#vent but s2 spoilers also >

[arsenicflame]

idk been thinking a lot about how there are certainly people out there who hate me and will never forgive me ans have every right to and theres nothing i can do to fix that no matter how hard i might try and sure maybe i wasn't at my best but i struggle to accept that's anything like a valid reason for what i put them through

[silcobrainrot]

And yeah I know they gave us the little cop out with Cait investigating the ventilation ducts in the hex gates and her glitchy “the end” frame and the airship she said she was gonna ride in at the end and I don’t care. It doesn’t make it better. I love ambiguous endings, that’s not what an ambiguous ending is. That’s the coward’s way out of committing to an ending. And they reused the music and prop from when she genuinely tried to kill herself. Everything was pointing towards this being her death, save for a few isolated frames of animation you have to pause to be able to acknowledge or process at all. If you have to pause to pick up on a detail it’s not “obvious.” Casual viewers—who make up the majority of audiences no matter how big you think fandoms are—are not going to pause to pic up new details. They will take it at face value. They get all the shock value and emotional reactions to killing her while leaving the back door open for themselves if they decide to do something with her later. It’s cheap, lazy, and cowardly.

They marketed so heavily on this being the end of this story but that’s bullshit because it was all a setup for whatever’s coming next, which they confirmed in the credits. Things weren’t concluded. And I’m seeing people say it’s “good” and “beautiful” that Jinx would do this so Vi can let go of her guilt and be free blah blah blah you know she could get over her guilt and get free of her past with Jinx still alive, right. Both Jinx and Vi can survive their pasts without Jinx being dead or faking her death. Faked deaths are fucking stupid and always, always, a lazy writing decision when they come at the end of a story. Very rarely are they not lazy no matter where they are placed but they are never good or satisfactory conclusions.

***SPOILERS FOR THE FINALE DO NOT READ UNTIL YOUVE WATCHED***

I know TBSkyen has told us to sit with it for a while before deciding how we feel about the ending but I’m sorry I don’t think any amount of sitting with it is going to make me okay with them killing Jinx. The way she died wasn’t satisfying, the sacrifice meant almost nothing, and all the effort of those around her to keep her alive ended up going nowhere. Isha ends up being completely pointless because she’s only a plot device not a proper character and Jinx dies anyway. I don’t see how this was a satisfying conclusion to her narrative arc and character arc, I just don’t. Any supplemental material that makes it so she’s still alive in the games doesn’t matter to me because in the Arcane canon she is dead. To anyone not playing the games she is dead.

It’s making it hard for me to even want to rewatch it or enjoy what else was there because I’m just. I’m so goddamn fucking tired of seeing mentally ill characters have to die to lift the burden of their existence from others. Vi was so well adjusted and happy after. No mourning. No funeral/end of life rights. Her death was sudden and contrived just for some extra shock value. It didn’t feel like a tragic death, like out of a tragedy, bc this season wasn’t structured like a tragedy the way the first season felt. Her death didn’t feel inevitable and I’m furious because out of everyone. Out of EVERYONE. She deserved to live through this. She deserved to come out the other side of all her pain and suffering. She deserved to walk away from it all. But she didn’t. Because Borderlines are evil people and people with DID are evil and the only way they can redeem themselves is to die. The only happy ending is with them dead. The other two characters who showed suicidal ideation are also functionally dead. Whether or not they’re literally dead, the story’s over, they’re as good as dead.

Dont even get me started on how in her last moments she doesn’t see Isha or Silco (the two characters we SEE HER have a genuine familial bond with), only Vander (whom she has two sequences with in s1, the longer of which had no dialogue and was still less than a minute). She burned down The Last Drop—which she associated with Silco more than Vander now—to break the cycle of violence by killing the last connection to her past, she’s finally free, and then she fucking. Dies. Anyway.

God I want to enjoy what we did get but I just. I’m so tired of the end of my story always being that I have to die so other people can live.

[bloomeng]

just saw the most rancid take that “we deserved to see more of the kiss scene” from s2 ep 6 of ofmd

a) we aren’t owed anything except idk maybe positive queer representation from the queer pirate rom-com

b) you don’t ever /need/ extra fan service it’s there as an extra fun lil thing on the side but also that scene has plenty of fan service

c) sex scenes in movies and television are just like any other scene meaning they’re there to drive the plot forwards. (in fact in screen writing you’re technically supposed to only include scenes that contribute to moving the plot forward with the exception of comedic beats) we understand from the context of that scene everything we need to know for the story to progress so it’s crazy to me to act like we were robbed of something bc what would’ve watching them go at it have actually provided

and then someone went on to add that they were mad that “they cut away for like a full minute”…. you mean to see Izzy singing? You mean cut away to the extremely important moment of character growth for another character on the show?? You mean to the beautiful moment of bonding amongst the rest of the crew??? YOU MEAN THE FUCKING PARALLEL BETWEEN ISREAL HANDS SINGING A LOVE SONG EXPRESSING HIS QUEER IDENTITY FOR THE FIRST TIME WHILE THE MAN HE LOVES HAS SEX WITH ANOTHER MAN?!?!

but no yah you’re right we should’ve had a 5 min long sex scene between Ed and Stede bc everyone knows that main characters are the only ones who matter

