#and i don’t have a free moment

[hiccupshypotheticalleftsock]

Opeli: High Mage, we arrested the assassin behind King Harrows death. We found him wandering around the castle eating jelly tarts.

Callum: Release my father-in-law.

Opeli:

#poor opeli would have just barely gotten over Rayla living there #I cannot wait for this scene irl #You don’t understand opeli is TIRED #major bruh moment for her #although…i kinda hope runaan doesn’t just get off scot-free #Callum and Runaans relationship is gonna be so awkies #incorrect quotes #the dragon prince #tdp #rayllum #rayla #tdp spoilers #callum #tdp rayla #tdp s5 spoilers #meme #runaan #tdp runaan

[sophies-junkyard]

NOBODY ASKED but… Obviously Simon’s arc in adventure time solidified the series as one of greatest of all time (and I’m so hyped for this ice king sadness renaissance) but now I’m thinking of OTHER Adventure Time moments that rewired my brain as a kid. In no particular order:

1. “Once the strong guys got it how they liked it they said ‘this is fair now. This is the law.’ Once they were winning they changed the rules”. They really had the cartoon dog say that on tv in 2014.

2. “People get built different. We don’t have to understand it, we just gotta respect it”

3. The entirety of All The Little People. That shit was absolutely nuts for a kids show but also like…. I can’t articulate the lesson I just know there was one and it haunted me. The danger of the human ego. Hubris. Irreverence. Don’t play god bro.

4. Lady and Peebles. When PB ripped Ricardio’s leg off and bashed his skull in with it. And it was so hardcore they edited it out of the episode. Bro. I remember watching that after school one day and how my jaw just DROPPED at a PRINCESS being so brutal. They let her be so fucking angry and that was a game changer.

5. [Finn, about a horrific memory] “that one’s going in the vault. Aaaaaaaaaandd. It’s gone.” I quote that CONSTANTLY. It’s a great way to bring levity to a bad situation, but also forces me to go “hey wait a sec that’s not gonna work forever”. Things don’t stay in the vault.

6. Puhoy. He lived an entire life in that pillow world. He had kids. And then it’s just gone like a dream.

7. The deer. It was probably my first real introduction to horror. The hand wiggle. You all know exactly what I’m referencing. Were the candy people stuck in that well for 6 months???

8. What Was Missing!! Obviously now because it foreshadowed (and confirmed past) Bubbline, but back then just because it was so good??? IMO, this is the episode that defined WHO our main cast was, and how their relationships needed to grow for them to be content. It set up the next 6 years of the show! Plus it gave us 2 absolute BANGERS. Ugh i rewatched that recording so many times it wasn’t even funny.

9. Ghost Princess. Really just for the line where he sounds like he’s gonna shit his pants remembering his death and then in a clear narrator voice he’s like “I was a broken man.”

10. The pajama war episode. Now I’m doing this from memory so I could be wrong, but I think this really marks the start of Finn growing up. “I’ve really enjoyed just… hanging out with you.” The ability to start over with someone you’ve got complicated history with. The kindness. The growth from both of them!! It’s a direct parallel of episode 1 but their tones couldn’t be more different and I love it.

11. The slow and horrifying realization that The Mushroom War was nuclear Armageddon. Mushroom clouds. That went so far over my head as a kid even though they reference it constantly. It finally clicked during “I remember you”. Which I am NOT gonna go into because holy fuck that’s like 18 posts on its own.

12. Goliad! A child mirroring EVERYTHING they see, for better or worse. Seeing Jake in a bad moment screaming at the kids and goliad absorbing that behavior. Seeing she can use fear to control people. Also PB was Fucking Crazy! Her line “I’m not gonna live forever… I would if I could” is even more unhinged when we learn (like years later) that she’s already 900 years old. But she does physically age so I guess there’s that. The Suitor also falls into this category of episodes.

Ok getting into some of the more talked about moments

1. OK I LIED I have to talk about I remember you. I was 11 years old. I turned on the new adventure time episode like usual. 10 minutes later I was grappling with a grief I had never imagined before. Absolutely BAWLING not just for Simon and Marceline (the PLOT), but for what it showed me. The reality that every kid tries not to think about: your loved ones will leave you someday, even if they don’t want to. It’s an episode that becomes more powerful with every year I get older. To get a bit personal, dementia has completely taken my grandparents from me. I’ve seen sides of my grandfather that should never have existed, and I must constantly forgive him for what he does… now that he doesn’t remember me. And someday it’ll be my parents. That’s just the way of the world, ya know? Anyways, I remember my mom got home right as the credits were rolling and we had a long talk about keeping people alive with memory, mortality, and how the future was far away and we should decide on dinner lmao.

