#i love the show but jesus christ

[maro-mellow]

Being in the Rick and morty fandom is a dangerous game to play, you’ve either got creepy reddit dudes or creepy tumblr/twitter shippers, everytime i open a rick and morty related page i beg the gods that it’s normal

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Am I the asshole for getting my best friend killed?

I swear to God, it was an accident.

My (27) BF (34) has a reputation for getting himself out of any jam you can imagine; and at first it was just a fun little thing the friend group noticed: there goes Oily J wiggling his way out of trouble again. but as the meme evolved in the group, it got to the point where we'd loykey started getting him into situations just to see how he'd get out of 'em, and he akept getting out of em. He was having fun with it too same as us. "Oh you guys," he'd say, "getting me into situations again," before laughing it off and getting out of it, so it was enrichment for our shared enclosures, and as time went on, the situations got more intense.

The trouble is, it turns out that putting a man in too many situations eventually gets the police interested. And not local hobsknockers cops either; they was like, proper three-letter FEDs. They put out a bounty on any information pertaining to his capture and everything. It was good money too so I thought, hey why don't I put J in another situation he can wiggle out of like always (and he'd wiggled outta worse before, so I thought this one'd be relatively mild), and at the next boardgame night (cause it was too late to do anything special for this one) we can buy some extra strong booze and get absolutely blitzed while having a giggle about the situation.

Boardgame night, and we were playing some social deduction nonsense or another and he says: "One of you is gonna betray me tonight." and I can't help but think, looking back on it, that he knew. It's stupid, I know he was talking about the game, but the way he said it, it was like he knew. We all felt it, and we had a big round robin round the table taking turns promising that we'd never betray him. And I said it so easily cause I thought it was true. Sure, I was gonna talk to the feds about a bounty; but, I fully expected my big beautiful oily boy to wiggle his way out of the trouble I was 'bout to cause, and that's not a betrayal. I wasn't lying. I didn't think I was lying.

My big beautiful oily boy didn't manage to wiggle his way out of it. They killed him and I got my blood money. He's gone.

He's gone and I'm devastated, crying, mourning. I loved him so much. We all did. And I can't stop thinking that it's my fault: that I'm the reason he's gone. and it is. and the guilt is eating me up inside. and I just need to talk to someone about it. So, I tell the rest of the group what happened in the group chat, hoping they'd understand that I didn't want this. I didn't want the government's blood money. It was supposed the be a prank. some joint enclosure enrichment. He was supposed to wiggle out of it like he always does... did, i mean.

They call me, among worse things, the asshole and kick me from the group chat. And, I know it's my fault he's dead: I know that. If I didn't do what I did, he wouldn't be dead right now. But, I didn't mean it for it to end up this way. He was supposed to be okay, damn it. I loved him. AITA?

What are these acronyms?

[thelaurenshippen]

911 really is such a good reminder of the particularly kind of joy that is weekly, seasons-long shows with many episodes per season. every character gets a moment to shine even in a truncated season. the satisfaction of seeing characters grapple with stuff that happened YEARS ago. having multi-episode arcs and one-off arcs that are equally enjoyable. beach episodes (metaphorical). I know we're all saying this all the time but why can't more tv be like this

[transiconlink]

Guys… Hooty’s puppet form…

A shooting star and a pine tree… I’m losing my mind

[inamindfarfaraway]

The Exorcists’ Masks of Virtue

The vast majority of Exorcists in Hazbin Hotel have a notable design element that other angels don’t: their masks are missing an eye. Specifically, the right eye.

I believe this is a reference to the Bible, Matthew 5:29. Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”

He’s being hyperbolic. Mr Free Healthcare was not pro-mutilation. What he means is that you have to be willing to make sacrifices to prevent sin. The context of the eye metaphor is him condemning adultery and warning that even something as easy, casual and small as a look full of lustful intent can lead to further, worse sin if you don’t notice your sin, hold yourself accountable for it and do the work to not let it influence your decisions. This will probably be hard. It could be very, very painful. Changing your perspective can feel as horrible as plucking out your eye, so many people can’t bring themselves to do it. But although it won’t feel that way in the moment, it’s healthier for our general wellbeing in the long run to abandon traits and behaviours that damage ourselves and/or others.

