#honestly she's fascinating

[adhd-merlin]

#the way she brainwashed two of the people arthur loved and trusted the most and tried to get them to kill him. TWICE #girl do you think maybe we should talk about your unresolved trauma #do you think being betrayed by your father and by the only friend who knew about your magic #and your resentment towards your brother for sharing some of uther's beliefs #do you think maybe that has something to do with. why you're like this #honestly she's fascinating #you poisoned me so I'll poison you!! #I spent two years trapped in a well so I will seal you in a cave!! see how you like it #the funny thing is I don't think she realises why she's doing all this #she needed therapy so badly #* #merlin memes #morgana pendragon

[arabian-batboy]

Jason and Catwoman in 1986 vs Jason and Catwoman in 2023

#in all honestly the 2023 doesn't make sense considering that Selina is wearing heels #like she's not that short #isn't she like 5'7? #either way seeing the difference is so fascinating #Jason Todd

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The girls are plottinggggg

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen chao #wang lingjiao #Realizing she was supposed to have an upper lip mole was a cold slap in the face. So sorry ma'am. I won't forget again. #They are evil dumbass 4 evil dumbass and I think we are all missing out on the sheer potential of the comedy between these two. #They have way too much power and are using it for the wrong reasons - which makes them truly great villains. #And when things don't go their way they become piles of whining sludge. #Wang Lingjiao is forever fascinating to me even though we only get crumbs about her. #She's a servant girl who's greatest asset is her beauty and her attractiveness. #Meaning she's had a life being in the gaze of people with significant positions of power over her. #I can't help but read her childishness and petty tantrums as someone who has finally been given the chance to not feel powerless. #If she was a more virtuous type we might 'like' her more but honestly...I don't think she would have survived to this point. #WLJ has only known power hierarchies her whole life. Probably accused of seduction before she even understood what that meant. #I love contrasting her with mianmian because they have similar(ish) backgrounds but different approaches to moving forwards #But WLJ's story is about flying too close to the sun and mianmian's is about going too close to the water. #Like the sea mist dragging her down into complacency - all the sect powerplays are mandatory to 'go along with' if she wants to climb- #-the social ladder. Yet she is the cautionary tale (and a foil to JGY as well) she leaves before sacrificing her own morals. #Mianmian flies away with her wings only slightly plucked while those who sacrificed everything to reach for the top crash and burn.

[couldneverhurtusnow]

[chemistry] it's not a word that actors [use]. but you must endeavor a little bit to try and fall in love, in whatever that capacity is. and andrew is a very easy person to fall in love with. he's kind, generous, talented. we shot the film at the perfect junction in our friendship where there was a lot we didn't know about each other, but there was mutual admiration and respect. and a similar sense of humor. (...) yeah, it felt fizzy when we were acting. especially with that first scene at the door -- it's so well-written. you feel like you're dancing through the scene, you can go in loads of different ways, and if i went one way, andrew would go another. if that's what chemistry is, i was aware it was happening.

-- paul on chemistry and whether ‘they (andrew & paul) knew instantly that their onscreen relationship was working’ in all of us strangers, screendaily.com (1/31/24)

#i just find this whole acting thing & the process actors have to go through very fascinating. how so many of them have said that your -- #mind knows that it's not real; it's make-believe but your body doesn't & it gets blurred & your body gets tricked into thinking it's -- #actually experiencing all of that. no wonder sometimes actors need to take some time to recover from/get over a specific role they played. #i just recently saw claire foy talk about this & how 'you're falling in love with a person you're not in love with.' and there's a -- #psychological thing happening where you can either suspend belief or you can make real what's happening. and that it can get very confusing #& how when she was watching this movie her body would react -- tears & heart palpitations -- but not because of what she saw on screen -- #but because she (her body) was remembering it. it's wild & i don't think i'd ever be able to do it. #reminds me of what jessica chastain said about 'scenes from a marriage' & how her & oscar's years long friendship was changed after that #idk how these people do it; honestly; especially those actors who play really dark characters & put themselves in their minds (evan peters) #paul mescal #andrew scott #all of us strangers

[nerdie-faerie]

I'm once again thinking about the missed opportunities to have Klaus and Kol bond more. Part of Klaus' whole motivation as a vampire is to get his werewolf part back and to finally be stronger than Mikael (sort of, I'm simplifying) both of which can be obtained by breaking his curse. But Kol? Kol is the only other original that can relate to having a fundamental part of themself ripped away from them. Klaus might not have known he was a werewolf until he killed, but he likely still had a connection he couldn't explain, as evident by him going to watch the wolves transform. And something he'd never been able to explain was now gone. He might only be able to realise the connection afterwards through its absence.

