#he was lied as much as everyone else

[adozentothedawn]

I would like to congratulate Klavier Gavin for both the worst aa name and also being the first prosecuter with pretty much no dirt on him. I am impressed and will be adding him to my (slightly) sad boy collection.

also klapollo is better than writghworth

althought the ship name is terrible and i hate it

#ace attorney #miles will forever remain ace in my heart #and larry will forever remain his anime self cause they really did him dirty in the games #anyway yeah congrats klavier #you did what godot couldn't #unless you also for some reason turn out to be a douchebag in the later games #but i doubt that usually we know what someone's about by the end of the game #that's not to say that no other prosecuters are good #edgeworth has a very special place in my heart #and franziska made me feel a lot better about my own name #but let's face it when they show up for the first time they're kinda garbage people #cause they're dumped in trauma! #but they also do very much do crime for bad reasons then #anyway this isn't actually a moral judgement for a silly court game #i don't care about that #i just think it's funny that klavier is the first guy who is pretty much just what he says he is #he is hiding something but as far as he really knows he didn't do anything wrong #he was lied as much as everyone else #also unrelated i think trucy and kay should hang out and terrorize the country

[where-the-water-flows]

AND ANOTHER THING, I say, coming back into the tag with an unrelated question for the fine minds here in MLC fandom: how the fuck did baby li xiangyi afford to even found the sigu sect. He's like seventeen! max!! shan gudao presumably has built up a cushion of funds from fucking about on his lonesome in the jianghu for (mumble) years and probably doing some sketchy shit while unsupervised (and also fathering fang doubing, because the timeline of MLC is even more nonsense otherwise), and, I assume, the other people of sigu sect helped bankroll it, but still!

li xiangyi is seventeen? max?? somewhere between fifteen and seventeen?? and sigu sect is fucking big. that is a lot of very fancy land and buildings, and also a lot of very fancy stuff in general, where did this orphan street rat raised on the side of a mountain get the money for that? I assume he was sent out with like. some money to Not Starve, but I don't think he was sent out with 'found a rich ass sect' money.

like I guess bounties? rewards from grateful people he saved??? very explicitly not the imperial court, I think, given he's like 'we have nothing to do with them we cannot compromise our ethics' argument with shan gudao, so...???

I know it's Not That Deep, but also, blease, things cost money, how do you afford your fancy boy hair crown and robes.

#waters words #mysterious lotus casebook #li xiangyi #look I wish I was not like this but unfortunately #I am. all the time. #how does li xianyi even afford to be a spendthrift. where is he getting that money from #is he straight up looting the bandits et al he deals with?? like legit but also. that feels. off. #like I guess the simple answer is everyone else is Hella Rich and bankrolling him. but. why then. #like yes yes charismatic strong idealist etc etc but also #the money. that is so much money.

[makorragal-312]

The only strong emotion I'm feeling after tonight is FUCKING CONFUSION.

#911 #911 abc #911 on abc #911 show #911 spoilers #911 season 7 #911 s7 #911 s7 spoilers #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #evan buckley #marisol nolastname #911 eddie #911 christopher #911 buck #I am so fucking confused #so is Eddie starting an emotional affair with shop lady #because she reminds him of shannon #and look #I want marisol gone as much as everyone else #but even I think this is messed up #and he literally lied to buck about where he was going #why do I have a feeling this is all gonna backfire #I have a theory on how this could lead to eddisol bones and queer eddie #but I'll save that for later #but for now #HUH??? #and no buck and chris scene? #COME ON MAN! #well at least it's not marisol doing the babysitting this time

[tangledinink]

and also the trust issues!! why does everyone expect them to "open up" when they have each other? they don't need anyone else!!! (in their minds) /also nf, also hi, same anon

For sure!!! "Open up???" To other people??? Like, reveal your actual intentions and true emotions??? That's the kind of thing that gets you killed!!! And exactly-- they have each other!!! They don't understand what everyone's issue is. Leo doesn't understand why people keep trying to TOUCH his brother or get too CLOSE to his brother or fucking BE ALONE WITH HIS BROTHER when they seriously need to just NOT DO THAT. The two of them are just FINE, they've ALWAYS been fine, they've ALWAYS been capable of taking care of each other and they still are!!!

