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rrr is basically a live action zuko/aang fanfic. it is so fucking good

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im gonna say something and like 3 people are gonna get it but it must be said. ninth house/hell bent is unholyverse for straight people and/or grownups

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the thing about cracking open a long-established popular ship tag on ao3 is that it allows you to be extraordinarily picky, and i think it must be the closest thing i will ever experience to being filthy rich. i scroll along at super speed like no today i am only interested in fics with this precise range of words and one of these three tags. only authors i’ve heard of, please. hmm, i suppose i could consider an unknown quantity given its apparent popularity with the people, but… no, no, this summary doesn’t do it for me. no particular reason, it’s just… eh, i don’t need to explain myself. bring me 50 more like this for me to choose from and we’ll see.

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listen I’m so glad you all are having fun with the dragon incest show, but I need you to understand that from the outside all I see is approximately 14 posts per day of people in truly horrific wigs with captions like “baegael did nothing wrong except all the murders”

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- Ms. Fisher, I need you to listen very closely. You’re in grave danger. Everything you believe about your experience with the headset is wrong. Everything. The situation is far more complex and far more perilous than you can possibly imagine. It’s crucial that you log back into the sim. Immediately. - How’d you get this number? - Finding your number has honestly been the least challenging of my tasks. - Well don’t call it again!

THE PERIPHERAL (2022—) ⬖ 1.01 “Empathy Bonus” dir. Vincenzo Natali

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Original Script Analysis, Part 2: The Southern Raiders, The Finale, and What I Think About it All

Link to Part 1

So folks, when it comes to literary analysis, there are two categories that textual interpretations typically fall under: the Doylist explanation, and the Watsonian explanation. 

Watsonian explanations will contextualise an issue solely within the bounds of the story it is told in, so the answer to any question will be, essentially, “in-universe”. Imagine interviewing a character in the story, and asking them, “why did x happen” or, “why did y character decide to do z”. The answer you get will be a Watsonian answer.

Doylist explanations, on the other hand, are explanations that take into account things the characters themselves wouldn’t “have access to”, so to speak. These explanations often touch on writing concepts like theme, character arcs, tropes, setup and payoff etc, sometimes even referring to “real-world” motivations, intentions, or constraints that the creators were working with (or against). If an explanation or an answer to a question doesn’t sound like anything the characters themselves could have come up with, it’s probably a Doylist explanation.

I’m going to give an example from Titanic that I hope isn’t a spoiler to anybody at this point given how much this film has been memed to shit:

Keep reading

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best girl rhaena coming through

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"Alicent is feeling very alone. She feels she doesn't have a real partner in her life, even her father. She feels her father has pushed her to the place she's in. And she can't hear her own voice. She can't feel her own heart beating. So when Rhaenyra enters, that's what she wants. She wants the love in her life, and it's a bit of a love story in a way, of these two women."

—Geeta Patel, Director of House of the Dragon, 1x08

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everything you lose is a step you take

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almond this, demon that, how about the sad gay queens?

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the saddest word 

in the whole wide world 

is the word almost… 

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alicent grabbing rhaenyra’s hand with such desperation because all she’s ever wanted is for them to be by each other’s sides and reach out to rhaenyra throughout all these years, but never letting herself to. and it comes off so natural for her to reach for her hand and rhaenyra reciprocating caresses on alicent’s hand as if nothing ever changed between them because in reality that love for each other has never left despite everything,, therapy can’t even fix what i’m feeling right now

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cant believe hotd showrunners read fire & blood and were like what if we make the dance of the dragons a lesbian divorce drama.

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anonymous // Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus // The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1 // Nina Simone, Either Way I Lose // Julia Jacklin, End Of A Friendship // Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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AANG & ZUKO

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bahahaha is this not literally a fic i wrote

ZUTARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

ZUTARAAAAAAAAA!!!!

ZUKO & KATARA ZUKO & KATARA ZUKO & KATARA ZUKO & KATARA

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unpopular opinion: sometimes... fandom isn't that important. sometimes fandom isn't "that deep" to someone. sometimes people don't interact within the fandom and like to watch from afar. sometimes people just want to look at cool art or read cool fanfics, and that's it.

let's normalize fandom being a hobby or an interest and not a lifestyle. normalize taking a step back, taking time off and disconnecting from fandom without feeling bad. it's okay and healthy to prioritize yourself over media instead of consuming it 24/7. it's okay to set boundaries and enjoy something the way you need.