#ep1 is out and I like it 😊

[kumapillow]

help him 😭😭

[serotoninzo]

to anyone who was a fan of wilbur or liked lovejoys music, here are some recommendations!!!!

(i must warn you that my music taste leans more towards rock/alt but i still have a lot of indie as well)

-wallows

-djo (it's actually great, not just the tiktok song)

-TopLady (my personal fav is Green Light Red Light)

-bikini kill, my beloved.

-current joys

-dayglow

-beabadoobee! (specifically her song, 'talk')

-gorillaz

-tame impala (i think their music is cool)

-brent faiyaz

-miguel

-the beaches (their song blame brett is addicting, for me at least.)

-ezra furman (mainly their song, lilac and black)

-the runaways

-CROWDED HOUSE 🙏🙏

-HOT FLASH HEAT WAVE (THEIR SONG HESITATION IS SOOOOOO 😩)

-yot club!

-peter bjorn & john (their song young folks is good, you might have heard it in gossip girls ep1, s1)

-empire of the sun (i recommend their song we are the people)

-wolf alice! (don't delete the kisses is popular, i think)

-song telephones by VACATIONS

-vance joy

-the drums (especially their song 'money', it reminds me of yot club)

-carwash (their song striptease is sososososososo good 😊)

-slowdive

-pinegrove [i think this one is controversial but i can't remember:( ]

-no buses by artic monkeys (this is a classic/popular band, you probably already listen to them)

-MICKEY DARLING (recommend their song im just a buzzkill and big sad)

-ladyhawke (mainly their song 'my delirium', i must warn that this artist is under the genre pop, just incase if you aren't looking for that)

-JAWNY (if you don't know who that is, one song that is well known is, 'trigger of love'.)

-WILLIS (i like their song, 'i think i like when it rains)

-Cottonwood Firing Squad (personal fav song of theirs: hospital beach)

-the daughters of eve (a classic, especially the song 'hey lover')

-fall out boy (i love them ❤️)

-EYEDRESS (i believe their song 'jealousy' is popular)

-Dream, Ivory. (i have so many favs of theirs but my no.1 is their song 'welcome and goodbye.')

-dr.dog (this is a rock band, their song, 'where'd all the time go' is popular, especially among the outer banks fandom.)

-cocteau twins (their song cherry coloured funk is a must)

-cherry by chromatics

-boygenius!!!

-big thief

-big black car by gregory alan isakov (this is folk not indie but it's still good)

-awfultune! (popular songs of theirs would be i met sarah in the bathroom but i also recommend their song redesign.)

-milky chance (their no1 hit was stolen dance)

you could also listen to the neighbourhood but less known songs (fallen star, jealou$y, etc.)

sorry if majority of these are rock/alternative, i have a variety of music genres i listen to but rock happens to be my number 1.

you might not like these recommendations but hopefully they give you an idea of what to look for.

anyway, sending lots of love and support to shelby and wilbur soot's close friends, i can't imagine what it must be like to discover someone who was a big brother, etc to you was so horrible to his own girlfriend. genuinely disgusting.

i will forever miss wilbur soot but i will not miss william gold.

i will miss the times when he'd play geoguessr or when he'd make silly jokes but i will not miss him being a literal abuser, groomer, etc.

i don't wish death on him however.

i hope he learns his lesson. i also hope he takes actual accountability, instead of whatever that shit 'apology' was. it literally overtook colleen ballinger's ukelele apology ffs 🤦‍♀️

[goldfish-or-smthing]

The Tedependent Masterpost

Essentially my deluded ramblings as to why I’m a Tedependent truther 😊

DISCLAIMER: I love TL and no matter what direction the writers take S3 in I will be on board! This is just a theory from some lil' details I noticed 😊Also so that if I turn out to be right I can say I told you so :o but if I’m wrong uhhhh.. you never saw this

Some various important notes before we get into it:

Firstly, I think it’s pretty likely that sexuality will come up in some form in S3. It fits in really well with the previous themes of the show (masculinity, mental health, relationships with fathers etc). TL has tackled some other issues such as the portrayal of mental health in sport but they haven’t mentioned sexuality yet despite it being a big topic (there’s only 1 out gay footballer… which is INSANE.. there’s a LOT of homophobia in football). So it makes a lot of sense for this to come up during S3. A lot of people have also theorized that Colin is gay and although I’m not going to go into that now I think it’s pretty likely and considering that Colin was one of Nate’s main “victims” (for want of a better word) it’s also likely that he’ll be more prominent in S3, perhaps even being a big part of Nate’s comeuppance. There’s also various rumours of Trent (and some say Colin too?) being seen filming at a gay nightclub in Amsterdam…

Here's an excerpt from an article interviewing Cristo Fernández, the actor who plays Dani Rojas, about the themes of season 3:

Interesting stuff....

