#HE COULDVE BEEN THE DAD CHARACTER

[gideonnavsenormousbiceps]

Been rereading sunshine court and I want to know what the fuck is going on with Jeremy and his family. how did he destroy the family. What does "end the way you started" mean. Why does he argue with his older brother and what the actual fuck is up between him and the stepfather and him and the step grandfather. WHAT HAPPENED AT THAT FALL BANQUET. also was there a fifth knox sibling that died somehow? really hoping we learn more about Jeremy's family and his whole thing in the second book because I'm dying to know. I'm very intrigued. Given how much he seems to hate his stepfather and his stepgrandfather I think maybe the fall banquet has something to do with either the end of his parent's marriage or maybe it's something specifically that Jeremy did? With how his sister said "end the same way you began" it seems like she means his freshman year banquet, and I wonder what could've happened with him just starting out at USC unless it had something to do with his family? Idk but I also suspect that his family (maybe just certain family members) has an issue with Jeremy being gay mostly based on a whisper of subtext and lots of conjecture. anyways lots to think about until tsc2 and boy will I be thinking about it

[bronzeagepizzeria]

thought about the marauders a little too hard and then I thought about 11 year old harry who is so afraid that he knows absolutely nothing about the wizarding world and magic and quidditch and how can he possibly be the chosen one????

and just…thinking about the life that was stolen from him. the one he was supposed to have—spoiled rotten by his extremely loving parents and his godfather and his uncle remus….god. we’re really going thru it today 🚬

[heatmiiiiser]

Ggrrr I wish disenchantment was better. I binged it all because I'm sick somebody talk to me about this.

[canonically-a-genloser]

i miss randy (<- going insane)

[agentmika]

I'm like if a tom girl was also a shiv girl while being a kendall girl but more so a roman girl

[eebie]

ffuck astro boy 2009

[mercuryislove]

flashback to when tejin was named surya and was also a boy

[pomribs]

me when someone brings up the fact that sean diaz thought his life was ending at 16, little did he know it actually did and he would never feel normal again

me when someone brings up "finn is so fucking smart. if he wasnt such a fuck-up, he couldve taken over the world"

me when someone brings up cassidys letter

me when someone brings up how the group got seperated after the incident even though they only had each other

me when someone brings up how every character had so much potential but were just dealt shitty cards in life and will forever face the consequences of not being good enough to combat the struggles they never asked for (ESP sean, cass, finn and lw daniel)

me when someone brings up the fact that its implied that max and daniel meet in the pw ending, and they finally wont feel alone for the first time in their lives

me when someone brings up how bad seans writing and drawing got after losing his eye, and he would get a migraine whenever he tried to focus, stripping him of the one thing that ever calmed him down

me when someone brings up the fact that daniel quit drawing after lisbeth manipulated him, but started again after sean died because he told him to never stop

me when someone brings up what seans teen years in prison mustve been like and what daniels first meetings with him wouldve been like

me when someone brings up how sean never even gave a second thought about being straight before meeting finn, but after he kissed him he wanted to do it again and kept telling everybody because it was such a personal thing for him

me when sean had no one to talk about prev with because his life was so fucked up and he had no outlet for being a normal teengaer

me when sean literally dreamt about telling his dad he kissed a boy because it was so important to him and he never got to have that conversation before he died, and he imagined his dad supporting him endlessly because he was experiencing a lack of that irl

me when sean got awoken from prev dream to get beat bloody and bruised by a fuckass racist (he will never experience peace)

this post is already too long and i could still go on why is this game so tragic

[isabelopaque]

thinking so hard about charlies character in frank shoots every member of the gang. its like after his breakdown in s15 finale he's kind of putting pieces together in his head and letting himself acknowledge that his family is fucked up and their lives being tied together in the destructive way they are is dangerous, the end scene in the bar, he says i cant hold onto it. he's already lost his dad, and i keep looping back in my head the scene with bonnie where hurts herself as a sort of repentance to going behind charlies back. she tries so hard to keep up this image of herself as a perfect mother that she repeatedly hurts charlie in the process by not treating him like an actual person. he gets pissed and sure hes gotten mad at his mom in the show before, but the slamming of the phone and macs reaction makes me sooo. like it paints such a picture of his childhood home and continuous cycle of anger and violence to apologize for things nobody can fix. he takes his sisters vase, the ones who still call him dirtgrub like thats all he'll ever be, a way he can make his own 'family legacy'. the first thing he does is ask mac to contribute. mac is the only one who was there for him, genuinely, in times of need throughout his life and he says he should be charlies legacy. frank shoots the vase as he enters, a literal and figurative shattering of what couldve been charlies future. hes getting older and they're going to be in this bar for the rest of their life together and charlies jokes fall away. hes the straightman in these last few episodes and theres no laugh when dennis says their legacy is getting wasted in their stupid alcoholic business, just a sort of resigned look of halfhearted acceptance and a broken family heirloom on the floor

