#ugh but yeah now I have to rewatch the terror

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Because I insisted on playing as the real James Fitzjames arising from torpor in 2012 and was really autistic about it I somehow got my Vampire the Masquerade DM to watch The Terror; basically what I'm saying is that I'm about to start a spiral of Terror posting and I would like to apologise for that

[solomon-tozer]

Select bits from Sir John's funeral that I just love...

So we have Crozier reading out the part about Jacob dreamed about a ladder, set upon the earth, "and the top of it reaching to the heavens"...

...as we see Collins and Stanley, the two characters whose mental health is a defining part of their character arcs.

Then, "Behold the Lord stood above it and he said, 'I am with thee ...'" as the focus shifts to Goodsir.

"'... and will keep thee in all places, wherever thou goest'".

Goodsir, who later questions "is God here?"

The following line and shot are "'for I will not leave thee'" as we see Jopson and Blanky.

The two men Crozier left. Blanky knew Crozier was, just earlier that day, planning to leave them. Jopson likely knew, as it's remarked later that he knows everything, and perhaps he's the one who tidied away the unsealed letter and wax.

Then the Terror lieutenants, with MacDonald too. "And in Jacob's dream he saw the invisible world, companion to the known one we perceive."

The men who were privy to Crozier's alcoholism, and were part of maintaining that separation between officers and men... but also Hickey and Irving 'perceived' Hickey's true nature.

So, of course, when we have: "So complete it would seem to leave no room for its invisible brother world" as we see Hickey...

that otherness, that not belonging, keeping out of sight, experiencing thing in such a different way but no one notices or even thinks it's there...

And then going back to a shot of the men gathered at Sir John's funeral. "The departed..."

"...who though cleaved from the frame that carried them yet live." They are all departed. Dead. Crozier is the only one who doesn't die, but he certainly doesn't 'stay' in the world he's expected to.

The contrast of the words of virtue and strength, from scripture and used to describe Sir John and saying he's "destined to reign with Christ forever", being heard as we see Hickey in Gibson's cabin.

The white glove over the hand that will offer up Hickey's tongue, his left hand reverently touching the spot, the fact that, all that time later, Hickey has come to believe that he can be a new god and reign...

Finally, for this post, we have "and see His truth amongst us" as Hickey reads Crozier's resignation letter, discovering the truth of Crozier's actions.

And not one of them is god, or has the truth. They are all in this terrible place where the sun has set, in this strange world they don't understand, in this "invisible world of spirits".

There's so much in this scene, so many links, that I just lose my mind every time.

[housewarningparty]

Also: it was lost on me as a teen viewer why Faith goes back at the end of 4x16. I kind of got it but it genuinely hit me in this recent rewatch like

FAITH wants to run, but she knows Buffy wouldn’t and so she has to go back because she’s BUFFY now and Buffy is better than Faith. Buffy is a good person. Buffy would never leave it as someone else’s problem. Faith refuses to run because she’s In Buffy and she refuses to make Buffy as bad & disgusting as her!! I’m blowing myself up!!

She goes into full on panic when Riley is trying to be like actual-intimate, not quickie intimate. And like part of that is ABSOLUTELY her trauma & the fact that people have been “kind” to her so often to take advantage of her. But she’s also freaking out because this guy is trying to take advantage of BUFFY. Faith is used to sleazeballs saying & doing whatever to get to her & she tells herself she’s fine with it. But like having to be on the receiving end of genuine intimacy & kindness (especially from someone she doesn’t know how to say the right thing for, ie telling Joyce she’ll visit & Willow she’ll protect her)?

Like her instinct is already to be nasty and keep people at bay ie Tara, but someone trying to make HER be vulnerable & melting down and then in turn freaking out bc this guy MUST be taking advantage of Buffy?

Bri she loves her so much. Bri I’m crying. Bri she goes to such ridiculous lengths in her Crazy Girl Arc in Sunnydale. on some level it’s because she needs Buffy to hate her as much as she hates herself. But there is no way her LA Sequel moment is not in some way influenced by feeling Buffy’s residual emotions when they swap back & going “oh yeah wow I’m literally so bad, I can’t be fixed I need to die” and then goes of the handle AGAIN and tries the same tactic on Angel who recognizes it immediately.z

I’m rambling but ugh oh my god. I need a minute. I can’t take this. I can’t take Faith doing the absolute most to try and push everyone away & make them hate her even more as herself! And then doing the inverse as Buffy both because Faith doesn’t want to feel alone AND because she doesn’t want to ruin Buffy the way she ruined herself?

Evil. Evil!

Yeah it's definitely really tragic and deeply interesting that faith's view of herself by that point is that she's SO fundamentally Bad that she needs the pretense of being someone else (and BUFFY specifically) to do good.

There's lots of good meta out there about faith's implied sexual trauma and how that intersects with her violation of riley. I think that definitely one of the most fucked up and sad parts of it is how it's literally riley saying he loves buffy that makes faith freak out. "who are you? what do you want with her?" the stutter in faith's voice, the breathlessness. it's sheer terror. and it's horrible. and it ends with faith, in buffy's body, beating her own face bloody, in tears, "you're digusting," she screams at her own face. "you're nothing."

and promptly runs off to LA to try to get herself killed.

god, the whole arc is just brutal and devastating and gorgeous. even faith's ultimate decision to turn herself in and go to prison is rooted in what she imagines buffy would want.

faith's arc of how can i make buffy like me -> how can i make buffy hate me -> how can i make buffy kill me -> how can i make buffy pay for not killing me -> how can she ever forgive me -> how can i help her is SO good. i wish we'd had so much more faith in s7. the parts we get are tantalizing but i could have done with an entire season of weird divorced reconciliation vibes and pining. alas.

[crimeronan]

darius is the funniest fucking character in toh oh my GOD we just rewatched any sport in a storm & everything he does in the final act is. the best. darius like "yeah kids i don't wanna be here either 🙄" but not boTHERING TO TELL THESE TERRIFIED CHILDREN THAT HE ISN'T ACTUALLY KIDNAPPING THEM?? he's like "ugh you'll have to do better than that to best me" and then the kids trick him with an illusion and then immediately crash his Entire Ship and he's like. alright i'm still dropping them off at their school but i AM going to terrorize these little shits first HEY TINY PISSANTS DO YOU WANNA DIE TODAY. I AM CAPABLE OF ATROCITIES BEYOND YOUR WILDEST IMAGININGS LET'S GO

to be clear none of this is negative in the slightest i think darius is the perfect man he's so good. character of all TIME i could kiss him. there's no drama queen better suited to adopt hunter "every mistake i make will end the entire world" neuroticboy owlhouse. hunter's gonna burn a piece of toast and have a breakdown n darius is just gonna pinch the bridge of his nose like "yes this IS worthy of throwing you out of my home. how dare you get charred bread bits on my beautiful spotless counter" n hunter's gonna be like oh okay we're cool actually. i'm fine now. i'm trying again but i'm also dumping the whole bread bag onto the counter as we speak. you're welcome

[stargatelov3r]

Whoa, this is amazing. I-i, they may have become my top pairing now (at least top three,) and I may, MAY have teared up as I read your response. (Also very emotional about this.) 🧡

Flour-covered Chuck in his little apron? Picnics on the mainland? LEARNING CZECH TO UNDERSTAND RADEK!? 

Fuck yes!

Hmm… Chuck is learning Czech in secret, also as a surprise. Because the two of them do really love a good surprise. So Radek doesn’t know he can actually translate what has been engraved on it.

“Jsi láska mého života.”

Chuck is blown away by the translation, he doesn’t tell Radek though. Instead, Chuck mulls it over and a plan starts forming. He has to secretly put said plan into motion. 

Radek notices Chuck being off and slightly twitchy, (cliche - *cough* that I love *cough*) but he starts to get worried about their relationship. Chuck has a terrible poker face after all so he tries to avoid Radek when possible. Rodney starts to get twitchy too. Radek, consumed by negative feelings can only assume the worst considering that two of his closest people are acting strange around him.

So when Rodney, flushed and fidgety asks Radek to follow him he feels terror grip his heart. He follows, preparing to accept any outcome of this interaction with grace. 

He’s so wrapped up in these thoughts that he doesn’t notice Rodney is dressed a little bit fancy (fancy for him,) nor does he notice they are alone in such a heavy traffic hallway. So when the transporter door opens to the gate room and Chuck is there on one knee holding out a ring he is completely floored. 

Radek is obviously the kind to cry in this type of situation, and he does, crying and yelling “Ano! Ano!” before lifting Chuck up and kissing him so hard as the entirety of Atlantis claps and cheers behind them. 😭😭

Elizabeth, of course, set up a whole feast for the occasion.

I hope we convert others to this pairing. Come on people, Chuck/ Radek fanfic let’s go!

Hmm… challenge name… Side ships maybe? No, idk.. Hm, um, hmm… We need a SGA community discussion for this.

I might have to bug sassycordy now because that headcanon is amazing and I wish to hear more. Hmm… I might not have time to though considering I wrote down 22 ship pairings last night to discuss with you over the following thousand years. 😳

I love solo-episodes, love background, give it all!! I need it all!!! At least we have fanfic.

Don't be sorry at all, we are very similar in this regard, I could rant about it forever, and I love hearing your perspective. 🧡

I remember that episode thoroughly, blah Kavenaugh, love to hate him lol

Ugh, yesssss! This, this soooo much. Forget Earth, Atlantica is where it's at (Coined by sweet bby Aiden and - denied by Sheppard but hey nobody else named it sooooo) they could have had way more Atlantis based episodes, especially if they expanded on characters that rarely leave.

Okay this is all canon now, this is what happened, nobody else can convince me otherwise.