[shield-and-saber]

so i just had a thought, tinfoil hats on everyone

but like

carson teva. do i really like him? does he give me good vibes? do i appreciate seeing more diversity in my star wars and seeing more about rebellion peeps? yes, yes, and also yes! :)

do you want to know why i think they focused so much on this carson guy with ahsoka? (other than dave just. exploding us all with his mind bc wtf was this show) because they didn't want to include rex (or wolffe).

the whole scene of hera in court with mon mothma and xiono, and chop backing her up, who else would have been there with her but rex? who else has been fighting alongside the ghost crew for 3 of the 4 seasons of rebels? HE'S A REBEL TOO, HE AND WOLFFE FOUGHT WITH THEM, GREGOR DIED FOR THEM, AND WE CAN'T EVEN GET TEM ON SCREEN FOR 2 MINUTES? JUST A SINGULAR VOICE CAMEO?

AND THE SAME GOES FOR ZEB AND KALLUS. ZEB CAN SHOW UP IN THE FUCKING MANDALORIAN?????????????? BUT HIS OWN GDAMN REBELS S5????? DAVE, I AM IN YOUR WALLS AND I'M COMING FOR YOUR KNEECAPS, WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT THESE CHARCTERS MORE THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blud-suckr-xc]

(HELLUVA BOSS S2 E9 SPOILERS)

I'm fucking pissed that Stolas has absolutely no ramifications or blame for what he did wrong with the relationship! (As of S2 E9)

I feel like Blitzo is such a good representation for BPD and they've done a good job showing it's effects on his relationships. However I feel like they're going a bit heavy handed on blaming Blitzo for their relationship falling apart. The show does portray the complexity of his feelings but I still feel like it's villainizing him and his disorder that's already heavily villainized.

That's my own personal small issues with how they've portrayed Blitzo. More of my criticisms are for how it's being written like Stolas has done absolutely nothing wrong. We were there throughout the series where he mocked Blitzo for being an imp and called everyone in his company "little creatures" and using his race and status as a means to fetishize Blitzo and mock him.

Just because he's not aware of his own prejudice or have no intention of having one doesn't mean he wasn't expressing those inherent biases as a Goetia. He may have had treated Blitzo well other wise but that didn't stop him from using imps as servants and exploiting his power for a good fuck.

I was hoping that this most recent episode would have Stolas more actively reflecting on his own actions and how he could've done things differently. Other than having one line in a song about "maybe I should learn something from this" only to have in response "no he's just a mother fucker" reestablishing the idea that Stolas did nothing wrong.

WHICH IS OBJECTIVELY NOT TRUE!

I really hope they bring more focus to that in future episodes. I like Stolitz as much as the next guy but I'm not going to feel good about them getting back together until both learn from the situation. They're showing Blitzo learning that his fear of intimacy effects and hurts others but Stolas needs to get some perspective through his bird brain on how his privilege and ignorance effects others aswell.

Balance it out Vivzie it takes 2 to tango.

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(Side Note: this is going on my vent/gore page because this shit hit a little too close to home. Also I wrote a whole paper about Blitzo being a good representation for Borderline Personality Disorder idk if anyone would be interested in reading thst but it do be existing)

[the-uk-is-jk]

I did, i loved s2 (despite all the not-so-good parts)!!!

I'm happy to talk about it with you!

can people who actually enjoyed (or at least didnt hate) the ofmd s2 finale pls interact with this post

i had issues with s2 ofc (hell i had issues with s1 too!) but i really just want to bask in the good parts and all the amazing stuff we got. and i want to follow others who are on the same page!!

[iamthedukeofurl]

Okay, so I'm not going to speak to the quality of the depiction of mental illness in Arcane But (Spoilers up to S2 E4)

The clear implication seems to be that, while he certainly cared for her a lot, Silco was REALLY BAD for jinx. The Hallucinations seem to be stress triggered. Specifically, Jinx's stressors are ideas of loss and abandonment. We see at the start of Episode 4, Jinx is in hiding with Isha and Sevika and...she's remarkably stable. Earlier in Season 2, we see some hallucination-scratches around Enforcer Vi, which, yeah, that would be terrifying. But in episode 4, she's calm, she's happy. She even says 'Jinx is dead" the same way she referred to Powder. Isha gets taken by Enforcers, and we get a wave of scratches. Scratchy Vi-Gloves. Scratchy Silco. We see Jinx pushing those away and focusing in on the rescue mission. And Jinx on the Rescue mission is...weirdly out of character. She's not the gleefully murderous chaos machine we saw in season 1. She's also not the almost suicidal figure who fought Vi in episode 3. Her attack on Stilwater lacks her usual flair. No bombs, no chaos, no spray paint everywhere. She brings a nonlethal weapon, infiltrating and breaking people out. The "Jinx" Persona, chaotic and violent, almost seems like her response to Silco. Silco's whole philosophy is about the willingness to take action. Silco himself was controlled and reserved, in many ways just as scared as Vander was, but he resented that in both himself and Vander. Jinx developed as a response to that fear, Silco's "Perfect" daughter, who acted recklessly without heed for danger or consequence. She's terrifying, look how she treats the bartender, or Sevika. Not just being chaotic, but being PERFORMATIVELY chaotic, scrawling her signature graffiti everywhere. She's also, clearly, miserable. Silco the Kingpin wants control and obedience, Silco the Revolutionary craves violence against Topside and disruption of the status quo. Jinx is desperate for his approval, and is forever torn between his contradictory desires. You'd think she's get MORE unstable and self destructive after losing Silco, but it's the opposite. Left to her own devices, she doesn't really seek out trouble (Caitlyn's strike team is hunting HER), her big "Attack" on Piltover is basically a protest art project, venting the Grey up to the well-ventilated topside in a cloud of color. She's protective and kind to Isha. She's a lot less showy than she once was, almost like the pressure to perform Jinx The Anarchist Chaos Gremlin is gone and what's left is, well, not Powder, but maybe somebody that Powder could have grown up to be.

