#and i GET IT

[outromoony]

Remus is the guy you take home to your parents and they instantly like him more than they like you.

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Question: will we ever get more episodes about peridot and lapis? or what happened to them?

HOWEVER.

Y'all need to promise me that you will be cool with the fact that this comic is it's own story and not just a Fanservice Version of The Canon. I am not planning to fulfill anyone's fantasies for how much screentime Lapis and Peridot were 'supposed' to have gotten. I'm not going to spotlight their character development over other characters.

And I need to make it clear - Lapis and Peridot's own stories in this comic will not resemble anything that happened in canon. There will be no Barnmates. And you guys need to be prepared to be okay with it, because I'm not going to tolerate any asks of the 'how could you do this!! you're the worst!' variety.

[that-ineffable-devil]

I'm processing a lot of emotions tonight and I keep being drawn back to Good Omens--not just because it's the new hyperfixation or because it's so good. That's what I thought it was, at first.

But this year--hell, the last 3 or 4 months especially, I finally started taking steps to accepting and being myself. I'm rapidly approaching middle age and I'm only just now beginning to feel like I'm allowed to be me. I came out to the people in my household, a few select friends, and a few select family members--most of whom were wholly supportive. I started testosterone injections. I stopped trying to be someone I'm not. I stopped hiding who I am and who I love.

What does this have to do with Good Omens? Nothing. But also... Everything.

So much queer representation is in characters vastly younger than me--and that's good! I want queer kids to feel safe and loved and accepted in ways I never did. They deserve better than we had. And it gives me hope for their futures. I bawled like a baby when I watched The Owl House with my son and he was totally unphazed by the queerness. It's just how people are to him.

But when something like Good Omens comes along and not only grabs every opportunity to show average, everyday old(er) queer representation... It just. I've never felt more seen. More accepted. More hope for all our futures. And season 2 just knocked that out of the fucking park. And the nonbinary, genderfluid, and genderqueer rep? My God.

And it's not subtext, it's not it's own separate plotline where they're fighting for acceptance or dealing with hateful bigotry... It's just... Accepted. It's normal. No one questions it. No one even comments on it.

It's people of any age (even millions of years old) being unapologetically themselves and loving who they love openly and fully (with one notable uncommunicative group of two ineffable idiots, but they'll get there).

I just.

I can't express how grateful I am to see older queer rep at this time in my life. It's been a rough year, and I expect it'll get rougher before it gets better. But I've never been happier in my own skin, and it means the absolute world to see my literary and media heroes like Neil Gaiman, David Tennant, and Michael Sheen (and Terry Pratchett and everyone who worked on Good Omens, honestly) making this beautiful, messy, adorable, excruciating, wonderful, heartbreaking, ethereal, down-to-earth tale.

There aren't enough words in all the languages of the world to express how I'm feeling. "Thank you" just feels... Insufficient.

I just hope they know how much it means to people like me, especially after a lifetime of buried subtext and overt queerbaiting and media ridicule and general lack of acceptance, to experience this story with them.

[loucifersbitch]

karen worrying (for good reason) about hen going back to work so soon bc she almost lost her (!!!) and maddie almost lost chim and athena did lose bobby ??? oughhhhh seeing the love of your life in pain - physical or emotional, or in this case both - it hurts. you feel it too and you want to make it better but you CAN'T and you feel useless, and all you can do is be supportive and offer what you can and let them do what they need to in order to start healing

anyway grief sucks

[happyheidi]

How many followers do you have Heidi?

More than enough ❤️

I think it’s important to remember that the number of followers you have don’t define your worth or the value of your content!

Ppl should focus on creating and sharing content that resonates with their target audience/community, rather than get caught up in the numbers. ♡

[cockroachesunite]

his crime

[pantsaretherealheroes]

rip to gregory eddie but if i were on a date with a beautiful and weird paramedic who looked like lana condor i wouldn't notice anything else going on

[deepseasmetro]

really funny seeing people on that kim kitsuragi post wax poetic about how its because hes soooo kind and genuine and #human connection. no you idiot hes kind and genuine to YOU because YOURE A COP and HES A COP he literally has killed SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE LAST YEAR. AND POSSIBLY KILLED CHILDREN

[respectthepetty]

Heeeeey, popping in with some 10 Liners color thoughts/questions specifically for Klao and Wa. Sooo... Khao is wearing blue now? Wa is wearing black? Could Klao, as he grows and changes (leaving his past behavior behind), be becoming a blue boy? Does that mean that Wa is absorbing some of his color to explain why he's no longer wearing white? Am I insane? Has the wardrobe dept just given up because they've been working on the show too long at this point?

