#shane bond

[neotomiccccc]

That scary farmer with all the dogs

[storybookstr4nge]

i am seeing all of the criticism of watchertv (and agreeing of course - it's entirely tone deaf and un-conducive among other things) but i feel as though the attitude i am seeing from a lot of people online involve absolving shane entirely, saying things like, "shane blink twice if they made you do this!" "shane "eat the rich" would never allow this!" "he was forced into this!" and redirecting all of the blame unto ryan and steven - mostly steven - saying that steven is the "ned fulmer of watcher" (wild thing to say) and delegating the responsibility of this decision entirely onto the two of them, and i cannot help but feel like there is an undeniable racial undertone to this rather vitrolic pivot. i understand being a fan of shane - i myself was a proud shaniac! - but i plead that we be conscious about woobifying an adult man who - though could have very well opposed the decision - was still one of the three ceos who okayed it! nothing is gained from scapegoating the two asian men and relinquishing the white one for the hate that this business venture is garnering. please, by all means, continue to criticize, but if you are, do it tastefully, and be careful with insinuations - especially without knowing the intricacies of the situation (and even if/when we do know something. criticism should never come from veiled bigotry) ! just because the property itself is shifting rather horribly doesn't mean we as watcherinas need to turn our community toxic <33

[cringelordofchaos]

I don't wanna "fix" Shane I just wanna be his friend!!! talk to him!!! hang out!!!! show him he can be loved and that he's not worthless!!!! that there are things worth living for!!! he can be an asshole all he wants I don't care!!!!!

[bayofwolves]

Yeah I am mad about how the authors treated their sweet angel Abeke actually.

Bad things that happened to Abeke:

Mom, only person to understand her, died pre-series

Dad and sister are emotionally abusive

Tricked by her enemies and roped onto the wrong side

Distrusted by the rest of the Four and believed to be a spy

Targeted by Meilin in particular

Kidnapped by obnoxious pre-teen boys

Gets frostbite

Gets concussed

Gets stabbed

Gets captured

Gets beaten up by Meilin

Lied to and betrayed by her dearest friend

Meanwhile dad DISOWNS her

Understandable depressive episode

Makes up with dad because he apparently decided he wanted to keep treating his daughter like shit

Mauled by cougars

Loses Uraza to arch-nemesis Zerif

Another extremely understandable depressive episode

Nicknamed "hollow-girl" which tells you a lot

Almost killed by Uraza on two separate occasions

Friend* killed by Uraza

Denied proper resolution with said friend

Doesn't get to kill arch-nemesis Zerif

Doesn't get to use her Rain Dancer powers a single time

Attacked by ants

Mid bond token

Can't even keep her cat

Justice for Abeke.

[sofiaruelle]

sockgate with Shane and Harvey.

[lazykim12]

Bath time! Unfortunately.

I sometimes had this thought that Young Thaddeus sometimes smells bad like in general 💀…also..because I head cannon in my AU that Thaddeus travels a lot so..practically he has…No place to shower or bath so he just…does it when he can in somewhere he’s able to do it, 😭 THE UNDERTOW CAVERN.

Granted I remember that place is inhibited by pirates, so I would guess Thaddeus would practically do his best to avoid them or fight one off if he had the energy, and I’m guessing the water IS NOT the cleanest too😭..it’s sea water so..Thaddeus wouldn’t bath in it for long, but hey, you got to do what you have to, to not smell…horrendous I guess? 💀 This would also be before Will tells him he can stay over in the Shane hideout too, so it was just baths at the sea water for him. -.-

I don’t think Thaddeus enjoy’s the baths as well..also because the water isn’t the cleanest I presume, it’s sea water ☝️

Will joins him a few times, because I’m sure he probably likes swimming so he’d take that as a chance to spend some time with Thaddeus and swim! Thaddeus takes it serious though and tries and at least like wash Will or something like his hair when they make conversation.

