#i think it’s either my 2nd or 3rd fave next to one love two mouths and love me tender

[the-heartlines]

anyone else reread your own fics after a couole months because like,,,damn i was smoking the good shit when writing sapphic jacegan.

[massmurdera]

2019 & 2010s Best/Worst

Because I like lists and cataloguing the dumb shit I cared about. As my brother once said after seeing and reviewing NOW YOU SEE ME on a lazy Sunday, ‘Some would say it was a waste of time, others might say it was a colossal waste of time.’     

I’ll admit, it’s a bit over-the-top. Particularly including the Pats, but yeah, in the Tom Brady era that started when I was 14 as a Freshman in high school to 33 years old now and wrapping up soon-ish (?), there’s not a chance in hell I’ll care as intimately about this shit. I grew up with it at just the right time.

2019 MOVIES  TOP TIER 1) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2) Uncut Gems 2nd TIER 3) Knives Out 4) Parasite 5) Little Women 6) Midsommer 3rd TIER 7) John Wick III 8) Ready or Not 9) Marriage Story 10) Joker 11) Irishman 12) Shazam! 13) Us UNDERRATED Ready or Not TOO LONG John Wick III; Irishman SOLID El Camino GOOD BAD 6 Underground OK 21 Bridges; Avengers: Endgame; Dolemite is my Name; Dragged Across Concrete; Fighting With My Family; Hustlers; Knock Down the House; Longshot; the Report; Two Popes MEH Always Be My Maybe; Death of Dick Long; High Flying Bird; Spiderman: Far From Home; Standoff at Sparrow Creek DISAPPOINTING Hobbs & Shaw; Toy Story 4; Triple Frontier SUCK Laundromat; Under the Silver Lake OVERRATED Ad Astra; Booksmart; the Farewell FUNNIEST SCENE Dicaprio flipping out in movie trailer BEST CLIMAX/ENDING Once Upon a Time; Uncut Gems HAVEN’T SEEN 1917; Apollo 11; Beach Bum; Dark Waters; Ford vs Ferrari; Honey Boy; Jojo Rabbit; the Lighthouse; Star Wars 2019 TV  TOP TIER 1) Succession 2) Fleabag 3) Watchmen 2nd TIER 4) When They See Us 5) Barry 6) Unbelievable 7) Chernobyl 8) Sex Education DAMN GOOD Big Mouth; the Boys; Brockmire; Derry Girls; Euphoria; Loudest Voice; Mindhunter; Pen15; Righteous Gemstones; Veep WATCHABLE Atypical; Bosch; Dark; Goliath; Karate Kid; Kominsky Method; Mandalorian; Mr Robot; Mrs Fletcher; Russian Doll; Warrior HIGH/LOW I Think You Should Leave SHIT END FOR ALL-TIME GREAT Game of Thrones HALF-WATCH Living With Yourself; Raising Dion; the Society NOT UP TO STANDARD Stranger Things; GLOW; Killing Eve; True Detective BAD Luther; Shameless; Silicon Valley; SNL SUCK 13 Reasons Why; Big Little Lies; the Witcher FUNNIEST Desus & Mero DOCS 1) Fyre: both  2) Ted Bundy Tapes 3) American Factory 4) Leaving Neverland STAND-UP SPECIALS 1) Burr 2) Chappelle 3) Jeselnik 4) Birbiglia 5) Gulman BEHIND ON SHOWS I DIG Brooklyn 99; Catastrophe; Corporate; Expanse; Good Place; It’s Always Sunny; Letterkenny 2010s TV  DRAMA 1) Breaking Bad 2) Game of Thrones 3) Justified 4) Mad Men 5) Hannibal 6) Banshee ANTHOLOGY/LIMITED SERIES 1) Fargo SII 2) True Detective SI 3) When They See Us 4) People Vs OJ Simpson 5) Chernobyl 6) Show Me a Hero 7) the Night Of 8) Honorable Woman COMEDY 1) Atlanta 2) Fleabag 3) Veep 4) Big Mouth 5) Parks & Rec 6) Rick & Morty 7) Nathan for You 8) Review 9) American Vandal HIT/MISS Black Mirror OVERRATED Boardwalk Empire; House of Cards; Peaky Blinders; Westworld UNDERRATED Banshee; Brockmire; Hannibal FUN HATE-WATCH Newsroom DOWNHILL Homeland; How I Met Your Mother; Legion; Sons of Anarchy HATED Girls; Leftovers; Rectify UNWATCHABLE Twin Peaks BEST ENDINGS Breaking Bad; Justified; Fleabag; Parks & Rec DUMBEST ENDING Dexter; Sons of Anarchy LATE NIGHT Desus & Mero POLITICAL John Oliver 2010s MOVIES 2010 Social Network Animal Kingdom; the Fighter; Four Lions; Inside Job; Jackass 3; MacGruber; Shutter Island; Toy Story 3; True Grit; Winter’s Bone 2011 the Raid Descendents; Drive; Fast Five; the Guard; Mission Impossible 4; Take This Waltz; Warrior 2012 Magic Mike 21 Jump Street; Argo; Cabin in the Woods; Chronicle; Django Unchained; Goon; Looper; Queen of Versailles; Silver Linings Playbook; Skyfall 2013 Wolf of Wall Street Before Midnight; the Conjuring; Gravity; Her; Inside Llewyn Davis; Prisoners; Short-Term 12 2014 John Wick the Drop; Edge of Tomorrow; Gone Girl; the Guest; Lego Movie; Nightcrawler; the Raid 2; Whiplash 2015 Mad Max 7 Days in Hell; Big Short; Brooklyn; Creed; Ex Machina; Fast 7; It Follows; Logan; Magic Mike XXL; the Martian; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation; Sicario 2016 the Nice Guys Deadpool; Edge of Seventeen; Everybody Wants Some!; Green Room; La La Land; Manchester By the Sea; Moonlight; OJ: Made in America; Popstar; Sing Street; Weiner 2017 Get Out Blade Runner 2049; Coco; Dunkirk; Lady Bird; Logan; Thor Ragnorak; Tour de Pharmacy 2018 Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse BlacKKKlansman; Den of Thieves; Hereditary; If Beale Street Could Talk; Minding the Gap; Sorry to Bother You