I'm going to rewatch SGA just to make note of allies they might have, because I can only think of those kids and Athosians as well lol

Thank you for responding to my novels, I too am thoroughly enjoying myself. 🧡

ship anon... please tell me you write fanfiction. please. I NEED IT. THIS IS SO PURE AND BEAUTIFUL!!!!!

I love how we went from "yeah i think they would be cute" to "they are getting married and all of Atlantis knows it before except Radek" in 24 hours... very cool of us.

I... don't really have anything to add that right now, I'm still trying to process the cuteness of this idea and the general wholesomeness of this ship.

i just checked ao3, there are 3 works which include the "radek zelenka/chuck" tag, so.... welcome to the rarepair corner! We're gonna make this everyone elses problem now! Let the Chuck/Radek agenda begin!!!

Seriously, I'm so glad you brought this to my attention <3 Atlantis did such a great job with introducing background characters (there are a few more I wish they had included more, e.g. Dr. Biro, Miko...) and they deserve all the love <3

you... you have 22 more ships to throw at me? LEMME SEE LEMME SEE LEMME SEE! (though it's gonna be hard to top this one o.0). I love your dedication, ship anon <3

honestly, i love your novels. I was at a friend's place earlier when i read this one and i was like hoooooly shit, i need to read this again when i get home so i can respond to it properly. Your mind is just <3

[fanfoolishness]

Liveblogging The Mandalorian chapter 15, The Believer:

Still can’t believe that Din didn’t run up to Cara shouting “THEY HAVE THE KID” the instant he saw her, except, I can, because emotional constipation. Or, alternately, if he holds off on telling her, he can pretend for just a little bit longer that Grogu’s not in danger?

Industrial junkyard in Star Wars... it’s an engineer’s wonderland

At least the Republic doesn’t keep them in those tiny cages forever? Not that this is much better, but at least there’s some vitamin D, right?

Mayfeld: “The actual fuck???” At all times in this episode

Boba’s ship in the background, love it

“I thought you were this other guy” still lands great XD

Mayfeld says “long time,” so that makes me wanna let Din and Grogu have a good year or so together. Right? Right. That and Greef’s beard, baby, it tells me they had a lot of time :)

Ooooh love the industrial undertones in the Mando theme over the credits right here!

Also, Slave 1, how do you even work? So much twirling around

Din, where do you get your planet information? “There’s nothing on Morak!” How do you know? Maybe he had a short list of worlds he could hide on with the kid and thought that was one of them.

Oh good, Din does call him Fett. I can’t imagine him being on a first name basis with him for some time.

This episode is 99.5% perfect but I still get mad that Fennec didn’t get a joke or any real character development in it! She’s wanted by ISB but for WHAAAAAT

“But I won’t be showing my face.” Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Din

Cara I fucking love how you just smash those idiots into bits XD

Din trusts her so much, ahhhhh friends <3 (But I’m relieved that now there’s no chance of the show trying to ship them, given Gina Carano’s rightful ouster. Bummed that no recast has occurred, but at least I can always think of them as friends)

Mayfeld is such a chatty motherfucker, I don’t know how Din hasn’t knocked his block off yet

Din under his breath: “Grogu Grogu Grogu Grogu Grogu, I’m hanging out with this guy for *Grogu*”

Din’s posture is so stiff inside the transport. Ugh, how awful the borrowed armor must feel

I love how Din’s all “I’ll take care of it.” There winds up being how many guys? How many thermal detonators? And Din’s just glad to get out of the passenger seat and away from Mayfeld, back in his comfort zone

That blaster throw kills me every fucking time XD

Unnngth the way they just shredded so much of his armor :(

I love the stunt work in this episode so much — just some awesome punches, kicks, etc, I love how visceral everything feels

Aw poor Din with that *sigh* and readying his fists like “here we fuckin’ go”

So crazy to see the stormtroopers cheering and celebrating like actual people. I feel like this is one of the few times they let you remember it. And Mayfeld’s little salute... yeah, the Empire was wrong, but he was there, and that’s a part of him, something hard to forget.

Ohhhhh man that whole scene is so fucking tense! I was going to type my reactions during it but couldn’t because I was still too mesmerized. I just see Din’s mind as this white, howling panic during the entire scene. No thoughts, head empty, just sheer panic tamped down and funneled into a painful focus on getting that information. But then Hess goes up to him and how does he channel that my face is bare my face is bare howling terror into words? Answer: he almost doesn’t. It’s hard for him to even mimic Mayfeld’s “yes sir” or to come up with any kind of reasonable lie. Pedro’s acting is just so good with so little said, all of Din’s existential crisis coming out in all of his micro expressions, the stiffness of his shoulders, his faltering words, and alternating between inappropriate direct unblinking eye contact and inappropriate aversion of his gaze. I love love love gif makers for taking and looping those moments so you can really see them individually; you get the sense of them watching the performance through, but it’s hard to put your finger on what actions show precisely that Din is so awkward and so out of his element until you can examine them one at a time.

Yeaaaaah I’m gonna rewind and rewatch that part. It still makes my heart jump into my throat for him.

And the way he raises his eyebrows, and gulps, and just literally stands there with his mouth half open — just very little idea of how to guard against those expressions showing, and why would he have ever practiced it??? (Though, to be fair. My face is also that obvious at all times, and I have no excuse, I’m just a terrible liar. I can usually at least keep my mouth closed though!)

Still mad no Cara and Fennec banter... why can’t they at least compliment each others’ guns or something?

Din just looks so fucking exhausted during this scene with Hess having a drink with them. Literally dazed and dissociating.

Din, frowning, shaking his head at Mayfeld: “Am I doing this right??? But he’s still going? How do people do this?”

I love “mud scuffer” as a term. What is it? I don’t even know, but I love it.

Mayfeld realizing what the Empire’s gonna do with the rhydonium and doing the math in his head. “All right, so that’s how it’s gonna be.”

“I never saw your face” ;______;

Din’s little head toss to Mayfeld telling him to get outta there! Awwwww that’s almost a hug coming from him.

“What’s our next move?” “I am gonna send Moff Gideon the SICKEST BURN”

HE MEANS MORE TO ME THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW *sobbing forever*

[spnwatch]

Season 2: The Rankings

Whew. Oh boy.

They were still puttering about in season 1 to an extent. But now? Now they’ve really hit their stride. This season was a veritable chocolate box of delights and I ate my way through it. The overall myth arc was kind of nonsensical, but that emotional throughline? Christ. Spn buries SO MUCH emotional complexity into its leads, and they cashed in every cent in that two part finale. It packs one hell of a punch. And yeah, okay, I knew the broad strokes, the twists and turns. It’s hard not to be spoilered for a season of tv that aired over a decade ago. But reader! It mattered not!! I. Still. Wept. That’s when you know it’s the good kush.  1.) 2x12: NIGHTSHIFTER. This one just snagged the top spot by merit of its sheer ambition. Supernatural often feels like a very empty universe to me, just two guys and one car drifting from place to place. Which is fine, it makes for compelling TV, but they totally flipped the script here and this episode really dazzles precisely because of that contrast. It’s a huge, cinematic episode, a metropolitan setting full of uncontrollable elements, and it’s great to see Sam and Dean so profoundly vulnerable. The outside world is pressing up against the windows. They have sniper dots trained on them! They are, literally and figuratively, out of their depth! We’re not in Kansas any more, baby. God, I haven’t even mentioned the supporting characters. The entire mandroid rant deserves an Emmy. Victor Henrickson’s entrance! Heist movie antics! Agh!  10/10  

2.) 2x07: THE USUAL SUSPECTS. Again this episode was a cut above precisely because it showed us what the brothers look like from the outside: sketchy as all hell. It’s so good when reality ensures, because it’s great to be reminded they lead objectively insane lives! Through Linda Blair’s eyes we get to see just how unknowable, feral and amoral they appear to the eyes of polite society. Put under a microscope like this, they’re scary guys! They’re just not socialised like normal people. They don’t really care about being arrested, or about the felonies. Getting arrested is an irritant above everything else. They’re still working the case from the inside. They’re professionals; excellent liars, and totally in sync with each other. The handwritten notes they pass, like delinquent school kids! A delight! The thrill lies in watching Blair slowly unwrap their strange logic, and unravel the mystery of both the brothers and the ghost. Ugh, what a great perspective shift. I’m 100% here for it. 10/10 

 3.) 2x09: CROATOAN. Ugh, this setting. Small Town Gothic, complete with eerie mist, hostile locals and creepy Stepford vibes. Sam really shone in this episode. He’s so soothing and giant, and it made his suffering at the end all the more devastaing. The real reason this episode ranks so highly is their conversation in the surgery. It just killed me. Dean’s sheer, bone-deep exhaustion, his admission that he’s tired of the life. Sam’s despair, because he knows Dean won’t leave. The performances were so steller. I can’t even really think too deeply about it because it makes me too crazy. 10/10  

 4.) 2x21: ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE: PART ONE. I loved this finale so much more than the finale in Season 1, LOL. It might just be because I’m more invested now, who knows. The opening of this episode is a piece of art: Boston playing on the car stereo, the rain, the small cafe, the lighting. Gorgeous. I love when they have to interact with ordinary people! It adds so much: texture, humour, personality! It draws things out of Sam and Dean that we just don’t see when they have each other to bounce off of. It was so good to see Ava and Andy again. “I just woke up in freakin’ Frontierland!” The gang’s all here, folks! This episode would rank higher, but recieves minus points for the long boring speech the demon gives Sam, and killing off the first gay in the show 0.2 seconds after her introduction. Anyway. The ending of course unzipped me; Dean cradling Sam’s dead body, muttering “It’s okay, it’s not even that bad.” The elation of their reunion, so devastaingly cut short! Sam, twenty two years old, bleeding out in the mud. The sheer, hopelessness of it all. The horror. My notes for the end of the episode simply read: “Dean oh Christ. Oh my God. Oh no.” It’s just one of those scenes that stay with you long after the credits start rolling. 9/10   