Kol though. Kol had grown up with magic, a connection to nature and the world around him in a way the rest of his siblings supposedly didn't have. And then he gets turned. And not only has his baby brother died, his father has just murdered him and the rest of his siblings after forcing them to drink human blood, which he'll later learn. Now, not only does he have to deal with the grief of Henrik's death and also his own but also the loss of his magic. A loss that's likely only worsened by Kol being a self-proclaimed child prodigy.

Kol is pretty much the only one who could understand what Klaus is going through with the binding of his wolf. We know Kol searched for ways to get his magic back/carry on practicing magic in the same way that Klaus was looking for ways to break his curse. While Klaus likely could still feel his wolf there despite being bound, Kol has no access to his magic anymore. I just think they should've been able to bond or connect over their shared loss of an intrinsic aspect of their selves at the hands of their parents

#TVD #The Mikaelsons #Kol Mikaelson #Klaus Mikaelson #briefly back on my the originals shouldve gotten to be a family goddammit and as someone from a big family im personally offended bs #i did right a lil snippet about them bonding over this that i havent posted yet for the joml verse but still think its an unexplored concep #need more witch!kol acknowledgement honestly. just need more content of my boy #anyway. klaus having a fascination with the moon and kol telling him about celestial events and how it affects his magic when theyre boys #klaus losing that connection to the moon feeling lost & extra tempermental feeling his wolf claw at its binds and vowing to break his curse #kol determined to get his magic back at any cost relating to that devasting loss and promising to help him find a loophole for his curse #kol who becomes extra reckless and determined when he learns that theres a way to break klaus' curse so maybe he can get his magic back too #that knowledge and recklessness combined with his loss of magic driving him to become the volatile vampire that we see #that leads to him being daggered repeatedly but that first time breaks something in that bond between him & klaus that never fully recovers #it makes him bitter and resentful only fueling his reckless behaviour particularly when there seems to be no leads on reclaiming his magic #that he becomes distant from his siblings in the process especially with finn still daggered but that distance only cements the idea #to his siblings that hes a danger and cant be trusted that he needs to be daggered if theyre to stay safe from mikael #the loss of his magic leading to his spiral as a vampire and him being ostracised by his family > actual tvdu kol canon #klaus being trapped in a room staring at the corpse of his little brother knowing he never repaired that relationship with him #and now he never can so he refuses to look away as penance and a reminder of his failings to his little brother #*edit: one of the reblogs on this post is the author of big bad wolf and honestly she does an amazing job at portraying the mikaelsons #as actual siblings if you havent read it its one of my favourites for characterisations but we need more 😭 i want it to be the norm

[staliaqueen]

Wait do you think Annabeth Chase is abusive? Not trying to start an argument! Just genuinely curious because I never picked up on that before & I want to see if maybe this is a 'blindspot' I need to work on. Or did you mean a different character from the YA girlfriend poll?

No, I was talking about Annabeth. It's obviously not something RR intended, it's just a result of how fucking terrible he is at writing flirty banter (he just crosses the line into verbal abuse) and that he clearly thinks it's SO FUNNY when girls are violent against boys.

@hermesmyplatonicbeloved summarised it very well recently here but I've also gone more in detail about it with examples before here

Now, I'm not gonna pretend like all of my ships are perfect. I'm very familiar with the concept of recognising flaws in a ship and just deciding to like it anyway. I'm not gonna judge anyone for doing that with p/ercabeth. What baffles me is the widespread unawareness of those flaws. And what horrifies me is how often I see Annabeth's abusive tendencies actually encouraged by her stans and seen as something Percy deserves. Or just generally turned into a joke.

