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Plot lines the 9-1-1 never mentioned again that have potential:

Bobby’s special blood

Taylor Kelly’s s5 Xmas gift bracelet beacon thing

Ravi’s childhood cancer arc (Ravi Begins ep WHERE??)

Guy from the Academy that Chim convinced to be a dispatcher (fear of heights dude)

Buck’s lightning scars (the POTENTIAL)

Eddie’s (lesbian) hermanas

Hen shot as a teenager? Mentioned like once??

Lena Bosko

Taylor Kelly, Tommy Kinard & Lucy Donato helicopter Air Support team up? (The potential in that random helicopter chase in s8? Missed opportunity)

Other 118 a, b & c shift firefighters (office style ep from their pov of our 118 guys)

Mayravi potential

The invisible fire engine driver dude

So much lore has been dropped over the years yet never mentioned again

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okay i've been thinking more - and i wanna talk about Joe's mother wound in relation to his relationships throughout the season.

It really seems like the root of his mother wound is her getting him hurt and then giving him up which yes - true, of course. BUT i actually think the source of his mother wound is less about not being taken care of and more about not being thanked. He doesn't fault his father for abusing him or them, he faults his mother for cheating - abandoning him to do so and thereby "earning" maltreatment (see: candace stone) she is also at fault for "letting" his father come back and for "letting" him hurt them. (See: mother's are supposed to PROTECT their children from men like him). But the root of the issue is that Joe k*lled his dad for her to protect her, and she gave him up, making her ungrateful for his sacrifice. Which as a child, makes sense, but fuels his self righteous hatred of women in adulthood. He's a "good guy" a "feminist" so feminist that he "respects women more than they respect themselves." Why aren't they grateful?

So while yeah the abandonment and abuse is prevalent that aspect of gratitude is what I think is most influential in his treatment of women - specifically, women - in the words of Penn Badgley he'll put anyone in the cage but he only puts women in the bedroom. Not to mention, the last words Joe remembers his father saying (that we see) is verbatim "why can't you just do right by me and love me like you're supposed to." Giving Joe a clear obstacle and also shaping his thinking in relationships. But he gets rid of the problem and loses everything.

Enter Mooney - he also does horrible things to Joe but he learns to respect Mooney for the ways he hurts him and reinforces the deranged idea that sometimes we do terrible things to people and for people because we love them. He's earned Mooney's love through abuse - therefore, he's grateful for the abuse (plus the whole misogynistic mess of men being allowed to hurt and women only being allowed to be hurt and then "protected"). Because Joe would "never hurt a woman" unless of course that woman "forces" him to kill to "protect her" and she condemns him.

First, we see Candace. Joe's first attempt at healing this wound. Who was a free-spirit, entirely enrapturing and ultimately, a little reckless with other people's feelings but damaged enough that Joe could "love" her back to health. But she cheats on him, and he immediately blames and kills the man. Candace was still a damsel to be saved until she said she didn't love him - she was ungrateful for his love (violence) so he killed her. Or tried anyway.

Then Beck, Beck was honestly likely the perfect ideal in his eyes for attempting to fill that hole within him. She wanted to be saved, she wanted to be swept away, and she wanted someone to just give her a break and love her and she was inclined to be a touch naive and self-degrading (her 'friends,' her dad, benji, joe). But she was still stark in her morals, intelligence and writing and when she found out what Joe did she reasonably freaked. So Joe corrected his initial mistake with Candace - don't resort to violence first, put her in the cage until she "see's sense" and is grateful. Which only falls apart when she says she could never love him AND highlights that her mistakes and his mistakes are in NO WAY EQUAL. It fractured all of his justifications.

Realistically, if Joe was going to have a happy ending it should've been with Love. If his wounds were truly about needing someone to see him - all of him - and not only stay but accept him she was the one to do that. But it fell apart, because Joe not only needs acceptance, gratitude and validation, he needs it from a damsel, someone he can put on a pedestal but hold below himself physically and intellectually. Love Quinn, was Joe's equal, she could accept him because she would also kill to protect. But when women commit acts of violence themselves, it takes away from his control and self-righteousness, you can't save someone who's capable of saving you - not in Joe's mind. Love not only loved him but would protect him and knew who he was before he had to reveal himself and once he saw the violence she was capable of he stopped loving her. He is only interested in women he views as "good" women he can corrupt (see: this is my fault, this is not you) but he couldn't corrupt Love, she already had that danger in her. So she could love that within him, but Joe couldn't return that love because she was no longer what he wanted. He needed to be loved by "good but flawed" people so he could feel justified, because if he's loved by someone who would never do what he does, but gets past the fact that he's capable of it that means he is "good but flawed."

