#literally spanning years continents lives ruined bloodshed

[welcometololaland]

Please pick your favorite or answer all, up to you because as you know very well, I cannot make decisions lol:

Top 5 Poets (and/or Poems) 📖

Top 5 Rom-Com Movies 🎥💖

Top 5 Logan Echolls Moments 😭 (#Justice4Logan)

Last but not yeast… 🥁

Top 5 Types of Bread 🥖

Sonia....you are an icon. Always seeking to go above and beyond. Which makes sense because (much like myself) you are the eldest child. Permanently tired, eldest child overachievers please raise your hands.

I'm gonna do the top 5 Logan moments (although they're more like quotes and parts of Logan that I LOVE) AND THEN I will do the rest via reblog (because I need to carefully consider my responses). By the way, I'm only doing seasons 1 and 2 because they're the best:

1 "I thought our story was epic, you know, you and me. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined, bloodshed. Epic."

Obviously, one of the PEAK LoVe moments on the show - I was SO MAD at Veronica for running away from this. This was Logan at his most vulnerable.

2 "I'm sure I'll thoroughly enjoy them. Right up until my oesophagus closes up and cuts off my air supply and I shuffle off this mortal coil."

Aaron was absolutely responsible for Logan's trauma and I loved these moments where Logan let him have it (see also: "When is my birthday? Wow. You got a letter right.")

(couldn't find a GIF for this one but have Veronica and Logan kissing in the same location).

3 "Well first, I'd just like to say the other, uh, nominees are all such wonderfully gifted criminals. And I wanna thank my agent and my publicist for always shooting me from the left side."

Classic bad boy Logan humour - even when he's being locked up. I love that Logan's hatred of Don Lamb is equal to Keith's, Veronica's, Weevil/the PCHer's...even though he is a rich white boy.

4 "But if you're coming home, who will play dead hooker 2 on CSI next week?!"

He's so damn witty and sharp, and some of his best lines are when he's sparring with Trina (see also: "I just can't get him off my back"/"Did you try standing up?").

5 "You're not a killer, Veronica."

I mean I've literally adapted this line so I think it's obvious why I love it. Veronica is the main character she ABSOLUTELY needs no man - but I love the moments when Logan steps in as the voice of reason or helps hold her together.

BONUS!!!!

"well there was this one girl. blonde, petite. smelled like marshmallows and promises."

"promises? that's the name of my perfume!"

[goldenboygate]

mini rant on the carlando vs charlos war: i know there’s times where the charlos girlies try to act like that’s a better ship or that they’ve “won” or something but like aren’t they embarrassed because carlando wins every time literally the carlando girlies take big fat W’s every week sometimes multiple times a week meanwhile the charlos girlies are holding on to the ferrari mandated c2 challenges like their lives depend on it

lmao like is this even a war? is this even a mini outbreak on the corner of "delusion" and "holding onto pr mandated tiktoks" ??

ch*rlos is a non-entity in my mind. just two guys who work together and enjoy it at times while carlando is different, it's probably one of the realest friendships there's ever been in f1. spanning years and continents. lives ruined, bloodshed. epic. (yes i'm rewatching veronica mars).

these two are not even comparable and i feel sorry for the ch*rlos girlies that are trying their hardest to minimize something that means so much to carlos. they can't stand the fact that lando is family. he's practically a sainz by now. i mean, where the hell was charles when caco was getting married? both lando and charles had the same amount of time as teammates before the wedding (and carlos and charles had even more time on trach since fucking covid came into play during carlando's second season), yet there was only one (former) teammate that actually went (and i don't believe for a second that charles was invited. their relationship just isn't like that).

people just have to deal with the fact that even though they have a great working relationship, it doesn't mean that there's anything of real substance there. i feel the same way about lando and dan. they got a long well when they were working together, but did we ever see them together just chilling and enjoying each other's company? people can vibe without wanting to spend time together out of work hours.

i genuinely could write about this for days but i also just laugh at things like this. i'm also having a hard time figuring out what they or charles has "won" cause it's not carlos' time or affection, that's for sure.

