#was just such a breath of fresh air

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me

[steerablimp]

Riley telling Buffy how "mysterious" she is and how that's part of why he likes her, cause she's a puzzle piece that needs to be put together, something intriguing cause it's unknown. He doesn't KNOW her or UNDERSTAND her. And this whole premise carries on throughout their whole relationship. What a contrast from Spike, who literally tells her that he doesn't love her because she's UNATTAINABLE, that it has nothing to do with HIM. "I love what you are. What you do. How you try. I've seen your kindness, and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand, with perfect clarity, exactly what you are."

He knows her!!! He sees her!!!! Flaws and all!!!!!!! And he loves her!!!!!!!!!

[iridescentoracle]

#i think it's also a little bit because our modern norms of long-distance communication mean the idea of friends Ceasing To Be In Contact #has become weird to us and associated with something having gone wrong #in the 60s it wasn't AS weird to be like 'i will always treasure our friendship but due to our respective lives we may never meet again' #now we not only need a traumatic reason for them to part ways (which agreed seems to be a written-by-fans thing) #we need an insurmountable barrier to keep them from ever being in contact again to justify actually leaving the show #ian and barbara knew they'd probably never see the doctor again! they accepted that and it was no one's fault! #but now there's all this Angst over the classic companions he 'didn't come back' for #and they can't allow that to be a thing with the new companions so they have to make it the Most Separation Ever #hashtag break the tardis navigation again #establish the doctor has no control over his travels it's so much SIMPLER (via incomingalbatross)

#this is another change that I’d attribute to the shift towards character-driven storytelling #s1 set a precedent where The core conflict of the show is between the companion’s ordinary life and their life with the dr #which. is better dramatically to resolve by making a Thing out of it and elaborating on Why they can’t go home or why they can’t stay #whatever Reason classic companions have to be traveling with the dr doesn’t tend to be a big deal #because classic didn’t have any long-term plotlines or character arcs the way nuwho does #(which isn’t Bad it’s just a different storytelling format) #basically. I’m not sure if Every modern companion leaving under Good Circumstances would work well under nuwho’s format #honestly I think the fact that all of chibnall’s companions left to their home time basically unchanged is one of the era’s biggest weaknesses #ESPECIALLY Graham and Ryan weren’t given the kind of character work that would allow a tragic/dramatic departure #they leave the tardis almost entirely unchanged from when they entered and that’s like. #I mean it’s FINE for a certain format and style of television #but dr who hasn’t done that since classic and just throwing it into nuwho doesn’t Work (via osgoodification)

No offense to modern Doctor Who but why does every companion stay in the TARDIS until some horrible life altering thing forces them to leave (death, trapped in a parallel universe, memories forcibly taken, etc.). I miss how in Classic Who most companions just said “Hey Doc, this has been fun but I think it’s time I went home” or “hey this planet is pretty cool, I think I’m going to stay here” and the Doctor was just like “okay cool, I’ll always remember you fondly, bye!”

[mooneggtarts]

To think TCO would soften a bit with Orange makes me go jumping on the ceiling. To think all of TCO's repressed emotions in the sake of survival just deflates and released once Orange was there. To think Orange willingly fight a 4v1 battle in order to keep TCO safe when he coulda just ran away and leave him. Brothers ever 😭😭😭

[sunnibits]

some people really need to learn how to knock

[lesbianelsas]

[On the industry] "I think I feel so relieved, because I was thinking yesterday… I guess House of the Dragon was the first time I had been sort of out as a non-binary person at work. Until then I had sort of split my personal life and my working life. And I was just thinking how annoying it would be, to be down the line this far [in their career], and if I hadn't done that, actually just how tiring I think it would be. I suppose I didn't necessarily know what the ramifications- what all of the consequences of that choice would be at the time. I feel broadly really grateful, it just seems to be fine (laughs), it's just fine." "I feel hopeful; you see and hear about more and more gender non-conforming, trans, and non-binary people in the industry. You know, I guess I didn't know back in the day, that there was space for that. I don't even mean anything by that, I just maybe assumed on some level that they'd always remain separate parts. But yeah, it feels like such a relief. And it's good, I feel like the industry is changing, slowly. So that feels very hopeful to me."

Emma D'Arcy on the entertainment industry & their feelings on being seen as a queer role model (video)

[formulaonedirection]

young bold and hungry, making my case for giving franco colapinto a 2025 seat

[st4ngray]

Some more proper fanart but mm this series is so,,,

[toxictigertonic]

All a man needs in life is a dodo pop and a cute cat

[stimmingandstruggling]

i think part of the reasons parkour civ feels so special and so different from other minecraft story content is that it wholeheartedly embraces the fact that it is MINECRAFT.

like, i remember a lot of dsmp stuff would place this story in a more realistic fantasy world. i myself would talk about the story and characters and just not mention it all took place in minecraft. and that’s not a bad thing! but there’s something really cool about how you CANT do that with parkour civ. it uses the mechanics of minecraft: barrier blocks, hunger and sprint, the technicalities of what minecraft parkour jumps are possible and not. you can’t separate the world of parkour civilization from minecraft

and i don’t know, i think that’s beautiful! it embraces it so much! it requires you to meet it there, put yourself in this world and embrace its logic rather than translating it to ours! it’s so clear evbo wrote this from a place of just loving minecraft and loving parkour. it doesn’t compromise, it refuses to justify itself as Professional Serious Media. it’s a minecraft movie and it fucks hard, take it and love it as it is.

[qoldenskies]

i think about splinter walking in on the aftermath of caged lungs a lot

[thinwhitedoc]

CARGO | Martin Freeman as Andy Rose

[dykespence]

The way Carla showed up absolutely smitten down bad horrendous in the gayest of outfits she could find just be called a friend ohhh the PAIN

[notaplaceofhonour]

oh so that’s why I remember him still being chill

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[welcometogrouchland]

(on my hands and knees begging tumblr to not mutilate the quality of this drawing 😭) anyway, coming out as a secret marvel fan to announce that i really enjoyed the recently she-hulk run w/ Jen and her boytoy and am sad to see them go. Jack pls dont disappear into the ether i just got attached to you (ID in alt)

[jaguarys]

I'm not really a BNHA guy anymore or anything but I fairly ardently disagree with the arguments against Endeavor's redemption arc. The series is continual case after continual case for people being able to be better, and Endeavor's arc is perfectly in line with that. He's a complex character just like the rest of them. Idk. I think it hits a lot of good notes