#ppl were guessing how he was going to get there

[pinazee]

First season wrap up:

Okay, to start, i should mention my general opinion on first seasons for shows, especially cable shows, is not to read too much of it as canon. The writers, producers, actors- everyone- are all trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t, so i give them latitude, particularly when it conflicts with later seasons. That being said, i do enjoy jumping through the hoops to make it all fit haha

So heres a few leftover notes i had as i revisited the eps to rank them:

I bet part of Lassie was craving the father figure in Henry, since we find out later his own father passed away when he was quite young. I wonder if thats part of the reason why he became a cop, as they are portrayed as the protectors and in the 80’s they were mainly men (i don’t really remember if he states his reason later, i suspect he did and im just not remembering). So when Henry didn’t meet up to the expectation he had in his mind, i bet it hurt a little more as it reminded him of what he lost :/

I think the other reason Shawn plays dumb so much, besides hiding his genius so ppl believe hes psychic, or for laughs, is because its how he gets people talking. Like in Shawn vs. the red phantom, he purposely guessed the wrong room number so the boys would correct him. My apologies if someones pointed this out before, i haven’t combed through the internet for everyone’s theories 😬 i only now noticed. I’m not the quickest at picking these things up lol

If i had to guess, Shawn didn’t want to be a cop for halloween, he probably wanted to be something star wars related to go with Gus’s Lando. So i wonder at what age Shawn stopped trying to please his dad. But also, why didn’t his mother ever stand up for him?? I’ll come back to her later -_-

I somehow missed it the first time, but shawn clearly asked Gus to come to the dinner and Gus even points out that it was a big deal for henry to reach out. Soo, yeah, shawn obviously didn’t wanna be alone with his dad, and even henry seemed nervous about it as hes pretty drunk.

Shawn has a right to be afraid of pointy things, his dad hid his easter eggs under glass when he was 6! Not to mention he later gets stabbed 3 times! (Also its just a legitimate fear???)

So far the list of Shawns knowledge (things i wouldn’t expect an average person to know) includes (beyond the obvious observational skills, deductive reasoning, reading people (poker), and all things police (marksmanship, police codes, etc.)):

Incredible spatial and physical reasoning skills (knowing how much money could fit in the duffle bag, knowing to rotate the water pitcher to catch the reflection from the tv)

Kurt Vonnegut (well, I didn’t know who he was at least)

How to spell aggiornamento (and probably all words because of his photographic memory)

Handwriting expert

Casually spoke and understood german

Has every road he’s driven mapped in his brain, and likely all of Santa Barbara

Familiar with paint (enough to know to mix latex enamel for no messy drips)

Animal tracks (i went back and forth on this but ultimately decided he must have known what to look for)

And heres a list of Gus’s niche interests:

Forensics

Spelling bee

Safe cracking

Historic rifles

Comic books

Astronomy (even though he was going to the planetarium for the girl)

Law

Local tennis

Online poker

Lastly, Ive decided instead of ranking them, im putting them in tiers. I feel like too many of them are hitting at the same level and I can’t differentiate:

Sweetest, Juiciest Golden Pineapple Tier

Scary Sherry, Biancas toast (ohmygod i just got the biancas toast 🤦🏽‍♀️)

Blue Psych Logo Tier

Weekend warriors

Forget me not

From the earth to starbucks

Poker? I hardly know her! (Sorry @pineapple-psychic!)

Pepto Bismo Pink Tier

Spelling bee

Pilot

She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me oops hes dead

Who ya gonna call?

Shawn vs the red phantom

Oops Canadian Flag Tier

Cloudy with a chance of murder

9 lives

Game set muuurder

Speak now or forever hold your piece

Woman seeking dead husband, smokers okay, no pets

#a little nod to their podcast with the pepto bismo pink ;) #if theres anything else ya’ll want me keep track of let me know i clearly enjoy homework haha #its so hard not to include ALL my thoughts #like how smart it was to add juliet going to call back up because she’s not an idiot and isn’t driven by ego to dumb dangerous things #or even shawns line of needing to put his phone on vibrate as thats such a horror film cliche #but i really don’t want to write an essay on each ep haha #psych tv #psych #psych rewatch #psych usa #shawn spencer #burton guster #shawn and gus #james roday rodriguez #james roday #dulé hill #dule hill #juliet o'hara #carlton lassiter #chief karen vick #timothy omundson #maggie lawson #kirsten nelson #corbin bernsen #henry spencer #shassie #shules

[luck-of-the-drawings]

smth smth about 'the thing that the character did that you thought was rly rly funny in the moment is actually linked to a terrible trauma that lies within said character.' or wahtever.

