#tainted forever

[possessiveandobsessive]

Thanks I'm crying 🥲

the hero of ferelden

[skysv1ew]

[blamemma]

max verstappen and daniel ricciardo during the singapore grand prix drivers parade | 📸

[drusill-a]

[WWDitS finale spoilers]

Aside from the obvious – the gross shipbaiting and mocking naive viewers who dared to believe an m/m dynamic could be treated as anything other than the butt of the joke – my biggest issue with the WWDitS finale is that it’s an ending that could have made sense… but at most after s2. Back then, we were still watching a story about characters who didn’t share any particular bonds (except for Nadja/Laszlo) and who were entirely static, unaffected by the things they experienced.

The thing is, the creators themselves realized you can’t build a long-running story on that formula – eventually, the characters had to evolve at least a little, and their relationships had to deepen so viewers would have any reason to root for them. And so Guillermo’s position in the group began to change – first, he earned their minimal respect, then a very solid place, until finally, in season 5, all the other characters had reached a point where they didn’t even hide that they genuinely cared about him a lot. The same happened with Colin, who at first was completely left out by the other housemates but gradually earned an equal spot in the group and developed that stupid yet sweet bond with Laszlo (erasing those memories was, imo, one of the writers’ biggest mistakes). Laszlo showed himself capable of empathy, which he proved again in s5 by helping Guillermo, and even Nadja, who used to completely disregard everyone’s feelings, had several moments in later seasons where she openly cared – at least in her own way –  about the others.

And of course, that’s how we got the romantic subtext between Guillermo and Nandor. Over all those seasons – from s3 up until s6 – I was certain it was a classic will they, won’t they dynamic that would end with them getting together. I just couldn’t believe the writers would spend the last 4 seasons making their relationship more equal and showing Nandor’s journey to realizing Guillermo genuinely mattered to him, only to do nothing with it – or worse, regress them back by three seasons. But the late s6 Nandor’s “no homo” attitude has very little in common with the Nandor from seasons 4 and 5, who was openly pining and lusting after Guillermo.

From Guillermo’s perspective, this ending is an absolute tragedy – even the end of the previous episode gave him much more hope. Maybe he’d lost his lifelong dream and still hadn’t found a new purpose, but he had found a family and a place in the world, with a potential chance to build something meaningful with Nandor in the future. I don’t understand why this episode had to undo all of that – to show us that none of his friends really listen to him, that the power dynamic with Nandor will always be uneven, and that ultimately he wasted 16 years, and no one would really care that much if he left. Considering how great Guillermo’s development was, especially in gaining confidence from s4 onward, this ending feels so unfair and insulting to his character.

I feel like the writers’ biggest mistakes have been forcing a return to the status quo after every season. After the breakup in s3, the characters should have stayed apart for at least an episode or two. Colin should have remembered that Laszlo raised him, and they should’ve kept their funny, fucked-up father-son relationship until the end of the show. Guillermo should’ve been a real vampire for at least a full season—or, in my opinion, permanently—because, as it turns out, the writers had absolutely no idea what to do with his character once he lost that goal. Relationships that had evolved shouldn’t be randomly reset by a couple of seasons just because the writers couldn’t be bothered to put in the effort to write anything new for them.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too – if the writers were so dead-set on giving us an  ending that says “nothing in these characters’ lives matters, and nothing will ever change,” they should have made the show half as long and spared viewers the trouble of getting invested in character and relationship arcs that ultimately went nowhere.

This is a comedy show that was supposed to make people feel better. After this finale, I feel mocked by the creators for believing that the queer ship they sold me for 4 seasons had a chance of being treated equally to an m/f ship. I’m also sad because the characters were regressed and left stuck in eternal limbo, and generally I feel ridiculed because the writers openly made fun of us for getting emotionally invested in the story they wrote for us.

And maybe the biggest crime of these last few episodes was that they weren’t even remotely funny—so you can’t even say they prioritized comedy over character development, because it failed on that front too.

[onaperduamedee]

I guess it's time to stop recommending Wheel of Time as a queer show

[nenoname]

Parts from the Stan Swine Before Time Commentary that makes me wanna study him like a bug

"But, uh, off camera, prior to this adjusting my tie in the mirror, I was downstairs trying to figure out how to get my brother back from that dimension that he… through various means wound up in. Partially my fault. Partially his. Who could really say? Y’know the point is, I wasn’t just the curmudgeon I look like here."

"This was a tale I told to Mabel to um, y’know make her see the real me because sometimes the truth is hiding within a lie. Y’know like, you might tell a lie like uh “I fought a monster for your pig” and the truth is you’re directly responsible for the pig getting stolen b-but the deeper truth is you would’ve fought a monster, right? It’s like a, it’s sorta like a truth turducken; lie, truth, lie, truth– y’know who’s really to say what is real and what is not? Certainly not Soos! He has no idea what’s real."