5.) 2x20: WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BE. I never thought I could be so profoundly upset by watching a man happily mowing a lawn. Dean’s trauma over the loss of his mother has undercut the whole show up until this point, and here it bursts to the fore. What really got me was the simplicity of it all. Just a sit-down dinner, an engagement. A beer on the porch. Fuck, he deserves it. He deserves everything. All the performances were great, they really served to show there’s a whole life in these AU characters. The fact it wasn’t all perfect was bizarrely more devastating. AU Sam’s weird straight hair and dorky jacket sealed the deal for me, as did his baffled terror in the warehouse. But even here, with no training and no idea what’s happening, he gets into the Impala! Because that’s his brother! Because I’m a huge baby I had to remove points because of how upsetting I found Sam’s quiet hostility towards Dean, HA. But that’s really just a testament to how well-realised their dynamic has become by the second season. 9/10  

 6.) 2x15: TALL TALES. Every single thing Sam does in any of Dean’s memories. Also alien slowdance set to “Lady in Red.” Also Bobby breaking them up like they’re petulant children. Gold, all of it gold. 9/10 

 7.)  2x11: PLAYTHINGS. So I’m a slut for a cool setting, obviously. Turns out, Supernatural did The Haunting of Bly Manor fifteen years ago. The swimming pool! The attic! Creepy dolls! The weird little playground! This episode has it all! I loved the saga between the ghost sister and the old lady, which would honestly make a killer movie in its own right. But I’m digressing. The main star of this episode was, of course, Dean’s profound and escalating sexual insecurities. “Well, you are kinda butch. People probably think you’re overcompensating.” FATALITY. I would’ve placed this one higher but the weird incestuous undertones kinda squicked me out... however, I did think we were meant to be creeped out by it, which is more than I can say for some other uh. Instances. It was, after all, beautifully paralelled at the end with the two sisters reuniting in death. “I can’t leave here, and you can’t leave me.” SHUDDER. Also, honestly, can Sam have one (1) breakdown on his own without Dean’s own emotional baggage taking over? Older siblings, smh. 9/10

8.) 2x22: ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE: PART TWO. This one ranks lower than part one purely because I thought the yellow-eyed demon’s overall plot was kinda nonsensical, and I cared not for John’s weird deux ex machina moment. Like do you expect me to feel sorry for that bitch? I don’t! Anyway, that being said, let’s move on to Dean’s eyes in the junkyard when Bobby asks him, “do you have that low an opinion of yourself?” They’re so flat. So dead, like a shark’s. He doesn’t need to say anything back, because it’s all over his face. That non-expression says it all. This is the culmination of the emotional arc that began with his savage beatdown of the Impala in episode 2x02. To call it survivor’s guilt wouldn’t even begin to cover what Dean goes through this episode. It’s all in Ackles’ performance; in the the way he yells, “What am I supposed to do now, Sammy?” The complete claustrophobia of it all. There’s nothing for it but to make the deal. Dean’s been moving inexorably towards this moment for the entire season. 9/10   

 9.) 2x13: HOUSES OF THE HOLY. What a kooky little episode! Magic fingers! Sam’s costcutter seance purchases! The scooby-doo placemat he uses as a makeshift altar! I love him, your honour. Obviously this episode has a lot of *~dramatic irony~* in it because of the later seasons, but it stands alone as a total banger. I was so gutted for Sam when the "angel” was revealed. So many good little Sam moments to be found in this episode. His soft, quiet little revelation that he prays every day. His awkward, earnest explanation to the horrified priest! Dean gets some great moments chasing down the would-be rapist down those dark, snow-covered streets. His speech to Sam where he explains his lack of belief is brief, but it’s a total gut punch. Rounding it off with Knockin on Heaven’s Door was just the cherry on top. 9/10 

 10.) 2x14: BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN. Ahaha I love the way Dean acts whenever Sam’s psychic powers come up. He treats him like a rebellious teen, it’s so funny. “What’s going on with you, Sam? Smokin’, drinkin’?” As if Sam’s behaviour was a) at all under his control or b) anything Dean wouldn’t HIMSELF do. Dean’s just like, this isn’t how I raised you! Truly hysterical. The whole sequence between Meg!Sam and Jo was fantastic and horrible. Sam’s huge physique is never threatening, but it really was in that moment. The interplay between them was totally spine-tingling. Meg’s impression Sam slowly crumbling away over the course of the episode was so compelling and I’m sure it will be a really fun rewatch now I know the *twist*. 9/10  

Favourite lines this season: 

The way Sam says “black cat’s bone” in 2x08

“You’re not gonna go kill somebody because a ghost told you to, are you insane?!” - Dean, 2x13

“Dean, this is a very serious investigation, we don’t have time for your blah blah blah blah.” - Sam (according to Dean), 2x15

“I’m fine, except for every single thing that’s happening.” - Ava, 2x21 

[julie1706]

Julie’s incredibly aesthetic incredibly autumny list of movies that she maybe recommends:

Alright! Hi there! 

My name is Julie, and I really love fall. I love hot tea, warm blankets, candles, ghost stories, fog and I really, really love rain. I never get tired of any of the aspects of fall, but I think the easiest way to really soak up the atmosphere (aside from amazing books, which I don’t really have the time for), is movies! Here, “autumny” movies. 

But that’s a really vague term, and I think many people have a very individual idea of what a fall movie is, that don’t really line up with mine. So the most obvious thing seems to me, to make one myself. 

I’m guessing one, maybe two or three people will see this, and I count myself as one of them. The others (hej Sif og Malin!!) might not even get to read this, but if they do, I hope they like it. I hope you like it, Malin and Sif! Also, I love you! And miss you!

Right. I’ve seen a lot of examples of the “list of movies to watch in the fall/autumn”, and they’re all fine and great, but I guess I’ve never been completely satisfied with them, as I mentioned. 

So after like 10 minutes of research, I’ve made up my own list, of movies I thought seemed interesting or just plain cozy and nice. I admit, they aren’t ranked, sorry, and I haven’t watched all of them, so a good deal of these will really just be mentioned because of optimism. Also, I don’t think there’s a lot of scary ones, so don't worry. 

And I promise I will mention if they’re very spooky. I’ll put a warning like: “Warning! Spooky!”, at the top or something. That should do it. 

Lets get started! :-)

1. Practical Magic

This first one I actually saw some years ago, with my mom, when I was much younger. I liked it, but I have a feeling I will like it even more, if I watch it today. A really classic halloween, witchy movie, that was surprisingly touching in the family aspect!

Official synopsis: 

Two witch sisters, raised by their eccentric aunts in a small town, face closed-minded prejudice and a curse which threatens to prevent them ever finding lasting love.

//Not very spooky, as I remember it. But good! Lovely witchy aesthetics!

2. Silence of the Lamps

Ugh, I love this movie! That might be a not so good thing to say, it’s really twisted. But I like how creepy it always is, no matter how much i watch it, and how the twists and turns never fail to be interesting, even though I know the plot by heart now. I love Clarisse, I love the foggy, grim nature of the movie, and I don’t really love Hannibal, he’s creepy, but you can’t deny that Anthony Hopkins really carry this movie! Perfect serial killer acting. If that’s a thing.

Official Synopsis: 

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

//VERY spooky! Or just plain scary. Sif - do not watch!! Many people are killed in many, gross ways.

3. Witch

Haven’t seen this one! I really want to, and have since it came out, but there haven’t really been any (legal) places to see it. I love the tension that was present even in the trailer, and the whole aspect of an oppressed young girl evolving and breaking free in the scariest way possible is really interesting. Not all horror movies are my thing, but I really hope this one will be! And I love everything about witches, so.

Official synopsis:

A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

//Warning! Just from the trailer, I can conclude that this one is very scary.

4. Julie and Julia

This one I haven’t actually seen either! I think I’ve spotted among my mom’s dvds, but nope, haven’t seen it. I don’t really know a lot about Julia Child either, but it seems like a super-heartwarming film, so I hurried to include it!

Official Synopsis:

Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.

//This one seems safe.

5. The Addams Family (Both of them are good!)

This one, the “first” one, I saw last year. It’s actually a remake of an older movie, which is apparently based on an even older comic -who knew? And there’s a second one, following this one, I might add later. But tt was so good! Gah! I loved it, and I’m definitely rewatching this year. Wow the whole vibe of this family is fantastic, and I wish more families in movies were as dedicated to an aesthetic as the Addams! Watch it! It’s so nice!

Official Synopsis:

Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.

//I know it seems scary, but trust me, it’s fine! It’s really more funny than spooky. You’ll enjoy it, trust me!

6. Hocus Pocus

Alright, never seen this one! But when I joined tumblr, the americans were always bringing this one up, and it’s always included in those lists I was talking about earlier, and again, witches, so a no-brainer for me, to include on this list. Man I can’t wait to see it, I hope I’ll like it.

Official Synopsis:

A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.

//I have no idea what the spooky-level is in this, but it doesn’t seem that bad.

7. Halloween (the original)

I have wanted to see this in FOREVER! It’s such a classic, and a really iconic, classic, older horror movie. I don’t actually know why I haven’t seen it yet, it might only be because there was no place to watch it, the last time I checked. I hope it has changed, I really want to see it. It has all the classic tropes, and a scary serial killer, it really is a peak-halloween movie. Spot-on name, huh!

Official Synopsis:

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

//Might be a bit too scary for some. 

