#he could never be her...

[cowboysmp3]

there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The peach tree beams so red, How brilliant are its flowers!

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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

My Great Grandma who loved her babies very much

Reference that I used for the face!

[friedricebunny]

i'm really so curious how deeply tbhx is gonna go with its whole premise of "heroes are made and gain powers based on trust" because i really wasn't anticipating that

1) moon/xiao yueqing has teleportation-based powers but because everyone wants her and nice to stick together, her teleportation leads back to nice which was INSANE to me

and

2) lin ling is becoming increasingly more worried about being clean and perfect which is a side effect of nice's image of perfection which is indicating that this whole trust system can have mental effects??? and that's horrifying to me???

we are 2 episodes in, how deep is this gonna go

[babyjaans]

I’m rewatching supernatural, and I can’t believe I never realised this before, but sam and dean are the exact opposite of what they think of themselves. In the brothers’ eyes Sam is the more emotionally open one, or the one with more empathy, and yet he struggles to make close relationships that aren’t romantic. He keeps everyone at arms distance: john, mary, bobby, cas, and so many other examples throughout the series. Whereas dean is supposed to be closed off and emotionally stunted, and yet he has deeper connections with almost all recurring characters: garth, jody, donna, claire (obviously the ones mentioned before). He lets people in more easily than sam. Even how he knows all the shopkeepers in lebanon, whereas they don’t seem to know sam (ie 14x13).

[hinamie]

green

[frownyalfred]

Dragon bruce wane that hoards his many children and kids that arnt even his. On an unrelated note clark is wondering why kon and Jon are nowhere to be seen. Who knows🤷🏽‍♀️

Okay. Dragon Bruce Wayne, but the public/media don’t think he inherited the dragon shifter genes from his dad (notable dragon) and the recessive ones from his mom’s side (Martha was a very strong carrier) because he’s so calm in public and doesn’t appear to hoard anything. He’s smooth and charming with media at events, he shakes hands, he’s not twitchy or abrasive like some stronger dragon families are, especially the purebred ones. The Wayne dragon shifters all tended to be prickly in public, even Thomas. Especially when Martha was out of sight too long.

And so, the media writes him off as a non-inheritor, no shifting or dragon genes expressed. Which is strange, considering his parentage. Even Martha had some dragon tendencies as a carrier.

But then. Bruce starts adopting kids, and everyone slowly realizes that this is a dragon. He is the sum of both family lines in the best and worst ways. He is adopting a HOARD of children. He is reasonable about everything except two things: his children, and his city. It turns out, those are the only two things he dragons-out about. But when he does? Holy shit.

Bruce Wayne isn’t a dragon who happens to be in Gotham. He is THE dragon of Gotham. Gotham is his hoard, and god protect you if you touch his kids. All 78 of them running around under his broad wings.

[courtmartialme]

thought about riza watching her sons grow up knowing they're loved AND that they love her back. 72 injured

[giddlygoat]

incase anyone was wondering, this is why i’m not surprised their relationship status is still ambiguous after all this time

[jenanigans1207]

What I wanted so badly was for Mary to learn about her boys from Cas. Like that night where Cas finds her when she can’t sleep and she expresses that she just doesn’t know anything about her sons since she missed so much?? All I wanted was for Cas to sit down with her at the table and just start telling her about them. Basic stuff at first: their favorite foods, their sleeping habits, the stuff he’s just observed by being their passenger for years.

And then I want him to say something totally Cas, like “Dean always wears more layers but that’s because his body naturally runs two degrees colder than Sam’s. But that’s normal for him and not indicative of any illness, so it’s nothing to worry about.”

And as they talk, it starts to get a little deeper, and Cas tells her more. He tells her about what she missed, about all the horrible things that happened to her sons and how they coped; how it changed them. And he tells her about Sam, he does, but really it ends up being all about Dean.

He’ll tell her about how Dean clenches his fists when he’s upset, even as he tries to keep his face impassive. About how Dean drums his fingers on the steering wheel when he’s anxious. He’ll tell her about Dean’s nightmares, about the ways he’s chosen to cope. He’ll tell her how to know when to approach Dean and when to give him space, how to gently acknowledge what he’s feeling without pushing him too far.

And with every word he says, Mary’s curious head tilt from when she’d seen them hug in reunion turns into a bone deep type of certainty. Because Cas is telling her things that only someone who paid special attention would notice. He’s telling her things that only someone very, very close to her son’s heart would know.

Cas will tell her the cliff notes of what they’ve been through; will tell her how the whole world looked to Dean and he rose to the occasion over and over again. He’ll tell her about Dean’s doubts in himself and then vehemently declare them as wrong and explain, at length, why. He will tell her about the people Dean has loved— the people who loved him like he was their own— and lost. He will tell her about Bobby, Ellen, Jody, Donna, and Charlie. He’ll tell her about Claire, too, and how Dean stepped up.

And the whole time, Mary will have this realization that oh, she may not have been around to guide and protect her sons, but there was always someone there to care for them and support them when they needed it. She will realize that she and John may have left them, but they were never alone.

But more than that, there was someone there for Dean. Someone picking Dean over and over again while Dean picked Sam, or the world, over himself. There was someone fighting for Dean when he wasn’t fighting for himself. There was someone who saw Dean, and loved him unconditionally.