#i think she should date piper instead honestly she always treated her well and their athena vs. aphrodite dynamic is very fascinating to me #anti annabeth chase #anti percabeth #pjo #mal answers

[ibrithir-was-here]

Dracula Crack Theory:

The Girl with the Hat in Piccadilly is actually Helen Vaughn from The Great God Pan and Drac skips out on that snack break real quick

#it gave me a chuckle anyway xD #helen's such a fascinating character that is killed off in the Stupidest Way #(honestly there's no way anyone wouldnt think she just faked her death to laugh at these mor[ #morons thinking the police are going to be able to do anything to her) #dracula #dracula daily #the great god pan #helen vaughn #victorian horror #helen vaughan

[evansbby]

haven’t i always said that selena gomez always plays the victim??? ALWAYS???

#her victim mentality is actually insane #forget genocides forget children and innocent people being bombed daily #she needs to find a way to make it about herself #it’s honestly fascinating to watch how tone deaf she is #it’s fascinating to watch her spew out ‘poor me’ rhetoric EVEN IN THIS SITUATION #all she truly cares about is her ex boyfriend and his wife #I’ve always said this but I think Hailey Bieber is 1000x the woman selena gomez is for enduring all the hate that she does #that Selena FUELS #Selena plays victim card and makes her fans go after strong confident queens like Bella hadid too #but forget all that #IMAGINE THERE IS A LITERAL GENOCIDE GOING ON AND YOU STILL FIND A WAY TO THROW A TANTRUM AND MAKE IT ABOUT YOURSELF #she’s literally the worst y’all I’ve been saying it for years #and if you’re a fan of hers #like not even a casual fan but if you’re a selena stan #then thats fucking weird I’m sorry bc all her little army does is defend her when she’s clearly in the wrong #I honestly have people like her

[adinafay]

Astarion kissing Shadowheart after the tiefling party is gayer than Astarion kissing Wyll at said party.

Honorable mention to the gayness level of Gale not being willing to kiss Astarion at all for fear of spontaneous combustion.

#I think Shadowheart's just got exceptionally gay energy no matter who she romances #And honestly good for her #I played through the options with Astarion origin #for science #My Astarion is currently fascinated by and just barely successfully seducing Gale #And extremely enamored with the idea of but wary of the reality that is Wyll #The inevitable implosion of this triangle coming soon #the poor dear is just so incredibly confused right now #astarion #astarion origin #bg3 #bg3 astarion #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 romance #bg3 shadowheart #shadowheart #bg3 Wyll #wyll ravengard #blade of frontiers #bg3 gale #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #gods favorite princess #gale #wyll

[cycle-hit]

0610 is so funny because mahiru is determined to be a housewife/maternal figure and kotoko is determined to parallel all the other prisoners' shitty fathers. both of them having the traits of "parental figures" that is a mold/box to be shoved into in and of itself which shows the traditional/black and white aspects of their own families. mahiru is determined to be full of love and give others that same love and kotoko pretends she doesn't love at all and bares her teeth whenever you show her love. mahiru has sun symbolism and kotoko has moon symbolism.

and then instead of ever acknowledging the absolutely insane character foil toxic yuri between those two at all, milgram refuses to let them interact ever again except for one interaction from four years ago at the very beginning and kotoko beating the shit out of mahiru. like. thanks milgram. if YOU wont do anything with your very interesting character foils that can also fall into classic "romance tropes" (which mahiru is obsessed with, cough) with their personalities/stories i guess ill do it myself.