In terms of whether or not Ted will have a romantic relationship in S3 I think it’s pretty likely through the “rom-communism” speech and how generally wholesome the show is that Ted will end up in a relationship at the end- especially as it would be very satisfying for Ted to start the show in a bad relationship and end it in a healthy one. Also the teaser dropping on Valentines is very…… interesting. Despite this it could be argued that Ted has to go through more personal growth before he’s ready to be in a long term relationship and with Ted most likely leaving for Kansas at the end of S3 he might not be in a good position to get into a new relationship. This is probably one of the biggest holes in this theory- whether Ted is ready for a relationship in S3. If he is though, I can think of someone who would be a very good option…

Before we talk about Trent though (yes there still is more to address) we need to address the other main option- Rebecca. I think it’s pretty unlikely that Ted will end up with Rebecca. Firstly it’s very cliché and the writers know that people expect Ted and Rebecca to end up together. They teased it in S2 before the Sam bantr reveal which felt to me like the writers saying that they know it’s what people expect but that they’re choosing not to go that direction. Speaking of Sam, although he and Rebecca technically ended S2 not together it’s very clear that that arc is not over yet and that’s still something that has to be dealt with in S3. Ted and Rebecca’s relationship is an incredibly valuable representation of close friendships/platonic relationships between men and women, and I think the writers understand this too:

To be clear, I don’t have any problem with people shipping Tedbecca! I actually think it can be quite a cute ship, I just don’t think it’s likely to happen in canon.

Now onto the fun bit! All the evidence!

I don’t think it’s in question that Trent is gay so I’m not really going to cover that here apart from saying that he leaves the pub with a man he’s seemingly on a date with an if you’re still not sold that he’s gay… just uh…. Just look at him..

First some quickfire evidence:

Ted calls Trent “baby”! s2 ep3 3 mins in! crazy stuff

S2 ep1 at about 6:20 Ted says “Trent Crimm, bringin’ that heat”- a reference to the very spicy Indian food they ate together

They speak more often than we see off-screen- we have the iconic “love our chats!” line implying that they have conversations outside of the show and Ted makes Trent’s daughter biscuits (s1 ep9 27:40), showing that he’s not only met Trent’s daughter before but is meeting her again soon to give her the biscuits

Slightly less quickfire evidence:

There’s a lot of similarities between Trent and Rebecca- this post details some of them, but there’s also similarities in lines- in s1 ep3 Ted says to Trent “watch your back Gay Talese there’s a new iconic profile about to be typed up by one Trent Crimm” then on s1 ep9 Ted says to Rebecca “watch your back Kate Moss there’s a new bad girl on the British modelling scene”. They also have very similar hair (look at the first two gifs of the above post), and the only two people Ted makes biscuits for on the show are Rebecca and Trent’s daughter. I believe this is a way of twisting the expectation that Rebecca and Ted are going to end up together to have Ted end up with someone similar, but not who people expect.

Some silly little scene analysis:

The first scene I’ll be talking about is s2, ep7, at about 31 minutes in. Before I go into depth about the details of this scene I’d suggest you rewatch it first, but I couldn’t find a clip of it on Youtube so just go to that timestamp. The first line in this scene is very strange- it’s Mae saying “If music be the food of love play on, give me excess of it”. This line seems completely pointless- it’s not really a joke, nor does it serve to further the plot or develop Mae’s character. But as I will repeat many times and cannot emphasise enough- lines in this show don’t get used lightly. This line is actually the opening line to Shakespeare’s most famous romantic comedy, Twelfth Night. And this line is used at the beginning of a scene with Ted and Trent when there’s seemingly NO REASON for it…. (I’m not going to get into the Shakespeare analysis now but if you want me to I will make a post about it :D)  We then see Trent saying goodbye to a man he’s on a date with- who has a moustache, no less. And THEN he says “of all the pub joints” which is a reference to the line “of all the gin joints” from the film Casablanca- and (mild spoilers for 3) the episode title of ep 8 is “We’ll never have Paris”, another reference to Casablanca. They end off this scene with Trent saying "Love our chats!". This line is reminiscent of when Ted asked Trent "What do you love?" in the Indian restaurant in s1 ep3, and also implies that they are closer than the show makes them seem.

