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[chloesimaginationthings]

What FNAF movie Vanessa’s REAL job is..

[cosmic-day]

Right, fuck this. In the spirit of ‘be the change you want to see’, I think we should celebrate Assad Zaman, because fuck knows AMC won’t, so someone has to step up to the plate.

Here’s a Ten Things I Love About Assad’s Performance As Armand list:

The way his voice cracks ever so slightly on the word donated in the Louvre monologue. Also, the entire Louvre monologue.

The hand acting. Thanks to @platoapproved for this gif set which illustrates what I mean.

“Do you find me boring?” Like, obviously, all of 2x05, but that line reading, terrifying and obsessive and heartbreaking and childlike all at once.

The stillness. The way he can be completely still and nevertheless absolutely mesmerising.

Contrasted with gremlin mode in San Francisco when he is anything but still. This post from @hypermania is a great analysis of his physicality and acting choices in this scene.

The micro expressions. The sixteen layers of emotions including three I’ve never even heard of before in some of the reaction shots. The way the directors clearly understand this and hold the camera on his face so that we can watch Assad showing us Armand’s brain at work without a word being said.

His French accent.

The way he sits down on the couch next to Madeleine.

Just how fucking cool he looks on the motorbike in the hunting scene.

Sauntering back into the Dubai apartment in his cunty sunglasses and tragically misplaced confidence.

Feel free to add your own thoughts in notes or reblogs. Let’s appreciate the hell out of him.

[hinamie]

truth is, I used to dream about boys like you

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[starry-bi-sky]

do yall ever think about bruce/batman!clone danny standing in front of his bathroom mirror after finding out he was a clone and silently tracing his face. The slope of his jaw and point of his chin. The high angle of his cheekbones and the shape of his eyes, the curve of his brow bones and the shape of his nose. The volume of his hair and the way it curls and gets fluffy when it gets too long.

His hair is black the same way a crow's wing is black. His dad's hair is black the same way a black bear's fur is black. His dad's eyes are blue like the ocean is blue. Danny's eyes are blue the same way a glacier is blue.

His dad has a square jaw and straight flat hair, and he tans and gets a face full of freckles when he's out in the sun for too long. Danny burns like a lobster and his face remains untouched. Danny has a sharp jaw and tall cheekbones, and Sam says when he's not smiling there's almost something regal about him. You would never call Jack Fenton "regal" when he's not smiling.

Sam says when he's not smiling he looks scary the same way a stone statue is. Jack Fenton when he's not smiling looks scary the same way that german shepherd staring at you across the street is.

Do you ever think he grew up wondering if he was adopted. Because of course, he has black hair and blue eyes like his dad. But having the same color doesn't make you someone's child.

Or, worse, things he's heard from the other kids and the other parents and even some of his teachers growing up; that he was the product of an affair. And that his dad was just too stupid to notice. And Danny would defend his parents until the day he died, because Jack Fenton wasn't an idiot and Maddie Fenton wasn't a cheater.

But doubt comes in with fickle tongue. his parents swear up and down that he is their child when he asks about either. That Danny just had his grandparents' features, but he was their son and they loved him.

But Danny doesn't look like either of his parents. His mom's eyes are blue like an aquamarine and Jazz's too. And they burn like lobsters in the sun too, but Jazz gets freckles on her face and so does Maddie. And as Danny grows up he doesn't bulk up or get stocky like his dad did, and when he hits puberty he doesn't shoot up like a tree like Jack Fenton did.

He stays small, and they say he's a late bloomer (and he is), or that he just has his mom's height. But he's fast and has good stamina, and some days it feels like he's built entirely different from his family. That the things they went through growing up just didn't apply to him. Jack and Maddie Fenton both had acne and breakouts when they hit puberty, and Jazz inherits it and he's seen the amount of skincare products she keeps on her side of the bathroom.

And then he hits puberty and breaks out maybe once or twice, but his skin stays clear for the most part and the problems and changes his dad went through just don't happen to him.

And the truth is worse than all of the lies.

How horrifying.

[hyakunana]

Pocky Valen when?

[qwantzfeed]

the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was a 360 boneless half-impossible casper slide, but this one is a pretty close second

[gildedoak]

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

I'll be coloring this later, but enjoy the lineart for now!

[respectthepetty]

MAME Finally Got My Ass!

I don't know how another show is even going to come close to winning the lighting category in my annual Colors Awards because this blurry ass shot in the final of The Boy Next Work alone cemented that the lighting department earned its paycheck.

I have watched both the Thai and Japanese version of Love in the Air, Love Sea, which I was very quiet about, and I'm making my way through Don't Say No, yet none of them have had me cheering for the wildest fucking behavior the way this show and its color-coded crew of crazies did.

So it is with great pleasure that I now proudly state this show has helped me see the MAME light, and it's all due to the lighting. Cue 🎶The Blinding Light of Love🎶

The episode started with Cir having a nightmare of his bright sunshine boyfriend drenched in darkness as he told Cir he didn't love him.

