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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

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i'm sure i'm not the first person to take issue with this (checks notes) 25-year-old episode but WOW do i hate riley and how they wrote him off in 5x10.

from the beginning he's a character out of place in buffy. he's condescending at best, chauvanistic at worst, all while the narrative insists he's Really A Good Guy! he's Really Secretly Good and he just Didn't Know that demons had feelings! the initiative plot drags s4 down and every scene he's in makes the show feel like molasses. he's not funny, he's not cool, he's not complex or layered either. btvs is generally pretty good at adding new characters to the scooby gang and making it feel natural - oz, anya, tara, spike to a degree, even dawn - but riley is a drag through and through, a character from another show.

and there is the potential for something interesting there! dropping an all-american macho military man into the very woman-centric world of buffy, seeing how he fares. a fitting (if trite) plot for riley would have been he's initially protective of buffy, then realizes she's stronger than him and that makes him feel emasculated bc he has like a decade of military programming to overcome and then he overcomes it and accepts that buffy is canonically one of the most powerful people in the world.

and instead we just. don't get that? he never learns and, worse, the episode frames him as being in the right. he's not the one punished for his reckless and actively dangerous behavior (i'm not even going to go into the implications of the vampire brothel thing given that 1) i do not expect a 1990s monster of the week show to be tasteful or nuanced about sex work 2) sarah michelle gellar's delivery of "tell me about your WHORES" was the best part of the episode) bc he goes off and lives his demon-killing dream while buffy's left handling all of this, punished for not forgiving him within like an hour of confronting him.

and buffy herself is a flawed person! she's vindictive and impulsive and materialistic, she holds others to a strict moral code she herself doesn't always uphold, she runs hot and pushes her friends away because she thinks she can carry the world on her shoulders. these are all things that make her interesting and give her foils, and that COULD have made for some really interesting tension with duty-bound riley, but instead we get exhausting "you won't let me take care of you :(( i feel bad because you're stronger than me :(((" when he's not actually offered to do much of anything.

5x10 comes so close to genuinely condemning him and addressing the ugliness and misogyny that's been at the root of their relationship from the beginning - buffy calls him out for issuing an ultimatum! - but then xander's brought in to deliver the "message" and buffy has to humiliate herself running after that helicopter.

when spike says that buffy "needs a little monster in her man" he's obviously projecting and talking about himself (and angel) but, at its most generous, what he's saying is exactly right. because buffy has that darkness in her - faith sees it, spike sees it, giles sees it even if he refuses to admit it - and she needs someone to acknowledge it and not try to make her lesser. she needs a sparring partner. riley tries to goad her into hitting him and she refuses because she knows she'll hurt him. he forces her to hold back. and it's horrible that whedon and co try to convince us in this, riley's goodbye episode, that that's something worth chasing a helicopter for.

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Sometimes it just hits me that they wrote Faith *like that* about food because the writers wanted to make it clear she was carnal and hedonistic but if you take it seriously they accidentally wrote her as food insecure in a way the narrative was not equipped to address. Any way I love my girl.

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Do you guys remember this, literally what was it for? it feels like a fever dream because there’s no explanation

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Noelle is so obviously dealing with emotional neglect it’s insane

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This is legitimately one of my fav quotes from him

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somehow lassie being canonically pansexual makes the shassie ship even funnier to me from an aggravated lassiter perspective because imagine your wife just divorced you and out of every person you know across the entire taskforce that you could potentially go for you have a crush on shawn fucking spencer. hysterical. lassie threw a dart and it hit the window.

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tumblrs ui design is so ass like its so incredibly easy to just misclick and unfollow a beloved long time mutual or follow some cunt instead of blocking them or send someone a random post on accident . and theyre still just like "yeep the only possible improvement our ui could ever use is Make Everything Circles i think. and maybe add a few more buttons nobody uses"

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Any other disabled people think its fucked up that its up to ablebodied people as to what “reasonable accommodation” is

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okay but like?? the first normal human genius inventor hyper-competent hero in this dc movieverse is Not batman? and is instead a black man who knows how to work with a team and at the same time takes no shit and will do what he thinks is right no matter what?? who’s sassy and funny and so incredibly fucking smart??? who absolutely scoffed at the idea that he would ever consider using a grapple to accomplish fucking anything???? who got more character moments than guy and kendra combined????

michael holt I am so in love with you oml

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they have different designs every time i draw them

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Throwing my hat into the ring of Superman 2025 opinions. I was talking to my friend when we left the movies about her character and I do hope everyone is in agreement that Eve’s turn was not impulsive and was absolutely a planned move on her part.

The selfies she takes are shown repeatedly, framed as mildly annoying to Lex but ultimately harmless. But when she calls Jimmy she outright says “I have everything you need to take down Lex” and she’s right. In the background of all of her selfies are important details that can shut him down for good. And I absolutely and wholeheartedly think she knew this when she was taking them

See, the thing with Eve’s situation is that she’s trapped in an abusive relationship. That is what it is. He told her in depth about the fact he locked up his ex girlfriends where they will never be found, he yells at her and throws things at her. We’re not given any reason to doubt this is normal behaviour for him. She could not possibly leave him, and she says as much when Jimmy asks why she stays. If she leaves, he’ll hurt her.

Her selfies have clearly legible files with their entire names uncovered, full maps of planned takeovers and various other things. She gets photos when the group travels to the Fortress Of Solitude, she gets a photo in the control room during the Hammer Of Boravia and another with the unmasked Ultraman in the same costume. She incriminates herself in many of these things, and still she gathers evidence to take Lex’s empire down. When she’s being dragged away, she hits send.

Turning on Lex was not an impulsive decision she made. Yes, part of her motivation was romantic interest in Jimmy, but Eve was in an impossible situation and still managed to do what she could to help herself and everyone else

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i think that one of the best parts of superman (2025) was that i saw eve taking selfies everywhere and immediately thought “isn’t that a security risk? what if her phone gets hacked??” and WOUNDN’T YA KNOW IT…

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Hi, new Mr. Terrific fans! Do you want to get to know him after watching the movie? Here’s a short and easy reading list for you!

Important details to note:

His name is Michael Holt

He’s a legacy character. There was a Mr. Terrific before Michael named Terry Sloane who has been dead for decades. He’s the reason why “Fair play” is written on Michael’s jacket sleeves.

His origin includes attempted suicide.

His mask has a purpose! It makes him a walking blind spot to cameras.

The New 52 Mr. Terrific is a completely different character.

Reading list:

The Spectre (1992) #54 (Michael’s origin)

JSA (1999) (He Joins the team in #11 and becomes chairman in #27)

Justice Society of America (2006)

Checkmate (2006)

The Terrifics (2018)

Mr. Terrific: Year One (2025) (A modern retelling of his origin. Currently two out of four issues are out. The third releases on Wednesday while the fourth comes out a week after that.)

If you have any questions, ask me at @fall-of-fall ! Happy reading!

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SUPERMAN (2025) dir. James Gunn

+ Kara