[fuck-i-like-too-much-stuff]

I know everyone is touchy about Peem being like "maybe you should reconsider making it up with your dad" and everyone also wants a fix it fic about it. But just for a second if we keep these expectations aside and think-

Peem has been very close to his parents since forever. He can't imagine a life without his parents. He knows how much of a role they play in his life and he knows that if he didnt have them, life would not turn out the way it did for him.

When he looks at Phum, knowing only how much pain the boy has been through but barely the reason behind it, he wants Phum to have less pain. He isn't pushy about it, just optimistic because he himself is a family first sort of person.

Yes it would be great if we would have Peem being supportive of Phum's decision to never reconcile with his father, and it would be great if Peem voiced that conversation that way.

But guess what? This Peem would still do that even after saying this to Phum in private. If anything happens between Phum and his father, you sure as hell can believe that Peem will not leave Phum's side and will stand by him/up for him.

The scene, while couldve been better, is still true to their characters.

[pain-is-too-tired]

I actually like Apollo's backstory tbh. Like yeah boy goes through it but it makes his character interesting looking back on him.

Like to actually go back to the one off mention of what happened to his dad in his first game and build on that is interesting.

Especially cause, his death is told to us as "a accident during a performance" I believe. Or close to it

And-well- dieing in a fire why performing for royals is one way to represent that but it's not entirely wrong hdgd

And his whole story is

Parents traveled as performers/musicians. They stopped in Khura'in, during which Jove was ask to perform for the royal couple, for some reason seems to have to take Apollo along(I assume him and Thalassa took turns looking after him between performing, maybe Thal was doing her own thing at the time she it was his turn? Idk fhdt)

They get caught in a fire, Apollo is saved and adopted by the soon in hiding queen's husband, who's also a lawyer.

Which is a big encouragement to Apollo's choice in career (which also influenced by seeing news on Phoenix I believe? Which probably due to Phoenix whole thing was calling out corruption in the system. Something Apollo also grew up seeing with his adoptive father.)

That and the fact that he grew up knowing that corruption in Khura'in is what took his father's life, he's kinda like the parallel of Edgeworth's story tbh?

Both fathers killed

Edgeworth's father was a unplanned crime where Gregory was the target

Apollo's was a planned crime in which Jove was an unplanned witness that was dealt with.

Both adopted afterwards

Edgeworth by the man who DID kill his dad but was never caught(until later)

Apollo by the man who was PINNED for the fire that killed his dad.

Both were influenced by them in opposite directions,Edgeworth becoming a prosecutor and Apollo becoming a lawyer.

Though both did have negative influences, Edgeworth's was influenced earlier by his mentor/adopted father. Why Apollo's first mentor tried to influence him to get what he wanted but Apollo was old enough to see right through Kristoph.

Also- both have adopted siblings who were related to and influenced by their father's killer-

Both have more upbeat close friends that they first became friends with by helping them through a tough time as a kid(Apollo comforting Clay and Miles defending Phoenix)

Honestly I didn't realize until I started this how similar they actually were ggdgd

I see you Capcom. I see you.

Now I want more Miles and Apollo interactions.

Also,technically Miles could've very easily had to handle Phoenix's death like Apollo had to deal with Clay's if Phoenix hadn't been warned before hand about Dhalia(and then put to trail where he COULDVE ALSO HAD DIED)

Dang. Just dang.

