#it makes me sooo!not normal ab their dynamic

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I’m gonna watch community now bc I didn’t know abed was canonically autistic!!!

HE IS!!! I’m so glad ur gonna watch community anon bcus it’s SOO GOOD!!

If it wasn’t just apparent in the way he behaves, abed often refers to himself as being on the spectrum. And there r a lot of jokes and plot lines about it (there r multiple episodes I’ve seen dedicated to abed having autistic meltdowns and the group trying to help him) and it’s so surprising to see a sitcom where a character is weird and autistic and none of the jokes about that r making fun of him for being autistic like, all the autism comedy is just super relatable and funny to me bcus I never see my experiences being presented in a relatable and likable way I can laugh with, instead of a scornful embarrassing way for ppl to mock.

For example, there’s an episode where abed becomes a stereotypical mean girl bcus his friends find out he’s really good at making hyper specific observations about people and perceiving details that aren’t super obvious (autistic trait) which makes him great at insults, so they start asking abed to insult people who annoy them 😭😭😭. There’s an episode where Abed has a meltdown because his best friend in the group is on a date which makes him feel like the group dynamic is going to change, and he copes with this by maladaptive dreaming in this daydream room he has in his house to try and process his feelings. There’s even an episode where Abeds friends assume that he needs help getting dates because he’s socially awkward, but they eventually realize that abed is asked out and hit on all of the time bcus autistic ppl can be charming and attractive actually, and the reason he’s single isn’t bcus his disability prevents him from getting girls, it’s bcus hes not interested in dating.

These r only two examples, but it reflects how his character is written always, and what I love about it is how even tho abed is explicitly autistic, instead of being presented as stupider or lesser then the other characters, he is often portrayed as the most level headed and rational person in the group. Not only that, but they don’t end up leaning into the “autistic people are robotic genius’s who are more advanced then normal people” “autism isn’t a disability it’s a super power” stereotype, bcus abed is also presented as being very disabled by his disability, and the show paints this very realistic picture of an autistic person who’s both smart and capable and charming, and struggles with socializing and self regulating and experiencing change. I just love to see an autistic character who can be a funny comedy character and a realistic and nuanced portrayal of an autistic person

(Also ps if ur following me I assume u love Armand and if so u def will love community and abed bcus abed is sooo similar to Armand lol)

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Omg please hades son Oscar is what I need. He’s friends with Lando and they are the duo that everyone is scared of in camp cause they are children of the big three but in reality Oscar is really calm and very self-aware when it comes to his powers. Well Lando not so much because he likes the fact he’s so powerful, unlike Oscar. But Oscar always tries to control him as much as he can and it works. I can so see Max coming into camp later and he’s super insecure and guarded because of that. But the two warm their way into his heart eventually and now kids worry not only about Hades’ and Poseidon’s sons but also Zeus’. They are the new big three however their father don’t like it.

Oscar would date Demeter’s daughter and they are the perfect balance to each other. She’s life and he’s death and it’s just the way it was always supposed to be. I can see Lando dating Hades’ daughter so well basically Oscar’ sister and when Oscar finds out it’s the only time he looses control and maybe they have this epic fight that ends in half of the camp destroyed and them hugging each other in the end because it’s stupid to fight they can just talk it out (they can’t. Oscar just has to deal with it). Who would Max date??? I can maybe see Athena’s daughter? It fits I think.

Or well Charles. Charles is always a good idea

tbh i kinda want the big 3 kids to be only children like in the percy jackson series bc it adds a lil extra drama to be forbidden children, plus w lando as a poseidon kid i kinda want him w an athena daughter to keep up w the stupid boy/smart girl dynamic that percy and annabeth have because its sooo cute. my fav

if oscar had a sister, and lando dated her, there wouldn't even be a chance a fight, oscar would open the ground up and send him straight down to daddy. gf standing off to the side like 😦 did you just- did you just send my bf to hell? and oscar’s like oops sorry, i passively thought that i wished the ground would swallow him whole when i saw you holding hands but i didn’t expect it to happen? everyone in camp is staring down the ravine going through camp and then looking to oscar with fear in their eyes and he’s just like ): dont look at me like that im sure he’ll be back soon. my dad will get sick of him real quick.

lando’s in hades's realm playing fetch with cerebus and chatting up old spirits. hades pissed because some idiot is distracting his guard dog again. few hours goes by and lando appears in the middle of camp, a little dirty from his impromptu dive underground, but okay. gf doting on him and oscar's sick of it but doesn't make the world eat him again.

