#and i stand by it

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there are only 3 genders and it’s blood, guts & gore.

[booksforevermore13]

As somebody who's been reading the Percy Jackson books since third grade, I was extremely pleased with one minor change that they did in the show and that's Annabeth being the one to see the blue thread being cut by the Fates (episode 5).

It's established in the books that up until the point where Luke sacrifices himself, Percy fully thinks that it's his lifeline he saw being cut. And even after realizing that it was in fact Luke's, the newfound knowledge didn't emotionally wound him per se.

But with Annabeth, we might be able to see as the series progresses, her worry about the fact that the boy she potentially loves, the boy who was the first one to defend her heart and soul, the boy who has become her best friend, her soulmate; I want to see her fretting over the fact that that boy could have his life hanging on the balance at any moment (not that it never is...)

But then, her realizing that it's Luke's thread she saw all those years ago, Luke's lifeline, and the pain of losing someone who called her a sister, and was the first one to ever love her truly.

Idk, it feels much more poignant for Annabeth to see the blue thread cut, because of how much both the boys mean to her.

Luke and Annabeth have a beautiful relationship, despite it being heart-wrenching, and we saw the show delve more into that. I just hope that the writers keep in mind their relationship and the 'blue thread' as the show progresses.

[methoughtsphantom]

Does this count as kidnapping???

A clockwork apprentice Danny that has to fake Jason’s death because he accidentally meddled in the event leading up to it and now he has to act fast because he literally can hear Batman’s running steps catching up to him so in spectacular fashion Danny panics, goes “shit shit shit” and puts Jason in the ghost version of a coma but like expert level pumps him up with so much ectoplasm the kid legit dies for a hot minute there.

…It makes Batman think his kid really is dead like he is supposed to so not all is bad, the timeline is back on track.

It’s just that now Danny can’t leave Jason to be be buried in the ground like he was meant to be originally, instead he waits until no one is looking to snatch the kid up and take him with him to the infinite realms.

Jason is legit convinced he was kidnapped.

Jason: who are you and why did you kidnap me???

Danny: what— kid I didn’t kidnapped you, I saved you

Jason: likely story

Danny: really kid I’m not kidding this is not a kidnapping

Jason: well then can I go home

Danny:

Danny: no

Jason: fucking figures

…

Danny: in my defense when I found you you were already kidnapped

Jason: so? kidnapping me from my kidnappers doesn’t make u better

Danny:

Danny: well it makes me the better kidnapper

[willgrahambf]

we can speculate all we want about hannibal’s emotions, but mads has stated that hannibal doesn’t “lie emotionally” so when he’s crying during his session with bedelia in savoureux, i think he means it. his regret is real. he speaks as though he is actually mourning abigail, looking for ways for her to still be alive (looking for ways that he can bring her back). he laments losing abigail (having to hide her away) in his pursuit of helping will (leading him to his Becoming). even if he was talking in double-speak, his sadness was very genuine. what he really wanted was to have both will and abgail. he wanted abigail to be both his and will’s mischa. he wanted them to be a family. with abigail hidden away and will in prison, the closeness that he was fostering among the three of them vanishes. i think that if hannibal could’ve had it his way without suspicion falling on him, he would’ve never faked abigail’s death and he would’ve found a way to bring will to his Becoming without putting him in prison. and i know that hannibal never intended to keep will in prison forever, but i think this does explain part of his desperation in hassun to get will out, and his lack of self-preservation when will returns to him for therapy bc it’s very obvious that will intended to try to kill him again. hannibal’s objective from the moment he has to fake abigail’s death is to bring himself, will, and abigail back together again and that’s why mizumono hurts so much. it’s not just that will was going to turn him into the police, but it was that he had just decimated the family that hannibal was trying to build. abigail was never just a pawn, and when he told her, “i’m so sorry i couldn’t protect you in this life,” he meant it. 

[charmac]

Unspoken tension ahead of Charlie Work, a wound left open in Family Fight

The Production Order (the order in which the episodes are written) always seems of some value to me in Sunny, but 10 I find especially substantial. With half of the scripts of the season written by RCG, 4 are back-to-back (with their 5th one, Psycho Pete, being 2nd in order).

The run begins after The Gang Spies like U.S. Going off that into Charlie Work, as opposed to into that off Charlie Work, paints a very different narrative for the timeline.

We leave the reveal that Mac and Dennis are jerking off together into an episode that starts with high tension between Mac and Dennis. Dennis is frustrated that Mac isn't being direct, won't look him in the eyes, he's avoidant, timid. That's interesting, because Mac isn't usually any of those things, he's direct and abrupt and loud. Off 9, fully establishing Mac is gay, juxtaposing his closeted behaviour to Country Mac's openness, 10 focuses hard on the fact that Mac's confidence is continually battered as he refuses to step out of the closet. The Gang is tired of it, but Dennis is frustrated. His words maybe cut even deeper than the scratch, "Come to me like a man. Talk about being tough all the time, can't even look me in the eyes."

