#it was a high pressure situation

[yayswag]

advanced friendship

[formulatrash]

haven't been this fucking insanely furious at Williams since they fired Damon Hill halfway through 1996

[lionheartedmusings]

anyway if my friends killed my ass for their own survival i wouldn't bitch bc yeno what good on them, i'd rather see *them* live and go to superhell. wouldn't judge their asses for doing what they needed to to survive, out of desperation.

[graegrape]

i think about this voiceline every single day. miss pauling and demo besties agenda

[briliantlymad]

I know a lot of people have a lot of feelings about the tusken massacre scene with the whole 'omg anakin skywalker killed everyone the women and children too'

and go he's horrible he killed innocents and im like. yeah that line of thought is valid.

but also

Anakin being tormented about his mother's death, finding her and thinking he's in time, realising he's not - that there's no way to save his mother dont you see she's dying please- she cant even finish telling him she loves him, she's been brutalised in every way possible for a whole month, only her hope to see him keeping her alive. and in that moment, his helplessnes, her torture and death, the rage and anger at the tuskens because gods they didnt even make it quick they tortured her why did they do this why didn't they stop? the entire camp? why did none of them let her go

i dont begrudge him that entire situation. people can talk all they want about moral high grounds; no sane person would do that; he shouldn't have killed them all but c'mon. that situation was fucked up and down right horrifying and yeah he fucked up but i can see how he got to where he did and why he did what he did in that situation

[erazonpo3]

Recent surges of XY fanart is reminding me about how a part of me gets sad whenever Diantha + Augustine + Lysandre are presented as a trio when to me Malva should be the fourth to the quartet, and like, of course I get why (her relevance isn't really apparent until the postgame and the other three are the 'faces' of the region, french flag colours and so on and so forth) so I have no ill will towards that sort of thing but

It does feed into this sort of meta-analysis turned headcanon for me where no matter how much publicity she has she's never really in the spotlight, despite her position and her presence she's relegated to a secondary pedestal, excluded from ever really sitting at the top. you might say she's got a complex about it

[hexavexen]

((I recently made a character for a private SMP my friends and I are doing named Anemone! She's her own character, but draws a lot of parallels with Hex: only fitting since Hex was originally made for an SMP that I didn't end up doing.

She won't be on the blog but I'd like to think that these two selfish, bratty fairies would get up to mischief and mayhem with one another.))

[beachesgetpeaches]

Jonathan lying to Nancy take, and how it works with Stancy/J*ncy future plot.

(disclaimer: this is not anti Jonathan)

I know a lot of people try to frame it as Jonathan is lying so that Nancy won't give up her dreams to be with him, but to be frank that's a simplistic way to view it. Surely, part of his motivation can be described by that but imo I think Jonathan also understands Nancy well enough to know she would not give up her dream and move across the entire country to be with him. He knows that his decision prolongs their long distance relationship which we can be lead to believe has suffered during the time-jump before season 4. Jonathan is not this 100% selfless person putting Nancy first.

Jonathan still puts his family first and prioritises them over his relationship with Nancy. And to an extent it is understandable, he wants to support his mother, he wants to be there for his brother, and why wouldn't he do that in California where there are no bad things constantly coming for them. It is healthy for Jonathan to choose this. It is okay. Him lying to Nancy and avoiding conflict is not.

And on Nancy's side she prioritises her ambition over the relationship. She stays back instead of going to visit him with the same motive of avoiding conflict. Both of them know they need to have a serious talk about their future and they've both decided to avoid this in beginning if S4.

This dynamic of prioritising other aspects of their life over their relationship is not S4 only. It is also depicted in S3 where they are working together. Nancy wants to chase her story/hunch and prove herself, she lets her ambition drive her and has little care over how it affects herself and Jonathan's work prospects (ultimately it gets them fired). Jonathan on the other hand does indulge Nancy's investigation to an extent but is not fully supportive. He would rather bow his head, keep the job (which he needs! to help out at home. for which Nancy has little understanding). They have a clear conflict over this. Nancy prioritising her ambition over safety of that summer job, Jonathan prioritising his family's needs.

The show has shown where they diverge prior to S4, you just have to see it for what it is. We don't know where they will go in S5, or how this tension/conflict/divergence gets addressed but it needs to be dealt with. Jonathan and Nancy only work well together when their interests are aligned, imo, otherwise they clash.

I think that all of the shown is converging into a clear conflict "blow up" between Nancy and Jonathan and it would be cheap not to have them address this in S5. These are two people who care for each other but are not ready to put their relationship first.

On the other hand in this season we had Steve being very open with Nancy, even pointing out that the 6 kids and trips dream is great and all but the most important part is that Nancy is there. The rest is confetti, the rest is something they will deal with. Steve basically says, yeah all that kid talk is great, but it's you. And if anyone tells me Steve Harrington as characterised by the plot so far would not put Nancy first and find a compromise for them, then idk what show we are watching. He has shown time and time again where his priorities lie.

The end, for now... I guess?

[galacticsabc]

Guess who got one of their characters arrested in dnd!!!!

ME!!!!......

I have to go save my boi next session, and who knows. maybe i'll get another character arrested.

[knowlesian]

whenever i hear someone complain a piece of media is bad because characters within it made stupid decisions i lowkey always want to ask if they have perhaps never met another human before

because making shitty choices is kind of our thing

[littleoblivions]

i feel soooo validated that no one thinks yawning is rude on that poll 💀

[iwatcheditbegin]

Ppl always assuming stuff about their relationship bc of stuff on the field

[arthur-r]

what’s really embarrassing is my roommate on the phone with his mom saying “yeah i’ve been getting really sloppy i haven’t cleaned in a week it’s terrible” and my side of the room is just like that. all of the time. and i feel guilty but he also hasn’t ever said anything to my face he moved my stuff some at the beginning of the year but has never talked to me about it and i’m also so fucking ill that i just cant really handle adding that to my list while trying to also not fail school. so here i am being a terrible person i guess. did i tell you guys about turtle-person. have i showed my bracelets. i’m gonna go to sleep but in the morning i need to show my bracelets

[agnesandhilda]

in many ways blue lock is a story that could have never been told about women (I mean this in a bad way) which is why it's so interesting to do exactly that