could also work w a lil love triangle/thrupple moment where oscar and her are best friends and he's hopelessly in love w her but thinks he has no shot and then he sees her and lando flirting and next thing you know a hole is opening under lando's feet and he's got a one way ticket to visit hades.

i could see max with a daughter of aphrodite, he’s normally very confident bc he’s so strong, once he settles into the camp all the girls are crushing on him and he flirts w them all so easily except for her. any other child of aphrodite yea sure pretty or whatever. but he sees her like picking berries with oscar’s gf from demeter and just stops and stares and oscar is like “y’know my girl can put in a good word for you!” and max gets all flustered and is like “im a son of zues, i don’t need help picking up girls.” oscar daring him to go talk to her if he doesn’t need help, and max doesn’t back down from any challenge so he goes to talk to her. he gets a few steps away and forgets how to speak, the rehearsed lines fade away and he’s turning around just before he gets to them. he rushes back to oscar like, okay yeah. maybe ask her to put in a good word. he goes so stupid around her and all he can think ab is how pretty she is, how nice the sound of her voice is, how pillowy her lips look.

or we talked about a nemesis child, max could date a child of nemesis and she’s sooo protective over him and will fuck w anyone who bothers him. someone makes an offhand remark about him and they have bad luck for a week. injures him sparring and they get hurt twice as bad by their next opponent. her and him flying together, holding hands and zipping through the clouds, her with actual wings and him just using the wind.

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you are so good at analyzing and writing about the complicated relationships in the team— I really hope you do it for more of them (especially ones that I think run a lot deeper than it is explicitly said, like Hotch and JJ (especially between seasons 3-7) and Hotch and Morgan). Just wanted to say I’d love to hear your thoughts on more of the team dynamics!

omgggg thank you so muuuuch

something that really drives me crazy ab this show is how every single duo has their own unique bond and even though they love each other equally, they each have a totally different relationship.

obviously because of my hotch obsession i've thought even more about his so i'll probably write more essays on hotch x the rest of the team just because its something that's rarely explicitly gone over? everyone, especially in the later seasons, will be very open and affectionate and tell each other how much they love each other all the time, but with hotch it's never so direct.

its a little hard and i don't think a lot of people share my opinions on the way i see the dynamics. i think bc for me its family first, romance second? i tend to focus on the actual strength of the relationship before applying any romance, even though i am very excited ab ways that it could manifest sexually. again, pick any duo, and you could probably find some pretty solid evidence for a lil smth lmao. that being said, i dont always think its necessary. the foundation, the core of the relationship is always most important to me and it's not any less special if you take romance out of it.

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Stakes is a good choice for your favorite miniseries (its probably mine too tbh) soooo !! What do you like about it ? I’d love to talk ab stakes.

Stakes is sooo good im soooooo normal about it

Okay but for reals tho i don’t know what specifically makes me like it as a mini series. I really like Marceline so the fact that its a look into her and her character and her past straight away makes it appeal to me. Also just the writing is really nice and good i think?

I did really like the flashbacks to Marcy’s past tho. Especially the ones with the humans and her singing the song were really nice and ofc the flashback with her mum for Everything Stays

The interactions between Marceline and all the other characters were vibin. I love watching her dynamic particularly with Bonnie and Simon. In both cases theres just so much past built up between them and seeing them interact is so interesting and theres quite a decent amount of Bonnie and Marcy interacting in stakes and its just, nice to see how their relationship has improved since some of those earlier episodes before the door one. The interactions with Simon are a lot less but i still rlly like them. I do also enjoy her dynamic with Finn and the way she interacts with Jake its just nice to watch i think

The vampire lore is really cool too. The stuff of like Marceline basically killed off all the vampires and stuff and like. I dunno what im saying anymore but its cool and funky