#it does piss me off a bit honestly. kotoko and mahiru are both very fascinating characters that have a ton of interesting potential- #for interactions. and then milgram just goes “yeah theyre not interacting ever again. lol. lmao. fuck you”. THERES SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!! #AND YOU SQUANDER IT!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE YAMANAKA LET THEM INTERACT BEFORE MILGRAM ENDS!!! I DONT EVEN CARE IF THEYRE NOT TOXIC YURI!!!! #THE ROMANCE ISNT NECESSARY!!! PLEASE JUST LET YOUR TWO MOST INTERESTING CHARACTER FOILS INTERACT!!!!!!! #AAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH. WHATS THE POINT OF MAHIRU TELLING US MULTIPLE TIMES ABOUT KOTOKO IN HER T2 VD IF SHE NEVER ACTUALLY INTERACTS WITH HER. #WHATEVER. #milgram #kotoko yuzuriha #mahiru shiina #0610 #this gets maintagged i guess. idk. i want people to see my 0610 visions even tho this post is also full of frustration

[aquapede]

her sadistic personality and creepypasta swag are everything to me

#talk tag #i love so many of her variations but the nightmare just does it the most for me #she's fascinating on a character level and her design is great #and honestly? her route is the only one that managed to really get under my skin horror-wise #(as a plus this is the route with paranoid most prominently (i like him <3))

[nomattertheoceans]

I've been reading the Percy Jackson books for the first time over the past two weeks! Just finished "The Battle of the Labyrinth" last night (which btw is my favorite of the series so far!!)

I have now gained a new obsession but it might not be what you think

#like i swear to god i did not expect to be absolutely enthralled by the protagonist's mom kahskahfjkaja #she's just so fascinating to me #she's so kind and smart and she has given EVERYTHING for her son okay #like her staying married to an abuser for years to protect him omg she deserves the world #like when Poseidon called her a queen in the first book he was 100% right alright she is a queen #the woman murdered her abuser with a monster's head LIKE THAT'S SO AWESOME #also i cannot explain how obsessed i am with her relationship with Poseidon okay #like. do i want her to still have feelings for him? yes. do i need poseidon to pine and long for her from the distance?? ABSOLUTELY YES. #like realistically it's more likely that be does not but I need it okay #like at first i wanted them to be reunited because you know. of course i did. #but i am perfectly content with her finding love and happiness with a mortal man and Poseidon pining for her from the distance #like listen. this woman is amazing and she deserves to have an immortal all powerful god unable to get over her alright SHE DESERVES IT #but the way he just showed up at Percy's birthday party and called her as beautiful as ever????? omg??? BECAUSE YES SHE IS #and she blushed??? be still my beating heart #kahskahfksja honestly laughing at myself right now like I'm just over here watching a Sally Jackson tele novela in my head #AND HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE #percy jackson #no spoilers please if you see this post i know very little about the story and I'm thoroughly enjoying myself that way #also jsut as an fyi i am also a little obsessed with Percy and Annabeth kajakshdjshsha they are too cute and intense #sally jackson #percy jackson and the olympians

[ofpd]

one way we know that enjy was never a child is that children are an oppressed class and that would never happen to him

#oppression i mean #txt #les mis #on a more serious note this is honestly one of the most fascinating angles from which to view enjolras/fantine parallels #like that they're the same person except that he never experienced any hardship ever and she experienced So much #so it's interesting to examine how that plays out

[yesterdayiwrote]

I know a lot of my followers won't be interested in royal stuff, but my genuine takeaway from this entire 'Kategate' is that this is the media flexing their muscles to try and goad Kensington Palace into revealing Kate's medical situation...

The media has had undue influence over the UK Royal Family for years, and their relationship and positive coverage has always originated from a give and take kind of arrangement. The press influence public mood (not the other way around as they would have you believe) and so the monarchy has always played ball in order to be seen favourably and ultimately keep any rise in republican sentiment at bay.

For whatever reason, KP obviously want to keep Kate's illness private and so have been unusually guarded in details. The statement was always that she'd make a return after Easter, and we're not there yet. The press are impatient though and they are the ones who've driven the "Where is she?" Narrative. They sense there's a story and for once in their lives they're not getting it.

They can't get the story they want, so they're creating a story of their own to fill the column inches. The photoshop story seems bizarre on first glance, it makes the Palace look unreliable and untrustworthy, until the stories emerge that other much older photos have also had editing done on them. It's supposed to sew the seed that they've always been untrustworthy, but the bigger question is why did outlets issue kill notices for this picture but not the older ones? Is it perhaps that it didn't suit their interests to do it before?

