I’ve been biding my time, watching the Taylor/Joe breakup reaction on my Twitter and I can safely say, this SAGA really shows you who was a fan before Reputation & Covid and who became a fan after.
“I don’t believe it Taylor has to confirm it herself!!” In what world, would she ever publicly confirm a breakup? The Reputation era is a literal display of how Taylor’s communication with the public changed forever because of the Kanye/Kim incident. She literally PAYS a publicist and has Tree hasn’t uttered a word so, at this point, all you can do is believe it.
I’m sorry but it sounds like their breakup happened weeks ago and you can’t say things like “they can’t break up, Midnights is all about him!!” And???? If you listen to some of the songs on Midnights, even on Rep, there’s so many lyrics that suggest that it was a rollercoaster timeline of a relationship. Yeah, it sounded like there was a time when she thought THIS IS IT, HE IS THE MAN, however, man’s sounded like he wanted a completely private relationship, where she wasn’t “famous”, like a hibernation level, insular relationship... BUT I think Taylor was ready to be more open after the pandemic was easing and Folklore/Evermore cemented her increasing popularity and that wasn’t working for him.
And on tour, she’s always sang songs that you would think are too painful to sing every night about: see Back to December, Dear John for examples… girlies we’ve seen her do it before.
Everything also seems to suggest that he’s about as interesting as a slice of bread. Like, a perfect relationship does not exist but I feel like some of the fans think this was perfect because she let him write or produce some songs on her albums and has albums centred around him; like people breakup after 5+ years or divorce after X amount of years because things can fizzle out………
Also he’s a shit actor (that truly is my opinion, soz gals)
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Character A separates from Character B to take a breather from the kiss, only to laugh in surprise when Character B starts pulling them on top of them.
"What are you doing?" they question, straddling Character B; feels Character B pressing against them. They blink, swallowing heavily; it doesn't take much for them to understand what that means, as they cautiously grind their hips down against Character B's, testing the waters.
Character B's hands sneak up their torso, hands cupping their clothed breasts, massaging them gently as Character A lets out soft little sighs and breathy moans, hips quickening with speed; ducking down to bury their face on Character B's neck every now and again out of embarrassment and to muffle the noises they were making.
"Wait, wait, wait," Character B breathes out, holding onto Character A's hips to stop them from moving. Character A sits up, looking down at them, heart skipping a beat at the way Character B stares up at them with hooded eyes. "We shouldn't be too loud, yeah? How about we go somewhere else?"
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Dustin, to his Tiktok audience: Isn’t it insane how no one experiences the same thing in the same way?
Dustin: For example, I DD’ed for Steve and Eddie the other night and this what Steve had to say about it *shows screenshot of Steve’s long Facebook post about how they went on such a wonderful date and how nice it was to just have a fun night out. He posts these really nice pictures of them and even thanked Dustin for driving them. It’s real sweet*
Dustin: Eddie experienced this *shows a video that Eddie sent him of him and Steve at Dave and Busters. They are both drunk and Steve is playing that basketball arcade game with a weird amount of focus. Eddie’s got the camera so close to his face like he’s leaving an audio text, talking about how much he fucking loves ‘your mom’ and loves his tight jeans*
Dustin: Mind you, I neither dropped them off or picked them up from Dave and Busters. I have no idea when or why they went there.
Dustin: And I experienced this *shows compilation of him and El driving a drunk Steve and Eddie home. It starts with Eddie swinging the door open to his backseat and sticking his head in like ‘what’s up, fuckers.’ Highlights include Eddie trying to change the radio from the backseat with his foot, Steve not-so-subtly trying to sus out if Dustin and El are on a date (they’re not), and the blissful silence that turned out to be the two of them laying down in the backseat and making out. Dustin sprays them with a spray bottle that he pulled out of nowhere, “Hey, no kissing in my car.”
Eddie pops up and thanks him for ‘cooling him off’ so he doesn’t ‘blow his load’ in Dustin’s backseat which is a sentence that Dustin could’ve went his whole life without hearing, but Steve thinks is hilarious. He laughs so hard that he snorts and that just makes Eddie want to kiss him more.
Dustin dropped them off at home and Steve thanked him by knocking his hat off his head and saying, “Don’t go adopting anymore lizards, yeah? Text ya later, alligator.”*
Dustin: Conclusion, you guys are the worst. Get an Uber next time.
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ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--
But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.
And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.
That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.
Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.
And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"
So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.
Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.
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The Penguins except they're human and I gave them lore
Ok hear me out...
The Penguins are a group of top secret military super soldier experiments. They were born in a lab in the arctic and later shipped to a base in NYC to complete their training and be sent on missions.
Being raised in this environment, they have no concept of a normal life, but eventually understand that they don't have any control and long for something greater than taking orders.
So eventually they plot to escape and go on these grand world-wide adventures, being the hazards to society that they are. Constantly on the run, but enjoying every second of it.
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The Justice League had finally given the go ahead to officially form the Young Justice. Not that any of them were going to stop regardless of having permission. Since the Justice League had opened up their slots for more than the original six earlier that year, Batman thought it would be a good opportunity to use the Young Justice to help reach out and recruit some other heroes without drawing too much attention by going themselves. With protégés of most of the originals in the roster it was a solid plan.
They had been told about their newest "assignment" (if you could even call it that) earlier that day and they would be leaving in the morning. They were supposed to go meet a duo in Illinois (it was their base of operation even though they'd worked in other place). Phantom has been in the vigilante/hero scene for almost 10 years now, and Red Huntress started a few months after him.
Their names were well known, Dick had known of them even before he became Robin. But despite their national (maybe even International fame) little was actually known about the duo and the rumored Team Phantom that alluded to there being more than just the two. Dick had been a big fan of Phantom, and modeled a lot of his moves off of the super-powered hero.
Batman told them that they had already reached out the Phantom (Red Huntress had deferred them to him, and refused to speak with them afterwords) and he agreed to meet the YJ team and mentor them for a designated amount of time. There had been rumors in certain forums that the JLA had reached out to Phantom to be one of the original members of the league but he had turned them down. When Kid Flash had brought it up during the meeting, Batman refused to confirm or deny (which was proof enough).
The plan was for the YJ would stay in Amity Park for 15 days and learn from them, they would check in after that to see weather their stay should be extended. Specifically citing that their legendary teamwork would be incredibly beneficial to learn from to strengthen them as a team. The other plan, and equally as important, was to warm them up to joining the JLA ranks since a direct invitation hadn't been received favorably.
All that was thrown in the window when, three days in, the YJ, Phantom and Red Huntress get portaled to an unknown destination, with strange and unknown life(?) forms, with no supplies, no working communicators, and worst of all, no way back.
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