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bedlamsbard · 15 days

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I know this is kind of out of nowhere but for the longest time I was super weird and mentally dismissive of your burning out of Star Wars because I was someone who survived the OEU's insanity back in the day and managed not to burn out of Star Wars in the face of ridiculous nonsense like the Yuuzhan Vong and Killiks, so if I could survive that, you were of course entitled to dislike Star Wars but I still found it silly. Anyway I just finished watching Tales of the Jedi(Resolve) and I Get It Now.

...I recognise that may not be the most hinged thing to say to someone I don't actually know, and apologise for my mild to moderate insanity; I slept three hours, am very sick, it's shark week, and my brain seized on you as someone who'd Get It and who I had been hard on in my thoughts in the past, but, like, none of that actually affected you until I randomly said it? So anyway sorry for babbling at you like that lmfao, I'll stop talking now

Okay. I've been thinking about these since I saw them; I saw the first one before the second one arrived, which was a hell of a thing to wake up to since I saw it first thing in the morning. While my usual policy is to leave messages along these lines in my inbox, I was genuinely upset and wanted to respond once I had a more coherent reaction than "why me, gods, why does this always happen to me."

So, first of all, I'm sorry that you had an installment in canon that didn't do it for you; it happens to the best of us and there are very few people in fandom who uncritically (or even critically) enjoy everything in canon, especially in a fandom as big and long-running as Star Wars.

It's also very common for people to fall out of love with a fandom, even a fandom they've been in for a very long time; I would say that fen who have consistently been in one fandom for an extended period of time are probably rarer than those who haven't. It's not always because there is one installment that is just The Worst; often that's just a tipping point for fen who have been on the edge for a while. (Ask your average former MCU fan who left after Avengers Endgame.) Other times fen just drift away from a fandom without a reason to push them out. Maybe their favorite characters have died, maybe the canon is no longer telling stories they're interested in even if none of those stories are "bad," maybe it's a closed canon and without new stories there's nothing to keep them there; there's any number of factors.

I had a very dramatic breakup with Star Wars three years ago, and it was about three years after I really should have gotten out of the fandom, because I had not been having a good time for a while at that point. And honestly, considering that I hadn't had a healthy relationship with either Star Wars or the fandom for a while before that, for various reasons that go well beyond what was happening in canon, arguably I should have gotten out even earlier. However, I'm monofannish to a fault and I really needed something that would actually kick me to a new fandom -- which meant it couldn't come from Star Wars.

I don't really dislike Star Wars as a whole. There are individual installments that I quite dislike, there are some that I still love, and the vast majority of Star Wars I'm neutral on. I do however have a very fucked up relationship with Star Wars, including the canon, the PTB, and the fandom itself. I have gotten regular abuse on Wake and Gambit for the past ten years, which really screwed up my relationship with AO3 and with the prequel era. There is canon that I really, really dislike, some of it because it personally does nothing for me (the ST), some of it because from my point of view, it completely fucked over a story I love (Rebels S4, TCW S7, some other stuff that contradicts stuff from the EU I love; I came out of the EU too), some of it because I just plain don't like it (THR, most of the comics), and some of it because watching it just plain made me feel like I was being gaslit, which is not something I say lightly (Mando is the worst offender, but there are others). A lot of these are problems that could come out of any fandom, especially a large, long-running, multi-media fandom; I know a lot of Marvel people who have very similar problems, though I think the scale tends to be slightly different there just because the canon is set up differently.

When I switched fandoms, I had to recalibrate my entire relationship to fandom, to canon, to AO3, and to how I interacted with all of them. I still have to check myself in most of those places because my relationship with Star Wars had screwed me up so much. I had to train myself into being able to post on AO3 again; I do talk regularly about how a lot of what I write is shaped by trying to avoid getting the kind of reactions I got and still get from my Star Wars fic, even years later. I have to make conscious decisions not to engage with every part of the canon without feeling like a failed fan, especially the installments I'm pretty sure I'll dislike, because I tried to do that in Star Wars and it regularly messed me up. As a cosplayer, I still have a fairly bad reaction to even seeing the word "approvable," and it took a while for me not to have a similar reaction to "screen-accurate." I'm still destashing most of my Star Wars merch and right now, my reaction to seeing new Marvel merch isn't "ooh, would I wear/use this?" it's "when I inevitably have a horrendous breakup with this fandom will I be able to resell it?" which is not a really healthy relationship to have with a fandom. (I have mostly moved off this but not entirely.) I knew that Star Wars had screwed my relationship with Disney World, when I had a panic attack on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind because I was so terrified that it was going to be ~necessary canon, even though Marvel has never operated that way; Star Wars does with Galaxy's Edge, which I don't really like being in anymore either.

And yes, I'm aware all of these are an extreme overreaction to getting out of a fandom. I'm not happy about it either and I wish it wasn't happening. It's better now than it was a couple years ago and I'm frankly glad I'm not in the fandom anymore; I'm happy for people who are or who have gotten back into it and are having a good time. I am not one of them; I may some day be one again, but probably not anytime soon.