[gizkasparadise]

final leg of a journey to love thoughts!! (eps 35-40). this got so gd long so under a cut it goes. spoilers, of course:

PLOT STUFF/PACING

pacing for the plot definitely got shredded in the last chunk, which is a damn shame because otherwise i've been finding the pacing pretty much perfect. eps 35-37 in particular felt like they could have been like a 10 episode arc. ep 38, which mostly dealt with wu palace politics, should have been cut or streamlined imo and more time given to the characters we've actually been riding along with the whole story. by the time we get back to the pregnant empress, prince danyang, the first prince whose name i dont even remember, and the prime minister, i do not care about any of them and i think this subplot was simply just trying to fit too much shit into one bag

that said, this show still let the emotional moments hit and breathe and linger. i love the grief for the fallen liudao comrades as we go, as well as the less heavy but still emotionally important moments like yang ying and tongguan bonding over their upbringing. and we got a wedding /;3;/!!! for this show, the relationships and characters matter more than the storyline so im not mad about anything at all

side note: it's so gd millennial to have a story about a bunch of 30 something year olds who want to fake their deaths and retire into obscurity but instead they go and die for a boss they hate

CHARACTER STUFF

this show consistently brought a lot of depth to its side characters (and side side characters!!). i said it in an earlier post, but it bears repeating that even someone like deng hui i didnt expect anything from, but he got such good development and writing that he became a stealth fave. his dying words essentially being "dude, quit fucking around" ? iconic.

i didnt like tongguan as much as everyone else, so im pretty meh about everything regarding him. the attempt to force-wed ruyi was tonally really weird and didnt make sense (i assume there was some cuts made surrounding it). but LOL at him reusing all the outfits and decor immediately for his wedding to yang ying. baby duke, you tacky motherfucker. i ultimately think yang ying deserves better than him, but the good thing is that she knows this, so she'll be able to hold her own and then some entering into this partnership

shisan really was the heart in a lot of ways--the mom to yuanzhou's dad for the liudao. i was not expecting him to break my heart the way he did, but the fact that he held both qian zhao and sun lang as they died and then tried his best to remove yuan lu from harm and saved chu yue and was just very much a nurturer all the way through got me. his character couldve been cheap comic relief but the writing + performance really elevated him into one of the (imo) most memorable wuxia characters. his line wondering who would get to behead his beautiful skull!!! and how his mantra was always that he was going to drink the best wine, see the most beautiful women, and make the best of friends and he dies having lost the ability to see and having just had wine in memory of qian zhao, yuan lu, and sun lang. like. shut up!!

ruyi and yuanzhou were both so great and they're gonna be the drama OTP to beat forever. i loved the gender reversals, that they both were so respectful of each other, and that they also felt very mature in how they handled things and communicated. they were really interesting characters both together and apart and that's always a win-win. they had a schroedinger's ending where it's not super clear if they're alive or dead (i interpreted it as the latter), but what's kind of beautiful is that either option is satisfying to me. if they both died, they're reunited and with their comrades and the story is truly about the journey and the meaningful short connections we have. if they both survived, it's a bookend with the beginning where they each faked their deaths to escape. A+

COSTUMING

i gotta just separately mention the costuming for this show because it was 15/10. the textures, shisan's accessories, the way red became integrated with yuanzhou's wardrobe and blue with ruyi's. the details on the liudao name amulets!! SO GOOD. i love when characters' clothes tell a story on their own

overall i just really loved this drama it is probably my favorite wuxia ive seen so far! it's gonna be in my brain for awhile lol feel free to send fic prompts if you've made it this far :'D

[angelmachines]

third mp100 post of the night but a theme i dont see discussed a lot online is just how fucking lonely these characters are

serizawa and reigen are easier obvious examples-- one was locked in his room for 15 years and the other is left without his middle schooler employee for a few days and is devastated socially, whereas its harder to remember that despite how fast mob collects people throughout the series, but mob started out alone

the mogami arc displays it best-- even when these characters have communities that support them, the isolation theyve dealt with (esp in regards to whatever allegory you want to apply to them, but most potently the autistic ones) stick with them. forever. they can still grow and change but its a part of them in a way that is never scoffed at or laughed away.

ritsu, shou, and teru... are never seen to have friends. acquaintances like kamuro or the awakening lab kids or each other-- but not Friends. its easy to assume they have people they hang out with that we (as the audience) never see but i think the themes of this show are so much more powerful when you consider it to Be purposeful

like, maybe the reason teru is never seen with the black vinegar gang kids or that girl he dated is less because of character development (because they couldve developed, too) but more because teru never really liked them and only wanted to appear more successful socially than he was. or the reason why shou is alone isnt because hes less involved in the narrative as everyone else but because he grew up in a violent group with kids who have only ever been treated like tools by his dad, or expected to be treated like tools by him. that maybe ritsu doesnt like tsubomi or reigen not because hes bitchy but because... hes a traumatized teenager who doesnt trust a lot of people

and obviously i could say more on each of them, but thats what makes the themes of community in this show so goddamn powerful-- theyre coming from characters who have either given up on connection or have never been given the opportunity to thrive within it. so when you see all of them celebrating together in the end, supporting each other... you believe that its possible, too

