#someone analyse the show for me

[quitesins]

Saiki K was low-key OCD representation

[boarloved-art]

ig ooomfie said i should draw xuanli and i kinda went crazy abt them whoopsydoodle

[scoobydoodean]

Bibros love to call anyone who disagrees with them about anything ✨delusionsal destiel shippers ✨ while they pompously throw around what are at best tenuously supported takes about the brothers bond but what are often just outright WRONG takes. I just had to read someone say Dean would wrap Cas’s own intestines around his neck and choke him to death to save Sam. Babygirl that isn’t the canon source material it’s your jerkoff fantasy stop demanding all of us collectively treat your kink as reality.

[kennys-parka-jacket]

Thinking about the kenny replacement thing in season six again. As different as butters and tweek are from kenny in personality, what's interesting is that one of the few things they all have in common is troubled home lives. Kenny's parents are druggies who live in squalor, fight all the time, and hit their children; the stotches are overly strict and physically abusive and inflicted butters with ptsd, the tweaks forced their child to develop a caffiene addiction, poisoned him with meth, make him carry out unpaid child labor, and don't seem to care for his wellbeing at all. Over twenty years have passed since season six and these three families are still considered among the most toxic in the whole show.

Which brings up questions in-universe. Why did stan, kyle, and cartman want a friend with shitty parents so badly?

[irellia]

are people aware of the fact that Mizu is not canonically in any way shape or form.............. queer....bi.....

(quick note here because reading comprehension stays dead and people may not read the tag novel: I want bi Mizu! I hc her as sapphic! I love sapphic Mizu)

[lavendercoded]

People miss Laurent's thought process a lot when they say what he did to Damen wasn't justified, I think. Yes, it was excessive and extremely fucked up, but if you consider how he saw Damen, it makes a lot of sense.

1) Initially, he views Damen as a cold-blooded murderer who regularly rapes slaves that are raised from childhood to please him. That description makes him sound evil. Considering that Laurent was sexually abused by an older man in power, making Damen feel what he personally felt is karmic justice to him.

To put it like this, what would you do if the man who killed your brother and whom you know is a rapist just fell into your power? Wouldn't you want to teach him a lesson? Make him suffer so he doesn't hurt people anymore?

2) He blames Damen for the abuse he suffered at the hands of the Regent, which is partially true since he did remove Laurent's protector from the equation, although Damen didn't know any of that and killed Auguste for the good of general population. (And the Regent likely would've gotten Auguste killed anyhow 🤷‍♀️) Laurent can't take revenge on the Regent because a. there's still a part of him that believes the Regent cares for him and b. it wouldn't help him much if he were still underage, so he takes revenge on the other man he blames for his abuse.

Laurent's thought process is rather clear to follow and, if we consider his perspective, justified. Of course, he doesn't have all the necessary information (this is a CS Pacat book, after all), but he does what he thinks is best. Pretending that he's so evil that we couldn't understand his mindset just serves to make us think that we're different, that we can't commit atrocities against people because we think we're in the right, which is a dangerous set of ideas to hold.

His actions do make sense. We have to contend with the fact that we can commit evil actions against others, even those we (will) love, while being perfectly justified in our minds. And that's fucking terrifying.

[map-of-obsessions]

'because you're human, more human than I could ever be'

Johnny is quite literally a manifestation of Douglas's good side. He keeps him around, 'protects' him, keeps him alive, but he treats him terribly, tries to bully him into submitting. He chokes his goodness into submission and forces it to stay silent.

Until he finally kills it. And it kills him too

[sisterdivinium]

Finding "the meaning" to a show that could have had up to five or seven seasons but was cancelled after the second is somewhat like trying to understand a novel composed of seventy chapters by having read only twenty — there is a whole wealth of information which we do not possess that could alter our reading of any given element or of the entire thing in itself.

Still, there are always patterns that weave a story into a cohesive unit and they can help us to better grope in darkness towards comprehension. One such pattern in Warrior Nun appears to be how the consequences to mistakes, "sins" or evil deeds committed by characters manifest.

Basic storytelling usually requires characters to act on something so that complications or resolutions may arise from their choices and move the plot forwards. In Warrior Nun, many of these actions are quite tragic in nature: Suzanne's arrogance and pride lead to the death of her Mother Superion; Vincent's allegiance to the higher power he believed Adriel to be inspired him to kill Shannon; Ava's flight from the Cat's Cradle ends up damning Lilith as she is mortally wounded and taken away by a tarask... All of these events have negative outcomes and heavy repercussions on all characters directly or indirectly involved. Something changes permanently because of them, be it in the world around them or within the characters themselves.