[serischoices]

I thought our story was epic, you know. You and me. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined and bloodshed. Epic. C’mon, ruined lives, bloodshed? You really think a relationship should be that hard. No one writes about the ones that come easy.

[notafeeling]

me: idk if i like this ship-

some fanvid: *montage of them giving each other forehead kisses* and they were soulmates!

me, tearing up: oh my god they were soulmates

[zalrb]

So I finally made it to the end of my The Borgias rewatch and DAMN that final scene really is so dark. The way Lucrezia responds to Cesare’s touch even with a literal bloody body next to her like WOW. They really remind me of that old Veronica Mars quote, “I thought our story was epic, you know. You and me. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined and bloodshed. Epic.”

i didn't watch veronica mars but that absolutely fits!

oh my god, the ending scene, should we talk about it? let's talk about it.

it’s not really going to be a long response, i don’t think, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many layers to the scene because i feel like so many things come full circle with that episode

and therefore that moment. like can we talk about the characterization of their connection as this life-altering religious experience

and then in the final scene it’s as if cesare effectively baptizes lucrezia?

and more than that, previously they’d been attributing the feeling they get around each other to either God, something that’s meant to be divine and sacred and inherently good

or The Devil, which is meant to be irresistible and seductive but fundamentally evil

but by the end cesare doesn’t claim either, their connection is theirs, so he, like, baptizes her in their love?

and she’s basking in it

because despite what she may feel about alfonso and his death and her role in it, her and cesare are so undeniable that she naturally revels in him not running from her and finally “claiming” her and their connection beside the corpse of her husband who was destroyed by realizing he could never touch the connection she’s now rejoicing in? and the cesare and lucrezia “love theme” plays during this entire sequence pulling it all together?

this ship is ridiculously good.

[musingsofanunorgainizedmind]

Top 10 Mishandled Ships (LoVe - Logan/Veronica)

There was absolutely no reason to mishandle this ship. This ship was the stuff of legends. Spanning years and continents. Live’s ruined. Bloodshed. EPIC. But these two always pulled through. The movie, which came out seven years after the show ended, had the two reuniting and looking forward to a promising future. And then the fourth season came out. Things started out badly from the start. Veronica didn’t want to marry Logan. Veronica was unsupportive of Logan’s therapy and anger management efforts. Veronica almost cheated on Logan with Leo. For whatever reason, the writers decided to turn Veronica into a toxic partner and it was difficult to root for her in the final season. But, as they always did in the past, the two worked through their issues and came out stronger for it. They had a small civil ceremony with their closest friends and family and they were finally married. And then in the last ten seconds of the season, out of nowhere and for absolutely no reason, Logan went to get something out of their car and the car exploded. A bomb had been planted in the car earlier by the season’s villain and it happened to go off at that moment. They literally blew up the most popular ship of the entire show, one that had been built up for fifteen years, just for shock value. It was disrespectful to the character, to the relationship, to the show, and to the fandom. The only reason this one is a little lower on my list is because it’s easy to ignore the final season (or just the final ten seconds). Regardless, it was still a terrible ending to a legendary ship and I’m still seething.

[butwhatifidothis]

What this fic wants me to feel about Sylvain, Ingrid, and Lysithea attacking Woobiegard in her SS vision: "Poor Woobiegard! To have her dear friends become such monstrous shells of their former selves and attack her so cruelly!" What I actually feel towards Sylvain, Ingrid, and Lysithea in that scene: "You're doing great, sweeties!" Also lol at Captain forcing Dimitri and Claude along for this map but only allowing them to be competent whenever it wouldn't make them outshine poor old Woobiegard.

The SS visions that put Ingrid and Sylvain in that light kinda like... shows off how little he thinks of Dimitri's relationships with his friends, in a way.

