#brian wtf is your problem

[crehador]

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT 7K FOR A NENDO SINCE WHEN WERE THESE LITTLE BASTARDS MORE THAN 4K A POP

[jimmy-johns-was-taken]

Hello! :) Can I ask for headcanons for Jeff, Ben, Masky and Hoodie with a reader s/o who has autism? Like, the reader has certain sensory triggers and doesn't understand social cues sometimes. If you can't do this ask that's totally fine. I hope you have a nice day! 🫶

Of course! I hope you have a nice day as well!!

Jeff the Killer, BEN Drowned, Tim/Masky, and Brian/Hoodie with an s/o who has autism

Jeff the Killer :

In all honesty, he probably doesn’t get it

Like he just doesn’t know for a while

Before y’all are dating and he’s giving all those hints, you don’t pick up at all

And he doesn’t understand how you don’t know

Y’all eventually start dating tho

One day, you touch a really bad texture and it sets you off

And Jeff is so confused??

Like wtf happened? It’s just a texture?

He probably doesn’t really understand, but he tries to make it more bearable for you

BEN Drowned :

He can’t pick up on social cues too

Y’all are both pinning after each other but have no idea

It pains everyone else to watch

Like BEN will do his best to flirt, then your just “oh yeah, he’s a great friend!…would love to be more tho…” when he literally just asked you to be his player 2

Also, BEN will help you a lot with your sensory issues

Don’t like a certain texture? It’s suddenly out of his room

He doesn’t say it/talk about it, but he pays attention

He notices all the little things about you, so he probably picks up on the autism tbh

Tim / Masky :

He deals with Toby, so Tim will notice immediately

He’ll make sure to be extra obvious when flirting with you

He’s also much softer with you than anyone else

Brian noticed it, called him out, and then Tim FINALLY realized his feelings

I headcanon Toby has some sensory issues as well, so Tim has experience

He has an idea of what to do if you touch something and it is just icky

Tim has no idea what the “ick” is, he is just aware of its existence

Will help you as much as he can

Masky?

He’s a bitch, so he’s gonna act like one

Possibly a LITTLE softer with you, but not much (nobody could really notice unless they paid lots of attention)

Brian / Hoodie :

Similar to Tim, Brian deals with Toby

Except, Brian is super over the top and cheesy

He’ll try to subtle at first, but slowly he might as well just be proposing to you becuz of how over the top he is

He loves to do fun stuff, and when you do pick up on a social cue and your face gets all red and your embarrassed

He’s thrilled

Also, Brian has some sensory problems (he hates certain textures!)

So he’s got some experience

If you tell hims something you hate/show hatred for anything, it’s gone from your life

He knows how bad it can be, so he tries to help

[winderlylandchime]

He was on a roll today! He didn’t want to stop. Havent even started the ep and we are like 3 cigarettes in and 4 pills down. He had an audience of one (to his knowledge) to entertain and he delivered. But he was stressed. It started with him coming back inside and going ‘okay i think I’m ready.. i could be wrong tho’ honestly this is a mood ngl, ‘do you think Brian buys him alcohol..or does he have a fake id? Idk whats cuter. OH MY GOD HE IS DRUNK AND CARING ABOUT HIS EDUCATION! Why am i finding this cute?..my dream is for brian to tell justin he loves him. Seriously dude wtf has to happen for you to tell him’ I swear i deserve an award bc he says stuff that would usually get a reaction from me but i have to be normal about it and it is hard! ‘Oh god, how weird do you think had to be to film blow job scenes?..his hand still acts out! How is he gonna do in school? Oh Brian can’t get enough of him. SIR’ ‘..oh my god MIKE HAS THE SAME WAY OF DEALING WITH PROBLEMS THAT I DO..remember when i dyed it purple for that girl who said her favorite color is purple..and then she never talked to me again?*long pause* honestly i dont blame her that was a bit *waves his hands around* much.’ ‘..brian actually cares about Teds weird addiction enough to show up for an intervention? See! And he got him a job! There is potential here somewhere just let me uncover it!’ ‘Oh Justin is drawing again, dude it’s okay just take a deep breath, count to ten, shake your hand a little and do it again. That’s what my therapist told me to do…although i was 12 and it was bc i was scared to make friends…oh no his hand is gonna be a problem isn’t it?!’ He is now having a moment bc he feels bad for Mikey but he is conflicted with his feelings..’i need him to listen to Bri Bri and quit his job. Oh my god JUSTIN IS STILL HERE?! OH GOD THIS IS PAINFUL TO WATCH. So what if he lost control?! HE IS CLEARLY DISABLED TO SOME DEGREE! Would you kick a handicapped person out of school bc they can’t attend gym class?! Oh i hate this guy! How about you HELP him meet the requirements somehow?! You see he is talented and instead of HELPING him as a teacher, you are gonna spit on him bc he’s disabled?! OH FUCK THIS GUY! FUCK HIM ALL THE WAY TO HELL. I need a cigarette again. Pause this shit bc i am not okay’ he is currently outside pacing back and forth mumbling while smoking and i am learning so much about him bc of qaf, this is actually insane. ‘Okay turn it back on. I’ve calmed down now (cut to justin saying he is dropping out) I LIED I AM NOT CALMED DOWN WTF YOU DONT LET PEOPLE WIN WHEN THEY MAKE YOU FEEL BAD ABOUT DISABILITIES!..oh i love all of their reactions! But Brian is about to have a stroke if Justin doesn’t stop’ ‘WAIT THAT WAS LIKE WHEN BRIAN DID IT IN THE PILOT! okay that was cute! The way Bri Bri stares at him and then he dried his face. Fucking adorable, i almost forget that im mad that he dropped out..(and we are at the computer scene) OH MY FUCKING FUCK CRISPY JESUS HE GOT HIM THAT COMPUTER! THAT IS NOT NORMAL FUCK BUDDY BEHAVIOR BRIAN! Oh this fucker cares so deeply for him and everyone else but doesn’t want anyone to know. CMON JUSTIN STOP BEING A LITTLE BITCH AND TRY IT! Oh that’s messed up Justin, he isnt trying to fix you, UNLIKE THE TEACHER HE IS TRYING TO HELP YOU FIND WAYS TO DO YOU THING! Oh he looks like he just watched a puppy get hit (he now got sad at a fake scenario he just made up about the puppy)..OH HE DREW A PENIS NICE’ 1/2 of 2x05

Oh he drew a penis, nice. DEAD.

Anon you are so brave and strong for not telling him the things that you should not be telling him.

Your brother has gone straight (pun intended) queer theory to disability theory. He needs a full honorary degree. I love him.

[sophsun1]

Your gifs yesterday made me think about season 3 and i love that season as much as I have problems with it because of Ethan. But i think forever my biggest problem was and will be is that nobody ever found out what Mikey said to Brian at Mel and Lids’ party where he got punched. I remember first time I watched it a few years ago I kept hoping Debbie would find out but nope. Ugh, but anyway, your gifs are waking up the sleeping beast inside me again and i love it.

Hey anon!

Yeah qaf and not following up on plot points is a issue within the show in general. I agree not having one single soul wondering what on earth could have made Brian punch his best friend since childhood was very unrealistic.

Sure they've gotten into verbal arguments before but Brian is not a violent person and has never put his hands on anyone so they must have known it would have to be something major to make him lose it like that.

I did not appreciate Debbie automatically assuming that it was Brian's fault the next day when Michael has a black eye and calling him out in the diner. Alongside the long standing problem with the group always thinking the worst of Brian and writing off all the growth they have seen him go through and Debbie saying it's not surprising that Justin left Brian when he never showed him he loved him. Even though she was the one in S2 who got him to silently admit that he did and she told Michael but now they've broken up it's all his fault and he doesn't know how to love anyone. Wtf get out of here with that shit!

I've slowly been watching bits of the Ethan storyline but he's so cringe that I can only handle snippets at a time. But interestingly I had forgotten they gave Ethan a backstory that his ex was basically a Brian type of guy in that he would go to clubs, fuck around as a way to connect with Justin and Ethan didn't want that type of lifestyle and wanted monogamy.

So to then have him instantly cheat after one day is hilarious and the cheating plot was weak writing anyway. Ethan was insufferable enough without it and he and Justin had other cracks in the relationship that would have ultimately broken them up.

