#still a bold move

[rowansparrow]

I haven’t been watching the bad batch, but I’m pretty sure when the Tech Girlies said they wanted him without his goggles, this isn’t what they meant.

#tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #bro I haven’t even been watching this stupid show and I’m still sitting here open-mouthed staring at Twitter #Bold move Star Wars #The bad batch #tbb #star wars

[ocean-cloud]

Yes you can be mad at Aziraphale but this had to happen, they kept reminding us throughout the season in flashbacks that aziraphale has a questionable moral code, But we could still ignore it, only in the final 15 minutes did the glass shatter and reality of their storylines hit.

As a person who reads a lot on the psychology of religious cults and just a lot on cults and pyramid schemes in general. From the beginning this man was undoubtedly indoctrinated, and I hoped they were not going to shove that away and they didn't which is good. Because he is such an epitome of cult indoctrination and a big piece of that is when something goes wrong, they double down, yes naturally he begins to questions but major changes are related to crowley, as though it is an exception. Every minisode ESPECIALLY regarding the grave digging incident it very clearly shows how conflicting his opinions are. Often they are accomplishing insane levels of mental gymnastics to continue their beliefs and Aziraphale? well he carried that, so while the ending is INCREDIBELY angsty, its also very realistic, one conversation does not heal years of indoctrination and fear, it takes YEARS, and for an angel who was forced into this for thousands of years? it will take some immense deprogramming. He harbors questions and disagrees with a lot (re: him initially saying he didn't want to go back to heaven etc) but props to Neil for committing to his character arc, if either one of them backed done at the end, the character arc would be pointless. In the case of Crowley, he needed to learn to be open and value himself, his own opinions and that he is in fact worthy. If Aziraphale backed down it wouldn't fit his character, he is an angel who spent a millennia thinking things needed to be a certain way, it simply wouldn't be satisfying for him to come back at the end of s.2, it would seem like a momentary weakness and not him truly realizing what heaven actually is, and he needs to learn it on his own.

a little more of an update: this does NOT mean crowley is done growing, nope both of these characters are so complicated and need to individually work out their stuff. I expect s.3 to cover the fall of crowley since thats seems to be the beginning of his issues and this results him to STILL kind of habitually say he's unforgivable though i belief theres a shift for it to be more lighthearted? Apart from that Aziraphale really needs to figure out his almost moral superiority?

either way conclusion is, this NEEDED to happen their 6000+ year lack of communicating and their almost worship of each other is not realistic and they need to take a break, actually work out their problems to figure out their own psyche and some real intense therapy sessions

#that being said bold move neil bold move #if only s.2 and 3 were released at the same time #gos2 #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #gos2 spoilers #aziraphale #crowley #GOS2Spoilers #i still love it. its incredibely realistic and it will make s.3 (hopefully) so much more satisfying

[bumblebeebats]

Easy ripped crotch jeans fix. Sell them as ‘sexy used open crotch fuck pants’ and use the money to buy new jeans.

#see this is why im still on this godforsaken site long after all my peers have moved on to more capitalistically useful social media sites #you just don't get this kind of bold outside-the-box entrepreneurial thinking on LinkedIn

[moeblob]

Scary Linus and Spring Sharena are my current projects and then fallen Corrin and Hrid are just along for the Hero Merit ride. It’s going great. They’re bonding. Hrid wants more siblings because he cannot be contained.

#fe heroes #Linus #Corrin #Hrid #Sharena #Hrid the sibling collector is still just such a bold move for me to make #I still support him in his sibling collecting endeavors #one day he’s gonna have many brothers …

[taikanyohou]

“Because Sung Ho was the only one sitting on his left side ...” HIS MAN 2 (2023). Jun Sung + Sung Ho in Episode 5.

