#Rule of La

[chiliger]

You know he’s gonna get away with it.

#chiligerart #comic #loathsome coworkers #cc 2224 #darth vader #grand moff tarkin #star wars #QUE LA MUERDA #one of my main rules for this series is that tarkin must always be bullied whenever possible #don’t worry the ensign will be safely transferred to another station with better pay #no shade to any of my irl coworkers but I despise birthday celebrations. a ‘happy birthday’ is good enough we don’t need to sing about it #vent resident

[avotuli]

fucking guy

#i tried to capture the same ''amusement haunted house'' aes thats in the show #my god was it tedious #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #lazlo cravensworth #nadja of antipaxos #sorry colin robinson the rule of 3's wasnt in your favor #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #digital art #halloween #spooky #vampires #other superfluous tags #my art

[dabid-motozalea]

#las motos también son personas #motorcycle #ride to live #live to ride #free biker aliance #fba 621 #bikerlife #vespa rules #vespaworld #vespa

[texaschainsawmascara]

Jemima Kirke & Paz de la Huerta

high school circa 2001-2005 / 2013

bonus

#jemima kirke #paz de la huerta #photography #girls hbo #jessa johansson #sex education #conversations with friends #enter the void #boardwalk empire #the cider house rules #riding in cars with boys #a walk to remember #nurse 3d #2000s #y2k #video games #lana del rey #cinema #film #movie #hope haddon #the little hours #lucy danziger

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

mcr is winning the poll right now but i started drawing while the cobras were in the lead so you get them first

#my art #gijinka #cobra starship #while the city sleeps we rule the streets #tracks to the future #hot mess #viva la cobra #night shades #viva la cobra and night shades are boys by the way! #i know i tend to lean towards girls for these

[ineffably-human]

Guillermo must read like a Southern Gothic post to his entire family.

Imagine your only kid has been married to his work in food service/the railroad/food service at the railroad? for fifteen years and it's the reason he never sees you. One time he came home and said he could get you a mini-fridge from his friend who was once dead but it's fine now. He left to go get it and didn't come back. Some people are filming the whole time.

Another time he disappeared to London for a year, and when he came back he finally let you see his house. It's a trash-covered mansion with a tree through the ceiling. He appears to live there by himself. He's exchanged his sweaters for Versace and a watch that's more expensive than God. He tells you he's gay, which you knew, even though you've never talked about it and he's been sending you photos of some woman you haven't met (you think?) for years. Some people are again filming, this time for his grandma's birthday, except there's no cake or presents and you never see a copy of the videotape.

He bought you a house last year. But the first time he's come for your birthday in three or four years he doesn't bring a gift, and spends the time frantically whispering to someone on the phone. The people are still filming him. It's been like five years of them filming him. He's in the sweaters again.

He tells you he can't say why or what's going to change for him, but he can never see you again. You ask if what he's doing is making him happy but don't give him time to answer. It's the first direct question you've really asked him all evening. Then you ask him where his crucifix is. He needs one, it'll help. It's really important that he have one, and he keeps losing them. So scatterbrained. This is what will make it better.

(You don't see his face as you force the chain around his neck. You don't see him disappearing before your eyes. Was it always this way, with you two, or did it happen over time?)

You casually tell the cousin who's been lecturing him all night that he comes by weekly now to say goodbye forever. Your sweet boy, so dramatic, even as a child. So mysterious. You just don't know what he's thinking. But he'll be back.

#i know there's rule of comedy and cultural markers that aren't my background and stuff #(and also that we learn it's not the first time they've had the conversation) #but i feel like guillermo learned how to shop at the emotional repression store really young #anyway if he were my kid i'd be scared he was drug trafficking #fandom: wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #guillermo de la cruz #char: guillermo the relentless #i am a meta gremlin

[verstappenclerc]

where you go i go

what you see i see

i know i’d never be me without the security

of your loving arms keeping me from harm

put your hand in my hand

and we’ll stand

#lestappen #1633 #charles leclerc #max verstappen #las vegas gp 2023 #it’s their song now #i make the rules and i don’t take constructive criticism

[merrysithmas]

i hope din destroys the darksaber and forces everyone else to get a life by consequence

#the mandalorian #p sure ruling a planet by sword a la king arthur but like the WWE version doesnt track with successful societies #din djarin

[unnecessarilygrandiose]

giiiiiirl what the fuck. the way everyone has been talking about tommy you'd think he was closer to 50 than 40. you're telling me the actor who plays him is only thirty-nine???

