#jay discovers

[castleclerics]

winning, losing, timelines, and tying these ideas into the end of the show.

first this is insane:

both lucas and el waking up to someone telling them the same thing

and lucas coming out of the "WINNERS ONLY" door literally

and lucas and el both being "benchwarmers" then winning big out of nowhere. but then they don't really "win" bc el is still in the "circle" that brenner drew for her and doesn't want her to leave (making el go through a simulation of what didn't actually happen etc.) and lucas walks out and is disappointed to see the party after a dnd match instead of his game.

and then lucas being the imposter with the basketball team by pretending to be one of them the whole time/being the only one dressed differently. like el in nina pretending everything happened the way it did/her in lenora lying about what's happening and pretending everything is fine.

lucas here is similar to el wanting to fit in in the lab/lenora

?????? things to be different ???? now we have that chance ???? oh like el in nina ??? in a timeline that isn't the one the current el we are watching is from???? or like just shifting timelines in general in this show maybe in s5???? also i already was thinking about the possibility that brenner put el in nina to literally change the past/to combine timelines like maybe el doing what she did in nina had an effect on reality itself like i think that would be super interesting.

also "skip tonight" ?? "how much time did you skip?" like

also erica says "i'm 11" and she's a sub for her sibling so it seems like to me they're further hinting that el is a sub in nina ?? el taking place of her "twinner" and experiencing what that version of her experienced in a different timeline .

also have a post here about how el is a twin according to continuity that i think we should talk about more bc it's right there.

and the whole swapping places concept is so huge in this whole show and they include it in so many dynamics.

fred says about the game when he sees the tigers starting to fall behind: "looks like my headline has a shot" (different outcome/timeline) like the nina project failing/ending the way it did possibly changed the timelines in reality or something similar ?

there's also so much talk about moving dates or getting them like

like brenner with his whole arsenal of videotapes with so many dates and he captured "every success and every failure." like there's a specific tape or date of significance. and like i said here, maybe this date or tape didn't exist yet or something ?? and they have to obtain it in a way ?? birthdaygate or something of the sort methinks.......

also brenner telling el how superheroes and monsters are a thing of myth and fairytale and "reality, truth, is rarely so simple. people are not so easily defined."

(even though it's ironic bc it's coming from the true "monster" of the show) but it's true, reality is based somewhere in the middle of those two definitions. just like succeeding or failing at something. sometimes you don't fail or succeed but a secret third thing !!!!! and i'm betting that this:

is also in the same vein. but the interesting part is that hopper with this compromise still gets home late. it's like even a compromise/half win isn't always the case either. sometimes it's completely out of your control what happens.

ANYWAYS so this whole concept of someone "winning" but then not "truly" winning all reminds me of heroes. i'm starting to think the "we could be heroes just for one day" is more about being heroes in one timeline at the end of the show or something, bc obviously an ending where everything is perfect and they defeat the evil is not where it's going.

and how joyce closes the door in the last shot of s3 with the song playing, to me it feels like a representation of the end of the show, but also of the UD because i believe the UD is a once alive timeline that got cut off from continuing. maybe at the end they say goodbye to the place they lived their whole lives (their own timeline) and move on to a different one together where things are different but they're all alive and with e/o. they will be heroes and win but just literally for one day/momentarily because it's not going to be a normal win.

(i also have had this fucked up thought for a while that the UD is what remains after them losing the s5 battle and their battle takes place in the past but also the future somehow idk ignore me lmao)

anyways and the first time heroes plays in 1x03 is when you as a viewer see undeniable evidence that will is alive since joyce talked to him, but then you see his body and get confused. you don't know yet if will is really alive or not, you don't know what timeline you're in.

and joyce knows she just talked to will and saw a monster coming out of the wall, and mike knows he saw will's body. it's like two things are true at once.

"the shame was on the other side" and they cut from mike and karen's hug to jonathan and joyce's hug. i wonder if they'll realize theres nothing they can do to like. stop the parallel universes/outcomes and some characters will end up in different timelines than the others or something like either way the ending is going to be oh so bittersweet.

something that's always always caught my attention though is in 1x03 it cuts to black on the last word "day". but in 3x09 the line ends and then it fades to black from the empty byer's house. almost like slowly unveiling something/letting us see a tiny bit more. pulling back the curtain a teeeny tiny bit.

hopefully this was comprehensible since it's a little all over the place but this is my fav type of stuff to think about about this show heheh

[pangeen]

“ Blue Jay taking an afternoon bath “ // Ritesh

Music:  Mayrain - Autumn Life

[jalluzas-ferney]

LMAO Just smth funny that came to my mind the other day ab Cole Kai Nya and Zane moping around ab missing their “wives”. It started off with Sora and Nya only but I just kept remembering everyone else who is basically separated from their couple in the show lol.

I ranted sm on the tags i ran out for space to tag everyone bye

[iseeyoujon]

I picked up Malevolent a few weeks ago since we were going into a TMagP hiatus, and holy shit this podcast gives me ten times more anxiety. I can't binge it. After every episode, I need to take off my headphones and step away for a bit.

But every interaction these idiots have brings me immense joy, so I keep coming back anyway.