But even if I didn't have this specific fucked up relationship with Star Wars, a fandom I have not been in for three years at this point, sometimes people just burn out on a fandom. I'm not a CSI:NY fan anymore, either. (Which my last big fandom prior to Narnia, which I just drifted away from. I've only been in five big writing fandoms over twenty years.)

#thelearnedsoldier #bedlam replies #I haven't been in star wars fandom for THREE YEARS #THREE YEARS

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oneshotnewbie · 1 year

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Maya Bishop and Reader: Maya comes home finding reader sitting on the floor and her service dog (Reader has PTBS) laying across her thighs. She's concerned and also a bit mad why Reader didn't called her while having a flashback

Authors note: I left the reason for PTSD open for everyone to make up the history for it or even use their own personal experiences. Also, I did not make the dog a therapy dog, but a normal one that becomes a therapy dog for the reader at this moment in the story.

Summary: The first time Reader wakes up, a rush of inexplicable panic surges through them. It is an odd sensation to experience, considering a fast pounding heart, tightness in their chest and a clenched stomach. But Reader has a best friend by her side who helps them get through this time; she has a sensitivity, positive influence and helps her to reduce emotional stress.

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After a scarce and short two hours of sleep, the loud screeching of ravens pulled you into reality. With your eyes still closed, you felt for your ears and put your hands over them until the annoying and loud noise stopped.

You frowned when, after the first few blinks, your gaze caught on something black that broke the light color of the bedroom wall. When you finally forced yourself to open your eyes, you were looking at Nala, who was resting her front paws on your bed, her head tilted to the side; staring at you with blue ocean eyes and a panting tongue.

"Hey my sweet, fluffy stalker friend," you said in a husky voice, grinning at the shepherd in front of you before sitting up. Like a dam that threatened to burst, you felt yesterday´s restlessness, which on some day without any real reason, crept up inside you and spread through your body like poison.

You closed your eyes again for a brief moment, took a deep breath and forced yourself to sit up. You gently patted the mattress next to you and without delay, Nala jumped onto the spot an snuggled up to your side while you stroked her soft fur.

You took another deep breath of the cool morning air that flowed into the room from the open window before you made your way to the park a little later in a sweatpants, a comfortable tank top and Nala at your side. Inevitably, you thought back to the agonizing therapy sessions, Maya had talked you into attending a few months ago.

As much as you found the calming exercises ridiculous at the time, it was not the first time you noticed how it seemed to work. The fresh air and a walk made you at least a little calmer, as did your girlfriend´s advice to focus on your surroundings and to go through the five method.

At the sunrise, which made the small flowing steam in the park shimmer in bright colors of orange and pink with a mix of light blue, at the grassy areas still wet from the rain in the night, the squeaking of the young birds in their nests waiting for their food and the smell of freshly baked croissants from the corner bakery you passed recently.

There was no reason for you to panic; everything was as usual and the world had woken up like every morning. One step at a time, as so often. Actually, you knew that you could rely on yourself, at least for a little while.

But the the uncertain, restless raging in your chest and head returned as soon as you reached and re-entered the apartment.

Hands shaking uncontrollable, you poured a portion of the kibble into your dog´s bowl, forcing yourself to breathe calmly and relax as you watched Nala frantically chew.

You knew you would not be able to eat breakfast yourself. You tried to suppress the hectic feeling with harder gulps before you sat down on the couch in the living room and stared blankly at the drawer that had happy pictures of Maya and you standing on it.

You did not have time to panic. No energy and strength for panic. Not now that you had finally found a woman who would take you with all your wounds and scars from the past and accept you for who you are.

Your fingers steadily dug into the fabric of the sofa, leaving white knuckles on the back of your hand. Closing your eyes yet again, you tried to control the air thats been escaping your lungs.

You felt the warm tears well up in your eyes. Not now, you thought to yourself and helplessly closed your eyes to keep the tears from falling while absentmindedly biting the inside of your cheek roughly.

All the pressure, the lack of sleep and the imagines in your head that nestled in front of your inner eyes, brought you to your knees. "Breathe in and out," you whispered shaking; letting yourself sink to the floor.

A cold snout nudged your arm from around your knees and your raised your head. "Hey, sweetie," you said in a trembling voice as her paws landed on your feet; her nails biting into your toes.

Squinting your eyes so that the first tears broke loose and ran down your cheeks, a loud sob escaped you and Nala quickly licked your face. Stretching your legs forward, you pulled her onto your lap with your shaky arms and she willingly snuggled into your midsection.

With your heart still racing uncomfortably and the stinging sensation in your chest, you began to pat her head, forcing yourself to shut out your emotions and focus on the texture of her fur and the hiccups emanating from her body.

You sat like that on the floor for a quarter of an hour, the panic not going away right away. You still felt like you were standing besides yourself, but the real attack on your consciousness did not come- no feeling of choking or a tightening of your throat. No wild gasping or nausea.