#I MEAN CALL ME OLD FASHIONED BUT I DO NOT THINK 8 YEARS IS THAT HUGE AN AGE GAP WHEN YOU'RE BOTH IN YOUR THIRTIES??? #CERTAINLY NOT WHEN YOU'VE DATED A WOMAN MORE THAN 15 YEARS OLDER THAN YOU??? #and ok. the actor and character's age need not be the same HOWEVER. #we don't fucking know what timeline 911 operates on and so we're going by my rules #a la all characters are their actors' age except eddie who's youngest #911 abc #tommy kinard #lou ferrigno jr

[twig-tea]

Top 5 Couple Fights

Oooooooh this is fun! Thank you for a relatively easy category because so often the fights in these shows are unearned and it is very frustrating. I'm still limiting myself to 2023!

Wen and Alan, Moonlight Chicken

This fight felt real, it felt lived in, and it felt heartbreaking even though we only saw some of it. These two men love each other, but love isn't enough to keep them together, and that realization is as heartbreaking as the fight itself.

My Personal Weatherman

I am obsessed with the fights in My Personal Weatherman because the characters often don't know they're in one, or are in two different fights at the same time. This is all tied to how much I love how well the miscommunication is done in this show. These fights are legible based on what we know about these characters and what they've seen, even when they're completely unnecessary, and I adore that. Of course the best one is the ending fight and not just because Segasaki ties up Yo's wrists in his shirt.

Jack O'Frost

[Not enough gifs of this actual fight and I need to finish this list so this is what you get]. The fight at the very start of this show escalated so quickly, at first I wasn't sure about it even while I appreciated the performances and the intimate way it was shot. But when we get the backstory and we finally understand how much has been withheld and said vs. not said between them, and where their anxieties were rooted and the source of these big feelings, this fight makes so much more sense. This is a show that really benefits from being watched more than once.

La Pluie

[for some reason tumblr is giving me this link to Shan's blog rather than @liyazaki so tagging you, friend!]

Patts was pushed and pushed and pushed, and he lashed out in his insecurity, and when he asked for reassurance (this lineeee) Saengtai refused to give it to him and instead lashed out out of his own insecurity. This was a painful fight that was fully earned; all of the characters and their choices were legible even as they were infuriating. And it led to a critical awakening of Saengtai who was so caught up in his own sad boy narrative he hadn't realized how much he was hurting everyone around him.

My Beautiful Man S2

Kiyoi and Hira's communication issues continuing past S1 is very believable. I said elsewhere that Hira's work on his self-worth is more like a spiral than a straight line and that's very relatable and realistic. Kiyoi being hurt by Hira not valuing Kiyoi's feelings was such an important lesson for Hira to get more than once. Again, so earned, and resulted in the characters self-reflecting and moving a little closer to whatever a healthy relationship means for these two lol

Laws of Attraction

How much do I Love Tinn seeing right through Charn and Charn being big mad at him for Perceiving him so well? All of their fights are so good because they're about boundaries and mutual respect at their core, and they actually listen to one another and are based on how well they know one another (rather than what so often happens, when the characters seem to forget who the person they're in love with actually is). This barely counts as fight but I love it and it's my list so it stays.

