#subtext and text

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

It’s not that when he’s talking about “The Bear” he means “the restaurant”, but that he also means “himself” and he wants to separate himself from the restaurant because that’s what’s killing him (according to him). Because he doesn’t know what he is without it, away from it. OK. That’s one thing, and it can also be explained by his workaholism (and soulmatism), which began before they met. The real conflict in his rhetoric is that now, now that she’s in his life, when he thinks of the restaurant, when he talks about The Beef and The Bear, he also means her. He can’t separate her from any of those concepts either, neither in his head nor in his ❤️. And since it’s established that when he talks about the restaurant, he’s referring to it as an extension of himself, that not only means he sees and feels her as an extension of himself at this moment (and wants to stop liking it, as he admitted) but also that all the things he said about her impact on that place, are actually the effect she has on him, and I quote: “This is starting to gel, starting to feel alive… would jump in front of a fucking train for you right now… any chance of any kind of good in this building, started when you walked in and any possibility of it surviving, is with you.” Reminder: the building is the restaurant, the restaurant is The Bear, The Bear is not just himself but also her.

Why did you know I was talking about Syd and Carmy all along? I didn’t mention any names.

Exactly.

[sinverse]

finally watching supernatural (yes, in the year 2024) and god you destiel girls weren’t lying huh

they really ARE that gay

[drulalovescas]

We've come a long LONG way

And so did Jensen to be honest

[suzu-kun22]

House MD really is better if you just watch it under the assumption that House and Wilson are secretly making out literally every single time the two of them are both off screen at the same time.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[vaguely-concerned]

I still can't believe that bioware has morrigan tell you a whole story about how as a kid she came upon a girl she thought was so beautiful that it rocked her entire world and awakened new and bewildering longings in her (longings which by their very existence angered and perturbed her mother)... and then they have the temerity to ask me to believe she's straight

[saltedbirdcat]

The way the costume department deliberately gave Elphaba this style so it looks like Glinda did her hair so they’d match I’m going to combust

[snailpass]

finished the Book of Bill

[valdelion]

I actually love not ever having an original thought about Supernatural and Destiel because it goes to show that everything they put on screen was extremely textually obvious for everyone

[professional-rat-eater]

Kinda insane that in the show that is rooted firmly in its use of the unreliable narrator trope, it seems all too common that:

1. People believe Armand had to have turned Daniel out of spite just because Louis said so.

2. Armand was lying about Lestat being attracted to him, a character who is known for being alluring and attractive.

I wonder what the common denominator between those two things are? So anything anyone says about Armand is true, but everything Armand says is automatically a lie? Okay, sure.

I guess it bothers me because Assad is so beautiful and he nails how charming and seductive Armand is meant to be. Why are people so determined to deny that characters in-universe might find him attractive? No one had an issue believing it in the books. He also captured the fragility and very real vulnerability Armand exhibits in fleeting moments. He’s such a gorgeous character and it sucks to see people overlook Assad’s work.

If you came away from season 2 thinking Armand is a “moustache-twirling villain” as I believe Assad(?) put it, whose every action is rooted in callousness and pure evil, you are watching the wrong show. There are much worse characters than him and even they are layered and complex.

Yes, Armand is evil. Yes, he did terrible things. Yes, he lies often. But he is not the Big Bad a lot of people pretend he is and not every word out of his mouth is a lie. There is so much more to him and why he acts the way he does. The actors have said so, the show-runner said so, the writers said so, the books said so, the show itself said so. Read between the lines please. Or just read the actual lines. It’s not even subtext.

He’s morally grey like everyone else and he’s going to have a lot more screen time so if you insist on hating him, I’d prepare yourself for that. He and Lestat have a very real history. It’s just a little weird how people purposely mischaracterise him (and all the other characters in the process). He’d be so boring if he was the one-note villain many seem to believe he is.

[superbat-love]

Lex contemplates how he, like many others, is drawn to Bruce’s animal magnetism despite the man’s efforts to make Lex dislike him. He knows how passionate Bruce truly is behind the mask.

Then we’re shown Superman when he’s talking about Bruce’s desire.

And Lex wonders if he could fill Bruce’s hole.

[fandom-related-me]

ITS FUCKING NUTS ITS CRAZY BRUTAL EVEN I MEAN that scene in which the night nurse shows Charles his most painful moments and keeps asking why would you want to stay in this place that only hurts you? Why would you stay in a place that only beats you down when you try your best? And the answer plain and simple is showed in the flashback of his death is EDWIN. There’s nothing but Edwin who made his death sweet and as comfortable as he could, who turned a nightmare into a precious memory, what would be scary into fun and awe and what would be cold and lonely into warmth and friendship.

[lazybakerart]

insane choices horikoshi made #too-many-to-count:

“If there’s anything that could bolster Izuku Midoriya now, it would be…” -> cut to literally izuku being rescued by and looking up at bakugou who’s never looked that pretty once in his gremlin life before now taking up the entire page

[drulalovescas]

They really pulled no punches

And Missouri was a psychic. She KNEW

[osinthewhite]

you cannot get more clear than this cmon

[ellifromspace]

these are the murderbot artworks Tommy Arnold did for the Subterranean Press omnibus editions of the series, and a photo of Kevin R. Free, who narrates the murderbot audiobooks. when fans complain about the casting for the tv show, there is a very real basis for it in these past official/canonical aspects of the book series