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Lol I also think legit closeted gen z kids don’t rly make gay jokes? Story time: I actually was rumored to idk be gay w my bestie in the FIFTH grade (the teachers legit told her mom ab the rumors I’m pretty sure). They always talked about how I was a bad influence on her (I was the new girl at school; she’d been there since kindergarten and she was very pretty/skinny/~adorable whereas I was fat and kinda average-looking lol and never acted innocent), to the point where the teacher blamed it on me when she forgot to turn her notebook in after a test. Now our entire friend group had this dynamic where we all bullied each other, and she had it worse than any of us, so I’m not claiming to be innocent but come on lol I didn’t even talk to her during that test (obviously). They always talked ab how I had changed her, and it was partly bc we all liked going to the toilet together, and they thought we were doing something gay. I always felt so predatory towards her for all that shit that I overcompensated in junior high when we both changed schools. I became a doormat who yelled about having daddy issues so people wouldn’t think I was gay anymore. I was extremely closeted to myself bc (1) I’m religious, (2) I live in a country where gay marriage isn’t even legal, and (3) my parents are v homophobic. I remember one time, my straight bestie and her friends joked ab all of us marrying one another if we couldn’t find a man when we turned 40. I FREAKED OUT and said NO WTF IM NOT GAY dsjs. I also had/have pretty bad ocd and would get intrusive thoughts about her all the time when I was trying to have sexual/romantic daydreams and again I felt like I was violating her (and like I was legit thinking of much older men lol bc again I have daddy issues. I rly wasn’t attracted to her; if anything, the intrusive thoughts kind of disgusted me so much that I ended up hating her face). It got to the point where I couldn’t look at her face or else my thoughts would get triggered. I legit tried to convince myself I was homophobic. Now there was a lot of jealousy and stuff there too bc I eventually became the pretty girl’s nice crazy fat sidekick that the boys would only talk to so they could get w her but yeah none of it traumatized me as much as the thought that I was violating her somehow (and believe me this fucked me up in sooo many ways like (trigger warning: Ed) I ended up setting her weight as my ultimate goal weight and refusing to even mention sex after always having been super horny on main partly bc of this so I could be seen as small and innocent instead of crazy and predatory).The very notion of making gay jokes ab my bestie wouldn’t have crossed my mind pls and I would’ve legit beaten myself up for it if it had. Obviously, not every closeted person is like this etc etc, but most are just pretty repressed idk.

Sorry for dunking on you djsjsj but yeah I have ~memories from my early gay days

100% and I’m so sorry and you’re so normal babe.

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4.05 Tinder Box

In which I make 6 references- 5 numbered and then Wizards of Waverly Place- a few jokes, and a prediction that I think is SPOT ON. Join me on this reactionary journey (in chronological order). 

Abby, Jackson is relaying the science info for the audience, not you. I know that you know, but we, the audience, do not. give him a break.

Oh, the Mt. Weather parallels. BUT Abby checks herself. To all the haters: this means Abby is good. She’s NOT doing what was done in Mt. Weather. Dr. Tsing is a foil; they are fundamentally different.

I too hate molecular biology

At least Helios is a good horse and stays with Octavia when she falls. Unlike that dog vid. (reference 1 here if you don’t immediately get this)

Hey it’s Niylah! Not on the show in the way I predicted (Octavia going to her) but she’s still playing the healing role so I’m proud I pulled that out of thin air.

Oh no Ilian I don’t trust you yet because you hate tech but thanks for saving O.

Miller’s dad is ranking officer. Yeahhhh boyyyy. So many speaking lines, such as: “the radiation’s our enemy, not the ice nation” awwwww so proud of you.

Clarke’s poker face about all things Bellamy needs some work.

Her come the prisoners. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. its Kane and Bellamy. THE MOMENT CLARKE’S BEEN WAITING FOR. (reference 2, keep playing!)

[I had to watch commercials on this rewatch and why are there commercials for books? You don’t want to cast your character so it’s just a bunch of moving dark figures over an abstract background. Pointless. Plus this Riverdale show looks unrealistic.] I learned how to use line breaks and they please me.

Riley stop it. Only like 4 more episodes until your likely death.

“They knew you were coming”- Bell so hopeful. This is lovely. But I would have preferred a little more anguish and suspense before he and Kane know she’s alive. Some good acting and character development could have come from that instead of them finding out the next day.

Octavia knows she’s not lucky Ilian brought her in. Who didn’t question his taking all these explosives? Where is everyone?

Raven and Abby love and concern <3 they are the best. Hand holding throughout their scenes this week. I dig it. 

I thought we all knew Raven had the upgrade and thus still has ALIE in her head? Jackson and Abby are just figuring this out, fine, but I knew. The people I watched with did not? They just thought Raven was really smart? When did I learn this lil’ bit of information?

Abs we gotta go back to space! Raven’s looking at the gas lines and floor map to figure out there’s a rocket ship! She didn’t know where it was, but she knew what to tell the computer to do. PURE JOY! I AM SO HAPPY RAVEN FOUND A SHIP. This seem dangerous too though…

[Commercials are only acceptable in the actual air time. OMG THERE WAS A REALLY CUTE SHELTER DOG COMMERCIAL I TAKE IT ALL BACK cwgood.com if you want to see it. Omg no I had to watch 6 commercials wtf]

Riley you suck. I want to feel nothing at your death in 4-5 episodes.

