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cannot stop thinking about how the season finale of fallout set up a road trip buddy comedy between a 250+ yo radiation cowboy who tried (and so far succeeded) to kill his humanity to survive the wasteland and an optimistic doe eyed woman whose whole brand is Being a Good Person (something the radiation cowboy used to be) and will undoubtedly crack away at his hardened leather armor. when lucy bit off the ghouls finger and then the ghoul cut off lucy’s that was a pinkie promise to be bffs

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Me, a small feminine person with a soft voice and speaks like lucy:

Me: I can relate to cooper I think

(It's the rage)

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Maximus: this is my girlfriend Lucy and that is her boyfriend Cooper

Lucy: hi!

Cooper: go fuck yourselves

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writing is like being in the shower. don’t wanna start and dont wanna stop

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a meme

top panel is jess from new girl sobbing, crying labelled as "me reading tragedy in a book"

bottom panel is charlie kelly from it's always sunny in philadelphia shouting with murder written on a whiteboard behind him and is labelled "me writing tragedy in a book"

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if you're writing your story and you think 'hm, this might be too weird' Wrong. Make it weirder

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“You become a writer by writing. There is no other way. So do it. Do it more. Do it again. Do it better. Fail. Fail better.”

— Margaret Atwood

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Ok, never watched much of Angel outside of s5, but I understand that the sort of thesis statement of the show/character is "If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do."

Explain to me why then, if this is the crux of Angel, everyone and their mother bitches about Spike getting his soul back? Implying that it's inherently selfish and because it was selfish, it means next to nothing?

This line presents the concept that action bears more weight than reason. It doesn't matter why you do good as long as you are doing it. Because to do good, regardless of why or what you may gain, is good.

You can never be perfect. You can never fix everything. But the things you do are your legacy. "If there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world."

I personally believe that Spike got his soul for himself as much as he did it for Buffy because the concept of man vs. monster had been a Massive part of his character arc. Pre-soul he couldn't be either and therefore was nothing in his own eyes (not helped by being repeatedly dehumanized either.)

Spike made a choice that Angelus never would've. He chose the man over the monster.

Regardless, Love is apparently not a good enough reason to get his soul back, according to some. They argue that because he fought for it from a place of romantic Love that it doesn't matter. That the reason behind the action was selfish and therefore meaningless.

But the fucking point of Angel is that action is more important than reason. That the struggle, the fight is more important than the why of it. Essentially, whatever gets you through it is, and should be, enough.

Spike fought his nature because he had something to fight for. Love is not inherently selfless or selfish, it isn’t good or evil. It's a feeling that can be turned into a verb, to action. What you chose to do with Love is what codes its nature.

Spike in the past has done horrible things. Despite the constant "Spike fans kind of forgot about" bullshit, no one argues that he hasn't done terrible things. But this one action/choice was singular. No one had ever done it before. No one ever Wanted to do it before.

Whether you consider it selfish, the Love Spike felt drove him to be better. Because of that Love, he chose to be better. He took action and fought to be better.

If nothing you do matters, all that matters is what you do.

Spike made a choice to be a man and not a monster and fought for it. That Matters.

Regardless of the fact that anyone with a soul can do good or evil, we know Spike does good with one, which reflects back and makes the action of getting it good. It's cyclical goddamnit!

With a soul, he is selfless. He remains by Buffy's side, not out of an inability to let her go, but because she chooses it. He stands his ground and sacrifices himself to save the world despite Buffy telling him she loves him and to leave. He doesn't waver because it's the right, good thing to do.

Whether or not you think he was selfish in the lead up should not matter. He is the only vampire to ever make this choice. Spike got his soul back and did good with it, by the ethos of Angel, that's what matters.

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I love how Barbie (2023) takes pains to drive home that the Real World is in fact our world and that it contains the whole of real human suffering and joy and is full of regular-ass imperfect people

AND THEN takes the Mattel boardroom and once more heightens everything, makes it absurd and offputtingly sterile and puts a cardboard background outside the window and makes all the acting of the employees physically stiff and artificial-seeming, as a way to point out that the rich and powerful are living in a similar kind of detatched artificial fantasy world to barbieland, even if it's technically contained to our world

because all that money and power means practically speaking, capitalists aren't real people and are playing pretend their whole lives

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Ken would 110% say “This one’s for you Barbie”, shoot the basketball, and end up knocking himself out somehow

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I’m an early bird, and while waiting in the hotel for others to wake up, I quickly mapped out Barbie. Thought I would share this too.

⚠️Spoilers⚠️

(*Also, this approach is from my online writing class, which I can now say will be happening again Jan. 2024–yay!)

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Reblog if reading someone else’s fanfiction has helped you get through a hard day

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right at midnight too

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[Image ID: The Always Sunny “You guys ever been to Florida?” scene where Dennis answers “Been there? Not physically” edited to read “You guys ever work on your WIPs?” with Dennis labelled “Me” responding “Work on my WIPs? Not physically.” End Image ID]