Take this as you will…🙏

I finally drew these guys after a long while 😭

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2502

Everyone's favorite future cryptid! (Dialogue from jdragsky on twitter.)

[amostimprobabledream]

Omg I downloaded the new Stardew update and Shane takes Jas into the maze in Halloween in Year 2 after she begs Marnie in Year 1. It's so sweet. 😭

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

my 1 (one) stardew opinion is shane should not have won the bachelor poll

[detective-piplup]

I really need to draw my farmer Luke at some point bc he has really good shitpost potential

[uselessalexis165]

some more out of context lines of dialogue from the chilling tunnel of the old montana prison

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Bruce Springsteen - The Live Series: Songs Under Cover Vol. 3

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band can play nearly everything and they play a lot of it on The Live Series: Songs Under Cover Vol. 3.

Though credited to Springsteen only - and a 1996 solo version of Woody Guthrie’s “Tom Joad” is nestled among the 15 career-spanning recordings - Under Cover 3 is a band album as it travels from 1975 in New York (the Shirelles‘ “Sha-La-La”) to Halloween 2024’s “Ghostbusters” in Quebec.

Over the decades, E Street has been home to a half-dozen to a dozen-and-a-half musicians. Stevie Van Zandt leaves. Nils Lofgren arrives. And the guitarists eventually become on-stage partners. Clarence Clemons fades away and Jake Clemons emerges. But while the players, and occasionally the band itself, change, the man at the helm remains the same even as he, too, changes.

Across 40-plus years and around the globe, Springsteen’s voice deepenes and coarsens as he evolves from the rambunctiousness of Jerry Lee Lewis’ “High School Confidential” in 1978 to reverential gospel flavor of “Long Black Veil” in 2006 to the the elder statesman consecrating the Pogues’ “Rainy Night in SoHo” in 2024 in the wake of Shane McGowan’s death.

“For Shane. For Dublin. For Ireland,” Springsteen declares at it ends. “We love you.”

And the fans love Springsteen right back, their enthusiasm making them a part of the soundscape whether giving a boisterous welcome to Gary U.S. Bonds, who co-fronted “Jole Blon” in New Jersey in 1981 or singing along lustily with “the other band” on Jimmy Cliff’s “Trapped” in 1992 in Boston.

Not every track hits the mark, as “Street Flighting Man” is sloppy even by Rolling Stones’ standards and “Ghostbusters” and INXS’ “Don’t Change,” performed in Australia in 2014, are merely curiosities. But as a showcase for Springsteen and his musicians’ abilities to tackle just about anything, Songs Under Cover Vol. 3 is masterful.

Grade card: Bruce Springsteen - The Live Series: Songs Under Cover Vol. 3 - B

12/30/24

[pls-just-let-me-marry-yeung]

I am lowkey too scared to ask what they're doing 💀💀💀

[bayofwolves]

I’ve been obsessed, obsessed, obsessed with Raisha for a while now. I know you’ve said little things about her in the past and i want to know what’s up with her/Gerathon if you’d be willing to talk about it.

I really like Raisha as a character, too! We know so little about her, but in my opinion, she's one of the most fascinating characters in the series. Unfortunately, she meets a sad end in A Revised History of Erdas.

All we know about Raisha post-infection is that she was present at the final battle in The Burning Tide, still under Zerif's control and in pretty bad shape. She vanishes off the grid after that, never mentioned again, not even in the concluding montage of Great Beast summoners reuniting with their fallen spirit animals. My retelling offers some closure, but not the good kind.

