Anon from the previous ask.
You know what else I noticed when I rewatched s3?How Klaroline has no beginning.Where is the foundation?Out of nowhere,Klaus decided to play the hero AFTER putting Caroline at death's door using his sire bond with her boyfriend and then next thing you know, three episodes later,she was his invitee at a dance where he spent the entire evening either gloating about the fact that she wore his dress & jewellery or talking about himself,his paintings,his dead pony or beguiling her with the offer to take her on a world tour.The scenes were incredibly creepy and the dialogues were beyond awful.Klaus was verbally pitching the idea to us why Caroline fit the role of "you are beautiful.You are strong.You are full of light".How exactly did Klaus know all of these about Caroline?Did this happen during the imaginary time he spent falling in love with her that the writers couldn't bother to show because "hashtag twitter trends forever" or did the shine from the bracelet obstruct their ability to see the obvious lack of narrative consistency and subtlety in this epic *bleh* romance ,that they were trying to sell?What happened to the outright villain,Klaus Mikealson , who had Katherine Pierce running for 500 years?Instead,he came off as a generally pathetic stalker who was romanticised to no end.I swear Klaroline is the terrible Wattpad version of Delena or worse Daroline that should have never seen the light of the day.
P.S: Thank You yet again for patiently reading and responding to my asks.
Oh, yes. I remember. Caroline and Klaus hardly interacted before Klaus started pursuing her. There wasn’t any foreshadowing. There wasn’t any build-up. Klaus wasn’t shown pining for Caroline. Just out of nowhere, Klaus had a thing for her. Not a lot of planning went into Klaroline. It just happened. Klaus needed a date to the dance and Caroline was available.
That was clue number 1 that Klaroline was never going to develop into a serious relationship btw. The TVD writers knew how to foreshadow important plot developments. They did it incredibly well with Steroline (and if I’m being honest – Delena 🫣). But Klaroline didn’t get the same treatment. Their relationship was never intended to last.
P.S: Thank You yet again for patiently reading and responding to my asks.
You’re welcome. And thank you for sending them.
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Guys the Twitter users found out about boy hypno
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But don't you know that Dean has said mean things about Cas too? That must mean he loves Benny too /s
by the transitive power vested in me, i now pronounce dean and everyone he's ever said something snappy to married.
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I don't think I've seen a write-up on various fairy-tale and Russian sayings references in the English translation, so I'd like to make one.
"Puddles make poor drinks" and "Gorkhon water will turn you into livestock": what's up with that?
There is a fairytale about a big sister and the little brother. They walk for a long time and the brother is very thirsty. His big sister keeps telling him to keep going and not to drink from the puddles, like a goat. Eventually the little brother drinks from the puddle.
And promptly turns into a goat.
Rest of the fairytale is about the big sister returning the little brother to his original form.
So, this is where the talks about puddles and water turning you into livestock is about.
The Akela joke did not work at all in the translation.
It comes from Mowgli, which is well known due to the USSR cartoon. In the book (and in the cartoon) the elderly wolf leader Akela misses during a hunt... after which he promptly is deposed as a leader of the pack. Mowgli loses his protection and this is a Big Deal.
So whenever a boss in real life makes a silly mistake (say, throwing a paperball into the bin and missing) everyone thinks it's very funny to say "Akela missed!" implying that they will get a new boss now and the current one will get deposed for this mistake.
Here "Akela never misses" means that Khan being at risk of infection and coming into the nutshell does not diminish his importance at all and his dogheads are just as loyal as before, happily delivering loot to him.
There is a saying: "Better a sparrow in hand, than a stork in the sky."
It means that you should treasure what you have, instead of preferring that which you can't get (so easily).
Lara Ravel references that she can't be happy with the little she has. She wants to help others and for this she needs more.
"Maybe I could be useful to you" is a classic thing that various animals say to people in fairytales, once they are caught and plead for their lives.
I think, this is a popular trope in English fairytales as well, but the phrasing here is lifted directly from fairytales in Russian, so pointing it out either way.
"Everyone's shirt is closer to their skin" is a well known Russian saying.
It means that your happiness and comfort is always more important to you than the comfort of other people. Hence: your shirt is closer to your skin, so you care about it more.
"Silence implies assent" is another popular saying (it even rhymes in Russian).
If someone proposes a course of action and no one speaks out against it or for it, then people usually say "silence is a sign of assent" and consider the matter settled. (Or, more often, people then suddenly say that they disagree and you get a more lively and productive conversation.)