(You may notice that Jesus’s teaching that you can have sinned, redeem yourself by giving up sin and thus escape damnation is the founding principle of the Hazbin Hotel. You may also notice that it contradicts everything the Exorcists believe.)

The Exorcists seem to follow this idea of painfully excising badness for the sake of the greater good devoutly to the point of placing it above teachings like ‘Thou shalt not kill’, with their job being to remove sin, in the form of sinners, to protect Heaven. Hence the missing right eyes. They’re a declaration of moral righteousness and inability to stumble.

But the truth is that the Exorcists all have their right eyes. Their flawlessness is a facade. Underneath, they are untouched, think themselves morally untouchable and, as shown by their horror and outrage when even one of them is killed, would much rather be physically untouchable too. This perfectly represents their complete unwillingness to acknowledge their own faults, let alone improve. They are never the ones who sacrifice. They force the sinners to sacrifice and don’t compensate it with any salvation. They metaphorically rip out the sinners’ eyes, but still condemn their entire bodies as inherently, permanently sinful. So they’ll just have to do another Extermination to get the other eyes! And another one to cut off their right hands! And so on until there’s nothing left.

The only exception to the rule is Vaggie, both in appearance and character. Her mask has the left eye crossed out instead. Even before her expulsion, she’s set apart to the audience as an Exorcist who has the capacity to, shall we say, see a different side of things. Her mask having its ‘sinful’ right eye reflects her understanding that the Exorcist worldview is wrong.

When she almost kills a demon child, her hateful vision clears. She discards the part of herself that’s an unquestioning, merciless agent of death, terror and grief… and as punishment for what Lute perceives as treacherous weakness, gets her eye plucked out.

Of course Lute leaves her with only the ‘sinful’ eye. It brands Vaggie forever as the inversion, a perversion, of what the Exorcists are meant to be.

You know, all this talk of eye removal in the Bible reminds me of another line - ‘an eye for an eye’. Adam directly quotes it in “Hell is Forever”. He uses it to frame the Exterminations as Old Testament-style punitive justice; the sinners did harm and so they receive it. But putting aside the debate about how ethical the concept of revenge is, the entire point of taking an eye for an eye is that it’s proportional. The punishment fits the crime. If someone cuts your eye out, you shouldn’t murder their whole family in front of them and then slowly disembowel them to death. That would be the sin of wrath. You should just make them pay without excessive pain or collateral damage. This is the fairest form of revenge.

The Exorcists don’t do that! The Exterminations aren’t proportional to the wrongs of all they hurt, nor was Vaggie’s brutal punishment equivalent to her extremely mild insubordination. Lute literally takes Vaggie’s eye, and more, after Vaggie does nothing to her! That’s the opposite of the phrase! Adam and his soldiers are wrathful and cruel, deriving satisfaction from others’ suffering. But they just can’t stop going on and on about how disgustingly evil the sinners are, in total hypocrisy… despite some of the sinners being far better people than the genocidal Exorcists are… it’s like they’re obsessed with specks of dust in the sinners’ eyes when they have massive logs stuck in their own. Oh hey, that’s in the Bible too!

[eddievedders]

BELLA RAMSEY and PEDRO PASCAL as ELLIE WILLIAMS and JOEL MILLER. The Last of Us – 1.06 “Kin”.

[kindahoping4forever]

Backstage @ The 5SOS Show Tour Philadelphia

[oifaaa]

lying in the dirt thinking about how they made jason the impulsive brash bat when thats cass.

"the bat that punch first and asks questions later" thats cass thats casssssss

Cass' way of dealing with steph for a long while was just to knock her out and run off girl just does what she wants and I love her for it

[paranorahjones]

I'm not Catholic myself but I have so many Catholic mutuals and I love love love how much art you guys put on my dash, specifically art of Jesus. Now that I think about it, I don't see that much from Protestants and it always makes me so joyful to see art of Him.

