#the tv series will make it worse

[kits-ghosts-corner]

i checked and i have written 66% (47/71) of the total fics on the shardlake fandom ao3 page.

autism got me

[feelingtheaster99]

It is completely in character for Percy to say he has some dumb questions, then ask incredibly valid questions that no one has brought up till now

[willthespy]

well dam… how are we today???

[bugisbonkerz]

i think it’s funny he has a tie of himself

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

I love how PJO was written to be a silly little children’s book and then the fandom decided to be sad all the damn time

[batcavescolony]

Shut up she's doing her best and sometimes your best hurts.

[kammieceleek]

Episode 4 thoughts

I haven't been posting about the episodes because I didn't feel a need to with the first three.

This, though?

Thank Miss Athena for this one, because Owl-Eyes PISSED ME THE HELL OFF with that little petty stunt.

I am well aware that Athena is petty in mythology. Hell, she's even petty in Percy Jackson (see every instance here she discusses Percabeth and how she doesn't approve of the Son of Poseidon). Yes, I am aware of all of this.

She...

Oh, gods, help me.

SHE SENT THE FUCKING *CHIMERA* AFTER HER DAUGHTER, LETTING IT INTO HER *OWN TEMPLE*, TO PUNISH ANNABETH FOR NOT STOPPING PERCY'S IMPERTINENCE.

ANNABETH. HER PRIDE AND JOY. THE MOST FORMIDDABLE DEMIGOD ALIVE WHO WILL ONE DAY ACHIEVE A QUEST THAT NO CHILD OF ATHENA HAS COMPLETED IN *TWO THOUSAND YEARS*. SHE PUNISHED HER FOR SOMETHING *HER FRIEND DID*.

This shouldn't make me as mad as it does, but I'm someone who proudly declared Athena my favorite goddess when I was in middle school (before I read PJO) and kept her as my favorite for a very long time. She has toppled a very long way from that throne in my heart and Miss Ma'am, you had *better* make it up to your baby girl or I will be throwing these dam hands.

[chicago-geniza]

Oh I bet Bridgerton is one of those shows where the source material is so thin that people write crazy good, sophisticated fanfiction, making a yellow brick road out of a breadcrumb trail

[kindredsoulsoftimesofold]

Has to be said, or repeated,

I've not seen a single tv series justify its longer waiting period between seasons thus far. Forget the series that had 22 45 min episodes and took a break for the summer, only to return with the next season in the fall, I'll just take the example of GOT & HOTD.

We got a season of GOT yearly, and it looked great, the dragons kept looking better and better and it just looked (love it or hate it) good.

HOTD appears to be taking the approach of everything these days with a minimum of 2 yrs between seasons. And... I can't tell why? It actually looks worse imo.

It feels like they're saving money by not showing the dragons as much and when they do show them it feels like reused coloured over footage somehow? Seasmoke literally looked like shot for shot Drogon from GOT in a colour filter, Syrax hasn't grown an inch since S1 ep1, and the Rook's Rest fight was actually a loooot shorter than I thought it would be. Where is the budget going then and why do they need 2 yrs?

Obviously other series suffer from this, or rather all of them do, but except maybe animation (where I ALWAYS see why it took them years to make it) there is no justifiable reason for tv series to have just 4 seasons (<10 eps too) out within a decade. The industry needs to do whatever it can to get back to yearly releases for series (not films! I repeat) because that is how you maintain a fandom.

It's embarrassing that maybe the source material is 15 yrs old by the time you end its adaptation and they released around the same time.

[positive-total-drama-takez]

courtney total drama they could never make me hate you 💔

[girl4music]

My time with ‘Angel the Series’ is officially over. I will not be continuing watching the show from this point onwards because I’ve just watched something that shocked, angered and revolted me all at the same time that I almost projectile vomited. And no I will not elaborate on why or how. The tags will clue you in. It’s too NSFW to write about in the main post. But god…

To the writer of this episode -

I hope you went to therapy because that was horrific.

How this got passed The WB censors is beyond me.

I just… this is too much for me. So yeah, I’m done.

This was the last straw. Enough is e-fucking-nough!

I did want to watch Season 5 but I just can’t continue.

Not after seeing that. Experiencing that. I cannot.

This is worse than Willow and Tara, Spike and Buffy, Faith and Riley. It’s even worse than Buffy and Angel.

Network TV greenlit this for production and aired it in primetime hours. This could have destroyed the actors’ careers completely. Probably most likely did. ‘Angel the Series’ had a 9PM slot on a weekday so they would have likely avoided young children watching when it was a school night most nights. But my god… to show something like that in primetime is just wrong. Especially for a TV network like The WB.

[madegeeky]

31 Days of Horror Recs: Anthony Hopkins, who?

I'm sorry, okay, but after watching Hannibal (the tv show) I just can't see Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal. The thing is, you get hints and side glances in Silence of the Lambs at who Hannibal was before he was locked up: suave, charming, brilliant, charismatic, the sort of person who could seduce you into seeing them exactly the way they wanted you to see them. But it's only hints and side glances; looking at Hopkins' Hannibal full on you do get the charming aspect but he's also feral in a way that makes it hard to believe he was that charming. When violence comes from him it's fun to watch but not surprising.

Mads Mikkelsen's Hannibal though? Holy shit, y'all. He is so refined and charismatic. He uses words and body language like a scalpel. He makes sure to come across as knowledgeable, confident, proud, etc but never too knowledgeable, confident, proud, etc. It is so easy to see why people would want to be around him, why him taking you as a confidant or him listening to your problems would make you feel special. And when he does go feral it is visceral and, although less violent than other things happening in the show, it somehow feels more violent because it is so sudden and shocking to see.

Hopkins' Hannibal shows us a man who shoves people in ovens and doesn't wear his human mask all that well. Mikkelsen's Hannibal shows us a man that doesn't have to shove us in the oven; he convinces us to, happily, walk right in.

Synopsis: A talented but unstable profiler, Will Graham, is brought in by the FBI to help find a murderer. He is paired with a psychiatrist, Hannibal Lector, to make sure that helping the FBI doesn't compromise Will's sanity. However, Hannibal is more than he appears to be and so is his increasing interest in Will.

[highfidelities]

patiently waiting for the luke castellan fics to talk by hozier

[fideidefenswhore]

can anyone who favors the wolf hall portrayal of AB > the tudors like...explain themselves?

[imwritesometimes]

I hate that I've been sitting here for hours and I have nothing to show for it. I hate that I've been writing this thing for weeks and I still am like what's the point of this?

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Nothing to Live For (2.1, LWT, 1972)

"Any sign of her in there?"

"No. Odds are against it, I suppose."

"What, being there?"

"Being alive."