#where love ends and hate begins

[femvaylin]

The grocery store played When She Loved Me and I'm instantly back in Revan/Exile hell

#just she and i together like it was meant to be #furiously ignoring canon to ship unrequited love between two idiot women #UNCONDITIONAL DEVOTION!!!! #BUILDING YOUR SENSE OF IDENTITY AROUND SOMEONE ELSE SO WHEN THEY'RE GONE WHAT'S LEFT- #i've shipped this for at least 12-15 years ish and what do i have to show for it #a heart rent to pieces and a playlist of 12 songs #ooohhhh this relationship dynamic is why i've been low-key obsessed with Suzalulu for 10 years too #when you don't know where they end and you begin #where love ends and hate begins #ahhhhh #i promise i'll stop spamming at some point #when i hit post limit :^) #this is my personal tag #ch: tyril naris #ch: sera kast #AND MUTUAL PINING

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

i don't ship peterick because calling whatever is actually wrong with them "romance" is a disservice to how genuinely insane they are for each other

#like!!! #maybe its just me idk but i personally believe that two guys can be totally in love with each other and devoted to the other and not know #where one of them ends and the other begins and not be boyfriends. #whatever is actually wrong with them is better than anything romance could cook up sorry but its the truth #i want to study their brains in a lab and squish them like bugs why do they act the way they are #and tbh i hate when people straight up assume the only reason why two people have a deep devoted relationship is because theyre boyfriends #or something #fall out boy #fob #patrick stump #pete wentz

[starry-bi-sky]

ive been hesitating to ask this bc youve been on a roll with the clone^2au (which i am frothing over) but could i poke you for some childhood friend au? bc GOD i wanna see how danny reacts to reuniting w jason or how the rest of the batfam react to learning jason never told danny of his resurrection or wondering if dannys gonna put jokers dead body on a display/offering to jasons grave. i havent been normal about this since i first read it and was wondering. thank you for your writing.

RAAAAHHHH DON'T BE HESITANT I AM JUST AS FERAL OVER MY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS AU AS I AM WITH CLONE^2 I AM DELIGHTED BY THIS. Like.,,,, i literally love them,,, so much. I can't listen to The Crane Wives without thinking of them.

(which is my fault - the ao3 fic of them has literally only crane wives lyrics for each chapter title and summary (posted AND the ones not written) so of course im gonna associate with them.)

(if you wanna listen to some of their songs while thinking of cfau here are my recommendations: "Once & for All", "Here I Am", "Hollow Moon" is a Danny AND Jason song to me, this would be my go-to song for an animatic of CFAU if i had the skills for it. "Tongues and Teeth", "Curses" and "take me to war" is a heavy cfau danny song to me, and of course, "the moon will sing")

Like they're BEST friends dude, they're two sides of the same coin and when they were kids they would do this thing where their 'fingers crossed'/'double-crossed' was them hooking their index fingers in the fingers crossed gesture.

and i'm actually currently rewriting my original post into a more fic-like format, and when I'm done I'll post it on here under the cfau tag - with the original post still in tact. But its,,, gonna be so long dude,,,, the original behemoth was just over 9000 words,,, and I've written 3k words already of the new one and we haven't even reached Jason and Danny reuniting at the gala yet,,, i need to get back to that,,,

and then to answer your questions!! god im almost hesitant to answer because i dont wanna spoil the little fic i had planned for it but also like,, its not like im gonna spoil everything, right? and answering the questions isnt the same as writing the scene down so!!

i love danny and jason's reuniting, like i've thought about it SO much and I've thought about it happening after Danny kills the Joker. I know the reveal could have been before that, and it could have been equally just as dramatic but like??? Thematically, doing it after danny kills the joker is SO good. To me at least.

Because like?? Jason's been in somewhat denial about danny's plan to kill the joker for months. ever since danny told him that he wanted to at the gala. And from Jason's pov its not even technically a plan. He sees his best friend for the first time after five years and his best friend still isn't over his death. He hasn't stepped foot in Gotham since his funeral and now suddenly he's here.

