#this entire sequence actually

[sadcoms]

i can’t gif but the way the doctor literally starts SHIELDING rose with his body (and frankly everyone else’s body he literally pushes her in the middle of the crowd) is making me feral

[ganondoodle]

so, i read your comments and really liked the idea of the glowing mane only when hes attacking- though i have changed it to only be when hes using magic instead, especially longer charging and large range ones, plus i added the details (though the attack examples are still missing)

however .. i still cant decide on which side i like which color best .. (meaning darker upper half and pink on the underside and vice versa)

heres both examples, with dark braids and with glowing ones, of darker on top and red on the underside (version 1)

here it is with red on top and darker on the underside (version 2)

(botw2 project, aka totk rewritten, beast form ganondorf/ganon concepts)

[bl4ckb1rd13]

pov your idiot husband did drugs again so you have to put on your best reproachful malewife face

[vaggieslefteye]

Angel, can I see you in your dressing room for a moment?

[basilpaste]

& he forgives you dogs are like that so loyal dead dogs are just happy you're here Let Dead Dogs Lie, Silas Denver Melvin (from Grit)

〔You grit your teeth so hard that they shatter into fangs.〕

[copper-skulls]

FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY—

[halfbaked00q]

okay as an admitted did-not-watch-NTTD'er who got, like, all of their info from uhh recappers, the wiki synopsis, the specific clips with Q I watched, and whatever I osmosis'ed from fics.

I finally watched the beginning of NTTD at @prismatic-bell's nudging. And I was like. Okay wait. wait wait wait. This is... well-written? And shot and directed & acted?? In a hollywood movie lmao?? Like. The way it's set up w Madeleine's backstory, and then the Bond & Madeleine stuff that does a much better job of establishing their relationship, the goooorgeous wide shots.

I admittedly was rather "I close my eyes I do not see" to a lot of canon - coming from partially a comics fandom background I'm very aware, well-versed, and well-practiced in the 'canon is your pick-and-choose buffet no need to feel like you have to 'respect' the 'sanctity' of 'canon' esp when it's Bad (like it contradicts other canon or you can just Tell this character was Not Written Well and it's like, here's what it could be that is better)' - and from opinions I saw on NTTD I was expecting to be very pick & choose about it.

But okay, wait. wait wait wait. It works. The beginning at least which I watched. Works. Like, it establishes a key character moment for Madeleine that Explains Everything about her behavior, actually - like she just like Bond is actually also very traumatized & has been locking it down/deflecting it vs processing it, and the whole like Vesper thing is (to me) very obviously her misdirecting Bond away from her own Goin Thru It. I can see how it can read as very suspicious to Bond esp with everything else but it, like, is a Narrative and Makes Sense for her character and Works. wild.

Even the Bond stuff makes a ton of sense. Like, when I hadn't watched it and was going off second & third hand information, one of the things I was hrrrm ?? about was the. How do you get from the guy who says "I miss you" at Vesper's grave, to the guy who put Madeleine on the train. The man who, even after finding out Vesper betrayed him, still wanted to save her? Would... send Madeleine away? In what, a fit of pique? Surely he's more of a "run to me and I will handle it" if it turns out not to be true or a "if it is, I'll handle it" kind of guy.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS. YOU KNOW WHAT IT FUCKING WAS LMAO. I WAS MISLED BY THE FUCKIN. BILLIE EILISH SONG LMAO. The lyrics of it make it SOUND like it's a like "you betrayed/cheated on me how could I have ever trusted you" break-up song kind of situation. BUT IT ABSOLUTELY FCKN WASN'T LMAO.

