#notes from v !

[unlimited-nobu-works]

my group chats on private MMO servers

[ghelullu]

Freaking out over seeing the singer of your band actually sing, and other fun Ghost experiences

[cinematicnomad]

THE TERROR ▸ every mention of "close"

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[self-made-purgatories]

Canonically, Spock is drawn to small fuzzy creatures.

Jim is a Short King / small guy (in comparison to long tall Spock and his Vulcan bone density anyway).

Spock was in control of his emotionsTM about Jim until Jim grew out his chest and arm hair. Spock notices the change in Jim's body hair and before he knows it he finds himself doing Vulcan hand stuff sloppy style with fuzzy Jim right in front of Chapel and McCoy's salads in the sickbay

Coincidence? I think not.

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[moeblob]

Gavin mentally: wait... that doesn't add up........

[harbingersecho]

READY AIM FIRE

[chick-it-out]

showcasing a lil bit of the stuff i got up to last year! 🌠 in 2024, i spent a lot of time thinkin about shape and color :)

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

I will never stop being a white-hot dumpster fire of NUzi trash and you’re just gonna have to learn to accept that.

Really wish I'd posted this before Episode 6, tho. I think you can guess why.

[bearodyne]

I have to make it........

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

reflected irl

KHBLWLQOFVYIQVIFAIBAFS; YOU KNOW HOW IDIA HAS THOSE MOMENTS IN-GAME WHERE HE'S STUNNED BY HOW NATURALLY PRINCELY SILVER IS 🤡 LIKE IN GLOMASQ AND SILVER'S CEREMONIAL ROBES VIGNETTES??????? ? ?? ??? ? ? ?? ? BUT SILVER IS JUST CONFUSED AND THINKS THE BEST OF IDIA ANYWAY???? ? ? ??? ? ?? ? ????? Well, at the AX panel... when asked "who would you want to be stuck on a deserted island with", Silver's VA said IDIA. Why? HE BASICALLY SAYS IDIA WOULD PROBABLY BE USELESS AND JUST WANT TO STAY IN HIS ROOM 😭 "but desperate times call for desperate measures, so maybe this time Idia would actually do something!" ADSHLADVSOVYQEFQFVBIEFLBADIGHOIYAFSP WHEN EVEN THE VA THINKS SO PURELY ABOUT IDIA......... . .. ...... .... . ...... . Buddy, he is going to pass out from being outside for too long/j

This part was definitely the highlight of the talk show for me excluding maybe the part where the VA said Silver is so cool, so awesome, just like a prince!! 💀 You... keep on being you, Silver and Nobunaga-san... sharing the same single brain cell…

[ulteri0rm0tives]

It's every iteration.

It's every iteration of V that will always find Johnny. Every iteration of V that Johnny grows to care about. It's every iteration of each other, in every universe, that will always find each other. They'll always become inseparable, tied together in unfathomable ways. Ways they could never truly unravel from each other in the end, no matter the end.

They'll always be destined for one another. No matter what face is worn. No matter what universe. No matter what, they're always meant to be. No matter what, the stars will always align for them, just to come crashing down from the sky.

[supercityboys]

Superbat is funny to me because it is one of the very few ships that is blatant in the source material yet equally non existent. They’re not fucking or kissing but you can crack open anyone of their runs and find out that they coparent multiple kids. Lois is well aware of their bond and isn’t even bristled by it. Bruce is also aware. Shit, other ppl are aware, including, but not limited to, villains. In all ways except legal, they are effectively married.

[self-made-purgatories]

bones = mood

[shoot-i-messed-up]

Hey is there any way to do a sympathetic or even good-aligned Orange Lantern? We’ve had sympathetic/good red lanterns, yellow lanterns, star sapphires…I feel like orange is next, but how can avarice/greed be good? Maybe a character with a god complex is so bad it wraps back around from being a flaw to a virtue—like, maybe they’re so greedy that they think of the entire universe as being part of their possession, so anything that threatens the universe is something they would fight against. Like the same kind of vibe as a dragon that thinks of an entire village as their hoard, so they protect the village. Or maybe their greed manifests itself as greed for knowledge or greed for worship or greed for friends/allies (as, perhaps, types of “power”), so even if they’re not like fully heroic necessarily, they can still be complex and complicated and can play off of the other Lantern Corps in interesting ways.