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Whenever a female character is widely hated, put the blame on misogyny. However, a good chunk of fans of specific works (with certain exceptions) are teen girls and women. Is it a case of internalized misogyny, then?
Somewhat, yes, but it's also a matter of attraction.
A great deal of fandom is shipping, and people tend to be more drawn to ships that they are attracted to. No, it's not the be-all end-all, yes, you can love characters and ships that you don't find attractive and dislike ones that you do, but it adds a MASSIVE boost. You are more likely to consider ships when you find one or more of the characters attractive. You are less likely if you do not.
I'll use myself as an example.
I don't give a shit about m/m pairings unless they have strong canonical chemistry that appeals to me (or it's a REALLY well written fic) because I'm a lesbian. It is harder to make them appeal to me because I don't get the attraction boost. I will read Adamsapple fics (with a note that I am picky about characterization) because I find the dynamic compelling. I don't mind Huskerdust, but have never once sought it out. Alastor is the major ship-launcher in this fandom, but I have not and will not read any fics that dedicate a significant amount of time toward Alastor shipping (or read Alastor-centric fics in general) because I can't comprehend how people find him hot and I find what we saw of him in canon deeply boring, so there is absolutely no appeal. M/F is honestly largely the same. Constrastingly, although I obviously gravitate toward things I already ship, I will give almost any f/f ship a shot if the fic seems well written. (With another note that I am picky about characterization.) Why? Because there is additional appeal there to make me willing to give the author the time to convince me.
(This is without even getting into smut, and I don't think I need to explain the importance of attraction there. All of the M/M or M/F smut that I've written was as a gift to a friend or because the narrative demanded it. And guess what? The f/f I've written (on a burner account that ya'll will never see) was way better.)
The majority of fandom is women. The majority of women are attracted to men. So guess what? Attractive male characters and m/m pairings get most of the attention. And guess what else? Female characters often get in the way of m/m ships, which provokes hate. Especially around younger fans who might not be experienced enough with narratives to be able to get a female love interest out of the way without demonizing them.
If you want me to say that female characters just aren't as well-written as men, it's not going to happen. There are PLENTY of male characters who are flat as cardboard yet get tons of adoring fans and fandom doing the work to flesh them out to hell and back. Just look at Hux in the Star Wars fandom. There are plenty of extremely well-written female characters who are ignored in favor of the most prominent bland hot man. And yeah, it's because they're hot. And maybe it's a bit of misogyny too, but... from what I've seen, a lot of attention comes from attraction, and when it comes to female characters, much of the hate comes from ship wars that people don't want to admit are ship wars. Plain and simple.
#again#long before the first season came out#vaggie got a lot of hate because she got in the way of charlastor#which isn't a m/m ship but#same effect#and rey for getting in the way of kylo/hux#which WAS m/m#ALSO. LILITH IN HAZBIN#for getting in the way of radioapple and adamsapple#and sometimes LUTE in hazbin#for. again. adamsapple#i haven't been in a fandom that was primarily known for a m/m ship apart from jojo#because. again. see above#but i have seen my mutuals in the trenches#also noteworthy that jojo didn't have female characters demonized to make room for m/m ships because#lmao#there WERE no female love interests in the parts with prominent m/m ships#unless you count suzie q but that's slapped on at the very end and INCREDIBLY easy to totally bypass for caejose#that shit was PURE homoeroticism#and then when we got lots of female characters#shit got homoerotic in a f/f way#it took until PART EIGHT for us to get a notable m/f ship#and that one was beloved#i actually don't ship the most popular jojo ship though#never saw the appeal of jotakak#but caejose fucking HAS me#ANYWAY. araki you are a legend
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Firth's home is really low key. It's nice but just a ranch house that two bedrooms (one is used as his office ) a big kitchen (he learned to cook from his papa and his momma) he has a nice living room, he has an older tv (it has dvd and vhs), not too big of a library but enough.
A nice cabinets of fine liquor, ales and whiskey. His furniture his all hand made by locals and he pays them good. Everything is cherrywood or darkwood. Very southern gothic but there's a twinge JUST A BIT of modern tech.
Which leads me to his bedroom. His bedroom is actually the coziest fucking thing ever. It's a queen size mattress with 100% cotton sheets and quilts or fur throws (again locally bought). Hes got one long body pillow then two on top of it. Its all black maroon red greys things in those realms of colors. He's got a vanity inside a walk in closet fashioned like a crypt mixed with golden age holywood inspo) would be (probably the most gaudy part of his home bc its golden age movie aesthetic..Think Elvira). He has a flat screen in there along.
Outside hes got a slammin' deck with a nice grill unit with a nice little loveseat porch swing. A sweet little garden again nothing too fancy but just elegant enough.He doesn't have pool but he has a small lake that he likes to swim in. Hes also got stables for his two horses. Buckaroo and Screwball (they eat people's hair sometimes) and hes got a couple chickens for pets and eggs. He doesn't remember any names for them (Charles has categorized them and has decided the only he cares about is a hen he named Betsy. Thats his girl. Don't fuck with Betsy.)
He also has two cars at the ranch. A 1971 ford f 100, jet black and red velvet interior and a custom '66 Coupe DeVille maroon with black leather interior (and a doggie bobble head).
I say all this just to tell u Charles likes when he can stay there. Humorously he kinda thinks of brokeback moutain bc its so ...Firth. Firth has always been really about his southern roots. His mom was from Appalachia originally and his dad from Texas and through his life hes lived in both places, loves them both dearly. He has more of Texan draw but there some Appalachian slangs he'll use from time to time. Charles thinks its a nice little reprieve even if its not his typical way to wind down on his free time.
Just a little time thats more personal and not rushed. Special little moments they get to just kind be two guys who enjoy each other very genuinely but they don't gotta go on about it. TO BE HONEST its giving the two fags in buston legal (i dont remember shit from that show besides those two sleazy lawyers being homoerotic)
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hi, hello, you mentioned you have ocs and i would like to learn abt them if thats ok, could i get some fun facts abt them?
Y'know, I was planning to make a list of OCs anyway so this is a good excuse to do that
Gonna giving their names and fandoms with a couple of facts under cut (i feel like this might get long Very quick)
(Mid-edit Apple: minor Canto VI spoilers, nothing really story-related but I do use terms mentioned in 6.3 in passing; better safe than sorry tho)
Tamami Mochizuki (Persona Series)
As her last name implies, she's related to Nyx
She's my watsonian/in-universe explanation to where the rest of the arcana shadows are
Her persona variant is Akhlys; heavily based off Riordan's interpretation of her, meaning she can control poison
Her appearances changes a lot more than her brother's since the collective idea of suffering/misery changes over the ages while death stays stagnant (I've been considering making her look gyaru since that seems to be associated with japanese mean girl tropes)
Ena Kutsuki (Persona Series)
Initially, her name was Era, but I changed it somewhere down the line (did you know that the name 'Ena' has japanese origins too?)
Demigod of order; got a certain cup's magic handed to her after Striker's AI takeover attempt
Her bones are fucked up because of said magic (her spine can literally burst out of her back and turn into extra arms doc ock style)
She is being rizzed up by the goddess of misery and neither are aware they're in the slowburn plot and mutually believe they are friends (both of their friend groups can see how lovesick they are)
Cai An-Yue (ProjMoon; Lobcorp)
She's named after me! (My chinese name is Cai An Yu)
She has stolen her world's Library and made it her own
I'm considering classifying her as some flavor of Erlking because she's been fucking around the timelines and superimposing herself on various people and/or corpses
Transfem, any pronouns; ENA Dream BBQ is her voiceclaim (both voices)
Unit O-1 // Cordelle (Smash Bros/Kirby)
Their favorite attack is F-smash; their second favorite is Side-B (hammer flip)
They have a weird relationship with their creator (Octave), since they were initially made as a murder protocol and ended up accidentally developing a personality along the way; by the time the incident cleared out their creator went "wait, shit, I didn't expect that to happen I'm not ready to be a momā"
They're on good terms for the situation they're in though
Their original name was Ocean before i changed it to Cordelle (Ocean started to sound less like a word the more i said it)
Whaleship Essex (Azur Lane)
Heavily inspired by Ishmael from Limbus Company
Very post-adventures 2!Shadow the Hedgehog coded
Feral; very prone to biting people regardless of whether they're friend or foe
(I'll be adding more on another post since someone else asked about her specifically and I'm still figuring out what to say about her)
Galatea "Gamma" Soliel (Miraculous/Genesis)
Ladybug holder; she's in a different timeline where the Miraculous have landed outside of Paris
All of her teammates are idiots and she only Vaguely tolerates the Black Cat because she Knows he's in a perpetual state of "Nagito Komaeda in his bad luck cycle"
Has shanked the Butterfly once; the Butterfly keeps trying to do homoerotic swordfights with her (they're similar in age)
May or may not be inspired by Mitsuru Kirijo from Persona 3, I can't tell you because if she was then it was likely subconscious
#apple asks#ocs#as you can see#i'm not good at making men#most if not all of my chars are girls#comet chasing#oc: cai an yue#oc: tamami mochizuki#oc: ena kutsuki#oc: whaleship essex#oc: galatea 'gamma' soliel#oc: unit o.1 // cordelle
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ok when u have time i wanna hear about the quacknap murder fic im intrigued o7
Ok alright hi so :3 the Quacknap murder fic was this idea I had back in like May/June and I started but never finished (bc lazy and depressive episode and etc etc etc).Ā
ā ļøā ļøC!QUACKITY NEG AHEAD ā ļøā ļø
Basically it was canon cDreamSMP - cSapnap goes and visits cDream a SECOND time after the whole torture thing starts and is like āholy shit why does he look like that sure he was a bit emaciated last time from his hunger strike but there are huge scars across his body and his ears have been completely chopped off (in this cDream is a hare hybrid (which was a rabbit run reference and also it was to contrast with cKarl - who is a bunny hybrid and who cSapnap goes back to after seeing all the shit that happened to cDream) anyhow heās openly horrified and ends up getting into a fight with cSam over this, before he goes home and continues to be horrified.
cTina later mentions having seen āthe guy you were looking forā (cSapnap showed her a picture at some point so she kind of knows who heās after but she doesnāt know cQuackity like personally or anything yet because DSMP canon and all that) covered in blood outside the prison and cSapnap kind of goes insane with fury and rushes after cQuackity to confront him. cQuackity denies it at first but. Heās covered in blood and also cDream had Qās name carved into his chest so. Huh.
Basically it was going to get really weird from here - cQuackity and cSapnap almost sleep together because hey having your angry demon fiance shove you against a wall and try to strangle you for torturing his former best friend is kind of hot - but that devolves into a homoerotic sword fight which THEN devolves into a fistfight and then cQuackity just kind of dies.
(Obviously this is his second life so heās still got one left but cSapnap goes to cPhil and cTechno (and ends up finding cPunz too) and is all āhey we have to move this shit along and rescue him already pleaseā and theyāre like ālol okā
Little snippet under the cut cw for gorey torture :3
Who did this to you? He writes on the book, before passing it to Dream.
The man stares at it for a moment before managing to scrawl out a response in shaky letters. I canāt tell you.
Why not?
Youāll be angry at me.
Why the hell would I be angry at you?
You said youād kill me if I ever got out of here.
Yeah, I thought youād be SAFE in here, where you couldnāt hurt anyone and no one could hurt you.
Itās complicated.
Who. Who is it.
Iām not telling you, youāll hurt me.
Iām not going to hurt you - youāve clearly been hurt way too much already. Who did this to you?
Pandas, I canāt tell you youāll never believe me.
How the fuck would I not believe you, youāre torn to shreds in front of me. Who was it? Who hurt you?
Stop, I canāt. I canāt tell you.
āYour timeās almost up, Sapnap,ā Samās voice calls over the intercom. āOne minute.ā
Iām about to leave. Sapnap writes in the book. The time is going way too fast but heās not about to argue with a trident wielding warden. I canāt possibly hurt you in the space of forty seconds. Who the hell did this to you?