#jrwi show #jrwi fanart #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #made this within a short span of wahtever bc i gotta go up to the mountains for my stupid gay job tonight n im trying #nnot to frrRREAAAK THE FUCK OUUTTTTTTi dont wanna work but. get that bread we fuckin shall i guess #ONWARDS TO THE FISH TORMENT!! sometimes flowers feel pain when you trim them before their blossoming. atleast i imagine so #i used to draw gillion with loooong hair tied into a big ol braid. and then it was confirmed that he had short hair when he was little. #AT FIRST I WAS SAD. but then i realized the duality of. when they were little. gill had short hair. edyn had long hair. #AND NOW THEYRE OLDER. and gillion has long hair. and edyn has short hair #both mirroring eachother. looking up to eachother. subconsciously or not. they most certainly care. and most certainly miss eachother. #GILLION ALWAYS LOVED HOW LONG HAIR LOOKs. atleast i imagine so. he hasnt cut it since he left the undersea. sure he wanted to go back home #but even at the very start. he knew he was free in some way now. free to grow out his hair. an adventure would await him before he returns. #he knew it would be a while. so he cant let this go. he cant let this sought-after hair-length get cut away from him again #not yet. not yet. i like to think he loved music too. I SAW SOMETHING INTERESTING A BIT AGO #i see alot of ppl commenting on my baby gill comics like;'i wouldFIGHT this teacher i wanna KILL EM i want them DESTROYED #all very good and nice sentiments! i LOVE the energy here! and it would be nice. to have that catharsis #but the story of young tidestrider is not a story of catharsis. it is a story of agony and being so so small and so special and also so dum #and sucking so bad. and just being a kid and doing the things that a little kid does and so many tired tired people reacting badly to it #youre supposed to be the hero that will save us. our world hangs in the balance and you are the one who tips the scales. #YOU are supposed to SAVE US!! you NEED to SAVE US! CAN YOU PLEASE STOP SQUIRMING IN YOUR STUPID CHAIR!! #you'd think that young tidestrider ought to prevail. and be tucked someplace all safe and sound. #elders gone missing and rotting in a jail. their cultists nowhere around. but theres no happy endings. not here not now. #this tale is all sorrows n woes. you may dream that justice n peace win the day. but thats not how this story goes #BIG ideas for this lil baby gillion series. if anything i make ever gets disproven im killing myself in a well as to poison a water supply

[torahtot]

ok ive had enough of queering judaism. can we start judaizing queerness now. or something

#like. it feels like so much of this queering judaism shtus just layers an american/secular queer identity over judaism #which i guess is fine for certain communities. but it's only going to push you away from orthodoxy #and if as queer jews we already feel like our queerness makes us into secularized outsiders in our own communities #how does this help? is trying to get our communities to embrace an essentially secular american iteration of queer identity supposed to mak #us feel LESS like outsiders? it's not quite doing it for me #we need a queerness that comes from within judaism that is essentially jewish #ive seen a couple of articles recently from ppl talking abt how word/concept of butch doesnt exist in their language & culture #but they use it anyway #& like. i love being butch. it's important to me ill never give it up #& i am american too. but my whole identity as a butch he/him lesbian is exclusively secular american it came from the outsifr #which is definitely due in large part to the fact that my Gender Problems were really tied up w orthodox jewish gender roles #so naturally to get out of that i'd pull on something not jewish. but i wish there was another option? idk if that's possible #or how it would look #maybe that's why im obsessed w the idea of a butch w long curly payos.... 😦 #i forgot where i was going w this but yeah it's frustrating #this is a large part of why im wary of starting a queer Jewish club on campus bc the people who would wanna start it w mr #well no offense but they are insufferable about this #(incidentally they're also insufferable about chanukah. no surprises there) #nachi speaks #jew blogging #others have Actually written abt all this tho

