#I'm planning on doing a rewatch over the summer of all three shows

[such-a-barbarian]

Tag Game!

thank you for the tags @mybrainismelted and @lupeloto

name: Kell

location: In my basement, under 1000 blankets, avoiding doing my job.

astrological sign: aries

What's a TV show or movie you plan to re-watch this year? I've never actually planned to rewatch anything - it just sort of happens. Chances are pretty good I'll rewatch Gilmore Girls and/or Parks and Rec at some point this year.

Whats a book or fic you will probably re-read this year? Do kids books count? Cause I re-read Goodnight Moon every goddamn night. lol. Seriously though I will most definitely read Cooperative Gameplay, as I do multiple times each year...

What is a song you will likely continue to play on repeat? I've been super into Jason Mraz's new album Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride, so just that whole album really

What's a tasty treat you look forward to eating more of this year? Ice cream! We have a really great creamery that is about a 15-minute bike ride from our house and by the summer my kiddos will be at a good age to take after-dinner trips to grab some!

What's a time sink that you will continue to sink time into this year? re-reading the same gallavich fics over and over.

Did you pick up any habits in 2023 that you plan to continue? Finally got back to a good workout routine after 4 years and having 2 babies. Feels good.

What's your toxic trait? I will avoid conflict at all costs.

What is a coping mechanism you will continue to indulge in this year? chips. eating so much chips

Tell me something you like about how you look! I'm a fan of my hair.

Give me at least three adjectives describing things you like about yourself. laid-back, adventurous, affectionate

Seeing as it's Friday I'm a little late to the game, but I'll tag a few people anyway @jrooc, @francesrose3, @juliakayyy, @krysmiss, @zutaralesbian, @bawlbrayker, @tanktopgallavich, @transmickey and @ryantryinx

#tag game #about me

[mitamicah]

For the ask thing: 8, 13 (I know you do but I wanna know), 104.

Right, let me see

8. What is the best compliment you have ever received?

Oh

Eh

I'm already failing at this x'D

Gah, I am so bad at remembering things :'D - I think it might be the one compliment that made me want to actually pursue a singing "carreer" (or more like ... actually sing in public x'D):

For context I come from a family where neither my mom, dad or grandparents are big singers and so I also thought I was bad at singing growing up especially after my sister filmed me singing along to music with headphones on and it sounded horrendous because I couldn't hear myself :'3 Then at high school at around 16 years old I'd lent a cd to a friend where we bonded over liking this one song but for some reason in the moment my friend couldn't recall the name of the song so I sang a bit of it to figure out if we were thinking of the same song. Then from behind a third party friend popped in and said:

"Shut up, you said you couldn't sing that was a lie!!"

And here we are today - me going to musical summer camp in three days using one week on singing rock and pop cover songs and the week after that recording my own music ... oh and I plan on going to karaoke tomorrow x'D

13. Do you have any tattoos? If yes what do they mean?

You have chosen all the ones I am good at babbling about x'D

I do have a tattoo, just one tho on my forearm/shoulder. It is Flapjack (a cardinal bird from the cartoon series the Owl House) holding a handbrush in his beak :3 It symbolises a few things - the upper most layer is that the cardinal is somewhere seen as a newly deceased soul visiting their loved ones so having Flapjack on my arm symbolises my grandmother that passed away last year and that her soul is still with me (the brush is a silly little extra story I can talk about another time if anybody wants to hear it x'D). Yet on a deeper level the bird being Flapjack specifically is due to the fact that just after having cried my eyes out to the first episode of season 3 of the owl house titled For the Future (everybody in the fandom knows what I am referring to with this episode and the character of Flapjack) I got the call that my grandmother was at the hospital. The day after having just rewatched the episode I got the call that she was dead. So because of this Flapjack and my grandmother sort of mixed together in my mind giving my grandmother a spirit animal to take with her up to Heaven.

Now I also find it hilarious given that in april when the finale hit everybody (in the show and out of it) wanted Flapjack tattoos so for once I felt ahead of the curve x'D

Btw this is the tattoo :3

104. If money were no object, where would you like to go on vacation?

My Lord of the Rings heart is longing to visit New Zealand :'D that or Finland because of a certain brainrot x'D

Thank you for the lovely questions 🥺💚

#long post ahead #because oh wow I can talk forever it seems #replies

[psychedelic-ink]

Alright, there are a couple of things I want to get to for 2023 and as I do with most things I decided to make a list! Also, I thought this would be a good way to show you all what to expect this year 🧡

This list mostly focuses on ongoing and upcoming series. I'll also be writing oneshots whenever inspiration strikes, and my askbox is open for drabble/oneshot requests!

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under the cut 💗

FICS LEFT OVER FROM 2022

Finishing i've got you darlin'

This is my moonknight x reader x din series. I'm three chapters in and after finishing my winter wips I'll be focusing on this one for the time being. I started this fic with such excitement and even tho that excitement hasn't died out I kinda stopped? More is to come soon!

Finishing Million Dollar Man

Again I started this one with such excitement but after writing the first two chapters I got stuck? But I've been outlining the third chapter so after writing a chunk of IGYD my main focus will be on this

Adding more to A Broken Prince

Yes, I will be writing more pianist!ezra 🧡 this isn't necessarily a series but I really want to revisit the world

When it comes to my other ongoing series, I plan on switching between them all, adding chapters when I feel inspired. Those are generally more loose-fit type fics so they're easier to write.

UPCOMING SERIES FOR 2023

Prosody (ezra x fem!reader/ofc)

This series will feature the events that happened before Prospect, I just thought of this one during my rewatch on New Years so it's still quite fresh but there is a playlist if anyone wants to listen to it lol

Conversations with Starfish (fisherman!jack daniels x fem!reader/ofc)

will be coming out during spring/summer

Your brother, after a long struggle with illness, passes away and leaves you his small house on a serene island in the Aegean sea. In his final wish, he asks that you leave your tedious job and start anew. As you embrace this change, you meet a fisherman by the name of Jack. Though his demeanor may not be warm at first, you are determined to make the most of this new chapter in your life and hope to one day win his friendship.

More of Tattooist Ezra & Din

This will most likely be a loose-fit series

**If you're excited to read any of these please let me know so I know what to prioritize first 🧡🧡🧡 I hope you all had great new years!

