#4x10 Monstrous

[haletostilinski]

Best Teen Wolf Episode: Round 1

[usermischief]

Lydia: I don't believe that. Not all monsters do monstrous things. Meredith: Like who? Lydia: Like Scott.

[eusuntgratie]

4.10 Monstrous

YES Kira kicking ass, protecting people, ON HER OWN not just helping a dude I love it MORE OF THIS PLEASE

Not much makes me softer than Mama McCall mom-ing Stiles. My mom’s a nurse and raised me pretty much by herself. She stepped up and mommed the shit out of my best friend when she needed it. TW gets a lot wrong, but I love Melissa so much and I’m happy to see a lot of her this season 💜

DAMN GIRL Kira did some work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I know a lot of folks don’t like Daddy Argent but OOF SIR 🥵

Every time I’m like this is dumb maybe I’ll stop watching, Derek comes on screen for one second and I’m like hmmm no that’s fine I’ll definitely watch infinite episodes of this show. GOOD LORD HE’S SO ATTRACTIVE.

Stiles’ hair in S4 looks like what would happen if I gave my kid some gel and let her loose on his head.

Scott’s claws look like bad acrylics in this shot 🤣

THE FUCK?!

[kaitlinj16]

L: "You and your friends try to protect everyone. Have you been doing this the whole time? I mean, how are you all still alive?" S: "Not all of us are." - Liam Dunbar and Scott McCall

[housemavencalore]

Not all monsters do monstrous things.

Lydia Martin, Monstrous

[stilinskiderek]

TEEN WOLF | 4X10-MONSTROUS

[jessmalia]

MALIA TATE IN TEEN WOLF || 4x10 Monstrous

[capricornsicle]

4x10 "Monstrous"

[princeescaluswords]

So, because Scott is poor, Derek should buy him a new car? That seems logical to you?

Did you come here looking for a fight? Because you just found one. I believe that this ask refers to this post, where I argued that Derek's performative asceticism isn't accidental, and that the show was implying that his privilege and wealth enabled his antagonistic behavior in the first two seasons.

Nowhere did I argue in that post, where I compared the speed with which Derek repaired his car window after Chris Argent's thug smashed it to the fact that the McCall family vehicle didn't have a driver's side window all season, that Derek owed Scott a car. I have, in the past, argued that the Hales owed Scott McCall reparations for repeated assaults, property damage, disruption of academic pursuits, and for taking over their self-appointed task of protecting Beacon Hills. I wish that the show had made it explicit in A Promise to the Dead (4x11) that Derek gave Scott the money from Garrett's locker rather than leave it ambiguous.

I'm never going to suggest that Teen Wolf went all in on an analysis of class struggle -- Heavens, no! -- but it didn't ignore the consequences of the Hale's upper class identity. "Everyone can be corrupted by money!" Peter howls in Monstrous (4x10) and he is a prime example of that. Similarly, Derek's wealth and privilege enable him to dwell, unhealthily, on the traumas of his past. I know of very few people who could take three months out of their life to obsess over family tragedies with no mention of work or responsibility, and still have cars, properties, and personal care items. Derek is not well served by this behavior, isolating himself from the mundane and from the mechanics of living. He intends to achieve his goals by himself due to trust issues, but he is forced to rely on Scott McCall as the only way to accomplish these things, and man-oh-man is he bitter about it.

But as the show had it's lead protagonist argue in Weaponized (4x07) "while we're trying not to die, we still need to live." In fact, I would argue that you can trace Derek's redemption arc by his willingness to live. At the start of the show, Derek is "totally alone" and his wealth and privilege allow him to operate like that. In Seasons 3 and 4, though, he starts to remember how to live. We see him in an actual home, even though it is the Loft of Solitude. He purchases a more practical vehicle. He allows himself to think about romance. He makes friends with the Sheriff and, amazingly, Chris Argent. A key scene is when he puts his wealth and privilege to positive use by trusting Braeden, hiring her to find Kate. He's using his wealth in a positive manner. It is no longer enabling his isolation. Look at Derek in the movie. He is fully living. He has a home, a family, friends, a business. Before the nogitsune seeks its revenge, Derek's primary focus is watching his son play lacrosse and getting him to embrace his family's heritage.

