#ew wtf though where did the quality go

[cabinofimagines]

Hi! I'm so, so sorry if I (or someone else) requested this already, but can I get some headcanons about the 7+ Nico, Reyna, & Will reacting to silly, affectionate nicknames from their S/O? Thank you so much!!

It’s my birthday so I decided to write all the characters loving me -Danny

Percy

Homeboy MELTS

He pretends to hate it in public but he will pout if you don’t do it at least twice a day

He’s tried to come up with some silly names for you but he’s not that talented 

The first time you called him something cutesy and sweet he stood there unable to erase that stupid grin off his face for the rest of the day

Annabeth

She can survive Percy’s puppy eyes and your cutesy pouts but if you call her one of those pretty nicknames in just the right tone she is a goner

You usually use them when you’re alone so it feels really special and romantic

The first time you used one she tried to act like it was no big deal but she was a stammering and blushing mess

we love our flustered Annie

She’s gotten used to them, though

Sometimes it’s her using those silly nicknames to get your attention and it’s absolutely damaging your heart bc it’s too CUTE

Someone pls bring Annabeth to me I wanna kiss her so bad

Jason

He blushed big time when you smiled up at him and called him ‘pretty boy’

He can’t take them, he’s not strong enough

Jason falls to his knees in front of you it’s his only weakness

No thoughts, just your pretty voice on repeat calling him adorable nicknames

He only uses nicknames with you when he’s really focused on some task and his mind is somewhere else 

bc on the daily for some reason he’s just too shy to use them casually???

so it’s always like ‘Can you hand me that pen, love?’ and you get all giddy and he doesn’t even notice

Then he realizes what he did and he smiles at you all cutesy bc well, he’s not going to apologize for being affectionate towards you, and you’re certainly not complaining

He also calls you very nice things while you’re making out but that’s private

Piper

She loves to hear them coming from your pretty mouth 

From any other person she thinks they sound condescending

Especially if they come from older men, ew

but if you call her ‘sweetie’ she’s like  🥺 ‘yees?’

She’s the real expert though, no one can talk to you the way she does

And it’s not bc of the charmspeak

She’s a natural flirt, so of course she knows exactly how to make you all soft and flustered

PIPER IS HIGH QUALITY IN EVERY WAY

Leo

You called him a cutesy stupid nickname ONCE and he never let it go

It started as a joke but bro I don’t think it’s a joke anymore

The more ridiculous they are the more he loves them

He’s an expert at coming up with the most embarrassing names he makes a point of using iN PUBLIC

“Shmutsy-bubbles! Where have you been?” :D

You’re really close to murder

But not really bc you love him and his sense of humor otherwise you wouldn’t be dating him

Once he made you laugh so hard you choked on your food really thought you were about to die 

since then he’s careful not to call you names while you’re eating

Anyway you guys are ridiculous and I want what you have you’re so cute wtf

Hazel

She’s the one who used a cute nickname first

It happened without any of you noticing so it’s just really casual 

Use them often but not all the time

You try to use them the most when she’s upset about something

Makes her really happy and changes her mood instantly

I’ve always thought that dating Hazel feels a lot like puppy love so you know, it feels safe and warm

So the loving nicknames are bound to be the same

Lots of hugs and kisses come after the sweet names 

Frank

A huge fan of cute names and they come naturally to him bc he’s the sweetest man alive

Nothing ever sounds chessy coming from this man’s mouth and that’s the hill I will die on

He was kinda awkward when youo guys started dating but he’s super comfortable now and when he’s with he feels completely whole and at peace

The first time you called him a loving nickname he knew he was home

You called him ‘my lovely’ and he was ready to propose

Kinda like puppy love, but it’s actually more like old married couple vibes i hope it makes sense lmao

Will

He didn’t make a big deal but his eyes shone a little brighter that day

You using a cute nickname was a green light for him so now he can’t stop using them on you

*kiss on the cheek* Hi [cute name]! *warmest hug ever*

Whenever you want him to pay attention to you those names work like a charm

Also when he��s stressed and you’re trying to convince him to take a moment 

Words of encouragement always come hand in hand with these

Reyna

At first she didn’t know how to feel

It was good, but also scary, and a little overwhelming

She’s only been this close to like three people and she doesn’t want to get too excited

But then a month passes by, then three, then a year

and you’re still there, calling her ‘love’ and ‘darling’ and ‘my dear’

She feels like she’s dreaming most of the time but she doesn’t want to admit it

You know she’s happy and that she likes it when you call her that tho

Because she always pulls you in and kisses you in a way that makes you shiver

Much like Jason, the first time she called you something other than your name she was focusing on her work, so entranced that the word simply slipped out of her

You spent the rest of that day feeling like you were floating on a cloud

She got really anxious afterwards bc you left without saying anything and she thought she had crossed a line

But then that night you kissed her and your face was GLOWING and she knew it was okay

Reyna if you’re out there pls accept my hand in marriage

Nico

Nico.exe stopped working

He blushed madly, really not a flattering thing, he thought

You on the other hand, said he’d looked really handsome

He doesn’t uses nicknames often bc he likes your name better

It’s your name, and it means something to him 

Far more than any sickly sweet nickname

You love his name too, that’s why you only call him “Nico” when you want to tell him how much you love him

Or you want to have a serious conversation

He gets scared when you start your sentences with “Nico, come here” bc he never knows whether it’ll be a good talk or a bad talk

So it kinda backfired but it’s alright... most of the time

On the daily tho the nicknames are what you use more

It’s quite backwards compared to how other people think but then again this is Nico Di Angelo and you, of course you’re not like other people

He called you ‘amore’ once, just to tease you

Your face turned red and you couldn’t look at him in the eye for a whole hour 

He uses it A LOT now

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[witchy-jadda]

rott spoilers ahead

so i’ve given myself some time to think about everything and try to process it all and here are some of my thoughts on trollhunters: rise of the titans...

- straight off the bat, i loved the intro. opening with blinky telling the story of what happened up until this point was incredible. i would have loved if they had circled back to this though (i saw someone else say it should have been him telling the story to jim and claire’s kids and i loved that idea!)

- i also liked that they didn’t waste time at the start, instead they just jumped right into the action which was fun.

- honestly, i thought jim’s plotline throughout the movie where he basically thought he was useless without the amulet was just really not fun to watch. i understand why it was there and it played into the climax but i really did not find it one bit necessary seeing as i felt that we have grown beyond that. i felt it was overused. we’ve been there before and jim is aware that he’s the trollhunter, amulet or not.

- douxie being so soft with nari was genuinely one of the most heartwarming parts of the movie. i feel that we were really robbed of so much potential with douxie in this movie though. we didn’t see nearly enough of him. it seemed that the writers were picking and choosing when to remember how powerful he is. switching with nari and connecting to her are two examples of when they actually used his power, but aside from that they just disregarded it a lot.

- and speaking of forgetting how powerful people are... i’m genuinely so hurt and let down over what they did to claire. do they not realise how powerful she is? did they just forget about her character arc? it sure felt like it. she got to use her powers a few times (connecting to nari, portalling the titan, etc) but mostly it felt like she was saying she was spent and therefore unable to do anything. she is so strong and so powerful, and that’s just so empowering - especially for young girls. and then it kinda felt to me that rott was reducing her to basically nothing more than jim’s love interest.

- okay another quick note, it kinda felt to me that krel’s potential was also pretty wasted? he barely did anything and i just think he deserved more too.

- ew okay i don’t even want to think about it but i know i can’t discuss rott without talking about the mpreg thing. seriously, what the fuck was that? at first, i thought it was going to be a joke. i thought aja and krel were gonna wind steve up and see how far they could go with making him think he was pregnant just for a little bit of comic relief. but then he was actually pregnant. and so i laughed, because even though it was dumb it was kind of funny. weird and unexpected, but kind of funny. but by the time the movie was over it just didn’t sit right with me. looking past the fact that it was just more of them making steve’s character into a joke, i couldn’t see the logic in giving so much time to that subplot when other characters (claire, douxie) and other relationships (claire and douxie’s friendship) were sidelined. maybe if he had gotten a whole season the mpreg thing could have been included as comic relief or whatever, but with such limited time i really don’t see the point of wasting so much time on something so pointless. 

- speaking of steve, i need to talk about creepslayerz... they really deserved more :( like i get that eli literally helped steve through child birth and then named one after him which was lowkey adorable but i loved their friendship so much and i was really hoping to see more of them. i was kind of hoping they’d get to do more as well. look i gave up on hopes of a romance long ago (even though i still really wished it would happen) but i hoped that at least we’d see some more of their friendship.

* by this point my brain has decided to forget absolutely every point i wanted to make... cue the brain fog (we don’t like her) and allow me to take a moment to read back and try to find my point again *

- i don’t think i can stress enough how much i loved the visuals in this movie. holy fucking shit it was just phenomenal. like wow. the art was absolutely fantastic and i’m really hoping for another the art of... book because i love the art of trollhunters and i feel that they could do with updating it to include the newer stuff. but yep, the animation quality was incredible and i don’t have a bad thing to say about it because just wow.

- speaking of art... a moment of appreciation for character designs. just wow wow wow. we love to see such intricately designed villains. we love to see growth in our other much loved characters. and the locations too? fantastic. beautiful. amazing. loved it.

- another moment of appreciation for jim. the hair. the scars. the injuries. the winter jacket. the fact that he looked a little older.... loved it. loved it, loved it, loved it. i cannot wait to spend hours pouring over reference pictures to draw them all.

- and claire... her armor being weathered and worn. her eyes!! her hair looked great as always. i just love her...

- nari nari nari... my goodness, her magic is so beautiful. i wish we got to see more.

- also, the jlaire moments were very cute. their kisses? so soft. they literally love each other so much. i adore them.

- what happened to the babies from the darklands btw? is not enrique just chilling in the lake’s house with a ton of babies? 

- barbara deserved better. i would have liked to see her and strickler happy.

- on that note, why the actual fuck did they think a few explosives would win against magic?? literal ancient magic and these dumbasses were like huh i guess we should blow it up. i’m sorry, what?? y’all are stupid.

* currently trying to think of every possible point that isn’t to do with the ending because i really don’t want to think about that yet *

- the whole thing with archie and charlemagne felt super unnecessary. like usually characters sacrifice themselves and it’s like sad and you can see the reasoning and stuff. but they literally could have gotten out. i really did not vibe with that. it felt like they just did that to leave douxie with no one.

- that trollmarket was beautiful though.