Dream swallows, glances behind Sapnap, and sighs, before leaning backwards, grabbing the book, and chucking it as hard as he can into the lava. He stares at the demon hybrid for a long moment, before carefully peeling back the prison uniform around his chest and revealing his pale skin there.
Thereās a small coin branded against his skin, with an uncomfortably familiar :] in the center, and below that, a name, carved directly into Dreamās skin itself, leaving the area there raw and ugly and torn, oozing slightly from infection.
P R O P E R T YĀ
O F
Q U A C K I T Y
Sapnapās stomach drops out when he recognizes that handwriting. He knows that handwriting, he knows who wrote that, and itās entirely unmistakable who did this to Dream.
His own fiance.
His own fucking fiance.
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Critical Role - C3EP52 (After the break)
We're back with more Sending fails!
F.r.i.d.a looks so cool i love themmm
Also the kids are starting to get strong i love it
Feels like yesterday when imogen had like, 10 hit points
Also this is absolutely the leylines being fucked
Something happened and magic everywhere is going heywire
I'm now convinced the exaltants are being "awakened" to be Predathos' army and it's all gonna go balls to the wall
Imogen has to be this campaign's double agent right? They're absolutely gonna have to fight her at some point and it's gonna wreck me
Now that I think about it does it mean they'll have to fight fearne too??? š³
i'm getting vibes from imogen and f.r.i.d.a and i don't hate it? š
Exandria's Greatest Bake-Off: Pike Trickfoot vs. FCG and their easy-bake oven
Ooooo fearne has pass without a trace now? Thank God
Once again i got sad we won't see marisha, liam and tal tonight š hope we have robbie with them tho, maybe even more people from EXU?? I hope we get to see Opal!
Chetney still struggling š
I don't know Dustel but I f*cking hate him š¤¬
Chetney backstory finally!
Don't get me wrong I'm very excited but I knew it was gonna be some bullshit š¤£
Travis is NOT here for anything serious this campaign AT ALL
He "kneecaped" someone?????
Aabria somehow has great chemistry with everybody she ever roleplays with it's the Iyengar effect istg
That little talk with chet was so cute
And then... fearne tells deanna he has horrible diarrhea
They keep making it worse š
This IS indeed a wild group to meet out of nowhere
"Be nice to us, we're trying our best" š¤£ they're so stupid but I love them sm š
This is probably the most vulnerable and reasonable FCG has been all campaign for real
I don't think the real problem here is whether or not the gods are good, it's whether or not the Godeater is good, and even before we worry about that, it's about whether or not its gonna wreck everything and everyone in it's path to the Gods
Imogen herself is most likely gonna die for whatever this whole thing is if they let it happen
Like are we really willing to do all this shit and possibly extinguish all life on Exandria when you could like... not worship the Gods? It's not like they're forced to or smtg
Wait. WAIT. So if Ruidus is wherever (whenever?) the other half of the group is and it's NOT in Exandria anymore there are really only two possibilities for where the others are: back in time or in another realm and both are big problems for us
Matt please let my babies see each other I'm getting sad rn
Oh shiiiiiit this is a big big mess yall š³
So ruidus is in exandria it just doesn't move?? So the others are actually still in Marquet then
It's the Reilora š± this is baaad
Yup, they're already trying to pull her to the dark side. This is gonna be a mess. I'm preemptively so upset for how much this is going to hurt.
I have a feeling this is how they really got to Liliana and all those people. Whatever Predathos is, it has some sort of pull on people that makes them want to give into it, specially the ruidusborn and even more specially the exaltants.
Do not listen to the robot right now
Laudna would be slapping yall in the face for even SUGGESTING IT
Do NOT let Imogen go into the freaking alien godeater hivemind or so help me GOD
See? This is why I get worried when they're separated they're like each other's emotional support pet, two days and Imogen is already considering going into the damn light
This scene with f.r.i.d.a is giving that scene from twilight without the homoerotic undressing
Why, why would he go to chetney alone like that?? He has almost taken half the party once this is BAD!
Tho we know robot boy is a heavy hitter so I guess it could go either wayš¤·
This is the only place where we can get heartfelt, beautiful monologues about the meaning of death and life and morning toot in the same episode and that's why I love this show
This fight is giving one of those old chihuahuas that keep snapping at your ankles but that has for some reason taken a burning passion rage against your robot vacuum
Also you can't convince me a dog wouldn't absolutely hate this thing
It would just feel like a threat, this weird human that isn't human and it can mimick stuff but also it sounds weird? My dogs would go NUTS
Listen. I'll be a chetney apologist for this one. I'm a wildlife veterinarian and animal behaviorist and idk where dude thought he was gonna get off approaching a wolf like that, or honestly approaching him alone at all
Surprising he survived all this time in wildemont tbh but I'll give him a pass bc it's is D&D
Love that Deanna is so horrified by them when this is not even the full party š
like, ma'am we're missing- *checks notes* one tree/cadaver/goo person, a magic rock rainbow sparkle barbarian and a 4ft tall widowed ballerina that is prob covered in monster blood as we speak š
Final thoughts:
Overall I loved this one, it was light and fun and everything I needed after all the stress from the last few weeks
I also enjoyed the split party dynamic more than I thought it would and I am hopeful it's gonna lead to some good things in the long run
It's a bold move ngl. One of the quintessential, funnest things about D&D parties is the found family, the unity of it all, it's seeing them spend time with each other and develop different dynamics, games, inside jokes
In any other situation it might alienate party members from each other and make it not feel as cohesive, maybe even jeopardize the forming of a tight bond.
But with Bell's Hells we have such close pairings that this almost feels like it has to be done
Fearne and Orym, FCG and Ashton, Laudna and Imogen are all pairings that came together and rely deeply on each other, to the point where it felt a little stiffening to the other members of the group bc these people very rarely sought deeper companionship and support from anyone other than their initial pairing
Also we can get a closer look at Chetney's backstory and hopefully Ashton's next episode when I'm hoping we'll see how the others are doing
I also was hoping there would be some time fuckery or realm travel and still kind of am, but it's sounding like the other half of the Hells were still in Marquet by the end of 52
If they are still in close proximity to the beam it's going to be a mess and I have no idea what to expect but chaos, specially since they can't call the others and I'm guessing shit is going DOWN over there
If they are indeed in the shadowfell, close to the key that Beau and Caleb tried to take down, I wonder if they could go after that connection and weaken whatever they are doing to Ruidus, hopefully even sever that connection completely.
#critical role#cr spoilers#cr3#critical role spoilers#bells hells#critical role c3#clara watches cr3
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have you read (or already posted about) any Cat Sebastian novels? I am such a sucker for queer hist-roms!!
I havenāt read too many from her just yet but I love her writing so much and I canāt wait to read more. Iāve read her sapphic novella, A Little Light Mischief, as well as The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (m/f, bi leads for those not in the know) and Unmasked by the Marquess (nb/m, both bi). Unmasked especially I just adored. I have a non-binary sibling, and trying to find content that works for me AND them (I should elaborate lol, we try to consume shit and discuss it to bond) is so challenging; that book was justā¦. A lot.
Also, just the way that book built a friendship and made the feeling of being betrayed by a friend soooo acute. It got those moments of tension, Robinās feeling of needing to exist as they were--Alistair loving her but still taking a long time to understand.
And also just the FUN SHIT. The moment when Alistair sees Robin in a suit at the ball and she's pulling her gloves off with her teeth and he almost comes in his pants, lmao.
I'm currently reading Something Fabulous, which is the rare time when I read out of order.... I got an ARC of Something Spectacular, the second book in the series, without realizing that they were connected. I'm loving Something Fabulous, and I loved Alexis's queer historical A Lady for A Duke... But lol dude, if you love queer historicals, you have to read Something Spectacular. I loved it. That one is out in April (4/11, I think?) and has a genderfluid lead, Peggy, who's trying to get over her ex, Arabella, and agrees to help Arabella hook up with Orfeo, a famous castrato. Peggy literally FAINTS when she first hears them sing and Orfeo (who is non-binary/agender) comes to see her and is like "so I see that you fainted, people do orgasm when they hear me sing sometimes, sorry" and she's like "I DID NOT HAVE AN ORGASM" and they're like "whatever you say".
And WE'RE OFF TO THE RACES FROM THERE LMAO. It's got a queer found family, one of the most.... spectacular truly is the word..... sex scenes I've ever read. An amazing third act conflict. So much eroticism. A homoerotic poetry slam. A "panic-gasm". I recommend wholeheartedly.
#romance novel blogging#book recs#me reading something spectacular: this is so romanticccc#also me reading something spectacular: would peg orfeo#like orfeo and peggy have a beautiful love... also they're hot#both can be true
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Ranking the HOTD episodes by how gay they are
10. Episode 3. really very little happened except Rhaenrya and Alicent having their gay little fight in the godswood 5/10
9. Episode 5 this episode isnāt super heavy on Alicent/Rhaenrya other than Alicent having her big green dress moment and angrily calling Rhaenrya āstepdaughterā. But it DOES introduce a very important gay couple: Laenor and Joffrey. If this episode hadnāt violently murdered joffrey in a way that diverged from F&B and made it MORE traumatic for Laenor, making him get married in the same building his love was murdered in, hours afterwards, I would give it more points for having a canon gay couple. Iām not over the change however. I still donāt understand how Criston got away with that .10/10 for joffrey and Laenor before the end of the episode -10/10 after the ending
8. Episode 2. This episode was also homophobic bc Alicent got engaged to Viserys. But it did have a scene of Alicent comforting Rhaenrya in the crypt, which 1) shows Alicent is religious 2) is the beginning of the holding hands motif 3) was sweet 4) also a parallel to them sitting at the table in episode 8 with the candles 5) highlights how they are both two young women who have lost their mothers and neither of them should be anywhere near a certain two targaryen brothersš 6/10
7. Episode 6. This episode was important because it introduced Emma DāArcy and Olivia Cooke. And the question on everyoneās (my) mind was: now that the younger actors are being replaced, will the homoerotic subtext remain? And the answer is a resounding yes. Episode 6 was an experiment to see how much gay tension you could fit in one small council scene. Alicent was really mean to Rhaenrya in this episode and also accidentally asked for the murder of her baby daddy but I still call it a win 8/10
6. Episode 1. I rememeber having extremely low expectations for HOTD due to GOT disappointment but after watching the first episode there was only one question on my mind: did they add lesbians to game of thrones? Even my extremely straight friend texted me to ask if I thought Alicent and Rhaenrya seemed a little bit in love. 10/10
5. Episode 7. The entire knife scene is one of the best on the show. And really showcased a breaking point in Rhaenrya and Alicentās relationship. The rituals were intricate I fear. Also Alicent called Rhaenryaās feet pretty. oops. This is also the episode that Laenor and Quarl avoid death and HBO avoids the #buryyourgays accusation so Iām happy for them 9/10
4. Episode 9. In this episode Otto calls Alicent gay to her face, and Alicent loses her shit at the mention of murdering Rhaenrya. It lays it out for us that Alicent cares a lot about Rhaenrya and itās messing with Ottoās plans. But also Alicent crowning Aegon is not gonna help her pull Rhaenrya. 9/10
3. Episode 10. In this episode Otto recovers and finds a way to use his daughterās inconvenient lesbianism to his advantage. Is it gay to keep a ripped out piece of paper your ex-homoerotic bestie-now-enemy gave you decades ago? Is it gay to receive this piece of paper and shed a singular angry tear? The way that Rhaenrya says āAlicentā¦. asked ā¦..you to ā¦declare ā¦.for Aegonā is the second most heartbreaking line delivery on the show, right after āhe is your son, Viserysā. Clearly Rhaenyra cared about Alicent. 10/10
2. Episode 4. First of all this episode contains possibly the gayest scenes in the whole show, when Alicent and Rhaenrya are sitting on the bench. Rhaenyra apologizes to Alicent and says she missed her too and grabs her hand. In interviews, Milly Alcock and Emily Carey said they thought they were gonna kiss and reader, I did too. This scene of almost reconnection is so tender and heartbreaking and it adds to the hand motif these girls got going. But second of all, the way that Alicent reacts to rumors of Rhaenrya fucking daemon. Iām sorry there is no heterosexual explanation for HOW upset she is. None at all. 11/10
1. Episode 8. Rhaenyra and Alicent giving forgiveness toasts. Rhaenrya and Alicent staring at each other while pretending to stare at Viserys. But most of all, Alicent begging Rhaenrya to stay and giving her a death grip and Rhaenrya gently reciprocating as she promises to return, even though I think in some way they both know that if she leaves their tenuous reconciliation will not last. Every time I see a gif of that grip I go feral. All of the shots of their hands touching in episode 1,2,4,7 for it to culminate in this shot of them desperate to find each other again. 100/10
#rhaenicent#Rhaenrya x Alicent#HOTD#did this bc I was thinking about it but then was like well why post to my silly little blog#i love ranking silly little things
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So... Episode 3 of The Devil Judge... let's get into it! I wrote a page of notes, this episode had a lot to offer. But before we get into it, let's just recap on the ending of episode 2... cauuussseeee
I was watching the UST confrontation, thinking they were going to bang against the windows. I'm minding my own business, just admiring the cinematography - as they had bisexual lighting throughout -
(I can only watch it in the worst quality lol)
Then shit blew up! And they're saving each other like all angsty vampy boyfriends do.
