#absolutely healed by this show

[heretherebedork]

It's always the little things that get to me. Like Yutaka trying to downplay his abilities and Minoru not letting him... or the immediate followup of Yutaka reaching out to comfort Minoru.

And then Yutaka is an absolute baby and he knows what's important and that's enjoying food, not eating the best food or the perfect food... it's about being able to enjoy and love what you eat and who you eat with. @absolutebl This show is the single most healing show ever.

And then they drop the honorific and talk about it and Yutaka is the most painfully adorable and lonely man ever. The eighteen levels of awkward just trying to say his name without the honorific? So casually? My entire heart.

I am healed in every way. There is nothing more healing than this show. I am completely undone. Just look at them and their tiny family and what they're finding in each other.

#our dining table #japanese drama #bl series #bl drama #bokura no shokutaku #japanese bl #hozumi x ueda #ueda x hozumi #yutaka x minoru #minoru x yutaka #japanesebl #jbl #jdrama #jseries #absolutely healed by this show

[andromeda3116]

all right we did the "underrated badass moment" and riza communicating to roy about selim's nature from right under bradley's nose won, so how about this?

#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #fma #look narrowing this down to nine options was Not Easy #i know someone is gonna be like WHAT ABOUT ED USING HIS OWN SOUL AS A STONE TO HEAL HIMSELF #or WHAT ABOUT OLIVIER TAKING A TANK TO SLOTH #or WHAT ABOUT ARMSTRONG VERSUS SLOTH #or WHAT ABOUT IZUMI SHOWING UP TO TURN THE TIDE OF BATTLE #or WHAT ABOUT MUSTANG ABSOLUTELY INCINERATING ALL THE PUPPET SOLDIERS #like there are so many choices here #it could honestly almost be its own bracket

[burr-ell]

"the tendency of this fandom to only engage with what THEY want these characters to be#as opposed to what their creators are trying to do and the stories they want to tell" slap this on a bumper sticker, you just summed all cr discourse (about PCs at least) in 2 sentences

It truly is maddening (and it's not by any means exclusive to the CR fandom). The reason why the discourse always goes the way it does is that at the end of the day, the loud fanwanky people only see what they would do, if they were self-inserted into the story, as a valid choice; and they are, more broadly, fundamentally disinterested in what others think or feel. There are several examples of this, and the variety of spaces within the fandom that produce these ideas is an indicator that this isn't endemic to one specific group of people.

-Keyleth is an important character whose feelings and choices are validated by the other PCs and cast even if they still disagree with them, in spite of how she and her preachiness get in the way of the Murderhobo Jubilee? It's not because the cast are all friends and they genuinely believe Keyleth is valid and are interested in how these discussions and choices can guide the story. It's because Marisha is the DM's girlfriend, and also here's my totally unbiased theory that my pet favorite players Sam and Travis secretly hate Marisha and Keyleth.

-Vax's presence is still felt and nodded to in the post-canon VM oneshots? It's not because he was an important character who mattered. It's because Liam wants to make everyone talk about his tragedy because he has Main Character Syndrome. Scanlan Wishes for Vax to appear at the wedding? It's not because he cares about Vex or because Sam and Liam wanted a sweet tribute to Vex and Vax's relationship and by extension Liam and Laura's friendship. It's because Liam thinks Vex's life should always revolve around Vax, and Sam wants to enable him and jerk himself off as the one who facilitated it.

-Beauyasha and Fjorester become canon? It's not because the players wanted it and it happened naturally. It's because there was a secret behind-the-scenes push to "force" those ships to become canon instead, and like, Dani Carr is some sort of shipping puppetmaster who made the players do it, and "they" (whomever "they" is) decided to sink Beaujester or Widojest because it was "obviously" going to become canon before the pandemic hiatus gave them time to "make the corporate-approved ships happen".

-Beau and Caleb try to reform the Empire and dismantle the Cerberus Assembly from within? It's not because it makes sense for their stories or that people who would take this position regarding a corrupt government might have a valid perspective that differs from your own. It's because the people at Critical Role Productions LLC are all spineless neoliberal cowards who won't commit to real activism. The best activism, after all, is violent, and violent revolutions have always resulted in stable aftermaths, and the real world has never demonstrated that this mindset is foolish.

