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Hi, welcome to blue and red and parenting in 911.
Let's start with the easy to track stuff. For me that usually means looking at madney, mostly because we watched every step of the relationship unfold, so a lot of the patterns go back to them or are established with them. But the combo is present when they talk about wanting kids someday in 301, and when they find out they are pregnant in 318 and 806.
But the combo is explicitly established at the beginning of s3. 301 with the madney conversation and the bathena conversation at the hospital about not wanting more kids. 303 with buddie and the "we already have a kid" conversation. And 304 with Henren and the "having more kids will affect our family in more ways we expected"
But as with any color metas I write, every element of the scene matters, so we can go back a little bit more to 218 when Henren decide they want more kids.
The blue and red ends up attached to henren's journey into fostering and eventually getting Mara. For instance, being the color in 311 when they get Nia and 705 when they are trying to get through to Mara.
So, we established this is used with outfits and with other elements of the scene, right? So let's get into the fun stuff.
I was watching 313 yesterday and I was very 👀 about Michael and Bobby and the whole thing with Harry and the trip. Because Michael is in this reddish color and Bobby is in a neutral green. BUT when they are talking in the end about how Michael wants Bobby to be a father to Harry if he ends up unable to, Bobby suddenly has a bunch of blue around him. It's also the moment Michael's shirt looks the most red.
Another key thing with Bobby is during 516. That episode is the episode May says Bobby is her dad too. And she starts the episode in this sweater. Yes, there are other colors in it, but the bag, the belt, all add to May herself being the blue and red. Mostly blue since above we put Bobby as the blue parent.
And May is wearing the blue uniform in that episode and that leads to the scene where she calls Bobby her dad.
Something 911 occasionally does is put the sirens in one color when convenient, this is one of those moments. The sirens in this scene only flash red. So we have both of them in blue uniforms bathed in red light.
Something else that happens in that episode is the way Bobby's suspenders are clearly setup in a way to add red to him.
But Anna how do you know that's on purpose?
Well, everyone else who is wearing the suspenders has the yellow part showing. And we have a lot of people with the suspenders walking around that scene, so Bobby's being mostly red is fully on purpose.
So the combo is present when Bobby promises to do his best to be a father to Harry and when May explicitly acknowledges Bobby as her father.
So now let's talk Buck and Christopher. I made a post about this the other day but let's remake my point.
The tsunami is the event that turns Buck into a father, right? I feel like we can all agree that the thing there is to show Buck that he does in fact love Chris as if Chris is his.
So, they start out with Buck in pink.
Then the tsunami hits effectively making Buck's shirt red.
The tsunami literally turns Buck red. Honestly, this blows my mind every time I think about it. But there's more attached to this arc.
When Buck is searching for Chris, he is white. But he is carrying a piece of Chris that happens to add red to him, in a similar way that the show did with Bobby in 516.
Eddie has been blue the whole time this is happening because of the uniform, so the red ends up being a bit more symbolic, because Buck was killing himself trying to find Chris, and when he finds Eddie he needs to accept the fact that he failed. And he hands the glasses back to Eddie almost in a defeated fashion, because at this point Buck is basically putting them both in the worst scenario a parent can be in. In his mind, he doesn't deserve that piece of Chris.
But that's when Chris shows up. In red.
At this point, Chris himself ends up being that symbol.
Eddie is also holding blue gloves throughout this whole interaction.
And all of this leads us to the introduction of buddie's parenting maroon. This arc has Buck moving in shades of red until the moment Eddie tells him there's nobody else he trusts with Chris more. Clearly in blue and red.
The buddie parenting maroon shows up a few more times, on Eddie at the end of 318 when Chris is going to camp even though he was conflicted.
On Buck during 414 when he steps in to take care of Chris.
On Eddie again in 710 when Chris leaves, again both of them are blue and red here.
So yeah, personally, I think this is a very well established color combo lol.
Also, final addition. Eddie's panic attack about someone assuming Ana is Chris' mother? Same combo. But then the idea is instantly shut down by making it a trigger for Eddie.
Anyway, that's all for today, if you read this I love you 💜
#did i write this because someone said its not that deep? yes#what about it#this is how i predicted maddies pregnancy lol#911#911 meta#thoughts thoughts thoughts#flashing tw#color theory
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i am so curious what you think about fearne as a character, especially in the full context of this campaign, and how she ranks in terms of contributing good storytelling. she was consistently my least favorite (ie., lovely and entertaining to watch, but not personally interesting or dimensional in a way that made me care, and more often than not, frustratingly avoidant of plot or depth) and i'm wondering how much you'd relate to that. i'm interested in hearing an alternate perspective! this is an invitation for as much of your thoughts as you have them, because i love reading your posts and meta. have a great day <3
Hey anon, thank you!
I find myself in an awkward place here because I do like Fearne for a couple reasons, and I think a major one is because I think Ashley is one of the only people at the table who actually explored, in-character, that Fearne was an indecisive person who was terrified of making the wrong choices (notably during both the aftermath of the first Otohan fight, and during the whole course of Shardgate). Like, Fearne's disconnect at times from the world, and moments of self-centeredness, and indecision all felt very true to Ashley's original concept both in EXU Prime and the general concept of fey morality. I also think that in a campaign with a number of fraught familial relationships that were underserved, Fearne's was, while still not given the time I wish it had been, one of the strongest. Fearne deciding, after meeting her missing parents, that she wasn't sure if she liked them felt very earned and true, and it felt like she put in the work when she later spoke to them during the party's time resting in the Feywild.
