#so i am. ignoring the storyline

[maxanor]

i'm not saying this to be callous or rude, but i think what's hitting a lot of buckt*mmys hard is that they're truly just unable to admit that they aren't very good at media analysis. the term 'media literacy' has become so overused in fandom that i genuinely think people forget what it means- it's a learned skill, something you have to study, something you can educate yourself on by reading papers and books and watching all sorts of movies and tv. they're all so convinced that the breakup came out of nowhere when it could not have been written more clearly; tommy has consistently been shown as an outsider in buck's life.

to claim that "everything was perfect" in 8x05 is so ridiculous i almost don't even know where to start. they had two scenes without eddie: in the first, tommy was incredibly condescending towards buck and and his interests (it's time to put away the screen, you already had your five minutes, lights out evan), and in the second scene buck literally says "my boyfriend won't even kiss me" and tommy responds with "that's not true" but they pointedly do NOT show them kissing. if the audience is meant to believe that buckt*mmy are endgame, it would have made perfect narrative sense to have them kiss right then to show (not just tell) us that tommy cares about buck, boils and all, and they did not do that.

moving onto 8x06, the only clue needed to show us they were going to break up was tommy buying buck lakers tickets. that's all it took. in 7x04 it's made so clear that buck does not like basketball. if tommy genuinely knew buck, he would not have bought him tickets to a sport the show dedicated an entire episode to telling us buck does not like! if their relationship was meant to last, tommy could have bought buck tickets to a fight in vegas like he did with eddie. this would have been a great callback, because it's supposedly the first moment buck got jealous of tommy and eddie hanging out. it would remind the audience that even though buck was jealous, he got tommy in the end and they're now doing the activities he wanted to do with tommy before.

once again, media analysis is a skill. no one is perfect at it, and ofc shows can throw away the book and make decisions that don't make sense. but to claim this came out of nowhere shows a severe lack of knowledge and understanding of how stories are written. the shippers were seeing what they wanted to see and they missed all the signs the show was sending them, and now they're claiming the rug was pulled out from under them.

[theminecraftbee]

good morning. if anyone was wondering, i am still thinking about cletho, thanks for asking,

[mylittleredgirl]

i love "war without end," and how that episode is the one time where sinclair has more pieces of the story than delenn does.

at least the way i interpret the episode, while he told himself about the valen reveal in the letters from 900 years ago, he didn't tell delenn. her letter tells her that he's the one who will take babylon 4 into the past, and what he needs her to do... but he signed it only as jeffrey sinclair.

(perhaps he has naturalized himself to the minbari way of doling out important information in small pieces.)

in her quarters, she's grieving his loss as a friend, not processing a fundamental change in her spiritual understanding of the universe.

then, on the white star, when he tells her (in minbari) that he knows the future...

it comes together.

and then the way she reflexively drops her gaze as minbari do out of respect for someone with higher status... (if only for a moment)

i love this moment soooo so much, please appreciate it with me.

bonus flashback to the very first time they looked at each other face to face, when he was captured at the battle of the line...

i know you. i know who you are. i know you.

anyway if you need me i will be thinking about this and nothing else for the next four to six business days.

(all screenshots from cap-that.com)

[henrybelly]

honestly when i tried to figure out why some fans are so mad at ivypool these days i was looking through avos and. the scene where ivypool apologises to twigpaw for not supporting sending a patrol for skyclan is genuinely very sweet??

i actually saw someone characterize this as "ivypool forcing twigpaw to forgive her". is it crack you smoke. is that what you smoke. you smoke crack?

[sweetandsourcookies]

lying here in bed and thinking abt how alienated out i feel in the cookie run fandom. and then theres a polish sitcom playing in the background from a different room.