[suzie-shooter]

Alex Rider season 3 unhinged liveblog ramblings scribbled during first watch. Spoilers, obvs. (also fair warning, I am not particularly a fan of Tom or Kyra lol)

Episode 1 - Widow

S2 recap trivia - Alex's therapist is Molly Doran from Slow Horses and married to Alan Blunt IRL

Malta: Ok, so we're not just going to pretend it's Venice lol.

Creepy old men already hitting on Alex. Standard.

"After this we're out of leads." How do you even have any leads in the first place? Oh ok, Smithers' phone. Terrible security protocols from him, leaving that much historical classified data on it.

"Find the Widow - surely he could have given you an address?" First thing Tom's ever said I've agreed with lmao

Aaaand within a second he's back to being deeply irritating, okay.

Yassen living rent free in Alex's head, you love to see it.

"They've got this picture of me being the responsible one." Have Tom's parents actually met him?

Ooh Razim mention.

You maybe want to clean that wound before whacking a dressing on it Alex?

"Do you think you'll ever lose your appetite Nile?" Spat my drink.

Damn, no harem pants then. Scrubs up well tho.

Listing Levin in the opening credits than having him be only a S2 flashback should be a warcrime.

Episode 2 - Lab

"This weapon is called pork sword, wait, no, shit, wrong USB."

"Julia Rothman. Definitely a wrong un." Spat my drink again.

Do Crawley and Pritchard not warrant helmets and visors? Are they somehow immune to shrapnel?

So, room 6, wired to blow, yes? It's what I'd do…

Oh yeah sure guys, they're going to still be sitting there, all unmoving in the dark, for sure that's a person, and not a Massive Trap.

Thereeeee we go. Agent mince. Top of your class huh, well you're certainly at the top now, and down the sides and partially out of the window.

I know there's the whole 'characters don't know what genre they're in' thing but you are literally in the 'working for MI6 genre', you are up against people notorious for booby traps and blowing shit up, why the fuck would you touch something that hadn't been declared safe first? Apart from anything else you're fucking up the scene before forensics get there.

"I love you man." Vom.

Alex: breaks into super sekkrit lab. Also Alex: doesn't have the faintest fucking idea what he's looking at, so not really helpful.

COMICALLY LARGE BOMB KLAXON.

Episode 3 - Enemy

"Welcome to Malagosto." OooOOooh.

Maybe I'm just looking at it from a fic writer's perspective but it does seem a massive anticlimax to immediately let Tom and Kyra know Alex is okay? Like, you could have got a good couple of episodes of angst out of that uncertainty.

"Do you want me to kill them?" Oh God yes please.

Why the fuck have they plugged the USB directly into the network rather than an isolated PC? 'Hur dur we checked it first', you literally believe Scorpia are smart enough to not be bluffing about the nebulous death threat but you don't think they could hide something on the hardware? Fuck's sake lads. Amateur hour.

Is this Home Secretary meant to be Suella Braverman? Or Priti Patel maybe lol. (Equal rights and all that, and if it had been a white male character I don't think I would have thought twice about the dialogue but having both your two new female characters be immediately proved wrong/ massively patronised/ blown up ain't hugely comfortable viewing tbh).

HOW MANY FICS INVOLVING ALEX GETTING FUCKED ON THAT BED HAVE JUST BEEN BORN?

"Are you suggesting we break into a dead man's house?" "It's not like he's going to be there." 😂

"He became a very close friend of mine." Fnar.

Omg making Alex read his father's love letters is hilarious.

Alex: you could have faked that news report Also Alex: handwriting can definitely never be faked (how is Alex even familiar with his dead father's handwriting? wouldn't recognise mine)

Ugh please stop trying to make Alex/Kyra happen.

Alex up the vent shaft. I hope they're sitting casually at the top going - you could have just taken the stairs love.

If he's climbing upwards, why is his hair dangling like he's upside down? Have they filmed this like 60's Batman, and he's just crawling along a horizontal set lol.

Alex never once asks about his mother does he. Given the shagger-John route they seem to have gone down you almost think Julia would be in a better shout of getting Alex to switch sides by claiming to be his mother.

And - yeah, Alex's recruitment just doesn't feel that convincing here. Adding Tom/Kyra/Jack so much to the mix has changed the feel of his life a lot, and TV verse Alex has had a lot less fucking over by the Department by this point too. And Rothman feels too creepy to be effectively convincing him of anything.