- speaking of trollmarket... they really restored the heartstone just like that? are you joking? i was not impressed at all. the heartstone was dead and gone, could not be destroyed. did they just forget that? half the shit in wizards wouldn’t have happened if the heartstone could have been restored. very pissed off by that. it was dead, that was it.

- okay back to jim... love that he pulled the sword from the stone. it was cute that it was a group effort, kinda would have preferred if it was just him but that’s just a me thing. and maybe me and my daylight tattoo are biased here, but excalibur is not half as pretty as daylight.

- not gonna lie, jim yelling come on trollhunters! kinda got me. i was very emotional watching this.

- i think the most in character jim moment of the whole movie was when he dropped excalibur, he didn’t have his armor, he was all alone and he decided to make a fist and fight the wizard/god with literally no weapon or means of defence. i don’t think y’all understand how much i love this dumb self sacrificing selfless boy. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, he is literally one of my most favourite characters of all time. i love him with all my heart.

- the armor!! wow wow wow. that was a fucking cool scene. beautiful.

- jim getting stabbed or whatever with that fucking spear thing nearly killed me.

- okay here goes... toby. my sweet toby. jim and toby’s friendship is one of my absolute favourites ever. my goodness. and toby getting in the van and going to save jim was incredible and such a toby thing to do. of course he would think of doing that.

- but like seriously... claire and douxie are so fucking powerful and they were both just like lol i guess we can’t do anything to help jim? i’m sorry what?? don’t tell me that claire wouldn’t go full on black and purple eyes and get herself up their to him. i just... i’m so bothered by the fact that they were sidelined y’all :|

- also, do not seriously try to tell me that aaarrrgghh!!! would let toby go on his own. he would have went with him. he would have followed him.

- literally as jim was falling the first thing that went through my mind was oh aaarrrgghh!!! is gonna run up and catch him.

- and while we’re on the topic of aaarrrgghh!!! why tf did they have such a build up that something was going to happen to either him or blinky for literally no reason? wtf

- aaarrrgghh!!! would not have let toby go alone!!! if he had been there, he would have protected toby, he would have saved him and none of that mess of an ending would have happened.

* ugh here’s the bit i was dreading... the ending *

- first off, i am choosing to ignore it.

- time stone? really? we’re... we’re gonna do this? literally one of the most original things i have ever watched is now - at the literal last possible minute - rip off another movie?? really?? whyyyy???

- i literally cannot express how much i hated it. it was so fucking unnecessary.

- he didn’t need to go back that far!!!

- i’m actually trying to block this out but i suppose i have to at least touch on it. jim would never ever put that burden on to toby. he just wouldn’t. before even looking at all of the other issues with toby getting the amulet, i need to say that. it just wouldn’t happen. he struggled so much with being the trollhunter, he wouldn’t put that on toby. 

- also toby literally never wanted to be the trollhunter?? he never wanted the amulet? he wanted to be a duke and have his war hammer and go on adventures with his best friend and his wingman and eat mexican food.

- okay so um i guess they all just forgot about unbecoming? cool cool cool.

- seriously though, was it not established many times that jim literally had to be trollhunter? and if he wasn’t it would be draal and everything would go to shit? did they just forget about that??

- having jim just decide to give toby the amulet literally takes away from the entire meaning behind jim getting the amulet and becoming the trollhunter. the amulet chose jim. merlin chose him. out of all of the creatures in the world, it had to be jim. he can’t just give that to toby!!

- and as much as i love toby, he would not last a day as trollhunter.

- and that’s not even beginning to mention all that jim erased by not becoming trollhunter. no father son relationship between him and blinky. they didn’t stop steve from picking on eli so no steve redemption and no creepslayerz. is he just going to allow enrique to be taken? toby will not have the same incentive to go into the darklands to save him if that’s the case. strickler will not show any sort of sentiment towards toby either. and then the big one...

- IS THAT FUCKER REALLY GOING TO ALLOW CLAIRE TO NOT GET HER POWERS??? WHAT???

- if jim isn’t trollhunter and the whole thing with enrique doesn’t happen then claire will never get her shadowstaff. let’s be real, strickler probably wouldn’t even need angor rot with toby as trollhunter. somehow i can’t see him making it that far...

- if claire doesn’t have her shadow staff then the whole thing with morgana won’t happen. she won’t destroy the shadow staff and then she will never develop her powers. would jim really rob her of that?

- okay i can’t do anymore, it’s too much for me now...

- i touched on this already in a separate post but i gotta say it again... i did not enjoy the destiny is a gift bit at the end. first of all, jim having toby find the amulet literally takes the meaning of that speech and his destiny away instanty. and second, i just could not stand hearing emile hirsch say the words that belonged to anton yelchin. it was just uncomfortable.

aaand i think i’m done. maybe i’ll have more later but i have a headache now from all of this.

[touipus]

I wanna share sum of my thoughts of Season 2 (warnin spoilers) of Solar Opposites (i already watched it like a couple of days ago tho lmaoaoa)

Ep 1: Definitely my top 3!! I loved the Rich Aliens especially Kabronious💕i’m glad we get another Fem-presenting Alien other than Teri/Vanbi and Jesse, i LOVED the end; family moment with everybody hugging the Pupa ((also, I loved Derryl- him eating Lunch with the aliens and him with Yum laughing and looking at memes made my heart,)) the only part i really didn’t like was Korvo saying that he always wanted Terry and Jesse saying they’re pieces of shit and need him around :// mehh that didn’t feel like the Korvo we knew from S1.. but the rest of the episode was rlly good!! 6/10

Ep 2-4: OKAY definitely all my top favorites, Ep 2 leaning towards the lil Tervo kiss; Ep 3 mostly bc of the lil moments between Alt Terry and Yasmine and Ep 4 because irdk i just enjoyed it a lot :]] My flaw with Episode 3 though is Korvo manipulating Younger Terry into changing to become the “perfect” Shlorpian for him which definitely isn’t what S1 Korvo would do.. with Episode 2 it would be Korvo making Dinner parties illegal even though he knew Terry enjoyed them a lot:/Though it did make up for it ((kinda)) and had an explanation with Korvo just wanting to spend for time with Terry. I can’t say i was disappointed with Episode 4 though- i was only upset at the fact it didn’t involve them actually going to camp lol - ep 2: 8/10 , ep 3: 7/10, ep 4: 9.9/10

Ep 5: 😟😟 i can’t say i rlly liked this episode too much but it made me laugh the most lmao, i LOVED Chris sm 😩💕💕 and Jen [they were a power couple😎yes i’m gonna make them overrated heheh 😼🤙 /j ] I’d say my biggest complaint with the episode would be when Korvo and Chris had [[sex]] 😟 the replicants side story was okay for the most part - 5 1/2 outta 10

Ep 6: it didn’t feel like a full ep imo?? It just felt like a random idea they managed to fit into a 22 min ep :// it was really just them accepting that they’re “bad ppl” and honestly ? 2/10, 3/10 at most

Ep 7: i’m not a big fan of the wall but oh boy did i enjoy The Wall plot S2 !! Cherie being alive made me so happy bc she dragged The Wall plot 😌 and i kinda got a soft spot for The Duke/Ringo,, just when he died too :( 8/10 - 9/10 bc I LOVE LIGHTNING MCQUEEN >:]

Ep 8: definitely the most disappointing one.. 😟it would’ve been so much better if

They actually gave a fuck when Terry died

They didn’t go trying to kill each other bc of some stupid points

If Jesse didn’t brag on how fullfilled she felt after killing Korvo..

The fact that nobody cried for Terry when he died compared to when Terry couldn’t stop crying when he thought Korvo died and when he suggested to work on the ship for Korvo

The only good parts about it was the beginning where they were trying to get fulfilled (would’ve been better if they were trying to get full-filled together as a family😥😥) and the end where they all became Trees :] that scene was aesthetically beautiful 💕💕 but GOD i would literally k!ll (/hj btw don’t attack me) who ever wrote the plot for the Finale like wtf? 😟 BUT from interviews they said that the Christmas special coming at the end of this year is gonna be the actual Finale for Season 2 so i really hope that the ep redeems the so far Finale. 2/10 since it was good up until the end 😟

Overall: Korvo was extra mean this season :( he was mean last season but it made up for his redeeming qualities and still was occasionally nice to Terry and the family- it felt domestic snd nice, Terry didn’t get enough development this season. It sorta felt like they didn’t know what to do with him so they made him the punching bag :/ He did nothing wrong other than being a lovable himbo. Yumyulack definitely got the most development:] but.. bde. Ew. JESSE!! i LOVED her this season and the Father - Daughter (kinda) moments her and Terry hadd; it all fucked up in the finale though. Pupa? Pupa was amazing 💕💕i loved him sm and he forever has my heart

[unseelie-bitch]

Season 4 Episode 1: The Fairy Hunters

[Thanks to @enchantixmirta I now know where to find actual quality episodes so you guys should stop having to read my complaints about them lmao]

Okay immediately I'm sad there's a new title sequence

A bunch of edgy men are here

Bloom just shrunk I feel that's a spoiler but okay

They keep saying "beliveix" so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that's the new transformation for this season

EW NEW VOICE ACTORS

Sorry they're the TEACHERS??

WHO LET THESE GIRLS BE TEACHERS

Okay so I'm assuming the film isn't canon (thank god) but also... Layla, Stella, you have kingdoms to run... like fine I guess the rest of you could be teachers (though it's weird) but really you two??? This is sus

HATE MUSA'S NEW VA

Love that they're all famous

Oop we've replaced Tides with Andros okay then

Okay not a fan of Techna's new voice BUT she just said she misses the Trix and honestly SAME bring back my witches!!

Flora saved Griselda's life lmao

Bloom you are obviously no longer staying in the student dorms

"Study hard" Griselda don't imply that the winx ever studied come on

Aww Faragonda invited them to be teachers

Oh those wings are so cute!!