Why does everyone seem to think that he's not enough for Donnie?! Or that Donnie wouldn't be enough for him!? Why do these people seem to think that he can't take care of Donnie by himself?

#leo just lies so hard to everyone all the time in the early days #and donnie barely speaks to anyone #except occasionally leo #who will just translate for him as needed #they both have a very hard time but at the beginning of the move donnie very much kind of... shuts down a little #just because hes overwhelmed and exhausted #and leo is SO angry and frustrated by all his family members trying to HELP #when he doesnt NEED their help #HE cant help donnie he doesnt need anyone else getting involved #and why cant they see that theyre just stressing donnie out worse?! #donnie doesnt want to be touched!!! donnie doesnt want you in his room!!! donnie doesnt want you in his space!!! #and when he bites u u'll deserve it!!! #asks #gemini au #anon #they love each other an they try so hard for each other but #given the circumstances its truly just not a sustainable business model....

[grin-unsettling]

i see, so poly romances were a lie

#sleeping with halsin while being in a 'serious' relationship with a single other companion is NOT poly 😐 #listen i just wanted my TAV to be sandwiched between two stronk ladies (karlach and lae) is it too much to ask he's a good boi 😭 #i kind of get it lae is just like that but also it was kind of funny how literally everyone else instantly backed off 😅 #including astarion and shadowheart #and karlach said it broke her heart this game instantly put me off trying to romance more than 1 LI at a time forever i guess #gonna go back to my d.urge playthrough and figure out the single companion i wanna romance #yes i am playing 2 playthroughs at the same time what about it yes i was in act 1 for 2 weeks #i am about to start a 3rd playthrough even #tho in co-op with a friend #lie.txt

[lunar-lair]

i think too hard abt leo being at the center of their little flame in the movie and i go INSANE

mikey may be the heart, raph may be the eldest brother and the protector, and donnie may be the smart one, but leo is the leader.

hes the one who knows them best. hes the one who hypes up the team. hes the one who makes the first move. hes the one who does the background tuning when he isnt leader, and hes the one who puts things together.

he doesnt work alone. hes only a leader because he has a team to lead, only the strategist because he has members to make it work, only the face man because he has a team to back him. and hes not the eldest, not the one they all look up to. not the heart, not kind. not knowledgeable on as much as donnie, not as “useful”.

but what he didnt seem to notice, for so very, very long, leader or not, is that hes their core.

his flame is small, but bright. such a seemingly simple place and simple role and simple existence, but hes the start of everything. the one who said, why dont we not go after a killer? and they met the foot. the one who understood big mama wasnt to be trusted.

and its small. he says, im just the face guy. just the leader. just the background strategist and the jokester and idiot fool who almost ruined everything. but he would do anything for them. he understands them best. hes the one the kraang feared most, the only one capable of pulling it into that portal, the one who lead the resistance and the man who raised the boy who won it all.

like i just..i dont exactly know how to get it across but. he really is their core. he isnt the heart, the brain, the muscle.

hes the soul.

the driving force behind it all. the one who pulls them along, the one who understands, the one who knows.

leo…hes the soul. and what he doesnt seem to realize is that they would fall completely apart without him.

if he wasnt there to run when big mama proved she wasnt to be trusted, theyd still be captured. if he wasnt there to tell them not to go after a serial killer in the first place, common sense and root and ground, they’d most likely be dead, fools that they tend to be. if he wasnt there to brew up this huge plan to get big mama to hand over that collar, they wouldve been toast when the shredder first arrived. and they wouldnt be the same family, the same team, the same people without him.

no ones quite sure hes there at all. the concept of a soul is so transient, so uncertain. but hes there whether he or anyone else knows or not. his smarts and his heart and his care and his unyielding willingness to make sure everyone makes it out alright (of course, except for him).

you may not notice, through his mask and his jokes, through layers and layers of tangible muscle and brain and heart and skin and bone, but hes living there. at the core of it all. a driving force, whether hes seen or not.