[unfortunatelycomics]

tumblr i'm afraid you've given me a horribly misinformed idea of hannibal. admittedly i just vaguely assumed a lot but,

i couldve sworn hannibal lecter and will grahm were childhood buddies.

will's unemployed of course and hannibal idk also unemployed but in a cooler way. he plays hockey atleast. maybe. i might haven him confused with a different fictional murderer.

and then of course from a handful of screenshots and fanart i was under the impression hannibal has a bio daughter who he left when she was a teenager but she has face blindness as she doesnt recognize her father (hannibal) when shes talking to him. she meets him again when hannibal kidnaps her but i guess he decides against killing her when he realizes "oh shit this is my daughter". there's a weird unrequited romance plot between them? because. she doesnt realize that's her dad?

hannibal decides to weirldy fufill his fatherly duties while pretending he's not her father and both of them ignore that she's very much been kidnapped. and that he kills people.

the show (a romance comedy?) is all about hannibal and his joys of killing. around season 2, when will graham is introduced as hannibals estranged childhood friend, it becomes hannibals adventures in killing anyone who harms or even mildly upsets /insults will. which i got some very confusing text posts.

despite this, will is largely unconnected to the overarching murder plot and instead he's just in the background of a small handful of episodes. he has a typical heart throb personality and doesnt like hannibal. he's not gay for hannibal but hannibal is very gay for him.

the entire show is from hannibal's perspective as he's the main character. most shows are from the main characters perspective and the show is literally called hannibal. come on.

obviously there must be no detective / solving murder cases plot. hannibals just very good at covering up his tracks so this is never an issue for him. didnt even occur to me. no one mentions anything about this being a detective show.

none of this is infact true.

except that hannibal is gay. of course.

[oetscop]

hey! absolutely love your art and your rainer interpretation- can you talk about your headcanons lore-wise involving rainer and mike? honestly you can talk about more than just those two as well i'm very curious about your interpretations honestly.

YOOO I LOVE UR RAINER ALSO thank u.....

this will hopefully not be complete word salad. bc my brains fried already, but my views on petscop characters are esoteric and best and downright incomprehensible at worst. so idk how legible this will be JDKSHSKSBSK

uhh ill start with like. jill is significantly older than anna and lina. rainers actually fairly close in age to anna.

rainers biological dad isnt in the picture and actually went missing a few years after him and jill divorced. it runs in the family i guess. but since tom was there longer hes only ever called him dad, and both jill and him took the last name hammond when they got married. and mike was actually an accident! a welcome one tho. jill and tom were in their 40s and rainer was like 16 or so.

they were very close tho! he was very close with his immediate family. for the brief time he was in college he still lived at home despite the commute.

mike would sit and watch him work on the game all the time. he wanted him to teach him how to code (thats why he created the "petscop kids" after school program! at first anyway...) but 5-6 year olds dont exactly have the attention span for explaining how the dev kit console works. unless theyre belle i guess. but he did get into art! and considering rainers also an artist he encouraged it. mike would sometimes draw his own pets to be put in the game, but since it never went past evencare they never showed up. he did sorta base toneth on mike, and that was before he based any of the other pets on other family members.

mike went missing shortly after rainers mental health was declining. he ran away after some argument with his mom, and nobody remembers what the argument was even about. since this was after marvin hit the dog with the car, and he was beginning to experience psychosis, he immediately made the connection and believed marvin had something to do with it. the cops found it a little suspicious that rainer somehow just knew he had been struck by a car, and he was the only suspect for quite a while. tom had to vouch for him pretty hard and get him a lawyer.

as for vaguer things. the newmaker plane was started in an attempt to find out where mike wouldve run to. he was already recording movements in game, so he put all of mikes in game behaviors into a to scale version of their town, trying to train it to show him where he couldve gone. this obviously didnt work. didnt help that it was completely flat terrain and like had only their house, the marks house, the school and like a couple roads. it actually lead him to the opposite side of the town than where his body was located.