"I want you to meet your tutor." FUCK YES FINALLY 🙌 (may have rewound that part several times lol)

Episode 4 - Recruit

Nicaragua: 18 years ago OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING

Baby Yassen is adorable, I'm in love.

OH MY GOD THAT'S SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE FUCKIN SPIDER THING

OH MY GOD THE REVEAL OF HIM STANDING OVER THE SLEEPING ALEX I'M DEAD

(Ok, I'm calm again. For now. We continue.)

"You killed my uncle" - all the hundreds of ways this conversation has been written over the years and Yassen's just like lol get over it 😂 (here for it tbh)

Rothman: He's one of our best Yassen: One of? Bitch.

Yassen watching Alex train like 👀👀

"Did he ever tell you you're no fun?" Oh you want to have FUN with Yassen do you?

Yassen bitchslapping Alex to fuck, both hilarious and hot.

Oh, you want to be WET wet.

"Matteo's the guy with the blanket." Why is that so funny.

Omg Yassen stepping in to protect his boy and humiliating Nile in the process lol. And Alex doing what Yassen tells him, because of course he does 🥰

"This one is my responsibility" 🥰🥰

"What about love, friendship?" Alex has only known Yassen five minutes and is already down bad.

"Kind of lonely though, right?" Yeah, Yassen needs you at his side Alex, so step up and stop being a whiny little bitch about killing people.

Never get in the first taxi, rule one of espionage.

Yep, called it. Tom's like: I'll have my fucking tip back in that case.

This scene is so dark I have no fucking idea what's going on, I thought Nile had attacked Alex, but apparently not. Is Nile officially part of this exercise or not, it seems really unclear lol.

The power of friendship and sparklerabbits saves the day, apparently. Yawn.

Jesus, we really ATE with this ep, huh.

Episode 5 - Revenge

"Would you rather your arms around me, or my arms around you?" Way to make it creepy Tom you skeevy fuck.

"Can we focus please?" "We're multi-tasking."

Sure Grendel, rock up to the super sekkrit spy base in a massively conspicuous car why don't you?

"Yassen will give you everything you need." Oh I BET he will.

Feels sloppy them not removing the diffuser from the vent tbh.

"What does this say?" Alex hasn't inherited John's neat handwriting then lol. Alex leaning into him like that > me making noises only dogs can hear.

"You've put lockpick?" "I left my last one in Nile."

Ooh, suicide pill, nasty. Kind've pointless though, given they've been left with the evidence anyway.

Yassen in Alex's bedroom again, likely place for him to be.

"I don't want you to fail. I don't want you to die." 🥹💕🥰

Yalex roadtrip, let's goooo.

Disappointed they're not making Alex do the Entrapment infrared acrobatic sequence here lol.

If this is Yassen's idea of a date it definitely needs work.

So no surprise scorpions then? Can't have shit in Detroit Malta.

"Why? Why did she kill him?" Well taking things at face value here he was a highly murderous member of a terrorist organisation, so you know, kind've her job.

Yassen does like a casual lean, doesn't he.

Episode 6 - Target

Alex and Yassen have shacked up in London, hope there's only one bed.

Now they're in the back of a van, SO many opportunities for shagging, they're spoilt for choice.

Yassen's impressed look when Alex reels off all the security details, so proud of his boy.

"What happened to my mum?" Finally he wonders lol.

"And I'm good at it. You could be too." 🥹

"You think Alex killed him?" I mean, he was also there with a notorious assassin, so probably not, y'know.

Domestic Yassen cooking Alex's dinner and also cooking him a gun lol.

Smithers' "How I've missed you" ahahaha. Smithers/Kyra much better pairing tbh.

"He's actually quite good at this stuff." Smithers' little snort lmao

Time for Alex to be blacked up/ dunked in a teabag bath/ gussied up. Although he still looks exactly like Alex afterwards, which feels less useful lol.

"You love him, don't you?" Yassen loves him more. I have to say Alex had far more chemistry with Syl, and frankly for that matter with Tom. I really don't get the Kyra agenda.

"It's a dry hole." Alex's worst nightmare.

Is Alex going to look through Mrs Jones' knicker drawer?

Episode 7 - The Shot

Mrs Jones and her tall murderous hobbit son lol. Otto really looks about 58 here.

Hope they bill him for her fucked up fridge.

Is that Bath? Oh, it is.

Mrs Jones casually throwing Alex back into play lol. Maybe she can have a little revenge for him trying to shoot her.

"Everyone breaks into houses." Jack's face lol

Ewww put him down, you don't know where he's been (Yassen's bed, almost certainly)

"Remember they can't hurt you unless you invite them in." "That's vampires."

Yassen arguing in favour of going to rescue Alex MY HEART

"Sit down. I'm going to tell you a story. About your friend, John Rider." HOLY PLOTHOLE TIMELINE PATCHING BATMAN

"John was embedded inside Scorpia for three years." Not the only thing he was embedded in by the sounds of it.

Alex seems to be hallucinating again lol.

Yassen, maybe psychoanalysing your insane boss isn't the safest thing to be doing?

"It's quite mad Julia." Yassen really gives no shits omfg

"I know my place." Yes, at Alex's side.

I like how Julia thought telling Yassen she'd killed John would do anything other than piss him off lol.

