#this is imo i suppose

[honeyandsalted]

Every time someone complains about how they changed Alicent’s character from the book, or how they liked young Rhaenyra better, I think about this. Book Alicent because, (from what I’ve heard) she is more straightforward in her grasping for power (“girlbossing”) and younger tv Rhaenyra because she comes across as more sassy (“girlbossing”).

In the TV show, Rhaenyra matures to a quieter, more outwardly thoughtful soul as an adult, and Alicent’s desire for power is generally more grounded in her and her children’s safety rather than wanting to rule, or at the very least trying for find justification for having sacrificed her own needs and wants her whole childhood.

Also! I think the same phenomenon has led to a vast misunderstanding of a lot of female characters.

I see a lot of people who loveee Rhaenys s1 and then call the scene where she doesn’t kill Aegon and prevent the war “bad writing.” I love Rhaenys too but I have a feeling a lot of people mostly like her because she had that typically “girlboss” attitude: confident, sassy, and angry. What I feel they overlook is that Rhaenys is bitter, and insecure, and a little lost and alone.

My father, for example, hated this scene! Because he took Rhaenys at surface level and likely thought of her as this smart, somewhat ruthless, (or “manly”) woman, who would not hesitate to end the war before it starts.

And she probably would have, had she not had that conversation with Alicent not long before that.

Rhaenys likely cannot help but see some of herself in Alicent, who is also bitter, and alone, and overlooked by the men around her. Rhaenys herself saw the Throne pass over her for the men in her family, saw her children pass away, and saw her husband leave her alone in his grief. So when she faces Alicent and her family on Meleys, and Alicent steps in front of her son, she cannot bring herself to kill her. She cannot kill this women who is using her final act to still try to protect her son, this women who, although she likely hates to admit it, reminds her of herself. (Not to mention, she still has her own reservations about Rhaenyra).

It is a moment of weakness, for Rhaenys. People expect her to be logical and cutthroat (girlboss) so when she does the illogical thing (not ending the Greens), they see it as bad writing instead of another aspect of the complexity of Rhaenys character.

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

[blizzard-nightlamps]

3d model/animation of @xxthunderthedragonxx 's slime fox guy...had fun making the goop material on this dude

[macaronirats]

Happy danger days birthday

[badnewswhatsleft]

hey.. so uhh.. there are a few 1080p pro shot streams of ENTIRE tourdust shows on jack edinger’s vimeo…………… ??

⬆️ bristow va - july 19 2023 (best audio out of them)

⬆️ london night 1 - nov 2 2023

⬆️ london night 2 - nov 3 2023

there is some pretty intense flashing/strobe effect editing during calm before the storm for all the vids so just fyi if you're watching

but like haha what the FUCK

[ambipotentsbestie]

okay my one qualm about the pjo episode today, that I just HAVE to address, is that they did not utilize the ingenious cinematic tool that is The Montage enough.

the lotus casino IS A MONTAGE. They are meant to be doing things!!!!! Many things!!!! Playing games and going to water parks and having spa treatments and stuffing their faces!!!! Annabeth plays a sims game!! Percy figures out that they’re stuck!!! Not this they know from the start and get out in twenty minutes business.

like…………. a montage would’ve been perfect, in fact they could’ve kept in the rest of the episode and new stuff they added, it wasn’t even a forty minute episode! Montage would’ve fit PERFECTLY.

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[mayasdeluca]

MAYA AND CARINA STATION 19: 7x10 'One Last Time'

[ruporas]

i’ll find you again in every universe. let us be a little more honest, let us have a little more time.

[roscoehamiltons]

the king of silverstone has returned 👑

[cookiekitkat8484]

It has come to my attention that people who haven't read the comics don't realise Wallace was the one who harassed scott into being his friend. Like he saw that nerd at uni and went oh yeah that's my guy now. This bitch would not shut up and showed up at his house uninvited to hang out till scott gave in and befriended him, then they got suuuper drunk and scott let him crash at his. He comes to family dinners, is best friends with his sister, and chats to his mum.