THE BEST Mad Max BEST DOC OJ: Made in America FUNNIEST DOC Tickled UNDERRATED DOC Weiner HORROR Hereditary FAVORITE/FUNNIEST PERFORMANCE Ryan Gosling (Nice Guys) DESERVED 5 SEQUELS the Nice Guys SUPERHERO Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse WAR Dunkirk BEST FIGHT SCENES the Raid UNDERRATED any Lonely Island project NICE TRY Dark Knight Rises; Inception; Interstellar; Widows STAND-UP 2010s FAVORITE Bill Burr NEXT BEST Ali Wong; Anthony Jeselnik; Kyle Kinane; Bert Kreischer; Marc Maron; John Mulaney; Patton Oswalt; Rory Scovel; Tom Segura COMEBACK Chappelle DOWNFALL Louis CK DIED BEFORE PRIME Patrice O’Neal, Greg Giraldo UNDERRATED Joe Derosa MUST-SEE LIVE Robert Kelly  PODCASTS 2010s  BEST/FUNNIEST/UNDERRATED Walking the Room RUNNER-UP 600 Dollar Podcast ONE-MAN RANT Bill Burr Monday Morning Podcast SPORTS Pardon My Take RIFFING Bodega Boys HISTORY/COMEDY Dollop HISTORY DEEP DIVE Hardcore History MOVIES Rewatchables HATE-WATCH CRITICISM West Wing Thing POP CULTURE/FILM Frotcast MIXED Revisionist History GOOD/BAD Joe Rogan: GOOD: propping up comic friends; BAD: useful idiot for propping up bad faith fascists who should be put out to pasture INTERNET CURIOSITY Reply All LEFTIST POLITICS Chapo Trap House TRUE CRIME In the Dark ADVICE Don’t Take Bullshit From Fuckers LAME Pod Save America OVERRATED Missing Richard Simmons DIDN’T LIKE S-Town SERIAL Season 3>Season 1 TRUMP Trump, Inc SPORTS SCHAUDENFREUDE Fuck the Chargers OKAY Bill Simmons WTF WITH MARON good when he talks to comics MURDER My Favorite Murder OTHER GOOD ONES Hound Tall; Press Box