(he should have carried him bridal style... just sayin')
Then we get into episode 3. Which has all of the marks of every Forced Proximity Yaoi story ever! Even includes non-consensual touching and one character (usually the younger) not being allowed to leave or move around their surroundings freely... which is... fun. "It's not like I want to do it" sure, Jan. (also, they keep mentioning their age gap, I think they're into it.....)
This leads to Gaon's Belle arc of discovering what's in the west wing. (The house's decor is super... not my taste). The Nanny/mother step-in character reminds me of Bae Hae Sun's character in Hotel De Luna (Choi Seo Hee). Daddy Bandit is super possessive over his new twink, even going as far as almost shouting "ARE YOU DATING?" to Soo Hyun. super suss. Sun A thinks she's hot. She really had her "step on me, Mummy" glow up and I respect that. Kyung Hee is surrounded by idiotic men BUT that does lead us to her house which is Han Ki Hwan's house!!! I was so happy when I saw it then I felt so sad because... it's where the rich boys go to get emotionally (sometimes physically) abused by their parent. This house is also featured in Stranger and every time there was a scene in THE living room, I kept saying out loud: "that's where Han Joo Won got his heart broken" or "some very sad things happened here" or "NOOO joo won... DONG SIIIIIKKK"... I am pathetic and annoying. (Also, I think the derelict sight is the same location where they shot Lee Sang Yeob's death scene) I will say I like the way TDJ is handling the dystopia themes. It feels very realistic and it isn't too glamourised, which a lot of movies/TV shows do. So, that's a really nice aspect of the show. The court scene is actually kind of funny (not in a bad way)
Trauma Bandit's backstory is definitely a child abuse 101 storyline, even includes a shitty reason for his awful treatment. (the dad is a right twat). I haven't paid too much attention to the older brother storyline but if he and Gaon are related, I'll be pissed. It's an odd thing to include considering Daddy Bandit and Gaon are going to fuck. There's no doubt in my mind that they're going to have sex. And even if we don't see it, it's still happening! Oh, and... just because you're traumatised, it doesn't give you the right to murder people, Daddy Bandit. Anyway, speak soon!! :)
[cue circus music]
episode 02 ending & episode 3. ah yes, the banes of my existence (:
I was watching the UST confrontation, thinking they were going to bang against the windows.
HELPP the UST was blasting through the roof. I honestly loved how they introduced two female leads, starting off with the implication that they're the very possible romantic counterparts and then dunked the whole show into homoerotism and UST.
just admiring the cinematography - as they had bisexual lighting throughout -
listen, the cinematography? it was out of the fucking world. honestly perspective changes, camera tilts that captures imbalance (whether emotional or power) and the f r a m e s. honestly so capturing.
the b i s e x u a l l i g h t i n g (screams)
(I can only watch it in the worst quality lol)
oof help is it netflix š
Then shit blew up! And they're saving each other like all angsty vampy boyfriends do.
KJERDXEFKDCX ANGSTY VAMPY BOYFRIENDS Yohan looks very much like some modern Count Dracula --its the bow me thinks
(he should have carried him bridal style... just sayin')
dsjksjdjk perhaps because gaon's taller than him and trauma bandit's but a smol man
Which has all of the marks of every Forced Proximity Yaoi story ever!
the way i did not realise that until now. ohmygod
Even includes non-consensual touching and one character (usually the younger) not being allowed to leave or move around their surroundings freely... which is... fun.
I also do think that the Nurse/Patient trope (which I'm basing off of Back to The Future, but for all I know could be absolutely rare af) is depicted here. Usually in the trope, the nurse and patient are shown to be more susceptible to have feelings due to sympathy and forced proximity (+ if the patient has some incredibly heroic/awing reason for being injured). I think Beauty and the Beast, you've mentioned Gaon's Bella Arc, also features the nurse/patient trope when the Prince/Beast gets attacked trying to save Bella from the wolves.
It is interesting though, that it should be Gaon who's injured and nursed back to life when we have Yohan, who's the primary choice for the Beast/Prince.
(also, they keep mentioning their age gap, I think they're into it.....)
at this point, watching TDJ is just a progression of kink reveals lmao
This leads to Gaon's Belle arc of discovering what's in the west wing. (The house's decor is super... not my taste).
Continuing from before, it's quite interesting that their dynamics are not set in stone. They frequently exchange roles, albeit most of the time it's not prominent.
Also, if we set apart the BATB trope, Gaon's totally the knight in shining armor even if Daddy Bandit denies it (the house.... it's something alright)
The Nanny/mother step-in character reminds me of Bae Hae Sun's character in Hotel De Luna (Choi Seo Hee).
ah i havent really watched Hotel De Luna, i'm putting it off becuz i heard that there's some real sad stuff but I can see the similarities in their character presentation
Daddy Bandit is super possessive over his new twink, even going as far as almost shouting "ARE YOU DATING?" to Soo Hyun. super suss.
my dude's just totally in over his head thinking he's very chill but just a walking talking emotional disaster
on a serious note though, i think he's more than aware of soohyun's friendship with gaon and it was a deliberate poke to dissuade her (or perhaps, in an emotionally/possessive sense to sting her?)
Sun A thinks she's hot. She really had her "step on me, Mummy" glow up and I respect that.
Jung Sun Ah is just a total badass and if I ever meet her I would run far far away š
...her house which is Han Ki Hwan's house!!! I was so happy when I saw it then I felt so sad because... it's where the rich boys go to get emotionally (sometimes physically) abused by their parent.
WAIT HELP I DID NOT NOTICE THAT IREFDJKSDJK tbf i was more focused in practicing imaginary archery on han kihwan
"that's where Han Joo Won got his heart broken" or "some very sad things happened here" or "NOOO joo won... DONG SIIIIIKKK"... I am pathetic and annoying.
EJDKEISDJK LMAO "some very sad things happened here" -- some miserable real estate agent of an haunted house, probably
"I am pathetic and annoying" ah yes the self realisation /t no but i have had this same exact thought when i paused the show for the zillionth time to explain the significance of the fucking rain to my friend
Also, I think the derelict sight is the same location where they shot Lee Sang Yeob's death scene
oooh interesting, i wonder how many shooting locations BE and TDJ share hmm
I will say I like the way TDJ is handling the dystopia themes. It feels very realistic and it isn't too glamourised, which a lot of movies/TV shows do. So, that's a really nice aspect of the show.
right?? i honestly adore that it's pretty much covering the escalating socio-political and economic crisis under the dystopian theme? it also feels very much a commentary on the contemporary issues of the world. along with that, in episode one there's a shot with the word "utopia" that reminded me of this book (i haven't read it but i know of the premise) "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas". It talks of an utopian society that has built itself upon the suffering of a single child. For the society to prosper the child must be suffer. To my knowledge, the Snowpiercer (the film) and BTS's "Spring Day" are based on it thematically.
The court scene is actually kind of funny (not in a bad way)
yeah no i fucking cackled at that scene
Trauma Bandit's backstory is definitely a child abuse 101 storyline, even includes a shitty reason for his awful treatment. (the dad is a right twat)
the dad's a right bastard
but if he and Gaon are related, I'll be pissed.
Dude (gender neutral) I was flabbergasted when they went "Oh Yohan's big brother actually looks exactly like Gaon :D" like??? During Ep 1 flashbacks, I honestly expected them to go with an amnesiac route (where Gaon forgets about Yohan) or maybe "found comfort/helped each other during this tragedy for one day and then became nameless strangers again" route but noooo they had to go with the "ah yes this possible romantic option who is is identical to mc's brother" i blame the bloody censor
There's no doubt in my mind that they're going to have sex. And even if we don't see it, it's still happening!
there's so much off-screen gaps that the possibility of it not happening is lower than zero
Oh, and... just because you're traumatised, it doesn't give you the right to murder people, Daddy Bandit.
