MY FAVORITE THING AB THE S4 SPECIAL FOR MONKIE KID IS THAT EVERYONE IS DRAWING TANG NOW.
As resident Tang enjoyer (and debatably his number one fan), I’m so glad I get to eat more Tang art bc he is so silly and so goober and so scrumptious.
I just wish people recognized his silly goofiness sooner!! His hair change did not change his personality!! Please!
there’s already so much discourse about john, and the roles barry and sally have adopted as new parents, and i’m almost certainly echoing what so many of you are already saying… but the very fact that he exists is like, undoubtedly the most disturbing aspect of the show thus far and it’s not even close??? in spite of their shared delusion, they made a conscious decision to have a CHILD, and thereby codify this devastatingly toxic and indulgent arrangement they call love. and i think that, historically, shows about anti-heroes can shy away from exploring the trauma their children inherit as a result of their actions for the sake of maintaining their role as sympathetic perpetrator. breaking bad, for example. flynn’s unawareness regarding his father’s criminality leaves room for a devastating and undeniably brilliant narrative turn in their series’ final few episodes. but it also conveniently reserves the emotional violence for the adult characters. on some subconscious level, perhaps, we believe them more equipped to handle such things; but how might the average viewer’s perception of walt have changed if we had been FORCED to watch the sins of the father torment flynn as explicitly as they did… say….. anthony jr. of the sopranos? i guess my point is that barry is doing just that—it’s forcing you to step into the shoes of a boy named john, and you just want to play baseball with the other kids, and instead must endure a grossly manufactured existence consisting of a father who manipulates your every waking moment and a mother who can barely stand to touch you. and it’s all because of what you represent. the product of two hopeless people pretending they are anything but, who can’t help but recognize one another and choose to call it love... who gaze out over lone and level sands, and insist that it’s a paradise….. who wear hair over their hair and hide guns in the drywall and sleep curled up in the bathtub and maintain that this is the picture of contentment.
violence corrupts and corrodes everything that it touches, even children. in a media landscape flush with anti-heroes, it’s a sentiment with which we’re all familiar. and yet so many shows stop just short of examining how that really manifests. because it is so hard to watch, and because it effectively eradicates any sympathy viewers may have left for the protagonist. barry crosses that line and it does so confidently, and despite those fleeting moments of comedy or the astounding elegance of the cinematography, i can’t help but think it’s one of the most disturbing, upsetting examinations of violence i’ve seen put to screen.
do u know what sns stands for? i’ve always assumed it meant sasu-naru-sasu but ive never actually heard anyone confirm or deny that and i don’t wanna sound stupid
Yes it's sasu-naru-sasu! Kinda to indicate the absence of any t/b discourse intent ig lol. It's both NaruSasu and SasuNaru, though you could use nsn too, but it's less common. And no you don't! Always feel free to ask. Tbh the name is... so-so. We have the most astonishing, romantic, heart-stirring and incredible love-story, but we couldn't think of anything else???? 😩
Y’know I do like the more organized structure of the utmv fandom nowadays with characters having commonly accepted groups of friends they’re in but I definitely do miss the days of Blue being Horror’s handler instead of Dust and stuff like that.