#my commentary

[melanieexox]

I'm sorry, but this Thor/Flower conflict is rather stupid.

[athenagranted]

the sheer amount of reassurance that eddie offered buck this ep had me reeling. like. every single offhanded self-deprecating comment that buck made in this ep, lighthearted and playful as they were, was immediately folllowed by eddie refuting it in the softest, gentlest way. buck announced he broke up with natalia and eddie, who specifically warned him that it wasn't a good idea to date someone they met on a call, who was potentially very hurt by buck claiming that natalia 'sees him,' and who was clearly not in favor of the relationship, said none of it. instead, without even missing a beat, he starts his reply off with to be fair. to be fair to buck, in case buck isn't being fair to himself.

when eddie brings up not wanting chris to go down a path of being reckless with dating, and buck assumes that eddie doesn't want chris to end up like him, eddie shuts that down instantly by reminding him that buck didn't actually end up the way he perceives himself. i love the way eddie so clearly acknowledges buck's idea of who buck once was while giving him that reassurance that he was never just that person. he's not buck 1.0, he's not buck 2.0, he's not buck 3.0, he's just buck, and eddie loves him the way he is.

i just — eddie is always offering buck grace and always so in tune with the way that buck's mind works, giving him the space to make the decisions he needs to, regardless of whether eddie agrees with them, all while still being in his corner and waiting for him to come to his senses in his own time, and eventually come home. to come back to where he belongs, because eddie missed him and never, ever wants to be without him again.

[angelinthefire]

seriously I don't get this idea that Dean gets jealous when someone flirts with Cas. Not when we've seen precisely the opposite happen on the show more than once.

Dean loves it when someone flirst with Cas. It's entertaining to him.

It brings Cas down to the level of a human dude. For a moment he's just a regular guy having a regular experience, and Dean loves that. He's absolutely jazzed at the idea of Cas having sex with a woman. It makes Cas like him. It makes him accessible.

It's also kind of a joke to Dean. Because he knows Cas doesn't know what to do with flirting, and doesn't really have an interest in it. It's funny.

It also poses zero threat to Dean. The flirter just thinks that Cas is some hot guy. They have no idea what he is or what he's like. They don't really see him, they just see what he looks like. Dean is the one who really sees Cas, and the one who really likes him.

The only time that Dean reacts negatively to someone flirting with Cas is Meg because a) he already hates her, and b) she seems to develop a genuine connection with Cas.

But flirting in and of itself does not threaten Dean's relationship with Cas.

[destiel-wings]

I hope you don't mind me asking, but what are your thoughts on angel x buffy? :)

Hii i don't mind, thank you for asking 😊

So, I used to love bangel sooooo much when i first watched the show. I was 100% into it, (with a crush for Boreanaz too) and i cried so much for them in s2 and when Angel left the show in s3. And I truly, sincerely, unironically hated Spike too (I thought he was a great character but i just loved hating him, you know? Lol). When we saw Spike's dream of kissing Buffy I swear i felt nauseous.

... and then they aired Fool for love.

By the end of that episode I was left in utter existential crisis in front of my tv because i felt my whole world shift. There was a part of me that still liked Angel and Buffy, but there was also this new part that wanted her to be with Spike now.

So anyway, that's when i decided to switch teams and i became team spuffy, and for as much as i had been obsessed with bangel before, it was nothing compared to how deep i was caught into the Buffy and Spike relationship. I never looked back. They were just much more complex and real and compelling. And it made me reevaluate Angel and her relationship with him too. Angel never really knew Buffy, always treated her like a child, and let's be honest--and that's something that hit me only years later when I got older--she was a child when they were together. He was spying on her and falling in love with her when she was just fifteen years old and he was a 240-year-old vampire who had been sired at like 26 years old, and they got together when she was 16/17 and he broke up with her when she turned 18... I don't think that's something the writers did intentionally of course, because (as everything else in buffy) it's just meant to be taken as a metaphor for the ideals and struggles and the intensity of drama of a girl's first love, but it still comes off as icky.