Since Derek's role was always to serve as a narrative foil to Scott, the lead protagonist, this arc highlights Scott's story. Regardless of what happens to Scott, he never isolates himself, with one important exception. At all other times, he worries about his grades, he wants to get into a good school, he wants to play lacrosse, he wants to date people, he keeps his friends close, he works with Deaton, he brings his mother lunch, etc. Yes, there are terrible things happening, but he doesn't forget to live while trying to stop corrupted hunters, Alpha packs, Japanese fox demons, and multi-million dollar assassin hit-lists. Fandom tends to hold the attention he pays to everyday living against him, but Scott knows from direct experience these things are important, and he doesn't have the wealth and privilege to put them on hold for months while dealing with villains or his own trauma. The exception? Season 5A, where Theo schemes to isolate Scott. Scott is still an alpha, a True Alpha, but that privilege alone won't save anyone. There's a reason that Melissa's primary advice -- as much as I might despise it on an emotional level -- is "You'll get them back. You have to."

Teen Wolf certainly wasn't an "eat the rich" show, but it did have a definite point of view that virtue was based in everyday things, the tasks and opportunity that should be in common with all of humanity, and not in the isolation that great wealth, ancient pedigree, or exclusive privilege grants.

[nightdarkminute]

“Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn’t true. We can show them that it isn’t true.”

Medieval cartographers, when they did not know what to put on a map of an unknown or unexplored land, would fill the space in with “Here be Dragons” or some other variant of “here be x monster”. This simple fact imbues so much more meaning into Flint’s speech to Silver in 4x10 and I want to explore that here.

Obviously, we still have the absolutely astounding metaphorical dimension of the sentence “in the darkness, there be dragons”. Dragons are fearsome creatures, powerful and destructive, and yet crucially, they are fictional. They are the monsters in the stories we tell our children.

But now we also have a more literal dimension. Darkness in Flint’s speech is a metaphor, encompassing more than just the physical state of nighttime but rather everything counter to England and civilization’s narratives of how the world should function. Darkness is a thing, a state of being, and a place all in one. Darkness is the sum total of resistance to civilization. And in the darkness, “there be dragons”. Because life outside of civilizations norms and narratives hasn’t been explored! Just as the cartographers write down “here be dragons” as a shorthand of “idk what’s here but it’s probably dangerous”, so too do people write off the “darkness” as unknown and unexplored, and therefore, a danger to them.

Additionally, “there be dragons” anchors the darkness fundamentally and physically in opposition to civilization. It makes sense that a cartographer would be most familiar and make the most detailed renderings of “civilized��� places, since those are the places extensively surveyed and explored. So those lands on the outskirts that get slapped with a “here be dragons” are outside of civilization and as such, outside of what is known and what is considered necessary to know. That island over there? Well, “there be dragons”, so it’s obvious that that’s nowhere I need to be. It’s full of nasty, monstrous things, so why should we even bother exploring it? It’s a vicious cycle: the place is unexplored, so people assume bad things about it as an explanation for why it’s been unexplored, so since people assume it’s bad it remains unexplored, etc.Therefore, the darkness is these places, both the physical places untouched by civilization as well as the mental spaces that exist outside civilization’s hold and have not been explored precisely because they have not been explored.

In the dark, there is discovery.

Just as those “there be dragons” lands need to be explored and elaborated upon, so too do the places and attitudes and ways of life counter to norms and narratives! Flint is calling for people to fill in these places on their mental maps, which previously only included England and what she deems worth exploring.

