#the whole cast deserves better

[daincrediblegg]

I think the funniest thing about slow horses getting nominated for awards and not winning a damn thing is that much like the characters in the show, it goes stunningly unrecognized for how good it is by the establishment and it only displays a higher level of competence for it

[littlelesbianintern]

I’m especially sad for Shanel though. Literally two weeks ago she posted about how excited she was to show a dark skinned black girl as a founding member of the Pink Ladies because of how iconic they are in pop culture. And now not even a month later not only will the show not get a second season (which would show Hazel as a more prominent member of the Pinks) but it’s being removed entirely. That representation it quite literally being erased. For a show that centres around people who are ousted from society (whether that be based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality or class) and how unfair that treatment is where the fuck do paramout+ get off axing all their shows with said representation??? It literally makes no sense

[nothazellevesque]

actually the more i think about the episode the more upset i become because it was just so bad that my brain cannot comprehend that it’s real. killing off a character for “realism” in a season where a pregnant character had her throat slit ONSCREEN and was completely fine with no lasting effects two episodes later and in the same episode where another character was experiencing late stage organ failure and was just fine going on runs and chugging vodka next episode? okay. that’s one thing. but devoting only ten minutes to the first main character funeral in your show, cutting out the scenes with the mother and brother that he explicitly reconciled with this season, hardly showing the impact that his death had on four of the six remaining main characters, spending most of the episode chasing a ghost baby in an empty coffin, one of the mains having three whole lines and two minutes of screen time over the last three episodes (aka this entire story arc), only having his wife and stepkids at his grave in Minnesota (why not his mom? His brother? the man who is explicitly stated to be like a son to him?)? what was that? If you’re going to kill off your first main you’d better make damn sure their send off is a good one and accurately portrays the impact that they had on those left behind and what the character meant for everyone. This wasn’t that. this was more beating the audience over the head like “see he’s really really dead for real you guys!”. this wasn’t the poignant farewell episode that a main character of a show for eight seasons deserved.

[that-spider-witch]

Redips was Spider the whole time and Spider was never real: So stupid it hurts, it completely wastes a perfectly good character for literally no reason AND didn't shapeshifting Reploids needed to copy an existing Reploid in order to shapeshift into them or was that just Axl? Whatever, it's still dumb.

Spider was a real Reploid who Redips impersonated: Not perfect, but still so much better than the other option. Makes so much more sense imho. Also... Angst Potential. So much more Angst Potential.

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

man. the most persistently irritating thing about daniel emond's "kill the whale" is how fucking GOOD it is at times.

every day I think about The Quarterdeck and how phenomenally it portrays that scene and the magnetism of agreeing to Ahab's quest even despite fear, and Dusk and the subplot of Starbuck falling in love with Ahab and being terrified of what that means, but ESPECIALLY Fedallah's introduction song where Fedallah is presented as a woman with agency, who looks the audience in the face and dares us to judge her for the life she has chosen.

Fedallah is presented as the captain's lover, the captain's party trick and pleasure, and owns the shitshow she lives in, and only chooses to reject that life once she tires of Ahab's fetishization and exotification of her, and then uses the very thing Ahab fetishizes so much (her prophecies) as a way to spell her own doom and drag Ahab down with her, freeing herself. The shivers I still feel when I hear Fedallah's triumphant crow of "come back here" as she sinks below the waves and Ahab watches in horror, knowing she is next.

that fucking ruled to a degree that shook me!!!!!!!!! and hearing Grace McLean and Amber Gray (and Danielle McKnight) duke it the fuck out through song was just genuinely magnificent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and then the narrative kicks you right in the throat by calling queequeg "q" for two hours straight and making his marriage to ishmael lowkey racist hate sex

[rmorde]

The devastation on these four after the reveal of Mechamaru's betrayal... I just cannot imagine how painful that is.

Mechamaru trusted Todo and Nitta to survive but not them.

Kokichi wanted Miwa to be with him in his last moments but not them.

He protected them by underestimating them.

He set them aside by accident because its only Miwa that he felt owed an explanation.

Just... What can they do here?

[yoldels]

Finished the Sdr 2 playthrough a few days ago, btw

[house-of-naga]

It’s sad boi hours and I’m thinking about scarif (I rewatched rogue one on a Wednesday for some reason)

[technikki]

many lines in tpn dub are delivered in such a way that they are able to take permanent residence in my brain and routinely beat the shit out of me. this is how you know if an anime dub is good

[carrotsnake]

dungeon meshi fandom rant

i usually stay away from fictional autism headcanons or indulging in them wholesale because i'm more on the 'characters are constructs' side of things. some may exhibit traits we relate to but placing real-world diagnostic labels on walking metaphors makes things too nebulous. however laios touden is an exception to me since autism allegories (despite no authorial intent) are pretty hard-wired into both his arc and dungeon meshi's core themes about being an outsider. so for once the fandom autism memes feel genuine to me lol. it doesn't feel as fanon-heavy or platitudinous, actually it's pretty uplifting. i appreciate the positivity.

that being said the most dogshit dunmesh take i've seen lately is the assertion that laios and falin show us autistic men are villified for things autistic women are accepted for. the fuck are you people smoking? some rebranded MRA-pilled bullshit? log off tumblr and go outside, then point and show me where this is the truth. i don't know if you guys are all living in a feminist utopia that i'm not privy too, but if so send me the address because things couldn't be less like that everywhere i've ever been.