And he's still so full of grief over his death that he tells a masked vigilante that he's going to kill the guy that did it, who lives in said masked vigilante's city. And danny's got that look in his eyes that Jason knows so well that means he's being serious. And yet he still doesn't know if he should believe him or not.

And then he does. Danny kills him. And Jason can't fucking believe it. And when he goes and sees Danny, Danny's hands are still covered in blood. And that reunion? God like a fucking firework show. Danny's so fucking angry, and pissed, and hurt, and so goddamn overjoyed that he's alive and here that he sends them both to the ground, and if he doesn't calm down he's gonna take out the power in a five block radius.

there's just so, so much yelling on Danny's end. And then so much crying, first from Danny and then them both. because god, you're alive. you're here. i've missed you so much. i'm never letting you out of my sights again.

and Joker's death! God I don't want to actually say too much about that, but the way I have it set up thematically makes me actually not want danny to take any part of the joker with him as an offering. and he may actually forego that particular ghost etiquette and offer something else as an offering to Jason in substitute to not bringing him the Joker's heart/head/ritualistic body part.

Because you know what the last thing a man whose been spending the last two decades of his life building himself up to be larger than life would want? A death that's unremarkable. :) and that's all i'll put on the matter for now.

and the batfam!! they technically already know that jason hasn't told danny he was resurrected, and plenty of them have mixed feelings on them. largely bruce and dick i think, considering they saw firsthand how close jason and danny were when they were kids.

Dick was honestly surprised at first when he found out that Jason hadn't told Danny he was alive - and on one hand he understands the reasoning for it, and on the other hand he isn't sure if it was such a good idea. Especially after he sees Danny again after he arrives back in Gotham and sees just how badly Jason's death was still affecting him. But it's not like he's going to try and convince Jason to tell him - he can make his own choices, even if Dick has questions about them.

Bruce has much the same thoughts as Dick, so there's not really much to add here other than he might bring it up once or twice to Jason like, vaguely. And then immediately drops it when Jason shuts him down. He might actually somewhat...?? prefer that Jason hasn't told Danny because that raises a lot of questions and could jeopardize their identities. However, again, Jason can make his own choices and there's not much Bruce can do about it other than disapprove from afar.

Tim who knew of Danny from stalking the Wayne family shares similars sentiments of being surprised that Jason didn't tell Danny, but again, yeah, understands the thought process to some extent. Doesn't bring it up ever.

Everyone else who hadn't seen firsthand how close Danny and Jason are don't really have much opinion on it -- Jason didn't tell his best friend he was alive, great, he also didn't tell them either so it's not like its that much of a surprise. It would've been more of a surprise to them if Jason had told Danny before he told Bruce and co. Damian may make a comment or two about Jason not telling Danny, but its not about how he can't believe he didn't tell him or anything like it.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #danny fenton is not the ghost king #cfau #childhood friends au #danny and jason are such best friends i love them so much #BUT YEAH ASK ME MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT CFAU I'LL SCREAM #AND THEN TRY AND ANSWER THEM TO MY BEST ABILITY #like i could go on RANTS almost SPECIFICALLY about rath (dan) and then about jason and danny #and their friendship like i've thought about this au with a combined soulmate au and immediately hated the idea because no! #no! i can't call them soulmates. i can't it doesnt fit. their bond goes DEEPER than that. its *better* than that #this wasn't written in the stars it was forged in the back alley streets of gotham with all the broken glass under their feet #and the smell of nicotine weaving itself into the fabrics of their shirts. their souls aren't intertwined because the universe said so #they're two balls of yarn tangled together because they batted it at each other and decided to play cats cradle. and then never bothered #to untangle the string from one another. you'll never know where one ends and the other begins #i actually have a cfau miscellaneous facts post in my drafts that i need to finish too and i might do that today because of this ask <33 #the fastest way to starry's heart is through her ask box #asking me questions about my aus is the fastest way to make me make more content about them ajshld #see: clone^2 (i've been coasting off the fanart i got from them for the last two days) and now this #i need to stop more before i start waxing more poetic about jason and danny's bond with one another. #also also jason is equally as feral about danny as danny is about him (see: him plotting joker's demise since he was 14) its just not #showing as much since a lot of this is from danny's pov. like dw this isn't one-sided obsession its mutual. #see: jason seeing danny's scars and immediately wanting to find out who caused it and getting murderously angry about it #its not a starry post unless its long #idk maybe im just obsessed with the idea that relationships are chosen and forged with time and that the bonds we have arent because they #were predetermined but because we made them to be. Like how clone^2 said 'i choose to be brothers' and how danny and jason said #'i choose you. i will always choose you. you're my other half. the one who watches my back. i choose you.'