I'm glad my gifs are doing their job and it's nice to see more and more qaf fans popping up in my asks and notes compared to before :)

[tammyfeabakker]

Had a nice Thanksgiving.... I didn't take pictures damn! I was very stoned and so happy to see my Chloe and DJ. Yes I was happy to see him too! He just needs a little work. He has come along way got a new job! I'm so proud! They seen the house... Chloe is talking bout moving back home. I hope so! We got plenty of room in the back for their camper. My Emily was talking bout moving back to Galloway. But after they seen the scenery here. Changed their minds. Chloe came down through Buena. She said it was like 1999 again. Stores mom n pop she seen a toy store she said reminds here of Christmas. That was Richland. Where we wanted to be but there were no houses available never will be. Probably because the area is beautiful very country. Milmay is hard to come by 2 there was 2 houses. We even walked the hood. It jus makes you wanna get out.. my Katy has been so bitchy. Jus bitches bout everything. There was a puddle of something under the table. DJ seen it. I said what is that? Katy right away had to say something on what I said. I'm so glad she doesn't have kids. Because obviously you can't say anything about anything. Well me anyway. All I said what is that?( It turned into WTF! ) What I can't say anything without a fucking comment coming out her mouth. Then she makes her self look stupid. I'm out in the cold ass rain taking the trash out! I hear someone talking. It's Katy out the window. Now I'm at the end of a ten car drive way. I had to stop wtf I was doing to walk all the way to her. She does it in the house too. I have to stop what I'm doing. To fucking hear her. Don't come talk to me directly no . She also pissed me off yesterday. Hypocrite. Talking bout TJ being petty. I have 6 bowls for 2 cats. Peaches doesn't like her dry food with her wet food. There's 2 for Merlin. I prepare breakfast and dinner for them. I got why is there 6 bowls? Now the fucking water is free. She's like I pay. For the service of cleaning them. I'm like fuck you. A dabble of soap and electric for the hot water what .000001 cent of electricity. Now I feel for TJ even though he hates my guts. Why probably because he thinks she moved out for me or talking shit on him why she left. Couldn't be further from the truth. I'll take it to the grave with me why she moved out. But if I gotta hear this bullshit I know he had to be going out of his fucking mind. I love her but I'm at my wits end. Lillie her dog can't control herself sometimes and pees in the house. According to Katy it's my cats. I only hope she finds someone really fast because there's gonna be a murder suicide. Then she freaks out telling me I have to take Lillie out twice but I have to work more. So how the fuck am I suppose to work more take the dog out at 12 n 2? She really needs to step off. I'm doing something she ask me to do something. I get I ask you to do something for me and I pay everything she needs to stop. She has fucked my life up. My car I blame on her and TJ because they kept taking it back to Brian ripping me off and them. They think I'm in a right and wrong contest. I'm not I was right though he was ripping us off. Jus giving him money. Not fixing my car. We got a 24 dollar electric bill. To much I said Sara n Craig is 500 dollars a month. Well their not taking care of you. Trust me tried to leave since I'm a problem. She hunts me down...Do to her making decisions on my life. Like I don't want you cleaning anymore. Now Katy said it. I ignore her she comes down on me. So I left then bitches bout taking care of my shit. She did to me before. TJ and I will take care of your expenses. I'm like well. No sooner that came out my mouth she's on the phone calling my people that I quit. Her and TJ tell me I gotta get a real job early in our living together. She's like TJ found this for you. I got the job. But it was the fucking worse decision ever!!! But I had a nice day yesterday anyway.

[myastrouniverse]

April/2024🌖♎️This is a collage NOT a puzzle. Nothing here fits together.

♅︎ < 🦺 I am so tired of privileged sacks of shit pretending they are better than other people, after doing absolutely nothing with their entire fucking lives. Then they blame the people whose lives they destroyed.

♀️< 🦚 It took me a couple years, but by the time I found out, there wasn’t anything I could do. All I can do is focus on MY HEALING. Of course it makes me feel guilty, but I’ve been down that road before. It never ends well. No matter what I say, no matter what I do, no matter how much I love and I loved him. It’s difficult to talk about. It never makes any sense anyway. It’s not fair to anyone, but I always look for him, in everyone I love. Why is my love a curse to those I love? How many hearts have to break over and over again? Whatever. Everyone is breaking their own hearts over nothing. Why are we ALL so comfortable living with lies?

♀️< 🎸 Isn’t it funny? It’s a real laugh riot to destroy a young woman’s life. It’s real funny to FORCE a woman to remain a virgin or celibate, until she is too old to have her own children. Women don’t have a right to choose who they love. They are supposed to love whoever has the most money for their family, like a whore, right? What am I to you animals? A virgin, a whore or a mother? Why can’t women be treated like INDIVIDUALS? Why do women ALWAYS have to play gender roles for white trash misogynist assclowns? It’s so gross on all levels. I really hate everyone. I think everyone is a fucking monster and no one has proved me wrong.

🌖 ☍ ☊ I saw that Chappelle refer movie. The white dude dressed EXACTLY like Brian Nadal. Birkenstocks with socks. You should have seen him dance at the BOOKA MAROONGA African drum jam. We had no idea how white we were to everyone there.

🌖 Λ ♄︎ I wish these delusional stalker misogynist fuckheads, would please leave me the fuck alone.

🎸▪️🦚 Please drag your white trash scum cunts in my face. Let’s see how long your crazy fuck whores survive torture? If they think they are better than me, ask them to try to survive ONE DAY in my shoes, on my WORST DAY. Not one of them would last an hour, is my estimate of your bitches.

🌖 ☍ ☿︎ Stop. Before you speak, do you have any fucking idea what you are saying? Who actually knows wtf is going on?

🌖▪️🌽 I can’t do this alone and yet, here I AM.

🌖 ☍ 🚑 Nothing is going to change, move forward or even stabilize, until we start talking about the whole TRUTH. What was done to me was an ABOMINATION. I DESERVE JUSTICE AND JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED.

🌖 Λ ♃︎ Smoking cigarettes and weed has been important for my healing process. Smoking pushes the bio-parasite shit OUT of my body by keeping it within my lymphatic system and helping to dry up the gunk. I don’t even feel stoned most of the time because it is the bio-parasite that is affected by the THC first. Once it is debilitated the cigarette smoke kills it. The nano wand has the opposite effect which is why it is so dangerous. Again, using the blue/yellow setting a few times did not have a negative effect. It helped kill bacteria deeply embedded beneath my skin. However, if done consistently could have killed me. You have to wait six months for new skin growth before using the wand again or it will literally tear you apart or burn you alive. I have a feeling that may have happened to some people who were obviously not thinking clearly.

🌖 Λ ♂️Why are men physically trying to be women, instead of embracing their own intuition, compassion and peace within? It does seem like a mental disorder for some people who can’t get in touch with their emotions. You can’t physically become intuitive. You don’t physically astral travel. You are confusing tangible with esoteric. That is an ape problem, not a human problem, btw. I am not against trans people. I am against these freak show trans misogynists who want to literally take over the body of their female partner. It’s fucking creepy shit.

of Montreal - Marijuana’s A Working Woman

[incarnateirony]

This collage from the pinned post bottom is possibly the funniest one of her recent blatant denialism failures yet tbh

The crustdaddiest.

#I HAVE NO IDEA WHY

"IDK HIS NAME BUT I'M PROUD OF HIM"

Garfield, on the god you continue to insist to confuse me with until I am become essentially deified, you do not need to summon my cabbage dick for your lasagna, the right entity to talk to has always been yourself, and you've been doing that with shadows, but disassociated, and a bunch attached to me, it's truly that simple. Chonky boi (gn) how many times must we go over this while I even timestamp you with my huge (cabbage) dick repeatedly.

It truly should not be this difficult to dump a woman 3 years after she was convinced she's the one that broke up with you, then forgot who was who in the relationship, literally.

One more time, for the class. Niekai/Athena was your logic brain, we've said this for over a decade, that's not news to your blog. You continue to displace her and her variant branches in Norse and elsewhere into cats (you put your other shards in birds mostly.). Brian/Aaron/Hermes was always my chaos brain. We said this for over a decade, that's not news to you on my blog. In fact you always said you never understood how I did what I did but I had a unique catalyst property you couldn't recreate and even weirder a social superpower to just look at a group of people and have them automatically organize into a collective group for a cause.

You only had a stroke about this after we separated, like MAGIC, kinda like your version of hermes had a stroke about octopus jibberish and every single one of his teachings you don't know or act AGAINST. Closest to magic you've ever done is give yourself a lobotomy to cope. Different brains, girl, wtf.

Shealyn, I remind you that you're the same retard that went begging to Corban trying to get him to say I was lying before this started in January, after I warned you since like, July, to stop your shit, and you ignored that, and pretended I was bluffing that whole time too, and then we slapped the astral kickme sign on your back and you fucked yourself. This whole thing boils down to you being a batshit crazy schizoid delusional piece of shit that refuses to take a single warning to stop her batshit crazy schizoid delusional piece of shit behavior until you can't ignore it anymore, and you're still doing it. You're doing it right now. You don't like what you're hearing so you're trying to batshit crazy schizoid delusional piece of shit your way to a land where the anime octopus jibberish spirit is real and none of the very real and trackable events happening are happening, everything's random.

