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cherrifire · 11 months
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Fragment headcanons <3
For those who don't know, these are fragments:
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Art credit: me ;)
They are caused by Watchers eating up a player's negative emotions and visualize as these cracks in the body.
Note: I'm going to slap all Double Life fragments onto the heart. It just makes sense. So this headcanon list will be for 3rd/Last/Limited unless there is a special difference (Grian + Pearl + Jimmy + Ren). Just so I don't have to write over the heart several times.
Grian
The only fragment he has stretches across the back of his hands from where he had to beat Scar to death in 3rd Life.
He keeps the Watchers off him for the rest of the series by bringing a silly and goofy vibe to the games though. They hate him so bad so they haven't given him any more fragments. They would rather just ignore him.
Scott
3rd Life fragment wraps around his head like a flower crown.
Last Life fragment hits him in the shoulder then another on the bottom of his foot, spreading inside his body like lightning. (Think Aang's scar from Avatar the Last Airbender)
Limited Life fragment on the left side of his back, giving him a fragment on both sides of his heart. This is due to how hard his heart would have been pounding every time he was hunted for sport.
Pearl
Last Life, Pearl is granted 6 lives and has a habit of using/giving those lives to help Scott, her closest ally. The fragment is small and over the heart.
Pearl's experience in Double Life with heartbreak was so intense, and since she already had a fragment over the heart, her fragment for that season ended up huge. The cracks over her heart are wide and bright. But the Watchers loved her so much they sent her back in even though she wasn't ready. Meaning she held onto her emotions for Tilly and had to be swapped out with Lizzie for an episode.
Limited Life fragment is placed between her eyes and above on her forehead. Like a third eye for being a nosey neighbour and watching.
Martyn (We actually get to see his fragments at the end of Lim Life.)
3rd Life fragment spreads down the cheek like tears for when he cried losing Ren.
Last Life, on the back. The backstabber was backstabbed. He was completely willing to betray Grian in order to get himself, Mumbo, Jimmy, and Impulse somewhere nicer. Somewhere safer. The end. Only for the Watchers to reveal that was never the case.
Limited Life, over the hand his weapon was held in in which he had to kill Scott twice with.
Jimmy
All of Jimmy's fragments spread across his back like canary wings.
Scar
3rd Life, spreads across his chest from where that first creeper blew him up. The first death. Seems rather fitting for the guy who can't keep his shirt on.
Last Life, through his mouth, built from all the lies he spoke.
Limited Life, matching placements with the Clockers on the right forearm like a family tattoo.
Joel
3rd Life, a few small cracks spread around like dog bites.
Last Life, one of the biggest fragments and spread through his entire body. For every kill he got, he got a matching crack as if he was the one who died. His insanity means he has axe, sword, arrow, explosion, and fall damage cracks because with each kill he got worse.
Limited Life, kind of hidden based on just how many cracks Joel has, but starts above his chest and out through the bottom of his foot. Another lightning scar.
Etho
3rd Life, cracks spread from his finger tips up from digging his hands in the dirt to plant dark oak saplings.
Last Life is hard to place a fragment. Because I know he would get one for never giving Bdubs one of his lives but I don't know where that would place on the body. Back of the head for not thinking? Over the heart for the ache of regret? I'm not sure.
Matching fragment with the Clockers but it's on the wrong arm (left).
Bdubs
Bdubs is similar to Grian to me in a case where he brings a very goofy mood to the series. So I want to say he doesn't have a fragment for 3rd Life. Like, he betrays Impulse with 0 remorse.
Last Life, on the back where Grian shot him. That was the moment he realized Etho didn't love him as much as he thought. Shot for doing what he asked and never receiving another life. Etho's name on the tip of his tongue as he dies alone.
Limited Life, Clocker fragment, right forearm.
BigB
3rd Life, similar to Etho, I'm not sure where to place this one. But I think BigB would have a fragment for loneliness. BigB spends a lot of time that season on his own. And it's not like other seasons with lonely characters. Last Life Joel + Scar, Double Life Pearl, etc etc, they all still sort of had someone. Like Joel and Scar still technically had each other + Pearl technically had Scott, Martyn, and Cleo. BigB is mostly just doing his own thing for a good portion of 3rd Life and doesn't join a team till late season.
Last Life, matching stab fragment with Cleo because his betrayal on her hurt just as badly for him.
Limited Life, matching third eye fragment with Pearl for being a nosey neighbour.
Impulse
It's so easy to betray this guy. Both 3rd and Limited Life fragments are on his back from being backstabbed by both Bdub and Martyn. Though, the one left by Bdubs in 3rd life is more prominent and fractured.
Impulse doesn't get a fragment for Last Life. He didn't do much this season and thankfully was able to avoid any huge heartbreak.
Skizz
I think... despite not being in Double Life, Skizz has a huge fragment over the heart. It's not massive like Pearl's despite all 3 fragments being there simply because Skizz is filled with so much love. Love for his teammates and love for even his enemies.
3rd Life, he dies for his nation. Rushing in because he's tired of his friend being pushed around. (I will also never be over how Skizz RAN to Dogwarts when he heard Martyn beheaded Ren. He thought Martyn had betrayed Ren and was ready to CATCH HANDS despite only being in golden armour.)
Last Life, even when team BEST kicks him out, he's sure to stop in the middle of his threats to tell Tango that he's on Skizz's good side. And even though he's mad at his team, when he dies, his ghost watches over them anyway. Being the only one to hear Bdub's final words.
Limited Life we of course got the affirmation station. And when his time was up, he let Etho kill him so his whole team could stay in the game just a little longer even if Skizz could have kept trying for another 20 minutes. He loves so much it kills him almost every time.
Tango
Fragment hidden in his hair for his rage (hot-headed).
For the most part, Tango goes under the radar for the Watcher. His deaths are anticlimactic and there's never enough drama for him. They only pay attention to him when he's angry and this neglect means he holds onto grudges and hosts a furious rage for most people who have hurt him the most. Bdubs constantly being the one to take his lives in Last Life and inflicting the first rage. Martyn just never being a positive presence for Tango's POV meaning he doesn't trust him one bit. Like. Tango is Martyn's most frequent victim with 4 kills.
Cleo
Another case where I'm unsure where to put it. I think Cleo would have a fragment from the stress she had to endure from stealing and hiding Pizza.
Last Life, Cleo gets a stag fragment on her back for being backstabbed by BigB. The thing that makes this fracture special is how it doesn't stay the same. The Watchers forgot to remove part of her negative feelings towards BigB after this betrayal. As the series goes on, this fragment gets bigger and bigger since Cleo never forgives BigB for this betrayal.
Limited Life, Clocker fragment, right forearm. Additionally, part of her Last Life fragment settles down thanks to her short swap with Gem.
Ren
A crack around the neck, fracturing from the back where Martyn beheaded him. Similar to Scar's explosion fragment being important because he's the first death of the series, I think this fragment is also significant since it's the first PvP kill. The first weapon drawn.
Like Skizz, Ren is also a lover. Filled with love, loyalty, and dedication to the people he cares about. His heart fracture spreads across his heart for the same reasons. He would lay his life on the line for his allies. And I think BigB leaving him for Grian broke him so much inside he couldn't return to Limited Life.
Lizzie
She wasn't built for this series. Wasn't built to be killed in cold blood by her soulmate Joel and his red life insanities. But she was healthy enough to be brought because just a little to stand in for Pearl.
Mumbo
He also wasn't built for this series. They snapped him in half bro. Being killed by Grian was too much.
If you disagree with anything or have any of your own ideas please let me know in the comments/tags <3
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greghatecrimes · 2 months
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i always want to read autistic!Thirteen essays <3
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Lightning anon my beloved <3 <3 (Seriously, I always smile when I get an ask from you!) For you, here are the beginnings of my notes on autistic!Thirteen!