[sciderman]

When i transitioned i had to give up my versatile singing voice and all my skirts and heels. I miss them all equally even though i dont regret a single thing about transitioning. I haven't worn a dress in five years but that doesn't mean i don't want to. My four-inch-heeled blue sequined boots still fit me and sometimes i wear them around the house even if i'm too shy to be gnc in public.

These feelings stopped me from transitioning for a long time and they didn't change when i finally did. I hope that resonates with you

bless you anon! i'm really glad that it's something you don't regret, and i'm glad you're living closer to the you that you want to be - but i also hope you can conquer any fears you have and present to the world the way you want to be seen. i think life's too short to make compromises!

me, i don't think i could go all the way - i think there's a lot about myself i just - i don't want to change. (i'll be honest, the biggest thing i'm scared about with T is what goes on between your legs. i'm terrified of that. i know it's different for everyone, but that makes it even scarier. i'm so familiar with what's down there. i don't want to wake up one morning and it's different. the horrors of one puberty was enough for me. i'm still recovering from my first puberty. i don't want to go through it again. not again. oh dear god.)

i think that's another part of why i thought "oh, i must not be a boy. because i don't want to transition. i have top dysphoria, and Dear God I'd love Top Surgery, but i like what i have between my legs. i like my voice. i like being soft. i like my girlish hobbies. if i like being feminine so much, how does it make sense to claim i'm a boy?" and i think that's a silly line of thinking i had. and i only realised how silly that sounded when other people said it to me. someone said they were worried about identifying as non-binary because they're very pink and very femme. i said - the whole point of non-binary is that it's something you define. pink and femme have nothing to do with it. it's a label you don't have to qualify for! you don't have to qualify to be trans. i know a lot of people trick you into thinking that but - it's just not true. whatever shape you are, whatever preferences you have, whatever you're comfortable wearing, whatever you're comfortable proclaiming - it's on your terms. nobody can tell you what you're meant to feel or how you want to be seen. that's you. you have to define yourself, i guess. nobody else should be able to do that on your behalf!

so i'm a boy, i guess. right now. i'm allowed to be. i declare it so! i'm allowed to be a boy. even in my pink sneakers and my little love-heart chains and all my girlish ways.

#sci speaks #i'm fortunate that i love most things about me. i love my voice and my body and everything. okay i don't like my chest. that's the one thin #i realise actually that's quite lucky. i shouldn't feel guilty about that. #it's a good thing to love most things about you. i shouldn't question it and say “mmmh. but that means you're faking huh??” #i'd never say that to anyone else. so it's stupid to say it to me. #what a silly thing to do. hate yourself for loving yourself. that's?? what kind of mental gymnastics are those. #so i know i'm lucky. i'm fortunate. i know what dysphoria feels like. i don't want to feel More of it. the amount i have is enough. #i know where my dysphoria begins and ends. it's pretty consistent. i'm in a lucky spot. all of this is so lucky.

[cosmicpines]

I'm not done listening to the Alex Hirsch interviews but god it just reminds me both of how much I miss this show and how much I appreciate the love and care that went into it. I love listening to him talk about the characters with a frankness and care that shows how much he values them being three dimensional beings.

