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THE BOYS 4.01 Department of Dirty Tricks

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As of 4x03, Homelander has canonically known a character has been with Butcher purely by recognising his scent on them not once, but TWICE in this damn show.

This is already unhinged, obsessed behaviour that gets crazier the more you stop to think about it but even better-

Maeve and Butcher had done the nasty when Homelander twigged this. It's very valid that she would smell like him after that, whereas Ryan... Ryan just played foosball with Butcher? He stood vaguely near him in the same room?? Like, what???

Homelander (to my memory) has not done this with anyone else. He's not sniffing out Hughie on Starlight when he suspects her of betraying The Seven. But someone stands within 10 feet of Billy Butcher and he can literally sniff it out like a tracker dog, Butcher is taking acres of free real estate in Homelander's head and it must be driving him crazy, in this essay I will-

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Well lads, we're really in it now.

Happy Season 4 Boys premiere week! To celebrate here is chapter 5 of my Butchlander soulmate fic. Get ready for some pretty big developments...

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Honesty

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Even Homelander thinks you’re an edgelord, William.

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babe wake up new dr who theme tune just dropped. and it fucking slaps

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Binged all 3 seasons of The Boys and this happebed. Please enjoy this canon compliant Butchlander Soulmates AU full of pining, angst and a painful enemies to lovers slow burn.

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This came to me like vision from prophets

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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies // Follow the White Rabbit // Love Aims Lower – Original

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the symbolism, similarities, and contrast of all the pier scenes involving both edward and oswald truly make me lose my mind

in the first pier scene edward and oswald are facing each other, oz has his back turned to the water. edward means to kill oswald here, and in doing so kills a part of himself, perhaps unknowingly— at least to an extent. oz means no harm to ed here, quite the opposite even. oswald dies this time and edward survives— though he loses a part of himself in the process. the atmosphere is gloomy and we see the scene from far away— it’s all grays and the one subtle beige of the pier. clouds fill the sky and rain crashes into the water.

in the second one they "both" (barring the fact that this isnt actually oswald and is just a hallucination) face the water, oz behind ed. this time edward MEANS to kill both what remains of oswald (in his eyes) and a part of himself. his vision of oswald watches as nothing more than a spectator, he might as well not even be there at all. the lighting here is completely different, as is the framing. this is not a scene about revenge or murder, it is about rebirth. clouds cover the right half of the sky, yet they do not rain, and the sun shines in from the left. in a way i think the clouds passing and revealing the sun kind of symbolizes edwards acceptance for the fact that he DOES care about oswald. hes not hiding from his feelings, even if that means nothing at all anymore— after all, he’s already thrown it all away. birds fly through the air. there is life. oswald stands by the sun, edward by the clouds. edward destroys his past self and his feelings for oswald, represented here by oswalds apparition.

in the third rehashing it is gloomy again. no clouds in the sky- this scene focuses on oswald (who we've seen framed by the clear sky compared to how ed has been framed by the cloudy sky in these scenes. edward intends for this scene to be about rebirth, but we can clearly see that it much closer resembles the one focused on death. again we see the scene from far away, its all greys with the slight beige of the pier. edward has failed and it is once more about death. they both face towards the water, ed behind oswald this time. obviously this is because ed believes he’s going to shoot oz again this time, but its also kind of perfectly symbolic. this time it is oswald killing his old self, his love for ed, and destroying ed in the process— instead of the other way around like the second or first scenes. neither of them are the same after this. though, there is no rain. the hardest part has passed, and while this is emotional, it is not the most they have gone through. this time oswald faces the water and he intends to kill.

NOW. scene 4. they face eachother again. farther from the edge of the pier, neither of them dies here this time, in any sense. the clouds frame ed once more, the clear sky behind oswald. the scene is framed closely, reminiscent of their second pier scene where no one actually dies. it seems that the far away shots signify death, whereas the close ones signify rebirth. while oz faces the water in a technical sense, he doesnt actually— not really. hes facing ed, that much is clear, but he isnt looking out at the water. theyre looking at eachother and nothing else. once more there are colors that aren’t just grey. its nice. again they coexist, this time for good and not just for the brief fleeting moment before death.

i just think that the visuals at play here are truly phenomenal

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Someone’s in a doghouse…

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THE MIGHTY NEIN, COMING TO AMAZON PRIME VIDEO!

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was so close to pissing myself after this. she doesn't even comment on it htnyrtbsgrfd

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pour myself over him, moon spilling inn 🎶☂️

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enjoy a late valentines nygmob screencap redraw <3

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