#thanks god for claire

[schelofthesea]

cannot believe i have been sleeping on this game my whole life.

[quietwingsinthesky]

it ever hit you out of nowhere that castiel is living in a dead guy's body and the show just does not care. it does not care. jimmy novak might as well not exist the moment he or claire is out of sight. cas stole a guy's body and his face and his life, and we can't ever talk about it or discuss it in detail because of how fucking horrifying it is that sam and dean's best friend just walks around in a dead guy suit. there's not even a human soul in there anymore. it's just a corpse. stone-cold body snatcher indeed.

[babygirlgiles]

I think my fic where Xander accidentally becomes a successful novelist (largely without realizing it) is the funniest idea I’ve ever had. This guy started writing little stories to remember their adventures in Sunnydale (his last line in Chosen about “how will anyone even know about this unless we tell them” burrowed itself into my little archivist brain and won’t let go) and posts them online. He unintentionally goes viral. He thinks someone named Simon N. Schuster is leaving him voicemails. He ends up on the New York Times bestseller list.

He doesn’t even realize that everyone else thinks the stories are fiction. Xander is out here writing autobiographical non-fiction but everyone else thinks he’s a weirdly dedicated author that’s really committed to maintaining a Lemony Snicket style pseudonym/persona for the narrator of his novel. There are “Who Is Xander Harris?” articles. No one can dig up much of anything on him because he lived his whole life in a town that got wiped off the map. He keeps rejecting requests for interviews because of his stage fright. At first this drives his publicist absolutely ballistic but it just adds the the air of mystery that’s drumming up book sales so she lets it go.

He only responds to questions over email and only ever responds “in character” as his “novel’s narrator” and this baffles everyone, only adding to the supposed mystery. It’s literally not even Xander actually writing the emails 95% of the time. It’s Dawn. She has appointed herself as “Xander’s representation” even though she doesn’t really know what being someone’s representation means. She printed business cards.

[crimescrimson]

The Alternative Costumes of Resident Evil 2 (2019): Claire Redfield & All Five Costumes

[milimeters-morales]

Peter, bleeding out + concussed: haha…aha.. more like… green gobblin deez nuts ahehehehoohoo

Miles and Green Goblin fighting to the death on the glider: NOT FUNNY!

[todayisafridaynight]

We rlly don’t need another majima game 😭 please give other characters a chance he already had the spotlight in 0😔

lord if i speak on goro majima.

[ofthirtynine]

SURVIVED BOXING DAY WITHOUT QUITTING MY JOB CONGRATULATE ME

[dragonsdendoodles]

It was a matter of time honestly

(If anyone is interested I made a loop challenge for this game to play by)

[gabriestat]

lord the women you've put on earth to provide are thinking of a fictional detective cradling the little body of his dead daughter and then years later holding another dead child a bit bigger than the one he lost so that his friend wouldn't have to know how it feels to hold something so fragile and innocent in your arms

[clairedaring]

[Series Review] Trillion Game (2023) - an exhilaring fun ride from start to finish

I watched like four Japanese series in 2023 so I'm not sure I'm qualified to rank anything but for me personally, Trillion Game is the BEST Japanese series of 2023. The story and solutions felt cheesy at times but pacing, acting/cast, music, rewatch value. 10/10. I am so happy I decided on a whim to watch this after being in a slump of not being able to truly enjoy any series after I finished another drama which I considered my favorite series of 2023.

STORY

We follow Haru (Meguro Ren), an extremely charming communicator and Gaku (Sano Hayato), a brilliant IT engineer as they encounter obstacles on their start-up journey together. It is VERY fast paced drama with each episode following a certain formula that you'll figure out by the second episode. For the majority of the series, each episode starts with present Gaku, CEO of Trillion Game, reminiscing his and Haru's past adventures in the early days of their start-up business. While each episodes may seem formulaic, the stories are never boring and I found myself binging everything from start to finish, not being able to stop for a second. We've seen the unhinged genius x sane down-to-earth duo a bazillion times before but I think what makes this particular story so charming is the characterization of Haru who is self-proclaimed "the most selfish man in the world" but all his actions are completely contradictory, always self-less and putting everyone's needs above his. I love Haru so much. I don't know what they laced in the series but I am down bad for Tennoji Haru and I get why Princess Kiri wants Haru so bad as well, like same here sis.

