#this is literally my favorite episode so far

[yardsards]

Forever mourning that we would’ve had a scene in the finale where the protagonists apparently reach a resolution with Odalia on some level??? It got cut so Camila could take her place and hell yeah more for Camila, never gonna apologize for that. But man it’d have been nice to have both. The Odalia-Collector storyline set up in CotH was evidently going somewhere there but in the end the finale was already extended ten minutes past the usual mark.

Also yes plsss on the twins! Emira my dearrrrr you were molded into the new Odalia into the next showman matriarch while your sister was meant to become the next Alador the next moneymaker!!! What are your thoughts what if we had a storyline about you being your own person!!! I have to acknowledge that there’s always someone who’s going to have to take the fall for another character to shine at this point in the story but man.

i'm actually mostly happy with how things ended with odalia. i really like that amity never forgives her and continues to go no-contact with her. far too often, media does a "but they're your PARENT, it would be wrong to cut them out of your life" message, and having that be the dominant cultural narrative can be really harmful to victims of parental abuse. so it was VERY refreshing to see a story that said "this character going no contact with her abusive parent was the right choice"

that said, i think there could have been a way to give odalia's storyline more of a resolution without tossing that down message down the drain.

see, you know how i've complained before about how making odalia a full-on villain really undercut her storyline as just an abusive mother. how it accidentally kiiinda had the implication of like "the abuse on its own wasn't enough to cut her off. she had to be willing to kill literally her entire race in order to earn that." which i don't think was intentional.

i think it would have been cool if the resolution to her arc was like. she's no longer a full on villain. she helps our protagonists and makes up for her involvement in the big plot. she's technically on our side now... but that still doesn't make up for the abuse, and amity still is better off without her in her life.

i'm imagining a scene of like, after odalia helps the gang with the collector in some way, she talks to amity. says something like "i will admit that you were right, for once. helping with the day of unity was a poor business decision on my part." and maybe even a "these months with the collector have shown me you weren't such a bad daughter" perhaps followed by a pompous "so i will forgive your little outburst at the factory and accept you as a member of my family again" (despite, y'know, being the one who got cut off)

so amity goes off on her. says it wasn't about the day of unity. or, at least, wasn't JUST about the day of unity. that it was about the years of being treated like a puppet rather than a person (cue some kind of clever shot of the collector's puppets). she says that he friends have shown her what real love is supposed to look like, and her time with camila has shown her how mothers are supposed to treat children, and that none of odalia's actions have matched that. so she says that no, she will not be allowing odalia to be her family anymore.

and odalia doesn't understand, just keeps arguing that she only did these things because she wanted what was best for her family. and so amity leaves.

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AND YESSS THE TWINS. like. i get it. the show had a lot going on and not a lot of time, of course the protagonist's girlfriend's siblings aren't gonna get that much time dedicated to them. but man. i love me a fucked up family and i want to know more about those two so bad. emira especially. like her twin brother (who, up to that point, had exactly as much relevance as her) got his own episode subplot and she got nothing! and like she interests me for all the reasons you said AND like. she seems to be odalia's favorite (perhaps tied with edric, perhaps even above him) but she seems even more cynical about BOTH of their parents than amity does. AND LIKE she's got eldest daughter syndrome despite being a TWIN! she seems to feel responsibility for looking after her brother who is the exact same age as her! i need to know what's the deal with that dynamic! god the fic ideas and headcanons i have about her that i never got around to writing/finishing

[paracosmicessence]

i really hope they have saw 2 in the tmagp universe for needle guy to watch

[dillapidateddenizen]

I dont know what I expected... but it definitely wasn't a bisexual poly marriage between all the teens conducted just over Utah in space by a demon

[emisirrelevant]

HAPPY PULP MUSICALS EPISODE 4 DAY!!!

Ahhhhhh it's finally here!! I just listened to Part 1, anyone else??

How Matt Dahan continuously raises the bar each time each episode is just something I cannot fathom.

It is the season of "Pulp Musicals fall"

I may or may not post my rough unedited notes from my reaction to Part 1 later

[kittykyryi]

Percy Jackson ep 5 thoughts

-Percy 'I Can't Read Social Signals' Jackson strikes again XD

-the percabeth hug >>>>>

-ares just said 'pop off' and i don't know how to feel

-i take it back i like ares a lot lmao

-the chest-clutching-gasp i let out when he said he'd keep grover?? was that in the books?? i don't remember it's been almost a decade since i read them and my library won't give me the first one yet because everyone else wants to read it now too :')

-percy and annabeth are peak adhd/autism solidarity and i love it

-the whole love tunnel on crack/hephaestus trauma dump/percy's god rant scene was *chef's kiss*

-SEAWEED BRAINNNNNNNNNNN ADSJKGANHO;DVN

-'he's not that way!' annabeth my baby i love you so much

-'thank you for the emotional abuse and the cheeseburgers :D' the scream i scrumpt. GROVER. MY MAN.

-there were a lot of changes from the book yet again, yet they were all done so well?? i have literally 0 things to complain about

i was literally glued to my screen this whole episode HOW DOES THIS SHOW KEEP GETTING BETTER

[thefourfan]

5 days until the Murder Drones finale!!!!!