-Relatedly: Caleb doesn't kill Trent personally? It's not because the most poetic justice would be to deny Trent the thing he wants most from Caleb. It's because "Limo Brain" is too obsessed with tragedy to have the stones to do "what needs to be done".

-Asmodeus, DnD Satan, turns out to also be CR Satan? It's not because it fits with the cosmology and the lore; it's because Matt Mercer is too attached to the "establishment", and the Prime Deities should have actually turned out to be the bad guys because of my personal baggage about Western religion and Christianity they're a little mean to my blorbo sometimes.

There's a pattern here: fans had expectations that they'd built up for themselves after projecting and building up fanon and deciding what players meant before they explained themselves fully, and when the players strayed from that, they were derided for all manner of reasons. I think we're seeing that same pattern play out in C3 as the story progresses in a way that fans dislike, and in fact we have seen fanwank spread whenever someone does anything that interferes with personally catering to a) the favored ship and/or b) the favored philosophy. (Orym, Ashton, FCG, Percy, Pelor...all valid when they affirm the Fandom Opinions and all disdained when they don't.)

Don't get me wrong, I think there's a place for comfort stories that deliver a personal catharsis. And I'm not going to dismissively say "well if you want it so bad make your own" because, as an artist, I am very familiar with the fact that creating is hard and draining and sometimes you just need to consume instead. But when you become so wrapped up in yourself and your feelings to the point where your perspective is the only valid one, someone else's feels like a betrayal when it isn't. It's always "They aren't doing what we wanted and here's why they're terrible people because of it" and never "Hmm, why is this what the cast wants? Let's examine that."

This isn't a new phenomenon, but I think it ultimately stems from not assuming that other people can differ from you in major ways in good faith. There are a lot of reasons for that (some more understandable than others), but I think you rob yourself of the potential to enjoy something new when all you do is demand what you already want. No matter what you're doing or where you are in life, you tend to become a better and wiser person when you open your mind to what other people have to say, no matter how mundane the subject matter. Sometimes the stories people have to tell are challenging—and the only healthy way to deal with that is to engage with them on their own terms.

#critical role #cr discourse #asks #long post #for the record i think VLD fandom became such a shitshow partially for this reason #but also. and admittedly i'm biased. VLD was basically a show for no one #this by the way is part of why a faction of fe3h fandom capes so hard for crimson flower (which is basically a glorified bonus route) #and absolutely abhors the idea of byleth being religious and enjoying her job as a teacher #and why some cr fans are so vehemently opposed to the prime deities being good and characters being connected to them #religious trauma that leads a character to reject religion and that being framed as a valid choice is okay to want to see #but it is also just as valid for a character to find religion to be a healing and positive experience #seriously 'gods bad' stories are not that difficult to come by. they're just not doing that in THIS story and you're mad about it #instead of doing the work of finding a story that WILL do that meaningfully

[pagesofkenna]

i unironically love the Rat Grinders so much and its so funny to me that everyone on tumblr has jumped onto hating them so vehemently; these kids are transmigration light novel protagonists and it's hilarious. they reached level 100 killing nothing but slimes etc etc

that crap is some of the most soul crushing work imaginable. i will forcequit any video game the moment it's clear that grinding is the only way to advance because i hate it so much. they're not having fun. they're not enjoying the work. they got stuck with a DM who thinks XP leveling is worthwhile and they're slogging through it in the most tedious and boring way possible. they're 'powergaming' in only the most loose definition of the term. they're having the worst high school experience of anyone. they've traumabonded over spending 33 hours a week in abject misery and have now turned feral

#fantasy high #di20 #i also absolutely believe they have beef we haven't even heard of yet #like WHY have they been rat grinding? literally no one could EVER want to do that! #i ASSUME they don't WANT to be doing that so there must be an interesting story about how this all happened! #anyway i'm adopting all of them. holding their hands gently. showing them the healing mercies of milestone leveling #honestly that revelation just gave me flashbacks to the time one of my players really wanted to do XP leveling #and I had to like. actually SHOW them what I was doing at the end of every single encounter and session #before they were like 'oh. ok i get why you say this sucks'

[mejomonster]

I got potential news (not happy, but I mean not sad). Latest justice in the dark (rumor) updates: was taken down due to legal issues (likely copyright) and they do plan to re air from the beginning at a later date once issue is taken care of and cdrama airing timing is right. Rumor is actors were requested to rake down their farewell letters. Meaning... the show is back in hiatus. Like the past several months. Except now the 8 episodes can only be watched on unofficial sites in the meantime.