A timely watch of Yu-Gi-Oh season 0 just added the comment from Noiz, "Ah, yes, the usual, sunglasses make someone unrecognizeable."

Girrrrrrrl if your only reflex is "nuh uh", "ignore screaming lady", "deny LITERALLY **EVERYTHING** happening", "deny that the objective of hermetics is actually attainable", "deny a quarter century student could do the thing", it's time to admit you don't believe in this shit, you're playing a game with yourself. And/or willfully disbelieving because you know full well it only means one thing: Your ex succeeded, which makes you furious, and you've been left behind. And it's your fault.

Girl I'm not just being mean when I say you were the problem. When I call you a human toilet bowl or dirty water fountain, I'm being mean. When I say you were the problem, I'm being honest. Your disassociative bullshit keeping me disconnected from myself to pander to your shit kept me back for years, and I left you and excelled in a few years, and now you're just holding yourself back, and raging at me over the fact that YOU suck.

[morkofday]

5 OTPs ♥

got tagged by sierra @jockvillagersonly ♥ thank yoouu~ also sorry that it has taken a while but here i am!

i did a similar thing just a while back but bc i never tire of talking about my fave characters and their love for each other, i am now giving you new ones! the previous thing you can find here. the new ones are listed below in no particular order!

tagging: @jaecomments @jazthespazz @xiejie-liubo​ and @mejomonster​ ♥ no pressure of course :’D (also jaz i know that i got the previous one from you but i bet you also have more than five otps to talk about haha)

Qingming/Boya (QingYa)

going with the dream of eternity movie version bc i have zero idea of the og novel? also am in my feels again bc i rewatched the movie for the hundredth time

opposites attract, battle couple, enemies to lovers (and beyond) speedrun

spirit guardian boya adds a nice layer to everything

the heartbreak and mutual healing, finding understanding and strength in each other, realizing the right person can change your whole worldview

found family undertones!! with all the spirit guardians

“qingming, is there no one you would die protecting?” cue vishie sobbing in the corner

Hei Xiazi/Xie Yuchen (HeiHua)

ultimate note went hard with this one but also consider: tlt2 blink-and-you-miss-it flirting through murder plus sha hai heihua being separated while xiao hua fakes his death

once again opposites attract but underneath, these two are very similar in a way

it’s all about Trust and Vulnerability when faced with the right (and most unlikely) person

hxz revealing his true name and eyes to xiao hua vs. xiao hua being open about his feeling when it comes to his uncle 

they are so MarriedTM and bicker accordingly 

Nam Seonho/Seo Hwi

“your sword still feels affectionate.”

“live. that is the last favor i ask of you.”

tragic love, heartbreak created by circumstances, friends to enemies to allies to lovers 

could also be thought of as one sided love from seonho’s side and i will scream about it

they both have their own ways to solve things when facing a problem and usually those ways are the exact opposites so they clash 

both of them deserve so much comfort but they have horrible self worth issues and that’s why they keep killing each other (aka “if i cannot have you, then die” but make it painful and impossible to achieve bc they cannot truly hurt each other) 

the sun and moon comparison is making me go INSANE

Win/Team

confident bi meets easily flustered baby gay

aka a boy who doesn’t believe he’s worthy of true love meets a boy who doesn’t feel he’s going to ever get love for himself bc no one sees him that way (news flash: they love each other)

winteam and mingkit are the only thai bl couples i cry about even after all this time and am so excited for winteam’s own drama plus i adore boun and prem 

they are FragileTM and i am holding my breath so that they don’t break 

so cuddly and comforting but also Hot (i blame boun bc wtf)

Li Jia/Zhang Chacha/Shi Cheng

technically not an otp but an ot3 but we support polycules in this house, especially this one 

they click like a puzzle and everyone brings in something the others lack 

chacha and a-cheng are so in love with li jia oh my god

li jia is so in love with both of his friends and would basically die for them 

chacha and a-cheng bicker like an old married couple and it’s a delight 

the world might be dark but between the three of them everything is fine and beautiful and they’re happy that way bc they get to be themselves no matter who they are and what problems they have

did i mention their Devotion to each other and understanding of each other bc that is just the Greatest Thing 

+ bonus: Dominic Toretto/Brian O’Conner

my excuse for this is that i went to see fast and furious 9 last friday and got hit to the feels by all the references in that movie, it was very unnecessary

they were my first non-canon couple i shipped and read fanfiction for

they’re a damn delight, and even as platonic their relationship is amazing, there’s just so much trust and devotion between them

the found family aspect is of the roof ok, imagine being a young cop sent out to weasel your way into this car riding heist group and finding a family instead, how can you leave at that point anymore 

every day i cry bc of brian’s smiles and not being able to see them anymore, we miss you man ♥ 

dom is so proud of brian and they only wish for each other’s happiness and safety and if that’s not love then idk what to tell you 

thank you if you read this far! i feel like this was very random bunch of otps but i tried to pick some of the ones i haven’t had the opportunity to talk about yet ^^ also pls don’t judge me for my obsession with f&f, i know it’s funny lol 

[irandomblogfulb]

FATE: What happens when you get a bunch of middle aged white guys to adapt a cartoon for girls

Well, I just went through 6 hours of fate and I have a lot of opinions on it. Yeah, this is going to be long (slightly under 3k words) so putting it under read more and obvious spoilers.

PSA before delving right in:

1) Yes, I will be comparing to the original. Any comparisons are not through rose-tinted nostalgia glasses. There are parts here and there that I genuinely think were done better in the cartoon on a writing standpoint.

2) This is purely my opinion and overall negative. Don't like it? Don't read. I'm all up for discussion but I don't want another person crying to me about how I “ruined” their experience of the show.

3) If you like Fate then good for you. This isn’t me bashing people who like it. 

I've spit it up into sub sections just for my own convince.

1. The problem with the 'I'm not like other girls' trope

This pertains to the entire Bloom-Sky-Stella love triangle. I wasn't as pressed about it compared to other winxers (and I loved Stella's and Brandon's relationship on my rewatch). In fact, I was okay with it. But then I sat down and watched the show and there's a lot of underlying problems with the love triangle. Particularly pitting Bloom and Stella against each other for Sky's affection.

Now this part of the love triangle I already didn't like. Correct me if I'm wrong, since I dropped the OG Winx after season 5 but the Winx while they did have their conflicts and arguments, never fought over a boy. I really appreciated that from the cartoon so seeing that live action would fall into that trap – I was mildly annoyed at that. Then it hit me. It's Bloom and Stella.

The seemingly ordinary girl vs the pristine princess of Solaria. If the title didn't give it away, you should get the point by now. Others have already called it by now but the "I'm not like other girl's" trope in itself, while seemingly feminist is actually misogynist. Saying the more masculine type of girl is better than the feminine is inherently misogynist. Stella, the prime princess, girly and feminine, is villainized by the love triangle. Sky's and Stella's relationship is toxic and Stella's overt co-dependence and jealousy are already big fat red signs - but Sky's and Bloom's relationship is built on how she's "different". Bloom isn't like Stella, she's "real".

2. Am I supposed to like Riven?

As the title puts it, wtf am I supposed to feel about Riven. Is he supposed to be a good guy? Do I root for him? Is he morally ambiguous? Because holy shit compared to OG!Riven, this guy is diabolical and much much worse! OG!Riven is an asshole and he teams up with the trix but his arc was very simple and easy to understand. He joins the bad guys, distances himself from the good guys, the trix betray his ass, he self-reflects in the dungeon - escapes and redeems himself. Net!Riven is so bad to the point where you can't redeem him and the writers don't even try. Freddie Thorp is good in his role. (however, he definitely doesn't pass for a 17-year-old. He's 26 and it shows) and he actually makes the cringe dialogue work. But he's way too diabolical and downright predatory. The scene where he forces Dane to gulp down his spiked drink - it’s worse seeing it than reading it. That grossed me out more than the gore.

What makes it worse, nobody properly calls him out. Beatrix kinda does on his homophobia – “Homophobic bashing by GIF” - and Sky does chastise him, but they still tolerate him. It is kinda funny in a way Sky has a whole ass arc about how he's enabling Stella's problematic behaviour by still dating her after she blinded her friend but doesn't realize he's doing the same for Riven.

The only person that really puts her foot down with Riven is Terra and nobody takes her seriously about anything she says.

Everyone is very laissez-faire around him and that's not how you respond to your friend being problematic. (Hey, kinda like the other girls sans Aisha are with Bloom!) Everyone surrounding Riven is so disgusting and the notion of him supposedly being a good guy is very hard to buy into. His whole relationship with Dane has a section of it’s own because there’s just a lot to unpack.

3. Stella I am so sorry

I'm also in the majority hating how they've tarnished Stella. Basically, they turned her into the stereotypical rich bully with mommy issues.

