#props to alex

[moominvalley-state-of-mind]

'let them say fuck' this 'let them swear' that

let them cry

let them sob in the shower

let them soak their friend's sleeve with tears

let them wake up with red eyes

let them laugh cry with their friends over a forgotten inside joke

let them cry while kissing their partner, finally finished with whatever hell they were going through

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Christian Kane twirling props: a series. Part 14/?

Almost Paradise Season 2

Bonus promo twirl:

[hockeylovee12]

the original

[meraki-yao]

Taylor on the "water carpet"!!!

Forgive the shitty quality and the pausing, I screen recorded this from the live stream on my phone

Okay honestly I'm reeling from the fact that he looks like Alex (because he shaved) but more than anything I'm having a crisis over his outfit 🤣🤣🤣🤣 WHY DIDN'T HE KEEP THE WHITE ONE FROM EARLIER 😭😭😭😭 (Chinese RWRB fans are collectively hating this outfit😅😅 and saying all his outfits from earlier looked better, even the casual ones . They're completely blaming the stylist though)

Also he was adorably playing with a bubble machine but I couldn't get a clear shot of that

[felicitybabbles]

not the bottle of henry's "travel sized" lube on the nightstand

lmaoooo

[aesthetealex]

jackie jackson my beloved the nation's evil bimbo @nataliewynn

[awkward-teabag]

Mmm. Been ruminating on and have mixed feelings about Snowpiercer (the TV show, not movie). On the one hand, some of the character developments and plots are great. I particularly like the one where an abuse victim thinks they're strong enough to handle their former abuser only to fall back into old patterns. It's realistic and compelling.

The gender-swapping of roles, intentional or not, is also refreshing. Yes I will take a man being the emotional one and his partner being the practical/realistic one who is willing to put aside her own desires to get shit done, thanks.

But on the other hand, the writing can be a mess at times and characters do a 180 either to fit the episode or to fit a plot and previous development gets conveniently ignored to do it. Given other good writing and steady development spanning seasons, it makes this stand out even more, especially in the final season.

It would be easier to deal with if it was an entire season or was restricted to episodes written/directed by a specific person. That it's not and that it's mixed with good puts it in a weird place and brings the whole show down

[actual-changeling]

heaven has highly advanced technology but somehow for one of the most important presentations of all time they had mr. "graphic design is my passion" make the slides

this looks like a whatsapp emoji tell me i'm wrong.

also what the fuck is this??

[martuzzio]

Beach day

Original photo by Rodrigo Silva on Unsplash

Check out more Medieval 141 here

[gebo4482]

My Dad The Bounty Hunter by Alex Konstad

[fndmrt]

The worst part about Quackity losing all of autonomy is we as an audience weren’t allowed to see it be stripped away.

I know it sounds terrible but wouldn’t something so significant as someone LOSING THEIR READING AND WRITING COMPREHENSION be at least shown to the audience? Wouldn’t we be shown the process of striping someone to skin and bone? The way it was reveal was so cruel.

[realblacklightvirus]

dana is going to buy me this "stim toy" to bite ! very excited.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Christian Kane twirling props: a series. Part 13/?

Almost Paradise Season 1

[naked-peet]

Me and my sister are looking at old gravity falls theories and the "Dipper wrote the journals" was juicy as hell. Y'all were cookin with that one. If we didn't have literal definitive proof of who wrote the journals I'd still be a Dipper time travel truther

[pinkomcranger]

I agree with you about Saga! I personally don't ship Andercasey (no hate to people who do, of course! You're all great and your creations are fantastic <3) but I love love love their platonic relationship! It's so great to see male/female platonic relationships represented in media, and their relationship is fantastic (whether you like it platonic like me, or romantic!). Saga in general is such an amazing character and it's sad to see how the fandom treats her. I know this is a usual pattern in fandoms in general, not just with AW - people ignore the women (of course, woc even more so!) in general, no matter how interesting they are, just to focus on the (white) men. I do like Caseywake personally, since I find the dynamic interesting, but I don't like, ship-ship it very hard, I find it intriguing. But whether people do or don't, it's sad to see they also can't give focus to Saga and acknowledge she's her own person. They make her a prop in other people's relationships. It just sucks. Why are women always the backdrop and props to mxm relationships?? In general I find it sad that people are so quick to only value romantic love - not that there is anything wrong with shipping. Usually I'm a big shipper as well. But bc shipping is such a huge thing, then they can use the excuse of "I only like Saga and Casey platonically, but I don't write platonic things, and Saga doesn't have any interesting romantic pairings to make for her if it's not Andercasey so I just don't write her!!" And it sucks so bad. I wish this fandom was different but unfortunately it follows this very old pattern of a fandom. :(