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

:(

#cw animal injury #i turned on the lights and our dog is covered in blood like??? hello??? #since when were you doing that and why didn't you tell me??? *cue frantic searching for gauze* #there's a big cut where his ankle meets his leg (inside of the hind right leg) #i have no idea how that happened #our dogs play rough but have never drawn blood #and he was outside alone and he was acting normally and not whining or anything? like speak up man i need to know this shit #his name is bunny btw and he's a big dog. purebred great pyrenees(?) if the ppl we got him from are to be trusted #i don't know how he got hurt #its way too big/deep for a cat to have done it and even if they're really upset they just paw at his face #my only guess is that there's something sharp in the yard? but it's too dark to look #idfk but we found the gauze and stuff and he did Not like that process good thing there were 3 ppl awake to hold him down safely #he still didn't whine through all of that though like. pls speak up man. we gotta know if ur in pain so we can fix it #i'm hoping it doesn't get infected. we don't have money to go to the vet but he's my sister's dog and she might actually kill someone if #he isn't fine #she has a theory that he may have gotten cut on smth our brother threw out there and like. she may literally kill him if this #was his fault and bunny isn't fine #so far he seems fine there wasn't too much blood and there seems to just be the one cut #but i didn't hear him yelp or whine or anything #and he didn't seem to be limping but the lights were off #idk man but we have cleaned him up as best we can for now but it is the middle of the night so we'll see what we can do in the morning

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Boruto things that made me lose my mind (ep 62-93):

Sasuke: I'm taking boruto onto the battlefield with me ✌️

Naruto @ boruto: sorry for treating u like a child and not a child soldier

Shikadai: *worried abt his friend boruto* shikamaru: yea I was the same abt naruto (no. Ur son is worried abt his friend. U were worried abt ur pride. Don't pretend u and naruto were friends)

Shout out to Boruto's 2 daddies for allowing their son to kill a God at age 12

What the fuck am I supposed to feel abt gender fluid orochimaru???

Last week boruto killed a God, this week a sleazy actor creeps on chocho... and he really looks like an adult...

Boruto writers: chocho is beautiful just the way she is... but we will continue to use her weight as a joke

I hate every member of team 5 in both personality and character design

Mitsuki @ orochimaru: it doesn't matter if you're my mother or father. As long as I kno ur essence, that's what matters (...ok but I cannot fathom the implication that orochimaru's essence is anything but evil)

The only personal items in Mitsuki's house are pill bottles and a framed photo of boruto beside his bed. That's pretty unnerving.

I think it says a lot about that those 2 horrible old advisors r still around and their opinions still hold weight. If I were naruto, I would not let them back in the office. Ever. Like bro they were instrumental in ur mistreatment

Suigetsu: that's LORD orochimaru! (Dude y r u putting respect on his name? Didn't he keep u locked naked in a tube at one point?)

The white snake sage has the fucking goofiest accent in the English dub

...boruto made as summoning contract with a giant snake... but instead of summoning him from a snake realm... I think the snake burrowed into his soul? Bc the snake is showing up in the same internal place as kurama does for naruto. Weird.

Mitsuki is the most gay

Boruto @ villian with pulsating mass attached to his chest: how did u get that heart?! (Boruto what the fuck do u think a heart looks like????)

#its so frustrating bc boruto is a show for lil babies. there is no subtly at all #they have to bash u over the head with what they want u to kno #and there r some interesting ideas theyre playing with. bc u have the modernisation of the world #and turning away from being shinobi so u get this weird reverence for what shinobi were and anger that the kids didnt grow up in war #it feels like a very modern anger. which is really interesting but im not sure how much theyre going to play with that #but idk naruto is still infuriatingly like sad to me. my boy is so tired #also i think boruto should grow up to b a therapist bc hes emotionally intelligent and likes to help ppl when he can get over himself #idk im a boruto apologist lol for the boy and the show. i guess. i like the boy. the show is a cursed timeline but i dont hate it yet lol #Anytime ppl r like: oh lord 7th!!! i get so mad tho. like fuck off #also is shikamaru still friends with choji??? did u just drop that friendship dude? bc it feels like theyre pretending shikamaru and naruto #were like friends. which. hah no #anyway. i wanna kno whats up with borutos eye. i want the alien bullshit #i like that he killed a god. that is fucking desturbing and i love #naruto #boruto #naruto ramblings

[themyscirah]

Philippus? Wym philippus this is a wholeass other woman?????? She's white?????? Guys come on now

ALSO cursed white Euboea in this same sequence.... homeboy she's Asian please stop

Joe Phillips I'm sorry but this is some shitty ass guest pencilling how can you not know anything abt what these people look like thats literally your job... you also just needed to read the issue before this to know?