I also give Fearne something of a pass because I think she was put in perhaps the least enviable spot of all this campaign, and that's saying something. While I think pretty much every character would have been much, much better had we focused more on their backstory and exploring and resolving that, Ashley's intended darker fairytale concept was just...abandoned. Like we got Ligament Manor and Morri, and they were great! But there was no plot for her in the feywild other than "your parents are caught up in this moon thing, and your birth father is also caught up in this moon thing". The first part came up very early and got quickly overshadowed by the rest of the whole Bassuras pile-up, and the second part came out right before the Ruidus scouting mission and was perhaps one of the worst victims of the late campaign breakneck pacing. Honestly, a lot of the feywild stuff felt oddly insubstantial - we know that breaking the fey key apparently did something, and that breaking up the meeting in Pravenier prevented Fey allies from attacking Vox Machina at the key in the end (though it's hard to say exactly what that would have entailed), but like...was the Seelie Court working in opposition? Were there any extraplanar allies in the Accord? Was the Feywild at risk here, as Ollie believed it to be? Because it never entered into Bells Hells' considerations! All the Feywild plot threads just went nowhere. Even their greatest fey ally, Ira, was far more motivated by his own dislike of Ludinus than any loyalty to Fearne; the party didn't really need to cultivate him as an ally, he just showed up.
And then, of course, there's the fact that Fearne was a Ruidusborn, but she wasn't THE Ruidusborn, she wasn't exaltant, that was Imogen - and the cool thing she did get, the spark of Rau'shan, was a great moment but was, like Ashton's titan abilities, mechanical and some cool scenes only but not relevant to Predathos in a meaningful way any more so than like, Chetney's ability to turn into a wolf was. I don't even think Ashley was being particularly indecisive, or rather, the Zathuda and Yu "should we kill them or no" scenes were excruciating in the lack of decision, but I feel that the problem was she was given absolutely nothing to fucking work with and that's not her fault. I think it's a testament to Ashley's ability as an actor that I do feel she had depth and even a little character development because she was essentially pushed into a thankless second fiddle role. When I think of the people who actually made an effort to do small solo scenes or seek other people out, Fearne praying to the Wildmother or Raven Queen and pickpocketing scenes stand out as bright spots.
So I think it's valid to be frustrated or not vibe, but I think it's entirely a DM-ing problem. This campaign was really not made to accommodate Fearne's concept.
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Insufferable
Edward Nygma AKA The Riddler x Gender Neutral Reader
Genre: Smut
Words: 1,140
Summary: You’ve been an obnoxious pervert for too long, but all your shameless begging has finally paid off.
Content/Warnings: Hate sex, rough sex, penis in ambiguous hole sex, choking, mean dirty talk, insults, degradation, slapping, sub/bottom reader
“Is this what you wanted, you sniveling little cretin?”
Edward’s question comes out as a snarl. You can hear the words pushing through his gritted teeth, but they run over your mind like water to a stone. You’re not really listening.
How could you be when he’s pounding into you from behind this way, like his life depends on making sure he molds your insides to fit his cock?
You’ve never seen Edward this angry.
You’ve never seen him angry at all, really. Annoyed, irritated, sure, but this goes deeper. He’s fuming.
Just like you wanted.
You took a liking to Edward the moment you laid eyes on him. More than a liking, really. Obsession was the better word. Obsession was the only word.
To put it bluntly, you couldn’t go five minutes without humping his leg. You were never shy about your attraction or want for sex, and never wavered despite his biting insults. What kept you coming back, though, was the fact that Edward did too.
He’s a highly intelligent man, any clueless window licker could see that in an instant, and you’re a rather new rogue on the scene—no one would be bothered by him killing you just to be rid of you.
But he didn’t. He never even laid a hand on you, though you’ve seen him take his cane to quite a few unruly thugs before. He could’ve landed you in the hospital seven times over by now, but again and again you stood untouched.
And then he broke.
You can’t even remember what you said at this point. All you remember is that look in Edward’s eyes, like bulging glass exploding and sending shards in every direction—for whatever reason, he’d hit his limit.
It’s all a blur from there until now. You can vaguely recall gloved hands on your body, his rough grip on your arms and neck as he dragged you to whatever position he deemed fit. Now, though, none of that matters.
You finally have what you want.
“Answer me, dammit!”
A particularly hard thrust hits deeper than you were ready for. You cry out from the sensation, every nerve ending in you screaming with pleasure. There’s no mistaking your utter ecstasy, but it only seems to aggravate Edward even more.
“God, just listen to you,” he hisses, leaning down to speak into your ear, “those fucking noises you’re making…is that all you know how to do, mewl and beg like a whore? I’ve never seen you do anything else.”
He gives a harsh smack to your ass as he sits back up, and you make sure the sound you make is as lecherous as you can make it. His grip on you tightens for a brief second. You’re still getting under his skin. No matter what he does, you’re still going to enjoy this.
“Pathetic,” he growls, “just pathetic. Do you even hear to yourself? For weeks on end you were completely incessant…’Oh, please, Eddie, give me your cock, Eddie, I need it, Eddie, oh Eddie, oh Eddie—‘“
He pushes your head into the mattress, muffling the shameless moan that spills from your lips as he ruts erratically into you.
“I mean, do you ever shut up?!”
He’s already losing any semblance of rhythm, not that he had much in the first place. It’s clear what this is really about for him: dominance. He’s not seeking pleasure from this as much as he is an ego boost, another way to tell himself he is the superior, especially to someone like you.
