#thesis show

[grntaire]

“their miracle was so big bc crowley used to be an archangel” have u considered that aziraphale and crowley love each other so much that their love alone could move the tides just by staring at the ocean for too long. have u considered that they did the miracle not really to protect gabriel but to protect what they had, what they’d built with each other. and that was them barely even trying

#sorry but the whole ‘crowley was an archangel’ take is not the one for this scenario #the whole thesis of the show is that they’re more powerful and at their best when they’re together #their combined miracle is just a manifestation of that #and i can’t wait to see how they use that bit in s3 #good omens #good omens meta #go2 spoilers #thoughts

[thefiresofpompeii]

on tumblr you can say words such as ‘doctor who is like mythology to me. it’s like an ongoing cosmogonic folktale’ and you will recieve 5 notes from people that are willing to indulge your insanity. in real life you say things like how are the kids and was your holiday fun and the weather’s lovely this morning. and i think that’s beautiful. autism.com/careers

#capaldi’s right when he calls the doctor a folk hero. actually he says that the folk hero isn’t ‘the doctor’ the folk hero is the #time traveller named doctor who. he’s also right when he says that this show is about death. well of course it is. death and time and #change and memory. he gets it like no one else. well let’s hope russell gets it too #actually in way this is um #blog thesis #jamie.txt #dw #doctor who

[my-own-personal-dragon-horde]

That fucking hospital scene…that is a sequence that I’m glad it didn’t feel like playing the game. Instead, I felt like I wasn’t breathing the entire time. That was one of the most effective sequences of television I’ve ever seen, from the acting to the emphasis on the brutality.

The way Joel seemed to be walking through a dream…that’s the part that hit the hardest. We as the audience were hyperaware of his actions, while he was barely there at all—Sarah and his grief and Ellie were the only things on his mind.

Neil Druckmann really wrote a story that turned a mirror on humanity, and my god am I thankful for both the game and this adaptation.

#the last of us #text post #i could write a 500 page thesis on this story istg #the last of us spoilers #the last of us hbo #hbo the last of us #bella ramsey #ellie the last of us #joel and ellie #joel miller #pedro pascal #anna torv #neil druckmann #tlou series #tlou show #tlou #tlou spoilers #joel tlou #ellie tlou #marlene tlou #i ramble

[venfaaniik]

thank @turtlemurmurs for sponsoring this coffee

#my art #artists on tumblr #sketches #ko-fi sketch #tma #the magnus archives #elias bouchard #the brainrot is still here btw l just have a thesis to write #once i graduate i can show how jonathan sims saved my career

[wingsofhcpe]

actually there's a huge difference between queerbaiting/"Hey guys look how gay these two are haha they're definitely gonna end up together, give us views uwu oh- never mind oops they're going to superhell" and "Hey it's 2004-2012 and there's no way we can get away with having our protags/main couple be two gay men but we really want to show these two are soulmates so we'll do it through subtext and underlying messages and by literally telling you over and over again their relationship is the most stable and important in the entire show, and the ending will imply they lived and died together", and it's insane that some of yall don't see how these two are not the same fucking thing.

#saw a very Shit Take about hilson earlier and im like. hm. some of yall have no idea what gay rep was like before 2016ish and it shows! #i feel like usa queer ppl have forgotten that this is actually still the norm about queer rep in most non-USA places #or are young enough/new enough in fandom that they dont know this was actually the most we'd get at the time #like if it was queerbaiting it would eventually be played as a joke Haha No Homo #but it wasnt. like. their relationship was shown to be THE most stable and important one in both their lives & the show overall #they literally destroyed their LIVES to be with each other. repeatedly. #anyway i could write an entire 10 page thesis on the matter but i have an actual exam in three hrs so. another time #house md #hilson #greg house #james wilson #gregory house #house x wilson

[queerly-autistic]

I'm thinking again about Lucius going 'maybe the time spent with you is the best it's ever going to get for him' and Stede responding with 'I'm not ready to believe that', because, fuck, isn't that literally the whole heart and centre and soul of this whole show? When you're at your lowest point, and everyone else has (understandably, tbh) given up on you, the power of having that one person who says 'I'm still here, and I refuse to believe that it can't get better for you'? Someone who sees you at your worst and absolutely believes there's more to you than that? That one person who loves you when you're at your most unlovable and believes in you and your future even when you can't see it? The absolute conviction that you can come back, you can recover, you can make amends, you can be happy? Like. This show. Fuck.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ed x stede #ed teach #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #it's the entire thesis of this show and it means everything to me actually

