#and they are beyond reproach

[etakeh]

I have no context and don't care to.

[adrianlyles]

RIVERDALE REWATCH — 1.01, "The River's Edge"

[fadeintoyou1993]

glee rewatch — 1.05 "the rhodes not taken"

[communist-hatsunemiku]

the miyazaki discourse is reminding me one of my favorite movies, princess mononoke, is a narrative about the enlightened centrist doing "both sides are bad" shit. like i love that movie but lol.

[atechalk]

paragraph starter call for my deltarune muses ... specify kris or susie ( or both ! )

[moonssugar]

i love when people say you can't examine the jedi order's flaws or discuss them or ever portray them as bad because that would be misrepresenting buddhism and would be bad because thats a minority religion (in the west) as if real life buddism isnt as flawed as every single other religion in existence. people also forget two other important things: first that theres another religion that starts with a c the jedi are also partially based off of and secondly the reason the jedi has buddist influences in their worldbuilding is because of this pesky thing called orientalism that star wars happens to be full of to the brim. also the idea that examining the jedi critically 1:1 equals slandering its influences is such a example of the inability to distinguish fiction and in universe things from actual reality

youre defending a half assed orientalist idea of actual religion in its poorly executed fictional amalgamative form...why?

[mirrorofliterature]

pro jedi fans, genuinely: if you critique the jedi order (a fictional religious order who, in the movies, has mainly white men in key roles, and were created by a white man), you're racist

me: ... I think that's racist, actually

[vvitchy]

[redjennies]

"the writing in BG3 isn't all that great anyway. Tav has ZERO personality and it's all just self-insert headcanons." I mean BG3 isn't like a golden calf to me in the slightest, but have y'all never played an RPG with an unvoiced protagonist? what you are describing is a core feature of the genre. imagine telling a diehard Fallout New Vegas fan that it's not well written because the main character is a blank slate like they haven't already written dissertations on the unique narrative advantages of having an unvoiced blank slate protagonist. they'd fucking eat you.

[autismvampyre]

i haven't seen the whole episode yet because the act of watching it brings me so much anxiety because the stakes feel so high that i genuinely feel sick to my stomach

however, i already hate oisin just based on the spoilers i've seen. genuinely hope they kill him. if anyone of the rat grinders deserves adaines furious fist its that motherfucker

[fadeintoyou1993]

Hello, Betty. This is the Black Hood speaking. Tonight was all about you. [What I want is] the same as you: to set Riverdale on the righteous path again. To cleanse it of sinners. Isn't that what you want? [Not by killing people.] Only the ones who deserve it. People like… your sister. I know all about the sin she carries in her womb. I also know she's at a farm, two hours North. If you try to warn her, I'll know. If you tell the police we've spoken or your mystery-loving boyfriend I'll carve her like a Jack O'Lantern. Don't you deny me, Betty. […] Your mother's at work. I know, I'm looking at them through a nice, big picture window. She's a thorn in both of our sides, your mother. We can't have her looming over us. Check your email. Publish what I've sent. And then I'll know that you're loyal. You do this for me, and then you get to ask me a question. And I have to answer it. You have until tomorrow night. […] How does it feel, Betty? Knocking your mother of her high horse? What's your question? And it can't be my name. [The face under the hood… Would I recognize it?] Yes. Do you feel closer to me now? I do. I feel as if we're friends. But I'm selfish, Betty. I don't like sharing you with other people. So I need you to cut them out of your life, or I will, my way. Let's start with that daughter of a philanderer, and an embezzler, complicit in her father's crimes… Oh, Betty, you don't really believe that [Veronica is innocent]. […] [What will make you stop?] You. As long as you continue showing me your devotion. Jughead. The son of a Serpent. He's not worthy of your love. Cut him out of your life… Or I will. […] There's one piece of unfinished business. The fact that you've been telling Archie about our chats. Betty, I've been watching you… You broke the rules, Betty, and now your sister will pay. [Please don't hurt her.] Then give me another name. Right now. If you want to save your sister, give me another name. The name of someone guilty. Come on, Betty. One little name. I'll kill your sister. And your mother and your father, and everyone you hold dear. [Nick St. Clair. He's staying at the Five Seasons.] I told you we were the same.

RIVERDALE (2017-2023) Chapter Eighteen: When A Stranger Calls

[manueladominguezliker]

The unfortunate truth is. The only reason I dislike the final three surviving TMA characters (Melanie, Georgie, and Basira) is because of specific people saying you have to like them or else you’re misogynistic because they are mirrors and foils of Jon and therefore not liking them doing things he’s done is because they’re women. And not. Y’know. Because those things are seen by both the narrative and the fandom as good when they do it but bad when he does.

Argue with the wall.

[toxicroyjamie]

First therapy session today

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

I was toying with the idea of ranking adaptations based on how book accurate they are.

But honestly, more than half the entries would come down to "this is not trying to be the book" because a lot of the media that is based on the book is loosely based on it. Especially things that just want to have a vampire and Van Helsing.

A remarkable amount of Dracula media simply isn't about Dracula the book.

[domesticangel]

telling people they lack reading/media comprehension used to actually mean something and now it’s just something people say when they actually mean “u criticized something I like so I’m gonna play superiority complex and say u ackshually 🤓☝🏻just didn’t like it bc u didn’t Get It and aren’t as smart as me☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻”

[icharchivist]

Remember when Weekes said they wrote Cole hypersensitivity and having meltdown by basing them on their own experience, and a lot of people, especially autistic people, lots of neurodivergent people, related to Cole and HC'ed him as on the spectrum because of that

i'm sure we can call Cole stereotype-y somehow and i'm sure someone would argue that giving this trait to a spirit is deshumanizing (except that it's the other way around and Cole serves more to humanize Spirits), but it's interesting to me how Cole resonated with people when it came from a very honest place

and meanwhile in the last ten years the mentality around writing autistic characters became "using the DSM-5 as a checklist" instead

it feels so artificial and manifactured instead of coming from the heart and it's so hard to ignore. it feels like you're being offered a product, not a thought, a feeling.