For these I worked off of a community-made list of traits commonly found in AFAB people diagnosed with autism. (Said post really helped me out when I was puzzling out if I was autistic or not as well as debating whether or not to seek diagnosis. So it's not anything official like the DSM, but it was written by autistic AFAB people, for autistic AFAB people, and myself and Thirteen would both fall into that category).
[Editing to link: Part 1.5, 2]
First: Traits with Canonical Support/Evidence
Tends to analyze everything constantly. She’s at least always analyzing the behaviors of House & the team, especially in season four when she's still getting to know them.
Often straightforward and practical in nature. (Especially at work for her. Her work persona is is uber-practical and completely different from the "unmasked" moments of goofiness and fun we see from her with Foreman in season five, and at times with House in season six and seven.)
Prone to honesty, has difficulty lying (When she's had the time to script and practice something in advance, she's great at lying. See her lie to House at the hotel in The Dig and the few episodes in season five where she and Foreman made an elaborate scheme to pretend they had broken up. But when she's flying blind and has no time to prepare? She kind of sucks at lying, à la her excuses to get House off her back in You Don't Want To Know, and when the Foreteen breakup ruse falls apart.)
May struggle to understand manipulation, disloyalty, vindictive behavior and retaliation. (I would say this is something she probably only ran into earlier in life, and sort of 'grew out of' as she gained more life experience. Example: when she was seventeen and didn’t understand that her 30 y/o boyfriend was taking advantage of her/didn't love her until well after the fact.)
May be gullible and easily taken advantage of, misled, or conned. (This one is another earlier in life thing that I think she would 'grow out of'/find ways to work around, same as above. But also? She took a car loan with 12% INTEREST. good lord Thirteen, WHY?? That shouts 'taken advantage of by a car salesperson to me'. So maybe it was something to do with this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
May have feelings of confusion and isolation in relation to others (To Foreman in Lucky Thirteen: "She hasn't gone anywhere, and I... feel alone.")
Often has slower reaction times due to need for mental processing. (Her and House's exchange in Don't Ever Change: “You do it both ways, right?” Thirteen stares, dead silent, looking utterly shocked. “...The ultrasound, I mean. You do it both ways. Lying down and standing up.” Plus pretty much every other instance of her Deer In The Headlights face lol)
May find math and numbers easier to deal with due to logic and lack of subjective answers. (This one is more 'potentially' rather than concrete. But she did go into medical/STEM field, and in The Dig we find out that she had a knack for science/physics/engineering in high school. She was good enough to place in the top three in the state-wide science fair her junior year. But like always, correlation ≠ causation.)
Often relates discussion back to self/sharing as a means of reaching out. (She does this with Chase a few times in season six! First telling him she started seeing a counselor after her diagnosis and using it to suggest that counseling might help him post-divorce; and then later telling Chase about her 30 y/o boyfriend when he’s mourning his and Cameron’s relationship and wondering if Cameron ever loved him. She also relates with the patients as a way of reaching out, like in Joy when she tries to connect with POTW's daughter. "Must be hard not having your mom around, huh?")
May have difficulty regulating voice volume to different situations. (I’ve noticed that in certain scenes with House, especially when she’s angry, her voice gets much louder than House's does and at a much faster pace. Some prime examples are You Don't Want to Know: "No, you don't know because I don't know!" and later "I might die. So could you, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow! The only difference is you don't have to know about it today, so why should I?" And in Instant Karma when she goes to House's apartment and loudly/firmly starts the conversation with "Stay out of my life!")
May feel misunderstood and tend to over-explain/ramble in an attempt to compensate for possible miscommunication. (in Instant Karma when she's talking with the cab driver: "Bangkok, that sounds awesome. How long?" "Not sure yet." she pauses, realizes the implication of what she's said (her place will be empty for a long time), and then backtracks to say: "Luckily I have a friend who's staying at my place, taking care of my dog. He's really big. So he needs a lot of exercise." Then she starts over explaining herself again (!) directly after when she tries to say to the driver, "Look, I'm sorry. I don't know you. You're either honest or dishonest. I figured the safer choice is to...")
May be highly intuitive to others’ feelings, although may not appear to react to them ‘correctly’ in social situations (In The Dig: House talking about how he was Cuddy’s weird boyfriend, not Lucas → Thirteen realizes a second too late that he’s serious and then can see the sadness/hurt from the breakup. Instead of adhering to the social norm of “I’m sorry”, she blurts out “I killed a man” to distract him from his feelings.)
Often holds great compassion for suffering. (*Points at the whole show in general* She might not always be outwardly gushy about it like Cameron is, but it's there.)
May try to help, offer unsolicited advice, or formalize plans of action. (We see this in her interactions with patients. i.e., reaching out to the kid in The Softer Side and trying to help, completely separate from the team, when she thinks he's suicidal.)
May frequently reject or question social norms. (Lots of her dialogue, much like House's, goes against what the "norm" was in the early 2000s. For example: her discussions with Foreman and later Wilson about bisexuality.)
Tend to say what they mean. Are often brutally honest, coming off as rude when they do not mean to be. (To Kutner asking about her Huntington's in early season five: "If I wanted to talk about it, why didn't I bring it up?" And similarly, with House in Wilson's Heart: "Yeah, I'm at risk for Huntington's. I've dealt with it." "By not getting tested?" "You are the champion of not dealing with your problems. (...) You're screwing up this case worse than I am!" Finally, in Last Resort: the other ducklings talk about how they feel House's arrogance is going to kill someone. Thirteen goes a step further and comes out with the brutal honesty. "You're a coward. You need to know everything because you're afraid to be wrong. You're so afraid of being ordinary, of being just another doctor, just another human being, that you'll risk other people's lives.")
Often speaks frankly and literally.
May notice patterns frequently (basically a prerequisite to work for House, haha!)
May possess a youthful appearance and/or voice. (she looks very young! However, this can also just be attributed to Olivia Wilde being younger than Thirteen was when playing her. Olivia was 24 when they started filming season four; Thirteen was at minimum 29.)
Clothing style is likely more focused on comfort and practicality, especially in the case of sensory issues. (Thirteen occasionally dresses a bit fancier, but most of the time she's far more casual than the rest of the team (save for House). Usually she’s just wearing a comfortable, casual tee shirt and jeans or plain black pants She dresses up her outfits with simple makeup, a necklace, and cute shoes. She dresses much more comfy/casual than Cameron did when she was on the diagnostics team. See: Cameron's suits/vests, etc.)
This is getting so long that I'm gonna need to make another post for part two: traits that don't necessarily have concrete canon evidence, but that I see in her.
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Oh while Im posting, I finally finished Blue Eye Samurai
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Im going beserk, Mizu set up a condition where he isnt dead "if I dont come back Im dead or Ive failed" and he DID fail. He did not kill Fowler. He got No But.
Akemi got Yes And. Akemi got everything she didnt even know she wanted. "I dont want to run away. I want to be great" and her dad "I raised you", so much dad stuff happening, Mizu is in a murder Mamma Mia here.
Taigen "didnt i kill you" "just look, and then kill me" "if its your fight then its my fight" "we're not finished" is he going to follow Mizu?
I also now desperately want to see Mizu struggling with English fashion. Hes a sneaky Samurai man and the clothing is different the food is different the culture shock is gonma be immense, there's gonna be a whole new racism hes gonna be so far out of his depth.
Akemi with the flames behind her auugghhhhh amazing showstopping. Reminds me of the GoT guys "we wanted to make memorable images" yeah hey you know you can do that *in service of story*???
"Youre only alive bc I will it".
And their turning points. I need to do a proper analysis of akemi and mizu as dramatic foils, but the onryo episode was the midpoint. Akemis gotten a taste of power, but its not going to come this way she wants. Its not going to come in the sexually liberated violent-blade "man" way, its going to be in politics and manipulation. Mizu ... mizu says no revenge is everything to me, and lets Akemi go and makes for Fowler. That was his last chance to turn away. Now Fowlers alive and theyre on a boat together.