Another very suspicious moment came at end of s2 ep12, which is the VERY LAST scene with Ted in the whole of S2. It’s also sandwiched in between the scenes about the other 2 major romantic relationships in the show- we get Sam and Rebecca, then Trent and Ted, then Roy and Keeley… Which in my opinion is a deliberate way of laying out these scenes to imply more about Trent and Ted’s relationship. Before I go on to talk about it here’s the clip for context: https://youtu.be/fF3A7XSk2HU (it’s pretty low quality so if you want to you can watch the clip at 44mins into s2 ep12). I think Trent waiting outside for Ted speaks for itself, but then there’s the line about the bike accident, where we learn that Trent doesn’t know how to ride a bike. Lines in this show are rarely used lightly and this is likely suggesting that we’ll get a scene of Trent learning how to ride a bike (potentially in Amsterdam?!). We then learn that Trent - and now I want you to listen closely on this part- has thrown away his entire career in journalism and his chance to ever work in journalism again by telling his boss that he revealed a source. And why did he do this? For Ted (...mostly. he has other reasons for leaving as well but...). Not only is this literally insane but by having Trent quit his job the writers have removed the only major barrier to Trent and Ted being in a relationship- whereas previously this might’ve been unethical because Trent was a journalist covering Richmond, that’s now no longer an issue. And then Trent has locked his keys in the car- which shows either how flustered he was when waiting to see Ted or could be implying that he’s here to stay.

Sorry for low quality but look at them. That is a normal way for two straight lads to look at another guy right?

Bits from some interviews:

Conclusion:

Some would say that I'm mad. I'd argue that if you look at the evidence there's a solid chance that Tedtrent could happen in Season 3- the sneaky little references to Casablanca and Shakespeare as well as literally the whole of their last scene together sold me the most tbh. It's hardly debatable that Trent has a crush on Ted, but I believe (hehe) that it could be reciprocal- there's not much evidence that Ted is bisexual, (references to queen and the frequent appearance of their songs as well as the choice of NSync's song "Bye bye bye" which is frequently used on the internet to mean "Bi bi bi") but then again, there's not much evidence that he's not. I feel like I could go on and I've definitely missed some things but this post is already far too long (1.6k words) and I need to stop!

I’d be interested to hear everyone’s thoughts and opinions, and feel free to drop a comment telling me how deluded I am because in all honestly I probably am…. Or am I………….. guess we’ll find out in season 3!

If I’ve missed anything please lmk!

EDIT: ohhh my god I forgot- The scene w/ Ted and Trent at the end of s2 happens in the Richmond car park- just like Roy and Keeley in s1. And Ted met Michelle in a car park :)

UPDATE

[coredrill]

ok i lied i watched the first TWO eps of edgerunners LMAO

ep 1 thots:

VIOLENT MURDER IN THE FIRST MINUTE LMAO LOVE TO SEE IT

david experiencing sex in the first four minutes and immediately saying “cut the shit” YEAH HE WON ME OVER ALREADY LMFAOOOOO

i was taking notes in my phone and during david’s first convo with his mom i literally wrote “yoko’s gonna fucking die :(”

I LOVE COLORS

i want access to wakabayashi’s spotify account!!!!!

there is literally a man with gold-plated gloves they are NOT pulling their punches on this one huh! just like prmr w its hatred of ecofascism tbh

mom and david having different goals :(

i think david has adhd <3

good god. you can really tell this was written by not-trigger!!! for one the storytelling is very americanized imo, like i was able to predict everything that was about to happen and with nakashima (& other trigger writers) all i can predict is “some kind of alien reveal 60% of the way thru” LSDKJF. but like also iirc trigger has mentioned how they didn’t want to double down TOO hard on the whole bigotry/genocide aspects of prmr and wallow in that bc they wanted the movie to remain fun, but like, not a second of the first ep goes by when you’re not reminded of the situation david is in due to being poor (and also being born on the “wrong side of town” which i assume is a thing from the game but idk)

yukiko kakita. absolutely KILLLING the color design here, holy shit everything’s so bright and vibrant and there are so many colors. I LOVE COLORS!!!!!! but truly what else is to be expected from the color designer of prmr and bna and the twins!!!!! LIKE!!!!!!!! best in the business for real

ofc the first thing trigger animates is two sex scenes 😭

some of the slang is ROUGH lmao i assume it’s also from the game but still

WHERE ARE LUCY AND REBECCA I WANT INSANE WOMEN

also i still think david’s gonna die in ep 6-7 CALLING IT NOW

ok so overall this ep was fine but it felt pretty rote in its story (but like, it’s not trigger writing so obv) and also??? aside from the colors and designs i feel like it hasn’t REALLY played into imaishi’s strengths as a director yet but i’m hoping it’s cause it���s just starting out and there will be batshit occurrences later on

ep 2 thots:

me “i’m gonna watch one ep per day 😊” also me “i want to see the op and i also want insanity so two eps 😊”