And before anyone comes at me, I know spuffy isn't healthy either, but that's kinda the point and the appeal. First of all, it's fiction and a metaphor, and secondly, it's about two broken people that are supposed to be mortal enemies but are actually two sides of the same coin, so different and yet so much the same, who can understand each other as a whole, light and darkness, in a way that no one else ever could, who yes, hurt each other along the way, but whose love saved them from the deepest darkness, ultimately bringing them into the light.

This is what spuffy is to me, and this is why i think it's not only the superior ship, but one of the best ships of all time (thee best, until i saw destiel, now they're sharing the podium).

So anyway, to get back to your question, the moment i became obsessed with Buffy and Spike (and i have been ever since 2005, lmao, they've been my first real obsession, alongside btvs, until spn and destiel) Angel sort of became the enemy 😅. And I hated him so so so so so much when he appeared in 7x21 and kissed Buffy (pure fanservice, but okay) and brought the medallion that ultimately killed Spike. So i spent years very maturely holding my vendetta against Angel (like, rooting for every demon that fought against him when I watched Angel, lmaoo). In most recent years, I've (sort of) made my peace with the character, after rewatching Angel. I mean he's still the enemy (of course, duh!! Who am i if not eternally petty??) but i appreciate him in his own show.

So i don't ship Angel and Buffy anymore, but I can understand why someone would (as i myself used to), and more importantly, i respect other people's right to ship them.

If we're joking, I'm going to insult Angel and keep saying he's the enemy. But on a mature serious note, I think Buffy and Angel were a great first love (for Buffy), but they were supposed to be just that, the impossible teenage girl's dream of a first love, eternal but doomed to end and break your heart.

I think Angel was much more well paired with Cordelia (which is something I'd never think I'd say), and i found myself shipping them so much when I rewatched the show. It felt so much more mature and profound than what we saw with Buffy and Angel (and that's probably due to the fact that we got slow burn for them - as we did for Buffy and Spike- and could actually see the feelings growing, while Buffy crushed on Angel in the pilot and she was madly in love (as teenagers do) in 0.5 seconds for no apparent reason than the fact that he was hot and mysterious.

So when I say the kiss in btvs 7x21 makes zero sense, I'm not just talking about spuffy, but also about cangel. I feel like both characters parted ways and lived on in their own shows to grow and become their own persons, developing other relationships that were more adult and meaningful, and that kiss was just disrespectful for both (but anyways, it doesn't change anything).

I have so many thoughts about all this honestly, and I hope I haven't gone too much off the tangent with my reply, but i couldn't just give you a simple reply because that would've had to be something like "angel is the enemy and i don't like bangel" but as you can see my thoughts are a little more complex than that 😅

[rughydrangea]

Sejak 6

JJS plays every scene like he's so horny for Mong Woo that he can barely breathe. And the angrier he gets the hornier he is? It's INCREDIBLE.

For the past few years, every time there's a new JJS drama, I once again wonder if he's the best actor in dramas. I mean, dramaland has a lot of great actors, but the run of Jealousy Incarnate, Nokdu Flower (NOKDU FLOWER!!!!!), Hospital Playlist, and now this is kind of undeniable (okay, Two Cops was in the middle there, I didn't get past like the third episode, but my problem with it certainly wasn't his performance). Even I, noted HP anti, cannot deny how good he was. And before all of that was Oh My Ghostess, where PBY was certainly the main attraction, but he was great in that too!

The incredible thing is that Nokdu Flower (seriously, watch Nokdu Flower if you haven't, it's so underrated but just an absolute work of art) and Sejak are these very intense dramas, and he's so good in those, and then HP and Jealousy Incarnate are comedies, and he's so fucking funny in them (my mum is rewatching Jealousy Incarnate and I really want to join her, his performance in it is just hysterical), there simply is nothing the man can't do.

