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This show is SUCH a MESS oh my days. I get that Cole is supposed to be the first love interest (the one Jackie ends up with) but what in the WORLD are the writers doing ??

The parents = pathetic at mediating this competitive relationship between Cole and Alex. “We did the best we could” (ep 7) BUT WHAT HAVE Y’ALL DONE ? LIKE AT ALL ?

Cole = absolute asshole. He has his nice moments, but he absolutely perpetuates the aggressive relationship between him and Alex; egging Alex on about Jackie eventually choosing him (ep 6) and basically BEGGING to be punched.

Alex = written very all over the place. He’s a sweetie pie (I was team Alex until last ep and his weirdly written relationship with Kiley towards then too - it’s like the writers couldn’t decide if they wanted them to be just friends or if they wanted her to have a crush on him), but his insecurities are very obvious in his relationship with Jackie.

Ultimately I think this relationship suffers from “why are these characters 15-17?” because honestly they should be older with all this type of drama it’s WEIRD. These are HIGH SCHOOLERS. I’m 5 years older than Jackie this is so goofy.

ALSO. I do NOT want to see anymore people equating team Cole = team Conrad. I AM A CONRAD STANNN but I would not touch Cole with a ten-foot pole! Conrad never treats his relationship with Belly as a competition, while Cole MAKES IT ONE with Alex!!!

I hate this show (yes I will be watching S2)

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kevin presenting the critical Perfect Court Questionaire

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This is my Kevin Day

kevin day musings …

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So beautiful !!!

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Husband!

"we all do our share of murdering around here, don't we?"

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When the results came out about the most to least romance characters in dav, I found it so funny that they nerfed Lucanis’ romance content compared to the other companions and he STILL was the second most-romanced at the time. But it’s literally because of THIS !!!! He looks at Rook with so much adoration (and speaks SO GENTLY) it’s sickeninggg

Animated puppy dog eyes will always persevere in the face of lacking content for a character, and he’s a testament to that fact

I thought I'd never see you again

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HE IS THE MAN OF ALL TIME AND I’LL NEVER NOT SAY IT

no dragon age romance will ever compare to zevran arainai. he's bisexual. he was raised in a murder assassin torture cult after being raised in a brothel. he has a bunch of tattoos and even knows how to give them. he tries to murder you when you first meet him and then poses sexily afterwards. he says he's skilled at lockpicking and then never manages to pick a single lock in the entire game. he murdered his last lover after falsely believing that she betrayed the crows. he regularly slept with his marks before killing them to give them one last good night alive. when you ask him to have sex with you he says one liners like "arghhh pirate zevran reporting for duty!" he gets upset and broody when he realizes that he's in love with you after you ask him for more in your relationship. he proposes to you with an earring from a dead guy before he even tells you that he loves you. he's the only companion to almost completely stay with you after origins (besides the dlcs and parts of da2, he presumably stays with you the rest of your lives). if you die, he never gets into a relationship or has sex with anyone ever again. he constantly talks about you when he's away from you (da2). he calls the sword of the dead king of ferelden "sexy" and says that he "must have it". he's a devout andrastian. he loves being an assassin and doesn't feel bad about murdering people. you can have a threesome with him and a woman he used to sleep with and helped save from her abusive husband. he's slept with countless people and you're the first person that he's ever actually loved. he spends the rest of his life when he's not with you devoted to terrorizing the organization that abused him as a child (and adult) and killing of its leaders. when you tell him that you love him, he says that "he knows." he's blonde. and he's perfect in every way possible.

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The cruelty of racist white men.

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I just saw someone call Kaidan boring for being a rule follower, and...

Did you forget how Shepard and crew steal the Normandy at the end of ME1, and Kaidan is all for it?

Did you forget how he says that they'll probably all be put on trial for mutiny, but he dgaf because going after Saren is the right thing to do?

Did you forget that this guy calls himself a career man (because the least he can do while he's part of the system, exploiting and abusing and throwing away biotics like garbage, is get a paycheck for it), and yet he's willing to risk both his career and his life for a chance to stop Saren?

Did you forget that the only reason he doesn't join the Normandy crew in ME2 is because he doesn't trust Cerberus and doesn't want to tie Shepard more tightly to a terrorist organization and end up being used as leverage against Shepard?

Kaidan is not a rule follower, he's a "do the right thing" person, which is very different.

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Neil Josten with sweat pimples all over his face and Andrew Minyard gently, carefully begrudgingly applying his skin cleanser for him. Send tweet

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As someone who finished me1 and started me2 immediately, this “SIKE! YOU DO ACTUALLY DIE!” moment was so freaking silly and goofy 😭

honestly really funny how at the end of me1 they do a fake out death for shepherd and then immediately actually kill her off at the beginning of 2

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GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

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'Enjoy it despite its flaws' is one thing, but Mass Effect somehow invented its own category: 'simultaneously one of the most flawed and the most well-crafted sci-fi stories I've ever experienced'. These games are incredible. They’re the worst. All the women are sexualized. All the women have deeply flawed and complex personalities without being either demonized or romanticized. The first available f/f ship seems to be written along the guidelines of 'what would a straight man find hot'. As the games go on, they effortlessly include multiple same sex romance options given just as much care and development as the the opposite sex ones. You can play as a xenophobic murderhobo asshole. You can play as someone genuinely caring but also harsh, who inspires growth and co-operation wherever you go but who makes hard choices when you have to. You can kill civilians and punch reporters and commit genocide. You can stop a generational war and mediate peace and save several species from extinction. The robots are stereotypically evil cannon fodder. The robots are deeply complex with a tragic history. Your team mates are assholes with xenophobic opinions or justifications for police brutality and genocide, or they just want excuses to Do Murder. You team mates are deeply flawed and can be urged to grow alongside you. The most important aliens are all humanoids. There are plant aliens and jellyfish aliens and insect aliens and elephant aliens and aliens who can’t share an atmosphere with us. You have to drive around countless identically boring planets with little to show for it. You get to discover hidden secrets and civilisations millions of years old and live through some of the most emotionally harrowing scenes in storytelling history. I am going absolutely insane about it.