#THEY COULD HAVE HAD IT ALLLLLLL

[voltaical-art]

do you guys ever think about how Wyll is introduced as an archetypal fantasy hero, but then it turns out he’s a warlock, who made a pact with a devil. Do you ever think about how Ansur is described as this fantastical dragon of myth, but then when you find him, he’s turned into an undead monstrosity. Do you think about how when Wyll does the right thing, he is punished to become more monstrous. Do you think about how as Wyll’s warlock powers grow, his spells get more horrific. Do you think about how Ansur was killed by his closest friend. Do think about how Wyll was cast out by the most important person in his life. do you guys ever think about Ansur and Wyll.

[yuutaguro]

thinking many thoughts at the moment 🪓

[milkcryptid]

messy

[itsanidiom]

no horny japanese today...just improper use of safe word procedure and a general air of extreme disappointment...

welp...it's playboyy night...i dunno if I'm ready for more horny japanese...

[tonydaddingham]

how on earth is there NOT a nosebleed emoji when i need one

[prettybuck]

I just think that they had such a missed opportunity with how they could have approached the end of this season so here's how I wish they'd done it

push the lab storyline to 8x17 and 8x18 (I know but just go on a journey with me here)

this possibility gives multiple storylines more time to breathe

maddie's post-kidnapping arc could have been drawn out beyond just a single episode

we could have seen more of eddie and chris in texas with some much needed discussions about shannon and kim

we could have gone without bringing fucking gerrard back in a pathetic attempt at redemption that no one is buying

we could have seen more of buck and ravi building a good foundation as partners

so that brings us to the lab arc

everything pretty much goes the same except we finally get the one thing that 911 has yet to do – a cliffhanger season finale

bobby revealing that he's sick is the last scene of the season, whether he reveals it to buck or athena or both

that leaves plenty of open-ended storylines leading into s9 that they can use to build excitement and audience engagement with promo and interviews leading up to the season

will bobby survive? will eddie come back to los angeles? will chim have any lasting effects of the virus? will some or all of them possibly face charges for defying the government/military?

the hiatus gives tim and co the chance to gauge reaction to bobby possibly dying instead of fully committing to what seemed to be a very impulsive decision on tim's part

if they really want to explore a 118 without bobby, we can come back in 9x01 with bobby in a coma or they can still choose to be ridiculous and kill him off but at least it might be thought out a little better (no I don't know how he medically ends up in a coma but I know that they created a super virus so I'm sure they could figure out a way to put him in a coma about it)

eddie obviously comes back to los angeles with christopher's full participation in that conversation and we get actual roommates!buddie because people playing hot potato with housing in this economy is so ridiculous

but if bobby is out of the picture (coma or dead) that leaves the captain position open and honestly I've been a captain hen supporter but I don't hate captain chim because he's grown so much since the last time he was in that position

then they need a new paramedic and with buck and ravi doing well as partners, that leaves a perfect opportunity for eddie to become a paramedic

if bobby is in a coma, they can literally bring him back whenever they want and it's not a closed door that may well screw over the show entirely

and that can introduce such a delicious storyline if chim is thriving as captain and bobby wakes up from comaland in the way that all tv characters magically do without any physical or neurological deficits

it brings about a wonderful arc of should bobby return to the 118 or should he retire?

oh hello I just introduced multiple VERY INTERESTING storylines for season 9

I conclude this by saying fuck you tim for all of your many sins

[gemttiem-ebianlavae-tiaviniat]

Right after the episode (before seeing the interviews) I was like "oh, next episode, Eddie is totally gonna go full parent trap with the 118, maddie and josh to get his friend and best friend together again" but now I see how delulu that was of me.

[neixins]

not a single shoujo manga or piece of merch in sight at this con

[foolcrum57]

i am very happy about how gay this episode was however i think i need to have a chat with jacknjellify about what they did with balloony i think that should actually classify as some sort of crime WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WANTED TO BE IN TPOT IM GONNA EAT MY KIDNEY OFF

[fabiansociety]

i can never encounter the fry and laurie jeeves and wooster show without biting my fist in an absolute froth that we didn’t get a lord peter series with those two. strange combination of affection and utter baffled fury

[eugeniedanglars]

society if felisa valdez had been brought back as eddie's love interest instead of marisol

[daincrediblegg]

Thirteen Going on Thirty lied to me this shit is ass

[itstimetodrew]

Still not letting myself watch Spider-Man (2002) again bc I don’t wanna lose my marbles over it again butttt

That last post reminded me how differently characters are handled in ~20 years with No Way Home (2021)….namely my normie gobby babygirl 🥰🫶💚✨

NWH kinda has that flavor of the ‘you fell for the characters charade which you are meant to dismantle!! 😂’ post. Like awwww don’t you feel bad for him, audience? He killed someone but he didn’t knowwww 🥺 he just needs help and he’s soooo sorry 🥺 he’ll be better now for sure…

Which is funny because he tries that appeal to forgiveness in the first movie…as a trick to do more harm! And that thirst for revenge (for damage to his fragile ego) is what kills him. He decides to indulge in his worst impulses and suffers the consequences for it. Killed with his own weapons he developed for the US military to kill other people with. Love that for him 💚

