#when you literally bleed chemistry tho

[livvyofthelake]

rewatched mirror mirror. as was voted the other day. here are my thoughts. i told you you're not allowed to be mad at me when i get mean, you all voted for this. i told you i was going to be mean, don't you dare get mad at me for being mean about the movie i consistently bring up in a negative light that you voted for me to watch again!! anyway.

perhaps this movie's most egrigious sin was making me fall in love with it at 11 years old. i can't in good conscious say that it's really "bad", this was THE movie for me when i was 11. i'm literally always calling this "my movie from when i was 11" this movie is as much a part of me as my genetically bad knees. however. i fucking hate my knees. worst part of my body fr. just like this movie is the worst defining movie i've ever had, all things considered.

its not necessarily truly a Bad Movie. it’s just that the only things that are truly good about it are a) the aesthetics. everyone on every visual design team was slaying on this movie, the costuming the production design the hair department the prop team the vfx artists the fucking genius that designed the dvd to look like an apple with a bite taken out of it.... just wall to wall GORGEOUS aesthetics oh my god. and b) julia roberts is here

other than that it's lackluster to just nothing. where to even start. the misogyiny? no let's circle back to that. let's start with the underutilization of my bff robert emms. also known as pythagoras bbc atlantis. hi bestie <3 i wish you got to be in this movie more. ok next thing. it's gonna be another complaint about an actor. yeah that one. no it's not just because i'm mad at him for last weeks sleep movie debacle. although i am still mad about that, that has nothing to do with the fact that he is a mediocre to quite poor actor, and he brings such a bad vibe to this character i am literally suppossed to be charmed by. even at 11 i had a sense of bad vibes. i could tell there was something unchic afoot etc. i was always so mad when snow white would fall in love with him every time i watched the movie but i knew it was suppossed to happen that way so i didn't really mind. but i hated it, i hated him. he's not a good person, and he's not that charming, and he's played by a man who seems to think he's in a combination knockoff shonda rhimes drama and a strange fantasy animated sitcom in 2005. can't explain that stuff just vibe or don't. he thinks he could do bbc merlin. he couldn't. not with 100% of his effort. conversely, bradley james could do this movie with three days notice and no script, and that's really saying something because he's like only the fourth or fifth most talented actor in that show's main cast. anyway why didn't they cast someone lily collins actually had good chemistry with. am i being crazy rn because i think he's got bad vibes or do you guys notice that they don't have good chemistry too? it's not bad per se. it could be better tho.

and where to begin on the weird. kink stuff. jesus christ. are we not suppossed to talk about that stuff? did you guys not notice that stuff? are you ignoring it because of the cool costumes? i don't even want to talk about it really i just think it's weird that no one ever wants to bring that up.

anyway i guess that brings us back to the misogyny. nobody likes it when i say stuff like this and i know nobody likes it but i'm gonna keep doing it beause i am so fucking sick of this patriarchy shit and how it invades literally every aspect of life on this earth and i am constantly intimately aware of all of it all the time and it makes me so angry just to like. exist in the world with all of this rage and knowledge and no power to truly change anything outside my own small life and circle and community. and like to have to log on to the chronically online assholes talking about media analysis website and still no one wants to talk about the fucking. misogyny that bleeds through every movie. is ridiculous. this movie wants to pretend that it's a girl power story just because they gave snow white a sword. it's very 2012. except that other media was doing the exacxt concept of "badass snow white" in 2011. 2007. 2005. like, i was there, i know everything there is to know about it, unfortunately. she's not a badass just because she can hold a sword she's a badass because she hates taxes. and she was useless with that sword anyway so what was the point of giving it to her, just so you could say you gave snow white a sword? just so you could get a little training montage? and then we ignore that half the dudes in this montage are routinely demeaning and objectifying her because she's a woman. ok work. feminism! and her love interest hates women and literally consistently devalues her capability and does not ever learn anything the whole time? and they're in true love? and then they get married after he has undergone zero character development and presumably still views her as inferior because of her gender and now he's going to become the king of HER kingdom and rule HER people? yeah that's the future gloria steinem envisioned.

i don't mean to say she's not a strong character, because she is, i wouldn't have latched onto this movie so strongly with my grubby little 11 year old hands if she hadn't been. but it's just so disheartening that a huge piece of this movie and this whole story in general is the love between her and the prince, and then this movie did so well making her a well rounded character who consistently defied expectations of the role she was meant to play as a woman in her society, and then she married a man that looked down on her and her values and her femininity, and HE gets to become the king of HER kingdom someday. i think he should kill himself. i hope she kills him after a year of marriage. i hope no one mourns him.

and really the whole "edgy(ish) modern fairy tale adaptation" thing is rarely done well, in a way that both honors it's source material and the traditions and conventions they came from, and creates something new. this movie was on a great track, it really does do quite well in this regard i won't pretend otherwise. i always gripe about how true love's kiss is represented in modern media, and this movie is not an exception to that (the POINT of it in fairy tales is not that the characters knew a kiss of love would save their beloved, the point is that they DON'T know that true love's kiss will save them. the kiss happens because it is a final gesture of love to a doomed lover. the point is that true love's kiss brings the lover back because the one that kissed them loved them so much even when all hope was lost. whatever it doesn't matter that much) anyway. the only thing really is that it suffers from Made By A Man Disease. not to be confused with the mere fact of being made by a man. it's different. and the men that did this one have some serious issues they need to unpack with a therapist and maybe also their mothers. it's just like. you'll never be the american broadcasting company's once upon a time (2011-2018) created by edward kitsis and adam horowitz. you'll never be her.

AND ANOTHER THING. i know am literally always saying that movies should end with musical numbers a la ella enchanted (you just can't go wrong when you follow your heart and end with a song fr) however. the ending musical number in this movie feels. slightly off. i like that it's very bollywood-esque, that definitely helps it stand out at least. it's not that it doesn't work, because it kind of does. or it works just enough. i think the thing i dislike about it is that they didn't commit hard enough, it plays on half the screen while credits go on the other half, it's like it's a little add on to the end and not the actual ending, lame! also the lyrics are very tonally off with the rest of the movie tbh. "i belive in love"? yeah girl, we know, the whole movie is about how you saved yourself and all the people you cared about from an opressive ruler becasue you loved them and wanted life to be better for these people you loved. you didn't like. learn to believe in love as this song might suggest... idk. it's not really about the lyrics it's more the uncommitted thing. also. the bollywood inspo would have been less tonally inconsistent if there were evan a hint of that in any of the other music in here. unfortunately. so it doesn't gel well and i kinda hate it for those reasons.

anyway hi clary i just saw you on friday <3 hi pythagoras i just saw you on wednesday <3 hi julia roberts, you've been on my tv a few times lately too <3 and hi to no one else in here that i may have seen recently.

[smolycule]

important things to know about me

i am a Very queer aspec agender person who is also neurodivergent in many fun and interesting ways

i’ve been a smosh fan on and off since 2013, when it was just ian and anthony and the original main 4 smosh games members. i watched smosh main channel content and other ian&anthony content before that casually but i didn’t really become an avid Fan until smosh games.

i am a “shipper”, but definitely not in the “i believe these people are truly in a romantic relationship and have feelings for each other” way. i ship in the way that i’m appreciating an already-existing dynamic that really stands out to me as having chemistry by exploring how they show they enjoy each other’s company and how they show each other affection. i just like close relationships!!! platonic or otherwise! so yes, i ship people “as friends” for the most part, but i like to explore intimacy in a way that some may define as more romantic? just cuz i personally have a hard time distinguishing between Platonic Affection and Romantic Affection as an arospec person. so yeah anyway. i promise i’m not one of Those shippers i just like thinking about friends being cute that is all.

i can and will tag relationships between cast members using the portmanteau style of combining names. just because other people use it to mean only romantic shipping doesn’t mean i do <3

with all THAT being said, some of my fav smosh (friend)ships/dynamics are courtlivia, shourtney, shaylivia, spommy, spourtney, shaymien, amangela, shaymanda, courtmien, and changela. just my favs tho i would not be able to list Every dynamic i like

my smosh member favs are shayne, courtney, tommy, arasha, and amanda, but i love all of the cast and especially the original “smosh squad”. i have a soft spot for like all of the former and long-standing members and crew due to nostalgia plus my enjoyment of how they interacted with my fav members.

i literally just do my own thing. i ascribe to very extreme, uncommon leftist ideologies (as a very specific form of ancom) and such and it bleeds into how i act on here. i am invested in social justice issues, but don’t expect me to be a liberal about them. basically i’m here to have fun and treat these centrist celebrities as the commodities for my personal enjoyment that they are!

i am a very asocial + anxious person so be aware if you try to contact me even casually there's a good chance i won't (consistently) respond... bc i get scared. etc. i usually don’t even look at notifs. it's probably not personal i just have brain issues. but if you wanna reach out n be friendly it will make me happy and i will try to respond…!

[becauseplot]

i woke up at 5am :'D it's ok tho im officially coherent enough to form words letsgo

"I am genuinely not as bad in these fandoms as I have been in some." Goddamn so something worse than child endangerment and child torture. Okay (<-FEAR) And yeah makes sense, Ordem Paranormal already has enough character death, no need to add to it lmfao. And yeah whump as a form of venting is soooo real. If I was more comfortable writing needless whump, I'd definitely do it more often. Love putting my guys in the angst blender after a hard day. My problem is like "ohhh I'd love to do terrible things to this character unprompted" and "okay so what should I do to them?" and then [crickets]. Whump prompts work sometimes, but figuring out the Situation that gets the character to the whump is a struggle somehow lmfao. It's a lot of fun when I can manage it tho.

Yea yea yea, you get to fill in the gaps! And having Lucie's death simply narrated to you (with an amazing backing track tbf), describing how she was slowly torn limb from limb, hearing her lower spine break, how she felt all of it, was conscious for all of it... It's a level of detail that you can't get in a purely visual medium (in this, you know exactly what is happening to her and what she's feeling, you are immersed in her experience) but at the same time, without explicit visuals to guide/distract you, you are forced to imagine all of this on your own. It makes your mind fill in the gaps! For me, watching it was definitely one of those experiences where I was like, "Wow this was absolutely devastating and my brain chemistry will be altered forever and I will not be sleeping tonight. Fantastic writing 10/10 would watch again."

(Yeah the subtitles on op and osnf are incredible, the fact they distinguish between IC and OOC. Epic.)

God yeah the way that the players balance IC and OOC knowledge. I think I've mentioned before (maybe??) that I adore the way that the players will put being in-character before "winning the game" in every single decision. Countless times, the players will known better, but they honor their characters and only act in how they think their characters would act. Can't think of a specific example but it happens a Lot. And yes, Arthur does deserve better than this. Obsessed with the theme of being unable to unsee/unlive/unlearn whenever a character comes into contact with the Paranormal, as I talked about with Thiago's hearing loss earlier. Once you're in it, you're in it. You can't go back to a normal life afterwards. Cursed by knowledge. You either end up working for the Order, end up insane, or you end up dead because...what else are you going to do? The horrors will follow you now. And Arthur has literally nothing left except for Ivete and her bar which she can't afford to keep open anymore.

Assuming Arthur survives this series (PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE), I'd love to see him as a recurring character with the Order. Even if he only gets cameos/references, I want to see how he might fit in with everyone else, if he finds his place there like Liz and Thiago have (PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE).

