#but yeah please this show is my obsession

[the-woild-is-ya-erster]

Are we still into Random West Endsies Notes because I have a THING.

So. We've at least mostly established how great Michael Ahomka Lindsay is as Jack, buttt here's a whole other reason to love his Jack.

I call it the 'dream stance' because I need a name for every. little. detail

It first happens during the Santa Fe Prologue, and it's a little bit of blocking which has Jack leaning over the edge of the railing - arm outstretched and grasping at thin air, his upper body at a whole angle that almost looks like he's gonna fall off the 'penthouse'

And then it happens again during Santa Fe - when he starts talking of the place, as he leaves his NYC mindset and enters his deluded dream, he stretches out again, over the barrier, trying to separate himself from the cold metal of Manhattan. It's especially striking here, with the yellow sun in the background?? It's so good.

I'd kind of established it as a Santa Fe thing, representing his want for escape and freedom and all that, but then

It happened in the Watch What Happens (Reprise). It gets to the bit where he finally allows himself to believe in the strike again, and as they sing 'get those kids to see/we're circling victory' he enters that same pose again, but grounded this time, on the floor, and stable

He just reaches out his hand and leans forward, still grasping at air but no longer in a position that seems dangerous. Then I realised it was a stance to show his dreams, and therefore how they changed

It's at this point that Jack realises (and its visually represented to us) that Santa Fe is no longer Jack's dream - it's the strike and the welfare of the newsies, it's Katherine and Davey and Crutchie and Les, and romance and friendship and family

[onaperduamedee]

Your whole life, you've always known what you wanted to do. Yet now, I'm looking at you, and I don't think you have any idea what you want to do next.

[sampegger]

do you guys think the writers would have taken it more seriously if it had been alastair around relentlessly tormenting dean in late seasons as opposed to lucifer with sam

[icewindandboringhorror]

Just curious what the average level of personal investment in these sorts of things is. Like, how much do people usually get into silly stuff like this their friends ask of them? etc. etc. Which I know, only surveying a small sample on a very specific website means I'm not getting an exact average idea lol, but.. curious nonetheless .. Maybe reblog for bigger sample size but also this is not very serious at all/not worth a call to action gbhjbhjb

[nalyra-dreaming]

So, I was sent one of those "we're hating on Nalyra dissecting her posts without actual engagement" posts...

You know what? It's becoming pathetic.

Because without going to my blog, copy pasting, pulling shit out with bad understanding and willful worst interpretation you guys would have nothing to talk about, would you.

If you had ... you would be able to discuss things without doing that.

But you can't, can you. It's alllllwwwayyyyyssss just pulling my posts up, my asks, whatever.

No wonder I have the lot of you blocked.

Which, btw, makes this even MORE pathetic.

Imagine being blocked, not even being able to see any of my posts on your main, and then making burner accounts to spy on me to hate on me.

I mean, by now I probably should take it as a compliment, lol.

But JFC please find a hobby.

[sciderman]

dr peeper blocks ur peeper

😔

[torybrennan]

show tempe gang crossover with the morris islanders would actually have been the best episode of bones ever. btw

[syncogon]

hibike euphonium s3 ep 12 - HOLY SHIT

i was doing the "can i guess who's who" and from both narrative and sound editing and in-universe-vote perspective i was pretty sure kumiko was the second player so when rEINA PICKED THE FIRST-

[popsicle-stick]

People who say "I wish Jack Seward was the same except he wasn't running a lunatic asylum and being a problematic psychiatrist :/" you don't want Jack you want a The Big Bang Theory character.

i think, for me, he's just utterly, painfully human. i've said the same about jonathan before, but if you're not taking the whole of the character, malpractice and all, what IS the point lol.

the internal war that jack seems to be constantly fighting feels like a shadow of the myriad self-arguments that stoker seems to be making within the novel dracula itself. which is interesting! and implies that, along with multiple other characters, that a fair amount of stoker himself went into him - and really uh. recontextualises some of his relationships with the other characters.

like i DO emphathise deeply with his reclusive, obsessive nature, love him for his loyalty to his friends and genuinely selfless actions, and yet the deeply uncomfortable parts of his character - the parts that stem from the obsession and reclusion and self-dislike - are just as as integral to him, and make him a far more interesting character to pull apart. his selflessness is real! yet the other side of it - the separation of self, the self loathing, his self destructive habits - tie deeply in with this. the fact that they manifest how they do - in his use of renfield, a powerless individual obstensibly miles below him in the asylum's social ladder, as some kind of unwilling sounding board for his own mental illness illustrates the mundane nature of evil that lurks, whether stoker intended or not, at the edges of the book. not only does he not recognise the humanity of those in his power - he often refuses to recognise his own. his examination of renfield comes across as a kind of self-examination, in which renfield himself is purely the neglected victim in the fallout. he keeps trying, but his attempts to divorce himself from his own humanity - the good and the uglier side - belie just how agonisingly human he is.

tl;dr: he contains multitudes

[wayward-sherlock]

my byler hyperfixation is slowly fizzling out and im crying about it bc i want it back so please send me any byler fics/art/pics/posts that make you happy so i can get back in the byler mindset please

[whumpberry-cookie]

I'd like to introduce you to Shiro

Whump reccomendation - Voltron Legendary Defender

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Shiro is the Leader of the Heroes (VLD). Also the cinammon roll ready to sacrifice himself for his friends.

Look at him. Look how caring and gentle this giant is.

It would be a shame if this fatherly buffy fluffy figure was main whumpee of the whole series, getting kidnapped, electrocuted, experimented on, forced to fight on te arena, restrained by wrists to the ceiling, of course relieving trauma with hallucinations and other fun stuff.

But he was.

He was a perfect Whumpee.

Leader Whumpee.

Yas.

I still love him.

[konfizry]

He would not fucking say that but listen,

[blagueofchaos]

I made a new header and icon! There were lots of great ones in the tags but I had a Vision and decided to go for it, and I'm really pleased with how they turned out. Well, admittedly the edit on the header is a liiittle janky, but that was kind of intentional with the half-baked 2000s-y vibe I was going for, really. Feel free to use them on your blog as long as you credit me :)

[running-in-the-dark]

sooooo

I'm 32 now

when can I expect to finally grow out of getting obsessed with men people stuff? I'm waiting....

[todayisafridaynight]

my only crime in finding jingu hot is that his voice is fuckin grating i may be deranged but im not delusional

[aenslem]

'i can handle the mother' is such a quote when you say it about michelle gomez like yes, please, handle her hard