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thinking about Jonathan Sims and Samama Khalid.

Thinking about how, by all laws of Horror Story Trope, Jon should not be the protagonist. If I'd never heard of tma and you showed me a lineup of the archives crew and asked me to guess who died first I would have pointed to Jon. He's the paranoid professor archetype. The one who dies discovering some crucial bit of information at the beginning to push the plot forward. He's unfriendly, cowardly, insecure, and makes other people do his investigation for him for all of season 1. He doesn't do anything even remotely heroic until the second half of the show. He has no interest in romance for the first half of the show. The audience wasn't even aware Jon had a dark past until he starts telling us about A Guest for Mr. Spider. But he is *Chosen.* Despite the fact that he has no actual qualities of a hero, he's chosen as the eyes special boy. Over the course of the show he starts to become more and more like an actual protagonist. He starts trying to save the world, resist the eye, all that jazz. For one reason or another, being the Archivist turns Jonathan "definition of a side character" Sims into the main character.

Then we have Sam. Sam starts acting like a horror/mystery protagonist almost immediately. He is young, charming, has a mysterious past (that we are made aware of pretty much right away) and a curiosity that causes him to frequently put himself personally in the path of The Horrors. He pokes around where he doesn't belong and looks for clues. He's the center of an office love triangle for goodness sake. He has a strong sense of duty to others and will put himself in harms way to protect those he loves. He exudes main character energy. He has everything a horror protagonist needs to push the plot along. But Sam wasn't *Chosen.* Despite being exactly the person you'd expect the plot to follow. And I can't help but wonder if, in the same way that the narrative made Jon important, it's going to make Sam unimportant. Irrelevant. If, with his rejection from The Magnus Institute, Sam is going to disappear completely. Become a mystery.

Because at the end of the day, so much of your life, your impact on the world, your relevance, has absolutely nothing to do with you. So much of it has everything to do with those in power, and whether they decide you're important.

It all comes down to your own rotten luck.

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relistened to juno steel and the kitty cat caper for the first time since my initial listen and wow, in retrospect that first scene sets up everything for season 2. Ramses' promises of hope, his claim that no one can take Hyperion away from its people (despite that being exactly what he ends up doing to juno), ideas of crime and corruption and what makes someone a criminal, then you've got rita talking about Northstar and the Andromeda movies, and juno being really mean and not appreciating her. That's so many of the big pieces of the season laid out right there in the very first scene!

not to mention this whole first case is about a break-in/robbery where nothing seems to be missing...aka exactly what jack did to sarah!!!!!

and while the designer pets aren't actually the same technology, the idea feels similar to the introduction of reanimated Wilco in s4, which of course foreshadows what Dokana's doing in s5!

the writing in this show omg...

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Thank you for teaching us about the insides :) from mag 34 - anatomy class

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the worst part of your favorite podcasts getting popular isn’t the fandoms, it’s actually having to skip through 3-5 minutes of adds before you hear the opening theme

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michael awareness poster

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The only way is forward now.

What do you mean?

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can we talk about how the mechanisms provide a perfect case study of all the kinds of players who show up to a dnd campaign

we have the player who fully understood the assignment and even integrated other characters into their backstory (gunpowder tim). we have the person who made their character at the last minute and just gave you the basics but they're fun and cool character choices that you would like to know more about (raphaella). we got the player who has not shared any meaningful backstory but always kills it in rp (marius). the player who actually wrote out a cool backstory and a great character concept but refuses to engage in roleplay (ivy). the player who has to leave in the middle of the campaign and the dm wrote them out in a heartbreaking way (nastya). the player who clearly made their character for a different campaign but did a pretty good job of integrating it and you can tell the dm had a hand in it (the toy soldier.) the player who understood the assignment and made a super hot character that everyone loves (ashes). and the character with the most insane all over the place backstory that they refuse to elaborate on and rarely comes up in roleplay (brian.)