2. The Hall of Egress. I was almost 15. Life was changing. I was changing, and it was strange and frightening. That feeling where you know you’re losing your childhood but you just want to cling to it. Follow the same old familiar path, stick with what’s comfortable. But life doesn’t work that way. It took me years to really understand this episode and it’s symbolism. Honestly I still don’t think I could fully explain it. It’s like. How do I put this. I was so glad to be in the target age group in that moment. I was so glad that something I was growing up with was assuring me “you’re changing, but we’re changing too”. And isn’t that the theme of adventure time? Everything stays, but it still changes.

3. The absolute horror of Ferns existence. He’s Finn, but he’s wrong and warped. All those memories of the people he loves and they can’t stand to be in the same room as him.

4. Susan Strong. The introduction of a RUNNING PLOT. The show up to that point had really been so goofy and so monster of the week. I think the only really plot heavy episode before this one was It Came From the Nightosphere? And then suddenly they call into question the fact that Finn really is the ONLY HUMAN in all of OOO. And then… is he? It was SUCH a departure from the usual tone. Ending that episode with him reaching below her hat and gasping in shock, but never telling the audience what he found. And then she’s just gone. Which leads us to Islands!

5. Min and Marty. Second saddest episode in the entirety of adventure time, made worse because you know exactly how this family is gonna end up. There’s SO MUCH to dissect about Martins behavior in the series. A reformed con artist receives a traumatic brain injury while attempting to save his son. They’re both lost at sea, and he never looks for him. Was it the emotional trauma? Was it the physical damage? Meanwhile a mother loses her husband and her child in a single night and never EVER learns why. Nobody but Martin knows what happened that night. Also Finns fear of the ocean from season 1 is finally explained. 7 years of ignoring Finns origins and then they throw you THIS??? Watching it live was unreal.

Anyways I’m sure I’ll think of more. I might add on to this later for my own sake lmao, but I’d love to hear other peoples formative moments, quotes, episodes, etc. I really just needed to dump this information out of my brain so I can get on with my week.

#If you see this you’re obligated to comment an adventure time moment that lives rent free in your head #or don’t it’s your life babe #I have nobody in my life who has watched adventure time and therefore I must ramble here to myself #adventure time #princess bubblegum #marceline #ice king #finn the human #fern #Fionna and cake #this is my life #bubbline

[fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma]

I was talking to my friends today abt atla And one of them is super iffy about shipping and fanfic so I’ve never mentioned my (unhealthy) obsession with zukka. but my other friend knows. So we were talking about zutara and our opinions on it and my knowledgable friend was like:

“It’s funny how you don’t consider any of the blatantly ship-bait scenes romantic but when Zuko and Sokka breath next to each other you’re convinced they’re married.”

And I was like:

LIKE U DON’T KNOW TRUE FEAR UNTIL 😭😭 LIKE IT’S CALLED A GUILTY PLEASURE FOR A REASONNNNN. My normie friend didn’t say anything BUT SHE THINKS ZUKKA IS WEIRD IF SHE KNEW I SHIPPED IT LET ALONE MADE ART FOR IT I-

#zukka #zuko x sokka #atla #I don’t have a tag for me speaking about myself uhhhhhh #Sofia speaks about herself #there #no but seriously please feel free to share any life threatening shipping or fandom irl moments #I need to laugh and not suffer alone #text post

[choices-binglebonkus]

My book passes when I don’t have time to use them

My book passes when I have all the time in the world

#it never fails #I get to a point in my life where I don’t have a free moment #and I get book passes for god tier books #then things slow down #and I get book passes for like #slow burn or rising tides or the fucking nanny affair #choices stories you play #playchoices #choices stories we play #pixelberry #pixelberry studios #playchoices fandom #choices stories you play fandom #choices stories we play fandom #choices meme #choices memes

[akkivee]

the mood is still like this pic of reol, femme fatale’s writer, in between the chuuoku seiyuu btw lmao