[homoangel]

jack kline thesis (he did nothing wrong btw)

#thats literally how the show went #jack kline character thesis statement #i had to actually figure out how to screen record on hbo which was not painless because i am veeeery bad at technology #i was overstimulated and now im evil #you know how is #spn textpost #jack sweetie im so sorry for what they did to you #spn crack #angelmemes #13x2 spn #spn text post #jack kline #angelrot

[yoursonlucifer]

catching up on burrow's end and this shit is crazy

#just started the first stoats ep #im in my last two semesters of college and i have to write a thesis paper and do a thesis show so i am very busy #i think the only thing ill be able to keep up with us fhjy and thats no guarantee #if i do itll be by sheer force of autism alone #burrow's end #dimension 20 #almos tagged this 'fimension 30' which is a wild d20 knockoff #aabria iyengar

[skywerse]

#screencaps from riptide but it plays out like a tv show in my head and it's epic and I draw them for you to see #just roll with it #jrwi riptide #jrwi #jrwi fanart #jrwi chip #gillion tidestrider #jrwi fnc #finn tidestrider #another scheduled post #when you see it I'll probably be done with my thesis defense #yEEESH

[ghostdrinkssoup]

nbc hannibal is packed with ambiguous symbolism and confusing dialogue and at least three layers of subtext but if you ever get lost just remember that hannibal is a malewife pretending to be a girlboss and will is a girlboss pretending to be a malewife and exposing that in each other is what the show is about at its core

#it doesn’t matter how much meta you write or how deeply you analyse it or how much obscure symbolism you unpack #it always comes back to that LMAOOO #that’s the show’s whole thesis statement nothing else matters #hannibal just wants to cook (people) for someone and will just wants to kill what can u do #they’re weird and in love and achieve domestic bliss at the expense of multiple lives </33 fucks sake #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannigram #ghost speaks

[pinazee]

I only have praise for how they’re writing Jim Kirk in SNW. Though perhaps I’m biased because i love this character.

Admittedly, at first, I didn’t like the guy. I thought Wesley was a terrible casting choice. he didn’t have the passion that Shatner and Pine gave him, and frankly just didn’t have the look for me.

But Wesleys Kirk is pulling out that soft, kind hearted nerd that we all know Kirk is.

In La’Ans AR, he listens to Sera despite her being “unhinged,” he smoothly steps forward to put himself between Sera and La’An and sacrifices himself to save the timeline- to save Sam.

Then the real Kirk, despite getting decked, thinks first of Uhura and doesnt want her to have to explain the hallucinations. He doesn’t write Uhura off either like Chapel and Spock did , he believes her. And then inserts himself into the problem because, as La’An said, hes “the type of person who cant walk past a stranger in need”. and then sticks around to make sure she is okay.

So yeah, maybe Wesley isn’t who would come to my mind initially for Kirk, but i love his interpretation of him. His Kirk cares deeply for others and thats the Kirk i know and love. Im looking forward to how they develop his relationship with Spock.

#plus there are a few lines that were just sooo kirk #in la’ans ep the line - we’re not out of the fight yet #in uhuras the line- you can let death win or you can fight back. hold on to them #there are just little things too #the joy he had in La’Ans ep playing around in a new time #the look he gives la’an before saying try me and gettings shot like he was saying goodbye #the fact that he played therapist to both la’an and uhura #i think in pikes AR it showed more of kirk being an intelligent soldier #didnt really comply with my thesis here so i didnt mention it haha #star trek #captain kirk #star trek tos #star trek strange new worlds #james t kirk #star trek snw #strange new worlds #jim kirk #snw #tos #james kirk #paul wesley #tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow #lost in translation

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[lilatara]

just thinking about how despite AtS trying to portray it as comedic bickering amongst bros, Spike actually has decades worth of reasons to hate Angel, while Angel has remarkably few reasons to hate Spike. And it should maybe be concerning that from School Hard on, Angel adopts an absolute "don't see what this has to do with me" reaction to him?