Man's just so morally tilted lmao, but ahem, I heard that you liked morally grey characters [blinks]
I really enjoyed this update heh, your brain is just. galaxy and i can't wait to see more of your thoughts hehe
#daddy bandit makes a return#beauty and the beast? nah its beast and the beast#beasts of different kinds are still beasts no?#act 3 scene 1 kim gaon the panic gay#ah they're so annoying#kim gaon#kang yohan#the devil judge
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alright itās time for as requested part two of rowan reads the original sherlock holmes and compares it to yuumori
i finished a study in scarlet and holy shit was yuumori accurate to it
obviously they changed the case so that... well, moriarty was involved, and they didnāt go into detail on why drebber was an a-grade piece of shit (lol i wasnāt expecting the mormons but it was a great perspective actually doyle went big brain time on that one lmao)Ā
Hmmm i mean the other main difference is that Watson Is Gayer In The Original but yeah obviously thatās for a reason and the reason is william james moriarty
I have some highlights ofĀ āoh my god I need to see yuumori sherlock do this right now because he Absolutely Wouldā and theyāre WILD
So yuh here are your Sherlock Moments
-when watson asks stamford why he might not want to board with sherlock bestie wentĀ āheās a little queerā and watson was basically likeĀ āi like that in a man :)ā like i am Fully Aware thatās not what queer meant back then but itās FUNNY alright
-stamford is also likeĀ āyeah i mean heās the kind of guy who would probably perform human experiments on his friends without telling themā
-watson walks into sherlockās lab like hello new roommate :) and the dude immediately starts SCREAMING
-heās all I GOT IT I GOT IT I GOT IT LOOK and fucking stabs himself and drips the blood in a container, yeah yeah it makes a reaction and heās like I AM GOING TO SOLVE ALL CRIMES EVER ACTUALLY wait who are you
-SHERLOCK THEN PROCEEDS TO SEAL UP THE CUT WITH P L A S T E R AND THEN HANDLE POISONOUS CHEMICALS WITH HIS BARE, INJURED HANDS
-watson moves in with this dude and is likeĀ āoh wow im really interested in this guy but im Polite so i cannot ask him anythingā so he starts snooping around trying to figure out what sherlock does for a living?????? like he couldnāt just fucking ask???? and heās like wow he has these clients and he kicks me out of the house every time they come over i Really Donāt Want To Think Heās Fucking Them
-obviously, and to watsonās embarassment, he wasnāt. sherlock is a virgin and it is very clear
-watson describes sherlock in the most homoerotic way possible i donāt even know how to describe it bestie goes on about his hands for a full paragraph itās really gay man
-WATSON IS SO POLITE ABOUT IT ITS ACTUALLY HILARIOUS ISTG HES LIKE I AM KIND OF SERIOUSLY OBSESSED WITH THIS DUDE BUT I COULDNāT POSSIBLY JUST ASK HIM ANYTHING OR LIKE TRY TO GET CLOSER TO HIM I WILL SIMPLY WRITE LISTS ABOUT HIM AND DIAGNOSE HIM WITH AUTISM
-heās also likeĀ āi donāt know i really think hes on drugs i would say heās on drugs but also heās like this all the time and he might just be mentally illā lo and behold it was both
-SHERLOCK GOES TO BED AT TEN PM AND GETS UP AT 4 AM EVERY DAY WITHOUT FAIL
-m o t h e r f u c k e rĀ d o e sĀ n o tĀ k n o wĀ w h a tĀ t h eĀ s o l a rĀ s y s t e mĀ i s
-and when asked why he doesnāt know! heās like my dear watson! i simply cannot be bothered! my brain is filled up with more important things!Ā
-watson compares him to some fictional detective that edgar allan poe made up and sherlock is like HIM OH MY GOD DO NOT COMPARE ME TO THAT MOTHERFUCKER I AM BETTER THAN THAT
-itās honestly really cute watson apparently will sit and listen to him play the violin and like request pieces and stuff and yeah sherlock can play those fine
-but most of the time if he picks it up on his own sherlock will just start plucking it with his fucking hands while slouching in a chair and sitting like L Death Note and playing random notes that VibeĀ
-watson HATES it
-watson once picks up this paper sherlock has lying around about yknow. deduction and all that and how you find things out and watson is likeĀ āthis is Bullshit who wrote this what the fuck this is the most unrealistic thing iāve ever readā and then sherlock is like I Wrote It Shawty and watson is like. um. oh haha i take back everything
-MAN I JUST GOTTA POINT OUT I AM A TEENAGE BOY AND I COULD NOT STAY SERIOUS WHEN DOYLE THOUGHTĀ āEJACULATEDā WAS A GOOD WORD TO PUT IN PLACE OF SAID
-lol he was likeĀ āahahahhaa my deductionsā and watson was likeĀ ābut How Did You Do Itā and heās likeĀ āI WANT TO LOOK COOL WATSON DONT MAKE ME RUIN IT BY EXPLAININGā
-GHHHHHHHHHH BESTIES when sherlock was Infodumping to watson About Crimes watson was likeĀ āoh my god thatās so cool bestie!ā like Once and watson described it likeĀ āi was complimenting him like he was a girl and i called him beautiful and he blushedā LIKE DUDE THATS GAY
-that one time sherlock yelledĀ āTHE PLOT THICKENSā and lestrade was likeĀ āi tĀ w a sĀ t h i c kĀ e n o u g hĀ a l r e a d yā
-dude thinks heās wrong ONCE and has a mental breakdown in front of the entirety of scotland yard before like five seconds later realizing that he was not, in fact, wrong
Iād say that the main difference between him and yuumori sherlock is that og sherlock has a massive fucking ego and yuumori sherlock is very loud but has no ego at all. Og sherlock will brag about how smart he is to anyone who will fucking listen. Yuumori sherlock will only boast abt his intelligence around Moriarty because he knows theyāre both mindfucking
Other than that... I honestly cannot come up with significant differences between them. You can really tell how similar they are especially with the sign of mary episode- dude was just like >:((((( the entire day because watson has a fiance and then he walks in on a dead body and goes now hERES SOME FUN
Heās very accurately and enthusiastically portrayed, as far as I can tell, and I think thatās really epic. I love him. I might kin og sherlock too guys ngl
#rowan screams into the void#rowan views moriarty#moriarty the patriot#sherlock holmes ?????#yeah#sherlock holmes#yuukoku no moriarty
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guys iām back on my bullshit
thoughts on rewatching the les mis movie
ā wow they really messed up the musical timeline
ā stop changing the fUCKING LYRICS
ā jackman is... ok, but still. valjean ought to be DILFier. buff, with white hair
ā javert looks like a beauxbatons reject. whereās the ponytail. whereās the sideburns. this isnāt a wolf, this is a guy who read warrior cats once and now identifies with one of them (idk i havenāt read the books since elementary school)
ā the seggsual tenshun between a bastard police officer, his club, and the criminal heās hunted for 14 years with single-minded homoerotic precision...
(more below the cut duh)
ā anne hathaway really is a fantastic fantine, good for her
ā got to admit, iām not a fan of the shaky camera, except for in the riot scenes
ā love the aesthetics in this movie, feel less so about the costumes
ā ah yes we will have fantine be the only one in pink and with her hair down to signify that she is Innocent ā¢ļø
ā iāve always thought this but why didnāt fantine just say that she was a widow like itās not like anyone could prove it
ā i feel like switching Lovely Ladies and I Dreamed A Dream made it more powerful but i still prefer the original order
ā like i said, timeline is fuckt
ā also some of these accents are just. hard to listen to
ā i wish we had a movie of the original french musical
ā okay i love the shot of little cosette where they recreate the original poster they did a great job at casting her
ā sacha and helena are great but iām still partial to matt lucas tbh
ā hello baby gavroche
ā the santa part was not needed, it was uncomfortable for everyone involved
ā ok that one guy madame tried to seduce in her verse of Master Of The House is pretty damn attractive
ā can you imagine the actress of little eponine on set while they filmed that number
ā sHoW mE wHeRe yOu LiVe
ā āiāll be father and mother to youā wow #girlboss AND malewife <3
ā no stop idc about an original song give me Grantaireās verse in Drink With Me
ā ah yes #hoistthechild
ā glad they brought fauchelevant in, he shoulda been in the musical (besides ya know, the cart)
ā heehoo javert singing in a high place no foreshadowing there Oops I Hope I Donāt Fall
ā the transition into Paris/Look Down is great but fuckin. STOP MOVING SONGS AROUND. I NEED CHEEKY LITTLE SHIT GAVROCHE TO MAKE FUN OF JAVERT AFTER HIS BIG SERIOUS SONG. IDC IF IT MAKES MORE THEMATIC SENSE. I REALLY DONāT.
ā still love gavās elephant home. and gav.
ā god i fuckin love gavroche.
ā VIVE LA FRANCE
ā FUCK YEAH COURFEY-PIGGYBAC
ā *pauses* *deep breath* *screeches* ITS MAH BOIZ
ā enjolras is the only blond iāll ever find attractive
ā god samantha barks is just SO pretty. and SUCH a good eponine omfg sheās almost TOO pretty
ā joly my bby š„ŗ
ā why they got rid of enjās classic vest idk
ā still mad they made it seem like marius and enjolras were actively friends are you kidding me
ā okay but the waterfall chords when marius and cosette make eye contact for the first time š„ŗš
ā why does parnasse look Like That š¬
ā WHY DOES JAVERT PICK GAVROCHE UP LIKE THAT BAHAHA I FORGOT GHAT HAPPENS
ā the thenardiers are supposed to be funny but they just make me so uncomfortable
ā why on earth cant i remember pontmercyās actors name holy shit its not evan, right?? anyways heās good but i prefer gareth gates personally </3
ā OOH THEM FUNKY LITTLE HORNS ITS REVOLUTION TIME
ā heLLOOOOO PRETTYBOY (grantaire, obvs)
ā literally how dare george blagden be so pretty
ā george, internally: āSTARE AT AARON. GAY. ACT LIKE YOUāRE IN LOVE BUT NOT IN A WAY THAT HEāLL NOTICE. YOU ARE A 19TH CENTURY BISEXUAL. KEEP IT CHILL, JUST CONTINUALLY GLANCE OVER WITH ABSOLUTE ADORATION IN YOUR EXPRESSION.ā
ā goddammit marius you slut
ā *insert mean girls quote here*
ā literally the amount of eyefucking in this scene... get a room. whether you argue or fuck, grantaire will be satisfied either way
ā i love the courf+gav friendship in the film but you know iām a slut for that grantaire+gav friendship in the musical
ā a travesty they donāt ever let lesgles be bald </3
ā listen. i love amanda seyfried. what a queen. but as cosette she sounds like she swallowed a vibrator. we donāt need that much vibrato girl, itās okay
ā tbh the same goes for a lot of the movie actors in this as opposed to the musical actors
ā iām so sorry but iām skipping the marisette garden shit i donāt have time for heterosexual bs right now
ā i fuckin adore samantha barks did i mention that already
ā a queen. you know all the girls in 2012 wanted to be her
ā jesus christ itās been almost 10 years do you think theyāll do a reunion concert
ā god i canāt stop thinking about all the behind the scenes from this movie
ā hell yes thereās one day more
ā cosette āyour neighbor is gnc afā marius āyouāre insaneā
ā yes queen bind those breasts. give me gender envy why donāt you
ā mmmm enjolras tastey
ā stop making javert this important figure heās just A Guy
ā and in that moment, i swear, we all wanted to be Madame Houcheloup
ā the flags waved throughout the streets š this will def end well
ā tbh i kinda like Do You Hear The People Sing as the start of the revolution
ā in 8th grade i would have this scene as a youtube video on repeat while i did my homework
ā ok yeah this will never not move me to pieces
ā fuckign yeah enj wave that flag
ā ooh yuh get it i guess grantaire, drive that coach
ā and in that moment, i swear, we were infinite
ā pontmercy: *doesnāt know how to hold a gun* also pontmercy: *steals a fuckin horse*
ā TO THE BARRICADES
ā gEt oFf yOuR aRsE iTs bEgUn yeah mate i was already there driving the fuckin coach iām just that fast mynameisbarryallenandimthefastestmanaliveā
ā ah yes the demonic pontmercy smile how iāve missed that
ā WE NEED AS MOCH FORNITURE AS YEW CAN THRO DOWN
ā i sincerely wish i could have been there
ā HELL YEAH BARRICOW
ā AND IN THAT MOMENT, I SWEAR WE ALL WISH WE WERE MADAME HOUCHELOUP
ā okay so if gavroche was there to say āfleas will biteā then why didnāt he recognize.l javert right then and there
ā GOD THE FIRST SIGHT OF THE BARRICADE š©š
ā yes daddy enj you can shoot me with your rifle any time šš¤¤š½
ā enjoltaire shippers in 2012: āoMg eNjY pRoTeCtEd R fRoM jAvErT tHaT mEaNs he LoVeS HiM bACk ššā
ā and they were absolutely right
ā no joke aaron tveit could beat me with a pipe and i would be grateful
ā āwhoās there?ā āfrench revolution!ā plz tell me that wasnāt pulled directly for the brick but i feel in my heart of hearts that it was
ā the assthetics š«š¤ the simbalism....
ā marius really is dense not only did he not notice the girl in love with him for literally uhhhh years? he also didnāt notice the fuckin rifle two inches from his face
ā the lines shouted at marius as he retreats from the gunpowder gambit... initially poetic cinema
ā no but boyponine is so gender
ā oh man little fall of rain
ā i wrote a songfic to this for miraculous ladybug back in freshman year š
ā oh to be cradled in the arms of the boy i love as i die and also look super hot as i do it
ā eponine deserved better but better is not marius
ā lol drowned rat enjolras sheds a single manly tear you canāt fool us you fuckin twink
ā dammit gavroche hasnāt even died yet but still. get him AWAY from that BARRICADE
ā i already know the final battle is gonna end me
ā (just like it ended les amis š¤Ŗ)
ā oh to have a pistol held to my head by george blagden as grantaire
ā he really is so pretty
ā lol you know valjeanās internal monologue the SECOND he spotted javert at the barricade was just. so much cursing
ā lmao enjolras grinning as he shoots the roof dude
ā who gave the child a gun dammit
ā russell crowe javert singing usually: š¬š
ā russell crowe javert singing while tied up at the barricade with a knife held to him by his long time nemesis: š„“š¤
ā *cries in Drink With Me*
ā these boys want to hold out hope but they know thereās no getting out of here
ā Where Are The Barricade Ladies
ā WHERE IS GRANTAIRE VERSE FOCK U TOM
ā *guiltily skips bring him home*
ā you know what i was saying earlier about certain characters singing like they have a vibrate stuck in their throat? yeah
ā ah that shot that pans out to show that theyāre all alone
ā gavroche singing wonāt save you from dying i fwu tho š„ŗ
ā my little brother loves singing and acting out this song complete with delicate collapsing at the end
ā fucking courfeyrac, always gotta make me cry over gavroche more than i mean to
ā i have beef with everyone involved
ā HADLEY
ā combeferre holding back and then comforting courfeyrac ššš
ā let others rise to take our place until the earth is free. god damn. i fuck with that quote too hard.