[lostsometime]

Netflix kept recommending me “Lockwood and Co.,” so I finally gave it a shot, and then had to look up when the books it’s based on we’re written, because holy SHIT is this ever a post-pandemic show. I’m interested now in reading them - published in 2013 - to see if this is specific to the show or if that vibe is there to begin with. The whole thing is so very on-the-nose as far as “fantasy as social commentary” I HAVE to think it’s deliberate. the show is set approximately 50 years after ghosts started coming back and killing people, which people refer to simply as “the Problem,” and the kids at the center of the plot have never known a world without it. But they use the opening credits very cleverly to give a series of worldbuilding snapshots of “how we got here.” You see early headlines about The Problem, and then shots of a rapidly rising death toll. Headlines about the devastating effect it has on the economy, then more death statistics. A headline talking about what you can do to try to keep yourself safe (iron, salt, silver) and headlines about how a strict curfew has been implemented, and still the death toll rises. it’s very well done. the ghosts kill with a touch, but they can also leave victims “ghost-locked,” a not-very-well-explained condition that seems to be like locked-in syndrome, but haunted. It has long-Covid vibes. It’s from a YA-level series, so of course the main heroes are kids, but the in-universe explanation is that kids are the only ones who are ghost-sensitive enough to fight them. There are shots of memorials to “the youth who gave their lives” but everyone keeps going about their business with the understanding that more kids are going to keep dying and that’s just how it is now, calling to mind monuments to “essential workers.” Ghost-fighting is a critical component of the economy, now- but of course, the kids dying on the front lines aren’t the ones who get rich. We see a guy who made his fortune on iron, because it’s one of the only things that repels ghosts, and one character comments “isn’t it a little grim, that someone made this much money off The Problem?” Another notes that “you’d think there would be fewer parties,” what with the plague of ghosts, but no, apparently the wealthy keep on throwing lavish events, tucked safely behind iron and silvered glass. It calls up “masque of the red death” as much as it does the infamous Covid-lockdown parties held at Downing Street. speculative fiction as a mirror for society’s anxieties is one of my favorite things to look into, and I think this is might be right up there with the “invasion of the bodysnatchers as metaphor for communism” and “cyberpunk as metaphor for consumerism” in the annals of spec fic with subtext so heavy it’s basically just text.

[thefeastandthefast]

After watching 29 episodes but having accidentally spoiled myself about what comes next, it makes me emotional thinking about Ruyi's names.

She started as 壬辛, two characters used as part of an ancient numbering system, characters used for the counting of days and hours. 壬 has no meaning other than to signify the ordinal ninth. 辛 is the ordinal eighth, with the additional meaning of hard labor, suffering, bitterness. 壬辛 - no surname, not a name for a person, but for an instrument of death.

Then, when Ruyi earned the right to rename herself after becoming Left Emissary, she chose to add the radical 人 (meaning human) to 壬, to become 任 (an actual surname and also a character meaning to shoulder, to take responsibility for, a duty).

Left Emissary 任辛 - One who shoulders the responsibility of bitterness

Then, 任辛 burns and rises anew as 如意 Ruyi, two characters meaning to be gratified as one wishes. It was the blessing spoken by both the Empress and Ning Yuanzhou, the two people she most loves. And in her dream state in episode 26 as she meditates on the crossroads of her vengeance, she hears her Empress call her 如意 Ruyi for the first time.

任如意 - One who has the duty to be happy, as she wishes.

[yourlocalarabgirlie]

We live in a world of confusion, people cannot even tell the difference between woman and man anymore.....

[mochiette]

LMFAO! GET FUCKED, EDWIN! HA HA HA HA!

[silverika326]

[ Some Snippets of O.R.C.A. Dialogue That I Found Interesting ]

I was replaying Splatoon 3’s Hero Mode when I realized a lot of ppl are sleeping on this computer! So I thought I’d share some finds. This only pertains to the stuff O.R.C.A. says about the missions before you start them.

This is a long-ish post, so prepare accordingly.

We are already starting strong with a fun quip, along with the fact that O.R.C.A. is deeming the act of throwing Little Buddy around as fun.