Fhjdfj yeah it's like that princes bride meme. "This qsmp au still has potions!" "Oh, so you'll use them to make the characters feel better, right?" ":)" "So you'll use them to make the characters feel better, right." (I mean I am still healing them! The potions are in fact healing them! You can't deny that! (Unless it's that fuck-you-bleed-forever-idiot potion you mentioned.))

The one time a high roll on healing kinda sucked ^-^; I'm happy to hear your Words once I get caught up.

(Cultish is right what the fuck is goin on here.)

Ohh neat. Just so I can understand, you n your team(?) host these sessions and ppl come play? Like how does this actually work lmfao. You don't need to respond w anything in-depth if you don't want to I'm just curious. I know like nothing abt larp apart from like that one scene in Hawkeye where Clint has to work with some larpers and he gets roped into "fighting" them. (<-barely remembers this series)

Yeah I'm the same way with minecraft. I barely ever play it but I lovelovelovelove working game mechanics into my fics and also just the world building and the way that the "story" in the game is told almost purely by environment alone and and and!!! For the record I once wrote a (small) essay about the Minecraft End Poem and how it relates to Mysticism for one of my classes. Let me reiterate, AN ESSAY. ABOUT BLOCK GAME. FOR MY CLASS. AT UNIVERSITY. THAT WAS WORTH A GOOD PORTION OF MY GRADE. (I got a good score on it and the professor liked it and the poem so much he said he might actually fold the Minecraft End Poem into his curriculum as another example of Mysticism in modern media, so we win these.) I'm normal about Minecraft I swear. I played a lot when I was younger, and I started playing probably around the same time as you maybe? Idk all I remember is that Enchanted Golden Apples were still craftable when I started and apparently that's Old.

Huh. If I think about it, I'm still playing in the world of Minecraft, just in a different way. Neat.

Bastille music!! They've certainly got a vibe. (Icarus still remains one of my favorites. The animatics in my head go crazy you don't even know.) (Face down on the floor you don't even know.) (Why did I have to choose to be a writer all the animations won't ever leave my brain.)

finished ep 10 of osnf (long post under the cut oh lord)

crying sobbing kicking over chairs screaming CELLBIT IS AN EVIL EVIL MAN WHY WOULD HE DO THAT. FOR WHAT REASON. POR CUAL RAZÓN. LO ODIO. <-said with the utmost adoration and respect of a writer but the fury of a fan who just had to endure all of that my hearttttt 0(-(

god fuck i have thoughts and feelings regarding episode 10 of osnf. obviously. i don't even know how to start.

okay. first of all the way that he was able to orchestrate the like 57839 different POVs of the nightmare happening at the same time was actually pretty smooth, all things considered. being able to forcibly mute/deafen the others is a good thing to be able to do yesyes.

second, im losing my mind over how he hides the fact that "it's all a dream" WITHIN the "it's all a dream" trope by having the creatures be manifestations of dreams/guilt in "reality" themselves. idk if i'm making any sense, but like, you get it, right? like, it's the fact that we thought we had already discovered the dream-based deceit in the segment because of what the "Hotelier" told Joui at the start of it, but it turns out that THAT was a red-herring of sorts for the TRUE dream-based deceit, that EVERYTHING was a dream, not just the creatures. god there are fucking layers to this im foaming at the mouth that's soooo good.

i guess that's what makes the "it's all a dream"-style trope present here feel less cliche. because, you know, it is a trope, and it's not really a trope that i'm fond of, but because there's actually more going on, it feels less cheap. what certainly helps is that the fact that it's roleplay, so the reactions from the characters are so much more raw, and there are some irl stakes (character dead = out of the series = can't play anymore). that definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat.

edit: something i forgot to mention—what i dislike abt the “it’s all a dream” trope the most is that it is very easily something that can be so, so cheap. all angst, no stakes or consequences, no lasting impact on the plot on the characters. however, not only is there a “physical” impact via several characters losing SHITLOADS of sanity (something not easily recovered) but we get to see a little more into the psyche of the characters. which i suppose is often the point of the “it’s all a dream” segments, but this dream—one with a lot of references to past major character death and itself contains major character death—rings especially true for the themes of the series: the world they live in is dangerous, and the work they do is lethal. people have and will die. and they do and will feel guilty, reguardless if they are at fault. it’s not a horrifying death dream just for the sake of being a death dream, it feels grounded in their reality, and i love that.

third, man he did not hold back. when Arthur was being beaten to a pulp by not!Brúlio, i was actually in shock, i was screaming. plus, i think the fact that Cellbit rolled a 001 when not!Brúlio attacked actually helped to hide the fact that this was a dream. it made it look like it was bad luck rather than the segment was designed to kill the characters (well, at least until he revealed that the damage was 1d4+1d6, but i'll get to that later).

gosh the narration of how not!Brúlio killed Arthur. holy shit. i don't. i don't even have words, that is DEVASTATING. that is probably one of the worst ways for a person to go. i know it's a dream but if i were Arthur i would be emotionally fucked up beyond belief. beaten to a bloody pulp by the father who once loved you so much, screaming at you for abandoning him and that it's your fault he died a horrible death. and then he drops your body on the ground like you're nothing but a pile of useless meat. god. damn.

and then Liz. ohhhh Liz. i just. i was devastated. her whole struggle with Alex, the man she treated so horribly. yes it's true the real Alex never would have said these things to you, but how do you know he wasn't thinking it? that he didn't want to? that what not!Alex says doesn't hold some truth? christttt. and of course the way she dies: in complete agony. and did she forgive herself? because, unlike with not!Brúlio, the creature turned into that weird wispy black thing just as she died, and i would assume that means she forgave herself (if those rules even apply considering this was all a result of the parasite's deceit (holy hell my brain is melting i am the man with the hand on the conspiracy board)).

fourth: the 1d4+1d6 thing! when he read that out, i was stunned. that is a LOT of damage considering all of the characters have ~10 HP. with an extreme roll, that's basically an insta-kill, or it's easily a two-hit-kill. i thought Arthur was unlucky, but when Liz also went down, i was---well, devastated, at first, because that's Liz, she's my absolute favorite and i love her, but i started going through all five stages of grief at once, and at some point i arrived at "no that can't be right" because Cellbit is a good writer. and to deliberately construct a scenario where it would be VERY hard for a character to survive while still in the middle of the story? yeah. and yknow the fact that there's still 6 other episodes fhdsjk. (then again the series continues regardless if a character dies and i haven't looked at other episodes' thumbnails or anything like that for this exact reason. so. i was going in as blind as i could reasonably be.)

in any case, realizing and connecting all of this and then hearing the "Hotelier" start yelling at Joui right after Liz died explicitly blaming him for it sealed it for me: this is a trick of some sort. this is a dream sequence of some sort. these aren't real deaths. (a smaller part of me was still scared that they were real because i know that Cellbit does not shy away from killing off his players' characters, if op and opq are anything to go by. but i digress.)

and then the characters turned to black goo. and i just about threw my computer. rip Luba who got absolutely targeted by the GM lmfao.

anyway uhhh that's about it regarding the dream sequence! loving luzidius!joui and how he just keeps switching back and forth. ((and it further supports my little side-theory that the mysterious blond woman last seen with Team Kelvin was a luzidious we win these.)) i was surprised to see Liz thinking it was so cool when she's been so suspicious of everything in Santo Berco since she got here, but i think she could definitely be using it as a distraction from what she just went through, and honestly she's just happy to see Joui is okay. (the way she gave on up words and just hugged him, the way she held his face in her hands, the way she dragged him down the hall to show Thiago and Thiago was just telling her to fuck off (/aff) because he was getting dressed, my heartttt i love these three, mentor-mentee dynamics my fucking beloved)

also new outfits! sweet! istg the new outfits are so Cellbit's way of apologizing for putting his friends through that. "hey sorry i killed your character in the most emotionally devastating way possible it will happen again wOAH LOOK AT THESE NEW CLOTHES AREN'T THEY SO COOL YOU SHOULD TRY THEM ON!!!"

i've been having mixed feelings about the sudden setting/genre change since the group arrived in Santo Berco. i really, really loved the urban horror-fantasy vibe that they had going on in op and the first 8 eps of osnf, but evidently, this is good as well. the genre is most definitely still horror yippee. i definitely miss the urban-modern setting, but i think i can get adjusted to this. (i'm just,,, not the biggest fan of the auto-heal crystals im sorry i had to say it they feel too op i know their use is limited to visiting the doctor but knowing they exist lowers the in-world stakes for me im sorry---)

anyway, ep 10! you beautiful monster! i have been typing for an hour! i need to go eat food! k bye!

[ispyspookymansion]

hi i just watched saw for the first time bc of ur blog (!!!!! i really liked it!!) and honestly. not to swing a bat a hornets nest but like please explain to me how its gay. like theres not nothing there i suppose but i didnt really get it beyond adam begging lawrence not to leave when theyre bleeding out and lawrence telling him itd be ok and a few similar lines towards the end. it just felt like they didnt have much chemistry. it might just be cause i didnt like lawrence much but i just didnt get it :/

the thing is it’s not in the very typical sense of two characters having romantic vibes but i mean . okay first thing is the love scene is literally how the director and writer/adam’s actor referred to the forehead press which is quite funny to me. other than that to me saw is less about it being gay as it is (though i think there are moments where we can generously read a kind of flirting adjacent antagonism into some of it) and more about the potential to become gay due to emotional entanglement. i will say tho if you mean you dont understand how adam and lawrence as individual characters read as gay to people, regardless of whether they read as interested in each Other….thats like saw 101 i cant help you. but i’m glad you liked it!!

[lucidpantone]

Ok so sorta of controversial opinion but I kinda of get why Audrey, Aki and Max work as a throuple and why Audrey sorta of balances out the boys. If you notice each one of their hobbies and likes and dislikes outside of the sexual chemistry Audrey gaps some of the things the boys don’t have in common at all. Max is very high fashion like even when he is casual he is still wearing this seasons ready to wear. Aki is the richest of the 3 but he isn’t super interested in material things and tho Audrey is a fashion girl she isnt above dirty jeans and a tshirt. Audrey and Max both have a heavy interest in fashion you even see it when Max is like “those sweaters are tragic” to Aki (which I mean I could imagine Max seeing both of them being slobs and being like please go change we are not going out like that). Max and Audrey also both love cooking. Aki is so rich he probably hasn’t cook anything a day in his life. Audrey and Max have messy families but their parents are present where Aki you can tell its a rocky situation. His mom seems nice but Aki is super closed off.Max and Audrey aren’t closed off to their parents if anything they are word vomiting their feelings. Max is really loud, needs a ton of attention/love and possesses very little discipline. Audrey is all about discipline and Aki is very soft (Audrey can be soft too but also with a dose of sterness). Audrey is the more dominant personality of the 3 but Aki softens her up and Max makes her fun and laugh because she literally doesn’t know how to chill out. Max and Audrey are both super over dramatic but Aki is very matter of fact about his thinking always logical and he is never overly emotional so he is very calming to the other two. 

