okay this is gonna bite me in the ass but I did this after watching interviews, obviously nothing's set in stone but I kinda wanted to do this before everyone's political views are put on blast and the death threats start to fly so POLITICS ASIDE, this is what I think:
(as always, shoutouts to @nerdphobic for the tier template)
Taylor: I'm sorry but she is too good to be true. Her overall vibe in the interviews gave me Tiffany but better, and y'all are hyping her so much that I feel like she's gonna get eaten ALIVE by the tag if she gives 90% of what she can give. I like her energy though, so she goes on S tier.
Marvin: I am basing this on energy alone and he just looks like a guy who's loving life. I can tell that he's never watched the show bc he seemed very confused during the interview, it kinda gave me Derek X but in a different way, idk we'll see what happens in premiere night
Monte: ngl I like his vibe too! I think he might be my winner's pick. I'm usually wrong but then again I thought Xavier was going to perform extremely well last season and he won.
Paloma: why do i like this girl why do i like this girl why do i like this girl-
But for real, I've always started to gravitate towards the youngest HG in recent seasons bc they represent a future generation and they're the blankest slate, so there's more potential to be had. I have the same feeling about her that I have about BB20 Haleigh and BB23 Hannah so we'll see if she continues the trend. She might make it into legend status in the near future. Go maknae line!
Michael: I really like him but he gives off "insert HG is a superfan they should know what they're doing bc they've seen the show a lot" energy 😂 I feel like he's the Azah of the season tbh
Ameerah: ngl I thought she was gonna be too good to be true too but I really like her!
Indy: I was gonna put her on MOR bc she seemed checked out and a lot of her answers were pretty generic but then she grabbed my attention when her answer for the first question was basically "I would do this for now but I won't know until I get into the house" which is the CORRECT ANSWER BTW. You can't exactly predict what's gonna happen in the house until you actually get in the house. We thought BB23 was gonna have some drama and aside from the first three weeks and Kyland's eviction, it was a giant party 24/7.
Brittany: I don't know, I feel like she's gonna be a more crackheaded Sarah Beth 😂
Daniel: I thought his background was interesting but his answers were pretty generic and his vibe was inhibited... idk maybe he'll improve.
Matt Turner or whatever: Same as Daniel tbh, kinda boring, he also looks like McCrae which I did not appreciate, we'll just see what happens
Jasmine: I'm just getting the feeling that she's trying to be another BB21 Jessica but she just had a unique vibe to her that Jasmine doesn't have, I'm sorry. We'll see what happens though, I think there's a lot more to her that she can give in the house.
Nicole: She seems nice, but also seems a bit boring. Also the near deification that Derrick gets is annoying, like I get it, he's a winner but to me that's all he is. also i think she might be our only AAPI representation and if she is i'm scareddddddddd
Kyle: Yeah this guy deserves his own tier. When I said he was a Brottie love child I MEANT THAT SHIT, and I'm not sure that's a good thing - a guy with Brett's level of cringe but could possibly play like Scottie, I AM TERRIFIED YOUR HONOR 💀 But seriously why is he here? He already has a huge following on Tiktok. He doesn't need this show. Him getting onto the show with the political views that the tag has shown him to have is going to be a mental health catastrophe. I'm not rooting for him, but I hope he's okay after this.
Terrance: Eh. He seems very wishy-washy. Next.
Alyssa: She gives me Angela vibes. Enough said.
Pooch: NO. JUST NO. Like this guy already reminds me of a mix of Brent and Enzo and they were both at high levels of irritating. If he's a first boot I wouldn't miss him. Knowing the typical trajectory of BB though, he won't.
All right, let's see if y'all will still like me come tomorrow
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hermit horror week day 1: season 8 or game mechanics
His teeth still taste like blood.
He's locked inside the belly of the Octagon. He doesn't know when he got there, but whoever wrestled him into it was smarter than Ren. They realized the full moon's light didn't reach the wiring. They realized it would give him time to down wolfsbane and silver nitrate. It also gave him time to throw it all up in the corner. If Doc were here, he'd be scolding Ren on the fact that silver nitrate is still a toxin and a disinfectant, and he should still be taking it in small doses, no matter how badly he wants to poison the wolf.
He curls up, shuddering, against the wires and pipes that power the shop. He feels thin and gaunt. He hopes he has not had much to eat. He doesn't have a phone or communicator on him. He doesn't know the day. It doesn't matter what the day is. The moon's visible during the daytime, too. It may have only been a night. It may have been weeks. It's probably at least been days.
He throws up again, because wolfsbane is poisonous too.
Most things that can keep a wolf down are poisonous. Ren doesn't have to take them often. He's normally... controlled. A tamed wolf on the full moon. He has a pack to run with. He doesn't need to poison himself to keep the wolf at bay. He doesn't need to take silver nitrate like it's a medicine and not a reagent.
But none of this is making his teeth stop tasting like blood. His shirt is covered in it, too. His legs. His face, he thinks--he can't see his reflection in here. He wouldn't know. But it would have to be. There's so much blood on him.
He doesn't have a scratch on him.
The only thing that stops him, then, from taking more silver nitrate is that if he respawns from the poison damage, he'll respawn out under the moon. He'll respawn back out there. And then--
He shudders. He folds himself into a tighter ball against the belly of the Octagon. In a shaking voice, he cries out for Doc again. Doc has to be nearby. Doc has to be nearby. Because if he isn't--
No one answers. Ren doesn't know who locked him in here. He wonders if it was a struggle.
He's covered in blood.
It smells horribly good. Ren feels dizzy. He's gaunt. He's so hungry. He'll hold that to his chest. He's hungry and sick, not simply sick. If he weren't hungry--if he weren't hungry--
But he's not as hungry as he should be, if it's been days, and he's covered in blood, and he resists the urge to howl, a long, mournful thing. He doesn't want to howl, or bark, or anything else right now.
Instead he cries, a human thing, and holds onto it tightly while he waits for the pain in his stomach and the shudders over his skin and the grey stains where he'd grabbed the bottle and the vomiting to end, so he can take another dose, and force the wolf further down. Down enough to be safe.
Down enough that he didn't maul his friends to death.
Down enough that he can know if he did.
Down enough that he won't try to leave again, as he knows he will, as the moon shines outside, and as soon as someone tries to open the door to rescue him, letting that light back in.
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you know now that i’ve finished gomens s2 i could probably write an essay on my mixed feelings. what about when a work is - especially so in some parts - very fucking good. thematically interesting and consistent, characterisation that is so painfully human and told in a fascinating manner. but due to a lack of conclusion - inherent because of the format (tv series) - it feels an inherently different sort of narrative to the original. i do not think good omens season two is bad - not at all, but what i do think is it is now a very fundamentally different type of story than that of the book. not because the events of the show don’t happen in the book but because the style of storytelling is altogether different. it’s inherently going to be the case when one of the original creators has sadly passed on, and it doesn’t necessarily make it bad - however it does make it not what personally made me love the book of good omens in the first place. maybe it’s because i came in with certain expectations given that i have read a lot of sir terry pratchett’s other work and basically none of neil gaiman’s, but it’s just a different format of story. like the difference between an epic poem and a serialised story.
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