#2023 writing goals #2023 wips #wip list

[vashti-lives]

So I'm not putting this behind a cut because I'm not really going to discuss the episode proper but oh my god after watching this finale it just makes episode 3 EVEN MORE EGREGIOUS. HOLY SHIT. What a goddamn waste of time.

I'll probably rewatch the whole season at some point this summer, but like, I liked it pretty well. Generally on an episodic level I think the writing is quite good. Its definitely a fun time. But oh my god they fucking blew it on the high level plotting. If you were going to do an episode not about Din and Grogu WHY waste so much time on that weasel scientist and not give the other Mandalorians proper backstory and context????? These last two or three episodes would have been drastically improved if we'd developed the rest of the Night Owls and their relationship with Bo-Katan and each other.

Plus Bo-Katan's ENTIRE ARC would have been more meaningful and also just... more comprehensible. Her arc and character growth are there in the season we got but its so fucking subtle I've seen people missing it all over tumblr. People needed that shit spelled out. It sincerely boggles my mind that people looked at their outline and went, "yeah 40 minutes on a guy who isn't going to show up again this season, that's a good use of time."

(and then i decided it got too long and added a cut anyway)

And frankly some of the problem is that this season needed more time to tell the story they wanted to tell. 8 episodes is just objectively not long enough to really explore the conflict between the two groups of Mandalorians AND have the empire plotting in the background doing shit, in among all the episodic adventures.

With more episodes they could have developed the Mandalorian conflict and the conflict with the empire in a more compelling way. Plus with a slightly longer season they could have fit the Mandalorian stuff the squeezed into the Book of Boba Fett into its actual place and let Boba have his own goddamn show. I kind of question why Disney didn't just order 12 episodes-- its their fucking flagship Star Wars show and it has to be making them the most money merch wise. But then I also think that when you're a writer and you know you have 8 episodes to tell a story its on you to write a story that will fit in the confines of the space you have to work with.

Still at the end of the day I do think a 12 episode season was the correct choice because I DEEPLY SUSPECT that at the end of season 2 there was an entirely different season 3 planned that got scrapped because the execs didn't trust the Mandalorian to be popular without Grogu. This would explain the mess that was Book of Boba Fett-- someone got cold feet and felt they had to assure the audience that Grogu would be in the Mandalorian after all. But really if you're going to demand your writers undo their last ending and change their whole story you should at least give them the time to do it. Let Boba have his own story and then expand season 3! Announce to everybody that 4 more episodes have been ordered! Make it into a thing! Don't fucking cheap out when its a show that's making you a shit ton of cash.

#the mandalorian spoilers #the mandalorian #i have a lot of feelings about script writing and pacing #there are actually lots of things i liked about this season that were apparently not that popular #and in fact i liked a lot of the dumber shit in book of boba fett #BUT HOLY SHIT ARE THEY GARBAGE AT SEASON LEVEL PACING #i blame disney tbh #not that i think it couldn't have been a writers room issue #but in this case i do think it was high level meddling #i'm pretty sure i can see the ghost of the season 3 that would have been

[addictedtostorytelling]

That Lucy Knight ER post/analysis ... It's soooo good. And sooo much more heartbreaking.

ER is one of the best shows I've ever watched, with so many good stories, big and small. But Lucy...even after all these years, when I read, hear or think about ER, I think about Lucy dying. It was so devastating, but such moments, such tragedy made this show so damn good!

Well, done!

hi, anon!

thank you for your kind words! i'm glad you liked the post. is it wrong to say (given the subject matter) that i had fun making it? ;)

in all seriousness, i am right there with you on still being devastated by lucy, even going on twenty-three years later now.

i had watched er during its original run from its premiere in 1994 (when i was seven) but for the first several seasons was too young to really understand much of what i was seeing. it was only around the time that s5 started airing that i was finally old enough to really comprehend the larger stories, beyond just the simple patient-care interactions.

lucy, as a kind of audience surrogate, was the character i latched onto at that point—the first character i ever truly fell in love with.

her death in s6 honestly changed the chemistry of my brain.

i was thirteen years old at the time, and i couldn't stop obsessing. without realizing that that's what i was doing, i wrote fanfic and meta about it. rewatched old episodes—lovingly recorded on vhs during the summer rerun season—and had my little mind blown as i realized that so many of her early scenes suddenly seemed to have been imbued with increased significance in light of her eventual death. i turned the story over and over again in my mind, thinking through all of the myriad ways it broke my heart.

looking back, i learned so much about the function of tragedy and the structure of tragic narratives from (over)thinking so much about her character arc and its culmination, so it seemed only fitting to pay tribute.

making that post, i was reminded of how many moments there were during s5 and s6—even beyond the ones i included in the set—that foreshadowed her ultimate fate.

in a lot of ways, hers is a circular or even chiastic narrative, replete with callbacks and repeated themes, everything seeming to work together to bring her to one inevitable end.

it's almost hard to believe that her death wasn't planned from the beginning, given how tight those story elements are with her.

she is very much a girl marked to die from the beginning.

it's a tribute to her and the writing of er that even over two decades later, her death still hits home in the way that it does not only for me but for so many fans.

it's truly one of the most memorable stories in the entire series.

#answered #anon #** #my meta #meta: er #meta: lucy #lucy knight #let's talk shop #er

[waheelawhisperer]

Geez, Yang's dad. Specifically, the pedestal built up by fans who either project on Tai *directly* or the *notion* of a Solid Single Parent Rock. My short kludgetake? He was clearly shook by STRQ's fragmenting and there were definite knockoff effects on Ruby & Yang, though lately he's an OK source of material support & exercise if you need it. None of this needs to mean his reads on personality, semblance use or CQC strategy were Flawless Sensei Writ To Be Rubbed In Those Meathead Kids' Faces.

Couldn't figure out how to answer these in one post through tumblr's interface, so I just screenshotted the second one. If there's a better way of doing this, I am begging someone to tell me.

My post about how Team RWBY was justified in not trusting Ironwood was technically next in the pipeline, but I'm gonna have to rewatch two Volumes while paying close attention to the details before I do that one and who knows when I'll have the time and motivation for that, so I figured I might as well tackle these two instead because I shouldn't have to go back and rewatch anything. Gonna do them both at once since they cover similar subjects and I'd rather not repeat myself too much.