I get that Stella has an abusive mom but that’s no excuse to be a total bitch to her roommates. And no, her roommates shouldn't accept her back with open arms. And she doesn't even redeem herself - the girls just accept her back after her mom pulls her from Alfea.

And this is also another issue with the writing were the characters suddenly just change their opinions on a whim. Suddenly Stella likes the winx, suddenly Terra misses Stella even though having that girl literally gives her anxiety. Suddenly Aisha's on Bloom's side in the end.

This isn't me simping for the cartoon out of nostalgia. I was mostly okay with the idea of Stella and Sky hooking up. But Looking at it from a creative standpoint - looking at the source material, and the many paths you can take this character, the best thing Brian Young and co. can think of for her was turning her into the stereotypical rich bully that we've seen time and time again? No deconstruction no meta take, it's played out exactly how you’d expect it.

Again, this isn't me simping for the show. Purely from a creative standpoint Stella was such a major let down. There's so much to the character and Brian Young took the easiest, saturated path.

4. That one scene with Bloom's parents

You know the one. Mike unhinges Bloom's bedroom doors and Vanessa cusses out and insults her child like a petty teen bully. Forgetting how utterly cringey that scene was, you can't have her mom go batshit insane on her child, then act like she's this loving parent that cares so deeply about her daughter. Screw that! Vanessa deserved those 3rd degree burns! She invaded her daughter's privacy. Bloom didn't even do anything wrong!

I can't buy into this narrative of Vanessa and Mike being loving parents when they do something like that. Seriously who thought that was okay?

5. Pity Parties for everyone.

I already discussed this in Stella’s section but I don’t like the “it’s okay for me be a shitty person because my life sucks :)” narrative Fate tries to pull. They did it with Stella, Bloom, Riven.

What I liked about the first season of Winx Club is Bloom’s arc and her character as a whole. Because while she went through shit, from the Trix, to finding out she was adopted, her existential crisis, not feeling like she belonged, losing the dragon flame, she went through a lot. She didn’t throw a pity party. She didn’t whine, bitch and complain. She allowed herself to feel upset, took it as it is and tried to make lemonade out of lemons. And I respect that.

Net!Bloom is agrevating. She does some dumb, reckless stuff but it’s excused because she’s the protagonist? She let the war criminal out, the school gets taken over by the bad guys because of Bloom. Faragonda fucking dies because she let the war criminal out! The burned ones attacked the school because she let the war criminal out!!! But no, Aisha’s villainized for calling Bloom out because Bloom’s existential crisis is more important then anything else.

Getting to Sky, he isn’t as bad as the others. He doesn’t become a shitty person because of his problems. (Though lowkey flirting with Bloom while he hooks up with Stella is uh not good.) But he does come across incredibly whiny. Because of the cringey dialogue and the unnecessary swearing  I can’t take his speech on opening up to Bloom seriously. I laughed throughout the whole thing and Bloom leaving his unconscious body there was the icing on the cake.

One of the few characters that deserved a pity party is Terra. She’s very much like OG!Bloom in a way. She is bullied by Dane and Riven, has body insecurities, anxiety, nobody listens to her and at most only tolerates her. Despite all the crap that is thrown her way she still reminds humble, kind, and respectful. And she is one of the few characters that deserves more support than what she got out of the season.

5. Bloom, Aisha, Tokenism and their awful relationship

I’m going to be upfront, their relationship sucks. The core of their dynamic is what Aisha can do for Bloom. It’s very one-sided. Bloom only goes to Aisha to help solve her problems, which Aisha gladly does – but when Aisha disagrees with Bloom or says something Bloom doesn’t like, Bloom suddenly goes off and Aisha’s made to be the bad guy. Even though she’s right? And Aisha has her own problems as well, shown to also struggle with her powers. But nope, that’s pushed to the back burner because Bloom needs help.

I am all for creative freedom. I can stomach Stella x actual Sky. I can stomach turning Stella into a rich mean girl. I can stomach the dark academia aesthetic but what Brian Young and co. did to Aisha is just plain racist. Screw the “it’s an adaptation” excuse. Turning this character who had a rich storyline and was a princess into a white girl’s magical negro who fixes all her problems is racist and by definition tokenism. And by whitewashing the other two characters of color, making Aisha the only poc in the group – that’s the worst thing you can do to her.

And frankly we need more black princesses on screen.

6. Dane and the homophobia of the show

Towards the show’s climax it’s revealed Dane is helping Beatrix because she accepts he’s “different”. Not only does this go back to my pity party rant but like bruh,

1)      Beatrix never really did anything for Dane? She hung out and smoked with him a bit, but that’s all. You’re telling me Terra wouldn’t accept Dane? Beatrix never helped him and he never really opened up to her about his struggles.

2)      Nobody else, not even background characters bully or harass Dane for being “different”. It’s only Riven, the guy he’s crushing on. The whole falling in love with the bad boy/abuser trope is bad in a hetero relationship and that still stands for a gay one. And I know damn well if Dane was a woman half of the shit Riven did to Dane wouldn’t slide.

It makes no sense for Dane to side with the bad guys when Riven’s the one bullying him and Beatrix is complacent in the bullying. Oh, and having your second black* character who’s also lgbt+/potentially questioning be a villain? Not good.

I’m all for gay and poly rep, but not like this. If Stella and Sky’s toxic relationship is going to be called out for what it is, why not Dane’s?

*Idk if Theo Graham is light-skinned black or biracial so I’ll just refer to him as black.

7. The plot

It’s very predictable. Personally, wasn’t fond of the ‘twist of a twist of a twist’ style of writing. The story tries to be nuanced and deep but it’s not. Common sense is treated like a big revelation. Not trusting the war criminal you barely know isn’t as big of a take that the writers try to make it out to be.

8.  Everything else

·       Beatrix is fine. No Icy but did like the gothic bookworm aesthetic.

·       Sam is just there to be Musa’s love interest and provide some dumb drama between Musa and Terra. I thought they’d go the Edward/Bella root – Musa’s drawn to Sam because she can’t sense his emotions for some reason. Nope, they just get together for the obligatory make out sessions. Don’t care much for the relationship or the character.

·       Since the powers are all elemental shouldn’t there be classes purely for an elemental? Classes purely for fire fairies, etc?

·       Musa’s powers are confusing. If she has no control over them and they are “always on”, shouldn’t her eyes constantly be glowing purple?  Very wishy washy. Sometimes they overwhelm her and other times she has complete control. Her character is just there for plot stuff.

·       Terra is one of the better characters but can’t enjoy her knowing about the whitewashing. Why can’t we have a plus sized character just exist and not have body issues?

·       Sky doesn’t feel like a prince. Characters treat him like his dad is a war hero and not the King of Eraklyon. There was a point where I thought I misheard and thought his dad was just a war hero and not a king.

·       Why try to justify Rosalind’s war crime if she’s going to be the big bad anyways?

·       The way the characters treat death/act around death is very weird. Musa and Terra see a pile of dead bodies and they’re unreasonable calm. Especially Bloom an “ordinary teenage girl from earth”, reacts very nonchalant when death and war crimes are brought up. Doesn’t help the show tries to push this “they’re kids fighting a war” narrative.

·       Can’t buy into the girls’ friendship. The Aisha/Bloom dynamic is centred on what Aisha can do for Bloom. Bloom only cares about herself and only goes to her friends to help with her problems. Most of Musa’s and Terra’s interaction centre around Sam. Stella didn’t care for the girls until her mom showed up and pulled a 180. The girls were quick to turn on Aisha when she sided with the adults.

·       I have no problem with technology existing but why do they have Instagram, Tiktok and Tumblr? The otherworld is a completely separated from Earth, why do they have the same technology?  

9. Brian Young, what do you mean by mature?

I grew up on the 4kids dub before transitioning to the Nick dub for season 4 and 5 then dropping the cartoon for good. So naturally on my rewatch of the cartoon I decided to go watch the RAI dub since I heard it’s more accurate and 4Kids are infamous for their horrid localisations straying too much to the source material. Upon finishing season 1 and currently watching season 2, a few things took me by surprise. For one, the cartoon is surprisingly dark. The schools are at war with the Trix and their army of Darkness, Sky almost dies in Season 2, Riven almost dies and the Trix thinks he suicided, it’s heavily implied in Season 2 Darkar murdered some of the pixies, the paedophilic undertones of Bloom and Avalon’s relationship, the list goes on.

When the interview with Brian Young came out, he said Fate would be a mature take on the cartoon. And I wondered, what did he meant by mature? Was he going to delve deeper into the darker aspects of the show, or did he mean he was going to have the girls swear and have sex? Watching Fate, I found my answer.