I think everyone in every fandom needs to do some self-reflection on why they ALWAYS ignore the female characters and poc. It's always been a problem and unfortunately continues to be.

Oh, you absolutely do not have to ship Andercase romantically. It's perfectly fine to see them as platonic, it can arguably be said they were written that way! Their relationship is beautiful however way you see it. Their chemistry was off the charts, Melanie and James/Sam made sure of that!

Platonic m/f relationships do make me happy, and personally, that's Alan/Saga for me. Nary a hint of romance or even surface level attraction, and I'm here for that.

Now, putting my personal ships aside, you're very correct. In fandom, women and WOC especially get ignored to place more focus on the white men. And I've never understood that in this day and age, when women and WOC are finally starting to get the recognition we deserve. What's the point in this?

You can very much ship your fav men, while also including the woman, especially if she was such a big part of the source material. It's very egregious when it comes to Saga, considering she's the deuteragonist. She gets equal writing and treatment, in fact, I would go so far to say that if the series WASN'T called Alan Wake, Saga would be the protagonist.

There's truly no reason to ignore Saga when she drives the story we get. Alan himself admits, with no hesitation, no anger, that he needs Saga. So to see the fandom essentially go "that's nice you feel that way, Alan, but I don't need her beyond propping!" leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

You can't even give a good case of "I CAN'T create for Saga shipping-wise, there's nobody to ship her with outside of Casey!" There's her husband (and I know that's difficult considering we don't even get so much as a glimpse of him, and that's interesting to me, but that's a topic for another day), there's Rose, there's Tim, there's Ahti, there's Estevez, there's even Alice. Saga has just as many options as Alan.

And there's no excuse to ignore her in another pairing. You can EASILY write CaseyWake without using her as a prop, or just an aside to say "see? I remember she was in the game!" Where are the ensemble fics? Why can't she be written with all of her characteristics and agency that was she given in-game? Does a black woman who isn't a stereotype that uninteresting or frightening to the general content creators?

Again, this isn't something new to just Saga in this fandom. Alice suffered from it the most, by virtue of being the most important woman in the previous games. And she got pushed aside for ScratchWake. But with the release of AW2, she's been given more love, I've seen more fics for her, I've seen quite a few Alan/Casey/Alice fics. Which also tells me that fandom finds it easier to write for a white woman than a black woman.

There really isn't anything I can do about that, I can't FORCE anyone to relate to Saga in the same way I do. I know there's difficulty writing for WOC, there's difficulty relating to them personally if you're not one. But again, in this day and age, when we're being shown more on the big screen/small screen, in books and video games, there's truly no excuse.

POC in general are still nowhere close to being represented as much as white people, but seeing a character like Saga so well written, so wonderfully portrayed, so loved by her creators get ignored for the basic white men, while this same group of people claim they're tired of decades of white men being the focus but continue to personally make them the focus, shows an extreme case of hypocrisy and covert racism, because again, there's no excuse.

I understand the fixation on fictional and FBI Casey. There's so much we're not shown, that we can fill in the blanks and easily fit it into canon. But at the same time, you can do the exact same thing with Saga, because we're NOT shown or told everything about her and her life.

I want this fandom to be better and do better. Like you said, all fandoms need to take a good, hard look at doing some self-reflection. Don't choose to ignore the beautiful women we're given just because they don't fit your narrative.

[marsmartinii]

The amt of pain in my heart over Logan not having a seat is immeasurable and it quite literally ruined my day, gonna doodle the man in question and hope it alleviates my pain 💔😞