Enter Marienne Bellamy (i know natalie is there too but she's the same, needs to be saved but his guilt for her death evaporated as soon as he found out she wasnt falling in love with him) she was very similar to Beck. Vulnerable enough to need saving - until she says she doesn't to which Joe does not react well to - until he "redeems" himself and "saves" her anyway. She was flawed enough for Joe to feel he needs to forgive her the way felt he needed to forgive every woman in his life for the life they lived before him. He viewed her as good, virtuous but with enough flaws for him to exploit. He chases her because she represents a new life, and abandons everything to choose it (including his SON). But she rejects him, she's ungrateful, so she goes in the cage. "I accept you so you owe it to me to accept me."

Enter Kate - she deviates a little. And forgive me, I hate season four so I havent analyzed it as thoroughly but we see that he first see's her as someone who absolutely does not fit the mould, but he wants her anyway because half the fun for him is "winning them over." Then he finds out Kate has also done bad things, also killed, inadvertently but still. The inadvertently matters to Joe because he has a man to blame, the powerful man, corrupted the young girl, exploited her and made her do bad things. So he kills him and they live happily ever after because she accepts the only version of the truth he'll truly allow himself to believe. Plus, that is a good enough mirror for Joe to look into, "if she's good, then so am I." Her mistakes were also bad enough that Joe felt safe feeling like he was the only one who could "accept" that and so he'd always have something to weaponize. He needs to believe he is a victim and a tragic hero, he does bad things to protect people he loves and he is punished for it, and he needs his loved ones to believe that too. In season 5, Kate robs him of his power but remains virtuous enough in that she wants to be better but is a formidable enough opponent that he can't kill her. This is why he only really falls out of love with her when the tiktok is released and he's caught killing someone on camera, because now, Kate was condemning him but protecting him not for him but for her. He had to rely on her to get him out of this, before this, and before she said she despised that he wouldn't even try to control his murderous tendencies, he was still "trying" to love her. Because he loved the idea of a woman, the perfect mother to his son, not getting her hands dirty but being willing to turn to the man to "protect" the family. The big difference between Kate and Love is Kate didn't want to kill but Love was inclined to before Joe even got the chance. That line between "kill for me" and "i would absolutely kill for you" is very important in Joe's eyes.

Reagan, Peach, Maddie and Phoebe are interesting in showing women he wants to hurt (Reagan and Peach) and women he never wants to hurt but does not "fall in love with" (Maddie and Phoebe). Reagan is like Peach in that she is cruel, she is cunning, she is powerful and she is willing to hurt anybody to get her way and she does not show any softness for Joe to exploit. And in Joe's mind, that barely makes her a woman, instead, she's an opponent - which is probably part of why he doesn't even bother killing her himself in the end, because he did kill Peach but it was "self defence" she almost escaped him AND he almost got caught doing it, so why get his hands as dirty with Reagan? Whereas Maddie and Phoebe are virtuous and bubbly and feminine, but they don't have that edge all the other women have, they don't have that damage that Joe feels mirrors his own, so he doesn't see them as intelligent or depthful enough to fall in love with. This is also shown in who he's willing to let out of the cage versus who he isn't - Will, who was "logical" enough to "forgive" him for the cage, and Delilah, who really would've been killed immediately but she said she was willing to be bought (immoral in Joe's eyes) and she had Ellie making Joe more inclined to let her out.

Joe's profile for victims was very much a woman who was smart enough but still someone he held power over. With Love and Kate, he lost his power and so - fell out of love. Joe's relationship with all of those he views vulnerable in his life is interesting because while his initial intention is protection, love, whatever, even those he doesn't want to hurt, and doesn't hurt, he does ruin so much of their lives and calls it protection. Paco, Ellie, Maddie, Phoebe, Marienne, Juliet.

