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Appropriate sparks are flying, somebody cue the power ballad. DISTURBING BEHAVIOR (1998) dir. David Nutter

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Rewatching the Power of Two and Prue and Phoebe say something along the lines of how this magical world was opened up to them and they've resigned themselves to it doing this for a reason, and Phoebe suggests to Andy that there was a reason he discovered it as well. Additionally, there's the part where he's able to hear Prue as a spirit, even though he logically shouldn't.

And I'm kinda thinking about it, and I really wish that Andy was kept for after season one (for specific plot potential now tho instead of just me loving him). I mean, you could definitely expand on that stuff to build it up, especially since he and Prue have that soulmatism thing going on.

Inspired by the part where he tells Prue that he doesn't want to come home to demons, it'd have been interesting if he was actually also a witch that came into his powers super late, which is why he a) discovered it existed and b) could hear Ward.

Alternatively, have him be some other kind of magical being. (Not necessarily the Whitelighter route, although I do kind have this minor theory that he might've been a Future Whitelighter that the Elders decided against making a Whitelighter bc it would've caused issues since he definitely would have gone back to the sisters, or at least Prue, and they already had their hands fill with the Piper/Leo mess without adding to it.) I mean, an Empath or a Prophet might've been interesting! Ooh, or a Firestarter? Something that isn't quite witchy but still magical.

Even if you did just keep him totally mortal, I just feel like it was a bit of a wasted opportunity to kill him off like that, especially because he had a good dynamic with Prue and it's not as if we got any really good love interests for her later on. Additionally, it'd have been nice to see him have a friendship with Piper and Phoebe and ground them in their mortal lives a bit as someone who is a childhood friend. Idk, just thoughts.

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Hello! I’m always very happy to see posts from this blog! The question I have is, what do you think are key components to Bella’s personality? Like, while reading the books, or even reading fanfics, what makes you go: that’s Bella!! There’s usually a lot of talk about her sarcasm and stubbornness, so what are other key traits?

I think one of the key aspects of Bella's personality is that when she commits to something, she commits. I think either Charlie or Renee say in the books that she was always a "constant little thing." Once she makes up her mind about something, she's going to follow through with it, even if everyone tells her it's a bad idea. (Lucky for her that she has plot armor that usually protects her!) This is related to stubbornness but I think it's more than that.

For example, she decides to move to Forks so Renee can travel with Phil. Renee tells her she doesn't have to do it, tries to talk her out of it. Bella has made up her mind, though. And she gets to Forks and she hates it, but she made up her mind. She's following through. She decides she wants to be a vampire and no one can sway her from it. Not Jacob, not Rosalie, not even Edward. She's made up her mind. She decides to keep the pregnancy that is killing her but she's mind up her mind, she's following through.

I think another factor is something of a martyr complex. That is she's selfless, sure--but she's mostly selfless with Big Gestures whereas with the little things she's more human and flawed, like stomping her feet and whining it's not fair that Jacob isn't aging but she is. "What kind of world is this? Where is the justice?" etc. But she'll move to Forks for Renee. She'll go to confront James to save Renee. She'll go to Volterra to save Edward. She'll almost/actually cut herself with a rock to distract Victoria and Riley to save Edward and Seth. She'll carry this dangerous pregnancy to term so Renesmee can exist. But she'll also whine about the weather and having to age and write Eric off as a greasy chess club type. She's not a perfect saint, but she's self-sacrificing.

She's also got self-esteem issues (don't we all?). Sometimes to a frustrating degree. I remember reading New Moon for the first time and after her reunion with Edward and how it takes her a long, long time to be like, "oh you love me," when it was just screamingly obvious the whole time. It was obvious when he left he was doing it to protect her, but her self-esteem was so low that she believed the lies. She thinks she's mousy and unattractive but literally every teenage boy in Forks is throwing themselves at her. And one of my beefs with Breaking Dawn is that she doesn't really develop self-esteem so much as she becomes a sparkling, gorgeous superhero because vampirism and the problem is solved.

She follows through, she's always going to volunteer as tribute to save someone else, and she'll always worry she's not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough.

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EDWARD CULLEN in TWILIGHT (2008)

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twilight girlies

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It smells and sounds like spring 

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Tears for Fears

Music Videos: 1982-1989

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Based off all the interviews (and fan demand) I don’t think they’d ever completely write rose out of the show. BUT if rose isn’t going to be in season three I need Peter to be YEARNING.

I want to see him keeping tabs on her, making sure she’s always safe. Catherine asking after her KNOWING he’s looking out for her. I want to see him looking at pictures of her using her as his moral compass. Doing all her little habits to keep a hold of her like eating burger with

Edit: this kind of feels like a separate point lowkey but I’m just gonna add it here.

ALSO the way they compliment each other I wanna see him stumbling in all the places she helped him before, we got a bit of that in season 2 with how it took him a whole month to find warren where it literally took rose all of a day to find Peter, where might I add trained agents couldn’t. Atp even the fbi agents know rose is an asset, she’s good at what she does and they relied on her constantly

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rose stealing things (and peter being increasingly okay with it): a summary

PETER SUTHERLAND & ROSE LARKIN | The Night Agent, Season 1 (Netflix, 2023)  

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Season 1 // Season 2 Parallels (part 2) PETER SUTHERLAND & ROSE LARKIN | The Night Agent (Netflix)

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Rose 'Moral Anchor' Larkin

So...I’m watching The Night Agent Season 2 and I’m very confused by what the writers have decided to do with Rose’s character.