#hello welcome to my leo appreciation hours #i love him so much..hes got sooooo many layers to him he means so much 2 me #lunas lies #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise leo #uhh. well everyone else is kinda just mentioned so. eh #rise analysis #oh boy! never thought id get to put my own post in that tag hehe #long post question mark? kind of

[gay-jesus-probably]

it would be really funny in hywar for ruto and darunia to recognize the "hero of termina" but probably be confused because why is he tiny. wait there's more of them. okay i guess this isn't the guy we know (it is)

Oh yeah, I'm thinking Ruto and Darunia are 100% onto him, BUT they're the adult timeline versions, so they haven't seen the baby Hero of Time in years, so they're not 100% sure if that's actually him, or if the kid just happens to look like him. Besides, the kid says he's just the Hero of Termina, and the Hero of Time definitely didn't scowl that much when he was younger so... they're suspicious, but not confident enough to try and address it. And since all the sages except Sheik ascended into non-existence or something after sealing Ganon, Ruto and Darunia must have been pulled from somewhere in the middle of OOT, so they're used to the teenage Link, and unlike Sheik they have no reason to think he's going to return to being a kid. So as far as they know, it makes perfect sense for the Hero of Termina to just have a strong resemblance to how the Hero of Time looked when he was younger... but man are they ever identical.

Mask avoids them like the plague, because he knows they could bust him... and he also knows they're basically going to die shortly after they go home. He really doesn't have the emotional bandwidth to try and deal with that, so he just keeps his distance. But Ruto and Darunia are having many quiet debates in the background about "is that our Link or not". They are constantly pressing X to Doubt.

(Marin is also a solid member of the Press X To Doubt club, because she's like 90% certain that Ravio guy's voice is identical to her Link's, and even though she can't be sure with all the robes she thinks they might also have the same build, and the few glimpses she gets of the bottom of his face looks like Link... but also he doesn't seem to know her at all, and is just generally acting kind of off, so she's just... not sure what's going on there, but it bothers her. And she doesn't even have anyone to compare notes with.)

Also, please consider for a moment that Ganondorf knows basically nothing about the whole Majora's Mask debacle, so he only knows Mask as being the Hero of Time, and could out him literally by accident. I have this mental image of Ganon attempting to do a big dramatic showdown, only for the mood to thoroughly ruined by Mask frantically cutting him off mid-sentence, because if he gives any details right now, Mask is fucked. The exchange is something like "We meet again, it's been awhile, Hero of T-" "TERMINA, YES, that's me, how about we stop talking right now and try to kill each other instead". Ganon then delays the boss battle to try and work out what the fuck is going on, and also because Mask's obvious panic is hilarious to him.

(Meanwhile Captain Link knows that something is up, but he is literally always having a minimum of three simultaneous mental breakdowns at any given moment, so he's pretty happy just not acknowledging his suspicions that Mask's real hero title is very well known, he really doesn't need more stress in his life. He's trying so hard not to hear the extremely incriminating argument Mask and Ganon are having, and trying even harder not to connect the dots and realize what Mask's real title is. He's not succeeding. After that particular battle, he goes back to his tent and spends a solid ten minutes screaming into his pillow before he can successfully repress the knowledge that he's been fighting alongside the literal Hero of Time and affectionately referring to him as a demonic little gremlin. As long as Mask doesn't acknowledge it, he doesn't have to either, so it's fine. Everything is totally fine.)

#hyrule warriors #poor captain link is just having the worst time ever #also my take on him is he grew up rough and lied about his age to get out by joining the army #so he is ALSO hiding his real identity. except for him it's just the fact that the supposedly 20 year old hero is actually like 17 #considerably less dramatic than what everyone else has going on. but he's an honorary member of the 'nobody says shit' gang #honorary bcause for the sake of his own sanity he is not acknowledging that anyone is hiding their identities in the first place #but like. he knows. and he wants the others to keep their secrets cause if they dont he's the one that has to deal with it #he's already so stressed he doesn't need more problems in his life so they can keep their fucking secrets thank you very much #this poor bastard joined the army for a steady job and somehow became Helen of Troy he's got enough on his plate already