2010s MUSIC  FAVORITE anything Brian Fallon ROCK BAND Menzingers SONG Robyn-‘Dancing On My Own’ POP-PUNK BAND Wonder Years LIVE ALBUM Horrible Crowes-‘Elsie’ HEAVY BAND Every Time I Die ELECTRONIC Chvrches SOLO Rihanna COVER ALBUM Dustin Kensrue-‘Thoughts on a Different Blood’ GO-TO AT GYM Story So Far OFF THE INEVITABLE & IRRECOVERABLE DEEP END Kanye KIND OF LIKE THE MUSIC/HATE THE PERSON: LIKE KANYE Taylor Swift, Bieber THOUGHT I’D HATE BUT DOES NOT SUCK Lana Del Rey; Post Malone OTHER FAVES 1975; Arctic Monkeys; Beach Slang; Black Keys; Bon Iver; Carly Rae Jepsen; the National; Thrice MIXED Chance the Rapper; Kendrick Lamar I’ll be honest I spent far more time listening to podcasts nearly all the time and just listened to mostly the same couple of things I liked. 2010s PATRIOTS  2010s BEST GAMES 1) Seahawks Super Bowl 2) Falcons Super Bowl 3) Ravens 2015 Divisional 4) Chiefs 2019 AFCCG UNDERRATED CLASSIC Ravens 2015 Divisional BRADY/GRONK GO DOWN LIKE CHAMPS 1) 2018 Eagles Super Bowl 2) Broncos 2015 AFCCG: Brady’ offensive line was a sieve EITHER WAY Giants Super Bowl: game changed when Brady’s shoulder got fucked up by Tuck FAVORITE PLAYER TB12 MOST FUN/DOMINANT Gronk HEART OF TEAM Edelman BELOVED Wilfork ROCK SOLID 1) Hightower 2) McCourty 3) James White 1st BALLOT HALL OF FAMERS 1) Brady 2) Gronk 3) Revis LATER BALLOT 1) Edelman 2) Scarnecchia 3) Welker 4) Wilfork 5) Slater MAKING AN ARGUMENT Gilmore PATS HALL ONLY 1) McCourty 2) Hightower 3) Mankins 4) White 5) Gostkowski 6) Mayo 7) Chung UNDERRATED/GOOD VALUE 1) Amendola 2) Vollmer 3) Ninkovich 4) Chung 5) Woodhead DESERVED BETTER Welker UNSUNG Slater OVERRATED 1) Solder 2) Brandin Cooks NO-SHOWS Dolphins (Dec ’19); Jets Divisional (Jan ‘11) BEST REGULAR SEASON WINS 1) 2013 Broncos 2) 2017 Steelers 3) 2013 Saints BEST REGULAR SEASON LOSSES 1) 2012 49ers 2) 2016 Seahawks 3) 2014 Packers 4) 2015 Broncos LOL Miami Miracle: saved by winning Super Bowl LEAST TALENTED TEAM 1) 2013 by a mile 2) 2010 3) 2011 4) 2018 BEST TEAM 1) 2014  2) 2016 BEST PLAYS (NON-GRONK) 1) Butler INT Seahawks 2) Edelman TD pass vs Ravens 3) Buttfumble Jets 4) Edelman catch vs Falcons 5) Walk-off TD vs Falcons 6) Dan Connolly kick return 7) Brady TD pass to LaFell 2015 Divisional POUNDED TABLE TO DRAFT 1) Lamar Jackson 2) Kittle 3) AJ Brown 4) Honey Badger 5) Stefon Diggs WANTED BUT OUT OF REACH 1) Aaron Donald 2) Quenton Nelson 3) Derwin James 4) Hopkins 5) TJ Watt 6) Saquon 7) Keenan Allen 8) McCaffrey 9) Gurley WOULD’VE WON IT ALL IF NOT FOR INJURIES 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017. That’s football HEALTHIEST SEASON 2018 ROPE-A-DOPED/GOT BY ON VETERAN GUILE 2018: Belichick’s best coaching FAVORITE PICKS AT THE TIME OF GUYS I WANTED 1) Gronk 2) Hightower/Chandler Jones 3) Shaq Mason MOVES I HATED THAT I WAS WRONG ABOUT 1) Stephon Gilmore 2) trading Jamie Collins MOST IMPROVED Marcus Cannon BEST FIND Kyle Van Noy MOVE I LOVED getting Blount back the 2nd