Schrodingers cat isn't probably the right comparison but like. It's the potentially perpetual unknown status show. ToT

Anyway I saw 2 posts on weibo which were rumor only, mentioning airing later, and one post on weibo mentioning the reason for taking the show off was copyright issues.

On mydramalist comments someone mentioned a Twitter thread on why it was taken down, but I can't see shit on Twitter right now so im just going by what the comment said. The Twitter thing they quoted: Cao5903 (@cao5903) Staff Youku said: "Due to some unexpected reasons that could not be controlled in time, we had to take down #JusticeInTheDark to handle it. Wait for it to be okay and then replay it from the beginning."

#rant #justice in the dark #modu #so 1 i am literally going to WILL this show to finish airing or fucking leak full drop like joy of life did #i mean it i will make the universe. im like #im over the WALL my favorite priest novel got ALL this quality only to be unseen. FUCK #2 i maintain (very illogically and based in absolutely nothing) that the shows i want to air #will air when i heal. so by that metric? jitd will air possibly within a few months #since i can eat bread again and am starting to sprint again #assuming i get a solid month of better health the outlook is good (i sound so random lmao) #and hyx will likely air september to january (if ever) if im Optimistic that i can start lowering my medicines this fall #and an aside i Wish someone fucking leaked hyx just dropped the whole thing joy of life style #the script already got leaked for fucks sake #(i have a copy if u want to read it i guess?) #but like the studio made hyx to be the Biggest danmei of all time and then missed the #hype train ans word of honor took the crown #and now who knows if hyx will ever be SEEN

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Rewatched Moon Girl season 1. This show is so good. Now, I recommend just watching the show linearly BUT if you want specific episode recs I got you covered.

My personal favorites are Like Mother, Like Moon Girl, Roller Jam!, Skip Ad...olescence, and both of the season finales (keep in mind season 1s is a 2-parter). All of these are just really cool, beautiful, and have my personal favorite third-act song numbers.

Some others I'd recommend are Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, Suit Up!, In the Heist, and The Great Beyond-er! all for pretty much the same reasons.

And if you haven't watched the show, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GO DO THAT NOWWWW!!!

#i also just love the lessons this show imparts. all the stuff about family love culture just ugh its so good #we need more superhero shows like this methinks #with stuff like this x-men maws and invincible i really think the superhero genre is healing #oh and the itsv trilogy #my absolute favorite third act is LMLMG btw #moon girl and devil dinosaur #marvel's moon girl and devil dinosaur #moon girl season 2 #moon girl magic #moon girl #devil dinosaur #lunella lafayette #moongirl lunella #marvel comics #marvel cartoons #marvel #superhero tv #animation

[buckets-of-dirt]

I finally got the tattoo I've been dithering over for years! It's based on a bear from the Chauvet caves. And I'm already so in love with it.

#I remember the first time I saw that particular cave painting and immediately wanting a tattoo of it #but it wasn't until a friend saw a tattoo shop taking walk ins today that I finally just went for it #and I'm so happy I did #can't wait for it to heal up properly so I can show it off to absolutely everyone #I've always worried about how much it might hurt but it wasn't bad at all despite my low pain tolerance #granted that part of the arm is an especially good place to get tattoos bc it's not very sensitive

[navree]

Let's be honest, and I say this with full offense, Lucerys Velaryon is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Dance of the Dragons. He is meant to be a sacrificial lamb to kick off the entire war proper. If we had gotten a full season of development with him like we did with the younger cast in Game of Thrones, I guarantee more people would've felt something. The only reason I personally feel bad is from a baseline level of empathy, because he was a child who was placed in an unwinnable situation due to his mom being completely irresponsible with him and his brothers.

However…

The comparison between Lucerys and Aemond is no contest. Love him or hate him, Aemond has an actual personality and goals when we first meet him. There's enough dimension in Aemond as a child to showcase the potential for sympathy between him and Jace at the funeral, a scene they didn't need to put in, but they did, which emphasizes his own innocence. Even before he breaks bad fully in S1E10, he's still far more compelling to watch due to the number of scenes allocated to him and his dynamic with other people.