[astarlightmonbebe]

gong qing chose to be doomed by the narrative the moment he chose to kill tian jin zhong. he knew he was going to die the minute he killed him. he met zhang zhiwei knowing the only outcome was his death. but he refused to go out without having his say. he refused to die without shaking the narrative. the ripple effect. the butterfly flaps its wings and dies, but it is still causing changes.

and the thing is. the thing is that you (or maybe just me) want him to live. what is there to hate about him? all he does is kill one man. he fails to impact longhu shan beyond that; all the other damage can be fixed. and i think, evil or not, the fact is that gong qing is just like zhang chulan, like the countless others who are seeking the truth. and zhang zhiwei and the elders are their adversaries in that, because it's clear as day that they are the ones concealing the truth. honestly, i doubt feng baobao's origin is much of a secret to all those who recognized her; it's just one they don't want to share. same with the jiashen calamity. maybe if the truth dies with the elders who survived it, the tragedy won't repeat. but the fact is that hiding the truth only makes people want it more, inadvertently causing a great number of tragedies along the way. truth and power are always going to be what people desire. history might repeat whether or not the truth is widely known.

and the fact is, at this point, twenty episodes in to a twenty seven episode show, i, the watcher, still have no idea what even happened during the jiashen calamity. and i mean the basic info. they briefly talked about the 36 thieves and the founding of sinister pleasure, but it was so glossed over that i feel completely lost. i want the truth too! i want the basic backstory! gong qing is a revolutionary in all the wrong places, but you can't deny that his idealism about sinister pleasure and his actions are almost that of a martyrs. he seeks a return to the golden age, a righting of wrongs. and zhang zhiwei, undeniably, stands in the way of that, because zhang zhiwei is the person with the sole ability to determine good and evil.

#star stumbles #my thoughts #i am nobody #the outcast #异人之下 #一人之下 #star shots #ep 21 #could have written more but let me cap it #i didn't want him to die but i knew he was going to. the tragedy of it all #zhang zhiwei kills him with his needle and makes it look like he's meting out justice #and i understand that. i don't really understand why tjz had to die but i'm still not on zzw's side too much #if only because you can tell he's an obstacle. grandfather figure or not #which i think is on purpose? idk #so frustrating i feel for baobao and chulan and wang ye #and everyone else who is getting lied to about it

[oseike]

Y'know what, I bet kimcom made a Midday Tryst chat separate to the Nebula chat, just so they could talk shit about kdj without him seeing (and coordinate schemes to take care of him or corner him into resting or letting them take care of stuff).

#orv #kimcom #yjh doesnt talk much but he always reads the messages and if they plan for him to do something he will never let them down #when he does write something it's when he's away and wants to check on kdj's condition #he knows he can't ask kdj cos kdj lies #but everyone else will gladly tattle on him #and then the other members are always a bit more attentive to kdj while yjh is away because they know if yjh comes back #and kdj isn't refreshingly healthy #yjh will be mad at them all #though of course he woukd be angriest at kdj himself lol #cue yjh restraining the urge to strangle him

[apollo-zero-one]

Man I can't believe I had the chance to go to a performing arts school up through middle school and I fuckin quit after 6 months just because I got bullied. BRO YOUR HOMEWORK WAS POETRY!! YOU HAD TO PRACTICE DANCING TO COTTON EYE JOE AS YOUR BIG UNIT TEST. GYM CLASS HAD A CIRCUS UNIT!! YOU HAD A WHOLE DAILY CLASS ON IMPROV!!! YOU FOOL!! YOU ABSOLUTE IMBICILE!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A YOUTUBER!!! YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE TWEENAGERS GETTING LOADED BY MAKING SHITTY YOUTUBE SHORTS IN 2008-14!! But noooOoooOOOoo little miss Noellie (who WANTED TO GO!! who worked SO HARD and sent in an application essay and did an INTERVIEW to get in!!) couldn't handle disruptive classmates or little scuffles and petty grudges and general Attitude of the other students and cried to mommy to put her back in public school. I am EATING MY HAIR over what Could Have Been. I COULD BE SOMEONE'S ANNOYING YOUTUBER!! I could be a DISGRACED DISNEY CHANNEL STAR!! I could be an America's Got Talent winner! A mild to moderately successful comedian! I could be making short films!! But no no no precious thin skinned baby me heard a few new cus words and watched a teacher get heckled and begged to give up The Dream in favor of?? Quiet math tests?? I am such a fucking quitter I quit everything the second it gets too hard I always take the out as soon as it's offered what's my fucking damage.....