I AM NOT IMMUNE TO GUY WALKING LEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!

i do LOVE the shots from inside david’s dryer they are so niceeeeee

lucy being a few inches taller than david WE LOVE TO SEE IT

david using the ;) emoji I AM ENDEARED.

crimes hell yes

SO AT THIS POINT MY FRIEND FINISHED WATCHING EP1 AND TEXTED ME AND POINTED OUT THAT THE SEX MACHINES HAD MULTIPLE HANDS WHICH I DID NOT NOTICE 💀

the scene on the moon was so fun and cute :( like i know they’re gonna have david and lucy get together but i thought this was fun despite that :(

BRO THEY GOT ME. i was so focused on lucy carrying the visual motifs of nia and lio and being the ~love interest~ that I FUCKIN FORGOT ABOUT NOVA LMAO. anyway yes girlbetrayal equality ✊

also i really love the like (at least at this point) subverting of expectations trigger has done w the visual motifs and storytelling that they usually rely on? like idk i thought lucy was just gonna be “the love interest” (not to say that nia and lio obviously aren’t more than that but like, just w the way lucy had been set up to that point i figured 10eps they were gonna just have her and david be together LMAO) but then BETRAYAL and also how they have ANOTHER yoko expy who is not just the mom friend but AN ACTUAL MOM but unlike yoko and aina (edit i forgot the kizuna girl lmao but her too) she dies :( idk i’m having fun w it so far!!

THE TRANSITION BETWEEN DAVID GETTING THE SHIT SMACKED OUTTA HIM TO THE ROCKET LAUNCHING THAT WAS PERFECTION!!!!

the ending animation is lovelyyyyyy i love the design and the purble and i want to know EVERYTHING ABOUT LUCY. TELL ME ABOUT HER I WANT TO KNOW WHO SHE IS AND WHAT SHE’S BEEN THRU

i liked ep2 a LOT more than ep1 personally. excited to watch 3 (and prob 4 akjdsf) tomorrow!!!!

also side note my friend texted me images of kamina, sanageyama, galo, and david and said “the trigger male character cinematic universe prevails!” and first of all LMAO HE’S SO RIGHT BUT ALSO. he’s only seen the first 2 eps of ttgl and I CANNOT WAIIIIIIIT FOR HIM TO LEARN THAT KAMINA DIES >:) ONE DAY LMAO. i feel like it’s gonna knock his socks off >:)

[thisbetternotawakenanything]

Your clothing succession analyses are very intriguing and pleasant to read :) I wonder if it’s actually intentionally that deliberate in the show or not

My first ask! Thank you 😊. Without getting too personal I know just enough about the way film and television production design works to know it absolutely can be! And a good costume designer will make it so, if their director/show runner gives them the scope.

There’s obviously a gradient of potential meaningfulness in costume design, especially in contemporary stuff where it’s less obvious as opposed to making clothes from scratch for a fantasy or historical. On a ‘fashiony’ show like Gossip Girl or Sex & The City the aim is to help sell current clothes while also doing story telling. The story might be slightly secondary when people actively want their clothes on your show because it’s a hit.

On a more prestige and excessively detail oriented show like Mad Men the costumes were a whole character unto themselves. Tom & Lorenzo’s analysis of Mad Men’s costuming as it relates to the rest of the production design as well as the character arcs is one of the best things out there on TV costuming. Worth a Google!

And then on something like Game of Thrones where you’re making stuff, it’s going to be very story and character driven because you’re not selling leather wildlings armour through a Banana Republic brand collaboration (a thing which Mad Men eventually did! Such was the power of their costuming to take hold of the zeitgeist)

But that’s why Succession is so interesting to me, it’s occupying a space where the more aspirational fashion elements happened through the audience response, so it’s leaning into that now. They increased their wardrobe budget after season 1 and are now a qualified ‘hit’ so will have access to more things to populate their rich people world with but they do seem to be very story driven first, audience aspirational fashion second. The interviews I’ve read with the costume designer confirm this. Especially for the menswear, which takes a keener eye to distinguish most of the character beats hidden within. Like Tom’s puffy vest at Argestes that Roman mocked him for vs his new vest from S3 Ep1&2 which is not puffy at all. He’s learning! And my earlier costume analysis of Tom’s turtlenecks being a desperate copy of Shiv was confirmed in an interview I linked later, so the costume designer was definitely thinking about it to that degree.