#notably his answer about mabel in lost legends i thought was strong of like #yeah were going to give her a story that shes flawed in thats the point of a story #i still dont *love* dont dimension it bc i think it doesnt completely hit what theyre aiming for #the Mabels Fault is so weirdly pointed and bizarre #and her apology at the end is like. eh. bad. it needs another draft i think it needs more space to be explored. #ive been thinking a *lot* about 'mabel hatred' as i think about the show again #i do need to rewatch the show before i make a long comment on it #and how much of it began from people being frustrated that she was continually denied a proper episode where she was allowed to be wrong #in an interesting way #love god in particular is. weird. #and last mabelcorn felt like the beginning of an arc that didnt really happen #like that she was always untouchable in a sense #and that argument was co opted by people who were just unbelievably cruel to her and completely unreasonable #let me be clear: mabel hatred is overblown and absurd and i hate it s omuch #but i also dont like it when people put her on a pedestal of Perfect Unflawed Glitter Goddess #while also being like wow look at the depth of dipper #if youre going to say mabel cant be selfish because shes 12 you also cant say dipper has depth bc by that logic hes also 12 #anyway im sure someone will misinterpret these tags thats why theyre in the tags #mary blabs

[eugeniedanglars]

just watched athena begins and oooooooooooooof wow that was like. not a good episode of television 😬 i obv haven't watched s5/s6 yet but i have seen some people criticize kristen reidel by saying she just tells the stories she wants to tell regardless of whether they're in character or fit with the established canon and i got that from this episode big-time

#athena you deserved a better begins episode than #''i had a secret dead fiance whose existence has literally never even been implied before now! #now i'm gonna singlehandedly track down his killer extrajudiciously and have him arrested #because even though the guy has completely turned his life around and helped countless kids from ending up where he did #and also has a family of his own that i will be destroying by having him arrested #meaning i will arguably be actively harming the world by having him arrested instead of just keeping what i've learned a secret #he still needs to go to jail simply because The American Criminal Justice System Is The Only Justice That Counts #and cop shows have the shittiest takes on ethics since fucking kant'' #911 abc #911 lb #i love this show but CHRIST i hate when it does copaganda and it's been really egregious a couple of times now

[suguelya]

I am 100 percent with you on preferring the JP line in that cutscene if only because it does feel more powerful (and his voice is SO soft, which is something that frequently gets completely lost in the dub in general. Mamoru carries a much softer tone overall for Flynn, similar to how Yuri's playfulness and carefree vibe got lost in favor of the dub's aim for a more "cool adult guy").

That said, I was not even aware they left the whistle out!!! I haven't bothered with that sidequest because the outfit is readily available for free as DLC.

While I enjoy having Flynn present in the last battle, I wish they'd just had him look back up at the sky and say that right next to Yuri right before the very end of the cutscene (since imo that'd be the best placement for it). No reason not to stick that back in!!!

But removing the whistle is just an outright crime and I am owed a fee from the people who decided that for the devastation I've been inflicted with.

Big same 🤝

I used to be such a fan of the eng dub but tbh ever since I experienced the original japanese (back when we still called it the PS3 Version lol) I never looked back. The wording is so, so, SO much more layered and leaves little room to misinterpret subtleties and subtext. Like you, I've had many gripes about the localization because sometimes they just plain insert stuff that was never there in the first place - iirc Troy Baker admited that apparently they rushed the dub so hard, sometimes the voice actors themselves were asked to chip in for the translation...he said he loved that (I'll bet), but that might explain why so much of the OG english script was already full of weird phrasings and insertions...add to that the even more sloppy and lazy DE localization and you get only half of the richness of the original japanese.

Also yes Mamo and Tori *are* Flynn and Yuri more than anybody ever could be. Sam and Troy do a good enough job but I agree that Troy may have been directed to play Yuri closer to a traditional "cool bad boy", which is hilarious given how the original Yuri is a twist on that very trope. Unfortunately, Troy gave him this uncharacteristically cold/aggressive edge whenever he talks to Flynn that it makes it sound like he's always annoyed to see him, and it strips their relationship of so much of the softness and playfulness that Tori lends Yuri.