Flint and Silver had both likely encountered old maps with “here be dragons” on it and as such may be familiar with the phrase, but the two of them have seen a good deal more of the world than those medieval cartographers and therefore know that the notion of there actually being dragons in those lands is ludicrous. People have seen these previously uncharted lands with their own eyes and know that those maps were lies. Therefore, Flint is beseeching Silver to remember that foolishness, and apply it here with his concept of standing in opposition to England. There are no dragons, and everyone knows it now. All it took was for someone to discover that wasn’t the case. And that is what Flint is asking of Silver here.

If England’s hold on civilization is a map, Flint and the Maroons and all of the people marginalized by that hold are the land of the dragons. Flint knows that the dragons aren’t true, and so he is begging for Silver to help him be the cartographer that erases “here be dragons” from the map at last and fills in what is actually true about what lies beneath the label.

[sleepy-sloth-doodles]

I’m Not Dead :D

Good news guys, I’m not dead! School, however, has drained the life out of me so I haven’t been drawing. I have some stuff in the works but until then enjoy this little line up

Season 1

1x1: Eye of the Beholder, Pt 1

1x2: Eye of the Beholder, Pt 2

1x3: Imperfect Harmony

1x4: When Darkness Falls- On an island that would make the perfect outpost, the dragon riders discover its indigenous residents are a mysterious new breed of dragon, as well as some mysterious figures

1x5: The Queen's Favor- The alpha of the island, a titan wing DeathSong, wants the dragon riders gone. Hiccup and his friends work to convince her with the help of two new companions

1x6: Big Man on Berk

1x7: Gone Gustav Gone

1x8: Reign of Fireworms-  Fireworm dragons invade Dragon's Edge, while Ruffnut and Tuffnut discover that they have an unexpected connection to the island, leading to a fight between the twins and Silas and Eerika

1x9: Big Water-  The Dragon Riders have an important mission to save a group of Monstrous Nightmares from Dagur and the Dragon hunters and need all hands on deck. Silas and Eerika refuse to help, leading to a tear in the group and secrets being spilled. Can Silas and Eerika get over their fear and help their new companions?

1x10: Crushing it

1x11: Quake, Rattle, and Roll

1x12: Have Dragon Will Travel, Pt 1

1x13: Have Dragon Will Travel, Pt 2

1x14: The Next Big Sting

1x15: Total Nightmare

Season 2

2x1: Team Astrid2

2x2: Night of the Hunters, Pt1

2x3: Night of the Hunters, Pt 2

2x4: O Brother Where Art Thou: When Crackle leaves the comfort of home to prove he isn’t the baby of the family he ends up getting tangled up by Dagur and the Dragon hunters.

2x5: Island: After the battle for Crackle Eerika and Dagur find themselves stranded on an island and must work together to survive, that is if they don’t kill each other first

2x6: Bad Moon Rising

2x7: Snotlout Gets the Axe

2x8: The Zippleback Experience

2x9: Snow Way Out

2x10: Edge of Disaster, Pt 1

2x11: Edge of Disaster, Pt 2

2x12: Into the Unknown- During battle with the dragon hunters Silas notices Eerika keeps missing shots and staying away from the fight. Not only that but she keeps leaving the island mysterious at night. Silas asks the Twins for help and to see what secrets she's keeping

2x13: Shock and Awe

2x14: A Time to Skrill- Tension between Toothless and Spyro boils over when a skrill with a grudge against Hiccup returns. Spyro decides weather to side with his own species or put aside his hatred for Toothless

2x15: Maces and Talons, Pt 1

2x16: Maces and Talons, Pt 2

Season 3

3x1: Enemy of My Enemy

3x2: Crash Course

3x3: Follow the Leader

3x4: Turn and Burn

3x5: Buffalord Soldier

3x6: Grim Retreat

3x7: To Heather or Not to Heather

3x8: Stryke Out

3x9: Tone Death

3x10: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

3x11: Family on the Edge

3x12: An Eye for an Eye- In an Act of mourning Eerika goes out and strikes down any dragon hunter ship she finds, alone. During one of these solo missions Eerika gets captured and must escape or die trying.