ā CANNONS *queue that one post about the tumblr re-enacting les mis and nearly killing the window cleaner guy when she dramatically opened the windows to scream cannons*
ā And In That Moment They Knew. They Were Fucked.
ā i donāt need to see any more of my boys die explicitly but i wish we could have had prouvaireās death scene from the brick, it was really powerful
ā THERES MORE MEN
ā let them in you HEARTLESS BASTSRDS
ā i could do with less time looking at pontmercyās arse and more time watching the carnage, thanks
ā FEUILLY BOSSUET NO
ā oh god oh fuck the final four
ā *remembers that post i saw where people calculated how long it would have taken for them to die based on bullet angles and that joly and combeferre were both medical and had to watch each other and courfeyrac die and not be able to do anything about it *
ā oh god oh fuck permets-tu
ā if thereās one instance they could have kept the line from the book it ought to have been this one
ā *remembers the post that says that grantaire was not only staggering of drunkenness, but also because he was tripping over the corpses of his friends*
ā *remembers hadley is the guard*
ā god fukcign. fuck. that orchestral rendition of red & black as exr martyr theirselves for a doomed cause.
ā their deaths in the book are so poeticā enj pinned to the wall, crucified by the 8 bullets representing les amis and the cause being worth dying for, while grantaire died at his feet with one bullet representing that enjolras is worth dying forā but something about enjolras dangling out the window, wrapped in the flag... damn
ā did you see them, lying side by side...
ā *vivid flashbacks to behind the scenes and them singing a jazzy version of On My Own*
ā ok thatās enough for now *skips to finale*
ā like i love turning and empty chairs but i donāt have the emotional capacity for that rn
ā HERE. COMES THE HEAVENLY BARRICADE
ā nope i canāt
ā i love it too much
ā this is the version of DYHTPS that i listened to on repeat during Homework Time for the first several months of quarantine last year
ā i have too many feelings about it to put into text
ā goddamn i love this show fuck
ā *cries*
#les mis#les miserables#les mis content on MY blog? in 2021? itās more likely than youād think#uhhhh#enjoltaire
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first listen to rhys and iantoās excellent barbecue: a saga
Iām just gonna put all my thoughts in order while I listen to this audio and do my homework. Iāll tag it for spoilers, but Iāll also put everything below the cut in case you havenāt listened to it yet <3 um also i do a lot of swearing be warned...
last warning, yall, lots of spoilers and quotes ahead:
Rhysās friends call him RHYSIE and I Am So Soft For This.
āIām making my Special Sauceā god if Jack were here....
I love how Torchwood writers canāt even find a way to write RHYS in a straight way. Heās so cute and AHSDHGHFDAS I LOVE THIS SO FAR
the meat jokes.... already.... letās hope serentiy Ianto does not resurface
IANTO! my god I have missed my boy. HE IS BACK
Oh my god... oh my fuck.... heās so CUTE i might need to take a breather.... dude....
Gwen looking out for Ianto, inviting him to Rhysās stuff. DID SOMEONE SAY FOUND FAMILY HMMMM
ālads, lads, ladsā I WENT FERAL WHEN I HEARD THIS IN THE TRAILER
āJackās sorry he couldnāt comeā hhhhhhhh one sausage comes off the barbecue and heād be likeĀ āthis is quite homoeroticā HAIJFODHS
Rhys come on,,,, baby,,,,, do not be homophobic about this
I get the feeling I might be going too crazy about this,,, WEāRE ONLY FIVE MINUTES IN
godDAMNIT THIS IS THE SHIT IāVE BEEN CRAVING EVER SINCE GHOST TRAIN afdsohfs
Ianto brought Chardonnay....
āExcept Banana boat, heās a bit thickā AGFDKHDGS R H Y S
oh shit alien things are happening
āyes, RHYS, I know how to discuss my TOP SECRET work at a social eventā heās fucking ICONIC
āyou have an inability to call each other by your proper namesā my sister is just like this tho... she calls all her friends by anime character names.. little bit better thanĀ āsticky jeffā but not much
Ianto being oblivious to Rhysās gender role shit is just,,,, I STAN HIM
If Ianto and Rhys do not take a ride in the pink car by the end of this audio Iām suing
jkjk but that would be so great wouldnāt it
godDAMNIT i love this audio
"we.... donātā yet again, it is the 21st century, and torchwood is sooo not ready
āItās the BOYSā barbecueā rhys and his friends seem like they have a very cute queerplatonic relationship. wonder if they wear socks when theyāre doingĀ ābarbecuesā
who the fuck is steven.... whAT IS GOING ON
āI donāt know him THAT well, but thereās no way he would call me loveā u sure abt that rhysie
āif u run headfirst into an invisible wall, at least let me FILM it on my phoneā these two i stfg
thisĀ ātime bubbleā concept has SO MANY FIC POSSIBILITIES why is big finish spoiling us-
jack and gwen going for pizza instead of being at work AHHDOFDGSHKĀ
oh my GOD THE CALLBACK TO DISSECTED!!!!! this is like when gareth called back to The Last Beacon in Dinner and a Show AHHHH
I am reminded about martha and gwen,,, i am happy,,, the PARALLELS
these two arguing dude the TENSION.. the SUBTEXT
āgod help you if you ever hear about pink wineā SFIHOJADHGFĀ
i swear half my commentary here is me quoting something funny and then keyboard smashing
Ianto is fucking ANNIHILATING Rhys here and by extension gender roles. Goddamnit THIS is the conversation we needed. I love him so much can you tell
āyou LOVE each otherā Iāve only had this audio for about half an hour but if anything fucking happens to it, iāll kill everyone in the room and then myself
i donāt think you understand how goddamn adorable rhys is about his friends
āthank fuck none of them are here right nowā mate my man badger calls you RHYSIE i donāt think it would affect them
I am so thankful Jack isnāt here because oh my g o d this would be an hour long block of innuendos. this whole audio is just exposing the very prominent homoerotic tendencies of straight men
sometimes, and by that i mean all the time, i wonder if my family hears me listening to big finish and wonders if iām actually just watching porn. and honestly I think it would be a whole lot less embarrassing if i just told them i was watching porn instead ofĀ āyeah itās this scifi thing these characters are trying to make a hole in an invisible time force field thing. are they gay? no, well, i mean, yes, but not like that! welllll, a little bit like that, but itās NOT PORNā
āwhat the hell was that rhys? You Absolute Idiot.ā AHHH THESE TWO
āletās stuff it full of sausagesāĀ
GWEN AND IANTO TELLING EACH OTHER STORIES ABOUT THEIR IDIOT HUSBANDS IS MY LIFEBLOOD FUCKKKKKK
āback pocketā THIS IS SENDING ME BACK TO MY SHERLOCK FANDOM DAYS (fucking remember john getting sherlockās phone out of his coat that he was wearing? thatās what this is)
Rhys pretending to be Steven (Stephen?) is,,,,, oh my god,,, this is too fucking intense
god i feel so bad for rhys,,, seriously
ohmygodddddd
this took a serious turn I was not prepared for
also gwen wanting rhys to talk to ianto is,,, ughhhh i ship gwen/rhys sooo hard
rhys- baby- oh my godohmygodohmygod
im like,,, IM CRYING BRO THIS IS
āI DO love themā hhhhhh
the special sauce thing is sending me im sorry
ācan we rescue the beer?ā RHYS
āIanto you beautiful man, you did it!ā THEY!!! THEY!!!!!!
i wanna make it clear that i donāt ship rhys and ianto but i think they are so cute as friends
guys im in tears right now
the way rhys goes from not wanting ianto here to not wanting him to leave,,, um its a simple arc but iād also do anything for it
RHYS AND GWEN RHYS AND GWEN RHYS AND GWEN ANDHDHSGHFAOSDLSDLHD
āOH HEāS ADORABLE WHATS HE CALLED?ā me when i first saw Ianto Jones onscreen
āheās a colleague of the missus,,,,,, and a friendā why donāt you just shoot me in the head hm
rhysie,,, baby,,, holy shit you need to go to therapy,,, just like,,, have a chat with janet the weevil and see how you feel after
funny how rhys fucking williams is handling loss so much better than ANY of torchwood. like jack got PREGNANT after losing owen+tosh. Ianto started having sex with his immortal boss after losing his girlfriend. healthy coping mechanisms? who is she?
they let rhys say fuck a lot in this audio and that is Very Sexy of Them
ābunny has run away with my tieā h e s s o f u c k i n g p r e c i o u s
ālads lads ladsā AHHHHHHHHH
this audio. is. so good. so cute. so sad. BIG FINISH YOU DID IT AGAIN YOU SEXY BASTARDS YOU!!!!
#torchwood#big finish#rhys and ianto's excellent barbecue#audio spoilers: rhys and ianto's excellent barbecue#audio spoilers: the barbecue one#big finish spoilers#big finish ranting#i loved this one can you tell#torchwood big finish#ianto jones#rhys williams#gareth david lloyd#kai owen#cw: swearing
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legally i have to give you intern 2
em you have awoken an ungodly beast inside me so i need to warn everyone that this post is. incomprehensible. but so is mymusic so i guess we're all used to it.
How I feel about this character:
i watched mymusic as it was airing/running/coming out specifically bc i'm a jack stannie, and as a kid melvin was my second favorite character (w scene being in first, obvs) for mostly that reason. he basically hovered around this ranking until my most recent rewatch in the summer of 2020, which was actually spurred by some events in my personal life that vaguely reminded me of scene's season two arc w jeff, and i thought it'd been a funny/nostalgic way to get my mind off things.
(i want to side note here that -- i know you didn't ask, but -- i love jeff. i have since i was a kid. like, obviously not as a person but i think he's honestly the best written character in the series, w indie close in second. idk what it says about the f*nes that their most interesting and well rounded characters are the villains, but i digress. to this day i'm salty that jeff never got added to the theme song and wasn't really included in promotional merch.)
however, in said rewatch, certain things about how he was written started to really get under my skin, and certain moments in particular have really stuck out to me in a negative way. like, for the entirety of season one and a good chunk of season two he's one person, and then he leaves mymusic and we have an entirely different person, but not in a nuanced character building sort of way.
i've said a few of these points before but i'll repeat them here regardless. at the risk of sounding like i've put on a tin-foil hat, it's my sneaking suspicion that scindie was supposed to be endgame, but since fan reception to it was pretty neutral, and scenechart stans were, at the very least, more vocal, changes were made to the intended finale, which is why in the last scene he's basically just. indie. like, if everything about the show was exactly the same but indie was the one who had ended up w scene in the end that would have made so much more sense since a) scene had a crush on indie that he/everyone knew about and b) indie was kind of a dick despite the half-assed attempts at redemption, so both combined make it slightly less weird/out-of-nowhere that he kisses her w/o her consent (since, even though like. implied consent is not real at worst and a fuzzy subject at best but you could argue that scene would want indie to kiss her); and this isn't even taking into consideration that c) melvin is heavily queer-coded in both seasons, with his friendship with nerdcore being, dare i say, homoerotic at times, and his arc about leaving the company and changing his name mirroring nerdcore's almost perfectly (with nerdcore being a character who b*nny [at least] has all but confirmed is actually gay).
i've also been on the fence about melvin's behavior in that final scene making more sense for indie's character being an intentional decision as a way of shoe-horning in a theme about the lasting effects of abuse/cycles of abuse/the corruption of power but i also don't think the f*nes are smart enough for that. however, for the sake of defending my straw theory, i also point to the scene where indie comes to visit the acid factory after melvin told him to shut up, and we see melvin use reggie as a foot-stool, going as far as to say that it feels good to do so (which, in all honesty, i think is a bit that was entirely improvised, since the f*nes were "notorious for never saying cut" [paraphrased from a bts video], but work w me here). he's also given a seltzer mug that perfectly resembles indie's kombucha mug. in these moment melvin is directly emulating the behavior of his previous abuser, purposefully or not, literal moments after being promoted to an equal position of authority, which was totally just included as a joke, but could also be argued is meant to show that he's becoming indie; or, if we acknowledge that the f*nes have no fucking clue what they're doing and were just directing like chickens with their heads cut off, it at least shows that melvin's new position of power is leading him to understand where indie was coming from, which is supported by their conversation in the finale.
the following contains a couple brief mentions of irl sexual assault so if that's something you'd like to avoid skip to the next section!