Episode 8 - Invisible Sword

"But you do owe me a new fridge." LOLLLLLL

Crawley feeling like a spare part during this lift convo, hahaha

"Smithers, you can do me some kind of tracker, right?" "Yeah, if you promise to keep it on you this time."

Alex is like ohshit I'm gonna die fr

"Not for the agents. They undid their seatbelts." Eyyyyyyyy 👉

Aww they've given him a little baby assassin outfit, how cute.

Where's Yassen, has he just fucked off to the pub?

"For the head of Scorpia, you're a really bad liar."

Laughing at all the other Scorpia agents having to listen to this convo about their boss like we are not paid enough for this shit 😬

"Everyone else is getting what they want, let me have my cereal."

Protecting his boy to the last. Yassen really is purely on Alex's side, we love to see it.🥰

And OMG HE LIVESSSSSSSS 🙌🙌🙌🙌 (I voted yes in that poll, I had faith lol)

Well that was - far more fanservice than I dared hope for, after the meagre pickings we got in the first two series. Yalex supremacy to the motherfucking end, let's go.

[perpetualproductions]

Just watched EP 7 of The Boys (S4).

(spoilers. Obv.)

Jesus Christ. Things are getting proper serious. Lol. Like, I know Eric has already said on multiple occasions that the end of season 4 isn't gonna be good (not as in quality or anything but as in the state of that world). If you don't know, he's described it as "what would happen if trump was elected". And Jesus, idk about you but personally, that sounds terrifying. So yeah, I know the good guys aren't gonna win (hardly ever do). In fact, the bad guys will actually be winning this time. I mean, we're going full fascist police state. Mass hysteria, thought police, internment camps. Truly terrible thing. So yeah, I'm scared, to say the least, for all the characters I like in this world. And the end of S4 is leading directly into S2 of Gen V, so yeah, this is gonna be full dystopia, I fear.

Either way, as much as this is meant to be a satire and a flip on the superhero genre as a whole, I need some hope here, lol. Some light at the end of this tunnel, for the sake of everyone. This world has been terrible at every turn, and I understand that it's a commentary on our own. A mirror. But it's slowly becoming a straight up replica on how our own world is falling apart. Great. Awesome. How about we end The Boys on a note of hope? Season 5 is the last season. It's putting an end to the main story of Butcher vs. Homelander. (Personally, I think it needs to end with both of them dead). But yeah, I think it should also end in a world that isn't actively burning, but the ruins that are left. Something to build from. Hope for a genuinely better world. It's gonna be hard and take a long time, but it's still possible. Ya know?

Idk, I'm rambling. Literally just finished the episode and it had me thinking too much, lol. This is just a thought dump/ vent of some sort. Just cause I know the finale is gonna be depressing as fuck. Trying to mentally prepare here, lol.

Otherwise, great episodes. Made me feel things and think things and that may as well be the goal at the end, lol.

(why so many lols? I use humor to cope. Lol.)

Have a good day people. Hold on to hope. Especially when you feel like there isn't any.

[layla4567]

Spoilers Loki s2 e5

I have a lot to say!!! (this will be long)

Ok first of all this scene made me laugh a lot because of how randomly they presented the original timeline of Mobius, he looks like a child playing (oh and him being a single dad it makes a lot of sense to me)

expectation:

reality:

Oh my f*cking god If I liked O.B before, now I love him with all my soul! He is not only a nerdy genius but a science fiction geek whose passion is to be a writer!!! And why didn't they let him keep his books in the bookstore?! I would gladly buy them!! Just look at his face, he needs a hug :(

AND WHY THE FUCK DID THEY NOT HELP HIM WHEN THE BOOKS DROPPED ON HIM?! IT COSTS NOTHING TO BE KIND DAMN IT

Ok, I think we've all realized that O.B's workshop is the same as the basement where he works at the TVA, maybe he was the one who created the TVA after all? btw how beautiful the photography is in this entire series.

I admit it, I laughed my ass off at this scene, I apologize (make it a meme pls lol) Honestly, this whole scene and the interactions that O.B had with Loki made me laugh (when Loki tries to control his timeslipping or when O.B electrocutes him as scientific proof)

This scene where Loki adjusts his hair and his jacket to see Mobius 👀 (he only does it with him) I wonder what the Sylki fans have to say

Remember how I said I hated Hunter X5/Brad Wolfe? Well I was wrong, there is one person I hate more, her. Girl, they're literally telling you that everything is going to shit and you don't give a damn? On top of that, when they tell you that you are selfish, do you take it naturally as if it were something to be proud of? Why are you like this? The worst thing of all is that when Loki says he wants his friends back she calls him selfish, not sweetheart, that's not being selfish. Being selfish is turning a blind eye to a problem that you mainly caused. Loki's fear of being alone is understandable and justified since he felt that way all his life and has done all the things he did for that same reason, which It's being really selfish, it's the opposite, wanting to be alone and forget your friends and not care that their timelines are falling apart. Sylvie you are a hypocrite (sorry I had to vent)

AAAAAAAAAA I'M GOING TO CRY GOD. I said it and I will always say it Loki needs a hug 😭 This scene is super moving because it shows us Loki's true purpose, he just wants his friends back, who are also people he hasn't known for a long time but who were attentive to him (btw Tom Hiddleston always shines in all his scenes )

This scene...holy shit this scene was scary. I think it's even more terrifying than Thanos' snap.