Enter Louise - she played every part perfectly because her and her friends figured out all of these things. And she so well fit the profile that she did start to believe his lies, until another woman got through to her. Joe trusted her so thoroughly that he offered her the illusion of control when he attacked her attacker, but he still got to scratch his itch when she let him out and he killed him anyway, under her nose. He says he wants acceptance, really he wants someone who can appreciate someone who will do anything for them ("what if it's enough for me that you want to") but never truly see it or fully accept it. And her ending, again, laid in her playing the game so well but also actively fighting against falling for his act internally, even in the finale "was this how good Beck felt before he killed her?" Joe finally thought he had someone who he could kill for, who could be his secondary character, who could let him "handle" things and be his pretty virtuous prop who forgives him each time she happens to catch him. She was book savvy, a writer, she needed to be saved, AND she was moral enough to need to be "persuaded" into an affair but she forgave and said thank you.

And his trust in thinking he finally had exactly what he craved, is why Louise won. Even the call to Henry, and his stupid "no one will love you like i do" were last ditch attempts. He fully believed he could still win her back, because she let him believe he had in the past successfully. But then, Louise says he's not the victim and brings up Beck and makes it seem like his words mean nothing and that he did nothing for Beck specifically. And he unravels.

The source of Joe's pattern is he wants to do these horrible things and be thanked by someone he see's as lesser because they're not "willing to get their hands dirty." When he doesn't get that, or when they show any kind of power over him - he kills them.

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Goodbye, YOU

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Resisting tyranny takes a lot of forms.

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reading a romance novel where the protagonist feels the need to stop and inform that audience that it's okay for her, a 27 year old, to hook up with a 31 year old because despite the age difference both of their brains are fully developed. the Discourse really has done incalculable damage.

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I don't EVER wanna hear you say they don't know how to act again.

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Zen

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[StarWars] [About to be BobaDin ^_<]

Boba Fett

Here’s the BobaDin fanart (NSFW) that I promised you to draw, check it out if you’re interested!😉✨

Thank you for the votes and comments on my post about drawing BobaDin! Although the poll is not concluded yet, I think the current results are good enough for me.

Before I formally start working on BobaDin fanart, I want to establish my version of Boba Fett first. So, here's my first attempt! (After drawing Din and Boba, I think curls have now become my favorite hairstyle for men!)

I know my interpretation of Boba isn’t canon-accurate because I haven’t finished watching "The Book of Boba Fett" and "The Clone Wars" animated series. However, I really love the version of Boba I've read about in some fanfics, so I decided to settle on this type of Boba for now—

Younger (so he still has those wonderful curls), impatient, impulsive, sometimes ill-mannered, bad-tempered, but very loyal and responsible, he can be quite tender when he wants to be (e.g., when he’s with Din), protective, and not good at communicating, especially when he feels jealous, he tends to keep his thoughts to himself and becomes quite grumpy...

What do you think of my version of Boba Fett? ✨🥹✨

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With how distant Ellie has been do y’all think Joel Thought he was hallucinating Her being there in the end? like as a dying comfort. Do you think he just wanted to see his daughter again? Do you think he died thinking he was alone? Not knowing it was really her? Do you think he even thought Ellie was unwilling to try and save him? And it was just his subconscious playing tricks? Do you think-

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some things about sunrise on the reaping/the hunger games universe i'm thinking about today

haymitch was close friends with katniss's father when they were teenagers... how many times did haymitch see her at the hob or around town and do a double take?