#his man 2 #asianlgbtqdramas #asiandramanet #asiandramasource #dailyasiandramas #kdramadaily #kdramasource #kdramaedit #* #faiza gifs #tw flashing #JRIHFIEUHVR THIS WAS SUCHA /BOLD MOVE/ BY JUNSUNG YALL .................. #god sungho just looks FROZEN on the spot I HONESTLY WANNA KNOW whats going thru his mind in that last gif .... #is it another 'oh?? he said it out loud in front of everyone he really is so serious about me?' moment?????? like in ep 2??? #he just looks so ..... not sad. its not sad. but just v .......... subdued??? like. yeah. an Oh this is Big. BIG. #but also GOD LOOK AT HOW HAPPY JUNSUNG IS IN THAT 3RD GIF HES BOUNCING! MY BABY :(( #AND MINSUNG BESTIE I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU! his and junsung's conversations are ALWAYS just SO NICE theyre SUCH good friends! #and minsung OBVIOUSLY knew from well early on who junsung liked bc of the cookies bet they made too! #and yet he still points out everyone of the boys on junsung's left #and yet seunwoo KNEW EXACTLY who junsung was talking about like !!! THE DRAMA!

[goldkirk]

RE: the pope saying priests can bless gay couples

(from an ex-homeschooled ex-Catholic apologetics-trained queer)

Reaction 1: wow I can’t believe he even dared to TRY saying that in the modern Church, especially after the shit that’s gone down with the recent synod

Reaction 2: how the FUCK?? Does that work with the Catechism’s pretty darn specific language about being careful to not even slightly condone people choosing to live in a homosexual lifestyle?

Reaction 3: oh my god the various schismatic groups are going to lose their shit and this will be VERY interesting. “Pope Francis isn’t a legitimate pope he’s a plant influenced by Satan blah blah blah. not MY pope” etc. get fucked lmao. die mad. you might finally cause enough ruckus to get officially excommunicated and join SSPX in war-of-attrition limbo! you already basically divorce yourself from the slightly more normal devout Catholic crowds because of how you act anyway lol

Reaction 4: this is going to shred the USCCB and all the current devout practicing Roman Catholics in the U.S. my god this’ll be interesting.

Reaction 5: I am so glad I no longer have to hear EWTN and Catholic Answers every day now. I cannot imagine how much Catholic Fox News is going to focus on this in coming days and months

my main thoughts:

I genuinely don’t understand how this is possible when the official Church doctrine still describes “same-sex attraction” as a “disorder” of “Natural Law” and clearly states that while people who bear the cross of being queer can be faithful Catholics, they have to be chaste and never act on their desires, and that the homosexual lifestyle and acts are not allowed for Catholics and cannot be condoned??

Blessing queer unions would sure fall under the category of “could be viewed as at least partially condoning homosexual lifestyles”.

I can’t wait to hear the reasoning behind this one. It’s sure going to give nuclear firepower to the “Francis isn’t a legitimate pope, he’s a plant from the Satan-influenced Jesuits and leading the Church astray” near-schism crowd!

#ex catholic #yes I KNOW that the technicality is that they’re blessed separately but until now #even acknowledging that they view themselves as partners wasnt something that priests could do #now they’re allowed to give blessings to people who are known to be actively living in mortal sin #bold move Francis. bold move. the church is still a dumpster fire but I think you’re brave for even saying this much #tw: homophobia #homophobia #homophobic language #Francis to the USCCB I guess: die mad lmao

[waitmyturtles]

If I had a nickel for every time I saw a character of Phuwin’s urinate on a character of Thor’s, I’d have one nickel, and that’s my way of telling y’all that Phuwin’s Kul pissed on the face of Thor’s Top, and no, it was definitely not a part of that, oh no.