3x13: Last Auction Heroes- Snotlout goes on an undercover mission to Viggo's dragon auction to rescue the creatures and stop Viggo from getting richer. Two new faces appear in the Grimborn Family.

3x14: Defenders of the Wing, Pt 1

Season 4

4x1: Defenders of the Wing, Pt 2

4x2: Gruff Around the Edges

4x3: Midnight Scrum

4x4: Not Lout

4x5: The Family Grim, Pt 1- Hiccup and the riders once again face off with Viggo and his men. When the battle begins Viggo discovers something more valuable than the dragon eye.

4x6: The Family Grim, Pt 2- Silas and Eerika are  now captured and sailing off with Viggo, home. Encountering old faces and familiar smells.  

4x7: Saving ShatterMaster

4x8: Dire Straits

4x9: The Longest Day

4x10: Gold Rush- Dagur appears at the Edge and claims to know where Viggo keeps his gold, and the Dragon Riders race to find the stash and return Berk's stolen gold (Note: Dagur and Heather don’t leave to find their father).

4x11: Dragon Sickness- With Dagur now on the edge, Eerika is flying high, Silas on the other hand is ready to kick him off. When Eerika becomes sick with a disease they call Dragon sickness Dagur and Silas must work together before it's too late.

4x12: T​​he Hunt for Oswald- Dagur is determined to find his father and, not wanting to travel alone, asks Heather and Eerika to join him.

4x13: Out of the Frying Pan

4x14: Twintuition

4x15: Blindsided

4x16: Shell Shocked, Pt 1

4x17: Shell Shocked, Pt 2

Season 5

5x1: To the Bone: Therril and Jarl want to make up for Viggo and Rykers misdeeds by helping the dragon riders on their latest mission. The riders are hesitant to accept help but a mysterious dragon forces them to work together

5x2: Living on the Edge

5x3: Sandblasted

5x4: Something Rotten on Berserker Island

5x5: Snotlout’s Angels

5x6: A Matter of Perspective

5x7: Return of Thor Bonecrusher

5x8: Dawn of Destruction

5x9: The Wings of War, Pt 1

5x10: The Dragon and the Dragon Hunter- After hearing at a bar that Viggo lives from a group of dragon hunters he sails to dragons edge to confront him. The two fight and Jarl decides to leave and want the riders, but not before he helps a certain dragon escape.

5x11: Wings of war, Pt 2

5x12: No Dragon left Behind

5x13: Snuffnut

5x14: Searching for Oswald…and Chicken

5x15: Sins of the Past- When Heather and Eerika leave to meet a man claiming to have seen Oswald, they walk into a trap that forces the Dragon Riders to pay an unexpected price.

[illiterateaffairs]

Teen Wolf Masterlist

scenes from the teen wolf series i'll never write

summary: peyton stone is stiles and scott’s best friend. she is soon thrown into the world of supernatural creatures when scott becomes a werewolf, and eventually discovers she might not be fully human herself...all while juggling feelings her best friend stiles...and potential other love interests. 

series announcement | series description | peyton character profile 

full masterlist undercut (in progress)

season one

wolf moon (1x01)

the one where stiles climbs to her window 

the one when scott gets bitten

the one with derek driving her home

the one before they adopt a teen wolf

second chance at first line (1x02)

pack mentality (1x03)

the one when stiles realizes his feelings

the one where they definitely are not on a date

magic bullet (1x04)

the tell (1x05)

heart monitor (1x06)

night school (1x07)

the one where they’re at school when its night (soon)

lunatic (1x08)

the one where stiles makes first line

the one where they discuss love

wolf's bane (1x09)

co-captain (1x10)

formality (1x11)

the one with all the self-sabotage

the one when everyone is with the wrong person (soon)

the one when they almost... (soon)

code breaker (1x12)

season two

omega (2x01)

shape shifted (2x02)

the one where derek is gorgeous (soon)

ice pick (2x03)

the one where stiles is the one pining (soon)

the one when she finds out she’s a... (soon)