burdock everdeen is lenore dove baird's distant cousin, meaning katniss is connected to lucy gray's bloodline... literally snow's worst nightmare come back to haunt him, down to genetics

reaping day is on the fourth of july. idk what else to say about this one i think we're all on the same page about this

katniss wanting wiress, beetee, and mags as allies despite over half of the victor tributes wanting to pair up with her... the three victors who helped haymitch win his games

haymitch, the victor of a games with twice as many tributes, bringing two victors home as a mentor in the 74th games

despite having the most tributes and therefore the most deadly, with the least odds of survival per tribute, the 50th hunger games had the most alliances out of any other games

beetee's son being a tribute in the quell- i know we're all there already and it's been talked about endlessly but i'd like us to recall in catching fire when katniss tells the reader that the children of victors are reaped at a disproportionate amount... ampert was not the first nor was he the last. how many tributes were reaped to punish previous victors? "you tried to take away control from the capitol... look what we can take from you"

the circumstances of ampert's death: mutts that were engineered just for him, just for beetee, designed to literally strip him of anything that made him recognizable while they killed him. beetee and his family didn't even have a body to bury, just a pile of bones

we also know that at the end of sotr, beetee's wife is pregnant, but when beetee comes to district 13 in mockingjay he is alone. was his family killed in the uprising, or was yet another one of his children sent to the games as punishment for beetee's actions before and during the 2nd quarter quell?

effie was the last person haymitch saw before the games began. she came into his launch room before he went into the tube... she was the last face he saw, the last person he touched, before the games changed him forever. she was the last person to know the "old" haymitch

maysilee didn't even like the mockingjay pin- it wasn't a beloved token that had a deep meaning to generations before katniss. it meant nothing until katniss made it mean something- until madge, maysilee's niece, made it mean something

gale mocking madge for wearing an especially nice dress and trying to present herself well on reaping day, and her defending herself by saying "i want to look nice if they send me to the capital" - maysilee being scorned by haymitch for her nice clothes and her necklaces until he realizes it's her own way of rebelling against the capitol... "i am going to make you see me as human too if it kills me" (they all try to dress their best for reaping day but gale & haymitch were bothered by madge & maysilee’s clothes as a status symbol)

haymitch mentions that hattie used to tell him "fire is catching", which later became one of the slogans of the rebellion via katniss's propos with plutarch

haymitch's token being a flint striker, and katniss being the girl on fire. katniss inciting the rebellion by succeeding at the exact task at which haymitch failed- destroying the force field. she wasn’t special, she was just in the right place at the right time and got enough support

we've always seen the quarter quell as a way of snow getting back at katniss for her rebellion in the 74th games, but after sotr we know she is hardly the first victor to rebel against the capitol. beetee was already a rebel in his own right, wiress and mags were instrumental in haymitch's victory in the 50th games, we can infer from johanna's characterization as loud and outspoken and certainly less than palatable to the capital's propoganda that she may have had a less than ideal (to the capitol) history... how many victor tributes were reaped on purpose? how many of them won their games through an act of defiance that was covered up?

similary, we know plutarch's plan with katniss was similar to his plan with haymitch... but surely they weren't the only two. how many other tributes, district 12 or otherwise, did plutarch and co. try to use as weapons, simply by being victims of circumstance? how many families of rebellious tributes, whether they were victors or not, were punished, because they went along with plutarch's plan thinking they had nothing left to lose seeing as they were probably going to die anyway? so much of haymitch's games was covered up and rewritten to hide his defiance of the capitol,,, how many other games were significantly or almost entirely fabricated by the capitol because of "unruly" tributes? was any of it real?

anyway i may be reaching with some of these but suzanne collins just gave us so much to think about with sotr!!! i've seen some dissent about how some of sotr disrupts the canon of thg but i think that's entirely the point... none of what katniss knew about haymitch's games was real to begin with, it's just what was fed to her by the capitol.

don't let media literacy die friends there are too many stupid people in the world already!!! mwah

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when your circle small but y’all doomed by the narrative

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“we need more male sa rep”

pay attention to these first

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HD version!!!

I also put it through a softer filter so you can see the details in his suit more. That's a new IB-94 blaster, too!

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I just want you all to know, that if and when this site does experience a real exodus and/or get sunsetted for good, even if we don't keep in touch I'll remember you so fondly. You're the online equivalent of the other kid on the beach where we built sandcastles together; the girl at the campsite where we explored the trees. You're the drunk person who shared kind words in the bathroom at the club, you're the talented artists at the life drawing class or the poetry night in a city where I don't live anymore. It makes me sad that maybe in the future our paths won't cross so easily, but even when we leave this little shared piece of cyberspace, carried away on our briefly intersecting trajectories, just know I still love you

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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daryl doodles <3