If you take out the gore, swearing, drug and alcohol usage from the live action, the maturity is on par with the RAI dub. The difference is in the presentation. This is what sucks about the mentality surrounding live action remakes. Because the OG!Winx was colourful with glittery transformations , was super girly and overall had a positive upbeat tone (not forgetting 2D animated) - it can’t be taken seriously. You have to strip all that, the colour, the kindness, the femininity in order to be deemed mature.

10. Wrapping up

I went into Fate expecting the worst and honestly, it wasn’t that bad. There were things I liked about it. The show looks pretty, and I did like what they were trying to do with Sky’s arc. The actors did what they could with the material. Freddie Thorp made the cringe dialogue work and Abigail Cowen proves she can carry a show as the lead.

Fate is your generic, YA, dark academia show. It follows all the tropes of the YA genre to a T. If that’s your niche, then you’ll love Fate and I’m not bashing anyone who liked it.

For me, as a creative, it doesn’t capitalise on the strengths of the source material. I’m not asking for Winx Club again, as I’ve reiterated, I’m all for creative freedom. But Brian Young, Iginio Straffi, whoever worked on this – they could’ve created something new, innovative, something that stood out from the hordes of other YA shows. They had good material in their hands! But what I got -  I’ve seen before, and I’ve seen it done better. That’s a major disappointment.

As a winx club fan, don’t bother watching this. It’s a very diluted version of the Winx. In trying to capture the interest of the adult fans who grew up with the franchise – Iginio showed how out of touch he is if he thinks this is what they wanted.

[afraid-of-americans]

Cursed Predictive Text Keyboard Part 3

David Bowie used music as a way to escape the asylum (Wait... Huh?)

Mick Ronson is a very sexy grandpa (I- Okay..)

Mick Jagger already made me feel like I have some questions about the reproductive system (Ew wot?)

Keith Richards is going to eat your grandma (NUUU!)

Brian Jones has a bit of a problem with DANA (Why does he have a problem with DANA!?)

Charlie Watts just wants to go home (Please! Take him home! 😭)

Ronnie wood is a very beautiful woman (Oh 😳)

Mick Taylor was a bit sweaty and his cheeks were slightly red (Wait... Wot was he doing?)

Bill Wyman is my absolute biggest concern for a divorce (Huh?)

Freddie Mercury can kick your ass down! (Oh Jesus!)

Roger Taylor released a video showing us something fun (I wonder wot it is)

Brian May is a very sexy tiger 🐅 (Wot the fuck?)

John Deacon is uwu but I was just playing with my cars (huh?)

Robert Plant has more boobies than you (that's true)

Jonesy I don't think you can dance with the kids (Wot?)

Bonzo and the other hoes are doing a little persuasive arguments (Wot the fuck?)

Jimmy Page is NASTY asf man 😤 (That is indeed true)

Rod Stewart is a very sexy idol to have (lolz do ya think I'm sexy?)

Mark Slaughter walked in the bathroom Just to give a speech on why my pants are gone (wot? are you talking about?)

Dana Strum was just an experiment (wtf? lolz)

Blas Elias was around the corner with his pants down (ksjsksksjsjs)

Tim Kelly said that he wants to get really funky with Mick Jagger's feets (that is disgusting)

Roger Daltrey is going to have a great time with monkeys (oo oo aa aa!!)

Keith Moon was in the shower with his underwear out (hold on-- huh?)

Pete Townshed is so rude and I had enough of his family (great?)

David Lee Roth said that he wants to get a hold of my penis (i-....)

Eddie Van Halen was often seen as a bit of a bitch to the person who is a member of the rolling stones (wait! who!?)

[marziblogsworld]

Movies depicting real life stories are my favourite because it always leaves me in 😱 stage and these movies show such raw emotions that it hits you in a completely different level. You feel their pain as you are going into the movie and you feel their emotions as if you yourself been through this, and that is exactly what i felt when i watched 'DEEPWATER HORIZON' and here is my review.

So this movie is based on a real life event that happened in the month of April in 2010.A bad judgement from the mankind himself caused the whole oil rig to combust in flames while the crew was on board. After several testimony and statments it was declared that the company financing the whole project was behind this poor judgement and was charged with manslaughter but a company that has fat rich people on board wasnt even effected by this and like we all guessed the charges were dropped and these soo called companies built on so many dead bodies still lived and are thriving.

This movie was jaw dropping, eye misting, jam packed with emotions and anger that sometimes when the crew members stay quite when these rich people show off how superior they are i started cussing them, there was this rage inside of me responding to there bullshit. The captain of this rig asked for a cement test from the bottom when a fault was occurred but these 'business men' who are so full of shit send them home without the repairment because they didnt want to spend more money and are confident with their :ideology' that everything is fine. Bitch nothing was fine and that man name 'Donald Vidrine' oh i hate his gut so much that he had the audacity to manupilated the crew people monitoring the next test to tweek it up a bit to their captain because he is being paranoid and nothing will happened well guess what bitch something did happened andthe picture is right above in the poster. That is what left of 'DeepWater Horizon' you son of a bitch... Why did that piece of shit survived. I would have thrown him overboard, kudos to the captain for having the patience to not only tolerate him but to let him go. I was waiting for someone to smack that shit in the head but sadly i didnt got that happiness.

But i got something great as a matter of fact i was surprised as i didn't know Dylan O Brian was in this movie. When he first appeared it was his side pose and i thought it was our main protoganist Mike and here i was all like 'oh his side looks so like Dylan' but then the camera shifted and i saw his full face and *mouth dropped* 'shit thats Dylan' man! What is he doing over here and your ass better survive. Well not only did he survive he thrived, YESSSS he lived up to his role like everytime, out there helping everyone and also my man was the one who spotted something was wrong with that pipe that was in fault and they wanted to neglect it.

Come to think of it that oil rig was just waiting to explode. Like Mike William our cheif Technician stated so many faults in that rig like wtf even the smoke dedectors were not working. These safety precautions should be running finely but like this company was facing the other way whenever these crew people shove a problem against them.

Overall an amazing film, depicting real life stories isnt easy nor is it to relive it again. I applaud all the workers working over there and who died for their immense bravery. The captain has my huge respect. Mike and Caleb are savior and survivors. Watch this movie, share their pain and raise a voice against these Rich people who have lost their conscious over money.

I would give this movie 5/5 no doubt on that.

Courtsey to: @fandom-101 for the recommendation. 👍👍👏👏👏👏

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[malicerewatchesdoctorwho]

The Ice Warriors - Episode Six

Written by - Brian Hayles     Director - Derek Martinus     Producer - Innes Lloyd  

Episode Six

("What good's your precious computer done anyway!" - Walters giving the crew of the base some well earned truth.  Clent doesn't like very much.)

Likes

- I like that the Ice Warriors use Clent's name after attacking the base.  Just...hahaha, you brought this on yourself, dude.  Now face everyone's wrath.

- Walters just going off. Yes, my good man, you do that. Tell them not to blindly follow the computer.  Get them to see reason. 

- Clent being useless while Bennet is not because she has skill.  Yes. 

- Clent screwing up his computer by giving it a problem it couldn't solve without destroying itself and so it refused to answer.  Hahaha, and then Penley takes control with some help from Bennett.

- Yeah, that's heat and it is destroying your ship.  That's four Ice Warriors destroyed.

Dislikes

- Bennett, WTF is up with you?  You used to be my fave.  You're turning into a Clent.

- Oh, I'm sorry, are we seriously supposed to LIKE Clent by the end?  Ummm, how about no, he is still the asshole he has always been, he's just got a whole lot less pressure to yell at people.  He still insults Penley for doing his job for him.

Awesome

- Wavy camera for when Penley mucks with the environmental controls.  That usually would annoy me, but here it fits quite well and I liked it.

- Slow panning shot of everyone's faces at the end in silence as they just watch and wait. I thought that was a nice, long shot.

- While it is quite rare in this episode, I do like the music they play, when they play it.

Shitty

- I still am not very happy with Clent needing that walking stick.  Half the time he doesn't even bother with it and forgets to limp.  It just seems a useless prop to try and make a horrible human being seem less horrible because disabled. 

- When did Bennett change her uniform?  The other one looked so good on her.

- I didn't much like the effects at the destruction of the Ice Warriors.  With the exception of their controls catching on fire.  That part was a nice practical effect.  The special effect and camera work just...didn't work for me.

In Conclusion

I have very little I wrote down for this episode in terms of notes.  I was too busy watching the chaos happen on screen.  If I stopped to write, I lost track, so I needed to pay a little more attention than I usually do.

My biggest take away from this episode was how disappointed I am in Bennett.  She started off such a great character and devolved in the last few minutes of the fifth episode into female Clent. Just...why?  What a waste of a great character.

I am not falling for Clent's nice guy act either.  Sorry, you're an asshole, everyone said it before you went off the rails and on other jobs you've done.  You don't get on the nice list by laughing with Penley at the end.  Nope, you, not a nice guy. 