We're supposed to genuinely see Edelgard as the victim during her SS visions - it's obvious from the framing of the scenes, from the narration, from how "breaking destiny" is a """theme""" of this fic and SS is supposedly Edelgard and Byleth's "destinies" that need breaking, that we're supposed to feel sad for Edelgard. She's beaten to shit, her sadness and guilt and loneliness is put front and center, the ones beating the shit outta her are described as these horrible twisted versions of themselves, they are the ones the narration says betray Edelgard, etc. etc.. Ingrid and Sylvain can't be mad at Edelgard for, at that point, murdering Dimitri - and likely Felix as well - no, they are the bad guys for turning their backs on Edelgard. Oh, and also Lysithea should just be chill with Edelgard working with the people who tortured her and ruined her family. She's supposed to stay the cute, eternally loyal lil' sister for Edelgard to pat on the head and call a good girl.

Sylvain and Ingrid shouldn't be that close to Dimitri. They should want to kill Dimitri for Edelgard's sake. They should turn their back on their childhood friend, not Edelgard, because Edelgard is obviously better for them. Unintentional or not, that is the subtext Cap'n is laying down when he punishes them for daring to be mad at Edelgard for killing him.

And also, her thinking that they betrayed her means that, at minimum, Edelgard doesn't think she betrays them when she actively puts them in mortal danger by starting her war. For all her talk about how she "can't imagine anyone walking by her side" and how she "knows that her path must be a lonely one," the second people. Y'know. Leave her ass for her horrific, morally reprehensible actions, they become traitors. She "dared" to put her trust in them, and they threw it away. In the end, Edelgard thinks she's morally above everyone else, with anyone who doesn't blindly follow her down her path of bloodshed being deemed as a traitor. All her guilt and all her "recognition" for her actions gets promptly flushed down the shitter.

AND I KNOW like literally he only ham-fisted Dimitri and Claude in the chapel to make them look worse. Their presence changes literally nothing - they don't save more students than if they weren't there, they don't stop Jeralt from dying (since Claude sips on that Dumb Fuck Juice and shoots behind Myson instead of just fuckin' headshotting him, and then he gets sucked into the Void and just leaves the fight scene), they don't uncover any new information. Dimitri was just there to remind everyone that he's cRaZy, and Claude was just there to remind everyone that he's eViL. Just like the visions, just like most of Edelgard's "trauma," you take them out of the chapter entirely and literally nothing changes. We already knew the author hates Dimitri and Claude and we already know the reductive caricatures he sees them as, their presence here does nothing for anything.

They're not allowed to actually shine. Dimitri can't take on the Demonic Beasts and Claude can't try to investigate the cause for the transformation - y'know, letting them show off their strengths - because doing so means that Edelgard isn't the one doing those things.

Dimitri can't be better at taking down Demonic Beasts than Edelgard, shown by him consistently felling them in one strike, which is immensely helpful in saving the students by taking care of the problem quickly; he must reduced to something that's frankly barely better than the Beasts themselves, obviously off his rocker and obviously someone who's just soOoOoOOOo CRAZY GUYS.

Claude can't be better at tracking down what the cause of the students turning into Demonic Beasts is than Edelgard, shown by him noticing the Crest Stone fragments and being forward-thinking enough to try and grab one for research, which could potentially yield extremely vital information everyone can work with; he must be reduced to a morally bankrupt monster who'd loot from dead bodies of poor innocent students.

Cap'n has to reduce them into villainous archetypes to hide the fact that frankly, Edelgard did shit all in that chapter. She didn't fight the Demonic Beasts nearly as well as Dimitri, she doesn't do shit to figure out what's going on with the Crest Stones - or, at minimum, point Byleth in the right direction (since Edelgard would know already lmao) - like Claude, so Dimitri is a raving murder machine and Claude was only out for himself. Giving them an ounce more nuance than that would make it obvious how shit Edelgard is, so he hides that shittiness by overexaggerating certain traits of the other two lords.

And in that same vein, he has to make Sylvain and Ingrid and Lysithea look like horrible traitors to hide the fact that Edelgard is ruining their lives. She killed their best friend(s, if Felix is also dead), she ruined their countries, she threw their lives into nonstop fighting for five years - but she's so sad!!! And Ingrid and Sylvain and Lysithea are bullying her!!! We should feel bad for poor wittle wonewy Edelgard!!!