What really struck me also is how much Fowler outclasses Mizu. He completely destroys him every fight. First episodes Mizu is like lightning, we're in awe, taking down the dojo and Taigen and the entire army. Half way point, he starts losing. We see the whole slog through Fowlers keep and he barely survives. Last couple episodes hes exhausted and bleeding. Fowler always has the upper hand. "Your bones break like a womans" is the hesitation that gave mizu long enough to get back on top but only briefly. Fowler is such a great villain though, that line and the one about waying his sisters organs "every bite". Shudder.
Thinking about if there are other foils. Ringo amd Taigen? Real-dad and the swordmaker? I wonder if Mizu will learn any english swordsmanship, does his ultimate sword synthesize both his heritages?
Speaking off do yall believe his "mom" was actually a maid? Idk what to think I dont trust Fowler but it does make a kind of sense. Or is it just to keep Mizu intrigued and off balance enough for him to get out of there alive? I bave so many thoughts
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catradored · 3 months
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seriously why did they scrap the athena and posiedon rivalry plotline. here is my case for why it should be in the show
they're emphasizing annabeth's relationship with athena a lot more than it is in the books and showing her lose trust and loyalty to her mother. the perfect defining moment for this? annabeth officially giving up on the rivalry and telling percy she's going to stand by him whatever her mom decides. i have a feeling they're going to include this line in the show because percy has parallel line to it in episode 4, but since annabeth hasn't mentioned anything about poseidon yet and hasn't treated percy negatively due to his parentage it won't hit as hard
it shows annabeth to be flawed and prejudiced, but that she's willing to overcome her faults when pushed. annabeth is still being shown to be prejudiced with how she treats medusa and defends her mother against grover in the arch, but most of what she's saying isn't majorly impacting the team's dynamic. percy notes in the lightning thief that annabeth treats him differently after he's claimed, becoming shorter with him and significantly ruder: "Annabeth still taught me Greek in the mornings, but she seemed distracted. Every time I said something, she scowled at me, as if I’d just poked her between the eyes. After lessons, she would walk away muttering to herself: “Quest…Poseidon?…Dirty rotten…Got to make a plan…”. when annabeth is frustrated with percy in the show, it's because he's asking questions that are obvious to her, which is definitely a part of their arguments in the book! but i think annabeth being automatically crueler to percy because of his godly lineage is important because a lot of annabeth's plotlines are about her overcoming prejudice against others (tyson, rachel), and this adds to her arc of accepting that her worldview is very skewed and not as objectively correct as she would wish. it also adds more personal stakes to her arc of overcoming her bias towards athena
it adds to the dissonance between annabeth and percy's upbringings. especially with percy vocally renouncing his dad in the show, him telling annabeth that her holding a grudge against him for having a dad he doesn't even know is stupid, and then showing annabeth confused about why percy feels no allegiance to his father because she forgets that he is new to the godly world, and the way that percy is confused why annabeth would care about her mother, not realizing that she doesn't have another family member to care about her, would add to what they seem to be making the backbone of the percabeth dynamic this season, which is emphasizing how their different worldviews cause them to clash
on the same note, annabeth holding a grudge against percy simply for being born to a god she doesn't like is stupid and petty. you know what 12 year olds are like? stupid and petty. i am really enjoying the show, but the thing i love most about annabeth is that she unapologetically will be messy and ridiculous and hold grudges for an unreasonable amount of time. dare i say, show annabeth feels a bit too composed. we saw glimmers of how all-or-nothing annabeth's thinking can be in the gas station store scene, and i need more of that energy.
i would like to reiterate that i am really enjoying the show and that i'm enjoying percabeth just as much as i was in the books, and i am saying that with complete honesty. however, with such a major point of annabeth's character being her overcoming bias, why would you take away one of her main points of bias?
i wonder if in the tunnel of love scene we will see her bring up the rivalry. i have some hope that they will! if not oh well, i can't change the show and i'm at a point where i'm willing to go with the flow and watch it without getting upset about what they do. me writing this is not out of frustration, but more of a general desire to analyze the differences between the book and show because it's fun.
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Buck and Eddie standing together at the end of the grave speaks volumes.
Buck putting flowers down while Eddie makes the sign of the cross in blessing.
Eddie: "We're all gonna die alone." (notice he says this after Buck tells him what Natalia said)
Eddie: "That was a beautiful thing Natalia did for her." -> I see you, Eddie
Eddie: "Really? Dating someone you rescued? You know that never ends well." (like I said, she's Ali all over again, but she's also Taylor and Ana)
Love Eddie's eye roll btw.
Buck: "There's something different about her. I feel like she sees me."
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"You know, like she sees me for who I really am and what I've been through."
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"I think she might even see more of me than I see in myself."
Considering what we saw happen on his date with Natalia and how this whole setup is happening, it's obvious Buck is trying to force something here that just isn't reality. This could be the result of the trauma he went through, but he had better immediate chemistry with Taylor when meeting her on an emergency. This isn't where Buck is supposed to be headed (meaning what his endgame will be) and the show is going to great lengths to showcase that. Which is why we have this scene (and Marie being Eddie's Thomas from 2x08 which doesn't surprise me that Eddie is thinking of the long-term future and Buck is still not thinking big-picture yet, not completely).
And sure enough:
Eddie: "Look, I know we razzed you about your whole math skills, maybe I even tried to get rich off of 'em, but to be honest, you haven't been the same since it happened." -> not only is math mentioned again (Buddie) but it's made very clear that Eddie sees how much Buck is floundering & considering what Buck just said about Natalia (who thinks his experience was really cool and exciting) but we didn't see her seeing into him like this, the show is telling you who really sees Buck the way Buck just described
And Eddie has his own realization and looks down at the grave. "But how could you be?" -> he hasn't been the same since Shannon died and he knows it
Buck: "The truth is I still don't know how to act. I am different, but I feel like I have to try and be the same old Buck. Mostly for the sake of everyone else." -> as we already knew, Buck is being performative with Natalia (aka flirting like the same old Buck would do & dating a woman he met on an emergency) & Eddie pretty much called it
Eddie: "You know, you don't have to be anything for anybody. Nobody is ever the same, from one day to the next. Experiences like this, they change us." -> not only is this the absolute truth, he's giving Buck (and himself) permission to be different and not be the same ol', same ol'
Eddie: "So what changed in you?"
Buck: "When I woke up in that hospital, I felt like I had gotten away with something."
Eddie: "You cheated death."
Buck: "My life could have ended. Right then and there, but it didn't. That has to mean something, right?"
Eddie: "It means you're one lucky guy."
Buck: "I don't think I'm gonna get that lucky again."
Eddie: "Well, maybe you don't have to. Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice."
Buck: "Which is why I have to make the most of every single moment. 'Cause from here on out, it's all a gift."
So not only do we have Buck and Eddie being paralleled to two out of the three main couples this episode (Maddie and Chim go through the auditing together, Bobby is there for Athena when her suspect dies unexpectedly) but we get this scene. And this scene is SO important. Not only from what I mentioned above but also the very scene itself happening. Eddie and Buck have admitted to the audience that they're different and they were standing together at a fresh grave (recent death -> old versions of themselves/their journeys) and had an emotionally intimate moment. When Eddie said Buck didn't have to perform, Buck jumped at the chance to speak his truth. Eddie asked what changed in Buck and we find out, but Buck also didn't ask Eddie this because through Athena, we found out Eddie has more questions than answers. And we've watched him get answers the past two seasons.
This is why when people say 'oh KR is separating Buddie' and 'Buddie will never happen' I shake my head. Because Buddie has been there all along and strengthening to lead to what we're hoping for, for some time now and this scene literally just doubled down on Buddie AGAIN. The same episode where it looks like Buck might have a new love interest, they're already telling us 'don't get comfortable, this is not here to stay'. By Buck's own words, he's being performative and trying to act like old Buck. In the same conversation he talks to Eddie about Natalia. And then they added how Eddie saw the real Buck in contrast to Buck thinking Natalia sees the real him and how it's important to him.