Kitty, how about we just treat this like Bruno and don't talk about it.

Because nobody's color is making sense in Perfect 10 Liners' final stretch except Faifa x Wine's.

For example, I'm looking at a Black Brooder, a Green Guy, and Yellow Yal, but I'd never know that from these wild ass colors they're wearing.

And on the opposite side is a Blue Boy and a Green Guy, but who can tell from these random ass shirts they have on?!

Having Red Rascal Arc shirtless does not distract me from the simple fact that he is not wearing red nor is Arc wearing yellow.

Orange Oddity Pond went corporate and said, "eff that orange!"

And I get it because the wardrobe department is tired! They are probably crying in their coffee every day after having to style and clothe no less than ten people multiple times each episode for TWENTY-FOUR EPISODES. Like even Fourever You was struggling with seventeen episodes because I watched a Green Guy and Red Rascal lose their color

IN THE SAME EPISODE! (Poor, editing department. They were fighting for their lives!)

So I appreciate the lighting department for showing up for our Blue Boys and carrying wardrobe's bodies across the finish line because Director New has to be on every stylist's shit list for making each of his show's cast bigger and bigger and bigger.

Like the the man started here with color coding and seventeen episodes.

And now we are here with all the cast not even on stage and twenty-four damn episodes (I still want more)!

I'm pretty sure We Are's wardrobe department said they weren't fucking around with this BS and decided everyone gets the same clothing.

PERIOD!

And if not, they were gonna be damn close to matching.

So hopefully when we get ReVamp, New will take the tried and true vampire lore approach and just leave everyone in black.

All this is just to state that as frustrated as I am that the colors aren't coloring as hard as I would like them to be, I get it. We just need to complete the group project and give everyone their happy endings, with or without the colors.

And truly, all I care about at this point is my Lapis Lads who are still blue (as the loyal and stable Blue Boys would be!).

So although I think you could very well be onto something with your theory about the change in Klao and Warit's colors, I'm like the wardrobe department with this show.

Chaotic and barely holding it together with the last thread of sanity which I'm probably going to have to use to mend one of these damn kids' clothes BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY CHARACTERS IN THIS FREAKIN' SHOW!

[ninjatrashpanda]

Theory time!

So assuming that the helipad scene is from 8x14 and not 8x15, I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be a reunion scene, maybe with them being awkward, but cute, and surface-level apologizing to each other and then agreeing to meet up and actually talk once everything is over.

Then Buck and Athena meet up with the rest of the team (that group shot is at night, so it would be after the sunset helipad), and then the chopper crashes (🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻) and we zoom in on Buck’s falling face.

Cue end credits, tune in next week!

Based on the very overt tropes on 8x11, even more overt tropes are what I’m expecting! And I’m excited!

[trrenchertrash]

I was finding it difficult to reconcile with Caitvi’s arc this season, and so I’ve been thinking about it and in the end what made it work for me is that the through line of their entire relationship is trust. In s1 you have lines like “in what mad world would I trust someone like you,” and “this only works if we can trust each other,” and of course we’re shown that they do come to trust each other — up until s2e3, when Cait breaks Vi’s trust, breaks her promise. Then they reconnect in act 2 and hesitantly decide to put their trust in each other again, but not without wariness. That’s why Vi has a contingency plan set up with Jinx. She’s giving Caitlyn a second chance to prove herself, to earn that trust back, but she’s not fully convinced. It’s a test, and should Caitlyn fail, Vi is prepared. This leads to their conversation in e8:

Vi: She saved your life! Even knowing you’d never have done the same for her.

Cait: We’ll never know, will we? You didn’t let me in on that part of your plan.

Vi: Clearly the right call, since you still can’t trust her enough not to shove her in a box!

