#super relevant

[longsightmyth]

Well I wanted to sleep but I managed to find me a book with such a perfect reveal that I broke out in goosebumps and had to finish the last twelve percent or whatever, and of course now I have to lay in bed and think about it and decide if the couple of extremely sarah-janet-esque overdramatic fragment plus paragraph breaks that jarred me out of otherwise flowy and absorbing prose was worth docking .25 points or if I'm gonna change that tomorrow

[batsandbirdsandothers]

Their facial expression says it all.

[nessagates]

Wishing you the best in the worst way✨

[sunsestart]

Did this super fast yesterday cause I needed to get the idea out my head

I miss him

Papyrus is many thing but he's not quiet...

[irenespring]

Today I would like to shout out that one random Twitter person who made up that JD Vance bragged about fucking a couch.

Imagine making a random shitpost and less than two months later your joke is being used by a major party nominee for Vice President on live television at his introduction rally, earning him thunderous applause.

That poster must be having quite the experience.

[phibsies]

nobody asked, but all the bros have nicknames for Branch :3

[kerizaret]

Now tell me, how did all my dreams turn to nightmares?

Individual frames:

Rui 🎈 || Tsukasa 🌟 || Nene 🤖 || Emu 🍬 || All 🎈🌟🤖🍬

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

If anyone felt a disturbance in the force at around 11:30am it was me opening the email the owner of TV Writing sent at 11:15am.

Thank you to the person(s) who emailed these to TV Writing, these were added to TV Writing today:

5x04 - The End

5x19 - Hammer of the Gods

6x03 - The Third Man

6x04 - Weekend at Bobby's

6x07 - Family Matters

6x11 - Appointment in Samarra

6x15 - The French Mistake

7x07 - The Mentalists

7x08 - Season 7, Time for a Wedding!

7x20 - The Girl With The Dungeons And Dragons Tattoo

8x04 - Bitten

9x03 - I'm No Angel

9x18 - Meta Fiction

9x23 Do You Believe in Miracles (Story Notes)

10x08 - Hibbing 911

The full collection includes some arenas, outlines, earlier drafts, concept art, storyboards, casting sides, revision pages, and other misc. production paperwork, you can check it out here.

About TV Writing: "The best site on the Internet for finding a wide range of current TV pilots as well as classic shows and pitches and show bibles in PDF format. " — The Writer's Guild Foundation

[weirdoldmanhoho]

I like to think that Trisha matched the freak of the rest of her family. that she was just an oddball. the only reason she comes across as so normal and Voice of Reason-y is because we only really see her in Mom Mode (or in comparison to the World's Most Socially Anxious Man)

she met the most socially awkward man in the world AND he turned out to be immortal and from a ancient civilization and she went sign me up, love of my life, actually. she found her kids doing advanced alchemy at age 4 and was like. great job :) have fun kids :) a normal activity for young children :)

[illusive-delusions]

let's speculate wildly about langdon's marriage, shall we!

a needlessly thorough breakdown of a single scene from 1x02 and what i think it might say about langdon, his addiction, and the state of his marriage

under the cut bc i get rambly!!

so a lot has been said about frank and abby's marriage based on the hints we get here and there in the first half of the season. i've even gone as far as saying they have a canonically bad marriage, which may be a little harsh, but i don't think anyone watching with a keen eye can say in good faith that the langdon marriage has been presented to us as particularly healthy or uncomplicated.

he works a physically and emotionally demanding job for long hours and mediocre pay, and we can infer that she either works from home or is a stay-at-home mom to their two young children. he clearly feels some measure of guilt about the way he preforms the roles of husband and father, trying to make up for his shortcomings with gifts and grand gestures, while ultimately being shown to be ignorant, almost to the point of contempt, of his wife's needs.

and this is all before we (and abby!) find out that he's been putting his life, liberty and livelihood in jeopardy with his substance abuse.

so, i think it's fair to say that we can expect langdon's marriage to be a significant point of contention when we pick back up for season 2.

of course, almost everything that we can say about abby langdon at this point is pure speculation. we haven't met her! we don't even get to hear her voice on the phone! we're only getting bits and pieces of this woman, mainly filtered through langdon's unreliable flawed perspective. so if we want something based in canon to say about the way langdon thinks about abby, his kids and his marriage, we'll have to look at some characters we actually get to see on screen.

we may not get to see abby and tanner, but we do have amanda and tyler:

(and also drew, but he's kinda whatever to my points here.)

tyler is the four-year-old boy from episodes 1 & 2 who comes in lethargic and unresponsive—mel asks for langdon's assistance on the case, and they find out that tyler is sick because he ingested some of his dad's pot gummies. this causes a lot of tension between tyler's parents, amanda and drew, who get defensive when they find out they've been reported to the department of children youth and families (pittsburgh's version of CPS/DCFS). the parents argue, robby breaks it up as the Voice of Reason, mel frets about potentially tearing apart a family, and langdon with his "fellowship in cynicism" argues (correctly) that they're white and therefore won't face drug charges or have their kid taken away. we find out later from kiara that tyler is going to be fine, but that his parents "might need counseling."

and the shift from hell continues!