HOWEVER, that alone isn't what i have a problem with, since i think melvin is completely justified in being a dick to indie (and also reggie enthusiastically consents to being used as an ottoman so good for him i guess). the issue comes completely in how he treats scene in the scenes where the f*nes clearly thought what they were writing was super romantic. like, the fact that the only thing he's got hung on his cubicle wall is a single picture of scene taken from the fucking opening credits (like. how hard would it have been to have. literally any other photo[s] esp since there's an abundance of cute bts pics of the cast in costume that could have been put there) and him scrolling through her twitter at work really creep me out (and at the risk of oversharing the weird, like, social media stalking angle really fucks w me bc that may or may not have been the exact fucking thing i was trying to escape in rewatching mymusic in the first place). also, having him sexually assault scene as a means of comforting her after she had just been sexually assaulted in the same way by someone else was... a choice (which is also, uh, personally familiar).
again, i recognize that demonizing melvin wasn't what the f*nes were trying to do here, and i perhaps seem hypocritical for opening liking jeff, but what makes jeff work is he's intentionally "the bad guy." having melvin do the same things as indie and jeff uncritically only proves further that the f*nes can't write for shit, and ruins his character which had, up until he quit mymusic, been unironically good. like, it's obviously not beneficial that the exact asshole things he does are personally triggering, but the character would still be a mess and i would still dislike him regardless.
i want to say though that jack delivers a surprisingly great performance despite how shoddily his character is constructed and how little experience he has as an actor. like, it's clear he was having a lot of fun on set and i would love to see him in something, like, good; i think he could pull off even like, guest television roles, which is a lot more than can be said for other youtubers.
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All the people I ship romantically with this character:
nerdchart should have been canon i'm sorry. i know that close, nonromantic male friendships are valuable, esp between queer men, but also gd wouldn't it have been baller to have a canon interracial mlm ship. like. c'mon. and they could have been such a good friends to lovers story! we already got to see how melvin was the only person nerdcore could really be himself around so it would have been so cool if melvin's self-advocacy arc/flowchart arc had revolved more around nerdcore with a little role-reversal! and then they kiss! like god intended!
also i ship him and indie bc i'm a grubby little gremlin man ohoho. enemies w weird sexual tension? sign me up. not even enemies to lovers i'm not saying this one should have been canon i just love the vibes. do you think melvin and indie ever explored each other's bod-- *gunshot*
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My non-romantic OTP for this character:
i wish him and scene had just been bros. god remember in season one when they were just bros that was the life.
alternatively, i wish we'd seen more bonding w him and metal, as a means of reconciling that. uh. moment from season one. along similar lines i would have loved to see him get closer w rayna in a similar way to how she bonded w nerdcore in season two. i think that could have also worked to show how she'd grown between the two seasons.
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My unpopular opinion about this character:
HIM. AND. SCENE. SHOULD. HAVE. JUST. BEEN. BROS. (though i think my general dislike of him is pretty unpopular, lmao).
when the show was coming out i don't think it's unfair to say that scenechart/scenetern 2 was the most popular ship (aside from potentially techstep whatever) but luckily we're all gay and have better taste now. unfortunately i totally fell into this camp and scenechart was even my otp for years (until it was arguably more unfortunately usurped by reddie in 2019) and i didn't even realise that it's a hot mess until, again, the summer of 2020.
when actually watching the show the choices the f*nes made in regards to how the ship actually became canon are so odd and out of place, too? okay, so, on one hand everyone just shipped scenechart bc it was the whitest hettiest ship in the show (esp in season two when idol left) aside from scindie (and we already discussed what's wrong w that). but, on the other hand, lainey and jack clearly also just got along? and i suspect that lainey probably also admired jack's work and was happy to be working with him bc we have so many shots throughout even the first season when the ship wasn't the intended endgame of lainey scene looking really fondly at jack melvin at times when it doesn't make much sense at all, esp since she's smitten w indie? this trend continues into the second season which arguably works but it still seems really out of place for him to be the one to ultimately make the first move on her since it's clear she was the one crushing this whole time and also he's gay! this bitch is gay what the fuck!!
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One thing I wish had happened with this character in canon:
at this point i'm struggling to think of anything i haven't covered yet. oops.
i've talked at length before about how he should have been a woman/lesbian, but the tl;dr is that it would have solved a lot of the queer-coding "problems" that just didn't get resolved in the show. if he'd been a lesbian then not only would the friendship w nerdcore still made sense, but scenechart would have as well (not even mentioning that both of scene's other relationships w men make a lot of sense as comphet anyway).
#long post#this took me an hour to write i literally had to get a snack in the middle of it#mymusicshow#mymusic show#question#mlentertainment#also having a character named scene when you have to write about scenes like. in a story is an absolute bitch
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teehee. brainstorming
ok i already got dante as ghost. and he's got the whole Thing with nikolai
so i wanna do ones at least for my other f/os. bc why not
lily is based on beautiful. it's actually a bit of a messed up ability i think. where it temporarily removes someone's facial features. they can still breathe but they can't see or speak. i don't think it has an actual time limit but to make it not overpowered you can only use it on one person at a time. touch activated at will. it works mostly for 1 on 1 battles ofc. i don't want lily to be evil so like this is strictly used if necessary. also i will somehow figure out how to get it with poe perhaps
now! one i technically already brainstormed before. winning hand - luck manipulation. for jack (duh)
tweaking the original idea a bit to make the ability connected to an actual cards pack (the same way nikolai's ability is connected to his cloak and kunikida's is a specific notebook, yknow). jack draws 5 cards from it, and whatever combination comes out affects the luck of the person they use it on (including themselves). they can't see the actual hand before choosing who to affect, so it is very much. well. luck based hehe
the combinations come from poker hands, so like high card is shit luck, everything you try to do fails, and royal flush is unnaturally good luck, everything you try to do works out perfectly. other people can use the cards, but jack has to activate the ability itself (same way kunikida's ability works basically). until they do, you can't actually see what the cards say. the ability fades away once jack reshuffles the cards (if they use their ability on themselves and happen to fail hard, the bad luck does not affect the actual card pack. so like they won't accidentally drop it or fail to shuffle it or smth. they can technically reshuffle it until they get a good result, if the situation allows that). it can be used on multiple people at once, up to 10 (5 cards for each person after all)
anyway as you may have been able to guess from the comparisons. i'm getting jack with kunikida and no one can stop me. i think the order/chaos thing they've got going on would be fun.
jack is an ada member. how did they get there i have no idea. maybe a friend of a friend situation like they know another member and they needed some form of protection so that member helped them get involved (i wanna say atsushi. bc i love atsushi. they're besties now. and the protection thing is um. they used to be a guild member but like mark they mostly just chilled. ran away after the group disbanded. befriended atsushi afterwards. i'll figure out that part of the backstory later). they don't go out on the field too often for battle related stuff at first, sticking to solving crimes with or without the use of their ability - using unnatural luck to find more clues and evidence and the likes, for example. they're not too great at fighting, and relying on their ability for that is too risky, so they need to be trained in combat first. and who better to train them. than kunikida ššš cue the homoerotic fighting montage. kunikida beating their ass over and over. eventually they get the upper hand on him and pin him to the ground. both blushing and panting from the fight. i'm gonna stop there bc blood is rushing to my dick too fast rn and i'm getting dizzy /j
thank you for reading my rambling š§ maybe i'll make one for chuuya too eventually (he's not my f/o. for now. but i do wanna kiss him š„ŗ). and maybe i'll doodle some designs for them eventually like i did for dante š¤
i should make more self inserts. like one for each name i use perhaps š§
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So I guess Iām hyperfixating on Death Stranding at the moment
And since Iāve finally finished the story after playing it for like 100 hours over the course of seven months or so I guess I have Opinions(tm) about things I didnāt like in the game
Theyāre eating at my brain so Iām gonna put them all in a single post to get them out of my system once and for all so I can enjoy the rest in peace
Spoilers, obviously
Hi welcome back to āJohannes is obsessing over yet another video game with horror elements in itā! I guess!!
Our latest entry in that category was Until Dawn but since UD can be played in like 6/7 hours and I spent 100 hours of my life on DS, as you can guess weāre talking about a full-blown hyperfixation, the kind that physically hurts because I canāt focus on anything else even after having finished the storyline
But it was super gradual. Again, seven months. I barely made any progress from December to May because I was only doing side-deliveries at the beginning of Chapter 3 instead of... you know... advancing the plot. It became an honest-to-god special interest about two months ago, then 6 days ago while playing chapter 10 it reached hyperfixation levels and now I am in PAIN
I hate my brain
Anyhow
At first I wanted to list the good and the bad hings in it but thereās too many good things to list them all in full, excruciatingly long details, so
Very Quick And Very Incomplete List Of Good Things That I Love
Itās a post-apo game based on travel, logistics, and good will, and it straight up goes AGAINST the whole āsurvival of the fittestā trope that SO MANY post-apo things try to push!! YES
I insist but itās built on helping each other and keeping everyone alive, seriously that is my shit right there!
The online community is wholesome?? People leave stuff everywhere, you never see anyone but people put little helpful signs and send you likes, and in my game we almost managed to repair all the roads together
Thereās so many new & strange allergies and disabilities and phobias in this post-apo world and? nobody is trying to āāfixāā anyone?? Like Heartman with his padded floor and his little box that brings him back to life constantly. Heās just... living like that. Nobodyās going āhey maybe you should get another heart operation buddyā
The hero and his phobia of being touched. I. Loved. That. The quiet scenes when he was just talking with Fragile, sitting next to her. In any other context this would just be two people sitting next to each other and talking but it always feels so soft and intimate everytime he allows another human being to just. be next to him. I love it. I love them
Everyone crying constantly because of chiral allergy!!
I loved all the important characters bar one (Bridget/Amelie)!
Why is this walking simulator so enjoyable why am I enjoying the fact that holding L2 + R2 while walking feels like holding your backpack and that you have to relax at times just like youād have to if you were actually holding a backpack
Seriously. Why
The atmosphere was so great, the music was fantastic and the visuals were on point. A E S T H E T I C
The ghosts!! The giant Beached Things!!! Chiral crystals look! like! creepy hands reaching for the SKY!!