#I had SO MUCH POTENTIAL and I SQUANDERED IT!! weak ass third grade PUSSY! Your life could have been SO SICK!! #or you could at least be addicted to cocain or something interesting like that!! Boring ass goody two shoes always just staying home doing #NOTHING bitch make a REAL FRIEND go to a God Damn PARTY live a little instead of just hiding in the closet eating saltine crackers for years #waiting for it to be quiet outside before you ever even toed the line #mentally ill self-isolating motherfucker #you could have shrugged it off you could have GROWN A PAIR and FOUGHT BACK but you just ran and cried for mommy #victim complex little bitch baby always whining and exaggerating and making shit up fucking LIAR I am you and I KNOW what you did and I know #you knew it wasn't the truth and you regretted it the moment it came out of uour mouth but once you'd said it you just swallowed it back and #doubled down incriminating or discrediting others with your lies. For why? Because you didn't like them? You could have ruined someone's #life you wouldn't have hesitated mayhe you did and don't even remember because you cant keep your mouth shut with your pants ablaze #manipulative little shit and to WHAT END? Pity? Sympathy? Attention? Entertainment?? What was even going on in your stupid ugly head? #This is a callout post for my third grade self that possessed demon ass evil nine year old. That kid drowned anthills in olive oil and #poisoned a wild animal once. That kid cut plants just to see if they oozed. That kid modified her whole ass personality on a dime for a boy #she had a crush on. INSTANTLY dropped a LIFELONG CULTURAL ALLEGIANCE (thats what football teams were like back then in our town) because he #said he had the opposite allegiance??? What the fuck? girl had NO integrity none zip zilch. #No empthy either that kid looked at everyone else on earth like they were friggin space aliens and she was the only one with Real feelings. #bitch literally thought like 'I have Feelings they just have Reactions' bitch what the fuckkkkk #that nine year old was fucked the hell up!!! #and for literally NO REASON!! No cause!! Just born fucking evil and weird. jesus fuck. #Evil ass bitch caused her autistic brother months of nightmares and then laughed about it and wrote poetry about how evil he was because he? #was a kid??? Normal sibling rivalry taken way way way too far defamatory ass statements #and this girl had NO CONSEQUENCES because she could lie and manipulate her way out of ANYTHING she had the baby eyes and the helpless charm #and played dumb soooo well . read people like some calculative evil AI scanning their faces for microexpressions and overanalyzing each word #choice like holy shit. its not That Deep. pretentious shit trying to play 5D chess on a checkers board. #Manipulating shit just to see what happens?? zero awareness?? no asking just skipping straight to testing for yourself?? #'What happens if I step on this' it fucking breaks 'what does that taste like?' it's not fucking yours to mess with 'if I hit this person #how will they respond?' they'll be upset use your goddamn judgement you are NINE not TWO do you even care a little about any other person?? #Are you just living in some other reality??? #callout post for the fucking demon child inside of me #im so goddamn problematic I'm so so so deeply mentally disturbed and broken for no reason

[azol-otl]

Honestly the more I hear people calling Jason a tank, the more I think that the people writing it are just short

#I'm saying this about canon Jason #Except not really which I find really funny considering it's only Jason who gets larger and not anyone else #And this being despite several panels showing him exercising and much of it being things for flexibility and cardio #And the fact that he's barely distinguishable from Dick #Who's never been hit with this trend once hunks stopped being in style #Or the fact that Jason's shown flipping and jumping everywhere all the time which means you can't really say he's too big for that #Like just admit it's a kink #Stop bending over backwards and saying lies #The one exception is Gotham Knights Jason and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he was built that way cause larger = angry #Or was influenced after years of fandom calling Jason a tank despite everything #Like even if you follow the stats given by dc (which you shouldn't because look at everyone else and how unrealistic those stats are) #The man isn't that large #Six feet is not that tall #(larger than that is ignoring how he's 6ft in literally everything except Gotham Knights (6'3) and Titans (5'9)) #Which coincidentally means he still averages out at 6ft #Literally the most consistent thing about him after being suicidal #Azol's words