#it was actually a legitimate response to a dick move by top lmao #top was selling pictures of kul #but like #i’m watching the show and i’m like THIS IS PHUWIN RN #BOLD #wednesday club #wednesday club the series #i am still strangely very satisfied by this show! #although the finale is going to be totally ridiculous

[notes-from-sarah]

Fav pages/panels

Excalibur (2004) #11 by Chris Claremont

#Claremont really said get with the times Emma wears clothes now #She doesn't need to be in her underwear all the time #She can have clothes on and still be sexy #Bold move for 2004 #X-Men #Excalibur 2004 #Chris Claremont #Comics #Emma Frost #The White Queen #Apparently its not Emma but some indistinguishable other blonde white queen #guys pls make your characters different from each other #I'm dying here trying to tell them apart #Courtney Ross #xmen

[pinazee]

Why are they making spock so human in SNW? It has to be part of some arc where he eventually takes up his vulcan discipline again. *Like are they basing this all on the fact that spock was emotional in The Cage but more reserved in man trap?

Also it makes uhuras line in TOS “kirks the closest thing you have to a friend” kind if hilarious because it implies Spock refused to consider any of them his friend despite everything they’ve been through.

#im going to take that character away until they can learn to play with it the right way #i have thoughts on season 2 #bold move not to have their leading man in the ep for the majority #i have to trust the writers are doing something with spocks arc #because if they keep it this way i have to assume theyre going against canon and this is another alternate reality #sam kirk still around??? #holy shit mbanga and chapel are badasses #sometimes chapels hair looks like a wig??? just me? #i wish they would shift the focus from spock now actually #just cause his storylines are always about his humanity #like all strange new workd eps i found it highly entertaining and beautiful #just the spock of it all #star trek #star trek snw #star trek strange new worlds #strange new worlds #spock #ethan peck #strange new worlds season 2 #*additional thought

[doesnotloveyou]

re-analyzing mcu female characters now that i'm no longer a fan

look. they gave male writers a bucket of manly action figures and a baggie of female characters as accessories. fem chars were written like a list of tropes except with all the "icky sexism" ones crossed out. they were rarely written as, y'know, people (willing to argue that many of the male characters were barely allowed to be anything more than plastic action figures either)

Somehow though, despite being used as a fangirl stand-in (which are often derogatory caricatures imo) Darcy Lewis is an excellently written female character.

She is always herself. She doesn't care what professional men, hot men, authoritative men, extraordinary men, or even what any woman thinks of her. Not in a Hollywood "watch me not care and be so feisty and empowered while I do it" way, but in a chill "that's cool but imma be my own person" way

She is kind but doesn't put up with mistreatment

She is smart but doesn't need men to brag about her intelligence

She is savvy but doesn't need men to point it out

She is beautiful but neither a man nor the camera ever needs to realize it, and she dresses to be comfortable while also perfectly confident that she's gorgeous

She is fearful but she deals with it without needing a man to comfort her

She is firm in her opinions and her decisions without needing a man (or anyone) to approve of them

Best of all she cracks jokes for her own amusement and knows she's funny even if no one laughs

the writers (accidentally???) created a perfect every-woman by deciding to create a woman without making her Love Interest Material. they made her the Attractive Girl's Friend trope, yeah, but at least the friend gets to be herself instead of constantly wondering if the space viking will come back and sweep her off her feet

they made a strong female character in 2010, and when they brought her back in Wandavision she didn't even need a hot girl bestie as an excuse to be on the screen. their continuity reflected that she was now the most experienced person in her field. even the audience trusted her to be reliable in unreliable circumstances the same way a hero is meant to be reliable

every time Marvel tries to make a "strong female character" they do something hyper-stereotypical that bends in the other direction. "We can't be sexist, see? we converted his secretary into his assistant and then we made her the CEO of his company" or "we showed her punching out a misogynist in her first scene" or "canonically she's a maneater but we're afraid of how that will look so we'll make her have no romances instead while also being The Only Girl trope." and on and on and on

meanwhile, Darcy was great, and I give a lot of credit to Kat Dennings, but I would also like to know if there was a female, or even male, writer in the room who kept her all to themself and said "I'll write this character, I know them perfectly."

there must have been because she felt knowable. she also felt like a fun example of what being a normal human might be like in a universe where caped heroes fly around saving the world from aliens

