#it could’ve been better probably

[kihteyu]

I am so strong for resisting the urge to rewrite all of my earlier fanfic chapters when I go back to read them again

[lesbianwithchainsaws]

Society if the community writers had given Jeff and Annie literally any other character dynamic and didn't try to make them a couple

[scumvillainess]

honestly i never really agreed with the popular shen qingqiu had a good shizun headcanon because if shen qingqiu actually had someone who he knew cared about him, he definitely wouldn’t have turned out the way he did in canon.

[stuckinapril]

honestly the things people do for people they like are craaaaazy. just think of what u were willing to do for someone u had a major crush on. if they’re not going out of their way they’re just not that into u i fear

[dontflirt]

Stray Kids 5th Anniversary Event We’re Foive Day — MVs to Surpass 100M Views 🧭

[loverboybrightsideghost]

listening to rqg 159 and alex describes how zolf would recognize wilde’s “eeerrghhhhh it has to do with touchy-feely emotions” face. yeh

[laurrelise]

thinking about how if we ignored the season 4 ending five would’ve outlived all of his siblings and would have to lose each and every one of them all over again

[arguablysomaya]

i think tim should be like callum from magisterium and have a running tally of “evil overlord points” that he gives himself to try to stop his destiny

most of his siblings are either supportive (dick and cass), neutral (duke and damian), and some siblings sneak into his room to play Evil Dictator Hypnosis videos or text him this

at random intervals throughout the week (aHEM. 😒)

but regardless, all siblings try to take advantage of his latent malicious tendencies whenever there’s someone who’s empire needs to be taken down and humiliated in elaborate Shakespearian fashion and tim can’t help but be suckered in every time

[goldensunset]

Here we are at the busiest city in the world,

What would you do to make yourself stand out?

[idknotgonnapost]

it was sweet how much lalo kept trying to get nacho to eat

[boynextdoorcoverpoison]

I get that they’re under hybe but not having bonedo cover got7 and/or astro is a true missight

[spaghetticat3899]

When you absolutely despise something a lot of people like, and no matter what way you look at it you cannot see the appeal, but you know you can’t talk about it in public or else you’ll get dogpiled to hell and back, so you just kinda sit there frothing at the mouth like this

[coulrology]

Voice claims for the coven heads that didn’t get their moment to shine! 🎤

In order:

Osran (Wes Johnson - Hermaeus Mora), Vitimir (Nabil Elouahabi - Kalé), Mason (Armin Shimerman - Augustus Aquato), Hettie Cutburn (Wendee Lee - Black Dahlia)

[nogitsunbae]

They really wanted s4 to be more horror-esque but I’d argue that bright and goofy s3 had more actual horror tropes that hit with me in it.

The small “get away from the door” before everyone else realized what was happening by Mike, then him shouting at Max to get away from the door right before the glass busted. Classic.

Billy’s feet sliding up on the floor as he’s being taken over in the sauna by the mind flayer. Classic.

The rats? Classic. The rat exploding RIGHT AFTER Jonathan left the room? Classic.

Also wayyyy more body horror. S4 just had people getting twisted up. S3 had people exploding, turning into goo, Billy’s skin slowly having black tendrils of whateverinthefuckthatshitwas creeping up it and also creeping down it when he comes back to himself.

Characters acting sugary sweet when we as the audience knows there’s an agenda. Classic. The scene with Heather’s parents is actually terrifying looking at it as a horror scene and not a sci fi one.

People rag on s3 for a lot of things but the horror element is definitely there.

[polyamoryprincess]

I know people are upset about Izzy being killed (I am too) but the truth is I don’t think it was bad writing or even them diminishing Izzy’s character, I actually think everything about the last episode has to do with production and I think Izzy lovers will feel a little better about it if they see it like that (it helped for me).

Basically, if you look at it like this, I think 2 important things came into play. Budget and how the showrunners assumed this would play out. Which is to say that they probably assume HBO will either renew them for season 3 and cut their budget again or they’re going to be cancelled.

Both are very likely, so assuming they had this in mind, removing Con, who I’d guess is the 3rd highest paycheck after Taika and Rhys was probably their best budgeting move, especially if they’re thinking of having an all out war in the final season that they probably want to be a visual spectacle, so each season feels like it’s getting consistently larger in scope.

On the other hand, if they do get cancelled (which they probably will because the HBO CEO is a weird little conservative goon), they left the ending in a way that could be considered an ENDING while still being prepped for a 3rd season. So in the time they had left (which was 2 episodes less than their first season) they gave Izzy an entire completed character arc.

I 100% understand the sadness and anger, especially after all the shit he went through during the beginning of the season, I felt gut punched when I learned he died and was bitter as hell through my whole first viewing of the season even though I’d had more than a month to process it. But after having thought it through, I genuinely don’t think it’s simply them treating Izzy as just an extension of Ed’s character growth and I sure as shit don’t think it’s because they wanted to conform to Izzy haters.

I think if they had all of the resources and episodes they wanted, had a guaranteed season 3, I think we would have gotten the character growth we got with better pacing and he probably would have at minimum made it to season 3 (I also think he would have had a love interest, but that’s just what I wanted for him tbh).

I think they did the best they could with what they had, allocated a lot of budget and screen time towards his character despite having less of those 2 things than the first season, and at least let Izzy have a completed story and arc, even if the ending was deeply disappointing.

[sammygender]

at the end of the day it’s just not true that sam ‘explicitly says john never hit them in 1x14’ it’s actually the opposite of true. do you want me to pull up the quotes i love that episode i can pull up the quotes. even aside from the fact that sam’s still identifying with max once he knows he was abused and only stops once it becomes obvious that it continued in adulthood/wasnt a childhood thing that just happened sometimes….. even aside from the fact that dean’s comment at the end of the ep is obviously meant to imply that sam either doesn’t know about something or isn’t considering something….. even if you just take it at the most textual value possible. sam doesn’t say Dad never hit us! he says “a little more tequila, a little less demon-hunting, we would’ve had Max’s childhood”…. very different…… max’s childhood is explicitly Defined by physical violence & sam and dean’s isn’t it’s defined by the hunting and the neglect and for dean the parentification physical violence isn’t the defining part or even the Worst part i would argue of johns abuse……. all sam’s saying is That….. but there is a world of a sliding scale between “max’s childhood” and any other kind of not necessarily frequent but still occurring physical abuse & to act like there isn’t is weird and insane……. and especially to sam those can seem like very different things…… no one wants to believe their parents are awful. sam doesn’t even if he seems like he’s ready to accept it. he’s not really.

he’s Also essentially saying In another world where our dad didn’t have hunting and he drank even more than he already did, he would’ve ended up beating us! . which is also really not a ringing endorsement of john winchester’s parenting wrt physical abuse.

i have like 798477 more thoughts on this but whatever i’m just here to say shut UP about 1x14 in regards to john physical abuse unless you’re using it to mention how it brings that concept, which it returns to multiple times throughout the show, into the narrative…..