It's overwhelming how everything around her disappears in seconds leaving her in literal emptiness. There is absolutely nothing left, only threads floating in an enveloping blackness. When I saw that scene I felt empty and desolate.

OH SHIT HERE WE GO AGAIN...

NOOOOOOO MOBIUS NOT YOU (He just wanted to save his children 😭)

Loki's face when he sees his friend disappear D: (I'm having deja vu from the first season when Mobius was pruned)

Sylvie too?! Why does she disappear and Loki doesn't? (By the way, you just arrived Sylvie when you realize that everything is disappearing? really?)

Ok this is a nightmare for Loki, he was left alone and couldn't do anything to avoid all that, I think it's the most hopeless scene of the episode :( (And the way he tries to grab those threads…I'm broken)

OK HEAR ME OUT BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS SCENE. I think the background voices help a lot with the feeling of anguish and helplessness that Loki feels, for not being able to save what he loved most, his friends. And when you feel overwhelmed by all those voices and at the end one stands out and it's Sylvie's voice saying something like what makes a Loki a Loki is the fact that we are destined to lose? That's when he screams in despair and goes back in time just a few seconds earlier and manages to control his timeslipping. And I must say that at first when I saw this scene it reminded me a lot of the scene from the movie "Ella Enchanted" when she is forced to kill the prince and she is surrounded by mirrors and begins to remember moments of her life such as when her mother told him to trust her or something like that (I don't remember the scene much, I saw it years ago lol) the point is that she refuses with all her heart to obey that order and in a moment of desperation she screams just like Loki and she says that she will no longer be obedient and drops the dagger, freeing herself from the spell. I don't know if you understand my point because I'm bad at explaining, but I think that the love he feels for his friends was what made him go back in time, that strong desire to want to make things right and that determination to say "this isn't true." It can end like this, I decide what is going to happen" (free will) I think that is what makes him finally able to control the situation, love is the most powerful force. Something similar happens in the movie "Tomorrowland" I think.

This scene is really powerful, the background music, the phrases that Loki says, the context of the scene, it is cinema. I think you don't need an action scene or scenes for a scene to be epic and move you. This is epic with so little, it is simple but effective. And the music is really the icing on the cake, it is so hopeful and gives strength to the moment when Loki returns to the TVA being able to fulfill his mission, I cried. Loki has evolved into a hero who saves the day and everyone.

And that ending??! Oh no the cliffhanger again..

Phew I know this was very long but I really needed this kind of catharsis, never has a Loki episode left me with so many emotions and beautiful things like this one. I laughed, I got excited, I cried and I was scared. I am very happy with the evolution of Loki and each episode that passes wins my heart more, I can't wait to see the next chapter. Everything is perfect in this series, the music, the settings, the actors, etc. It shows that it is made with the heart

[ominoose]

After watching the last two acts of Arcane Season Two, my mind wonder…How would Oscar Isaac characters, like the Moon Boys would react to the show?

Arcane S2 Spoilers below!!! How we feeling!!! Are we even feeling!!! I dont know if I am!!!

Steven is crying. Happy tears because the CaitVi sey gex, sad tears because because Jinx died (he didn't put together the bit with Caitlyn and the vents), angry tears because Vander. He was sobbing the entirety of episode one. Was a Maddie and Jayce hater.

Marc is a bit put out, sad at the loss, but thinks the animation was really cool, the music too. Generally just impressed with the creativity and well handled heavy topics of an animated show, his old star wars fanboy heart made him nerd out a bit. Also really happy with CaitVi, probably related too much to Vi, so her happy ending was nice (even if she also lost her younger sibling... AGAIN). Was a Jayce neutral. Secretly mourns Heimerdinger

Jake is mad there was no JayVik sey gex, but argues whatever the fuck they had going on at the end was probably gayer than actual sey gex. Also mad Ambessa died, he was her biggest fan. Even madder that Singe got a happy ending. Overall, he was really vibing with it, especially as an Ekko fan. Was a Jayce defender.

[tumbld-out-of-my-bed]

Okay, so I just really need to vent. Please be aware that this post contains spoilers for S2 of Good Omens, and if you don't want that them, please don't read the post.

So, after all this time, after everything, Aziraphale still chose Heaven? Heaven has repeatedly forsaken him, only for Crowley to come and help. I can't believe that after everything, after EVERYTHING that happened on the Bandstand last season, with Aziraphale abandoning Crowley, only for him to discover how much Heaven sucks, HE GOES AND DOES THIS AGAIN.

Like fine, I understand you wanna do good in the world, but surely, SURELY, at this point you realise Heaven is not gonna do it. I know you think you can change that, but why would you hurt the only being who has been there for you, all this time, forever, in order to do it?

Why, Aziraphale, why... LIKE EVEN FUCKING GABRIEL UNDERSTANDS, HOW DO YOU NOT?

I'm so broken rn, I can't fucking stop sobbing. How could he do that... How could he fucking do that...

