#subplot: this is halloween

[lostoneshq]

HALLOWEEN BEGINS.

subplot de outono!

Você acorda e sente que tudo está diferente. O azul das manhãs limpas de verão no Reino dos Perdidos é substituído por tons alaranjados, como se o céu tivesse adoecido. O sol esconde-se por trás de nuvens espessas e acinzentadas, mas não há previsão nenhuma de chuva. Com o passar do dia, raios arroxeados dão pinceladas sobre o laranja e abrem espaço para o entardecer em uma explosão de alaranjado e roxo... Logo em seguida, a noite cai, e ela é tão escura que as duas luas e as estrelas que caem do céu não são suficientes para iluminá-la por completo como antes faziam. O Outono chega. O Halloween começa.

Você não demora para descobrir que o Mundo das Histórias comemora o Halloween com tanto ardor quanto o outro mundo. Talvez até mais. Antes do Reino dos Perdidos, os eventos desse período do ano costumavam ser os mais esperados no calendário historiano — Fantasma da Ópera e Frankenstein fizeram as suas estreias no Mundo das Histórias durante o Halloween; Merlin e Feiticeiro casaram-se no Halloween; a Rainha Branca deu o seu célebre baile de máscaras que uniu todos os reinos também no Halloween; e, uma vez, Astrid e Soluço fizeram uma pegadinha de Halloween com os habitantes do Mundo das Histórias, colocando os dragões para perseguirem reis e rainhas de diferentes reinos pedindo por doces (ovelhas) ou travessuras (queimá-los vivos), o que resultou no banimento temporário do casal de Berk do Conselho das Histórias — mas eles voltaram depois! Há quem goste e há quem não goste, no entanto, uma coisa é inegável: os habitantes clássicos sabem como aproveitar a temporada do pavor... E eles não costumam fazer isso sozinhos. Na Floresta das Fadas, um castelo de pedras escuras se ergue entre as montanhas. As nuvens sombrias que pairam sobre ele relampejam à cada instante e os raios caem nos telhados pontiagudos, estalando contra os pedregulhos. Um caminho de barro serpenteia em direção ao castelo, porém, uma placa de madeira podre avisa: "CASTELO DO DRÁCULA — NÃO SE APROXIME SEM UM CONVITE. ESTOU FALANDO SÉRIO. NÃO SE APROXIME SEM UM CONVITE OU MORRERÁ!!" Você lê a placa e decide que é melhor não se aproximar sem um convite mesmo... Mas espera que possa ganhá-lo algum dia. Na Avenida Principal, uma feira se estende entre os estabelecimentos do reino. Pequenos comerciantes, aqueles habitantes que não possuem nenhum papel além de "figurantes" nos livros das notórias histórias desse mundo, ganham destaque na feira, vendendo os seus produtos voltados para o Halloween — comidas, bebidas, decorações muito realistas como aranhas vivas, sapos, olhos humanos e caveiras são vendidos na feira.

Em toda rua que você vira ou estabelecimento que você entra, há decorações voltadas para o Halloween. Nenhuma loja, nem mesmo a confeitaria da Vovó, escapa das teias gigantes de aranha, abóboras com expressões malignas, caveiras que se mexem ou coisas piores. É claro que como tudo nesse mundo, as decorações são mágicas e cada proprietário de estabelecimento entra no clima. Mais tarde, durante a aula do Centro de Contenção de Crise, você aprende que Drácula não é o único habitante temporário de Halloween do Mundo das Histórias. Alguns portais para o que se conhece como a "Outra Dimensão" estão espalhados por aí e muitos reconhecem Coraline quando ela aparece para dar as boas vindas aos perdidos mais tarde. Infelizmente, também não é qualquer um que pode transitar entre esse e o mundo de Coraline livremente: você precisa encontrar uma chave mágica antes de atravessar o portal e fazer uma visita à Outra Dimensão, ou ficará preso nela para sempre. As chaves estão por aí, então esteja atento! Em seus passeios por essa nova versão sombria do Reino dos Perdidos, você acaba encontrando com mais nomes que compõem alguns clássicos góticos do outro mundo e que os livros estão de passagem por aqui durante o Halloween: Jack, Sally, Dr. Jekyll e Hyde, Emily, Lestat, Carmilla, Dorian Gray... E até alguns que você não conhece o nome, mas que sabe que são figuras clássicas de Halloween, como fantasmas vagando por aí, vampiros, alguns lobisomens que não são parentes do Lobo Mau (e não pergunte se são!), esqueletos... Nenhum deles teve ainda a sorte de serem eternizados no Mundo das Histórias como Frankenstein e Fantasma da Ópera, mas nunca se sabe... Quem sabe uma dessas visitas não se tornará moradia fixa? Espere... Melhor não, né? Pelo menos não enquanto o Mundo das Histórias continuar nesse caos com as histórias sendo modificadas...

