#well...dead as in exhausted

[cipher26]

I have so many thoughts on Arcane which I'll get to eventually, but before that I just have to say...

ANYONE who is complaining about how short and rushed this season was, or how little time we got with certain characters/plots... don't blame the creators or the writers.

Blame the streamers. Those studios, Netflix in particular, are the ones who are responsible for destroying TV and cutting seasons in half, and then limiting most shows to 2 seasons. Television has suffered so much because of their greed. Those studios aren't run by artists, they're run by moneymen. They don't care about your shows, they don't care about the stories or the characters or the fans, they just want money. And they mismanage their money so much it's fucking sickening.

And yes, it is a choice. It doesn't have to be this way, and there can be exceptions. The finale of the last season of Stranger Things was 2 and a half hours long. It was it's own movie.

So blame the streamers. Blame them every single day until we get greedy asshole's hands off of our art so that we have the space to present our stories in the way they deserve.

EDIT: To be clear when I say streamers, I'm talking about the studios, particularly the ones like Netflix/Disney/Hulu that can only be watched on the internet via streaming apps. Broadcast television used to be, and still is in some cases (Blue Bloods, Grey's Anatomy season 87...), 20-23 episode seasons. With story and nuance and side quests and growth.

[javierduffy]

self insert stuff

basic info + awful silly sketchbook stuff under the cut :3

[fadedrainbowbookshelves]

Summer's ending...

[leconcombrerit]

About Por

This episode focuses a great deal on how the boys felt about the situation ; it emphasizes Jin's guilt and anger, Fluke's fear for himself and himself only, and Tee's guilty conscience (no wonder he's the most scared of all in the current timeline if that's how Non disappeared). Not that it keeps him from enjoying their little success. We get close to nothing on Top, as usual.

But we get a few things on Por. I don't think he cares about whatever happened to Non. It's been established that only being impaled on a branch and slowly bleeding out had the power to make him feel anything about him anyway.

He looks to be proud of himself ; after all, he got what he wanted. The movie is a hit, Non's name was written out in favor of his, his parents, his father especially, are proud and finally acknowledging him. And yet...

I would gif the entire scene if I could, cause damn if he doesn't go through a face journey. Victory doesn't taste as sweet as you thought it would, Por ? Is being acknowledged for something you didn't do iffy ? Does it feel bad to realize that your father would think Non more deserving to be his son than you ? Is it bitter to know that you'll always have to be a fraud to get his love ?

Now I'm not defending him. His father loathed the way Por used his money and social status to get everything done instead of putting in the work, and what did Por do to fix it ? He used his money and social status to get the movie done instead of putting in the work. And I think, I hope, that this little moment above is when he started to realize it.

It's not his moment, and he knows it.

[doomed-era]

honestly aside from it being an arthurian thing (all things I hate about fantasy seem to come from king arthur. how did this happen.) where does the whole chosen guy kingly whatever protagonist thing come from it's so annoying.

[galacticlamps]

not sure i've seen anyone mention it yet but also i havent looked - but the bit at the beginning of episode 5 where edwin's reading up on astrological compatibilities just before brad & hunter show up - is there a prevailing theory about a specific taurus and aires he might be referring to?

he did just leave charles and crystal together to settle their relationship status (not that he's aware that's what they're discussing at the time), so i'm kind of inclined to assume it was them, but as far as I can recall he & niko are the only people whose signs we're told outright (and frankly, just removing his from the equation does rule out about half the potential ships in the show)

but if crystal is one of the parties involved, that just raises more questions

Like does that mean she remembers when her birthday is? I wouldn't have thought so, since even with only a partial name, a specific DOB might make her significantly easier to look up, particularly if her parents are kind of famous (i've been assuming all along that her name being a noun effectively made her google-proof). Or is it more likely monty just declared her something & they all accepted that as fact because he was noticeably right about everyone else so far? But if that's the case, how much has he been talking to/getting to know the rest of them, because she would press him on that, right? like it's one thing to make quips about people who are capable of confirming their own birthdays being typical of their signs - but since crystal's actively on the lookout for chances to learn more about herself, you'd think someone being confident he can just tell certain things about her like that would be of particular interest to her. And alternatively if monty hasn't spent too much time with her & is still responsible for assigning her a horoscope anyway, does that mean he's been like. displaying a certain amount of supernatural knowledge all along without anyone getting suspicious of him? and where does astrology fall on that scale anyway, in their world? edwin's skepticism at first would imply it's not considered a normal science to them, even in the context of ghosts and spells and witches - unless that's just meant to read as him being especially hypocritical?

Do any of these things have clearly implied answers to people who do know about astrology? Or have I missed canonical birth dates given for anybody anywhere? I feel like they'd shed some light on an unusually large number of questions for me at the moment

[joelletwo]

oboro doesnt show up a single time after knhj cut his arm off and he enters his flop era. [takes my glasses off and experiences a level of relief previously unknown to man] whoa. anyways also utsuro isnt doing anything after he tussles with gintoki. the naraku are still attacking everyone the rest of the getaway but hes really just standing back and letting everyone go for no reason. well cuz hes gotta linger around in the school pickup line until he can go get his boy. from the ground.