And yet, it would seem that all of these dark deeds not only move the story forwards but might also have overall positive results. We would have had no protagonist without Ava — and she would arguably never have received the halo to begin with had she not been murdered. What's more, on a personal scale, the horrifying crime she suffers is, in the end, the very thing that allows her a second chance in life, a new life.

An act of outside evil permits Ava to grow and develop, shows her a path she would not otherwise have found. Without her own season in some sort of hell, Lilith would not have been able to advance towards other ways of being and understanding beyond her very strict limitations. Vincent and Suzanne would not have embarked on their own journeys of enlightenment without having caused the pain they are responsible for.

Beatrice might have been paying for someone else's mistakes, but she, too, is given the chance to grow into herself through it. The afflictions that torment these characters advance the overall plot, but they also advance them, as individuals, as long as they are willing to learn and keep going despite the calamities large and small that they are faced with. Beatrice keeps going after parental rejection, Mary keeps going after losing Shannon, Jillian keeps going after losing her son (in part through her own actions, adding insult to injury)... Trouble and the adaptation that follows it, if one is open enough to learn from the experience, motivates the characters, propels them forward, teaches them.

The problem of evil has occupied the minds of many a thinker throughout the ages, given how the very existence of it, evil, might call into question that of God (a good, omniscient, omnipotent one, anyway). A common way of justifying suffering (and also God), then, is by claiming, as Saint Augustine, that "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist".

Now, it would be rather ridiculous to say of Warrior Nun that it follows in Leibniz's footsteps, also because this philosopher, expanding on the augustinian concept, attempted to defend the goodness of a real God with his "best of all possible worlds" while all we have is... Well, whatever/whoever Reya is.

But there seems to be an inclination towards some sort of optimism as a worldview nonetheless.

Betrayals reveal truth and grant knowledge (Vincent's culminates with the coming of Adriel, which allows us to know of the threat of a "Holy War" and thus prepare for it; Kristian's gives Jillian much needed insight, William's lights up the fuse for the fight to be taken more seriously...), crimes committed willingly or not open the way for Ava (Suzanne's killing of her Mother Superion causes the loss of the halo, which is transferred to Shannon, whose death opens the gates for Ava to walk through after being herself murdered by sister Frances)... The magnitude of these positive outcomes is perhaps not "balanced" when compared to the evil that brings them about, but there is still something to take out of the catastrophe.

However tragic the tones of a given event, the show itself appears to shun the predetermination that makes tragedy as a genre; if everything is connected, here it at least appears to not necessarily drag everyone into their horrible dooms.

What's more is that this lurking "optimism" matches really well with our own protagonist's personality.

And it makes perfect sense that Ava would do the best she could with whatever she is given.

Life for her, in the conditions she experienced after the accident, would have been unbearable without some sort of positive outlook on life. However deadpan, the joking and the "obscene gestures" and whatever other forms of goofing around beside Diego are a way of turning a portion of the situation in her own favour. Proverbial eggs have, after all, already been broken right and left — might as well make an omelette of whatever remains.

Humour is just another way of looking at the bright side of something, or, at the every least, of mitigating the utter horror it might bring. If the show allows for moments of lightness, if it lets us laugh, if it takes us through a perilous voyage which still bears ripe, succulent fruit instead of the rot of pessimism and its necessary contempt for humanity, it is because Ava herself sees things in this way. It isn't gratuitous or naïve in this case, but a true survival strategy, especially as it is confronted with the morbidity of Catholicism.

Here is a religion that soothes its faithful with the promise of reward in the afterlife — how else does one charge into battle against the unknown, risking one's own death along with that of one's sisters, without the balm of believing that we shall all meet again eventually, "in this life or the next"? How else does one come to terms with the ugliness and the pain of this existence if not by looking forward to a paradise perfect enough to make all trials and tribulations here worth it?

True nihilism would have annihilated Ava. Her present perspective is what avoided the abyss.

And there is nothing Panglossian to her attitude or what the show might imply by giving us her view on things. This isn't about "the best of all possible worlds", but of making the best of whatever situation we're in, of taking what we have and doing something with it, something good, something of ourselves. It isn't God making good out of evil, but our choices.

Killing innocent people and feeling no remorse will never be the best someone can aspire to do. Sister Frances, cardinal William, Adriel all learn this the hard way.

Those who do their best find that, somehow, they can move on from whatever it was that paralysed them. Ava, most of all, knows what it is to be stuck, frozen in place; she can never be the character who refuses to grow, even through pain, lest she condemns her spirit to the same fate her body is all too familiarised with. Those around her wise enough to let themselves be touched by her, by the dynamic power she carries, walk forth with her and live.

It says very little about "God" that Warrior Nun should adopt its heroine's views and seem "optimistic" as it progresses — but it speaks volumes about the values it presents for pondering, of the inspiration its protagonists provide, and of the multiple reasons why this is a story unlike most others.