Anyway enough about me ranting because I could go on for about 10 more hours about this issue lmao. Honestly yeah they very well could've rearranged Flynn's cutscene to fit in there at the end, like hell if you can change the entire camera angles of whole scenes you can change that one background, no?? Knowing Tomizawa though that might have been more effort than he was willing to grant this remaster - won't be his last time.

Same for the wolf whistling!! They replaced it with a skit that is just as funny...

....but void of the insane flirting the original had. Idek why they went so far as to change it, it would've been less work to just leave it as it was 😭

#sorry for the length i just will never be able to shut up abt the translation #theres so much wrong with it #and when i say 'so much' i dont mean 'huge things' i mean 'a million tiny things that end up becoming huge in the big picture' #the most eggregious mistranslations to me were the ones where they shoehorned heterosexuality where there was none to begin with #like inserting estelle in sentences from yuri when she wasnt even in the original jp line #i know jpn loves to play w/ the implicit & the context but when yuri says to repede 'its gonna be lonely now huh' after the party separated #then he does not mean 'its gonna be lonely *without estelle in particular*' he means *without everyone* because he got used to them #and yet the tl makes it only abt her #or #the most unforgivable mistranslation of all to me #when they turned yuris response to estelle's 'id love to keep travelling with you' just before tarqaron from 'thanks same here' #to 'i feel the same way' #like ????? #that changes the ENTIRE conversation BECAUSE its all about the subtext #like it or not (and i hate it) but estelle does have some bodyguard crush on yuri there and this is the way she chooses to 'confess' #you can tell just by the way the scene plays out & how much it lingers on yuris very careful pokerface bc he has very clearly Understood #and yet does not reciprocate so he's being very careful what his next words will be so she Gets The Memo without having to hurt her feelings #and it works!! because iirc she does drop her head and nod a little as if she did get it and accepted what that he basically rejected her #so this isnt JUST some unimportant line #ITS VERY MUCH THEN MOMENT HE SAYS THANKS BUT NO THANKS #SO TRANSLATING THAT WITH 'I FEEL THE SAME' MAKES ZERO SENSE AS IT JUST DESTROYS THE ORIGINAL MEANING BY TURNING IT INTO ITS ENTIRE OPPOSITE #sorry im getting heated abt this again i just #f #even the scenario book interviews confirm that and put emphasis on it so this isnt just me reading too much into it for The Yaoiz #*thats* the subtlety vesperia deals with all the time and *thats* the subtlety the eng tl keeps chipping away at #i know the translators most likely had little direction to go off of so this isnt to dunk on them #more like the complete lack of communication between loc departements and the heteronornativity they resort to when in doubt #hell even higuchi agreed when i addressed this on twitter with him #dude knows #ANYWAY TUMBLR SAID IM EXCEEDING THE TAG LIMIT LMAO sorry for the huge rant i just. have feelings abt tov's loc

[mossflower]

finished homestuck!! and adding it to my ever growing list of ‘media near-universally labelled as cringe that actually kinda slaps’

#like i won’t lie parts of it? terrible. i can’t even begin to piece together half of the lord english plot #but i think a lot more of it was actually really really good. especially act 4 and act 5 they were my favourite hands down #act 6 not so much. like separately? i loved the alpha kids and the dancestors and the concept of the cherubs was really interesting #but somewhere the execution fell short. it’s gonna annoy me cause i can’t figure out why #i think it might be the retcon. which i didn’t hate as an idea!! but it occurred closer to the end than i thought it would #i feel like if they’d explored the impact of the retcon more it might have flowed better?? idk #idk. act six as a whole i’m split on. i either loved what it did or was massively confused and exasperated by what it did #it’s like half of the comic and i got through it in about a week when it took me like a month to do acts 1-5 #and it doesn’t feel like that much happened it’s weird #but yknow. it is the act that sold me on vriska!! like i liked her before but i really liked her ghosting it up in this act #the bit where ghost vriska and ghost terezi found each other nearly had me in tears #vrisrezi as a whole. what a concept. easily one of the best dynamics in the entire thing #i really hope terezi finds vriska post-canon. however i’m not sure if i want to read the epilogues and homestuck 2 or not yet #ooh ooh also!! john fulfilling his quest slapped!! that’s probably one of my favourite bits in homestuck ngl #and omg. did not see davekat coming i won’t lie but i was v happy about it #k ill stop now bc i will end up listing half the characters and my favourite bits about them. and as fun as that would be #i really need to sleep haha #homestuck

[skoulsons]

that line from episode 2 is still haunting me. Joel’s “You need to stop talking about this kid like she’s got some kind of life in front of her!”

