what is your favourite clois scene?
I honestly love all their interactions so much that I couldn't even decide on my top five, so I'll just talk about their opening scene in booster because I keep thinking about it and it really captures one of the main reasons I love them so much.
So they're both in transitional periods of their lives, with Clark trying to create a new persona for himself and Lois working towards a promotion, and they're just so... invested and supportive about it?? Lois is helping Clark with his body language and reassures him because he's feeling insecure but then he's like "forget about ME Lois you're up for that promotion!!!" and you can see on his face how proud and excited about it he is like, he's really her biggest cheerleader and I'm😭😭😭
They're best friends and they're in love and above all else they just genuinely want to see each other thrive and be happy and grow into the best versions of themselves and it makes me want to collapse on the floor in tears.
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Ya know, I've been seeing a lot of stuff for the hc of Zim and Dib as found family lately, and something about it was actually bugging me a bit. Like, I really like zade, zadf, and zadr, and I just couldn't understand why I couldn't really get behind zads.
And then I realized it's ENTIRELY because of Professor Membrane.
I do not like the idea of Zim being absorbed into the Membrane family dynamic, because in the show (the IZ source I'm most familiar with) Professor Membrane is a really shitty parent, and there is nothing satisfying to me about Zim just hanging out at that house with Dib and Gaz, adding another sibling to an already fairly miserable household situation. Sure, they can support each other. But what is the point of keeping them stifled in that environment if Membrane is not present and being a parent?
BUT, consider the alternative: Dib and Gaz saying 'fuck this shit I'm out', and spending more time with Zim at his base. Eventually they just go off on space adventures or something because why not? Found family in space! No shitty dad! Maybe if you reeeeally want a parental figure, you could throw in a dash of the dad-nar hc in there for some extra spice. And THEN you could have Zim deal with his feelings about HIS 'parental' figures. If Lard Nar starts being a real dad to this group of ragamuffins, how does that reframe the way Zim feels about the Tallest? How does Dib feel about the fact that an alien could (most likely) be a better dad than his own father? How do the two of them react to getting positive attention they've never received from a parental figure before?
And when I started thinking of it that way, I saw the potential. I still don't think it's my favorite. I think I definitely enjoy more room for flexibility and ambiguity with Zim and Dib, and making them view each other as siblings almost boxes them into that role a bit. But I can see the potential for a really interesting story there!
Provided Membrane is out of the picture.
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Love being accused of being crazy and overreacting. Bc I am Once Again Sick, and yeah it fuckin sucks. And yes I AM upset that [redacted irresponsible family event which could have been avoided if the person in question nonna wasn't being selfish and actually admitted to being sick and cancelled weekend dinner but nooooooo that would be the end of the world and how dare people not get what they want 100% of the time] got me sick. And yes I AM concerned that I keep getting sick with increasing frequency and this only started after I had a "mild" covid case. Yes I AM upset that my legitimate concerns about long term effects to my immune system are being dismissed because, y'know, a thing that killed a fuckton of people, it's just "a common cold", and what would my family know only bro 2 and me caught it. And yes I AM upset they're on my ass as if being sick is some moral failing on my part, as if I'm not the only person in this house who takes public transit everyday so immune system issues aside OFC I'm the most likely to catch something. And yes I AM upset that this is from my mother who's THE obsessive neat freak control freak pseudo hypochondriac that I inherited /my/ hypochondria from.
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I can't believe it's been a week without Little Man... When he first came home he was so happy and excited. He would play for two to three hours straight. He loved his food time but then he would go back to playing, with naps in between before his regular nighttime sleep.
Seeing him decline from that to never playing, always starving and wanting food because of his illness (the poor thing had no fat at all to keep him warm by the end...) and otherwise just sleeping really hurt. It hurt even more to see him after a deworming process want to play. He was attentive and alert, and when he heard his toys he would look with wide eyes like he wanted to play, but he was in too much pain to be able to.
During the deworming we had to keep him separated from my other cat, so he was in another room and we visited him throughout the day (and night) repeatedly and spent long periods of time with him. At night that room would get a bit cold because of its size, and sometimes I'd go in there and it was cold and I was worried he was also feeling cold... but recently I realized he really probably was because he had no fat to retain his body heat. I'm so glad I put a little blanket over him on his bed and tried my best to keep him warm. I would keep my door open so the heat could get out and keep coming back on or just stay on so it would heat up the room he was in.
His real name was Cumulus because my mom named him after that type of cloud, but I started to call him Little Man and it stuck. He knew that was what I called him, too! He started to respond after a little while!
