#literally one of the best moments in the show

[swervesfirstblaster]

soundwave goes from seeing human life as worthless and inferior to being open hearted with humans and wanting to protect them. i love him and his character arc

[stardustedknuckles]

I am so excited for Laudna's growth and for her as a character now. I got nothing from her past, meta knowledge or no, because for all her tendency to be an open book she has not given us at the audience a single impression of how any of that actually affected her. We don't know what growth she might have done by now or where she started or who she might like to become. We don't know what she would change, what she regrets or what she's proud of. "Imogen" isn't a good answer for what Laudna values without the context of why and what she would stand to lose or revert to without her. It's not enough to know she was driven out of every town she went to. Either it didn't get to her or she's not processed any of it, and neither of those options matter until we know what DOES get to her, what she CAN'T avoid processing.

People know plot is defined by conflict, characters are defined by their relation to the plot and it's only just now that Laudna has demonstrated any stake in the story being told at this table. She has plugged into the plot for the very first time, been goaded into engaging with conflict instead of brushing it off with a little laugh and a joke about a horny rat.

Knowing Imogen is important to laudna tells us nothing about what makes her tick. We don't know why Imogen is so special to her because we don't know what she was like before her or what she would be without her. We don't know what about their personalities complement and oppose each other because you can't know someone's worldview - and often neither can they - until it's tested. Up until now, Laudna's view has been that she is in no danger and entirely in control of herself, and as such she's able to take on a helper role for someone who's genuinely happy to rely on her. That view has just been cracked. It's possible for her to not be in control, therefore the entirety of her autonomy is now suspect. She would not have put herself in the position of Imogen's guide knowing this could happen, but neither could she withdraw now even if she wanted to.

So what's next?

[mummer]

the tension between the absurd and the real in barry is so good it makes me want to explode

[nicknellie]

boyfriends💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[music-class-quotes]

(our show music includes Fur Elise by Beethoven, played by the guitarist)

Synth player: it might actually sound better to play Fur Elise in a swing style based on the bassline's intro

Pit section leader: You can do it. Just once. I want to see how it sounds

Entire pit: *cheers, and is giddy with anticipation*

Guitarist: *does it*

Drumline member, after finishing the section: NEVER SWING THAT AGAIN

Drum major: Guys, don't do that again. But it actually made me really happy

Synth Player: BuT yOu DiDnT gEt MaD aT tHe BaSs LiNe WhEn ThEy DiD iT

[polyboros]

once again i am thinking about the recontextualization of tales of zestiria's worldbuilding premise post-tales of berseria

[pandalandalopalis]

here’s to hoping how i met your father gets better writers for the second season. because the show has so much potential and i do really like all the characters they’ve introduced and i am sticking around because im really interested to find out who the father is -- but god this show is so terribly unfunny

[gentaroukisaragi]

70s tokusatsu episode endings

Protagonist: *smiling cheerfully laughing with their friends running around and enjoying life*

Narrator: And though things worked out for him then, he could ever escape the evergrowing spectre of darkness of the bad guys looming just beyond the horizon! Fight on, protagonist!

[peach-pot]

Britta and Abed friendship…. thinking about it.

[auxon]

okay i finished ofmd instead of writing a paper i was supposed to write like two weeks ago and. in a move that is surprising literally no one, i have rapidly become obsessed with izzy hands, general antagonist and comedic straight man. i have a LOT of opinions on him

[szethsmom]

[This is a joke because obviously it is far from anyone's top priority now, but....]

The gist I'm getting of this episode is that Matt, Essek, Taliesin, Liam, and the Wildmother herself all say that Caleb is going to have TWO purple boyfriends, goddamnit--even if they have to break the laws of reality to make it happen.

[evocatiio]

It genuinely stresses me out a little when tv shows write a character that has so many borderline toxic traits but is portrayed as the "good nice guy" within the narrative like you're telling me a whole collaborative effort between cast and crew and no one is able see how fucked up that is???

[apotelesmaa]

Maka from soul eater is such a well written female protagonist which is absolutely bizarre considering how absolutely god awful the author is with women in general in literally every work he’s ever produced including soul eater

[xiyao-feels]

top 5 cql xiyao moments

OH MAN okay....so I'm going to play this on hard mode and not include the temple OR any of ep 4 because otherwise this would be /overwhelmed/ by temple and then ep 4 but!!! Let's see

1) the moment in EP 10 where MY has been stabbed, is lying there fairly checked out during WC's villain monologue, and then WC talks about CR being in RUINS and???? MY thinks Lan-zongzhu! ??? And is visibly looking more towards WC after?

