#such a fascinating character

[eye-of-yelough]

RUN.

[deluweil]

Yea the I agree with last anon! The Ana Eddie breakup just felt too like final. You could see it in how sad and almost upset Eddie looked at himself in that scene. Like he was crying 😢. And I even think Ana kinda knew. I mean she did make the horse comment. Plus she seemed more like she wanted what’s best for Eddie more than to fight for him. At least that’s what I saw. It’s hard to even explain what that scene was conveying. Im coming up on that episode in my rewatch right now. But I think all the therapy and realizations he’s had since then he’s not gonna backtrack and date a woman. The next date or love interest will be a guy I think.

From your mouth 🙏💜

I've watched and rewatched those episodes, too, and yeah, that comment about the horse riding and also the fact that there is very little interaction (read none) between Ana and Buck when she and Christopher came to the firehouse.

In fact, the only time we saw any communication between the two, was when she called to tell Buck Eddie woke up and was asking for him. (I'm assuming that's what happened anyway.)

She could have called to face-time Christopher, but that was Buck, and she could have stayed with them in the room while Buck visited, but she wasn't there.

On some level, I am almost certain that both Ana and Taylor knew that the boys' hearts were not into the relationships.

There was very little touch between (Eddie and Ana) them that seemed comfortable or comforting.

I do believe that the only way this can go is if Eddie’s next date is with a man rather than another woman.

He didn't respond to any woman (Shannon notwithstanding-, and I have a lot to say about that relationship, too), and Eddie says himself when he talks to Buck in 5x02, that Ana is the only other woman he wanted to spend that much time with since Shannon - woman, not person. Because he spends time with Buck all the time.

And he used the words stick it out, there's no love there, no sign of attraction, he has no smile on his face.

The only time we saw him smiling awkwardly while talking about her was after she taught him math. - There was nothing attractive about that scene.🙈😂 - And I'm a teacher lol.

I have so much more to say, but the bottom line is that you are definitely correct in your opinion/speculation that the next LI/date will have to be a man for character development sake.

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[love-bigboss1fan-me]

[petrowriting]

the revelation that claudia’s rebirth was such a twisted and horrible moment, with louis dragging her like she was a thing, a stranger who neither of them knew but he kept saying over and over “our daughter, our beautiful little daughter” to lestat, really solidified the way she was never the main character of her own story. she was always an accessory to some or the other of louis’ whims: his guilt, his loneliness, his conflict of being a killer, his rocky relationship with lestat. there was love there, love from both her fathers, but it was never enough. lestat saw her too much as a wretched mirror held up to his own self, and louis was always too steeped in his own feelings to care enough about hers. claudia’s story truly was the greatest tragedy in this tale, treated horribly by every man around her, even her fathers, relentlessly exploited and brutally ignored, always second and never first. the only one who loved her the way she deserved to be loved was madeleine, and the moment she truly had her, her happiness was torn from her. and just before she died, she got to see someone actually choose her in her entirety, not for what she can be but for who she is, and it still wasn’t enough. she still burned alive in the sunlight. the love was there, but it wasn’t enough to save her.

[queenofshilla]

LINDA HAMILTON as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (dir. James Cameron)

[the-nefarious-vampire]

"you only say you're autistic because you want to feel special and different" actually finding out i was autistic made me feel significantly less special and different. before i was autistic i was Strange and Unpredictable in some sort of Unknowable way which Surely meant i was Predestined for Greatness (like storybook character). now im just some fuckin autistic guy like any other. i significantly prefer it this way btw

[koipepo]

That omake of little Kabru not being able to show off his howetown sweets because of Misril gets to me a lot so...

Here's a happier Kabru (and Lairu)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are here!!!

[st-hedge]

I can’t believe they’d managed to animate kusuriuri’s insane character design and then decided to make it even more insane. The most character ever

[ilikedetectives]

Minthara Baenre

Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023) by Larian Studios

[yrlocalghost]

man i love flowey so much, i don’t think i ever realized just how funny he is when i was a teenager. i love that he save scums. i love that he gets mad when you interrupt his monologue. i love that he talks like an anime villain because he thinks frisk is chara and is playing the world’s longest game of edgy oc playground roleplaying. he has the strongest cain instinct i have ever seen. he projects like crazy. he is an incredibly sore loser. i love him

[platoapproved]

armand + laws, customs, & rituals

[intermundia]

my favorite thing about anakin as a character is the inherent nuance lucas wrote into his story, like he's neither an innocent victim nor an inherently evil monster, he's just some guy put in a series of Situations and ultimately failing the test of his humility and self-control. he was certainly flattered and shaped by the devil, spiraling into something unrecognizable, but he chose to take every step down the pathway to hell. lucas knew he would lose a certain demographic by making him basically a greedy pawn in the larger story, not a righteous betrayed macho badass, but he did it anyway. he made him an awkward romantic and a loyal friend, a generous boy and a brilliant teen. he made sure he had all the positive qualities that meant that he had potential to be so much more than vader, but it was clearly his choice to lie, murder, and fully squander that potential. there are no excuses for what he became, no acceptable reasons to commit mass slaughter. he became an unbelievably selfish and impatient man, reckless and wantonly violent. hayden captured that nuance so well, nobody can match the sweetness of his smile and the absolute horror of his scowl on mustafar. to view him through a single lens as either pure victim of manipulation and (canonically unsupported) emotional neglect, or a creepy evil villain, denies the heart of his story and the weight of his tragedy. he's neither an angel nor a demon, he's both and neither, he's deeply human, a classical tragic hero with a flaw of greed. lucas made a choice with the prequels to tell a story that not everyone wanted to hear, and the result was a character that i think is one of the best of modern pop culture, mostly because he feels to me so very, very ancient and eternal.

[molinaesque]

By killing her mum in a mercy kill, she's doing exactly what the Ghoul did to Roger. She's learnt from him. She has turned into him. When she said, "I'll never be you," maybe that's not true. And in that moment, when she shoots her mum, it means so many things. It means 'I'm coming with you.' It means. 'I f*cking hate you, but I have turned into you, you were right.' It means she's letting go of her golden centre. I want the audience at the end of the show to wonder if their hero is still a good person. I don't know who she's gonna be in season two, but this is what happens when you break the unbreakable. I don't know who she's about to become. [...] I'd be down to play it either way. - Ella Purnell (x)