My feelings about Tai are... complicated, to say the least. To start with, I have immense sympathy for the man, given how much loss he's suffered. Raven left, Summer disappeared, Qrow has spent his life distancing himself from everyone he cares about and is an alcoholic besides, Yang lost an arm and struggles with PTSD, and Ruby was involved in humanity's existential war against an ancient evil before she had a driver's license. It's a lot for one man to cope with, to be honest.

I think the first ask is right about the impact STRQ's dispersion had on him. He's still clearly not over Raven, and it's noted in the text itself that Summer's disappearance wounded him so badly that he shut down, to the point where Yang mentions having to grow up fast in order to take care of Ruby. There's still a lot we don't know about the situation and probably never will, and almost everything we know comes from Yang on the rare occasions she actually opens up about it (her conversation with Blake in Burning the Candle and her talk with Weiss in Alone Together are the two instances I can recall off the top of my head, but there may be more I missed). We know that when Summer disappeared, Tai "just kind of... shut down" (Burning the Candle). We know that Ruby "couldn't even talk yet" (Alone Together) and was "really torn up, but... still too young to really get what was going on" (Burning the Candle). We know that Yang believes that she "had to pick up the pieces [and] keep things together. Alone" (Alone Together). We know from Yang's story in Burning the Candle that Taiyang left a toddler and her slightly older sister alone in the house long enough for Yang to load Ruby up in a wagon and wander off into the woods.

So what do those facts tell us?

First, let's try to figure out exactly how old Yang and Ruby were at the time. Google tells me that most babies are speaking coherently around age three, which means that even if we're pretty generous with the definition of what Yang considers talking, Ruby is exceedingly unlikely to be older than four, which means Yang is about seven at max*, and possibly younger. Yang refers to Ruby as "a toddler" (Burning the Candle) at the time, so Ruby is probably somewhere between one and three years old at the time. All we're explicitly told is that Tai left two young children alone on that occasion, which is in itself... A Problem... but if he's doing it often enough that a kindergartner can plan around it, which is one way you can read the text, then that's seriously neglectful. Note that Qrow was explicitly not around at the time and was not watching the children, given that he only showed up in the nick of time to rescue them. Combine that knowledge with the fact that Qrow has historically stayed away from the people he loves to avoid catching them in his Semblance and has his own issues with alcohol that were probably created by Team STRQ's dissolution, and I'm pretty sure that he wasn't doing a whole lot to physically care for the children.

*if I have the timeline correct, Yang is approximately 2 years and 9 months older than Ruby.

We know that Yang feels like she was left alone to support the family. Given her probable age at the time, it's unlikely she was responsible for too much material support (it's not unusual for kids that age to have simple chores - I certainly did - so I wouldn't be surprised if Yang was at least helping out around the house a little bit by doing stuff like setting the table or helping Ruby get dressed or whatever, but I sincerely doubt she was cooking a whole-ass dinner for the family or fixing the shed in first grade), which leads me to believe she's referring to emotional support more than anything else, especially when you consider the role she takes when interacting with her team. Yang is almost always the one offering support to her teammates instead of accepting it for herself, to a degree that is outright unhealthy, and I think that stems from the way she needed to be there emotionally for Ruby and Tai after Summer disappeared. Rarely do we see her open up her issues, and she repeatedly internalizes her own emotions in favor of prioritizing someone else's, and we see that Ruby has problems of her own in this regard throughout the story - she bottles everything up and will not address her various insecurities and issues until circumstances conspire to force her to do so. We know for a fact that Yang took on a maternal role for Ruby - "Yang lost her mom like Ruby, but then Yang had to fill that same role" (The World of RWBY: The Official Companion, page 68), but it's not clear what percentage of this support was physical versus emotional. From what we see in the series proper, it's significant amounts of both.

Anyway, the point of all this is that Taiyang was outright neglectful after Summer's loss, as was Qrow, to a lesser extent. As painful as losing Summer clearly was, Taiyang is the adult with the responsibility for looking after his daughters, who needed his love and support, and he failed to do so.

I think the ask sells Taiyang short by describing him as an "okay source of material support & exercise," though. He's clearly capable of providing for his daughters' material needs and was doing so even right after Summer disappeared, given that Yang says he was "always busy with school" (Alone Together), which implies to me that he was functional enough to work and keep his daughters fed and clothed even as his worst. It's also clear to me that Tai loves and cares for his daughters, based on his concern for Ruby and Yang after the Battle of Beacon, during Yang's recovery, and when Ruby's message goes out during Salem's attack on Atlas.

There's a shorthand that I've noticed RWBY likes to use to indicate "good" parental figures: freedom. The good parents in RWBY allow their children (or "children", in the case of Qrow and Winter) considerably more freedom than the bad ones - the villainous Jacques abuses and controls all three of his kids; Ironwood offers the illusion of choice, as long as Winter and the protagonists are picking from the choices he approves of; Raven, who is presented as having the possibility of redemption throughout Volume 5 and even now, tries to manipulate Yang, but ultimately allows her to leave and is at least apologetic for her own cowardice at the end of the Battle of Haven; while Tai, Qrow, Ghira and Kali, Winter, and Pietro all afford their children considerable freedom. Ghira and Kali allow Blake to stay with the White Fang when Ghira steps down and the organization becomes violent, despite the fact that she was like fuckin' twelve at the time, welcome her home without denigrating her choices, and don't protest her decision to continue traveling with Team RWBY despite the fact that we know from their introduction in Volume 4 that they worry about her; Winter repeatedly encourages Weiss to strike her own path and develop her own identity, free from the constraints of the Schnee family; Pietro is visibly protective of Penny, but he allows her to participate in the Vytal Festival and then lets her continue fighting as a Huntress despite literally dying once before, and despite his clear conflict about doing so and fear of losing her, he doesn't use his extremely fucking creepy backdoor into Penny's systems to prevent her from fighting Cinder; and Qrow is perfectly content letting a quartet of teenagers spend half a year crossing Anima on foot with no guidance or supervision. As for Tai, he gives Yang and Ruby one whole hell of a lot of freedom. I think it's really telling that both of his daughters chose to become Huntresses and that we never hear of any pushback on his part against that choice, despite the losses he's directly suffered at the hands of the profession. At the start of the series, both Ruby and Yang live on Patch, an island isolated from the main city of Vale by a sea channel, meaning they'd have to reach Vale by either boat or airship, but they're both seen wandering around Vale alone as early as the Yellow Trailer. Yang gets into a fight at Junior's club without any onscreen repercussions and it's implied that she's familiar enough with the shady side of Vale that she's been doing this for a while in search of Raven. Ruby is out in Vale alone and unsupervised late enough at night for Roman Torchwick to be out robbing Dust stores, and we never really hear about Tai being upset about this. He doesn't express any concern about her going to Beacon two years early, either. Yang has a motorcycle license and her own motorbike. Once things go to shit after the Battle of Beacon, Taiyang is clearly worried about Yang and Ruby adventuring in Anima, but he doesn't make any serious effort to stop them. He seems okay with the knowledge that Qrow is watching over Ruby and doesn't make more than a token effort to convince Yang not to leave in search of Ruby all on her lonesome. Tai treats his teenage daughters as adults, which is... not a parental attitude we frequently see in media like this, where the parents of the teen heroes/heroines are often either overbearing or absent.

