#❁ support ; louise. ❁

[pinkbumblebees]

something about this picture makes me so unbelievably happy and i’ll never get over it. ITS SO SWEET🙁 i love that bob’s burgers supports the lgbtq community and its so frickin adorable when these three get along with each other THEY LOOK SO HAPPY

#seriously i can’t get over it #they’re so supportive i adore them #bobs burgers #bobs burger movie #bob's burgers #gene belcher #gene bobs burgers #louise belcher #tina belcher #i love them all sm #bob belcher #linda belcher #tina bobs burgers #louise bobs burgers

[operationcaked]

while i work on new stuff, here’s something simple from a few months ago!

#you can tell it’s old because of how i drew louise’s neck/chin and the pen i used and how i colored the line art #and like 10 other things but whatever #is this a proper representation of the pose you should be in while holding and supporting a baby. i didn’t look at a reference #bob’s burgers #tina belcher #louise belcher #wharf arts center (art tag) #doodles

[mrmeowing]

bob burger

the urge i have to draw tv characters in my age range in order to understand something about myself

#bob's burgers #louise belcher #gene belcher #tina belcher #bob belcher #linda belcher #bob's burgers fanart #regular sized rudy #jessicas here too but she doesnt have a tag? #louwheeze supporter #tina would go to a pride parade and hang out with all the furries. bob would collapse of exhaustion

[duckmine]

i headcanon louise takes it the hardest once tina moves out for college. i always assumed tina would eventually get good enough grades and credit to get a scholarship to a good school and would plan to move into a dorm or her own apartment; meanwhile louise gets to take her old room, but she realizes it’s not worth the space if her older sister isn’t gonna be with her anymore.

#bob’s burgers #tina belcher #louise belcher #fanart #headcanons #louise is like 15 here while tina is 19 #this was a very avid daydream i had where louise has an unspoken deep attachment to her sister and doesn’t realize how much she needs tina #to be near her till she eventually leaves for college #i truly adore their sisterhood as it’s very clear how much they look after each other #especially now in season 13 we can see how much louise cares about tina’s presence and tina making sure louise feels supported #god 😭❤️‍🩹 i fucking love them dude you don’t even know

[skylarbee]

hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems like a lot of people still don't know this. ashley reese, who met alex at that pool party and interviewed him like a year ago is treated by the fandom like she's some kind of angel and is very much loved (even though she did nothing special?) when she's... well, I'll let you decide.

she thinks miles is such a bad person that he shouldn't be allowed to have a dog (x)

she very much enjoys him getting a really bad review (x)

she's glad about him not joining am for 505 (x)

she calls out am fans who still like alex and alexa, even though she's the exact same ("when she gets comments like this all the time" girl, you're the one writing similar shit. she has other posts discussing alexa and alex, but they're old, like the ones from the last screenshot) (x, x, x, x, x)

#the first one made me my jaw drop #it just had to be said I'm sick and tired of people supporting her #i heard these rumours of her openly hating on miles about a month ago but i didn't pay them much attention #but it does seem to be very much true #it's also said that she likes tons of comments of people hating on him #+ she loves deloulou... obviously. #(they're both arrogant and self-important ; of course she does) #poor alex was smiling so sweetly too in the photos with her - if only he knew #why did she become so 'famous' in the fandom anyways #i fuck with NO ONE who talks badly about my man. idc who you (think) you are #ashley reese #louise verneuil #alex turner #arctic monkeys #miles kane

[the-gene-mile]

some may call me insane for watching the entire show twice in a month and a half but i just call it committed to the bit

#bob's burgers #bobs burgers #tina belcher #gene belcher #louise belcher #haiii bobby burger fandom i say as i sit down uninvited #shoutout to the belcher kids in the 2022 pride art. gotta be one of my favourite genders #the paper doodle went in my phone case they're w me forever.. like emotional support #my stuff

[filmjunky-99]

s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller [life support, s3ep13] 'Allow me to introduce 'Kai Winn' - quark