Suddenly, he stills. You make a noise of confusion, but don’t have much time to think before he’s sliding out of you. You open your mouth to protest, naturally, however you get no chance. Edward grasps you once more before roughly flipping you onto your back, making the mattress creak and shudder from the sudden force.
For just a moment, you lock eyes. His green iris’s shine with rage, ginger brows furrowed so tightly and scowl so deep it’s nearly a work of art. His harsh expression doesn’t waver as he pushes his length back into you. Your back arches, but you don’t look away from him; you make sure he sees that smile he despises so.
A hand wraps around your throat, fast enough to startle you with how quickly your airflow is cinched. You sputter for a moment before collecting yourself.
“You are just insufferable,” Edward mutters, inches away from your face, “and you know it, and you just can’t help yourself. I get it now. No matter what I do, you’ll just eat it up, won’t you? It doesn’t matter how much I throw you around or abuse you, you’ll enjoy it either way. I just can’t win.”
You swallow, feeling your throat bob against the palm of his hand. Your grin only widens, now open and showing teeth.
He backs up, looking down at you silently for a long few moments. He’s completely still, letting his pulsing cock rest inside of you—he’s contemplating something, and he doesn’t like it.
After a few moments, he huffs. It’s a sigh of frustration, you think, or something akin to it. When he speaks again, his anger has deflated just a bit.
“…Fine. I can’t win. But if I can’t win…”
He adjusts his position, releasing your neck and making himself comfortable looming over you.
“…I’ll just pummel you until I feel better. Now close your cock-hungry maw so I can slap you without breaking it.”
You blink up at him dumbly. Did…did you hear that right?
He raises a brow, and a hand. In a split second, you shut your mouth tight, and squeeze your eyes shut, bracing for impact.
His open palm comes down on your cheek without mercy. The sound of the slap is loud in your ears, and it’s delicious. You sigh in pleasure as the sting sprawls out across your face.
Edward doesn’t let it show, but you could swear satisfaction flashes in his eyes. It’s brief, hardly there at all, but you can see it. Only you could ever see it.
He grabs your chin and turns you to face him once more. He raises his hand again, and you gladly let him slap you for a second time. This hit is even harder, and it feels so damn good. He’s starting to thrust into you again, just as needy and erratic as before. The mere thought of him cumming inside of you makes your stomach flip in anticipation.
“Something tells me you’ll never learn your lesson,” you hear him mumble, and it pulls a breathy giggle from your throat. You shake your head no, and Edward lets the briefest smirk cross his lips.
“I can live with that,” he replies, “I suppose I could stand to do this again…and a few more after that.”
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#smut#gender neutral reader#gn reader#the riddler#dc#dc comics#edward nashton#edward nashton x reader#edward nigma#edward nygma#edward nigma x reader#edward nygma x reader#sub reader#bottom reader#riddler#riddler x reader#the riddler x reader#the riddler batman
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Amanda Young's physical pain and more pain
Not saying anything new here once again, but the shit Amanda goes through throughout the entire franchise is depressing. Right now, I'm mainly looking at the physical aspect than the mental? But I'll probably mention that too as I always do. What brought this thought on was when I was doing some reference work for her and Lynn's deleted fight! We as a fandom always joke about how she's enjoying it because she at some points smirks and giggles... But the ending shot of that sequence is what I want to hone in on.

This is a defeated woman. She's just been attacked and cut up- There is as much terror as adrenaline in a humans body in a scenario like this. But this isn't even the first time whilst working under Jigsaw that Amanda has had someone harm or even attempt to kill her.
The first one I've shown is of course Cecilia Pederson backhanding Amanda to the floor- Which honestly, this scene is overall horrible as Amanda also during this period has to watch Gabriela get her neck stomped! But it could've been worse in theory... When putting John into the blood-board trap, Parker suggests putting her on the other end. If Carlos never was there, it's very likely that Amanda would've been blood boarded alongside John. We then have the very famous needle pit. There was no way to predict how anyone in the nerve gas house would react to their circumstances and due to that? Amanda inherently to me was always in danger. This is displayed quite well when she's tossed into a test not meant for her... I think it's the somewhat carelessness of this which is the most upsetting aspect? John had her in there to monitor Daniel and subdue him once the game was done. But what actual protection did Amanda have from anyone in there? We even see her try and take the gun from the magnum eyehole trap unsuccessfully.
Like imagine the guy who's like 6 foot and muscle that just tossed you into a PIT OF NEEDLES... IS CHASING YOU WITH A KNIFE. You're also quite aware that this man certainly killed the other guy you just saw with a spiked bat in his head. I'd be bricking it. Anyway, that same kid you had to insure stayed safe? Yeah his father who wrongfully imprisoned you is gonna beat you till one half of your face is just blood. OH HE'S ALSO GOING TO BITE YOU AND ATTEMPT TO STAB YOU TO DEATH.
The only reason you survive? Because he's already previously injured and you use that to your advantage. We're not done though! Amanda's mentor slash father figure is dying and she is getting basically blackmailed but that's not the only thing she needs to have on the mind- Because we have Lynn running up on her with a blade, supposedly to have a nice chat.