ACTING/CAST

Meguro Ren and Imada Mio are just the most enigmatic actors, truly powerhouses. From edits on Youtube on Tiktok, you'd think these two have a lot of screen time together but they DON'T. Regardless, even when acting separately, they are bringing everything to the table and when they get scenes together, the chemistry is CHEMISTRYING. The sizzling tension between Haru and Princess Kiri are just top-notch. Sano Hayato and Fukumoto Riko are also just the most adorable nerds as Gaku and Rinrin. I love our four main leads so damn much. There's this one scene from Episode 2 where the first thing Haru does after receiving their initial 30 million yen investment is to bath in money and I remember thinking this is so nonsensical but at the same time found myself with the stupidest grin on my face watching Haru pushing Gaku out of his comfort zone to do all these insane things with him. I LOVE THEM. Meguro Ren is truly an enigmatic powerhouse in this one. I have only seen Meme in like three other dramas but Haru is definitely my top favorite Meguro Ren role ever.

MUSIC

The score is so energetic and fun. I love the main theme song of the series which is Dangerholic by Snow Man. The song is SAUR good I haven't skipped single outtro of any episode just to listen to this song. I watched a lot of series this year but Dangerholic is probably taking the crown as my favorite OST of 2023 in this very last minute race. As previously mentioned , Trillon Game has very exciting and energizing score and I'd argue that many business/office scenes are hard-carried by the score and excellent editing.

REWATCH VALUE

This series get a 100000000 for rewatch value because I just finished it and I'm already considering for another rewatch just because of how much fun I had watching it. But also because each episodes are so self-contained, Trillion Game will be fairly easy to rewatch any random episode in this series because you don't really need to the past episode to enjoy one, a recap at the beginning of each episode will do just fine. The tension between Haru and Princess Kiri is so insane even though there's no explicit romance going on. I think I need to rewatch it just for THEM.

PRODUCTION

This was definitely a low budget drama but TBS definitely made do with what they got. I understand if Princess Kiri's wardrobe alone was where most budget was allocated to. Like deserved! Trillion Game's strength lies more in the acting and story department so I wouldn't say this was a high value production but I will say I love all the rooftop scenes between Haru and Gaku. Those rooftop conversation scenes between them are just beautiful and heart-warming.

OVERALL

I love Haru with my entire heart. WATCH TRILLION GAME FOR HARU PLEASE.

[liviasdrusillas]

Domina s2 will air in 2023 with eight episodes and they are titled:

EP1 - Conspiracy

EP2 - Wedding

EP 3 - Betrayal

EP 4 - Exile

EP 5 - Sacrilege

EP 6 - Freedom

EP 7 - Curse

EP 8 - Control

[banillahare]

A quick Drawing of the best version of Claire!~ I don’t like the first picture that much cus she’s super blurry and hard to see, but I genuinely hated the background and overall scenery of the second one so much that I wanted to run myself over with a car

[puphoods]

CLAIRE SWEEP NOW

CLAIRITY FOSTER aka "THE CLAIRVOYANT" aka CLAIRE is a vampire, taken in and raised as a weapon by a family of vampire hunters. after the death of his father at age 17, he goes on the run, hiding from both vampire hunters and his sister annie who is dead-set on revenge. years down the track he meets a human woman named amber, and is introduced to a local vampire coven and is caught up in their struggles with a mysterious "human coven" promising immortality without vampirism.