marvin is ALSO severely mentally ill and was convinced that care was lina reborn before any of this happened. obviously anna didnt believe that since shes still. yknow. alive. but rainer introduced the A/B/NLM concept to him, and they both began to believe care was just lina A reborn. pre traumatic event lina. they were both trying to see if they could somehow force something like that to occur, in an attempt to bring mike A back. when belle didnt work, they figured she was too old, so they moved to care. part of this whole "changing your past" thing involved plucking out her eyebrows (lina A had trich) and essentially trying to reenact aforementioned traumatic event. thats why marvin kidnapped her to keep her in the school. and it didnt work! just traumatized the fuck outta the kid. they never had the chance to do anything to "bring mike back" by the end of it, which lead to Bathroom Tomb Event. however, last belle heard, he was pretty certain paul was actually mike A. she tried her best to keep that from paul before they became distant.

i feel like the core of a lot of this is that i really dont believe that the rebirthing process does anything at all. with enough manipulation you may start developing false memories, sure, but its not actually working. in retrospect it makes rainers character a lot sadder. just a terrified kid trying in vain to bring his baby brother back. its not easy losing someone so young in such a horrible way without knowing who took his life.

BUT UUHHH YEAH ^}^ can you tell ive been thinking abt petscop pretty much nonstop since the end of 2022 i bet you cant

[loveislandthegame]

my overall thoughts on season 7, writing edition: what in the world ? 😭 i cannot believe i thought this season was gonna be good. i’ll be joining rohan & S2 MC in the circus, since FB made me look like a damn clown. i don't even know where to begin

being a casa girl had so much potential, and it was something that a lot of players actually wanted, even before FB started doing these themed seasons. they really fumbled the bag here

i enjoyed casa amor. the guys were all unique, had their own dialogue, and it was cool to see their pre-established relationships (alex being the villa dad, bryson and rafa being partners in chaos, the beef between bryson & joyo) then we arrived in the villa, and it all went downhill from there:

everybody became an empty husk, so they could be forced into interchangeable roles: uma’s partner, bonnie’s partner, OG LI’s ex, loved up couple (summer/joyo or #rafne) to name a few. FB’s lazy asses ruined their own characters . why is alex, the supposed level-headed & mature one, being petty & childish af in my playthrough? 😭

MC literally had no thoughts, head empty. we barely participated in any of the challenges and games. it felt like we didn't do anything besides "get pulled for a chat" by your LI or the girls

the LI personality merge in this season was the worst it has ever been. all they do is agree with whatever you say, or tell you how great you are (gone are the days of LIs having their own interests, & getting extra dialogue because of that, like levi with artist MCs)

same problem as the most recent seasons, where MC doesn’t have friendships. she has a forced bestie, then potential LIs that sit around waiting for you to pick them, choose them, love them (they immediately disappear if you don’t pick them)

the plot made no sense at all. being a casa girl means we miss out on the first half of the season, but there were many different ways they could've shown what happened before we arrived (it couldve been something as simple as MC watching the show at home or during the jeep ride to the villa. lol) the timeline was inconsistent, so much important information was paywalled, and i’m pretty sure FB was just making shit up as they went along, since the drama with stephen and OG LI's ex genuinely came out of nowhere . he wasn’t previously mentioned in the beach hut, casa amor, nothing . his only purpose was to make the OG girl look bad.

speaking of the OG girls, what a disappointment . before we got to the villa, i honestly thought they were hinting at estelle and/or willow being LIs . even if they were forced to be our rival, they still could’ve had an interesting character arc . it would've been a lot more fun if she was like allegra, rather than OG LI's equivalent of suresh

i was gonna write, "why tf did she even make it to the finale?" but the answer is obvious : for the gem scenes. every damn volume, it's pay diamonds to upstage her, pay diamonds to clapback, pay diamonds so “your man” doesn't turn his head 🙄 it's already stupid enough, but it makes even less sense if you're not pursuing your OG LI

which leads me to the biggest problem of this season, the lack of branching. you're given the illusion of choice, everything leads to the same outcome . i didn't think it could get any worse, until i saw what happens when you choose the money . does your LI storm off? nope. they make you do the treasure hunt anyways...to win you back ??😭 MC should've called security on their ass

s7 had a promising start but ended up being a flop. it was better than s5, but that's really not saying much . i wish FB would just take their time—s1 and 2 had a whole year long gap between them. but it's clear that rushed seasons are gonna be the norm, season 8 is dropping in february . capitalism ruins everything luv x