And he woke up in the darkness since Phu has closed him off from his light.

The light only exists over Phu's door, so that's where Cir will remain.

Yet even Phu is crying in the darkness now that he knows Cir has lied to him this entire time.

He still has light, but he surrounded by the dark truth that Phu has been stalking him for five years.

So although the blue is there and a glimpse of green has appeared, Yellow Yal Phu's color is muddied. It's dark. It has been dirtied.

And just when I thought Phu's anger would finally surface in his red cardigan, Cir pulls a Missy Elliot and flips it and reverses it.

Because this dark Blue Boy starts to reveal all the ways he has sheltered Phu from the literal and figurative storms in his life, like secretly giving Phu a dark blue umbrella to protect him from the rain, and the fact that he kept the yellow sticky note Phu thanked him with.

Cir is no saint, but Phu is slowly starting to realize that his world has only been as bright as it has because Cir has been his guardian this entire time.

And Cir also knows how to pick flowers because the yellow ribbon and yellow flowers are specifically for his sunshine Yellow Yal since tulips represent unconditional love, new beginnings, and hope.

Then, we see Cir the darkest he has been since Phu entered his world as he tearfully explains his reasoning, and normally, I would not forgive a man for saying he will still text and bring gifts even when they are not wanted, but, once again, the lighting department did its damn job.

Because the moment Cir admits that if he had died the day he fought the thieves away from Phu's car, his only regret would have been not getting the chance to really know Phu, the lighting brightened!

So just like Phu, I too would have ran to Cir's apartment, but the lighting department gets me again because the entire apartment is dark and devoid of life since Cir no longer has Phu to brighten his life.

Which means Phu's entire world is upside down. Even when he didn't know Cir was there, Cir was shielding him from a distance, but now, Cir is gone, and nothing is right!

So I was not surprised that Cir returns to that devil known as his mother owner and the woman who pretends to be an angel when it's convenient.

But thankfully Rome, who I'm so sad we didn't get more of, and his exaggerated story push Phu to run after his man with the help of Wim's loyal ass, so my color-coded boys are reunited!

But Director James made sure we know that this devil still stands between them.

Moment of truth — I love her phrasing that the dad abandoned Cir and her. I feel the pain she allowed to fester and mutate into abuse. For two seconds, I saw her as a human who went to the extremes to protect herself, and although I can't forgive her, I do understand her.

THEN OZONE SHOWS UP TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF AND I'M UNWELL ABOUT IT! Because I knew the only way Yellow Yal Phu and dark Blue Boy Cir could live in the green peace was if this Green Guy gave up his color. He gives up his life for his bother to live. He will step into the darkness, so his brother can step into the light and have his green happiness.

SECOND SEASON FOR OZONE WHEN?!

But his sacrifice was not in vain because Phu and Cir immediately step out into the light, sit on a bench in the green park, and confess that they love each other.

And we finally get them blending their colors in a beautifully lit sex scene that bathes them in the warm light with hints of the dark blue which is an amazing depiction of their evolution in comparison to their first sex scene which was darkly lit.

They are in the light, together!

And Wim's willingness to go to the ends of the earth for his crazy ass friend finally pay off because not only does he get a boyfriend who can use his mind-reading abilities to secure him money, but he also really loves him even though it's difficult for him to say because he wears pink around him, and I know pink equals 💕love💕.

So a MAME show won me over because the lighting, the color coding, and this damn blue-colored string phone did their job every single episode and made this show a visual delight to watch every single week.

This Yellow Yal and his dark Blue Boy now get to live in the light surrounded by their green, and I'm thrilled about it!

So just like the pink petals that carry their love into another universe, I wouldn't mind seeing every version of their color-coded love story that MAME wants to offer.

Because, at last I, Petty, love a MAME show.

[bonebabbles]

Book 1 of ASC: "See how xenophobia provides an easy way for radicalization, and how quickly otherwise kind and rational people can get swept away by bigoted echo chambers?"

Book 6 of ASC: "No no you just don't get it. If we do not enforce the arbitrary borders, people won't stay in dangerous situations. If they don't do that, everyone will go where it's safe and they'll bring their icky cultures with them. You don't want our pure clans to get mixed, do you?"

[drusill-a]

[WWDitS finale spoilers]

Aside from the obvious – the gross shipbaiting and mocking naive viewers who dared to believe an m/m dynamic could be treated as anything other than the butt of the joke – my biggest issue with the WWDitS finale is that it’s an ending that could have made sense… but at most after s2. Back then, we were still watching a story about characters who didn’t share any particular bonds (except for Nadja/Laszlo) and who were entirely static, unaffected by the things they experienced.