8. The Princess Bride

This is so good!! All the characters are straight of a fairy tale (literally), but they’re neither flat or boring. And the love story! Ah! I loooove it! I really enjoyed it last year, when I watched it, so I understand why it’s become such a classic. And there’s so many iconic lines in this movie. The whole mood of it is such good, and the plot isn’t the craziest thing, so watch it to relax!

Official Synopsis:

While home sick in bed, a young boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.

//Not scary, fret not!

9. The Craft

Have never seen or heard about this movie, until the morning, when I compiled this list. I kind of want to though, now that I’m promised 90′s teenage witches. Hell yeah! The more witches the merrier!

Official Synopsis:

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.

//No idea how spooky. Might be a little scary.

10. Sleepy Hollow (the one with Johnny Depp)

The legend of the Headless Horseman is famous, so that one I know. But this movie, which is based on that story, I haven’t seen. I can guess, though, the vibe from it’s original source material, and Johnny Depp and the male lead, and that makes me want to watch it! Also, how can you not, when you see all that fog?? So spooky and mysterious! I love fog!

Official Synopsis:

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being the legendary apparition, The Headless Horseman.

//Might be, like, ghost story-spooky. Or Tim Burton-spooky. Either of those. Hm. I don’t think it’s that bad? 

11. Scream

I LOVE SCREAM. SUCH AN ICONIC HORROR MOVIE. THANK YOU FOR USING ALL THOSE CLASSIC TROPES!! I love everything about this movie, and I might actually put it on when I’m done with this post, and watch it with a cup of tea and some popcorn if I can find some. The characters are delightfully flat and simple, what you see is what you get, and that actually makes this movie even better! It really feels like you’re watching THE halloween movie, it’s delightfully creepy and spooky, and I love it all. So. Much. Also - the lovely 90′s aesthetic is very much present in this one!

Official Synopsis:

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

//Spooky! If serial killers are not you thing, don’t watch it. Not that it’s my thing either, but, uh, if watching characters be chased and killed off by a masked individual really freaks you out, stay clear of this one :-)

12. Dark Shadows

Love this movie. Watched it in the cinema, have it on DVD, have watched it numerous times since, and I always enjoy it. Another Depp-movie, and he really pulls it off in this one, as a creepy but also weirdly funny vampire, who has lost his one true love, and wakes up in the 70′s (i think), to help his relatives, now living in his ancestral home, with getting back on their feet. A lot of wild stuff happens in this movie, and I adore it.

Official Synopsis:

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

//Actually not that spooky! It’s not that bad, I think. Some places are a little scary, but there’s enough of humor present, that it should be fine!

13. Eve’s Bayou

I had never heard of this movie until this morning! But wow! It looks so dramatic and promising, doesn’t it? We will just have to see, I guess!

Official Synopsis:

What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.

//I have no idea. Really. I hope it’s a little bit spooky!

14. Clue

I have just played the game, sorry. And I enjoyed that, so I hope I will enjoy this too! No, I know I will, I love these stories, with really defined characters, like when someone is named “the soldier”, or “the socialite”. I’m sold, when stories like that are introduced to me. I really want to watch this movie! Also - young Tim Curry! Cool!

Official Synopsis:

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.

//Nah. You’re good, with this one. Don’t worry.

15. Every Agatha Christie Movie

Yeah, sorry I want to watch every single film adaptation of her stories, and love them dearly. None of them can be bad, to me. But the only one I have watched, is the “Murder of the Orient Express”, and if I have to describe how much i love this one, this list will go on for much too long. I just really love this movie. I love the characters, I love the scenography, I love the choreography, just - Everything! It’s so pretty, and you will NEVER figure out the ending! I didn’t, at least. Watch it! It’s so good!

Official Synopsis:

When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

//Don’t worry about spookyness - there’s none! But watch it! 

16. Twilight

Perfect Autumn vibes! There is darkness, fog, rain, coldness, weird pale vampires, a nice love story - and most of it is out in a forest! Amazing! This whole movie seems to consist of only blue and green tones, in varying degrees of darkness, and I always sit with the feeling, that i can almost smell the rain and damp earth in these scenes. Great movie! Even greater use of atmosphere!

Official Synopsis:

Bella Swan moves to Forks and encounters Edward Cullen, a gorgeous boy with a secret.

//Not spooky!

17. Knives Out

Saw this in the cinema with my brother! I really love the main characters, and the plot is great too - I couldn't figure it out at all! I think it is a very creative, “new! approach to a murder mystery, and I applaud! Very autumny, very great sweaters from the female lead! Actually most of them have nice clothes, for this crisp, cold mystery movie!

Official Synopsis:

A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

//Not very spooky! Don’t worry!

18. 10 Things I Hate About You

I watched this when i was like, 12, and definitely didn’t appreciate it. I think it based on Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”. It’s one the best Rom-Coms I’ve ever seen! The dialogue is funny, the acting is fine, and the love stories are very cute! Also, I just adore Kate, like, in general! She’s so sour and surly! Watch this one, when you want to unwind and relax! Maybe with your friends. Or alone, that’s cool too!

Official Synopsis:

A pretty, popular teenager can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.

//Not spooky, lol.

19. Mona Lisa Smile

I haven’t seen this one, except for the very last few minutes, on evening when my mom and I was zapping channels. So I have very little, very confusing knowledge of this movie, based on an ending, with no context. But my friend told me about it once, and wow, it sounds heartwarming! And Julia Roberts is pretty great, normally!

Official Synopsis:

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.

//Not spooky!

Well then! That was all the movies I had the time to compile this morning! I might add more, I’m sure there’s a few classics, I have forgotten!

I hope you have a great fall, with many chances to be with your family and friends, and experience all the amazing things this read, yellow, brown and orange season has to offer! Have a great day - and thank you for reading!

- Julie :-)

[alicedoessurveys]

Doctor Who Tag

yes im a nerd...

CHILDHOOD

1. Did you like DW as a child?

I was 10 when it came back on telly with Eccleston and the first episode with the autons scared me so much my mom wouldn't let me watch it again until a couple years later, but yeah my teens I was obsessed with DW... still am at age 25

2. Your age at the time of the revival?

10

3. First DW episode you ever saw?

‘Rose’

4. Did you have any of the toys?

I still have the eleventh doctor’s screwdriver... I used to have some of the figures but there in storage now somewhere

5. Which DW character did you play on the playground?

didn't play it on the playground

6. Monster(s) that scared you most as a child?

all of them! the ones that still scare me now are the Cybermen and the Autons... genuinely cant walk past a shop mannequin without being suspicious 

7. Joke/story you didn’t get as a kid?

as a kid, any of the innuendo type jokes

8. DW opinion that has changed since you were a kid?

idk I think I still have the same opinions

9. Who introduced you to DW?

parents

10. Did you like Sarah Jane Adventures as a child?

I LOVED SJA!! I miss that show, and Elizabeth Slade :(

DOCTOR

11. Who is your Doctor?

Ten was the doctor that made me fall in love with Doctor Who 

12. Your favourite Doctor?

omg why not just ask me who my favourite child is... (I don't have kids but you know what I mean) if I had to chose my top three are ten, eleven and thirteen

13. Least favourite Doctor?

purely just because he doesn't have enough episodes... nine...

14. Best regeneration?

none of them I hate regenerations :( they make me sad, im too emotionally invested in every single one

15. Do you like “Doctor-Lite” episodes?

they're not my faves

16. Who is the most human Doctor?

I think nine maybe? or twelve?

17. Best multi-Doctor story?

the 50th anniversary special 

18. Best Doctor monologue?

“Hello Stonehenge! who takes the pandorica, takes the universe. but bad news everyone, cause guess who? HA! You lot you're all whizzing about- its really very distracting. Could you all just stay still a minute because I AM TALKING. Question of the hour is, who's got the pandorica? Answer, I do. Next question, who's coming to take it from me? Come on, look at me! No plan. No backup. No weapons worth a damn. oh and something else, I don't have anything to lose. So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns and you've got any plans on taking the pandorica tonight... just remember who's standing in your way. remember ever black day I ever stopped you and then- AND THEN- do the smart thing... let somebody else try first.”

not copied and pasted, remember that from the top of my head... its always there waiting in my mind incase I ever need an epic monologue :’)

19, What do you think TenToo/MetaCrisis Doctor is doing now?

hopefully living his best life with Rose

20. Best Doctor/companion pairing?

ten and donna 

COMPANIONS

21. Favourite companion?

Donna, Clara, Amy

22. Favourite secondary companion?

is Mickey classed as secondary? idk

23. Least favourite companion?

Ryan

24. Best TARDIS Team?

Doctor, Amy and Rory

25. Most underrated companion?

Graham, but that may just be cause I love Bradders

26. Most overrated companion?

Rose... I like her but idk, I think she gets more hype than she deserves.. don't @ me

27. Favourite companion’s family?

Rose’s mom

28. Who should have been a companion but wasn’t?

idk I cant think of anyone

29. Favourite (canon or non-canon) DW universe relationship?

Amy and Rory

30. Who did you not used to like, but really like now?

wasn't keen on Bill at first but by the end I really liked her, same with Rory

EPISODES

31. Favourite episode ever?

girl in the fireplace

32. Least favourite episode?

most of Chibnall’s episodes tbh sorry not sorry 

33. Which episodes do you skip?

the regeneration episodes

34. Best two-parter?

Human Nature - Family of Blood

35. Historical, present day or futuristic episodes?

I like them all in there own way but I think present is fave, then historical, then future