[somethingaboutmint]

Genuinely about to block the fallout tag and move on with my life cuz the last week has been absolutely insane. I was more so excited for the show due to the idea that it'd bring in new and old fans alike and that the community would finally have new content to have fun with and analyse but all it did is start pointless arguing and "my fallout media is holier than thine" attitudes that has made just existing on tumblr depressing and miserable cuz every third post i get reccomended is one group tearing into the other because of x y or z or all at once. I have never in my life seen people being so agressive and combatitive over a franchise or piece or media they claim to love.

[p4nishers]

eddie not holding eye contact with buck in the truck but starting at him longingly the moment he looks away is just so queer pinning of him

[shitty-goose-quack]

shules moments in 3x15

"she's one of santa barbra's finest"

touching her back like cameron did in the bank episode

[bisexualnatalies]

i know this has been said probably 1000 times in 1000 different ways and im just screaming into the echo chamber repeating everyone else's takes here but . the girls are literally just kids when that plane goes down. suddenly they go from worrying about competing at the highest level of high school sport to worrying about how and what and when they're gonna eat. and it really is that fast. they've been out there for three days and they're already rationing food and water. and you think obviously, of course they are, they're smart, they want to survive it's common sense. yeah it is but ........ they thought they were going to nationals. you see nat and travis stuffing paper into their clothes so they don't freeze to death being out from before dawn to dusk looking for food and you think oh. right. because this was supposed to be nationals. this was supposed to be a trip where they'd either win or lose, maybe do some sightseeing for a couple of days, and then head back to their lives. that's it. you see shauna taking one of their rare spare blankets because "lottie's cold" and you remember oh .... right. because that's her friend. because they were teammates, because despite all the violence and trauma and horror they've all endured, despite the fact shauna beat lottie bloody and lottie let her, they're still teenagers. they're still friends. they can still see the people they used to be in each other even if they can't see it in themselves. because lottie's cold is what you'd do for a friend, a teammate, someone who won't or can't help themselves and who you love and care about. because this was supposed to be nationals.

you see van say i thought maybe i survived because i had a reason to but i'm not seeing it. because she's lost track of the amount of times something should've killed her and didn't. because she's not a god, she's not even indispensable to the rest of them, she's just a teenager. and teenagers are dying all around her, and one of her friends almost did giving birth to a baby that couldn't survive anyway, and one of her their friends actually did and they ate her. and you watch that and you think oh ........... right. because !!! THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE NATIONALS !!! NONE OF THIS WAS EVER SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN !!! this is also why i think putting the health class flash back right before one of the most traumatic incidents/episodes for the girls is such an impactful choice because it . REMINDS YOU of exactly where they came from. exactly who they used to be. it's good and it's funny and it gives amazing context but it's also the harshest reality check. these are kids - now watch them scramble and sacrifice and pray. because what else are they supposed to do? they're kids.

[grinchwrapsupreme]

imagine being Billy Whalen's mom like your son is the reigning champion of a quiz show when he's 15 until one day he's caught cheating, then he disappears. and when he turns up again he's missing an eye and has a robot hand and by the time you've heard about this he's moved in with the host of the quiz show who it turns out was the one who cheated for him by rigging the game and now they've been together for 20 years and you don't know how to re-establish a functioning relationship with him because you think he's scared you'll be homophobic so to signal to him that you support him and this quiz show host you send them furniture and dishware and then AND THEN they come to New York and move in with you and the whole time you have to just be normal about it

[shokogast]

love it whenever i start to get back into starkid shows i always find myself in a loop-around straight back to Spies Are Forever and an anvil drops onto my head and crushes my soul forever and it’s solely because of joey richter and curt mega

[imbywimby]

STOP HARRASSING THE CAST ABOUT BUDDIE

hey guys!

is it too much to ask that you guys stop harrassing the 911 cast about buddie!

here's a great idea: ask the cast about the million other plotlines that their characters are a part of! stop ignoring everybody besides oliver and ryan! ask the actors about the hard work they've put their characters!

even in the latest episode - why don't we focus more on kenneth choi's AWARD WORTHY PERFORMANCE instead of just debating bucktommy vs buddie???

jfc everyone