We leave CW and go into Family Fight, written right after, also by RCG. This episode has big focus on Dennis' obsession with public perception of himself, and the Gang. Though he can initially handle masking his demeanor, his tone of voice, what he can't mask are his words. He's smiling, he's 'joking', but there's deep truth in what he’s saying. He's frustrated, though his frustration in the moment is intended for Frank, Mac feels it directed at him. There's a fresh wound between them, because Mac fully understands what his feelings for Dennis are now, and that’s irreparably shifted their dynamic.

Misses the Boat is the last RCG-written episode of the season. From Charlie Work, where we’re kinda first faced with the fact that Mac is now overly-concerned with how Dennis perceives him, to Family Fight, where Dennis' masks slip completely and he has a public breakdown, they both veer hard to straighten themselves. Mac, very quite literally, goes straight, and Dennis resolves that he needs to cut ties to get back to being ‘cool’, he’s going to be a cool guy who has a cool car and hangs out with a babe and is cool.

But what we learn in Misses the Boat is that how they think the world views them, or should view them based on how they believe they present, isn’t who they are. They can’t actually function well in these situations. Dennis, untethered, somehow can’t control his rage as well as he can when he *is tethered* to the Gang. Mac, well, he isn’t straight, and he realises pretending to be into women is miserable.

Dennis gives him the offer: Do you want to go back? (To not addressing it, to a standstill.) And Mac quickly, excitedly takes it. Looping back to where they are in Charlie Work, back to where they settle for too long: Mac, absorbed in himself, clawing for approval from Dennis, and Dennis lashing out, tired of telling Mac what to do.

And I think this is why I love 10 more than anything, it finally addresses the issue the audience knows. With Charlie, Dee, and Frank, too. They’re going nowhere, spiraling in circles because they refuse to address the roots of their issues, and Misses the Boat makes them, themselves, fully aware of that fact. They’re miserable together, but they’re worse off alone. And they go into 11 and beyond knowing this, and all kind of resenting each other for it, until 14. Where they acknowledge it again, and decide they’re going to keep playing the game even though it’s set.

[graedari]

what if i went to the aquarium with @radjerda a lot and then made an entire Dishonored AU around an aquarium that then became an entire modern AU? :)

[bexsld]

I'm a firm believer in Lena topping men bc god forbid she let a man tell her what to do.

But she'll let a beefcake woman (Kara) pin her down and call her a good girl with great enthusiasm.

[iwantahockeyhimbo]

these are the exact same picture

[redrose-arrow]

Ten things I love about the Ranger's Apprentice characters without elaboration

Will's character complexity.

Halt’s character development.

Crowley being a management genius.

Crowley being chaotic and just throwing people with a self-sacrificing complex together for a mission.

Gilan being the most adult-ish adult and also the most childish child.

Cassandra’s constant swearing which is yet to become explicit.

Arald’s puns.

Pauline’s entire character depending on her being, just, the best.

Dimon being a misogynist sexist just because.

Everyone’s agreement that animals must be protected at all costs.

[macbooth]

I miss talking to straight men who know things about Shakespeare. just cause I think it’s healthy for me to hear someone say that they don’t get how I could see one of the faggiest characters ever written as gay. shout out to orlando asyoulikeit, cassius juliuscaesar, aufidius coriolanus, hamlet hamlet, and every antonio to exist. I’m sorry straight men think y’all are one of them

[reiashiftsrealities]

I hear so many people talk about how the “coincidences” between Katniss Everdeen and Lucy Gray Baird weakened the storyline and I just do not agree.

Coriolanus Snow is naturally a cold, hardened leader. We have seen throughout all four books that he is cruel. There have been only two people he has ever had true compassion for and that is his mother and Lucy Gray. Lucy Gray was the love of his life up until the point in which she left him.

How did she leave him? She told him, and I quote:

“I think I’ll go dig up some katniss, since we got the fire going anyway. There’s a good patch by the lake.”

Snow’s last memory of Lucy Gray was her leaving to get katniss roots. So imagine his surprise when a fiery, spirited young girl named Katniss Everdeen is the tribute from 12, wearing a mockingjay pin of all things, and with obviously no respect for the Capitol. Almost the exact same as Lucy Gray.

He’s always been a cold leader, but he had a obviously special vendetta against Katniss.

The similarities between the two didn’t weaken the plot.

It made it personal.

[litrallytyrus]

ricky causing portwell drama because he has feelings for gina: boring, uninteresting, repetitive, dull

ricky causing portwell drama because he has feelings for ej: once in a lifetime, compelling, never seen before, exciting

[pii-nk]

neil and todd are the definition of everyone knows we’re together except for us

[vamossainz55]

my george hater era lives on 😎

[henrysglock]

rip Will Byers you would’ve loved Måneskin

[hotgrrlbummer]

love scrolling through my old posts like ugh im so witty and insightful and im talking about wanting to tear into a deer carcass with my bare hands