time IF BUTLER WASN’T BENCHED, DO THEY BEAT THE EAGLES? Yes 100%. If only because, if nothing else, he can tackle BUTLER’s INT KILLED THE ‘LEGION OF BOOM’ SEAHAWKS WOULD-BE DYNASTY Yes DRAFT REACH THAT MADE NO SENSE Jordan Richards: Tavon Wilson 2.0 BAD DRAFT MOVES 1) Dominique Easley 2) Cyrus Jones 3) Dobson 4) Mallett DIRTY SECRET Belichick sucks at drafting in 2nd round WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD IF HE STAYED HEALTHY Malcolm Mitchell HATE TO SEE WALK BUT COULDN’T AFFORD 1) Trey Flowers 2) Chandler Jones 3) Jimmy G 4) Talib 5) Akiem Hicks DEFLATEGATE fraud/power trip job by Goodell/owners BRADY OR BELICHICK MORE VALUABLE Brady 100% DISAPPOINTING/GAMBLES 1) Ochocinco 2) Michael Bennett: got him 2 years too late 3) Fanene signing 4) Haynesworth BEST SHORT-TERM 1) Martellus Bennett 2) Chris Long 3) Revis 4) Brian Waters SUSPECT CHARACTERS/EDGY PERSONALITY MACHINES Brandon Spikes; Brandon Browner…SERIAL KILLER Aaron Hernandez PERSONALITY DISORDER DISASTER Antonio Brown: bad signing/unexpected HOW THE FUCK DID WE LOSE TO THAT GUY? Eli Manning/Nick Foles LIFESAVER Scarnecchia MCDANIELS Frustrating—but continuity matters REFS FUCKED OVER Gronk  MISCELANNEOUS 2010s GOOD/ENJOY Bernie Sanders/AOC: people who actually want to get good done that’s long overdue…Lebron James; Stephen Curry; Kawhi; Zion Williamson; Luka Doncic...Lamar Jackson; Pat Mahomes; JJ Watt; Marshawn Lynch…Coach Ed Orgeron...David Ortiz…2011 Bruins…memes…Don Winslow crime novels…David Roth writing on Trump…David Grann non-fiction…’Book of Mormon’ DID NOT ENJOY Kyrie Irving…Deflategate…LeBron on the Heat…Bobby Valentine DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIKE ‘Between the World and Me’…Elon Musk…Lin Manuel-Miranda/’Hamilton’ INDEFENSIBLY AND INFURIATINGLY BAD THE MORE YOU LOOK AT IT Facebook…Obama Presidency/Democratic Party Leadership EVERYDAY DISASTER Media: CNN; Fox; MSNBC; NY Times Op-Ed…Trump/Republicans: Trump presidency was basically 2010s 9/11 for inevitable disastrous fallout & consequences my generation will never recover from…Grifters Trojan horsing way in shamelessly (Trump administration; Ben Shapiro; Alex Jones; Milo; Jordan Peterson, Tomi Lahren, etc.) and no repercussions...Republican Party basically one goal: to troll libs even with shitty ideas that suck FAVORITES WHO DIED Bourdain; Elmore Leonard; Garry Shandling; Muhammad Ali; Robin Williams; Tom Petty BEST TALENT CUT SHORT Philip Seymour Hoffman SHITTIEST PEOPLE WHO DIED Antonin Scalia; George HW Bush; John McCain; Osama; Steve Jobs; Whitey Bulger I FORGOT THAT SHIT HAPPENED Charlie Sheen loses it JEFFREY EPSTEIN did not kill himself WHAT DEFINES 2010s Amazon/Bezos…Climate Change/Gun Violence inaction…Journalism being taken over by Bane Capital-esque vultures/local places dying...one-sided Class War by the uber-rich…#MeToo…Netflix…Opioids…Outrage/Cancel culture…Police Injustice…Silicon Valley…Social Media…Superhero shit…Your mom