THE RAIN DESTROYS THINGS AND KILLS PEOPLE BY ACCELERATING TIME THIS IS SO COOL SHUT UP
Everytime the game got surreal it was electrifying
THE SURREAL WAR SCENES ON CLIFFāS BEACH
Everyone is using emojis
Thereās guys addicted to delivering packages in that game and theyāre trying to steal our stuff and weāre like āhaha theyāre dumbā but weāre basically addicted to delivering packages as the player. So yeah that was pretty fun
Terrorists thinking humanity isnāt going extinct fast enough and wanting to just rip the bandaid and speed things up. Simple but effective concept
People ask for SUPER VITAL ITEMS right next to completely trivial stuff and Iām LIVING for it.Ā āPlease fetch my toy dinosaurā. I feel you dude
The most isolated characters are like "LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS THING I LIKE" in your emails because they haven't had contact with other humans in years, it's super relatable
Thereās a farm where people use the fact that Timefall rain accelerates time to grow food super quickly in one (1) Timefall and harvest everything just before it starts to die and I LOVE that detail of worldbuilding so much
YOUāRE FIGHTING BEACHED THINGS WITH YOUR OWN BODILY FLUIDS ITāS SO STUPID BUT ALSO SO COOL?? I love yeet-ing my own blood at eldritch entities
THE T W I S T S
All the fanservice (bar one detail that Iām gonna complain about later) is on dudes. This game reeeeeeally likes to show dudes naked or somewhat naked. Mostly the main character but this mocap also L O V E S Mads Mikkelsen and thereās a shit ton of homoerotic shots in there
I love Sam the antisocial papa wolf delivery man and if someone touches him or his baby again, I will cry
LOU. LOU LOU LOU PRECIOUS BABY IāD DIE FOR YOU. Wait I did
I love Fragile and how brave she is and how she keeps helping people even if most of them wrongly think sheās a terrorist and yes I will eat this cryptobiote thank you
I love soft science boi Heartman who keeps dying again and again and is a bit too much interested in bodily fluids
I love garbage man Higgs and how complex, funny and still somewhat tragic this memelord actually turned out to be in the end
Seriously I want to stop fixating on this character but you canāt give me YET ANOTHER character who wants to die but at the hands of someone else, that is unfair to do that right after my fixation on the new Doctor Who Master
So yeah Higgs is yet another character who makes me want to grab him by the lapels and shake him and yell WHY! ARE! YOU! LIKE! THIS! STOP! BEING! LIKE! THIS!!
Cliff broke all three of my feelings beautifully and in excruciatingly well-acted scenes that transcended the sometimes lackluster dialogue
John made me cry during That Scene
Mama your background was tragic and terrifying and you didnāt deserve any of this shit and I love you
Deadman was more funny than anything, really, but I still liked him even if he had no sense of personal space whatsoever and it clashed horribly with Samās phobias
The ending had some sad parts but was mostly positive, thank goodness
Now Iām gonna explain things I dislike and this looks long but itās actually only 5 main things so I bolded them to avoid confusion
Things I really disliked (and could have been handled wayyyy better)
We all know it but Kojima isnāt a master of subtlety and some parts of the dialogue kept repeating the same informations again and again AND AGAIN and I was like āok ok I get itā
The dialogue can be so bad at times seriously
Kojima is a bad writer there I said it
It was particularly annoying with Amelie/Bridget and the fact sheās a horrible person trying (and failing) to justify her actions wasnāt helping
Bridges protocols are incredibly intrusive. All of them. I know itās framed as bad and Sam hates being spied on all the time and in the end he destroys the device that does that, but I wish someone else would openly criticise it in-game
I guess Deadman sort of did but still
Also I know the whole BB technology was Bridgetās idea, and since sheās the actual villain itās framed as a twisted, evil thing during the ending, but I wish that had been framed like that much earlier ; a lot of Bridges employees just... seem to accept the idea that their employer is using premature babies and their dead mothers as useful, if disturbing, devices. They seem to justify it by āuh we stole that technology from terroristsā to try to cope with the idea but... yeah.
I mean, one of the points being made very early on is that Sam sees his BB as his child who must be protected at all costs instead of a detection device, but I really wish he wasnāt the only one to object to that thing
Again, the game DOES frame "using babies and their dead mothers as toolsā as evil and twisted, I just wish it was given a lot more weight and way sooner
Now letās talk about the Token Straight(tm) in this game
In any other kind of context it would be a joke! But Death Stranding literally has a Token Straight Guy!
I mean, there IS a few hetero couples among the Preppers. Not a lot, mind you. Like, thereās the Montaineer and his wife for instance. But theyāre just there and itās not what their side plot is about
No Iām talking about this piece of shit right there
This fācking Junk Dealer guy complains the girl he loves is dead because of Bridges and emotionally blackmails us by sending us old holograms of her before her supposed death (somewhat disturbing holograms too because she looks... pretty young in them), then he sends us on whatās essentially a suicide mission in a BT infested zone, THEN when we give him proof sheās still alive and living in another bunker nearby, he wonāt go there himself to check??
But SHEās like āok, bring me to him, then!ā
He doesnāt deserve you, girl
Iāve already seen several people pointing out that carrying a woman as cargo on your back is... debatable at best and sexist at worst, but that part didnāt really bother me to be honest? She asked to be carried to him and itās her choice. She was talking to us the entire way too, so that made things a lot less awkward. Also Sam has this phobia of being touched by other people so I bet carrying another human being on his back isnāt fun for him. It was also super stressful to do, to be honest.
And then thereās this EXTREMELY AWKWARD scene when theyāre reunited and decide to get married, and thankfully Sam finds it just as awkward as we do because heās standing super far away from the bunker in a ācanāt they talk about this later - Iām right thereā way. And Iām under the impression it was intended as cringy, in a āyeppp young people in love are Like Thatā sort of way, so I can accept that, to be honest. If you donāt take that scene seriously, itās pretty fun in, again, a cringy sort of way
BUT
Then you receive more emails later and this piece of shit guy complains about her and heās like āugh WOMENā or āmarriage is the worstā and they end up divorced in record time and she goes back to her bunker
Which isnāt my problem with this subplot either, I promise Iām gonna explain myself eventually but this context is important. Itās okay to have characters who are pieces of shit like this guy who reeks of incel cologne. Itās alright. Not every character has to be a role-model. Itās good to have characters you can hate.
BUT THEN they get back together later to try to patch things up and you learn he was part of a gang who murdered her parents even though he protected her against the rest of the gang and thatās what I hated about that storyline. I guess if you squint it can be read as āthis woman is making REALLY BAD life choicesā but I read it as āhe saved her so she owes him something, he canāt be entirely badā and y i k e s this left such a bad taste in my mouth, good lord.
But yeah miss Chiral Artist youāre making really bad life choices please get away from this dude as soon as you can, thank you
Also donāt do this āsending Likesā pose ever again, it was hilarious but also you made me use the word ācringyā several times in this paragraph even though I absolutely hate cringe culture, look what you made me do
Now I have to talk about a scene that was intentionally disturbing as hell but ONE (1) detail in it was disturbing for the wrong reasons
To be honest, I really donāt like the Metal Gear Solid games and one of the reasons is the rampant sexism in them so I... was kind of bracing myself for Death Stranding and expecting it to have at least SOME really bad fanservice with a woman at one point or another but to my surprise?? There was none? All the fanservice is on dudes??? Hello? I really liked that (well at some point Fragile takes a shower in our room but we see literally nothing except her shoulder and then Sam looks away)?? What a refreshing change
THAT BEING SAID
And if you played the game you know exactly what Iām about to talk about
Yep this is the part where Johannes complains about how the bomb flashback was shot
Ok so I guess I should also give some context in case someone is reading this but hasnāt played the game, but the deal with this scene is that our friend Fragile was betrayed by her colleague Higgs who used to be a porter but became a terrorist after meeting the āmainā villain of the game. First he secretly put a thermonuclear bomb in one of her deliveries so sheād nuke an entire city without even knowing it, and everyone after that thought she was a terrorist. And then he tried to do that shit A SECOND TIME, but she noticed and decided to toss the second nuke into a bottomless lake of tar. But he caught her just before she reached the lake and he decided to give her a sadistic choice, which wasĀ āteleport away and the bomb stays there and nukes the city, or carry it to the lake but only in your underwear under this rain that speeds up time and it will do enormous damage to your health and your bodyā
And of course being the hero she is, she decides to take the second option
And itās an incredibly disturbing scene and itās genuinely hard to watch
But itās also the ONLY time a woman is in her underwear in this entire game and thereās A COUPLE of shots that were male-gaze-y at the beginning before she started to run and the really horrific part started.
So in a way I guess it could have been worse? way worse, even
But it still tarnishes an otherwise disturbing (and harrowing at times ; seriously I know Iām oversensitive but it was physically painful to watch) scene with unnecessary shots
We know Fragile had a young body before this happened, this isnāt the point of this scene, guys
Whoever decided to keep these shots (probably Kojima letās face it), that is bad and you should feel bad
Idk how to do a visual transition for that next one because I do not want to screen that memo
So hereās a screenshot with a nice landscape instead
tw: acephobia
Now I have to talk about something I like the GENERAL IDEA of, but not how the IN-GAME MATERIAL ABOUT IT was written
Because I have to talk about that āasexual worldā memo
First I have to say that I absolutely love the fact that a mainstream game openly says in-game āthis future is full of asexual people" and?? itās just that, itās a part of this world. Thatās just how things are. Itās normalised. I love it. For crying out loud this memo has the word demisexual in it. I canāt think of any other mainstream game that had this word in it so far.
It should have stopped there and let me enjoy that in peace but it didnāt
THE MEMO ITSELF WAS CLEARLY WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO DOESNāT KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THESE CONCEPTS and thereās some really bad stuff there. Iād say itās accidental acephobia but itās still there. Iām not the best person to talk about this because Iām bi, but it still rubbed me the wrong way
The words this memo uses near the beginning are ā"sexless lifestyleā among young peopleā and yikes, my dude. āLifestyleā, uh? Really?
And then it goes on about how these new labels were already more and more common āamong young people before the Death Strandingā and it also rubs me the wrong way, in a āwow young people and their weird labels lolā sort of queerphobic way?
However Iāve seen a post pointing out that the line āOne theory posits that the Stranding accelerated the proliferation of these sexualitiesā was maybe a way of saying āyo asexuals are causing the end of the worldā but... I donāt see it, tbh? In the context of the game, society is extremely divided and a lot of people live in complete isolation and social norms have heavily shifted and itās kind of normal that thereās queer people visible everywhere now, aces included obviously, because nobodyās bothering to hide it anymore. Itās a post-apocalyptic world! People are just being themselves! A lot of characters also seem to be bi/pan! Theyāre just vibing ok
At least thatās how I read that part, I can understand if someone had a problem with that bit but I didnāt
BUT! THATāS NOT ALL because the memo concludes (Iām paraphrasing) āthe birth rate has dropped, which might be a problem, but harassment and assault have also dropped, which is good, so idk itās 50/50ā³ and. like. I get the intention. But itās clumsy as hell and very bad. Please donāt confuse abuse of power and attraction. They donāt go hand in hand. Donāt do that. Please. And you know that aces can have kids if they want to, right. Come on. Itās 2020 my dude. This shit is harmful
Also. Like. Itās the end of the world in this game. People donāt want kids. It... has nothing to do with aces. Reality itself is crashing down. People are reluctant to have kids because reality.exe might fācking crash down at any given moment!
Or a Beached Thing could VoidOut their city!
Or someone might send them a nuke, not naming names!!
Anyway!!!
Itās really badly written and whoever wrote it should educate themselves and maybe get an ace to re-read their stuff next time??
Again Iām not the right person to talk about acephobia and I bet an actual ace would have plenty more to say about this
Thankfully itās a memo written in-game by a random Bridges councellor and NOT by any important character that we actually know
"I must preempt myself by admitting that I do not have any empirical data" yeah so, fāck off maybe
So Iām just gonna call that guy āanother piece of shit characterā but it still doesnāt excuse the fact that the memo was written by someone who thought it was a good idea to put it in the game
Just let me enjoy my super queer post-apo world in peace and donāt write shit like that in your game thank you and goodbye
Minor stuff I also disliked but it wasnāt as awful
I get that Sam is upset at the end because Lou is dying but the way he said goodbye to Fragile broke my heart. It was abrupt and you KNOW heās upset and wants to have nothing to do with Bridges anymore and thatās very understandable but it isnāt her fault
Seriously I want them to be friends again
Iām gonna pretend theyāre friends again after Lou is saved and that Sam is a freelance porter again and sometimes their paths cross and they just talk together in the middle of nowhere and share cryptobiotes
The pacing is weird, thereās this deluge of plot in the beginning and the end but not much in the middle?