The narrative obviously wants us to see Tai as a Good Dad. He cares about his daughters, offers them freedom in a way consistent with other parental figures the narrative wants us to view as good, and the narrative never really challenges his advice to Yang in any meaningful way that I'm aware of. That said, his behavior around the time that Summer disappeared was treated by the narrative as a failing, and the fact that we're supposed to think of him as a good parent now doesn't mean he's always a good parent, or that he was a good parent at any specific point. One of the main themes of RWBY is that people can change and grow for the better, and it's clear that Tai has improved as a father, though his neglect in their earlier years has left scars on both his daughters.

That said, there are some... inconsistencies... in the writing around him that undermine that message a bit. Let's start with the big one: his conversation with Yang in Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back. I've transcribed the conversation below, starting at the point where Tai talks about the way Yang fights, and will discuss it more or less line-by-line.

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Taiyang: I wasn't talking about your actual balance. Although, that could use some work too.

Yang: Meaning?

Taiyang: I saw your tournament fights. During the Vytal Festival.

Yang: Let me guess. "I was sloppy."

Taiyang: No, no, you were predictable. And... stubborn. And... maybe a little boneheaded. Do you realize that you used your Semblance to win every fight after the qualifiers?

Yang: So what? How is me using my Semblance any different than someone else using theirs?

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It isn't, Yang. Every character with a combat-applicable Semblance uses theirs in battle, but somehow no one gets on Weiss's case in-universe for tunneling on summoning her knight so hard it nearly got her killed at the Battle of Haven, nor is it treated as a personal failing when Ruby or Blake spam theirs. All three of Yang's teammates use theirs far more frequently than she uses hers, because theirs aren't conditional, but clearly Yang is in the wrong for using her toolkit.

I'm still not sure what alternative course of action Tai is proposing Yang should've taken here. It's not like she's even spamming her Semblance. She used it once at most in the ABRN fight, as part of a designated finisher set up by all three of her teammates against a group of vulnerable opponents (and frankly, I think Tai's wrong here, because I watched that moment in 0.25 speed and didn't see any of the visual cues that usually accompany Yang's Semblance - no flashing hair, no red eyes, etc. I actually think she used her rockets to finish ABN). She used it at the end of the FNKI fight, yeah... in conjunction with her other established tactics when stuck in a 2-vs.-1. She used it to finish off Mercury, but I don't know what the fuck else she was supposed to use there, either, given that it was just a straight duel with no terrain features for her to manipulate and her major moments of advantage/control in that fight actually come from her martial arts fundamentals, first alone and then in conjunction with her Semblance, despite the fact that Monty outright confirmed that Mercury was a bad matchup for her.

Compare this to her teammates. Blake alone uses her Semblance about as much in her only fight as Yang does in three rounds and Weiss spams the absolute hell out of her glyphs in both the team round and the doubles round. In fairness, Ruby doesn't make too much use of her Semblance here, but Yang is still bringing out her Semblance less often than two-thirds of her team, typically to deal a decisive blow.

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Taiyang: Because not everyone else's is basically a temper tantrum.

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This line is so fucking disgusting that it gets its own section. Here's why: it's insulting a core part of Yang's being, a fundamental aspect of who she is. We know from World of Remnant: Aura that Aura is a manifestation of a person's soul and that a Semblance is the projection of Aura into a more tangible form. Yang's Semblance is thus a representation of her soul, of who she is as a person, of something so integral to her existence as a person that it serves as her unique power that no one else on Remnant can replicate, and Tai reduces it to a fucking temper tantrum. According to page 68 of The World of RWBY: The Official Companion, "Yang's simmering anger stems from her feelings of abandonment", and that anger is intimately connected to her Semblance, given the way her eye color is linked to both her emotional state and the activation of her Semblance. Tai reduces that very real trauma (that he contributed to by failing to care for her!) to childish petulance, and the narrative wants me to believe that he's right to do so. This is the worst line ever written in a show that's had some real bangers.

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Taiyang: I'm serious! Once you take damage, you can dish it back twice as hard, but that doesn't make you invincible! It's great when you're in a bind, but what happens if you miss? What happens if they're stronger? What then? Now you're just weak and tired! You've always been one to burn brighter than everyone else, whether it was with your smile, or, well, I remember your first haircut.

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I don't know what happens, Tai, other than the same fucking thing that happens to everyone else who misses or runs into a stronger opponent. It's not like missing even matters unless she hits something that wasn't her target, because Yang doesn't actually release her stored power unless she hits something. It's not like she's bleeding energy if someone ducks under a punch.

In fairness to Tai, I do think that when he's asking what happens if Yang misses, he's specifically referring to her expending her stored kinetic energy on something she didn't intend to hit, but that's not necessarily clear from the way the dialogue is written, and given how stupid his advice is, I'm not inclined to give him much benefit of the doubt. As for her opponent being stronger, that's not exactly contingent on whether she uses her Semblance effectively. If they're stronger, they win unless she uses her Semblance anyway, so she might as well use every tool in her kit instead of being called out for... possessing an ability with drawbacks. It's not like her Semblance specifically leaves her vulnerable. It's like claiming Nora's Semblance is a liability because Tyrian dunked on her even when Ruby juiced her up with a lightning bullet. Oh, hey, Tyrian was stronger, guess Nora shouldn't have ever tried using the entirety of her powerset to beat him.