Sitting across from her, at the asscrack of dawn, filling her in on all the things she missed was every mother’s dream: someone who loved her child with the kind of devotion that would break the world. And from the sounds of the stories she was being told, it did break the world. Someone whose love is entirely untainted and comes without any strings attached.

It’s so clear to her as she listens to Cas talk that Cas loves Dean with no expectations. That loving Dean is something he just does, like he doesn’t know how not to love Dean, like the possibility of not loving him never occurred to Cas. He loves Dean in a way that Mary knows can and will soothe Dean’s sharp edges and battered heart. He loves Dean in the kind of pure way that tells Mary that it will continue to endure and overcome everything without ever diminishing, even the littlest amount.

Mary, through tears, will tell Cas how she always told Dean that there were angels watching over him. And before Cas can make some comment about Dean being the Righteous Man and the interest of most of Heaven, she will place a hand over his and give him a motherly look that will convey all the things she’s not sure how to say— and the things she’s not sure Cas is ready to hear yet. And Cas will flush and look away, mumbling about how her son is very special to him.

And when she pulls him into a hug and murmurs thank yous into his shoulder, she will be comforted in the knowledge that her sons turned out to be wonderful men, and that they managed to stay together through everything. She will be comforted to know that no matter what happens, no matter her shortcomings as she tries to fill a role she never meant to leave, Sam will have Dean and Dean will have Cas.

And this time, when Cas tells her that she belongs here, she will believe him. And she will tell him that he belongs here, too.

And when Dean wakes up a few hours later and wanders in to find Mary and Cas still chatting over the table, he’ll be surprised— but pleased— to find Mary looking more at ease. He’ll be pleased when she gives him a warm hug and pats him on the cheek and tell him with all the sincerity that only a mother can muster that she’s glad that he met Castiel. And when Dean agrees, a little confused, Mary will just smile at him.

“I always said I’d like a third son.” She says, “so give him a reason to take our last name, won’t you?”

And Dean will splutter and turn fifteen shades of red as he steadfastly doesn’t look at Cas but mumbles something that suggests he’s not against the idea at all.

And Mary will laugh again and wink at an equally red Cas before heading towards the kitchen like “Cas said waffles are your favorite, so I hope you’re hungry!”

[sarcastic-clapping]

LET YOUR DAD DIE: IT'S FINE IT'S FINE IT'S WHAT HE DID TO HIS DAD.

Lestat + Claudia: Patricide & The Cycles of Violence - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022) - Catherine Lacy, "Cut" (2019) / Anne Rice, "The Vampire Lestat" (1985) / Anne Rice, "Interview with the Vampire" (1976)

[wolfythewitch]

Moros/Odysseus is silly to me specifically because Moros is a huge fan and finds Odysseus "a wonder to behold" but by the very nature of his domain, he does in fact bring doom everywhere with him. He's a pleasant and polite man, but the way he speaks about Odysseus' adventures, he speaks with the unintentional callousness of a god. He chooses how mortal's life ends for entertainment. He still relishes doom, even if not overtly. He will not want to hurt Odysseus, but he will.

And Odysseus is kind of just there? Lost, divorced, dead. He's not really in the state to have a new relationship again, and already has a very complicated connection with the divine. He never stops thinking about the war, he's got a proclivity for alcohol, he works all the time, and he lies. He's not really the best choice for a first love, and moros hasn't really been making his own decisions up till now. And Odysseus is constantly haunted by his past. Moros is familiar to him the way the war is, the way the sea is. He holds him close and at arms length. A vice

They will not want to but they will make each other worse <3

[professeurm]

i rlly love this scene cuz he's the one who's comforting her, watching her sleep. he's happy but also terrified. not only is this the most intimate they've been in a long while, this is also the best thing spike felt with or without a soul

sure, he gained buffy's trust again and got to be there with her. he's content with that; he accepts not being hers while being her support. her guard dog, her whatever she needs him to be. after all, he regrets what he attempted in the bathroom and knows several apologies wouldnt cut it. it wouldnt fix it. he had to earn her trust and respect again, and he did

u can even tell he's hesitant to touch her. when he said "look at me", he reached for her but when she moved away, he pulled back. like my guy learned, he waits for her to make the first move

then by the morning, it switches

he's being comforted, well they both are, but he gets to be in her embrace. wrap his arms around her and feel safe, warm and loved. he can sleep peacefully, probably the best sleep he has had in a long time since he got his soul or probably without it

also prob the best sleep buffy had in a long while too with the shit going down

spike gave buffy strength that night and she gave him a new experience that night. a different level of intimacy from what they used to do, a different level spike never got to experience that wasnt his mother's love. and you what? she was there, she wasnt somewhere else in her head. she was there with him, going through the range of emotions with him

like sure, she left before he woke up but it was because of him she got out of bed and tried again. he was the reason she didnt give up hope, the reason why she has that weapon in her hands

she would've lost, everyone would've lost if it wasnt for him

[lilianade-comics]

Thinking about how Dani's episode is called Kindred Spirits, which implies that her unique narrative role is to mirror Danny and act as a foil to him, and then the episode is like "Here's some ✨superficial similarities✨. She is now going to leave the plot entirely and be 💖homeless💖"