The BT boss fights could have been these epic Shadow of the Colossus showdowns but no, they were relatively standard boss fights. Wasted opportunity
The running on the Beach scene sdfghjhgfdsdfghjhgf that was... dumb
A lot of preppers are interesting in one way or another but some are just boring. Also I wish the design of their bunkers was more varied
Amelie/Bridgetās motivations are all over the place, both creating Bridges AND the Demens is... a lot? I know she both WANTS and DOESNāT want the actual, final end of the world to happen but that is a lot to take in and itās all very confusing
Who the hell cares about ārebuilding Americaā I just want to build a network where people can help each other
The ālikesā are fun but donāt make much sense
In conclusion
Death Stranding Good
Some stuff Bad
Some stuff Very Bad (but itās just one memo out of 100+ memos, thank god)
Iām still hyperfixating
Send help
#death stranding#long post#eye contact tw#acephobia tw#from a minor unamed character but still it's there
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Why Suits disappointed me so much (a Marvey perspective)
Or the s09 rant that slowly turned into a s07 rant.
So Suits is over. I am bittersweet about this, this show really got to me, and a part of me is sad to see it go. Another part of me considers the thing I actually loved the show for over since s07 (even s06), so it wasnāt that big of a loss.Ā
I've been thinking why s09 let me down so much as an ardent Marvey fan (obviously, I didnāt expect them to rip off their clothes and admit their feelings to each other *sigh*). So here are my thoughts... Spoilers for the finale below.
Simply put, the dynamic between Mike and Harvey is gone. Itās been gone for a while now but in s09 Mike appeared for the first time in years and he was written in as some random side character rather than an (ex)main character. If someone first starts watching the show with s09, theyād never guess this guy used to be the actual main character. I donāt think it was handled right because that wasnāt what Mike fans would want to see and if not for them, why do bother bringing him back in the first place?Ā
A lot of the things that made their relationship special were absent. Among those were:
a) banter - it was either flat (with a few exceptions) or involved other people. Donna made so many fraud and prison jokes youād think she was the one to go prison. I generally hated how the whole fraud business was simply used as comic relief when it caused everything to go to shit for everyone! I know they did that before too (and it was actually funny), but it was a tad too much in s09.Ā
b) them vs. the world - they didnāt have a single thing to themselves (even the jokes). I absolutely abhorred the fact that in s09e09, Donna was the one to come up with a legal strategy so Mike can help bring Faye down by representing Samantha. Then to ultimately slap me in the face, they gave us a scene in s09e10 in which Mike and Harvey actually work together (āIāve never stopped trusting youā omggg <3), and then when Harvey explained the gameplan to Louis and Donna it was presented like he came up with it all by himself and got Mike and Samantha to agree. WTF? I thought it wasĀ āone last conā???Ā
c) protecting each other - I get that Mike wasnāt central to the whole Faye plot but they couldāve given us something. Instead, they treat Mike and Harvey as regular lawyers and colleagues. If I were a writer on the show, Iād have milked things like Harvey putting Mike on the stand for all its Marvey goodness and potential. At least Mike taking things personally and blaming Harvey for everything was something normal.
Overall, I got the feeling the screenwriters had forgotten how to write Mike. One of the most emotional characters of the show and this supposedly genius legal mind came off as a pretty emotionless sidekick to Samantha of all people.Ā Ā Ā
Now, to be honest, the Marvey dynamic has been dying ever since Mike came out of prison. But his long absence from the show probably caused me to have higher expectations for the few precious moments heād be back. Because to be completely fair I was just as disappointed in s07, if not more. I kept thinking why the moment Mike got into the Bar, he seemed like he couldnāt give less of a shit about Harvey. Did the writers try to show us he didnāt need Harvey anymore since he was now his equal? It was horrible because nobody can convince me that relationship isnāt special, isnāt more than comradery, more than simple friendship among coworkers. They were ready to give up everything for each other back in seasons 1-6. Then in s07 Harvey is just the obstructionist boss, and in s09 theyāre trying to make us believe theyāre just friendly ex-colleagues. What happened to being family? Maybe we overdosed so much during Mikeās trial and prison time that everything after it is just not enough.Ā
Looking back, things changed when Mike went into prison. In the first five seasons Mike was the more actively caring side of this relationship, he more often than not, went the extra mile for Harvey. Once he went to prison that was flipped the other way and Harvey in his desperation to help him moved Heaven and Earth and what did he get in return - not even a goddamn hug. (That will never stop bothering me or the lack of hugs when Mike got into the Bar - he embraced goddamn Jessica, but couldnāt do it for the man who did all of this for him; at least they werenāt stingy with hugs in s09).Ā
Back to s09, maybe itād been better if they openly worked together at least for the finale. Thatād be like good old times (they milked the nostalgia so much Iām not even sure they know they put so many references to past seasons in there). They didnāt have to pretend to add something new to the relationship by making them adversaries which weāve already been through, but it was done way better in s04.Ā Ā
In my mind, the whole Harvey-Mike relationship was consciously changed after s06. Before that canon made us believe it was truly extraordinary and simply more, and then theyĀ deliberately presented them as kinda friendly colleagues. I keep thinking it was to try and convince us Mikeās secret was the only thing that made that relationship special or theĀ āoutgrowingā your mentor bs I talked a few paragraphs above. Which is bullshit, Mike even actually said in canon he loves him (feel free to put or remove the homoerotic context of that) and then what? All of that was because he needed Harvey to mentor him and protect him from getting caught? (Not to mention they got Harvey to say he loves Louis but not Mike... c'mon, you could have given us something.) In that context, s09 shouldnāt have surprised me at all, but it still hurt me to see what was a great duo reduced to bad jokes and an excuse to gush about Darvey.Ā Ā Ā
Darvey - I havenāt brought that up because remembering earlier seasons Donna was often brought up in Marvey conversation and that hasnāt changed. I just didnāt pay attention to it back then, and now it pisses me off because the whole Darvey relationship pisses me off. Oh, and they couldnāt even elevate Mike to be best man for Harvey in the f-ing Darvey wedding! Itās bad enough Harvey interrupted his conversation with Mike to propose, but they couldnāt at least show how special Mike is by making him best man or something.Ā
In conclusion, I wish I couldnāve helped written at least the finale (if not the abomination that was episode 5). I wouldnāt have even included romantic stuff, just canon Marvey dynamic. Iāll never believe they did justice to the unique duo of characters that got this show popular in the first place.Ā Ā Ā Ā
I canāt overemphasize how desperate for good fix-it fics Iām atm. I really wish I could write fic in moments like these... At least we have Seattle!
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Pleas tell me more about Shaw/Magneto
Hey there friend! Iām sorry I kept you waiting a couple days on this. But Christmas was too busy for me to sit down and do the essay this deserves, and then the day after I had mega computer trouble. And it did unfortunately turn into an essay, so I put it under a cut for the sheer fucking length. Iām sorry, I just have too much time on my hands. I also have a Shaw blog @sebastianshaw if you want to send more questions there!
Okay, so in the 1980s, Magneto (who was no longer the Brotherhood leader at this time, but had reformed and was teaching the New Mutants) and Storm both joined the Hellfire Club, hoping to use its resources for good and foil its evil from within before it could start (rather than just attacking them every time they got up to shit) and because things were getting worse for mutants at this point than they had been before, and ALL of them figured they had a better chance together. Magneto and Storm jointly occupied the seat of White King, but Storm had a lot of other shit going on, so it was really only ever Magneto who showed up and got involved. The reasons why Shaw and Magneto would clash both personally and politically is easy to see, and they did so a lot, even though Shaw is the guy who invited him in in the first place.Ā So, whereās the gay here? Well, the thing is, Shaw and Magneto didnāt just have these arguments while sitting or standing around fully clothed like normal people. Oh no. They had to have their shirts off. And tussle around on the floor together. While shirtless. After having both come out of the Hellfire Clubās menās bathroom WITH NO EXPLANATION AS TO WHAT THEY WERE DOING THERE. And then METAL TENTACLES got involved.
Philosophy, he says. Yup, that definitely looks like every philosophical discussion that Iāve ever had. Iām sure things would have gotten even MORE philosophical if the ladies hadnāt interrupted. Eventually, things come to a head, Magneto and Shaw have a big grand fight (during which Magneto rams Shaw with a large phallic object)
And at the end of it, Magneto moves to vote Shaw out of the Club, and Selene and Emma supported the motion. Thus, Shaw was ousted from the Club (for the time being) and Magneto became Grey King, occupying both White and Black King positions (Storm was out of the picture by now I believe)And as much as Magneto got under his skin DURING the time they were in the Hellfire Club, it was EVEN WORSE after Shaw got kicked out. Shaw wanted VENGEANCE, which is actually something weāve NEVER seen from him before or since. A lot of villains are all about revenge, but itās actually never been something Shaw bothered with. I wouldnāt go so far as to say heās not vindictiveāhe is, and heāll show it in small petty ways, like snide comments, he definitely holds grudgesā but he never wasted time and resources on it before. But apparently, Magneto was something special. And he thought that Magneto was trying to do the same to him. As Shaw put itā āOur mutual hatred approaches legend!ā
Which isā¦hilarious. Our MUTUAL hatred? Legend? Really, Shaw? Like, Magneto dislikes Shaw, certainly, but he definitely does NOT put Shaw on the level of importance that Shaw puts him. But Shaw thinks he does. Shaw thinks they are ARCH NEMESISES now. Shaw thinks they are a THING. Shaw THINKS that Magneto is thinking about HIM and how to get back at him just like vice versa. I love the phrase āAh, my old enemyā like dude youāve probably known him LESS THAN A YEAR.Now, this could just be attributed to Shaw simply thinking heās more important than he is. Which is certainly true. That is a totally fair, valid, and rational reading. But this is my opinion on it. He certainly has some BIGGER reactions to people he perceives as having wronged him in some wayālike his story in which he tries to force Sage to become his loyal āTessaā againābut heās always much calmer in them. Itās only Magneto, and then Emma, that makes him screamā¦and only after writers decided that he and Emma had been a couple in the past.Alsoā¦the guy who wrote the 1980s Shaw and Magneto stuff? Was Chris Claremont. Meaning he KNEW what kind of subtext he was putting in there. See, in addition to Claremont being NOTORIOUSLY into bondage (it shows up a LOT in his work) he also put a lot of gay in his workā-heās the one who invented Cherik (gave Charles and Magneto their past and all the chemistry between them), invented Mystique and Destiny and made them a couple (and wanted Nightcrawler to be their natural-born child, with Destiny as the mother and Mystique having fathered him in male form), a ton of predatory lesbian villains who went after the teen heroines (which is what Emma and Selene were at this point, actually, which I guess is why they didnāt join in) and a lot of f/f stuff in general but also sometimes m/m. Sometimes very fetishy (see: dominatrix lesbians) but also sometimes very genuinely heartfelt and humanizing (Mystique and Destiny) This isnāt just all fan conjecture either, heās confirmed he meant it at that way on some stuff (namely Mystique/Destiny and Rachel/Kitty)So, if thereās homoerotic subtext and CLAREMONT wrote it? It was probably intended. Especially if bondage (like metal tentacles) was involved. Dude REALLY loved bondage. Like, I cannot stress to you ENOUGH how much Chris Claremont loves bondage. I have seen entire BLOGS detailed to chronicling how kinky this man was (and heās the dude who invented the Hellfire Club, so that tracks)
So yeah in normal circumstances Iād say maybe I was reaching and this scenario wasnāt meant as sexualā¦But itās Claremont. I rest my case. Also, Shaw confirmed heās bisexual in X-Men (2019) #3, so thereās that too.Also, this:
Thatās kinky choking right there. And itās not like Shaw is any stranger to HOMOEROTIC FIGHTS IN GENERAL.
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