Yes, Tai, your daughter's Semblance doesn't make her invincible. Thank you so much for telling her something she already knew well enough that she mostly used her Semblance briefly and tactically and primarily relied on her fundamentals. As I discussed here, Yang is one of the only characters in the show to use her various tools to compliment her unarmed combat fundamentals instead of building her fighting style around those tools, but sure, she relies too much on her Semblance. I sort of get why he brings this up, but I don't think we've seen Yang act like her Semblance has any defensive benefits and nothing in the narrative has implied that it has (or that anyone thinks it has) any real direct defensive use, so I still think he's missing the point a bit here.

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Taiyang: But you gotta keep your emotions in check. Keep a level head, and think before you act. Your Semblance is a great fallback, but you can't let yourself rely on it. It won't always save you. Obviously. You definitely have your mom's stubbornness.

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I suppose most of this isn't technically wrong, even if he's just talking at Yang instead of to her. Yes, you need to keep your emotions in check, which Yang mostly does outside of extreme stress situations, like the people she loves being in danger. Even Team FNKI, who are deliberately trying to get under her skin, only manage to do so temporarily, and Yang isn't half bad at emotional regulation under normal circumstances. Yeah, she's got a bit of a temper, but she knows how to manage it - we regularly see her vent it briefly when she gets upset and overstimulated and then calm down, refocus, and start functioning normally again.

I truly fucking hate the way Yang is vilified for being angry and hot-tempered. I've seen so many people in this fandom act like she has no right to be mad about anything, ever, and that her expressing anger is just "proof that she's bitchy" or something equally stupid, and I'm just so goddamn sick of it. I know a lot of people like pre-PTSD Yang more, and that's totally understandable, but the lack of sympathy certain segments of the fandom feel for her after what she's gone through disappoints me. Honestly, I think it ties into the sexist societal belief that women aren't allowed to be angry and assertive to some degree, because we also see this with the absolute vitriol directed at Robyn Hill by the large number of people that seem to be missing crucial context regarding her actions (that's gonna be part of the post about Team RWBY not trusting Ironwood, just in case anyone is wondering). Just let the girl be mad at things, for crying out loud. Being angry's not a crime, and neither is having a temper. What matters is how you manage it, and Yang is very aware of her emotions and the effects they have on those around her, as demonstrated by the way she repeatedly regulates her emotions so as not to make the people she cares about uncomfortable.

Yes, Yang should keep a level head and think before she acts. Funnily enough, she already does that. People like to stereotype her as "the violent, impulsive one", but she really isn't. She's a thrill seeker with a temper and likes fighting, sure, but she's really not more violent than her teammates and we regularly see her try to find diplomatic solutions to problems (mediating between Weiss and Ruby early in Volume 1, attempting to work with Robyn instead of arresting her, breaking Raven by talking instead of fighting, etc.). Compare that to her teammates. Hell, compare that to her sister! Ruby's first response to seeing the Goliaths in Mountain Glenn is to ask Dr. Oobleck if they could kill them, Ruby tries to stop a robbery and gets chastised by Glynda for it, Ruby gets pinned down by the Nevermore in the Emerald Forest, Ruby gets captured by the White Fang, Ruby refuses to stay away while Qrow is fighting Tyrian... Yang's not looking so violent or impulsive now, is she? As for her teammates, Weiss throws a racist in a dumpster when the protagonists are specifically supposed to be keeping a low profile, sneaks out of her house in high heels, points a sword in her brother's face, and tackles a guy into a lava flow to protect Yang despite having a million better options available to her. Blake joined a terrorist organization as a preteen, burns her own damn house down to smoke out a girl with a big gay crush on her, attacks Roman Torchwick alone at the docks, infiltrates a White Fang meeting, and makes her triumphant return to her team by dropkicking The Mountain That Yells in the head. Clearly, Yang is the brute of the cast.

She doesn't rely on her Semblance, Tai, that's the whole point of her fighting style. Jesus fucking Christ. She uses it strategically. I've been over this ad nauseum at this point.

(On another note, that line specifically makes me laugh every time I hear it, because a fallback is literally a thing you rely on when your normal techniques don't work. It's in the name.)

No, it won't always save her, but she doesn't act like it will. She got caught in one shitty no-win situation, took the only option that had even a chance of success, and then Tai and half the fandom shat on her relentlessly for it.

I don't even agree that she has Raven's stubbornness. If she did, she would have argued instead of listened. She's understandably grumpy, but she's not closing you out. Yang's definitely self-assured and has a core of stubbornness to her, but it's not like Raven's. She's perfectly willing to listen and reach out to others and engage in self-reflection. Hell, she actively demonstrates this in Burning the Candle, when she talks about how her stubbornness nearly gets Ruby killed, an event that haunts her for at least a decade, and actively takes steps to be aware of her own tendencies and regulate them so that they don't negatively impact herself or others. She's so aware of this, in fact, that she's able to give advice to Blake about it and get through to her.

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Yang: Oh, so now we can talk about her?

Taiyang: Well, as I have been informed, you're an adult now, remember?

Yang: Well, sorry I remind you of her.

Taiyang: Don't be. Raven was great in so many ways - her strength, her ambition, her dedication to whatever cause she thought was worth fighting for.

Taiyang: I'm proud of how much of her I see in you. But, I'm glad I don't see all of her in you.

Yang: Why?

Taiyang: Your mother was... a complicated woman. Like everybody, she had her faults, but those faults are what tore our team apart. And, it did a real number on our family. You both act like the easiest way to tackle an obstacle is through it. That strength is all that matters in a fight. But if you just take a second look, then maybe you see... there's a way around as well. Come on - one more before dinner.

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Not a lot to say about this until we get to the last paragraph. Tai is... kinda right about the way Yang approaches obstacles, in the sense that she frequently meets opponents head-on in a fight (see the way she approaches Flynt - she goes straight for him, through his trumpet, instead of trying to move laterally), but she doesn't act like strength is all that matters. If she did, she wouldn't use her wide array of tactics or emphasize defeating her opponents with her technical skills and fundamentals instead of brute force.

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Taiyang: Heh. See? Alright! Now you're using your head instead of your—

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Get clowned on, Tai.