#vee queued to fill the void #reol’s thing is praying hands emoji but i see that look in her eyes LOL #having a holy moment fr lol and yeah i feel the same opening up my pics to look at stage chuuoku lol #i am so curious how the stage is about to interpret chuuoku lol i saw one post in the wake of the drop #that reminisced on the 10th live and watching the three of them stand as one as the series antagonists #and hoping that despite them being the villains they won’t be depicted as sheer villains by the story #like the chuuoku women are not good people by any means (except nemu she’s trying her best lol) #but they’re still sympathetic people shaping a world against one that shaped them and it was very profound lol i don’t disagree #this is making me want to ramble about canon lol but i hope the stage crew puts in as much thought into who the chuuou ladies are #as they do the og divisions lol i’m kinda expecting something closer to late game otome and anime ichijiku lol #and as for nemu i hope she’s already free from her brainwashing lol #honobono inori and tsukuyomi might be narrative foils for our main three the possibilities are endless it’s so exciting lmao

[the-meme-monarch]

my brother and i have been going on walks a lot lately and have been checking out public buildings if only to see them, and in one it finally happened where someone thought my brother and i were a couple. even though Earlier in the conversation i mentioned ‘our little sibling’ like twice while gesturing to my brother and i both times. this wouldn’t have been so horrible and i could have easily brushed it off as her just not having caught that, if not for the part where after clarifying We’re Siblings she said “well even if you did have kids…” and kinda trailed off and didn’t complete that thought. she was talking to us about our futures/careers bc this was the town hall building so she probably meant it like If We, Individually From Each Other, Have Children but. i didn’t press for clarification but was ready to Leave after that. she was talking for a while still, after saying that. i had a cold soda and it was room temp by the time we finally left

#words from the monarch #incest mention #ask to tag #sorry it was just a kinda bizarre interaction and I needed to talk abt that #like she was talking abt her kids and how one of them was a handful and I said ‘oh yeah I get that. we’ve got a you get sibling’ #younger sibling* #and i brought them up again though I don’t remember what for #and Then like a minute after that she asked if we were a couple #also we wenr to the library which is a little bit more than a library like it’s got a theatre also #they have free movies for kids every now and then and we went to see the last 15 minutes of what they’d been playing #that theatre was pitch fuckinb black I couldn’t see shit. I’ve never seen so scared of stairs than in that moment YDHDHHS #the library was where I got the soda so that happened before The Conversation With That Lady

[ridgewriter]

Not me genuinely considering learning how to edit videos just so I can create this one beautifully painful idea that I had because even months later and these two fools have me in their grasps and refuse to let go.

#good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens season 2 #I tricked myself into thinking for a moment that I was free #that my hyper fixation could move onto other things #and then BOOM! #right back where I started #aziracrow #I cannot let them go #and they cannot let me go #do I have any experience making videos? #no #not at all #I write fanfiction #I don’t make videos #and yet… #I want others to suffer as I am

[tim-test-437]

Lucy and Tim with their Puppy daughter Tamara at her college graduation ❤️✨🎓

#chenford #Tim Bradford #lucy chen #tamara Collins #I love this family! #tim and Lucy will 100%call themselves grandparents the moment Tamara has kids #it’s been a hot minute since I drew any fan art for anything #I’m soo out of practice #hopefully I’ll get better at capturing their likeness #I have an ma in fine art but after a couple years of teaching art to kiddos it’s been a hot minute since I practiced #and I forgot just how quick certain art skills can fade! #my art #will colour later #also if u see this feel free to prompt #I don’t make the best illustrations but I need some practice!

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Low-key though everyone should have at least one (1) oc it’s good for you

#or be obsessed with someone else’s oc so that it lives in your head rent-free #just pav things #honestly I don’t have the strength to draw them endlessly in ways that engage the masses (like that one reblog of Dolphin’s) #but I’ve taken to ‘telemarketing’ them instead. word of mouth. little interactions #that’s how it should be. this is how we heal tumblr and maybe ourselves a bit too <3 #I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to reach the popularity of ISAT but it’s ok :) Pav was never popular for a moment in her life #Sorry this is just rambling. Ocs are good 👍 make them. thrive with them despite it all. #Meanwhile I need to go back to annotating 😅😭

[chromaticroses]

you probably won’t, but if you see someone trying to accuse us of being dismissive of their experiences with racism, not only are they lying about what we said, they’re a white person claiming to have the experience of being lakota/black by virtue of having system members who are.

