#i am truly a clown

[barissoffee]

I really thought we would get at least ONE season with Hunter, Wrecker, Crosshair, Echo, Tech and Omega together having adventures

[daimyosprincess]

Moodboard: you convinced yourself Rex was going to be in the Ahsoka premiere

[dramadaisies]

Ok, so I just watched the unedited cut of love is for suckers episode 14...

and boy do I have a story for you.

To be really frank, this drama is enjoyable but it’s ultimately the predictable and mediocre sort I watch to kill time. The show knows what it is and it doesn’t try to be anything more, so when things were a bit off at the start of episode 14 my first thought was “yup, this is a mistake.”

But a few minutes in, I decided the errors were so egregious that it simply had to have been intentional.

...and it SUCKED. ME. IN.

I am literally not even joking here. The ENTIRE time I was watching, I thought the episode was meant to be all meta and self-referential, a show-within-a-show-within-a-show. I genuinely thought it was genius!! a c-list kdrama that suddenly turns on its cinematic head!!

The timing also seemed too perfect with the shock of last episode’s ending and the super lowkey nature of the narrative in the episode – I thought it was meant to be a commentary on the performative nature of the accident and the reality show as a whole and its ridiculousness. “Something tragic has happened to these characters” I mused to myself, “and now, in the aftermath, the farce of the reality show is being exposed through a quiet reflection on the mundanity of the characters’ lives. Ah, yes. Peak television.”

I was disappointed to google the episode and realise that it was all a blunder. A lot of people said they found it hilarious, but that’s probably because they caught on. I actually found it disturbing as hell. When it seems intentional and you watch the contestants get slapped with cakes and yeoreum encountering jaehoon’s surprise without the soundtrack, see the mics dipping in and out and the greenscreens at what are meant to be intimate moments, the reality show set being coldly and quietly deconstructed – there’s something creepy yet truly intriguing about it.

I was watching with bated breath, feeling betrayed and a little ill, thinking there’d be one final shock, or that the episode would end as a standalone experiment unexplained to the viewers. I thought it was amazing that a predictable drama like this could do something so out of left field.

But now I know why I didn’t see this coming. Because it was never meant to happen. Awkward.

If you haven’t watched the uncut version yet, do yourself a favour. It is the strangest thing ever.

[clownsuu]

How do you feel knowing you converted most of the welcome community to Howdy lovers

The howdy propaganda

W O R K E D -

[mini cw link has mini caterpillars in it]

[dusty-daydreams]

Paints clown make up on

Want to hear some creloise brain rot analysis of their joint promo?

So people have been talking about it being a Cressida teaching Eloise thing, the fan waving but it is established in the canon of the show that the fan waving as a flirtation technique is about drawing your suitor’s eyes to your bosom - so by that logic Cressida who is definitely paying more attention to Eloise than to the broken fourth wall is trying to draw Eloise’s attention to her figure.

BUT - Cressida’s fan is so big that it defeats the purpose, completely covering her chest - and by extension her heart.

So Theory: Cressida is torn between wanting to draw Eloise’s attention and wanting to protect her heart from said attention.

(Because she thinks an illicit relationship would never work when they are both destined to marry noblemen? Because she is mired in comphet and doesn’t realise she is sending mixed signals? Because she doesn’t know if Eloise actually likes her back? Because she is scared of giving her heart away to anyone?? Who knows)

Gif credit to: @femininemenon

[essektheylyss]

Honestly, the implication with the Sendings that there is something wrong with the leylines and the weave of magic in Exandria is so funny to me. There is a non-zero chance, not even a low chance, that Ludinus is pissed because he got tossed to some random point in Exandria, and now he has to walk places. And maybe get on a ship. God forbid.*

But this also has a lot of other implications. The leylines tend to be associated with both intra- and interdimensional travel, as well as things like Scrying, Sending of course, and possibly other methods of divination.

It is also possible that, given what we know about dunamis, that dunamancy is also tied to the leylines or the weave in some way.

We know that divine magic is at least working—but we only know this to be true of divine magic granted by a god of the Pantheon.

So, with all of that in mind, a HIGHLY incomplete sample of things that may or may not be happening across Exandria while the Hells A-Team is traveling to Uthodurn:

Yussa is torn between gratitude for being free from the menace of Caleb Widogast teleporting into his house and Jester Lavorre sending him messages at all hours, and irritation that he can't get any of his work done because it all has to do with planar magic.

Any gratitude wears off when Fjord and Jester come banging on his door because Jester cannot send any messages nor contact Artagan, who is bound by the rules of the planes and by extension the leylines (since he can, unlike the gods, pass mostly freely from plane to plane).

Fjord's magic is completely fine because he is operating on sheer force of will and obeys no laws known to mortals, physics, or nature. Essek, who was holed up in the Lavorres' spare room for the week, is absolutely pissed because half of his magic is broken (and also he has no idea where his partner is).

Caleb and Beau take like seven hours to get the collar off before discovering that they are stuck somewhere in the Issylran tundra. (They would probably get fined by the Slayer's Take for the number of bounties they take out their rage on, if the Slayer's Take had ANY idea who the fuck they were.)

Caduceus is cheerfully gardening and has no idea this has happened. Melora decides not to bother him. Let him live in bliss, unlike the rest of Exandria.

Dorian has been having a meltdown into his Sending stone while Opal and Dariax run rampant and Cyrus looks very pretty but does absolutely nothing. It has no effect.

Keyleth is sitting in a daze somewhere next to a tree that will not open wondering if the last thirty-six hours were a fever dream.