After the Alpha Centauri realisation also 😭😭

[wickedlittleoz]

ragnarok netflix spoilers under the cut i really need to vent ashahshahdg

from the little i've seen i assume everyone is on the same boat but i'm so??? disappointed???? like it feels like s3 was made by an entirely different team, and i'm not ignoring how the pandemic affected production and all that, but from laurits being pretty much irrelevant through the entirety of the last season, to the weird narrator voice-overs that were never part of the aesthetic of the show, to signy just. existing now, to everything being pretty much just a psychotic episode,

what the actual fuck???

i guess it kinda explains why turid was so, uh, complacent with magne's behavior, but at the same time it doesn't? if someone in your care has problems telling reality from imagination, maybe pay some fucking attention to them and help?

also were they like trying to hint at it since that time in season, i wanna say, 2? when a nurse i think said hey magne might be going through it, and we all thought they just don't get it, and moved on? because we all thought they just don't get it, and moved the fuck on!!! i don't even remember much of the scene it just exists vaguely in my head because of the flashbacks magne kept having when wotan gave him fucking drugs,

ALSO, ON THAT NOTE, if it was. all. just. happening in his head. what were a bunch of adults (wenche, wotan, harry, harry's friend the nurse that helped them "forge" "the hammer", fuck it even jens he doesn't go to school so he's at least 18) not only hanging out with kids, but also enabling? his psychosis?? i get playing along so as not to scare them away, but magne wasn't their problem. they didn't have to play along, the kid had a family. he was turid's responsibility. what the fuck.

and what the fuck do we make of stuff that he wasn't supposed to know about, but we got to watch anyways. what do we make of the jutul family dinamic. what do we make of the time laurits spent by the fjord "raising" "little o". what do we make of iman seducing ran to get better grades (relatable, but gross). what do we make of fjor and the lady from the company (also fucking gross he's a kid). what do we make of everything

and goodness me, i just do not think a group of kids that went through so much crap and fighting and break-ups and hatred and family crap, would just. sit together and drink and laugh like nothing happened. with wotan of all people as chaperone. teenagers are brutal. i'm 27 and there's still people from back in high school that i don't talk to because we had a stupid fight and no one even remembers what the stupid reason was we just hold our stupid grudges because the teenager in us tells us to

like the war never really happening (what do we make of that meet-up, then?) was underwhelming enough but the finale was just icing on the poop cake. there was so much hype and 2 whole years waiting for them to pull the "it was just a dream" ending but worse. my heart breaks because the first season was going places. it had so much potential. s2 was a little slow but understandably so -- if they moved too fast there would be no excuse for another season, the war would just have to happen,

and then,

it never did 🤡

[bloomeng]

it’s so strange to me that they’re trying to make vague claims about bribing izzy back like the damage is done

the issue isn’t even that he’s dead the issue is how it happened idek how they’re supposed to come back from this

like why make vague promises like in gen i was very disappointed with the writing of s2 and i really don’t think s3 will fix that

[hkblack]

So I've been seeing a lot of people talking about Good Omens Season 2 and the Final 15 and Angst. And I'm watching the conversation sort of become either you loved Season 2 fully because you like angst, or you have reservations/didn't like it/are upset because you don't like angst.

And that didn't sit with me right, because I actually am not anti-angst. I mean, let's be honest about some of the fics I've been beta-reading for (@aethelflaedladyofmercia's amazing Aziraphale's Children Series and @mirjam-writes Be Still My Soul Series to name a few--needless to say, if you read these mind the damn tags). So I've been digging into it, and I think I've realized what inspired my initial knee jerk towards E6, my early reliance on various Discord S2-Venting channels, and I'm hoping it'll resonate with other people and maybe help them put things into words.

So, you know, Spoilers, and Long Post below.

Again, I am not anti-angst. What I am is someone who doesn't consume in-progress media. I don't actually watch a lot of television, nor do I watch any of the big movie franchises like Marvel where you've got to watch 12 movies to understand how you get to the Thanos snap, and then you've got two more movies to resolve the Thanos snap, nor do I read book series that do not have a published end. I don't even read in-progress fanfic unless I am beta-reading it. The TV series I do watch tend to be Monster of The Week shows, Doctor Who, Criminal Minds, Bones, where you maybe will have a season/series arc, but the format is designed so that unless it's a season finale, the "main" story of the episode is tied up neatly in that episode (and maybe a special guest is around for a two part season finale, or mid season special, or whatever). And maybe something bad happens in the season finale (this building exploded, the Doctor started regenerating!) that's a "cliffhanger" of did he/didn't he die (set up for an actor to potentially take a season off, or gracefully exit the show, or deal with off season contract negotiations), but for the most part, there is still a resolution for that season and episode.

So as I'm looking at folks still processing their feelings, and moving through handling S2, what I'm realizing is that I don't actually think the problem here is the "angst" and I'm finding myself getting a bit frustrated as people have started drawing a line of "you like angst, you don't like angst" as what's causing the fandom to have feelings right now.

Good Omens the book is a completed form of media. As is the radio play. And the musical (ostensibly). And Season 1 was, also, a completed form of media. It did not need a second season to complete the story it was telling. Now, I'm sure as we do more digging once we do get the third season, we're going to see little seedlings that Neil planted in season 1 for us in the hopes of fulfilling a promise to his best friend. However, it was and remains a completed form of media.

