#the show is the show

[brsb4hls]

Story time, pov second person (you're a woman, that is important here):

You live a quiet, happy life with your family. One day cops show up and tell you you've been wanted for murder. The penalty for that is death.

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The cops shoot your family and take you with them. You manage to escape them, before they can send you to prison and now you spend your life on the run.

You find out you've been framed by the chief of police, who has all your files and forces everyone to hunt you down.

So your only shot at freedom is getting rid of the chief.

You track him for years, while still being on the run.

One day, a cop gets really close to you.

He abducts you with a car and drives the both of you to the desert.

The car battery dies. You find out you accidentially landed in a nuclear testing side.

The area is too vast to run. You have to start up the car, so both of you try to find a power source. Together, since you both don't wanna die.

You find out that the cop, L., is not really a cop.

L. comes from the same neighbourhood as you, you have a lot in common.

L. also was framed and given the choice to get either executed or hunt you down.

Now that he met you, he's not so sure anymore. You bond.

And you find a power source. Before you can start up the car again, you fall asleep from exhaustion. When you wake up, L. has gotten drunk and poured sugar into the tank.

You are definetly going to die now.

L. did get drunk, because he was deeply stressed himself and you decide to forgive him in your last moments together.

The two of you talk and try to comfort each other.

Suddenly cops show up, because L. unknowingly wore a tracker, and get both of you out of the testing site and send you to prison.

L. and you manage to escape. L. promises to help you track down the chief and get rid of him.

You fear L. will betray you, since he's been unreliable before, but L. promises you he wont. L. even suggests you might start a life together.

He obviously developed feelings for you.

You've never been in love, due to your life on the run, but start to develop cautious feelings for L., you are still unsure though.

But you decide to trust L.

L.'s superior shows up. He found out the system is corrupt and wants to fight it from the inside. He leaves to burn his precinct down. You feel relieved and happy about that.

L. and you find the chief of police. He is smarmy and smug and offers both of you positions of power. He claims if he were removed, his brothers, who are more violent and brutal than him, would avenge him and tear your whole neighbourhood down.

But you know everyone is suffering under the chief's rule anyways, innocents are being framed and executed daily, so you attack him to get your revenge and set everyone free.

L. suddenly steps in and stops you. You don't understand, he was on your side, but seems to have been influenced by the chief now.

You manage to lock L. in a storage room, kill the chief and escape.

Month pass. You're not on the run anymore. You built a life, made friends.

Suddenly L. shows up, now in full cop uniform, his superior, who wanted to burn the precinct, is with him, and a prisoner.

You don't know which side L. is on. You are scared, but you put on a brave face and talk to him.

L. wants to rebuilt the precinct. He says the corrupt cops can be good cops, if they're not forced anymore.

The precinct still has torture rooms and cells and prisoners they keep, so you argue it would be better to tear that horrible facility down, and start new.

L. refuses.

In the end the precinct gets remodelled, but L. has to stay there to keep things in check.

You go back to your life and write book about your experiences.

When the book gets published, there is a giant shitstorm on social media.

People are calling you a horrible person, a heartless bitch, someone who doesn't take responsibility.

They claim you mistreated and abused L., that you should have been kinder to him, even when he stranded you in that testing side. You were rude for no reason, an absolute bitch.

Some people fantasize about L. spitting in your face, or calling you names.

Some people want you dead.

Some at least just say you should have smiled more during your horrible experinces, be softer, don't speak so harshly. Women don't do that. They have to be soft to men at all times.

How do you feel?

[memesnotdreams]

actual footage of supernatural writers putting together season 6 ep 15

[swallowtailed]

okay watched the new ted lasso. thoughts:

funniest joke: keeley “i have to schedule time to cry… and i’ve double-booked you!”

there is no runner up because wtf, this is not a comedy anymore ;-; (<- joking but only partly)

nate’s scenes: great choreography, great lighting, great caricatures of villainy. fantastic.

look, this show isn’t subtle. it’s complex, but it’s not subtle. everything is set up cleanly. which is admirable in and of itself! but like, just count the callbacks to season 1 episode 1.

(i’m like 70% on the structure of the second act. it ran well, but didn’t fully commit.)

anyway, (fairly basic) season calls: keeley and roy back together; rebecca character arc toward no longer defining herself in context of rupert (eta: this will be a girlboss thing in context); nate arc toward valuing community (but it takes the whole season); ted back to kansas in act 3 but ultimately choosing to return to england. overall theme of intentionally building community where you are, even when it’s hard, etc.

[dark-immortal-kiss]

I can’t believe it’s 2022 and I’m back on my loustat shit. They were my first ship at like 11 years old. I guess some things are just never outgrown.

[goldensunset]

can you reblog a two-part post in the correct order?

[catchymemes]

[valtsv]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

[kayiiin]

Reactivate this acc just for them, I'm sobbing. sequel

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[tododeku-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[marisatomay]

People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

[alocalfrog]

Can you imagine suing Boeing and coming home to find Boeing's faulty plane parts washed up in your backyard?

[canonkiller]

I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

[karlrincon]

Happy New Year 2024 from Korea.

Year of the 🐲🐉!

[yujateaandpi]

y’all just— thinking about how excited Stanley must have been to host the twins— Alex says he smokes cigars but he doesn’t smoke once in the show— has a beer gut but he only drinks sodas in front of the kids— doesn’t swear when they’re around which must have taken INCREDIBLE effort— Stanley Pines, known crook, buying pancake mix at the supermarket and many bottles of syrup— learning to cook basic healthy meals and burning so many of them before he gets it right— buying new sheets, new mattresses— avoiding bunk beds because it reminds him of Ford— looking at the attic room he made wondering “is this enough will they like me”— trying to act aloof at the bus stop so he doesn’t betray the fact that he was there hours early— watching them goof around and thinking of New Jersey beaches— then the first night they’re there, he watches them debate running away and only stay because Mabel shook a magic 8 ball. That must have kept him awake all night.