Literally, I almost expected some heart eyes to pop out in this scene or some sort of self-realization, that's how impactful this scene is for Buddie and how blatant it is. And a full episode after Eddie shot down his own date who mutually agreed.
At this point, we might get Buddie sooner than we think. I get the feeling Natalia will be the last ditch effort/pit stop before we get there.
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grendelsmilf · 11 months
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do you have a good way fo describing why adventure time is so good? I tried explaining to my friends how this was genuinely one of the best shows and they weren’t dismissive but I don’t think of them really took it seriously and I just didn’t know how to explain that this show is amazingly written and truly fantastic
yeah i go thru this a lot. where ppl know better than to dismiss my taste bc i am known for being a man of discernment but they also think my claim that it's like "if the sopranos was better" is inherently silly. which it kind of is, like that's the point when i say it. to make people understand that it expands the limits of television and what the medium can be in the same way that the sopranos did. but unlike the sopranos, that expansion of potential has yet to be replicated by any other show, and i genuinely don't know that that kind of lightning in a bottle collaborative storytelling that is beloved both by commercial audiences as well as the people who Get it (scholars, you might call us). like adventure time would not be the show it is if it had not lasted ten seasons. if we had not gotten an episode in season ten entitled "bonnibel bubblegum" that completely redefines our previous understanding of the character who was already the greatest character on television (ever!) before we were given a new lens through which to understand every single one of her actions thus far. like it's actually very difficult to try to summarize what makes this show so incredible and unique, unlike anything ever else you have ever seen on tv, if you have only seen a handful of episodes, and even more so if you have only come to understand the show through its marketable aesthetics. people see it and think it's a show about a boy and his dog (even though it's more like a dog and his boy, if anything), and they don't realize the fucking layers this thing has! when i talk about this show being a spiral, you could also view that shape from a different angle, and see it instead as (to quote shrek) an onion, adding new layers on as the show continues. and that's a large part of what makes it so unique, that no other show has ever done so much. it's not enough to be a coming of age story about existentialist despair. it's not enough to be an interrogation of gender roles, the patriarchal structure of the nuclear family, and what gender can even mean in a posthuman society. it's not enough to be a deconstruction of fantasy worldbuilding while simultaneously worldbuilding with a grander scope than i have ever seen before or since. literally everything you could possibly imagine has been covered in this show, and with a symbolic importance, interconnectedness, and meaning that you will not see in media that only has time/room to cover one or two topics, that simply cannot weave together every single aspect of its story into a larger narrative that relates everything to everything else, from the smallest parts of existence to the cosmic forces controlling the universe. and also no other show has princess bubblegum. so like, QED.
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ty-in-bedlam · 11 months
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911 Season Six Finale
 I don’t do this, I really don’t. You can look at my rather bare Tumblr page and realise easily that I’m more a lurker of Tumblr fan-pages than anything else.
I apologise for this rant, but I’m not going to take it back, I’m not going to regret speaking my mind about this.
This thing with IMDb? This continuous issue we are having with it? It honestly makes me more angry than the finale did and for entirely different reasons.
The season finale wasn’t, perhaps, what anyone wanted, but honestly? That’s how shows go since the writers can not and are unable to make everyone happy with their decisions. Personally, I have several problems with the finale, but I am not and will not go on IMDb and completely tank the stars on it because I didn’t like it.
911 is in a very perilously position, ladies, gentlemen and other gentle-beings of various gender identities. Fox has dropped them, cancelled them, and it’s only because ABC is willing to pick it up, move it over to their network that we will be having a season seven at all.
However, that doesn’t mean 911 is safe right now, not with the writers’ strike and it being in a limbo right now; not yet ABC’s yet no longer Fox’s, and we need to keep that in our minds.
Why would ABC invest thousands or millions of dollars into a show that’s last episode tanks so horribly? Why should they go through with a season seven when its die-hard fans are tanking it? Why should they go through with all that and give a complete season seven with hope for more seasons if this is the reaction every time they do something we don’t like?
Those are the questions we need to keep in mind as we react to the season finale.
Because I’m so worried about the possibility of 911 being cancelled all out, I went to IMDb and I awarded the episode 9 stars.
Do I think the episode deserved nine stars? No, but I don’t regret giving it nine stars because I don’t want it axed.
Am I happy about the episode? No, not completely. There were things I really liked, little sparks of joy, and there were other things which soured it for me and made me angry.
Will I ever consider it a favourite? No, no it isn’t and will not be a favourite of mine, but that’s my issue, that’s my business, and that’s my opinion.
Do I think it would have worked better, be paced better, if they split it into two episodes like the did with the Lightning Strike and Buck’s coma? Yes, but again, that’s my opinion.
But I’m not going to risk 911 being cancelled because I’m unhappy.
If you are not happy about the finale, that’s fine. But if you want to complain about it? Do it these ways;
Write your fix-it fics, your spite fics, throw yourself back into your favourite AU fics and pretend it didn’t happen.
Hell, go on Twitter and do whatever they do over on that Hellscape because I honestly do not know nor understand that site. (Edit: Apparently don’t do this since a friend told me that ABC will be watching Twitter too, so yeah, be careful with your dissatisfaction and rage there)
Write discourse about it, write your meta, break down why you didn’t like, what you would like to see in your fandom servers and on Tumblr.
Discuss it with your friends, voice your complaints to them or talk it out to your uninterested family member yet emotionally captured audience.
What you shouldn’t do, what you should never do, is take your issues out on the writers, directors, actors and crew for doing their work, for doing something they should be proud of doing, something they built and made for us to enjoy.
And don’t, just don’t, do anything which could cause ABC to back out, to second-guess their decision of taking on 911 and giving us a season seven and maybe more seasons in the future.
Because if ABC backs out? If ABC decides to drop it? Then that episode you hate? The season finale you are raging about in a way which made them drop it? That’s the only ending we will ever get. There will be no season seven to expand on that ending, to fix it or give it a chance to make sense for us as die-hard fans. And that? That will be your fault; it will be our fault.
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vacationship · 9 months
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About Sunflowers & Keats
Check it out, has everyone else gotten this already? Am I just way off/going down a rabbit hole?
I didn’t get the Keats reference before. I rewatched the ep and remembered I had meant to go back and try to understand that line on the bus, when Ted says, is that Keats? after Rebecca says her phone is at the bottom of the canal. She says nope but then Beard nods his head at Ted and Ted’s got this what really no? look on his face. I didn’t understand it but at the time Beard’s nod felt like a parallel to Boatguy saying “yes we did” after a Rebecca left, hinting that they fell for each other or whatever, or the creepy “yes we had sex” which the writers wanted to have crossed our minds. I had wondered if Beard was also implying, yes she seems to have had sex, because she was acting so giddy and relaxed (gawd just writing all this out really shows how badly men can write women! more women writers please!!)… or possibly yes she’s high (because Beard would know).
THEN I figured out the Keats thing. Keats had it engraved on his gravestone “Here lies one who’s name was writ on water” because he imagined he’d be forgotten/washed away after his death. So Beard’s nod was actually a direct answer to Ted’s actual yet metaphorical question, was that Keats? Because that’s a thing between Ted and Beard—references, puns, as well as verifying the correct answer with each other. And you know how Ted mostly looks to Beard for answers. Ted’s real question is, have you forgotten me? His name/his 12 texts and 3 gifs washed away at the bottom of the canal. We all knew he was crushing on her a bit in this episode, lost without her. But the fact that he imagines himself as Keats imagines himself, washed away and forgotten. Oh Teddy! Rebecca answers nope but Beard nods yes—no clarity there, lol, except that Rebecca is maybe just oblivious in the moment to Ted’s weird jokes and Beard is actually picking up on Ted’s feelings.