abomination (2x04)

the one where she finds comfort in stiles’ arms (soon)

the one with all the [redacted] talk (soon)

the one where she almost tells lydia everything (soon)

venomous (2x05)

the one where derek trains her (soon)

the one with threats and flirts in science (soon)

the one where derek picks up the phone (soon)

the one when isaac learns a lesson (soon)

frenemy (2x06)

restraint (2x07)

raving (2x08)

party guessed (2x09)

fury (2x10)

battlefield (2x11)

master plan (2x12)

season three

tattoo (3x01)

chaos rising (3x02)

fireflies (3x03)

unleashed (3x04)

frayed (3x05)

motel california (3x06)

currents (3x07)

visionary (3x08)

the girl who knew too much (3x09)

the overlooked (3x10)

alpha pact (3x11)

lunar ellipse (3x12)

anchors (3x13)

more bad than good (3x14)

galvanize (3x15)

illuminated (3x16)

silverfinger (3x17)

riddled (3x18)

letharia vulpina (3x19)

echo house (3x20)

the fox and the wolf (3x21)

de-void (3x22)

insatiable (3x23)

the devine move (3x24)

season four

the dark moon (4x01)

117 (4x02)

muted (4x03)

the benefactor (4x04)

I.E.D. (4x05)

orphaned (4x06)

weaponized (4x07)

time of death (4x08)

perishable (4x09)

monstrous (4x10)

a promise to the dead (4x11)

smoke and mirrors (4x12)

[seven-oomen]

Peter Hale’s age?

One of the inconsistencies in Peter Hale’s age is one I just noticed. But from this source his age would be around 35 or 36 in S4. However, the chart in 4x10 Monstrous lists his age as 38. (I haven’t found a screenshot yet and Netflix won’t let me take one.)

Managed to obtain one!

If we go by the Chart, his DOB would be October 27, 1967. If we go by The In Memoriam video (this was the quickest link I could find, but apparently MTV did one as well.) his DOB would be October 27, 1976. And that would mean he was actually 28 or 29 at the time of the fire.

So which one is it?

I honestly think 38 would have been quite old, judging by the flashback scenes we saw in other episodes. But then again, going by the ages of 28/29, it would mean he was 17/18 when he fathered Malia (which is possible, and I wouldn’t put it past the desert Wolf to go after a young man.) but yeah, these timelines man..

Also, proof that Peter Hale might be one of the strongest werewolves by healing factor alone because YIKES:

[tarysande]

More Finale Thoughts

After sleeping on the post I made yesterday, I have more things to say.

While Lucifer may appear physically and metaphysically his most powerful when sending the demons back to Hell---the Devil in his most monstrous form, whose booming words instantly command a host is Peak King Power---I think he is infinitely stronger in the scene with Chloe. The version of Lucifer headed back to Hell is not a tyrant who rules with fist and fang alone; because of what he’s learned on Earth, learned from Chloe, he knows his responsibility now and he is willing to face it without complaint, without seeing it as a punishment. It takes so much strength to say no to something you really want. This moment is the strongest, the most complete, that we have ever seen Lucifer.

This show is so, so, so great at employing parallels, both thematic and otherwise. I have a doozy for you:

4x02/4x10

In the scene where Chloe is holding the axe to Lucifer’s chest, he is also perfectly still, perfectly composed. You know he’s feeling pain; Chloe is cutting into his skin. But he shows none of it. He is being strong because she needs him to be strong; in that moment, too, she is suffering and wrestling with her own demons, her own despair, her own contradicting thoughts and desires. 

4x02

Lucifer: Are you okay?

Chloe, placing the axe against his chest: If I pushed this into your chest, it would kill you?

Lucifer: Yes.

Chloe: Because I’m close to you?

Lucifer: Yes.

Chloe: But you jumped in front of it anyway?

Lucifer: Yes. And I would do it again. And again. Don’t you know that, Detective?

Chloe, after realizing she’s wounded him: I’m sorry. Sorry.