In fairness to the pundits mentioned above, I think Tai is intended to be right, given that the narrative never really challenges him, and we see Yang put his advice into practice in a very literal sense with her greater emphasis on lateral movement and flanking, as well as her use of her Semblance against Adam and that stupid scene in Volume 5 where she just hands Mercury her arm despite his grip on her being weaker than the one r/rwbycritics has on literary analysis. Unfortunately, I think the writers dropped the ball here, because a great deal of Tai's advice just doesn't hold up if you pay attention to how Yang fights and the actual situation in which she lost her arm. I think there's some kind of disconnect between the people who are writing the story and whoever's actually choreographing the fights and building the characters' fighting styles (which may well go back to Monty being well-known for his struggles with the aspects of writing that he involved Miles and Kerry in the project to solve) because what the narrative wants us to think and the conclusions we naturally come to by watching the fights and thinking about them are very different. I also think Tai's missing vital context about the way Yang lost her arm, which he is never going to get because of Yang's extreme repression of her own needs and refusal to open up to anyone unless under extreme duress, especially since his emotional neglect during her early childhood has severely undermined her ability to view him as a source of emotional support.

This post got a little more aggressive than I intended it to be, but this is one of my big hot button RWBY issues, so I always get a little heated when talking about it. This is a long post and I probably missed a lot, but hopefully I talked about the stuff y'all wanted me to cover.

#rwby #yang xiao long #taiyang xiao long #analysis

[fighterkimburgess]

Your line "He could have put his happiness aside because the only thing he wanted in life was a marriage that would last." pierced my heart!

I would've loved to see a moment in canon where he talked about how hard it was to let go of the idea of being a one-marriage-man because it was so clear that was something he valued so strongly. Thanks for sharing!

Ah thank you so much anon!!

This was such a big deal for Matt, and I hate how it's been glossed over. We saw how he didn't want to marry Hallie as much as he loved her if they were having those issues over whether or not to have kids. Because even though Matt didn't have a good role model for marriage growing up, he wanted one marriage and to find The One.

We don't really see a huge amount of it, but I think it's pretty safe to say from canon context clues that Matt's Catholic - we've seen him at Mass in early seasons, his relationship with Orlovsky, that kind of thing. I grew up Catholic, and the whole one marriage thing? It's drilled into you from childhood. Everything is about one marriage, finding your person and sticking with them through thick and thin. And even though it's fairly safe to say he's not practicing anymore, that kinda thing sticks with you deep.

I think it's part of why he and Sylvie are so well matched. They've both been engaged twice, but her engagements ended before a trip to the altar. They know what they're looking for. They've both been unlucky in love before and they know exactly what they want now, and they don't want to stop until they have it. And for both of them, that's each other. And I think that's so beautiful.

#cíara answers #I'm planning on doing a rewatch over the summer of all three shows #and honestly the METAS I'm planning #Y'all will be sick of me

[the-darkdragonfly]

So, you KNOW how much I love The Ripple Effect. I mean, LOVE. ADORE. slightly OBSESSED with, and I am GIDDY that we'll be getting more once you've completed part one.

So... I'd love to hear more about where the idea came from in the first place and far into Emma and Killian's love story you're planning to go with part two (and three and four and five and six...)

Thank you my darling friend! I am so very thrilled that you have enjoyed this Tale.

I joined the CS Fandom party a bit late, I will credit Killian Jones and Hamilton for my survival in 2020. I'm fairly certain my cats were utterly fed up with me singing 'My Shot' at the top of my lungs....

I used to write FF years ago, but for a different universe, and i started reading it for OUAT last summer (Maddie's Stone Hearts was actually the first one I read) and the more I read the more I wanted to read more.

I started my little feral fic (Wash Us Clean) in November of last year, but the storyline was a bit flakey and tbh I wasn't super into it after the first few chapters, but I was rewatching the CS Movie one night and I just thought, Ugh, I wish they didn't have to go back to stupid Storybrooke and deal with everything. And over the next few days the plot for The Ripple Effect started forming.

I write entirely out of order (the bar fight was one of the first scenes I wrote), so I took a bit of time before posting to plot the whole idea out (only really for part one) and I toyed with the idea of leaving them in their cottage by the sea, because CottageCore is my soul.

But I knew they had to come back, and (spoiler alert) I also knew it had to happen exactly like it it did in the show.

I wanted her phone to still be ringing.

I wanted her to run into the diner and see her parents.

I wanted them to be confused and unsure as to wtf was going on.

I also knew they would have Hope with them, and that she would be pregnant.

So that gave me a lose timeline of three years. Then all i needed to do was to flush it out.

I wanted to give them the unspoiled time that they didn't get on the show. I wanted to explore them helping and healing each other away from the villains and stupidity (Sorry Adam and Eddy) of life in SB.

And as the story built and grew, both on paper and in my head, part two started to take shape, and so has part three.

I do have plans for them to have (spoiler alert #2) three children together, and I think the tone which will be set for Part Two will be one of getting back to normal, with a little Excalibur thrown in - cuz I love that sword..., while part three is still being plotted, I had an "i was today years old" moment a few days ago, so that might happen to be the plot line...

I think it'll be also important to remember, that in the future, curses which target those from the Forest wont affect Henry and E&K's second child... *wink*

I like weaving in small details of their lives together through the plot, which is slow at times, but has a purpose (mostly), and I have been so overwhelming happy with the response it has received - honesty, that's what makes me want to write more xox

❤❤❤❤

thank you babe!

- Kay

#the ripple effect #ask me things!

[themostrandomfandom]

hey jj! i'm incredibly late to the party but i recently rewatched seasons 2-3 (i've watched till the end once before) and i was wondering if you have any thoughts about where brittana stood both off screen in between those two seasons and in the first few episodes of season 3, till "pot o gold" when they become official. i feel like by season 3 a lot is different in comparison to the end of s2 and i'm really fascinated by their relationship in those first three episodes.

Hey, @deleteee!

So here is the thing: 

The hiatus between S2 and S3 is kind of a lost period in Brittana history. As S2 ended, fans had high hopes that we would see a lot of Brittana development play out in S3, but that’s not really what ended up happening. To be sure, things, as you say, were most definitely different for Brittana once S3 started. It’s just that we didn’t get a lot of answers as to how that difference came about. So much was left open to interpretation and introduced through insinuation.

The bad news is that because the show kind of glossed over this transition in canon, we can’t really say, “The Brittana relationship specifically underwent X, Y, and Z changes between S2 and S3.”

The good news is that we have a lot of room for imagination due to the lack of canon evidence—which means that this time period is open for a lot of headcanon.

If you’ll allow me a good jabber, I’ll do some recounting and offer my take after the cut, okay?