Cait: Trust? You believe I’m so daft I can’t recognize a contingency? She wasn’t there for my benefit, she was there because you didn’t trust me to follow through.

Vi: Can you blame me? How long were you sidled up with that shifty, self-serving war pig? She oinked poison in your ear and you just ate it!

Cait: I know!

Imo, Vi’s “can you blame me?” is the most important part of this exchange. This is Vi holding Caitlyn accountable: Remember what you did? I do. Can you blame me for no longer trusting you?

The second most important part of this exchange is Caitlyn’s “I know!” Her acknowledgement that Vi is right. That yes, she does remember and she knows what she’s done is wrong. She can’t blame Vi.

Initially I was pretty put out that Cait doesn’t outright apologize, but ultimately I think because we’re strapped for time, this is more important. The purpose of an apology is to admit that what you did was wrong and express remorse for it. And here, that’s exactly what happens. Now, Caitlyn’s remorse doesn’t look the way I expected it to. I think I’m probably not alone in that. Her remorse isn’t soft or weepy (at least not at this point), instead it’s angry and loathsome. But the next steps here are clear. Caitlyn needs to find a way to repair the trust that’s been broken between herself and Vi. And she does, by letting Jinx go, in direct contrast to the action that broke that trust in the first place. It’s I trust you to choose, and you can trust me to stand by you while you do. It’s proof that Vi’s “I always choose wrong” isn’t true (and it’s not, because the narrative payoff of freeing Jinx is that she’s able to rally Zaun to swoop in and save the day later on), and it’s proof that Caitlyn is ready to put Vi ahead of herself, as Vi did for her.

All of the turning points in their relationship revolve around the trust between them. S1 is about building the trust between Cait and Vi. The midpoint of their story, the darkest point, is the breaking of that trust. Then the second half of their story is about repairing that trust. It’s all there.

[potionsandtinctures]

When woe.begone opens you think its gonna be abt a guy who survives the time travel horrors because hes more paranoid and ruthless than the other guys. AND thats what Mike thinks its gonna be. Turns out its actually about a guy who survives bc hes such a big sweetie that everyone who bumps into him becomes his friend

[starryaida]

I'm genuinely confused at the "jedi only forbid unhealthy attachments not all love" take that's so popular in fandom it's almost considered canon by now.Because wouldn't then the jedi believe that familial love is inherently unhealthy as they preferred to take in students young,and even if that was only for training convinience wouldn't they be allowed to at least keep in contact with their birth families if they wanted to?Also that just kinda sounds like a slippery slope cause the definitions of love and attachment are so wildly discussed upon,and even the purest of realtionships can theoretically turn into something dangerous,so why risk it at all?I understend hookups,but real "unattached" relationships just sound like a stretch.And yes I have read the High Republic (and loved it).Also "a jedi shall know no love" is on the literal aotc poster,and you can't just gloss it over as that being Anakin's perspective cause in the poster it's,in my opinion,pretty clearly presented as a ground rule along the others.

[hazel-callahan]

i find it fascinating that bottoms (2023) hasn’t had a full pirated stream yet. because it’s clear that the audience is not shy about taking out a phone and recording their favorite scene to post on twitter dot com.

my theory is that people are genuinely enjoying the movie so much that they can’t bare to focus on holding the device long enough, because all they want to do is actually enjoy and watch the funny silly gay movie they paid to see.

[tobi-smp]

[eating ramen and suddenly remembers that c!tommy never got to keep anything. not his stuff, not his home, not his community, not his friends, not his family, not his peace of mind, not his safety, not his sense of self, not his trust, not his life.

and yet all the while the people around him told him how selfish he was again and again, how he just had to learn to let go, how it was His fault for wanting things, even as all he had to his name was dirt. even when those people cared for him and were convinced they were doing the right thing.

Just Learn The Lesson And It Will Get Better. and he tried. he tried again and again and again. after doomsday, after his death, after dream's escape, after wilbur left him alone on a beach. but the rug never stopped pulling itself out from under him, no matter how much he simplified his needs.

He Only Wants People, He Only Wants To Feel Safe, He Only Wants To Be Able To Trust, but that's still too much to ask. he still must lose.]