It's like. two traumatized individuals who trauma-bonded and honestly maybe should have spent time apart healing/learning themselves again before re-evaluating if they think a relationship could work, but like. they both were Goin Thru It and let themselves get carried away with it ig. And then right when Madeleine was like. hm I've been Not Dealing with this a Lot (tbh her being a psychologist probably made it worse cuz I think it made her more effective at Not Dealing With It and deflecting/misdirecting, but like. I don't think she was doing it intentionally, I think it was just a "combination of circumstances" thing. But this also works cuz I think before the like why did Madeleine push him towards Vesper again even though he said she was in his past. And it's like. She was delaying dealing with HER shit and probably unconsciously deflected his attention by poking at waht she thinks is still HIS equivalent to her baggage) where was I. Oh yeah, Madeleine is like. hm. yeah. the whole letting go of secrets thing. I. need to come clean to him...

but then all of the Spectre stuff happens.

Even the him sitting in the car thing is soooo so so. Cuz Craig absolutely put his whole pussy in the acting for this scene. he's got that like. wrong side of overstimulated so you shoot past being in the zone and instead are zoning out lowkey thing going on, mixed with the like. agent faced with a hopeless situation Observing Everything still but like vaguely morbidly amused about it, probably what's running through the brain rn is "lmao, wonder which bullet will be The One" kind of deal. And cross-cutting the shooting & wide shots with the bells was *chefs kiss* genius.

Even Madeleine not managing to tell him was well written/paced. Cuz it was very believable that she (not trained for this) was scared/shocked & couldn't get a word out. Until the "JAMES. I'd rather die than have you think I--" and then the fucking. tragedy of the bad timing. god. And then even her not just saying it later is like, it all makes sense with the way it was paced, shot, & edited. It was beaaautiful oh man. This also where I was like. damn lmao. miscommunication in a movie where it. feels like it makes sense and isn't just a stupid macguffin lol??? In a hollywood movie?? wild

but yeah this is also where it was like. hey wait. the man who, in the face of sort of a morbid (passively?) suicidal emotional blowout due to the Everything, but was able to break through it when she got through to him enough for him to look at her, and her to cry & shake her head like no, it's not true/no don't do this/please/(w.e). and go, "Okay." and take action. How does he put her on the train??

BUT. BUT FUCKING. BUT THEN. MY GOD. *Actually* watching the fucking scene I was like. Ooooh. ough ough oh god. This isn't him vindicatively cutting her out of his life "the bitch is dead" style. This is his Vesper in the elevator cage moment. He's fucking drowning in the cage but he doesn't want to take her with him. He's locking her out of the cage. god.

And the fucking. devastation on his face while he's on the platform. THAT'S HIS FUCKIN. VESPER HOLDING HIM ONE LAST TIME AND SHOVING HERSELF TO TH EBACK OF THE CAGE AAARGGGGHH BARK BARK BARK

Which, a-fucking-gain. THEN MAKES THE NO TIME TO DIE SONG. ALL THE FUCKING MORE EGREGIOUS LMAO. "was I stupid to love you was I foolish to trust was it obvious to everybody else" WHAT ARE YOU ON. THIS IS A SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY THIS ISN'T FUCKIN. 'THE BITCH IS DEAD.'

God this is like when ppl are convinced QoS was Bond going on a revenge rampage when he was (1) not even rampaging (2) not on a revenge quest/storyline - that was Camille's story!!!* caveat I did not watch QoS either lol, but I did watch a video essay breaking it down which I found Very Compelling and have since incorporated it into my worldview lmao. Like, in light of me actually watching the beginning of NTTD, and then it launching into the title sequence and the song. IT ACTIVELY. REWRITES HISTORY YOU JUST WATCHED ON THE SCREEN AAAGGGHHH BITE CHOMP KILL. IT UNDERMINES THE WHOLE. ALL OF THE WORK THE FILMMAKERS DID UP TO THAT POINT IN PLOTTING OUT ACTING OUT & ESTABLISHING THE STORY TO THIS POINT.