Unsure if O.R.C.A. is attempting to sell out this mission, or is being genuine, but the idea of being called extremely cool is endearing nonetheless.

Another instance of O.R.C.A. potentially calling you cool.

I’m just pleasantly surprised that O.R.C.A. can use the word “literally” for emphasis like this. Also if O.R.C.A. is the one that names the missions, than this one is god-tier.

Another instance of O.R.C.A. accentuating a word for emphasis, capitalizing it this time. Just thought it was peculiar.

A good amount of the missions in Alterna are designed to test, manage, or demonstrate various skills and aspects of life. But being asked to manage paranoia was a bit surprising when I first entered this kettle.

Another example of being asked to manage something wild, unwanted popularity. Also this mission name is so fucking funny-

O.R.C.A. using the word “pummeling” like it’s the most normal thing in the world is also hilarious. Yes, condone beating ppl w/ hammers. /j

This is a compilation of instances where O.R.C.A. kinda uses a phrase before giving advice (I don’t know the exact linguistic term for this). What’s interesting here is the variety of phrases used here. O.R.C.A. could’ve easily sticked to one, but didn’t!

TL;DR, Callie was definitely onto something when she caught on to O.R.C.A.’s dead-pan humor. I also spent way too much time on this.

[myrockandrollking]

Unfortunately, my grandma is the only person irl who shares my love of the Beatles, so we had a movie night and watched a Hard Day's Night and it was a blast! Here are some of my thoughts and comments on the film and some of my favorite parts/quotes (sorry if it's out of order):

• the opening is obviously iconic, I love how George and Ringo fall and almost get fucking trampled and we aren't even a minute in yet

• also the way John just laughs at them took me tf out, I love it

• "he's very c l e a n"

• Paul's grandfather was fucking helarious

• my grandma was singing all of the songs so loudly that I couldn't hear any of them 💀

• "Tell me, how did you find America?" "Turn left to Greenland"

• "What do you call that hairstyle you are wearing?" "Arthur"

• the entire part where George is mistaken for a teen model had me cackling

• "do not breathe on me, Adrian"

• "grotty" should be used more

• I love how the manager was basically just like a babysitter trying to take care of four out of control children

• I did not appreciate the Ringo's nose slander, his nose is beautiful

• Ringo's wack ass dancing was so amusing to me

• "Do I snore, John?" "Yeah, you're a window-rattler, son."

• John randomly oinking like a pig caught me off guard tbh

• Ringo being protective of his drums is literally me with my guitar

• "Put yer tongue away, it looks disgustin hangin out, all pink and naked."

• all of the songs were bangers, ofc

• all of the John in the bath scenes give me pure serotonin, I love his goofy ass

• me and my grandma sang a duet of And I Love Her when it came on and it was so fun and sweet

• I'm so sad that they didn't add "You Can't Do That" into the film since it's my favorite song on the album

• since I watched Nowhere Boy directly before this and almost cried, this line tore out my heart

• the scenes of Ringo with the kid were so random but also so wholesome

• the whole mistaken identity scene with John and the lady had me laughing and blushing, oh my God

• since my grandma is a George girl, she was simping hardcore during his song, it was so cute

• she literally yelled "I've got dibs on George!"

• my grandma also doesn't laugh when she thinks stuff is funny for some reason, so it was basically just me cackling in the otherwise silent living room the whole time

• she kept looking over to me throughout the film and finally said, "man, you're all over John the whole movie, huh?" 😭

• please, she can't talk, this women literally ran up to the TV and touched George's face 🤣

• okay, I know I'm going to sound delusional as fuck but just hear me out-

During this exact particular scene:

I swear to God, for a second I thought I could smell John through the screen. So, the whole room just smelled like nothing basically, but when the camera was on John straight ahead in this scene after he's talking to the lady in the hall, my senses just exploded basically. I suddenly smelled strong tobacco and cigarette smoke, along with a clean sweet smell and citrus. It's like when someone walks by you with a lot of cologne or something and you are hit by it? It was like that with the sudden angle change when it went to this shot of John. It was the weirdest shit. I know it sounds dramatic and like I'm making it up, but weirdly enough it's happened to both me and another family member a few times with other movies, but idk why lol. Then when John went up the stairs it faded away and didn't come back. No one smokes in their house either and there was no smell like any of that in the room before, so it was really weird but also oddly comforting. Anyways, I'm probably just going insaine.