#IF YOU DO SEE IT DO NOT INTERACT WITH THEM IN ANYWAY trust me it’s really really not worth it. l #if this becomes a bigger deal than it is right now i have proof but #at the moment i’d prefer to just leave it at this and hope it blows over. #though if you do see it and want more info feel free to reach out privately #i do NOT want any sort of callout or whisper campaign. they don’t have enough of a following to warrant that. #but they’re spreading lies full name dropping us so.

[im-still-watching-anime]

i am officially, FINALLY all caught up again in both the manga and the anime for bsd and OH BOY there are thoughts and opinions but also WHO CARES because my tags are finally FREE to be unfiltered

#hnnnnnn #i am SO happy #i am BEYOND happy #i love the arc even if i complain about it a lot #but i am also hnnnnnn…….displeased……..with a few things #the anime fr about to catch these hands #i already KNEW they were rushing it from the few episodes i had watched #but the anime is usually SO good at pacing #that i fully trusted that certain things would be slowed down for significance/impact/etc #but instead the pacing just stayed WAY too fast for me #and they ended up cutting SO many small moments that had SO much importance like im going crazy about some of them #some of the lines they cut……. #or even adjusted slightly that it drew away the impact #ugh i KNOW there was a LOT to balance and a LOT of content to get through #but i am a little disappointed that so many emotional scenes were what ended up suffering for it #this is why i don’t usually like reading the manga for animes i watch #i always end up getting disappointed by the limitations of adaptations #that being said though regardless of general limitations i don’t think some of the rushing is above criticism #and i am going to go and eat glass while seething over the particularly offensive rushing/cuts😤 #OKAY DONE that’s the last i’ll say about it i would just go crazy if i didn’t vocalize it somewhere #in general i was VERY happy with the arc in both the manga and the anime i have SO much love for it #definitely a favorite for me #and THAT concludes my very vague no spoiler review #i swear one of these days my self control is going to snap #and im just going to start posting my full essays and content analysis shit about everything i watch here #but for now we’re safe and all my rants will stay spoiler free tag paragraphs instead godbless🙏

[fellhellion]

#feel free to reblog the meme if u like lmao #just leave the tags out #vent.txt #<- sorry just need to have a moment lmao #inflicted w the yearnings for romantic relationship yet again 😞 but so keenly aware of how much I’d have to unpack in myself to truly be a #part of it #like. I don’t trust people. I don’t confide in people. I tell them nothing about myself for years and years and I used to resent a little #that that was enough for them. that they didn’t NEED to know. that me loving and caring for them was enough. but it’s so silly because like #how can you resent people for not knowing what you won’t tell them. so thankfully THAT has passed #but it’s just like. there are so many issues. like I just CANNOT conceptualise myself as romantically attracted #attractive* #not even in a self deprecating sense it just feels like an immutable fact. I can’t imagine someone looking at me w romantic desire. #and it’s like. I honestly don’t know if I could let my walls down enough to actively love someone back like that #it’s so easy to love from afar. and hell haha maybe THATS because it’ll always be easier to love someone when they can’t know all of you to #love in return #but I just don’t know how I can do it. I don’t know how to view the risk as being worth it #and at the end of the day I’ll be okay if romantic love isn’t in the cards for me. you can live a happy life without #but ah fuck. sometimes the but I am so lonely.jpg hits

[beldaroot]

i know there is so much to despair when seeing all the atrocities but seeing palestinians finding ways to laugh and smile and show the meaning of life even when israel tries so hard to take it from them and seeing all the protests across the world from civil disobedience to direct action in huge masses and seeing all the resistance groups bodying millions of dollars of iof equipment and soldiers on the ground gives me an insane amount of hope. there are so many ways to defy archaic and cruel systems and inhumanity. it’s been done before - in bangladesh, algeria, south africa, haiti, vietnam, ireland, just to name a few - and it will happen again until everyone is free. liberation will always be the ending because our greatest strength is our resistance!

