#this is season 8-9 stuff

[paunchsalazar]

even more Dean and Cas... finished season 9

[mac-mcdonald]

if i had a nickel for every time buck scarred children on holidays i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[ravi-is-my-beloved]

Why do I feel baited and not because of Buddie (I cannot tell if we're being baited with Buddie, so I won't go into that).

Like why did they have Brad have this whole speech about how the heart of a show (a Captain Dad) can't die and then have his show character be revived (in a scene with Chimney playing the doctor)? Why did they have Bobby be the one who was grabbed by the wife who got buried alive? What was the point of all of the Jesus!Bobby allegory? What was the point of the script leak? Why did they have two episodes (which includes the episode Bobby DIED in) full of fakeouts (in actually a season full of fakeouts)? Why did they give Bobby's funeral a montage at the end in an episode where there was an empty casket plot (and then they didn't show us his casket)? Why have Buck say he couldn't feel Bobby's spirit?

What was it all for.

[katebeckets]

I finished The X-Files. I am crying in so many ways for many different reasons. I love you Dana Scully. I love you Fox Mulder. I will be actively erasing parts of this experience from my memory. ♥️

[gunpowder-gemini]

My heart goes out to everyone finally figuring out that we aren't getting the death worm this season, I am really excited to see it animated too. But tbh there was never any way it would fit

Like think about everything that happens in the cursed house arc. There is SO MUCH there that I personally think just the death worm stuff is going to be 5-6 episodes on it's own to get through it. They didn't have enough episodes left even if they completely skipped the serpo arc.

Personally I've always figured the episodes are gonna shake out like this:

Ep 8 - shenanigans with Okarun/Aira and getting in to empty space (I was right! though I wasn't sure we'd get to Acro Aira but in hindsight that's a perfect cliffhanger cut point)

Ep 9 - the fight, probably ending with the big final blow

Ep 10 - public humiliation and mr. shrimp joins the team, Jiji appears at the end!

Ep 11 - Jiji is actually introduced and goes to school with them, ending with Taro appearing "chasing" Okarun

Ep 12 - anatomical dummies shenanigans and a sort of cliffhanger teasing the cursed house arc next season

I think people forget that it takes seconds to read a fight scene when it's just a few sequential images but several MINUTES to show that same fight scene animated. The Serpo arc is largely action, so it's no suprise it's taking a couple episodes. Also dialogue! Dialogue takes longer to voice act than it does to read. There's only so much you can fit into like, 25 mins

[llouiize]

I thought it was just the texture or the lighting on his model but it never came to me that Lloyd might ACTUALLY have white/lighter STREAKS IN HIS HAIR shown in that one 'anime' animation scene???

Looking back at his hair on his model, you can't really see or tell if it's streaks in his hair,, so I could be wrong 🤔

[jackwhiteprophetic]

I did a bunch of coloured printing today here are the results!!! Coloured prints like these can be specified in the notes of the google form!

[jewelthenerd]

Alright gang I’ve caved I’m going to start drawing Ninjago characters does anyone have any suggestions/requests

[apricustar]

Hii JD! I was reading your take on Buck talking about transferring and IDK if this is too personal, but the way you write about Buck sometimes really hits close to home. I do a lot of similar things where I feel like things are on me even if they might not be. How do you break that pattern? What do you think it would take for Buck to break that pattern?

hi nonnie, first of all, thank you for this message, and for trusting me with something personal! (the og post for anyone wanting to read)

let me start by saying this: it hits close to home for me too. i think a big reason i write about buck in the way i do is because i see and understand him; or maybe more truthfully: because i see myself in him. 

watching him at times feels a bit like looking into a mirror. i know why it is he does the things he does, because i've done them too.

there’s that awful feeling of never feeling quite good enough—for someone to stay, to choose you, to love you the way you so badly want to be loved. feeling like too much—like you're taking up too much space, talk too loudly, say too much. believing that if anyone were to fully, really see you, they'd leave; because eventually, it feels like everyone does.

so you start to preempt it. you pull back first. shrink yourself down. maybe start a few arguments, say and do some things without much thought. you make it easier for people to walk away by convincing yourself they were going to anyway. it feels easier if it's on your terms—more manageable, less painful.

i know that spiral all too well. someone's voice changes and my first thought is always what did i do? what did i say wrong? (i wrote more in detail about buck doing this here if you want to read that...) like, okay, the other day i came home and said hi to my roommate. she said hi back but sounded VERY subdued; i took it as her being upset with me. which was made worse by her not asking about how my classes were like usual. instantly my brain was like oh god, she's mad at me, what did i do??? i ran through a whole list of possible offenses and felt so anxious!!!

and then later she came around and told me she'd gotten a grade she was upset about. we talked about the grade and stuff of course, but then i told her i thought she had been mad at me. she was confused and laughed and then i laughed and we then were both laughing and i was like shit! more than 9 times out of 10 it has nothing to do with me, but still, my first instinct is blaming myself and i feel this horrible stomach-dropping anxiety. 