(side note: i'd actually forgotten, but the STEMI with me, mel moment comes right on the heels of kiara updating mel about tyler!!)

so it's a relatively 'easy' case, and it comes very early in the season, the first time we see mel and langdon working together one-on-one. it's almost forgettable compared to everything that happens later, and it's only after what we learn about langdon's addiction that the last scene with tyler and his parents starts to feel thematically important.

basically, langdon's reactions in this scene are really interesting.

it all starts normally enough with mel and langdon updating the parents on tyler's status, and answering amanda's questions about the potential long-term affects of THC on her son's brain. on my first watch, i was mostly attuned to mel, and her reaction (that langdon totally clocks!!) to amanda's derogatory worries about her son getting autism. but on rewatch, it's what comes next that really stuck out to me.

langdon starts the interaction very polite and professional with both parents, but when amanda gets upset about the mandatory reporting, he immediately gets very defensive, taking on almost the kind of tone we later see him use on santos. he starts talking to her like she's crazy, escalating the situation and making amanda even more upset. he even reaches out in a kind of placating move and she tells him to keep his fucking hands off her, leading to this shot:

which. yes. is the basis of this whole post. but come on. this isn't zoomed in by me, this is the shot as it appears in the show. a mom justifiably angry about her husband's drug use and the way it's endangered her child, juxtaposed against a defensive langdon's wedding ring and the bracelet from his own four-year-old son. you could write a fucking thesis on this shot alone. i mean, i basically am. but never mind.

and langdon's reactions to amanda only get more tense when she starts going off on drew, telling him to stop speaking for her child and that he needs to "get a fucking hotel."

look at the way this is blocked! poor mel is running off to get help, but the guys in the background are framed together in opposition to amanda, and they're both looking at her like she's crazy. in fairness, she is very much freaking out here, but she's also scared for her son, she no longer trusts her husband, and she's just been told that the police may be getting involved. langdon doesn't know it yet, but he's getting a little sneak preview of what his night with abby is gonna turn into!

and when robby comes in to play moderator and calm everyone down, langdon is again alone in the shot with amanda, making a series of increasingly freaked out/guilty expressions as she tells robby that she wants to stay with her son instead of her husband because she doesn't want him around:

patrick ball's acting in this whole scene is so subtle and nuanced as langdon low-key wigs the fuck out in this situation. he is visibly shaken after everything goes down and has to physically psych himself up to get back in the game as robby leaves.

so much about the way this is shot, acted, and edited feels vitally important to langdon's characterization in retrospect. and the defensive way he reacts specifically to the woman in this situation leads me to believe that, at least in the immediate aftermath of abby finding out about everything, langdon is gonna be a fucking nightmare. and while i don't think it would be fair to assume that abby is gonna react exactly like amanda does in this situation, i do think the similarity of the names (abby/amanda & tanner/tyler) and the fact that the boy is the exact same age as langdon's son does invite us to draw a comparison.

long story long, i love that while we get to see first hand how langdon's addiction makes him react defensively and lash out at santos and robby, the show also gives us this glimpse into how langdon and his wife will react to his addiction becoming public in his domestic sphere.

[forgettable-au]

Do have any ships in mind for the au?? Whether background ships, main ships, or otherwise, or is there none?? Or do you have some planned but can't tell us bc it'd be a spoiler

There's not gonna be any ships in this AU!

I love shipping characters but it's just not relevant to the story, it wouldn't make sense

You guys can ship Wingdings with whoever u please if you want to tho, I don't mind

But, yeah, no shipping will happen here

[buggachat]

Sometimes I think about how Adrien, throughout the series, constantly grapples with his fear of abandonment. Gabriel conditioned him to believe that any love he receives is purely transactional, and that to earn affection he has to prove his utility. Adrien is constantly trying to prove his worth to his father for scraps of affection, and Chat Noir infamously crumbles on-screen any time he feels as though he is replaceable to Ladybug. It's a constant insecurity of his, like everyone will just dump him like a sack of potatoes the moment they find out how useless he is.

Meanwhile, all Marinette wants to is ensure that Adrien is happy. Because she loves him. She doesn't give two shits about how """useful""" he is. She holds him and tells him that she will never abandon him (both as Ladynoir and as Adrienette), and her fantasies are about saving him, not about him being "useful" to her. Throughout their relationship, Adrien is forced to disappoint Marinette constantly for reasons outside of his control (amok commands), and yet Marinette is still there for him.

At Adrien's lowest point, when he is forcibly torn away from everyone who had ever showed him genuine care, locked away in an all-white room and at his most "useless", right after disappointing Marinette and unable to even join the final battle or contribute in any way, she still saves him. She still loves him. Because he doesn't have to prove anything to her. Because he is loved and cherished for who he is, not for what he does, and that love is not conditional. Adrien's "happy ending" at the end of the first arc wasn't about him finally proving how useful he can be, because he never actually cared about being useful — he just saw it as the only means to feel loved and needed. Instead, in the end, he found out that he was loved and needed no matter what.

[cutter-kirby]

my kerdly vision

[strawglicks]

big ol cathal-graham art dump bc i havent posted in a while and i have a ton of old stuff i never posted

[royalarchivist]

Sure, Arkanis has cool lore, interesting NPCs, adorable little ghosts, and more, but you know what the best part is? Tazercraft shenanigans!

(This meeting was over 7 minutes long, and Mike kept distracting Pac and made him laugh the entire time 😂)

[iliveasalambforthelucidlydamned]