[apollos-boyfriend]

one thing about me is that i’m ALWAYS thinking about chapter 4 kokichi ouma

#icarus speaks #dangantag #like i’m always thinking about him in general #but chapter four SPECIFICALLY #like GOD……. #he knows if he doesn’t do something he’ll die #he knows if he doesn’t do something everyone will die #because shuichi is smart. but miu was smarter. there was no way to have uncovered ANY of that had she succeeded #and he knows he can’t stop her. she wants out. she won’t listen to him #if she’s not able to kill him. she’ll find someone else. she’ll find another scenario #and he can’t TELL most of them. because someone has to stop her #but half the cast wants him dead. maki would’ve taken him out herself #the only other person that would’ve both believed and helped him would likely be shuichi #but it can’t be shuichi. because this ends with two people dead. and if shuichi dies then they’re all fucked #he could make the same leaps as shuichi theoretically. solve the same cases #but no one would listen. not like they listen to shuichi #and GOD. speaking of which #the way he reacts to shuichi’s lie. it haunts me so much #and it makes sense! he’s already so angry. so lost. there’s so much going on and going wrong #shuichi lies to protect people and discover the truth and he’s beloved #kokichi does the same and he’s a villain #and YEAH obviously that’s not the full story. there are other factors. #but like. the THEMES. the PAIN. the spiral it leads kokichi down #doubling down on his lies and charade and cements his plan to sacrifice himself #slash become the ‘mastermind’ #i hate lying purple assholes why do they do this to my brain

[heroesriseandfall]

Cass is not a human lie detector…

#want to stab every story where cass is only there to be like ‘I looked at him he’s telling the truth’ and nothing else #she is still figuring out how to read her own emotions much less everyone elses #she’s extremely skilled don’t get me wrong I’m not saying she could never figure out any tells #but y’all David Cain lied to & manipulated her since she was born why would she not have at least a slightly messed up perception of reality #she is not an omniscient being & either way it’s weird to just use her as a lie detector #she is super insightful but sometimes she literally does not know what’s going on or what things mean & she can be totally wrong abt things #that actually makes her more fun and interesting #also there is no tell that perfectly translates only to telling the truth or lying #and she can do WAY cooler stuff then detect lies. she can dodge bullets :) #and she is sooo perfectly suited for jumping in front of too fast bullets to save her loved ones ooops #<- she thinks that is a good thing they do not agree ❤️ #welll don’t mind me I am sick & thinking abt cass 2night. i love herrr #cassandra cain #heroesriseandfall

[laurelwinchester]

jeff davis has been desperately trying to kill derek hale since the first season so i’m disappointed and irritated but not necessarily surprised that he finally followed through on that one. i am kinda surprised that he accidentally gave derek and stiles an inexplicable child though. that was a plot twist i did not see coming.

#everyone keeps saying they destiel'd sterek but this was so much fucking weirder #obviously the eli character was meant to be a replacement for stiles but instead it kinda looked like something else was going on there #and i HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS INFORMATION #like derek's inexplicable child (whose mother was NEVER mentioned) had stiles' personality #he played lacrosse #he literally had stiles' jeep #he and derek were close to sheriff stilinski #there was a ''complicated relationship'' comment #i'm pissed about what was done to derek #it's mind boggling that they gave this character a peaceful happy ending with a child and a real life after so much suffering #only to kill him BY FIRE #in front of his son #but.......they accidentally gave derek and stiles a whole ass child and i think that's honestly the funniest thing i've ever heard #i haven't even thought about sterek in years but i'm honestly obsessed with how hilarious that is #anyway the disclaimer is i haven't actually seen the movie and will not be seeing it because...why would i #but i was given an extensive play by play and then verified everything i heard through various sources #(because i was certain i was being lied to) #and....out of everything i heard this is the part that made me literally choke on my drink #the funniest thing to happen in 2023 #bullshit death but somehow accidental mpreg #honestly that tracks #teen wolf: the movie spoilers #teen wolf spoilers #derek x stiles