Secret door YES Faragonda

Why is Bloom's enchantix the picture in the book that's weird

Oh they are guardians that's apparently canon

Bloom IMMEDIATELY wanders off

TRIX PORTRAIT YESSSSSSS

Whaddup Baltor, Darkar, Ancestor Witches

Oh it's the four men from the title sequence! Sus that their portrait was covered

Faragonda stop hIDING THINGS

Lmao Musa ruffled Riven's hair <3

Ew Layla and Nabu

Sky is in fact actually king

Sorry they're teaching the SAME class... together?? Imagine you get into school, it's your first day and you go to your first class and there are six teachers... wtf

Ugh apparently the film is canon then? They better not tell me the Trix are possessed that's a JOKE

Techna you made up that name on the spot

Love this one child that is NOT impressed

Lads you aren't teaching you're just showing off

Jesus christ Techna do not send the children on that death trap

Clarisse is NOT impressed

Alice is defending the Winx awww

Oh the Winx are doing the course

Clarisse wtf don't sabotage them

Don't like Kiko's change in design

Bloom bypassed the sabotage

As did Layla

CLARISSE WHAT THE FUCK YOU EXPLODED FLORA

NO THEY'RE BLAMING ALICE

Oh shit it's the Villain Men

Of course they're english

The leader's name is Oberon and he is uncomfortably calm and suave

Not a fan of these english wizards

ONE OF THEM JUST TURNED INTO A WOLF AND ALMOST ATE FLORA

Oh he just kocked out WizGiz and Griselda yikes

Ah, we have a name: The Wizards of the Black Circle ...edgelords

He can absorb their energy???? Horiffic

Why have they been waiting for Bloom wtf she ain't joining your Edgy Circle

So this is Bloom's destiny. Yikes

She isn't the last earth fairy?? She's from Sparx you freaks leave her alone

Can we please stop reducing Stella to 'the pretty one who likes attention'? It's ridiculous - you're telling me this girl who has repeatedly risked everything for her friends is outside trying to give people her autograph instead of checking Bloom is okay??? Nope #NotMyStella

Aww Griselda's going soft

But also bit unfair you were going to expell Alice but not Clarisse

[helpimstuckinafandom25]

I’m giving the new Kim Possible a chance. This is nit picky so if you enjoyed it don’t read. Here’s my thoughts as I’m watching it:

Still doesn’t have a secret identity. Literally anyone could attack her or her family

Did she always have a big ass house in the woods?

No one likes a show off Kim. Get on the bus like a normal person

Is Shego using gauntlets? Her power is supposed to be from her

Where is RUFUS!!!

Why is Bonnie acting like they’re friends

I don’t remember Kim being this type A in the series but it has been a while since I’ve watched it. Maybe the screws is overplaying but it feels fake somehow

What kind of school renumbers the classrooms?

WTF this school is enormous

Kim why can’t you walk to class like a normal person

Me. Barkin is hilarious. Eternity leave is gold

Why did they change cheerleading to soccer? Soccer is so boring

Why is Bonnie in charge of the soccer team when she’s a sophomore? She’s barely above freshman

Is this Athena person supposed to be Monique because I hate it

I hate Kim’s “I’m famous” attitude

Athena needs to brush her hair

I get a fan girl going crazy vibe from Athena

Athena is going to go crazy fan girl & she’s wearing a version of Kim’s purple outfit (season 4?)

RUFUSSSS!!!!

He’s actually a little creepy

Athena is annoyingly smart

The gauntlets don’t let Shego have the glowing fists like the series

They would not still be standing after a zap from an electric eel

Is Athena part of Drakken’s plan or is she just convenient

“Imagine the cruel memes” 😂

Now Kim needs to brush her hair

I forgot Nana was a badass. I wish she looked older though

Kim you be suspicious of Athena. She’s a bitch who took everything you wanted

What school doesn’t have an auditorium? Putting everyone in what looks like the lobby isn’t safe?

They’re being super cheesy and I hate it. She can’t be prom queen & king as a freshman

I feel like Shego is the most like the original series no evidence just my feels

I don’t feel like Athena being kidnapped & Kim failing was high stakes enough

AYYY I knew this Athena bitch couldn’t be trusted (unless she’s playing them too)

What qualifies the mom to go on a mission

The running rag of changing quickly really isn’t funny

They are going to suck Athena’s brain out

Oh damn she a robot

They all walked straight into that trap

Rufus falling & almost dying was more high stakes than the kid napping but I never trusted Athena

Was that a mpgis bye

Oh no Athena died I’m so sad

Surprise she’s still aliveish

Ew she’s a head a spinal column

They really left Monique out

Lmao drakken’s enrolled in high school and Shego is playing Mom

Good for the actors but this wasn’t my cup of tea. If you enjoyed it great if not don’t go after the actors or other fans. They’re allowed to enjoy it.

Final rating: 3/10

Would not watch again or recommend but some characters had redeeming qualities

[curestardust]

if you want: boi this is some Grade A yaoi dom/sub shit > this is a review of both the 1992 and the 2012 versions

So upon seeing this anime in my PTW i was thoroughly confused. I like yaoi from time to time but I don’t actively look for it. Then I suddenly remembered; one of my friends in like 8th grade was bugging me constantly to watch this because it’s “so HOT NGHNGHGH”. Well Fruzsi it’s been like 7 years now but I finally watched it!

The story is set in some futuristic world in another planet. The society is ruled by machines and the Blondies that were created by them (I think, I actually read this part on wikipedia). There’s a district where men with no official government identifiaction live and they’re called “mongrels” and are considered the lowest of the low.

In this society the Blondies keep certain humans as pets and furnitures (basically sex slaves and worker slaves). Our main character Riki is a mongrel and has a run in with a Blondie. NSFW things happen and Riki becomes the Blondie’s (Iason’s) pet for 3 years after which he is allowed to go back to the Slums for a year.

So let me begin with the original 1992 version. The animation and art are as you would expect from anime from this time. The Slums are mostly dark with vivid colours giving the neon and futuristic feel. Tanagura (the “capital”) is mainly shades of white to give the feeling of purity and perfectionism. The characters are wonky however. Actually good character designs basically stop at the 3-4 main characters with secondary characters basically being indistinguishable. 

Just like the colours, the music also plays a big role. The lack of background music can actually be distracting at times but the anime only uses tracks when it really wants to give another layer to the events happening on screen. Voice acting is decent but with more emotional scenes some of the performances were uhhh....unintentionally funny.

The pacing is off. The 1992 version consists of 2 almost 1 hour long episodes. In the first one we join in at the time when Riki is let back into the Slums by Iason and we follow him in the present. Then the second one is divided between flashbacks and advancing towards the ending. You’d think that Ai no Kusabi would be giving you steaming hot yaoi action but in reality there’s barely any NSFW content in the first episode; the majority of it is spent by fleshing out the world.

While quite a lot happens, the character development is lackluster. The anime feels more like just events happening after each other because the plot demands it and not because of a natural flow of the characters actions.

The 2012 version is an improvement in certain areas and a downgrade in others. The most glaring change is obviously the art and animation. It’s GORGEOUS. Not only is the animation fluid but the character designs of the secondary characters got a huge haul-over. They no longer look like clones of each other but like they have their own character. They went to extreme length with this; even the facial structure of characters were completely different.

Somewhat of a downgrade would be the music which is...fine. Just fine. The OST sounds like it came off of “free-copyright-music.net”. 

The 2012 version consists of 4 25 minute episodes. It is much slower than the original version and goes much more in depth on the story. It also doesn’t have an ending....yep. As it turns out this was supposed to be 12 OVAs long but they discontinued it due to financial reasons (seems like creating HQ sex scenes dries up money fast).

It is dissapointing as I was just getting into the groove of it by episode 4 and then just bamm, it’s over. Oh and one thing to mention; in one of the episodes there’s just a random conversation in which Riki tells his age and he says that he is 15...UMMM??? SO i know that the Blondies don’t really have ages or whatever but this made me immENSELY uncomfortable so I’m just choosing to think that Riki has been like 18-20 when the story starts, alright? Alright.

SOOOOO...I don’t really know what else to say. You like yaoi and this dom/sub slave whatever fetish thing you’ll probably enjoy this? It is unfinished...but the episodes made are still great quality and there’s always the manga? [6/10] (x) [6/10] (x)

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

if you want: something really edgy that doesn’t have a purpose besides being edgy

Mahu Shoujo Site is godawful.

This “dark magical girls” trope is starting to get on my nerves. They usually have no point besides giving enjoyment to sick fucks who enjoy seeing little girls in horrible situations. Oh and also to the people who think “dark, depressing and gorey = d e ep”.

So, I obviously caught notice of this the first time I saw it as I’m always interested in magical girl stuff. And if you’ve read my previous reviews you know that this usually doesn’t go very well. Anyway, even from the summary I knew that this was going to be edgy but how much? Well I read the first review on MAL on it and lowkey scarred me into ignoring this anime. In the end, curiosity won out and I really wanted to see how much of a trainwreck MSS actually was.

I feel like a summary of the first episode would scare a lot of people away as it shows a lot of really cruel stuff that many people are sensitive to. Which would be: the apparent murder of a kitten to fuck with main character (not actually shown), the main character getting severely bullied and beaten at school by 3 of her classmates, her big brother tying her up and beating her (and punching her in the stomach) at home and at the very end some dude almost rapes her. Oh and the main character is like some 14yo little girl.

Whew. Ticks off all the “ew wtf” boxes, doesn’t it? Well rest assured the anime NEVER goes into this level of cruelty again. There are no animals in the anime after episode one. *Spoilers* happen to the bullies which also mostly takes them out of the picture after episode 2 and our main character is barely home or if she is then she is with friends which makes his brother unable to beat her. 

All this was just used to show how “unfortunate” she is so that she will be made into a magical girl as in MSS only girls who have had to deal with a lot of pain are eligible to become magical girls. OOOO edgy.

Then they have their weapons which are stupidly all named “sticks” even though they can be whatever (gun, phone, yoyo, panties...). And speaking of sticks, using them eats up the girls’ life forces...OOOO edgy. Have I mentioned that whenever they “transform” they HAVE to bleed from somewhere? Like eyes, nose, head...OOOOOOOOO edgy!!!!

We’ve a main cast of characters who get some personality but then we’re introduced to a second set of characters who literally have one personality trait each, plus their powers which makes me give approximately 0 fucks about whether they live or die.

The animation is quite poor, the OST is unremarkable and they seem to use the same 3 tracks in every episode (the OP and ED songs are bangers however) and the voice acting also leaves much to be desired but the VA’s did as much with the script as they could. 

The worst part is that the anime kinds of ends on a cliffhanger. Even from the opening I was expecting some grand battle but nope. There’s a plot twist which made me go “HMM” but that’s about it. So you sit through this shitfest and don’t even get a proper conclusion. Any enjoyment you could take away from this is seeing just how much bullshit they can put into these 12 episodes.