Audrey is a bulldog if she finds out about Rafa unlike Aki she is gonna burn down his house because you can tell she loves very all or nothing. Which is good because both boys need a partner that ride and dies for them and attacks anyone that seeks to undermine their relationship. Aki is too quiet and Max is too nonchalant to care about others opinions but thats Audrey 100%. Max is super open sexually especially concerning queerness and Aki is very tentative to everything. I think thats why Aki is attracted to Max’s. Our boy is bold. Audrey also stumbles sometimes with the queerness but you can tell she is trying to understand and learn and she’ll go after anyone that tries to make them feel what they have isn’t real or its “weird”. I don’t think either boy would go this hard publicly (even tho both seek this validation and displays of absolute loyalty) but Audrey is fucking nuts so she’ll go to war for all three of them. She’ll bleed for them if she needs too. Like I said I get the dynamic I get why it works and why it wouldn’t if one them wasn’t present. They all 3 bring something the other can’t supply but need from their partner.

[myreygn]

Um, um, maybe uh

Tendou, Atsumu, and Kuroo for the super cool character headcanons ask game???

thanks for the ask <3 i already did tendou here once upon a time

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atsumu

2 - 4 songs that are probably on their ipod

judas (lady gaga) - atsumu is a gaga stan and you can pry that hc out of my cold dead hands

shoutout to my ex (little mix) - he cried for a week when jesy left the band and osamu made fun of him the entire time

phoenix (league of legends) - epic soundtracks are his other favorite genre

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep - when they're not supposed to

sometimes he stays at practice too long and then osamu and kita have to get him out of the locker room because he fell asleep there and can't get out when the school is closed down for the night

the game they'd destroy everyone else at

tekken but there literally wasn't one single time he won where he didn't cheat

the emoticon they'd use most often

🥳 (ironically) and 😎 (unironically)

what they act like when they haven't had enough sleep

heavy mood swings and he snaps at everyone

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

hot milk with honey, he's lactose intolerant af but he doesn't care because it tastes too good

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they're in a slump

asks osamu to make cookies and then eats them all by himself while moping and watching buzzfeed unsolved

what they wanted to be when they grew up

always wanted to go pro

their favorite kind of weather

sunny and hot so he can be outside

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

horrific. makes your ears bleed. never invite him to karaoke night.

how/what they like to draw or doodle

little volleyballs

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kuroo

2 - 4 songs that are probably on their ipod

sweet child of mine (guns n' roses) - similar to daichi very old rock

sk8er boi (avril lavigne) - but also avril lavigne because hello it's avril lavigne??

i'd do anything for love (but i won't do that) (meat loaf) - he feels this song i'm telling you

the one place they sometimes end up falling asleep - when they're not supposed to

when he meets with his friends and it's getting late he always dozes off at some point, this man can sleep anywhere

the game they'd destroy everyone else at

monopoly, he's king of capitalism!

the emoticon they'd use most often

😿 he always uses it when yaku roasts him in the group chat (and yaku roasts him a lot in the group chat)

what they act like when they haven't had enough sleep

all over the place and super unfocused, like walking-into-closed-glass-doors-unfocused or dropping-balls-at-practice-unfocused

their preferred hot beverage on really cold nights. or mornings. or whenever.

other humans are made of 60% water, kuroo tetsurou is made of 60% coffee

how they like to comfort/care for themselves when they're in a slump

he doesn't. this man is so bad at self care you wouldn't believe it, always looking out for other people and forgetting to look out for himself. yaku and kai have to violently drag him to bed and force him to relax every time

what they wanted to be when they grew up

he planned to study chemistry and do something along those lines before he met nekomata and got inspired to lower the net

their favorite kind of weather

sunny sunny sunny

thoughts on their singing voice (decent? terrible? soprano? alto?)

pretty good, especially when singing very calmly, he never really sings tho

how/what they like to draw or doodle

cats :D

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send me a character

[jennifersminds]

H, K and U.

H: How would you describe your writing style?

Abnormal but also authentic? If that makes sense and doesn’t sound ridiculously pretentious lmao. I think my style, particularly in plastic crown and what did you bury? is a bit eclectic and chaotic at times. But the disorder of it is pretty true to how my mind works so I think its honest in that regard. 

I don’t know, I’m a slut for imagery, especially if its a bit out there. I worry sometimes it feels like I’m just making random relations for the sake of drama but the vibes are always there for me when I write it lmao. I feel like when it comes to metaphors I try and balance between romantic and odd.

K:  Do you have guilty pleasures in fic (reading or writing)?

Reading: Not really tropes so much as guilty pleasure pairings... I’m down bad for Bamon fanfiction- I hate that man with my whole soul but their chemistry was insane. (plus I feel like they’re the best pairing I’ve found for Bonnie centred fic. If anyone has any other recs for Bonnie fics that’d be great)

But if we are talking tropes - I usually despise dark!fic but that mostly comes from the fact that I feel not enough is done to make up for the often heinous acts that one half of the ship commits in the early chapters, so I will put myself through alot if a fic has the male love interest like.... properly groveling lmao. Like I want this man throwing up and crying on his knees just a whole mess of guilt. Which probably isn’t a good desire but after reading so many “Female character is abused, assaulted etc and then made to take equal blame/accept literally the most batshit apology in the world” or some other sorta vibe fics I think I deserve the therapy lmao.

(also disclaimer: I don’t think anyone would actually care but I don’t have any one fic in mind regarding the aforementioned ‘dark!fics’ - I’ve been reading fanfic since I was like 11 so there’s probably hundreds of fics I’ve read that would fit this criteria. spuffy fandom how you doing lmao??) 

As far as writing goes, nothing so far. But if I somehow end up writing an Elijah grovel fic (heaven forbid tho I definitely wouldn’t rule it out) you can count that lmao. 

U: Is there a pairing you would like to write, but haven’t tried yet.

BEKLENA !!! I feel like this might be kinda obvious to anybody who's read plastic crown but I have such an intense adoration for this pairing that has a tendency to bleed into my elejah works. I really wanna give this pairing its own space in its own fic at some point because I really think there's a lot there.

In that same vein, I wanna do some stuff with bonlena. I've got a few ideas around but I just really love them and think that they're very misunderstood in fandom.

[icecreamkink]

so i watched cobra kai all in two days and i have so many -

this show has so many cool and smart angles to it, but the same time.... its so stupid oh my god everyone is so dumb literally mr miyagi held all of the braincells in this whole universe 

like i am but at the same time i am not surprised it was made like this, bc in hindsight of course there were hordes of ppl simping over johnny lawrence ....  but it still amuses me that this is like... an Actual Official Thing

ok this will get long so cut it is

how much fun this cast has is super visible and i love it

i rly enjoy how the world was expanded ! i did grow up watching the karate kid movies, so watching how they progressed the world of the movies so organically was pretty cool. it rly feels like its the same universe

i fucking LOVE stories that are largely about a Thing. dancing ,skating, sports its just so thrilling to experience this all consuming relationship people can have with this type of activity? and martial arts are just that much more intense, so yeah, grown ass men kicking each other around at the lightest provocation and a war veteran caring so much abt teen karate is Ridiculous.... but i love it all because thats the intensity i find so thrilling

was kinda surprised with how much im missing mr. miyagi. first because, like everyone is so unhinged jesus christo, it just really throws into relief how much his character grounded the narrative of the movies. but also hes just a really great character

and on that note it rly Gets Me that the show itself aknowledges that and plays that into daniels angst and all the little ways they sorta weave myiagisms into the whole show........ im not getting emotional over this dumb karate dads show OK

related - i really miss hearing ‘daniel-san’ 🥺🥺

ACE DEGENERATE oh god oh no

they really went down the down and out johnny lawrence route huh. like i was always kinda bummed we see kreese choking him and then we never see him again in the movies, and while i love dumpster fire problematic trash himbo ck johnny, its like......................... actually really sad that his life turned out like this fjngn

everytime i hear ‘babes’ and ‘pussy’ i die a little inside. i know thats the point but i am a v cringe easy person, have mercy (ehe)

loved the way they are constantly drawing parallels between johnny and mr. myiagi of all people. hes the handy man of his building that has a bullied kid asking for help and eventually steps up to teach them karate, beats up a bunch of bullies for him, creates a friendship with said kid, estranged from family, drinks his sorrows away, surprisingly one of the least quick to anger characters (which says more about everyone else really but.... Well.), no schemes or ulterior motives hes just tryna vibe here.... oh and ofc magically heals miguel of is asthma apparently. the true disciple.. meanwhile daniel is his usual messy petty self even tho he wants to be mr myiagi so bad 

also interesting about that is how miguels character is a parallel of both johnny and daniel at the same time

overall the parallels in ck are done really well, drawing comparisons and also subverting them constantly. theyre well thought out

THE PARALELOGRAMS

fr tho, the angle being explicitly the cycle of trauma and its effects and how trumatized adults in turn traumatize kids, maliciously or not, is so interesting

but! on the flip side of that, it feels like the writers are getting in their own way @ letting the characters grow. especially this last season. theres only so many times you can do "johnny and daniel are getting along but 5mins later they are (literally) fighting over some dumbass random issue" or "johnny puts in 20% of effort with robby and then gives up" before it gets on your nerves yknow?

i see daniel no longer talks like macchio ingested 15 shots of espresso before every take and idk how to feel about that tbh

interesting tension in daniel, as in, in tkk mr miyagi was there and daniel was frankly, kind of a lil shit, this messy petty spitfire hot tempered sassy kid,(johnny lawrence voice: just... stop being so annoying) but now hes the adult, and he wants to be mr. miyagi... but hes just not, and never will be to his very core and it shakes him and in a way hes trying to find who he is now that he sees himself in a position to be a not! cobra kai figure. i kinda really like that 

plus how that relates to his cobra kai trauma. idk if the writers thought abt it Like That, i think so, but in any case, its interesting bc it seems like daniel has told everyone whod listen about johnny lawrence his Pretty Boy Karate Rival and high school and 84 cobra kai... But. no one seems to know what went on in 85 (or 86? idk) which was just so much worse

like ye og cobras were shitheads, but tkk iii is just two hours of daniel being emotionally and physically tortured. 

like, the third movie is.............chaotic, to put it nicely, and many people ignore it, but the writers clearly didnt. daniels actions are, in a way, responding so much more to the events of tkk iii than to the first movie ie. johnny himself, AND. daniel doesnt rly seem to have dealt with that trauma? he never told sam? doesnt feel like hes ever told amanda? he doesnt even say terrys name out loud? freaks Out over kreese ? the way he reacts to robbys deceit? his FACE when he walks past the new "fear does not exist in this dojo" paint or kreeses photo? hmMm i sense Pain

his fashion tho........... disappointing. where are the flower shirts daniel huh we had one (1) shirt what a tragedy STOP WEARING SUITS ALL THE TIME . also the band ts/grunge bi are a look for johnny but part of me longs for the preppy lovable 80s bully chic johnny lawrence getups

weird that they never used that last moment of karate kid where johnny kinda... snaps out of his anger and hands daniel the trophy almost in tears. like “youre alright larusso, good match” “thanks a lot”  that being their last direct interection seems like itd be perfect fruit for cobra kai but... they just dont. weird. 

especially when, the FIRST SCENE they see each other, suposedly in 30+ years, the first thing to come out of daniels mouth is QUOTE "u still got those golden locks huh?" WHO SAYS SHIT LIKE THAT DANIEL FUCKING SAN 

also amandas immediate reaction "your pretty boy rival?" like. can we talk about the fact that daniel had to have imparted to his wife the very important information that his high school bully/karate rival was like Really Cute and Fucking Hot Actually

 the writers Knew exactly what they were doing and honestly.............. power to them

tkk director voice: and billy was just so cute  

also I was thinking that daniel sounded strangely fond in that first scene, and i wonder if he developed a weird affection for johnny on the grounds that of all of his Karate Rivals johnny was actually the only one who didn’t actively tried to literally kill him

i was actually delightedly surprised with how great the chemistry between them is, like from the get go i am Invested. their rl friendship totally bleeds through and its fantastic

