#should have watched sooner

[fear-is-nameless]

To say I'm a new fan of 'Good Omens' is an understatement, I only really got into it about 6 days ago, binging both seasons.

5.5 of those days have been immense pain.

I'm still new to these characters, world, story, theories, world, etc.

But I understand.

[heartorbit]

billions must yuri

[goldkirk]

I don’t know how to explain any more clearly that it doesn’t MATTER if it seems legitimate to you. You have got to fact check every single headline and post and claim on the left just like you need to do on the right.

The left is NOT immune to misinformation and rushed reporting. And the more emotionally polarizing or shocking the talking points, sound bytes, and headlines are, the worse it is and more frequently it happens.

Learn to verify through multiple independent sources. If you can’t do that, you can’t trust it.

If you have to wait extra hours for the real information to come through vetted channels—NOT just one individual somewhere everyone links to, and not just one single media source either, EVEN if it’s a major news network—thats just how it has to be. What news outside of genuine local disasters near you TRULY needs your outrage and post-sharing in the next hour specifically?

Misinformation works best by not seeming like misinformation and by fitting in with the rest of what you already expect to see. It doesn’t help anyone to not be able to recognize and avoid the stuff.

[idiotsinkdaisies]

(longer post) once again over analyzing network tv shows trying to recreate the high i felt when S8x06 "Confessions" first aired - the one scene that I never liked was the Josh Glee speech, but now looking back I have thoughts about the why/who of it all:

Josh comes in and the first few lines of dialogue are him saying "right, you're with Tommy. Unless there's another boy?" and Maddie replies with "There's another woman."

reading in, this is on the nose about bucktommy as a relationship not just being between buck and tommy!! There is a third person in that relationship - and this scene frames that third person as being Abby Clark.

(Third person as a disruption/source of conflict, not in a poly way.)

Regardless of how you feel about Abby, she was Buck's first real adult relationship and made him realize what he wants within one - he learned how to "step into the circle" and meet his partners where they are at with her - it was Abby and Patrica in S1, and Eddie and Chris in S2 onward.

he never steps into the circle with Tommy because that relationship never developed emotional depth

(IMO) Buck realizes that Tommy left Abby in a way that mirrors how she leaves him - a serious partner coming to terms with the fact that they have to leave you to find themself/do what is right for them. He's both emphasizing with Abby for being left, and realizing Tommy hurt her in a way that she hurt him. Buck jumps to a logical conclusion, very much an if A=B and B=C does A=C? Could Tommy hurt him?

Abby is less a third person in bucktommy and more so haunting the narrative with great hair, a well traveled passport, and her annotated copy of eat pray love.

Still, she's talked about and discussed a few times that episode (introduced during the bucktommy date as a conflict, at dispatch, then during the breakup scene.) So explicitly - is she why they break up? no... but is it a part of it... yes (?)

Is she the third person?

Bucktommy always had a third person!! And It is not Abby Clark!!

buck bothered and bewildered was like look! he's so jealous eddie has a new friend. and then 9-1-1 goes um actually he's jealous of the new friend :) obviously :)

even tommy replies to "I wanted your attention" with "my attention?" just for buck to go "I guess so."

buck lurks in the diaz home but eddie lurks in buck's relationships... who is the real #obsessive...

They never explicitly said that eddie diaz is the reason bucktommy struggles/falls flat as a relationship.. but there were signs for those with eyes to see ("bring eddie" "really?" "and die")

Back to the Josh scene - we get into this part I like a lot, which is what is right before he goes into the Glee bit:

It was scarier, more confusing, and not half as accepting. And so sometimes we did things to protect ourselves, things that we might not be proud of, that now look less noble.

The Glee part is.. a choice.. and as someone who watched Glee and would attribute Santana as part of my lesbian awakening and being amazed that they were allowed to have LGBT characters on screen.. I should have fully emphasized with Tommy. At face value it's a scene to make Tommy more relatable/empathetic/forgivable. Unfortunately for Tommy, i think he's at best uninteresting and at worst racist/misogynistic and the scene really didn't do anything to change my opinion for better or for worse.

So then there's a choice that was made - why have Josh give a speech about repression and the struggles queer characters have to Buck in the same episode where he breaks up with the boyfriend in question?

Buck (seemingly) is not going to have any internalized homophobia plot lines, so it is a good theme to introduce! Just because Buck had an "easy" sexuality realization where his queerness is not a point of angst, that does not mean other characters are going to have a simple one.

(we do see this with Micheal in S1 specifically - but if this is truly introducing a theme - it's a little late for it to be related to him)

Is there another character on 9-1-1 that might have battle scars related to sexuality, might have seen a scary confusing world that is not accepting and done things they're not proud of... who might have married a woman and lived as a heterosexual man for years...

in summary: it feels clumsy because they're talking about a "third person" haunting the bucktommy relationship and they have the wrong third person!! they talk about repression influencing a character's choices and they have the wrong character!!

will josh's speech be referenced/re-quoted in reference to Eddie i can only wonder ...

is this intentional or am i reading too far into things?? anyways.

[rumarot]

my obsessions are taking over me very fast.

more of my fella, with rare interaction, and bug outfit/skin concept because they deserve to be a bug 🪲 (with trans colored wings waow!!)

[shaibonbon]

Just finished watching breaking bad and the memes don't feel the same anymore

[xccentriktigress]

I just started watching The Owl House so this is probably old news but...

Non-binary icon Luz Noceda?

[lululeighsworld]

VAN HELSING (2004) WAS GOOD BUT THERE WAS NO BLOOD DRINKING.............i would have liked to have seen a neck getting bitten!!

edit: oh wait also. the scene where one of the brides is holding a little vessel of blood and says "30 years old. perfectly aged." babe you can drink older. add a lil spice to your life. im sure the old men taste good too.

[utilitycaster]

me when i'm a lesbian werewolf moon cleric brutally reading my ex-girlfriend for filth over the phone at 3 am

[crehador]

you are both so stupid

[carnivorousdoe]

“𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴.”

(pov — you’re rolan)

[brutal-out-here]

As someone who despises misunderstandings with a burning passion, watching an entire war begin because of one and then said person who misunderstood finding out about the misunderstanding and continuing to let it go on is so so awful to watch

[metalandmagi]

What I thought Oshi no Ko was going to be: Another degenerate reincarnation story featuring a scummy piece of shit for a main character who takes advantage of being a baby for the sake of creeping on his idol mom.

What Oshi no Ko actually is: A surprisingly wholesome and interesting look into the entertainment industry and the darkness surrounding idol culture with lots of twists and mysteries, featuring a main character who's only scummy in the first 11 minutes but then turns out to be the voice of reason and justice for the rest of the show.

[koenigami]

the world needs more yakuza romance

[midnight-rice]

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME R*BY VOL 9 WAS ACTUALLY GOOD?!?!? PIXAR LEVELS OF PATHOS ABT MY FAVORITE THEMES LIKE SELF-LOATHING AND THE PRESSURE OF EXPECTATIONS AND SUICIDE AND GROWTH AND REBIRTH AND ALL I EVER HEARD ABOUT IT WAS "the best part was when our ship became canon in objectively the most contrived way possible :)" AND "here's 10 reasons why jaune is a piece of shit who deserves to die" I HATE IT HEREEEEEE

[itsanidiom]

charn is such a slutty little hœ (affectionate)