And I even made a poll asking people on this site... Do you think Lynn would've killed Amanda? Yes was the majority answer. We know that at least one of these slashes actually catches Amanda because she is bleeding by the end of this. Not to mention, Lynn was not messing around whatsoever? She throws what I think is an axe at Amanda at one point and also tries to kick her head in against the locker things... Which she did after failing to get a swing with said axe to Amanda's head. With all of this, it kinda pushes me to think that Amanda attempts to physically intimidate and scare Lynn a lot because she is aware being attacked is quite possible. For example, the scene that is kept in where Amanda literally hands Lynn the axe, ''I'd go for the neck- But I'm not the brain surgeon.'' She is clearly letting Lynn know during this that if you try and fight with me, you're screwed! All of these factors are against you. Then coming back to the deleted scene? None of these warnings have dissuaded Lynn from going, ''I'LL FUCKING YOU!'' Whatsoever really. So rounding it back up to the first image I presented.... I think Amanda is just fucking tired. How are you meant to have been healed and helped if you're getting the smackdown special every other some weeks to months. In literally every game she's been physically present for- She has been harmed physically too. It's traumatic, it's draining and it well... HURTS. I know the healing process from when Eric smashed her head into a wall multiple times wasn't nice either. AND AND AND AND AND AND!!!! Amanda doesn't even get peace with death, seeing as she dies in a very violet manner too. We watch her choke on her own blood after being shot in the throat..... Reaching out for the same man who put her through all of this really. Anyway.... HAPPY MANDY MONDAY FROM MAL!
#amanda young#lynn denlon#cecilia pederson#xavier chavez#daniel matthews#eric matthews#john kramer#carlos saw x#parker sears#saw#saw franchise#saw movies#sawposting
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We'll figure it out eventually xD I mean, it's all basically one convo anyway...
It's the everyone is isolated instead of interacting with each other thing all over again, except this time they're isolated from who they were a few months ago. Like. What. They had such intertwined progression and beautiful building conflict in S1 ! Mark also legitimately seemed to be representing the conflict between being what his father was shaping him into and just being a hero. Which was great! Now everything is so disjointed and it's like. Why are you doing anything? bc you want your dad to love you and you hate that about yourself ?? maybe???? which barely makes any sense bc your dad is arguably dead for all you know ! what memory are you trying to live up to??? can we get a moment reflecting on that ??? I just don't know anymore!
There is no Debbie parallel in the Cecil - Mark conflict bc she doesn't do anything in the comics and they apparently forgot to keep extending her characterization this season /bitch mode activate
Stop saying you don't trust Cecil! I know you don't trust Cecil! You told me this back in S1 ! Can I learn something new about you and your relationship with Cecil ??? Or how about your relationship with LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE. Paul barely even counts as a new pov on her life bc every time she talks to him it's about Nolan or Mark. Why the fuck did they bail on the SOS timeline so soon. God forbid Debbie has something to do, I guess. Bring Olga back. Let her get drunk with her friend.
They stuffed Mark in a darker palette suit and said, actually, he's an Anti-Hero now. and it's like. what. you barely established him as a hero. You very briefly tried to elevate him up like a hero of heroes with his no kill policy but that backfired on you right quick and apparently he has abandoned that heartily. I don't even necessarily think the no-kill thing should be Mark's moral base, but it was definitely important to his character for a long time so it suddenly going away is wild. It's like that whole 'some people will say Batman technically didn't kill people if he hit them with his car' kind of writing. They just swapped in his 'no kill' policy with 'everyone should go to prison' and it's like.. those are different things?? A guy also just lost his shit on you and used you to commit suicide, but like, finish your date and tell your gf you love her I guess ??? not weird at all to mix those two things together. It's also legit been like, 3-4 months since your very intense break up with Amber. but that clipshow they showed us says you loved Eve from S1 so I guess it's totally cool or whatever. In terms of episodes there were literally 0 episodes that let this boy be single in the sense that a romantic prospect wasn't coming at him swinging. Even if a longer amount of time had gone by in universe it is all just so sudden in terms of episode pacing.
Are you making a very subtle and sly commentary about trauma responses Invincible show, or do you just not know what the fuck is going on ??
They spent so much time on how fucked ALL the Graysons were about how S1 ended and then a bunch of other fucked up shit happened and they spend no time on it at all and it's like ?? you could tho. as a treat. for me.
Shock value is a way to put it. I think in the comic a side character's backstory is legit meta-textually described as shock value (Mark being a fan of comics had the writer give him several moments a la the con scene about animation in the show in order to discuss the way comics work/come together), very quickly discussed, and then absolutely never brought up again?? and it IS a fucked up backstory. so like. I wonder how much Kirkman really just wanted to like, try and comment on certain superhero tropes but not spend time on a more cohesive narrative?? but like. it's been 20 years. Surely you'd at least have something new to say about everything. And maybe also give us more cohesive character arcs along the way.
Hanging this show upside down and shaking it for juicy character bits to drop out of its pockets so I can take them and run away with them and talk about the rich media I just robbed like it wasn't a bit of lint and a penny roughly expelled from a pocket with a hole in it.