The characters you can grow to care for. Mostly because they’re SET UP to be pitied and babied, but my thought regarding them is “you didn’t deserve to be in this pile of garbage of an anime”. (x) [2/10]

Recommend: HELL Yeah! | Yes | Eh??? | Nope | This anime killed my parents

[fortress-of-iserlohn]

Please tell me more about Reuenthal/Yang, I have never considered this ship before (Reinhard/Yang is my usual poison of choice) but now I can't stop thinking about it. I need AUs! And canon-divergence! And - please just tell me as many ways this could happen as you can, in as much detail as possible!

howdy anon friend i am fajsdofjsaf. honoured that you are considering my tiny lil raft ship and just HELLO <3 would you like some tea? or a muffin? i’m good at baking muffins i swear.

but really. you have certainly come to the right place! i am here to fulfil all of your AU and canon-divergence needs :D

beneath this cut you shall find TRASH wonder and MORE TRASH all your dreams come to life

alright let’s start with canon-divergence because this one is slightly less quantity and quality because canon fic is really hard??? (and also i am admittedly writing one right now and i don’t wanna give away too much :3????)

logh has all these cool plot points where the outcome changes depending on the action the character in question takes!!!!

ie. what if yang took schonkopf with him to meet with reinhardt the second time?

or like. what if yang disobeyed the orders from hq to stop the battle of vermillion?

or, my personal favourite, what if yang decided that schonkopf was right and then basically declared iserlohn an independent entity and the thirteenth fleet + iserlohn basically divorced themselves from the fpa???? 

seriously though. do you think either faction could’ve taken the fortress back by force? reinhardt probably eventually could, but in his best interests, he leaves yang alone and goes to crush the fpa first, then comes back to negotiate a truce.

but anyway, we’re here to talk about my favourite thing in the world - reuenthal/yang, so i’ll leave my crying about what if canon for later.

CANON DIVERGENCE REUENTHAL/YANG.

i don’t have much on this because i’ve yet to finish the source material but i will have. more. one. day. (i hope)

also pls note that i’m not big on plot beyond trashy fluff, so this is probably stupendously ooc and i can’t fix it just let me have my otp pls asofmsaodfijas

1. the star crossed lovers thing - where reuenthal accompanied kircheis to negotiate the exchange of prisoners with the fpa. and it’s literally love at first sight for him with yang and yang’s not. disagreeable because reuenthal is beautiful and he can be charming af when he wants to be (and he really wants to charm yang lbr) 

after kircheis and reuenthal return to odin, reuenthal starts moping about the admiral’s big brother house and eventually caves and talks to mittermeyer about his pure hearted admiration of yang where in mittermeyer stares flatly at reuenthal and tells him ‘you’re pining like one of those heroines you detest from the classics’ and reuenthal is so Offended TM by this he sulks off to the officer’s bar and drowns his sorrows until he becomes drunk enough to admit that hey, mittermeyer really knows him too well.

so the next day, very hung over, reuenthal starts sending letters (or more likely, electronic communications) to the 13th fleet with flowery poetry and declarations of his feelings and shit. and at the start, the 13th fleet kind of think he’s up to something nefarious. but then they just realise reuenthal actually really is just pathetically in love with yang and so for the good of all mankind, they just ‘accidentally delete’ every single message before it makes it to yang. 

no one expects that reuenthal eventually (cos that boy has no chill, like me) literally rolls up and parks his goddamned flagship next to the hyperion when the tristan is supposed to be passing nearby one day and demands to know why yang hasn’t been basically texting him back and then yang is like ‘??????????????? wat’ and then everyone in the 13th fleet, from schonkopf down to julian have a LOT OF EXPLAINING to do. (cazerne pretended to know nothing and washed his hands of the whole thing from the start because the less he knows about these sort of things the more sane he can stay okay).

eventually reinhardt gets sick of reuenthal moping about odin and shoos him off to be the consul of heinessen and reuenthal just continues to woo yang (now in person!!!) by showing off whenever he can even when it’s stupidly inappropriate with the inbuilt optimism of being a good looking and popular dude that everything will work out eventually and one day yang will just cave and say ‘fine.’ (spoiler alert, he does)

2. post-vermillion - actually this is 90% what my fic is about so i’m not going to say a lot about it. you’ll get to read this eventually as a proper-ish fic in a month or two (pray for me pls, it’s currently 7000 words and nowhere near done).

but consider. if yang and reuenthal met after the alliance surrendered. hm. Hm. HMMMMMMMMM. with added shenanigans from my favourite admirals from the empire and fpa sides :D

AU REUENTHAL/YANG

I FRIGGEN LOVE AU.

i’ve already talked about my ‘what if yang was born in the empire’ au, and briefly covered my college/university au where reuenthal social media stalks yang in a non-creepy way until he grows enough balls to just ask him out.

but, i was also yelling a lot at @beingevil today cos she brought up an actor au, but she’ll be writing that one so i’ll leave it up to her (WINK WONK)

other AUs to be considered:

1. history professor!yang & hitman!reuenthal - someone (probably fucking job trunicht) puts a hit out on yang and reuenthal is assigned to the job and he stakes out yang for a few days and yang is just like a small defenseless animal????? how can he murder a small, defenseless animal like that?? and gosh he’s super cute too??? he’s so my type!!!!!??? so he can’t pull the trigger and instead reuenthal goes on the run with yang and they uncover conspiracies against the government and then they put trunicht into prison and live happily ever after?

2. coffee shop au - where yang owns a coffee shop and reuenthal is a lawyer/business person who comes in to buy coffee, but in reality is here to perv on yang and also everyone in the shop (customers and staff alike) knows this except for yang who thinks reuenthal is a really nice guy and ‘julian, don’t you think reuenthal is just so friendly. he seems to really like leaning close to you when he talks and his voice is so deep and his eyes are so striking and he’s really handsome ???’ and julian sighs and goes to make himself another three expresso shots just to get through the rest of the hour

3. hogwarts au - where reuenthal is a slytherin, who’s bffls with a gryffindor (mittermeyer) and yang is the laziest ravenclaw ever sorted and did you know his best subject is a history of magic which everyone else hates??? so like they have potions together (because they’re the same age and so they would be in the same year level!!) and reuenthal thought that yang would be HELPFUL but there’s a reason yang consistently almost fails everything but history which is that he literally comes into class and then curls into a ball and then GOES TO SLEEP. so imagine reuenthal’s DESPAIR when he gets paired up with yang for astronomy as well? it’s his shittiest subject because ew astronomy??? and they’re assigned to do their major project together. but it doesn’t turn out as bad as he imagines. instead, they slowly develop ~feelings~ because there’s cute midnight dates on the astronomy tower where they cuddle beneath a blanket together for ~warmth~ and share hot tea while they do their star charts. then eventually reuenthal talks yang into going to a quidditch match and vaguely cheering for slytherin because reuenthal is one of their star players. cue attenborogh being thoroughly distressed by yang’s casual betrayal of his own house ‘but yang, you’ve never come to a single game in five years’ and yang replying ‘interhouse rivalry promotes antagonistic tendencies’ and wrapping himself up snugly with reuenthal’s green and white scarf.

honourable mentions go out to the following:

- hetalia!AU - where yang is the personification of the alliance and reuenthal falls in love with freedom

- soulmate!AU - where your soulmate’s name is written in their hand somewhere on your body & reuenthal’s been hiding his entire life because his name is written in alliance standard and yang just thinks that the curved lines across his arm is a really weird birthmark

- pokemon!AU - where yang is the most wtf gym leader ever and kind of just naps all day on a snorlax but no one’s been able to get a badge off him since he took the gym. reuenthal as an ambitious trainer who’s just missing THE ONE BADGE...

i actually have a heap more but i just. NEED TO CRY ABOUT THEM FOR A WHILE BECAUSE CANON IS MEAN TO ME

[brandonxdylan]

Terminal Bliss (1990)

Around season 5 of my premiere binge of Beverly Hills 90210, I decided that I was officially obsessed with Luke Perry, and while riding one of my crush highs, I purchased a VHS copy of his first movie called Terminal Bliss, which has never had a DVD or streaming release. It wasn’t cheap, but now that I’ve watched it, I feel like it was worth it. You know those store brand colas that always try to look like Coke but are always conspicuously, almost subversively...off? Well, Terminal Bliss is to Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero, as Dr. Skipper is to Dr. Pepper. I don’t think I can put it any clearer than that.

But I’ll try. What follows is part review, part commentary. I know it really has nothing to do with 90210 besides the fact that it stars Luke Perry (who, for the record, is basically playing Dylan McKay here, albeit a version of him with less fucks to give), but I figured this is the best place to post it, because I know I have a few followers who share my love for our reigning Fred Andrews.

We open with some moody shots of a boat drifting on a lake at sunset, and some kids playing in the twilight as Alex, our narrator and protagonist (although tbh you won’t be rooting for anyone in this film) provides a voiceover about the time he witnessed an accidental suicide. It seems while he was a child playing in a tree, a man came up and tied a rope around a branch, planning to hang himself. But the branch breaks, and he falls to his death instead. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be real or just a metaphor, but either way it’s super pretentious and heavy-handed (as is the rest of the movie), and it will come into play later, so hold that thought.

We then transition to Alex and his friend John (played by the reason for this post) as they play lacrosse. Alex and the new girl in town, Stevie, make eyes at each other. John asks Alex, “who’s the bitch?” and follows it up with, “you fuckin’ her?” Just the first of many classy lines courtesy of John/Perry, and I’m not complaining.

After this, we move into meeting the other members of their crew, including the improbably-named Bucky, a freshman at Ohio State who deals drugs, as well as his girlfriend and “best customer” Kirsten. Also Craig, played by the late Alexis Arquette(!) who is a huge Grateful Dead fan and who seems to lift right out of this circle of friends, but is also the only one who gives a solid, believable performance and actually manages to be likable. While out for a drive, John gives Stevie acid, apparently for the first time, even though Stevie seems to have a thing for Alex, who makes eyes at her once again. Alex says in narration that because he wanted her, so did John. Also, now seems like a good time to apologize for the shit quality of these screencaps. I’m not working with primo sources here, folks.

They then go this club (which seems to have an apocalyptic jungle theme) where Stevie and Kirsten waves their arms around dreamily together.

Kirsten says she’s into Stevie’s necklace, and Stevie says without a hint of irony: “my daddy made it for me. He’s dead now.” Then they all do blow and John brings Stevie into some sort of bathroom? Storage room? Anyway, they have sex, right there in the club, surrounded by lava lamps. Alex watches (creepily), and it seems like Stevie sees Alex too, but neither one says anything.