I offer you this photographic journey:

Last shot of him before:

Lan-zongzhu! And the face journey:

After, visibly looking more towards WC:

Like!!!! For LXC it was instantaneous while for MY it was merely ludicrously fast, but he loves him!!! So much!!!!! God!!!!!!! They're just!!!!!

2) The handkerchief scene....UGH for the way JGY is treated :((( /but/ I love LXC offering him a handkerchief because of course he does and the way they use the opportunity to sneak a touch. They are just!!! So ridiculously touchy with each other!!!!

Like. LOOK at their fingers there, god!!!

3) Okay this is probably going to seem an odd moment but. Their first onscreen meeting with JGY as JGY, in episode 23. What, I mean the one before JGY has all those Wen killed? Yes! That's exactly what I mean. I really strongly disagree with the usual interpretation that LXC doesn't know JGY is going to have the Wen killed, for a few different reasons—

First of all, they literally just agreed to kill the Wen who /are/ a threat. The Wen we see look young and healthy and are under heavy guard; for a contrast, you can look at the Wen Zixun is killing in I think pretty much the next scene, who are clearly, like, the elderly and children and so forth, and on the run from him and like...six other cultivators? They're hunting them for sport >:/ Really not under heavy guard like the ones we see JGY have killed. And Zixun tells LWJ that Nie-zongzhu and Lan-zongzhu agreed to the killing of all the Wen who were connected to (? had some information about?) the Yin Iron, so! Second, politically it makes no sense! JGS literally just used the agreement brokered to strengthen the Jin-Lan alliance (through JGY and LXC, and JGS' agreement) at the expense of the Nie-Lan alliance (NMJ's anger!!!) Having JGY kill Wen they didn't agree to kill, /secretly/, it's like....what the heck does that gain JGS? If it gets out, it could endanger the LXC-JGY connection, and it would probably piss off NMJ too, because it was done in secret and it was going against JGY and JGS' agreement with LXC!! What on earth would it gain JGS??? I can imagine /not/ agreeing to spare some as like, a flex, but agreeing to spare some and then secretly having them immediately killed... Especially since we know that some Wen are in fact spared!!! And especially so BADLY secretly. JGY was very recently second-in-command of Nightless City! Are you seriously telling me he couldn't arrange something better than BLOOD on the STEPS????

(also it's not a case of like, the thing JGS gains is JGY doing all the dirty work because...again, basically the next scene is Zixun killing off defenseless babies and elderly etc. So uh. This particular dirty work doesn't need JGY to do it :( )

I'm not saying it's not horrifible! It's absolutely horrible. But it's horrible in the way cultivation society can be horrible, and LXC knows.

ON THE OTHER HAND, and this is part of the reason it's making my top five, sorry about the rant—look at the exchange xiyao have. It's neat! It's tidy! It's so neat. It's—practiced? Idk, to me it sure looks like they worked this out ahead of time!!! Xiyao!!!! Doing their little political in-tune dances!!!! God I love them!!!!!! They're just—they work /so/ well together.

(also in the little bit where it's just the two of them after LXC STICKS HIS HANDS UP JGY'S SLEEVES. Like!!!! Ugh!!!!! Touchy!!!!! Granted the cut shows LXC's hands in a v different position afterwards but you have to pick and this one is longest so.)

And it's also like.... thematically...you know, LXC is in that room making bargains. And he's not—there trying to extend Lan power or anything! He's literally just trying to stop the Wen from all being killed. And—he achieves this, actually! But only by engaging with this real moral awfulness, by agreeing to things that are awful. But that's the way it has to be accomplished, right! It's thematic!!

4) AUGH. OKAY. There is no black and white. That whole thing.

"I thought with my lifetime finishing reading what Lan clan store means discerning the rules of everything in the world. But I found out even if I finished all existing books, there are still so many puzzles in the world. There are no set rules. There wasn't a clear line between right and wrong." "What makes us human can't be judged simply as right or wrong but lies in himself. As we evaluate others, we shall not label them as black or white, but know their deep intention inside." AUGH. HIM. THEM!!!!!

5) that little look LXC gets when JGY is giving his speech/inviting people to the Phoenix Mountain Crowd Hunt at the banquet!

Like. He knows it's a move for Jin power!! His feelings about the hunt are not exactly uniformly positive!!! but he also gets this little look of appreciation right at the end because it's also JGY being skilled and he does admire and appreciate that!!!! UGH, GOD!!!! THEM!!!!!!

[dan-crimes]

That feel when you have way too many ideas and you wanna do them ALL so you end up doing NONE OF THEM !!!

[dirt-grub]

name a broadway moment as amazing as the best day ever from the spongebob musical ill wait