CONHEÇA A LOJA DE HALLOWEEN E COMPRE AS SUAS ATRAÇÕES!

OOC.

Esse foi o contexto do cenário do RP durante os próximos tempos. Nada disso aqui é o evento, apenas ADIÇÕES AO CENÁRIO. O evento de Halloween acontecerá apenas no final de Outubro. Os personagens não sabem qual será a temática do evento e vocês também não!

PORÉM, com esse subplot, teremos uma dinâmica de COMPRAS. Estou me inspirando no evento de Halloween que teve em outro RP meu, o Legacies. Vocês irão trocar interações, POVs e edits por moedas para comprarem atrações para o Halloween dos personagens de vocês no RP. Está tudo explicado na página da loja!

Esse subplot começa agora e não têm data prevista para acabar ainda, afinal, o Outono está só começando.

Personagens que são proprietários de estabelecimentos podem criar decorações para as suas lojas! Lembrando que tudo é mágico por aqui, então deixem a criatividade fluir.

Todos os citados, como Drácula, Coraline, Jack, Sally, etc, são NPCs! Mas vocês podem usá-los em suas interações à vontade.

De resto, tudo continua normal até o evento!

POR FAVOR, NÃO DESCUMPRAM COM AS REGRAS DA LOJA! Ou seja, não façam interações em lugares que precisam ser comprados, como o castelo do Drácula, sem terem, de fato, comprado. Eu mandarei excluir.

[cyclopsboxhead]

For every Christian Ward and Jill Thompson there's a Tony S. Daniel to show that just because you draw comics well doesn't automatically make you good at writing them.

[jennablackmorebooks]

seasonally appropriate vampire nonsense discord status

[larissa-the-scribe]

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Response to a question from this ask game!

Question: favorite part of 1 Sam 28?

The continuation of the background subplot wherein David is in hiding from Saul and lying to Achish's face about having RuN aWaY from Israel he is Against them now for Sure he has packed his rucksack and left and will Fight Them meanwhile Achish is like. "David. this dude. He's the best."

Specifically verse 2 where Achish decides to make David his bodyguard for life ✨

Honorable mentions:

Samuel ratting out Saul's undercover identity to the medium from beyond the grave

The medium and Saul's men having to browbeat him into accepting food because he was being angsty again (seriously Saul you gotta eat why do you keep doing this last time you almost got your son killed)

[egophiliac]

Hello ! I positively adore the running joke of Idia unknowingly finding Lilia to be the coolest guy ever whenever he doesn't know it's him, like when Silver described his father, or obviously with muscle red. I can't say what'd be funnier, Idia finding out his online best friend is actually Lilia, resident spooky hyper fairy; or them both never finding out, and it'd become even more ridiculous as time goes on. How do you think it'll play out ? You're always so on point

(Also, though it makes sense, I'm still devastated bat boy didn't get a ticket for the Halloween skeleton train : ( does anyone mentions him at some point ? Like how he'd have fit right in with all those Halloween town little freaks, and how he'd have impressed them with his spooks and scared techniques; after all he's been every Briar Valley's children worst fear on Halloween for centuries. I'm on the eng server and I didn't wanna spoil myself by watching the whole thing on youtube)

Have a nice day !

you and me both, Idia and Lilia being oblivious online BFFs (+ Idia being incredibly intimidated any time Silver brings up his jock gamer dad) is my favorite running joke/subplot. 🤝 it's SO good, to the point where I also am unsure if I actually want it to ever be resolved or not...maybe, like, as a post-canon stinger or something? everyone's standing around covered in overblot ink, and Idia and Lilia's phones go off at the same time...

