#so beautiful and bittersweet

[elfsroot]

"Forget your wrath, forget your grief. Show yourself."

[ideksams]

i couldn't resist drawing anya's mom as "dream-like" 🦋 (tried rendering again lol) and i also made a full speedpaint! ♡

[shutupineedtothink]

Siuan & Moiraine and some 3x08 thoughts (positive)

Hoo boy I don’t know if I should be saying shit but I’m gonna!

I get being angry about Siuan, and tbh yeah idk if showing us her severed head was necessary.

But as for this being kill your gays? Y’all, at least half the people in this show are queer, and this is a world where people die, often violently. I would imagine this is a world where a lot more people, queer and otherwise, are going to start dying a lot more frequently if we get subsequent seasons. And even the most powerful people are not immune to that. To quote another witch, Death comes for us all.

And, truly, as much as I love them, this story does not center around Siuan and Moiraine and their relationship, and it has never promised a positive outcome for them. In fact, the show has been telling us from the beginning that their love will not save them. It’s kind of their whole thing.

It’s always been very obvious to me that they were never going to get a happy ending or make it til the end of the show. Now, I’m someone who thrives on those stories. I live for the bittersweet, the sad song that somehow also expands you and makes you grateful to be alive, and that’s what they’ve always been. “In this life or the next.” “I thought we’d have more time.” “We always think that.” “Then I’ll find you, in the next life and the next, until we get it right.” “And I will wait for you, every time.”

To me, THAT is a far more powerful, far more human, far more romantic and beautiful story than a happy ending. Not that happy endings aren’t good too, in some cases and as we know it’s not cool to have every queer love story end in tragedy. But we do have those happy queer stories now too. We do live in a world where they exist more prominently, and different kinds of people are making more different kinds of stories than ever. This particular one just isn’t meant to be happily ever after. And it never was, it never pretended to be. If you got your hopes up and now you’re angry and sad that this was the ending for them, I get it. Feel those feelings, they are valid. But I don’t think the show is wrong for this choice. I think their story was always heading in this direction, and it was always going to break our hearts. And it’s no less beautiful for it.

So basically what I’m saying is yes the kill your gays trope exists. But there is also nuance to be had here. In a world where we have so much more diversity in stories and representation than we ever have, its no longer that one way is right (happy endings for the gays) and another is wrong (tragic endings for the gays). There’s more to it than that. And when the writers have been telegraphing a bittersweet story for Siuan and Moiraine for as long as they have (and pressing hard on that throughout this season particularly), I can’t be mad about it.

Now I’m a show only and I can’t speak to what happened in the books vs. the show re: Siuan’s plot line. But if I die on one pop culture hill, it will always be “do not judge the adaptation by how closely it adheres to every single bit of the source material.” This adaptation, more than just about any other, simply cannot afford that with the constraints of adapting a 14 book series into an 8 season tv show, with 8 episodes a season. And yet incredibly, the source material itself gives us the in-canon solution: this is a universe with multiple versions of the same story, multiple turns of the Wheel. When you start seeing it as that, as a variation on the book series, which itself is implied to have multiple versions in other timelines (if I’m understanding correctly), then here we are. The show is not the books. It must stand on its own, it must make its own choices.

You may disagree with the choices the show makes, but don’t disagree on the basis that it’s different from the books. It has to be different from the books, full stop. That’s what adaptation literally means. It means change. I would go on to say that the best adaptations make choices/changes based on the constraints and opportunities of its medium, which is also happening here (actors having to leave the show and move on to other opportunities, so do we let them go out with a bang or not). But I digress.

Now as far as the race politics at play here. Oof. I get it, I see it. And this might be where I shoot myself in the foot. But again… there has to be nuance, right? To me, Siuan stood in her power until the end, even as her sisters turned on her and the Dark closed in. (The sort of reverse parallel bookend of this to Liandrin’s trial in 3x01 is crazyyyy.) She declared herself for the Light and she did not back down even as everything was taken away from her. She shook Elaida to her core, I have no doubt about that. And she said I am the daughter of the river. I am the water itself. You cannot break me. Death is not the end. It is only the door to the next turning of the Wheel.