#like don’t get me wrong i am still crying every day just seeing the footage - grief has no bounds at the moment #but there is still so much life and that can never be taken away… it only makes us stronger and more radicalized #seriously watching the resistance videos have helped me a lot too #seeing northern israelis complaining about hezbollah cutting their electricity like lol imagine how gazans feel!!! #israelis are just psychotic trigger happy cops who can’t actually do anything except make propaganda and terrorize by violent control #free palestine

[tiger-is-a-certified-idiot]

Thinking about how a character’s intelligence doesn’t depend on how much they know, but rather how much they know compared to the audience.

A character could know all the secrets of the universe. But if we know the answer to the Super Duper Narrative Mystery (Aka whatever conflict exists in the plot) and the character does not, we perceive them as pretty dim, especially especially if another character in the show can solve the mystery, and especially especially especially if we solve it with them.

Whereas if a character is finding and solving clues that were barely, if at all, presented to the audience, that character seems like an absolute genius, even if they don’t actually have knowledge beyond that of a regular person. The audience is trailing behind the smart character, who is leading the narrative investigation.

This is also why rewatching a show can completely change your perception of a character. If you watch the show again, you catch all of the clues and foreshadowing that was previously missed, and suddenly you, the audience are the one leading. This completely changes the dynamic between character and audience. You feel clever, and the character who before was leagues above you, is now on equal footing, (or below.)

Both of these interpretations of The Smart Character are equally important, in my opinion. The first allows you to respect the character, while the second allows you to look deeper and analyze their decisions and actions and dialogue a little closer, and less biased. This is why every media should be consumed twice.

#the little dopamine shots I get from finding Things in the media I like that I missed the first time #even if the Boom moments don’t hit as hard #it doesn’t matter #gotta suck that bitch dry #… #i may have adhd #related fandom tags… #good omens #good omens 2 #TLT #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #aziraphale #Crowley #doctor who #arcane #sherlock holmes #feel free to add on

[musclesandhammering]

I know this is such an unpopular opinion but like…….. X-5 needs to be a part of the team. He’s such an asshole and a little shit and all he rly wanted was freedom, and I know if he wasn’t hiding information from them, he and Loki would get along so well.

#plus tbh he didn’t do anything wrong at all??? #other than refusing to tell them where sylvie was at first #all he wanted was to be free and live his life and wasn’t that what loki/the team was fighting for? #he’s a real piece of shit but I need him to have a semi-redemption arc #and now that he deserted and seems to be scared of Dox I need him to explain #wtf that awkward moment between them was in the last episode #like I genuinely thought he was gonna be her son or her love interest but after seeing him here… #yeah I definitely don’t think either of those things are true #so maybe he was just like her teacher’s pet right hand man who was 100% under her thumb type thing #idk #anyway #hunter x-5 #loki 2x02 #Loki 2x02 spoilers #loki spoilers #loki series

[imaginarypasta]

i’ve been trying to get through hoh for literally like a week now but it’s so hard bc the way my fave nico is treated is absolutely ABYSMAL and i know it only gets worse

#personal #even hazel being like ‘yeah he’s hard to get along with’ or whatever she said #every single non-tartarus perspective has had at least one reference to this #and like i understand the reasons it’s not that it’s that it highlights this issue i have with a lot of the characters in that series which #is that i don’t like them. and that’s so different for me bc i actually usually find that my two favorite characters in anything are the tw #that don’t like each other? unrelated to that dynamic usually mostly but still within it #but that’s not even what the dynamic is yk. #and it’s just the whole thing overall like in the last book there was one part where these two characters who are supposed to be good #friends are separated and one makes a comment about how annoying (or something along those lines) she finds the other which. #i’m vaguely aware of what happens in toa so i think you could argue something about that but read on its own bc i don’t want to make that #argument without fully grasping where her character goes #it just kinda reinforces this… vibe to the whole series that was not nearly as present in the first series of like. really overemphasized #like gender roles/heterosexuality/etc. i can’t think of the word to use to describe it. i’ve seen other ppl talk about the parts that add u #to the whole that i’ve seen but never synthesize them. and it really varies between actually insidious and simply not my taste which is par #of the reason i hesitate to make a full critique out of it. but suffice to say i really don’t like it #with that being said the pacing of this book is really good and i am compelled to finish based on the themes i do find interesting #autonomy being a huge one #but anyway those are my thoughts on it after a few days of a break. i’ve been playing a video game instead :3 but i start work on wednesday #sooo i won’t have as much free time boo #looking back maybe ‘insidious’ is a very strong word for it. i’m talking about like when percy complains about the bag and similar moments