(legit I do think this is part of why Idia couldn't be present for Lilia's dream, because for some reason Lilia decided he was going to just. embody his past self online. he probably quotes his own battle strategies or whatever in the middle of boss fights. Idia didn't pick up on the whole "oh how weird that we both live on a super remote island" thing, but he would spend thirty seconds listening to General Lilia describing siege warfare and be like "w-wait")

all that aside, however it does end up happening, I do see Lilia being very blasé and all "oh! cool!" about it. y'know, taking it very much in stride! and Idia...very much not.

(can't tell if tumblr is going to chew this into illegibility or not, this will be a fun surprise ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)

as for Lilia sadly missing out on Halloweentown shenanigans...he does get one little mention as part of an offhand reference to the light music club, but so far no one has brought up how this basically is just Lost In the Book of Liliatown (Sebek's been too busy yelling about not getting to be in the same group as Malleus). 😔 honestly though, it's probably for the best that he got left out, because he would just settle right in and refuse to ever leave. canon would shatter. we would miss out on all the delightful angst of episode 7 because Lilia is too busy eating poisonous shrubbery inbetween practicing his very best screams, and no one can pull him away from it.

(I can hope for a sequel next year though...)

[xaviers-student-union]

Think you could lend us a gator to eat it? - D.🐇

Have u heard about the rat king

Oui, heard a few tings bout dat.

[prozacwhorehouse]

camera roll 📷 | mgg x snl cast member au

in which you do a variety ‘what’s in my camera roll?’ interview and reveal moments from your life

authors note: this lowk sucks but new subplot alert?? i love I used to be funny so i just had to. matthew mixed in with some background for our snl reader ✅

“Hi Variety, this is y/n y/l/n,” you smile and and give a wave to the camera, “and today I’m showing you what’s in my camera roll.”

“This is a picture of me at the premier for a movie I did in 2022, called I Used To Be Funny,” you turn your phone towards the camera, revealing a picture a friend took of you posing underneath the title outside a movie theater in Los Angeles.

“I had the pleasure of running into the very talented Ally Pankiw at an event in 2022, and when she said she’d seen my shows and asked me if I’d audition, I read the script and immediately felt drawn to it,” you speak with your hands, imitating an emulation from your body. “It was funny, it was devastating, it’s an incredible story that I’m so honored to have helped tell.”

“I always wanted to be an actress. So landing that role the same year I was cast on SNL, just a dream come true.” you smile warmly at the memory, moving on to your next picture.

You huff out a laugh looking at the next picture, “aww. I love this one, a lot,” you again turn your phone towards the camera, revealing a picture of Marcello, you, Michael, Molly, and Devon on set.

“This is me and my SNL 22 Crew, which is the name of our group chat,” you nod, “pretty sure this was right before our first show. we were so nervous but it was all okay because we had each other. We were all in the same boat, and that was comforting. Ugh,” you sigh, tilting your head up and smiling, “I just love them so much.”

“it was really hard to pick this next one because my camera roll is currently 60 percent him. All he says is ’wait take a picture’, so now I just have a whole collection of silly photos,” you roll your eyes in fake annoyance, trying to distract from the blush that has crept on your face while talking about him.

‘I’m not entirely sure where we were here, all I know is anything Halloween, Matthew wants a picture with. We had dressed up all crazy, I had on an insane fall sweater and like, striped witch tights. I do really love mismatching clothes, layering and looking insane, which I don’t really see a lot of guys doing?” you furrow your brows and squint your eyes in thought, releasing when admitting, “so I feel really seen by him. He isn’t afraid to be himself, so it makes me feel like I can be myself too. It’s amazing. He’s great. I’m very thankful for him.”

“Aww,” you jut your lip out, heart melting over the picture. “I was having a really rough week. I remember my sketch got cut, and I couldn’t think of how to make them better. I walked into my bathroom one morning and Matthew had stuck this on my mirror. I have so many pictures of these, but I picked this one because it was the first.”

You hum, “I could go on, but, I won’t,” you laugh, tilting your head back down to your phone, quickly exhaling to get back on track, “anyways!” Causing the crew to laugh behind the camera.