[klynth]

what happened to S2?

okay, I’m going to do it. I’m going to write (rant) about Voltron Legendary Defender Season 2. I won’t look onto the content, those who have watched it already know what happened. I want to know why the fandom reacted as it did and I’ll write my VERY PERSONAL opinion on the subject, because I think we may be forgetting something essencial here...

I’ll continue under the cut in case you want to avoid spoilers tho! ALSO IT’S LONG. THIS’S BEEN A PSA

Alright. Before it aired, everyone was already going nuts about S2. The staff’s comments and other theories were driving the almost six months content deprived fandom crazy. And I include myself in this category. I mean, I binge watched it in ONE sitting, at midnight when I had to go to class the very next day.

When I first finished, I had a bitter taste in my mouth. Where’s my klance? Where’s my 5 people team?? What’s going on??? WHAT’S GOING ON¡¿¿’? I read a few tweets of those who also stood up watching the episodes and they were also complaining a bit about the season. I went to bed angry, confused, upset.

Heck, when I woke up I was still bitter over the thing! I even complained about it with people who I had tried to convince about watching it in the past. I just said stuff llike “they’ve ruined it, it’s over, blablabla”. But I’ve cooled down. A day’s good enough to cool down.

Okay, Dreamworks, I’m dissapointed, We’re dissapointed. They did not manage their cards the way they should. However, I think we have to understand something. 

Yes, we can complain about some things. (I’ll say facts and then I’ll check those facts, don’t kill me yet pls)

We can complain about the character development on this season. I mean for... sake, what the quiznak did they do to HUNK? The ONLY thing he did this season was 1) used for food jokes and 2) be rude to Keith? ??? I mean he kinda stood on his side later but I’m PRETTY dang sure the way he behaved the 1st season can’t be compared to what happened on this one. I’m still shook about him, Hunk does NOT deserve this.

Other thing that can be adressed is Pidge’s "glorification” (to put it in some words). I myself LOVE Pidge, WILL ALWAYS WANT to protect my child, she’s my fave and I’ll keep her safe. However, the focus on her intelligence (which NONE of us deny nor turn a blind eye to) overshadowed the other charcters (Hunk, he’s a freaking ENGENIEER, Lance, WHO JUST STOOD THERE LOOKING LIKE AN IDIOT) in more than one occasion. I know it’s important because she’s a girl, a KID, and a power character, but guys, please, everyone needs representation.

And then, Allura. My queen, my beautiful woman, a figure of pure power and respect to me, who was turned in a hateful being from 0 to 100 real quick. I’m not saying her hate is NOT vaild, I mean, the galra ARE the race who, I don’t know, killed her father, her people and destroyed her planet? I know she must feel some resent towards them. But where’s my forgiving Allura? Where’s my heart-caring Allura? Or where’s my emotive Allura, who speaks her mind? She instantly shuts down whatever’s related to galra without giving them the chance to explain themselves, Keith included? even tho she’s known him for long enough now?? She gives him the cold shoulder and doesn’t even talks to him directly. Even for Allura, that’s low. I repeat, even though this IS valid, could’ve been written 10 times more better and not just “I don’t trust the galra, I won’t ever allow myself to talk to a galra ever again” gibberish (or toomfolery, as Keith would say lol) and then WOOPS this is KEITH I forgot and I’m sorry. That could’ve been better.