It takes a baseball bat to the head to any non-Edelstan reader of this fic, because Edelgard literally does nothing to deserve forgiveness, she never earns redemption, she never works for fuckin' anything. She just Sadges at all the """""undeserved""""" hatred flung at her and we're supposed to take that as enough of an arc for her to deserve sympathy from the reader, but no! I'm fuckin' cheerin' Sylvain and Ingrid and Lysithea on when they beat her ass into the dirt! Get rid of her! She's self-centered, she's selfish, she doesn't care about people if they don't grovel at her feet, she started a continent spanning war without even thinking she'll win it, literally throwing away the lives of countless innocent people on the chance that she might hypothetically win, and after all that she still blames everyone else when she faces the consequences of her actions! She's god-awful, and a threat to damn near everyone around her! But nope, she's the author's darling, so actually she's right and everyone else is wrong.

It's very clear that Cap'n will not let Edelgard truly be seen in any kind of negative light; people who fight against her for any reason are bad, people that can't join Edelgard's side but are better than Edelgard at something are bad, people who criticize Edelgard for the awful shit she does are bad. And that's... well. Something, for sure

[minisugakoobies]

Fandom Ship Tag Game

Thank you for the tags @arizonapoppy @triviafics @bonvoyagenoona 💕💕💕Some of your picks were some of my own favorite ships, and many others have opened my eyes to relationships I never considered and a few shows/movies that I need to watch!

Gonna put a read more cut here to avoid potential spoilers for X-Men, BTVS, Daredevil, iZombie, Kingsman, TVD, The Untamed, Veronica Mars, and the MCU.

First Ship: Rogue x Gambit

Comic books were really my first foray into the world of shipping. I grew up on Marvel comics, and my favorites involved the X-Men teams. They were stuffed full of angst and drama and various couplings would come and go. But my first ship was Rogue and Gambit. They were the angstiest of all couples! She literally could not touch him without sucking the life out of him! How could they ever be together? I mean, I guess they eventually worked it out, since at some point in the comics timeline they actually got married, but for a verrrry long time they were a big "will they, won't they" couple that I adored.

First OTP: Buffy x Angel

Another angsty couple. A recurring theme in my shipping! This is the big one, the be-all, end-all of my ships. My OTP, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her vampire paramour, Angel.

Yes, I still sob at the season 2 finale, and no, I don't want to talk about it.

Your ship since the first minute: Matt x Claire

The chemistry between these two was palpable, burning up the screen from their very first interaction. Claire is one of my favorite characters from the Netflix MCU shows - I love a no-nonsense woman who is good as fuck at her job and stands up against the superheroes who insist they need to do things on their own (why are they always so stubborn?). Daredevil the show might be no more, but I still love these two.

Ship(s) you wish had become endgame: Liv x Lowell

Ohhhh, Lowell. 😭Gone too soon. He and Liv made such a great pair! Two smart, sexy zombies just trying to solve a mystery together. The way he bravely sacrificed himself to help her... ughhhhhh, when I think of what could have been if he'd only survived!

Ship you wish was canon: Roxy x Merlin

Ok, listen, I *know*. There's an age gap to consider, and also the fact that they barely have any interactions in the movies, and then for this to work, the entire second film would basically have to not exist. But I'm ok with all that. Because once I read this amazing fanfic that paired them and ever since then, I've been on Team Roxlin, full steam.

Ship that most of the fandom hates but you love: Stefan x Caroline

Everyone's always "Klaroline this" or "Stelena that," but I just ignore them and focus on my favorite pair, Steroline. Their love blossomed over the years from a true friendship, and there's something so beautiful and rare about that on a show like The Vampire Diaries. Step aside, Klaus, Stefan is her one true love!

You don't even watch the show, but you ship it: Wei Wuxian x Lan Wangji

The Untamed is in my queue to watch some day, I swear. I know I have a ton of friends who love it, so there are always gifs of it crossing my dash. I don't know anything about these two, except they're gorgeous and there seems to be a lot of longing going on and I'm here for it!

