#and everything he does is to WIN

[redfacedpalindrome]

okay it was an amazing race but i do have one thing to say which is that the f1tv commentators decided to piss me off a little - because right after the race was over, the narrative was that max was understandably angry because anything less than first was a loss for him (i mean also contextually cos he was on pole) but that charles "must be very gratified with P3 given his season so far". it's like they're not even paying attention. he and max are cut from the exact same cloth – charles is just house trained. he's gonna put on the smile and the gracious set to his shoulders because he has the hopes of a religion on his shoulders – but the hunger that claws his ribs inwards is the very same as max's, the same down to their chromosomes. neither he nor max will be satisfied with anything less than P1 – in quali, in the race, in the championship, in everything.

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

you mean nothing to me

[magiefish]

Seeing people post-The Well going “Tenth Doctor Girls We Won!” as if they haven’t been consistently winning for the past billion years:

[faceeeeee]

Yatta is pretty fun🪅

[scielson]

i think hans didn’t search for henry or reunite with him during their fallout because he wanted to prove himself — to henry and to his own self. he wanted to show henry that he would be the one to sneak them into the wedding, that he would get them to talk to von bergow. y’all can’t tell me bro didn’t suffer during that time. he was out there camping in the wild with the tiniest camp imaginable, poaching like crazy just to sustain himself and make coin. all of that was so beneath him, yet he kept up with it. he’s a nobleman, used to comfort, but he endured it all just to prove he could do things on his own.

and when you finally talk to him at the wedding, he basically goes “leave me alone. i wasn’t good enough for you.” he so desperately wants to prove himself to henry.

[hobbithabits]

Yall know the scene in those ‘coming of age’ movies, where the family is having dinner, and the dad points out that new boy to his daughter with the subtly of a freight train. And he says something about him being a good kid, that he’s talented, and then ends with something that directly aligns with what the daughter likes?

Yes. That’s concept, but it’s dinner with Spock and his parents. And Sarek is under the impression that Spock is with Kirk (not wrong), and is trying to convince him that the doctor is a better option(wrong, because he’s also dating McCoy)

“Doctor McCoy is very talented. He’s recived awards for his work I’ve heard.”

“Yes father, he excelled as a doctor before he had joined starfleet as well.”

“He also saved my life, and your own countless times”

“Yes, as was his duty as Chief Medical Officer of the Enterprise”

…

“I noticed as well, that he has incredibly skilled hands.”

“Father I do not wish to-“

[saturnniidae]

Other than the blatant sexism of it, I think part of why it bothers me so much that Valka was reduced to 'Mother figure' in the third movie because I've always felt that despite their efforts, Hiccup will probably never genuinely see Valka as a mother figure since she didn't actually raise him and he's an adult by the time they meet. Like yes, of course he knows she's his mom but they don't have that kind of relationship and likely never will.

I've always thought this based on a few things, mostly when she apologizes and says "can you give me another chance" because all Hiccup does in response is smile sadly, he never verbally forgives her (that I can remember) so she immediately starts going on about how she can teach him about dragons and that's what connects them, but very little else because they don't actually know each other (And it's so sad because you can tell Valka's trying so hard, she loves Hiccup and he loves her but no amount of talking about dragons will make up for two decades of absence).

The other main thing that I think about with this is that cut footage from when Valka was still planned to be the antagonist, where Hiccup says: "fine! I guess I kinda like the idea of having a mom, alright?" Despite being scrapped, it ties in well with how excited he was for them to all be a family again when Stoick shows up because that excitement is definitely based on the very unrealistic, idealized version of what a 'complete' family is, what Hiccup didn't get to grow up with but probably fantasized about having.

I think the way circumstances kind of forced Hiccup and Valka together could've been really interesting to explore, them mourning Stoick together, exchanging stories about him, Hiccup actually getting to know her outside of the very surface level 'expert dragon lady'. I think Gobber could've really helped with this, bridging the gap between them since he actually knew Valka and has known Hiccup for his entire life (and has experience doing this exact thing with Hiccup and Stoick years ago).

