#this show is so beautifully written

[ineffablelunatic]

Names have a massive significance for demons in Christianity - they hold power, and if you can name something you therefore have power over it. This is why priests ask for the demon's name during an exorcism - if the demon gives its name it is weakened. When the demons fell, God stripped them of their angelic names.

So when Crowley immediately tells Aziraphale, an angel, someone who should be his enemy, his name, it's not just him being friendly. It's him putting his faith in somebody he just met, saying "I trust you to know my name and not to use it against me." It shows how different he is from the other demons.

And when he changes his name to Crowley, he's rejecting the name Hell gave him. He's breaking away from who he was meant to be. He's the demon with an imagination and he's using it to forge his own path. And not only that, he immediately tells Aziraphale his new name. He's proving time and time again that he trusts his angel, that he would so willingly give him that kind of power. He's making himself vulnerable without thought.

And then again, during the church scene, when he hasn't spoken to Aziraphale for a century, he tells him his new name. He changes his name once more, moving even further away from the other demons. He takes a first name, something so fundimentally human, and still, even after such a long disagreement, he trusts Aziraphale with this vulnerability. This is the scene where Aziraphale falls in love with him. He is willing not only to enter a church for his angel and risk his life over and over, but to tell him time after time the one thing that could easily destroy him.

Crowley's love isn't shown just by saving Aziraphale from being discorporated. It's the smaller things, like telling him his name without ever doubting it. It's ineffable.

[omaano]

"Cassian's face is a brittle thing, no person's eyes should shine as painfully tearful as his. Kino offers his hand and Cassian - bright as the sun, steady as a roc, fluid as water Cassian - accepts it with shaking fingers. He tells Kino everything."

Art for we're spitting off the edge of the world by Xenomorphic for the 2024 Star Wars Big Bang @swbigbang. It is an amazing Canon Divergence Fix-it fic from one of the most memorable moments of Andor onwards, with beautiful prose that fits the mood of the show so so well and will make you feel just as deeply for these characters. Please give it a read and heap some love on my team's amazing and hardworking author, they were such a delight to work with!❤️

[rowrowronnie]

why the hell has no one been talking about the pantheon show on amc why the hell is there legitimately No Way to watch the show without pirating and again, to reiterate: WHY THE HELL HAS NO ONE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS SHOW!!!!

[grimalditeuthis]

just finished remnants episode 3 #WEEPING

[crystalpop]

Just finished The Penguin and holy shit that has got to be one of the best shows i have seen in a long while. While i did cringe at some of the music choices and wish they had gone with some closer to the soundtracks to the show i can say without a doubt that it has to be one of my favourite soundtracks for a tv show. It fits so perfectly with what The Batman had already set up with its score and perfectly matches the genre vibe of Oswald. It reminds me of Gothams Oswald and his soundtracks. I wish the show was longer but i think it did everything it needed to do in its 8 episodes. Everything about it was so beautiful, obviously they didn’t have the same budget at the movie but i can tell they did everything to make it match in its own way. Im glad we got a glimpse of what Arkam is like in this version and how utterly brutal it really is, how a place that is supposed to somehow heal or help people becomes such a horrific and brutal hell for whoever believes they one day may be free of it. Sophia was so well written, every scene she was in was perfect (except for that situationship between her and her therapist, wasn’t a huge fan at all) all of her outfits suited her and what she was currently planning or doing. I hope we get more about her and her now second time in arkam. Now where do i start with Oswald, he is such a horrible person but i really can’t help but absolutely love and adore his character. Like he honestly sucks and deserves everything that happened to him but I can’t help but somewhat route for him (except for what he did in episode 8, fuck him for that). It was really interesting to get a proper background on him and how he grew up to be who is was in the series, it really humanized him and gave a proper reason to why he does what he does. Everything about him on the outside was so pompous and fake and the way he acted outside of is normally somewhat controlled temperament really shone a light on how much of a lying narcissist he is and how much he really doesn’t care what happens as long as he remains on top and in power. He is such a horrible person and i love him for that. Now i was honestly kinda sceptical about Victor at the beginning, I didn’t want the show to become fully focused on him as a sidekick to Os and all the wacky shit they get up to. Im very glad it didn’t do that and instead we got a well written character that is struggling after losing everything he cares about and then trying his best to prove himself to some random guy that threatened him and tried to kill him before taking him under his wing. We got to see a character struggle with the morally grey and most of the time straight up illegal and horrible things he’s been told to do but does them anyways because he either wants to prove himself or just survive. He became so close to Oswald and looked up to him as a guide and as close to family as he could get by the end. So many amazing complex and wonderful characters where created and expanded upon in this show. I hope we get more shows like this and i am very excited to see where this version of Batman goes. Anyways im gonna go cry and see if i can find any good fanfics about it.