A few months pass, and it’s established that John (sporting an adorable scholastic look: see below) and Stevie have become an item, which stresses out Alex, who tries to deal by journaling(!!) This bites him in the ass, though, as it seems he handed in his angsty, bitter, drug-fuelled musings as an English assignment (sensible), and his teacher (appropriately) interpreted them as a cry for help and showed them to his mother. When informed of this, he calls his teacher a “lying antagonistic bitch” in front of the whole class, and is promptly hauled into a parent-teacher conference where his mom says that Alex “has become arrogant and sarcastic.” I love it. Alex is told to apologize to his teacher, but requests an “alternate path.” This is the point at which I realized that Alex is a pretentious douchebag, and no, there is no redeeming character arc to come. Alex then says he’d prefer to be suspended, is suspended, and then threatened with rehab, which he likens to being “burned at the stake.” Like...what did you expect? Also, he says that Stevie had an abortion, and John makes creepy eyes at Stevie’s freshman sister Tanya. Both of these things will also come into play later. Sort of. 

Back at Chez Alex, Alex’s Siouxie Sioux-looking mom goes for a tan in her home tanning booth, as yuppie mothers are wont to do, but not before taking a Valium, which seems like a real bad idea. She tells Alex that he has to stay and watch her to make sure she doesn’t fall asleep. He does, for a minute, but then he starts getting existential, and wishing that he was aborted like Stevie’s baby so he wouldn’t have to go to rehab. Jesus Christ, Alex, grow up. Anyway, it seems like in the midst of all this, he leaves because we hear the door close, a buzzer go off, and his mom scream his name so like...is she okay? We don’t know and it’s literally never mentioned again.

At John’s super bougie graduation party, Stevie gives Kirsten her dead-daddy necklace as a token of their friendship.

After John notices Kirsten wearing it, he hits on her, but she rebuffs his advances. John: “What, a guy can’t cop a feel in his own house?” Then Kirsten implies that it’s not that he hit on her, it’s that he’s doing so “in front of the whole world.” K. But it all turns out to be a moot point anyway because Bucky walks in, which ends the conversation.

Alex gets out of rehab just in time to make it to the party, and they all go for a joy ride in the new Porsche that John’s parents gave him as a graduation present. Here, yet another reason why John is basically just Dylan McKay. Also, Stevie pulls a Footloose and almost dies but it’s chill.

They go for dinner at Bucky’s dad’s country club, where Craig does a shitload of acid, and John is a dick to Stevie, who seems to be losing interest in him. When John invites her to go to the wine cellar with him and do some blow, she refuses and so he grabs Kirsten instead, calling her a “snow bunny,” which I think is the cutest way to say “coke fiend” that I’ve ever heard. And naturally, they do each other, in addition to the blow.

Meanwhile, at the table, tensions flare inexplicably between Bucky and Alex, who puffs on a cigarette and chews the scenery like it’s turkey jerky as he rips Bucky a new asshole for no real reason, calling him out for being a privileged asshole who is destined for a life of suburban mediocrity. Jesus Christ, man, what did Bucky ever do to deserve this unwarranted tirade? He’s not even a villainous character. He’s barely even a character at all, he’s been on screen for like three minutes total at this point.

But Bucky does not take this lying down, and snatches the wig right off Alex’s head, calling him out for basically being just as privileged as he is. It’s the pot calling the kettle platinum, if you will. Anyway, their bitch-fest is interrupted by Craig who has a coughing fit (because of the acid? I guess that could be a thing). Alex takes off, followed by Stevie, and the two inadvertently interrupt Kirsten and John having sex in the wine cellar (as you do). Alex straight up sees them going at it, And although Stevie doesn’t, she sees enough to suspect. She also sees the necklace she gave Kirsten sitting on the floor, and picks it up. Kirsten’s response to all of this is to ask Alex which rehab he went to, because she thinks she’s getting too addicted to coke. Like that’s her actual excuse for fucking John. Whatever helps you sleep at night, sis.

Later, John goes to Stevie’s where he again creepily leers at Tanya, who is sunbathing by the pool. He tells her that she arouses his Lolita complex. Ew.

Then Stevie waltzes into the backyard while eating ice cream right out of the tub. This will be a recurring motif with Stevie, as you will see, as her passion for ice cream comprises about 83% of her character. John says that he has a gift for Stevie and so the two go for a drive. First, he gives her a snake (wtf?)

Then, the real gift, which is a black, oversized t-shirt (which is oddly even more wtf than the snake). As she reluctantly puts it on, John gets all weird and handsy, talking about how his babysitter used to get changed in front of him and it turned him on, and then talking about how constriction is the worst way to die (is that what the snake was supposed to represent?) This is all presumably the last straw for Stevie, and understandably so, as she tries to break it off with John, who pins her down and is alternately angry and weepy as he confesses his love for her. Eventually she wriggles free and runs off. Run, bitch, run.

A few days later, Alex shows up at Stevie’s, interrupting a dream she was having about her giving birth. What follows is the most bizarre conversation in the whole movie. First, Stevie offers Alex ice cream (again, right out of the tub, natch), saying that it’s “creamy, and dreamy, simply to die.” What’s with the hard sell? Are you a brand ambassador for Häagen-Dazs or something?

In response, Alex chooses to ignore this entirely, and instead says: “You know, music is the ultimate form of expression.” THANKS ALEX, NO I DID NOT KNOW THAT BUT THANKS FOR BRINGING IT UP EVEN THOUGH LITERALLY NO ONE WAS TALKING ABOUT MUSIC. They then take a hard turn into talking about sex. To make things stranger, Stevie gives Alex her necklace, without explanation, and starts playing the piano (is that necklace cursed or something? Why does she keep trying to pawn it off?) Alex proceeds to say some egregiously pretentious things about her choice of music (Shostakovich, for the record), as well as her choice of rendition. Around this point, Stevie gets annoyed with Alex’s presence (which makes sense), but he placates her by finally accepting her offer for ice cream. “You know, I think ice cream’s better than sex,” she says. OF COURSE YOU THINK THAT. Alex says that he can’t really comment on that comparison “...since I’ve never had ice cream.” BARF.

Then John shows up in full Dylan-mode: drunk and bitter. He tries to get Stevie to invite him in for the night, which she refutes by saying her parents are home (which they aren’t), and so Alex drives John home. En route, John warns Alex that Stevie is “a manipulative bitch.” Alex then calls out John for being a douchey nympho, and then John calls out Alex for being a know it all. Calm down, fellas, you’re both right.

At the grocery store, Alex listens to Craig go off about the virtues of the Grateful Dead, while carrying around an eggplant. They then run into Stevie and Kirsten, the latter of whom is eating a piece of fruit. When Craig asks what it is, she says “I don’t know.” Reasonable. I mean who hasn’t just picked up a piece of fruit from an unlabelled bin at the grocery store and started munching.

Stevie tries to talk to Alex (IN THE ICE CREAM SECTION), who is predictably standoffish and rude. Be that as it may, Stevie invites him to her sister’s party, and he reluctantly accepts.

Also, as a stray observation, I just wanted to point out that Kirsten always seems drunk. I don’t know if that was an acting choice, if she was directed that way, or if it’s just the way that this actress is. But in any case, it’s both ineffective and endearing, and goes a long way in contributing to the borderline surreal vibe that this movie has. Like this clearly does not take place in our world.

At the party, Bucky talks to Kirsten about their upcoming European vacation, which she seems kind of “meh” about. Then John shows up, and Tanya says that although she wants him there, she feels weird because of his relationship with her sister. Then John says it’s cool because he never really liked Stevie anyway. Tanya seems to accept this happily, which is kind of a bitch movie imo but whatever. Then, presumably for the sole purpose of stirring up an already over-stirred pot, Alex shows up to return Stevie’s necklace to her in front of all of their friends, which seems to reveal to everyone that John and Kirsten had a thing, and that Alex and Stevie KNOW they did. This motherfucking necklace, I can’t with this.

Bucky and John exchange words, with John making some low blows about Kirsten’s drug habit and how it was easy to get her to sleep with him because all he had to do was “put her on the one gram cycle.” Ouch. Anyway, Bucky retaliates (deservedly) by pushing John into the pool (which I TOTALLY called by the way).

Tanya pulls John out of the water and takes him into a bathroom to dry off and tend to his broken lip. He compliments her perfume and asks if it’s Stevie’s, which I guess is supposed to solidify his obsession with her, and to explain(ish) what he does next. He says that Stevie told him that she has a crush on him, and she admits it. Then they start making out but Tanya gets second thoughts and tries to protest. John doesn’t stop, and proceeds to rape her, all the while muttering Stevie’s name. Yikes.

Meanwhile, Kirsten apologizes to Stevie for sleeping with John. Stevie responds by screaming: “YOU ARE DISGUSTING!” This causes Kirsten to break down, and she confesses that she’s really struggling with drugs (as she literally does a line of coke), and how her dad is sending her to Europe with Bucky to save the embarrassment of sending her to rehab. Stevie softens and the two hug it out.

Craig shows up at the party with an old VW wagon to say bye to his friends before he commences his tour with the Grateful Dead for a year. Why was he in this movie again? I mean, aside from being the only likable character and serving up this LEWK:

John finds Stevie and offers her ice cream (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) as a last ditch effort to get her to go to his lakehouse, which he’s been trying to get her to do for most of the movie. She tries to say no, saying that they need time apart, but when John insists that nothing will happen because Alex is coming, she has a change of heart and agrees to leave. That very minute, for whatever reason. I mean if it were me, I’d wait until the next day instead of leaving in the middle of this huge party I was throwing, but you do you. Before they go, Tanya shows up looking devastated, but won’t tell Stevie what happened. Kirsten agrees to look after her while Stevie’s gone.

At the lakehouse, Alex says in narration that he realized that inviting both of them was just a ruse so that he could get Stevie there. No shit. They take the speedboat out and John literally drags Alex all over the lake on water skis, ignoring his signals to stop until Alex faceplants into the water. Fantastic.

Later, Stevie catches Alex reading a book on existential philosophy and low-key calls out his overwhelming pretension. Alex then shows her lines he’s drawn on his arms where he would cut if he were *actually* suicidal. He calls it “necro-masturbation” and she’s understandably put off by this weird confession. Still, instead of heeding this as the final in a long line of crystal clear harbingers of the doom to come, she ignores it and stays.

That night, during a power outage, Stevie starts up a game of Twister by candlelight, which leads to some brief albeit appreciable homoerotic play between John and Alex, and later, a makeout session between John and Stevie. Surprise, surprise. But then, Stevie pulls away and says “that was goodbye.” Goddamn.