I just finished 2.06 ‘A Good Agent’ and Rose is in a moral dilemma that feels odd to her character. She’s so distraught about lying to Noor about her brother that she lashes out at Peter and Catherine about how she "didn’t sign up to be a Night Agent." But just two episodes ago she was ecstatic about sneaking into the ambassador’s office and getting the photos they needed. It's not an ideal situation. And of course they've formed a relationship with Noor so it feels bad to lie to her about something so serious. But the show paints Catherine and especially Peter as the bad guys in this scenario when it's just a tough call. And then she makes it worse by lying to Noor about it. I understand that they're trying to convey that Rose is Peter's moral compass and callback to Peter's conversation with Sami. But it just doesn't work because that's really not the dynamic of their relationship. And it's at the expense of both Peter and Rose's character. Like if anything Peter is good to a fault. The first time we see him he's giving up his seat for a mom and daughter and saving a bunch of civilians from a bomb. He knows right from wrong. He didn't start breaking the rules until he meets Rose.

Rose is morally gray. She's not a bad person but her life circumstances have forced her to make decisions to survive. She's not lawful and not a rule follower like Peter. She killed Ellen in Season 1, and she would have killed Dale too had she been holding the gun at the pier. To suddenly act like this world is too much for her to stomach is an odd choice.

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“So you seduced your all-too-willing husband. That’s not a capital offense.” He seemed to be teasing. My cheeks got hotter. “The word seduced implies a certain amount of premeditation.” “Maybe that was the wrong word,” he allowed.

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blushing, giggling, kicking his feet and twirling his hair

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for all the amicability in the whirlwind later on i think it's really important to never lose sight of why dru was turned and then why she in turn sired spike. she was tortured and turned for angelus' enjoyment, her continued suffering brings him pleasure. he owns her, she is a Thing to him and she has no way to escape this. she makes spike to be "her brave knight" a position that, especially in fairytales, means a very romantic man physically protects and serves a woman who is usually gonna end up being some kind of damsel in distress.

while yes dru is evil and a vampire she's still obviously very upset about what happened to her and those moments seem to be her times of lucidity, not delusion. not to mention that she's already been beaten out of the notion that she can escape angelus, she tried to as a human and it didn't work, it likely won't work now either, especially if darla sides with him. but with spike around there's someone who basically always takes her side and fights to keep angelus away from her. who is, at least, a buffer between her and her tormentor. he also takes care of her and validates her, something neither darla or angelus seem to be interested in doing at all.

i feel like people tend to intellectually remember what happened to her but forget that it you know, has long lasting consequences when say, they evaluate her behavior in late s2 when angelus comes back. like... yeah ofc she goes back to appeasing him and shit. spike's a wheelchair and she was beaten into shape to be "daddy's little girl" (gag) YEARS before she even MET spike. her abuser is back and her defender is out of commission not to mention her whole view of reality has been actively warped by the most narcissistic sleezoid around.

and all the reasons why people love spike or point to as why he's better with buffy or whatever.... dru was the one who saw those first and picked him because of those. like... it's wild to see people act like they spent a loveless century together and spike was just used the whole time when we SEE them literally in love, he states MULTIPLE times she means so much to him and we get an OUTSIDE SOURCE CONFIRM THEY HAVE "AFFECTION AND JEALOUSY FOR EACH OTHER". we have the spike we know of today because drusilla saw the hero in him and wanted him to rescue her. and ya know, he kinda did. multiple times. over a century of deep, mutual horrifying love. you only even GET spike and buffy in the same ROOM because he loved dru so much he saved her from a mob, traveled with her across a continent (maybe 2 depending on direction) and over an ocean for even a SHOT at a cure. like... cMON.

this got a little off topic into some of my pet peeves but also kinda not because just-- i don't think people always remember that dru is still a victim and a victim who was intentionally frozen the moment of maximum despair and internal destruction. then spent about 20 years being groomed by her tormentor before she ever had anyone care about her as a priority. i think people tend to forget that it was angelus who wanted to turn spike into a monster and drusilla who wanted him to be a hero. it's dru who gives him his swagger, his confidence, his love for life, who encouraged his romanticism and adored his poetics. it's not that she groomed or built him, but just that she saw all that potential already in there and facilitated it and nurtured it. sure in a fucked up vampire way but still.

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I don't want to protect you from the world. I want to show it to you.

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Look, I may not be an explorer or an adventurer or a treasure seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell.

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers

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most critics of heroine x villain ships are unknowingly performative, recycling patriarchal ideas of female goodness without ever questioning the cage. it is a masterclass in devastating subservience disguised as feminist critique. you can mute all the faux-progressive language about romanticising toxic relationships, and their arguments would still reek of gut-churning fear and conformity. i feel bad for them. truly. but punishing other women for stepping outside the rigid lines of acceptable womanhood is dystopian. fandoms are not surveillance states. no woman needs permission to enjoy the transgressive. no woman needs to beg forgiveness for enjoying her favourite stories.