The entire succession cast being mouth-frothingly sexy was a very unfortunate event for the "adhere rigid irl morality to fictional media" crowd, but not for me
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Something about the fact that these shots are all grouped together, one after another, visually giving them equal weight just gets me. The narrative knows what's going to happen between JGY and Huaisang at this point, knows how it's going to treat JGY at the end of everything. And it still takes time to show Meng Yao instinctively and immediately going in front of Huaisang and Huaisang instinctively and immediately hiding behind him. It takes the time--literally, showed it in the background and focused on it with the same general amount of time as the other shots--to show that this act of protection and trust are just as real and true as Jiang Cheng defending his sister, as Wen Qing defending her younger brother.
Like, I dunno! There are other Nie juniors there! They have swords and shit! Huaisang could have gone and hid behind the wall, but he hid behind Meng Yao! And Meng Yao could have moved back with Huaisang, but he steps directly in front of him!
There's a lot CQL did to JGY's character and narrative that I don't like and that flatten or just straight up erase his full complexity. But I really appreciate the lengths that it went to in Episode 4 to explicitly tell us that he does not hesitate to protect Huaisang, even though at this point he does not have a sword and definitely does not have anywhere near the same cultivation power (if any) as any of the rest of the people in the room.
Right now, after being publicly humiliated, unarmed and definitely outclassed, he is brave. Along with the rest of the characters, he's allowed to be uncomplicatedly young and loyal and just as innocent as any of the other students there.
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There are only so many fanfics that use the entirety of DC as cardboard cutouts to prop up bat family characters that I can read before I go berserk.
I swear to god. Every character that has ever been shipped with a bat or coexists on the same team as a bat is owed an apology.
How many Young Justice fanfics that solely revolve around Tim must exist? How many Titans fanfics centered only on Dick? Why is it a herculean task to find a Justice League fanfic without Bruce as the main character?
And then even when you do find a fic that seems like it's balanced, everything still revolves around the bat. Like Kon, Cassie and Bart have nothing else going on in their lives except Tim and Tim's issues or thinking about Tim. Like Donna and Wally and Roy just cannot function if they aren't spending every waking moment thinking about Dick.
I'm... Guys. I'm at my limit. I swear to god. We need to make a Batman tag and surgically remove all these fics and quarantine them there. We'll keep the actual DC fics and they can do whatever the fuck they want in their own tag. It's getting ridiculous how hard it is to find fanfic that's actually DC related and isn't just 'The BatFam Show'.
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My favorite detail in WWDITS is that the vampires clearly know how modern people dress and do not give a single fuck about it. I refuse to believe that their terrible human outfits are the result of being out of touch, they know exactly what they’re doing.
Nandor, Nadja, and Laszlo live with two other people who wear exclusively modern clothes, Colin and Guillermo. They even ask Colin to borrow his modern outfits for the Baron. All three of them are familiar with modern fashion and that’s without mentioning that all their victims obviously wear normal human clothes.
Nandor knows what a tide bleach pen is and how much it costs. Bleach would ruin most vampire clothes due to age. Interesting.
Even after assuming Simon’s nightclub requires capes none of them are that phased to be wrong. The most reaction we see is offense at the comment that the three are dressed “traditionally”. Even for vampires this group is way behind what’s “in” right now and they know it.
Jackie Daytona. Enough Said.
Nandor owns nice modern work out clothes that he knows are for the gym, but he still goes to Massive Fitness shirtless with his vamp pants. That’s not a misunderstanding that’s a choice.
All three vampires are attracted to a modern human for a long period of time. Are you telling me that Nadja didn’t pick up anything about human fashion from sneaking away with Jeff? Or that Laszlo has never noticed what Sean wears? Nandor falls for tons of people with tons of different styles. The Meg to Guillermo spectrum covers a lot of different clothes.
The polaroids throughout are all fairly period accurate for fashion! This is especially true of Nandor who is shown with both Gail (reoccurring fling) and Benjy (old familiar) throughout the decades in accurate clothing. Most of the intro pictures also feature the vamps in modern clothing!
Anyways don’t believe for a single second that those idiots don’t understand human fashion because they definitely do. Every time they wear their vampire clothes it is because they enjoy dressing that way and don’t care that they look out of place. Their poor attempts at human outfits are intentional mockery, not misunderstandings.“We wanna blend in” bullshit you all LIVE for the attention.
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Ranking of the slytherin boys? 🫢
💀please take into consideration that this is simply my opinion and i am merely a helpless mortal who has been ensnared by tom for a decade
tom
mattheo
everyone else evenly
to give you a second opinion, i asked some of my fandom friends and got this unanimous response:
mattheo
enzo
theo
blaise
tom (🥲)
draco
do with that as you wish. they are all lickable.
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Sometimes i remember a comics moment i randomly came across somewhere, where Sam Wilson mentiones a musical and Steve Rodgers says he doesn't like musicals, to whitch Sam goes "Guess that means you really are straight" and even tho i don't care about Cap America or the Avengers, the moment stuck in me for that quote by Sam. And like....Sci, any ideas if straight men actually don't like musicals or is that bullshit?
actually i think i know more gay men who hate musicals than i know straight men who hate musicals. i've had a drag queen stop me point blank when i was about to sing a barbra streisand song, and i know so many gays who pointedly hate abba. so based on my experience i think the inverse is true. most of the straight men i know are kind of impartial about musicals, but gay men? hate.
my theory is that a lot of gay men don't want to fall into stereotypes, maybe. but thaaaaat's just a theory! a gay theory.
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mendel and charlotte would absolutely beat the shit out of anyone who joked about AIDS in front of them btw. i hope you know that.
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Morrotober Day 5/October 5: Fly || Sunset || "Time to go home."
RAAUUGGHH HAPPY LATE MORROTOBER EVERYBODY FIRST ONE OF THE MONTH AND EVERYTHING I DID HERE I HAVE NEVER FUCKING DONE BEFORE SO IM KINDA PROUD OF IT LOWKEY
slight variations under the cut lol
i tried doing the yellow filter thing they had in the show but i dont know how to do that so i just put like brown over top and hoped for the best and idrk how i feel about it tbh tell me which one yall like better
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girlhood 🥰 is being bullied by other girls for being "ugly" into a complete depressive refusal to take care of your appearance at age 9 and showing up to school unwashed and unkempt because it wouldnt make a difference anyway ❤️
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I am actually crying after watching that scene for like 15 times straight (gay). Everything in that scene just pulls at my heart strings.
Sipping tea (I am assuming it's tea)!!!! Comfy clothes!!! The way they are so comfortably sharing each other's space!!!
The way Wylan opens up to Jesper and tells him that Ketterdam has never really felt like a home. I haven't read the books yet but from the fics I do know that he has had an abusive childhood and his own house surely could have never felt quite like home either.
The way Wylan tries to be so nonchalant while saying “so of course I came back” and then the way he says with conviction that there's no one better than him!!!! I am so proud of him 🥹
And then the way Jesper is listening to him so intently and then makes that key with the coin he was playing around with in his other hand and the twinkling sounds in the background 🥹
It's so obvious that it's a key but Wylan does not assume and asks Jesper what the key opens. The way Wylan is a bit unsure and then hopeful but still processing the information that yes indeed that key is the key to the kingdom inside Jesper's room that could be their home :"",,,)
And I cannot even process that kiss right now. ...
I am just so emotional right now. Wylan and Jesper and their love means so much to me 💙💜💖🫶🏼
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