Editors should have caught this one these are major Amazon characters

#also i did a quick wiki check for one thing and basically confirmed that i was right about this entire arc so i win i guess 💪💪💪💪 #like “the amazons are starting some crazy murder shit!” are they really now. which amazons may i ask? are you sure its not the bana- #oh yep its the baba mighdall. well then. TOTALLY didnt see this coming (said w love) #i mean its like maybe im being perceptive but they literally showed two of them in their armor and had one say phthia aka one of the #founders of the bana. like okay i had to do a wiki to check that and obvi id know slightly more than a pérez run reader abt them #(but not much honestly ive read the same stuff they wouldve just plus some fandom osmosis/knowing who artemis is) but i digress. do think he #maybe could have put showing them off but i understand the motive of not wanting readers to go months thinking the amazons were chopping #ppls heads off. but they could have teased the mind control red herring (probably? think it was a red herring although it could pop back up #the arc is still ongoing) a little bit more considering weve had dr psycho starting shit for the past 4 (at LEAST) issues but well whatever #anyways the pencilling on this one needed help like its not even a coloring issue at the core of it its legit this guest guy drawing #totally different people... very lame #anyways maybe im too quick to blame it all on the bana i am only halfway through the arc #like i do think it is the bana. i think thats the answer. but again dr psycho IS causing problems and theres been hints of the cheetah being #involved (“animal attack” killings + a shot of her in arkham) AND circe was namedropped (although now we know it was dr psycho) but im still #slightly suspicious bc there seems to be possesed animals... like they are v much laying different hints and pathways here #but i think its the bana. i think its psycho fucking around and also the bana and MAYBE a psycho controlled cheetah or the bana mimicing her #patterns. or are the bana even there if psychos involved??? he could just be fucking around then- okay you know what. maybe im less sure of #this than i thought and should just read more. wait but how would psycho even know about the bana to have ppl hallucinate hed just use the #themyscirans-- okay i need to read more im getting distracted. the bana are definitely involved though im calling it. its them and maybe #psycho. and maybe cheetah. and maybe circe but likely not bc we already established that was a false lead. unless that was also a trick. and #WHAT ABT ARES ALL THE STOLEN ARTIFACTS HAD TO DO WITH WAR-- #.... guys im losing it. fuck it im saying its all giganta and calling it a day i cant do this #no but i love how this mystery is set up its like they just dropped clues for every single ww villain onto it and said “here. good luck.” #this is before the big ww crossover too so it could actually be all of them im losing my mind here. WHO IS IT #ive twisted myself in a circle here i dont know anything now. only that i did call it if it was the bana. or if theres mind control or smth #sus about heracles cup. i also called that although its seeming less and less likely now that the bana and psycho are likely involved. and #maybe cheetah. and circe. and ares. guys im falling apart here #what was the point of this post then? oh shitty guest pencilling and editor flops. the editor flop part i can understand im sure they were #busy even if this is a big thing to miss imo. the penciller though is just silly come on now. someone should have caught that. anyways-- #swishy liveblogs

[shekeepsmeworms]

Had some wine feeling good made a really shitty bowl in ceramics class this morning that I’m really worried has a bunch of air holes in it and had a really crappy therapy session where I didn’t talk too much but was honest about some other stuff which is good overall I guess but now I’m doing drunk crochet and watching the Duggar family documentary and probably going to stop watching soon once they start talking about the awful stuff but yeah day in the life of a woman doing her best I guess