[lottieurl]

the way my ears perked up like a dog's when i heard it's confirmed ella is in s3

[thewhizzyhead]

one day I wish I could actually like understand songwriting especially for theatre so that I can I dunno actually put to use the random tunes I have in my head that just spontaneously appear while I'm doing the most mundane of shit. anyways patron has the concept of an opening number now

[wastinawaaay]

jason todd does not need new friends new team new costume new romantic plot he just needs a fucking decent writer

[lunaechaos]

man i don't know why but i can't trust people who erase canon information about a character just to label them a sexuality that doesn't even make sense

[theendofmybody]

once again can't sleep because I'm thinking of all the ways the x files could have been a better show. alas

[dirtbra1n]

man is it incredibly disingenuous that capcom is marketing ace attorneys 4 5 and 6 as the “apollo justice trilogy”. but I don’t care I’m still going to straightfacedly tell you that it’s worth your money. Do this for me

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

If you want to, could you tell us something more about Allura in your au?

Allura!!! I am gonna be again honest with you but just like Lance, Allura isnt nearly as planned out as Kuron, however *cracks knuckles* i do have some ideas.

After she resurrected the entire multiverse, Allura was kinda just thrown into some other dimension. And bad news her magic and her memories are kind of a mess, resurrecting the multiverse took a Lot and she spent a few years recovering. Good news she can travel the multiverse without any difficulty, like considering she kinda rebuilt the whole thing she can create and travel through the dimensional holes without need of lions. And she even finds Sven and he joins along with her.

Problem is the multiverse is just very big so it took few more years trying desperately get back. That was until a sorta beacon she felt. Either it was whatever magic that was fucking up Lance or Lance fucking with magic fuckery, it created ripples in the multiverse and she followed that. And came back!!! Except it is pretty much-

and you know all of this is just really really disheartening. She really thought she would have died except she didnt and that should have been good news! It should have been over! Except this just keeps on going and going and the years start coming and they dont stop coming. It's been years since she has been gone and things have changed and moved on without her and isnt that a blast from the past? She's just tired, she's tired of fighting, she's tired of losing, she's tired of sacrificing. This war has taken so much from her and yet the curtains refuse to close on her.

Her story is going to be about finally get the good cry and screams and therapy and her realizing that she can depend on people and doesnt have to keep sacrificing herself or things she loved

[boyfridged]

i don't know. the tendency to go from "jason was tim's robin" to "tim didn't care about jason at all and was only ever obsessed with dick" is so weird to me and so detrimental to honest attempts at interpreting the place of both of these relationships in his canon. no matter how you read it, his original storylines are deeply affected by his impressions of both previous robins (and their actions.)

and the general mutual tendency that tim and jay fans have to say that one of them doesn't care and the other one is obsessed... i get where that temptation comes from (and that is ignoring comics that don't suit the preferred characterisation; i, for one, don't consider the "titans tower incident" to have ever happened and couldn't care less about their relationship in n52), but i think it's pretty clear that the actual situation is that they both have complicated feelings about the other? and these feelings should not dominate the narrative but they are still relevant to their storylines.

[suitetarts]

so astarion x durge. amirite

[flamelaz]

The more I question why they didn't have cazador make the pact with rafael instead of mephistopheles the more pissed off I get because that's such an easy solution to give astarion a tie-in with the main plot that he never gets

we know rafael likes toying with people. he likes giving them just enough rope to hang themselves with that would have been exactly what he's doing with astarion because he really doesn't have the power to stop the ritual and raphael says as much

"um actually dzifa descent to avernus states that there are only so many rewards certain ranks of devils can grant " which L+ratio+ descent to avernus *also* says that lower ranking devils can make pacts on behalf of higher devils. And even that would still have made sense because we know that raphael stole the orphic hammer from mephistopheles meaning that he could have used it as an opportunity for an "in" with mephistopheles.

[alldarkling]

We will eventually write a meta on this, but, in short, I do very much love how Mephistopheles is so terribly and painfully aware that he and all others are trapped in the Narrative that is constantly repeating over and over and over and—