Ship you wish had a different storyline: Veronica x Logan

As Logan himself said: "I thought our story was epic. Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined, bloodshed. Epic."

It was everything. And then season four happened.

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Favorite ship that is endgame: Steve x Peggy

They are LITERALLY endgame. I don't even care about all the weird timey-wimey hoops they had to jump through for this to happen. It was worth it to see my favorite MCU characters finally get their dance.

(I am absolutely open to a Steve x Bucky x Peggy discussion. OT3 for me!)

Clean list to copy:

first ship

first OTP

your ship since the first minute

ship(s) you wish had become endgame

ship you wish was canon

ship that most of the fandom hates but you love

you don't even watch the show, but you ship it

ship you wish had a different storyline

favorite ship that is endgame

[veronicaneptunes]

Can you imagine what a nightmare dating would be for Veronica “so tell me about you, how’d you become a PI” 

Well my best friend was bludgeoned to death by the famous actor Aaron Echolls, whose son she was dating, I ended up with his son, Logan, too. Before that I was dating her brother, who for a little while I thought was my half brother, but luckily not. Then I dated a cop when I was still in high school, anyway I was drugged and assaulted by this guy Cassidy, he was also abused but then he blew up and crashed a school bus full of my peers off a cliff, so I had to solve that and he was an explosives expert teen as well, so he hid a bomb on the guy who abused him plane and blew the plane up and I thought my dad died but luckily he didn’t. Also he had a gun pointed at me and was trying to get me to jump off the roof but Logan tackled him and helped save me and convinced me not to kill him and then we got back together and had an epic romance. Then I was attacked by these serial rapist guys when I was in college but luckily escaped that too, me and Logan broke up but we both never stopped pining for each other the 9 years we were separated, because of the aforementioned EPIC love, I came back to help him when he was accused of murdering his girlfriend, the third time he was accused of murder actually. Turned out all these kids we went to school with disposed of a girls body when she od’d and then one of the guys blackmailed the rest of them for years, after I solved that Logan and I continue our epic romance, that spanned year and continents, lives ruined, bloodshed until I took on this serial bomber case that I royally fucked up because I didn’t understand a limerick and left a bomb in my car which ended up blowing Logan to smithereens literally like an hour after we got married, which made me a widow. Then I abandoned my home town and everyone I know, and here I am :)”

The guy: “Uh... um. I just got a text and I gotta go take my... brother.. to the emergency room, sorry.”  

[rawandmessyandbeautiful]

I just don’t get it. How are fans believing Malex is over and done with? I do not see it at all. Please, someone explain to me the panic because all I see, everything I’ve seen in the show so far is malex = endgame. Meaning endgame. 

We’re no where near the end, we have a journey to go, guys. Angst, confusion, misunderstandings, other relationships, family drama, literal government conspiracies and unknown alien circumstances are gonna be thrown at us. 

It’s like Veronica Mars said. “Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined bloodshed. Epic.” COSMIC!

[st-just]

The “Great War,” the war of the living against the dead, the existential fight for the survival of life itself, was fought in one location, in one night, over the span of a few hours. The Night King waltzed into a trap the leaders of the army of the living whipped up in 30 seconds of planning conducted a couple hours before the battle began—Put Bran in the courtyard and surround him by 10 or so professional sailors wielding bows and arrows—and Arya Stark leapfrogged a hundred thousand wights and a half-dozen distracted White Walkers and stabbed the Night King in the belly with a little Valyrian-steel dagger, and he died, and all the White Walkers instantly died, and all the wights instantly returned to inanimate death, and that was it. The Great War—which turned out, for all the scuffling, to have been a far more minor matter than Stannis Baratheon invading the North with like 2,000 dudes—was over, the threat of the White Walkers banished forever, because somebody had the idea to wait for the Night King to come for the Three-Eyed Raven and then an assassin-school dropout jumped very far and poked him once with a knife that couldn’t even cut through Catelyn Stark’s fingers.