countless times i've been told 'oh you're exactly like a female copy of [socially anxious male friend/co-worker/family member who shares my personality] and then i gotta watch them get special treatment as i get left behind and scolded for not being normal enough. him being blunt is rebellious & brutally honest, me being blunt is just being a b*tch with no filter. how many times do you see autistic women reaching high positions of power and being revered as a misunderstood genius.

how about everyone reminding us to 'be nice' to the supposedly harmless awkward guy who keeps making sexual comments & invading our boundaries because he can't help it apparently. but strangely enough, i have gone my whole life without creeping on others. only to be called creepy and off-putting by these same social equality preachers for not applying makeup or styling my hair right. autistic women are more likely to be sexually harrassed and/or abused than neurotypical women and no one gaf (let's b real they don't care when it happens to neurotypical women either if the man has a good enough sob story.) shit like walking strangely, having a speech impediment and talking too much about esoteric topics was enough to be outcasted for us. once more, with feeling: what are you people smoking?

and critically, falin is pretty. she's conventionally pure, self-sacrificial, beautiful with hollywood curves, soft-spoken, and never questions anyone nor asserts herself over others when her needs aren't being met. her dislikes in the adventurer's bible are 'nothing in particular', she never spoke out against her village's bullying even when she had it worse than laios, quickly forgives her parents for exiling her, and never shows any opinion on marcille's use of dark magic. she's a paragon of femininity. anything less than that, and she would probably invoke similar if not more disgust from her peers than laios through the audacity of not conforming to gender expectations. but she likes holding bugs or whatever so...whoa! she's so feral and subversive amiright guys. but crucially she looks cute while doing it so we're not too uncomfortable to stan.

i love laios so much, he's in my newest blorbo collection for sure but calling the female characters who don't like him judgemental is not a good look. we as the readers who have been inside the main chara's head know he's a good guy - but in the context of dungeon meshi's world, where sexism is as prevalent as stranger danger, it's fair for them to assume bad intent and keep their distance. they're looking out for their own safety and you're mad about that because, what, it makes your 2D nigel sad? cry about it.

so quit using anime characters as fodder for your thinly-veiled 'everyday men milk themselves' preaches. the touden siblings are not a good example of this. if you unironically agree with that take: it's time to go talk to some real women broski.

[averlym]

a word to the wise sometimes the only true rest is looking beyond what you thought was success

so true! adamandi is full of wise advice such as this, including: "and you'll never feel better if you - fucking die- you stupid ass!"

[akkivee]

word on the streets is that hypstage might have been in the red for a while now, like they never really recovered from cancelling shows from corona, and while popular, it just wasn’t profitable so upon a company acquisition in early june, the higher ups pulled the plug on the stage 😖😖😖

[icharchivist]

HOLY SHIT ICHA

I just watched DnD Honor Among Thieves

It's sooo good, you're right

I love these stupid idiots and I'm happy for them

It's such a refreshing movie, because they avoided so many tired tropes

Thank you for posting about it, you made me want to check it out

I know nothing about DnD, but I have played a bit of Baldur's Gate this year and was happy about recognizing some spells and names, but mostly it's just a really solid fantasy heist movie tbh

OMG ANON!! IM SO HAPPY TO HEAR IT!!!!!

it's so so fucking good i love those characters so much. By the end of the movie i was both crying and also couldn't stop smiling, because of just, how glad i was to have seen this story

it's not like it's ~groundbreaking~ or ~the greatest movie~ ever made, but it doesn't have to be. It's a refreshing movie that is avoiding so many tired tropes in order instead to explore more heartfelt stuff. Like. It's a really earnest film?? It's dripping with love and care and attention.

and i still can't get over the friendship between Edgin and Holga like :sob: best brotp ever

i'm so glad you decided to check it out and ended up having so much fun!!!!

and yeah right? i knew quite a bit about dnd before going in so there were a lot of things that were delightful (if only for the mechanisms too like. the whole bridge scene and how Simon fucks it up and Xenk has this moment of like. "Ok new plan so actually you have a magical artefact--". Even with very little knowledge of dnd it screams "player accidentally fuck up the next puzzle the DM had planned so now they have to improvise to not finish the campaign on something so stupid", i find that delightful), but even without the references it is a very solid movie that still explains to you what you need to know, and let you fill the gaps on your own, and it's just about telling a fun heist story instead, with a heartful theme with the found family angle and the theme of "it's fine to keep on failing, because as long as we /keep/ doing it it means we never stop trying". Are those simple themes? yes. do we actually have a lot of that in mainstream media? Not that much!! It was so good....

[SPOILERS FOR THE END OF THE FILM] Like i think i'm just constantly emotionally ruined by "Edgin wanted to bring his daughter's mother back to life, but in reality, what he wanted was his wife back. But in the end he made his choice and let go of his wife to bring his daughter's actual mother back" (with the distinction of "the mother his daughter never knew" and "the woman who raised her like a mother"). i'm a simple person okay. The theme was strong. I cry.

i'm so so glad you enjoyed it <33333 it makes me very happy that my gushing made you want to try it out because god, what a gem it was.

so so happy to hear you had fun <3333

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

103. We Have A Ghost (2023)

[starsspin]

i know an eragon series has been approved and im  hesitately hopeful for it, but i dont think i’m going to make any fc changes to my inheritance muses. im far too attached to who i picked already. 

[userlaylivia]

@emilyskinners

top 10 tsc ships 4. diana meade & adam conant