The city of Syngorn saw the moon nonsense, panicked, tried to hop to the Feywild, then panicked harder. Fortunately, they could not contact anyone, and Allura Vysoren did not have to hear about it.

Ludinus has murdered several people. It has gotten him no closer to leaving whatever random part of the Tal'dorei countryside he is menacing.

Somewhere, there is a bird. That bird saw this beam, looked down into a very old, very precious orb, and said, "Not this fucking shit again."

All in all, very funny couple of days Exandria is happening. I'm sure things will not get any worse.

*I know he traveled by ship to the peace talks, okay, but that was for appearances. He didn't have shit to be doing at the time.

[feralglitch]

Traffic!Scott is such a messed up thing, I need to put him on a petri dish.

Think about it. He's incredibly competent but will nerf himself, a pacifist yet will terrorise Joel for a giggle. He craves someone to pour into him so desperately, but continues to appoint himself homemaker and provider. He wants peace and tender love yet his closest alliances include one of the Furies, a red-hooded psychopath¹ and a backstabbing weasel² who doesn't even think Scott's real.

He's the friendliest guy in the server. He's a petulant little bitch. He enjoys getting under people's skin. He's generous and devoted. He's dismissive and callous. He loves pretty things as much as he loves chipping away at people's hearts, one well-aimed arrow at a time. He's a creative force. He's a chaos gremlin. He poisons the well and builds walls full of lava. He looks for devotion and commitment within a death game, he'll have you run yourself ragged to earn his approval, he'll trade his life for one sweet word, he'll watch his chosen one become a hungry, hateful thing and giggle in delight as they tear him apart.

HE HAUNTS ME.

¹ 5 am Pearl ily <3 ² Backstabbing weasel (affectionate)

[pharawee]

—KNOCK KNOCK, BOYS! · Episode 4

[gunsatthaphan]

(*♡∀♡)

[kindahoping4forever]

I have yet to move on thanks

[rmbunnie]

Red Hood Characterization

This is really long so I'm putting a cut here, I've been thinking about Jason Todd's character motivations and the question of whether or not his actions are based in a Moral Code (I don't think so, not to say he's without any morality) and I talk about that in more depth here.

I saw someone say on here that Titans: Beast World: Gotham City was some of the best Jason Todd internal writing they'd seen in a while, and I've been a Red Hood fan for 8 years or so now? pretty much since I read comics for the first time, so I went and checked out and I thought it was good! The way the person I saw talking about it as if it was rare and unusual made me wonder though, because as well-written as i thought his stances on crime were, there wasn't really anything in it that went against the way I conceptualize Jason?

This kinda plays into a larger question I've been thinking about for a while with Jason though, which is that, do people think that the killing is part of a fundamental worldview that motivates him a la batman, and that worldview is the reason he does the things he does?? Because 8 years ago i was a middle schooler engaging with fiction on the level that a middle schooler does, so I simply did not put much thought into it beyond "poor guy :(" but ever since I actually started trying to understand consistent characterization, I don't really see Jason as someone who's motivated by a moral code in his actions the way batman or superman is!

tbh my personal read is that he's a very socially-motivated guy, his actions from resurrection to his Joker-Batman ultimatum in utrh always seemed to me like every choice made leading up to his identity reveal was either a. to give him the leverage and skill necessary to pull off his identity reveal successfully, or b. to twist the knife that little bit more when he does let Bruce find out who he is. Like iirc there's a Judd Winick tweet like "yeah tldr he chose Red Hood as his identity because it's the lowest blow he could think of." And I think that's awesome, I think character motivations rooted so deeply in character's relationships and emotions are really fun to read! I also think it's where the stagnation/flatness of his character comes from in certain comics, because if his main motivation is one event in one relationship that passes, and he is not particularly attached to anything in his life or the world by the time that comes to pass, it's a little harder to come up with a direction to go with the character after that, because there isn't much of a direction that aligns with something the character would reasonably want? But I do think solving this by saying "all of the morally-off emotionally driven cruelty he did on his way to spite Batman was actually reflective of his own version of Batman's stance that's exactly the same except he thinks it's GOOD to kill people" isn't ideal. To be fully honest, it seems to me like he never particularly cared one way or the other about killing people to "clean Gotham of crime," he just did everything he could to get the power necessary to pull off his personal plans, and took out any particularly heinous people he encountered along the way (like in Lost Days.) Not to say I think the fact he killed people keeps him up at night anymore than everything else in his life events, I just never really thought he was out there wholeheartedly kneecapping some dude selling weed or random guy robbing a tv store for justice.

Looping wayyy back to my question, Is this (^) contradictory to the way he's written/the overall average perception of the character? Because like I enjoyed his writing in Beast World i have zero significant issue with anything there, I just didn't believe it would be a hot take, like yeah, that is Jason. It's been a while since I've read utrh and lost days, but I don't think my takeaway directly contradicts either of those too bad iirc. Idk all this to say I think Jason killing and being alright with killing is an obvious and objective fact, but i guess i've always seen it as more of a practical tactic than a moral belief, and I think taking the actions made during the lowest points of a character's life where he is obsessively focused on this ONEEEE thing and trying to apply it as a Motivating Stance to everything he's done after that, doesn't really follow logically for me.

[aquarines]

lestat's harlequin look and outfit is so underappreciated

[scarlettroubles]

We're really about to watch Kenjaku get his ass handed to him by a comedian of all people, huh?

[0booboozefool0]

[thanks--for--listening]

not me, in the year 2024, seeing potential tiva content teased on my timeline

[tethered-heartstrings]

reasons why I love writing angst

(the fic causing the aforementioned agony)