And the comments are all like

Loved her in I Used To Be Funny. So talented!

I hope she’s on SNL for a while, she’s one of the best additions in a while

The way she talks about Matthew is the cutest thing

Its so cute that y/n and Matthew are getting more public with their relationship, this is the first time she’s mentioned him by name

THE NOTE HE LEFT HER I NEED TO SEE THE OTHERS

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[impactrueno]

what do you think lisa and nelsons couple costume would be

omg this is from over two weeks ago but i ran into it while looking for a different ask i got a while back and now i have to answer because it reminded me of something that i don't recall ever sharing publicly before

i actually have this sketch of them as eddie and columbia from rocky horror that i drew all the way back in 2018 (throwing in bart as rocky, let me explain lmao)

the earliest concept i had of Those Springfield Kids was the school putting on a rocky horror high school production that was super watered down and cringe so parents wouldn't be scandalized about it. nelson borrowed lisa's sax for the part. bart auditioned for rocky only because he was planning to moon everyone on stage as a prank. martin was dr. frank-n-furter and it was supposed to be a very liberating and rebellious experience for him (he's very queer but his parents are very uptight)

maybe if/when i ever come back to the comic i could squeeze this whole subplot in there because some of the jokes i wrote for it were actually not that bad lmao

anyway...enjoy this surprise springkids lore drop and happy late halloween

[superectojazzmage]

There's been a number of posts observing the "isn't this superhero stuff so dumb?" syndrome that a lot of modern superhero media has. Where the creators are basically weirdly insecure about the fact that they're making something based on comic books and either refuse to take it seriously or strip out anything even slightly fantastical in favor gritty "realism" so nobody will think they're not serious filmmakers. And I just wanted to observe the patient zero of this phenomena, the case study that is Batman.

Because, for decades now, live-action adaptations of Batman have been so utterly terrified of being seen as remotely similar to the Adam West or Joel Schumacher versions - or really, most of the original Batman comics in general - that they obsessively try to scrub out (in a very superficial way) anything about the series that could be seen as fantastical, strange, or even just lighthearted. Every single Batman live-action adaptation after Batman And Robin has absolutely no hook beyond "it's Batman but TOTALLY GRITTY AND DARK AND REALISTIC AND NOT LIKE THOSE DUMB COMICS".

All of Batman's family and friends except Alfred will be thrown away, with the creators proudly boasting about how they'll never do Robin or Ace because sidekicks ruin the grounded maturity of a rich guy dressing up as a bat. All of Batman's less "mundane" enemies will be ignored or reimagined as mundane criminals; no Killer Croc, no Hugo Strange, no Maxie Zeus, just movie after movie of Joker but he shoots people instead of telling jokes or Riddler but he shoots people instead of telling riddles or Penguin but he shoots people instead of liking birds. All the decades of lore and worldbuilding around Gotham will be disregarded in favor or depicting it as just a vaguely defined crappy city that looks and feels no different from whatever city the film was shot in. Any stories that are even mildly "weird" will go unadapted or have all it's fantasy elements removed, so seminal arcs like Strange Apparitions or Knightfall or Night Of The Owls will be discarded or neutered in favor of endless repeats of the mob subplots in Year One and Long Halloween, nobody caring that they're locking themselves out of something like 90% of the Batcanon.

And, as alluded to previously, it's all done in a very shallow way that often ends up making things LESS realistic. Batman will always just be some asshole alone in his manor with nobody but Alfred for company, even though realistically he would absolutely NEED that huge family/support network of sidekicks and techies to achieve anything at all beyond dressing up in a costume and getting shot by the first guy he fights. There can be no "silly" characters but the creators desperately want to pretend that a furry beating up a clown is like The Wire. And even the more comic book elements are adapted, they'll be either altered in ways that make them unrecognizable for that precious faux-realism or have their unusual nature downplayed severely.

Just look at the Nolan movies; in his desperation to seem "serious", Nolan did stuff like having Bane not use a super-steroid or wear a luchador outfit, not caring that he was usually replacing the supervillain gimmicks with ideas that were even stupider and less real, like Bane wearing a mask to constantly huff painkillers yet somehow not being a crippled addict like such a thing would render him in real life. And Nolan likewise used the League of Assassins Shadows but was simultaneously crazed to avoid or downplay the supernatural aspects of that group in the comics, so Ra's is just some guy who presumably inherited his title and this secret ninja organization totally doesn't have magic or anything, shut up, and also them being an ancient cult will be remanded to, like, a single brief conversation than never mentioned again.

