If I had a nickel for every time Patrick Stewart’s Professor X has been murdered on screen by a red-headed woman who used to be a hero who could read minds a little and had some telekinesis but then gained godlike powers to alter reality at will making her nearly unstoppable and eventually evil, I would have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.
i know some people are disappointed but think about this: bellamy and clarke are together, arms around each other, looking at the new world they have the opportunity to explore TOGETHER. they are TOGETHER. they have this kid, their friends’ kid, that knew stories like madi did. knew to wake BOTH of them up. only them. why? because monty and harper knew the only way to figuring out the new planet situation is with both of them awake. they knew theyre stronger together. and in my opinion, they recognize bellamy and clarke as the future. its not really about romance anymore. theyre beyond that. theyre hope. theyre the future. thats way more meaningful and powerful than a kiss or “i love you”. im not saying that stuff wont happen or to give up hope for it but im saying look beyond that. theres really no better way to end the season than with bellamy and clarke in each others’ arms looking at the future fully on the same side and together. the head and the heart.
In almost every show I’ve seen there’s always been a character(s) that’s been treated badly at one point or another. But never have I seen a show treat a character as badly as Landon Kirby. 2 straight seasons for mistreatment, 3 if you count season 2 where he kept dying for no good reason. Season 3 Landon wasn’t even a thing, we have no clue what he went through(not that they would acknowledge his trauma/feelings to that anyways). Season 4 he’s been stuck in limbo dealing with/helping everyone else. They keep popping him in and out of limbo, like they’re playing whack a mole. Now his soul his stuck there bc of that stupid contract, that should be invalid. And now they expect me to believe that Hope Mikaelson, the only other person besides Landons brother who actually cares about him is completely fine with leaving him in limbo(talk about writing ooc behavior)? Does that really sound like the Hope Mikaelson we all know ?
Thinking about how there are people who have done some really bad things. And not only did they not face any consequences for it but they get to be happy and live their lives. While Landon who’s done nothing but good continues to suffer. It’s just so crazy to me. But what’s even crazier to me is that these writers don’t even bother trying to hide how badly they treat Landon. They had him be stuck in two different dimensions, to then have him be possessed with no control over his body. Then to have be stuck in a 3rd dimension(if you would even call limbo a dimension) just to pop him in and out of there for no reason at all. To then have his soul become property of the Ferry man. They didn’t give him a fuenal twice and idk if I actually believe that anyone went to get his body and they just wrote him having a grave so Landon could have someplace to wake up in the real world with Ted. And probably not even an hour or so after his death in 4x04 they gave away his room(and probably all of his stuff too).
And then they said big stuff for Landon is coming. But watch this “big stuff” just be him leaving limbo for good.
My thoughts on the Gentleman Jack finale are not entirely formed yet, but I must say that while I adored the first season’s Austen-esque melodramatic romance, I think that the realism we have seen over the last eight episodes touched upon something a lot more meaningful than a hilltop kiss, beautiful and impactful as it may have been, could ever hope to reach.
Life is not easy, indeed, but we survive.
Once love matures from youthful blooms to strong roots, the real work begins. The battles are endless, fought daily, but being able to share that burden with the few people who understand you is what makes it bearable in the end.
Here is to a third season, as well as to the real Anne Lister who, despite all the faults and qualities that come with being a person, made this all possible by writing down her story and proving that yes, we have always been here. You might just not have found us yet, hidden in the pages of a journal, the underlines of a letter, or maybe even the loving message in the back of book of common prayer. But we were here. We are, and shall be.
Christians hate when a gay man goes “fuck it, I’ll gladly go to Hell if you want me to so bad” because it takes the edge away from their tools of fear. If they can’t scare you with threats of eternal damnation then one of their main weapons is taken away.
“You’re supposed to fear your father/parents” this isn’t the first time I’ve seen someone say that someone told them this in the tags. Christianity as an institution is one of the biggest shelters for abusers out there and this shit right here is how they do it.
one of the first things i learned in a fucking summer vacation theater camp for kids was about how to emote on stage. the counselor wrote “LOVE” on the board and asked the class if anyone knew what the opposite of love was. naturally the whole class responds with “HATE”
he said we were all wrong and wrote “FEAR” on the board.
fear does not equal love. fear does not equal respect. fear will never be part of a healthy relationship with anyone or anything and if fear is being used against you in the name of love then thats a huge red flag if ive ever seen one
A point I’d like to see being addressed more: the thing that ACTUALLY made Stede run away. Like, okay, yes, in HINDSIGHT Stede figured out he had to go home to set things right with his family and find out just how much he didn’t belong there, but he didn’t originally leave Ed specifically for that reason.