The single year between httyd2 and thw would definitely not have been long enough for it, but I think after a while Hiccup and Valka could be good friends. But they'll never be as close as they could've been and they both know that.

[utilitycaster]

ok because Nein + Bells Hells + Shattered Teeth has a decent chance of being Ludinus related I looked up the Clone spell in 5e and it only kicks off if the soul is willing to return. This is fucking wild, because the thing is, it does make logical sense given the order of events in C3 (ie, Bells Hells defeated Ludinus first and then unleashed Predathos): he'd have a clone as backup in case he was killed before his plan went off, and at the time of death, Predathos was still unreleased, so his work was not done so he would not peacefully pass on to the hereafter. So basically this guy just like. came back to life literally as Bells Hells were doing his work for him, and we don't know how much he knows but I assume he knows something via scrying. and then he simply didn't cast nondetection, and I think that's the part that has me like. bro what are you doing. Like either he is actually fine with the gods remaining in a different form - now with no known means of destroying them - which means he effectively just threw, what, a millennium-long apocalyptic temper tantrum with a body count well into the thousands and I guess tuckered his bitch ass out; or he thinks the gods are gone and is just chilling out drinking tea waiting to see if Caleb and Beau hunt him down, which, loser behavior.

[centaur-dreaming]

Aftg Hunger Games au with Jean as Katniss because in the end Elodie dies anyway

[autumnwhistles]

(note: this is purely from a character perspective, not a comment on CCs.)

grian and scar have now both been in opposite positions to the original 'cactus ring', and it's so interesting to compare their attitudes to sacrifice on both ends. whether or not scar threw the fight in the cactus ring, he did offer for grian to kill him before it began. grian declined this, but was clearly fighting with the intention to win during the fight itself – he's giving scar a chance, but not sacrificing.

in secret life, scar's on the other end of things. he's fighting another winner – who herself has been sacrificed for previously – and, like grian, is going into what he assumes to be a fair fight... but which is in his favour due to the others' willingness to sacrifice themselves for him. this is a common pattern for winners: in whichever order, they take the win once, and are once willing to sacrifice themselves to let another take it.

cut to wild life.

this time, it's grian in the final two once more, yet again against an – albeit more distant – ally. he's got a win under his belt already, so you might expect him to do what pearl did, what scott did, right? sacrifice their chance at glory to let another taste it for the first time.

and yet:

"I'm going to have to kill Joel"

"Can I win this? I worked so hard on this series, I'd love to win it!"

because here's an important thing about life series!grian: though he's willing to even the playing field, he's not willing to sacrifice – not when it matters. pledge your loyalty to right a wrong, yes; give lives to gain allies hours, yes; refuse others' sacrifices to fight on fair terms, yes. but in the end, no matter how much he wants to stick with friends, no matter how bad he feels about it, no matter how may "i'm so sorry"s he gives – he will put his own life first, in the end.

there's a reason he's the reason for so many of his allies' deaths, after all. and in its contrast, the wild life finale showcases this beautifully.

(and for the record, i don't see anything wrong with this from an out-of-univere perspective – it's been 5 seasons and 3.5 years since Grian's last win, and even if it hadn't been, it's the CCs place to judge fairness, not ours.)

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

It's been years since I was involved with bnha and even now I am not touching it beyond whatever spoilers come up on my dashboard, but there are opinions that I will stand by till my dying breath-

Toshinori Yagi is objectively the best character of the series

Natsuo Todoroki is the realest mf ever for sticking to his guns and never forgiving Enji. Fuck forgive and forget especially when it comes to abusive parents!

Dfo is great but I personally love it when it's a crack au with dadmight. Because then it's a tale about how thoroughly and ruthlessly All Might has demolished afo, a lot of it without even knowing

[asgardian--angels]

jayvik canon so sayeth sir harry lloyd our greatest jayvik warrior

[spaceandbones]

If Gege truly loved us he would have made Sukuna accept Yuuji's offer to live with him and I'd get to pretend the eternal torment of the two of them sharing a body never stopped

[likesummerrainn]

AEW Wrestledream | 10.12.24

[cobaltfluff]

happy crossover christmas to me !!! left: crossover / right: AU :3c