[aeide-thea]

lol just found out the former owner of this property has been surveilling all our mail via usps's informed delivery service, to which he still has access because he never bothered to file a change of address with them even though it's been literal years at this point, and so now i get to put 'calling the post office to get him kicked off because what the actual fuck' on my to-do list for the day!

also: i found this out because he emailed my dad an image of a piece of mail he wants us (me) to forward to him. flames on the side of my face.

#like—i was mildly annoyed when i thought it was just him being lazy #but the fact that his inaction has given him ongoing access to peruse all the mail we receive? #which on the basis of this email he clearly does at least sometimes? #CREEPY. like yeah it's whatever but also it's the principle of the thing! #anyway. as much as anything i'm irritated bc i'm not running on enough sleep #but. greargh. 🦖 #(i mean‚ i'm also irritated bc my dad should have told him politely but firmly *years* ago that we'd forwarded more than enough of his mail #and that it was past time for him to file a change of address with USPS #but bc he's such a fucking doormat‚ the whole thing didn't get resolved #and is now *my* problem‚ unless i'm happy to let this guy keep viewing all my mail. which i'm not. #which is always how this works. #'i can't tell your uncle now isn't a good time‚ so i have to take his call in the middle of whatever we're doing!' #he doesn't respect himself and so he just absorbs everyone else's demands and passes them on to me‚ whom he also doesn't respect.) #anyway. have fully talked myself into a terrible mood now‚ time to stop tag spiraling. #journaling #mundanities #domesticities #…actually i lied‚ what REALLY gets my goat here is that my dad will almost CERTAINLY not acknowledge that anything abt this is an issue #because he just has basically no bandwidth ever and just wants to pretend everything is fine so he doesn't have to Do Feelings #and it becomes this really shitty really gendered thing where like. i get painted as the Crazy Woman Making an Unjustifiable Fuss #even though there are multiple aspects of this situation that it's in fact extremely reasonable for me to be unhappy with! #and it's just like. no fucking wonder i can't deal with anything‚ i can't even evaluate a situation without having my reaction invalidated #ok now that really IS all. grateful for yr patience in a Trying Time if you even got this far‚ lol.

[kindaeccentric]

Me: posts something from Midnight Mass

Mutuals: Ok, HEAR ME OUT

#BUT I LOVE IT #i love feeling like i have impact on the world even on such a small fairly insignificant scale #and i love you guys #anyway my opinion is: #flanagan is still better in his og stuff than doing adaptations #he has a fairly good grasp of building relationships between characters BUT he seems to struggle with the stories themselves. #he builds and builds this grand idea but then his endings go out with a fizzle not a boom #don't get me wrong the series was entertaining but the actors were a huge part of it they really worked their asses off #if not the charm of hamish linklater and the charisma of everyone else it would fall a bit flat #and of course you gotta let your actors do their thing but the story shouldn't rely on them to be good #i feel like flanagan loves references and patterns too much to the point where he becomes drunk on the concepts and the plot suffers. #which i can understand bc i also love patterns BUT #when you're creating a tv series you can't lose the forest for the trees #(i didn't mind the monologues tho! that's not where the problem lies surprisingly. #it's more the way they're written and how the story is - it's supposed to be deep and it is but it loses the depth when it's overexplained. #sometimes you wish something was withheld from you as the viewer. #like the moment of silence when riley goes out at night and sees the world differently. i really like that moment of stillness #where everything he could have said was felt rather than explained. #so there's that) #i also wish he was more daring #because in the end everything was very simple and explainable. all the reasons all the relationship dynamics. #i personally would push for more ambiguity. more moments of uncertainty and madness #it was all very constrainted. despite there being a literal winged vampiric creature hanging around. #which btw was underutilized. OR could have been eliminated altogether. that would have been interesting.