#no readmore we dine like kings #i was never and still am not a “darcy fangirl” #but she's one of the few characters that aged well #pepper running and repping tony's dad's company was actually a bold move #im2 had many faceplants but ngl pepper was excellent #and sam rockwell played his misogynistic line perfectly #pepper would not engage with his arguing she simply had him removed #power move well done i love im2 pepper #im3 pepper was fine but the damsel in distress turned super hottie via explodey disease was weird #they tried to force a ton of labels onto pepper #when she was fine as she was #dnly rants #marvel

[thepaperbaghead]

I think at this rate I will need to change my handler to "El Rincón de Blackhat y Demencia"... JK JK.

I MISSED DRAWING THIS DEVIOUS DUET SO MUCH! I luv them.

But I got zero energy to paint stuff so I hope my scribble lineart and color coded style is enough orz.

#paperbagart #fanart villainous #blackhat #blackhat villainous #demencia #demencia villainous #lizardhat #blackmencia #demenhat #how many names this ship has?! #and i there im still alive #a tad more crazy on the head than ever but healthy so far #ive been struggling a lot but i keep moving on #and i wish to be more bold with my shippy side key #these things make me happy and comfortable #BEAR WITH MEEE

[kamil-a]

(relistening to a s2 ep) more attention on how sayer cannot see but takes in visual data by being informed of it. "i can see that you are 5"2 with brown eyes and a dark complexion" like presumably thats in her file and so it knows her eyes are brown. so it "sees" brown. if you upload a jpeg to it it can identify the picture probably because it reads the knowledge of whats in the picture. at that point is there even any difference. if you upload an image of a color and say can you reproduce the hex code i bet it could. and yet it doesnt "see". and does it need to?

#a: missed opportunity for someone to successfully lie to sayer #b: when it pilots a human i think it still works like this unless its alone #anyway i luvvvvv alternate senses like this #sayerposting #also BOLD move to specifically say a powerful robot does NOT have cameras

[daminini]

Landscaping

#this is gonna take 4ever😭😭I’m still on the outside btw #like I haven’t even moved on to the individual apartments #very bold to to think I could build an entire rental property from scratch when I have only built one (1) okay house before

[malhare]

“Why does a coyote want to play with my dog” isn’t something I thought I’d have to Google but here we are

#One of the new pups in the area I always walk Mal has gotten older and so bold and curious #I guess it makes sense that she wouldn't be scared considering she has seen me and Mal every single day since she was born #I feel bad for discouraging it but I don't want the poor thing to get too used to humans/dogs then end up getting hurt because of it #It would be frankly irresponsible for me to allow it but it is so fascinating I've never ever seen a coyote do this #I've trained Mal well enough to not go apeshit when she sees them but she's still wary so I also would hate for her to hurt the little thing #I might just have to avoid that park until the coyote gets old enough to move on to somewhere else like the pups usually do #malhare.txt

[hael987]

Honestly as soon as I saw Puen sleeping in a bed WITH HIS SHOES ON I knew he was completely unhinged.

So climbing into the bath, completely uninvited, with exactly 0 qualms but 100 confidence with another person you barely know? Exactly the kind of behaviour I’d expect

#puen/tun #vice versa #vice versa ep 3 #this man is unhinged I tell you #this confidence could only belong to a person detached from reality #what rules does he play by? #seriously who makes such bold moves when flirting? #honestly still not over the shoes

[outrunningthedark]

i’ve said this before, but idc. i‘m saying it again. more people need to understand that television shows, even the ones on actual channels, can make changes at any time. actors leave. networks reduce the amount of episodes in a season. cancellation often feels like it comes outta nowhere. there is never going to be enough time to tell every part of a story you would include if you were writing a fic with all your fave headcanons!!!

#i don't go into the chenford tag all that much #but when i do people are complaining about the speed at which they're moving #bold of you to assume there would have been a season 6 to give them the 'proper development' #also. five seasons is a fucking long time. you're lucky they're still here. #tina speaks