I can't find another screenshot, but Dankovsky says something similar about "I wore down seven pairs of shoes getting to this town".
It obviously could be taken as a factual statement, but most likely it's a reference to fairytales.
In a lot of fairytales the protagonist will be given on a long journey seven pairs of iron boots. Once all of them break, the hero has reached his destination.
Same here: it's a fairytale way of saying that you had a long and arduous journey (or in Capella's case, ran around the whole town for years).
"I'll just peek with one eye" is another popular Russian phrase.
"Can I look?"
"No"
"How about if I look with just one eye?"
Obviously, it's nonsense, but it's a typical thing to say if you REALLY want to look at something, so you just say "pleeeease, I will just look only a little".
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I truly can’t pinpoint when/what exactly changed about Taylor’s fans/fandom but the last few years (especially the midnights release) has really soured things for me and it’s honestly quite disappointing as someone who genuinely enjoys her music and thinks she’s a great artists. how did we get to the point of not even being able to voice an opinion about taylor without being crucified online. or if heaven forbid you dislike a song/album or enjoy the work of one of her exes (john mayer, the 1975, calvin harris, etc)
i’ve always been very fascinated/intrigued by the relationship between celebrities and their fans. and i think it’s really interesting to look back and think about how taylor built her fanbase by making herself as palatable/relatable/approachable as possible. like secret sessions, t party/loft 89/rep room, swiftmas, lover diaries, etc — all of which allow for fan interaction — but also relies on people getting noticed which then in turn encourages people to be as vocal? extra? whatever it is. which then feeds into the "who is a bigger / better fan" competition. i'm speaking from personal experience here, as someone who has liked her since debut — but i think a lot of this is also rooted in how much of the world hated taylor swift prior to ... i want to say folklore, really — like it was deeply uncool to like taylor swift, to be a swiftie, etc. and because a lot of that early criticism was rooted so much in misogyny, i think fans felt the need to (over the years) defend her — and i was one of those! i still am, when i feel like people are criticizing her unfairly. but i think that lends into the "taylor swift has never done anything wrong, and she's perfect and if you disagree then you're against us and you're a fake fan" mentality.
and then i think there's an element of ... not necessarily a superiority complex, but a something among fans who have met taylor. it's a genius marketing move, intentions aside. taylor's music is very personal — and taylor's marketing, and persona is very personal, in a way that other artists prior to taylor weren't, i think. relatability sells. you can see it in the way that people talk about her, and her music. which is very different from the way people talk about other artists — and obviously there isn't anyone else out there with the amount of fame/popularity as her, but you don't see the same amount of fanfiction-writing personal-life-speculating-projection onto other artists' lyrics as you do with taylor. and i think that when someone is that vulnerable with their thoughts, it makes it easy for people to think that they know them personally.
and i think that — as much as i love taylor — it's important to talk about her white woman feminism mentality. and i think that also seeps into how her fanbase interacts with her. the ginny & georgia "joke" is what comes to mind the quickest, but there are countless instances of taylor's white woman feminism — and her benefiting from it. and obviously it was in her right to call out a misogynistic comment, especially one directed at her, but not saying anything when the actress got so much hate for a line she didn't write ... made me feel a bit 🥴. it's interesting to see who taylor will choose to align herself with, i guess is all i'm saying.
i've really taken a step back from taylor — not just because the fandom is exhausting ( the amount of things i've seen about her, joe, travis, etc. is ... something! it's all projection! we do not know anything about these people other than what they choose to show us! ) but also because of her saying that she wanted to be on the right side of history and then over and over again choosing to be increasingly passive and silent. she will call herself an ally but won’t even talk about queer rights; she won’t talk about the literal genocide that’s going on. gun control, abortion rights, anything at all. it's just "go vote" but even that is incredibly passive. but she will take time to remind us to buy new variants, and to stream her music, and that her ex sucks.
i think there was a huge shift that started with folklore/evermore, just given that there weren't a lot of albums being put out during that time, the overwhelming public reception to it — a lot of people who previously didn't care for (or disliked) taylor started to like her, to give her a second chance, etc. then we get into the rerecordings era/midnights/etc., which started off with fearless and nostalgia and then became "how quickly can i put out the next thing". and bailey @placeinthisworld posted this earlier, which i fully agree with. it's about the next award, the next milestone. it's just all quantity. it's overexposure.