The thing is, the creators themselves realized you can’t build a long-running story on that formula – eventually, the characters had to evolve at least a little, and their relationships had to deepen so viewers would have any reason to root for them. And so Guillermo’s position in the group began to change – first, he earned their minimal respect, then a very solid place, until finally, in season 5, all the other characters had reached a point where they didn’t even hide that they genuinely cared about him a lot. The same happened with Colin, who at first was completely left out by the other housemates but gradually earned an equal spot in the group and developed that stupid yet sweet bond with Laszlo (erasing those memories was, imo, one of the writers’ biggest mistakes). Laszlo showed himself capable of empathy, which he proved again in s5 by helping Guillermo, and even Nadja, who used to completely disregard everyone’s feelings, had several moments in later seasons where she openly cared – at least in her own way –  about the others.

And of course, that’s how we got the romantic subtext between Guillermo and Nandor. Over all those seasons – from s3 up until s6 – I was certain it was a classic will they, won’t they dynamic that would end with them getting together. I just couldn’t believe the writers would spend the last 4 seasons making their relationship more equal and showing Nandor’s journey to realizing Guillermo genuinely mattered to him, only to do nothing with it – or worse, regress them back by three seasons. But the late s6 Nandor’s “no homo” attitude has very little in common with the Nandor from seasons 4 and 5, who was openly pining and lusting after Guillermo.

From Guillermo’s perspective, this ending is an absolute tragedy – even the end of the previous episode gave him much more hope. Maybe he’d lost his lifelong dream and still hadn’t found a new purpose, but he had found a family and a place in the world, with a potential chance to build something meaningful with Nandor in the future. I don’t understand why this episode had to undo all of that – to show us that none of his friends really listen to him, that the power dynamic with Nandor will always be uneven, and that ultimately he wasted 16 years, and no one would really care that much if he left. Considering how great Guillermo’s development was, especially in gaining confidence from s4 onward, this ending feels so unfair and insulting to his character.

I feel like the writers’ biggest mistakes have been forcing a return to the status quo after every season. After the breakup in s3, the characters should have stayed apart for at least an episode or two. Colin should have remembered that Laszlo raised him, and they should’ve kept their funny, fucked-up father-son relationship until the end of the show. Guillermo should’ve been a real vampire for at least a full season—or, in my opinion, permanently—because, as it turns out, the writers had absolutely no idea what to do with his character once he lost that goal. Relationships that had evolved shouldn’t be randomly reset by a couple of seasons just because the writers couldn’t be bothered to put in the effort to write anything new for them.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too – if the writers were so dead-set on giving us an  ending that says “nothing in these characters’ lives matters, and nothing will ever change,” they should have made the show half as long and spared viewers the trouble of getting invested in character and relationship arcs that ultimately went nowhere.

This is a comedy show that was supposed to make people feel better. After this finale, I feel mocked by the creators for believing that the queer ship they sold me for 4 seasons had a chance of being treated equally to an m/f ship. I’m also sad because the characters were regressed and left stuck in eternal limbo, and generally I feel ridiculed because the writers openly made fun of us for getting emotionally invested in the story they wrote for us.

And maybe the biggest crime of these last few episodes was that they weren’t even remotely funny—so you can’t even say they prioritized comedy over character development, because it failed on that front too.

[electrozeistyking]

Fun fact about In Rot and Infection: Loop has no idea there’s a mystery sickness going around until after Siffrin loops back from it for the first time. Needless to say they are quite baffled. A little surprised, even.

On the plus side, Loop is definitely immune to it! On account of being a nonbinary star person, of course! So that’s one thing they’ve got going for them.

(Hurray, name reveal for the sickness in IRAI!! It’s called “pourrir disease” because I like how it looks, not because it’s an actual disease. It can also referred to as “pourrir” for short. :3)

[scimitar-and-longsword]

Charlize Theron as Andromache The Scythian The Old Guard (2020)

Character Intro Post, via @Skydance on Instagram, June 15th 2020

TOG Promo Material (Part 3/?)

[laz-laz-ace-pilot]

I don't need all shows to be as good as Andor but I do need Andor s2 to be as good as Andor. Do you understand?

[ilybigman]

🌻 can you keep a secret? 🌻

thinking about secret life... and my favorite guy!

also, a comic because i misremembered a phrase from grian in scars 4th secret life episode.. oops!!

i'm fixated on life series again and i have things in store to share!! <:) again im juuuust about wrapping up finals. im gonna rest for a while and then have fun and post all the life series, great god grove, and other stuff i want

and also Colored!! colored stuff. i have a desertduo double life digital painting im working on, and gonna make a print!! i'm probably gonna paint them irl too i have brained rot

[cementcornfield]

What it's like to see [Ja'Marr] be on the cusp of potential history if he gets that triple crown?

I'll make sure he gets it.

[daisiesandviscaria]

stuck on the fact that despite the fact that he has dedicated his entire life to the game of exy, the only award kevin day will likely never win is the one named after his mother