so, so. so buck. how do you break that pattern? how will buck break that pattern? well, to be clear, i am not a mental health professional, nor will i claim to be (though, i am getting my degree!). but from where i stand, i think the first step is recognizing the pattern for what it is: a defense mechanism. a way of trying to grab onto whatever thread of control you can in situations that feel uncertain and overwhelming. 

it comes from somewhere, of course. when you grow up having to guess what version of love—what version of your caretakers—you’re going to get (if you get it at all), you start to prepare for the worst. you scan for danger. you take blame as a shortcut to control: if it’s my fault, maybe i can fix it. maybe i can be better.

and that kind of self-blame becomes automatic—deeply and painfully familiar. a thought cycle that loops endlessly, until it feels like instinct. the truth is, it once served a purpose. but it doesn’t have to keep defining how you move through the world.

one of the best tools for breaking those loops—besides awareness and practicing self-compassion—is learning how to challenge and reframe the thoughts themselves. this is where something like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be incredibly powerful. buck struggles with thoughts like: i ruined everything. i make things worse. if i were better—if I tried harder—this wouldn't have happened. this is all my fault.

CBT helps you slow down in those spirals and ask things like: is this true? is there evidence for it? is there another explanation? it teaches you to catch these thoughts and gently rework them—not 'i always ruin everything,' but 'i made a mistake this time, and that doesn't define me.'

buck's healing won't come from just rewiring those beliefs internally. it's also going to come from the outside—from safety, from consistency, from relationships that stay steady even when he falters. he needs to find someone who doesn't just say 'you matter,' but shows him—again and again—that he doesn't have to be perfect or performative to be worth staying, worth loving.

he has this in the 118– in eddie. he just needs to start believing it.

and that in large part comes from experiencing it over and over again. from letting people close, even when every alarm in his brain is telling him to brace for impact. from trusting that silence doesn't always mean upset, that distance doesn't always mean abandonment. from realizing that real love doesn't evaporate the moment he stops proving himself.

healing doesn't always look like big revelations. sometimes it's choosing to stay—to keep trying—even when you're afraid, especially when you're afraid. it's trying to be kind to yourself even when you feel like you're on a hamster wheel going a million miles. it’s pausing to breathe. to rework the story you’re telling yourself. to stop turning every misstep into a sweeping conclusion about your worth.

it’s learning to believe the kind things someone says, even when they feel impossible. it’s understanding that being loved isn’t a transaction—it’s a truth.

and maybe that's how the pattern finally breaks: not all at once, not in one giant grand gesture, but in the quiet, day-to-day moments. when buck allows himself patience. when he forgives himself. when he doesn’t run. when he lets someone stay. when he starts to believe that maybe—just maybe—he was never too much to begin with. when he allows himself to simply receive affection and care without first questioning it or believing it an impossibility. 

[sloasis]

Gonna start watching season 1 with my dad while I'm also on my own rewatch and now on season 5 WHILE ALSO watching season 8(b) as it comes out .... I'm 9-1-1pilling way too hard someone has to stop me

[s0ull3ss-p3rs0n]

I got a new pen, so silly :3

Spoilers below!!!

And the first thing I drew with it was my beloved Rox <3

[frostyclove]

i feel so much like lottie sometimes im like 'we just gotta wait a few more weeks then if they still havent done it we can rip into them but we justtttt gotta wait it out for a second let it play out'

just like her in that damn cave lol

[swan2swan]

Every live-action Star Wars show when it comes time to stick the landing:

[zepskies]

Hiya my friend! I’m sooooo excited!! It’s Lost On You Friday!! Woohoooo! I look forward to this all week! 😄❤️

Hey, friend!! 💕

Heeeells yeah, Lost on You Part 8 drops in a little bit -- and Part 9 for my wonderful Patreon members, like yourself. 😘💚

I’m VERY excited to show you guys what’s coming next!

[icewindandboringhorror]

Various images of things

[jackwhiteprophetic]

UNHINGED THEORY TIME we open with an inmate in prison who tells guards there's a monster living in his walls. He keeps trying to tell them about it, and they're considering whether to take him to the prison doctor when he drops to the ground and starts suffocating. For some reason the 118 are called instead of the prison doctor (maybe there's an outbreak of something at the prison so they are limited in med staff).

The team end up locked in the prison cell with the patient during an attempted prison break again. They recognise the patient was in anaphylaxis, and give him epi, but he doesn't come around yet. There was one guard outside helping them, but he also drops to the ground and starts going red. They can't really reach him to assess his symptoms. The team has to start to investigate, but there's no air conditioning, there is little time and there is not water and they're all trapped in a small space that is heating up fast. There's little they can do but wait for rescue...

Trapped with Gerrard is not fun, so they start to tell stories to pass the time, and talk about what would have happened if they had made different choices (hence sliding doors theory, and we see them acting out these little fantasies). They start to get more delirious and dehydrated as time goes on, so the stories become more unhinged as the risk gets higher.

The patient slowly wakes up and is mumbling about a monster living in the walls. Buck panics... He hears it, he's scared, and he convinces Chim and Eddie the same. Hen dismisses them, but goes to investigate, and discovers a massive bee hive in the walls of the prison (this is based on a real-life news story earlier this year- not in a prison though). They also manage to reach through the bars to give the guard an epi-pen, and eventually are rescued.