and then we have the joe alwyn breakup and the public response to that was also ... interesting. like i saw people crying over it, or saying that love is a lie, removing things from their playlists, acting like they were the ones who had been broken up with. which is just ... odd, given that we aren't the ones in the relationship. and now there are all these comments about being a "joe defender". and then with taylor dating travis, it feels almost like some weird american pipe dream unfulfilled fantasy for so many people — the singer and the american football player. and obviously, i want her to be happy! i don't care who she dates! but i do think the public reception about her and travis has been ... incredibly odd, and i think that the way people talk about her and travis is just ... very ... off-putting and is very rooted in some weird ... stuff. "she finally gets to be small :(((((" is such a weird thing to say. it feels like there's even more projection and self-insert-y stuff with her dating travis, which is a level i did not think was possible from her fans (and more so, the general public).
i have not felt this ... detached and impassive about a taylor release, ever, and it just makes me incredibly sad because i love her music, and am excited about the work, just not excited about the public reception, the public autopsy of her and joe's relationship, or the noise, and i know that internet spaces (and spaces in general) are what we curate, but it's also difficult when she is everywhere.
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Borrowers Patton and Virgil visiting their human friends! They found Logan first~ Logan’s pleased to see them again
They’re just little stick guys
Original version under the cut!!
Time taken: 2.7 hours
The top one is the experimental version where I added more color and a background! I wanted to add hair but after 41 frames I decided I’d get em next time 😆😂😃 here’s the original ‘blank’ one
Virgil didn’t want Patt going to visit the humans again alone…he’s nervous but hey it’s telling he let them go again at all. They’re growing on him, me thinks~
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Aqua & Terra
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KASPER YOUR LAST POST. DOES THIS MEAN WE HAVE A CANDIDATE FOR BRYCE HARPER CRINGE HOCKEY FLING FINALLY.
I THINK WE DO!!!!! here is MY JAMIE DRYSDALE/BRYCE HARPER CRINGE FLING PITCH. necessary background info for the non-hockeys:
jamie drysdale: canadian. often injured. scared of his own shadow. despite this, he is a defenseman. parents gave him a wine cabinet for christmas and he loved it. former bearer of the curse of playing professional sports in anaheim, california. one of those first round pandemic draft picks, so he's taking his sweet ass time to cook (i am not sure if this has also been the case for baseball, but every 2019-2021 draft pick in the nhl has had an uphill battle to play to the level they were projected at because the pandemic torqued their development both pre and post draft. jamie's definitely on his way, but imho he's still cooking.) most importantly: he's short but thick as fuck. boys meet him and they go CRAZYYYY
bryce harper: bryce harper.
now EYE think that jamie is the perfect candidate for bryce harper's cringe hockey fling, because he's a) SUPER young (a fresh 21 years old last april) and b) so fully canadian that he would not be starstruck by bryce harper. he would be full of anxiety because bryce is TALL and HOT (sorry i've been carrying that truth for a while) and PAYING ATTENTION TO HIM but he would not be like omg it's bryce harper. so i think bryce would love the level of anonymity this gives him. like yeah here's this nervous young bulldog who is going to give bryce the sloppiest, hottest blowie of his life BUT he isn't going to know who bryce is and if bryce introduces himself by saying "hi i'm bryce harper", jamie is going to apologize ten times for not knowing who bryce is and look like he's going to have a nervous breakdown until he can leave. ALSO because he is short but thick, he has the necessary center of gravity to throw bryce around once he stops apologizing for existing. bryce is going to love his 21yo horndog hockey frat boy energy combined with his severely under-treated anxiety disorder, and he is going to have the cringiest fling of his life. he is going to text trea pictures of him and jamie being soppy at an eagles game to show trea that he's SOOOOOO well-adjusted but accidentally include one of jamie on his knees. trea will block his number and finally know peace.
ALSO. for scene-setting purposes. potential future captain of the philadephia flyers joel farabee is a mainstay at phillies games in the summer and many people (two of my friends) are suggesting he might take jamie in and have jamie live in his basement (which is possibly where other rookies have but i am not a flyers scholar so i am not up on the lore.) anyway joelbee could very easily bring jamie along to a summer phillies game...haha and then what... (me imagining bryce freaking harper having to sneak into SOMEONE'S BASEMENT to hook up with his 21 year old boytoy.)
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https://x.com/swifferupdates/status/1760264467638837557?s=46&t=OyWZrZkV0ygXSBDBiBRI7A actually too cute she liked this
absolute cutest 🥹 (x)
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Dragons matter, fuck human supremacy!