This is where you and I are going to disagree just a bit, because Lucerys does do something in S1E07 and S1E08. He gouges out the eye of a family member and petulantly whines that he “didn’t do anything!” when confronted with the possibility of getting in trouble for it, then years later has the nerve and complete lack of sense to giggle at the person he permanently maimed only hours after his legitimacy was publicly called into question (again) and resulted in a murder. The narrative (perhaps unintentionally) glosses over these moments in favor of portraying him as good, whereas if you read between the lines, you can see that as being an oversimplification. The problem is that because S1 was truncated, secondary characters like Lucerys don’t receive screentime dedicated to portraying anything other than a single personality trait. Unfortunately, because of his role in the text and the way it was adapted for television, there was never a chance that Lucerys would be interesting.

I don't even have anything to add, this is just objectively correct.

#personal #answered #anonymous #and yeah lucerys refusing to take any responsibility or even show a hint of remorse for what he did is so galling to me #i could never care about him after that #like first of all you were in the wrong in the fight period #aemond did nothing wrong he claimed a free dragon who let him bond with her #i get why rhaena and baela were acting irrationally upset their mother died and they're young #grief makes you act weird #jace and luke had absolutely no reason to act the way they did #like it's not your fight and also again aemond literally did nothing wrong #but because he made a nasty comment after already being yelled at for doing nothing wrong y'all decide to gang up on him #with your cousins #and then this little idiot decides to take a whole knife to someone's face and refuses to ever feel bad #luke could have KILLED aemond #aemond could have DIED #not just from the immediate wound but also any issues that arose during a really long and arduous healing process #it's why fics with luke where he feels bad or contrite don't work for me #because he literally doesn't??? #he doesn't care at all #he doesn't care he almost killed a person for no reason and left them with lifelong issues as a result of his fuck up #out here kicking his feet and giggling over maiming another human being #again vhagar eating him was too easy #he should have gotten his eye poked out first anyway #literally only feel kinda bad for rhaenyra cuz i'm neutral leaning positive towards rhaenyra and losing a child hurts #luke himself can rot i feel nothing

[eissaphir]

So we've seen Crowley hiding goats against Hell's direct orders so they could live.

And we've seen Crowley yelling at people for feeding bread to ducks bc it's bad for them and that they should be given frozen peas instead.

I'm not saying that Crowley would adopt every stray animal he sees BUT—

#Guys. I don't care if this gets 0 notes this is an absolute banger to me. It's midnight so it's big brain time #If Crowley and Aziraphale lived together he'd constantly go to him with Aziraphale already knowing what's going on #And Crowley puts on his best puppy eyes holds whatever animal he has found THIS TIME up to show Zira just how cute it is & goes 'Pleaaase?' #And we all know Aziraphale. He can't say no to him. He just draws the line at the animals messing with his books #Good Omens #I'm still healing from the finale and imagining this makes me so happy :') #Crowley #Anthony J. Crowley #Good Omens Season 2 #Good Omens S2 #Good Omens Spoilers #Good Omens Season 2 Spoilers #Good Omens S2 Spoilers #All these tags jfc #My posts

[maskyartist]

This is why they gotta greenlight volume 10. We need to see how they get to live after all this is over

I don’t need them happy. I just need to see them live again…

Aka really wanted to show off my favorite part of the fairytale book and feeling so goddamn emotional tonight :)

#masky says #greenlight volume 10 #I STILL DONT HAVE TIME TO DO EVEN A LATE THING BUT I STILL WANTED TO SHOW THIS OFF #rwby #for context this is from the fairytale book #but Ozpin has a lot of writing here and this is my absolute favorite part #the entire epilogue is great but this ending hits different For me especially after volume 9 #these kids weren’t living anymore NO ONE was. Salem managed to literally kill that hope right before our eyes #volume 9 was about survival and slowly became about healing. they healed. #now we need volume 10 showing how they get to LIVE now #living through what happened what’s still happening what will happen after #idk I just need to see this end #i need to see them live again and keep living until it’s over

[pearlcaddy]

#this is what i think every time this line comes up #like this scene breaks my heart and i just want my poor shattered son to heal but also this meme pops in my head every single time #also wow i've never posted anything from this show without coloring it before #it's very freeing to see how green and cyan this shot is and do absolutely nothing about it #gifmaking is hard y'all #lockwood and co #l&co #anthony lockwood

[stuffed-frog]

Neil Gaiman-

I adore you, thank you so much.