I did enjoy the parts with the Ice Warriors attacking the base and the Doctor infiltrating their ship. Those were great.  Jamie had nothing to do in the episode at all.  Victoria had very little to do either but she was at least active and in it with the Doctor.  Though I do wish she got that Ice Warrior as a kill, because that would have been awesome.

Body count - 5.  Walters.  Killed by Varga, leader of the Ice warriors.  And the four Ice Warriors who were killed by the ioniser inside their ship.  

The Ice Warriors as a Whole

I really enjoyed this story.  A nice little base under siege story, which is common in Two's era.  We are introduced to a new, still used bad guy in the Ice Warriors. 

We get interesting character dynamics.  We get great characters to love and hate.  The TARDIS team is fun as always and gets things done, even though there is very little Jamie in this story, since he is taken out quite early in it. Victoria gets quite a bit to do and helps save the day though. 

All up, if you like the base under siege stories, I like this one quite a bit and would recommend. There are a lot of characters in it, but they're easy to keep track of. 

So, yeah, this one is a plus.  Watch it and be entertained.

[dramaclover]

Ending & Thoughts: Death by Zero

Oh wooow. This was a wild ride and I’m so glad I watched this. First, it was a fresh concept as it surrounds assassins. And no, it’s not like “The Man Who Kills Trouble” where it’s just one person and they try to convince us how Carson wasn’t a cold blooded killer and that he just helps people “solve” their problems. This really takes place in a world with assassins where they have an agent to accept killing jobs and a clean up crew that cleans the area and body of evidence. Like how fun is that? It’s such a fresh and hilarious concept.

I really like how both leads in Yim Mou & Kiu Sing lead different stories. They weren’t best friends and only got involved with each other when needed. Also like how Nana and Kiu Sing never got together and were just basically friends. He even helped her to overcome her dislike for guys and persuaded her to move on from her past lover. Not all relationships end up together and he was a better fit with Suk Haan. Also glad Charlie did not die. Probably the first character to break out of the “best friends must die” for revenge trope. Despite Yim Mou & Kiu Sing both were former assassins they lead vastly different lives. From beginning to end. Yim Mou had a more tragic story while Kiu Sing was more lighthearted in a sense.

Yim Mou was a cocky jerk that was a top killer. Unfortunately, his wife and daughter suffered from his actions. He was an extreme playboy and had no care for them. Of course later on after his wife died in the fire and his daughter turns blind, he tries to turn his life around. His ending made the most sense. At first I was sad that he died and I really thought he didn’t. But it made sense. He has a heart problem and his daughter was dying. This was his way of paying back to her daughter. So he sacrificed himself to give his eyes and organ to his daughter. Yim Mou had done so much wrong things in the past, his death was fitting. I only wish he got a chance to say his last words to Suk Haan and Megan. Even his last words in the form of a letter would be a nice farewell.

Kiu Sing also known as Zero, was a Casanova who flirted around but never had a real relationship until he meets Cash. Yes, he’s an assassin but what makes him different from Yim Mou is that he’s isolated. And minds his own business. His only friend is his agent that accepts him jobs. Compared to Yim Mou who gambled, drank and neglected so many people. Kiu Sing doesn’t cause trouble but if trouble finds him, he won’t back down. Kiu Sing had a much happier ending in faking his death while living happily together with Cash & effectively retiring from the assassin life.

Now the biggest plot twist was Parker ending up becoming the ultimate “baddie”. He went from a scared coward to someone so dark and evil. He murdered innocent people for his own pleasure. At first it was just to get someone off his back but then he just started murdering or attempted to murder random people. His ending was not fulfilling at all. I don’t get why he kidnapped Cash. At first you’d think “oh it’s to blackmail Kiu Sing” well he didn’t. He kidnapped her roughed her up a bit and then tried to drown her. Like what was the point? You just made him even more mad that you kidnapped his girlfriend. Also he felt that they were suspecting him. That’s why he organized to have Megan stay somewhere else. Why didn’t he just take the first flight out with Megan in the first place? Parker was not a fighter. He relies on strategic plans like “sneak attacks” via attacking from behind and knocking them out. Which he then proceeds to kidnapping, tying them up and then murdering. One thing I didn’t get was how he managed to kill Maan Maan. He has no training in fighting. I get how he strangled Maan Maan to death but what about the guard that was watching her? The guard was strong! How could Parker take him down alone? I thought maybe he was secretly trained and was faking it the whole time but that wasn’t the case. He didn’t hire someone to help him with the murder either. So you want me to believe Parker singlehandedly took down that guard alone? Also this was the first of his serial killing spree so it wasn’t like he had experience. His death would’ve been better if he saw the aftermath of Megan getting shot and almost dying. The only thing he loves is Megan. So it would’ve been nice to see the fear in his eyes for him to realize he caused all of this. It’s nice to know that Parker does love Megan and wasn’t just playing around.

Also WTF MEGAN. Why are you so annoyingly written? Like you hate your Father for killing (and other valid reasons), you hate him for trying to get revenge. Yet when your boy toy is killing people left and right & hurting people. You’re just like “okay I’ll escape” with you. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. I guess love is blind. When you were held against your will with Cash and she saves you & then tries to escape with you. Why couldn’t you keep your mouth shut? Your serial killer husband is out for blood and here you are telling him where you’re hiding & effectively setting up Cash for her potential death due to your idiocy. Like dude. If you were gonna be like that & choose him, you could’ve gone for 2 different options. 1, you don’t escape with Cash & just chill with your murderous husband. Or 2, wait for Cash to hide somewhere else being announcing “hey husband I’m hiding over here”. Seriously if Cash has died it would solely be on you. ATLEAST Parker is a deranged killer but you? You know better. And then they go through this whole push and pull game of staying together or not. Anyways in the end both Megan & Parker gets shot by Zero. Parker dies, and Megan lives. Megan also forgets her memory. Which is a good thing I suppose. She had a sad childhood and the love of her life became someone she hated. He also died in front of her eyes. This was the best ending for her.

Another part that annoyed me was Maan Maan. Now for her story she basically had a Father that killed his best friends for money and tried to pin it on Zero. He killed them and then left, got plastic surgery and took over another mans identity for fame and fortune. Because of this he also left behind his wife and daughter. Maan Maan is ecstatic once she finds out her Father is alive. And when she meets him she’s excited to bond with him. Ummmm what? Did she forget the part where HE LEFT YOU AND YOUR MOTHER BEHIND? He left you behind all these years and you’re not mad? He ditched you for money. Anyways her Father dies as Zero kills him as an act of revenge. Maan Maan hates Zero for this. And blames him for the misery in her life. Despite the fact her Father caused a lot of unnecessary deaths and pains to people. Maan Maan knows that too but for some reason decides to turn to drugs to cope with pain. Cause why not? I get that her Father was her only family left but he committed so many crimes, killed so many innocents and planned on killing you. This is what pushed herself to change herself in such a way? She was so innocent & kind it was a 180 degree spin from what she was before. I hate how she didn’t get last words when she died. And I hate how she died never understanding that Zero truly was sorry & wanted to make it up to you in some way. Also why was Kaman casted in such a small role? A random background person could’ve played this. Her character had like a maximum of 2 hour screentime out of the 30 episode drama.

Sam Sam disappointed me a bit. I don’t know why but I had high expectations for this character. This character was just very “cool” and mysterious that I thought there would be more to it. But there wasn’t. She’s just part of the clean up crew. I had thought maybe she’s a hidden assassin or turns evil in the end due to jealousy or something. She and Cash has both fallen for Zero. But she liked Zero first and Cash was aware of it. Cash also dates Zero behind her back secretly. It would’ve been interesting to see maybe her turn dark from this? Cause in the end Cash did betray her. But nope she was just the best friend from beginning to end. I guess all wasn’t generic. It was a nice womanly friendship that stayed strong.

Overall it was a great drama. The different storylines were interesting and engaging. I was very happily surprised. Moses Chan was so suave. Wayne Lai was hilarious. Katy Kung was eyecatching but honestly her character was more filler than anything. Brian Tse was so chilling. And Elena Kong was so sweet. The characters were fun to watch and very memorable. I wouldn’t want a sequel. It’s just the ending was perfect to me and resolved very well. It was really intriguing to watch. The fighting was amazingly choreographed and the actors & actresses were picked perfectly! It’s not a drama where you have feel the need to binge watch but I definitely recommend this. One of the better tvb dramas in recent years!

Brutally Young and Death By Zero are my top dramas this year so far.

[bigskydreaming]

Shit. I need to start writing all of these down in one place. Y’know, since it’ll literally never be relevant but since when has that mattered to me.