. granted, idiots enemies to lovers friends is my Thing so i am biased  

johnny lawrence: i am down in the dumps, i fucked up my whole life and my sons probably, largely in light of the trauma that the father figure sensei and the philosophy of my karate inflicted on me and all my friends. u know what i should do, as a traumatized, unreliable mess of an adult? teach that same philosophy to some other kids! what could go wrong! 

but really i enjoy the setup of it. i kinda like that i watched it late because, season 1 was johnny setting himself up for failure in a way and it was exciting to watch it all go to shit sjfn

Like. his heart might be in the right place, but theres just.... not a way to teach something like ‘strike hard, no mercy’ and not have it fuck up a kid 

case and point: aisha, miguel and hawk become annoying as all hell over that bullshit in the end of s1, even before shit gets truly fucked up

billys subtle panicked eyes when he sees hawk and miguel fighting dirty in the all valley was SO GOOD especially in parallel with the panic that is so visible in his face in the movie when kreese tells bobby to injure daniel and in the sweep the leg scene 

seen people question wether kreese should have returned and i absolutely think he needed to. johnny needed to realize that cobra kais fundamentals are flawed, at the root, beyond kreese himself being a toxic piece of shit 

also who are we kidding? we are here to see the tkk characters play on new playgrounds!

i get what they're doing abt kreeses backstory, ( also. cobra kai. pq eles caem nas cobras djjs sorry) but did it need to take up that much time? feels like they couldve  done it in half the run time and developed some other stories better 

martin kove has such an evil eye. i love it

love that we get a good follow up to kreese breaks johnnys trophy and tries to CHOKE HIM in the parking lot, which happened in the movie and then....................... was never mentioned again

“the gang is all back together again” aaaa u piece of SHIT 

also. terry silver is definetely appearing ha ha ha PAIN i cant wait

seen ppl say kreese was too much of a cartoon villain like..........................oh......... sweetie........... u dont even Know

interested how johnny will fit into that bc kreese was simping rly hard for johnny here. like i did not expect him to be so adamant to have him with cobra kai ... under his control, sure, but he really wants johnny by his side despite already having control of the dojo and how will terry silver self appointed jon kreeses forever simp going to feel abt that? 

like bitchs dropping by every episode like ‘joooooohnny ..... come bacc to me joooonny......... this ur last warning! for real this time johnny! i wont say it again! watch me ! im leaving johnny! im rly leaving ! im dragging a chair” and johnny is just like. dont let the door hit ya bitch it was so funny pls

and on that subject oof, johnny! doesnt! Know! he doesnt get that side of daniels cobra kai trauma. and i kind of.............. cannot wait for ck 2021 johnny lawrence to meet terry silver like. what a shit show i need a front row seat and popcorn (imagine terry tries some greasy charm and johnny just roundhouse kicks him in the teeth bc he just doest Not Have the Patience for This. glorious)

feels like we, as a society, should acknowledge that cobra kai will never die................ bc their sense of design is just chefs kiss. their name is COBRA KAI. they have sexie sleeveless black gis. theyve sneks. colorful leather jackets with embroided naja insignia, the get ppl thru the aesthetics. evil geniuses

the flashback cuts : masterpiece behavior

the other takes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the differente angles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of the FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CLOSE UP ON JOHNNYS FACE AT THE KICK 

that scene of daniel and johnny vibing to 80s music in the car. just. oh my god. the fan wish fullfilment. no thoughts head empty.

the new characters! theyre .... good. but. idk. i really like miguel (save for the annoying phase mid s1 - end s2) and amanda, who is a damn riot and has some functioning braincells, but everyone else is       

like dont get me wrong, i dont hate anyone,its not a jane and rafael from jtv situation,  and i am interested and invested in their arcs, but i wouldnt say i like   Like them, as in, personality wise 

like, sams grappling with ptsd was rly gutting and i enjoyed that plus her slight rage issues, 

which nicely parallel torys rage issues. torys background is all over the place tho so im pretty on the fence abt her so far

robby deserves better in every way, and i like how smart and cunning and surprisingly sweet he is

hawk............... is there i guess,

 demetri is annoying in the best way possible,

 carmen is sweet but. i just feel like her character is blunted to make the johnny relationship easier. like when shes furious with him after miguels injury but then forgives him like an episode later? and then convinces him to fight for the tournament bc she had a karate epiphany off screen even tho she was always against it? meh. feels like with the plot thiccening she was swallowed and now shes like a crutch for johnny mora than anything, which is disappointing.

aisha was cool and im kinda mad she wasnt in s3, especially bc a storyline with her tory and sam was like RIGHT THERE , but also... cant say i was super super fond of her... doesnt feel like we ever spent enough time on her

moon the bi icon, 

overall its a good cast but the main draw for me remains the og cast 

the tory/sam miguel/robby Thing. enjoy how theyre Narrative Foils and i like how their stories were so dramatically entangled but oh god give me a break with the teenage love square for the love of god. if u gonna put us through that at least have the decency to not make it so straight

and honestly some sam/tory        miguel/robby romantic tension would even make more sense. just saying! 

also im not sure how i feel abt the cobra kai: red miyagi do: blue theyre going with since some of daniels most iconic looks in tkk are also red. like it was a color they (johnny and him) sorta shared. i get it, opposite but complementary but idk... a little too fire nation and water tribe for me .

 and like the cobra kai kids are so funny abt it bc their outifts grow progressively more ridiculously coordinated. its like do they group chat every morning before leaving their houses? 

robby still sticks out like that tho. he went thru an athleisure/daniel san tsleeves phase and now hes back in the bandts grunge, but his color scheme doesnt fully blend with the other cobra kais. hmmmm.

LOVED LOVED LOVED both the okinawa episode and the cobra kais easy rider episode just such good good heart aching fun

bobby is an icon. he was in tkk and he is now ck hope appears more and more

 tommy is like the most iconic background character. all his lines, freaking gold then and now. sigh :( 

the framing in the okinawa trip was so good everything was so good

i stand by the fact that kumiko was the love interest daniel had the most chemistry with and shes is overall such a joy to watch, loved to see her again, idola, fashion icon

also tkk ii is good u guys are just mean

also really enjoyed chozens role in the episode, his evolution; i love that they introduced the pressure points (ty lee the blueprint) and! the honk + karate! cousins! absolutely iconic

when kumiko reads mr miyagis letters........ oh my god, my eyes FILLED with tears, it was so heart wrenching :(( tamlyns delivery was so emotional and lovely and its so obvious everyone involved in ck has so much love and respect for pat morita and mr miyagi as character, and i adore that it exists like this electric current through the show

when we were watching i told my sister i thought that ali would be miguels big shot surgeon and ngl i am so disappointed that didnt happen. hire me cobra kai writers

also the johnny ali daniel amanda chemistry? off the charts

AND the sassy retconning of daniel and alis breakup! LMAO ‘I HOPE U DIDNT TELL MR MIYAGI IT WAS MY FAULT’ HFDJJGNKFKSD

i am preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty sure back injuries dont work like that    but oke

daniel and johnny are so good together whenever, like they never actually help the kids or get shit done and end up fighting anyway but its just so much fun when theyre hanging

JOHNNY LAWRENCE AND DANIEL LARUSSO FIGHTING TOGETHER

daniels “plan” on how to get robby to juvie was so stupid. literally were u TRYING to make him hate you. dumbass

parents at those hearing rly brave for ppl that did not do ANYTHING as their kids got involved in a karate gang war until now

“bullshit i heard u were the real bully!” i mightve screeched

this s3 ending was SO DRAMATIC omg

everyone is such a MESS go to THERAPY u unhinged motherfckers

also im sorry but uh. a richass neighborhood in california doesnt have some type of neighborhood watch? the larussos rly dont have any security at all? neighbors wont hear the sound of a damn karate brawl happening next door??? also wasnt tory all like ooo i cant go to juvie, my mom yada yada yet shes always running around town getting into fights even at the rich girls house she was kicked out of school for fighting??   ?  ??    ??        ?                ?    ?          ??                  ?    ? girl??

stop destroying the larussos house, its so pretty :((((

sam finding her center looking at mr miyagis picture...  uwu maybe

robby yelling ‘U ARE WEAAK’@  johnny \as he is easily blocking him is like.... so funny and so sad to me. sweetheart. 

also i know it was meant as ‘oh johnny pushes him and HURTS HIM’ but it just looks like robby runs himself into the lockers and IM SO SORRY I FEEL SO BAD BUT IT WAS SO FUNNY 

i like that he and tory are the cobra kai kids now. we need ppl we care abt there to not revert to a good vs evil schtick, and this is the most engaging it could be... tho it hurts that these kids cant catch a break

ah yes "lets bet some real shit on the result of this teen karate tournament bc that is always a great idea" is BACK

so daniel saves johnny from kreese..... maybe johnny will save him from terry 🧐

and dojos unite ohohoho. lets SEE how that’ll work out 

miguels face of Despair when the ck defectors and the md kids are bickering like 'this is never gonna work' : gold

also. Johnny Lawrence is gonna learn some myiagi-do karate AHAAHSJAKDFH

 ive been waiting for this moment all my lifeeee oh lawrd 

final thoughts! there are def things i hope the writers will improve on the next season, but i am very excited for it either way AND i feel like it has made me enjoy the movies even more and that is a win for a reboot/sequel to me!!