The consequences of this kind of thinking are becoming especially apparent with Matt Reeves' take. Reeves was a subscriber to that ideology of Batman having to be a bleak street crime drama instead of a colorful superhero, but also tried to pay lip-service to the Twitter discourse about Batman beating up poor people instead of being a symbol of hope. And now he's left himself trapped in this catch-22 where he can't adapt the vast majority of stories from the comics because they're too goofy and fantastical in the eyes of Hollywood but also has to keep playing into this idea of Batman as not just being a scowling brooder who goes out at night to beat endless waves of criminals into comas without making a meaningful change. The best he could manage is a mini-series about Penguin that, while not bad, has basically nothing to do with Batman as a series whatsoever and indeed has to bend over backwards to not acknowledge Batman's existence outside of a five-second shot in the final episode. The proper sequel to Reeves' Batman is stuck in pre-production hell, very probably straining to come up with something that hasn't been done before, isn't weird, and doesn't have Batman being overly dark. Good fucking luck with that.

It's especially bad because the animated and video game adaptations DON'T do this shit and embrace the crazier aspects of Batman as a series, and it works out great and produces works just as good or even better than the live action stuff. Batman The Animated Series wasn't afraid of adapting stuff like The Laughing Fish or Moon Of The Wolf alongside grittier arcs. The Arkham games had Batman punching sharks and dollotrons unironically and those are fantastic. Shows like The Brave And The Bold or Beware or Caped Crusader gleefully embrace stuff from all ages of Batman history and are better for it.

Something has to give on the live-action front. We need a Batman movie that dares to go beyond maybe three miniseries from the 80s, otherwise we're just wasting time and the potential of Batman as a character, whose success is partially owed to his ability to slot into all kinds of adventures.

[xaviers-student-union]

Uncle Nod! I wonder if maybe the Rat king could be friendly?- A.🎨

Uh. Nod have you heard about the "rat king" in the institute??

I just read about it in the school paper.

I've got to say, I would have preferred a real rat king to the "rat monstrosity" I think it was called in the paper.

And that is coming from someone who has seen far too many rat kings in it's life.

[coraniaid]

Reverse Unpopular Opinion: Season Four of BtVS

[Reverse unpopular opinion meme.]

I’ve been (very, very slowly) rewatching Season 4 on and off all year (and occasionally writing Tumblr posts complaining about this very process about the episodes I’ve been watching), and I think it’s fair to say that this is definitely not the best way to enjoy any season of television.  

That being said, I feel I’d be lying at this point if I pretended this was my absolute favorite season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  In hindsight, the show was in a strange transitory place this year: having lost some of the grounding framework that the high school setting gave the first three seasons of the show – as well as having suddenly lost some of its actors and writers to the new Angel spin-off – and not yet having quite figured out what it was going to do instead.  One can imagine some alternate reality where the show ended up taking a very different direction after this season.

That being said, here are five things I like a lot about Season 4, with as few caveats as I can manage:

I think the opening four episodes of this season – The Freshman, Living Conditions, The Harsh Light Of Day, Fear Itself – are as strong as, if not stronger than, the first four episodes of any other season of the show.  Every other season has at least one dodgy episode in this opening block – in fact Season 3, my favorite season of them all, manages to have two of them! – but where is the bad episode here?  The Freshman is a criminally underrated season opener.  Living Conditions is a fun character episode and a great showcase for SMG to act in ways she doesn’t normally get to on this show.  Fear Itself is the best Halloween episode the show ever did and it’s not even especially close.  The Harsh Light Of Day is my least favorite of the four, for reasons I guess it would be against the spirit of the game to go into, but I certainly wouldn’t say it was a bad episode by any means.  Perhaps none of these episodes would trouble my personal top ten, but they are four very solid episodes nonetheless.