Kalen’s Ideal X-Film Casting (no it does not matter that this is too many characters to fit in a single film USE YOUR IMAGINATION gdi)

and in no particular order other than Iceman first because that one is very important to me look it just is:

Iceman - Manny Jacinto

The Frost Siblings, Adrienne, Emma, Christian and Cordelia - Ming Na Wen, Lucy Liu, Godfrey Gao and Elodie Yung (who here is their half sibling, with a Cambodian mother and the same father as the others)

Dazzler - Janelle Monae

Richter (I know its actually Rictor, but that’s been bugging me for decades, I say we ignore canon and go with the idea his codename makes more sense as his last name and his last name’s spelling makes more sense for his code name) - Michael Trevino

Cyclops - Chris Pine

Jean Grey - Nicole Beharie, because I have to fancast her somewhere in every fancast I do as Justice for Sleepy Hollow, its the Law, but also I just really think she has that “I am the caring headmistress that all students should feel comfortable coming to with their problems, but also sometimes I devour suns and destroy solar systems, nbd” energy. Also also, casting her as Jean ALSO means potentially casting her as Maddy Pryor and Nicole!Jean vs Nicole!Maddy? COULD YOU IMAGINE?

Also, I am a shallow, greedy bisexual, and the second I pictured Chris Pine and Nicole Beharie together my brain exploded and I am typing the rest of this from The Other Side, Adele says to say hello.

Havok - Dead and irrelevant

Cece Reyes - Rosario Dawson (there definitely need to be a wider pool of Afro-latinx actors drawn from for fancastings, but she’s freaking perfect for Cece and this is the role that Claire Temple should have been anyway IMO)

Gambit - Gaspard Ulliel

Rogue - Angelica Ross (credit to @gingerjab for this one, I’m STUCK on it now and its all his fault, ugh he’s so problematic)

Monet (and she needs her full name dropped at least once, obvsly:  Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix) - Anna Diop

Destiny - Jane Fonda

Cannonball - Ryan Kwanten

Quicksilver - Jesus Castro

Neal Shaara - Karan Tacker

Dani Moonstar - Julia Jones

Banshee - Ewan McGregor (I’m aware he’s Scottish and casting him as an Irish character is a crime but I’m Irish and thus I’m allowed to say its okay I’m pretty sure it says that in the Bible so shh)

Tom Cassidy - David Giuntoli

Ink Leon Nunez aka the actual mutant responsible for Ink The Fraud’s powers in canon, and who deserves the focus canon has actually given that loser skinhead in his place, Redemption For Leon Nunez - Diego Tinoco (also I just really like him in OMB and wanted to cast him as someone and I couldn’t decide between Velocidad or Hellion and then I thought of this guy instead)

Colossus - Danila Kozlovsky 

Magik - I gotta come back to her because I actually have like, three different ones depending on which age ‘Yana you go with but I can only find two of them and I can’t do an Incomplete, wtf

Longshot - Daniel Henney 

Blink - Dominique Tipper because it just works but also she’s of Dominican descent and Clarice Ferguson was originally black and from the Caribbean, with all due respect to Fan Bingbing and Jamie Chung who likely had no idea given most comic book fans don’t even know.

Captain Britain - Trevor Donovan. Look, he’s big, buff and goofy and really what more do you need when casting Brian Braddock? Those are the three essentials, don’t overthink him. Also, Trevor Donovan attempting a British accent through several movies sounds HILARIOUS to me and worth the price of admission alone, and after so many British actors attempting American accents with varying degrees of success in superhero films, turnabout is fair play.

Northstar - Zachary Quinto cuz he’s gay and his years playing Spock can be deemed prep work for playing Jean-Paul’s arrogance

There’s like thirty more because that’s how many X-Men there are and that’s not even getting to the students, but I gotta stop now because Adult Responsibilities and also I can’t find the one I came up with for Lila Cheney and its BUGGING ME cuz it was perfect and I have to find it before I can keep going.

[johnnymundano]

Punisher: War Zone (2008)

Directed by Lexi Alexander

Screenplay by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway and Nick Santora

The Punisher created by Gerry Conway, Ross Andru and John Romita Snr.

Music by Michael Wandmacher

Country: United States

Running Time: 103 minutes

CAST

Ray Stevenson as Frank Castle/The Punisher

Wayne Knight as Linus Lieberman/Microchip

Colin Salmon as Paul Budiansky

Doug Hutchison as James Russoti/Loony Bin Jim (LBJ)

Dominic West as Billy Russoti/Jigsaw

Dash Mihok as Martin Soap

Romano Orzari as Nicky Donatelli

Julie Benz as Angela Donatelli

Stephanie Janusauskas as Grace Donatelli

Larry Day as Agent Miller

Ron Lea as Captain Ross

T.J. Storm as Maginty

Mark Camacho as Pittsy

Keram Malicki-Sánchez as Ink

Carlos Gonzalez-vlo as Carlos Cruz

David Vadim as Cristu Bulat

Aubert Pallascio as Tiberiu Bulat

Bjanka Murgel as Arm Candy

(Guilt Belch: I took the images from The Internet. But everything everywhere is  ©®™ Marvel©®™.)

The Punisher©®™ is Marvel©®™’s greatest and most lovable mass murder. He’s an utter nutter. No two ways about it, Frank Castle is no hero. A 1974 comic book knock-off of other vigilante figures in other media, back when New York was doing a good impression of both Sodom and Gomorrah, that’s The Punisher©®™. Basically. Over the years the need to shift units to children meant he developed into a sympathetic character, but one whose stories, once childhood faded, were really only worth reading for the art; and then only some of them (I liked the ones drawn by Joe Kubert, John Romita Jnr and Klaus Janson).  With the exception of  about six Mike Baron scripted issues in 1987 and, for sheer WTF?!?, that time in 1991 where The Punisher©®™ turned into a black man, they were forgettable stuff. It wasn’t until Garth Ennis started writing them that The Punisher©®™ comics were wholly decent comics. Garth Ennis being Garth Ennis there was an initial emphasis on unfunny playground humour, but his later Punisher Max©®™ series burned this out and concentrated on Frank Castle as Soulless Monster. Which was nice. Punisher: War Zone©®™, a belated sequel to the forgettable 2009 The Punisher©®™, takes its cue from both sets of Ennis’ Punisher©®™ comics, and is as good as neither.

Obviously I am openly a pinko limp-wristed snowflake who believes in rehabilitation and (shhhhh!) not descending to the level of your enemy; basically I’m temperamentally pretty much the complete opposite of The Punisher©®™. But I can afford to think like that; after all, I haven’t had my whole family gunned down in Central Park while picnicking between two rival criminal factions. (Frank Castle is as good at picking picnicking spots as Thomas Wayne is at choosing shortcuts.) Had I cradled the bloody corpses of my family amongst the pulped tuna sandwiches, crushed crisps and spilled soft drinks of a murderously truncated picnic, perhaps I too would be waging a war on crime from my lair under the New York subway, aided only by that hefty fella from Jurassic Park (1993) and some cops on the down-low. I’m not sure I’d find time to spray paint a skull on my chest armour, but I’d definitely have a big comfy chair to brood in like Frank has. Mine would have a cup holder though, perhaps an antimacassar if I was feeling bold.

From that simple premise Punisher War Zone©®™ manages to make an intermittently entertaining, occasionally fantastically violent, movie suitable for viewing with your teenage son. If anyone involved had any higher ambitions then I would say they failed. In the post-John Wick world in which we dazedly find ourselves it is readily apparent that much of the problem with Punisher: War Zone©®™ is too much plot. There’s just too much faffing about trying to get reasons to have Frank kill people. If John Wick has taught us anything, it’s that we really don’t need much of a reason for the killing, but that killing better be spectacular stuff. Such a simple lesson would not be learned until 2014, alas. So here, back in 2008, there is much huffing and puffing about Frank accidentally killing an FBI Agent, feeling bad about it and killing lots of cartoonishly bad people. Killing lots of people remains a remarkably efficacious solution to all the problems presented in Punisher: War Zone©®™. Which is entirely as it should be in a Punisher©®™ movie (but I feel the need to stress that in real life it’s less effective).

Lexi Alexander directs in that rapid-fire music video style popular at the time, and has a marked penchant for lighting scenes in one key colour. I enjoyed this latter aspec,t but less so the kind of blurred out approach to detail in longshots; mostly because I don’t need a sneak preview of what cataracts will be like, thanks. Oh, it’s probably worth noting for fans of Marvel©®™ movies that Punisher: War Zone©®™ dates from before Marvel©®™ brought things in-house, so there’s no cameo from Iron Man©®™ being insufferably smug or an after credits scene of Fin Fang Foom©®™ playing blackjack in the bath. There is, though, an actor who looks a lot like comics’ most overrated writer Brian Michael Bendis, so you could pretend that’s a cameo if you’re really desperate.