[levis-wings]

needed a little break in between reading summer rain and silent storms by @astridthevalkyrie to process the first book's ending. i thought going straight into silent storms would literally break me (like actually murder me lol)

yet, i was rendered pleasantly surprised.

i began reading silent storms during my commute to work. and lemme tell you, i haven't been wanting to go to work for a while now because it's been HECTIC (new ehr system is driving us all NUTS). i was also expecting to hold my tears in public (in fear of the angst of the ending of summer rain to bleed into silent storms' beginning). however, i spent like thirty minutes trying not to squeal with happiness and adoration, instead. it also just so happened that when i reached the first smut scene, i was still on my commute (fairly easy to hide my blush behind a mask though, thank god LOL). and by the time my commute to work finished, i was so energized by what i'd read, that i felt excited?? to walk into work??? like levi and oc's romance??? literally rejuvenated me LOL

the overall feel of silent storms, for me at least, was much lighter, fluffier than what summer rain was. don't get me wrong. it was a still massive fucking idiots to lovers, but the idiocy was adorable and tolerable. (mainly because i got to see what was going on in levi's head, which was an AMAZING touch.) i didn't wanna rip out my heart and cry at any point of the story; instead, i wanted to scream and dance with joy 99.9% of the time. i cannot emphasize HOW WELL the emotions, the feelings, the butterflies are written. i feel like i'm feeling love for the first time reading what the characters are going through and not many pieces of media can actually make me feel something

it's the way in which the thoughts are written so... realistically. you hear the characters' doubts, their wishes, their fears. you see what they hide from the other, what they pick and choose to share. you see what they secretly struggle with and what the other assumes of them. and every single one of their reactions/thoughts feels organic to me. also very true to character

[spoilers]

i think this was in chapter one. but this fucking quote:

"The tea is just as bad as last time, if not worse, but he dutifully drinks it all, as she makes herself at home in his office and starts talking his ear off about the many unhealthy effects of insomnia and why does she care why is she looking at him like that what's the matter with her why doesn't she just shut the fuck up for once why is she so pretty—"

the moment i read the latter part, my heart flew out of my chest. it's fucking adorable the way he can barely have a linear thought because he's so whipped for her. i can't even explain with words how HAPPY i was to see how he had felt through all of this

let's also talk about the fucking character development. oc out there pulling uno reverse cards. i think she's the kind of person who grows and learns from others. she takes each person's word to account AND she is aware of this (also the reason she tries to avoid telling levi about important life choices she knows he'll try to talk her out of). sometimes, her inner demons get the best of her. she's complex. (i had an inkling of this is summer rain but more of her childhood was explained in silent storms and the puzzle pieces just fit.) she likes to think that she lives for herself. degrades herself into thinking she's selfish (though honestly, there's nothing wrong with looking out for yourself). but i think it's natural for her to also look out for the people she cares for. her way of caring is listening. and taking in the information they tell her. it's just the cherry on top of her already lovable character. anyways, after understanding her character better, for a while, i suspected she'd somehow(?) try to join the scouts. i was very surprised (and supportive) of her decision to do so as well!

in summer rain, i thought she wasn't ready to be a scout yet. but clearly, she's had quite a few epiphanies and they'd led her to believe in herself. she's totally ready now

i still can't believe i went in thinking i'd fall for levi more and came out falling for the female lead help??

levi's sweet moments sprinkled throughout?? the fic?? killed me.

" 'I'm glad,' he confesses to her, 'I'm happy you didn't join the Scouts. I ... want you to be safe.' "

there are moments like this where he speaks his truth... but it's so tender, so sweet that it's just almost out of pocket. but at this point, he should just fucking say the opposite of what he wants for oc because she'll do the thing he doesn't want her to do, anyways

and listen when he said:

" 'Your mother didn't do her best,' he says honestly, 'you did.' "

i very much did cry inside. and the fact that this left oc speechless. like same, babe, same. it's these rare moments of sweetness that leave me feeling giddy. i don't expect it at all, so when it just comes out, i get so caught off guard LOL

my favorites scenes HAD to be when they had a full-on verbal fight in front of oc's date LMAO, when levi initiated their second kiss, when petra convinced oc to join the special operations squad, when levi and oc finally fucking decided to make something fucking official and then he proceeds to pull out a list of rules from nowhere. hilarious

their constant bickering and dialogue is just *chef's kiss.* never exactly read a couple with better chemistry. i'm also the type of person to like the chase but loathe the aftermath of a couple finally getting together. but fucking goddammit, with these two, i know it'll never get boring. it's also because they tend to banter a lot and i'm that bitch who ships dramione and zutara so you know i like the drama

ALSO?? ERWIN?? when i was watching aot, my friend told me she thought erwin was a 'bad' character. i asked her why she felt that way. she told me because he had no depth to his character—that he was plain. i disagreed. i think erwin (along with levi and eren) is arguably one of the most complex characters in aot, and this fic just brings it out sooooo well! there's just?? something in me?? that makes me believe erwin is SUS of levi and oc. also the fact that he remains a mystery to oc too. she's always questioning the relationship erwin has with levi and even that in it itself makes the man 10 times more enigmatic. i absolutely love it

and the smut. goodbye. i only expected one scene. i was given like... i can't even count because i can't do math when i'm excited lol. but it was much more than what i expected and i was LIVING for it. something about levi letting go of control????????? please. didn't think subby levi would be my cup of tea but i guess i was proven wrong. i'm not even mad

i forgot to say in my last review. but listen. oc liking milk makes me feel so validated. like i literally do not know a single fucking real-life person who likes drinking plain milk like me. and yes, people have poked fun at my habit. BUT SEEING OC DRINKING HER PLAIN MILK SO UNAPOLOGETICALLY. GODDAMN. plain milk drinkers rise 😩😩

but i also need levi to teach oc how to make good tea tho. like girly, you add hot water and a good amount of tea leaves 🤨 what are you getting wrong?

anyways, i've said way too much again. but i can't help but get excited when i come across such a great work of art. though i admit i'm terrified going into warmth. i don't think i'm ready to see the show's events unfolding... because when petra dies i will fucking cry. it's funny because when i first watched aot, i didn't even know who petra fucking was until AFTER she got squashed... yikes. but the more i learn about her character (in aot and in this particular setting), the more i like her

i always end up having some sort of stupid side character syndrome. in aot, i focused on levi/hange/erwin and sasha/connie/jean. and now even in a whole ass fanfiction ABOUT levi, i'm fantasizing about petra and erwin??? huh???

i hope things go well for levi and oc in the future. i'm not ready to see the shit go down in warmth though 😭

[uglybrother]

this is for ivy, @purdymow44 everyone else, keep walkin!!

i’m not saying i ship cockles, i’m saying i think it’s real. i have no opinion on their relationship subjectively. this is objective fact-gathering LMAO. so here are the most convincing pieces of Evidence~~ (bolding the most damning)

So Misha Is Clearly Queer. Jackles is Queer Too.

so this panel moment. Jackles literally falls over laughing at the idea that Misha could be straight. They make eye contact and smile -_- 

leg pop. hhhhhh

so he’s willing to do gay p*rn. -__- 

jarpad accidentally outing jensen

UPDATE 2/15: the EXTREME vague language, including lack of pronouns, when talking about "the one"

They Look Married ???

Eyes Like the Sky beer ughhhh

matching rings that misha wears on the same finger as his wedding ring.

misha's own mother knows about and participates in fueling the cockles fire

it's a family friendly story, jensen assures jarpad

celebrating their ten year anniversary

And They Make So Many Sex Jokes It’s Annoying

hiii Goodbye Stranger gag reel :-))

enough with the blow job motion we get it (the link on ‘enough,’ the bottom right gif, right after that is when Misha says ‘I think I have PTSD’)

he can’t think of anything appropriate to say huh. 

butt sex joke :/ i’m so sorry ivy. 

i hate jackles so much.

jackles showing his underwear to misha on stage -____- i can't find the right post now, that set missed this moment, but apparently what he said to misha that wasn't audible was "i'm beary horny" (based on amateur lip-reading so take with a spoonful of salt)

there is just so much going on here i don't know what to explain. first there's the "i enjoy showing my crotch to you." then there's "let's see how deep it goes." and then he spreads his legs like that and when misha tells him to stop he does it AGAIN and says "pick a leg." HUH?? what is going on

freud would look at this and say "see??"

"he would ride me all day"

jensen is very "submissive" which is a comment misha has said a FEW times

jared is always making jokes about them being together and shit, but jensen almost always just ignores it. but here's an instance where he actually escalates the joke

Awkward Teenage Dating Stage

yknow how people love to embarrass their crushes. context: he tweeted this picture at 1:11 AM saying "jensen jus let me take this picture of him shirtless" and then immediately deleted the picture. but the tweet with the (broken) link is still up. :?

yknow how people act super enthusiastic around their crushes or teases them a bit too hard, when everyone else around them acts normal abt it? exhibits A and B and C

yknow how you try to impress your crush by taking on aspects of their personality so they like u more? so that u are more like them? exhibits A and B

blushing and giggling n shit 🙄

they recreated the scene from Hitch, and Jensen was blushing n smiling n shit 🙄 this was after he was in a shitty mood and they had to bring misha on stage to cheer him up. (they did NOT have to go that far/hard w/ the fake kiss tho)

getting jealous when your crush gives attention to someone else

when u want to show affection to ur crush but don't want it to be too obvious so u show affection to EVERYONE !

"what's a boy to do?"

literally wots all this. spoiler alert??? "you look really nervous" ??

now i could excuse one weird almost-kiss thing, but TWO??

How Much of Destiel is Just Cockles Bleeding Through??

they are proud of their chemistry -__-

hiii Goodbye Stranger gag reel :)

I’m Just Tender and Yearning

kissing :( 

laughing together :( 

banter and playful fighting :(

get someone who looks at you like—

teddy bear and puppy :(

touching :( plus jensens little smile in bottom right :(

Does This Tinhat Make Me Look Sexy?

misha is ALMA! plus u can look at the photos i posted on IG to see more examples lolll

Miscellaneous??

Misha obviously knows about all the theorizing. his mom actually sent him that link lmao. it just makes one wonder.

not only is jensen down to make a "european" (gay porn) film, he also wants to do a western romcom with misha specifically

[toneelspeelster]

een klein leven/a little life theatre play review

someone asked me for a review on the a little life (een klein leven) stage play, and since i’ve seen it just today - here it is. i have a feeling it’s gonna be long.

now, one thing you have to know is that i think a little life is supremely difficult to translate into any medium. it’s very much a stream-of-consciousness experience, with flashbacks back and forth and imagery that i think wouldn’t at least work at all in a television or film adaptation. i think the best way of adapting it is theatre and this play did confirm that thought. it’s very close to the book language wise, and although i read it in english - i recognised literal passages in dutch. they translated long passages detailing each character’s background in long monologues and didn’t make it too difficult; it was all rather minimalistic. this play felt like reading the book. i think theatre is the only medium that explores the idea of “tell a lot, and show” a lot, whereas television benefits from “show, not tell” more. that said, i do think it’s kind of necessary to have some knowledge of the novel when watching this play. the flashbacks back and forth and still included, so when we think we’re done with brother luke after caleb, he still reappears. 

now, the play is set in the middle of a huge auditorium with tribunes on either side. what i found most striking of it is that they didn’t really change a lot of the sets, rather, everyone’s place was clearly there through the entire play. to the left were jb’s studio with his paintings (actual paintings! kinda ugly tho), malcolm with his miniatures (he was building them throughout the play), to the right were andy’s treatment room and harold’s kitchen (harold made actual dishes throughout the play that he distributed amongst the audience); in the middle, in the picture you can see willem’s space: a chair with a telephone and scripts (the actual script of the play was there! the actor was marking andy’s lines, lol) and lastly, most poignantly, since all of the characters had their space which made them happy.. there was jude’s: a lone faucet in the middle of the stage, surrounded by a red floor. 

now for the characters: there were rather little changes (you only got to know willem had a deceased brother at the very end, all of the wives and girlfriends were cut) but the most important i think are:

- jude is portrayed as way more angry and sarcastic at times than i remember him being. but then i do think that’s the consequence of bringing it to stage; the extremes need to be pronounced. he kept screaming his lungs out for brother luke and later willem not to leave him (amazing scene was when he kept screaming willem don’t leave me, but then turned around and actually interacted with willem and told him to go with a smile on his face). his sarcasm actually brought some levity too as he had quite funny reactions sometimes (even when they were heartbreaking). jude only had 1 costume change into his suit and then was in it for the rest of play, which was striking, his white shirt kept getting redder with blood (they made his cutting very visual. luckily i was close and saw he was just cutting into small blood patches but damn) and it drying up. it was a visual reminder that in essence, things didn’t change for jude; others did get costume changes to reflect the changing times. for jude the wounds were always there, bleeding to the outside, to his shirt. 