#star trek #star trek deep space nine #deep space nine #rick berman #Michael Piller #ds9 season 3 #deep space nine season 3 #ds9 life Support #life support #lot: st ds9 season 3 ep 13/26 (ep 59/176) #armin shimerman #louise fletcher #Quark #Kai Winn #Allow me to introduce 'Kai Winn'

[br1ghtestlight]

siblings 🌈🌈

#bob's burgers #louise belcher #gene belcher #tina belcher #linda took this picture and posted it on facebook with 500 different stickers and emojis and it was VERY embarrassing for the kids #but she's supportive at least :) #fanart

[cinewhore]

I love that Gene refers to being in the bathroom for a long time as “sitting through the credits”

#no this episode about Rudy’s parents being divorced is not making me emotional #totally fine #and the part where Louise goes to dinner with him as support #I’m ok!!!!! #i swear! #Tish watches tv #bobs burgers

[sourkitsch]

I’m taking a class on abstraction and I just got back from a crit where people were saying my works reminded them of Rothko’s chapel paintings in their intensity. Great how do I get that quality into the rest of my paintings

#idk I might be up against that louise Borgeouis thing #she talks about a limit of representation which I’ve been trying to push but maybe it’s impermeable #now I have to write the statement and be like. yeah this is what I made after reading 5000 articles about the Middle East and seeing #and upswing in antisemitism in leftist spaces and and upswing of support for fascists in the Jewish community #and that is why the work is so intense . #it’s bleak bc I feel bleak #hope that helps

[theangrypomeranian]

when Louise realizes she's bi, she goes to Rudy and is like "I think I like girls."

his response is simply "yeah that checks."

#louise belcher #rudy stieblitz #regular sized rudy #roudise #louise/rudy brotp #sally speaks #cuz baby girl is bi okay #and rudy is a supportive bestie #(or bf) #(both are valid af)

[sshbpodcast]

Character Spotlight: Kai Winn Adami

By Ames

So far, all of the subjects of our spotlight series have been people for whom we’ve had both good and bad character moments to discuss. But what do you do when you’re highlighting an antagonist character? For a villain, being bad is actually very good and that’s so perfectly the case for Kai Winn Adami. So this time A Star to Steer Her By will simply feature a bunch of our favorite moments overall.

Boy, do we love to hate this bitch. Somehow she’s only in 14 episodes even though it feels like she’s always looming somewhere with a passive-aggressive gaze and a “my child” on her lips. Louise Fletcher plays this power-hungry religious icon with such depth and nuance that it was easy for us to come up with a ton of favorite moments. So flip open the Book of the Pah-wraiths below to check them out, listen to our Bajoran chanting over on this week’s podcast (jump to 1:12:58), and walk with the prophets, my child.

[Images © CBS/Paramount]

Favorite moments

The Bajoran Scopes Monkey Trial Winn makes a big impression in her very first appearance in “In the Hands of the Prophets” when she’s displaying big Karen energy while challenging why Keiko isn’t teaching Bajoran religious ideology in a public school. And she does it with a smile. And also with a can of gasoline since she surely got that school blown up in one smokin’ power move.

The sacrifices the Prophets call on us to make are great sometimes Somehow there are even more layers to “In the Hands of the Prophets” than teaching religion in classrooms and committing arson. Winn also puts Neela up to assassinate Bareil so that she can work on amassing power. And when Neela fails to secure a getaway plan, Winn straight up declares that’s fine with her. What does she care as long as her hands stay clean?

We’re a match made by the Prophets Winn continues to keep her hands clean in “The Circle.” Even while covertly supporting the Bajoran extremist faction, the Alliance for Global Unity, and bedding down with Minister Jarro Essa, Winn manages to direct blame away from herself when their plans have been exposed and gone thoroughly sideways. Jarro can only watch his downfall from under the bus.

You will never speak to me with such disrespect again!! Kai Winn’s “my child” may sound like a catchphrase, but it’s always delivered with such emotion which Fletcher was so good at. When Kira’s been sniffing around how Winn extracted information from Kubus Oak in an attempt to get Bareil out of the kai election in “The Collaborator,” the soon-to-be kai sends chills down your spine with her cold threats.

