#(especially about the script)

[akanemnon]

It was super effective

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[livelaughgem]

This is killing me oh my god.

Lawrence says such a smart retort and leaves proudly but is forced to immediately walk back past the same person he just insulted because he forgot his damn key.

[boneheadboner]

Sleep substitutes

[juniemunie]

"Why am I still doing this?"

"Don't you get it?"

"This is all just a show... and we're playing parts~"

[granma-sweetie]

adam faulkner-stanheight/david saw 2003 + the end/dead

[celtrist]

I really want to see a more fucked up version of Charlie in canon. Like, okay, I am a die-hard for sweet bubbly girls in media. But I always see how some people make Charlie actually, oh I dunno... demonic? And it's so refreshing for her type of character. I could honestly see her having low empathy (and we kinda see this with how she handled Angel's situation or even Vaggie's nervousness about taking control on an activity). An exploration of that trait (if it was intended) would be interesting to see for a protagonist, especially when her main goal is about helping others. I would love to see her actually have a level of difficulty in understanding others' feelings from the other residents, sinners, and even her father.

But give her a fucked up side. Not a "she gets more power when she's angey uwu", but a "oh, she's a little fucked in the head". It would give so much to her character that she just doesn't have.

@/murmurmurena (don't wanna bother them so slash there we go) has some fun ideas with Charlie. I highly encourage people to check their stuff out! So many fun dark ideas with her character while also still keeping to her canon personality pretty well! Personally, I think Charlie being a bit more naive to her own messed up traits would work best but her also being aware of these traits can make for some interesting character for her.

THIS FIC, "A Game Between You and I". RIGHT HERE WITH THE FIRST CHAPTER. A bit of spoil for the fic here: but I love how they handled Charlie’s absolute ignorance as to why the idea of Russian roulette is horrifying to Angel Dust. It doesn't feel like her being intentionally malicious or aware that she's the odd man out here. This is also a pretty old fic going by only the pilot, but the point still stands that it was such a fun take for her character!

Charlie is one of my favorite characters in the show in part of the POTENTIAL she could have as being the most bubbly sweetheart character while also being the most messed up character in the show. I can't say I have strong confidence with the show's writing and fully expect them to stick with Charlie being the "nice girl but oh no, don't get her angry or she gets scarwy". Which isn't bad for a character mind you, there's just so much more potential to Charlie outside of that trope, especially when you get into the theories of her either being a doll, Roo's biological daughter, or what have you. And for the MAIN CHARACTER of the show, it would be not only interesting but also bring the spotlight back to her.

There's really no question that the side characters steal the show, particularly all the male characters. If I'm honest, Charlie does not feel like she gets a lot of love from the show itself when she's supposed to be the main character. She feels far more flat compared to the rest of the characters (again, the male cast in this "female-lead" show has more depth than most of the female cast currently. I wouldn't be pointing this tidbit concerning the genders of characters if it weren't for the fact Viv defended Helluva's lack of development with their female cast by saying "Hazbin is a female-lead show and Helluva is a male-lead" and Hazbin ended up with it not feeling female lead (to me) and the male cast just completely stealing the show. I don't normally care about gender stuff, especially since I do personally lean interest towards male characters. But using one show as a defense for poor development of the female characters, and then that show not really holding up with no very interesting well-developed feeling female characters irritates me. It's just very clear that these shows don't seem to care much about the female cast :/)

If you like how Charlie is written that's totally fine. PERSONALLY, I just think they're missing so much opportunity with her character by just making her the standard female character type. I honestly don't have a lot of faith they'll actually do something with Charlie's character though. She's a pretty static character in S1 being the same from start to end. Not changing or learning anything to create any development. What does the end of season Charlie do that start of season Charlie wouldn't do? Fight back? Because we see with the pilot (which is the “first episode”) that Charlie does fight people if pushed like with Katie Killjoy and even Valentino. Static characters can work in media depending on the show or their role. But Charlie is the MC of a show about “bettering one's self”. So to have her as a static with not a lot of strong dilemmas for herself (like we see with Angel Husk Al and even Vox) seems silly. Plus, considering Hazbin is telling a whole story and it's not a fun episodic thing, characters are expected to grow on some level. Or else, what was the point of their hero's journey?

[stuck-in-jelly]

Remember how it was implied Soren REHEARSED how he would ask Corvus to stay?

Do y'all think he was in his room like this for weeks wondering how he was going to being this conversation up with Corvus?

[quixoticanarchy]

Grim to see how much of a stranglehold diet culture still has on my 75 yr old coworker - she's got the fancy watch to track her steps, she tells me every week how many calories she burns swimming every day, on saturdays she only eats salads. And it might sound mean, but.. Lisa. If it hasn't worked yet it won't work now. The body you have is doing a fine job. You're 75, and this is still what your life is built around? This is the crowning achievement you want before you die?

I just want to be a size 4 for once in my life, she says.

I do believe that with age a lot of us let go of a lot of our little preoccupations and worries and such, but that's not really guaranteed - and not really very profitable for diet culture to be something you can age out of. Better to keep selling people the idea that if they just try harder, they can spend the last few years of their lives on this earth trying to once and for all be small enough, before they die. And I know, I know, I am extremely aware how it becomes a self-inscribed obsession, a system of personal surveillance, a set of choices that feel utterly yours - I'm doing this for myself. I'm not buying into anything. I just *want* this. I am also familiar with the sunk cost fallacy of it all - 70 years of failing at diets, but what if this is the one? Who am I to say she doesn't have to live like this, when after all this time and effort, how can she admit defeat now? All I know is I don't want to live like this. I've already given it a lot of years. I can't give it the rest of my life.

