#but if I’m remembering correctly

[80yearoldmanmoodboard]

The Yukon Affair S2 E14

[sparebutton]

The Marvels spoilers without context

[under-lok-n-ki]

saying a mean thing DOES hurt more gilly has a point

[kagayakuseiza]

I was just curious and decided to make a poll. Unfortunately, I couldn’t list them all, but tried to include the more well-known titles.

[looking-for-wisdom]

I’m curious to see how betty’s expedition is handled in the long term for the show, in the sense that it’s clearly meant to be symbolic of their relationship. I’ve seen some analysis which points to what I feel may very well be the direction the show is going — that Betty is always making sacrifices for Simon, and he lets her.

But the thing is, I don’t feel that’s a fair consideration of the events. She asks to go on the expedition with him, tells him she doesn’t want credit for their discovery, and — when he finds her at the bus stop — she doesn’t ask him to come with her.

And this pattern continues into the main series. She jumps through the portal of her own volition and proceeds to dedicate herself solely to saving Simon. The temple of mars episode really puts it best. She’s flat out shown how she does everything for him, and she says that’s how she wants it. That it’s what makes her her.

That’s not to say Simon didn’t play a part. He’s certainly not particularly observant, and he’s much less prone to taking the initiative. But he clearly adores Betty and thinks she’s brilliant. He only ever opened the portal to apologize. He naturally would have wanted her to be happy and successful.

In the series finale, he’s the most content to be digested by golb. it seems like a natural outcome to him — and this way, they get to be together.

The two of them sort of work by the laws of physics. Betty is constantly in motion, making choices to propel them forward. And simon is at rest. He’s usually content with his fate, unless a strong force comes in to change his status quo.

Both of these features are taken to a detrimental extreme at times, but neither is more malicious than the other. sometimes, Betty makes choices without stopping to ask if it’s what he wants to. sometimes, Simon lets opportunities slip by that stifle them both. They’re human, and they didn’t really get the time they needed to learn how to communicate through these things.

I think to argue that Simon let her be self sacrificing disservices them both. Betty is fully capable of making her own choices, and Simon is more than willing to make sacrifices of his own. He did it for Marcy and Fionna. He’d do it for Betty too — but she never leaves an opening.

For better or for worse, they’re two halves of a whole. In the best of times that means they enhance each others best qualities. And, on the flip side, they wind up enabling the worst.

[cinnamonglaive]

Worm 25.3, “ I was sitting here, a little cold, wishing I’d saved a little something from the lunch I’d packed into my plastic Alexandria lunchbox.”

?????? Bro????? She’s eating lunch out of a collector’s item depicting the woman she killed??

[octtinkk]

Inscryptober 2023 Week 3 - ANCIENT HISTORY

Idk I was thinking like…a card with history? Not exactly ancient but still.

[ghostatrandom]

B4 with your fav ship!

Varigo. Like idk if I truly have a fave ship but they are the parasites that infestated my brain for a very long time. The creatures ever.

Also idk if I have been not paying attention to the fandom but I feel like it’s having a renaissance in the year of our lord 2024 like idk I have seen a lot more vat7k fanart

[sableeira]

holy shit if there is no way to detach Fyodor from the body he has taken over, Bram is the first character named after an author who played a significant role to die in the bsd main manga

[silverfoxstole]

With regards to the Doctor constantly being described as tall in the EDAs I was interested and briefly heartened to find this exchange when skipping back through Seeing I:

‘I dunno,’ said Orin, ‘I kinda figured he’d be… well, taller.’ ‘He acts tall,’ murmured Sam. She thought of the spindly figure who’d unfolded himself upon entering the TARDIS, who’d stumbled off down a dark corridor looking as if he wanted to curl up into a ball. ‘Usually.’

Unfortunately the feeling was only brief and we’re back to normal with the same authors in Unnatural History:

‘Who the hell are you?’ asked Sam Jones. A tall, slender man wearing fancy dress stared back at her through the chain on her door.

*head desks*

[redribbonboshi]

the BIGGEST problem with mako mermaids is that it made a man the focus of the show. like bruh why’d they suddenly involve a male mermaid where he didn’t need to be. and then made him equally if not more powerful than the girls????

show us who was on the team

[mearchy]

I know there are ardent Mace Windu defenders on here so can you guys explain why Mace Windu Did That with the Boba Fett situation. That is a genuine question and my biggest hang-up, I’m desperate to understand his thought process. Like, it would be considered a radically conservative move HERE in OUR WORLD to decide that a deeply traumatized 13 year old raised by a criminal who was then guided by a gang of adult criminals into committing acts of terrorism should be thrown into a HIGH SECURITY ADULT PRISON for YEARS as a punishment. How does Mace the monk in the religious order of justice not step in even nominally and go “hey this doesn’t seem wise or just. In fact this is deeply immoral. Why don’t you put this kid in a high security rehabilitation clinic. Why don’t you get him some therapy.” In fact if I remember correctly (?) Windu actively endorsed this course of action. In-universe explanation?

(Not an invitation to argue that trying kids as adults is morally right if what they’ve done is Bad Enough so they can be punished like adults. Because a) you’re wrong and b) shut up. Go read about prison reform. That’s not what I’m asking.)

EDIT: ANSWERED!!

[theshadowrealmitself]

At all times I am shaking with the need to see Vulcan plants, like, in order to sustain a vegetarian diet for every member of their species the plants have to be bountiful, but also, pretty much all of Vulcan is a desert, right? so it’s desert plants, and I just want to see some funky alien desert plants please please please please please pl-

[lotus-pear]

hey hsr mutuals can you guys lmk when aventurine comes out so ik when to come back to the game? yea. thanks.

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

I really hate how it was implied that in MW3 Farah finally got the peace she deserved only for it to be taken away like fuck you writers and fuck you Makarov

[kelpermoosee]

You’re telling me…out of all the animatronics in this franchise, my favorite character is the homeless child???