We know of Joel’s reluctance and annoyance regarding the smuggling of Ellie outside the QZ and to the fireflies, but this is something we never get in the game. This very strong pessimism. He’s become so detached. He doesn’t believe she’s worth anything. He’s dehumanized her and stripped her raw of any worth or meaning in his mind. She equates to nothing. She has nothing to offer the world, not even her immunity to the fungus. She has nothing to offer either of them or anyone else. She’s worthless to him, in nearly every way possible.

And not only is this a mix of his pessimism that has been a part of him for who knows how long at this point, it’s also his vehement defiance of getting attached to her. This little girl is handed to him on a silver platter. A little girl that reminds him so much of Sarah. She’s cute, snarky, inquisitive, and a smart ass. What’s not to love? But he’s fighting himself the whole time because of this. She’ll get to him, he knows she will, so he has to do everything in his power to keep that from happening. Be rude, ignore her, blame her, point a gun and threaten to shoot her every time she breathes, downright shit on her whole existence to Tess while she can hear the conversation, whatever it may be. He has to mean nothing to her. Because he’s responsible for her. Because he has to protect her and get her to safety. And what happened the last time he had that same responsibility? And if that same fate happens to her, at least he’s not attached this time. He can throw her in a fire and move on. But if their journey goes too far, that bonding is inevitable. It will happen. And he just can’t let it. He has to get rid of her as soon as he can. Because those limits of not caring will only get him so far.

But, in part, it also makes me smile knowing how they end up. Knowing how much she ends up meaning to him that he massacres a whole hospital to save her. How much he ends up loving her, and her him. That she does have a life in front of her, and it’s because of him. They get to settle down together. Ellie living in a normal community for the first time in her life, not a military school. Making friends and finding love. Learning how to swim, visiting a space museum and getting to touch the stars, and learning how to play guitar; everything that he gives her. The man that convinced himself that she was nothing and without a purpose becomes more than everything to him. and I can’t wait to see it all unravel in live action.

#your reminder to not ship them or I’ll spit on your pillow :) #i don’t know what it is about them that just #they just do it for me. #the found family #the love that seems so otherworldly between them because it’s just so profound in every way possible #the reluctance turned genuine care and protection #I still can’t wait for winter when they hold hands. u won’t hear the end of it. not from me #it’s 3am and I’m waiting for bad batch im sorry #the last of us hbo #tlou spoilers #joel miller #ellie williams #does anyone have any other father daughter relationships #where he just hates her so strongly at the beginning #and then loves her way more than he knows how to deal with by the end #I feel like SpongeBob without water please I need more

[ihavedonenothingright]

The more I see people trying to argue that the Zonai are actually the original founders of Hyrule, the more I wish TOTK never existed. Or the "oh the other games (especially OOT) are just false retellings of the "original history" which was Zonai." I genuinely can't imagine being so damn invested in the underdeveloped goat people you would rather retroactively turn your other game experiences into lies.

#I can't be the only person who thinks this line of logic is stupid #1. Nintendo doesn't care that much. They told you where BOTW was on the timeline and it's just “the end.” #2. The new games are not for the old fans. There's references! But for the love of god #It's literally a whole new audience. BOTW brought in a whole new audience #You can do whatever you want forever etc etc. #But man the more I see people praise them the more I hate the Zonai. #Also I'd like to point out that if you really wanted to place them at the beginning of the timeline #Give me a goddamn workable explanation for why the Triforce is never mentioned. Cause that was a big thing in every game before BOTW. #loz #totk #oot

[merriadoc-brandyfuck]

Some of you haven’t cried while listening to Chords by The Amazing Devil and it shows