P sure Costa was just on the island with doctor tech squad? They have to be more careful about where their quaternary-and-beyond(!) characters are.

Clarke is the only one who Roan listens to. Their cave scene was v good. Don’t brag about your lack of heart about your mom to someone who literally had the worst mom. Clarke, your mother cares about you. Roan’s mom used him as a tool in her ploy for power. Telling him that you care about your people more than your mom brings up some ethical values questions. Sacrificing one to save the many seems like a fine moral argument. But when you put faces onto those people things change: A ton of strangers vs your mom? That makes the decision harder. One stranger vs your fam and closest friends? That seems like an easy decision. I don’t know if it makes you a better or worse person for being willing to sacrifice your mother, but it’s definitely not an argument I would want to make. Especially with Roan. He let Lexa spear his mom. I cheered at that scene- it was badass. It was also clear she was a villain. And a completely different relationship dynamic. Clarke could use some advice from Selena Gomez and the Wizards of Waverly Place Theme, “you might run into trouble if you go to extremes because everything is not what it seems.”  You know, with the whole list thing and promising Roan safety in the Ark and taking Jaha’s advice. S3 Clarke could have used the line “be careful not to mess with the balance of things” when she was trying to change grounder culture. Season 4: “The end will no doubt justify the means” or, alternatively, “That’s what I said” in which Jasper goes around making that’s what she said jokes but about himself.  This didn’t directly relate to what I was talking about. My head just went there.

“Riley shouldn’t be here” Good Bell! AH-chers (Kane).I don’t understand why they all have to have American accents? Like let Ian’s lovely accent out. Let Bob’s vocal cords rest. A bunch of accents would have been initially present on the Ark because it was an international force. If English became the dominant language, fine. It’s an American show I don’t care enough to argue that point. One language across the stations is understandably necessary. BUT. Accents don’t disappear. I grew up with this guy whose parents are both English- a lawyer (now head judge, whaddup) and a professor. They’re all super cool. His sister taught me how to pop-lock-and DROP it on a mission trip and went to Oxford. Anyways, both kids have accents because their English parents taught them how to speak. I don’t know for sure if by high school this guy could turn his accent on and off, depending on the social setting, but he may have left it on for maaayyyybbeeeee pretentious reasons. He’s not pretentious, but he’s charming af and flatters my grandma at the Christmas Eve service and like. He’s a little posh. A kind, good person, and probs not posh in England, but he’s posh here. The point is I’m not an expert and don’t know. HOWEVER. It is possible that he can’t turn his accent off and I’m being a dick because I’m relating his ability of turning on/off his accent to my ability to turn on/off a southern accent. The difference is that I was not raised by parents who have the southern accent- I just took one on because I rode a redneck bus and was trying to assimilate. The moral of the story is this: accents, even over 100 years, would not have homogenized to the point that Ian and Bob and Eliza and Ricky and Alycia and everyone else have to lose their accents. It’s a skill but if we follow the English guy I grew up with not losing his accent despite being around other people (and not me singing ZBB’s Chicken Fried with my friends) logic, the different accents should still be there. But then that creates issues for the show runners of having to determine which countries has people in space. There were flags at the Unity Day ceremony, and I’m pretty sure I remember there being an Indian flag, so where are they? Put Dev Patel on the show. Jk he’s too good they could never get him. How did they even get Ian? I’m happy he’s here though. Isaiah can’t get larger roles because no one likes him. I may be projecting, but I also feel like Shonda Rhimes burned that boy.

Bellamy (and a reluctant Echo) to save the day. I hope by the end of the season 1) Echo is still alive, and 2) they’ve forged some sort of trust. They’ve had a cool bond since Bellamy saves Echo from the cages™ in Mt. Weather. Then Echo “saves” Bellamy from the Azgeda assassin who blows up Mt. Weather by tricking him into going to polis. She’s like I saved you, dude. And he’s like no, you lied to me and made it possible for a bunch of my friends to die. Then she’s like hey, be my friend, I’ve had sooo many chances to kill you and still haven’t, that’s friendship right? Bellamy’s like. No. I don’t trust you. Boom. Echo captures (? She brings them into the throne room, idk if she captures them herself) Bell and Stevens (rip, tattletale) and could have killed them both. She doesn’t kill Bellamyyyyyyy… Then this scene with Riley. There’s obviously trust issues on both sides- She doesn’t remove Bell’s chains. “so much for building trust” Bell. She’s worried her king is going to be shot. This is not the moment to scold her But I think she still wants to be friends. It must be rough to be such a badass spy and not to have just one friend. Bell seems to be the Chosen One™ and I hope they can work out their differences. Post Riley they share a secret, so they’re working on itttttttttt.