Alex muses about how changed John is, and how worried he is about him as he sulks off by himself. The next morning, John asks Alex for help tying up the speedboat. They row out to where the boat is, chatting about acid as they go. Meanwhile, Stevie wakes up and watches from the shore as John gets on the speedboat and tells Alex just how much he loves Stevie. Alex is not having any of it, however, as evidenced by this face:

John then admits that he poked a hole in his condom in order to get Stevie pregnant. Alex calls John a “bastard” in the most dramatic of all stage whispers, as John strips down to provide the patient viewers with the first and only shots of a topless Luke Perry.

Then John leaps into the water with a rope to tie the boat to its anchor. But his foot gets tangled in the process, and he can’t surface. Alex watches, as does Stevie, neither one doing anything. Although in his defense, Alex does effectively convey some conflicted thoughts on the matter. This goes on for a minute or two until eventually, John FUCKING DIES. Alex ties all of this back to the idea of accidental suicide as introduced in the opening scene: John seemed intent on killing himself with drugs, but killed himself in a different way instead...sort of...I guess. Alex posits that even if he did cut John loose, he would have killed himself with drugs eventually anyway. FAIR FAIR OKAY ALEX BUT MAYBE LET’S BACK UP TO THE PART WHERE YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HIM BUT DIDN’T? Like I know he was a disgusting rapist junkie but basically everyone in this movie is so like fuck off with that holier than though shit pretty please?

Alex and Stevie comfort each other in silence as the film ends.

Honestly, this movie was a fucking trip. It definitely wasn’t bad enough to earn the “so bad, it’s good” badge. It was bad in a more subtle way. I feel like if I had been doing as many drugs as these characters, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. But even still, it was far from a waste of time, and managed to be entertaining in spite of its lesser qualities, which include (but are not limited to) amateurish acting, a goddamn hot mess of a script, clunky dialogue, and of course all of the super hamfisted and on the nose plot points involving drugs, rape, and promiscuity that even Beverly Hills 90210 and Riverdale wouldn’t touch.

There were some things I was kind of into though. For one, it was actually really well shot. Like, genuinely, by any film’s standards. There were some cool creative visuals, and the whole film had a music video feel to it, which kept things stimulating. As well, like I mentioned at the beginning, the movie almost manages to have a surreal, Bret Easton Ellis thing going. If you’ve seen the film versions of Less Than Zero or The Rules of Attraction then you know what I mean. But unfortunately it’s just a much worse film than either of those. With a better script, better acting, and some general polish, it could have been on par with them.

TL;DR: If you’re a fan of Luke Perry (or if ANY of what I’ve included in this post appeals to you in ANY way), then I would low-key recommend Terminal Bliss. I could see this becoming a bad movie night staple if only it were easier to find (I do not necessarily recommend paying a small fortune for a VHS copy). Also, the song that plays over the end credits is kind of a bop and I recommend that even more than the movie itself. 

If you’ve actually read through this whole thing, THANK YOU and GOD BLESS because I know this post is a fucking monster with limited appeal. But I felt it was my duty to write. Maybe I need to get a life, idk.

[choisgirls]

Hello! So, asks are open for a bit? Hope i wasn't too late to the party... If it's still open how about (general fluffy) headcanons on MC with werewolf! RFA (+ Minor trio if you do them)? If the asks are closed the you can ignore this. Thank you :3

A/N: aaaa they wereopen when you sent it love, no worries ^^ I will do my best here, im sorry ifits short!! but i didnt wanna get repetitive or anything!! and i dont know toomuch about werewolves /heck pls i really hope its okay im Anxiety™/ ^^;

 *YOOSUNG:

               -Honestly? I can see it

               -But instead of some big, bad,scary werewolf he?? Was like a giant puppy??

               -‘Cause it doesn’t change hispersonality too much in all honesty. Maybe this is why he’s such a puppy inperson as well?

               -You have to watch him though,because he likes to run around and takes off after things like squirrels.Really likes to go (where it’s safe) and play around with you. Fetch? Youbetcha.

               -Seriously is not scary. Not atall. He can try, but nope. He even has puppy dog eyes. Weren’t werewolvessupposed to be scary??

*ZEN:

               -The /best/ looking werewolf

               -Like you’ve seen those dogshows?? How they’re gorgeous dogs?? If there was a Werewolf Edition™, hewould win.

               -His red eyes can actually bereally scary in werewolf form, so you try not to upset him. Most of the timethough, he tries to give you “The Beast” eyes. It doesn’t work. Itdoes, however, make you giggle every time and that’s good enough for him

               -He has The Prettiest™ whitefur and he needs you to take care of it for him. Brush, shampoo, anything tokeep up with it. He’ll even let you braid or put bows in his fur, so long asyou take them out. They looked pretty spaced out when he’s in wolf form butonce he’s back to human form the amount of clips and things actually hurts hishead

               -Wolf howls and makes all/sorts/ of wolf innuendos at you while in human form because he knows he cancontrol himself well enough to do so

*JAEHEE:

               -Werewolves can be energetic andreally determined but she just wants to sleep

               -With all the shit she puts upwith all day and going through the transformation she just wants to cRAWL INTOBED

               -So she does. You’re in it too?Too bad. Large wolf cuddles for you. 'Cause uh, she wants to sleep too.

               -Sometimes she’s awake enoughand will feel bad so she curls up like a normal dog at the foot of the bed buthonestly feels much better laying up with you

               -Seriously though it’s herfavourite thing? Whether in her wolf form or not? Cuddling? Cuddle her, MC,please. She’s always a sweetheart? How is this even possible?

*JUMIN:

               -The Proper One™

               -Honestly, just as classy inwolf form as he is in human form

               -Hear me out, he also has thisdominant way he presents himself. Like, he’s the alpha. Any dogs within acertain amount of miles /know/ it. They can feel it. They can feel it when he’sjust human form as well. There’s just that aura around him

               -But not with you. He’s a bigsofty. At first you were really concerned for Elizabeth but she just rubs onhim? That is the one canine-like being that she will ever enjoy. He stilldemands the high quality of meats to eat in this form too. He has tried at onepoint to use utensils in this form too, he gets frustrated. Also likes if youput a tie on him. Why aren’t any of these werewolves scary wtf did you watchthe right horror movies MC?

               -10/10 will fight Zen in thisform you gotta watch out

*SAEYOUNG:

               -The type to return to humanform and just walk around for hours after, inthe nude

               -Tries to scare you every time.You can’t count how many times he’s been dramatic in his change or how manytimes he’s tackled you, growling, pretending like he’s going to bite

               -Honestly you’ve learned to justlightly tap him on the nose with a newspaper and he turns into another giantpuppy. Please don’t get him and Yoosung together. They’ll wreck the house.

               -Always wants to play wrestlewith you. Always. But sometimes he miscalculates the fact that he is a lotstronger than you. If he hurts you even in /the slightest/ way, he’ll take offoutside (obviously making sure you aren’t seriously injured first) and won’tcome back until he changes back. Then he’s all apologies, practically beggingyou to forgive him, constantly kissing all over your face

               -On his calmer days, he likes totry and sit on your lap. Has that 'big dog’ syndrome where he thinks he’s a lapdog and refuses to acknowledge that he clearly does not fit

*JIHYUN:

               -Skiddish!!! I’m talking for thelongest time he would physically sprint away from you and you’d find him hourslater attempting to hide under the bed and it being a disaster.

               -I’m sure after a while he’dwarm up to you and just quietly follow you around

               -I’m talking, you’re cooking inthe kitchen? He’s there silently begging. You’re on the couch? He’s againstyour hip just like a normal dog. What is /wrong/ with all of these werewolves.Might as well have been puppies, amiright?

               -No but really he is 10/10willing to protect you. Knock at the door? Growling scary enough you have totell the person that you were watching a scary movie.

               -Belly rubs!!!!!! Will rollaround like /the biggest/ idiot, knocking everything over in the process andsheepishly apologizing later on for not being able to help clean it

*SAERAN:

               -He tries to constantly growl atyou and bare his teeth, trying to be intimidating so you’ll leave him alonebecause 1. he feels vulnerable and awkward and 2. what if he hurts you withoutmeaning to?

               -Though you’re always hangingyourself all over him because he’s “cute” and he just learned to getused to it

               -Seriously he really likes headpats and behind the ear scratches and will crawl into your lap like his brotherwould until you give him that sort of attention. Fuzzy blankets somewhere? He’scurled up on one. He also likes to sit outside and just howl, it’s likescreaming at the void, but in dog form

               -Honestly will sleep most of thetime unless he’s trying to be alpha male and “protect” you fromSaeyoung

               -Saeyoung just playfully tacklesand sits on him though that poor baby he tries so hard

*VANDERWOOD:

               -The Most Intimidating One™

               -Would rather be alone because?It’s a sensitive time okay, he can get really grumpy

               -I’m talking growling, fangsshowing, maybe even some of that like… gross angry drool but he’s extremelygrateful when you clean it up off the floor because? Ew that’s gross. Does notwant.

               -He will let you sit with himoutside, though. If he’s sitting outside, it’s a calm time for him, and you’remore than welcome to sit too. Maybe even pet his head a little bit. BUT ONLY ALITTLE BIT. NO MORE.

               -I feel like he would get reallyembarrassed if he changed back in front of you? Like BAM HERE’S ME NAKED, and Ithink as much as he plays it off like he’s cool with it, inside he’s like,“did MC /really/ just see… everything?”

Masterlist!~

[moondahluna]

Anne on CBC thoughts: Ep 1, last 45 mins

Is that barn cgi? They’ve also shown her undressing like ... 4 times now? And is this the first time she mentions poetry?

She does this prayer scene almost word for word from the movie, and she definitely does it justice. Megan Follows is a tough act to follow, and Amybeth McNulty is doing a fantastic job. I also think this Marilla is good, she looks more like how I imagined her.

It’s definitely a beautifully made show. Is the “yesterday you wanted to be a seagull” the original line? I feel like it’s not, but I can’t quite remember.

more looping, but this puff sleeve thing is cute and her being ‘vain’ is a defining quality and ohhh look she’s undressing again. Damn girl what a monologue let mrs Lynde have it. I learned what a switch was from that one episode of Community with Troy’s grandma.

She’s definitely the same dramatic little Anne. “What I said to you was true too, but I shouldn’t have said it” that’s an iconic line

This French boy was never a real character are they going to do a love triangle thing with Gilbert I fucking hope not. “What’s your problem?” “You. you’re my problem” Huge difference, that language is ridic. Also, how many times have we seen Matthew’s dirty fingernails. And ew?? Diana’s dad?? British?? I thought he was like, the mayor or something wtf

Ew??? I hate these flashbacks?? Wtf?? So unnecessary imo. I get they’re like, to try and show her progress and the why of the way she is, the contrast, etc, but like ... we got the why of things in the books and movies without them before. So they’re not necessary now.