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When episode 2x22 “NewYork” originally aired, spoilers per Brad Falchuk suggested that Brittana would end S2 “with abang.” 

Many fans hoped that this “bang” would take the form of a first onscreenBrittana kiss and/or Santana coming out of the closet and/or the girls finally decidingthat they were officially dating.

Instead, the “bang”played out as the Heart Locker, a scene which gave us a reaffirmation ofBrittana’s best friendship, a really sweet hug and a pinky-link, and Brittany tellingSantana that, for them, “anything is possible” because they love each othermore than anything else in the world.

Initially, therelative quietness of this “bang” left many fans feeling underwhelmed. For allthe ups and downs that last six episodes of S2 had provided, Brittana had neverthelessmade very little in the way of measurable progress towards dating. No one wasexactly sure where they stood or even if TPTB at Glee were going to continue topursue a romantic storyline for them come S3.

During the summerhiatus between S2 and S3, rumors and fears abounded. Some fans worried that thewriters might introduce a new love interest for one or both of the girls comeS3. Others worried that once S3 started, Brittana would once again be relegatedto background status and all forward development for them would cease.

As the summercontinued, hopeful spoilers started to leak out, and the fandom allowed itselfto imagine some more favorable scenarios: Maybe Brittana would kiss or startdating in the season premiere. Maybe Santana would begin S3 out. Maybe she andBrittany would already be dating by the time S3 started. Maybe we would seeflashbacks to what they did with their summer vacation or at least hear aboutit in a JBI retrospective.

But, again, thingsdidn’t unfold exactly as the fandom expected.

Episode 3x01 “ThePurple Piano Project” was not the Brittana watershed we were hoping for.

The S3 premiere sawBrittana back on the Cheerios for the first time since episode 2x11 “The SueSylvester Shuffle,” with Santana being awarded dual captaincy with Becky.

In Brittana’s firstscene together, Santana got a lunch tray for her and Brittany to share andwalked with her arm-in-arm to their seats. They did talk to JBI but not abouttheir love lives, only about Santana’s plan to rock her senior year andBrittany’s efforts to assemble a functional time machine.

There was no explicitconfirmation that Brittana were dating each other—but, then again, there wasalso nothing to say that they were dating anyone else, either.

They tried to re-recruitQuinn to the New Directions and Cheerios together, but it was unclear what, ifanything, Quinn knew about their relationship.

The girls were onceagain a two-shot, appearing in almost every scene together. They danced on thetables with each other during “We Got the Beat” and sat side-by-side followingthe food fight (“Those are your nipples”).

Later on, Sue seemedto intimate that she knew the truth about Santana’s sexuality and used thatknowledge to blackmail Santana into sabotaging Will’s piano project. Santanadid not appear to be out, but she and Brittany were being awfully chummy inpublic. When Santana got kicked out the glee club, Brittany appeared noticeablydistressed, to the point that even Finn seemed to notice.

Everything was,frankly, ambiguous.

There was nothing tosay that Brittana had made progress between S2 and S3. There was also nothingto say they had regressed.

After working throughsome initial feelings of disappointment, the fandom held its collective breath,waiting to learn more. 

Some fans, myself included, wondered if Brittana werealready secretly dating and suspected that maybe a big reveal would come about at somepoint later in the season. Other fans fretted that maybe we would never see anymore mainline development for romantic Brittana at all—that this “Are they oraren’t they?” ambiguity was all we were ever going to get.

True to form, Gleestrung us along. The next two episodes of S3 tiptoed around Brittana’srelationship, with each new episode offering tantalizing clues but never delivering anything definitive.

In episode 3x02 “I AmUnicorn,” Brittany seemed bound and determined to make WMHS a safe space forLGBTQ kids, and she attempted to use Kurt’s campaign for the senior classpresidency to achieve that end. When Kurt rejected Brittany’s designs,Santana made a point to compliment her genius and encourage her to believe inherself. Everything was very sweet and seemed significant, but, again, nothingwas explicitly explained.

In episode 3x03 “AsianF,” Brittany showed up the Booty Camp, seemingly in support of Santana. Later,she performed “Run the World (Girls)” with Santana singing backup. Theperformance was definitely sexy and suggested Santana’s devotion not only toBrittany’s cause but to Brittany herself. However, it was perhaps lessintriguing, from a Brittana perspective, than Mercedes’s dream sequence performanceof “It’s All Over,” in which Mercedes clearly identified Brittana as a powercouple and talked about Santana “knocking off that piece who thinks she’sbetter than everybody running for president”—i.e., Brittany. Once again, fanswere left wondering what, if anything, was the deal with Brittana. Were theydating or what? If so, did the whole school know about it? Or was Mercedes aspecial case?

Finally, episode 3x04 “PotO’ Gold” provided some answers—though, again, not the answers fans perhapsexpected.

It turned out thatBrittany and Santana had been going on dates—eating out at BreadStix, takingromantic baths together, etc.—only Santana wasn’t sure if that meant they were actuallydating. Brittany reassured her that they were, in fact, dating if she wantedthem to be dating (“I ordered shrimp”). And Santana did want them to be dating, just with the stipulation that their relationship remain private (“under thenapkin”), at least for the time being.

This developmentfilled in some blanks for the fandom:

Santana was not yetout.

Brittana had spent the summer and early school year going on dates but notdefining their relationship.

Brittany was fine with taking things at Santana’s pace.

Santana was ready to date Brittany and be in a committed relationship with herbut not yet ready to make their relationship public.

What it didn’t tell uswas how, exactly, Brittana had spent their summer vacation or to what degreethey had discussed Santana’s coming out process to date. Did they have a planfor how they were going to proceed or were they more playing things by ear?

To this point in showhistory, we, as the audience, still had yet to meet Santana’s family on screen, soquestions remained as to how accepting or unaccepting they might beconcerning her sexuality. 

There had been some hints to suggest that Santanafeared their potential reaction to her coming out but nothing had beenexplicitly stated. 

Fans wondered to what degree the Lopez family would figure into Brittana’sstoryline going forward. 

They also wondered how much or how little Brittana’sromantic development would feature in the show throughout the rest of theseason.

When spoilers startedto leak for Santana’s “coming out” arc, set to feature in episodes 3x06 “MashOff” and 3x07 “I Kissed a Girl,” the fandom hoped that maybe we would learnmore about the nature and history of Brittana’s relationship from the end of S2until present.