Then there's the affair rumours. They're being allowed to swirl again, but it's interesting that no UK publication is willing to outright say what they're hinting at. They may be a superinjunction in place, but then again even overseas publications who can say more aren't really saying anything convincing? Do they have a story that they're threatening to print? Or are they firing warning shots to try and force KP to fall in line and give them the Kate story?

And it might sound insane, that the press is essentially holding the royal family to ransom, but they've done it before, countless times, where they've barraged the royals with negative press in order to force their hand into doing something. Look what they did to Diana, and what they did in the week after Diana died, even how they've gone easy on Andrew because his side of the family is clearly giving them stories to placate them.

Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, she's probably been more ill than they're letting on, but I'm not sure that KP are fumbling so much as trying to give concessions to try and keep both sides happy, but it's too late because the press are out for blood... and they're not going to stop until they get the story.

#Kategate #british royal family #I don't want this to read like I'm some user monarchist #But I've always found the relationship between the press and the royals fascinating #I think it's another example of how the press have always treated the female royals #And how they've started to feel entitled to all their information #Like honestly leave the poor woman alone #If she's still not back after Easter then sure start asking questions #But at the moment she obviously doesn't want to say and... fine?

[vellichorom]

is thierry human? was he ever human at any point in time? or is he just a guy in the puter

as close as thierry is to being something next to a virtual replica of humanity, he's... likely not, & likely has never been legitimately human.

i say " likely not " & not " definitely not " because... he's really VERY close; having lived a mundane life - so he claims, being very in-touch with things people would know - important & not, very wired like how your average person would be with only few indicators he wouldn't Be " your average person ", but there's a couple differences JUST distinct & abstract enough that separates him from being fully human-

being the literal definition of " the narrator of the story " down to being only really a disembodied voice who can possess a flesh but is naturally without one is a big one; the fact that he'll occasionally name himself separately from humans is another.

& i SUPPOSE you could say that his more " supernatural " abilities also discredit him as human, but if we're being honest, most of those rely on visual tricks he can play on others / just playing with his code to soup himself up a bit more; for the most part, its all just party tricks or technicalities;

i almost want to say its more of a grey, ambiguous area that begs the question if being human is constrained to being a solid flesh & blood mass or if you can lack that, but with every intent & purpose of your being, you are as human as it comes...

but that's a very profound question to ask with a silly little man like the narrator, isn't it?

SIMPLE ANSWER? probably not, at least by traditional means. the narrator is simply an omnipresent presence that- despite being just a step behind being your average joe, can only possess a human-looking form but for that reason alone, wouldn't actually be considered one. that's vegan human or something for you baby

DEFINITIVE ANSWER? would you consider a ghost a human?

#anonymous #inbox #TSP blogging #Thierry tag #i HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT WHAT HE'D SAY ON THE MATTER BUT THAT'S FOR ANOTHER INBOX NOTE #i think he'd like to be though #rosemary - for instance - just feels realer to him by comparison #he can only simulate humanity to the best of his ability but she's Always like that & that's Fascinating #LIKE. thierry thinks humans are ugly & he doesn't give a shit about them to an average degree but sometimes #sometimes he stops & thinks about it & even he's not sure #TLDR THOUGH; i think he's just a guy in your puter & sometimes in your house #LIKE. I DON'T KNOW. whatever interpretation you have of the narrator- throw it out the window & consider ONLY what canon gives us #because i think that's honestly just a guy up there

[musicallygt]

Handing a tiny to someone who seems like they’ll be gentle holding them, and they are for the most part, but then five seconds later they chuck the tiny out the window

#inspired by the fact i brought a couple plushies w me on my trip to nyc and yesterday my little cousin seemed fascinated by the one i #brought around w me throughout the day. so i let him hold her #stared at her for five seconds as his dad was buckling him in his car seat before chucking her out of the car #(she is safe w me now and its honestly rlly funny thinking abt it jddhdhdhdhdhhd) #alex says stuff #alex's thoughts #g/t #giant/tiny