#what the fuck is this show

[nicholasnelsons]

911 is crazy bc one minute the bisexual firefighter is accidentally coming out to his sister and the next minute the other gay man is having sex with his girlfriend who he just found out was a nun

[zer0expektation]

Sam and Dean Winchester get arrested for the attempted assassination of the president of the United States, and at the same time the gay angel sneaks the presidents secret lover out of her home and tries to convince her to get an abortion. there really is no other show that can do it like them.

[saguaroooo]

Is Louis louring Santiago to his death by calling his dick small??

[smokestarrules]

Okay I've just realized what exactly makes me go so fucking feral over this moment. It's the level of trust, of course, that's always what I've thought, but it's specifically the way that this trust has to go both ways, full stop, or otherwise the move will fail entirely.

Because, like, obviously Ava has to trust Beatrice implicitly; trusts Beatrice to tell her when to phase so she doesn't catch a face full of knife and the fact that she does phase immediately and almost instinctively while Beatrice is telling her to is already incredible.

And then on the other side, Beatrice is throwing a weapon at 1) the person she's sworn to protect and 2) the person she's head over heels in love with. It probably wouldn't kill Ava, but it certainly wouldn't be good if she hit Ava instead, for either of their sakes. But Beatrice is the one who's just spent the last two months training Ava -- she's the only one who trained her, and she knows exactly Ava's limitations, and so she knows that this is something that Ava is fully capable of, and Beatrice trusts Ava to be the person Beatrice knows she can be, trusts her to listen to Beatrice's order, and Ava does.

Beatrice wants nothing more than to protect Ava, but she's also entirely aware (and proud) of the fact that Ava is now capable of protecting herself, and they use those newfound skills here in a move that I may literally never be over.

tldr; Ava trusts Beatrice to warn her in time, and Beatrice trusts Ava to instantly react the correct way. They’re insane.

[nickyroethemarinebiologist]

is there anything you're dying to talk about that no one has asked you about yet

JUMPING UP ANDDOWN I WATCHED AMOK TIME TODAY!!!! ABSOLUTELY BONKERS WHO AUTHORISED THIS... ROLY POLYING IN THE SAND LIKE THAT… SPOCK SMILING… BONES JUST HAVING A TERRIBLE TIME THE WHOLE EPISODE… THE MUSIC!! THE RED SKY ON VULCAN!! AWESOME STUFF IT REALLY LIVED UP TO ITS NAME THEY REALLY DID ALL THAT ON TELEVISION IN THE. 60S. OKAY

[arcanespillo]

me n who

[live-from-flaturn]

"The Sign" is going to kill me.

[keepingmyoptionsfluid]

So you're telling me that this one call makes Buck realise he likes being choked, and Eddie realise he's into CBT? I mean go off I guess?

[half-an-hour-hence]

I think Glenn calling Ollie a giggling little tampon in one of the bloopers for Spinners and Losers has got to be one of my favourite things ever

[josephtrohman]

BLUR COVER????

[krakenshaped]

Alright I've had like 5 hours of sleep but it's fine, let's talk about the parallels between Ryo Marufuji and D.D, the importance of Sho Marufuji to the themes GX tries to convey - whether you wanna admit of not - and as our queen Gaga describes it: The Fame Machine™️

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So. On one hand. Ryo Marufuji. He's truly a specimen. A divisive and fascinating character. He's the embodiment of a downward spiral that only gets more and more dire as the series goes on. On the other, D.D. Edo Phoenix' narcissistic adoptive father. These two shouldn't really have any correlation, after all while Ryo and Edo have their conflict, Ryo has nothing to do with D.D or Edo's character arc during the finale of season 2.

Except that D.D's backstory lines up relatively well with Ryo's descent to Hell Kaiserhood. It's just that D.D went the extra mile. And in the end it says a lot about GX's minor themes - that being an exploration of what it means to be successful, how negative influences in your childhood can affect you and liberating yourself from those negative influences.

Let's dive a little bit more into themes. Because all media have themes and purposes no matter how mundane and pointless those purposes are. While ygo GX's purposes is undoubtedly to sell trading cards to teens, its main theme centres around growing up - something a lot of the shounen's primary demographic will heavily relate to. Yugioh GX is a coming of age story about a schoolboy and his friends as they explore the world and grow and change, their pursuit for success and glory and the grief of losing your naive view on the world but coming out a stronger, better person because of it. A lot of that is explored via character arcs and sub-themes, such as Manjoume's season 1 character arc emphasising how much toxic/abusive family members can change and affect how you present yourself to the world and the liberation that comes with cutting them off. Similarly, D.D contributes to this theme via his treatment of Edo and the role he plays in Edo's story as well as weaving a cautionary tale of what can happen to a person when they become so desperate for fame and success that they change permanently for the worse.