Then there’s my sweet angel, my prince charming, my son, my sun, Lance. This boy had been boosted up SO MUCH in the panels, in the interviews, EVERYWHERE, to the point we were all expecting a Lance-centred season, and were rewarded with like, 4 minutes of screening (of course I’m exaggerating here, but you get the point).

Of course we can also talk about the Keith-Shiro focus that went on the WHOLE time. We started with Keith and Shiro on the planet, we ended on Keith going to Shiro who had just gone -poof-. I’m pretty sure I can say 80% of the content was Keith and/or Shiro centered. I Love (Capital L) them both, I’d die for either of them. but the lack of balance between them and the rest of the crew is alarming.

Heck, even ZARKON. He went to “chill, I’m powerful enough to live happy and reign everything that the light touches” to “ VOLTRON! VOLTRON! VOLTRON! VOLTRON! VOLTRON! VOLTRON!”. Like yo man, take it easy, you’re old, you’ll die from a heart attack at this point.

Some of us can also say where’s klance??? where¿¿¿ whERE?! YOU ALL PROMISED TO EXPLORE SEXUALITY WHERE !! I DO NOT SEE? Other than that pool scene which was gold and the occasional and very scarce Keith/Lance interaction.

I won’t complain about Coran because he was literally perfect and I’d give my life for him. I love him.

So? What was good about this season? Let me tell you something. We’re forgetting a very essencial part of this series.  

This is a kids show. 

This is a show whose target market are KIDS and younger audience. Also some of the older people who watched the original perhaps? We’re secondary audience. The show’s not construced for OUR liking, or to our vision. I am an Animation student, 6th semester, and I know this. You have to make CHOICES to what’s better for your wider audience. That’s how the story goes.

I won’t say that some of the things they did are jusified. I won’t forgive them about Hunk, or Allura. Pidge can pass because she’s my fave women need representation. But hear me out. We weren’t left on the side of the road just like that.

I mean, there WILL be a 3rd season.

Shiro and Keith’s screen time is reasonable. Last season there were waaaay too many things left unsaid about these two that led to futher explanation on this one. Keith’s purple burns and his knife, Shiro’s EVERYTHING¿ like what. And I know, “it’s the same for everyone!! we don’t know anything about the paladins (except Pidge!!)!!” well, yeah? What’s the problem if this season’s focused on two of them? Everyone needs their space, their time. This was theirs. Soon the others’ will come.

Lance, my boy. Even if this season did NOT do him justice, there’s a huge promise of a wider exploration of his feelios and emotions later. His true perception of things and himself has only seen the surface a handful of times and it’s only been piling up. This, just like Keiths and Shiro’s case in this season, can’t be left unsaid just like that.

Zarkon. The guy didn’t know an Altean was alive, let alone Voltron had been formed again. Weeps, I wouldv’e reacted the same yo. My life, my reign, the empire I’ve been building for the last 10000 years is being threatened for the first time. I’d take desperate measures too.

And about the shipping... again.. this is a kids show guys. The TV media IS a bit too careful on these waters. I myself didn’t see TLOK but I think that, the thing that made korrasami canon only happened until the last episode? The very last? And we’re only in the 2nd season?? Don’t forget we’re only fans.. don’t take it on the creators. This is no our show. We can be upset, we have a right. We might have been queerbaited (won’t be the first time, won’t be the last) But please, do not exaggerate on this. We’re adults, we’re fans, and we have to be those this show deserve. And for those who still want to believe, I’ll repeat: we’re only in the second season. 

So yeah, this are my thought. Anyone who wants to discuss further whatever can always message me or whatever. I love Voltron. I’ll stand with Voltron. I got onto this heck of a ride and will till the end.