- ana, his social worker, keeps reappearing as jude’s conscience sometimes. he talks to her often and she replies. she’s the voice convincing him that willem isn’t the same as the rest of the men he’s been with. she’s the voice telling him to run when dr. traylor starts his car. she’s looking out for him, even after death. she also sometimes serves as a narrator, especially when jude tells willem about his past. 

- luke, caleb and traylor were all portrayed by the same actor (who is one of the best stage actors in the netherlands, mind you). he only changed little things about his outfit. i thought this was a fucking inspiring move - it only emphasises the fact that all the men hurting jude throughout his life; they are always the same kind of man. it doesn’t really matter who they are, it matters what they did.

- jb’s storyline was entirely the same as in the book (except for talking about his family) but the actor was great, especially heartbreaking when the guys try to intervene during his crystal meth addiction and he mimicks jude’s walk. terrible. malcolm, as in the book, was completely underused. andy was good, harold was sometimes a little off like the actor wasn’t having his day? but i loved his cooking and him bringing it around. they finished on his “and i try to be kind to everything i see, and in everything i see.. i see him”. 

and then, the portrayal of the abuse and love jude experienced:

not going to lie, this was very visual. they made it clear from the beginning that they were going kind of for realism; the cooking, the actors were actually smoking weed on stage and drinking beers, jude actually cut himself and it had to be cleaned up every time. the actors portraying jude and luke, caleb and traylor had some intense scenes together and jude was nude multiple times (the caleb throwing him outside on the pavement scene especially was horrific). although the sexual abuse is visualised it is done so very suggestively though.

the chemistry between the four guys was great and willem (maarten heijmans) and jude (ramsey nasr, also a famous dutch poet) were as expected amazing. willem was always kind, always supportive. after a few hours of horribleness, the night of jude telling willem everything (flashback to dr. traylor happened here) ended with willem dancing for jude, trying to cheer him up (doing the worm and all) and it was so so so sweet with jude crying but cheering him on, and with willem convincing jude to dance with him a little and they just hugged and hugged. willem was very tactile. you could see jude felt very loved in that moment. 

unfortunately, it came to an end when willem died. for a dialogue/monologue heavy play this was where jude stopped talking, the only one on stage just sitting in his chair. and oh my, they had willem - after delivering his final moments - come back and wash his hands and move a vase of flowers without speaking; as if jude was imagining willem still being around sometimes. heartbreaking. 

as was the case in the book, the stage play ends with harold’s perspective, and the interesting idea was that harold and jude were on stage, until the moment where jude killed himself, when a huge black square thing that was hanging on the ceiling slowly moved downwards and obstructed the audience’s view. when lifted again, only jude’s wheelchair remained. 

in conclusion, a 3,5 hour tour de force of theatre. i had some inklings of things i would’ve done differently (sometimes ana was a bit too much there for my liking but she was also the only woman on stage lol) but overall this was a great adaptation. knowing ita and the popularity of the play i am going to assume they will tour this adaptation internationally eventually. they are actually doing it in paris in june already. can’t imagine that being the end. if you love the book, you will love this adaptation.  

tagging @poetrysocks​ @ivory-in-rapture @canonicallyanxious​ bc i know you people were interested!

[prince-toffee]

So you know the way the attack on the Salineas is a big deal... except that it’s not.

So, let’s talk about the character progression of Mermista, or lack there of.

So, lesbian cat and transgender bat destroy your city, and commit mass murder and seemingly annihilate half of your population. And so Mermista is sad. And the way grief is handled is strange, because if you watched those clips that showed Mermista depressed without context, you’d think she lost a puppy, not a kingdom. And so this is clearly the writers saying:

Alright, this show isn’t all about Catradora. There are other characters we can explore. They chose Mermista and the damage is done. Now, we need to see how she deals with those emotions. And it’s funny because we deal with such harrowing and terrible actions and results in a *sigh* musical episode...

Her boyfriend sings for a bit and Mermista gains the strength of will and at the end of the episode she is no longer sad, she’s fine now. She strikes a heroic pose and declares she’ll fight to avenge her kingdom, which, honestly, is great and heart warming and enjoyable. And so Mermista is fine now, she was sad, but now she’s good.

Until Entrapta joins the team. Because then she’s angry and sad again, because Entrapta made weapons for the Horde, and the Horde were the ones that murdered a bunch of her people. But then Entrapta does a thing that helps them progress, and so Mermista is fine again, and not angry, and even wraps her arm around Entrapta, (you know the same way you hold and are about to give a noogie to a younger sibling, even tho Entrapta is older than her, in her thirties, why is she treated and interacted with like this? shut up, that’s why) and Entrapta cries for no reason because there is no history or chemistry between these characters and it literally makes no sense. I guess Entrapta gets over emotional for no reason randomly. I don’t know. It’s probably just allergies.

And so they go on their merry way. But the weird thing is when, later in the season, Catra and Hordak join the disney princess discord group.... nothing. Catra gets punched for comedic relief and then five seconds later all is good. The whole view of they killed my people is thrown out the window and substituted with, you guessed it folks - a fucking joke.

Mermista pointed with a thumb behind her “aRe WE okay wITh tHiS?” And then a laugh track plays in the background and everybody hugs and laughs. End scene.

So. Ladies, gentlemen and others present, of the jury, I ask you:

What. The Fuck. Was The Point. Of All Of That.

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THE POINT!!!!??!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!

Why WASTE an entire episode pestering, demeaning and obnoxiously annoying Entrapta, making it a ‘big deal’ ‘serious business’ if you were going to TURN IT INTO A FUCKING JOKE!!!!!

You have selective memory or something?

---

Also side bitching rant. I cannot believe how black and white that criticising Entrapta scene is. You know, considering that Entrapta is supposedly amoral grey morality mad-scientist there is not even a sliver of grey morality present at all.

Like, I get the fact that Mermista and the Princesses are unhinged because Salineas was destroyed and whatever. And they say she betrayed them. But like... they don’t know each other. So what the fuck is the betrayal part about? And I HATE the fact that Entrapta doesn’t defend herself. She’s spoken to like a child, unaware of a bad thing they did. It’s awful. Entrapta’s age and wisdom doesn’t shine through, she doesn’t school them. She just does nothing. Like she doesn’t go like:

“Oh and do you think that my weapons would rain hugs and kisses if I had made them for you?”

I bet that if Entrapta had joined the Alliance earlier in the series the show would’ve ended with Entrapta’s army of bots just annihilating the FrightZone, everything’s exploding, the bots are mowing and cutting people in half - good ol Billy who joined the Horde to fight against the undemocratically elected rich supernatural powered superhuman teenagers with hormonal aggression which have no idea how to rule there kingdoms because they’re kids with messiah complexes, is now bleeding with a huge laser hole in his chest his last thoughts are of his husband and kid who he promised he’d go bowling with tomorrow to compensate for his late night shift, and he passes away in flame and rubble...

And then in the distance the Princesses are high-fiving and hugging and Entrapta (being the naïve stupid baby that she is according to season five) is none the wiser. She was no idea she did anything wrong. She did the right thing, because the fish princess said so.

[fart-gate]

SG1

Season 1 episode 18

'ICE ICE BABY'

Nah I'm playin

"SOLITUDES"

Notes by me

- I swear this gate is so goddamn cool

- woa what happened

- did they get stuck in the gate vortex thing?

- wait did tealc throw Daniel thru the gate first. To make sure he got to safety

- me looking at Sam and jacks surroundings

- tealc DID throw Daniel thru first to protect him 🤗

- ice planet????

- this is alot of hurt!Jack

- and I'm not ok

- no DHD :\

- anyone got a blow torch? Flamethrower? I'll even take a cigarette lighter at this point

- "we're in trouble"

- 9 broken bones on a mission once???? Skull fractures???? How r u even alive

- doctor!Sam

- Jack reassuring her that they will get out of this 💗

- love these scenes being just the two of them. RDA and amanda tapping have perfect chemistry. Their acting just compliments each other so much

- wakey wakey Daniel

- sleepy!Daniel ☺

- alright Sam chill out with all the logic

- "captain!"

"........i think too much"

- P48771 is the planet they were trying to get away from in the beginning

- Daniels brain going heywire trying to figure out what happened

- "my melted ice is to die for"

- Sam is trying her best😭 caretaker!Sam

- Daniel and sam need to connect their brains telepathically so they can figure this out. I dont care how far away from each other you are

- a dead jaffa?

- coughing up blood! Not good!

- Daniel and Sam coming to the same conclusion 😌

- oh shit the gates broke

- sam and Jack being hopeless :(

- theyre never gonna dig the dhd out in time

- huddling for warmth 👀

- like Jack wakes up and Sam is literally on top of him lol

- "its my sidearm I swear" AKDBEKSSN

- i mean they have the otp vibes!!!

- no regrets! god T H E Y

- sams tiny "ow!" When she slides down the ice lol

- "I'll race you" good thing Jack will never lose his sense of humor even when hes probably dying

- TEALC NOT GIVING UP ON HIS BEST FRIENDS 😤😤😤😤

- what??? Hammond come on man they are so close

- sam got it working!!!

- okay maybe not!!!

- Daniel had his eyes on tho. his little brain wheels are turning

- "sam" ❤❤

- wait theyre on earth. Are you kidding me

- where are they??? Antarctica ??? Fucking?????Greenland???

- oh my god thats right the goauld didnt build the gates. So they wouldnt know there was another one.

- I dont want to watch Jack die no thanks!!!

- DANIEL MY BOY FIGURING IT OUT LIKE A BAD BITCH!! HOT GIRL SHIT!!

- *looks at tealc* "what happens when you dial your own phone number?........ wrong person to ask"

- IT WAS ANTARCTICA !!! WHY DIDNT THEY JUST ASK THE PENGUINS FOR HELP

- "general, permission to-"

- there they gooooo

- she thinks its an ice planet. She thinks shes alone :(

- oh shit is he dead. Does Jack die in this series no thank you

- oh hes alive jeez dont scare me like that

- both of them giving up 😩 "I'm here jack" BYE WORLD

- they literally think theyre gonna die.