[feline-evil]

Hiding my shirt that says 'i am not normal about narratives that imply an inanimate inhabited structure is a living breathing organism' as i walk into a board room and pitch my idea that we should make more horror revolving around living architecture

[theblacktiecacti]

they are flying!!! :D

[crossroads-of-the-raven]

When your Sibling doesn't like your Love Interest - Ninjago: Jiang Smiths Siblings

Kai about Jay liking Nya

You know how Kai looked ready to kill Jay when he first met him, just for showing an interest in Nya.

How Kai would mess with Jay in Season 1.

But he accepted the relationship in Season 6/7 (just so long as he doesn't have to see a Jaya kiss).

And even helped Jay practice his proposal in Season 10.

Yeah ...

Kai is not the only Jiang Smith Sibling who doesn't like the idea of someone dating their sibling.

First the slightly backhanded complement:

"Skylor's right, look at her, she could have inherited her father Chen's evil empire and ruled the world but instead dedicated her life to spending her day bent over a hot stove to provide low cost quality noodles to the people of Ninjago city."

There was definitely a nicer way to say that, Nya, especially when Skylor's response to that statement was the following:

Skylor had brought out two bowls of noodles, the type that always cheered her up, so as to cheer up the siblings but in hearing Nya, she then says,

"Gee, when you put it like that. *Sigh* Let me get some of those"

And then takes Nya's untouched bowl to cheer herself up

But also:

(And before you say, but maybe Nya just doesn't know because she and Kai didn't have their parents. First, a dedicated parent can get their kids properly using chopsticks by age five; but even if you say that they just don't know the rules on etiquette - your telling me that there wasn't at least one busybody old lady that would reprimand a small child for bad manners - not to mention Wu when the siblings start living with the Ninja)

Yeah, Nya's much more subtle but I don't think she's quite ready for the idea of her brother dating.

That or she just doesn't approve of Skylor being Kai significant other.

~

P.S.

To me Nya, sometimes, kinda comes off as that girl who was raised by her single father. She's moving out of the house, ready to have her own life away from her dad only to find out that he's started dating - and she is not happy about it.

She also, sometimes, kinda comes off like she knows that Kai, for her, was more than a brother, that he was her father - but she doesn't want to acknowledge it / is not ready to acknowledge it, because that would mean talking about the bad parts of their life, while growing up.

[lumagarden]

drs2 spoilers !!!

edit wip!

[xofeno]

Jesse Lee Soffer as Jay Halstead CHICAGO P.D. | 5.01 "Reform"

[tmae3114]

Imagine that you're just some random comic book nerd and you're into superheroes. You're really into this one particular superhero specifically, you've collected tons of comics issues about him, you know all the lore. Sometimes you even bring an issue or two to work with you, to read at your lunch break, and daydream about how cool it would be to be a superhero like your favourite blorbo. And then, one day, at work, as you're going around and doing your job, you have an accident and some stuff explodes. You actually get kind of caught in the blast! But fortunately you're not hurt, so you just clean up the mess and go about your day, no big deal. And then weird stuff starts happening and you gradually put together that the accident at work gave you superpowers. Not only that but the exact same superpowers as your blorbo. You immediately decide that the only correct thing to do with this development is, in fact, to promptly become a superhero. And then you name your superhero alter-ego after your blorbo

You are pre-CoIE Barry Allen

[castleclerics]

…..just realized jonathan played should i stay or should i go in the shed scene while will was possessed so vecna literally knows of the song and the memory connected to it uh ohhhhh

something something vecna making everyone in will’s life forget his bday because he knows the date since joyce said it in the shed something something vecna possibly making will forget the memory connected to his fave song so it doesn’t work on him when he gets tranced and the portal for him to get out of vecna’s mind will have to open some other way……..

[boyfridged]

once again thinking about jason missing random organs because they were stolen/disposed of during his autopsy. just missing two or three of his non-vital organs and never realising until in need of some surgery/an x-ray.

[rainbow-flavoured-skittles]

ref sheet for we're all dead here (except Lloyd) au :)

under the cut for suicide and death mentions, also blood

[vuelode-irbis]

Hello, hello, hello. I am back from uni hell. Here is some work from a bird drawing course i took.

The first one was done withouth lineart, second one without lifting up the pen from the paper, and for the last one we were asked to consider simple, geometric figures, lines and volume. All of these were referenced!

[ID: three photos of realistic drawings of different birds. FIRST IMAGE: a pencil drawing of a yellow-tailed black cockatoo during flight; it's seen from the profile and its wings are up. SECOND IMAGE: a pen drawing of a kingfisher perched on a wide branch, from the profile side looking to the left. THIRD IMAGE: a pencil drawing of a Steller's jay perched on a branch. Its body is seen from the front, but it is turning its head to the left and up. Some sketch lines can be seen around its head, neck and legs. End ID.]

[icarrymany]

YES I DO THINK. i hc that skully has their own rlly weird music taste however if you play a song one of the many loved they would feel feelings abt it. if you throw a bass at them they could pluck out something.

[avephelis]

oh jay ferin would fucking love corduroy wouldn't she. derogatory.