#like both sides of my family are either Irish catholic. converted assimilation catholic. or part Jewish but raised catholic. #but my mom read the Boston glob report so I wasn’t baptized or anything and despite her born again phase I’ve never really been religious #so the thought of growing up in that environment is like I can’t imagine the pressure oh my god #like I’ve had Mormon friends and have some friends who were raised homeschool Christian married young and all and like #i don’t know it’s just wild how different our lives are like I’ve got a problems and def inherited the guilt complex thing for sure but like #I also never got told to submit to anyone or that god was watching #or to be modest or any of the purity stuff beyond normal patriarchy stuff #like I’m not saying my life is better but I didn’t do church after age 5 and only go to funeral masses so I like the comfort of like #doing sign of cross and saying Hail Mary and all bc it provides structure for grief but beyond that I can’t imagine living with all of that #these are very long tags with no real point beyond wow. that’s literally bananas to me. but did I mention I’m a little drunk #and even then my family isn’t like hardcore catholic. my grandma and her siblings skipped church to get donuts bc no farm work on Sunday #and my dad grew up like doing fasted mass and everything but heard the 2000s Harvey milk speech and realized gay ppl are okay #and then rest of extended dads side is like catholic but vote blue and think human rights are good and all #my mom has a student who’s like very traditional catholic like she was trying to teach him math and whatever #and the live coverage of waiting for pope confirmation was on tv the whole time #and he fights with her about evolution and learning about the existence of other religions and everything #so I guess even in my own family like. everyone’s down with basic science and civil liberties which is even weirder for me I guess #like not even among fundamentalists like just regular Catholics I’ve had a pretty liberal upbringing re faith. it’s just wild to me #to see the differences of worldview #and even non religion stuff was pretty liberal overall despite living in pretty red area. idk it’s just wild how different life can be

[weskinz]

maybe if i go back on antidepressants ill ask for wellbutrin

#p #like yes i am pretty depressed rn but i dont feel like killing myself like i did when i was on viibryd #no genetic altercations my ass i was on that shit for years and just now looking back at my messages and notes no wonder i was scaring ppl #i was so anxious one time i had to sit in my brothers room so i knew he wasnt going to die suddenly #and i was so so so scared but it was like there was a mental block where it couldnt become a panic attack jst paranoia #but i was one degree from it. just imagining what i did to him happening to me scared me to death and i had to reassure myself #my mom asked me abt it the other day like 'hmmm. wouldve been nice to let me know you werent on it anymore. seems like a thing your mother- #'-should know.' and like yes since im still completely dependent on her in all aspects but man #i didnt want to explain i had no interest in seeing lisa anymore and i was just done. i was so tired of my lows being so fucking low #and not even noticing they were so bad yknow #do i even know how to be honest anymore. no i dont think of killing myself but i dont see a future for myself either #i have no goals no motivation no nothing #its selfish to want to die but its like that mytoecold dude video where hes like 'if i spilled milk and then killed myself technically- #'-the problem would be gone' like yeah. that is true. how do i get that out of my belief system #he was a raging addict btw i just saw that video. crazy and sad but i guess when you are dealt a bad hand you see eye to eye

[beacon-lamp]

Hi! How you doing? You seem to be one of the actives ones remaining on tumblr.

I can't sleep so I will get a bottle of water; get one for yourself too and take care please just a gentle remainder.

thank you for the kind words <3

i'm doing alright. seeing more people pay their respects to him on twitter made me cry all morning. even john green tweeted.

i'm feeling better overall. it's friday. the sun is shining. i get monday off from work. and i know it'll be ok even if it isn't right now.

#taking time off of twt tho #love the support ppl are showing it's just a lot of scroll through #ive been going through my techno posts on my blog and it's making me laugh #ive got a chill weekend ahead of me. gonna just like reflect and take it easy. #idk it hit me rly hard bc i guess. im his age range. he helped me get through quarantine. made me laugh so many times. #i had a shit 2020-2021 year and he made it better #and i remember last night i was taking a break from a rly stressful thing i have to complete to scroll through twt #and that's how i found out. it hit me so hard just the poor mental state i was in plus the news #but im doing a lot better now #i see ppl in the comments helping each other out in terms of processing grief #it makes me happy #so many ppl cared about him. he is loved by us. and we were loved by him. #what an honor. #take care of yourselves guys <3 #technoblade #ty for the askkk :) #betzabiury

[aftermathing]

Anyone else afraid to go to the doctor because doctors and nurses are overworked and exhausted and dealing with people dying and bleeding out and bedridden with covid and don't have the time or energy to hear about your minor problems