It is a ridiculously powerful scene.

In 4x10, Chloe may not be holding an axe, but it’s the same scene. The blocking, even the lighting, is so similar. Lucifer stands vulnerable before her. She is offering him what he truly desires (“I want her to choose me.”). Love. Acceptance. Chloe. Being able to fulfill her desires in a meaningful way---these are Lucifer’s deepest, most long-held desires. More importantly, his own self-loathing had convinced him he could not ever be worthy of them (“You deserve someone worthy of that grace ... Detective, you deserve someone as good as you because well, you're special and I'm--I'm not worth it.”). And here she is, the ultimate temptation, and every plea, every tear has got to cut into his chest far worse than anything the axe did. 

Like 4x02, she’s not trying to hurt him. 

Like 4x02, he’s jumping in front of the danger anyway. And he would do it again. And again. This is Malcolm’s bullet. This is going back to Hell to get the formula. This is tearing is own body to shreds to protect her from a hail of bullets.

Only worse. Because he has to hurt her--something he has never wanted to do--to do it. To save her. And in hurting her, he is pushing himself onto that axe and he knows it. He’s sacrificing himself so she doesn’t have to make any more sacrifices. He’s doing it not just to protect her, but because he swore, “I hope you know I would do anything to protect that little urchin”---and of course, he knows Trixie is Chloe’s everything. Maybe right now she doesn’t see it, is in too much pain to know what he’s doing and all the reasons why he must do it, but he’s jumping. He has to. To protect everyone he loves, and to protect everything and everyone Chloe loves. He’s hurting her now because she would also get hurt if he stayed, and that hurt would be so, so much worse.

Perhaps most importantly, Lucifer doesn’t make it about him. His eyes shine with tears. His heart breaks. He is obviously in agony. But, just like he remained stoic while Chloe cut him in 4x02, he projects none of that pain onto Chloe in 4x10. Instead, he gives her what he little can (though he wishes he could give her so much more, he wishes he could give her everything), and takes her pain, too.

In becoming himself--angel and devil both, in a kind of balance and harmony that makes the true growth we see in this scene possible at all--Lucifer must not give into the temptation of lying to himself, which has always been so easy. Instead, he must be the kind of man who sacrifices the wants of the very, very few (himself, the woman he loves) to protect the safety of the very, very many (all of Earth--his true home--which he loves with all the depth of devotion we know Lucifer is capable of, because though he may say he doesn’t care we’ve seen that he does. Again. And again. Don’t we know that?).

[sheryl-lee]

lydia martin and cheryl blossom

LYDIA MARTIN

do i like them i love my queen!!!!

5 good qualities

1. her intelligence

2. her fashion sense

3. her hairstyles 

4. her badass banshee powers

5. her loyalty

1 bad quality (because i can only think of one)

1. she can be judgemental sometimes

favorite episode/etc “party guessed” (2x09), “the girl who knew too much” (3x09), “monstrous” (4x10)

otp stydia

brotp allydia, scydia, malydia, lydira 

ot3 mcmartinski, malydira 

notp jydia 

best quote “not all monsters do monstrous things” because i’m a basic bitch

headcanon she went with malia to france because malia would not shut up about it (i wish we’d gotten a mention about that after malia talked nonstop about it for like all of 6b)

CHERYL BLOSSOM

do i like them i love my baby so much 

5 good qualities

1. her ability to manipulate

2. her fashion sense

3. her loyalty to people she really cares about

4. her badassery

5. her ability to change and accept that she can be soft and open up to people  (i can’t wait to see more of that next season)

1 bad quality (because i can only think of one)

1. she can be harsh and guarded

favorite episode/etc ““la grande illusion” (1x09), “the sweet hereafter” (1x13), “death proof” (2x06), “the noose tightens” (2x17), “brave new world” (2x22)

otp choni

brotp cheronica

ot3 n/a

notp n/a

best quote “i’m in the mood for chaos”

headcanon n/a

send me a character and i’ll answer the following about them