#like it's SO GOOD

[nucleqr]

so, i'm going feral right now just a little.

bonus: an extremely gratifying achievement to get as karlach

[clowndensation]

it's like. louis attempted to tell this story to daniel the first time, broke down, and attacked him before he could finish it.

and then decades later he's convinced himself that it was leaving the story unresolved that's holding him back from living his life fully now. so he invites daniel back again. and louis is sitting poised and put together, confident in his ability to recite his history in a pretty, poignant, neat little narrative that will resolve all the guilt and yearning and emptiness inside of him. that if he can just tell a compelling, satisfying story, maybe it will actually be that, and not the life he lived through, with all the pitfalls of his own failures lurking inside.

and then season 1 ends with him once again being forced to confront that the story he wants to imagine and the life he actually lived aren't the same thing. the boundaries around his narrative are shredded and he's left exposed, and subsequently able to face his past for the first time since that original interview. and you think, you think, "well this is it. they've crossed the event horizon. there's no use hiding the truth anymore, not after it's come flooding out into the open like this"

and then season 2 opens. not only is it back to the original, practiced distance, we now have armand literally enforcing that distance. a man sitting at the table who's interjections must be disregarded, an intentional interruption to the flow of the story. he doesn't exist to aid or add detail, he exists to distract louis when he gets too deep in the story. the only time we do get louis allowing any deep truth to come out is when armand leaves the room.

it's like. louis wants a story that's true, and the truth is what he's convinced will leave him satisfied. armand wants a story that will satisfy louis, to the extent louis will accept it's true.

[disneynerdpumpkin]

So was anybody gonna tell me that Meet the Robinsons is the best Disney movie of all time or was I just supposed to find that out for myself

[otrtbs]

y'all don't even know i just eat a piece of warm toast w warm butter and cold strawberry jam n everything is so chill and right in the world again

[intothegreat-wide-open]

have you ever just buried your face into a pillow and screamed

[maverickcalf]

I think one of my favorite things about the stealth csi ny pilot is that they don't spend time with the two teams being in conflict with H.

Mac sees H and knows what the man is about at once, like they just click. Can't say the same for the stealth csi miami pilot.

[cloned-eyes]

Not me currently reading all of @nahoney222 fanfics and giggeling my ass off like lovesick teenager cuz their writing makes me so gosh darn gushing with joy

[francesthetraveller]

@randommindedfandom I blame you for my sudden new simp interest

[dodgebolts]

dream saying that he'd been described as having boyband hair was so real god

[rkvriki]

no one BUT NO ONE REALLY WILL KNOW THE GRIP THIS SONG HAS ON ME 🤒

[hethuisxdashausxhouseofxanubis]

Does any of my older Dutch speaking moots on here remember Zoop? I've been rewatching it lately and I don't remember it being this dark and mature

[daydreamdoodles]

Think about my storyboards for a Rewrite The Stars Flower Husband animatic

[leatherbookmark]

wwx, jgy and xy aren’t “similar but different” in the “he was a Good abuse/hardship survivor and they were Bad” way. rather, they have lots in common, but unfortunately both jgy and xy have done things that wwx took more or less personally, and so they became Those Fucking Dudes for him. which is interesting, because he himself was That Fucking Dude to a lot of nameless cultivators

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.