In my version of events, Raisha is flanking Zerif when he emerges from the ship with his Great Beasts. Zerif, in an act of cruel irony, saw fit to keep Raisha by his side even in her mindless, infected state. Shane, up in the archers' keep with Abeke, hardly recognizes the girl who helped steal Halawir months earlier. Later, she reappears to restrain Abeke when Zerif brings the defeated Redcloak forces to the Wyrm. When the Wyrm is killed and the parasites lose their power, though, Raisha collapses to the ground and doesn't get back up. The Wyrm had pushed her finite body to an extent that it couldn't recover from. Many people and animals in Zerif's army are the same; their possession eventually killed them. The Wyrm was a child playing with toys, the mechanics of which it couldn't possibly understand. Thankfully for it, its parasites could go on controlling a body in the event of an untimely death. Indeed, Stead raises the possibility that Raisha had been dead for some time, and the parasite was only animating a corpse.

Like I've said before, I didn't do this out of dislike for Raisha or anything like that. She was ultimately another victim of Zerif -- a young, lonely, impressionable girl he took advantage of -- and didn't deserve anything that happened to her. I'll always support AUs where she is alive and well. In my eyes, though, her story was always meant to end in tragedy. By the time she realized her mistake and reached for the light, it was too late.

Gerathon, after reemerging in southern Zhong and feeling the loss of her human partner, disappeared into the brush and is currently at large. She is only an adolescent cobra at the moment, hardly a threat... but the Great Beasts are growing, and Gerathon's time will inevitably come again. (I like the idea of her becoming a maneater as she slowly regains her former size and power, terrorizing the locals and gaining a place in their legends.) Who knows how she feels about losing Raisha. I expect, under the excruciating pain that may one day drive her to madness, there is a sweet sense of relief.

[its-haughty]

SIIIIIKE! HERES THE ACTUAL MAIN ANTAGONIST!

THIS BITCH!!!!

Brief Description lol: Mako Bishop is the Head of PIE, and also happened to be the first ever fully functioning sentient robot in universe! It means many other robots have his blueprint and also happen to work at PIE (Like Shane!)

Speaking of... The two of them are close. Hanging out after hours without the confines of work. Shane finding comfort in someone speaking for him, and admittedly does find Mako a little funny.. Whilst Mako needs someone to talk to who isn't his workers! Two very lonely robots who have the sanctity of companionship... On the surface.

Trivia below the cut lol

Mako

Mako doesn't know sign language but it's a choice he chooses to make

He doesn't want to hurt Shane but Mako is a major control freak who lives off power inbalances

Genuinely scared of fucking up. Partially why he's a control freak- Mako cannot stand the idea of things going wrong

He talks silly. Overly exaggerated, fast, snappy and always talks with vague hand gestures... Why is he like this?

Shane

When in conversation, Shane is limited to a notebook or sounds that can be played on a projected hologram. But he really hates how much he gets patronised for it

Shane usually/almost always has his hands in his hoodie pockets. Its his way to cut ties with people from the get-go

Other than Mako, Shane is starting to become good friends with Murphy but for some odd reason it never seems to go anywhere. Wonder why but I've forgotten so its probably nothing.

he likes video games :)

[lazykim12]

SARAI FANARTTT! okay so I got time so ima use my time 🗣️

Okay but real honesty I’m just going to wing whatever I got at this point with My Slugterra Au, Because I hate the fact I loose motivation and have the project I promised to release and work on is now on the side and unfinished and I loose motivation and post something completely different than what I had planned, SO I’m just going to surprise post with whatever Plot or fanart I got now…Though Angst artwork of Eli’s family soon, heh..❤️

But right now just take This fanart for @ariaterramoon 🦋💙 AND MY AU VERSION OF SARAI THAT IVE NEVER TALKED ABOUT PUBLIC BUT IM NOW DOING IT- Short conclusion, Blurred Au and Sarai!verse will are very different, same hearts but different mindsets, causing two different outcomes, for AU Sarai and orginal Sarai, so Take these fanarts I cooked last night.

As much as these two goofballs love each other in different Universes’ their sibling relationship goes through..VERY MUCH DIFFERENCES

I’m sure Orginal Sarai would give Eli a death stare after seeing the differences Au Eli Did…💀