But Ryo also follows this theme. Not to the same extreme or in the exact same way, but he does.

Ryo Marufuji starts the series as a 3rd year high school student - just on the cusp of graduation. He's the top of his class. He has it all. He was handpicked and trained by his mentor and trusted with cards of sacred value - ultimately promised success. And did he work hard for that success. He worked so hard he isolated himself from his family and spent every waking moment in the mountains, training.

And then he graduates. His debut duel is with Edo Phoenix. The cycle begins.

Edo crushes Ryo. As in completely destroys him. Nukes him. Ryo doesn't even have a chance. Humiliates him publicly just because he can. Behaviour he learned from D.D - to crush all threats to your career underfoot because nothing else matters. Ryo goes down a spiral. He flunks so hard from the pro leagues he falls all the way down to where even amateurs mock him. He's become the laughing stock of the dueling industry. He hits the underground dueling ring. He has a truly horrific, traumatising experience where he's almost electrocuted to death on top of being humiliated once more. And he comes out a different person. A person who has abandoned all moral compass and dignity and cares only about one thing.

Success.

The cycle has passed from D.D's narcissistic treatment of Edo, to Edo' learned behaviours, to Ryo's Hell Kaiser transformation. In mere episodes to come, Ryo would carry on this cycle in his treatment of Sho, attempting to humiliate, crush and ultimately severely injure him. Even if this act was in an attempt to scare Sho out the entertainment industry, he has contributed to the cycle of abuse and has attempted to inflict his learned ideals of "nothing but success/victory matters anymore". It's this duel that D.D and Ryo truly become parallels.

Like how D.D goes mad over fame, stole precious cards and begins to manipulate and emotionally abuse Edo, Ryo (through Edo's influence) does the same. He goes mad over fame and power, steals the cyberdarks, and comes back to berate and hurt Sho.

The major difference between D.D and Edo vs Ryo and Sho is that while Edo doesn't break the cycle until the damage has been done, Sho manages to successfully break this cycle from the start. Even if he comes out of it zapped half to death and degraded beyond belief, he refuses to let go of the way of life Ryo taught him before he fell from grace. That respect is of utmost importantance.

And when the time comes when Ryo faces the consequences of his insane new lifestyle, Sho steps up to take care of him despite how vile Ryo was to him. Sho takes that step to try and heal their relationship. The cycle of abuse ended with him. And Ryo begins his own personal healing journey as a result. It shows Sho's inner strength - strength he earned from trial and error through the show. Because it takes a lot to break that cycle - after all. Look at Edo.

Honestly if GX was a seinen instead of a shounen and these themes were dwelled into a little more it could have been so profound. Whether the parallel was there on purpose or not, I think they had a good idea going for it if only they went into a little more detail. I could talk about Ryo and how STRANGE his character arc is for an anime who's demographic is like 13-16 year olds or something with his weird exploration of trauma, being failed by the education system (especially as a character that's autistic coded) and weirdly enough?? Borderline hypersexuality?? (That is its OWN can of worms which will require trigger warnings relating to S/H and im not getting into that here, I've rambled enough)

GX is a fucking drug trip.

[optimisticrunawaygalaxy]

"I realise were all in the same boat, and even though the boat has a hole in it, we at least get to see the sea"

[eemoo1o-animoo]

(The triplets get speared to a statue through each of their heads by Sebastian)

Alois, possibly knowing that they are demons: (whistles, impressed)

Druitt, who thinks that Sebastian has just slain three human men: Oh, my! Good show!

Alois: Good show!

[jess-total-mess]

What do you MEAN canonically dean got too depressed to follow chucks rules if cas wasn’t around so he kept having to bring him back?

What do you MEAN cas once declared himself god on live television and this was never mentioned again?

What do you MEAN john cena tweeted about romantic love right before following destiel fan accounts?

What do you MEAN they actually filled a room with bees at one point???

What the FUCK do you MEAN one of the characters has the exact same full name as someone I grew up with??? And WHY is that the trippy part???

[selttiks4313]

Hold the fuck up. Wilson put a tracking device in Houses portable tv??

I??? Hello????

They are both so fucking deranged when it comes to the other and it’s driving me mad!!!!

[t-mblr-begone]

Hi, star trek the next generation? What the fuck!!