While Anya had of course appeared in a handful of Season 3 episodes, I think Season 4 is the point where Emma Caulfield really makes the role her own.  This season’s version of the character – a blunt-speaking outsider whose romantic struggles are often deliberately contrasted with Buffy’s own [in the aforementioned The Harsh Light Of Day, for example] and who is inexplicably attracted to Xander Harris – could easily have come across as a fairly lazy attempt to replace Cordelia Chase, and I think it’s largely to Caulfield’s credit that she doesn’t.  Anya feels very much like her own person this season, and an increasingly integral member of the group.  It’s a performance that retroactively redefines the character: of course this is who Anya is.  Of course she always acted this way. It's only when you back and rewatch The Wish or Doppelgangland that you realize she didn't. And I think it’s pretty obvious, for example, that when people [e.g. people like me] go back to write Season 3 fanfiction where Anya features more heavily than in canon they [again, meaning me] invariably end up writing the Season 4 version of the character instead.  Anyanka might have appeared for the first time in Season 3, but Anya belongs to Season 4.

I really like how important to the show Willow has become at this point and how much of this season is all about her.  Just go back and look at the first season, in which Willow is arguably the member of the Core Four the writers cared least about – when she existed mainly to nurse a sad unrequited crush on Xander and to be good with computers when the plot required someone to be – and then compare that to this season, where she is Buffy’s best friend and roommate, unambiguously the second most important Scooby, and the center of a – genuinely pretty groundbreaking for the time – .season long subplot about coming out as a lesbian.  And of course Amber Benson is great as Tara too.  I’ve criticized the character of Oz for being very transparently written just to be Willow’s Nice Supportive Boyfriend and never becoming much more than that, and on paper you could level the same sort of charge at Tara.  And sure, obviously she was written to be Willow’s girlfriend and it’s impossible to seriously pretend otherwise.  But I think Tara manages to become a more rounded character than Oz very quickly. Even in this season, when she doesn’t yet have much connection to the others (she will, later, go on to become a key member of the group and a friend of Buffy's in ways I don’t think Oz was) she feels a little more complex than he did.

Faith is in this season!  I don’t just mean in the two parter This Year’s Girl / Who Are You? either. Of course, both of these episodes are great: the scene in the church in Who Are You? In which Faith (in Buffy’s body) breaks down while fighting Buffy (in Faith’s body), -- screaming repeatedly at her own reflection that she’s “nothing”, “disgusting”, and a "murderous bitch" -- is one of my favorites in the whole show.  But Faith feels like a real presence in the show even in the episodes she’s not actually in herself.  Unlike Kendra or Jenny in previous seasons, or even Cordelia the season, the other characters still talk about her and remember she existed when it’s appropriate that they do so (and in a way that they won’t really do again until … well, until Faith comes back in Season 7’s Dirty Girls).

Finally, Restless is possibly the best episode the show ever did, and certainly one of its most creative.  Willow’s dream sequence in particular is fantastically well done. I think this might be my favorite single act in all of Buffy.  Why this all works for me – apart from the fact that the show now has years of history to fall back on and reference – is that it’s an example of the show being utterly unafraid to play to its strengths.  Characterisation, dream sequences, dialogue, foreshadowing, oddly striking visuals, random moments of comedy … these – rather than tightly written plots or rigorously consistent world-building or anything that requires a working knowledge of world history or how the US military functions or what capitalism actually is – are the show’s strengths.  So Restless embraces all of these elements, and just doesn’t bother with anything else.  And the result is a season finale that – by virtue of not really being a season finale at all, at least according to the usual rules – is not quite like any other season finale the show ever did.  Which is, on reflection, a pretty fitting end to Season 4, a season of the show not quite like any of the others. 

[wenellyb]

Unpopular opinion, but I think that the reason why so many people say the latest Bucktommy scenes lacked chemistry is because they only want to see two men kiss. Nothing else.

You cannot watch Tommy spending half of his scenes being there for Buck, taking care of him, bringing him medecine, breakfast and then coffee and still think their chemistry "felt off" in that episode.

Tommy went with him to go pay a tribute to à man they both don't know.

Admit it...you just want to see 2 men kiss....

When comments like these come from Buddie shippers or anti Bucktommy blogs, I get it. But when it comes from Bucktommy fans, my flabber is gasted.