In short: I think we can comfortably read a lot into it! And even if it’s not 100% correct, it’s still fun to speculate.

[gunsatthaphan]

Your thoughts so far on FUTS ep1?

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Fish Upon the Sky 🤝 True Beauty

"Change yourself for the better"

This series gives me that kdrama vibe tho

NanPi is cute tho 🥺👉👈 

i mean sure the couple is MorkPi but c'mon so are they

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hi there anons!!!

I watched the ep live which was almost 9hrs ago and istg I’m still out of breath dsjkhsd. It was very chaotic but I liked it!!!! It’s giving me all the crack vibes I need after the emotional stuff from wbl and atots lol and so far I’m into it! 

I relate to Pi and I feel very bad for him. I don’t know True Beauty but I love makeovers so I’m really curious about that part. Also Pi’s crush on Nan is SO CUTE??? my heart 🥺 I was so happy to see Mix again and I’m literally this close 🤏🏻 to shipping them LOL. But I think Mork is an interesting guy as well and I’m really curious about their story. 

I also like that we have such a clear setup. Mork obviously likes Pi and it’s also obvious that he’s the mystery guy who tries to get close to Pi by texting him anonymously. Which is interesting!

So far I’ll give it a 7/10 😊 

xxx

[wlw-lovestruck-fiction]

Ok i've finished to read Yvette S4 Ep1-2 and my tissues.🤧

Ah-ha very funny summary....this isn't funny at all.....

You and MC, you and me......I'm internally screaming:Whyyyyyyyyyyyy....😭😭😭😭

Like a true couple and lovers(Arcana),my precious oversized puppies 😊.

No Trudy this is only Yvette exclusive privilege😤 go away😜.

Both of you deserve the world...my poor Yvette...my poor MC...too.

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Listen MC I love you. But you can be so thick sometimes (like Adrien Agreste) what do you think Yvette is doing for 4 seasons? Being happy with you, you are her everything and more (MC self-esteem is so low my poor girl).

Do it MC's mom and you'll be richer than Uncle Scrooge: who knows why😏?

I'm not crying......I'm not crying...😭😭😭😭😭🤧,like Yvette want Vuzgamad to just dissapear😡.

What do you mean Vinca? I don't like the meaning of this.....

Please Yvette,dont say that i can see hoe your sanity is slowly slipping away😱,why this....how You and MC end like this....it was going so well..😞.

sorry for my lack of eloquence and lack of post mileage but i am having over 9000 heart failure...Right here Right now...whyyyyyy!😭😭😭😭😭😭😵

PS:

1)😰Poor MC,Yvette,Vinca....everyone,poor Trudy too i hope Yvette will apologize to her later, this time she is innocent this time and no i have no doubt about her goodwill and intentions and to Vinca who brazenness aside is a really good friend(she start to warm up to MC sweet).

2)PS:Congratulation Vuzgamad! Along Echidna,MC parents those two jerks of GIL,Ragyo Kiryuin(Kill la Kill) and the whole Begnion Senators{except Sephiran}are among the characters I absolutely hate,😡 your final downfall...i cant wait!!! Ragyo Kiryuin and Vuzgamad mothers of the year😡!Both of You Begoneeeeeee.....

3)For some reason when Yvette yelled at demon ,i feel nothing for the demon but i cant help but drown with my laughs😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Black Comedy to it finest!

4)The heart scene was worth it,for calm and love😻 in admist of madness and wild ride that im sure Yvette S4 will be😱 !

5)I really need my fic request about Yvette and MC now....

😊Tears and outbursts aside,how everyone here?

I'm surviving uni lol just a little bit more until it's over...! 😂😅

And yup, Vuzgamad really does make you want to punch her, huh? Amazing antagonist. She's among the fictional characters I truly hate.

Calling MC as dense as Adrien made my day 🤣🤣 but Adrien still wins, in my opinion. Also! The scene where Yvette helps out at the shop and the one where they go to the house later are my favorite moments in her entire route, rivalled only by the garden scene in (I think) S2. Beautiful. Simply gorgeous. - Mod Jessa