I’m not the type to be like ‘clearly The Studio does not understand the character as good as Me’ because there’s a lot at play between the two movies. There are differences because of studios, writers, directors, audience expectations (especially for superhero movies), etc etc etc. But I do find it funny that jumping ahead 20 years they want me to pity the big corporate weapons guy and root for him to get a second chance (arguably his third) because suddenly it’s not his choice and thus not his fault (?) anymore. I love him sooooooo so much but I would prefer he be killed again actually 💚

[slightlytoastedbagel]

finally finished watching season 2 of the total drama reboot yesterday am I allowed to be so annoying about how Emma and Bowie did not interact once despite how good it would have been to see them become friends again after the first season

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

Obligatory Danzou’s interlude post because it’s one of my favorite parts of fgo, they really made an interlude just for me, with a large focus on Limbo’s obsession with her (this is an abridged version of the full 70+ message discord thread I made lol)

The fic I always talk about actually has a section that takes place directly before this interlude, showing one of her daydreams which I really like…

Anyway, da Vinci’s comments about Danzou are interesting in that even a genius like her doesn’t exactly know how she works, so I’d imagine Limbo is the second most knowledgable after Kashin Koji themself and maybe the first Fumma too

This interlude also emphasizes that this Danzou knows nothing of Shimousa cause she’s PHH Danzou, so once again the fact that she has a fear of the dark sun stands out to me as Limbo hurting her to such a degree that this Servant version of her fears it despite not remembering him. And I wonder if the virus itself played a role too.

It’s not Limbo proper or even a shikigami but the virus still acts just like him, and it just makes me wish for a scene in Heian-kyo where he tortures Danzou, we could still save her cause as he says, he’s the type to give someone a long agonizing death not kill right away… and especially with his fixation. Also his threat to guda here resembles the materials book line a lot as he’s threatening to keep them beteeen life and death (though I imagine the overt rape threat was too much for the game’s rating)

I really want to see moonflower animated, or at least an illustration cause I love how it sounds… and she talks about it being a cruel technique she dislikes… love how both times she uses it it’s on Limbo

This part with Holmes having known the intention was to restore Danzou’s memory apparently gets taken out of context because even the preceding line here is him saying that it does not tell us why he did it. I find it insulting to her character to try and claim Limbo legitimately wanted to help when right after this he explains his motives and they’re the height of cruelty. With Shimousa backing him up that he means his words, not that he’s one to lie about such things. For the hundredth time, he let her get attached to her companions, forced her body to attempt to kill them, blew her up, and all while mocking her for thinking she had free will and telling her how he screwed with her mind. Also he didn’t even restore her full memory, just let her choose the most precious one to serve his own purpose of learning what it is she cares about most so he can take it from her.

Usually motherly characters don’t interest me much but there’s something about Danzou and Kotarou that’s so good…. A doll that thinks she’s just a machine to pass on the Fuuma arts and hates herself to the point she hides away from the sun, and the boy who treated her as a human and decided she was his mom now, and she was the one person he opened up to… also he too has his whole oni blood thing and in a my room line he’ll talk about how he’s a wretch… so them finding each other is so sweet… it’s good!!!

Best part is the final part though, and it demonstrates a lot of why I’m so obsessed with LimDan. The fact that he goes to so much effort to hunt down another version of the doll he found in Shimousa, give her a virus to restore a single memory so he knows how best to devastate her, then tell her to her face his plans to do so… that’s the sort of fixation I love!! And that he doesn’t seem to hate her necessarily, but he certainly doesn’t love her either, it’s just an obsessive desire to hurt cause he enjoys it, which ultimately stems from his hatred and envy of Seimei, who he can’t surpass, so he goes off mocking and hurting everyone else. And someone like her who reminds him of Seimei is especially pleasurable to hurt so he develops this sort of fixation on her and goes way out of his way to hurt her as much as possible! What the fuck I love it so much. Also I love how he switches entirely to calling her creepy pet names post-Shimousa.

This is a fantastic setup for Heian-kyo too, which makes it all the more frustrating that it completely fumbled everything it was given… the beginning of Heian-kyo has Sion stating that the only two Servants that will have no trouble rayshifting are Danzou and Kotarou. He’s following through on the threats he made here in her interlude… only for them to give some flimsy excuse for Kotarou not to make it and not even have Danzou talk to him much at all… Heian-kyo beginning is also fantastic and promises so much only for it to drop it all as you get to the middle and end… her killing Limbo is exactly how it should be but where was all their conversation leading up to it? It should have been a Danzou-centric chapter and I’ll stand by this, she’s the one most hurt by him.

[wild-karrde]

Karrde's Fandom Friday Rec #2 (10/13/23)

My next rec this week has to go to @friskynotebook for this ADORABLE and BEAUTIFUL artwork featuring the moment WE SHOULD HAVE HAD in the Ahsoka finale. I WANTED THIS HUG TO HAPPEN SO BADLY, and I think Taylor's style just makes it even sweeter and just gives me ALL THE WARM FUZZIES. WE SHOULD HAVE HAD THIS, AND THIS SCRATCHED THE ITCH FOR ME, SO THANK YOU TAYLOR FOR DOING THE BEST JOB AND MAKING ME GRIN AND FEEL WARM INSIDE.

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