"Uh, yeah I’m pretty sure [McGucket] was responsible for getting us to… fall off of this [rope]… wait, let’s wait and see… yeah, there it is- called it! His fault. Sometimes I remember things being someone else’s fault but this case I was right! All McGucket."

"So what you’re watching right here, me tussling with a pig, getting attacked by a dinosaur, plummeting into a ravine, this was not how I expected this day to wind up. But, uh, push comes to shove, y’know, I’m not a bad guy, right? Like… how many of you, looking at this video right now, how many of you think that I’m gonna let this pig get eaten by a monster? Is that what you think of me? Not gonna do it. Not gonna happen."

"I can’t remember how we got outta this one. Did we, did we die? Am, am I in the afterlife right now? I seriously can’t recall. A dinosaur came for us, I must’ve done something really amazing, personally, myself. Maybe I, uh, oh whaddya know, actually it was Soos!"

[fatedroses]

Zenos gets to have the terrible realization that he is the only prince with the patience to put up with him anymore.

[3liza]

two of the three most influential professionals I ever "networked" with both turned out to be rapists/abusers and tbh simply out of the transitive property im always expecting the third one to get outed like that too, even though I feel like I would have heard something about it by now and i have heard about their reputation from various sources and the reputation is, at worst, harmless and goofy. SO FAR. but i hate networking I hate relying on contacts to make a career I hate all this shit so much. where every time you're introduced to someone you're like hm I wonder what kind of rapist this one is

[edenfire]

🎶🌸Ask me why my heart's inside my throat//

I've never been in love, I've been alone//

Feel like I've been living life asleep//

Love so strong it makes me feel so weak🌸🎶

shuake is still on my mind, so I finished up this little doodle🥺💘🌸 the lineart and flats were on my phone, and the background and shading were on my computer🌟✨️

god for them to get to the point of being publicly physically affectionate,,,, I die,,,,

[libelulalil4]

Lestat first sees Louis when holds a knife to the throat of his own brother. I wonder if later when Louis slits his throat he remembers that

[fiendishartist2]

man. do you ever think about how paul and care are forever tethered to each other?

[ironychan]

The ducks and shibas aren't the only things having babies.  Our resident Giant Bingus is apparently a female.  We have named her Patty, after the Bigfoot video.  She has a pair of twins in a nest in the woods and they are the worst creatures you can possibly imagine.  They've got a thin layer of fur through which their skin is bright pink.  Their eyes aren't open yet.  They look like all the most horrible things about newborn humans dialed up to eleven.  And if something bothers them, the little buggers scream, which brings mama thundering over.

We have been observing them through binoculars, and I got to see them nurse.  I will never recover.  I see it every time I shut my eyes.

In the river shallows we've been finding these masses of goo among the reeds.  Vandebeek described them as snakehead nests, which sounds ominous when you don't know what a snakehead is.  It turned out to be a fish.  A long, thick fish with hideously human-looking teeth that appear to be mostly used for cracking open the many types of crabs we have met, but can also be used to pulverize anything that messes with its eggs.  I think I know why we keep seeing tarasques with missing toes.

Vandebeek named these things Channa ovinutrix, which he explained means 'snakehead that cares for its eggs'.  Kelleher says he got the name from 'Dinotopia' but I don't know what that is.  The rest of us are calling it the crabcracker.  Hopefully they taste good.

It was while fishing that we dredged up this thing on the left:

I got nothing.

[rebouks]

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Brynn: You want to talk about it? Wyatt: Not really. [Brynn shrugged, gently running her fingers through Wyatt’s hair-.. though it wasn’t quite as relaxing as usual] Wyatt: Do you? Brynn: You have changed, he has not-.. what else is to say? Wyatt: Nothing, I suppose. Brynn: Ellis will be a good big brother; we make sure of it. [Wyatt hummed absently, his mind elsewhere] Wyatt: I’m gonna bring him in here for now… [Brynn nodded sleepily in agreement, rolling over as Wyatt left the room]

[horsegirlrehab]

disgusting disgusting disgusting

believe it or not this was actually my attempt at the isat random color palette challenge thing that got uh, very out of hand lol

[bodega-catto]

Me when I remember how the relationship between Geto and Gojo actually ended and everything I’ve added is just my way of coping with the fact that they were star crossed lovers doomed from the very beginning and how Gojo will remain untouched and how Geto will remain tainted and they could only be together in a place where they went back to being unimportant people without a role in the world