[cedarleaves]

i want to go out and walk in the sun

but there needs to be ink on paper

ink on hand

headphones on, headphones off

music is distracting you know

music won’t help you revise

headphones off and i hear the birds

these could be the ones that woke me up this morning

every morning for 6 weeks

every morning flying over my bus route

me and a backpack of textbooks

did you make a packed lunch today?

no i’m prioritising sleep

that’s so real

meal deal monday, tuesday, thursday, friday, saturday

hoisin “no duck” wrap

not wednesday though. library opens half an hour later on wednesdays.

not sunday. library is closed and i’m in a cafe anyway.

there are people out boating on the river

i am eating my meal deal

sitting in front of the library

i want to stay out and walk in the sun

[doodlesdreaming]

That ONE fictional character that sticks with you, no matter what.

[august-anon]

oh no my queue ran out while i was sick 😭

[adeptvsastartes]

If you could either change one event in the past or guarantee one opportunity in the future, which would you choose?

(any muse(s) you want to answer with!)

Another ghost taunting him in the Warp. Expected. Valdor marched through the realms of Chaos without issue-- golden armor, weathered and worn and covered in gibs or dirt or blood. His eyes long since lost their determined sheen, only hollowness remaining in his gaze. His grip tightened on his spear. How many years had he been looking for the Emperor's lost shard? His true name? A thousand years? Two thousand? No, surely more, surely FAR more. Constantin Valdor had searched for the Emperor for so many years, they all blurred, and he lost count over how much time passed. It was to the point he adapted to the Warp, learning of it-- using cults to learn Enuncia, studying cloning, advancing, while he endlessly searched for the one man he would dedicate his life to.

" If I could change one thing, " Valdor spoke absentmindedly, as if this were an automatic response, one he'd grown so accustomed to saying that he just started responding to things like this over and over and over again, " it would be stopping the Emperor from making the Primarchs. "

" I failed Him by not telling Him. " Valdor grunted out, readying his spear as it crackled with energy, eyes staring down the next daemon in his path as if it were but an annoyance. He swung his spear, cleanly cleaving through the horrid spawn and sending more ichor across the ground and his armor. He was going further into the Warp. Another sight of a mangled soul whispering to him, I am Kalak the Blood-Gorger.

" I failed Him by letting him continue. It was my duty as His spear to protect Him. I knew the Primarchs would be nothing but trouble. I knew they would doom us all. And yet... "

" I stood by. Because it made Him happy to create them, beings who could truly talk to Him, have conversations, live as long as He could. They were not genecrafted with loyalty like myself or the Custodes were. He could debate with them. He could love them. I suppose, in some ways, I failed Him, because I could not compare to such aspects-- yet I once thought myself better than His sons. I am a loyal warrior, His servant. "

As Constantin said those words, he slowed and tilted his head back to look up at the churning blood-red skies of Khorne's domain. Exhaustion overtook his body, leaving him weak. He did not stop... for ten thousand years, he just never stopped. His knees finally buckled, and he dropped to his knees. He was so tired... When the Captain-General tried to look at the soul that asked him this question... they were gone.

" Oh... Emperor... "

" ... please... Let me find You. Your name. To free You of Your curse. " So then I could free myself of mine.

[chilipepperconverse]

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[inamindfarfaraway]

I’ve seen a lot of posts praising the intertwined love stories of Hadestown - their songs, their themes, their acting, their emotional impact - and all of it is absolutely deserved. But can we take a moment to appreciate the weight of "If It's True"?

“If it’s true what they say, what’s the purpose of a man? Just to turn his eyes away?”

“If he turns his back on everyone that he could’ve stood beside?”

“If it’s true what they say, I’ll be on my way.

But who are they to say what the truth is anyway?

‘Cause the ones who tell the lies are the solemnest to swear.

And the ones who load the dice always say the toss is fair.

And the ones who deal the cards are the ones who take the tricks

With their hands over their hearts while we play the game they fix.”

“I believe in us together more than anyone alone.

I believe that with each other, we are stronger than we know.

I believe that we are stronger than they know!

I believe that we are many. I believe that they are few.

And it isn’t for the few to tell the many what is true.”

I was expecting star-crossed lover feelings. I knew there would be an archetypal tragedy that seems both preventable and inevitable. Those elements, I could brace myself for somewhat. But nothing prepared me in the slightest for the CLASS CONFLICT arc, and it gave me chills like Eurydice had in that storm.

[inga-don-studio]

Greetings from ‘working at a tourist destination during local spring break’

[dootznbootz]

As someone with ADHD, you know you're fucking exhausted when you're not even fidgeting. :'D

[moderndayhippiesblog]

Enlightened shadows prevail

To the darkness she succumbed

Her mind a taunting guilt

Her heart a beating drum of pride

She cannot breathe most days

But upon the light of the moon

She sat upon a river facing her truth

Falsity faded away with the current

The aqua surface enlightened once more