He despises envy more than anything and is furious when she tries to mess with his life again and scott gets hurt, so he cooks him breakfast and comforts him. He coaches scott in fighting and helps with strategies so he doesn't get his ass kicked. He bullies him to leave the house because there's a heatwave and he wants to make sure he doesn't get heatstroke. Like they're close enough Wallace walks around in his underwear (though scott whines about it).

I've seen people assume Wallace supports scott out of pity but that man is a bitch and morally questionable (affectionate), I do not think he would put up with it at all if he didn't want him around, especially given he can barely afford to support them both. When they stop living together he doesn't just kick him out it's because their landlord kicks them out, he actively enchorages scott to move in with Ramona out of care for him and offers to stay with him if he needs it, though ends up signing a lease with his boyfriend (in his defence scott didn't ask for him to stay and decided to try make things work with Ramona) but still let's him stay at the new apartment with them when Ramona kicks him out.

Yeah he's mean to scott sometimes and makes fun of him/is brutally honest but he basically became part of Scott's family and part of that is calling people out when they're being a total jackass and teasing them, he's that kinda guy and scott knows that he doesn't actually hate him or something. Yeah scott will do puppy dog eyes if he wants something but wallace is frequently nice to him on his own initiative and scotts not a suck up to Wallace, he can be a bitch right back at him.

They're a really important part of each other's lives. though I can understand people not familiar with the characters who watched the show thinking Wallace doesn't care about scott being gone, literally all the characters reacted super casually. Bryan has tried to clarify his way of trying to cope is him "being a jerk"/disconnecting/acting apathetic. Also in the show o'malley basically confirms Wallace had feelings for scott and that was why he had the affair with Todd and you can quote him on that, aswell as scott admitting how they became roomates was "somewhat gay" in the comics, so there's definitely some weird more than friends emotional mess tied in there.

comic panels i reference under the cut

TLDR wallace lives with him because he cares about him, whether you read that as still somewhat romantic or now platonic, with either interpretations fitting better with different versions of the story

[pixellangel]

finally made some more up-to-date art of the mc of my rpgmaker game, magical girl: grim reaper!! her name is yurei, and she's a magical girl who continues serving sparkly justice after she dies by becoming the grim reaper :3

[aroaceleovaldez]

tbh my latest biggest theory for why HoO and onwards is such a dramatic drop in quality and consistency is just. Rick stopped making teaching guides.

Like, the Lightning Thief teacher's guide is SUPER in-depth with even stuff like sources about middle grade child psychology and exact specifications of where he's applying that, explaining what different character's goals/motivations are, their dynamics with each other and their environments, etc etc. Even specifying which specific myths certain plot elements are supposed to reference or be about.

That stuff just doesn't exist for later books. There's activity guides and smaller, significantly more simple teacher guides for later books but they don't go into anywhere NEAR the same level of depth. The TLT one is a full lesson plan that breaks down the book at every level and explains what's going on and more or less why Rick did that. The others are all basically just glossaries of terminology and some simple question guides.

And they didn't even use the TLT teacher's guide for the Disney+ show because they clearly aren't adhering to any of what's discussed in that breakdown of the book.

By creating a teaching guide alongside writing the actual book, that's forcing you to document what you're doing, why, your sources, and information about your characters and the story they're in. It's like an even more in-depth version of a series bible. But that's lacking for later books (and etc) and it shows because that level of thought and depth and attention just isn't there anymore.

[a-spacecadet]

Topher plays guitar!

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(Not really, his uncle just gave it to him)

[kastheory]

steve did not bully eddie in "the past" steve was a grade below him for 3 out of 4 years of his high school career freshman steve heard this weird loudass sophomore talking w his friends at 100 decibels in the hallway about fighting elves in the woods or something (steve did not know what larping was nor care to find out) and then he went to class bc are you insane hes not fucking w a sophomore you dont normally fuck w people ahead of your grade especially if they yell at people and wear chains and get into fights in the woods (with elves?) and you dont even have classes w them. you dont even care much about them in the first place beyond passing gossip like HAVE YOU GUYS EVER BEEN IN HIGH SCHOOL. sorry. anyway.

