#this show has completely ruined me

[midnight--sadness]

squid game characters' s3 fate

90% they'll die:

daeho - unfortunately, i think he will die, he has tragedy written all over him, especially since he probably will believe he "failed" his team for not delivering the magazines to them and blaming himself for jungbae's death.

minsu - will probably die defending someone, to parallel how he didn't defend semi.

namgyu - i dont think i need to explain.

myunggi - either he or junhee will live; he is much more likely than her to die tho.

yongsik - either he or geumja will live; after the mingle game, i think he will sacrifice himself for his mama.

gyeongseok - if he's not dead already. if he's still alive, i think they will have him bond with noeul and hyunju, maybe hinting at a romance with hyunju before he dies and noeul will promise to take care of nayeon.

most of junho's team, including wooseok and captain park and kim (the leader of the mercenaries).

not sure:

junhee - either her or myunggi will live; i was sure it was her but then seonnyeo (the shaman lady) freaked me out during the mingle game and made me wonder if she'll die. her baby def won't die tho.

geumja - either her or yongsik will live; since she said that she wouldnt have a life if he died, i'm betting she lives just to make everyone suffer more.

inho - i think he'll sacrifice himself to end the games and kind of earn gihun's forgiveness. if he dies, it will be in gihun's arms tho.

junho - he's the character im most divided over. he will def forgive inho for shooting him and such, and inho will show him how he loves him, perhaps saving him from death, or junho will die protecting inho and dying in his older brother's arms (a nice callback to sangwoo and gihun in s1).

90% they'll live:

gihun - he's gonna suffer more than jesus, but he won't die (he'll just wish he had); also, i need him to reunite with gayeong. he'll probably end up taking care of junhee's baby if she and her terrible ex both die-

noeul - i really want her to get her baby back but i wonder if it's even possible at this point; maybe she will end up taking care of nayeon when gyeongseok dies.

hyunju - i really dont believe she will die, i think we will see her move to thailand to fully begin her life.

[akkpipitphattana]

the thing about the lilly sequence is that i think it’s actually really well written and a really incredible sequence. but it’s like three episodes too late.

like i think this scene as it is would have worked far better had it taken place at the beginning of ep10. like when i was talking during ep6-9 about how they would get back and babe would be gone, that was exactly what i was picturing! the place a mess and kant worried sick and distressed, trying to find babe and style with his dad! like it would have been perfect. but that would have also required a complete change of the way the last three eps were handled and i don’t necessarily think i would change a LOT about eps 10 and 11 - like i do have things i would change for sure but for the most part i was pretty happy with the way things went in those episodes.

and to get those scenes now it’s just. it’s so weird tonally and narratively to fit that into an otherwise epilogue-esque final ep? not to mention that it makes the scene from last episode where kant and style talk fadel and bison down from killing her and letting the police take care of her feel so. hollow.

like acab yes but i also dont view the way that scene worked as really being about advocating for the fucking criminal justice system as much as it is about bison and fadel being offered a way out. that scene is about them being able to take back what lilly took from them, their innocence and their childhood, by not killing her. she forced them into a life of murder and that scene is about them choosing not to let her have that control anymore. it’s about choosing a happy life with kant and style over continuing to let her control their life. it’s about breaking the cycle.

which i don’t necessarily love the prison plot line for that reason, i feel like they could have gotten away with not incorporating it, but like i still get the idea of them wanting to atone for what they did. like one last final way of them being able to separate from lilly and the way she raised them.

but like then the scene with her this ep just kind of. takes all that away. because they kill her anyways. like if that was gonna be the end anyways, it should have just happened last ep. like im so down for killing abusive parents, i see the fun in that! but it’s like, pick one? if theyre gonna break the cycle and choose to walk away from that life, let them walk away. dont make them have to face her again after finally separating from all of it and killing her then? and then having them act like it doesnt effect them at all as if they weren’t sobbing over the idea of it the previous ep?

[thewolvesof1998]

Has someone talked about how Buck’s wearing a lot more over sized clothing lately? I bet you they’re hiding a pregnancy, that’s how we find out buddie’s gone canon, it’s time for Buck to baby trap Eddie back.