Haha! Haha. I'm scared :')

[spotlightstudios]

I relate to Katsuki Bakugo*

*Not because I too will not accept my own failure, or because I don't cope well with being beat at my own game, but because my hands are very sweaty and I would like to use that to explode people.

[ifwebefriends]

Holy shit today’s episode was AMAZING!!!!! The terror I felt when I heard Dracula speak for the first time in over a month. The little sound effects like the saw on the iron bars and the maids crying. The MUSIC! QUINCEY FUCKING MORRIS’ ENTRANCE!!!!!!!!!! WITH THE GUITAR AND THE MUSIC CHANGE AHHHHHHHHH and the telegram from Arthur and VAN HELSING DEADASS TELLING SEWARD HE LOVES HIM, the subtle creepy music change when Lucy was tearing up the memorandum in her sleep, the “Forgive me, dear, if I worry you with my troubles in the midst of your own happiness,” THE SORROWFUL “Letter Unopened by Lucy Westenra”

AAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!

[likesummerrainn]

SurrealEstate Rewatch: 1.08: Baba O'Reilly "I got one word for you. It's an important word, one I hope you'll remember in the years to come: moisturizer."

[princehugo]

they made Cleo a lesbian which is all I ever wanted but I can't even appreciate it because they handled it so fucking badly because this season's showrunners are allergic to having genuine authentic character moments that matter and I hate being upset but I AM

[dazais-guardian-angel]

never forget what they took from you

[perenlop]

seen both episodes of horizons now and holy fuck

[mostlydartboard]

He is an asexual person!

[stolenbythewestwind]

there is something inherently tragic yet freeing about knowing that, even though you didn't get what you needed when you were younger, it's still possible to build that life for yourself as an adult.

you're not trapped or destined for loneliness. you can always build. again and again and again, as many times as you need to. the love and the freedom and the kindness and the connection, it's all waiting for you. you'll get there.

[amaxantys]

TLoU ep 8 AUUUUUUUGGSHDHDHOOOOHHH Bella Ramsey I will start a cult in your name

[shitpostingkats]

An Asexual's love letter to Good Omens 2

There's an infamous quote by Neil Gaiman going around, regarding the general vibe of season 2, and many people (I believe humorously) yelling that it could not be further from the truth. Particularly in the last episode, where that happens.

I disagree.

The final episode of season 2 was deeply, deeply comforting to me. 

I am asexual. Have been my whole life. Even before I had the words to describe what that was, child-me had this feeling in their gut of being an outlier, that everyone was exaggerating, or in on some joke, that I wasn’t privy to. Because I was bombarded on all sides by shows and movies and books, telling the same story of love, again, and again, and AGAIN. It’s drilled into our brains with the same fervor as the days of the week, or the quadratic formula. Meet-cute -> misunderstanding ->declaration of feelings ->kiss. More or less steps can be added to account for runtime or complexity of narrative, but that’s the basic structure that a relationship follows. It MUST be, because that’s the formula every character who's ever been in a story goes through, often times when it even feels like an add-on, like it’s only there because this is a story, there HAS to be a romance. And it has to follow the steps.

For a long time, I felt love wasn’t for me, because if there’s only one way to be in love, I sure as hell wasn’t feeling it. 

Instead, the relationship I ended up in looked a lot like what Beezlebub and Gabriel go through. Meeting someone routinely until it starts to feel comfortable. Getting to know them and slowly growing more attached. Eating chips and listening to music.

We like to joke whenever someone asks us how long we’ve been together, because the answer is we just sort of slowly fell into it, and we honestly don’t know when the line got blurred between ‘friends’ and ‘partners’. And, at least for me, a good deal of that confusion, that hesitancy to label, came from the fact that what I was feeling, what we were, couldn’t be love. It couldn’t be romantic. 

We were just quiet and gentle.

And that wasn’t love.

Because it was slow, because it wasn’t physical, because there was no structure aside from consistency and companionship. Because it didn’t follow the Rules.

Then I found myself in stories, and it felt like a revelation.

Beelzebub and Gabriel aren’t the first time I’ve seen a love like I feel represented in a narrative, but it never stops feeling special. And I don’t know if I’ll ever stop celebrating it.

Throughout the sequence in the pub, I kept expecting them to “confirm” Gabriel and Beelzebub. A dramatic line, a kiss, a whatever. That’s what I’ve been taught to expect, after all, that’s the only way a relationship is “real”. Of course, this doesn't mean Crowley and Aziraphale sharing a dramatic kiss is wrong, or that I can’t see why it resonated with so many people, but for me. Those moments in the pub are worth so much more.The last scene might have been literally showstopping, but those handful of moments between the duke of hell and an archangel were the beating heart of the season for me. A simple love story in four scenes. No kisses. No ‘I love you’s. Not even any definition of what. The love Gabriel and Beelzebub have is strong enough for them to both want to shatter their worlds and flee their lives and it's just. 

It's just that. 

Two people in a pub, playing the other's favorite song, giving a little gift, buying a packet of crisps. 

That sequence means far more to me than any kiss ever could.

Love isn’t only real when it's hot and sudden and ephemeral, it can also be

Quiet.

And gentle.

And still romantic.

Still real.