#GOD #YOUR LIFE BWGINS BY LEAVING AND OUR LOVE IS SHOWN IN THE LETTIBG GO #WE BUILT OUR CASTLE JUST TO WATCH THEM WASH AWAY #KNOW WELL ALWAYS LOVE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOURE LEAVING US BEHIND #I went through a phase where I would listen to it for hours on end #I cried on a bus because it started playing #it’s so beautiful #I love this band so much #the amazing devil #YOU KNOW THEY LOVE YOU #BUT I RAGED #WE TRY #SO MUCH #YOU DID #BUT SO DID THEY #Madeleines Ah Bollocks #THEY MIGHT LAUGH BECAUSE YOUR LEAVING BUT NOONE WILL SING YOUR NAME WHEN YOU COME HOME #WELL BE ALL THAT YOU HATE ABOUT YOURSELVES SO YOU CAN GROW #YOUR LIGE BEGINS BY LEAVING AND OUR LIVE IS SHOWN IN THE LETTIBG GO #WE WERE THE WINTER NIGHTS SO YOU COULD BE THE MORNING SNOW #Madeleine Hyland #Joey Batey #tad #Ruin #that album is so

[dashiellqvverty]

my opinion on season 11 is that ian and mickey were all over the place from episode to episode and i ultimately wasn’t very happy with where it ended for them

#just felt kind of incomplete and boring in terms of their getting an apartment arc #like mickey was still genuinely very unhappy about it and they just left it like that? #and obviously i didn’t love how they did the terry stuff. #i think. there’s something to it because you can never truly predict how you’re gonna feel about something like that #even if it’s a piece of shit who you truly hate like. feelings happen. #and that could have been interesting to explore but it wasn’t done in a way that felt interesting #it just felt like a waste of time when we could’ve been doing other stuff with their screentime #and the beginning was so good i was having sooo much fun when ian was like yeah let’s steal an ambulance and yes we can have guns again. #let’s fuck in the ambulance. etc. #that was so hot and then they ruined it both in that scene that i wanted to SEE and with where they took the story after #like how quickly ian jumps back to ‘well we won’t do crimes then :)’ i thought he was having FUN doing crimes #like are they still doing their security shit? are they still working with stolen equipment?? i want them to do crimes :( #(when i lay it all out like that i’m like perhaps ‘ian being exited about doing crimes’ is not a Good Sign for him. but #it really wasn’t presented that way in context. like i don’t think that’s what they were going for there #and he can be doing better and still have fun doing stupid shit #a la their little outing before he got arrested by the military #yes that was like. 5 years earlier but i’m still like what happened to THAT ian he got boring #and i’m not saying like. him being healthy is boring. i’m saying let him be healthy and also have fun. #anyway.) #also like. signing a lease on the spot against mickeys wishes. kind of fucking impulsive and reckless. but no it’s bc he wants #to have a better life or whatever so it’s fine. #idk i just want to see them steal shit and fuck in an ambulance #and i mean like OVERALL ian has not been as much of a Crime Guy as others. certainly not compared to mickey #like he’s DONE crimes obviously but not in a. it’s his lifestyle way. i guess? #so idk why i’m like i want him to go BACK to that if that wasn’t exactly what he was doing in the first place #but he LIKES doing shady shit with mickey and having fun and idk why they bothered showing us that #if they were gonna drop it by the end of the season that i can only assume they knew would be the final season #it just felt like they didn’t know what to do with the two of them all season and they ended the season in a less satisfying place #than they started #r.txt

[catzy88]

i'm just saying, if this vgk vs. edm playoffs and the second draft pick beating the first draft pick doesn't revive the mceichel fandom (at least momentarily), we're beyond salvation 😭

#mceichel #hrpf #hockey rpf #i wish i had the time and energy to write at least the winner's room fic i was thinking about earlier #especially now that vgk (and jack) won #i've even thought about two different scenarios #one with a lot of dirty talk and almost hate sex #where jack finally gets to take all his frustrations of playing second fiddle all these years #out on the bane of his existence a.k.a. connor #but it ends with him realizing there's a fine line between love and hate #and another with connor having been in love with jack from the beginning #and while he's devastated he isn't going to win the cup this year either #he's also just so happy for jack #it could also be the same story from both of their povs #idk i'm probably never going to write anything anyway #but it's fun to throw these ideas out there #maybe i'll at least end up giving someone else inspiration 💖

[whenthegoldrays]

I don’t know what it is about the Jane Austen adaptations I’ve seen recently, but they just have so much trouble sticking the landing.