#And also don't care about patients anyway they just go 'you're fine/overweight/hormonal/slouching' #And do nothing else to fix it #I've just been watching Doctor Mike and it makes me actually cry how he talks about how even if the patient's lab work comes back good #but they're still experiencing pain then he's not just going to say 'you're fine go home' or tell them they're faking #I've never been to a good doctor before I guess but it's not like you can just find a decent doctor :(( #Especially with that fear that your problems don't matter and you're probably faking your chronic illness #Like I need to go to get my tinnitus checked out byt um. That's such a tiny problem to have compared to like ppl with complete hearing loss #Like. Suck it up bitch your ear crackles sometimes boohoo you're an adult. #I have chronic back pain but some people have scoliosis and can't leave their bed like. All the dr is going to do is tell me to exercise :/ #Why bother #You were born with pain you're going to die with pain there's no use wasting the money :((

[sonego]

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#sorry i will overshare for a second #on this day 3 years ago my grandpa passed away and it feels a little. idk. surreal? #to be seeing all the posts and news sections etc about vialli #like it feels surreal that he died on the same day #obviously i know lots of ppl die on the same day. duh #i just kinda. feel weird #it's like today already had the death mark on it and now it has another? and it's a bit. a lot #not even bc of my grandpa bc that's a whole complicated topic/relationship Mh #it's mostly that every time i have to think about death i think of my grandma and #it maybe should've passed by now but it still hurts #recently i was talking w a coworker abt how our grandmas passed away when we were pretty young and she was like yeah it was a few years ago #i wasn't even 30 and i was like.. oh... i was like 13 #and she looked a bit taken aback and sad she was like oh you were super young #i don't ? even know if 13 is younger than the norm ? to lose a grandparent #my grandma did die p young tho so. yeah #idk. i guess sometimes i just get hit by such waves of grief #especially bc i wish i remembered more.. instead of just small bits and pieces that i try to go on by.. as if it was enough #as if i didn't miss her terribly while at the same time not knowing exactly what i am missing #it's just sad and it makes me feel like a little boy. girl. idk. just so small #i wish i could talk to her hug her know what she thinks of me now #whenever i think of how i've now spent half of my life without my grandma i feel like i can't breathe i can't feel i can't.. #nonna vorrei tanto che fossi qui. vorrei solo abbracciarti un'ultima volta vorrei tornare indietro e venire a trovarti in ospedale l'ultima #volta in cui ne ho avuto l'occasione e non l'ho colta. vorrei rivedere il tuo sorriso. #sorry. i will delete this later

[juicedbeetle]

i like to think post-canon beej would try really hard to make the netherworld a place where you don't have to feel alone anymore

#beetlejuice musical #beetlejuice #headcanon #not sure if he takes juno's work because i think he already tried and was unhappy with it. i dont thiiiink hes in charge but #im not entirely sure how the netherworld works either. i was under the impression all the people we meet in what i know now were just- #in Waiting. like beej at the end of the movie? waiting to move on #and the only ppl who inhabit the netherworld are inborne or however u spell it. the born dead. the demons. and breathers get to move on? #but hmmm im not sure!! it's always shifting in my mind #either way miss argentina said every1 in the netherworld is alone and beej also felt super alone and ''hes the loneliest guy ive ever met'' #etc etc so IM thinking no matter what. he wants to change that :) now that he can #what beej really wanted deep down was to be able to change things!! both him and lydia felt stuck and unable to change anything #he is happy. he got what he wanted... he was able to go back home and change things... #i do still like to think he can visit the deetzmaits whenever he likes. im not sure how he gets back to the netherworld tho #just use the door? hm yea i guess. i mean lydia could cross it and she wasnt recently deceased so i guess the point is he didnt WANT to

[diabeticgirl4]

"You know I'm in love with you, right?" Oh jeez it's just as (if not more) weird and awkward as it was in canon

