December 1990. (bouvia, usn)

@kadonkey via X

[rosie-eclairs]

More S3Alt music tesingg

Getting somewhere..

Need to make it gooderr

[jaddison]

it hits me like a truck every time i watch ouat s3 and i get to ep 7 and belle reveals that the gang has only been gone for a WEEK (5 days specifically) because the first 6 episodes involve so much bitching and moaning in the jungle it feels like weeks have gone by (also bc i originally watched this as it aired so weeks had indeed gone by)

[redvanillabee]

No listen because I neeeeeed to talk about this. Agents of SHIELD S3 and Agent Carter S2 was so beautifully choreographed as interwoven texts that I'm sure we'll never see something like that again. Imagine being a Marvel TV fan in fall 2015, yea? You start watching AOS S3A in September 2015. They start this space storyline that then develops into a Hydra/history of SHIELD plot. It builds and builds until December 2015, when it is revealed that the Project Distant Star Return logo is actually a variation of Hydra! And then AOS S3 goes on season break, S3A ends, you know that oh shit, Hydra was never defeated, they just existed under different innocuous-looking logos.

Then January 2016 comes around. You sit down for Agent Carter S2. And what's that you see within the first minutes of the show? GASP Dottie was trying to steal the Arena Club pin! It's Hydra! And you know that because AOS S3A told you! Hydra has always been there!!!

Listen. Marvel needs to either return to this level of intertextuality, where it actually pays to gobble up everything they produce and notice the details, or they need to chill with giving me prerequisite readings for MCU projects.

[queerstudiesnatural]

i will die defending season 6 of glee btw <3 like after whatever happened in season 4, and then the garbage fire that was season 5? sorry but season 6 is actually good. yes sue sawlvester <3 yes hypnosis <3 yes impromptu gay weddings <3 yes 200+ people transgender choir <3 yes loser rachel <3 yes gratuitous nostalgia and unrealistic happy endings <3 i love it

[fatalism-and-villainy]

In seriousness, I think people sometimes take Chiyoh’s “violence is what you understand” line too much at face value as a reading of Will.

On the one hand, she’s not wrong that Will has a tendency to communicate and understand others through violence, especially wrt his relationship with Hannibal. But she’s also really missing the context that Will actually understands quite a bit about persuasion through means other than violence! So much of his behaviour in the first half of season 2 involves manipulating others through telling them what they want to hear or showing them what they expect to see; in the latter half, he tries to entrap Hannibal via femme-fataling it up and ingratiating himself to Hannibal, pretending to be on board with his murder lifestyle (ostensibly) to get Hannibal to give him some actionable evidence. A consequence of Will’s empathy is that he’s extremely good at reading people and knowing how to appeal to them.

Also… this is a man who is extremely open to being seduced. His response to emotional turmoil has historically been to kiss Alana Bloom and readily crawl into bed with Margot Verger. No, having sex with a woman wouldn’t dissuade him from his violently-oriented obsession with Hannibal, but from Chiyoh’s POV, he was into the kiss! There was no indication he wasn’t responsive to her advances. It seems clear that the kiss was just a distraction and she was always planning to send him careening off that train.

And why shouldn’t she? She’s not a femme fatale, and while she does make some keen insights into Will’s psyche, she’s not really adept at verbal persuasion - he tries to manipulate her during their conversations much more than she tries to manipulate him. Brute force seems to be her MO in most situations - her response to most problems is to point a gun at them. And while she’s not down with capital punishment, she is willing to enforce the most ruthlessly punitive justice imaginable (her prisoner is only allowed the sound of water). I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that violence is (also) what she understands. And she’s just a much more interesting character to me when I interpret her as not being as straightforwardly morally righteous as she wants to think she is, and as using Will’s mindset to explain her methods as a form of deflection.

Also, it’s worth noting - in the next episode, she initially has her gun aimed at Hannibal, before turning it towards Will and shooting him. Who else has no idea what he wants to do with Hannibal until he actually does it, and is continually torn between whether he’s going to kill/capture Hannibal or help him? Will Graham. Bedelia also has the line about Chiyoh possibly being Hannibal’s worst mistake instead of Will - and while sadly not much is made of that, it does further establish a link between the two characters. Will is undoubtedly projecting some of his own stuff onto her, but he’s also not wrong that they have plenty in common, and I think she’s projecting back onto him!

[usafphantom2]

S3A Viking refuels an EA-6B Prowler inflight.

@headdancer7 via X

[nogitzune]

you know what, california laws be damned!! stiles is 15 in season 1 and 2 I Do Not Care anymore.