#god it’s so good

[sadlittlecountess]

save me reverse age gap rhaenicent! save me!

#I’ve been staring at this edit for the last week #god it’s so good #rhaenyra targaryen #age gap rhaenicent #alicent hightower #house of the dragon #rhaenicent

[hawkinsp0st]

if i could chat with the duffers abt storytelling this is what i would nerd out with them about:

the narrative tension between will’s coded love confession and mike not realizing it yet is sooo juicy and well done because it wasn’t even an explicit love confession if will were to have said it in the first person. stay with me here.

“these past few months, i’ve been so lost without you”

“i need you, and i always will”

“i’m scared of losing you, just like you’re scared of losing me/el”

“you make me feel like i’m not a mistake at all… like i’m better for being different.”

deeply affectionate, definitely, but their friendship has always been like that. if will had just said it in the first person, mike wouldn’t have even thought of it as explicitly romantic tbh…

but it’s the fact that will coded his own feelings with el’s name, mike’s romantic partner, that is going to expose will in the end. and the fact that will brought it up as a solution to mike’s relationship problems and romantic insecurities. mike is going to have to contend with that part and that’s what will make it so satisfying.

the duffers used the circumstances, rather than the words, to code will’s confession and make it evident to the audience that truthfully, mike is most romantically fulfilled by will, as opposed to el.

they didn’t have will say “el loves you”—that would be boring. once mike found out about that, he would be like “oh okay, so will loves me?”

instead, they had will say “el needs you, misses you” etc. we as the audience filled in the blanks from the circumstances alone—that’s what mike is meant to do, too.

mike will not immediately realize “will loves me”—he will realize “will needs me, thinks highly of me, completes me”, and he will have to think critically about what that means for him. mike will have to piece together the ideas one by one—

i want to be needed, i need to be someone’s protector, i need someone who misses me like i miss them. will told me i was the one who saved him and that he needs me, and that makes me feel like i’m flying, so that means… 🤯

they also used mike’s uncomfortable monologue to show that mike returns will’s feelings, but doesn’t know it—and the awkwardness of the monologue, how terrified mike looks to say it as will urges him, the way they filmed mike with that super uncomfortable choke shot (shoutout to whoever first pointed this out on here, i don’t remember ur username!) and an ice-cold color palette is because he’s saying it to el, the wrong person for him.

(contrastingly—mike’s scenes w will this season have a very warm color palette. but in surfer boy pizza, he’s wearing blue, his face looks washed out, and he’s surrounded by metal.)

i see why the duffers did it this way now if endgame byler is what they want… bc will could have literally told mike that he loves him and wants to spend all his time with him, and mike would still take it platonically bc i honestly don’t think he’s ever considered the possibility that 2 boys could really be together.

but when the truth comes out with this context that will used his own feelings to sub in for el, who’s with mike romantically……..mike won’t be able to interpret it any other way. he will be forced to see what he needs to see.

so this was the duffers’ way to play with that tension between heteronormativity vs queer love, platonic vs romantic feelings, truth vs lies, love vs not-love, and make it narratively interesting (rather than it just being a short, cute moment with mild angst, the way i believe it would’ve been if will had simply confessed).

they had to put will’s feelings in a heteronormative package for it to get properly delivered to mike in a way that would register.

this entire “piggybacked” love confession and delectable back-and-forth between an unknowing mike and will was the duffers’ way of making byler seem like the most natural thing in the world amidst the homophobia and heteronormativity of the 1980s setting—and plenty of the GA.

#byler #the piggyback #duffers #god it’s SO GOOD

[waugh-bao]

Keith greets Charlie when he sits down for lunch (1989)

#‘Charles!’ #he’s such an obsessed little fangirl he’s literally falling all over himself for Charlie just existing #and of course Pierre has ringside seats to witness the insanity #god it’s so good #the rolling stones #charlie watts #keith richards #old married band #video #sound on #pierre de beauport

[ehhgg-art]

i love how rvb took halo, a game which sparked controversy surrounding violence among children for its warlike nature and being a testament to how militarism has consumed everyday life, and said “you know what? let’s make it an anti-war story.” just a big middle finger to the face of the blatant propaganda of its source material. i find that to be beautiful.