then steve keeps catching this guy in his periphery over the next two years shouting about board games and controversial food opinions and metal bands that steve likes a few songs from but could not ever imagine giving that much of a shit about. like at all. and by (steve's) year 3 the motherfucker is bouncing off the walls giving speeches about what the hell ever and saying he cant fucking WAIT to get out of this FUCKED UP PLACE!!!! YEP ITS TRUE IN LESS THAN ONE MEASLY YEAR ILL BE SAYING MY SWEET SWEET GOODBYES TO THIS BRAINLESS CONFORMIST PRISON!!!! and hardly anyone reacts beyond rolling their eyes or snickering to their friends about it and this includes steve because who cares literally who cares. this guys been causing a ruckus since the beginning of time and hes weird and unpredictable and not worth trying to shove in a locker he would probably evade the attack anyway like a nimble mouse or squirrel he might even try to bite you. and steve didnt shove anybody in lockers in the first place so who cares and yeah he has pretty eyes and a funny way of talking and moving around but WHO CARES

and then steve goes through the first round of nightmarish shit that would become a yearly ordeal and then wraps up junior year in a perfectly normal not haunted whatsoever fashion. and then hes a senior and in his subtly cringefail era (ongoing) and that freak guy is STILL HERE for some reason and kinda pissed off and possibly a bit devastated about it so okay great now steve has a few classes with this angry weirdo loudguy but. crucially. he has had a lot of OTHER SHIT to deal with lately (MONSTERS ARE REAL) (GIRL DIED IN HIS POOL) (GF RESENTS HIM) (HAS NO FRIENDS) (COLLEGE APPS) so the only effect eddie's constantly loudmouthed & often unwarranted input during class ever has is that it adds a little flavor to the constant metaphorical and literal headache of steves life.

and then he goes through round 2 of shit and finishes his senior year with little hope for a satisfying future ahead of him and never once thinks about that guy again except when his fellow grads whisper about oh my godd did you hear that the freak flunked out again hahaha and yep sure enough eddie's not there at the graduation ceremony. and he thinks huh i wonder what his fucking problem is and then he MOVES ON. the end. thats the extent of """their past""" at least in terms of any actual interactions btwn the two of them i promise okay listen to me. i was there

[labyrinthofpassion]

I made a 4 hour 9-1-1 deep dive because this show cured my depression (sort of.) anyone in this thread seen Step Up: All In?

[alenoah-likerr]

The alenoah appeal to me is the fact that it didn't happen, they never got together and it can only be a passing thought of what could have been.

Their relationship failed before it could even sprout, maybe it is that way on purpose. What might have happened if Alejandro kept Noah around? Sure, he's just a teammate and Alejandro could get rid of him anytime, but maybe he's becoming too fond of the guy lately, and the fact that Alejandro's first instinct on overhearing Noah is to feel hurt rather than... anything else.

Alejandro probably noticed his own behavior, and he'd be terrified. Warm feelings for his competition, for a guy no less. It would be a scandal! Noah has to go, better now than later. Besides he has a thing going on with Heather, a true equal to him. Noah is his acquaintance at best...

He never really had thoughts on Noah, he's just some loser, who doesn't seem to bother doing anything... which pisses him off a little bit but he can't help but respect his attitude, he wished he could care less like Noah. Whenever he looks into Noah's eyes, he only sees boredom but the moment he returns his gaze, Alejandro can feel his skin crawl. Noah's eyes are like pins and poke holes at him, he feels naked. Alejandro might as well be lying on an operating table with Noah dissecting him with his eyes alone.

And a one-liner came out of his mouth. Acceptance.

His words stings a lot for some reason. Betrayal.

[monochromemoomin]

dude david tennant macbeth is so so amazing i cannot believe that actually happened.

not gonna spoil obvs but i just wanna say that whatever you’re imagining it to be, it’s 10x better. the acting is so phenomenal (duh) the music is gorgeous the staging is fantastic every decision was clearly so deliberate and everything counts it’s so awesome.

the only other thing i wanna say is that david does his usual little flares in his acting which kind of took me by surprise and it sounds kind of weird but trust me if you also suffer from david tennant disease and have watched every thing he’s been in ever (/hj) then you’ll know them when you see them.

anyway 10/10 would macbeth again my face hurts from smiling so much and i was shaking afterwards