Found Zephiel's account lol
All jokes aside, it's very telling how Roy was meme'd as "uwu racist" in FEH because of his skills, when Roy is arguing for coexistence between humans and dragons to Zeph, who wants to get rid of humans.
Roy wants to tell Zeph to still have faith in humanity - and not write it off - so humanity can still live and thrive and prosper alongside dragons!
Usually the other antagonists want to erase or look down on the non human race to prop up humanity - but in FE6, Zeph's reasoning is reversed!
And Roy's solution is the same as every other lord faced with this issue - Fodlan excluded because Fodlan treats this issue as horse piss, only relevant, fittingly, in Tru Piss - it's not X over Y or Y over X, it's X and Y living together.
It's kind of frightening how the newest FE games (bar Engage, so maybe it's just a Kusakihara thing?) completely elude the "live together solution" and end up pushing the "Humanity fuck yeah" answer...
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Hi, I'm the anon who's been sending you, mostly, the-Caroline-Forbes-asks over the past few weeks as I continued with TVD-rewatch.I'm finally done with the last season & this was the first time I actually sat through the series finale because back when it aired,I had ran off on a trip so I wouldn't have to watch or hear about it, at least not for a couple of weeks & I avoided ever watching anything from that episode after but yeah, I did eventually come to know what happened because that's impossible to avoid.Anyway, let me tell you,
I'm INFURIATED.There were so many things in that episode that had me screaming!
FIRST, The Sleeping Spell Mythology that turned Elena into a Disney Princess! That was all an eyewash!How did Bonnie even manage to break that damn spell when she was supposed to die if she tried? Was Kai lying or Plec and Williamson couldn't care less about the mythology as long as they could bait that awful triangle one last time?There was NO narrative explanation except that Bonnie finally figured "the witch thing"!!!! Is it supposed to be some kind of a joke!! I always had a bad feeling,going from s6, about Elena's magical coma.Plec had said network pushed them to drag the triangle but she went on to create 500 other triangles as the show went on.They could have killed Elena or sent her off with some human or made it clear she wasn't ending up with either of the Salvatore brothers when Nina left.But no! Instead she used that spell as a plot device to put a PAUSE on that stupid triangle!Elena was human and if she had woken up 60 years in the future after Bonnie's death she would have been an old lady.Delena's human endgame was already a joke!No wonder they turned Stefan into human!
SECOND .The Defan scene! Let's not even get in the whole Damon-you-deserve-everything-and I-deserve-nothing-because-I-turned-you BS because I'm TIRED! But here's what caught my attention
Stefan To Damon: You have quite literally an eternity with Elena!
Quite Literally? QUITE LITERALLY!
Wasn't Elena human at the time and had been so for at least 5 years in TVD's timeline while Damon was a vampire!What did he even mean by "Quite Literally" !!! And,Damon WANTED a Human life with Elena as far as my memory serves! Am I missing something?
THIRD. Stefan to Elena: (paraphrasing) I want you to have an opportunity to get to know the human Damon,the brother who went to civil war...etc,etc
WAIT! Pause! REWIND. Stefan GAVE THE CURE to Damon.He had NO idea whether or not Bonnie was going to break the spell because to HIS KNOWLEDGE and everyone else's She would DIE if she did."I don't know what happened to Bonnie".
Was he secretly hoping Bonnie would die as she destroyed hell and Elena would wake up and BAM! Delena Endgame!
PLUS, Stefan's ACT OF CURING Damon had to be premeditated,right?I mean Stefan had NO CLUE WHEN Elena would wake up."One day when you wake up...". He just ACTIVELY RUINED any chance of a Delena endgame BEFORE telling Elena he wanted her to get to know Human Damon!! Logically,Damon would have grown old and died,or had liver cirrhosis due to excessive drinking & dropped dead or just died in a car crash while driving under influence DECADES BEFORE Elena had woken up. Was Stefan high?
FOURTH.Caroline.Now this is going to be a little controversial.As much as I love SC,I love the characters individually first.And Caroline in the series finale had me confused.She just LEFT her human husband behind!And when Ric told her about Stefan's decision,she just wept and called Stefan & said "I understand". What exactly did she understand?Because I surely didn't!Didn't even ask Ric to turn the car back or anything!She once again used the twins as her escape goat just like she did before. For a while,it felt like I was back in s7.Rremember how majority blamed Stefan while actively choosing to erase the fact Caroline was equally complicit in the breakdown of their relationship?She refused to have anything to do with Stefan even though she knew Stefan was being hunted & die soon.She refused to travel with Stefan.There was no explanation for her actions & Plec weaponised CA's pregnancy to defend her incompetence or lack of willingness to write SC properly and everyone convinced themselves that's what happened.