36. Episode that will always make you smile?

all of them

37. Episode that will always make you cry?

Rory and Amy’s last episode :’(

38. Best run of episodes?

ugh I cant answer this theres too many 

39. Best cliffhanger?

the end of Spyfall part one when the Master reveals who he is... I was SHOOK

40. Favourite Christmas special?

Voyage of the Damned

SERIES

41. Classic Who or New Who?

new who

42. Favourite series?

four or five

43. Least favourite series?

eleven, I just cant with the writing

44. Which series do you skip?

none

45. Favourite series opening?

eleventh hour

46. Favourite series finale?

Doomsday

47. Best series arc?

Bad Wolf

48. Thoughts on series 11/12?

I adore Jodie Whittaker and her doctor, and although I think 3 companions is too many I do love Yaz and Graham (Ryan is hit & miss). I just think theyve been massively let down by the stories/writing... they’ve tried to hard to tick certain boxes and completely missed what Doctor Who is about for a lot of people.. an escape from the real world into these outrageous unbelievable but lovable fun alien adventures 

49. How much of Classic Who have you seen?

not a lot

50. Who should have had another series?

NINE NINE NINE NINE NINE 

MONSTERS

51. Favourite monster/villain?

the master 

52. Most creative monster?

Weeping Angels, whoever came up with monsters that look like statues and only move when you're not looking at them is genius 

53. Monster(s) that scares you most?

Autons, Cybermen, the creepy dolls from Night Terrors, the ones from Waters of Mars, Weeping Angels

54. Monster you think is too easy to defeat?

idk

55. Least favourite monster/villain?

absorbaloff

56. Monster you want to return?

The Master, I really hope that isn't the last we see of Dhawan

57. In your opinion, what makes a monster good?

being genuinely scary, 

58. Daleks, Cybermen or Weeping Angels?

Weeping Angels

59. Best Dalek story?

Daleks in Manhatten

60. Best one time villain/monster?

my brain has gone blank I cant think of an answer right now 

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

61. Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures?

SJA

62. Favourite Torchwood Team member?

I haven't watched it all so I couldn't say 

63. Which Torchwood death made you saddest?

again, not watched it all 

64. Do you rewatch COE or MD?

huh

65. Favourite SJA Team member?

Sarah Jane

66. Mr Smith or K-9?

K-9

67. Maria or Rani?

Rani

68. Do you read the comics/novels or listen to Big Finish?

Nope

69. If you do, your favourite additional stories?

n/a

70. Do you like DW analysis (video essays, fan theories, etc)?

yes

DESIGN/PRODUCTION

71. Favourite piece of alien tech?

the sonic, I love how it is so multipurpose except for when it comes to wood 

72. Favourite piece of Murray Gold music?

I am the Doctor - gets me pumped every time 

73. Favourite TARDIS design?

Ten’s Tardis 

74. Has the 2005 era CGI aged well?

actually yeah, I was rewatching the ‘are you my mummy’ episodes the other day and my God when the gas masks emerged from the faces... ooooooof I was like omg how 

75. Favourite Doctor outfit?

eleven or thirteen

76. Monster with the best design?

not really a design more of a costume.. I live Dhawan master’s costume. that shade of purple, oof he so stylish 

77. Best show runner?

idk

78. Best writer?

Gatiss

79. Best opening titles?

eleven’s titles where the Tardis is flying and being zapped is cool but thirteens music hits different 

80. Will DW age well/stay popular in the future?

I hope so, I feel like its lasted this long surely it can last forever.. if the writers don't fuck it up... 

IF YOU WERE IN THE SHOW

81. Time period you’d want to go with the Doctor?

whatever time means Id get to wear the most beautiful costumes

82. Planet/place you’d want to go with the Doctor?

Galifrey, pre-desctruction

83. Doctor you’d most like to travel with?

any of them, please and thank you

84. Companion you’d most like to travel with?

donna, sceso a good laugh but also I feel like she’d look after me 

85. Monster you’d like to defeat/fight?

The Master 

86. If you could go back on your own history (like Father’s Day), where would you go?

back to when I was a toddler, I wanna see what I was like 

87. If you could ask the Doctor anything, what would you ask?

theres too many to ask 

88. Historical figure you’d like to meet?

Shakespeare

89. How do you think you’d meet the Doctor?

id probably be rescued from doing something stupid and then the doc would be like you know what the bitch clearly needs supervision she's coming with me 

90. Would you travel forwards or backwards in time first?

backwards

IF YOU MADE THE SHOW

91. Historical event would you like to see in DW?

Hamilton

92. Issue you’d like to see addressed in DW?

idk 

93. Who would you completely erase from the DW universe?

Ruth

94. One unanswered DW question you’d love to know the answer to?

where is Clara now?

95. Actor/actress you’d like to see play the Doctor?

Phoebe Waller Bridge (or Lin Manuel Miranda)

96. Actor/actress you’d like to see play a companion?

Andrew Scott (yes I did just basically recast fleabag and hot priest)

97. Is DW “too political”?

series 11 got a bit like that 

98. Which characters fate would you changed?

Danny Pink

99. What about DW could be improved?

I think ive made my options about Chibnall pretty clear... 

100. If you could write an episode of DW, any ideas for what you’d do

bring back Jenny, the Doctor / Daughter adventures they would have. I’m actually writing a fic about it if you wanna read.... here

[tivajunkie]

So I’m rewatching Into the Light

Nobody asked for my live thoughts, but I’m giving them to you anyway. Enjoy!!

•Flashback to 17x01: Gibbs knocks the gun out Ziva’s hand and she immediately pulls another one on him

•I shouldn’t find that funny, but I still do. It’s so Ziva.

•”I was awake yesterday” is still a MOOD

•“We try to avoid shooting people...” poor local LEOs had no idea what was coming lol

•”Special Guest Star Cote de Pablo”

•I STILL CANT BELIEVE THIS IS REAL

•”Please tell me we didn’t just lie to the director again...”

•Poor Nick. This family will literally do anything for each other.

•Betcha anything Gibbs taught Ziva to swing the bat like that.

•Bishop and Ziva coming face to face. I have so many feelings...

•”My life is a series of bad times” lol it’s not funny except it kind of is

•“To be honest, I’m not really sure what I need right now.” Ziva that might be the most honest thing you’ve ever said.

•Ziva’s little smile when she finds out Gibbs didn’t know Bishop was coming

•I am HERE for this big sister/little sister dynamic

•The two political people McGre talked to? I’m pretty sure they’re supposed to represent Biden and AOC. Just a thought but there’s a lot of resemblance there.

•“She thanked me for rescuing Morgan Burke

•wahhhhh

•The flashback to shooting Ari...poor bby

•Ducky and Ziva...cue the Ross Gellar “I’m fine” gif

•“I was not alone”

•When this first aired I really thought she was about to say something about Tony but then...

•The ice cream day story. And picture. And everything really. 😭

•“Does Tony know?” “It’s complicated.”

•“I left him [Gibbs] a trail, Ducky. One that only he could see.”

•“And he didn’t come looking.”

•I CRY

•“Am I right, girlfriend?” Lolololol Jack

•Jimmy’s need to see Ziva. I love it so much

•“What the heck am I supposed to say to Tony when he calls me for our monthly Fortnite session?”

•idk Palmer but knowing you it’s going to be awkward and hilarious and I would LOVE IT for us if we could see and/or hear that!!

•McGee and Ziva! My heart is not ready!!

•Also I 100% knew that was a drop when she walked in to meet McGee before they revealed it

•“Saved me from having to beg”

•Poor McGee just wants to see his little sister!!

•“Can I have that hug now?”

•Ziva’s face 😊

•“I hear you’re a father now”

•It’s fine, I’m fine

•“I don’t have all the answers, McGee”

•“So come with me, to NCIS, and we can answer them together”

•HE JUST WANTS IT TO BE LIKE OLD TIMES

•“Whatever you think of us, we still think of you as family.”

•Cause, you know, FAMILY FIRST GUYS

•“Ziva, come home. Come home.”

•YEAH DO IT DO IT DO IT ZIVA

•and her face again 😥

•ASFFDAVAGk SHE’S HOME

•I asked for this but I was not ready!!

•Her eyes are locked on Tony’s desk

•just like his were locked on hers when she “died”

•and she’s got this little smile on her face

•THE TIVA THEME

•BLESS YOU BRIAN KIRK

•AND THE FLASHBACK THAT PARALLELS TONY FINDING OUT SHE “DIED”

•I AM NOT FINE. AT ALL.

•I AM A SOBBING MESS

•Nick and Ziva sizing each other up lol

•Bishop is so amused

•Nick has no idea what to do here hahaha

•Ziva totally sees what’s going on with those two.

•You can tell she’s thinking about something as they walk away

•Or someONE. Ahem.

•Tony, she’s definitely thinking about Tony.

•And wondering if the two of them were ever that obvious

•They were. Stupid, married idiots.

•She’s probably remembering all of the looks and banter and everything that took place between them in this room over the years

•Moving on now...

•I hate to break it to you Nick but Ziva absolutely would beat you in a fight

•“Possibly in a chair” lol Kasie

•“If you deny it I’m just going to say it louder”

•CALL HIM OUT JACK

•Gibbs sigh of relief when McGee and Bishop walk in lol

•“Oh, no, please Boss don’t do that”

•Poor McGee and his technology

•Oooh little sister is not happy with big sister

•Nicholas and Eleanor

•WHAT A MOM

•“Just, please, make it look real.”

•This whole conversation is GOLD

•“Don’t be a wuss, tell her how you feel!” And her smirk 😏

•“Your friend played your ass” Gibbs was so happy here lol

•“I miss doing this with you, Ziva”

•I MISS SEEING YOU TWO DO THIS TOGETHER

•The looks...Ziva knows Gibbs knows

•“I miss things sometimes. So I hear.”

•This is PAINFUL

•I GOT IT IN PARAGUAY

•SHE WENT TO PARAGUAY

•AND TOOK OUT AN ENTIRE FREAKING TERRORIST CELL FOR HER FAMILY

•after surviving a Somalia terror camp she VOLUNTARILY went to another terror camp, knowing Tony wouldn’t be around to save her if needed this time, BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT YOU DO FOR FAMILY

•ASDFFGSKAN I feel like we need to make a bigger deal about this!!