- general hammond going PERSONALLY to make sure his kids are ok

- well now they have TWO gates!!! Wonder what they are going to do with the other one hhhmmmm

~

Whump under the cut

Jack Oniell whump: unconscious, broken leg, noises! , emotional, weak, cracked ribs, coughing up blood, bleeding internally, being fed, hypothermia

Sam carter whump: unconscious , caretaker for jack, emotional, worried, hypothermia , hopelessness

Daniel jackson whump: thrown through the gate, unconscious , hospital scene, disoriented , bandage on forehead

Tealc whump: falls through gate, hospital scene, arm in sling? , worried

No glasses!Daniel for a few seconds at the end of the episode

🎶listening to Season Suite: Winter by John Denver🎶 for Sam and Jack in ice cave almost dying 😌

[trash-the-tozier]

losers club + marching band hcs

I was thinking about trombone playing mike hanlon and got super carried away so i’ll put this under a cut

bill - was told that clarinet seemed to suit him best when testing what instrument to play but picked saxophone instead bc it was cooler  - switches to tenor saxophone after sophomore year - is always sunburned - is a section leader by his senior year and takes his job very seriously - kind of - he still gets into plume fights with richie after halftime shows at football games (and stan yells and chases them because you're not supposed to touch the plumes without gloves tHOSE ARE REAL FEATHERS) - he's never ever had to sit out/gone to the med tent and he's very proud of that fact - even that one time that he really should have bc he tripped and skinned both of his knees rly bad and was bleeding all over himself - has a saxophone solo during the ballad his senior year - has the most supportive family ever - they're that group of people that yells "we love you bill!" in the silence after the announcer but before the band starts - all of the freshmen really love him and give him a special present at band banquet senior year

​beverly - she's a cymbal girl! - talks a lot during practice but she's sneaky about it so she doesn't get in trouble - usually wears those tank tops with really long cutouts down the sides and a colorful sports bra - learns drill really fast - always wears sunglasses - gets a really bad sunglasses tan on her face like reverse raccoon eyes completely outlined in new freckles - hypes everyone up by yelling encouragements when practice gets slow - reminds all her friends to stay hydrated - she's the main reason the percussion bus is always called the party bus - always ropes the losers into going to mcdonalds or ihop after football games - is somehow always the first person in the band hall on competition days, even if report time is something super early like 4am - requests the cha cha slide at band banquet and even the band director joins in

ben - plays bassoon during concert season - double reed instruments can't march tho so the band director asks him to march sousaphone because he's so Big and Strong  - the sousaphone is heavy as all heck and at first ben really isn't sure about this - he gets the hang of it - he even starts learning how to play it a little bit - by the end of the season he's good enough to play in the show - by the end of high school he's a master at both instruments - has a farmer's tan so strong that richie claims it probably has magic powers - the low brass and the battery are always really close to each other so he and bev always race each other to their water jugs and back during water breaks - bev usually wins - sometimes richie will help and hold bev back so ben can get to his spot first - ben asks beverly to band banquet freshman year and she says yes, and they go to it together all four years

mike - plays trombone and is amazing - becomes the trombone section leader his sophomore year - becomes a drill instructor for the entire low brass his junior year - is head drum major his senior year - his salute before their performance is fierce - he likes being drum major but he found actually marching in the show to be more fun - plans on going to school to be a music teacher but wants to do some drum corps first - (he makes it into madison scouts for a year, then goes to carolina crown) - he, beverly, and bill get really into the football games - is on the uniform committee with stan and mostly tries to keep stan from yelling at the freshmen when they hang up their pants wrong - he's literally always in a practice room, even when the band hall is supposed to be closed - he and richie always imitate that 'dad on trombone, kid on oven' vine (richie's snare drum sounds enough like an oven) when they're walking back inside from practice bc it makes bev laugh

stan - first chair flute player - his marching technique is impeccable but he never tries out for a leadership position so he never gets one - complains a lot about the heat or his feet hurting or being sweaty - still prefers marching season to concert season tho bc he hates his private lesson teacher - she's the reason he threatens to quit every year (he never actually does) - he's the head of the uniform committee and actually does take that job very seriously - all the freshmen go to other members of the committee for uniform checks because stan gets scary - "how fucking hard is it to make sure that when you hang your uniform jacket there's one shoulder pad on each side of the hanger???" jfc - if they're on a bus going somewhere, stan is definitely asleep - stan's favorite sets in the show are the ones where he's close enough to see bill out of the corner of his eye - he somehow trips on the power cord for the synthesizer almost every day - cries after his last performance

richie - percussion obvs - plays in the battery instead of the pit, and is on the snare drum - ends up becoming center snare player his senior year - turns out he and mike have amazing chemistry and the band is never out of time from the battery ever again - he loves doing rim shots rly late at night when they're coming back inside after games/performances and everyone curses at him - has passed out/nearly passed out on the field at least once every year because of heat exhaustion - threw up the first day of practice freshman year because he had cereal for breakfast - is one of those boys that refuses to cut his hair, so beverly has to put it up or braid it before they have performances to keep it all inside of his shako - is always the one to get in trouble for PDA because nobody believes him when he says that no really eddie started it, he was the one kissing me it's not my fault - (doesn't complain tho) - gets extremely competitive at marching competitions - has worn the same ratty pair of tennis shoes all four years

eddie - doesn't play an instrument! is in the colorguard - good on flag, best on rifle, doesn't do sabre much - every single lowerclassmen (and some upperclassmen) are afraid of eddie "step on my silk and i will kill you" kaspbrak - wears a bandana, a fanny pack, and short shorts to practice - is the kid in the band with the insane watch tan (the skin underneath looks fucking translucent) - no one is ever sure if he'll be there or not next year because his mom always wants him to quit - argues with ben about swing flags whenever they're put in the show (ben thinks they're pretty, eddie things the choreo for them is way too boring) - is the best in the guard at show makeup but can't help with hair to save his life - had a wild time at band banquet he loved it - tried to teach richie how to do drop spins on a rifle one time but richie somehow hit himself in the face and broke his glasses

[cluebottles]

Consuming Avatar: The Last Airbender for the First Time...

... at 23 years old. 

**Some Major Spoilers Ahead for Plot Lines and the Ending -- If you haven’t seen Avatar: The Last Air Bender I highly suggest you watch it before you read

[Before I begin: I live in America. Currently and since the “founding” of our country, minorities have not been treated as equal -- Black people in our country have been treated as less than human and have been brutally murdered at the hands of the police and the hands of our governing system of racist oppression since the beginning. It’s still happening. It will continue to happen if we ignore this, if we give up, if we push forward without enacting change. Be safe when you are protesting. Educate people who might not understand. Use your platform to speak out, to share information and resources. Donate if you can. Here’s some resources: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ ] Alright, so the spoiler alert is out there in the open and I’ve addressed our current situation, I guess we should jump in with a little back story of my history with Avatar. As a kid, I never watched it. I still pretended to water bend in the pool -- Avatar transcended more than just television. The idea of controlling the elements around you was magnificent enough to bleed into that weird group of kids who never watched it growing up. I also had one Avatar video game that I barely played...because I didn’t watch the show...so I didn’t know what was going on. Trying to watch something and be caught up as a kid without streaming services was just impossible, so I’m lucky to not only have the complete box sets now, but we’re all lucky Netflix has graced us with the story to binge-watch.

I want to first start off and say that overall I highly enjoyed this show. Everyone I knew has praised it as being an important character building experience that made them the person they are today -- and while I can understand that, and some of that is not only important and moving, I’m also here to criticize that, just a little bit. 

Let’s start off with the characters and story-- both of which mostly fantastic. I mean, Uncle Iroh is a phenomenon I’d only heard of and honestly had to think he was overrated until I fell in love with him on screen.   

I think Uncle Iroh is also a very important character because he shows an important and believable character growth -- he was a war criminal. He was pushing forward, killing innocent people as he attempted to conquer the great Earth Nation city Ba Sing Se. His son was killed in the war he was raging, and he gave up and went home and over years has worked on himself to have the wisdom he is known for and astounding character growth. “But didn’t he save the last two dragons?” ...you can do a good thing while also doing other bad things. Lmfao. He is constantly trying to steer his nephew, Zuko, in a more positive direction, while also providing scattered support to the Aang Gang more than once throughout the entirety of the series. (RIP to Uncle Iroh’s original voice actor, Mako Iwamatsu, and I praise the beautiful story dedicated to him in Uncle Iroh’s tale, an episode that made me cry once I realized it was a dedication to him.)

Let’s contrast this to these two -- both having the least believable character growth(s? ses? ???) I’ve ever seen.  

Everyone says “that ZUKO CHARACTER GROWTH ARC THO” and I just... I don’t have the same energy for it. Maybe it’s my most unpopular opinion on this show? But ... it’s just so rushed. I do think this series ended too soon, and I know it goes beyond just this show in comics, but as a consumer of just this show, it was flat to me. “I MUST HAVE THE AVATAR” to “I MUST HELP THE AVATAR SAVE THE WORLD” but a majority of him in this series has been the former while the last season, really, has been the latter. We stan reassessment and learning and bettering the world, but some of the first times he’s helped the Avatar has been for his own personal gain because he wants the glory so he can go home to his abusive family. I wish he would have been given more time to have a more realistic turnaround, because the beginning and the end are there -- it’s just a weird muddled middle that doesn’t make sense to me. The same with the hatred of his father. We’re not given much between “I NEED TO RESTORE MY HONOR AND COME HOME TO MY FATHER” and “I WILL HELP THE AVATAR KILL YOU” and I think that’s a shame. 

Mai... I just... I can’t even.. like I don’t know where to begin on how underwhelming her betrayal of Azula is. Like yes, it has shock value, but besides the shock value, to me, it’s unbelievable. Yes, she has had a crush on Zuko since they were kids, but she’d been closer to Azula than him for most of her life. Even in the EPISODE where she does this betrayal she has very little time alone with Zuko. He tricks her and traps her in his cell, and just moments before this she’s accusing him of going against her and their entire nation. In scenes we see them together before this she’s broken up with him and shouted at him, they’ve gotten into fights, a lot, and she’s seen talking about the perks of dating a prince, relishing in the fact that she gets them too. To me her betrayal is unbelievable. I don’t hate her at all though! I honestly just think she needed more screen time so that we could be shown her doubts about the Fire Nation and how strong her relationship to Zuko actually is. 

I guess it’s time for another unpopular opinion -- I can’t stand Sokka and Yue. They don’t have chemistry. Yue is literally engaged to a dickbag and instead of doing what was best for her, she was going to just go through with it. Also, Yue and Sokka don’t know each other that well nor have they known each other for that long, whereas Suki met Sokka first. Suki and Sokka have a natural chemistry. Sokka takes Suki for granted, a lot, but they’re fantastic. 

Cluebottles’ Top Ten Favorite Character List

Uncle Iroh

Sokka 

Toph

Suki

Avatar Roku

Appa & Momo

Avatar Kiyoshi

Katara

Aang

Zuko

Now, we know Uncle Iroh preaches humility, growth, peace and harmony. And while a lot of the time I would agree, there are some times where I don’t. Here is my biggest criticism of the show: love doesn’t conquer all, and Avatar: The Last Airbender sloppily tries to enforce that it does ‘til the awkward end of the series.

I understand that this is a children’s show. However, the fact that it’s about war and multiple people have died during the show (even if it wasn’t always outright shown), I don’t think killing the Fire Lord would have been unwarranted. If anything, it’s another show that pushes “no matter what be the bigger person”, “no matter what, love is the only way”, “you can’t fight hatred with hatred”, which ultimately does not work, and furthers the bullying of people or the oppression of people. 

Aang is supposed to save the world, and when it comes down to it, he can’t kill the Fire Nation’s Leader, Lord Ozai, who is the third in straight succession to lead the assault on conquering the other nations. A war of 100 years ends “peacefully” -- except for all of the people who lost their lives fighting for their family and freedom against the Fire Nation. 

Aang seeks council from his previous Avatar incarnations -- and each of them tell him to take out the Fire Lord for the good of the world. That’s Aang’s only job as the Avatar -- to keep the balance and work for the good of the world. 

Instead of him bringing down the swift hand of justice, Aang learns how to bend energy (wtf?) at the literal last minute from a giant lion turtle so that he can bend the energy (again, wtf?) out of Ozai and take his bending power away. Even when the kid gets the snot knocked out of him and the Avatar state takes over, Aang stops it. And then he bends the energy (wtf x3) out of Ozai successfully even though the turtle tells him it can corrupt him entirely if he does it wrong, that it’s extremely hard to do, and even though he’s never practiced doing it.