But that’s the thingabout Glee: The writers very rarely examined developments in retrospect. Thingshappened off screen, through insinuation, and in passing and were never againrevisited. No new details or developments were made, and the story clipped alongat its same heady pace, full steam ahead.

So was the case withBrittana’s relationship.

We got developmentsgoing forward in S3, but the narrative never looked back or provided any newinsight into what had happened to get Brittana from the Heart Locker in 2x22 to “Iwish you’d hold my hand” in 3x04.

That being the case,there just aren’t that many concrete answers to be had about the summer S2-S3 hiatus period in Brittana history. All we can dois make inferences and write fanfiction.

My personal inferencesabout that “lost summer” are these:

I believe that,following the Heart Locker conversation, Brittany and Santana’s relationshipachieved a state of new equilibrium.

Things weren’t thesame as they had been pre-Hurt Locker, where they were friends who slepttogether but never talked about feelings (even though feelings were obviouslythere). Things also weren’t the same as they had been throughout the Back Six ofS2, with so many stutter steps and hesitations and backslides andcomplications, each new week trading heartbreaks and triumphs.Neither one of the girls was dating anyone else, and they weren’t desperately tryingto maintain the image of heterosexuality, as they had in the past.

Instead, Brittana achieved a new normal.

They spent timetogether—probably lots of it in each other’s homes, as we can infer from thefact that they occasionally bathed together—and they gradually resumed theirphysical intimacy, only this time it was different, because the feelingsunderlying it weren’t being suppressed and secreted anymore.

Though fans hadoriginally inferred that Brittany wouldn’t be ready to date Santana untilSantana came out, the truth was that Brittany was ready to date Santana as longas they were exclusive with each other and there was no more obfuscationbetween them about the nature of their feelings.

They didn’tnecessarily have explicit conversations about the nature of their relationship,hence why Santana remained uncertain, even going into the new school year, asto whether or not Brittany was actually her girlfriend. Brittany, on the otherhand, knew that she and Santana were steady dating, but she wasn’t about toforce Santana into labeling their dynamic before she was ready, so she just playedthings cool, waiting for Santana to come to her.

In the meantime, thegirls decided—together—that they would rejoin Cheerios and attain leadershippositions in Sue’s organization.

They also decided thatthey would try to reform the Unholy Trinity and get Quinn to rejoincheerleading and glee club with them.

When the school yearbegan, they essentially hid their new and improved dynamic in plain sight.Santana didn’t come out to the school, and she and Brittany didn’t tell anyonethey’d been going on dates. However, the girls also made no efforts to hide theircloseness or to beard with boys, as per their m.o. in years past. If people sawthem together and made inferences, then so be it. They just weren’t going tomake any public announcements themselves—and especially not before they haddefined their relationship between the two of them.

There was perhaps somesense between them that they were gradually working towards “going public”—thatSantana was trying to become more comfortable with herself and that they werebuilding up the kind of social capital that would afford them the freedom to dowhat they wanted within the walls of WMHS—but I don’t think they had a stricttimeline on coming out or even a real plan as to how that process might unfold.

Things were still newbetween them, and they were still figuring out how to bridge the gap betweenwhat they had been in the past and what they were now—hence all the ambiguityduring the first few episodes of S3.

Honestly, this periodin Brittana history is one of my favorites to imagine, specifically because itis so open to interpretation, so I’ve written a lot of fic about it. If you are interested, you can find my main “summer between S2-S3″ stories here: 

AndEverything is August You

Can’tHelp but Fall Just to Land

Of course, these stories are just my take on this particular period in Brittana history, and other authors have imagined things in delightfully different ways.

As stated above, we don’t have many hard answers about how Brittana made the transition between S2 and S3. We just have the sense that things were keenly different between Brittana, starting their senior year.

In any case, I have jabbered a lot now.

Thanks for the question! If you continue with your rewatch, I hope you enjoy it.

#Crazy Brittanalyst answers #deleteee #Brittanalyzing #Brittanalysis #P.S. The Brittanalyst is traveling so all my answers are on delay #I apologize for the lag #I just want queue

[thepriceofsurvival]

Just wondering what's happening to your icon and the sana/eva gif after SKAM is over like are you gonna keep the Sana theme (not expecting you to plan your actions in edvance haha) but have you thought about it? and what's gonna happen to the whole fandom of a show which is so 'in real-time' and we are constantly getting new content to speculate? what then when this will just PUF be over?? i'm so sad.. will we all slowly turn to SHAME blogs or just disappear I DONT KNOW SOMEONE HELP ME

CAN YOU PLEASE NOT I had a breakdown when season three was coming to an end and I “had” to change my Isak icon and evak header like I was no not ready to say goodbye… and now it’s SKAM AS A WHOLE??? I want to say that I’m gonna change my icon every week and reblog gifs every day but unfortunately I’m a realist and I have a feeling that by the end of summer most skam blogs will be inactive, people will stop sharing about the actors, no more theories. Occasionally someone will watch skam for the first time and reblog some gifsets or someone will make one “top tv shows” or “best lgbt characters” or “strong hijabis in television” but ultimately the fandom will die and it’s sad as heck. I do know that skam will always have a place in my heart and I will rewatch it more than once but…. I get really sad thinking about it ending.

#spm

[mittensmorgul]

It sounds like you have a lot going on right now, but I was wondering if you have a plan in place yet to have The Talk with Mr. Mittens. I've loved your stories about discussing the show with him and I'm really excited to hear how you'll pitch Bi!Dean and Destiel to him and what his reaction will be!

I haven’t had a chance to make a real plan yet. Real life has kinda... sucked the last few days.

You know how when you just get to a point where you feel ahead of the game, that’s when three major things go wrong all at once? Yeah, that’s where I am this week in real life. It’s just frustrating, and not a good frame of mind to be having Major Talks about this stuff.

I should probably think about how I’m gonna introduce the whole concept so I can prod him to come to the conclusion on his own without me just flat-out telling him.

Then again, I suspect he’s already figured it out, and like someone suggested at destielcon last year, he hasn’t said anything TO ME because he doesn’t get that *I* figured it out already...

Who even knows anymore. :P

I might just have him do a rewatch with me over the summer, maybe picking some key episodes to show him... I’ll have to work on that list, I think.

I’ll keep everyone updated as things develop.

#casual viewer stories with mr mittens #Anonymous