[okurrroye]

The wait for percabeth to finally happen is going to be excruciating and I might as well kill myself now because I can’t wait that long

[blaec-ynk]

ngl the more I think about Arcane the more I find myself more enraged by the fact that 'cycle of violence' stories like it are ultimately proponents of the status quo where Piltover will reap all of the benefits while Zaun continues to be oppressed and abused and used

even at its most radical the show never swings truly left of center when it comes to politics because they clearly villainize the only individual(s) pushing for Zaun's independence while the Ideal Father Figure And best Man You'll Ever Know is aiding Piltover's exploitation and oppression and further enforces the status quo. Vander is depicted as someone that breaks the cycle of violence despite allowing and aiding its violence towards Zaunite people while revolutionaries like Silco are reduced to violent mafia bosses without any positive or even neutral influences on the society around them, his only positive/humanizing trait being his love for Jinx

this isn't a cycle of violence that you can step away from no matter how hard the story tries to paint it that way with Jinx's final arc and the dumbass move they pulled with Vander's letter to Silco and Ekko's alternate reality shenanigans. If Vander sent that apology to Silco they shouldnt have reunited because their conflict was not personal (for the most part) but ideological where Silco wanted to break out from Piltover's foot on Zaun's throat while Vander was encouraging people to just take it. Silco was the demonized personification of radical change and the end of imperialism/colonialism/classis/oppression while Vander was the glorified personification of assimilation and complacency under discrimination and oppression

this is not a cycle of violence because Piltover has its foot on Zaun's throat and can freely abuse and use and exploit and torture Zaun in whatever way it wants in whatever means it wants meanwhile the most violent thing Zaun can do is scratch and bite at the leg and foot pinning it to the fucking ground. a cycle would imply that if Zaun stops scratching and biting and writhing, they'd be freed from Piltover's control, the foot would leave its neck, but that's not what would happen; Piltover would just keep its foot on Zaun's neck. Zaun cannot break out of a cycle that does not exist; they can only try to dig their way out of a grave and doing so requires destroying the foundations Piltover built directly on top of its beaten, bruised, bleeding body--but according to Arcane, Zaun cannot unbury itself BECAUSE it destabilizes Piltover and that is the worst thing that can fucking happen, because its against the status quo and therefore the worst thing you can do

and they double down and triple down on this constantly. its especially annoying with Ekko and Caitlyn's conversation in the Firelights hideout when the story and Caitlyn herself minimize Piltover's and the Council's active and passive condemnation and oppression and exploitation of Zaun and calls it a simple "misunderstanding" when it is everything but. the people in power know EXACTLY what theyre profitting off of and they do not give a fuck. they might make a show of sympathy but that sympathy is not worth jack shit or ass when they continuously uphold and profit from the oppressive and exploitative system. NONE of the Council are good people and NONE of the Enforcers are good people and NONE of the Houses with any influence are good people because they ALL benefit from Piltover's exploitation of Zaun and never do anything to meaningfully change ANY of it (Caitlyn's mum's ventilation system is worth fuckall when it comes to legitimately improving Zaun's situation and Jayce never attempts to do anything about Zaun outside of the Shimmer smuggling and becomes corrupted literally at the drop of a hat, not to mention his anti-Zaunite radicalization in the later episodes and that barrier on the bridge; and sure, he has legitimate reasons because of the Hextech crystal and Jinx, but he was making all of Zaun suffer for one person's crimes and didnt care about it until Viktor reminded him he's from the Undercity as well)

the show's insistance that this isnt the case and their simplification of these politics and demonization of revolutions and class actions is borne of the fact that Riot Games genuinely does not believe in those values. the only way in which they want out of the status quo is by leveraging it for themselves, like with them laying off half the writing staff and producing overpriced gacha skins for a silly little game

there is definitely more that can be said and any and all points made here could be altered for a more accurate picture but i just needed this anger out of my head. im just so genuinely sick of these """"cycle of violence"""" narratives

[wibble-wobbegong]

just so we’re clear if lucas ends up unhappy at the end of s5 or has to go through an unequivocal amount of grief while the rest of the cast thrives i will personally hunt the duffers down for the rest of their lives

[starheirxero]