As your head and legs slowly became heavier but much clearer, you let your head fall back onto the seat; starting to feel the exhaustion of the last few weeks leaving your body. "You became a therapy dog really quickly, huh?" you laughed out bitterly and scratched her white chin. A gentle headbutt and her loving gaze hit you before she put a paw over her nose and snuggled closer to you with a low growl.

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"Babe, I am home!" the blonde grinned as she walked into your apartment from her night shift, feeling delight to spend a few hours with you before you had to leave for your late shift at work.

But her gaze turned into a worried expression even before the door creaked shut; she missed Nala´s paws pattering on the laminate floor before she started jump up and sniff at her like usual. Maya could hear soft noises from the girl, but you were silent. "Y/n? Babe?"

"Living room," you muttered, earning an irritated look from her before quickly making her way into the open room you appeared to be in.

Her glance fell on the meanwhile peacefully dozing Nala on you and she found it difficult to keep her emotions under control. She knew from experience that this image only stretched out in front of her when the day or night was mostly difficult for you, yet she did not understand why you had not called her so she could be there for you.

She was angry that you had not informed her of your condition, but she was more concerned about you. And so the negative emotions she felt, went away and it focused fully on you.

Maya interrupted the last few meters and knelt in front of you with a loud crack of her bones. With pursing eyes and a tilted head, the blonde looked you up an down. "Why did not you call me?", her hand slipped under your chin to lift it up and meet your eyes.

"I did not mean to drag you off work earlier. People need the captain of the fire department," you looked up and into her face before she broke away from you and sat down next to you. Maya stroked the dog´s back, who was clearly enjoying the attention she was getting from both of you.

"And my girlfriend needs me." she replied and continued. "What do you think is more important to me?"

"I think that would be me then?" you guessed and she nodded smiling while letting go of the dog on your lap and grabbing your hand. Several soft kisses landed on the back of your hand and you chuckled at the tickling sensations before her steel blue eyes bored into you. "Are you at least better?"

"I am okay, she helped me," you nodded and she exhaled deeply in relieve. You laid your head gently on her shoulder and closed your eyes to capture the warmth and closeness. Her arm wrapped around your lower back, pulling you closer to her before more gentle kisses brushed your temple. "But I do not think I can go to work today."

"That is okay. We are going to have a nice quiet day at home. We watch your cheesy love movies and cuddle up on the couch so you can rest."

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dat-is-i · 5 months

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ok hold on i can explain

so you know how in the latest PTB myers's lobby animation was changed so that he's looking ever so slightly to the left rather than head on?

well i was talking about it with my friends. one said how he's shy and another did the 👉👈 and i was like. holy shit y'all are so right

so i made this

i might colour this at some point in the future but probably not

#my art #fanart #shitpost #dbd meme #dbd fanart #dbd art #dbd michael myers #dbd the shape #dbd shitpost #dbd shape #michael myers #dbd myers #myers

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wellofdean · 7 months

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I've read a lot of your posts, but I don't how you can say that Supernatural was not queerbaiting. What do you mean by 'it was structural'? The PTB never let Dean and Cas be in love, they just strung us all along and then slammed the door in our faces? Killed the gay and then never mentioned Cas again? That is queerbaiting, plain and simple.

Hi friend. Well, this is why: there are too many things, especially starting from the arc in season 7 where Cas is working with Crowley, that simply DO NOT MAKE SENSE unless Dean is in love with Cas, and Cas is in love with Dean. I mean... what do you mean they never let them be in love? Were we watching the same show?

Like, Why does Dean look back at Cas with that injured look on his face when Cas is working with Crowley? Why does Dean forgive Cas for breaking Sam's brain almost immediately? Why does Dean take Cas's stupid trenchcoat with him through a series of stolen cars when he thinks Cas is dead after the Leviathans? Why does he look like he is going to die on the spot when he meets Emmauel and his wife? Why was Dean in Purgatory for a year, refusing to leave even though he had a way out until he found 'the angel'? Why is Cas not leaving Purgatory with him so devastatingly painful that he has to rewrite his memories to cope? Why does Dean telling Cas he needs him break Naomi's conditioning in that crypt? Why do they forgive each other irrationally again and again and again? What in the holy name of all that is totally fucking gay was Dean's confession about? Why does the narrative very explicitly parallel Cain's wife with Cas? Why does it parallel Cas and Eileen? Why can't Dean, possessed with the mark of Cain, kill Cas? Why does Cas let Dean beat him up or hold him back, like, EVER? Why did Mary fucking know the minute she met Cas? Why did Castiel, angel of the lord, let Dean dress him up like a fucking cowboy? Why does Sam always have that look on his face when they bicker? Why is losing Cas what breaks Dean down like nothing else? Why is their relationship breaking, being mended and fucking saving the world the most important emotional arc and plot element of the entire final season? Why does Dean always look like he is literally choking on his own heart whenever anything Cas is involved? Wherefore all those insane Jacting Joices?? Like, I could go on and on, but their love for each other is the backbone of SO MUCH of that story, and there is simply too much of Supernatural that doesn't make a lick of sense if Dean is not queer and in love with Cas, and Cas doesn't love Dean beyond all human understanding.