and of course the dm who set the assignment and has all the load bearing pieces of canon in it (jonny)

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haven't really been sharing audios recently but i saw cfa in march and i've been thinking a lot about this show the past week for obvious reasons so here's prayer 💖

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The West Wing (2x10) // The Fellowship of the Ring // "Stand By You" - Rachel Platten // "Promises" - Hadestown // "Welcome to the Rock" - Come From Away // "That Would Be Enough" - Hamilton

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holy shit holy shit why did no one tell me about come from away that shit fucking slaps

highlights:

'must be something in the water' 'THAT'S WHY I ONLY DRINK THE BEER'

'ya. that's a moose'

'KISS THE FISH KISSTHEFISHKISSTHEFISH'

'you're freaking out and it's making me freak out and we're👏ALL 👏FREAKING👏THE FUCK👏OUT👏'

'i'll give you a speeding ticket and on it i'll write STFD. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN'

'we can't accept any money. you'd have done the same' 'but... i drank all your whiskey' 'i'd have done the same'

'they helped me steal their own grills'

'holy shiiiiiiitttt holy shiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttt'

'we've somehow ended up in the gayest town in newfoundland'

'i'm his sexytary I MEAN SECRETARY'

'its cheese and fish. the recipe involves cheese.............and............fish'

hi i'm looking for my boyfriend his name's kevin he's lost his mind'

'it turns out our gym teacher knows a little spanish *breaks out into a salsa*'

'running away from the gay people who HATE ME'

'YOU ARE HEEEEERE ON THE EDGE OF THE ATLANTIC ON AN ISLAND IN BETWEEEEEN. THERE AND MEEEEEEE'

'because we come from everywhere WE ALL COME FROM AWAY'

on the other hand literally heartbreaking i sobbed

i am here and me and the sky making me sob uncontrollably

'the thing i loved most used as the bomb' oh?????????

somethings missing ITS SO SAD its also very joyful go and watch it

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Come from away

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The progresion of power in iZombie is insane.

Like by the end of the show you basically have 6 people running the whole city and they're all besties who probably have a group chat where they discuss how to respond to major world events the way my friends and I talk about planning to go out for drinks.

Think about it you have the woman who runs the largest human smuggling operation in Seattle (who also happens to be one of the only survivors of the original boat party incident that started all of this), her best friend the acting mayor of Seattle, her ex fiance the commander of the private military group that controls the city, her other best friend the creator of the only zombie cure and leader in the field of zombie biology, Clive, and Clive's wife who is the chief of police in charge of all non-zombie crimes in the city.

They're even on a first name basis with the biggest crime lord in Seattle that currently runs three of the most popular zombie hot spots and is in charge of the entire brain trade in and out of the city. Like even if they hate him, they could show up at his place and not get kicked out.

And they use that. The characters actually like each other and talk to each other and fix problems by supporting each other. What other show out there was ever doing it like iZombie?? Rest In Peace bro, you were real for that and you deserved so much more love.

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Clive in the first two seasons is so funny. Every time he goes to the morgue he sees something sketchy but he likes those nerds and also Liv is psychically solving his murders with a 100% success rate. He's a murder cop, not a weird science cop.

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iZOMBIE | 1.08 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER | 1.02

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the most unrealistic part of izombie - a show where zombies are real and can solve crimes by eating brains - is that the character ravi isn't slamming ass all over the city. like he's supposed to be a medical examiner in seattle which is a $100k+ salary and he's played by rahul kohli and y'all are really trying to convince me this 6'4" doctor isn't knee deep in pussy 24/7?? zombies I can accept but trying to convince me this man with a full head of hair and a british accent has to fight for women's attention absolutely annihilates my suspension of disbelief.

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« I am not a brave man »

This is a TMA animation i worked on during the summer holidays and i am really proud of it 👩‍🦯👩‍🦯✨

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Everyone deserves a bear hug from the Dead Boy Detectives