#finally some good fucking representation

[petrowriting]

indian armand oh we WON

[artemis-73]

Literally like 15 minutes into S2 on my rewatch of The Wilds, and I will never forgive Amazon for not giving them a third season. I would pay any amount of money to see these two groups interact.

[000marie198]

The trailer of The Glassworker is here!

This is the frst ever Pakistani hand-drawn anime movie. And it looks so good! Very excited to watch it :D

Since it's a local movie, I can't wait for this to be the first thing I watch on the big screen!

[mrsblackruby]

I love Henry In the last of us hbo show I love morally divisive characters that get humanized and when the themes/motivations of those character types get explored and the audience isn’t force-fed a narrative to see a character as being irredeemable by the story even if they make harmful choices for survival and I love them even more when they’re BIPOC characters. I’m so feed up with the model minority stereotype give me more BIPOC character arcs like this fr feed me. Overload my system with characters like this.

[sarahsupastar]

*Gasp!* A romance novel acknowledged the existence of aro people!

In classic cliché fashion, the protagonist begins by saying he doesn't ever really get feelings for anybody - essentially describing an aro experience, though he's presumably allo. BUT! Instead of following the cliché by then having him meet "the right person" and finally fall in love, this author had someone immediately clock the aro vibes of that statement and directly ask the protagonist if he's aromantic! And then, instead of just perfunctorily checking the box for acknowledging aro people exist and having him say no and move on, the author has him explain that what he means by "I don't get feelings" is: "I had my heart broken and have since actively avoided developing romantic feelings at all costs" - Not: "I've never experienced romantic attraction before this one special person"

[averagemartian]

I love blue beetle and its message and I wish more people had watched it and I understand that the lack of promotion both because of the strikes and because the studios don't give a shit has affected it negatively and the role that racism/xenophobia play in people's disinterest towards the characters in general BUT PLEASE let's also not forget about superhero fatigue

[exopelagic]

this election feels so hollow even though it’s likely ostensibly gonna be a good outcome. labour really just sucks fucking ass rn huh

[linklethehistorian]

If I had a nickel for every time I was in a fandom where my favorite character was a gentle, loving, overly romantic and totally gay sweetheart who was clearly written to be an abuse victim with a tragic past, was thrust into a world where he clearly didn’t belong, had incredible power compared to most but actively chose not to cause harm with it in any situation where it could possibly be avoided even when that could come back to bite him in the ass, and fell in love with someone who was so wrapped up in their own tragedy that they couldn’t let him in and thus repeatedly hurt and abandoned him, and the fandom still somehow was so media illiterate that they at large refused to understand this and instead wanted to make him into the villain —

…I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it SURE AS HELL is WEIRD AND ANNOYING that it happened twice.

[sweetshire]

btw i’m watching atla and i’m OBSESSED w it. hhhdhsjsaks it’s such a pleasant surprise bc this series is like this is the kind of thing i always used to daydream about. Little me would be so happy. It has quickly become all i can think about. Many many atla posts incoming, beware lovely mutuals!

[dogblessyoutascha]

Everyone out here still screaming about Ball's Gate 3, but where are my Netflix's Castlevania: Nocturne people????? Y'all slept on the release??? HAVE Y'ALL EVEN SEEN OUR DELICIOUS LORD AND SAVIOR OLROX???

[sharpth1ng]

Yeah billy with also masochist tendencies would love feeling the rush of getting his ass beat. Like in a fight club way.

Yes, this exactly. He just likes impact and violence. I think him and Stu play fight all the time.

And lmao yeah I think fight club was IMPORTANT for Billy lmao.

[orbstard]

⚠️OWL HOUSE SPOILERS ⚠️

for the future has me SO EMOTIONAL

most importantly luz’s realization that all she ever wanted was to be understood. i wish i could have watched this when i was like eight i think i would have grown up a lot happier with myself

willow trying to be the caretaker of the group and learning the hard way she can’t be strong all the time but it’s ok because her friends are there for her

and king wanting to reason with the collector because he related to him rather than imprisoning him again??? amazing and i cant wait to see where that goes

also huntlow :3 yeeeeee

im so excited for luz to be reunited with her boiling aisles family

[puwumats]

YEEEEEES ZEHIR MY BELOVED

[schlannies]

and the corpses are “girl dinner, actually”?

[sassy-cass-16]

look man. look

essek saying "bren" out loud, claiming a position on caleb's side as the mouthpiece of his regards to astrid, did something to me. i can't tell if it opened a wound or punched me or gave me a hug. all i know is that i am feeling so many emotions right now

more under the cut because i'm about to get rambly:

"bren aldric ermendrud" is a separate character from caleb widogast. he's a young boy learning how to make magic. he's a deeply traumatized and indoctrinated teenager. he's the boy who curled up with astrid and eadwulf in a freezing tower for warmth all night.

essek never met bren. he met caleb and he's never known him as anyone else. if i'm remembering correctly, caleb never even said the name "bren" to him during the campaign, and neither did any of the nein.

essek knows caleb widogast. he knows the man who held up the object of his worst crime and then kissed him in the bowels of a ship and made a floor of infinite stars for them to walk through together. he knows the person who healed over bren's wounds—thinly, but enough. he knows the man that the boy has become.

astrid knows bren. she barely knows who caleb is. she still calls him bren after hearing him referred to as caleb repeatedly. she can't know him as the man he is, she only knows the boy. there's some of bren in caleb, but there is no caleb in bren.

essek saying "bren sends his regards" is him gauging astrid's reaction, on one level—if she freaks out, which she did, she's in opposition to caleb's cause and thus a threat. on another level, it's essek delivering a very different subtextual message from caleb: "the boy who loved you is giving you one final warning."

because essek is a threat to astrid. their last meaningful interaction was slinging spells at each other in the blooming grove. and that's funny in a "current boyfriend vs ex girlfriend exclusively fight each other" kind of way, but it's also deeply tied to caleb's recurring theme of transformation. "bren sends his regards" also means "i have healed enough to love enough for someone else to know this name and use it with my consent. and this someone else is your enemy. what does that make you think i've become?"

it also does a fantastic job of communicating subtle offscreen discussions that have happened over the years since the end of c2. we don't have the details of when or how caleb told essek his birth name, but we know that he did, and we know from all of c2 that the name bren occupies a place of immense emotional weight for caleb. it functions similarly to a deadname in terms of who uses it and for what purpose. trent exclusively calls caleb bren to wound him and place himself in a position of power. astrid calls him bren to remind both him and herself of who they used to be—same with eadwulf, though obviously he's not here.

the first time we hear essek say "bren" is on caleb's behalf and confronting one of the narrative representations of caleb's trauma. it's four words that manage to communicate "i, your enemy on a hundred levels, can speak for both the man i love and the boy who loved you, because i know him in his entirety."

astrid knows bren and essek knows caleb, but only essek can speak for both. because at some point, caleb gave bren to essek. and we know this from four words. four IMPROVISED words.

god. this moment is just so fucking good

[serinablades]

<333 BEEF <333