And listen: I don't care what anyone involved in the making Supernatural says about it! The text is the text, and it is profoundly, thoroughgoingly queer. They loved each other. They were each other's primary relationship, and nearly every other character on the show sees it and SAYS it.

Here's what I wish the "QUEERBAITING!!!" crowd would remember: there are a lot of queer experiences in the world to represent, and not all of them are defined by who tongue wrestles and fucks who. Not all of them are sexual at all! Not all of them are happy endings. There are a lot of queer people who don't work out their trauma and hetero conditioning until it's too late somehow, and who have to make peace with just being, or just saying it, and not having, again and again and again. There are a lot of queer people, even now, who can't look their real selves in the eye. There are queer people out there who want a thing they can't have, or think they can't have, and don't say anything at all about it. The fact that they can't say it, or can't have it doesn't make them any less fully fucking queer.

Some of us queers felt seen and represented by this story, Don't erase us just because you didn't get to see two pretty men make out.

That said, the majority of the final two episodes of Supernatural were egregious examples of narrative malpractice, and we all deserved better. Dean and Cas deserved better. I will agree with you there. But, that's not queerbaiting; it's just poor storytelling and denial. The queerness was already BAKED IN, and fully present, and I would argue it was there from the get go, that it went from a character based on a bisexual beat-era dude in a story about profound Daddy issues to the most romantic love story I have ever seen with my eyes on TV.

Seriously, SPN fandom catechism is so tired.

#supernatural #destiel #queerbaiting #it's not queerbaiting when it's just queer

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putvampiresindbd · 2 years

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anniversary stream cliff notes (spoilers?):

funko pops of wraith, doctor, huntress, claudette by the end of the year

rpd map rework in the works

40 killer and survivor perks getting reworked, including corrupt intevention, pain res, pop, barbeque, ruin, dead hard, ds, self-care, iron will, bt

“small baseline gameplay adjustments” to be announced later

prestige rework planned. don’t lose perks, items, or add-ons on prestige; and prestiging a character automatically gives every other survivor/killer that character’s teachables. can also prestige past 3

mori rework planned for halloween update. mori will be removed from offerings and will instead be “focused on rewarding efficient killer play.” when downing the last survivor in the match, rather than hooking them, go straight into mori (so no giving last survivor the hatch i guess?)

in ptb, main menu change. vertical instead of horizontal. rift timer on main menu

in ptb, can create and use preset loadouts

matchmaking incentives, bonus bp for playing as role that doesn’t have as many people currently playing it

being able to do things while in matchmaking queue, like look at store or archives. can change challenges

BOTS! IN CUSTOM MATCHES! aiming for winter release

streamer/anonymous mode, to hide names

new wiggle to be permanent feature

attack on titan cosmetics, 10 different outfits, including for dwight, zarina, oni

dredge and haddie confirmed for roots of dread chapter, out june 7. new map called the garden of joy. in new realm, which they’ve said they can explore further later with different cities and such

6th anniversary event called twisted masquerade. looking for pedestals to grab masquerade invitations to get masquerade masks for: artist, deathslinger, huntress, spirit, trapper, trickster, ace, elodie, dwight, jane, mikaela, and yui. dredge and haddie get full outfits will include event tome with community and personal challenges. daily cycling shrine of secrets at a discount

many updates to dbd mobile

hooked on you dating sim announced, featuring trapper, spirit, huntress, wriath. made by the people who made i love you, colonel sanders. comes out this summer and if you get it you also get a free charm and outfit in dbd

resident evil chapter confirmed. no details aside from brief teaser trailer, but it’s called “project w” soooo

#dead by daylight #DBD

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olderthannetfic · 1 year

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I'm in a server that's mostly really great, but one of the mods is. well, not the sort of person who is suited to mod things. They take everything in bad faith when they're upset. Multiple times now they've gotten upset & reprimanded me for something I never actually said or did, because they read negative subtext into it that wasn't there. It's not just me either, I've seen them do it to several other people across multiple servers and even jumped to someone's defence once when it was a particularly nasty interpretation that was the opposite of what the person actually meant. It's really frustrating. I've taken to kind of playing dumb&patiently explaining why they're wrong when they do it to me (like "Oh, wow, that's not even close to what I meant! Sorry about the confusion!" or "I agree! that's why I said [thing I actually said], not [mod's bad-faith interpretation of what I meant that contradicts what I said]!" but I'm worried about what will happen when they eventually lash out at someone with a thinner skin or less patience for clarifying things that really shouldn't need clarification or if they have a bad day and take it out on the wrong server member. I'd join a different server but this is the only one I've found that isn't 99% trashing the PTB behind our fandom for trumped up reasons or full of antis. I'd make my own but I'm not suited to mod either for other reasons. Just had to vent a bit bcause I'm having a lot of fun with everyone else but I've been around the block enough times to be able to smell an eventual wank implosion waiting in the wings for just the wrong kind of drama on just the wrong day.