#i mean #ANY mansfield park adaptation?? #especially 1999 but that one has a whole bunch of other stuff wrong with it too #and I almost GET IT because in the book the conclusion *is* very quick #but isn’t the point of an adaptation to expand on what is missing in the book? #also Emma and p&p #both of those books have such good rich things happen after the accepted proposals but the major adaptations just totally gloss over that?? #Harriet and Robert meeting again in London! where’s my Emma adaptation that gives me that?! #Lizzy and Darcy being all cute after she accepts him!!! #I really feel like #in a miniseries ideally Darcy’s proposal and knightley’s proposal would both be at the *beginning* of the last episode #not almost at the end of it #because let! the other! things! happen! #let Austen’s storytelling shine!!! #can’t speak for the book in s&s discourse because I never finished it but like. 1995 and 2008 both had lovely endings #it’s not too hard in that sense #but it also is??? apparently? if we’re going by the 1981 #need to watch the 70s one too #AND D O N ‘ T get me started on mansfield park #where ?! WHERE?!?! is my adaptation where we actually get to see Edmund slowly falling for Fanny at the end???? #(I do not see 1999 it doesn’t exist) #like no. because in that one they paint Edmund like he’s been in love with Fanny forever and. no???? #and then 2007 with him just having this random epiphany- what? two weeks after he breaks up with Mary? #and then he just runs out and kdrama-arm-grabs Fanny in the garden and kisses her??? HATE IT THANKS #at least when kdramas do it it’s kind of romantic #this Edmund was just creepy #and since we’re back on this discussion PLEASE I’VE BEEN ON MY KNEES give us a likeable Edmund!!!!! #I just used up my tag limit so I’m gonna tag this for my files and shut up and go to bed :) <3 #elly's posts #jane austen

[7thewise]

I honestly love that Finn improvised the “You’re my superhero” line bc that immediately gives the callback to El’s letter in ep 4 where she says she’s gone off to become a superhero again

#it really brings their relationship back full circle from the beginning of the season tbh #and it also calls back to when Mike says she’s a superhero when they had there fight too #and I’m just repeating what ppl have said already but I love how Mike STILL puts the superhero emphasis on El #when she HATES to be singled out for her powers #bc Brenner did that and look where he ended up lol #anyways I love analyzing st and the little things that’ll lead up to the big picture #especially when it’s been repeated over and over again #stranger things #ramblings #mike wheeler #byler

[blujayonthewing]

it's a testament to how much I love my friend and how strongly I feel about tumblr as an art-sharing platform that I recommended she come to tumblr to share her art even though her doing so would inevitably lead to her following me on main

#I love you more than I hate the thought of you being privy to my personal blog #that said I do feel pretty safe in the knowledge that she is probably not going to come here lol #she had asked on stream where people ARE with their art and set up a poll-- in which most people responded twitter #which like. she was asking (mostly) other artists so idk but in MY experience artists have been flooding off twitter in droves #rats from a sinking ship #scattering to the various twitter-likes or returning here to the primordial seas #all of which I did also say in chat lol #jill after the poll ended: hang on I have to say 'you were right' to my husband :') #me: bestie I love him but your science teacher husband does not know shit about fuck about the art scene on twitter dot hell #to BE fair my personal metric for 'places to share art' has nothing to do with 'good places to Build An Audience' #and everything to do with formatting and lack of algorithms #tumblr is infamously not... like... a GROWING platform or anything lol. like man I dunno. it's rough out there in general #ANYWAY. bullet dodged I guess lol no irl friends allowed in here that weren't here from the beginning thanks #about me #irl frens