Also, we had another black woman in this episode who was literally chained up by a white woman and thrown into the sea to drown (talk about making a Choice), who finally found her power by calling on her own advice as a mother to her daughter (aka her inner child?), freed herself from those chains, biblically parted the damn sea and walked out claiming her space and strength as the most powerful channeller in a thousand years. I’m not saying Nynaeve cancels out Siuan. I’m saying they both exist in the same episode, in the same world. Nuance.

If you think I’m wrong, you can tell me so. I would prefer you did so nicely. I’m always open to changing my mind. But there’s what I think for now.

[heckin-music-dork]

Something I just noticed in this rewatch:

In "A World Between Worlds"- The way Hera's putting her hand on her shoulder here- she feels Kanan's presence again, just like before

And I am gonna CRY

[chirpsythismorning]

If the s5 epilogue actually takes place on Memorial Day in 1989 (May 29th), it will also be Dustin’s birthday…

[accio-victuuri]

wang yibo - performance of “somebody else’s arms” @ yh family 15th anniversary concert

[laurrelise]

au where delores is actually a ghost that klaus told five was following him around when they were young, five didn’t believe him, but out of desperation, he began to talk to her in the apocalypse

every once in a while when he was feeling particularly hopeless he would get a sudden chill, or something would seem to be slightly out of place, and he would believe it was her and get the motivation to keep surviving

and then when the family was reunited, klaus would see a young woman lovingly following five around and trying to show him that she was there, guiding him down the right path

and five would never know if she was real or if he’d imagined her all along, but she’d been there with him his entire life.

[mamawasatesttube]

it shouldve been ives........... man.......

[recent-rose]

intrigued by the idea that jayce dooms viktor to become the herald because he loves viktor too much to let him die. but mage!viktor could also choose not to save jayce from the storm in order to save himself from that fate, and yet he too loves too much to let go of jayce. endless cycle only broken by their choice to go together.

[superduperkas]

Caitlyn and/or Jayce died in the alternate timeline explosion along with Vi.

I thought Vi was getting the worst possible version of It's A Wonderful Life but I think Jayce (and Viktor) are and it hints at how all this is gonna end in episode 9.

Caitlyn is more than likely dead, too, because her death would be the catalyst to stopping all HexTech research because someone from a super wealthy Piltover family with influence was negatively affected by it.

Cait and Vi are parallels to Jayce and Viktor. Both pairs are very "wherever you go, I will go, wherever you stay, I will stay". The one doesn't (can't?) exist without the other. They are the other's balance/tether. So whatever change happened that caused the explosion to kill Vi took out Jayce and Cait too. Viktor probably didn't last long without meeting Jayce in that universe

That's why Cait and Vi are drawn to one another, and Cait continuously seeks Vi out while Vi pushes her away. Inadvertently, Vi would be "responsible" for their deaths because she came up with the heist. So naturally, in other universes where she lived, Vi would almost have a natural instinct to create distance between them

That's why it had to be Viktor who saved Jayce as a child, it had to be Viktor who kept Jayce from jumping, Jayce who panically saved his partner the other way he knew how,and Jayce who saved Viktor from himself again the only way he knew how

Bruh, this show is so beautiful and loving even in its tragedies

[ingravinoveritas]

David at the premiere of Marching Powder tonight. How I miss the red hair already...

[pleasedontcareaboutme]

[potato-sports-fan]

bruh.

this liarrrrrr- my king why are you like this??😭

[end0r4]

Zelda Spellman, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina | Chapter 𝟛𝟞 : At the Mountains of Madness

[prettysweetprettysweet]

[my-ghost-monument]

I have loved being with you, Yaz

Happy one year anniversary to the ep I'm still not emotionally ready to re-watch! I know for many a kiss was missed, but for me, that handhold/grab they had fulfilled my thasmin dreams (not to mention the bridal carry) <3

This is the second part in a little thasmin hands/s13 specials series I'm doing. LOTSD, EOTD

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