He’s more machine now than man When Bareil’s health keeps failing in “Life Support,” Winn pushes to keep him cognizant as long as is convenient for her. All she wants is the credit for his negotiations with the Cardassian Central Command while also keeping open the option to use him as a scapegoat should things fail. This woman plays her cards so strategically that she always comes out on top.

See ya later, reclamator To make a good political statement by getting some soil reclamators to Rakantha Province, Winn ends up sending in the Bajoran Militia after Shakaar’s resistance cell in “Shakaar.” And what’s more, she’s presumptuous enough to ask Sisko to send in Starfleet security or else she’ll pull out of Federation membership talks! All for farming equipment. Well that escalated quickly.

You think you’re the only ones who fought the Cardassians We learn just what Kai Winn was up to during the occupation, and it’s surprisingly humanizing. Winn throws in Kira’s face during “Rapture” how she was put in a Cardassian prison camp for five years, and never stopped preaching about the prophets despite the beatings. And per “‘Til Death Do Us Part,” she also sold gemstones from the tabernacle to bolster the resistance.

No. We are nothing alike. Nothing at all. What could be better than a Louise Fletcher–Jeffrey Combs scene? We get just that in “In the Cards” when Winn is trying to delay the decision between allying with the Federation or the Dominion because in either scenario her backwards little planet will get stomped on. But it’s her short scene with Weyoun that takes the cake when she reads his pagh and judges him hard!

Please leave your message for the Prophets at the beep There’s plenty for Winn to be judgmental about in “The Reckoning” when Sisko borrows an ancient tablet without asking and then destroys it utterly. But at the core of Winn’s motivation is desperation for the Prophets to communicate with her, which they’ve never done, so she puts an end to the Prophet–Pah-wraith battle because she isn’t the center of attention for once.

The Password Is: Restoration Winn’s whole arc in the final ten-parter of the series is a work of art, and so perfectly portrayed. Let’s break it down here, because it all starts with getting fully taken in with Anjohl Tennan in “‘Til Death Do Us Part.” All Dukat-in-disguise has to do is drop some buzzwords and the Kai is immediately enamored with the guy, and bedding down with him by the next episode, “Strange Bedfellows.”

Everything will change once you step down as Kai. You’ll see. When Winn is having a crisis of faith in “Strange Bedfellows” after receiving a vision from the Pah-wraiths, she wisely seeks out Kira. And the Corporal gives Winn the perfect advice to step down as kai so as not to be tempted by power anymore. And for a split second you think Winn will listen to reason. But she’s still Winn, after all, entirely blind to what she doesn’t want to see.

Catfished by the Prophets Stepping down as kai is not an option for Winn, who doesn’t believe she has too much power. In fact, she believes she doesn't have enough power! So by the end of “Strange Bedfellows,” she fully denounces the Prophets because they’ve never done anything for her. She admits to Anjohl that she’s never felt their presence and has been faking it for years, but blind faith will serve her no longer. Now she wants results!

Don’t you recognize the face of your enemy? May the Prophets bless Solbor for giving us such a great reveal scene in “The Changing Face of Evil.” He’s found out that Anjohl is actually Dukat, and Adami’s reaction to this news is so layered and cathartic that we love it. But that tippy top layer is a sense of self preservation that can only be maintained by murdering the hell out of Solbor, that gossip hound!

Hit it and quit it But that isn’t as cold as Winn can get, as is proven in the next episode in “When It Rains…” after Dukat has gone blind from reading the Book of the Pah-wraiths. Winn cruelly kicks the blind Cardassian out on his ass to beg on the streets of Bajor. “You may return when you’ve proven yourself worthy and your sight has been restored,” she mocks, and it’s stone cold!

The Pah-wraiths demand a sacrifice The whole series culminates in “What You Leave Behind” in the fire caves with Winn casting aside her devotion to the Prophets and summoning the Pah-wraiths. What she hadn’t told Dukat (with his sight returned for reasons) was that she lured him there to use him as the ceremonial sacrifice, and she righteously poisons his ass with absolutely no hesitation.