The fact that Beard in the scene is literally the embodiment or representation of lightening (his costume) would suggest that he not only senses Ted has indeed been forgotten by Rebecca but also that she’s been struck by lightning…with Boatguy. Ugh!! They obviously didn’t really complete the whole predictions thing—it’s left hanging. Boatguy is more gezellig/a little sunshine than lightening, but this scene does seem to link the prediction of lightening to Boatguy, but also continues to link the predictions to Ted! Ted’s messages reaching out to her are lost in the water, the same water Rebecca was drenched in, upside down but safe. The same water Boatguy’s phone was thrown into. Ted is shown in contrast to every other guy, in one way or another in Rebecca’s separate (and mostly unknown to Ted) storyline/quest for her soulmate as foreshadowed by the predictions (saving more on that for another ramble, but just to say Ted himself is a little bit physic and the physic is wearing army green.)
Sad to make this connection about Keats because it suggests that in Rebecca’s quest Ted has now been washed away and Boatguy is the lightening. Beard’s nod is that something big has happened with Rebecca. But I do find it interesting that Ted would even imagine himself washed away—that’s quite a poetic metaphor of unrequited/unresolved feeling for your platonic bestie! Also interesting that Beard would implicitly understand that Ted’s got those kind of feelings for Rebecca, and he’s letting Ted know what he senses going on.
Rebecca will never forget Ted, so her nope warms my heart a little within the context of how she later fought for him to stay.
I don’t know, still just trying to understand what these writers were doing. Was it not that deep? Did they just throw in massive parallels and lots of romantic/poetic allusions and references for the heck of it? To make it cute and genre-bending? Sports show meets rom-com. Different characters get bits and pieces of the rom-com but none of them really get the whole thing? They’re all just completing each other’s stories? Rebecca and Ted are a double act? Their stories parallel and mirror each other and that’s it? All of the parallels and call backs is just meant to show how connected all the characters became, one big happy family under the guidance of Ted? (And Dr. Sharon I will add!!! What if we had more of her…)
Was his messages washing away in the river another Ted was just there to help others and leave his mark thing? Foreshadowing that he would leave Mary Poppins style? And yet be remembered afterall, just as Keats is as well-known a poet as it gets, beyond his wildest imagination. Ted is a larger than life character, that’s for sure. (A Keats gravestone reference also links to how Rebecca’s mom seems to think it will feel for Rebecca that Ted has died when he leaves.)
Sigh. Just so sad this King didn’t get with his Queen. Maybe still? But I’ve lost hope, and at the same time it’s fun to dive deep into this and live in the story a little longer.
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SW: Reacting to a reader with Force Lightning Disease
A/N: Thanks to @jedigeneralmollykestis​ for sending this one in. This is technically part 2 of her ask - the first part / original post can be found here. 
Now, disclaimer, this is technically not a real disease, but Lightning Disease is, and I’m taking it more on the principal that the reader has a condition which means what the ask originally detailed where: “your heart is damaged and you have cardiac arrests through out your life.” 
Yet again, I’m no medical expert and I am making most of this up. However, if I get anything super wrong and you have medical experience, let me know 💕
(Obi-wan Kenobi x Reader) & (Anakin Skywalker x Reader)
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Ok, so, in my mind Force Lightning Disease is similar to ‘lightning disease’, in that it is caused by a great electrical shock causing damage to your heart. 
Chances are you can thank a Sith Lord for the condition - probably Dooku, given his reputation.  
As such, you can bet you’re treated with great respect by your peers for risking your life to face him, and surviving - even if you didn't emerge unscathed. 
Many Jedi carry battle wounds and scars - each of which is seen as a medal in its own right, and yours would be no different. 
I’m also sure there would have been others who would have been diagnosed with such a condition, meaning that the medical team and your fellow Jedi wouldn't be completely without knowledge of what it is and what to do to support you. 
Like with most conditions where your heart can go into cardiac arrest there are things you can do to manage symptoms, even if you cannot necessarily cure it. 
As soon as Anakin and Obi-wan learn what you’re dealing with, they would be right by your side, asking the medical droids for information, as well as hitting the archives, to find out all they can about helping you manage the condition and stay healthy. 
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For instance, these two make sure you have a water bottle on hand at almost every moment of the day, and usually carry one themselves just to be sure. 
They also know the importance of controlling high blood pressure by eating healthy foods. Luckily, the Jedi tend to keep meals simple, but that doesn't stop them making sure you get proper nutrition even in the field - be it via vitamins, some sort of infusion, or just them cooking for you when you have the time to. 
Getting regular exercise is also meant to help, which isn't an issue with these two. They’ll take you for walks in the gardens, run you through drills in the training arena, and even spar with you if you feel up to it. 
They also take great care to help you learn to lower your stress levels, be it through meditation or making sure you have time to rest. 
Obi would also make you some soothing tea whenever he could - which is apparently the key to his calm and patient demeanour (unlike his ex-padawan) 
He also has a clear schedule for any and all medication or medical appointments you may require. 
I think Anakin, given his technical abilities, would also be keen to help when it came to things like maintaining and monitoring mechanical aids, like a pacemaker etc. 
Just like he does with droids, he is constantly tinkering with prototypes for a new devices that will help manage your heart rate and possibly even help re-start your heart if you need it. 
On that note, I think it’s important to say that you couldn't have better company to watch over you, given the Jedi’s gifts. Their natural ability with the force means that they can detect the slightest change with you, and can often pre-empt any cardiac episodes. 
Their gifts also allow them to help heal you, and return your heart rate to a normal pace - making you stable enough for them to move you to get any additional medical help you may require. 
Plus, they won't exactly hate the chance to tease you about giving you mouth to mouth, should the need ever arise. 
You know they do it to help make you feel less conscious, as well as to make you laugh about the fact they get to kiss you in public without people thinking it’s weird. 
They want you to know that they love you and want to take care of you because you're important to them.
They do not see you as a burden or as weak or lesser than, just because of what happened to you and the battle you now face every day. If anything, it makes you braver than most.
They're always there to offer an encouraging word, or give you a much needed hug whenever you feel down about it and promise that they're not going anywhere. 
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H's Series Wrap-Up: Lightning Round!
Heya!
It's me, your very irregular BL rambler H. I've been quite absent from this blog for a little while and as such have neglected to do wrap-ups of various series I have in fact finished watching in the meantime.
As I don't want to make super long posts about every one of them (there are some exceptions), I thought I'd do a relatively quick little review round-up and change up the format a little.
This post will cover: Step by Step, La Pluie, To Sir with Love, and Tonhon Chonlatee (which I watched for the first time purely based on missing Khaotung).
While I have also finished The Eighth Sense, Our Skyy 2 and Love Tractor, those will have their own separate posts.
So without further ado, let's get back into it!
Step by Step (2023)
Tier: A/B
Rating: 8/10 💼🍤
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My thoughts: This series was overall quite enjoyable for me, especially coupled with the facts that 1) I got to watch it with a friend who enjoyed it just as much and 2) it spawned so many amazing meta analyses here on Tumblr. I loved discussing the episodes with my friend and reading everyone else's thoughts and takes every week!
Most things have already been thoroughly analysed in elaborate meta posts, so I don't have much to add besides a general summary of my feelings about this series:
I think the first 9 episodes were masterfully executed - they gave us one of the best slow builds I have seen so far in BL. I really liked the characters a lot, and the office setting was interesting because they used it well to drive the story and conflicts. I was especially charmed by Chot, his tiny side plot that gave me all the feels and the big supportive role he played in the central story. (Bruce lead role when?) This series spent a good portion in my A tier.
However, as many of us have lamented, they dropped the ball a little in the closing arc. After all that amazing build-up, the moment Pat and Jeng got together and how things developed from then on felt a little disconnected from how great the writing had been prior to this. They had blazing chemistry, yes, but it felt like the story was suddenly missing much of the substance and poignancy from before. And let's not even talk about the huge letdown that Jaab and Jen's arc turned into. I don't know what happened. I just know that I was a little disappointed in those last three episodes.
