#Summer Consequence

[bluriginals]

fourth wall humor is a part of rick and morty's writing now like. i dont think there's anything more to it really, but for the longest time ive liked to see it as rick being unable to process the things that happen to him w/o framing his life as an (trope-y) work of fiction

like dude really talks about losing his wife and daughter as his "crybaby backstory" nah dude that shit Actually Happened and Was Bad you can take it seriously. lmao. really should've kept your ass in therapy 😭

[annyankers]

buffy: knows spike is dangerous and in love with her but doesn’t dissuade his weird vampire courtship for no discernible reason even tho they both know she gets what he’s doing

spike: officially makes a pass like trying to kiss her in fool for love or all of crush because she’s literally not given any indication she won’t be good with this

buffy:

[boo-cool-robot]

[telepathically] kieron gillen you want to be interested in writing scott summers again...you want to give him more agonies so bad

[kindahoping4forever]

Ashton @ Take My Hand Uncasville - 8 July 2022

[charmedbuffy]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) | Charmed (1998)

[herinsectreflection]

Sometimes I do worry that I end up in my own head and project stuff from the subtext onto the text, like Faith's desire to be treated like Angel by Buffy being a major driving force for her in S3. I'm concerned that it's just metanarrative/parallels stuff that I'm then wrongly applying to in-universe character motivations.

And then I rewatch the episodes and I'm like "oh no, this is the actual explicit text of the show". She really just comes right out and says it. Out loud. It's not subtext it's... what she says.

[faith-thee-slayer]

rewatching ‘consequences’ for an edit and just revisiting faith’s scenes with buffy + the end scene where she turns to the mayor... it’s so fucking sad to think about how all she wanted was to be buffy. for buffy to see her as an equal. and she makes one mistake on patrol and doesn’t know what to do other than the only thing she’s ever been good at which is to run away. and everyone starts voicing their concerns and giving her pity looks and she can’t handle it because it’d mean that no, she is not the same as buffy. this thing wouldn’t have happened to buffy. all faith has in her life is slaying. it’s the thing that gives her a reason to live, and now she can’t even do that right? they have real reasons to be worried about her but through their attempts to chain her and lock her up + the final denial from buffy at the docks, they further cement in her mind that she can’t be good. because the good slayer wouldn’t have killed a man on patrol. she thinks that maybe she was never good at all, that she was just pretending to be good. so she turns to evil, because why not? isn’t that more fitting for someone like her?

[bisexualdawnsummers]

 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER → 3.03||3.15

[theesteemedladydebourgh]

this famous author-artist duo/best friends/co-own a house fic i'm writing for @efkgirldetectiveve's first two summer of jily prompts may be the most self indulgent thing I’ve ever written

[chiropteracupola]

well my brother has finally started giving me a vaguely masculine nickname instead of the usual insulting ones, which should probably feel like an achievement, unfortunately I Detest the one he has picked!

[vrnmusic]

Recording process of “Mark of Excellence" from our upcoming album “Acoustic Sessions”. Mixed & Mastered by Håkan Edling 

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[when-wax-wings-melt]

tummy ache this headache that. what about back pain. where is the hate for back pain

[galaxina-the-pyro]

"Phineas and Ferb Get Busted!" was the Most Pointless Episode of Phineas and Ferb

No. Really.

It's supposed to be a "what-if" situation to show why we shouldn't necessarily ROOT for Candace's endeavors, and yet Dan and Swampy have made it clear that Linda would NEVER actually do that to Phineas or Ferb. So there was literally no point in that episode existing because that "what-if" isn't even possible.

By all accounts, this episode should not exist and honestly just raises more questions than it answers. And I'm not just saying this because this episode rubs me the wrong way in general, the episode even has the whole thing take place in a dream, so even the creators knew this was a pointless story. And yeah, PnF is episodic, not all the episodes have a point, but they also feel like they BELONG within the series - but this one, I feel like we could've done well without. It exists purely to entice the curiosity of the fans and nothing else, and it doesn't even do it right because this isn't even a scenario that would realistically happen outside a dream within a dream.

Now you could argue that, perhaps, this is what CANDACE might've thought would happen if Phineas and Ferb got busted...but you'd be wrong! Because this dream was in PERRY'S dream! NOT Candace's! So it's not even introspection into Candace's psyche or her motivations or what her thought process was in all of this, the only noteworthy thing we get is Perry's fear of losing his owners, which you could've put in ANY OTHER EPISODE and it would've worked just as well - not to mention that it was a part of his character that we just ASSUMED he was already afraid of given it was part of his goal not to be discovered.

So in the end, this episode shouldn't have existed. I'm not saying that anyone is wrong for enjoying it, and perhaps that itself is enough to justify its existence, but it really shouldn't have existed.

[boo-cool-robot]

I do kind of love the Astonishing X-Men Exiles post-Schism team-up with Cyclops arc for how obvious and self-conscious a Scott Summers Psychological Problems conga line it is. Like, whoops, his Logan ideologically divorced him and took half the X-Men but not to worry, there’s a problem in another world he needs to solve alongside:

An Ororo who (apparently) loves and trusts and fights easily alongside him

A bright-eyed and innocent and alive Kurt

A Wolverine who is nice to him and protects him and carries him out of battle

And a Xavier who fully just expects him to step into a mutant-killing machine for the greater good because every other Scott Summers in the multiverse has sacrificed himself without hesitation! 

HOWEVER I think that the alternate-universe Emma is the weak link here. Yeah, sure, she married her Scott and he died without her telling him she loved him, perfectly fine. But you could really juice this one up and keep pulling on some themes in their character dynamic by having all that, PLUS that Emma got her Scott killed by withholding information from him for the good of mutantkind! GOTTA maximize the bad time our Scott goes through! 

[mojoflower]

I am very tired today. There have been workers swarming the back of the house all week, fixing our rotted deck, and it's finished now (finally! after a year!) and utterly gorgeous, and now it should be all playtime while I putter and fix it up for living on again. But the very first thing I did uncovered a dead possum under the concrete slab, and it SMELLS and it's still mostly whole and there are flies and it's where I need to work and I'm tired. Someone's gonna have to take that possum out of his death hole under my house, and it's not gonna be me.

So here I sit. I feel like dead possum molecules are clinging to my nose hairs and stuff. Ugh. Ugh.

I'm bitter. I'm supposed to be playing house on my new deck, but....

[herinsectreflection]

This is one of those tiny moments that hurts me every time I think about it. Because Buffy is telling this to Xander, but I think she absolutely believes it about herself too. Buffy has been trying and failing this entire episode to get Faith to open up. She breaks down in actual tears to Willow about it. She wants Faith to talk to her, but she just won't let her in, and that's breaking Buffy's heart a little.

What has Faith been doing this entire season? She's been hanging around Buffy, telling her that they have a connection. That as slayers, they get each other on a level nobody else does. "It's you and me, the chosen two". She insists that she understands Buffy, that she recognises something in her.

And in Bad Girls, Buffy is starting to believe it. She is starting to recognise something in Faith that she sees in herself, and allowing her access to that part. She tells Willow and Xander about her night with Faith, and emphasises that they wouldn't "get it", because it's a Slayer thing. Only her and Faith do, because of their "connection". And now, all of a sudden, Faith is pushing her away and seems like a stranger to her. Buffy is suddenly unable to understand her at all.

So she is left thinking 'oh. oh I guess the connection didn't mean anything. I guess she never really took it seriously. I guess she never really cared at all.'