[brattylikestoeat]

Men on twitter: she needs to be held accountable for letting this bum get her pregnant.

Me: she raising a child alone that her accountability.

Men: that’s not enough.

They want her to suffer, they want her in mental anguish. They want her crying every night. They hate women that much. They don’t want to see her happy at the end of all of this.

Now she’d be wrong if she took that baby and dropped her off at her daddy house and left him a single dad.

If she had gotten an abortion they would have dragged her too.

There is no winning because men simply want women to suffer. If you aren’t on your knees 24/7 ready to gobble they dick, they want the worst for you.

[athenagranted]

actually i'm still thinking about that part of oliver's zach sang interview where he says that he doesn't think of buck as a queer character, he thinks of him as a character that is queer, who has a fully fleshed out personality and a multitude of important characteristics and who has flaws and makes mistakes, just like any real, human person. he's not that bisexual character we shoved in there for representation's sake. he's evan buckley, and his bisexuality is important and undeniable but it's not the only thing that makes him buck. that makes him so loved.

i love it because that's always how 911 has approached queerness, right from the very beginning. when i think of hen, her being a black lesbian isn't the first thing that comes to mind. what comes to mind is her brilliance and her compassion towards the people that she treats. it's the understanding with which she approaches the world. it's how fiercely protective she is of her friends and her loved ones. it's her devotion towards her wife and her family. it's her complicated feelings towards her past and the way that she's learned to heal from the scars that were left. however, hen's identity as a black lesbian is always present. it's never ignored or minimized and the show never tries to diminish how those aspects of who she is would impact her life. her identity as a black woman and a queer woman is always relevant and has played a huge part in making her who she is, but it's never, ever been her sole defining characteristic. she is a fully fledged character, and her queerness has always been allowed to exist and take up space without taking away from anything else that makes her hen.

that is always how representation should be done and i'm so grateful that it's been the norm on 911 right from day one. i'm so grateful for this show, and the love and care with which they've treated our queer characters — hen, karen, michael, david, josh, that beautiful older gay couple that quite literally defined love on this show, that sweet woman who just wanted to pass her driving test, the guy who ended up with a tapeworm in his ass because he couldn't stop eating sushi, tommy, and now, evan buckley. a character that has been so loved right from the very beginning and now gets to discover this new part of himself that brings him so much joy and so much relief. despite the hurdles they've had to face, the people making this show have given so much to their queer audience and i'm just....so grateful that we get to witness the love they have for us. they really said. we see you. there is a space for you here. come and embrace it.

[angelinthefire]

I don't think Dean and Cas want to get married in a traditional-ceremony normal-person-milestone suits-and-flowers-and-speeches kind of way. I think they want to get married in a you-are-bound-to-me-forever kind of way.

[destiel-wings]

I've gathered some of my thoughts about The Winchesters season finale and here's why i think it gave me some peace

(yes, this does contain a destiel interpretation, too 💚💙)

Did i want to see Cas in it? Yes.

Was i disappointed that he wasn't? Actually, no (more on that later).

But I loved it. I was so stunned as I saw it and I felt like somehow it healed some of the wounds from the spn finale... but i couldn't quite understand why.

Here's why.

We basically watched Supernatural. Jensen reopened the finale and went further with it. What we saw in The Winchesters felt like a continuation of 15x20, even if it technically happened in between the last two scenes of the finale. But we got Bobby, we got Jack. They all actually talked, in a way that felt alive and real. Jack broke his rule of no interfering, showing that he still cared for Dean (just like he had broken his own rule off screen by saving Cas from the Empty). The Winchesters wasn't a prequel, but a sequel.