All that said, I think it's still a worthy watch and had truly amazing scenes with stellar chemistry and good acting. I loved many things about it a lot, which is probably the reason why I felt so let down by the writing during that last stretch - by then, my expectations had grown exponentially, which is always a risk with great series.
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I gave this one an 8/10 on account of the outstanding aspects it had, even though I always find it a little hard to overlook when a series doesn't quite stick the landing. 🤷‍♀️
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La Pluie (2023)
Tier: B
Rating: 8/10 🌧☂
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My thoughts: This one did NOT go the way I thought it would go! And I liked that. I remember thinking after episode 2 when Tai and Patts found each other: so...what now?
La Pluie took a totally different approach to what I was used to from the soulmates trope so far. They made the story about conscious choice and communication as opposed to destiny and wordless understanding. Like many of you guys have pointed out numerous times, the concept of destiny hurt everyone involved and was depicted as an obstacle rather than some desirable cosmic power making your life complete when you find your soulmate.
I enjoyed figuring out how the soulmate bonds even work, and I especially liked watching the conundrum the side couple was in unfold. Tien and Lomfon had an interesting dynamic, and I was quite happy to see Suar on my screen again every week - he has been a quiet fave of mine since You're My Sky, where he was excellent as Thorn. I also loved that our girls Nara and Dream got their own little happy ending with each other. That was neat!
As for aspects that weren't my favourite: though Tai and Patts' actors undoubtedly did a great job (I'm thinking especially about their final conflict and break-up), I struggled to connect with the characters and get into their emotional chemistry throughout most of the series. The pacing also felt just a little slow for my taste sometimes, and I found myself putting off watching the latest one-hour episode more than once because it almost felt like a chore. 🤔
However, I never felt like I had wasted an hour of my time after watching, because even when the story got slow, they explored lots of concepts and issues in a way where you could tell the people working on this series have put a lot of thought into it. The storytelling was solid, the characters fleshed out (even if the two mains weren't my cup of tea) and the performances good.
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I'll give this one an 8/10 as well. I would watch a second season about Tien and Lomfon, should it happen, although I would prefer to see Suar in something new.
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To Sir, with Love (2022)
Tier: B/C
Rating: 6.5/10 🍄🔪
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My thoughts: Ohhhhhh boy. To Sir, with Love - also known as The Mushroom Murder Mysteries - was certainly a ride.
To start off, I am somewhat familiar with soap operas from other countries, but hadn't really watched any lakorns before. Soap operas are not usually my thing. I watched this one mainly because I heard some things about it that intrigued me when it was originally airing last year and because I wanted to get a feel for the lead actors of the upcoming Laws of Attraction.
I had a vague idea about the vibe it would have based on what I had seen, namely aaaall the family conflicts, but I still wasn't prepared for its level of melodrama. Some of the acting in this one was truly incredibly over the top to the extent that it took me out of scenes. I'm thinking mainly about second wife lady + maid, or main villain guy. Like....why. Why would they overact about 20 times more than the others? But I am digressing.
What was a truly outstanding and enjoyable factor for me (and probably for everyone, if memory serves) was the unbreakable brotherly bond between our precious cinnamon roll Thian and our heart-of-gold himbo Yang. I simply ADORED them both and all their interactions and the care and support they gave each other. I also loved Thian and Jiu, of course, as well as Yang and Phin together. They were the bright, beautiful stars in a dark night full of judgemental, jealous and selfish people without scruples (read: typical soap opera character archetypes).
They were what elevated the series despite the gripes I had with its directing/writing.
I recommend some alcohol to go with this one. It really helped me enjoy even the ridiculous aspects - like countless murder mushroom powder attacks, the most obvious eavesdropping techniques ever, the most suspicious facial expressions you can make while being accused of things, comical evil laughter... you get the gist.
I feel like I have talked so much about how over-the-top this series is and yet I still put it in an above-average tier that says I enjoyed it. And that's true! I did. I could never regret watching Thian, Yang, Phin and Jiu make it through this debacle and find happiness. I was INVESTED in them, okay? 🙈
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Okay. 6.5/10.
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Tonhon Chonlatee (2020)
Tier: C
Rating: 6/10 🌧☂
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My thoughts: Well, this series is from the pre-Tale-of-1000-Stars days and it certain shows. It did not age well.
There's so much stereotyping, unironic hubby/wifey talk, a flat and annoying faen fatale, and the good old 'only gay for you' trope.
Having said that, I was still sufficiently entertained by other aspects of it that were fun. First of all, the cast was pretty good! Khao was adorable as Chon (and yeah, he was the reason I even started this thing), and all the friends were funny and likable. Neo as Na surprisingly gave me feels, and though I didn't like Tonhon as a character for most of the series, the actor is fine.
There were many genuinely funny shenanigans, and most of them happened with Chon and the chaos bunch he made friends with, which was good, because it meant I didn't have to deal with Tonhon in those moments. 🙄 (By the way....anyone ship Chon with Ai and Nai as a throuple instead of the "intended" couple? Cause I SO did.)
This series was a little over the top and a lot predictable, but despite all that it had cute moments and is by far not the worst I've seen. (Maybe I should do a post rounding up my D-F tier series so that you see what I mean when I say I've seen worse lol).
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Average 6/10, with the pros stemming mainly from my Khao bias & Chon's friends.
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And that is it for today's lighting round wrap-up!
I'll see you guys soon.
Take care!
- H
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andsuperadorable · 11 months
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this’ll be a bit of a ramble, but i needed to get all my thoughts together on this.
just speaking for myself, i think what bothers me so much about buck and eddie isn’t even that they’re not kissing w tongue thought that’d be sick. it’s that there’s just so much unsaid between them. and i didn’t expect or even want all of it to be resolved in the finale, because the tension has been building for several seasons now, and an arc that long in the making and that consequential, monumental, etc deserves to be done justice.
BUT until they do have those conversations, there’s always gonna be a sense of waiting on tenterhooks, and it’ll have a ripple effect on the fans of this show.
CRUCIALLY i think there’s a lot of misplaced anger and people not even realizing what it is they’re frustrated with. because it isn’t or at least it shouldn’t be with the writing or the pace of the narrative, but with the characters and with the pace of how long it takes to see the narrative play out. small but crucial difference.
it’s not bad writing for buck to cling to whoever is closest (as in literal physical proximity) in the aftermath of a trauma, it’s extremely in character! it’s frustrating that he’s kind of a dumbass and hasn’t learned his lesson and has again thrown himself at whatever girl is giving him the time of day at the moment (sorry natalia, you’re gorgeous and cool and you should dump his ass and date me instead) but it’s buck you should be frustrated with, not the writers. and frankly, probably not even buck. emotion isn’t always logical, i can’t tell you how to feel, but this boy is a big twisted up ball of decades of trauma, it makes sense there’d be missteps in unknotting it, thinking you’ve made progress but falling back into old patterns. these things take time to unwind.
and yeah it may feel like god it’s taking forever for these two to just talk!! but again, extremely in character. and when i said upset with how long it takes for the narrative to play out, i mean that on a more meta level. say buddie does become canon, and you were a first time watcher sometime in the distant future who both had the knowledge it was going to happen eventually and the ability to binge it all in one sitting. it’d be a lot less stressful yes! but i think ultimately less satisfying. if this is building to be an epic slow burn love story, it’s going to… gasp, slow?! quelle fucking surprise. i’m guilty of being impatient, but jesus some of you are not built for this.
now obviously a lot of added tension on top of aforementioned tension is the fact that we don’t know for sure that it’ll become canon. it may not! and id be lying if i said i wouldn’t be really sincerely disappointed by that. but you’ve gotta balance having faith and patience and not being so damn fatalistic every time an episode doesn’t end with a declaration of love in the rain with also having a healthy approach. life doesn’t end if these two don’t get together. appreciate things like fanfic and the power of imagination.
i joke, but i try not to operate as though i’m delusional and it’s never happening OR go complete red string board conspiracy truther. and i’d just be wary of being in either the it’s never happening or it’s happening and no one can convince me otherwise camp.
the healthiest way to approach it for me has always been that it’s a possibility. until the screen fades to black on the series finale, it’ll continue to be a possibility. and in the meantime, i’m just trying to enjoy the ride. shipping is supposed to be fun, not fill you with dread!
i do still think at some point, buck and eddie have to talk about it all. the shooting, the lightning strike, THE WILL. and like i said, until that happens there’s gonna be a sense of unease and general people being crazy. and i hope it doesn’t sound like i’m trying to be preachy here, because that’s not my intention. i’m not immune from the tension. i feel it too! i have to talk myself into being patient. i am simultaneously proud of buck and tearing my hair out about him repeating mistakes of the past. i don’t think i’ll feel wholly satisfied until they talk. they make me a little insane!
but god just imagine how good it’ll feel to exhale when they do finally talk.
