#the bleeding ends when i say it ends

[1-800-salem]

feeling frisky might not wear a pad tmrw

[fishareglorious]

i do a light chuckle once i remember hofmann and semmelweis are friends but then i remember semmelweis and marcus' suitcase interaction where they talk about her and i am once again inconsolable about this old woman's death

[bonkalore]

On the list of relationships that Jayce has fucked up bc of the Dread.🙃

Have a bit in the Bleeding Magic AU where Shak got into a private area he had for a power crystal that was helping him sustain the Dread for as long as he had, but it had already started to become fragile at this point as it drained and her checking it out had part of it crumble off, which only gave him a surge of the Dread's power over him unfortunately...

Being siblings, this kind of stuff is pretty commonplace... but he would normally never react this badly over it to her. She was searching around for clues, trying to find ways she could help his condition, and She ends up running away and he only realizes after he's able to cool down a bit and panics. Contacts everyone he knows to help get a search party together and is desperate and his form is all over the place and he can hardly care to bother hiding it, even when searching on NYC streets. This raises concern from everyone else and what happened in general.

They eventually find Shak and Jayce is full of regret for scaring her off like that and doesn't want to be that kind of person. This is only one of the earlier steps of his descent...

[fluentisonus]

something something

[metanarrates]

seen a lot of analyses of severance lately from a ton of diff angles (family abolition, labor rights, mechanisms of control, just general psychological) but i haven't seen a ton of discussion on cults in specific and the overlap of cult and corporation in general. while i'm still not caught up on the show... i will say as a survivor of a highly corporatized cult a TON of severance feels incredibly accurate and astute to a lot of things i've personally experienced and noticed

[laniidae-passerine]

I made my post about Dean Highbottom and then as I was writing my tags realised that his Hunger Games counterpart is Haymitch. and now my head is in my hands and I don’t think I’ll ever recover

[cantsayidont]

I feel like I should say for the record that I wouldn't mind that LOVE LIES BLEEDING goes way off the rails repeatedly if in doing so it hadn't ended up becoming something quite different than it started out. I knew going in that it was going to be some kind of lesbian weightlifting fetish thing where a bodybuilder does too many steroids because her GF thinks it's hot; I didn't appreciate the KStew character's weird biphobic fit, and I wasn't expecting and wasn't wild about the segue into "series of incredibly brutal murders," but I could have dealt with that stuff if the movie had stuck to the original direction in some recognizable way. The problem is that I did not sign on to watch Ed Harris being a creepy old gangster with the universe's most nightmarish wig, just as in BOUND, I didn't sign on for an hour of Joey Pants having a homicidal meltdown while the Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon characters are shoved into the background. In both cases, though, that's what we end up getting, at the expense of those movies' original concepts and, honestly, their primary selling points.

The toxic fetishism stuff in LOVE LIES BLEEDING was nonetheless sort of refreshing in the wake of AMMONITE, because whatever else one might say about LOVE LIES BLEEDING, it is not concerned with bourgeois art house respectability. The thing about AMMONITE that I find obnoxious is that its gray gloomy biopic ambiance seems to exist largely to cover for the film's actual primary appeal, which is seeing Saoirse Ronan fuck Kate Winslet. It's like the opposite of putting your kid's medicine or your dog's pills in a spoonful of peanut butter or applesauce to cover the bitter taste; the film's notoriously explicit central sex scene is surrounded by a lot of rather unappetizing porridge and some weak attempts at historical feminist commentary, because if it weren't, it might be derided as disreputable pulpy smut rather than Oscar-bait Cinéma for affluent white people to discuss afterward over a glass of chardonnay. LOVE LIES BLEEDING is willing to own being disreputable, pulpy, and (for a while) smutty, which is commendable; it would be more commendable if it didn't use that as a segue into the drearier reaches of post-Tarantino crime drama.

[mc-critical]

While Hatice may have more pivotal parallels with her sisters, Mahidevran and Hürrem (and MCK Gevherhan), E08 swiftly and ineluctably ties her to Gülnihal as well: both of them really want something in order to achieve some kind of fulfillment in their lives, but they constantly flip-flop in that want (Hatice yearns for Ibrahim but will never directly express her wish to have him; Gülnihal desires to obtain what Hürrem has for herself, but will never show it to her outright) because they know that it may not just disappoint their closest but be an utter betrayal to them, and them hinting just a little at their true wishes (Gülnihal admitting to Hürrem that she became muslim; Hatice signaling to Valide twice that she doesn't want to get married) constantly gets them either attacked or misunderstood (Hürrem yelling at Gülnihal, asking why she became muslim, also her almost strangling her to demonstrate what she would do with the woman who went to the sultan; Hafsa deciding to marry Hatice anyway, already choosing the suitor even), so they decide to put it all to a close (Hatice telling Ibrahim that they can't see each other anymore; Gülnihal refusing until the very end to go to SS's chambers for the second time)... until it turns out they can't. Gülnihal is ultimately forced to go to SS's chambers, which leads to Hürrem poisoning her weasel stole (but people first assumed it was sickness instead of a poison) due to what she had but shouldn't have, while Hatice got sick herself, looking at Ibrahim - what she barely reached but now definitely can't have - at the balcony, with her attire then having a fur trim (both the weasel and the fur appear to highlight Gülnihal and Hatice's seperate interlinked positions in some way; btw, Hatice kept seeing Ibrahim later too, but that's besides the point). The two indispositions completely intersected in Hürrem's confrontation with Hafsa after she went to check on Gülnihal, with her begging her to go to Hatice and Hafsa letting her [I believe Hafsa gave up from telling SS about the Gülnihal affair namely for that moment: yes, she didn't approve of Hatice befriending Hürrem and warned her about it, but seeing Hürrem sincerely wanting to check on her, that perhaps Hatice herself would need that and appreciate that, that Hatice cares about Hürrem regardless...; In this batch of episodes, Hafsa continually wonders why Hatice is so upset, having still not figured it out, and Hatice did lash out when Hafsa reprimanded her about Hürrem, so maybe that could be a part of it according to Hafsa... right? I think something indeed trembled inside Hafsa there. Yes, perhaps she needed Hürrem at Hatice's to go to Mehmet and take him, but this doesn't explain her punishing Hürrem just with that - not to mention that Mehmet had actual concerns then, which turned Hafsa taking him into an almost necessity - and not telling SS about Gülnihal, something she constantly threatened to do and even Daye couldn't convince her not to; ....yeah, no, upon rewatching it again, Hafsa basically pointedly gestured to Daye after she let Hürrem go to Hatice, it was all decided then.], with the following confrontation with Mahidevran at Hatice's also having the indispositions be paralleled.

[hauntingblue]

Last arcane episode ever..... here we fucking go....

[featherymainffins]

Trying to remember where I first encountered humanity as a horror to see if this has a root the same way you can trace literally all of my thirst for fictional characters back to WITCH, but ngl I genuinely cannot remember anything like that.

[eebie]

the underwater episode of bojack horseman makes me so SAD ..

[varjopeura]

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[raayllum]

if rayla has to stab callum in order to protect ezran i think that’d be very cash money

[arovalentines]

even now i cling tightly to my glass slippers

[horsemage]

I think we should bring back basic etiquette lessons such as shutting the fuck up when you’re watching a movie in a group that is not exclusively your friend group 🙂

[scoliosisgoblin]

Peter and Jay doodles feat. T.K. and Lucy (headcanons for what I think they'd look like as humans.. gonna change their designs though)