Bonus entry that's only for me (shh stop counting the above):

Mr. Cinderella S2

Nobody but me and like 2 other people watched this show, but I'm actually obsessed with the couple fight in Mr. Cinderella s2 so thank you for the chance to rant about it on main some more. I need to start by saying: this plot is ridiculous and the ending sucks. But within this show, Dung and Khoa have an established relationship that has been tested in S1 and is being tested harder in S2, and to a point, they actually stand together and weather the storm, and it was rewarding to watch. And then slowly everything happening ("everything" here being an ABSURD amount of melodrama) starts to wear on Khoa, who sees himself as the one solely responsible for everything, and he unlearns some of what he learned in s1, he stops relying on Dung as his support, stops telling Dung what's going on because he doesn't want to burden him, and stops trusting Dung's word about what is happening. And so, when the jealousy plot hits, it's actually believable that Dung would be mad at Khoa, not for cheating, but for not respecting Dung as a partner in their relationship. It's well done, I wish so much that it were in a better show so that I could actually recommend anyone watching (I don't). I've seen this trope (assumed cheating) done so badly and so unearned in so many shows, this was so refreshing.

Extra bonus: Best couple fight scene of all time?

Gameboys S2

[I give up on gifs of this scene; have them upset for other reasons instead!]

What I love about the way they fight in this show is that, beyond it being earned etc. etc., the dialogue is so raw. They repeat themselves, they just yell over one another, they get rude, they try saying something to de-escalate and it gets worse instead. This is not a carefully crafted speech, or a single perfectly delivered devastating line; this is raw emotion. I recognize this fight, I've been in this fight, this is what I sound like when I fight lol And we see them really fight at least twice, and the way they fight in ep8 has changed as a result of the earlier fight is also SO good.

#2023 round-ups #bl meta #multi bl #thank you for the ask! #this one was very fun #i got close to actually being good about following the rules on this one...sort of #moonlight chicken #my personal weatherman #taikan yoho #jack o'frost #la pluie #my beautiful man s2 #utsukushii kare #laws of attraction #mr cinderella s2 #twig talks #gameboys s2 #i feel very strongly that a fight needs to be about the characters as they are and where they need to be in order to work as a couple #and so many shows regress their characters in a fight in order to be able to have a fight and resolution #rather than letting the characters actually grow and mature #anyway I have strong opinions about fights and they're rarely done well lol

[assiraphales]

I just found out that the Guillermo everyone is talking about isn't Guillermo del Toro and he isn't starring in a vampire comedy slash gay romance movie :(

wifeswap au where guillermo de la cruz and guillermo del toro trade places for two weeks

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #if I remember correctly you have to follow the other persons rules for a week then the second week you impose your own #del toro spends the second week ordering naughty vampires around and digging up ancient lore #de la cruz directs a movie #‘a body decomposed for that long wouldn’t look like that’

[kusurrone]

We need Dante and Virgil as lesbians.

cw for the last one

#dante alighieri #divine comedy #the divine comedy #la divina commedia #vergil #virgil #virgil maron #dante x virgil #dantilio #dante x vergil #gender swap #gender bender #sapphic #wlw #rule 63 #yassification of publius vergilius maro

[nadjaandlaszlo]

anyway Nandor “always forgets” Guillermo is a vampire killer because he is used to nothing but kindness and care from Guillermo and forgets he’s actually a goddamn maniac because he only ever sees Guillermo’s love

#wwdits #like sure they have their arguments and their exceptions to this rule #but Guillermo loves Nandor fiercely and this is proof of just how much Nandor knows it #how much it’s become a part of him. a part of THEM. #what we do in the shadows #wwdits spoilers #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #nandermo #otp: i let you live

[cryptile]

#i can already rule out several but i had to include them all ok #the mechanisms #drumbot brian #jonny d'ville #gunpowder tim #ashes o'reilly #ivy alexandria #the toy soldier #raphaella la cognizi #nastya rasputina

[tangerine-microwave]

Whgere is john pork

#196 #r/196 #r196 #rule #neko arc #la creatura #cod zombies #neco arc

[starknesskenobi]

This is the hottest Ryan Gosling character:

#I don't make the rules #the nice guys #ken #barbie #la la land #drive #blade runner #Ryan gosling