While I'm not too familiar with the DCU- your batfam meta posts are intiguing- so in transfering some of the broader strokes from them- I think you tackling a 'Mark isn't Nolan's biological son' fic would be fascinating. Sort of a step to the side of the 'what if Mark never got his powers' fic that sometimes pop up in the fandom
OOOOOO chewing on this currently, hm, the much a distinct flavor of exactly what you’re talking about, but the potential for more family drama depending on WHO knows. Does Mark know?? Is he waiting every day only to be crushed? Does he confused non-Debbie features with Nolan’s? I suppose I’m not the most enthusiastic about non-power AUs, but I think there’s something very fun to explore about Mark having to settle with, if he knows all his life, he will never have powers? I think the trajectory of his dreams will obviously shift, I can see him still having that distinct fatherly idolization, but perhaps embraces being useful to the GDA? Cecil’s number one intern—only intern—curtesy of nepotism, ha! There is something tickling me about Mark taking the Robin Route/Role for the Teen Team in terms of having no powers, just insane skills, BUT there’s something way more delicious about intern Mark when s1e01 happens and Mark tries snooping around to find out the truth about what happened to his Dad.
I wonder if, with Mark having a whole another father, if they’re more or less distant relationship, depending on WHEN Nolan entered Mark’s life? Like if Debbie met Nolan later for this, or just for fun, they dated once, separated (Mark being born during then), then they happened to stumble into each others lives again and Mark’s already been born, anywhere from tween to teenager so there’s a gap in how close they are. I feel like one important aspect of the whole Family Drama is how close they’re supposed to be, a functional, loving family turned upside down? So I wonder what more distance does. I wonder how Nolan copes when his family is entirely human and he can’t project onto Mark.
I love thinking about these, omg.
#invincible chatter#the eeps can promote rants#or the eeps can lead to nonsense#i think i have both of the eepies rn tbh
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Thinking about how— up until this point— Arthur has kept the entirety of "Invictus" to himself as his last piece of independence outside of John. And how now— when John recites the full poem to Arthur, in what is surely another merging of their two individual consciousnesses into one— Arthur isn't angry, or scared, or upset. Instead, he's comforted and encouraged by that intermingling, because he's fully accepted himself and John as one fused-together, inseparable unit. And that fact, that complete blurring of himself into John, is what ultimately motivates him to keep moving, to keep fighting, to keep living.
#this scene kills me more every time i think about it#wough#malevolent spoilers#malevolent 49#malevolent#malevolent podcast#malevolent analysis#cherrys rambles
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Callum has asked Rayla twice now to kill him if he's ever corrupted again. This time as like a barter. And this time, despite looking devastated, she finally (begrudgingly) agrees. And later this season, Callum is cleared of his dark magic corruption, but it also warned that if he does dark magic again it'll overwhelm him.
Man my dreams have already been haunted enough by death foreshadowing I can't take much more of it for these two.
#listen i know many many fans adore the angst of one or both of them dying. especially if its the other that caused the killing blow#i get that. i do#but i just wouldnt be able to take that kind of heartache.#if any of the main characters die by the end of the show - ESPECIALLY rayla callum or ez - i will lose my mind. especially if they do it to#each other. either intentionally or not. simply wouldnt be able to take it im too emotional and attached to them to be able to take that#i like angst. but not death angst. i cant take that. especially not for characters i adore so much#they better NOT have either of them kill each other by the end of the show i will not be able to handle it#this better just be some foreshadowing of it 'they said over and over that theyll do it for each other but in the end they love each other#too much to do it and love fixes it' or some sappy bullshit like that. anything but killing each other please i cant handle that#fuck. shits gonna haunt my dreams even more now than before#they wouldnt kill off their main characters that are the faces of their show right? ....right?? please??? i beg?????#please think if the children#me im the children#tdp#tdp s6#tdp s6 spoilers#that scene where they argue about callum doing dark magic again was so very needed but still oof. and the way callum is so much more firm#this time and rayla looks so devastated but knows he means it even more now. god. end me. i just finished that episode on my rewatch btw#also like. can we talk about how she loudly slapped her hands together right in their faces to get her point across. damn id have jumped#back too. she uh. really wanted to get her point across huh. shes never done that before.#oh oof man this episode has no many emotions. giggles and funnies and sadness and sweetness and heartache and fear and worry#thats probably not even all of em#rayla#callum#rayllum#also they really choose random times to use that slightly different animation style huh. that makes their faces look more loose and the#expressions sit differently. looks a little more animated. and like. goofy but not in a bad way? i noticed it blatantly in s5 in at least#one scene (while in the market in 506) and maybe even other spots in s5. and some less obvious spots in s4 too. now here during their#argument and when callum asks rayla to promise again. its not bad its just starkly different and throws me off. wonder if like. a different#person animated those parts and they somehow did it differently. idk it hardcore sticks out to me every time now when i see it.