In the moment, Stede Bonnet ran away from his life at sea and a future with Ed because he believed to his core that he was not just a poor pirate, but a monster and a plague, a ruiner of beautiful things—and then Badminton confirmed it, repeated his inner thoughts back at him while pointing a gun at him. It’s a recurring motif throughout the show, Stede picturing his family and Nigel Badminton in moments of guilt; we already know he thinks he ruined their lives. He’s working through that guilt. It doesn’t begin to occur to him that he’s ruined Ed, however, truly ruined him despite Izzy’s bleating, until the Act of Grace business.
Tomorrow is Nightmare Time day! I’m about to get negative but I’m gonna try to do it in a reasonable, genuine way, and then I’ll stop talking about it I promise!
If you follow me you know I don’t like Perky’s Buds very much. I think it’s the weakest Hatchetfield story overall. I don’t care who does like it, to each their own and good for you, enjoying things is great! There’s stuff in there I like, too. I’m not gonna say you’re wrong for liking it, not at all.
But seriously, once it goes live tomorrow, if I see more people making all critique of it out to be a feminist or shipping issue I will lose my fucking mind and that’s a promise. Thankfully this is a pretty small fanbase so I haven’t seen a ton of this, but I’ve seen enough to irritate me, and it’s enough to write this post to try and genuinely discuss it so. I hope y'all will hear me out.
The reflex to be defensive of a woman-led story that doesn’t feature her love interest is a fair one. It’s easy to see paulkins fans taking issue with Emma’s character in PB, or having been bummed that Paul didn’t make an appearance, and take it in bad faith. Baseline critiques don’t always expand on that kind of thing, it’s easy to see it as bitter shippers who wish Paul was around and don’t think Emma can hold her own in a story without him. I’m not gonna say there aren’t people like that, maybe there are. And yeah, that’s dumb. If your only problem with PB is that Paul wasn’t there, and thus there was no paulkins, that’s an issue. Think on that.
However, as someone interested in genuine analysis and critique, who took the time to think about why I didn’t enjoy Perky’s Buds and discuss it with multiple people, I want to make a genuine argument and explain what I and others really take issue with when it comes to Emma’s character in this story. It’s not about Paul. Emma is fully capable of carrying a story on her own, and Paul’s presence wouldn’t have made this story or Emma’s portrayal in it any better. I’ve talked to people who like Emma and don’t like paulkins who agree that PB is a bad story, and a bad Emma story particularly. It’s really not a shipping thing.
I’m not gonna talk much about the actual story writing here, because although I didn’t really like the story as a whole either, I find those things more preference based. I’m generally not a fan of The Animals Are Evil type stories, I wasn’t entertained by the nighthawks as villains, I would’ve preferred a story with the Metzgers as the central threat. A story just like this with a different lead probably wouldn’t appeal to me regardless. Those are all me things, and I don’t particularly care about any of that in comparison to what I’m actually going to discuss.
The story itself isn’t the real problem, the lore isn’t the problem, the other characters aren’t really the problem, and Paul being gone isn’t the problem.
My thoughts on the Gentleman Jack finale are not entirely formed yet, but I must say that while I adored the first season’s Austen-esque melodramatic romance, I think that the realism we have seen over the last eight episodes touched upon something a lot more meaningful than a hilltop kiss, beautiful and impactful as it may have been, could ever hope to reach.
Life is not easy, indeed, but we survive.
Once love matures from youthful blooms to strong roots, the real work begins. The battles are endless, fought daily, but being able to share that burden with the few people who understand you is what makes it bearable in the end.
Here is to a third season, as well as to the real Anne Lister who, despite all the faults and qualities that come with being a person, made this all possible by writing down her story and proving that yes, we have always been here. You might just not have found us yet, hidden in the pages of a journal, the underlines of a letter, or maybe even the loving message in the back of book of common prayer. But we were here. We are, and shall be.