Best part, they're dating the head mod so I can't give the mod team anonymous feedback about this concern either...I guess I just hope if(when) they break up the other mod retains custody of the server, they're actually reasonable and good at modding

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thegottabe · 1 year

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I know we're devastated and embittered by how the ptb toyed with us. They did us and the characters so dirty and it really, really sucks. But the thing is, no matter how they let us down, they can't take away all the beauty that Norman and Melissa have given us all these years.

We didn't get what we deserved, but we'll always have the best of them. The Cherokee rose, flirting on top of the school bus, their joyful embrace in the woods, the flying water jug, Daryl burning the walkers for her, Carol cooking for him in her cabin, the skinship, the constant heart-eyes and teasing, the way they understood each other to the depth of their souls, and all the ways they made each other better and happier and full of hope.

We didn't get a kiss or a promise of a future, but we did get to spend 12 years with two soulmates with a love so deep words could never do them justice.

And speaking of words, Daryl's very last words in the show were a tear-filled "I love you," to her, and hers were the same back to him. No sexist, ageist, whiny caryl-hater can take that away from us. That's ours forever.

And honestly? Carol's little giggle when he finally declared his love for her was the cutest damn thing. And the way she glowed as she said it back? We'll always have that. It's not the damn romance novel we deserved; it wasn't a kiss or a promise or a marriage, but in all the ways that matter, Caryl was endgame, and we'll always have the joy they brought to us ❤️

#caryl #twd spoilers

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unnerving-presence · 10 months

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Saw someone “suggest” some “Wesker nerf ideas” under dbd’s latest tweet

No offense to that person BUT, like, I’m very very mad rn

1. Wesker’s hitbox is fine. Completely fine. I remember his ptb hitbox was crazy, yeah, but they fixed that and now you complain about it??

2. That person even mentioned Wesker’s movement speed. They said it should be 4.4 not 4.6 DUDE HELLO WHAT THE FUCK Wesker is NOT a range killer hello

Blight is also a high-mobility killer but look he’s 4.6 and everyone’s good with it so what’s the problem? Wesker can’t go through walls like nurse so WHAT IS THE PROBLEM

3. And oh the audacity of saying “no power while chasing survivors with endurance effect to prevent tunnelling” EXCUSE ME? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?

You getting tunnelled is not about the characters it’s the players you go against why are you crying

That person must have had lots of matches against Wesker and got tunnelled every single game (deserved) and I really want to say Wesker is the most or one of the most well-designed and balanced killers in dbd. That’s all. Wesker doesn’t need any nerfs.

i saw that and i was actually baffled 😭

here’s the tweet for those wondering ahdhdjdh

i agree! wesker’s hitbox is completely fine ! there’s an entire tweet showing so here and here. the only reason some hits seem bs is because usually the survivor teleports into his grasp if they’re facing another direction + the killers latency.

grabbing during a vault is also stupid. he has a high mobility power where he literally grabs survivors. you will only get insta downed if you are injured or fully infected while healthy. hitboxes are also relatively the same, which is usually why some hits are bs and some that should’ve hit. mainly it’s based on the killer’s latency

also correct. wesker isn’t huntress, trickster, or deathslinger. they are slow because they have ranged weapons to help them in chase. wesker is literally just fucking fast. yes, his power is chase oriented but so is blights? blight is arguably the best killer in the game as well, and he is also balanced other than his addons which dearly need a nerf. ppl just love to complain even when wesker has counterplay?

also the last one almost made me laugh because there are so many killers that are better at tunneling than wesker (blight, nurse, spirit, bubba, etc.) he has no reason to have that nerf either? if you apply that to just wesker you’re gonna have to apply that to every other killer, making most of their powers useless.

anyways bro just likes complaining keep playing wesker and making everybody mad i like trying to tame them

#i sacrifice myself for wesker and take his games so unserious so much i barely know how to actually play against him #also getting ormond against him.. all the fucking time #i’m so sad i forgot his recovery from missing his dash was fast so i couldn’t hop out the locker fast enough

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cangelgifs · 1 year

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How would you incorporate Charisma's pregnancy into S4?