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i liek how lucanis follows the playbook and recites the perfect lines right up until the almost kiss—saying a cup of coffee tastes like a kiss, “you don’t know how much trouble i can handle yet”, “you like to walk close to the edge”—and then a switch is flicked and he stops the theatrics. bakes a cake to lock a romance, leaves his own party early just to have a cup of coffee in the quiet dark, gets on his knees with tears in his eyes. i like that very much
#I’m having a normal one today#i also like how it’s 9am 🕘 and im already losing it#i never have a chance to have a normal day because by this time every day i have already begun to spiral#also you guys i do not say this lightly i am so fucking stressed out about the move it’s happening in like 2weeks i thought about it too#much and i feel like im losing my hair LOL i think I am genuinely going bald?? like my hair is falling out LMAO#I’m being fr i think my hair is falling out!!!!!#i mean its fine#anyway i guess this can go in the lucanis tag i have been in there all day anyway#lucanis dellamorte#da4#i need to be euthanized#how many times can a bitch replay the almost kiss scene????????? the answer is at least 50 because I have seen it 49 times and one more tim#will absolutely kill me dead i can feel it#i can feel the edges of my sanity im reaching the limits now#good morning!#just keep scrolling dont look at me too hard
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if chibnall was the one writing this season you lot would be talking VERY differently
#anti rtd#oomfs ur so right#s14 is the kinda mid that people think his era was#and yet#you throw in that razzle dazzle written by rtd and all of a sudden there's no criticisms!#or worse somehow#is how its a polite and gentle reframing of chibs criticism#like with him it was hey he ate this singular one thing But I KNOW CHIBS IS BAD HE'S TERRIBLE DONT WORRY I KNOW IT#and with rtd its oh i disliked this nonsensical and objectively bad writing but ummm guys i lOVED LOVED everything else i swear#its soooooooooooooOOOOOOOOO#it must be studied#but i knew yous were a lost cause when we had 14/15 running around calling men hot bc yes totally something the doctor just does#not ooc at allllll#bc this is how we know the doctor is queer now guys#dont you know it#i have like a million other complaints i miss being like oh hey that was mid/bad and moved on with my life 😭😭#god i think 13 era killed me bc now i do care about u hypocritical losers#rip 15ruby i wish i cared and that you had any development#ncuti millie i would like to hang out with you though#15 maybe you'll cry less next season so that the emotional scenes have impact perhaps 🙏🏾🙏🏾#ramblings of an insomniac#god i just remembered the whole real mum antics#fuck i need to go i gotta go!!!!#ps the ncuti conundrum where he's the most charismatic dr in nuwho whilst also being the worst actor is driving me nuts#idk if its the characterisation or his lack of ability in creating that inner psychology that connective tissue between his louder acting#which he's great at btw!#idk maybe that one monologue in boom made me go yes okay here we goooo#but then every other moment has been like hmmmnnnmtgodhd okay whateve#i think he needed more acting prep before he got this role bc he's got Something he could be Great but the subtle stuff is lacking#sooo hoping he can grow into that but it's giving perfect actor wrong time.... and if ur white ur not allowed to agree with me shush go away
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is episode 8 the domitian arc ? more on this and EVEN MORE narratives i’ve been ignoring that the show said “actually,,,” about in 5
#hermes staying domitian’s hand… hermes’ face a flash of discomfort when he was torturing tenax… hmm. character growth.#WHAT WAS THAT HERMES. WHAT WAS THAT LOOK. NO GIRL GET BACK HERE I CANNOT ALSO DO THIS NARRATIVE OF YOU NO LONGER ABLE TO PULL HIM BACK FROM#THE BRINK OF HIS CRUELTY WATCHING HIM CHANGE AND SEEKING OUT SOMEONE ELSE IN HIS NEED AND FEAR AND ANGST. NO BABY GIRLLLL#I DON’T WANT TO WRITE A HERMES POINT OF VIEWWWW OF THE SIX YEARS HE SPENT WATCHING DOMITIAN BLOOMMMM INTO HIS POWER AND CORRUPTTTT because.#correct me if i’m wrong but in that very first scene that was a young hermes in the white right he watched domitian give his speech and saw#his father to truly see him the whole time as hermes has seen his brilliance.#NO I ALSO SAW THAT GUARD’S HEAD FOLLOW HERMES oh i hate it here. you know what i also hate? i need domitian to be successful for tenax#but also i do kinda like titus… NOOOOOO NO KILLING TITUS DOMITIAN I JUST SAID I LIKED HIM!!!! DOMITIAN!!!#oh. ohhhh no. OH NOOOO okay listen we can redeem this. we can have the whole turning point of the narrative be domitian’s mercy of hermes#the ultimate staying of his hand. proving he’s not entirely gone that hermes & his love still means something. do i think this will happen#no absolutely not. before he can kill his brother domitian has to kill the only other living person he loves perhaps more than titus if he#could ever realize it. (a brief interlude to yell LET’S GO LESBIANS LET’S GO HI IRIS) domitian… please spare him… OH WAIT HELLO THE BLOOD!!#ALSO a brief interlude to say i knew it was coming but ELIA’S SPEECH ABOUT LOVING INCITATUS??? I WAS ON THIS INCITATUS SHIT WITH THE LITTLE#NOD THEY HAD WHERE SCORPUS CALLED HIM TO BEAT XENON OH MY GOD I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS!!! elia’s going to crush him. incitatus won’t listen.#scorpus is going to die twice once when they call elia’s name instead of his and then the second time when the scorpion bites him again#(he kills himself and tenax finds him. sorry to give everyone absolutely maximum damage here but uh. that’s how i can see it going down)#or alternatively worse: after killing titus who at times he loves and hates in equal measure (if y’all don’t think I have some UNHINGED#brothers quotes. we’ll keep mum here about why but suffice to say it is. relevant to other fandoms. and thus i have a Collection) the last#thing domitian has to do is kill hermes. and this one is both out of betrayal but also love because I think somewhere in here titus’ queen#berenice plays a role because domitian’s hatred of the jews probably comes to play a role and I think titus would show up and protect her#like Domitian engineers some kind of a situation where in theory titus could escape alive or beat him but he can’t do that & save berenice#and so of course he saved berenice. or she dies in his arms and he goes mad with grief and any way you put it berenice is the trap & titus#happily crawls into the lion’s mouth to save her for love of her etc and domitian sees him die for it. he gives titus every chance to come#back to him to work with him to be what he wants him to be and he always chooses himself he chooses love and domitian can’t understand even#when it makes him weak. and then he sees hermes dirty and emaciated and still terribly terribly beautiful and feels such a pang of longing#and love that he decides he has to die because he (domitian) cannot be weak. he cannot have any of it. also giving domitian worse paranoia#than he already has because if you kill your brother the one person who should always love you—support you—who can build me a new brother—#you’ve gotta generate some MAJOR issues. namely trust issues. and if he kills hermes they’ll be even worse. so like ideally To Me domitian#wouldn’t kill him but i do very much see the symbolism of cutting off his last earthly tie & desire to ascend to the divine imperial throne#those about to die