[mandiffe]

now that is definitely a callback

the composition of the shot as a whole. the fact that we're halfway through ted's journey this season and getting a parallel scene to the first one in the season.

in the first one, Ted's still doubting himself, not understanding what is it he's doing in Richmond, why he stays for this long when he can just leave with Henry? in the second pic, Ted looks much healthier, there's hope in his eyes, I'd say. he's coming to a realization why he's still there and why he's still needed. "when you know you're doing what you're meant to do. you have to try", and Ted is going to try. we're getting to see his growth and, my gosh, do I have to mention how incredibly this show makes it?

[skylarbee]

wait they played perfect sense last night??? had some fun with the warm-up act did you, al? 🤭

[ishouldreallybeelsewhere]

Episode one of Supernatural is so flawed that, had I watched it for the first time last night (instead of for the third), I would not have have watched the second. Ever. The flaws are things I simply didn't pick up on when I was thirteen, and memory glazed over with emotional attachment. I understand why these flaws are there, what the writers tried and failed to do through clumsy dialogue and strange character decisions. There's no subtlety. Everything Sam says is direct exposition, specifically the things that he would not have to say to his brother.

I do not do reviews so that's all I'm going to say.

[catfishofoldin99colours]

low-key feel like I'm losing my mind not liking arcane S1 and every single fucking person in my life saying it's the greatest show ever written

And like yeah it's interesting in some places and has unique ideas and the characters are fun but like it never delivers on any themes in a satisfying why and doesn't actually say very much at all and misses so many opportunities for character development that would help the story feel organic and real instead of rushed and like they're just Tryna hit plot points that ultimately fall flat cos there was no build up or development to make them have any weight!!!! Am I the only person who thinks this????

Like I'm not even mad people like it, my friends love shows I don't and vice versa but I feel so fucking confused with people saying it's amazing and I'm honestly not seeing it?

It's gorgeous to look at but that's the most impressive thing about it and honestly!!! A story that is just pretty pictures is not a story that is an art book and brother I am tired of pretty pictures with no substance!!!!!!

I still haven't seen S2 but honestly I feel like all the problems it had stem from S1 being what it is and I am. God I'm confused and kind of upset about not getting it???? Like I wish I could just think it's amazing and see what everyone else is seeing but I don't and I feel so stupid for it like!!! What am I missing!! Am I just a big stupid cynic who's too intellectual to enjoy things anymore??? Am I too politically engrossed and care too much about the real world to turn off my brain for a bit??? Am I a stupid little hater??? I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE AND ITS REALLY MESSING WITH ME!!!!

[theyarebothgunshot]

isee you have been watching 911? thoughts?

yes i have and it has quite simply taken over my life tbh. i used to watch it a few years ago and i stopped when i read some itws that made it seem like people were crazy for shipping buddie. i was not gonna let myself get too invested because been there done that lmao but. somewhere in the back of my mind i always thought "what if" and when i saw the gifs of buck and tommy i immediately teared up because buck!!! is bisexual!!!!! we're not crazy!!!!! and yeah i have been enjoying it so much.

[variousqueerthings]

the fun of having put out the "bj's moustache is gay culture" post while also headcanoning first and foremost that whatever bj is, it's not actually gay but something way funnier and more fucked up

[chiropteracupola]

I am seriously about to give the Sharpe books a second chance now thanks :)

(hopefully this time around I will not picture a permanent marker in a uniform when Hakeswill calls him "sharpie")

(omg it has been almost 10 years and I still remember that jerkface's name and how much I hated him from...the first 3? chapters. I can't imagine how they portray him in the show)

have fun! I've not read the books yet (a recent trip to a used bookstore that usually has full shelves of sharpe turned up nothing, so clearly there is someone else around here also newly obsessed) but I might give them a try as well!

[cherryberg]

bro don't you ever get tired of caring what other people think about some fictional dudes? you get so heated about shit that doesn't matter, you gotta just chill out sometimes. live and let live or whatever. i genuinely think it will make you a happier person

?? sorry for spam reblogging too many mischaracterisation complaining posts in a row lmao ? that's like. majority of the heat you're seeing from me if you aren't a mutual. aren't you tired of flanderising and woobification lol ? i block tags and avoid those fandom spaces and don't actively spend every moment thinking nefariously thinking about how fandom bitches are wrong - but when it sucks, it sucks! bitches are wrong! especially when its the whole fandom's perception of it and, yeah, i can complain about it! i heart complaining! shit can be annoying and i can not like them and i can complain forever! and hey if it sucks here? can always hit the bricks

otherwise, erm... i heart being a hater forever and ever. i heart getting pissy at things that don't matter and i heart bitching to my friends for a couple minutes before cooling off. my fandom is me, my mutuals, and my inbox.