As someone who has been watching a lot of TV dramas with ensemble casts, this is the first time I've seen people complain about a couple doing normal couples thing in a TV show with an ensemble cast.

911 isn't a romantic comedy, it isn't the Buck & Tommy show either, this is an ensemble cast so they will focus on different storylines each tome. It can't focus on romantic Buck& Tommy scenes only.

For me, what we saw in episode 5 was meant to cement the fact that Buck and Tommy were in a serious relationship now.

In season 7, there were more kisses and romantic scenes because the showrunners were building the relationship.

I've never heard anyone complain about Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd lacking chemistry because they weren't kissing or touching.

They weren't the most affectionnate couple, but everyone knew they loved eachother and for years, they were one of the most iconic TV couples.

That's just how TV works... there will be romantic scenes when there are romantic subplots but otherwise, you should expect Buck and Tommy to behave like any other couple in a TV show about first responders.

Why are people's expectations suddenly so high with Buck and Tommy?

I'm sure there will be a lot of romantic scenes between Buck and Tommy when there's an episode centered around their relationship but being upset because they weren't all over each other in a episode about Halloween, Buck's medical condition and Denny almost dying is typical M/M shipper behavior.

[automaticharpy]

charlie brown: getting rocks for halloween

the snoopy subplot:

FLYING ACE share ID (PS5): NGTDNK09QAMH

[egophiliac]

Hi! i love your art! And I'm curious about something: what do you think of the staff? And which is your favorite?

thank you! ❤️❤️❤️ I LOVE the staff, I wish we got to see more of them -- every once in a while we'll get a little side bit of them interacting with each other and it's always SO good. (for that and more proof that EHN is the best event, see: the teachers trying to hold their own Halloween party without Crowley noticing because they don't want to invite him. why was this one scene and not a long-spanning subplot like it deserved to be. we were robbed.)

I have probably made it pretty obvious which of the staff is my favorite, because I love characters who are huge morons who couldn't read a room if they had industrial-strength prescription glasses:

but I'm pretty fond of all of them! it takes a certain kind of person to work at NRC for more than five minutes. though I do think Trein is probably my second favorite? he LOVES his cat! he LOVES his wife! he LOVES history even though he is fed up with these teens and their wacky misadventures! also, I really want to hear the rest of his saucy makeout story. talk about dangling plot threads. 😔

genuinely we need more staff interactions in canon, there is so much untapped hilarity there I CAN FEEL IT

[holyblanchett]

People keep saying the trailers weren't mismarketing it and focused on Billy and I don't know about other countries but the UK trailers up until ep6 completely sold the show as middle aged women forming a coven doing spooky halloween shit. Billy is there, yeah, but he was not sold as the centre of the show, his mystery box looked like a subplot not something that would take over the entire show. Every interview was all on about woman empowerment and sisterhood. I'm not crazy right, this is the marketing other people saw?? He was sold as the sidekick.

Yes!! I'm pretty sure we all saw the same interviews and marketing and if people are claiming they saw something else I'm calling BS until I see the receipts. This is why I find it so strange that people are out here saying Rio's relationship with Agatha wasn't a central plot point like what?? Girl the entire show was her running from her gf that happened to be death what do you mean.

[eddiegettingshot]

Iirc I think I saw someone on here say that Chris’s actor’s family moved away, meaning it’s harder to film i assume, so there’s a chance him being gone this long is partly a case of real life helping to write the plot? There’s also the fact that I don’t think he was originally meant to be gone so long, or at least I don’t think the show meant to go this long without focusing on Eddie. The first 3 eps got taken up by the opener, then they had to use an ep to get Mara back and deal with Gerrard, and we did get the Weston subplot for Eddie there, then I assume they had to get a Halloween ep in there to fit in with the programming. So this might be as quickly as they could manage logistically too

i agree re: the logistics not helping but i also think that like, gavin doesn’t actually need to be on screen for chris to be home (he wasn’t around for a lot of s7) and his absence in general could be dealt with a lot better than it has been, if he actually has to be gone. like part of the frustration here is still the same issue with refusing to fully commit. ok chris is gone… so can they talk about why??? can it be treated with appropriate and consistent weight??? can we know what’s even going on besides. they zoom twice a week and chris still won’t talk to him?? 😭