Too little, too late Finally, Winn comes this close to redemption in “What You Leave Behind” when she comes to see the error of her ways (or maybe she’s just bitter that the Kosst Amojen picked Dukat’s husk over her). For the hottest of seconds (cause it’s the fire caves, get it?), she tries to get the book to Sisko when at last she has an epiphany moment, but her fate is ultimately sealed when Pah-wraiths toast her in flames.

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What a journey for a character that only appears a handful of times, and we were here for every second. Next week, we’re continuing to give in the Pah-wraiths as we recount our favorite Dukat moments, which will surely be a trip. So keep your eyes here for that, keep following us through the Delphic Expanse as we watch through Enterprise over on SoundCloud or your favorite podcast place, praise the Prophets with us on Facebook and Twitter, and practice your “my child”s in the mirror.

#star trek #star trek podcast #podcast #deep space nine #kai winn #in the hands of the prophets #the circle #the collaborator #life support #shakaar #rapture #in the cards #the reckoning #'til death do us part #strange bedfellows #the changing face of evil #when it rains #what you leave behind #louise fletcher

[randomnameless]

I’m surprised at the amount of billy asks you get. Does it mean that they’re popular? All i know for sure is that they certainly seem to interest a lot of people. And i agree that they really do have the bones for a fascinating character, but the developers couldn’t be bothered to build something from those bones because 1) sim shenanigans, you can’t have your self insert react strongly if you’re meant to project 100% onto them, but billy does have traits that keep getting mentioned by more than one person plus the few actions they do choose and a backstory, which doesn’t seem like cardboard to me imho, but also 2) earl gray, and what invader added is the most damning detail of them all. Or rather, not a detail, but the anchor that sank billy. I know we’re meant to keep flamey and edelgard separate in our minds because edelgard is marketed as a poor sad waifu you must feel compelled to rescue, but it doesn’t erase her actions or flamey. When we have evidence saying that silver snow is meant to be the primary marketed canon route and so much of the conflicts across two games come down to the actions of one person plus a poorly thought out loptous stand in, all it tells me is that the main character was doomed to fail because the developers could not decide how to write a school mystery + romance of the three kingdoms sympathetic to cao cao so they tried to “fix” that or make it “gray” by turning it into a dating sim to artificially raise the emotional stakes. At least to me it says they didn’t have confidence in billy as a main character at all because so much of it hinges on centering edelgard and the players picking faves out of the rest of the cast, and to make it more insulting the compensation is being able to kill billy in the spin off? I myself don’t really have any big faves in the games because i only play them casually and read your blog, but what i do know is that it makes me hate edelgard for essentially being the gravitational center of the games like a narrative black hole and the developers being too cowardly to really cement her as a villain, and it doesn’t make me like warriors either because it doubles down on trying to explain her position instead of telling a story and because shez fans are extremely annoying and rude online, no surprise that many are also edelgard fans.

I'd say it's a cumulation of everything!

I think the fandom (myself included!) might have been a bit harsh on Billy because of their avatar status, even if I still think Rhea's S-support "aloneb4u" is shit and Seteth not giving any fucks about her and centering his support and convos on "we must find her so she will reveal da truth 2 u" is bonkers and both of those instances can't be only attributed to Hresvelg Grey but to "only the player is important", like the theory i came up with the self-insert scissors.

But yeah, I feel like at one point, Supreme Leader hijacked the "main character" or "character at the center of the plot we want to tell" spot, all gravitas went to "can u kill the student who loves u and bear with the sad uwus for the rest of your run ??" instead of, you know, the greater plot Nopes teased us with a Larva vs Sothis that never happened?

I compared FE16's story to many things earlier on, but the general thing is "why are we talking and following the least interesting parts of Fodlan", Supreme Leader's war of unification is meh, bias or no bias, I would have loved to see a War of Heroes game, or even a game set during the Sothis vs Agartha era (or the two why not) - but here we just have Ashnard lite with an uwu glazing, without even tackling a traditional or underlaying issue from the FE series about coexistence between people and acceptance and whatnot.

(the reason why AM is still, imo, a letdown because it ignores the dragon in the room)

What was Billy supposed to be? Supreme Leader's luf interest? A character that can conceptually fall (if they pick Tru Piss) thus can ascend in other routes? A self insert? The character you're supposed to navigate the world with?

