#anti lames

[drowninglight]

james deserved SO much better than lena

[ofswordsandpens]

Riordan: And the grand lesson that Percy needed to learn over the course of hoo, the culmination of his character arc of this series, the moment where the fate of the world hangs in the balance because of a single decision he has to make... is realizing when he needs to take a step back :)

Me:

[elminster-big-naturals]

ketheric battle: emotional, triumphant, the fallen father and the risen god, the culmination of an epic fight through a former mind flayer colony, a scene of heartache as much as horror

orin battle: fierce, vicious, the last rending of a bhaalspawn drenched in desperation as much as blood, splintering between insanity and red oblivion, set deep in the guts of the foulest temple

gortash battle: karlach beats an elderly mall goth to death with a hammer

[lestatslestits]

Sorry but JK Rowling loudly announcing to whoever will listen that she is winning her shower arguments with imaginary versions of former child actors from her shitty movies is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week

[justaturtleindisguise]

BANDAID DUO !!!

my little trans kids, why are u so clumsy and silly

[lainalit]

Me when Tamlin slanders Ratass and his inner circle jerk during the high lords meeting

[murcielagatito]

i have been silent long enough

[infinitestalia]

Team Green: Perfectly cast the kids, each actor able to command the screen and brilliantly carry a scene, each one memorable and fascinating. Flawed, purposeful and distinct, for better or worse (worse in Aegon's case). Drama, sauce and personality guaranteed every week.

Team Black:

[nubelo]

Only good fucking thing the third hokage ever did was be nice to Iruka those two times everything else boo get off the stage old man 🖕🏽

[starlight95tonight]

I still can't believe the hotd writers had Daemon call Criston "Ser Crispin" what lame ass insult is that? The writers had to be on something when writing that sad excuse of an insult and the fact it got approved to be in the official script????? Whats even crazier is the fact some people will post these insults and get hundreds or thousands of likes💀💀 what happened to creativity ???

And on top of that this single utterly horrible 'insult' is the reason we have shit like "Almond" "AIicunt" 😭😭😭 gtfo of here a middle schooler could have come up with a far better insult

[sinnbaddie]

I’m starting to hate STSG so much solely for the fact that I cannot consume any content of my faves without them always being brought up or inserted into the conversation in some type of way

I just wanna hyperfixate on Hikara and Itafushi yet the most toxic and unhealthy ship is brought up more in their tags than them themselves

[multifandomslut2023]

I'm....I'm sorry.... imagine shipping (Mr Doesnt Give a shit about the small folk, there's a war going on and people are starving and yet he's dressed in gems and shit, has zero character development asides from being a selfish manipulative traitorous little twat) Radovid...of all people....with Jaskier, (who fights for elven rights, whose so kindhearted and sweet and actually cares about people)..when Geralt/Yennefer/SamTheBaker/FuckIt...TheMailmanFFS are right there to be shipped with Jaskier!!!!

[humming-fly]

*stands ominously at your doorway*

TRICK OR TREAT

hghghhhhhgh okay here take it *scoops raw protein powder into your hands*

[software-bugs-b-gon]

Have you ever smoked before? or was that just an attempt to look cool?

Nobody should do this to themselves. Just talk to a bro, or something. Or exercise.

That's a better habit to build.

[beevean]

You know, it's really funny how execution can make or break a concept.

In the Francis Ford Coppola film Bram Stoker's Dracula and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Dracula had a wife before he became a vampire, and said wife's death drives him to villainy. Centuries later, he meets the reincarnation of his dead wife, who he has a doomed romance with.

Yet because Bram Stoker's Dracula derailed a lot of characters not named Dracula and tried to make him out to be a tragic hero while he was still doing terrible things, I disliked the film, while the Castlevania games never pulled such a thing. It used his tragic backstory as a reason why he is the way he is, without excusing his behavior. As a result, it adds dimension to Dracula's character without feeling out-of-character.

Oh yeah, IGA clearly liked the movie and introduced elements of it with his own spin, such as Dracula descending into villainy because he returned home after an expedition only to find his wife Elisabetha dead, or him having the chance to live again with a girl named Mina (although Dracula needs to be reincarnated into a good person first lol)

Something I like about CV is that it has tragic villains, but it has a good balance between showing them in a sympathetic light and still reminding you that they're bastards. Dracula is a grieving man stuck in a cycle of rebirth, but he's also a petty monster who wants to make everyone pay for the sins of a few. Isaac lost everything he held dear through no fault of his own and fell prey to his own master's curse which lead him to a pointless death, but he's also a cruel, bitter man who unfairly caused the death of an innocent woman out of jealousy spite. Brauner lost his dear daughters in the war, but he also took two daughters from another man to turn them into vampires, and he gets called on his delusion by Jonathan. The story never tells you "look at these sad meows meows 🥺 they're not so bad after all 🥺", but they're not generic baddies either, and you come to see at least where they're coming from.

The show takes the "sad meow meow" approach when it comes to Dracula, Isaac and Lenore, and that's why I'm less than impressed. Dracula is a poor man too bereft with grief to think logically and who deserves to live again with his wife. Isaac is actually a gentle man who deserves peace after killing innocents to grow an army because he wanted to continue Dracula's slaughter. Lenore is actually a good, pacifist vampire who only wanted to protect Hector after resorting to deceit, manipulation, gaslighting and rape. You can feel the narrative holding your hand to push you to think a certain way.

Carmilla is a weird case because you'd expect her to be meowified, but she's just a generic badass #girlboss who gets no sympathy for her offscreen trauma. Still, not an elegant approach.

[lucifer-kane]

the idea of fantasy characters having abs is so wild to me, there's literally no reason for it other than aesthetics, because really anyone who would be muscled wouldn't be in the way we know of, especially when it comes to things being that defined