Unusually for a comic book movie most of the actors in Punisher: War Zone©®™ act like they believe they are actually in a comic. Nuance is not on the agenda in Punisher: War Zone©®™, and I can’t say it is missed. Dominic West as vain goombah Billy Russoti is hilariously extreme in his foghorning Bronxness; so focused in his accent is his bombastic hammery that his lips seem a separate entity entirely. This, uh, interesting acting choice is soon explained when his face gets gorily mangled and he is reborn as Jigsaw©®™ . Wearing a big false head proves no impediment to a performance of such, er, force. Everybody else kind of fades into the background, mostly because they haven’t much to do, and also because giving them a name from an issue from the comic is as far as characterisation goes. But, again, it’s not On Golden Pond (1981) is it now? Essentially 99.9% of the cast exist to get killed. There’s an Urban Freeflow gang, for example, who exist purely so that Frank can shoot one of them in mid-air with a rocket launcher. Again, appropriate enough stuff for a Punisher©®™ movie.

Ray Stevenson gets top billing as everyone’s favourite homicidal loon, and he is very good value as The Punisher©®™ when The Punisher©®™  is cutting through hoods like a hunting knife through unset jelly. There’s a real sense of the implacable to his murderous movements.  He’s less successful, however, when Frank has to emote.  It’s not so much Ray Stevenson’s acting that’s the issue, there’s nothing wrong with his emoting; it’s the fact emoting is called for at all. Literally nobody who wants to see a Punisher©®™ movie wants to see The Punisher©®™ bond with a small child, certainly not to the extent that he does a little wave back at her with his wee handy pandy hesitantly raised. Literally everybody who wants to see a Punisher©®™ movie wants to see The Punisher©®™ nonchalantly shoot a hood’s face right off as a cop is reading him his rights. Both these things exist in Punisher: War Zone©®™. But only one should. As a Punisher©®™ movie Punisher: War Zone©®™ is sporadically successful, and as an action movie it’s okay if you want to bond with your teenage son. Ultimately though, as entertainment, it’s creakily obsolescent in a post-John Wick world. But then so much action cinema is.

[jordm]

Heartland 12x09 - Long Road Back review

Hey... Heartland people! We’re baaaack - and guess what? SO IS KATIE. and she’s in more than two scenes. We also got a Cassandra mention! (if only we actually saw her)

Georgie

Georgie almost faints during a run after she’s skipped breakfast, even to the point of throwing up. This isn’t a good sign.

Bigger warning: Georgie insisting she needs to practise more even though Kim is very very reluctant to let her, even to the point of saying rest is good after all this work. How about that foreshadowing from Amy? “Star should have never raced last week. This is exactly what can happen when a horse isn’t sound.” --> Trade in Star for Georgie and.... I mean this is pretty accurate.

Yes she wants to do everything she can to win but if Kim knew the lengths Georgie was going for, i’m not even sure she would allow it. She might even disallow (remove) Georgie as her client. This is 100% not Kim’s fault, since Kim is not there even for maybe 75% of the time she’s training/working out and is only there for the time in the ring practising, not for every meal or run. However maybe a talk about balance in life would help? Even if Georgie may not listen all together. 

Thing is, I also don’t blame Lou and Peter for blaming Kim initially. It’s a gut reaction, however Kim is right that Kim gives her the tools but Georgie is the one putting most of the pressure on herself - and thinking Lou selling the business for Switzerland didn’t help.

Anyways, Georgie wins the race but at a cost. She faints and is diagnosed with physical and emotional stress - but not an eating disorder as we suspected. Disappointed but not unexpected. I’m glad they didn’t go the whole eating disorder route - truthfully - if they couldn’t do it justice. At the same time, I think it could have been a great opportunity for Heartland but I digress.

It ends as fast as the problem begun. Georgie has a talk with her parents and Lou lets her knew she didn’t come sell Maggie’s - she sold Maggie’s because she wanted to be home more and that they will support Georgie in whatever she decides. So... problem solved?! Eh. Still wish there could be a little more... consequences, because it can’t be solved - it rarely is - THAT easily.

Anyways she calls Wyatt after her fainting spell and he doesn’t answer. Perhaps he’s just busy, perhaps he’s ignoring her and giving her space. Either way I don’t blame him for being upset for how she treated him last episode.

Ty, Amy (and Laura)

Laura does seem aware that what she’s doing to Shooting Star (Star) is not ethically correct; you can see on her face she’s deep (deep deep x1000) down worried. I’m also not convinced “one more race” is all she really wants but y’know. Actions and words are two different things, what can I say. I can also tell that even though this is money motivated, she is still trying to convince herself that Star and herself will be okay.

Luckily, they manage to pull Star from the race. Big ups to the the race manager person for believing a vet over Laura. Anyways, Star has acute renal pain - and his (her?) life is in danger even if Ty won’t say and it’s safe to say Laura made the situation a lot worse than it could be... and Ty also didn’t help his situation with Amy.

// Enter mini rant about Ty //

What can I say about Ty? Oh Ty, oh Ty. This ones ALL on you. When will you learn to not be so dismissive of your wife... no, YOUR PARTNER’S methods. That’s the bonus of having a partnership of people with two different views. When Amy suggests adding feeds, bringing in Cassandra (I’m aching for a Cass/Amy scene, I looove their friendship and they’ve come so far!) among other things, Ty dismisses it saying he doesn’t think it’ll help. And I am 100% on Amy’s side this time. This isn’t a partnership, this is more like Ty the vet and his ‘employee’. Only he can have final say and this isn’t right - at all. Like I said, actions and words are one thing and Ty keeps on apologizing but keeps on making the same mistake and acting the same way (see last episode)... so let’s see how long this lasts.

I’m also very disappointed in Amy for caving and saying sorry when she shouldn’t be sorry about anything. Hold your ground and stand up for what you believe in.

// end rant about Ty //

Anyways, Laura helps Star eat... and Ty wants to Laura to not be around Star. Amy is more on the end of ‘but she did help Star....” until she hears that Laura did shockwave therapy when Laura comes in to hand in her resignation. Oh and did I mention that THIS IS ALL WITHOUT LISA KNOWING WTF IS GOING ON?!?! There is so much wrong here.

Lisa

So Jack still hasn’t told Lisa and says that he will indeed tell Lisa before he leaves with the herd. However, like I said, actions and words are two different things and I don’t know if he actually will. But he tried... so I guess that’s worth something? What I don’t understand is why Amy and Ty couldn’t let Lisa know - why couldn’t it be Jack? Anyways now Laura is resigned and LISA HAS NO IDEA WHY! or the full story... when she should DEFINITELY know by now.

Jack, Tim and Mitch

Tim and Mitch take a meeting with Fred... without Jack. Something tells me this won’t end well. What I don’t get is why they can’t meet half way - for example if their current supply is X and Fred wants Y, why not meet halfway at a point between X and Y? But then again, maybe that wouldn’t lead to drama so...

Anyways Jack is NOT happy to hear about Tim and Mitch taking a meeting and you know what? i don’t blame him. Tim also takes the reigns on this whole herd thing, pushing them towards the river when Jack knew damn well the river would be too deep and running too fast. Turns out Tim was just taking out his anger on the whole Jack doesn’t want to expand problem.

“Things tend go wrong when you take shortcuts” - Jack (talking about the cattle run and the Garland offer)

This time, Mitch takes Jack’s side - or rather agrees that they all need to be on the same page. Which is by far the right page to be on.

Lou

Tim talks up Lou in front of Fred, ever so subtly and Mitch’s reaction is... something else. He has no right to be jealous, he’s fricking engaged. It appears that the other shoe has flipped, or whatever that preverbial saying is. In the beginning of the season, it was Lou who was jealous - now it’s Mitch’s turn. Can these two figure their shit out? I’m tired of the back and forth.

Lou asking for advice from Mitch is also super awkward. Didn’t they agree to not ask for advice about relationships/other ex’s to each other for the sake of their friendship? Or am I perhaps remembering this wrong?

Anyways, this guy Fred is obsessed about Grocery Stores - how do you revamp grocery stores? A book called Grocery? Only working holidays for examining Grocery Stores? This guy is definitely not for Lou. It’s safe to say there won’t be a second date.

Anyways Mitch comes to tell Lou - because he totally has the right yo - he doesn’t think the date is a good idea. And even if he is right because they don’t mesh, he also has no right. He’s engaged - and doesn’t seem to be very enthused about it.

Episode ends with Georgie being happy making chicken noodle soup - and you know what? I ship Lou having a healthy relationship with her ex (Peter) and being home more.

Songs in this episode @heartlandians

So You Can - Brian McKenna, Joseph Katsaros

I’d Do It All Over - Chloe Collins

Home - Joshua Hyslop