•“You couldn’t even hope I was still alive”

•I’m sobbing again

•“May I have a lifeline?”

•Hahaha oh Duck-Man

•Bishop is all about defending big sister. Love it.

•You can tell on Ziva’s face that she’s up to something when she’s transferring the assets lol

•These poor LEOs hahaha. What a 24 hours for them

•McGee’s “Ziva” and the smile on his face 🥺

•I’m crying again

•“I don’t kiss and show”

-“Tell”

-I MISS THEM SO MUCH

•“How’d you know?”

•“I didn’t. Hoped.”

•ASDFGFGSJAGA

•We’re just missing one member of the three musketeers here.

•Here’s hoping these next two episodes give us that!!

•Ziva apologized - twice - and no mention of the rules. Love that.

•“I get it in my head that you’re alive, and I’m out there looking, and it turns out you’re not...I would’ve uh...I would of...” *is speechless*

•Has Gibbs ever been this speechless before because of feelings?

•I don’t think so

•Here come the tears again

•“I would have lost you a thousand times if that’s what it took”

•THE ACTING HERE. MARK AND COTE FOR PRESIDENT. GIVE THEM ALL THE AWARDS

•Ugh but what do you have to do alone Ziva??

•Gibbs wiping Ziva’s tears away. Ziva’s nose boop. So pure. So Mark and Cote 😭😍

•DINOZZO

•“He should hear it from you”

•“And he will”

•ASSFSFAVgavHavJa I CANNOT

•How will he hear it?? Will we get to see it? I JUST WANT THEM TO REUNITE ALREADY DANG IT!!

•Is it time for the next 2 episodes yet??

[zalrb]

Game of Thrones Rewatch 2.01

1. Remember that time Joffrey was going to kill a man with wine?

2. “You’re going to be bigger than the Hound but much better looking. This one doesn’t like me.” Because you’re kind of an ass to him, Tyrion. Funny though.

3. “OUT ALL OF YOU OUT”. I think it’s funny because there’s something distinctly sibling about this as opposed to simply her reacting to an enemy especially with Tyrion’s smirk.

4.”You love your children, it’s your one redeeming quality, that and your cheekbones.” I won’t lie, I’m looking forward to season 2 in large part because of Cersei and Tyrion’s interactions.

5. And yeah, so these people follow Daenerys because she has baby dragons? Like ... OK?

6. I was like, it’s annoying that my links never have subtitles for the Dothraki and I have to go off of memory but then I was like, well Daenerys stops speaking the language pretty soon anyway so it should be fine. But Khaleesi. Sure.

7. “He don’t like people messing with his daughters?” “He don’t like people messing with his wives.”

8. Off topic but I really like the sound of fire crackling.

9. GILLY!

10. “The night is dark and full of terrors.” Ayyyyyyyeeeeeeeee. I do like Melisandre’s look in season 2 with all the red but she just becomes a deus ex machina basically and I got bored of her outside of Stannos.

11. Love the Lord of Light theme though, it’s such a great eerie/dark melody.

12.  The visuals on the beach are also great.

13. What IS the religion of the “Lord of Light” anyway. Blood magic is involved and bringing people back from the dead and what else?

14. Seriously, I do get lowkey hype with the Stark/North theme.

15. So Robb, you’re smart enough to deduce that you can’t leave Jaime with any of your bannermen because it’d go badly but you can’t see how marrying Talisa could be potentially problematic? My God.

16. What was Robb’s direwolf’s name?

17. “You’ve been defeated by a boy, held captive by a boy, perhaps you’ll be killed by a boy.”

“You think my father is going to negotiate with you? You don’t know him very well.”

“No, but he’s starting to know me.”

“Three victories don’t make you a conqueror.”

“It’s better than three defeats.”

Ugh, I LOVED him this season.

18. Shae and Tyrion really were cute.

19. What I like about Littlefinger’s interaction with Cersei is that it’s almost like he thought he was dealing with Varys or Tyrion or even Ned where they go round and round with their verbal sparring but it’s Cersei so when she’s bored she just goes to action.

20. “Power is power.” Cersei, I kind of love you for being so terrible.

21. “I will litter the south with Lannister debt.” These liiiiiiiiiiines.

22. Oh Theon, I almost feel bad for you.

23. But I don’t. 

24. “You don’t want Balon Greyjoy for an ally.” AND GUESS WHAT, ROBB, CATELYN WAS RIGHT ABOUT THAT TOO. She spent this ENTIRE season giving you SOUND advice that you rejected and it NEVER worked out. UGH.

25. “And my grandfather’s stupidity in the field of battle...” Hey, Joffrey, why don’t you go then?

26. I love how frightened Cersei looks after slapping Joffrey. YOUR SON IS A MONSTER.

27. “Don’t call him Littlefinger, he doesn’t like it” now I’m just thinking of, “DON’T CALL HIM COTTONMOUTH.”

28. I remember being slightly underwhelmed by the premiere until the kingsguard started slaughtering Robert’s bastards and I was like, oh. The OST was good for that sequence.

29. And I like it didn’t end with Daenerys.

[vimesbootstheory]

Z Nation 5x03 episode thoughts/reaction

is it like... important that you start vlogging RIGHT NOW, simon?

I love dj qualls's accent so much, I can never figure it out but it is constantly entertaining

"we're gonna need more BISCUITS" is the best rallying cry out of context

8204! still counting yesss my boy

"you look like satan" "yeah, and, I'm rockin it" lmao omg sun and murphy. I cackled.

I still can't work out if the show actually wants us to believe there is a love triangle. I'd like to think optimistically and say no, but they don't seem to have known quite what to do with both 10k and sarge for the last season-and-a-bit so a love triangle would be the kind of half-assed plot to throw at them.

sun and warren reunion! yaaaay

I can't decide whether I think this is clumsy fantasy bigotry nonsense or actually a pretty relevant take on post-terrorism paranoia, racism and xenophobia. the reason I'm leaning towards the former is the reason most fantasy bigotry analogies fail: because let's be real, there's a reason to be concerned about talkers. they attack people if not fed properly. the thing about real world bigotry is that it's irrational, not based on any actual fault of the targeted group.

I do love the character consistency of murphy's first instinct being to get the hell out, just so unabashedly cowardly, I love it

may sound odd but I CRAVE 10k being allowed to be mad at murphy so I may have cheered when 10k was like "what the FUCK murphy" @ murphy escaping altura on the truck

lmao pandora is so evil, hate literally turns her on. O...kay. is it more interesting if pandora is a talker, or if she's actually been alive this whole time?

I do love george but I'm worried that her role in this season will mean that warren will be playing second fiddle all season. it's more fun when warren's unambiguously the leader of some ideology or motivation imo

can I just say how much I love red having motivations and shit to do completely independent from 10k? it's great. I started being more of a fan of red during rewatch and that's only growing, she's a good kid

love murphy but the schadenfreude for his chronic prat-falling in this episode is delicious

holy shit he's that blend from s3!!! that's awesome! murphytown references! oh god they're actually acknowledging season 3 happened, I have ascended to a state of bliss. BLENDS. MURPHYTOWN BLENDS. I LOVE BLENDS. god I'm unreasonably happy at this turn of events.

lmao why do 10k and red "need to talk" is this really the moment, y'all have shit to do

is estes an easily-influenced gullible dude with good intentions or is he a shit weasel doing this on purpose? leaning towards the former but that scene where he demanded CZ's tape was sketch as all get out

surely pandora's alive if she hasn't been rounded up? it hasn't even been suggested that she should be with the other talkers

ugh gross why do we have to watch this ear-licking nonsense. why is that even meant to be sexy? like, mmm yeah a directly-applied wet willy, gets yer dick hard

I doubt Will Chaffin will be back but omg that'd be awesome, I miss him, he was such a cool character. I don't think I can think of any other named blend characters other than Hope, who was disembrained by warren so she's out

again, 10k and red, is THIS the MOMENT

"does she know that?" I mean... yeah? I think so? sarge was giving him advice on his relationship with red last episode, nudging them into being together, I think she's chill about it? which is p cool by the way

I keep getting struck by the surrealness of citizen z being an on-the-ground, in-person member of the team now, omg it's great. I bet dj qualls loves it, too, some actual actors to act off of.

why are we giving mercy anymore if there's a possibility of turning into talkers? or was carlos already a talker? I'm sorry, I don't remember his character. but then why would being burned hinder him in any way? we've already seen that talkers can get beat all to hell, shot, whatever, and just keep trucking

oh shit 10k got bit! but how does that work, with being... a blend? an ex-blend?

eeeeesh there goes the hand. does that mean the bite is nullified?

SHIT. FUCK. poor sarge :( I was pretty sure sarge was gonna either die or be put on a bus pretty early in the season, 'cause gillam basically had no character promotion for s5, but BLOWING UP is a hardcore way to go. I cried a bit :(

real talk, this is not to say I don't find this episode compelling, and ngl I'm a little glad the love triangle is definitively over, but that is a fridging. that is unequivocally a fridging, sarge was fridged.

oh hey katy o'brian has attached earlobes

I really liked this episode but I think I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't so damn spoiled for it. I had an inkling someone would die, and was betting on sarge, as I said. I knew 10k was going to lose his hand because like everyone else I saw the promotional picture. just in general I was too informed about how this episode was going to go. I should put more effort into avoiding spoilers from now on.

[anotherblblog]

Gameboys Rewatch Episode 1

Pass or Play?

So now with one week before season 2 premiers, I start my Gameboys rewatch for my blog(s).