#maddie liveblogs tlovm #vax's face when keyleth goes all 'WAIT WHAT NOW??' on him lmao. yeah that's the regret setting in lmao. #but like. ok. gonna get long and ranty in the tags here. #I mean vax has always been subtle (but not overly so!) w his flirting at the start #all I rly remember offhand is him picking flowers specifically for keyleth and being like... huh..... #note!! I am aro and autistic and generally oblivious to anything romantic in nature!! #so yeah if I were keyleth in canon and vax told me that I'd still be thrown off and surprised but. at least there were hints of it. #in the show?? none of that lol #he's been hanging around her closely and being protective/admiring/etc of her I guess? #but that can be vague and interpreted so many ways #so (in the show) for him to be all 'you know that right? ;)' like????? uhh????? not rly no???? #devil's advocate his vague affection and flirting and ust could've been happening offscreen. which is dumb btw. #also I forgot about the ust. yes ok there's been a Lot of ust onscreen- #-but I hate w a passion ust in general? how momentary awkward silence between 2 ppl automatically means pining??? frick that #the only reason I'm not more upset about them is bc vax has a heart of gold and Respects keyleth and her boundaries w all his being #vaxleth is a weird ship that kinda goes against so many other ships bc it kinda naturally develops like irl couples?? #idk how to explain bc like. it's slowburn but feels natural in the way most slowburns don't #it's a ship that focuses on the individuals' development and character not the romance itself??? if that makes sense???? #I'm going off the rails as per usual but. yeah. I have a lot of weird thoughts about that.

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

i rb a decent amount of izzy hands content (including ship content) but thats only bc this fandom held me at gunpoint and forced me to think* abt him. like i KNOW he's a very complex and well written character and i love that he's not just a one-note antagonist, his motivations and conflicts are extremely interesting and con's acting choices are exquisite and give so much depth to the character. but that being said he annoys me and i don't like him at all fhudkghdufkghfkj

(*fandom forced me to think abt him but y'all CANNOT force me to like him!!! noah fence to izzy enjoyers but i cannot relate)

#ofmd #our flag means death #izzy hands #dizzy izzy #con o'neill #mine #txt #if this post is in the izcourse tag no it isnt u just dont know how to use tumblr #izzy critical #og #(hello from 3/13/23! im going thru my blog and this post predates the izcourse actually fhjkshks) #sometimes there are characters that i would HATE if they were real ppl but bc its fiction i love them soooo much (ex: k***** v*****) #izzy is not one of those characters fhdjvdfjkhgfkhjkf #i genuinely dislike him. i respect his purpose in the plot and i enjoy how well written he is but i DO NOT like him #when writing fic im like 'god how do i get izzy out of the way' hdjfjdhfkjf #i rb izzy fanart bc there's SO MUCH of it and a lot of it is rlly rlly good!!! but GOD do i fucking hate him so muchhhhhh #and like a rlly good izzy character study on ao3 will pique my interest but i have no desire to seek out izzy content or make my own #idk man the toxic codependency and desire for mutual ownership of izzy's personality just... don't appeal to me i guess #damn THIS must be why i was never that invested in hannibal fhdujghjkfhgjk

[lesbiancarat]

sometimes i randomly remember that instead of 'cute, innocent, funny guy' jun's fandom-assigned archetype used to be 'narcissistic fuckboy' back until like 2018ish 🧍‍♀️

#do baby carats know about this? lol those were dark times #like there were definitely some things that were better and simpler about the fandom back then but also a lot of shitty things too lol #idk what's wild to me about it is like. u see this kind of change in perception a lot bc rookie idols get assigned these roles #that don't fully suit them. but when they're a few years in they're allowed to grow out of that and show more of their actual personality #like mh is a good example of this bc he's said he was marketed as the 'little cutie' and u can see that if u go back and watch old content #but honestly i don't think this perception of jun was really pushed by plds? #like i guess they might have labeled him as a handsome/cool member so that's probably where it came from #but i feel like it was carats that took it to a whole different level that was frankly kind of gross #like when i FIRST watched svt content i got the impression that jun was kind of a greasy guy based on the way fans talked about him #but what's wild is if u go back and watch old svt content it doesn't feel like jun himself acts that differently compared to now? #like he was still very cute and innocent back then. and even now he'll still hype up his own looks #i feel like the main thing that's changed is he's learned some tact for when and where to say things + he's gained confidence #which is wild considering at the time ppl saw jun as confident almost to the point of excess #and then u watch cyzj and the whole thing is about him building confidence!! esp for performing by himself!!! #i think that's why that show was such a big turning point in how carats (including myself) saw him #SORRY this was meant to be a funny post about wow how were ppl so wrong about jun's personality back then? #but it turned into me rambling in the tags again skjfd #tbf i've been good about not doing that as much so i'll give myself a pass lol #melia.txt