#the church arc especially #like you do no respawn in the end #when you die you die #he cannot be brought back this time #AND the temple arc too #your past choices have consequences whether you want them or not #but also your suffering does not warrant the suffering of others #GOD it’s so good #red vs blue #rvb #rooster teeth #halo

[secondstar-acorn]

can’t express how much I love the gift of the magi-inspired story, especially janaya and curt’s performances

#GOD IT’S SO GOOD #vhscc spoilers #vhscc #vhs christmas carols

[alloutshirt]

hey louis,

#hadn’t listened to this album in a bit #god it’s so good #x

[woundedheartwithin]

I feel like all I’ve been doing today was fawn over KK and how adorable he is. Like the whole KK nickname, his dog phobia even though he can understand them, him being scared when falling, him humming as a habit, how he does his best to help people but especially kids, him talking like he’s doing all the work but Akito is like ‘??? I did everything?’, and then the implications later on of him and Akito actually tapping each other in and out of control of the body. Like that’s a man right there that I want Akito to make fun of his childish side and slobby side. Akito is so right when he said that it’s funny to watch KK struggle. I like seeing all his reactions when Akito talks back. I’m holding a couple of my irl friends hostage and forcing them to play some Ghostwire instead of Baldurs gate atm so I can rant about my obsession to them lol

My favorite interaction, at least so far, is in the school when you find the art room and Akito’s like I bet you don’t like art, and KK goes I dunno I think I’m pretty good at drawing, and Akito’s voice raises like two octaves when he goes really?????? And you just know he’s thinking about KK’s shitty fucking stick figure drawings in some of his case notes 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I love their dynamic and the nuance to their characters so much, cuz like Akito seems so sweet and cute and innocent but he’s SUCH a little shit, and KK seems like a dick with his gruff, hard boiled, devil may care attitude but he’s actually so soft and earnest. I adore them 😭😭😭

#she speaks #Ghostwire tokyo #god it’s so good #I love their relationship so much #the dynamic is just perfection #I love them so much

[lamentablesbian]

obsessed with this Adventuring Party being solely about Gerard and Elody’s relationship like they GET it they are feeding us so well

#god it’s so good #so funny and also i agree with everything they’re saying #ALSO so funny that they’re saying all this in front of brennan is so 😭😭😭 #dimension 20 #neverafter #myken talks

[yorshie]

Guys I’m losing it over here I have never wanted to break the fourth wall so badly and strangle a character.

#god it’s so good #I might have broken for a minute and put the phone down and laughed like a crazy person #oooooo i wanna drop a piano on him. a heavy one. and organ. a whole fucking church organ

[kainebell]

do u guys ever think about how the society forced Josephine to spend decades reliving the torturous watery death they forced on her but Richard fails to do the same to her grandchild, and then he meets the same slow, agonizing fate Josephine was forced to endure if you leave him trapped on his boat….bc I do!!!

#GOD it’s so good #it’s like poetry it rhymes and all that fun stuff #ILB mc FUCKS #playchoices #it lives beneath #it lives

[carbonatedcartoonist]

Guys I’m actually obsessed with “you’re a loser” from the new hazbin hotel show. I think I’ve watched it ten times now.

#its…. #god it’s SO GOOD #this is all I’m going to be thinking about for like a week #masquerade the entire episode was just god damn #the first three episodes were kinda ok #but that one #fuck #and poison is a banger too #hazbin hotel #honestly p much all the songs have been insane hits

[tanehttac]

It’s been 14 years since httyd first came out but damn that soundtrack can still make me cry

#test drive my beloved #also jónsi’s end credit songs #god it’s so good #httyd

[arihi]

That feeling when you don’t feel like you’ve changed, but all of your actions and behavior indicate otherwise. Escalating beyond what you know you would’ve done in the past, but feeling like it’s regular to behave like this. Not knowing what’s to come, but knowing there’s nothing you can do to stop it 🥵

#hypnosis #conditioning #god it’s so good #I know it’s an escalation but I feel the same and it’s like is this me growing comfortable or something else?

[undefbug]

nothing gets me giggling and kicking my feet more than phantom of the opera

#god it’s so good #i get chills literally every time #unequivocally giddy #got that dawg in me #autism #that dog is autism #phantom of the opera

[lisanamjoon]

waiting for season 3 of the way home is going to be just an painful as waiting for outlander 😭😭😭

#the way home #outlander #i watched all 20 episodes in two days lmao #i haven’t fallen for a show that quickly #since like 2015 #god it’s so good

[recklessandyoung]

1st of November fuck it it’s essentially christmas time to listen to So much wine ep to get into the spirit

#god it’s so good #phoebe bridgers #may’s musings