I would have Cordelia come back from the Higher Plane in The House Always Wins pregnant by Groo. I know that might sound weird or unwanted from/for Cangel shippers but frankly when I came up with this idea I just couldn't do another mystical pregnancy XD I do know that there are quite a few people who have AUs where Cordy gets pregnant by Angel in different ways (we also have a rec list with cangel baby fics here) and I love all of those ideas. But for this one Cordelia gets pregnant during the Groo-dating period but doesn't know. She becomes a Higher Power, gets kicked out, and when she comes back to Earth, she and the gang find out that she's four months pregnant. (Also Groo isn't even in the picture because he still went back to Pylea or wherever he went off to in Tomorrow.) And it'd just be such an interesting dynamic for Cangel because ofc Angel would so naturally fall into the "basically a husband" role like how Cordy in s3 fell into the "basically a mother" role but he'd seeing Cordy pregnant would stir up feelings of how he missed this with Connor and never got to see Connor. Plus Cordy would get to do all of the things she'd normally do like getting visions, essentially running Angel Investigations like the girlboss that she is, fighting, helping the helpless all while pregnant because why should that hinder her? It just would've been such an interesting way to incorporate CC's pregnancy into s4 without it being a gross disgusting violation and instead a new dynamic for the character. Lets be real, Cordy would be such a good mom

edit: I also wanna add on something to go with what carmen said below (ty carmen <3) but idealistically this version of s4 would have the PTB being the villains as well cause I think that'd be so interesting whether or not Cordy is pregnant (plus if she was it'd raise some interesting points such as if the PTB knew she was pregnant in Tomorrow, why didn't Skip tell her? wouldn't having all the information be helpful for her decision? and so on)

-- someonefantastic

So I’m gonna piggyback off of someonefantastic’s answer from earlier because I love her idea of TPTB being the villains of S4.

So in a world where that is the direction S4 went in, I think that also just not acknowledging her pregnancy was an option. I’ve seen other shows do it this way, and it never wrecked the show for me. As a viewer, I was able to understand that actors have lives outside of the shows they film, and that while the actor was pregnant, the character was not. There’s always the usual tricks of using lots of closeups, hiding the bump with wardrobe, stunt doubles, etc. Plenty of shows have done this and made it work.

But if the writers were to go the route of writing in her pregnancy, then I like someonefantastic’s fix a lot. I completely agree that Cordy would be a great mom. Let her have it all. Let her fight the good fight while juggling parenthood and helping run Angel Investigations. Having a woman be a mother and then actually having her life/story continue beyond that of her pregnancy (instead of just using her to give birth and then promptly disposing of her) would be a refreshing change of pace for this show.

-- whatisyourchildhoodtrauma

#ask

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hero-adjacent · 1 year

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Imagine if AtS s4 & BtVS s7 were fully utilizing the fact their arcs take place in the same universe and the main characters know each other so it's really one big story. (yeah I know different networks)

In Lessons, Willow moved a flower via magic 6,112 miles from Paraguay to England. She explained, "It's all connected. The root system, the molecules...the energy. Everything's connected."

Buffy turned her house into a shelter for outcasts, orphans, & refugees. Crowded together for months, sleeping on the floor, in line for the one bathroom. It's cabin fever that started the mutiny.

Meanwhile Angel owned a hotel with a huge lobby, offices, elevators, 68 suites (living room, bedroom, kitchenette, bathroom), a few unexplored rooms.

Willow drove to LA to tell Angel that Buffy died. In AtS s4 AI never told Buffy that Angel was missing. In AtS s3 Gunn said she's the "love of his life & that ain't no short life." Yet it didn't occur to them she would want to know or could help find him. In s7 Buffy (a month post rescue) says "I would've given up everything I had to be with--I loved him more than I will ever love anything in this life."

Willow could've tethered Buffy's house to Angel's hotel, only a 120 mile distance. Every Potential as well as every Scooby & AI member could have their own private apartment with suites to spare.

Buffy lived in Los Angeles 16.5 of 22 years. It's on her mind in s6 when talking of the hallucinations. "And I was just some nutcase in LA." In s7 did she see the news reporting on the city raining fireballs and a localized eclipse with 24/7 darkness?

In BtVS s1 Buffy was Jocasta (Oedipus' mom-wife) on stage. In AtS s4 Angelus mocks Connor/Cordy saying "there should be a play." In The Puppet Show a demon hunter who had an affair with a Slayer was turned into a ventriloquist dummy. Angel has been a puppet literally & figuratively with the PTB.

Hyperion is named after a titan from Greek myth, dad of Eos (dawn), Helios (sun), & Selene (moon). Does Angel know Dawn is Buffy's daughter?

Greek is big in the verse. Willow writing a Sappho poem in Greek. Anya, "It's like a Greek tragedy." Willow called upon the titan Kronos for revenge on Glory. In s8 comics Buffy's Sysiphus analogy.

Met Oracles--portal connected post office to their realm, entrance written in Greek "gateway for lost souls"--the day Angel & Buffy reunited. "Together you were powerful, alone you are dead."

If the Scooby Gang & Fang Gang shared info they'd realize they were in the same situation.

Ra-Tet (conduit for Senior Partners) were the five manifestations of the Egyptian god Ra. It was the Egyptian god Osiris who resurrected Buffy.

AtS s4/BtVS s7 -- Power That Be/First Evil wants to be corporeal and influence everyone on earth for tranquility/chaos, right hand Beast/Caleb hunted down WR&H/WC, the gang take over the ruins

Imagine Wood meeting Connor (both raised by man grieving the victims of Spike & Angelus).