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the way dennis asks "was... that okay to do?" after kissing the top of frank's head makes me implode on myself like a bouncy castle with a slow leak
#ada speaks#ill be honest i think that scene got me more than mac finds his pride i made an absolutely inhuman sound to accompany the deflating#it still kills me every fucking time i think about it#was that okay to do.... was that okay to do...... dennis has never seen affection from his parents#here he is at 45 asking if its okay that he kissed the man he thought was his father for the majority of his life#dennis 'words like no or stop have never worked on me' reynolds is asking if it was okay to kiss frank on the top of his head#was that okay to do..............#iasip#dennis reynolds
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peter benson as henry vi adding a mirthless little laugh after the second half of 'may god forgive my sins, and pardon thee', as if to add on the sentiment of lmao fat chance!! on his way out, was such an inspired choice hfkjdsah. also very sad of course. (in the 1965 version henry seems so genuine when he says that, and it's just like... what a quiet triumph it is, in the middle of black despair, that what's gentle and good in him somehow survived through everything right to the end. he's lost everything, but it hasn't changed who he fundamentally is. and what other victory can we hope for in this life when it comes right down to it. while in the 1983 version there is the sense that something has broken inside him with this last blow, with the death of his son.)
#henry vi part 3#shakespeare#benson's physicality and mannerisms as henry are SO good. literally did not occur to me at any point watching the play#that that's not a real guy that's an actor playing a role. that's my good if deeply useless friend henry vi of england#manages to add in the deep sense that like... henry sees much more than he lets on he just doesn't know what to do with it too#the actor was a bit older when he did this role I guess there's some gravitas and fine detail that's hard to bring without it#also the layers it adds to the whole thing that he and richard actually look so much alike -- both usually the shortest slightest figures#on stage during in their respective scenes both with the dark hair and ah nose-forward profiles (affectionate#in case you do not know me and my ardent love for prominent noses lol). extremely different people but SOMETHING resonates#also not to be predictable but HUGE fan of how ron cook does richard's little speech after killing henry too#I don't think I've ever seen a performance of that where it feels so much like you are watching him reach a conclusion#in an irrevoccable sort of way -- like it's a process you're going through at the same time as him not a foregone conclusion#you are arriving there with him every step of the way. he's not running towards something he's running away from something#(himself. and how much he hates himself)#that edge of slight bewilderment and desperation beneath it all. the way it's like he's talking to himself around something#he doesn't understand. when you let some vulnerability into that scene something happens that makes my brain on fire lol#the embrace of despair of it all because you can't see anything else for yourself anymore. and you kill a guy about it
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ccharlie cupping cquackitys cheek during that final scene is one of things that either will become or just already is canon to me because of how vivid and true it is in my brain. and cquackitys face just collapsing into his hand looking almost dizzy and both paying 100% attention and just thoughtlessly staring at cslimes face like its the only thing he could ever want to do for the rest of his life. bc it is. This is happening
#Get them oit of my faaaceeeeeeeeeee#i already adore their erm. fanon i guess height difference but i think it adds so much to this scene in particular#cquackity looking up desperately and cslime looking down adoringly coughs up a lung#ohhhh they didthat for ME how. do they like know exactly what i want to see Every single time#im literally not even joking when i say. before the end of 2021 lore i would already just sit there in school thinking about one of the two#dying in front of the other. and then i daydreamed about a reunion scene for the next year after that . and i got that AND even more that i#quite quickly realised i also love. and then for 2 years i thought about them having their happy ending where they reconcile and clearly#still love eachother AND IT GAVE ME THAT. AND. A TRAGIC ENDING WHERE ONE ACCIDENTALLY KINDOF KILLS TJE OTHER. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING TO ME#this literally holds no weight but im Never getting over them after this. Ever. ESEPCIALLY TOO NOWTHAT I KNOW THAT#THEY R WILLING TO DO LORE IN ALMOST FUCKING 2025????? BOTH OF THREM!?? I KNOW THIS IS THE END BUT ITS THAT THAT COUNTS#JUST THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD AND COULD#Iugugufujhhhfhgjfuj. My one and only complaint is i wish it was longer like. Maybe 10 minutes? of more filler conversation#it wouldve been Kinda fucking life changingly awesome if they had done it as like a 40 minute semilore thing? But nah nah#im getting greedy again already my hunger for them neevr fucking ends#ok big ass tag ramble sorry
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christ almighty. bruce wayne i don't forgive you for anything (<- girl who just watched utrh voice)
#god. your little boy.#and the thing is. bruce had just watched jason kill plenty of people#i know he doesn't like it. but just watch him kill 1 more. he's letting you off easy you don't have to do it! just watch him#truthfully it's not 100% about not wanting jason to kill at all. it's at least.. oh... 50% about who he's about to kill#bruce you hypocritical selfish piece of shit#now tjat is what i call a movie#those fight scenes are so good. the bruce/jason one at the end is so good. and when they get to the bathroom!#like holy fuck is bruce angry.#made me think of that time he fought jason and jason said 'i've never seen you hit joker that hard. and you hate him.'#something to be said about bruce not being able to handle the weight of his own guilt#being so frustrated that he punishes the people he's already wronged#his anger at jason is insane.#man i don't approve of all of it (obviously) and i'm not even that attached to jason. but i cheer him on when he comes back#that traumatic of a death... even putting who did it. if i came back i would want revenge on the world itself#i would never turn into an antihero i would die a villain in a blaze of glory taking as many people with me as possible#and bruce's joker problem is truly TRULY ... god THROW him in arkham#in fact. kill him#kill them all. jason you beautiful boy. your rage is so valid#god GOD. god. EVERY adult failed him
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you ever just think about clark kal-el superman kent and just.