[old-skyguy]

Look.

Ace Attorney fandom.

I know why people don't like Turnabout Bigtop. I am among the people who dislike Turnabout Bigtop.

But I GET why people like the case. I'm not going to be one of those annoying people who just blindly dump on it because I hate those mfs too.

Thing about Bigtop isn't that it sucks. Thing isn't the weird grooming stuff (though that is a huge part of it). It's not that it could've been good.

It's that - in my personal OPINION - it could have been *great*.

I think it had the potential to be one of the best third cases in the trilogy. It had everything; a fun and goofy setting fit for a pretty dang goofy lawyer game - where the environment itself had jokes and quips and one-liners and mishaps and tomfoolery written all over it, it had the previous case introducing a very interesting and important plotline that gave background for one of the more well-loved characters while also introducing an equally fucked up and lovable new one who was a child forced into a shit childhood of naivete in a CIRCUS with another character who was very naive and childish - whose interactions could have been funny and cute and reflective of said shit from the previous case (seriously she becomes such an important character in the 4th case, WHY would they not include her in this one for some character development? How did they fuck up letting a CHILD explore a CIRCUS?? That would have made the interactions flow MUCH better).

They had a pretty good, sympathetic killer imo, a morally dubious victim, an asshole of a client (who was pretty flat admittedly in-game, but I like his weird, topsy-turvy reasoning for it in the anime. Also, I think Max being kinda a dick would have bode well for the themes of Farewell since most of his clients up to this point have been like...nice? Not nice, but sympathetic, but him having to defend someone who's innocent but a prick would have shown him that just because someone is an asshole, doesn't mean they deserve to suffer for it and that they have the potential to grow as people, which is almost a complete foil to what Matt was. Ultimately, I would have loved the contrast of them as clients and I think it would have also served as character development for Phoenix, especially with his low-empathy tendencies).

They just didn't think that far ahead. They just didn't execute it well enough. They just decided to make three of the adult characters fight for the hand in marriage of a teenage girl. (Bat's part of the story was actually kinda good if he was just YOUNGER, I think him doing that for Regina would have been a stupid thing someone in the circus would do to impress their crush. Damn you Ace Attorney and your weird treatment of underage girls!!)

It just flopped and that's ok.

Even though it kinda sucked, it can still mean something to me.

Also I'm a Moe Curls apologist. I liked him, shut up.

[orbiten]

i can't stop thinking about the Out of Time audiodrama miniseries, where the Tenth Doctor (during his time travelling alone after Journey's End and going through his Time Lord Victorious arc while running away from his death) encounters the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Doctors, and during his adventure with Four, Ten almost commits genocide against the Daleks again, only for Four to stop him just in time.

transcript of the scene:

TEN: (to the Daleks) You had a star exploding through your time corridor. If he [Four] hadn't stopped me, it might have reached Skaro.

FOUR: I had no idea what you were doing. I simply covered for the temporal calculations ticking through your mind. If I'd known...

TEN: A good friend of mine once said I needed people to stop me. But I get things done on my own.

FOUR: I shouldn't need stopping. Other people should be what keeps us going.

TEN: Maybe I thought that once back when I was you. What keeps me going now are the likes of them — Daleks: the worst things in the universe. There are so many out there, you've only scratched the surface. I never asked myself: have I the right to do what's needed to beat them? You know what I think now?

FOUR: What?

TEN: Yes, I do.

at the end, when they're saying their goodbyes, Four is well aware that there's something terribly wrong with Ten, and he gives him some advice:

FOUR: What you said back then, you don't travel with anyone?

TEN: Not anymore, no.

[...]

FOUR: I don't know what's happened to you, but if I may offer any advice, and if you'll listen, I'd say try and face the future with hope. Find more friends. [...] Goodbye, Doctor. Take care of my future, won't you?

TEN: I'll ty. Goodbye, Doctor. [While Four leaves] One more party. Destiny can wait.

and this narrative of a previous incarnation noticing that Ten isn't doing well is also touched in Ten's adventure with Six, where they have this exchange:

SIX: What are you afraid will happen if you pause for breath?

TEN: That there won't be another.

SIX: Take care of yourself.

TEN: And you.

it's so heartbreaking, but also very sweet, how these previous incarnations have no knowledge of what their future self is going through, but they still know that there's something wrong, and so they worry about Ten and want to help with at least some advice and words of encouragement. i like to think that these encounters with his younger selves also influenced Ten if only a little bit, and gave him a bit more courage to ultimately face his death.

[navree]

refusing to be undone.

Atia Balba, niece to Julius Caesar, died only a year after his assassination, and was survived by her two children, Octavia the Younger and Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, who she had named Gaius Octavius at birth. Both her son and daughter would outlive her by several years.

[faunandfloraas]

im so glad im not the only person that looks at seungmin and goes "❓tism❓" bc he is Way Too Relatable to me as a person w autism

yeah..... like I say it in jest but also..... well, yk. sometimes you notice something and you notice something and you notice something and you go Hmmmm

[nonbinarylesbianherb]

You ever love a ship so much their hate feels personal cuz thats me with them

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese guzhuang fashion

[dead-inside-demiboy]

Okay, in kinda a reference to my last post on the topic, I am curious about the experience of other aces, since I dont know many sex positive ace-specs irl.

[whatudottu]

Something something Decepticon recruitment (+physical exam) yada yada putting my Malay twins headcanon to good use and making names (and a non-typical matrilineal last name as opposed to a patrilineal last name) for them :P

Old fanfiction as well as echo chambering myself I have got some headcanons in my mind that do not make surface level sense but have Syakir and Darwesh bin Kalsom!