#And a guy who never had a chance

[therealslimshady]

Jesse Breaking Bad is such an interesting character because on one hand, yes he was blackmailed into making meth with Walt and yes he was manipulated by him at every turn and yes Walt basically ruined his entire life. But on the other hand, yes Jesse embraced this life and yes he made horrible choices and yes he took actions that led to both him and Walt getting further embroiled in the drug world. I love me some nuanced characters. He could've stepped away at any time but he didn't!

But here's the thing.... could he have? If early show Jesse ever tried to get away from Walt, from making meth, could he have actually left? Like really, think about it. Could Jesse have ever stepped away and decided to take his life in a new direction?

Obviously we'll never know for sure because the guy always inevitably went back to making meth (even when Walt had 'quit'), but I can't help but think he would not have been able to get away.

It's like what Jesse said, Walt needed Jesse more then Jesse needed him. It feels like if Jesse ever tried to step away, Walt would just reel him back in, no matter the cost. And sure we see that very clearly at the end of season two with Jane, but even before then I don't think Jesse ever really had a chance. So long as Walt was sure he needed Jesse, he would do everything he could to make sure he stayed.

If Walter decided to quit the meth business he always tried to make sure Jesse quit too. If Walt got back in the meth business, he needed Jesse with him. Jesse was his guy. I don't think there's any universe where Walt decided to get back into the swing of things and didn't do it with Jesse. He's trapped, even if early show Jesse never fully realized.

Anyways this post doesn't have a point I just think Jesse is neat

[fluffypotatey]

A Thought:

As Emrys, Merlin is a very powerful sorcerer.

However, his utter lack of any formal training means Merlin is not a very good sorcerer.

The magic he does should be theoretically impossible, but he's got enough raw fucking power to just make it work. Infant demigod smashing blocks together and creating a Lego Death Star.

Merlin: *does magic that Should Not Work*

Other sorcerers:

AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO FEEL UPSET

IMAGINE YOU'RE A SORCERER. YOU'VE BEEN PRACTICING YOUR CRAFT, SHOOTING THE SHIT, LAYING LOW, PLOTTING PLANNING.....THEN THIS FARMY BOY TWINK SHOWS UP AND NUKES THE FUCKING PRIESTESS OF THE LAKE OF AVALON

I'D FEEL PISSED TOO

like, bro, you meet him, you're apprehensive of him bc 'shit that's emrys'. the emrys. the dude that's said to be the greatest sorcerer to ever walk the earth. you meet him. you can feel his magic and like holy shit, what the fuck was that??? you ask him how the fuck he gained so much power by the age of 21????

merlin: you mean....y'all don't also just have magic doing shit when you're a toddler

you, the sorcerer who has had to spend years getting control to fucking heat up a teapot: .........no.......no our magic doesn't do that

goddamn do you wanna just chuck this adult child into the lake and be done with it. better yet, you wish for the sprites to just pick you up and use your body as a sacrifice for entrance into Avalon.

and then, and then

you see how this motherfucker fights against bandits and "WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU JUST PUSHING THEM AWAY??? WHERE'S THE SHOWMANSHIP??? THE PIZZAZZ??? HOW MANY SPELLS DO YOU KNOW???"

merlin, who forgot he can freeze time and space and can launch lightning bolts at people: uh....3???

it takes the triple goddess to restrain you from murking the prophesized warlock right then and there.

"NO, NO, FUCK THAT, FUCK THIS, FUCK ALL O' Y'ALL!" you scream as you jump on a ship and move to a place that doesn't have op young adult children who didn't study shit and yet still get an A+

[vigilskeep]

i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

[lethal-effect]

Never thought I’d be feeling this defensive over Buddy Dawn but here we are

[sweatermuppet]

oh i never posted abt it here. but post office guy ended up moving away. i found out a while back & then i went in somewhat recently & he was at the counter & he was weighing my orders & said "today's my last day, actually!" & i said "oh really? i was worried id missed you already..." we joked around, me & him & his other coworker who sees me regularly. he said his car was packed up to go & he went "it's been a pleasure, working with u" & i told him it's crazy that he'd been with me since the very start of me opening my shop & we wished each other well & he gave me my receipt & said "have a good day, man" & was so smiley like always & i said you too + "have a safe drive"

[desiringparadise]

I just want to save him

[madtomedgar]

I often wonder what the world would look like if pressing local or state level issues people claim to care about generated the same kind of action and enthusiasm that massive national news stories with complicated power mapping do. Idk even when I'm 100% with the people who are up in arms. Like what if just as many people in MA had turned out for the ROE act as turned out to protest the overturn of Roe after the fact? What if the rent control actions were as well attended as the ceasefire actions? I have had many instances where I am trying to get progressive people who regularly go to big demonstrations to show up for something state level they have said they care about and they just won't. And what I'm left with after that is the conclusion that where their interests actually are is feeling like a part of something big and heady rather than accomplishing a concrete goal and that's. Demoralizing.

[pocketramblr]

Still can't believe All Might is canonically an orphan, another thing the English translation left out is that the specific word in Japanese he uses suggests he may have had a sibling who was also killed along with his parents. Forgot where I read it, but I was like 🤯 when I saw it.

HE HAD SIBLINGS?!?

[starlight-theater]

paul.. honey. thats a fragmentation grenade. you cant-- you cant blow up a meteor with that.

[dykeyuu]

every day when i wake up i say to myself “dykeyuu you are not purchasing any sanrio merchandise today” but then i find the deal of the century……..

[july-19th-club]

ok dean's do as i say not as i do ass in the cassie episode when sam realizes that not ONLY is his supposed playboy brother actually a guy who will drop everything and reveal The Secret to the first girl who spends more than a month with him but . he will reveal The Secret at all, a thing he's spent the past six months loudly saying there is never any use in doing because we can't keep friends in this life anyway

[in-tua-deep]

I think I may just have to accept that my mum had absolutely buckwild manic pixie dream girl game back in the day

[nick-close]

The dndads fandom special is being able to ignore things that happened to make the characters more likeable, imma be real. If the things u don’t like about older Taylor r past behaviours, block em out! Again I feel like everyone has done that with Scary comparing herself to Anne Frank in episode one. If I kept everything that happened in canon in my mind I would die lol.

[julystruck]

I don't think we're going to make it

[sakebytheriver]

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[autistic-mike-wheeler]

you know one thing i find extremely telling about the whole 'melvin can't say ily' thing is that neither do any of the other couples - but that doesnt really matter to them. like take lumax for example - they've never said they love each other, or said it to anyone else, and they've also broken up 6 (??) times over the course of the show. but anyone who watched season 4 came away knowing they do love each other. another example of this is jancy; i don't think they've ever explicitly said they love each other either, but they don't have to. because with both of these couples, you can visibly see it because they show it in their actions, in the way they look at each other, and the way they're constantly motivated by each other.

and so, for massachusetts institute of technology to not only not have all the above implications (they're separated every season, never have those romantic looks, their actions are almost always motivated by something else) but also have their most significant relationship plotline be that mike cant say he loves her, and that (despite them being the only couple who got an explicit love confession w mikes monologue) el also believes he doesn't love her, is very telling. because with lumax and jancy and jopper, you don't have this debate; it is taken as objective fact that (at one point or another) they love each other, because its obvious, and they dont have to spell it out to get people to realize. but moonlight on the river? whether you ship byler or not, there's still none of that objectivity. you literally don't know how they feel for each other, even though we know that if the duffers wanted to make it clear, they could and would've. and i just think it's very interesting the route they decided to take with it instead, especially in comparison with all the other romantic couples on the show rn.