#anything-could-happen TV

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

[eggsistential-basket]

rewatching severance, I have a new favorite frame

[herefortarlos]

I like what I like/want to see and you like what you like/want to see, and I will never attack you if those are differing opinions, especially when it comes to fiction.

[rogerscult]

wait but if the rumors are true and marisol finally leaves on 7x07 does that mean that something happens during madney’s wedding that breaks them up?

[fvckw4d]

The concept of queerbaiting annoys me. I was told that it refers to a work of fiction pretending to cater to a queer audience but then pulling back from it to avoid alienating homophobes, which is an incredibly specific thing. But a lot of people seem to think that it instead means "any time there's any gay subtex, metaphor, or ambiguity" or "whenever something from 1995-2012 was being a normal amount of homophobic for the era."

[bastardisationarc]

Something I find so frustrating with the show is the lighting, in the first episode it was fine, with the storm and minotaur, because we didn't (Or at leased I felt I didn't) need to see much to get the picture, I'm in the middle of the latest episode but I... can't see... ANYTHING? Percy has to stay still because something is spinning?? I think it's spinning. Is he trapped in a cage? is he surrounded by spikes, I CANNOT TELL

[explode-this]

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[lesbiheon]

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[theclosetedskeleton]

me staring at my DAD when he said "if i see you have any f's during these 10 days.. things are gonna be bad. and by that i mean youre gonna get your tv taken. And youre gonna get no privacy. Meaning im going to take your door away" when i just wanted to go downstairs and get a fucking granola bar and NOT remember that if i fuck up once at school my privacy vanishes

[cowboy-like-moony]

So there IS a chance of her adding more songs (like the acoustic versions and neglected vault tracks) girly is going to deconstruct the idea of an album until there will be no such thing as a finished project ever again.

[kraniumet]

some lesser known but really mainstream shows really have die hard fans that are entirely disjointed from larger context

[lisbonsteresa]

they make me so

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

the thing about podcasts for me is that i actually have a really hard time listening to them and have tried to get into at least 20 if not double that over the past few years but have never been able to get through more than a few episodes and that’s usually after forcing myself. this is true for all except one podcast. because i have only ever been able to listen to and enjoy that single podcast, i listen to it on repeat and have been since 2020. i have been informed recently that this is not something that happens with other people

[icewindandboringhorror]

everyday I miss miitomo .. aaa

[theinfinitedivides]

i know i have been hung up on this song for months (!!!!) and i keep finding things to connect it to in so many shows with so many ships but uh. Ben Howard's Days of Lantana is Do Ha and Young Hwa's couple theme song. i will take no other entries at this time

[heyclickadee]

Oookay, yeah, I see now why my mom has such a hard time getting into the animated Star Wars shows despite adoring both animation and Star Wars.

Edit: To be clear, I’m not really trying to throw my mom under the bus here. I just didn’t realize my parents do that now until now.