AND if they god forbid don’t or you can’t wait that long like hop on ao3, seriously, it’s not difficult. if you’re unhappy with reality, make your own reality. use your imagination.
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cringefaildiaz · 11 months
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For clarification, I was a Buddie shipper for the longest time, but because of recent episodes I’ve kinda abandoned ship.
I think that we (tumblr, reddit, Twitter) see the show differently than the general audience. I think there’s a lot of people who dig into things that don’t actually mean anything and call it in the name of Buddie. I shipped them because narratively it made the most sense, but I 100% think the shirt colors/water/beer theories aren’t complete and utter bullshit. Like, I enjoy reading them, but they aren’t anything. These are writers who 1: can’t remember their own details 2: are very open about any sort of metaphor, like the couch thing. The couch metaphor for a relationship was said on screen, it was real. Everything else is grasping. I’m an actor, I’ve gone through costume fittings before, I’ve seen wardrobe trailers, I’ve had a costumer. In a show that’s this expensive and that’s running this long, they will wear the same stuff a few times. Blue and green look best on screen. They can’t use product placement of real items. There’s a lot of reasons for stuff in the show that doesn’t have to do with Buddie and it makes me, and many others, not take Buddie seriously when people say things like “the lightning strike is the baking soda and it’s standing in the way of the beer which is their relationship” Nope. That’s just set dressing and props doing their job. “They made 3 s’mores because one represents Buck!” No… it represents Shannon, that was in the episode.
I also don’t think Buck and Eddie are a slowburn. Or if they are, and this is something they’ve planned out, they’ve done a terrible job. The point of a slowburn is for the audience to see, to feel, to root for the characters to get together. It has to be really obvious that it’s happening, albeit slowly. That it grows and they are so in love, and there’s feelings, and it’s a big will they won’t they. Buck and Eddie had a foundation for this, but the general audience can still call them brothers or platonic friends. Meaning that it’s not clearly romantic and therefore not a slowburn. It could be, if they wanna have Eddie really hate Natalia and openly reveal feelings for Buck even just to himself and let that drive them into season 7, then yes we would have an actual slowburn. It’s not impossible and it’s not too far gone, but if they keep down the path they’re on where it’s tumblr users grasping, it will be.
I also just think they’re writing the characters in circles and until they break out of that, there’s no hope for anything. I mean anything, romantically or not. Buck is currently a headache, at least Eddie seems to be having some growth, but his is also tied to a relationship and people telling him to date and him thinking he has to… ugh
so I actually mostly agree with you, but I think this might be a case of missing the forest for the trees.
I'm definitely with you that a lot of the fandom theories are...not realistic. I'm actually intimately familiar with how wardrobe and costume design operates on shows like 9-1-1 through my job, and I have never in my life heard of wardrobe operating on a set the way fans theorize they do. Not to say that things like color never mean anything, they can absolutely be used very intentionally (and are, by good designers), but they have very different reasons for making choices than what is popularly discussed here. (baby rant on costume metas->on a show like 9-1-1, the most important factor—beyond making your actors look good—is making their wardrobe choices believably human. It's about psychology and fleshing out character; it's rarely about storytelling. What would this real life person have in their closet? How would they choose to present themself in this setting? I'd also say there are some things the fandom DOES pick up on that I read as intentional, but on a show as big as 911, its a little silly to assume every outfit has a deeper meaning)
I also agree with your general point that people read a little too deep into metaphors and symbolism that aren't there on a textual level. You're right that the creators make it VERY obvious when those things are in play—because 911 wasn't a show that was made to be analyzed. Again, not saying that there's nothing to pick up on; I think it's pretty obvious Eddie's on the journey to find his soulmate, and I think it's pretty obvious Natalia isn't Buck's endgame, because they made it clear in the text. But that doesn't mean that every detail is put in to give hints on what's coming. It's a goofy procedural, it's not high art. I don't know how many people really believe those theories vs. how many people just have fun with them (like me), but I get what you're saying about it seeming really silly to anyone outside the bubble.
But re: missing the forest for the trees, I do think it's a little sad to get bogged down by the theories so much that it takes you out of digesting the actual media. You said that you "shipped them because narratively it made the most sense," and I guess I wonder if you don't think it makes narrative sense anymore, or if the popular theories seem so off the wall that you've written off any subtext that's actually coming from the show. And either is fine, but I remain firmly on the "it makes the most narrative sense" side of the aisle, although for more textual reasons than the goofy theories entertain (and I follow a lot of excellent blogs that do the same)
I think that you're really spot on with the slowburn aspect—s2-6a buddie was a developing close friendship, and a beautifully done one in my opinion. But it didn't read to me as romantic while watching casually, it read to me as a really significant platonic partnership. And I so agree that it's a really phenomenal foundation for an actual slowburn. After watching the episode last night, I think that might be the direction they're headed, and I don't think I'd feel that way if not for the couch of it all. But I've said it a few times on here, I don't see any way that this is the final act of their slowburn, because I don't feel there's been any burn yet. The fact that I'm starting to think there might be a reveal to the GA, a real will they/won't they, is what has me so firmly on the buddie canon train right now.
And yeah, Buck going in circles is how I'd put it, too. But as I said it to another anon, I get the feeling that this is the last circle for Buck before his series-long journey for happiness and self worth ends. I actually love the aspect of solving one problem with his perspective only to unearth another, deeper problem, but I can only watch that large man be sad in the exact same way so many times. As for Eddie's dating adventures, I'm feeling like they're making it clear that even though Pepa was the one to push him into it, he is actually interested in finding a partner for the right reasons.
Anyways, seems like we mostly agree and I'm either more optimistic or more delusional than you—only time will tell! Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me
drop your thoughts/theories/speculation on why you don't think buddie will go canon in my ask box because I'm curious (I'll be nice I promise)
I'm tagging all these posts with #anti-buddie and #buddie-neg if you want to filter
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singofsolace · 10 months
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Ted Lasso Season (Series?) Finale Thoughts
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So, firstly, Apple wasn't off to a good start by announcing the day-of that the season finale was going to air three hours later than the rest of the episodes. I had to weigh whether I wanted to be tired and grouchy watching it from midnight to 1:15am, or if I wanted to wait six hours and watch it before I went to work....
Well, I watched it this morning, and I'm glad I did, because I don't think I would've been able to handle the emotional upheaval and lack of payoff at 1:15 in the morning.
I just don't understand. Like, genuinely. Ending with Rebecca crying and essentially begging Ted to stay, only for that not to happen? And then we see a Beard/Jane wedding, of all things, when within the show it has been acknowledged that that relationship is at the best toxic, and at its worst, downright abusive...??? And then for Rebecca to become a mother via the Dutch Boat Guy whose name we still don't know...? What the actual fuck??? And when did the promised "lightning" and other signs happen with the Dutch guy? When Rebecca was drunk on a boat with a stranger and passed out on his couch?
I'm honestly incredibly unsatisfied with every single character's ending, which hasn't been an experience of mine since the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ended. What is it with writers and not knowing how to not royally piss off their fans, or even just meet audience expectations...?!?