Gameboys is the series that started or restarted a lot for me. I (re)discovered BLs from Gameboys and it has basically changed the arc of the last year of my life, including a recent trip to Manila.

I’m also very glad that Gameboys as a series, is legitimately good in my opinion. The acting is phenomenal, the story is very timely, and this series does a lot with relatively little being filmed in the actor’s homes.

Gameboys just makes me happy. Also emotional. Very emotional.

 Anyway, preamble ambled. Let’s start episode 1 (I’ll be watching/recapping the Netflix Level Up Edition) (but I do love the pancit canton vibes of the original youtube series)

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Lol, so I just pressed play and apparently the last time I watched Gameboys on Netflix I got 18 minutes into episode 1, so lemme rewind and start properly

Ok

Cai – so I don’t want to be misunderstood here, I genuinely love Cai as a character. He’s fascinating and complex and Elijah makes him so lovable. I also think Cai is a terror and like just the worst and I have called him the antichrist before only partially in jest. He’s so funny with how wrong he is and how unreasonably mean he is. The dude is wound VERY tight. Tsunderes wish they could get to Cai’s level.

Also, Cai with his 380 viewers lol as someone who mods for irl pro-gamers, it’s funny seeing Cai described as a pro gamer with those numbers… don’t worry Cai, I too am a small local internet person

And that jacket.. remember it 😉

And here’s Gav

Gav is my favorite BL character. He’s likable, confident, and I would hang out with him over anybody else. Dude is just good vibes. And he’s hot. Like Cai/Elijah is cute but Gav/Kokoy checks more of my personal favorite attractive trait boxes. Not as many as Tul though but that’s a separate list lmao

Anywayyy here comes Gav

What I like how Gav as a romantic lead is very similar to Pat from Bad Buddy in that he is very earnest and direct about his affection. Gav was that way from the beginning, where Pat needed a few episodes to get there. And fucking fuck, I hate seeing people’s takes about how they were sure Gav would be a fuckboy or a player or anything of the sort. Gav is so fucking honest and his heart is right on his sometimes worn sleeves

The confidence to send like 2 DMs and immediately go for a facetime/zoom call. Good on you Gav.

Gav does 100% come on very strong but listening to his laugh here and then later in the series, mama, it’s a façade!

Cai is very taken aback and overwhelmed and honestly, I don’t blame Cai here. Gav is a bolt of lightning right now.

They’re so funny. Trying to figure each other out, moreso Cai. Cai is trying to figure out if Gav is for real and Gav is trying to get married.

Also how presumptuous to tell someone, their parents misspelled their name lmao

And here’s the sweeping Pass or Play instrumental

And then the first Pass or Play?

Who asks to court someone like that

Ugh, I can’t look at them. They’re too fucking much

And then that bitch Cai just ignores him for three days hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha he’s fucking awful

“play a game with me, not my feelings” the fucking subtweet hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Cai is ridiculous

“find someone else to prank” ok here is where I have a lot of empathy and space for Cai like he has been publicly streaming for at least 5/6 months so it’s possible he’s encountered or at least cognizant of people trying to prank or mess with him for whatever deficiencies lead to online trolls and with what we later learn about Cai and his outing, I’m sure a guy trying to pick him up could be some of his worst fears manifesting right now

Cai works very hard to get ahead of his emotions and reactions

“there’s no way you’ll win” – I like this confident, flirty, gaming Cai – this is the Cai who put on those skinny jeans and the Cai from the chemistry test

And yeah Cai threw this game, like 1000000%

Cai: “cut the cameras, deadass”

Gav – “choke me daddy” so what are we gonna see in season 2

Also Gav: “you seem sad all the time, I’m into it”

Their lil pizza date is cute, I like Cai’s slicked back hair

Gav is throwing everything and the kitchen sink at Cai. Gav has an excel spreadsheet of flirting efforts he’s made and how Cai responded Gav is so fucking cute and hot yeah Cai, I don’t blame you for this… the sweat, the muscles, the pits, I KNOW THAT’S RIGHT CAI….. >:3 lick them lips bitch! Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Yupppp here comes the covid/family plot, just to remind us things are not going to be easy

Ok, so I personally think Cai very much overreacts to Pearl’s presence but I’ve watched this with some irl’s and it’s fairly evenly split between the two camps so it’s an impasse

And that’s episode 1

Episode 1 Final Thoughts:

Gav is working his way through several “how to pick up/flirt” books as he tries various approaches seeing what Cai’s responds well to Cai has a strong defense but he’s not impervious nor immune to Gav’s charms, he’s just very intentionally not taking the bait

I love these two

[avibus-libri]

Bill Potts Appreciation Post

okay friends i’m here to talk to you about our lord and saviour bill potts, aka the best companion since donna noble, because i’ve seen a lot of folks they’re gonna start watching doctor who again now jodie whittaker is 13 (and don’t get me wrong, i am absolutely fucking delighted about this - if you listen very carefully you can probably still hear my screams of joy reverberating through the space-time continuum), but so many people I’ve spoken too also did not watch season 10 and that, my friends, is a goddamn tragedy.

now, i know why you all stopped watching. so did i. i just finished a marathon rewatch of new who and let me tell you, getting through the last few seasons was a chore. but even before whittaker was announced, i was getting enthusiastic about the show again, and do you know why? Bill Potts.

Bill, in no particular order, is: black, gay, living with a foster mum, serving chips in a university canteen, attending the Doctor’s lectures in her spare time, and then getting firsts repeatedly on all the work she does for him. She doesn’t take any shit, she calls him out when he doesn’t measure up and doesn’t save people, she saves his life numerous times. She is funny and brilliant, she has made me cry, and her relationship with the Doctor is absolutely beautiful. They go from teacher and student to best friends and because Bill is gay, there’s not even a mention of romance. It’s just a really wholesome friendship and without wanting to spoil the finale, I will tell you that Bill gets an ending which is both happy and gay, with a brilliant lesbian kiss (on primetime family tv!!! I was so happy, you have no idea).

season 10 got some of the lowest viewing figures since the reboot, and whilst it does reflect the impact of moffat’s reign of terror and poor writing, it’s such a shame that bill hasn’t had the reception she deserves. the series is up on iplayer until the end of july so please, please watch it or download it, preferably legally so the beeb gets the right figures and gets the message that we want more characters like bill! yes, the series has its flaws (why nardole had to stay, i have no idea, and the whole concept of missy getting a redemption arc is just... ugh) but it also features such highlights as: emoji robots! david suchet as a creepy student landlord! anti-capitalist spacesuit shenanigans! the pope! un secretary-general ban ki-moon! a lot of jokes about fake news! victorians on mars! bisexual roman soldiers! the return of john simm!

some of bill’s best bits under the cut (spoiler warning!)

- Doctor what?

- ‘do you know scifi?’

- the whole sequence when she gets inside the tardis (’is this a knock-through?’’it’s like a kitchen’ ‘oh my god, it’s a lift!’) 

- ‘so the tardis has dresses and likes a bit of trouble? I think I’m lowkey in love with her.’

- ‘regency england. bit blacker than they show in the movies.’ ‘so was jesus. history’s a whitewash.’

- the bit when the doctor punches a racist in the face for being rude to her. (although, martha is my favourite ever companion and this scene made me so frustrated for what poor martha was put through by the doctor, particularly in the family of blood episodes, but that’s a whole other post and this one is about bill...)

- uses the tardis as a removal van which is just... Iconic honestly

- ‘i don’t know the president, i wouldn’t even have voted for him, he’s... orange’

- the bit when she straight up shoots the doctor because she thinks he’s turned evil

- every other bit where she calls him out on his shit tbh

- the whole thing where she saves the world by projecting an image of her mum into everyone’s brains

- recommending scifi movies to the doctor

- the whole ‘i know more about the 9th legion than you’ thing

- ‘hey, you know how i’m usually all about women and kinda...people my own age?’ ‘yeah...’ ‘glad you knew that.’

- the fact that she beats cyber programming!!! who does that!!!!

- her ending is basically like... running off to travel the universe with a pretty girl which is just... Amazing

anyway i love Bill Potts and i hope the stuff about her maybe being back for the christmas special is true because she deserves everything. please watch season 10!!!

[awed-frog]

I love your 'love tropes everywhere' tag! And right now something came to my mind (Sorry I can't look it up by myself right now, but) might it be that most of these love tropes aren't recognized as such because of the music? At least I can't remember any "lovely" music in DeanCas-scenes, if you understand what I mean.

Hey! Thank you - that’s one of my most depressing tags, but it also makes it so clear what they’re doing with Destiel, doesn’t it?

(Sigh.)

As for the music - that’s a very interesting theory, but unfortunately, music is something I mostly know nothing about, so I don’t know if I can answer your queston. My opinion on that - and I presume that in this case, you’re wondering specifically about the parallels highlighted by this post - is that music can influence the way you view a scene, because even I know that, but I wonder if it can truly override our collective #NoHomo mindset. As I explained here, even for me, someone who grew up with a borderline hippy family reading weird books and watching weirder movies, both IRL and (often) on screen a gay couple is not a couple until they cross some line - and that line is much higher than it is for a straight couple. It’s unfair, but it’s apparently how brains work. For instance, yesterday a Facebook contact I haven’t seen in forever and ever posted a new picture - you could see these two guys, okay, arms around each other, some kind of beach in the distance - and there you see it again - if my friend had been with a girl, I would have assumed, 100%, that that was a romantic partner - a girlfriend or a wife - because something in the picture was very intimate and soft and that’s not how you pose with friends. But since they were two men, and I’d never heard anything about him being gay or bi, I just - I don’t know. You think best friend, you think jokey picture, like those best men playing bridesmaids and screaming at the ring. And whenever this happens, I’m not happy with myself - I tsk and roll my eyes and everything else - but our brains have this weird way of functioning statistically in how we see the world (in movies, 99% of couples are straight and 99% or bros are just friends, so that’s what you see) and then ignoring statistics as soon as there’s a rational decision to be made (a lot more people are killed in traffic and changing light bulbs than they are in terror attacks, and yet it’s the bombs we fear). So in the case of Dean and Cas I’m not exactly sure that even music can change anything, if simply because everything else really didn’t (all those I need you and breaking mind control spells and mixtapes and the platonic staring - if this had been a man and a woman, everybody to the Moon and beyond would have accepted it as canon asap). 