I WATCHED THE NEW SAMS EPISODE-

FUCK, BLOODMOON IS GIVEN THE MERE ILLUSION OF A CHOICE- BUT THERE IS NONE, FOR THEY WERE PROGRAMMED TO ALWAYS FOLLOW ON A LEASH- AND IN THIS SITUATION, IT IS EITHER LISTENING OR DYING AND LOSING EACH OTHER ALL OVER AGAIN-

And then there's Eclipse- OH GOD, ECLIPSE- He is so confused! He keeps asking for Vegeta's purpose, and his feelings for being a mere blueprint, yet Vegeta doesn't care. He knows, but he won't let that defy him, and Eclipse can't understand- He himself is a mere copy of the original. "Eclipse" is dead, he was blown to smithereens. He is not Eclipse. He is a mere copy, and even then he's imperfect. And he cannot live with this, cannot accept reality. It's breaking my damn heart!

He is also softer though? Yes, he was trying to bring Vegeta down, but he felt a lot more…passive, I'd say. Hell, he even refused to harm him! Even after he was challenged!

-Stardust

RIGHTTTT!!!!!! YESYESYES WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH BLOODMOON AGAIN IS MESSING ME UP SO BAD LIKE AUGH. These poor boys do not get a BREAK. THEY STILL DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER AAAUAGGHHHH

AND ECLIPSE GHOD YEAH. Eclipse being baffled at Vageta's just total content with being What He Is just has me enraptured tbh. He is so in his head about his copied existence that the idea of someone being a walking test subject just,,, completely throws him off. WHICH IS HONESTLY MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHY HE TRIED TO UPSET LUNAR W/ SAYING THEY WERE A FAILED SCIENCE PROJECT, YK? Bc to Eclipse, that would be wildly upsetting, but no one else really cares that much. Yk??

AND HE DID SEEM A BIT MORE CHILL YEA. More tolerable? Not exactly patient but somewhere in that realm. There is things happening with this guy and I love him ^_^

[esta-elavaris]

Had a moment today that exemplifies how my family thinks but like, in a way that’s just very sad and makes me glad I don’t think that way.

Showed a relative the amazing painting that friend did for me, and her first response was “you’d be able to sell that for some good money!!!”

Like. No????

For months I’ve discussed this creative trade with this friend, we’ve talked about what the other wants, we’ve gotten excited about it and traded progress pics as we work on it for each other, gotten stoked over making plans to get to the post office and seeing the other finally get it, and it’s just been a very wholesome and very fun project. It took six weeks for us to complete these projects, and now I have something on display in my room that makes me very happy, that’s objectively beautiful, and that I know a friend put a lot of effort into making for me and was THRILLED when I adored it.

And my family’s immediate line of thinking is “make a few quid from it lol”.

I can’t imagine the headspace it must take to go through life like that.

[aflockofravens]

He wrapped his scarf around Miri like he did with the kitten in the first episode 😭😭😭

[araindropshallfall]

I’m in Canada so I haven’t actually seen it but that ofmd survey HBO Max sent out is leaving a really bad taste in my mouth oh god oh god

[musical-chick-13]

I did NOT spend five fucking years breaking my back and my brain getting a degree in this for people to say that musical theatre is corny and useless and inherently shameful.

[thenerdypen]

Babs x Buster has been BRUTALLY murdered. Pluster is in folks!!!

[drcloudtheclown]

Kinda nervous about Ruin's whole thing,,

On a side note, I might draw the star beings.. for funzies before they get revealed

[lenievi]

being half done with s1 of SNW reminded me how the writers didn’t really disappoint me in s1 (there might be episodes I enjoyed less than others, but that’s just my taste and sometimes even how I felt that day, overall the characterization - which is the most important for me - was consistent and the characters all fun), how they more or less even validate my own readings of TOS (especially with like T’Pring, but also other small things)... and how ever since Discovery, I was never ever disappointed with their interpretation of Spock and his interpersonal relationships

which is now unfortunately leading me to have more trust in s2 too

and I really don’t want to be disappointed

[binnie]

venting real quick

[emrys-with-a-little-star]

Oookay so i just finished the second season

I'm never going to be the same again, i cried on my kitchen floor for 10 minutes and have no clue what i should do next.