The depth you took this wonderful show to in contrast to the first season- dear god, I am deeply obsessed. We went from soft and lovely but still kinda just subtext- to THIS. Season two. I’m afraid I am a bit fixated on the ending with Crowley and Aziraphale, it’s gonna take me a bit to acknowledge separately how amazing season two is as a whole (aloud, that is) but that ending. Good lord. Obviously, like everyone else, I was sitting there trying to will Aziraphale to *not* do what he was about to do, but I’m so happy it didn’t end like that. Even as I sat there willing it, I knew what only made sense, his hesitation didn’t fool anyone. It was amazingly painful, and so perfect for them. You, sir, delivered.

#you slayed if you will #fr though I’m not ok #everyone with their ‘fix it’ fics and posts out there need to shut up and accept how perfect that ending was #not only did it set us up for a third season and even longer slow burn but it just #made.sense. #even with the progress azi was making with healing #you couldn’t have expected he would say no. not truly. he was offered a powerful position #and he thinks he can fix something that has always been broken. ofc he was going to say yes #especially with the manipulation the metatron had going on there #the praise the ‘kindness’ the flattery #there was absolutely no way #not even when he was tempted with everything he wants deep inside #good omens spoilers #good omens #good omens season 2 #gos2 spoilers #I said Neil Gaiman but I really mean every-fucking-one on the show #all so wonderful and amazing

[gaygothfarmer]

THIS FUCCIN SHOW HAS HEALED ME AND 7 GENERATIONS OF QUEER PEOPLE

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 #watched s2 in one sitting yesterday #and omg #what a glorious glorious show #its everything #i am amazed #this wouldve absolutely obliterated my babygay brain years ago #now i just feel healed #this show #iconic #legendary

[lisbonsteresa]

going through something horrendous

#this is absolutely devastating in such a lovely way #(also in a way you might have to be in my head to fully get but that's fine i'm going insane so) #we get so so little about jane and angela but my god he loved her so much #even there in mbh when (at least on some level) he knew full well he was in love with lisbon he loved angela so much #i will never be convinced that his first thought seeing kim like that wasn't that she could have been angela #and then looking at his ring and the letters and the voiceover and lisbon wearing either the exact same or an almost identical dress i just #is this a perfect show of course not but what they get right they get RIGHT the care they put into this journey through grief into healing #so so appreciated so loved by me #(actually this really isn't hard to get but i am still going insane so there's that) #tm

[little-mouse-adventures]

The Artemis Fowl series isn’t actually about a boy learning how to make friends and save the world with the help of fairies, it’s actually about a boy learning to become a fully-fledged necromancer.

#Artemis fowl #Book 1 he learns fairy healings can pull someone back from the brink of death #When Holly saves Butler after the troll fight #Then book 3 tests the limits of revival using magic and even “long term” death can be fixed #As long as there is a body present #And bodies can be made easily according to book 4 #But by Book 5 Artemis learns he can steal magic and transfer it around even without a physical form #Book 6 shows more of the same as well as immortality apparently being in reach if Opal is close to achieving it #And then book 8 has Artemis learning about time spells and maintaining the spirit #So he combines all his knowledge and uses magic to suspend his own life force and use a new body to house his soul = necromancy #he probably adds like...“NEC” onto his business cards #and most people don't notice it in the deluge of other acronyms and initials and whatnot but those that DO think it's just a weird flex #to specifically point out that you have certificates and honors that are Not Elsewhere Classified #anyways vampire artemis is all well and good but let's see some absolutely unhinged grave robbing behaviour #eventually butler dies and his will and standing orders are very clear that the DNR clause stands for both #'do not resuscitate' AND 'do not resurrect - yes artemis this means you and no i don't care about your reasons'

[tokruta]

I’m afraid I must reiterate

Anakin Skywalker is simply Him

He is That Bitch

This is His world, we’re all simply living in it

✨Him✨

#star wars #anakin skywalker #god i just love anakin so much #forever my favorite character #i simply don’t understand people who hate him that’s just how much i absolutely adore him #who cares about his crimes in the face of ✨Him✨ #still won’t actually watch the show but i love all the love both anakin and hayden are getting #it heals my inner teen who dispared about all the hate they used to get back in the day #i remember having to defend my love in yee old yesteryears of 2012-2016 #can’t imagine what it was like before then #hasan’t