And her hugging that dead rat was triggering honestly. I was crying and holding the dead little bunnies and said the same things to them in my backyard.

Schuyler Grant was a perfect Diana. They met for the first time at the picnic and Diana’s family was never portrayed as villainous and hoity toity the way they are, like it was always more subtle.  Best friends - don’t u mean bosom friends. The way they’re doing it is kind of like .. more obvious in trying to highlight Anne and Diana’s differences & what they see in each other & what they need from each other, etc, which I get.

So much looping!! why!! Oh there’s the picnic. Good. 

This brooch thing seems weird, like they did it weirdly it just comes out of nowhere wtf? they literally get rid of her? I know why it’s weird, now, bc it’s made into EXtra dramatic to end the episode on ... it’s why Matthew was riding a horse through the ocean wtf I really think this is just ... exceptionally unnecessarily dramatique 

So overall, it’s beautifully made but it’s quite different, even though they use the same lines. I really don’t like how they ended this episode, that brooch thing was really not that dramatic, it comes across very American Television kinda feel. 

I also get how it’s definitely more appealing to “modern” audiences than the 1985 films but also????? Nothing can ever compare, they couldn’t try to be the same, so they have to be different and nobody likes change. So far it’s beautiful, but different, and watchable and same same but different.

I’m worried for how they will twist things to fit them into dramatique “””compelling”””” episodes where characters and plot are changed. One of the descriptions mentions Anne getting her period? Which like a) hell yes b) hell no. she was never even described as pregnant in the 5th book but for “a twinkle in her eye” ... but I’m getting ahead of myself. I will watch the 2nd episode.

[swearronchanel]

Tired of these yet? A Christmas journey in March with 4.09

I’ve actually been productive today *claps* I’m the worst™ and a procrastinator to the core, so it was about damn time I got shit done. Plus+ I ran out of clean jeans so that was some motivation to do laundry & once I started moving I just kept going haha. But today I watched the Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’s memorial & omg it was so emotional ugh. Now that I’m so sad I guess I’m going to watch Call the Midwife. Care to join me?

I closed my eyes and pointed to the episode list, looks like we’re watching 4.09 aka the 2015 Christmas special

I don’t have to pretend very hard that it’s Christmas because it was like 17 degrees f the other day lol

Am I the only one who hums along in their head to the theme song? ok nvm

Aw a baby

Tom is actually in church lol, we rarely see him there

Sister MJ lol, what is she looking for?!

Sister Winifred actually cooks/bakes pretty often

SISTER EVANGELINA 😭💔 I still miss her

Sister Winifred aka queen of cringey facial expressions, I love it

Ah no! the death joke is no longer funny sister E 😭😭 rip💔

My bby Trixie on the scene😍

What is quality street? I looked it up before but forgot. Candy right?

whoops is my American showing

I hope Sister MC comes back soon☹️

“Behold, I have located the Brandy” three cheers for alcohol 🍻 I wouldn’t choose brandy though what am I a rich old business man at a country club?

Lol Sister MJ & Sister W giggling so pure !

“You give us enough gip when you’re stone cold sober“😂 same

Gremlin kids in the front haha

Oh no😂 Babs gave them all candy and now has to make them spit it out😂

Aw I love Christmas

But looking at this snow is triggering even if it’s fake😭😂

WE’VE HAD SO MUCH THIS MONTH HERE & IT’S MARCH❄️

yikes these kids are awful, who let them up there! 😭😂

SHELAGH’S FACE 😂 SHE IS DISGUSTED OMG HAHAA

Patrick laughing so hard like same 😭😂

Welp he’s lucky, Saved by the bell thanks to Trixie

Doesn’t Sister MJ explode whatever’s in the pot?

Ahh Shelagh looks so good™!😍 I love when they dress her up!

In other news, Laura tweeted me, which means she knows I exists. What a time to be alive™😭✨👏🏼you know I was shook

Angela so precious aww, I hope my future baby is that pretty

Now I just think of The Crown when I see Mrs Willens *she’s in it if you haven’t watched*

Oh no Sister MJ!!! 😭😭 why are they always giving her illnesses! Dejala sola!

She was legit ill in the first Christmas special 😭

Love Trixie’s ponytail, why Patsy’s hair a mess tho? LOL I SHOULDN’T BE TALKING

I’m a walking ball of frizz. And when I don’t wash my hair for a few days it actually dread locks 😂 gotta love curls

Aw Delia’s not here- I forgot she cracked her head open and went back to Wales

Protect Sister MJ at every cost

Violet literally sewing Fred’s ass into the Santa pants 😂😂😂 fun fact they  did that to Olivia Newton John in Grease

not sure if I knew that because I have a junk brain of useless information or because I’m trash that reads buzzfeed

Violet’s been wearing blue eyeshadow for 3 series

“I’m not biting this, it’s too close to your backside” lol okay vi give it time. You’ll be cringeyly very handsy with each other in a bit anyway 😂

She’d do it now with no hesitation I bet

I’m here for their relationship tho😂

SISTER MJ HAD PNEUMONIA IN SERIES 1 DID SHE NOT?

Ugh distaval, fuck that. Just wait and see what chaos it brings

Aw Pats looking at the photo of Delia💔 oo wait that was a parallel then in the Cuban missile Crisis episode this series

PHYLLIS !! I missed her presence lol

Tom’s opening letter from bbc it’s lit

also: he looks good™

Poor Sister MJ! What are they feeding you, liver ew

Ah I forgot, this is when they get the tv😭

Poor Babs can’t go home for Christmas

You’ll have the nonnatus fam❤️❤️

“All should head home” *breaks out into song* THERE’S NOOO PLACE LIKE HOMEEE, FOR THE HOLIDAYSSS

Which is true because NYC is pretty beautiful at Christmas time, I can’t deny that

But also is when 100000x more people are visiting 🙃and stop in front of you when you’re walking to take pictures 🙃 *clenches fists* moving on..

Lol Tom you need to be more clear on this, they’re not getting it

Sister J shut him down 😂

“Mrs Mop” lmfao this BBC guy is a jerk😂

Laura’s another queen of facial expressions

“Aesthetics are vital” I feel

Aw Shelagh so cute being defensive of the kids of poplar

Lets be real though Shelagh’s always adorable bc Laura is an actual angel

pink wafers aye

i still have been craving them lol, there’s no bodega’s around my university though☹️

Angela is giggling, was this the last time we heard her make a noise lol

Wait this is when Sister MJ runs away

yikes measles

when did the vaccine become a thing then? that mmr shot ugh

Glad I got it because there’s supposedly someone with mumps on my campus like wtf

Why was Sister E so harsh yelling at Sister Mj!? That was unnecessary !!

LET 👏🏼SISTER 👏🏼MJ 👏🏼DECORATE👏🏼FOR👏🏼CHRISTMAS 👏🏼AND👏🏼WATCH 👏🏼TELEVISON !!

I’m so protective of her, stop😢😢

She doesn’t deserve that 💔

Sometimes I forget Patsy’s name is Patience

Fred’s Santa beard is gross ew😂😂

yikes an enema

I’d rather die

Oh no, there she goes *sings* there she goessss todayyy

Yes Babs lollipops are fascinating

She just slipped that baby out

I want to go to London at Christmas time

I love lights ✨✨

Delia! What up Bitch where you been!

BUT WAIT I HAVE A COAT THAT LOOKS REALLY SIMILAR TO MRS BUBSY’S LOL

It’s vintage too, i love it, makes me feel fabulous af

until I remember it’s probably a dead woman’s coat

WATCHING THEM LET THE BABY JUST HANG MAKES ME SO ANXIOUS OMG

“You clever girl!”

Aw poor iris 😭💔

Violet is actually so sweet & we don’t see much of her w/o Fred like why 

Everyone on this show is so sweet and pure !!! I just love it too much!

remember when I was normal and didn’t care so much about television? Yea me neither 😅

Sister MJ is gone

ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO PUT UP THE TREE!!

that necklace and sapphire ring were so pretty though 😭 wish my mom had a sapphire ring for me to inherit 

Shelagh is too pretty for this grey suit, where’s the navy one?!

I will never be comfortable with cookies being called biscuits tbh

“No dogs!” “If it can’t sing silent night I’m not interested”  SHELAGH IS GOLDEN

SHE HAS SOME GREAT LINES BUT GIVE HER MORE !!

Oh Hay Peter

if you think about it Miranda Hart put this poor guy out of a job. Like he used to have more screen time lol but he can’t be around much with out her

“Very like a family in fact” 😭 I love when they call themselves family cause they are !!

Wait rehearsing before school? Ugh that must have been so early 😂

I couldn’t have been in that choir. In high school I woke up at 6:45am everyday & started at 8:05am & only lived 2 blocks away but I still got there at 9:15am 🙃

plus I’m an awful singer 😂

“She probably thought her habit would keep her safe”

Sister Mary Cynthia says that about her self the next series when she’s attacked 😢

Babs was right though! She was just excited bendito 😭😭

How much is a bob?? £??

I barely can keep up with how many $ is a £ tbh

Lolol had to check when I donated to Laura’s fundraising 😂😂

Delia has been with this big ass bun for 3 series as well

The cafe they’re in is aesthetically pleasing

so Delia’s mom is hella protective but didn’t notice she left to another town lol??

well I guess they’re even now since patsy left & then lost contact for a bit

LET ME TELL YOU, THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED THIS EPISODE I WAS SCREAMINGGG

I THOUGHT THEY HAD KILLED SISTER MJ AND WAS FREAKING TF OUT ™

I’m trying to think of what Phyllis’s hat reminds me of

I wanna say Mary Poppins 

IT’S NOT SISTER MJ👏🏼

I knew it wasn’t but still!!!

Is Shelagh wearing lipstick? i’m here for it!

but I don’t like her dress

@ wardrobe/costume ppl be nicer to my bby pls

“Well, there’s just a word that no-one likes singing. It’s in that line and it begins with a "b”’ 😂 lmaooo c'mon Tim 😂😂

He was talking about breast feeding like how many episodes ago why is he embarrassed now? 😂

Patrick laughing 😭 me as a parent tbh

Poor sickly Sister MJ 💔

My bbys Trixie and Shelagh are ¡interacting!! 💕😍

How do I get my hair to look like Trixie’s/Helen’s

SORRY CANCELED

Lol jk all will be well bby

SISTER MJ REALLY OUT HERE IN THE WOODS, LIKE HOW ??