Literally, I did not need Tedbecca to happen, I just needed Ted/Jason Sudeikis to acknowledge that Rebecca/Hannah was crying for him to stay? Like this poor woman is falling apart in an airport, and in response, he just...shows no emotion?!?! Dude, what the fuck? The hug might've mirrored the one in "For the Children," but the difference was that Jason/Ted was actually showing emotion during that scene, and, in contrast, showed absolutely none during the airport scene?!? What?!?!
Literally, the only character arcs that ended on a satisfying note were Keeley's and Colin's, and even then, there's stuff I would've changed about how those stories were handled.
Ted went home to Kansas, despite Rebecca begging him to stay. The implication being that he either got back with Michelle despite that relationship being doomed, or he's accepted a life of pining for her while he coaches little league soccer...?
Beard married a woman who has been abusing him since season 1, and Ted wasn't even at their wedding!
Nate was welcomed back by the team, when prior to the last two episodes, the team got violent on the pitch after seeing a video of him tearing up the Believe sign, and there was literally no explanation for why the team suddenly welcomed him back...? (and Ted's immediate forgiveness is par for the course, I guess, so while I would've liked to see something different, I'm not mad about that, just frustrated, because it doesn't feel earned, but then again, Ted is just "that kind of guy," so whatever I guess)
Rebecca's storyline ends with a relationship with a literal stranger, and as a mother to a girl who was introduced on screen in the last fifteen minutes... and the fact that Rebecca doesn't really want to keep the club, but then appears to want to possibly start a women's team...that's... nice, I guess, but it just...doesn't make sense to me that she'd go from wanting to sell the team completely if Ted leaves, to wanting to start a Women's team in the same episode?? (that felt like a bit of pandering, I'm not gonna lie, but also it's in-character for Keeley to suggest it...so I guess I'm not gonna get too bent out of shape about it)
Keeley is back where she started at the beginning of the season, except this time she's grown a bit, so I guess...good for her?
Jamie forgives his father for a lifetime of abuse just because he's in rehab? like, I'm sorry, but I have an alcoholic father myself, and even if he gave up alcohol tomorrow (which he has attempted in the past, and failed, because alcoholism is a disease etc etc) I would not trust the fact that he's in rehab to actually make a fucking difference! He's an abuser, plain and simple. The alcohol didn't make him abuse his son?! Alcohol didn't make him organize the r*pe of his child in Amsterdam...? I've known plenty of alcoholics who hurt themselves rather than others. it's not the alcohol. it's him.
Roy takes over as manager, but honestly? he better be working pretty hard in therapy, because he spent the whole third season being a pretty shitty "coach" to Jamie??? like he admits that he was taking his anger out through coaching on Jamie...?; And don't even get me fucking started on Jamie and Roy fighting over Keeley in the final episode!! While she had the right response--to slam the door in their fucking faces--I thought we were so far past the point of them fighting over her in such a juvenile way, so it pissed me off that the finale had them regress to cavemen...
...ugh. I'm so upset. fuck.
I'm sure I'll have more thoughts later, but right now, all I feel is confusion and disappointment.
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tanjir0se · 11 months
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Ok I’m gonna actually be real for a minute. Now that I’ve unfortunately watched enough anime to consider myself an Anime Fan™ (welcome to cringe city population me) I think I can confidently say that Demon Slayer is on a completely different level.
1. The Animation. This kind of goes without saying. But literally even the early seasons felt alive, even mid range episodes look beautiful, and this most recent season has cemented KNY as being in a completely different league to anything else I’ve watched. BNHA, AOT, even Chainsaw Man and Trigun literally don’t even hold a candle to Demon Slayer when it comes to the animation. The fire and sparks and lightning GLOW from inside whatever screen you’re watching it, I don’t even know how they do it. Attack animations and fight choreography are so gorgeous and well timed and just so fucking beautiful to look at. I could go on forever.
2. The story. This is a controversial one because I have heard some say that the plot is nothing special for a shonen. Which I actually think is a good thing? The setup is simple, the mechanics are easy to understand and make sense, and I don’t have to wait through 19 episodes of lead up before something interesting happens. It’s just a straightforward story about a boy who loves his family. Also, Tanjiro’s power crawl is INSANE, every huge overpowered moment he has feels so earned.
Further in defense of the writing in KNY, the story feels so tight. Like we don’t really waste time with shit in KNY, everything feels focused and purposeful with the exception of maaaybe a few more comedic relief moments especially early on. But even those I don’t mind, they keep the tone light but consistent and develop the kids’ characters.
3. The MUSIC. Holy shit the music. It never stops!!! The way the character and action themes kind of blend into one another throughout the episodes, how hearing the melody of your favorite character start playing at certain moments can just rip your heart out. HOW YOU CAN PREDICT PLOT BEATS BY LISTENING VERY CLOSELY TO THE SOUNDTRACK. Literally unrivaled. LITERALLY unrivaled. It only stops when they purposefully drop it out to emphasize something. The musical beats and stings can build tension like nothing else, I will always be insane about the music in Demon Slayer.
4. In the same vein, the sound design I think is often overlooked. The swords clanging whenever they change position. The roar of Tanjiro’s sun breathing and the hiss of Hinokami escaping through his teeth. The clap of Thunder when Zenitsu breaks out thunder breathing. The way jewelry and chains jingle, the way his earrings clack against his collar, the way jaws snap shut or footsteps crunch in the snow, it’s all such excellent attention to detail that you don’t really notice until you Notice and then it’s always there.
Maybe Aniplex or Ufotable is putting something in their water or maybe I love my blorbos so much it’s making my brain smooth but it really feels like a passion project. It feels like the animators and writers and voice actors just deeply deeply give a shit about the art they’re making. Every single frame just oozes love and care for the source material and it comes through so beautifully. And this season is really taking all of everything I just said to the next level.
Anyway, watch Demon Slayer, love yourselves and turn off BHNA and AOT
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ridley-was-a-cat · 4 months
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What I Watched This Week – 11/26 – 12/2
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Gankutsuou – This has been on my watchlist approximately forever, because a far-future retelling of a classic novel with creative visuals is absolutely up my alley, but revenge stories like The Count of Monte Cristo require me to be in a certain mood to watch people make destructive choices. And it was extremely frustrating to watch Albert be a young, naïve fool, dancing in the palm of the Count’s hand, even though I understood that it was necessary to expose the truth of what it means to seek revenge. It tells a complete story in the 24 episodes, which is always a fantastic thing to get in anime, and the ending was different from the original novel, but in line with the spirit of it, and perfectly satisfying. I really enjoyed the unusual art choices, especially the clothing patterns that gave the effect of a paper collage, and I even found the wonky early 2000s CGI kind of charming. 8/10
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Me & Roboco – This was a gag comedy series of 28 3-minute episodes centered on a elementary school boy and his burly robot maid, so there’s not a whole lot to talk about. Each episode tears through its skit at lightning speeds, throwing its referential humor at the viewer rapid fire. None of the episodes were boring, and I found the characters and situations amusing, but nothing was laugh out loud funny either. 6/10
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Reborn! Ep. 26-50 – While I enjoyed the first story arc in my first batch of episodes, I’m not having too much fun with this story arc about Tsuna and his friends battling it out with a group of assassins from the mafia family for control of a set of rings that make you the leader of the organization. Just like Sakura’s whiny “hweh” every time she reluctantly fought a card monster drove me nuts, Tsuna’s plaintive “sonna” every time he’s expected to do anything is making me grit my teeth. Considering how cowardly and whiny our reluctant hero is, this story arc makes very little sense. I could kind of see how he was just going with the flow when the current boss decided he was going to be the successor, but why on Earth is he fighting challengers for the position he says he doesn’t want now that the boss has changed his mind? Now it just feels like he’s being jerked around. I might watch another batch of episodes, but this might be a drop.
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