#but i cant bail on you

[agirlinthegalaxy]

It's been rolling around in my brain the last few days for some reason, but I still hate the family backstory reveals for Sophie and Eliot. I've seen some of the meta for it, but quite frankly, it still makes no sense. If it had been something actually thought of and intentional in the original, I think it could have been so fascinating. I mean, Sophie's willing abandonment of Astrid to contrast with Nate's loss of Sam or Eliot's adoption in contrast with Hardison's and Parker's? Could have been excellent! But they came out of nowhere in Redemption and don't work with these characters.

Sophie was still actively using the fucking alias that she met Astrid under! She met with someone from her past on the show! Like. Quite frankly, that one is unequivocally bullshit that they made up and threw in and pretended could fit with the established canon. (And I'm sorry, but the idea of Sophie abandoning Astrid and never telling Nate about her just... So much of Nate's trauma was rooted in the loss of Sam, and I think that introducing this element after he's gone and unable to respond to it taints Sophie and Nate's relationship in a way bc I'm not exactly sure how Nate would've responded to learning about this but I think that it's something he'd have needed to know. I don't know how to fully express my thoughts on that but yeah.)

As for Eliot, I don't like the adoption aspect literally at all. The way that he would interact with his family and the memory of his family would be different, and I think that it's flat out ridiculous to think that he'd have never mentioned it to the team in the original show, especially when dealing with the kid cases. (I also dislike the biracial adoption as its own element because if Eliot was actually raised by Black parents in the... idk what 80s/90s? That just. doesn't feel congruent with how they write Eliot interacting with PoC, not necessarily in a bad way, but babe, he's written like a white southern man raised in a specific kind of culture that does not jell with that. It also makes Eliot look... really bad that he was apparently raised with the knowledge of how fucked up the military was and his parents' history and made the choices that he did.) Like the show may not have explicitly stated it but the implication of that relationship was vastly fucking different throughout the original show.

Just. These were not backstories that were congruent with their depiction and characters in the original show, and they're also just moves that I don't particularly like or find interesting directions for those characters. There's also something to be said about how it was apparently unacceptable for a woman to not have kids or someone not reconciling with their biological family when that was something that the original show handled a lot better. Out of all the directions to take Sophie and Eliot's stories, that's just not really one that I think was a good idea.

[lunearobservatory]

florida's weird kids 💕 mami and orla

ought gfu k fuck there's THREE of them !!!!! AAA

[hertwood]

"where's my kitten I was promised one" had gone from a joke to very fucking serious let me go pick up Kyle so help me god

[munamania]

i dont wanna be a dick and act like i have no responsibility in this but after a point dont u think if all you ever say to ur friend is Omg you never make it out why dont you ever come out with us you bail all the time youre such a flake etc. dont u think that person (me) is like. not gonna feel so inclined to. be there

[hillbillyoracle]

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[filthyjanuary]

feeling sad :(

[lupismaris]

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[yikes-ajax]

Been a bit since I posted but I want everyone to know I started crocheting and now my cat has a mat and she now sits exclusively on the mat. She also gained like a billion pounds but y'know how it goes

[whilomm]

hey idk who needs to hear this but while its fine if u need to bail on things occasionally you should probably like. tell the people you're bailing on. "oh ill wait til they ask me about the thing" no just tell them "oh ill wait until a bit before the thing to tell them" no just take out your phone and text them When You Find Out

[t4tpumpkinduo]

man.

[rattkachuk]

Thanks for sticking it out with the rest of us!!♥️ (Totes relate to the multitasking: masqueing & lasering away over here!)

At the same time, seeing the fallout, fuckery and lack of resilience from other pages is… telling. fr, if ppl are going to buckle and bail in Panther’s 11th hr… maybe they should get off lb and mt tags 👋

omg yah i just feel like...its the last game i cant bail rn 😭

[hiveswap]

Ah lads not again

[http-finnick]

hi guys! I'm really sorry I couldn't write much this week, every day I had to be out and about, and when I had time to write I was blank :(

It's been frustrating when nothing comes to mind but I know once I settle down and relax I'll get some fics out for you guys! I have some in the drafts I need to go over but they need revising and I need to focus on requests right now!

I can't say this weekend will be spent up with writing since unfortunately, I'll be busy again (omg) buuut! during the week I'll try and start with them! thank you guys so much! <3

[rogha]

Hi! I saw your post on sound in movies. I'm actually at a communications school rn and one of the first things we learned is that people will tolerate poor video quality if the audio is good, but they won't tolerate great video if the audio is poor. This is literally film school 101, so I don't understand why professionals would throw this idea out the window.

i absolutely believe people will bail on bad audio because i bail on bad audio all the time and people still watch that GOT prequel while making hboturnonthelights trend on twitter but i made a text post about a different message I got before that was not as nice as this one but about the EXACT same thing but made a typo in it so I'm unfortunately using you as my redemption arc. for the typo. i edited the post but i think it was too late.

anyway.

you'd be surprised how much of the stuff you learn in school evaporates out your brain cavity the second they give you that sheet of paper that entitles you to one extra sentence in your resume.

[termagax]

i dont think hog has any problem egging them on when they get like that (genuine murder threats). because like he knows they wont do it. and he can kick their ass handily if he ever thinks they will. and if they surprise him well then he is dead and it aint his problem anymore. literally no way for him to lose in this scenario so its just kind of an excercise in torment for the fish.

[vibinwitch]

I watch too much YouTube, I know this because I actually read the comments and engage with Tumblr post readers on YouTube like my YouTube account is just another blog which ALSO means that sometimes I will just be shit posting under YouTube's allowable shit posting guidelines

and I will accidentally stumble across some of the truly most brain rotted humans imaginable just freely saying whatever awful garbage comes to mind and then find out they're actually a highly offended older person who is genuinely probably more used to rage baiting younger kids into defending themselves online

I just genuinely apologized for offending the old man and I haven't seen a response yet but they been real quiet since that dropped but even if they respond I don't really care to keep feeding that energy

I can't read this kind of post aloud to anyone I know because in retrospect all of that is unhinged behavior