I think Billy being a silent protag was a disservice to them - despite all of its faults, Nopes at least gives more light to Billy and it's refreshing, even if the game will never add 1+1 because Hresvelg Grey.

TBH I think Fodlan has its own share of fans being annoying regardless of the character they support - and while Barney is pretty chatty, ultimately Barney is the deviant art OC with two swords because why not, a sekrit past that is never explained and somehow stronger than everyone who is actually as empty as an oyster shell. We don't know what Barney wants, to be a merc? Yeah, but why? Is it because Barney is searching for somewhere to belong - just like Billy in a way - ?

As for the cardboard mention, it's most likely again in relation to Hresvelg Grey and Fe Fodlan's writing - the games don't spend enough time to build a sense of friendship and camaraderie between the cast to make the "betrayal" hurt or even the "y must we kill people we knew :'( " meaningful, so we only have the "wah sensei why didn't you pick me :(" or the general "i'm sad to fight against you" but like, mate, who are you? Why are you lamenting having to fight against Billy - someone who is opposing/invading your country and everything you stand for - like Billy and 12 months in Rhea's rocky mansion meant so much to you, much more than the 17 years of life (with acquaintances, friends, family, etc) you had?

But it's also in relation to Hresvelg Grey and the silent protag - why no one can give a reason - save for Supreme Leader "lizards BaD + MAGA" - to join this route, heck, not even Billy can say why they joined this route...

In French we have a saying that goes "comparaison n'est pas raison" more or less meaning you can't always compare things bcs context and all, but after TS's protag Serenor - who also has Gary Stu moments! - Billy not saying a thing about Supreme Leader's nonsense, frowning at Dimitri and being silent during Claude's monologues is... annoying.

But when Billy isn't in Fodlan games, they can talk and there's still the forbidden rule of not adding numbers - never ! - but they shine more.

#anon #replies #Billy stuff #TS's Serenor was annoying at times like the Fred ending was uhhh a thing #self-insert scissors are sadly what IS seems to come up with recently #I don't think Elibe Echoes will cut off Pent from Louise's life so she will be able to marry the self insert #maybe it's just a shipping thing you'd say #but for Seteth not to mention Flayn at all in his supports nor his sister who is being zumba'd in Enbarr like their siblings #it's just wtf #is this why Cat and Cyril and to a lesser extent Dedue weren't loved by the fandom? because they have someone else that is more important #to them than Billy? #or maybe it's bcs Rhea BaD and Dimitri BaD #FE16 #3 Nopes #sort of #I game about Billy being like Alear #discovering who they are and chosing what they want to do would have been much more interesting #than i wanted to walk with u :( #imagine a billy who decides to stand by humanity even if they're dumb because they luf them #or a billy who thinks they're better off dead because they will never accept anyone being different and #a billy who stands by humanity but refuses to accept they'll forever be dumb thus accepts to guide them #something weird like that #with zanado fruits and more focus on Sothis and Nemesis's party

[plush4bunny]

if you peeple don't mind 🥺👉👈 leave some review at rotten tomatoes to show how much we love the series

✨in exchange, i'll make more armand gamache fan art 🥺✨

#the ratings are just wonky but show some love to the production crew and actors #three pines #alfred molina #louise penny #show some support for the series bleaseee 🥺🥺🥺 #armand gamache

[mcgnussen]

kevin is leaving behind life in copenhagen and has bought a house on the same street as his in-laws and close to his dad and siblings near his hometown ✌️

#kevin magnussen #i love the fact that other drivers are buying luxury flats in monaco #and then there's k-mag buying a 70's villa right beside his parents-in-law just outside his hometown #i also adore that he probably did this for louise so she has more support when he's away #... and not to be a gossip girl as it's truly none of my business but maybe that means another baby soon? 👀

[frankensteincest]

JANINE GARRISSON tr. Richard Rex, A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483-1598

#txt. #16. #history. #the whole thing is so #this immediately after how Louise of Savoy and Marguerite of Navarre lavished affection & political support on Francis I #an idle and fond bondage.