While yes Neil did warn us that Season 2 was the connective tissue between 1 and 3, I think I was still expecting S2 to be a semi-completed form of media the way most television seasons are. Not everything is resolved, no, but we've arrived at the end of this book. But season 2 is not a stand alone book. It's a prologue to s3.

My reasons for not engaging with uncompleted media is not really something I've spent a lot of time poking at because it's not that serious and honestly completed or not, I have a hard time focusing on tv/movies/books anyway because the ADHBees that live in my brain. I had a professor in grad school ask me once if I ever allowed myself to do "nothing" and let my brain shut off. I went "Oh I go to the gym!" and she got snippy because that's not "nothing," and then I had to explain to her that that's fine for her brain, but for my brain, walking on a treadmill is the only time you'll actually get me to watch television and let my brain "turn off." So I started using the gym as a time to catch up on all the latest pop culture. Good Omens S1 was a rare treat for me in that I did put down my phone the first time I watched it, and I'm not sure my hyperfixation would've been as strong had I not watched it in 2020 when I couldn't go to the gym to watch tv. But from my initial reaction to S2 I think my problem with uncompleted media is a mix of ADHBees and a dash of anxiety. I don't mind a cliffe that I've created by stopping reading at X chapter in my book, or pausing the binge on X episode of this show, so that I can go to bed/work/the bathroom. And I don't even mind that end of the season "What happens to the Doctor next?" or "Did Derek survive that bomb blast?" Because I know that the current arc that I'm invested in is complete and the next season will be a new arc, that will answer those questions (that may depend on actor schedules).

As I sit with it more, though… Season 2 is great. I have some issues with the Not-Neil writing, I won't label it as Bad, but I will say there were moments where I went "That's not Neil or Terry" and I have feels about that, because for me, Good Omens is Neil and Terry. While Terry isn't with us and I expect it to be more Neil than Terry, I wasn't ready for moments that weren't either of them. I'll get over it as I watch it more (and have, already, started to love some of those moments). But my issue isn't the angst. It's that, this was a prologue, and I don't like engaging with uncompleted media.

I think a fandom that is 33 years old based of a completed book, you're going to have more people who also don't engage with uncompleted media--whether they've made that realization of themselves or not. I think the struggles folks are having has less to do with "I Love Angste" vs "I Loathe Angste" and more to do with "Is there any kind of resolution to this season's arc?"

It is my belief that we have been given an excellent set up for next season. Seriously! I'm very excited! But I don't think I was given a good resolution for Season 2. I can't even say Gabe/Bee is a good resolution because by the time we got to the fly, it had been a hot minute since I had really spent time with Jim/Gabe or Bee being the main character on screen. So I lost my investment in them. My investment was in Crowley & Aziraphale, Nina & Maggie, and Shax & the Archangels. Because that's what the writing told me to be invested in. Muriel is adorable, and I love her, but like Gabe and Bee, I could take or leave all of them and what we saw of them, tbh. Gabe and Bee's story was so rushed and felt so empty compared to the characters we did spend time with (I really feel like I have more connection to the Magic Shop and it's history than Gabe and Bee's history because of how we had that time in it spread out and given to us in a way that made us care, I sort of wish their relationship hadn't been a mystery to us, the audience, much the same way as Adam as the anti-christ wasn't a mystery to us, and that the mystery had remained "where is Gabriel's memory?" because then that twist of "Oh the Archangels wiped it--WAIT THEY DIDN'T?!" would've hit even harder) that even though you could point to this season and say that their arc is clearly what was resolved in this season--their arc didn't start until 15 minutes to the end. Maggie and Nina's arc was excellent, but also we only saw them telling Crowley about their end of the season resolution (the end of the story resolution will, obviously, be them getting together, as the angel Maggie knows, as Nina rolls her eyes), we didn't really get to see their resolution.

This season was a lot of filler, and that's okay! I know Neil told us there was connective tissue. I just wish there had been a stronger story to center myself on in that connective tissue so I wasn't left with such a strong feeling of: "...that's it?"

[marithefriendlyghost]

Hi! Can I ask you about Heimerdinger from Arcane?

(for character ask thing)

(๑>؂•̀๑) MHM (sorry it took me a while to respond I had to think on this one, also slight spoilers for season 2)

First impression I like to think I liked him? I don't think I had any transgressions, just a guy yk?

Impression now OHH okay spicy take, I don't hate the guy, I think he's alright tbh. If anything I like his thing of, the thing holding him back is his academic drive to keep learning. When he finds things are rough, he goes out and research like a scientist does. And is S2, we see this more brave side of him? Yet he is such a goofball. He's great lol.

Favorite moment Again from season 2, the scene where Ekko and Him are crawling through the vents, I thought that was hilarious. But I like his serious moments too, like when he speaks to Viktor in season 1. Really nice. Or his flashbacks to Piltovers past. Just nice moments all round tbh

Idea for a story Can't say I have any ideas for Arcane fanfic atm! Haven't read any either so, shrug.

Unpopular opinion Don't think I have one!

Favorite relationship HMM probably whenever he talks to Ekko, I know it's still pretty new, but it's nice and refreshing to see him be a teacher again ^^

Favorite headcanon Don't have any headcannons for him!

Thanks for the ask, Ray :D