#i need to rewatch it just to rip into it

[horrorlesbians]

was friends with this girl in my freshman year of college who’s taste was overwhelmingly popular and basic and when I got to the topic of horror films I said one that really crawled under my skin was lake mungo. and she said her pick for the worst horror movie she’s seen was. megan is missing. Yes art is subjective and horror is personal and the way we process things is different from one another but I was trying so hard not to be mean then.

megan is missing is like one of the worst movies ever in terms of being an actual movie that i cannot take anyone who was scared of it seriously unless they watched it at like 11

[heartsgettingwiser62]

So when are we as a fandom going to stop pretending that jonathan byers isn't one of the best written and most interesting characters in st

[reiverreturns]

the old guard is a compelling movie because on one hand it’s a pretty fun action flick with an interesting premise, and on the other it sits like an elephant in the back of my mind because i know if i give even the slightest bit of credence to joe and nicky’s cross-century enemies-to-lovers murdering-eachother-since-the-crusades 100k slow burn extravaganza i will go literally insane 

[variousqueerthings]

also interesting because I just watched a video doing a rundown on the history of queerness in doctor who, which naturally had a lot dedicated to aro and/or ace reads of the doctor, which at one point discussed that ofc reading the alien character specifically as such can be alienating (not... that as an aroace person my own reads would be attempting to alienate... myself... although also here insert other discussion about how the aliens often are just the blank slate upon which non-normative behaviours are placed, so it makes sense to see the neurodivergent/disabled/queer/otherwise othered body reflected from them, while also understanding that this means the world views you as inherently alien, while also being like "sure, yeah, I always have done," while also knowing that's dehumanisation, while also...)

but, when it's consciously done, when does this alien being (whatever narrative we're looking at) resonate through the lens of xyz because we're interested in how social structures built Not on today's earth human constructs could end up in wildly interesting different spaces in which what is non-normative to us is presented as normative to them (thus making an argument of stop being such freaks against trans kids, for example), and also when do we read those characters as incongruent with their own societies (I think also here of star trek's the outcast and rejoined, which blend queerness as we recognise it in our societies with characters who break alien normative structures as expressions of an alien queerness, and then there's ofc left hand of darkness in which gender-and-sexuality is at the centre of the political narrative and it's queer on multiple in-universe and out-of-universe levels)

for example, the doctor isn't really an outsider timelord if we look at them through the lens of genderbending regeneration -- that's normalised in that society in canon, and the interesting thing there is usually how that interacts with human social constructs and politics of gender and as a scifi way of deconstructing and dissembling real life consturcts... but they are clearly an outsider in terms of many other things they do, for example seeming neurodivergent if looked at through a human lens and a timelord lens

so where do aromantic and asexual reads fit in there?

well to start with aro!doctor -- I am into the science-fiction ability to create societies with completely different expressions of "connection" that eschew simple human monogamous ideas and histories, but if we were to take that second lens as well of "what if the doctor is aromantic as an identity and not simply as an alien," the doctor continuously (with the exception of romana and the master) creates deep connections with beings that don't have a particularly long lifespan/aren't timelords, especially considering they're near-immortal. and with romana and the master there seems to be a different set of rules happening there than anything one might describe as uncomplicatedly romantic, bitter exes vibe of the doctor/the master acknowledged

the doctor interests me from the lens of "aromantic as non-normative/queer from the pov from both our and timelord society" because they seem to continuously struggle with people not accepting the connections that they're offering them. the doctor's way of having a relationship is often not "enough", isn't easy to describe/vague, and people get jealous or angry or feel betrayed for reasons that isn't the doctor's fault, because there simply seems to be a lack of language to properly describe it in easy digestible terms

that is... a very aromantic experience

and then sometimes the doctor will just have little non-romantic connections that work, like donna -- and, despite not being my favourite seasons, the bits where the doctor simply lives with/drops in on the ponds is very sweet. and the tardis of course. am a "doctor-and-the-tardis are a matching pair and one without the other is wrong, but it's not romantic" person at heart, beyond anything else

(I am interested in how this will play once my rewatch gets me back to 13 and I can watch until the end, because I know yaz confesses that she's in love with the doctor near the end, and the doctor has an interesting reaction from what I understand)

(I guess at this point asexuality is another post)

but yeah. I think I'm not saying anything new with regards to the writing of aliens (and android and otherwise non-human characters), in that obviously one would like to imagine some interest in exploring these forms of non-normativity outside of "well that's an alien" (she's an alien and he's gay) but also there's reasons we're all so into aliens

genderbending genderfluid regenerating aliens is all well and good, but it only becomes really interesting in this case when we see trans/non-binary/genderfluid/genderbending humans (as is coming up soon! and I hope we see many more actors of the trans and gender non-conforming persuasion on this show!) similarly -- while I do think we have had more than a taste (donna my heart and soul honestly) of that non-alloromantic queerplatonic vibes doctor-companion dynamic -- I'd be fascinated in what a consciously aro (and maybe ace also) companion opposite the doctor would be like, how that would restructure their relationship with the doctor, compared to others who had expectations that the doctor couldn't ever hope to fulfill, like rose, martha (although they did let down martha in many ways that had nothing to do with romance), amy, possibly yaz, (here the confession that I never did get much of what was going on with clara but maybe this watch will clarify for me), possibly sarah-jane, possibly river song although she seems to have just kind of gone with it I guess, possibly romana... heck, possibly the master (I guess possibly that american woman from the movie, I forget her name... I cannot remember rn if other companions ever expressed an interest like that in them, but if so, then them too)

