#But seriously go watch it

[eastern-lights]

I just have to put this out here:

I love Invasion (2005).

I love the blend of sci-fi, mystery, horror, romance and family drama.

I love the themes of rediscovering one’s humanity.

I love that you can watch it again and again and discover several new details every time.

I love that every single character has an interesting arc.

I love how Tom learns that insisting he solves everything by himself does more harm than good. I love that he learns that keeping unpleasant truths from his daughter isn’t the same as protecting her.

I love how Mariel gets over her teenager-like infatuation with her new husband, discovers all his flaws, but forgives him when he starts trying to change and learns to love him anyway. 

I love how Larkin learns that getting the truth out there isn’t always for the best.

 And I love how Russell learns that not everything unknown is automatically evil.

I love how the 6-year-old Rose is the wisest damn being on the show.

I love how the writers avoided the evil stepmother/father trope by having Tom absolutely adore his step-children.

I love how the writers didn’t shy away from showing that a person can have romantic feelings for people who aren’t their spouse without being a cheater.

I love how Russell and Tom are visual opposites, with the former being square-jawed, darker-skinned, black-haired and dark-eyed and dressed in dark or earthy colours, and the latter being paler, with narrower features and lighter hair and eyes and always dressed in light or white:

I love how this also exemplifies "dark is not evil" and "light is not good" by Tom being the more morally ambiguous of the two.

And speaking of 'morally ambiguous'...

I love the absolute murder rage Tom flies into when his loved ones are threatened:

I love how Lewis takes on a full-time job as Tom's moral compass:

In conclusion:

This is a criminally underrated show. The authors probably tried to balance too many plates on a very limited number of sticks, and some of the stuff that makes the show great is too subtle to make out on the first watch. Nonetheless, it is a great watch, tackling difficult themes, with amazing cast giving it their all and superb soundtrack. I highly recommend it.

And if you're still unconvinced, and if that's your sort of thing, certain cast members do be looking like a certifiable snack:

[risibledeer]

JOEL OF THE SMALL BEANS VARIETY. I’ve spent the last few hours of my life running his hardcore series while I do my homework. Probably not very efficient of me but hey background noise! I initially meant for it to be just a sketch but I have the very bad habit of wanting to colour everything even when I don’t have time.

[hiding-under-the-willow]

anyways. What

[deep-spacediver577]

[applestruda]

Did some fanart of the dance scene in @cherrifire desert duo anamatic

[egophiliac]

more masquerade stuff! things really went from 0 to 1000 in, like, thirty seconds.

(sorry if none of these make sense outside of my head)

[tastefulbean]

So lackadaisy is really good you guys

[ky-landfill]

[lightningidle]

I love the Demon Bull Family arc of “Saturday morning cartoon villain parents” to “slightly less evil Saturday morning cartoon villain parents”

DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST

[autisticandroids]

FAMINE: That's one deep, dark nothing you've got there, Dean.

[youtube with closed captions]

dean and his father. dean and his family. dean and how bad it is.

(via @closetoyou1970)

[mattodore]

playing with dionte's hair bc i'm procrastinating

[puppyeared]

doodles of my fav sillies

anton belongs to @poicyss

[skitskatdacat63]

"it was good fun! Surprisingly competitive I would say!"

[chloesimaginationthings]

New friend group just dropped

[lafiametta]

should i watch shogun

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: Shōgun is simply great television. As a historical drama (especially one focusing on an incredibly eventful and complicated era), it succeeds not only in telling a good story but staying true to the realities of the time period. The performances are fantastic: Cosmo Jarvis and Anna Sawai hold their own as a marooned English sailor and his stoic translator-turned-lover, and Hiroyuki Sanada is completely mesmerizing as the embattled warlord Yoshii Toranaga (inspired by the historical Tokugawa Ieyasu). (Seriously, he can speak volumes with just a tiny quirk of his mouth.) Plus, it's got something for everyone: intrigue, betrayal, power politics, a clash of cultures, earthquakes, Cosmo Jarvis getting naked almost every other episode, men being torn apart by cannons, and an exquisitely angsty romance. Last but not least, it's visually stunning, as evidenced by all the beautiful gifsets floating around after each episode. So, yes.

[maidenvault]

Okay but. The way that Phee just dropping her ship through the atmosphere made Hunter say her name in that exact same kind of long, irritated growl that he would say Tech’s name when he flew like a maniac or did something else crazy. I love it.