(Why, in 10,000 years, none of the Three-Eyed Ravens had hatched this scheme, despite us recently having seen a Three-Eyed Raven armed with minions, dragonglass, rocks for dragonglass-armed minions to hide behind, a bottlenecking cave to use as a trap, and the sure knowledge that the Night King was coming for him—who knows? The Three-Eyed Ravens all seem to have been, like literally everyone who is not Cersei, extremely dumb.)

The army of the living did not even fight particularly well or smartly. It didn’t need to. Most of its planned (and dumb) defensive measures, in fact, failed catastrophically at the slightest prodding from the hordes of brainless undead. The Dothraki cavalry charged into darkness, far beyond their support, and were wiped out pointlessly. The Unsullied just kinda stood there like dummies and poked at the surging tidal wave of frenzied animate dead with spears, and were wiped out. They set a spike-lined trench ablaze and the wights just laid themselves down on it to make a bridge for each other. The dragons got lost in a blizzard. Drogon blasted away at the Night King with fire for like 30 straight seconds and it didn’t even singe his clothes. And for all that, those wights beyond counting couldn’t even manage to kill a completely exposed Samwell Tarly, the feeble bookworm who just a couple hours before the battle gave away a huge badass Valyrian-steel sword because he isn’t strong enough to hold it upright.

Winter, forewarned for a century, lasted, in total, a few weeks. All in all, this amounted to a minor squabble between rival northern clans: House Stark and its allies on one side, and on the other, House Zombie.

Cersei was right; her take on the fight against the embodiment of death itself, which amounted to, “I dunno, call me when it gets to Harrenhal,” was the right one. More important, though, is how her rightness upends what many, and perhaps most, viewers took to be one of the core observations of the show to this point: That the courtiers at the top of Westeros’s power structure may have profound capacity to inflict bloodshed and ruin upon the world, but they are largely uninformed and clueless about the hard realities out in it—that exposure to the outer world has the power to enlighten these soft silver-spooners, or to destroy them. That’s totally wrong!

Cersei knew—and was the only person who knew!—what was required to defeat the Army of the Dead, and how seriously to take that challenge, despite never having ventured farther north than on her sole visit to Winterfell eight years ago, not once having left King’s Landing since then, and only having beheld a single captive wight. She knew better than Jaime, who (foolishly, turns out) believed his presence in the fight might help in some small way. She knew better than Jon Snow, who’d fought the Army of the Dead at Hardhome and north of the Wall, who’d fought and killed White Walkers, who spent the better part of four seasons telling anyone who’d listen (wrongly, turns out) that all that mattered was fighting on the side of the living against the dead—and who, when it came right down to it, was reduced to shouting at a dragon while his little sister killed Death. She knew better than the Three-Eyed Raven, whose mind and senses are unmoored in space and time and who thus can witness and learn about anything that has ever happened anywhere. She knew better, in fact, than the builders of the Wall, the biggest clowns in the history of this fictional world, who built a completely needless 700-foot ice-and-magic edifice spanning an entire continent when they could have just hired a middle-of-the-pack Faceless Man to shoot a dragonglass arrow into the Night King’s butt a thousand years ago and ended the White Walker threat for all time.

Cersei took one look at a big map of Westeros, saw where Winterfell and the Wall were relative to King’s Landing, and went, “Pfft, that’s real far away, you guys,” and on the basis of that alone is a wiser leader and strategist than literally any of the haunted dinguses who spent the past eight years insisting the White Walker threat trumped all others. It trumped nothing! Cersei’s army sat that “war” out entirely, and all she’s got to show for it is a vast numerical and positional advantage in the actual war that matters, which is over which of a handful of hereditary elites will get to claim the Iron Throne. That’s truly amazing. It’s the kind of bold, expectation-upsetting writing, in fact, that made this show so famous and memorable in the first place.

[blyedeeks]

Bellarke is the literal “ Spanning years and continents. Lives ruined, bloodshed. EPIC” Logan quote for an epic love and i don’t know how to deal with this

(it’s even worse cause it’s not only continents but almost freaking planets at this point im so done)