Ah Shelagh’s dressed up again! Love it 😍 and she’s wearing earrings & matching pearls!! so pretty!! 💕💕

this has been an episode of gushing over Laura sorry not sorry

Look at her hat, she can wear anything

LMAO HE WASN’T EVEN PETER PAN GET OUT OF HERE MAN

You have to be impressed that this 80 yr old woman with dementia found her childhood home

for real though I want Shelagh’s coat

mrs willens + shelagh was kinda a friendship & was cute

“Well I stopped holding out against that happiness, didn’t I?"💔💖

people on this show are always holding hands platonically & romantically like how sweet and pure !?

"Almost all the world was before your time child … you are concerned to see it last a little longer”

Hell yea lets get it, round up the nuns and nurses lets SING !!

“But it sometimes seems to me the older I get, the more I have to learn” 😭

“We get so much out of love, we find strength in it and courage. Love is our foundation and our fuel”

DAMN IT WHY IS THE WRITING SO GREAT??!

HEIDI CAN WRITE MY EUOLGY SINCE SHE’LL BE THE CAUSE OF MY ACTUAL DEATH WHEN THIS SHOW IS  OVER ONE DAY *WHICH IS HOPEFULLY NEVER, ..I MEAN DAYS OF OUR LIVES IS ON SEASON 50 SO IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE🙃🙃*

shelagh and sister j❤️❤️ so pure. I love their relationship + moments together

BUT I STILL *NEED* TRIXIE & SHELAGH TO HAVE A REAL FRIENDSHIP + ACTUAL SCENES TOGETHER

no sister, it’s not your fault that she ran away😢

broadcast about to be lit

Why did we never see Trixie giving Barbara a makeup lesson😭😂

Trixie getting excited about putting makeup on Babs like same 😂I like helping people with makeup *even though I’m not even that good haha*

“Oh some lipstick might be nice, with a touch of gay geranium you’d look quite like Jean Simmons” SISTER W SNEAKS OUT TO THE MOVIE THEATRE ON HER DAYS OFF AND NO ONE WILL CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE OK

PHYLLIS GARGLING OMG

WHY IS IT SO FUNNY 😂

yea sister E I’m sorry you were kinda bitchy

I’m sorry to call a fictitious nun a bitch oops lol

SHE’S GOING TO REDEEM HERSELF AND FIND SISTER MJ THOUGH SO IT’S OKAY!! 😭👏🏼👏🏼

Tom is so handsome! i think the collar distracts you from noticing though haha

What does wet behind the ears mean and why does it sound cringey?

on the next episode of I didn’t know I was pregnant: Christmas miracles in Poplar

No but for real it seriously was a show on TLC😂 I had a phase where I watched like every show on that channel

“Antonia! Nanny found a bible in your room again” so?? like you wish she would’ve found drugs or something?

Ugh I don’t think Sister MJ will live 3 more series & I WILL BE A WRECK™ WHEN SHE DIES

Surprise! you’re pregnant & will give birth in the next 12 mins before this show ends

imagine omg never mind not feeling safe Iris I’d be freaking tf out

I told you sister Julienne just shows up and speaks and you just feel calm

“Love is not going to be halved, but doubled” I swear someone says this again in another episode but I can’t remember

maybe I’m lying idk

The Fred + Sister E dynamic was golden

what is Sister Evangelina holding?

it looks like a bong tbh

Sister MJ saying pawning her mother’s jewels was an “interesting experience"😂 dios te bengida, she needs to always be protected  

aw pats & deels reunited *and it feeelsss so gooddd*

Fred saying rigging this raffle is immoral like HE WASNT THE BIGGEST SCAMMER IN POPLAR

I was here for it though lol😂

Phyllis gargling 😂😂

Wait omg she has earrings on how precious!

I always notice when girls/women don’t have their ears pierced because I didn’t realize for the longest time that it’s mainly just hispanics that get their ears pierced when they’re babies😂 I’ve had mine since I was six weeks old👶🏼

"Beatrix Franklin, midwife of mystery” aka my bby and ray of sunshine✨😭

it’s all good though, Trixie has Christopher, Tom has Babs, now where’s my handsome Englishman??

cue Vanessa Redgrave

“Sometimes the route to joy is indirect, our journey home not quite as we expected. There is no magic star to guide our steps, no ancient prophecies to predict our way. The greatest gift is to know that we travel not alone, but in the company of others. That there are hands as can reach for and hearts to keep us warm..”

Laura’s angelic voice blessing™ me on this Saturday night

I need it after being degenerate every other day of the week

*sings loudly* CHRISTTTTTTTT THEEEE SAVIORRRR IS BORNNNNNN

AHH I WANT CHRISTMAS NOW ! + THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 

patsy lowkey snuggled up on Phyllis I love it

Trixie is serving looks in the corner 😍!

I still want those hoop earrings she has!

And they finally got a tv😭👏🏼

“And the family gathered round, watching their faces flicker black and white. Their very presence in the room an act of love, a welcome home”

*BANGS FISTS ON AN IMAGINARY TABLE* THIS SHOW IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND PURE AND IF YOU DISAGREE WE CAN FIGHT

I love it

Now I must go. until next time..

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Okay I’m reading that artbook for the light fury again and man it just pisses me off to see people talking that way about the “design process of creating a female”. Seriously man, nobody is mad at the light fury herself as a character and also nobody is saying she looks awful or that this one detail ruins the movie. Just that the way they talk about deciding this design is very predictably sexist.

“In general it’s more difficult to create a female character. Any incorrect line and it can go wrong very quickly! We had to control the shapes to keep her graceful”

control the shapes holy shit

“She needed a graceful quality, she needed to be appealing both close up and far away”

“We wanted to explore how she would walk to make her feel like a female (...) her legs are closer together and she’s always graceful and controlled”

Like im sorry that really creeps me out! Their idea of ‘female walking’ is swaying hips catwalk stuff and why would you impose that on an animal?? i doubt it was intended to sexualize her or anything but it just shows how the sexist idea of femininity is shaped by sexualization and people still use it even when theyre not intending to make a sexy character. Like all those weird superheroes who stand like they’re wearing high heels when theyre not, cos the artist never learned any other way to draw women...

“Toothless has (...) panthers, dogs, bats and reptiles. She has to be less reptile. (...) We looked at lionesses instead of panthers”

Well at least they didnt do the weird thing of treating panthers and leopards as ‘more feminine’ than lions, like it actually DOES make sense to LITERALLY LOOK AT FEMALE ANIMALS instead of weird human stereotypes. Wish they’d made her more like a real lioness aka more designed for hunting than the male, and nigh identical aside from lacking one single feature. And lions don’t have manes because theyre better or anything, they have it to attract mates! Thats why most male-only traits exist in nature. Stupidly shaped horns, flambouyant patterns, even big eye stalks! So they should have thought about “a plainer less decorated version of toothless” rather than “a cuter weaker smaller more rounder catwalk model version”. But since toothless isnt brightly coloured, the idea of a white version makes a lot of sense, and would also help her seem interesting as a character. That was a great choice! Its just the weird other stuff that drags down a fundementally appealing idea.

Also I’m kinda confused by the line “At first we just thought about doing a white verion of toothless but (...) Dean insisted they were not the same species.” because the design IS just a feminine version of the same species. A lot of the beta designs shown on those pages look a lot more like an actual different species and it sucks that that creativity was thrown away in favour of female stereotypes. like they straight up said “she cant have markings cos theyd look too much like scars”. Those shots of the more distinct markings on the back of the wings look really cool!! And that one mysterious design where she’s black like toothless but has a longer tail with a spiralling fin. That’s so cool!

And there’s a bit about how she represents a wild dragon in a wilder world thats never encountered humans before, while toothless is “more domesticated” yet her design is LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. Seriously in real life you only get animals that appeal to very human concepts of beauty if they’ve been selectively bred that way for generations. And why would a wild equivelant be smaller, have smaller ears, nose, claws, etc??? Why would it be ‘more rounded’??

Oh! maybe they could have made her a lighter grey, maybe dappled with black scales like an imitation leopard pattern? Instead of this weird ‘she has no scales at all and must be less reptile despite being a reptile and also despite being the wild equivelant of this speces’ SERIOUSLY WHY WOULD SHE BE WEAKER AND MORE DEFENSELESS

also wtf its dumb to make her tail fins heart shaped, thats like how they used to stick bows on female animals in old cartoons. but at least that had the excuse that they were anthropomorphised and making the choice to dress super femme, not that theyre biologically born with specifically a symbol humans made up for valentines day. It bugs me that lots of pokemon have heart symbols for girls too, but at least they have some variety of other gender differences to mix it up! And I do personally like Heracross’s vaguely hearty horn, cos in that case it seems to make a little sense? like its a cariacatured version of a real life difference of male horns being more about showing off and in species where a female also has horns they tend to be more dull and practical. i can imagine that shape could be useful for digging while the male heracross’s x-shape is worse at that but better at locking horns with other males in order to show off for their mates. thats also often a thing in real life, where “male is more buff” species often ONLY use their strength to fight other males while the female does all the hunter gatherer stuff that humans stereotype as masculine. Thats how it works with lions! Theyre basically only “buff” in the same sense as bodybuilders, heavy upper body strength specialized for one specific task and also for visual appeal, rather than like.. useful strongs. Sheep and rams also work the same way, mama ewes will do the majority of fighting off actual intruders. And did you know most actual weightlifters and people working in jobs requiring strength are usually either stocky or lithe? And most bodybuilders are incredibly unhealthy, and cant actually lift weights for more than one single rep without getting a horrible racing heartbeat and needing to head offstage immediately. they starve themselves prior to performances to get their abs to look more pronounced, even though that makes it much much harder to actually do feats of strength. Not to mention all the drug problems! The bodybuilding industry is totally as abusive as the model industry and that really fuckin sucks. Oh and contrary to popular belief, upper body strength is more useful in archery than using swords or guns, but its considered a wimpy way to fight so fictional archers are always weak and fictional gun and swordsmen are always unnecessarily buff.

sorry this went off on a big ramble lol

anyway in summary:

* cool albino dragon = cool

* creative gender differences = cool

* gender differences based on real gender differences = also cool

* human stereotypes of gender that arent even biologically based on us as actual humans and are just part of the fashion industry, somehow applied to animals as if theyre universal = bad

* “this dragon needs to be less dragony cos she’s a girl” = bad

* “this dragon needs to be weaker despite her backstory making no sense that way” = also bad

* “this dragon needs to have a sexy round butt walk” = seriously noooooo

* “this dragon has a cool spiral staircase tail” = SO GOOD, why did they reject that design in favour of boring stereotypeness :(