Dean got his own story, got to make something for himself (instead of just waiting for Sam on a bridge), and it's something that he wanted to do. He went back to look for hope and love, for a version of his parents where they could have a real chance.

We learn love (or we don't) and how to be in a happy relationship as kids by watching our parents, and Dean was doomed that way. He never had that example, to learn how to build a relationship and let himself be loved. He never learned that. So when he gets to heaven and he has the chance, before getting on that bridge, before meeting up with his family, with Sam... and yes, with Cas (even if we haven't seen him yet), he just needs a freaking minute. He needs a little time to himself. To reconnect. To understand. To reflect on love and what it means to love and be loved.

So he does what any fond child would do... he looks up at his parents. Only his parents that are right there in heaven didn't exactly have a happy ending (or even a happy middle), so he explores further, searching for a chance, a hope, a version of his own legacy where love was possible. Because if his parents can make it... so can he.

And we see all that through his own lenses (the weird use of the camera lenses with all those flares and glow resembles the aura of Dean's drive in heaven, thinking about it in retrospect).

screencaps of the glowy amber look and those camera flares, there's probably better examples but these are some of the best ones i could find

Dean's mission might have been the Akrida, but the reason he went looking, the real quest he was after, was hope. Hope for a happy ending. Hope for love, where said love was doomed from the start.

And it's not surprising that there were destiel parallels everywhere, because that was Dean's POV, and he's processing his own feelings. Which is something he needs to do before he sees Cas again.

And personally, I think Dean loves Cas back and he knew that before dying, but still, that doesn't mean that he's not afraid of messing it up. That he knows how to approach him, or face Cas, after all that's happened.

He may not even be doing all of this thinking consciously, but the Castiel subtext we've seen in The Winchesters, from a narrative POV, is Dean's.

We're seeing the parallels because he's seeing them, making them, it's his way of processing. Of seeing what he and Cas had, and what they could have. Looking for hope.

And, as he himself said before leaving again... i think he found it.

So i don't know how things are going to go on from here. I can't imagine how we could have Dean in a season two. I've been saying all along that The Winchesters might open the story for a SPN revival/s16, and i think it is perfectly possible that this might happen here.

The Winchesters might not have Dean anymore, becoming its own show (but still having lots of references and guest stars from Supernatural) and *as Jensen loves to say* when we get the revival, there will be the space to address Castiel's confession and give his character the importance that it needs.

It wouldn't have made sense to see Cas here in a little cameo, it wouldn't have been enough. But what we saw here, was the confirmation of Jensen reopening the finale, and his willingness to bring Dean back (as he's always stated), for whatever more he's allowed to do.

I love the way they handled it, we still got peace and hope (even if there were to be no s2), and i feel like we're all more confident that the bridge scene is not an ending, but a beginning of something more. Dean has said he's gonna go look for his family. That's not just Sam.

Of course he's gonna see Cas too. But i don't think any of us would've been satisfied to see him pop up randomly for a couple of minutes in TW, with little to no mention of what happened between them.

Also, i want to point out that this was supposed to be the midseason finale but they had to adapt it when they found out they didn't get a full season, we could've had much more (like more narrating voices as Jensen had teased) or even seeing more of Dean, instead of just seeing him in the pilot and the season finale. They even asked Misha to be there (and he refused for scheduling conflicts since he was busy filming Gotham Knights *but said he's absolutely willing to appear later*).

So i think there's still so much story to tell here and i am absolutely hopeful and trust that we will love it.

I think they did an amazing job in 13 episodes, and I can't wait to see what's next 💖

[melanieexox]

I went back to see how close to the truth the first kiss was to what they had described in the first season...

"You kissed me."

"I seemed to remember that I slapped your face."

Eliza kissed him first. She also did not slap him as she claims.

Even though she had mentioned her dog's death, what she was really upset over was the fact that her father offered William a job with him and not her.

Always funny how it works out with description of what happened versus showing it seasons later.🤣