I mean, Sam and Jess were a couple, and this is the data our brains have been given - they were in love, they lived together, they went to parties and whatever - this means that what they’re doing with them - Sam seeing Jess by the side of the road, Lucifer pretending to be Jess, Sam rushing to save Jess from the fire and everything else - that’s not subtext - it’s text, and it supports the coherent and honest narrative we’ve seen from the very first episode. For those mythological creatures, the ‘casual viewers’, there’s no ambiguity there, no math to do in their heads. They’ve been told straight out that Sam loved Jess in a ‘I want to have babies with you’ way, so when Lucifer slips into her skin the situation is abundantly clear. Dean and Cas, on the other hand - what is missing, and mostly the reason I’m so angry, is that there is absolutely nothing textual there. Everything we have about them are things that can either be read both ways, or are so ‘unimportant’ that a normal viewer wouldn’t even notice them. This means that when Lucifer pretends to be Cas, the situation is very different (maybe not for us, but for a ton of people out there). And, frankly, not even Céline Dion could change this - after seeing the media’s reaction to the mixtape, for instance, it was clear to me that the next season could open with a montage of Dean teaching Cas how to dance with My Heart Will Go On blaring from some jukebox and it still wouldn’t be enough.

(Ugh.)

And the thing is, part of me understands this reluctance or obliviousness we’re seeing about realizing Destiel is a thing, because there is no reason, none, not to insert it in the text. If they want to preserve some UST and general misery, which is always a good idea, they could still have Dean talk to Jody - they had the perfect opening this season in her You can tell me anything speech - or, whatever, they could have filmed the magnificent episode someone (sorry, I never remember who) wrote here on tumblr about a case featuring some ex boyfriend of Dean’s. Seriously, it’s not that difficult.

(But, yeah.)

So, I’m sorry - the only thing I can offer here is that I checked out the first parallel (because I can’t bear to rewatch that last episode, and I do remember Casifer talking to Dean wasn’t framed in any particularly romantic way).

When Sam sees Jess in Bloody Mary, the background music is The Rolling Stones’ Laugh I Nearly Died, which starts well before that scene and seems to be more about Sam’s feelings of guilt and ‘unmooredness’ than his everlasting love for Jess. Jess appears during the guitar solo and disappears over the last refrain - I’m so sick and tired / Trying to turn the tide, yeah / So I’ll say my goodbye / Laugh, laugh / I nearly died. As for the Destiel scene that was heavily paralleled to that one, well - it’s neatly done, isn’t it, because in this case, Dean sees Cas right at the beginning of the episode (Sam and Jess, that was the very last scene) and, again, the scene is framed by a classic rock song, The Animals’ We Gotta Get Out of This Place. Now, the interesting thing is that the Destiel scene is played in a much more insistent way - that song is way more romantic, for starters (‘Cause girl, there’s a better life for me and you), and when Dean sees Cas, the lyrics go Now my girl you’re so young and pretty / And one thing I know is true, yeah / You’ll be dead before your time is due, I know it. The second thing is that Dean, unlike Sam, acts upon this vision - he stops the car, drives back, gets out, and looks around, whereas Sam simply stared in awed desperation at Jess before the screen went black. And, third point: when we saw Jess, that was filmed from Sam’s point of view, but when we saw Cas, that wasn’t Dean’s point of view - it was the external narrator’s (so to speak), and that generally means what we’re seeing is objective reality. Now, I’m not saying that’s yet another indication that Dean loves Cas (or maybe a little bit) - I think what’s happening here is that Cas, unlike Jess, was not dead, and that Dean actually had a glimpse of him walking along some road - maybe not the one he was driving on, but that scene - and this is confirmed by how it was filmed - was real. Dean saw Cas, and Cas saw Dean. That wasn’t a vision. As to what it means, subtextually, if anything - I am reminded of that Fanfiction thing where the two girls playing Dean and Cas were a couple in real life. External narrators and objective reality outside the theatre’s stage usually means, this is actually true, pay attention - but, again, it’s subtext, so, whatever.  

Anyway, if you’re interested in this I can recommend TV Tropes, which is devouring Supernatural with a vengeance (see for instance their Ho Yay! page, which features many examples of barely subtextual homoerotic moments).

(By the way - I rewatched bits of Bloody Mary to find that Jess scene and there he was, baby Dean waking Sam up from a nightmare and saying, ‘Sooner or later we’re going to have to talk about this’ - and that’s another example of viewer bias, isn’t it, because when I first started to watch the show, I didn’t really like Dean and mostly saw him as some insensitive fuckboy - and yet I bet there were plenty of little moments like that one which already contradicted this alpha male façade Dean was trying to cling on to. I guess I just didn’t see them, not until later, because I’d already decided in my mind what this character was like. 

Brains are funny things, aren’t they?)

[greygamer]

Brain Dump: Riverdale “La Grande Illusion”

1. All right, Riverdale, let's back to it. I understand some crazy stuff has happened, so I need to get caught up even though I'm busy with a Twin Peaks rewatch

2. I can't get over how insane it is that maple syrup is the foundation of the blossom family fortune.

3. Aw, why can't Cheryl get the family business? I'm sure she could learn about the syrup industry.

4. I'm pretty sure Alice Cooper is the worst journalist on the face of the planet.

5. Why would it be bad for Fred to know about who owns the land?

6. I did not even know that maple syrup had a season.

7. Why do I have the feeling that the Maple Topping might be something like a Boho Grove-esque occultic ceremony.

8. Hey, Ethel, your poem was pretty terrifying.

9. Whew, I'm glad that Veronica's story about terrorizing that kid didn't end in suicide, because it sort of felt like that's where it was going.

10. Also, I kind of loved the way Veronica was, like, duh, no.

11. Mrs. Blossom just called him Archibald!

12. Yeah, wait, Archie does look eerily like Jason Blossom, doesn't he? That does make the whole invite from Cheryl kind of weird.

13. Wow, that felt like an exceptionally long cold open.

14. "Tapped my last tree." Why does that sound so dirty?

15. AH THERE'S A SPIDER ON YOUR COAT CHERYL! IT'S HUGE!

16. "Sacred maple grove." Yes, yes. not weird and occulty at all.

17. Now we slaughter the lamb and coat ourselves in its blood.

18. Yay! Syrup!

19. Veronica, I've seen your place. You don't get to talk about being ruined.

20. Uh oh, is something wrong with the Muggs family?

21. Why does everyone have a bug on their jacket? This is creeping me out.

22. Oh shit, Veronica, your dad is responsible for Ethel's problem.

23. I want to be all like, How dare you Mrs. Lodge, but that dress and that cleavage.

24. Hahaha, I loved how Cheryl piped up to brag while Archie was defending her.

25. Oh, I get it. It's Hyram that Fred wouldn't want to be connected with.

26. Uh oh, the Blossoms are getting a bit creepy with Archibald.

27. GODDAMN THAT SPIDER, CHERYL!

28. I am so entertained see Alice Cooper (aka Shelly Johnson of the RR Diner in Twin Peaks) serving pie right here.

29. It's been awhile since I watched an episode of Riverdale, but if I recall correctly, Alice Cooper was kind of terrible to Polly, so it shouldn't be too surprising that she doesn't want to have much to do with her family.

30. Archiekins, you might want to wipe that lipstick off your cheek.

31. How fucking old are the computers used to produce the newspaper in Riverdale?

32. Also, something tells me Alice's story would have libel written all over it.

33. Archie negotiating on his father's behalf with Mr. Blossom probably isn't going to go over well once Fred finds out.

34. Uh oh, Cheryl just went poking at Archie's girlfriend.

35. Oh wow, Veronica's dad is now kind of responsible for Ethel's dad's suicide. That sure got dark.

36. Wait, how can there be slow motion footage of a pearl necklack breaking without it also being Batman's origin?

37. So, if I can unpack this, the Blossoms are trying to hook Archie up with Cheryl so that she'll seem less crazy and can then run the company?

38. Also, Polly is secretly investigating the Blossoms? Remember when she seemed kind of crazy?

39. Oh, whew, Ethel's dad survived.

40. Ethel, I hope you find it in your heart to forgive Veronica, because it's not really her fault, you know. Right?

41. Ugh, everything's so sad. Come on, Archibald! Save the day!

42. Come on, Archikins, you can't blame a girl for trying.

43. Veronica, I have to admit, your dad doesn't sound quite so evil when you call him "Daddy".

44. Well, Cheryl's not wrong, Archikins.

45. No! Don't write the story! It's fucking libel!

46. And why would you write it in the school newspaper? This whole newspaper stuff is the most ridiculous part of this show.

47. WHOA Archie just got super burned by his girlfriend. Uh, well, ex-girlfriend, I guess.

48. Maybe go back to Cheryl?

49. YOU GO, FRED ANDREWS! But, seriously, could have probably kept banging Hermione. Just saying.

50. Yay Ethel!

51. "If Clifford sent Hiram Lodge to jail..." Wait, do people just get "sent" to jail by their business rivals in Riverdale? I honestly don't know how half this shit works. And I don't think the show's writers do either.

52. Oh shit, hell hath no fury like a Cheryl scorned.