Just so you know,all of these don't make me love Caroline any less.I am aware she's highly flawed.But there is a difference between showing someone's flaw and turning that character unrecognisable to serve the plot.TVD chose the second.
I could go on and on but it's pointless.I think ,in my experience,this is the WORST series finale I have ever watched. Probably worse than How I Met Your Mother!It's not even about the triangle or SC.Not even Stefan's death.It's the writing! Writing is the backbone of a story,you know! What they delivered is Pedestrian Garbage!
Hey, anon!
1 – Yeah, one of my biggest frustrations was how freely the writers ignored their own internal rules for the magic systems. They’d tie themselves into knots, then create a loophole or a new spell to undo it. The mythology was tight in the earlier seasons but became loose in the later seasons. This is a problem because the stakes are lowered. Why create rules if you're going to ignore the consequences when the rules become inconvenient?
2 - I’ll be honest I can’t even remember a lot of the Delena stuff in the last season because I just checked out of their story by then. 😂 So, I looked up who took the cure(s) and apparently, Damon took one at the end too?? *sigh* As I’ve complained before – the writers changed Damon’s motivations to suit the plot, rather than change the plot to suit the character. The inconsistent characterization is one of the weaknesses of the show.
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4- "Remember how majority blamed Stefan while actively choosing to erase the fact Caroline was equally complicit in the breakdown of their relationship"
Oh, yes. I remember. 😒 I adore Caroline. She's a ray of sunshine. Nevertheless, she wasn't perfect. She contributed to the breakdown of her relationship with Stefan in season 7. Stefan's not a mind-reader.
"I think ,in my experience, this is the WORST series finale I have ever watched. Probably worse than How I Met Your Mother!"
Now, that's an indictment. lol
Honestly, though, the TVD finale was one of the most disappointing finales for me. Nothing is satisfying about a suicidal character sacrificing themselves at the end of a story. Just 🤬
That said, as much as I hate the TVD finale I hate the Merlin finale more. The Merlin finale completely undermined the entire premise of the show.
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Callisto passed away today. I went to let them out for the day and found her huddled in a corner with injuries to her head and one side of her face. I thought either she'd hit her head or she was facing an egg issue, but I felt no egg, and I had seen her up and about yesterday without injury. Her body condition was fine. I brought her in to start supportive care, but she was gone within minutes. Stuck around just long enough to say goodbye.
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you literally made an entire video about dean murdering people completely unprovoked and yet you still insist he's not abusive? ok.
okay 👍
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if you don't like taylor swift in general or the new album that's absolutely fine but if you could stop acting like your opinion is mind-blowing and forcing it down other people's throats to try and make them feel stupid that'd be great
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Have you seen this? It was fairly recent (I blocked out the date, just in case, and did all I could do to block out any identifying information) but I personally found Thomas’ response SO rude, especially to a fan of his who was literally just being nice?
I might be reading into it too much, but I also thought that Thomas starting his tweet with “Very important reminder”, after the first account did the same thing, was just… weird? I can’t articulate it but it feels like he’s mimicking the account or something, I don’t know.
Also I’m not even going to comment on the original tweet lol but this is just part 163727 in “Thomas Can’t Take Criticism” (even though this was literally a fan BEING NICE!!!)
while i wholeheartedly disagree with the first tweet (fanders who spend 90% of their time complaining about crit are so fucking annoying lmao), i can assume the intentions were good. it does read as a young kid saying it, and we can just hope they grow out of that phase of hating anyone who criticises their favourite thing
but oh my god. thomas needs to just stop responding to tweets i think. even if i think the first tweet is rude, it was nice towards thomas! theyre so thoroughly licking his boot, and all he cares about is they MENTIONED criticism! did not criticise thomas, IT MENTIONED CRITICISM! THAT IS HOW BADLY THIS MAN CAN NOT TAKE CRITICISM!
it would be kinda fine if he just made a tweet saying "hey! please dont mention critiques to my face, its the only way i see them!" - its still pathetic he physically cannot take someone being a little mean, but at least he isnt singling out someone with good intentions. and i 100% agree, him repeating "very important reminder" feels mocking to the original sentiment
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