THEY DID IT. PRAN LET HIMSELF BREAK DOWN AND PAT WAS THERE TO HOLD HIM AND COMFORT HIM. THEY HUGGED AND THEY HUGGED AND THEY FUCKING HUGGED. AND THEY CRIED, AND PRAN LET IT OUT, HE SAID I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE, AND PAT SAID LETS JUST FUCK IT BC I CANT STAND THE FACT THEYVE MADE YOU FEEL THIS WAY. BUT ILL BE HERE TO HOLD YOU WHEN ITS TOO MUCH. IM CRYING SO HARD BUT THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL
When and how did this become acceptable and a flex?? And of course she said there’s nothing to be worried about because it was ~consensual~
I’m not being snarky or funny when I say this. This resulted in brain damage. We’re looking at non-fatal strangulation, where her blood flow was cut off so strongly and for so long, that the vessels that carry blood to her eyes and face ruptured and we’re looking at the results of internal bleeding. Losing consciousness by itself indicates serious neurological effects from this traumatic injury.
Tiktok is a platform primarily aimed at children and young adults. She almost died. Even if she genuinely asked for and wanted this, it doesn’t make it ethical to glorify extreme self-harm on a youth-based social media app. The people who used to glorify this stuff used to post it to 18+ fetish sites and it’s become so normalized that children are looking at this and at other pornsick adults commenting about how ~sexy~ it is and developing a warped view of the world and women’s place in it. It’s unconscionable.
music should always be a space to just purely feel whether it’s joy or sadness or hope, I’m glad in the face of this pain there is a celebration reminding us all what music means
i can’t vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. “oh i’d never do that i would have remembered my father’s warning and been fine”. do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn’t want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you’re too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you’d be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.
so im unsure if ponk meant the “13 pillars of salt” line to be a biblical reference, but either way, i think its a really good analogy for ponk’s relationship with sam, and their character as a whole. the “pillar of salt” refers to the story of lot, in which lot and his family are warned by an angel to leave their city before god destroys it. while fleeing, lot’s wife looks back, is turned into a pillar of salt, and is consumed along with the city.
ive always liked the slaughterhouse-five interpretation of this story, which is that lot’s wife was so attached to the city that she looks back instead of choosing to be saved. and i think that is a flaw of ponk’s character: they are constantly coming back to the past. they still love sam despite being hurt by him, they rebuild their lemon trees after they’re continuously destroyed, they’re the only smp member to be tied to reincarnation. ponk has the compulsion to look back. they know doing so will only hurt, but they look back anyway, because they are so very human.
There’s a scene in Vendetta that I’ve been wanting to talk about because I just couldn’t stop thinking about it. So here we go.
It’s when Chris, Leon, and Patricio were ambushed by Arias’s men, and Diego started unloading that humongous machine gun on them.
I couldn’t help but notice Chris’s reaction here.
I think we can agree that in that kind of situation, you wouldn’t have the time to plan your action. You’d act based on your instinct/reflex.
Apparently, Chris’s instinct/reflex was to grab the closest person there and try to get them to safety.
That person happened to be Patricio. It’s worth noting that by that point, Chris had heard from Leon that Patricio wasn’t exactly a good guy. According to Leon, Patricio was the one who betrayed him and made him lose his whole unit in the beginning of the movie.
Yet, despite knowing all that, Chris still tried to get him to duck for cover. He didn’t discriminate who to save. For him, Patricio was just a civilian, another human being, and Chris just cared.
He got Patricio behind one of the pillars for cover, while he himself just crouched over him, putting himself in danger. He’s willing to sacrifice his own safety for the sake of others’ (This reminds me of how he threw himself to save his comrade from Iluzija in RE6).
And it doesn’t end there. This is what happened next.
(Unfortunately, I had to make this particular gif in black and white because it’d exceed Tumblr gif size limit otherwise, but I hope it’s clear enough to see.)
After he got Patricio behind cover, the next thing he did was to make sure that the other person who happened to be there, Leon, was safe as well.
Look at that gif. Chris looked up to check if Leon was alright. Only after he confirmed that Leon was okay did he proceed to look at their attacker to assess the situation. It’s always other people’s safety first.
So, yeah. What I’m trying to show you is that Chris is such a selfless character who always just wants to save and help people. I don’t think it’s even because he wants to, it’s just in his nature, his instinct.He’s just a genuinely good person. And ‘good’ is definitely an understatement when talking about his character.