[I had to reload the page and I’ve now watched 8 commercials. The girl at the booth next to me is talking about her authentic (highly not-authentic) Irish pub experience and all the musicians playing their “banjos and fiddles.” Shut the fuck up. The page timed out again. Enough. I have to watch another 6 commercialssss. I’m tired of this proactive commercial, but at least the CW knows their target audience #annoyed]

SHA-BoO0M GOES THE ARK. Well that bad deal Clarke just made is over. She may have promised Azgeda protection from radiation, but what about Trikru? You’re going to help Roan and not Indra? Not a fan of that deal. Glad it went up in smoke. Da dunn tsssshhhhhh. Puns are fun. (reference 3, same as 2). I now know why the episode is Tinder Box. It all makes sense.

Bellamy and Octavia reunited. Another shot of the shoulder tat. Clarke and the Blakes holding hands (well Bell’s holding O and Clarke’s holding her hand. Poor Kane has no one to hold. Where’s awk bff David Miller? Hold him. The Blakes could at least invite him over.

Back at Doctor Tech Squad- Raven has a stroke! Possibly fatal, who can say? Raven’s just excited to go to space, and I’m happy for her. Abby also at risk, but doesn’t want to be tested until she’s showing more symptoms than those she already has from being sleep deprived. This is pretty normal for people whose parents get diagnosed with genetic diseases. Some people want to know, but not knowing can give you hope for things that can’t be cured. Abby wants to focus on helping adorable Raven save the whole world. But. Hey, how ya doing, well I’m doing just fine, I lied, I’m dying inside my brain and starting to have hallucinations of my daughter dying from radiation. (reference 4. I couldn’t find the one I wanted but imagine a vine of that over this) So now we’re worried about Raven and Abby. Will Abby tell Jackson? My thoughts- No. she’ll try to hide it as long as she can, working on a cure for Raven, then help herself. Yet I don’t see either of them dying? Raven is too important plot-wise and the writers and viewers lovelovelove the character. My argument for Abby living is more of a personal one and then behind the scenes of Paige Turco being a parent who’s very forward with her scheduling (why she doesn’t typically do up fronts etc so she can have separate work and son time) and probs has her contract locked down.

Not my fave episode, lots of callbacks to earlier seasons, but generally not super satisfying plot. Mainly because 4.04 set up these storylines- Octavia on her way back, Doctor Tech Squad reaching the lab, Bellamy and Kane as prisoners. The Polis/ Arkadia plotlines fell short somehow of their build. There were conflicts, but it lacked drama? If that makes sense.. I enjoyed the lab plot because all Raven x Abby interactions have great energy, not to mention they found a rocket. That story still feels like it’s still advancing and keeping the drama up. Props to Miller Sr. for getting more speaking lines in one episode than he did in the entirety of S3.

OMG- A THOUGHT-

what if. they send. Thelonious frickin Jaha. into space instead of Raven?

Stay with me here: Raven could have a seizure which is a risk. Jaha was an engineer and is capable- they’ve been slowly using that in the story and I was wondering when it would actually become plot relevant. BTS: Isaiah Washington finished filming his stuff before everyone else. I doubt he’s dead, but if all his stuff is him by himself/ him video chatting in from the ship, this explains how he could have wrapped up so quickly without dying. Additionally, he needs a big redemption for people to like him again after the CoL. Holy cow I think I’m on to something here! He and Kane S1 were rivals both trying to become martyrs/ find salvation. Thelonious wins, Marcus goes to Earth. But then Jaha makes it to Earth too because he knows how to run a pod. I am heartbroken for Raven, it’s really going to suck getting benched if I’m right. More so when I know Abby and Jackson are probably going to be the ones to tell her and they’ll get so much hate. But Raven and Abby can coach Jaha through some of the medical/ technical stuff (a la Apollo 13-reference 5- and Lieutenant Dan. I don’t remember the dude’s name in that movie- the actor is Gary something p. sure, but he’s in Forrest Gump with T.Hanks too so I don’t feel that bad. He also got benched for a medical issue (back to Apollo 13) that he didn’t get so this tangent was not a waste. He was needed to problem solve and figure out how to save the men on Apollo 13. Raven could parallel this.) and still be a team, which I like. I just want Raven to be happy, she deserves that. I don’t want Jaha to have a lot of glory for doing this either. If it was Raven hell yes. But for him it’s the least he can do. That’s wrong of me, but their histories are incredibly different.