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #spike btvs #ats #angel the series #spike spent 100 years with a front row seat to the worst damage Angel ever inflicted #spending every day trying to fix in dru what angel tried to destroy #just to later save the world and have angel belittle his sacrifice and mock him for thinking buffy cared about him at all #with angel knowing full well at that point just how much buffy does care #and the show is like 'can you BELIEVE Spike is trying to steal the prophecy Angel EARNED by being so heroic???' #'spike needs to learn from angel what real atonement and personal responsibility is' #anyway #props to Destiny #the only episode that got it right #and then immediately forgot its entire thesis statement

[hawberries]

update: i got him!!!!!!!

[image is a digital drawing of Gorou holding his fish box and gesturing authoritatively as if giving orders, his expression serious. He is wearing a black t-shirt that reads “WORKING: service dog; do not pet; I’m at work!”]

#AFTER FOUR DAYS OF THE LEAST ENJOYABLE GRINDING IVE EVER PUT UP WITH (AS A VIRGO WHO UNIRONICALLY ENJOYS GRINDING) I HAVE: A DOG #now to take 800 screencaps of him running around and then uninstall the app forever #this is my thesis about what i think his character is fundamentally. btw. my character manifesto #he is a dog who you want to pet so so bad but you can't because he is doing such an important job!!!!! #HE IS A VERY SERIOUS GENERAL!! #fanart #genshin impact #gorou #people! #thank GOD he showed up early i have no idea what i was going to do if i missed him on the first guarantee. kept grinding i guess

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Eliot receiving his Hanzo sword.

Leverage S03E14 The Ho Ho Ho Job.

Bonus:

#leverage #eliot spencer #nate ford #sophie devereaux #alec hardison #parker #i don't care if it's june I'm having feels about this scene #the way he stills when he sees the sword #the way he's struck speechless #everyone else #this is just before they take on moreau #tell me he wasn't guilt spiralling right about now for still not telling them #and then they go and do this #they show him that they know him #and that they love him #(i did not mean to write a thesis on this but here we are) #ghostly'sgifs

[atwistinthetail]

I think we’re all on the same page about the full moon not just making mermaids act differently, but making them act on some kind of “true” or subconscious desire. but I wanted to look more closely at the full moon effect on all our girlies and what it means.

cleo’s larger journey is to self-assurance from where she starts as mostly an ingenue. under the full moon she is confident and has a clear ability that makes her stand out. cleo has spent most of her life as best friends of an absolute beast star athlete, and of a science whiz. in 1x20 she speaks about helping lewis like it’s the first favor she’s ever been able to offer him. her siren power is a special talent unique to her which sets her apart from her friends. she finally commands and basks in all this positive attention, instead of being embarrassed in the limelight like she was at the start of the ep.

moonstruck emma most obviously abandons all responsibility, unburdening herself for maybe the first time in her life. she is flirtatious with byron and with rikki (even drunk I’ve never called a platonic friend baby I’m just saying). she also has a big appetite, which I only recently was thinking about. emma is a lifelong athlete with an extremely strict diet. even at a slumber party she has prepared “sensible” snacks. under the moon’s influence she gives herself freedom to literally eat whatever she wants. and of course she very adamantly wants to stay a mermaid, flying in the face of her usual cautiousness, and is just enjoying that sweet mermaid life.

and rikki has much more awareness during the full moon, not just because she is controlling the effects better but because she is not usually suppressing her impulses. she generally speaks her mind and acts on what she wants anyway, so there isn’t as much for the moon to “reveal.” instead it prompts her to self-isolate, succumbing to her existing fear of not belonging or of being some kind of liability. she acts on her attraction to zane after admitting in 1x6 that she’s insecure about being liked. and she verbalizes her fears and insecurities to somebody besides her friend’s kid brother for the first time.

the full moon eps are such a fun silly way to be like, “let’s make everyone do something crazy and then immediately retcon it” but idk, even though none of these are hot takes I just like how it reveals a lot about our besties

#h2o just add water #just add water #cleo sertori #emma gilbert #rikki chadwick #wishing I could go back in time and do my college thesis on this show tbh