Iroh was a war criminal. He reformed himself and helped the community he hurt when he really never had to. Zuko has his own “character development arc” where he goes from being bad to goodish to bad again to okay to bad to finally  good. He’s a kid, he’s still learning, and has changed drastically for the better.  Azula...Azula had been struggling with some form of mental illness/psychosis since she was a small child even into adulthood. She’s hateful and dangerous, but not only is she still a kid -- she should be (and is) locked up so she can’t ever hurt anyone again. 

Fire Lord Ozai is an adult, fully aware of his actions, has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in his wake trying to take over territories and kill other benders, enslave them, and imprison them. Even when confronted by the Avatar, resistance, and his own son peacefully, not only does he start the violence in retaliation, but he doesn’t learn from being shown compassion. He is literally already a war criminal, there should be no compassion left for anyone to show him. My point being that there’s a stark difference between him and others who may have been like him. 

So in the end, the big message that this sends to me is that you should always show love and compassion. Never resort to violence. Be the “bigger person”, like I mentioned above, and like I said this doesn’t translate to real life. I think a huge reason why I feel I need to criticize this and other children’s shows that push this message is that we are being fed this narrative at a young age while we’re being bullied, while we’re facing hatred from others whether it’s because of the color of our skin, our gender, our sexuality -- we are expected to always be the “better person”. Our problems will somehow amicably be fixed by love. We shouldn’t actively be trying to dismantle a system taking advantage of and killing minorities, all I have to do is be nice. As we grow that feeds into our naive outlook on protesting and rioting, our outlooks on lawmaking and leadership. “Well they just made their whole movement look bad” “You should never resort to violence” -- meanwhile the police have been murdering black people for years and years, and people have been “peacefully protesting” that. Rioting was what got freedoms for several different movements, whether it’s worker’s rights, lgbt+ rights, the "civil rights act”, rioting is what literally got the USA the “freedom” to begin with. 

In the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang is gifted at the last moment with the ability to take away Lord Ozai’s power and ultimately, have a peace restored without violence. In the real world, you cannot take away the power of war criminals and oppressors because they have the power in a system stacked against you. So trying to answer such a huge life question, trying to end a war in the real world, trying to take down oppressors -- showing them love and trying to fumble it on your own sense of humility does nothing. 

I watched this show unfold and finish moments before I watched people take to the streets to protest yet another black life lost by the hands of police brutality and systemic racsim. Watching George Floyd die just for being black in America, knowing all of the black lives lost every day just because they are black in America to then look at a show that tries to push a message like “love conquers all”, “violence is unnecessary”, just makes me angry because we live in a world where these sentiments, though nice, don’t exist.

That being said, I’m glad this show meant a lot to people, because it did mean a lot to me too. For some reason, it gives me a strange sense of hope. This is probably my favorite show and I’m watching it again after just finishing it. If you haven’t watched it, there are a lot of lessons that can be learned to positively affect you and make you take a step back and re-evaluate, and maybe implement some of Uncle Iroh’s wisdom into your life.  

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Warframe personalities from how I see them, by my first glance at them.

Heads up, this is a long post. Enjoy~!

Ash: Aloof mofo with a stabbing habit. could rob you of all your money in texas hold ‘em. Too much damn side eye. Kills everyone is the room, then breaks for coffee like nothing happened. Ninja who steals the last slice of cake from the fridge.

Atlas: would kick your ass then be your best bro. is dead inside? somewhat likely but can’t tell anymore. makes shitty jokes. I get he’s a one punch man stone golem, but c’mon, the guy gives pretty good hugs.

Banshee: Resting bitch face, but is sound sensitive so she has a reason. Most likely up to god knows what hours listening to music enjoying synethesia sensations. Knows a thing or two about where to find the best obscure books. Caring protective friend.

Chroma: Moody guy who just wants some fucking peace and quiet. Hoards things like trophies from kills, bet this guy has so many hunting trophies? ffs, his ult is a dragon pelt, might as well be a dragon! Really good at pissing off people without even trying.

Ember: Sassy friend wants all the tea. Best booty to boot. You see that guy over there? He’s on fire. She fucking murdered him with sick comebacks. Don’t get me wrong though, she might like her bacon crispy but she’s a pretty loyal friend. Probably would come get your ass for a revive with intent to raze the fucking field with wildfire.

Equinox: Calm balanced friend??? Has two sides she shows to different people, everyone who talks to her might find something different about her. Likes keeping a lot of houseplants in her room in the dojo. Courteous and polite and gives the best backhanded compliments under a pleasant facade.

Excalibur: Average Joe. Good at a lot but not the best, really doesn't give his best. Very athletic. rushes through missions impatiently. Might play too many hack’n’slash games in his spare time.

Frost: Stoic, quiet, probably has some thought going on at all times. Reads a lot of mythology from before the orokin era. Procrastinates and stalls for his buddies while holding down the fort. solid person to talk to if you need someone to listen.

Hydroid: The guy has enough mentions about tentacle porn, it’s safe to say he’s hoarding a hentai stash somewhere. or people assume. just a guy who loves the water, could talk for days about fish and where to find all the best seafood restaurants. has had enough people mentioning pirates around him. has a good, hearty laugh.

Inaros: Tired, always fucking tired. Sleep? I’ll sleep when I’m dead. if you can kill me, that is. Mmm. nom. Corpus tastes metallic. Grineer tastes like really bad slimy chicken. I’m not sharing what infested taste like. Shields? What the heck is that? Appreciates old architecture and hoards ayatan statues.

Ivara: Sneaky sneaky~ I got an arrow for just about any job. Just because i am a cyclops doesn’t mean i don’t have depth perception, dumbass. Carefree happy lady, fun to talk to. Makes lots of banter with teammates on missions.

Limbo: Trolls might love this guy, why doesn't he have a fedora helmet yet? I’ve not seen enough Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure to know what those references mean. He’s a real gentleman, very inquisitive. He’s a scientist? Aw, cool. Prolly spacing out while carousing through the rift, thinking about his next project.

Loki: The Cheeseframe is what people call him. Knows where all the loot is, all the time. Giggling and pulling pranks 24/7. Can do shit effortlessly and stares at his team wondering why the fuck the had to trigger the damn alarm in a mission. Also, hammerhead shark. This guys likes playing card games too.

Mag: In a state of calm and panic at the same time. Doesn’t show much though. Magnetic personality? Could crush your heart in a minute. Has a good taste in interior design, rather good at art deco/ industrial. Has some walls to get through before befriending her, but melts like a marshmellow when ya do.

Mesa: 360 no scope!!! It’s high noon! okay, now that’s out of the way, let’s keep going. Keeps an orderly schedule, off doing solo missions all the time. Loves a good movie, could talk about her favorite film for hours. Deserts are dry? So is her humor. Would shoot you without even thinking.

Mirage: You thought Loki’s pranks were bad? At least her enemies get these night mare shows and not you. This chick loves horror films, special effects make up and disco. Pretty good at good at lighting up the room and your smile. She really just wants a good time, okay?

Nekros: Sick mofo who tells dead baby jokes. Has some interesting kinks. Rarely eats, if ever. Would look you dead in the eye and try to tell you bad puns seriously as possible. Has seen the dead walk again, thinks they’re best buddies. good guy to go to a graveyard with.

Nezha: Srsly good looking.. guy? girl? oh idc he can be genderfluid and i’d still think he’s attractive. Got serious hula skills. Never takes himself seriously and just loves going for long missions. Knows a thing or two about culture, rather classy guy but can be a bit childish. Never really grew up, but you don’t notice that behind the charm.

Nidus: This is the I-don’t-give-a damn guy. He wrecks everything he touches, spreads space aids, yet his personality is far from cancer. Very good with animals. A bit messy. Too many damn things talking in his head from the infested and ignores them like a champ. They bend to his will.

Nova: A Good Egg, if slightly cracked. Giggles at the mention of inane words. Everything explodes!!! ADHD in a frame. Good natured wholesome friend who loves everyone. Bad habit of breaking appliances and electronics. Geiger counters near her start playing Imagine Dragon’s Radioactive?

Nyx: Look at this frame. You took a good warframe and gave it anxiety, sheesh. Shy, kinda hard to deal with hearing everyone’s thoughts sometimes. ain’t got time for your drama. Loves talking about current events, but not much of a gossip out of respect for others. giant personal space bubble, do not touch!

Oberon: Royal pain in the ass, but a lovable doofus so you kinda just let it go. Very protective dad friend, complete with dad jokes. Probably would like to finish your sandwich if you’re not gonna eat it. Would open his home to you if you needed a couch to surf on.

Octavia: This girl loves all music, could help you find just the mix you were looking for. Got sick dance moves too. Might have been in band. Would happily binge watch any tv show with you and discuss everything about it. You don’t know what so charming about her, but you really like her so you always accept her invites. Had a bad habit of fidgeting.

Rhino: This guy could bench press a grineer ship in one hand and corpus ship in the other. you don’t move out of his way, he runs you over, simple as that. gym rat, for sure. somewhat impatient. watches way too many superhero blockbusters and devours the comics. Mows down the entire enemy wave just get your sorry bleeding ass back up and fighting again.

Saryn: Oh, good lotus, this chick has got good looks and a deadly touch. Cunning girl could outsmart anyone. Low key annoyed in general. Would back stab you without a thought, given a reason. Knows a lot about cooking. I mean, if you’re going to poison someone or at least know how to work in the biolab you should probably know how this type of chemistry works. dodges responsibility a lot tho.

Titania: flighty as fuck, gets startled easily. graceful; she has good fashion sense. you have no idea where she came from in the room. fairy tales are definitely her thing, but happy endings really aren't true with that state of things right now in the solar system. too many butterflies, but is fine with it since they help her stay calm. Actually really good at flying archwings, I think?

Trinity: First one to rush into the fight, last one to leave until everyone is okay. Is the Mom friend. Likes to be helpful. Rather much a bitch to those she hates. She may have an open heart, but don’t walk all over this girl. Cross her once, shame on you. Cross her twice, she leaves you for dead on eris, end of story.

Valkyr: Look, she’s been through some shit, has ptsd, the very least you can do is give her a cat plushie and your support, okay? Gets angry easily and has meltdowns. She’s not a pushover. She knows what’s best, she can endure. semi serious, jokes fly over her head. it may take a bit for her to like you. literally a cat frame, you don’t know love until you've been loved by a cat.

Vauban: Forget Limbo being a troll. This is THE trollframe. Went to college for engineering, came back out a smart ass. Don’t loan money to him, he prolly won’t pay ya back. Pretty good drinking buddy tho. Reads a shit ton of shakespear to know what that sense of humor really is. Shit poster, meme hoarder extrordinaire. you can have a grenade! And you can have a grenade! YOU ALL CAN HAVE GRENADES!

Volt: Impeccable taste mixed with sharp commentary. Why does he have a helmet that’s a boob? maybe he has a high schooler’s sense of humor? would be honest with you and tell you straight up what needs to be done. This guy likes expensive suits. Has a tendency to be impulsive.

Wukong: Has loads of stories to tell. Good memory. Can comeback from just about any setback. determined and will happily grind with you in missions for hours. Also pretty damn stubborn and doesn’t listen well to others, kinda has to speak first.

Zephyr: Life’s a breeze here, right? Kinda goes with whatever and has a hard time deciding on things. Kinda clumsy too. Crashes raids and blows away the enemy. Usually minds her own business with her head in the clouds.