@original-character-championship

claires story is largely about overcoming the trauma and baggage that came with his upbringing. throughout the course of his story he struggles with overcoming the trauma of his abusive mother and learns to be a person outside of the identity others have forced on him. he forms a relationship with amber, a woman whos older sibling was turned into a vampire as a teen, and their relationship unfolds as claire forms bonds and alliances with the local coven in their fight against the intruding "human coven".

at the same time, annie has started an attempt to track him down again, and he is torn between his old and new lives as she desperately tries to bring his past back into his life and serve him the justice she thinks he deserves. claire struggles with a choice- should he try to get through to annie, try and make her understand that they are on the same side, that they have both been hurt the same way, and if they stand together they can grow and heal together as the sisters they always could have been, or should he prioritize protecting the people in his life who care about him, and attempt to put everything behind him and move on without annie who clearly does not want to listen to anything he has to say?

claire is a lesbian, and a lot of his struggles, both internal and external, represent or tie in to his internalised homophobia. his being gay AND being ambiguously Not Cisgender are integral to understanding his past and present. the relationships he forms and the people he comes to love and care about and who love and care about are, at the core, a representation of an isolated and traumatised queer person coming into a community of similar people who help him heal and accept who he is.

image dump time! look at my silly guy

[feralkwe]

finally got my dnc to 90 and i tell you what having the option to not tank everything is so freeing i am nigh unstoppable now

[claireverlasting]

tell me more about aroace jesse

OOOO 👀 this is such a pleasant surprise!! Was thinking about moving this to the fanfic blog ‘cause I actually have a very rough aroace jesse fic idea :)))) but yeah let’s talk about it!

Truth to be told Jesse didn’t even realized he has been seeing the world differently than other people

Dude spent a good part of his life thinking that marriage is very much just Something You Do™️, like a SOP of life

✔️girlfriend ✔️house✔️marriage ✔️kids

And then he grown up (or so he thought) and decided that spending his time going on crazy adventures was more fun than spending time to find a girlfriend (it’s so much work why bother)

Then immortality hit so the whole love/marriage whatnot got ignored even more

What’s the point of falling in love if you would always outlive your lover?

(Did 19th century ppl do hookups? Idk, but that didn’t really cross Jesse’s mind)

The other Tucks thought it’s just a decision that came with immortality, but yeah this was very much Not A Thing Jesse was dealing with

He did wondered about the whole love thingy after a few decades, but always came to the conclusion that It Is Not Cool (Look at Miles)

He can’t even really have long term friends without revealing his secret let alone significant others

It wasn’t until he met Winnie that the whole thing was brought back to focus

Long term companionship with a girl and they vibe together? Sounds like marriage

Very much a I’ll Married My Besties I Love Them And Tax Benefits kinda guy

He asked Winnie to wait because let’s face it, a teenager dragging a child all around the world is absolutely insane and would raise so much suspicion and attention

But a couple? No one would bat an eye

(Btw book Jesse treated marriage as such an afterthought it was so funny, meanwhile Winnie was having a puppy crush on him but we don’t acknowledge that)

The Tucks didn’t know about the proposal until a few years later

The whole Winnie thing was bought back up and Miles and Jesse were having an argument, Miles was saying something about two people being suspicious and Jesse let it slipped and said something like “Not if we’re married.”

The family was shocked and pissed and Jesse was reasoning that he actually thought things through and about being less suspicious and convenient

It went on for a while between “She was a child!” “She might change her mind and don’t want to be with you.” and “It’s more convenient.” smt like that

And then someone (probably Mae or Angus) was like wait Jesse did you not see about the commitment after marriage and whatnot

Jesse was like 👁️👄👁️ but we’re besties it’s platonic it’s for traveling why would you think that 👁️👄👁️ it’s just a fake label👁️👄👁️

And then the four of them had an Oh Something Was Up moment (Also Jesse probably stormed out so)

The whole thing was put on the back burner again, Jesse eventually had a talk with Miles and got it figured out and came out to the whole family

There were obviously not much resources and labels

(They blame the water for a hot minute but well the other three don’t have this thingy so clearly not the right direction)

But yeah eventually Jesse was pretty okay with it

Imagine how much joy he felt when modern time rolled around and there are now Words to describe how he felt and there are people like him

[helpimstuckinafandom]

DAVINA'S ALIVE I STAY WINNING LET'S GOOO