Buffy (nonstop Hellmouth horror):

Faith (bored in Northern CA):

The millennias old Watcher's Council is dismantled and there's a global genocide against the Slayer line but AtS broke Faith out to fight Angelus.

Buffy dreamt of Potentials in September and they started to arrive at her door in December yet Faith didn't know a thing til late April or early May.

#btvs

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icepixie · 11 months

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SNW 2x01

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Not bad. Definitely a more interesting episodic plot than almost anything in season one. Maybe they've finally found their legs.

Sad we got only two minutes of Una and Pike, but I liked what we got. "You cannot resign. The loss to Enterprise would be unimaginable. ...To me." (I'm reading it as "loss to me would be unimaginable," not "I can't imagine the loss to Enterprise." Because of course I am.) Hopefully more next week.

Everybody looked friggin' amazing in their undercover gear. A-plus costuming. Christine especially looked fantastic. Very D&D chic.

The special effects feel so different than what I mentally associate with Star Trek, even the later series that used CGI. I think it has something to do with the "camera" angles they're using to show said special effects, like spiraling down Starbase 1 at the beginning. I recall prior series doing more of things just moving around onscreen while the camera stayed in one place. (I could totally be misremembering, though.) I like it a lot; it feels very cinematic. It clashes a smidge with the set design, which is much more old school/almost 70s and 80s sci-fi movie (especially the predominantly white corridors, all the angles rather than softer curves), but that's fine.

M'Benga and his actor were outstanding here and he's secretly becoming my favorite character. "Nice guy must do violence" is old as the hills, but I liked that they acknowledged that he would take any other choice besides what they do, and he chooses it deliberately. So often that trope comes out of left field because the nice guy gets too emotional or whatever. I also really, really like his and Chapel's father-daughter-type relationship.

But Pelia. PELIA. BEST ADDITION TO THE SHOW. PERFECTION. I still miss Hemmer and wish we could have them both, but goddamn I love her character already. We needed something to lighten up this episode and she did that well. The concept of these Lanthians living undiscovered among humans until quite recently is interesting and I would like to see how that went down when they were discovered.

On the downside: Spock/Chapel is grating in just about every way possible. There is just no there there for me. Logically, I get it--Christine I'm sure has some kind of alien kink and half-breeds are even more entertaining, Spock released his emotions or whatever last season and I think it involved Chapel (don't care enough to check). But it's kind of like Archer and T'Pol, something in the interaction between them just screams "nope" despite how the PTB are writing it.

I honestly don't understand why I find Spock's journey towards feeling things so off-putting. This should be something I like. B'Elanna's human/Klingon stuff was cool. Troi's human/Betazoid stuff was cool. Why is this not? Is it because the thing he's struggling to accept is feeling emotions and I just don't really give a shit about that? Or is it that Spock is by far the character we already know the most about and any time spent on him is time we could be spending on any other character?

...Sorry, Spock-lovers. A little of him goes a long way for me.

On to the next episode. Next week. Like the heathens we were when watching network television, ugh. I don't absolutely hate spacing them out, especially when there are so few, but I definitely prefer being able to go at my own pace.

#star trek: strange new worlds #strange new worlds #strange new worlds spoilers #snw spoilers

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toadette-gal · 7 months

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Imagine losing so bad in Bomberman R 2 to a Princess Tomato Bomber that you made a video about what your fav Bomberman characters say about you and the PTB one says “you pick this one to be ‘different’ how clever”

And not putting the other non og Bombermen in said video.

😭

#cal answers

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I was rewatching 3.02 when on the ferris wheel and right before Marissa says "I think we're having one now" (a moment) she looks like at Ryan so adorably, like she's just glowing. I watched the tiki hut reveal giggles ("I'm peeking / no you're not!") and seeing Marissa happy is just surreal, she looks absolutely radiant when they let her be happy and it's sick that it was so brief. Also, Mischa seemed to really enjoy those scenes IMO - BM chemistry really on point for those first few episodes.

It IS such a Moment. I know exactly the smile/look you're referencing too because I also think about it a lot. She's radiant in it. Ok yes it really is so sick that they let her have like two minutes max in the show of being happy. Like I get that MB has said her strengths are in the angst and all that but I truly think this show and the PTB made her think that too. A teenage actor shouldn't have these preconceived notions about what they can or cannot do. It's called....... acting?

#ask #likeadaydreamorafever

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alex-guerin · 9 months

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So, I work in a warehouse, right? Not a fantastic job, but hey, pretty much pays the bills. My job is to breakdown and sort/count pallets of product when they come in for other people to put away. When I started doing this, there were only two of us, me and one other person. Then the PTB decided to hire a 3rd to breakdown in a different location. THEN they decided to bring in a 4th person and split us into two teams. Split up me and the other original breakdown person and have the two newbies alternate working with us (can't remember if they were supposed to alternate each day or start of each week. I think it was week).