also I just want to rub moffat's face in it if I'm being honest. writing snide commentary about what was described as "asexual" doctor pre-nu!who, in a way that very much encompassed aroness (because romance-and-sex has so often been and still is put under one header), and totally misunderstanding why fans were into it or why it's interesting, and then being obsessed ever since with his weird little crusade of making doctor who "sexier" and alloromantic and imo utterly failing, despite it all

[airenyah]

so i finally got to yank-kiss-yeet with my mom and when zo just leaves joke hanging after calling joke his boyfriend my mom (and me too actually) were already cracking up about it and then the scene continues and then the door opens and zo yanks joke inside and my mom laughs in surprise and goes "ahahah nice!!" and then they're kissing and my mom is like "that's a beautiful kissing scene. yeah, i get it now" and then zo yeets joke back out the door and we're laughing even harder and just continue to laugh all the way until the credits roll

[avatar-aaang]

I will never ever forever ever be over the True Colors scene.

Branch finally comes out of his shell bc while he knows life can be miserable, he doesn't want Poppy to know that pain, even tho he's seeing her experience it first hand for the first time. And its devastating!!! He doesn't like it for anyone!! Even after he said he couldn't wait to see her experience that. That bites.

He tries so hard to get her to come back to color, he tentatively opens up for a hug, holding her hands and face, the little slide which i adore. and that finally gets to Poppy, she see him!! Shes experiencing joy again and so is he!! and she starts to go back to her pink!! And hes so happy for her!!! Bc he loves and believes in her!!

I just really love also that she doesn't turn pink bc he said he loved her, which I think she already knew deep down, but bc hes finally blossoming into himself!! But it was an excellent touch. he only turns back to his original colors once she joins in, strengthening him, truly connecting with him. Bc shes believed in him since the beginning.

also mr dinkles turns back to his true colors and biggie is so happy and he hugs him and his color begins to spread from where they're touching and that rips me to shreds every time. Thats a type of love that can never be communicated through words amen

[accidental-spice]

*Krennic voice* We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close

[im-still-watching-anime]

man does anyone else just constantly forget neji died?? i was rewatching the war arc and got to it like HUH OH YEAH like i remember shikaku and inoichi more than him because i just didn’t like the writing for his and repressed it too much so now whenever i see any reference to it my brain blue screens for like 20 seconds straight

[kankuroplease]

Just like to say

Obito choked Kakashi with his thighs in their fight

That fight was sexier than it needed to be 🤭

[marshmallowgoop]

going and back and rereading your kill la kill meta, I should definitely rewatch kill la kill

I'm so flattered that there's still interest in my old meta all these years later! And that they encourage looking back at the series? 🥺

Thank you for revisiting them! Hope you enjoy the rewatch!

[angelsdean]

hyperfixating on something that isn't spn lately while still very much wanting to be fixated on spn is making my poor adhd brain struggle so hard like. i keep getting SO hyperfocused on the other thing and putting all my time into that but i also want bonus hours to just be an spn blogger :/

[littlebigplanet]

i can't in good faith recommend supernatural to anyone but there truly is nothing else like it

[greghatecrimes]

forever grateful that I was far too young to watch House in 2008 because I know I would have lost my damn mind if I had to watch House’s Head/Wilson’s Heart for the first time when it aired on live TV

[gloryfore]

They deserved better ⚔️❤️‍🩹

[bmpmp3]

and you know i’ve always thought that it’s such a shame that all the big name examples we have of “filing the serial numbers off:” like, turning a fanfiction into an original work are ahem. not neccessarily the greatest works of literary fiction BECAUSE LIKE. and maybe this is because of my love for the wonderful “expy” (we should put kaworu in more anime. we should do it more) BUT I FEEL LIKE it can be done awesomely. sometimes i see people’s heavily-AU’d and tonally shifted fanfiction and im like damn man. i’d love to read this as ur original book. i feel like the key is twofold: 1) remember to reintroduce the world and characters properly in the text because you won’t have the fanfiction tags and original property to do that for u and 2) get SILLAY you dont need to keep everything about the original characters..... u can change their hair colours.....their names....anything u want......................................................

then again i have a theory that we only notice these serial numbers being filed off when it’s done sloppily so maybe we do have some good stuff out there....hidden in plain sight.....

[catgirlkirigiri]

Leader of my old rwby oc team is coming back as a classic Clover self insert (i.e. Literally just me plopped into the universe) and (aside from my pokémon self insert) I have never been more tempted to just give them my name. But alas, color rule. Also there’s already a guy named Clover in there