#i know i keep repeating myself

[damnamour]

[Behind The Scenes] Show Me Love The Series - EP.7 (x)

[stromuprisahat]

I LOVE reading your #grishanalyticritical posts. But I must confess – sometimes I starts reading and can’t finish it because I get soooo done with Alina I want to reach inside this fictional universe and throttle her with my bare hands.

Yeah, that might be why am I writing those for almost three years, and I'm barely in middle of the second book.

Let's ignore the re-read of SoC I began last year, and got frustrated by the sheer amount of propaganda in Nina's chapters.

Thanks for the feedback. :)

[hanzajesthanza]

EMAIL REGIS ⁉️ 😳

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

You’ve heard of “rotating blorbos around in your mind,” now get ready for “rotating just the most random phrases you’ve ever heard or seen.” Now with the added bonus of: the broken record function, which lets you experience the magic of repeating the phrase internally on loop forever with no clue as to why and no way of stopping it no matter the relevancy to current circumstance or situation!

[happyk44]

odysseus pleading to the dream of his wife and son that he's the same despite all that's happened is everything to me

[another-clive-blog]

Why are we as a fandom not talking more about this scene ??

Clive is literally asking the professor to come back and stop him. Like this isn't him pretending to be Future Luke : he looks genuinely upset/displeased even after the professor promises to come back. He only goes back to smiling after the professor says, and I quote "I wouldn't dream of leaving things here in that state" before talking about stopping his future self. Clive wants confirmation that Layton is actually going to confront the bad guys, that he won't just solve the mystery but fix it too.

And this is literally so important. Clive's speech at the end, about getting saved. This is concrete proof that he had truly meant it from the start, because he's asking for Layton to stop him and thus save everyone here. Which, hey- he didn't just hope and wait to get saved, he tried to save himself too.

Yep, that's right. The game talks about how dangerous it was for Clive to bring Layton underground : it doesn't talk about how even more dangerous it was to let him leave. He could have brought back cops (he did). He could have gathered precious knowledge out there (he did). He could have never come back (and yet he did !!). Clive letting Layton leave is the biggest threat to his plan, and yet HE DID. And you know what else he did ? Make Layton promise to stop him. You can't make a clearer call for help, you just can't.

"Oh but it doesn't make his crimes more forgivable, now does it-" of course not. This isn't about Clive's redemption, it's about Clive trying to avoid needing a redemption : his efforts are vain the moment he started using the fortress. But. There were efforts.

[russellius]

2023 ABU DHABI : post-season testing | © dpa

[seriousbrat]

I mentioned this briefly but while Sev asking Voldemort to spare Lily definitely wasn't his finest hour because he was willing to trade her husband and child, I still think it must have taken serious balls to ask voldemort to spare a muggleborn for him. And I've kind of got to admire that haha. While I believe Severus was most likely on an upward trajectory among the DEs during this time due to his skill, I doubt he was inner circle the way Bellatrix or Lucius Malfoy were, he was pretty new and also a poor half-blood with no status-- we know Voldemort coveted markers of pureblood status like heirlooms, and it was Bellatrix and Lucius that he entrusted with his horcruxes. I tend to think Severus was a pretty low-ranking Death Eater, even if he was climbing the ladder (relaying the prophecy can't have hurt, and it seems like voldemort was trying to position him as a spy inside hogwarts, even though he knew that as DADA professor he'd only last a year)

I have to think that Sev knew that asking voldemort of all people to spare a random mudblood, pretty please, for me, was a long shot. He was desperate, and I think he immediately realised that this wouldn't work and went straight to Dumbledore as a contingency plan-- but he had to try all avenues. And I think he was smart enough to realise that "I'm in love with this muggleborn woman pls dont kill her" would not go over well with Voldemort. At best he'd be laughed out of the room, at worst he'd be killed on the spot for possible disloyalty/being a pathetic mudblood simp, rendering him unable to save Lily.

I think Sev was smart enough to know that he had to frame his request in a way Voldemort would understand. I imagine he straight up told Voldemort that he wanted to fuck her and that she had rejected him in school so he wanted a chance to right that "wrong", likely he was pretty disgusting about it just to make it believable. I highly doubt Voldemort would go out of his way to spare anyone even for his closest followers like Bellatrix and Lucius, let alone a muggleborn and a sworn enemy. But we see that he did at least make some effort to comply with Sev's request, which makes me think he was probably amused enough by it to give Sev that little bit of consideration. Framing it as a selfish, purely physical passing fancy (a story Voldemort clearly bought) was really the only option, because if Voldemort thought his servant was actually emotionally attached to Lily that would give him more reason to kill her, not less.

And, inadvertently, Severus asking Voldemort to spare her was what gave Lily the opportunity to choose to sacrifice herself and save Harry. Which is kind of wild. Not that Sev's motivation and methods weren't twisted and selfish, but idk I kind of gotta give credit for the bravery and cunning involved here like it's cold as fuck

[catebeesart]

Alfira or Rolan? 🥺 I love them both so much!!

The most powerful wizard along the Sword Coast! And in my heart

You can find Alfira over here!

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

13, trying to prevent yaz from spiralling when they get separated: i need you to do a deepdive into eschatology

[idliketobeatree]

*wakes up in cold sweat from a hundred years long nap* Aziraphale's 1941 love realisation was a LITERAL BOMB FALLING ON HIS HEAD FROM THE SKY that he was forced to MIRACULOUSLY SHIELD THEM FROM and they both have performed so well, he and Crowley were not only NOT discorporated, but ALSO his most precious belongings, the symbols of the human part of his identity, were not harmed in the process. and it was all within mere minutes of their reunion after a major fallout. do you. do you see what I'm

[winters0689]

I swear if Alan gets out the FBC better let him be and not lock him up in a containment cell because HE NEEDS A BREAK!!!!! He needs a hug and a spa day and to not be stressed! Give him a break! For five minutes! Please he is already stressed as it is! The last thing he needs is a Government Agency poking and prodding him and doing tests on him! I get he can rewrite reality, but it’s within Cauldron Lake! Take away that ability and his weapons and he’s just some guy with slight clairvoyant abilities.

He needs a vacation, not another place to be trapped in.

[skunkes]

[daydreamerwonderkid]

What are your feelings on batcest?

It's not for me :/

I try to stay in my own lane whenever it comes to shipping tbh. If I come across something I don't jive with, I just block or filter. I'm especially not interested in making my fandom experience about shipping discourse.

[neverevan]

The thing about Buddie is, that the show talks about romance (Bobby's advice to Buck about stepping into Abby's mess, Bobby and Athena getting together, Ravi mentioning someone to have your back, etc.) and then it's something Buck and Eddie are already doing. Or something they do a handful of episode later. And then the creators are all *surprised Pikachu* when we read them as romantic. I mean the way Oliver and Ryan look at each other and orbit around one another in character is not exactly helping. But even without it, it is all in the damn writing.

oh for sure! I always say that they are hiding nothing and I mean it. It's in the writing, it's in the acting and it's in all the paralells. They can do whatever they want from this point on tbh because everything they laid out for them prior is already deeper and more meaningful than anything they could ever give to some random love interest later on, if they decided to not take the canon buddie route.

all that being said, I am still strong on the opinion that they were gonna start giving nods to their relationship becoming canon at the end of season 6 and then the cancellation happened and they had to scramble to edit it in a way that would get them picked up or at least wrap things up in case they wouldn't (now to think of it the two might not even be that unrelated hmm)

[burningtacozombie]

about last night... now that looks like a fun time 🥵