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#HE'S AN IMMIGRANT HES LONELY HES ISOLATED BUT HE HAS SO MUCH LOVE IN HIM#HE FACES THE WORST OF HUMANITY ALL THE TIME AS SUPERMAN#EVEN AS A JOURNALIST HE SEES AND INVESTIGATES AND FINDS OUT THE WORST BUT IN THE END HE STILL KEEPS FIGHTING#BECAUSE HE LOVES HUMANITY AND HE BELIEVES AND HOPES THAT PEOPLE CAN BE BETTER AND THAT THEY ARE BETTER#AND HE FIGHTS FOR EVERYONE HE FIGHTS FOR EVERYONE WHO'S EVER FELT ALONE AND ISOLATED AND LIKE NO ONE GETS THEM#he's just a farm boy from kansas but he's an alien but he's a superhero and he's all three at the same time but also not#he's clark kent and kal el and superman#he's a good writer#he is a GOOD MAN!#I LOVE HIM‼️‼️‼️#bluebird.txt#he <33333333333333#i just love that scene in the very first episode of lois & clark#clark met lex luthor and knew from the beginning that this guy was a greedy bad of shit who kills innocent people without even caring#if he thought it could make him more money and give him more power#and he hears lex say 'i like that everyone has to look up to see me' because his building is so tall#'i love that everyone else has to look up to see me i like people feeling like im above them because i genuinely think i am'#'i see every single person as expendable and only as a means to my ends and i don't care about them because i am the only one who matters'#and at the very end after superman has made his debut by saving the very rocket that lex tried to destroy in so many ways#so that HE singularly could profit from it#at the end of the episode and the beginning of superman he confronts luthor and he's like no. if you're making people look up to you#it should not be to make them feel scared and inferior. it should be to give them hope.#and clark (as luthor) says 'if you ever need to find me all you have to do is Look Up.'#DOES HE KNOOWWW!!!!! HOW MUCH I LOVE HIIMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#random vent post i'll prob delete later but i wanna scream in the tags to get this out of my system#i wish my anxiety wasn't so goddam crippling especially when it comes to my hobbies#hobbies are things i'm supposed to enjoy doing and help me relax but my stupid brain won't stfu no matter what i'm doing#like my current problem is my brain trying to tell me that I'm playing farming sims incorrectly or that i'm a fake writer#like i sunk back into my rune factory addiction and farming sims are supposed to be cozy/relaxation games right?#no I'm constantly stressing myself out that I'm not optimizing my crops correctly or progressing the story fast enough or something stupid#like I have an obsession to make every crop/flower level 10 and making sure I always have an obscene amount of corn#since i'm dumping like an unholy amount of nutrients into my soil so i need the corn to bring it's hp back up#i spend most of my time in game micromanaging my crops to make my fields look nice only to realize the shop closed and i cant buy more seed#then i gotta make sure i'm only taming the 'right' monsters and then all the boss monsters#and lets not forget about murakumo because i plan to have Ares ride that innkeeper but fucking Lucy and Priscilla keep overtaking him#because i have to talk to them every day to buy recipe bread and seeds#so i end up throwing grilled skipjack at murakumo every day to make sure my friendship level is always highest with him#because i tried confessing to him in game yesterday AND HE FUCKING FREINDZONED ME#took 10d8 physic damage from that because it was the day after the firefly festival and i thought we had a moment on the beach murakumo#you were blushing and everything when Ares said you looked impressive#but anyways enough about my farming sim rant because honestly that's just a smokeguard so that i'm not perceived#my real issue lately is that any time i open a word document my imposters syndrome starts beating my brain with a spiked bat#or if i start interacting with anything tigerghost related my chest feels like it's getting torn apart#like for some reason it's become a fucking uphill battle to read other people fics and I don't understand why#i think it's because i'm scared that they're way better than me or that if i read these fics it's going to subconsciously affect my own#and then i'll get called out for plagiarism or something cus that's what kinda happened when I was active in the pokespe fandom#i read someone else's fic and realized that they took several scenes from my fics word for word and just threw in an extra character#i called them out on it and it started all this drama that just tainted my experience with fandom in general#it honestly hurt me so badly i left tumblr and stopped writing for a very long time because it killed my creative drive#it took me literal years to finish my stardew fic because of this like it's supposed to be a hobby i do it for fun right?#but no my brain is fucking stupid and keeps telling me that i'm doing it wrong#there have been so many amazing and creative people in the nicktoons unite fandom and everyone i've talked with so far is really nice#especially izzy and aether like honestly you're both fucking saints for letting me ramble in your dm's all the time#like i love talking with people esp about stuff i'm passionate about (which is usually about the characters in whatever story i'm writing)
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