[sanstropfremir]

hi!!!! do you have any advice era taemin styling thoughts to share!!!!!

oh of course!!!! who would i be if i didn't? i talked about the advice styling in more general terms in my taemin and masks post a million years ago and a little bit here in this post where someone asked me my fave taemin stylings, but there are a couple of places where i wanted to go into more detail!

advice is very interesting, styling wise, because on first glance it's all over the map. but there's very conscious effort at play to conceptualize and visualize the idea of combined dualities. ngda was taemin's magnum opus, an interrogation of binaries and strict moralities with the conclusion of creating a new self outside those systems. and, very importantly: the new self is built from those systems. as exemplified with ending shot of him being doused in white paint, the new is informed, synthesized from the old. which you can see in how none of the clothing is in true monochrome. it's always as a purposeful duality: skin/covered, black/white, white/red, red/blue. even his hair is dual toned. and it also is ingrained in the fabric of most of the garments themselves. the split black and white suit, the thorned jacket, the tartan suit set. i know the tartan might not seem like it follows the trend, but tartan patterning is made from using multiple colour warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) lines while weaving, which creates an entirely new pattern just from alternating colours.

the other point i want to note in particular is the king imagery. with the minting of a new self in a new system outside of the old, one has the choice whether or not to take a position of power, and taemin 100% does that. the most obvious king imagery is in one of the rounds of concept photos:

and there's also the extremely obvious:

as well as the thorned jacket, which is undoubtedly a jesus reference but importantly it is a marker of carrying the thing that hurt you as a mark of pride and strength. taemin has taken a lot of public scrutiny over the course of his career and there are some motifs throughout advice that are emblematic of that scrutiny:

the extensions: the last time taemin had notable extensions was for sherlock when he was nineteen, almost a decade ago. he had a lot of unwarranted criticism levelled at him for being 'feminine' and that public response had a very dramatic impact on his persona and the trajectory of his work

the instagram 'baddie' look: again, he's taken a lot of shit for being 'feminine' and he took that to the most extreme he's ever done

the mascara tear tracks: taemin has spoken several times about how he doesn't like to/finds it uncomfortable to cry in public

the boyishness of the point styling: because he debuted so insanely young, there's always been a perception of youth and immaturity around him and with this tartan suit he embraced it instead of trying to shy away from it. that outfit also bears striking similarity to gainsborough's blue boy portrait (c. 1770):

which, although it would be incorrect to say that this particular portrait is indicative of 'short pants as indicating boyhood' ('teenager'/youth clothing doesn't exist in this period but that's a costume history lesson for another day), it is true that short pants in the last two centuries have become inextricably linked with school-aged youth. that, combined with the previously cited image from the inkigayo stage of him in this outfit sitting on a throne, paint a very clear picture of a boy king who has rightfully and confidently taken his place at the head and as the inspiration of an industry.

and a parting thought: i know it's a likely coincidence but i'm not going to look down on the fact that this suit combo is from the loverboy ss21 collection, titled 'the healing'

#this is my evidence submission for why advice was supposed to be an epilogue repackage of ngda #taemin meta #kpop analysis #me checking twt this morning: oh its advice's first anniversary i guess i should finally finish that advice ask #alskdjf;alsdjf im so sorry i take so long.................. #someone sent me as ask like two days ago that started 'idk if youre finished all your asks or not....' #anon i don't think i am ever going to be finished my asks but i will eventually get to everyone! #text #answers #i didnt put this in the main body bc im not sure abt it in terms of from the media + whatever but #taemin as been pretty frequently harangued on twt/by intl fans for 'not showing emotion the right way' #hence why i think the tear tracks were included in the styling #in fact i think it might be specifically a response to how vitriolic ppl were about the vlive he did when he announced he was enlisting #again idk how much of that he really sees but he did probably know about it #also like. not to mention about the whole policing grief thing that kpoppies seem to have a hard on for #ANYWAYS HBD ADVICE MY BELOVED