By the end he could barely eat or even meow because it hurt to move his mouth. His jaw must have been deteriorating, and we were told his gums looked terrible. When he did eat, he could only eat wet food and even that was hard. We would hear a hard crunching sound when he ate wet food, so I'm pretty certain something was very wrong with his jaw. That was why he was always so hungry at the end - he couldn't eat enough to sustain himself.
We only had him for two months but he was so happy, sweet and precious before that illness really started to kick in. It's hard losing a cat, but it's even harder losing a five month old kitten who had so many years of life left to live. He was so sweet and playful that I can't believe how fast his illness destroyed his body from the inside out. He was bright and loving and he didn't deserve what happened to him.
Frankly, I do put some blame on the guy who sold him to us. He claims to be a rescue operation and that's fine, but he knew the mother was sick and didn't make it, yet he didn't think to check for dangerous illnesses on this cat or his sister who was adopted at the same exact day and time as he was? When we adopted him, we've now realized he was showing at least three signs of his illness already (breathing speed, heat/temperature and wobbly eyes that he often couldn't keep still). He had other issues so we didn't know what was wrong until the day the vet did an ultrasound and said he wasn't going to make it to a year old even with medication.
Imo the guy who runs that business should know the signs of illness in a cat. If you work in that profession you should know what to look out for - especially if the mother was sick before giving birth. As the shelter, it's his responsibility to know the signs and take care of health issues before adopting out. His negligence and lack of knowledge/awareness cost my family a lot of heartache and many vet bills of us just trying to find the problem. If you're working in a field with animals and adopting them out to others as a business, for the love of fuck, know all the details involved in your profession. I understand he rescues cats from kill shelters which is wonderful, but he takes in sick cats as well but then somehow doesn't notice the signs of them or their offspring being ill? It makes me think he didn't interact with them enough to notice, so again - negligence. If anyone knew what the kitten had, they might have been able to save him by medicating him before any damage could truly be done to him. Unfortunately the medication is not yet legal and is essentially on the black market and can cost thousands of dollars that we couldn't afford, but god I would've started a fundraiser to save his life if we had known. This sweetheart did not deserve the pain and suffering he went through.
I'm sad and I'm angry at this man's lack of awareness. If you're going to adopt out cats, know that you're adopting out a sick cat or potentially sick cat so you can inform and warn the adopters. "I never would've sold you a sick cat if I had known" isn't going to cut it. You should know if that's your business. That knowledge could've saved this kitten's life, or even just helped him to get on medicine to make his last months painless.
I miss you, Little Man. I love you so much. I hope we gave you the best life you could've possibly had in the time that you had. I hope all the craziness and play and love was just how you would've always lived your life. You were too sweet and you should've never had to be taken from us that young.
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In regards to Trina, now that they are officially a couple, I hope we see more of her accepting Spencer’s messy side. In a way I think she does, but I do want her to dig deeper into that and show more of a “I love him for who he is,not who I want him to be” energy. I keep thinking this whenever she gets mad and it seems like the first thing she brings up is “I thought u changed”. I understand being annoyed at someone’s behavior, but I don’t want her to come across as getting mad at him because he’s not acting like the idea of the guy she thinks he is instead of who he already actually is.
Even though I feel like a lot of this ask references the infamous Dex propping scene that I don't find particularly true to Trina and Spencer's relationship because those scenes weren't written with them in mind. I do see what you're saying. You want Trina to love Spencer for who he is and not just see him as a project. I think that's a valid request.
At the same time, we have to keep in mind that this push and pull between Trina and Spencer is core to their relationship and to their attraction to each other. Challenging each other is kind of their thing. Trina is not Willow, and I don't think Spencer would want her to be. Trina is never gonna be the type to cheer Spencer on when he's exerting his elitism and talking down on someone.
She doesn't believe in punching down. That's just not who she is. And tbf I think she takes Spencer seriously about wanting to be viewed differently by others. Spencer is genuine in his request to be viewed differently by people. He actually doesn't want to be viewed as the messy trust fund brat for the rest of his life.
The scene itself was so stupid that I don't even want to go into detail on it. But generally speaking, I think Trina just wants people to see the version of Spencer she gets. Not one that doesn't exist but one that few people rarely see. One thing I've noticed about Trina is that she tracks how people treat Spencer.
She loved watching Britt love on Spencer. She loves seeing Spencer interact with Laura. She hates when her family critiques him and often tries to end the conversation prematurely. And she was even trying to track which guards hated Spencer the most on the boat. I think Trina just wants Spencer to stop giving into the worst opinion of him because she knows he's more than that.
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