[dnangelic]

if the monstrous freak is so unlovable then why hes so loved on tumblr dot com...

[aragarna]

You'll have many years left, my father, to live and dream. - George J. Lewis and Guy Williams as don Alejandro de la Vega and Zorro (Zorro, 1957, 1x07)

[ctl-yuejie]

I'm only on episode 7 but I hope they don't change the impeccable dynamic of the main trio

Cao Guangyan and Pu Yiyong really hit the impeccable spot of "loving to hate you" and "eternally bickering but caring very deeply when it comes to the important things".

Chen Chuying also hits the fine line of capable to a degree but chaotic enough that she would start to join the shenanigans. Adult enough to actually try to keep Pu Yiyong (and later - delightfully so - Cao Guangyan) out of trouble but not enough a stickler to the law to not understand where they are coming from. Definitely not acting ethically but they can treat Pu Yiyong complaining that she was his first kiss as hilarious without it being weird in the overall context.

Another underrated part: both parents clearly started from a point of thinking that their sons being in a romantic relationship might be cute to really just shaking their heads over both of them just being weird all over the place

[wishlistgf]

this scene is just so incredible to me the contrast from juwon's character at the beginning of the series being unwilling to get dirty...i mean the guy was visibly upset about getting dirt on his shoes... to now going against everything he stood for

following the law strictly until he becomes partners with dongsik and learns that sometimes in order to get justice the law must be broken

and looking back at the change in juwon since this conversation in episode 5

"ds: how far are you willing to go to make things right? we’ve been living without a problem for the past twenty years. what are you willing to do to catch us? are you willing to throw away the law and principle that you abide by so much?"

"jw: why would I do that?"

juwon really threw all of that away starting with illegally recording his dad's confession.

and it's also very reflective of his change in attitude, from not wanting to be friends or close with anyone else at the station, and not seeing the point of emotional connections to literally getting blood on his hands for dongsik...

[daringdarlingdt]

me, before starting to rewatch dr who: I can be normal about david tennant as the doctor

me now:

[gloryofwinter]

I was reading a recap of The Pacific episode 10 ("Home") by Emily St. James from when the show first premiered and omg this excerpt:

"But what we really can never understand is that these men were young once, too, and they, in many cases, gave that up.

You will get older, and I will too, and the things we wish to block out will grow brighter and brighter, until we're approaching death and thinking back on what was and what could have been. But those guys were young and old all at once, men who spent the rest of their lives thinking that one step, one second of difference could have changed everything, men who spent the rest of their lives either racing from that fact or trying to block it out. They tried to find ways to push that aside as they could, seeking joy where they could find it - in the pleasures of a summer's day or the pretty blue of their lover's eyes - but the world forgot, as it does, and the men they were became a series of dusty memories, tucked away in an attic somewhere. The Pacific is not a time machine, not exactly, but it is a sort of window. They can be young again, and the world can be as it was. We go into the attic. We open the box. We remember."

[martyrbat]

omg found the authentic 2013 house md deviantart yaoi in my search for the 2013 cannibalempaths yaoi....

[catch-needed-hobbies]

It's that time of the month where I start to think about Armada Starscream a little too intensely and it makes me sad

[nopeferatu]

UGHGHGHH i think that everyone who loves brokeback mountain needs to read this fic rn. i'm reading through it again for the hundreth millionth time since 2022 and i still love it to bits

[quokkabum]

“but there’s one thing i’m sure of a heart isn’t something that is taken or grabbed. it just comes to you.”

[kyorru-remade]

i think it’s wonderful how kana and hatori had their own happily ever afters but it’s still so unfair that they didn’t get to make that choice themselves :(