Like. The problem of the song isn't even oh it's a limited POV thing. IT'S NOT EVEN WAHT BOND'S POV WOULD HAVE BEEN/SHOULD HAVE BEEN BY THAT POINT. Again, this is the "the bitch is dead" edit of the scene, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. THIS IS BOND LOWKEY SPIRALING AND LIKE. OVERSTIMULATED-EXTREME-EMOTIONAL-AMBUSH-IN-A-VERY-SHORT-TIME LOWKEY EMOTIONALLY SPINNING OUT. BUT THEN BREAKING THRU IT ENOUGH WHEN MADELEINE CALLED FOR HIM. TO LOCK HER OUT OF HIS SINKING CAGE. BRUH. BE SO FORREAL RN.

also lmao she clutches her torso WAY too high up, bruh that's her sternum not her belly... but ig the idea translates across still.

but yeah. god. And here I thought No Time to Die the song was just. boring & musically uninspiring. but no. it's so much worse lmao. god.

[meeep-morp]

OMFG I JUST HAD AN IDEA--

THE AVA/M RAINBOW GANG PLAYING DND AT THEIR GAME TABLE!!!!

SC IS THE DM!! HE CAN DRAW AND ANIMATE THE SETTINGS AND ITEMS AND STUFF!!! THE OTHERS COSPLAY AS THEIR OCS AND MAYBE THEY LARP SOME OF THE FIGHT SCENES!!!!

Red being a lil shitpost goblin tho 😭

[thegreatyin]

of all the directions for the scoundrel to go this was certainly one of them.

[pynkhues]

I love that idea, that Louis wanted Claudia to be both of theirs, for good and bad reasons. And the show letting it be ambiguous.

Fenwick's death was so satisfying (and totally deserved), and the image of him hanging with the "whites only" sign was so great--but Louis had to know who'd suffer the consequences when he put that sign up. I was thinking Louis no, hide the body!

(x)

Yeah, it's an interesting part of the story to talk about, especially given how the dynamic plays out between the three of them as a family unit. There's something especially interesting when you consider too that Lestat is both the 'birthing parent' and the one who experiences parental alienation and othering within the family being a) white, b) unable to telepathically communicate with them and c) called uncle instead of daddy in the way Louis is.

And yes! Fenwick's death scene is so satisfying, but in terms of Louis knowing who'd suffer the consequences - - mm, I think yeah, a part of him would, but at the same time, Louis is both arrogant and selfish so I don't think he'd really consider it. It goes back to this whole thing with the Byronic Hero trope where he exists outside of community, and while that's enforced with white NOLA society due to his race, he's also demonstrated a lack of deep engagement both with the Black community in his pre-vampiric life, and to the Vampire community in Paris.

Sure, he establishes The Azaelia and employs Black artists, but a lot of that is more about elevating his own social status and personal ambition than it is about elevating his community (to say nothing of how he uses the bodies of Black women to further his personal affairs). He's disconnected and he's self-serving, and so I do think those racist attacks and vandalism probably took him by surprise. He was single-mindedly out for revenge (another Byronic Hero trope) and while he was confronted by the attacks, he - in classic Louis fashion - did something for himself in taking Claudia, not for the community that was suffering the consequences of his actions.

[cloudbends]

I did Not just cry over this

[tcda]

i do think ruby screaming at blake is the best moment from vol 9 though... it is so exaggeratedly out of character for ruby not only to yell at somebody, but to yell at BLAKE (who she noticably has never had issues with, almost idolizes/looks up to as sort of this cool 'older girl' figure, AND not to mention the 'sisters girlfriend/wife/my sister-in-law' angle) that it immediately strikes not only the viewer but all the characters in-series that something is horribly off. One of rwby's best writing moments in years

[ssaltlicker]

Thinking about all the on-screen character development we couldve (and shouldve) gotten from vi in s2. To actually see and hear her process things. Man

[elleryhart]

i have three whole new fallen london ocs that I haven't begun to tell y'all about bc i can't think of how.

[tangledinink]

you aren’t showing us the rest of the recording and yeah it makes sense story wise but also T-T what happened to da boi

We saw the entirety of the recording-- after Donnie goes under, the headphones are seemingly knocked off his head, so any other recording that was captured is just... water.

[rebellionbeach]

read tears of grief again...they weren't lying about the tears man