This was fine except for the fact the two newbies would literally argue over whose turn it was to work with the other person right in front of me, making me feel like chopped liver cuz they never argued over whose turn it was to work with me. Then the PTB finally decided they were going to assign the teams, which is how it has stayed. Other OG breakdown person and the 3rd hired, me and my partner-in-crime.

When we got assigned teams, I remember telling him, "I'm sorry. I know I'm the consolation prize. I'm not as much fun as Tasha. Nobody fights over getting to work with me. I'm sorry you're stuck with me." It's been not quite a year, but getting close to, and me and him have been working great together, we have fun, it's good. We joke around. Good times.

Lately though...he's been making comments about how much he hates doing breakdown and doesn't wanna do it anymore, or if he has to do it, he’d rather breakdown alone than with a partner. Then he got his wish a couple weeks ago when I had to be on a forklift for a week to cover one of our other forklift drivers and when I got to return to breakdown, I was happy and excoted cuz YAY! I got to be with my friend again! The Dynamic Duo reunited! So I said to him, "We get to be friends again!! Yay!!" His response: "Yeah, I know. I'm pissed." I tried to brush it off as him being him, cuz we regularly say shit like that to each other (we have a very sibling like relationship), but it did put a damper on my mood and we ended up working separately anyways -- him working on one row, me on the other.

Then we lost one of our breakdown people from the other team and the 2nd person on that team was off for a few days because of strep throat. So, me and him got separated again. He went to the other area to breakdown and I stayed in my preferred area. We have since given the other breakdown position to one of our stockers. Well, he's sub-trainer so he's been training them. No biggie.

Except for the last few days, he acts pretty much like I don't exist. Yesterday and today especially. Yesterday I had to work in the other area, well when it came to be break time I started heading for the breakroom, past them, and went, "My friend! Is juice time! We go!" He looked at me, the person he was training looked at me, and they just kept right on working. I don't think he spoke to me at all yesterday. Came time to leave, we always leave together, I went to fill out my time sheet, him and his trainee were there joking around and before I could finish filling out my sheet, they walked off and left without me. Leaving me to feel forgotten and abandoned.

Today, I got into work, got my scanner, him and his trainee were right by the time clock. I had just finished signing my scanner out when they clocked in and started heading off without me. Not so much as a backwards glance. I already felt alone, but that just made it worse. And again, not a single word said to me the whole day. Got to be break time, him and the trainee came down, walked right by me, not so much as our customary, "Juuuuice tiiiime!" call to let me know it was break time. I ended up not taking a first break cuz I just didn't wanna deal with anything. My mood was shit, I just wanted to keep working cuz at least that kept my brain busy enough that I didn't randomly burst into tears. Lunch time rolled around, I went 10 minutes earlier than our usual time, ended up sitting alone while him and trainee walked out without a glance. I ended up clocking back in from lunch early and went back to working. Skipped my 2nd break to keep working and again, when break time rolled around, they walked right by me without a word.

Finally towards the end of my night one of the guys I talk to every once in a while came up to talk to me while I was working on a pallet and made some comment about how I had lost my partner-in-crime to someone else, and I just shrugged said, "Yeah. It happens. I told him when we started working together I knew I was just the consolation prize. I am the one people deal with having to work with until something or someone new and better comes along." I finished breaking down what I had decided would be my last two pallets of the night, packed up my shit, found my supervisor and gave a couple of truly pathetic fake coughs. He looked at me. I looked at him. "I'm using an hour of sick time. Bye." Filled out my sheet and left at 10 without a word to anyone else.

Not once today did anyone ask me if I was okay. Not once did anyone notice I wasn't speaking to anyone. That I wouldn't make eye contact with anyone. That I worked through my breaks when I ALWAYS take my breaks. I might as well have been invisible. I pretty much was, I guess. No one seemed to care that I was fighting back tears most of the day. That I would try to make myself small.

This, on top of the fact that I had been trying to make plans to do things with people for my bday for the last couple of weeks, but literally no one wants to/is able to has made me feel absolutely abandoned and forgotten. College bestie responded with, "OMG! YES! THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN!" I have sent multiple texts asking when she wants to meet up and where. They've been read, no answer. Former coworkers, asked if they wanted to get together at some point while I'm on vacation for a week to get food and catch up. One never answered, the other is in Arkansas. Nearest friend, asked if she wanted to go into Chicago with me and bum around the city on Friday. She's at her family's lake house in Michigan for the month. Sent a thing about cheap Six Flags tickets to a couple of current coworkers seeing if they wanted to go either Friday or Saturday. Nope. One just didn't want to go, the other has plans to video game all weekend with friends. Even my own MOTHER turned me down when I excitedly suggested we go to one of our favorite food places on Thursday for my bday since we'll both be home that day. I literally have nobody to celebrate my bday with.

And now I feel like I don't even have my work bestie anymore.

#pity party table of 1 #pity party #ignore me #everyone else does

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