#silly season never ends

[verstakult]

this quali man, silly little notes

liam’s immediate assumption that it was fernando who went slow on him in q1 and raged at the radio about it (“that was stroll” -his radio engineer) (please their hydrogen bomb x coughing baby beef is so funny)

saubers going into q2 (ZHOU P12 !!) so close to q1 but happy for them

peepaw fernando deciding to just do one lap at the very last second of q2 and immediately serving cunt, passes into q1 anyway! this diva

oscar beautiful lap time number 1:21.121 (disclaimer: this is not his fastest one)

red bull cars actually got fixed??! (shocking?) MAX FIRST POLE since austria, and perez actually achieved p5 in q2 (p9 in q1). after that sprint race rb shitshow, this is really cool

and most importantly: charles outqualifies c*rl*s LFG

(also without @missed-apexes i will never notice most of these. my f1 mother fr)

despite mclaren being ahead of ferrari in quali results, we Will be manifesting ferrari overtakes these orange mfs tomorrow 🤞

[roominthecastle]

Siegfried & Audrey + the big divorce arc of S4

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

community that has only seen themselves represented in a small handful of romance stories that aren’t explicitly about their real-world oppression, watching a new show or movie where they are represented in a romantic story that isn’t explicitly about their real-world oppression: getting a lot of “that other show with a queer romance that isn’t explicitly about real-world homophobia” vibes from this

[aerithisms]

i think my problem with this dw season arc accusing the audience of fanbrain for theorising about ruby is that it both feels deceitful and isn't actually that compelling from a character perspective. the season goes out of its way to build up supernatural mystery around ruby and even invokes susan more heavily than ever before in a way that is deliberately trying to get the audience to make those connections. and then it turns around and says you stupid idiot why would you ever try to connect these dots i have deliberately tried to get you to connect.

building up a mystery only for the character to be ordinary is an impossible girl arc redux only this time accusing the viewer of failing to see the humanity of the companion, whereas the impossible girl arc was turning that accusation on the doctor. 7b didn't really blame the audience for viewing clara as a puzzle and in fact several times spells out the fact that clara is perfectly ordinary before the big reveal to give the audience a chance to catch on. as 7b goes on, instead of laying the mystery on thicker, the audience just gets more and more affirmations that clara is a normal human being (rings of akhaten, journey to the centre of the tardis, hide). i found this approach compelling because it was rooted in character, focusing on the doctor's disconnection from humanity/the gendered dynamic of a man treating a woman as his manic pixie mystery to pull him out of grief. s14's meta approach of accusing the viewer feels both unfair, given it has deliberately led the viewer towards theorising, and personally less compelling to me because it wasn't tied into character in any way.

the thing about rey's parentage in tlj is that the reason rian johnson chose to go for that reveal was that it was the only answer that was interesting. none of the theories - rey is a skywalker, rey is a kenobi, and even the eventually canonical rey is a palpatine - were interesting or satisfying because they brought nothing compelling to the table for the story being told. the only satisfaction to be gained from those answers was a fanbrained "omg rey is important because she's related to that guy from the other movie." on top of that, rey desperately wants her parents to have been important, to give her life and her abandonment some kind of significance. so them being ordinary provided the most compelling trajectory for her character because it was the thing she least wanted to hear. it forced her to do the most introspection and growth, as well as tying into the film's themes about the capacity of ordinary people to be special. it wasn't just a choice made to "gotcha" the viewer, it was rooted in character.

i don't think ruby's mother being ordinary accomplishes the same thing. by invoking susan, s14 is engaging with the most egregious example of the doctor's streak of abandonment, which has potential to be very compelling in relation to ruby (and now also the doctor's) own abandonment issues. theories that ruby might be susan, or be somehow related to susan, or somehow related to the doctor, weren't just fanbrained "omg she's related to that guy i know from the classic series." they were theories genuinely rooted in character and the potential to explore both the doctor and ruby's issues with abandonment. and this is something the show willingly led fans towards by invoking susan so much in the first place. so for the show to turn around and act like they were shallow out of nowhere ideas when they were not shallow and were based on potential character conflicts the show itself deliberately invoked, feels misguided.

as well as that, ruby's mother being ordinary does not require that same growth from ruby as it did for rey because it is exactly what ruby wanted to hear. she never wanted her mother to be important, she just wanted to know who her mother was and have a connection with her. so finding out she was a normal woman who still loves her and wants to be a part of her life is everything she's ever wanted. it doesn't introduce interesting conflict for her the way rey's parents being ordinary did for her, because they were written as different characters with different hangups over their abandonment.

tl;dr i don't necessarily dislike ruby's mother being ordinary as an idea but compared to the things it was inspired by - 7b and star wars - it is not nearly as compelling in terms of how it relates to the characters or themes. and the meta angle, while conceptually interesting, doesn't quite work for me because it feels a little manipulative of the audience.

[swan2swan]

I don't think I can forgive Chaos Theory for giving me Dinostar hope, it's just cruel.

[freebagels]

In case you needed something depressing to think about, think about how if they went through with making Hater a skinny skeleton twink, he'd be popular in the fandom. But alas he is not.

[scootersscooter]

Hazel Wells I love you,,,,,

[applesforaliens]

Murder Drones appreciation post!!

(and silly images)

I will be forever grateful for Murder Drones and the impact it’s had on me!! I hope we get a season 2 but if not, that’s okay. This series has brought me out of my shell since I found it only 5 months ago. It’s crazy that this little show about murderous drones has been so important in my life. I’ll forever hold this show close to my heart. Thank you Liam and the entire team at Glitch for making this amazing show. I hope the fandom will continue to grow for years to come. Anyways, enough of the sappy stuff!!

Since we have 1 week before the Murder Drones finale, here is a collection of my favorite scenes/shots from each episode!! :D

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

[realpersonfacts]

the challengers fic about the 2019 us open that lives in my head and is 90% tennis is so good you guys trust me

[brittlebutch]

actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

[meimeikyu]

tma au where,, im hapy

[betweenblackberrybranches]

I didnt really like the newest season of hilda :(

[maudlintrash]

i think i figured out what happened

[saturnniidae]

I'm rewatching trollhunters and just got to 3x7, and it never fails to make me emotional. Like, the opening flashback of Merlin making the amulet (especially the scene of Morgan's hand sinking into the cauldron. it's amazing, actually),

And all the parallels!

Angor Rot convincing Gunmar to let Draal live because what he said reminded him of his time obeying Strickler, Draal saying "don't make it weird" when he offered Jim a hand up just like when Jim first spared Draal after their fight,

AND MY FAVORITE ONE: the parallel to Kanjagar's death, with his son dying in the same pose as his father as he falls off a ledge, presumably smashing into pieces on the ground. It's just so ajdjsjsnfi

[telekitnetic-art]

I am at the "make a portfolio website" part of my final uni semester