#simon worshipped her btw

[vamppvania]

Thinking abt ai betty "dying" in front of Simon and her final action as an ai built on bettys memories, was to leave Simon agonizing over what she was trying to tell him before she glitches out. When asked, she says, "I only said that so you wouldn't stop thinking about me." Like. Betty wanting to possess Simon's mind rearranging it's coding to her ends and disregarding simons protests. Despising ice king because he doesn't remember her. Despising the crown. It wasn't because of some kind of blind following. It wasn't because Simon was simply selfish. She did these things because She was selfish, stubborn, determined to do things her way and no one else's (not even simons!) Something beautiful was taken from her and she will get it back!!!!!! She was not some poor hapless innocent girl! She has committed atrocities and by god I refuse to disregard her affinity for the extreme, the reckless, the self destructive to say it's all simons fault for not getting on a bus or something. I guess what im saying is support women's wrongs <3

[yawnderu]

hypothetically speaking it would be so cool and awesome if there was a pt 2 of angel where price treats us RIGHT and maybe simon gets all but hurt cause hes like "fuck im missing out"

i ate that shit UP btw that was yummy 10/10 can i please be served seconds

Hypothetically speaking what if I told u I'm thinking about it and it's likely that I'll get on with it tomorrow? 👀

God, I just know Price would be even more adoring— genuinely worshipping her like a Goddess, and getting the same amount of love back, Simon having to see all the pictures together she uploads with Price, seeing that he truly missed out on love simply because of his fears :(

Maybe even a small threesome... 👀

[skamenglishsubs]

Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, Season 2, Episode 1

Season 2 picks up after the Christmas break, it is now early January 2021, and Wilhelm is asleep, dreaming of Simon...

Cinematography: The show does a slow transition from Wilhelm's sex dream by changing the colours from the soft golden light of his dream, to the harsh early January daylight, and by letting the sound of a vacuum cleaner pierce the signature [dreamy electronic music] of his dream.

Subtext: We're seeing Wilhelm move like a ghost through the palace, ignoring everyone, even his mother. He's still angry with her, and they haven't really talked all break.

Blink and you miss it: It's hard to make out, but Erik's silver cigarette case is also inscribed with Sällskapet - The Society, the ultra-douche nobility club.

Cinematography: Just like last season was bookended by a fourth wall break, here comes the opening montage and a very angry Wilhelm staring into the camera.

Subtext: The August montage tells us a bunch of things. He's been spending Christmas break alone at school since he doesn't really have a family to spend it with, and his eating disorder/body dysmorphia sure isn't getting better.

Culture: Simon is playing the song Aldrig Igen by Cherrie, which is about leaving someone who has hurt you. The repeating refrain goes: "Never gonna happen again. I don't want to feel like that."

Culture: Minimum age for getting your driver's license in Sweden is 18. It's getting more and more rare for people to get their driver's license as soon as possible, because it's simply not a necessity for most. When I went to high school last century (in the 90's), about half the class got theirs at that time. These days less than a third get theirs that early.

Subtext: Although Felice didn't really have a plot of her own this season, I'm glad to see that she learned something last season and keeps ignoring her annoying, prattling, mom. That her friend Sara got into the Manor House is much more important than whatever horsey-horse blah her mom is whining about.

Subtext: Madison hands Sara a crystal, of course she's into that. But I'm not crunchy enough to figure out what the hell she means by "among other things". Help. Anyone? What is that even? Amethyst?

Subtext: "Native Americans and other indigenous peoples have burned sage for centuries as part of a spiritual ritual to cleanse a person or space, and to promote healing and wisdom." Thank you Google for that explanation. And of course it's something Madison would do.

Lost in translation: The English translation of their chanting didn't quite capture everything. A literal translation would be "Fine girls, deep pockets, worship our fine pussies!" But fina flickor is an expression that means well-mannered upper-class girls, djupa fickor is a Swedish idiom that means being rich, and these two fragments both rhymes with and alliterates with fina fittor, except the latter is extremely vulgar, which creates an interesting juxtaposition of contrasting tone. Btw, my high school Swedish teacher was the best teacher I've ever had, and I know he would be so fucking proud of me right now if he could see me writing this! Tack, Magnus.

Subtext: And here comes the first mention of this season's main theme; traditions, upholding them, breaking them, examining them... Interestingly enough it's Felice who suggests breaking it, while all the other girls insist that Sara has to continue the tradition. And boy, does she ever. At least the fire department didn't show up...

Subtext: The real reason August didn't join Vincent or Nils on their expensive Christmas vacation to the Seychelles is of course that he can't afford it. But his dismissive joke also just point to his own eating disorder problems. August, get help.

Subtext: When Simon insta-stalks Marcus we get to see a bit of his personality. Apparently, Marcus likes camping, fishing, hiking, horses, and his Volvo. The 850 is a classic 90's station wagon, and although it's pretty unusual for 18-year-olds to own a car in Sweden, something like that checks out and it's probably his car.

Subtext: Vincent is such an ass, and I love every second of it. He has zero respect for the younger students, he doesn't give a shit that Wilhelm is royal.

Subtext: Wilhelm is being an assertive bitch to August here and insists on him addressing him in third person, as if they weren't familiar...

Blink and you miss it: ...which makes Nils and Vincent laugh, and Vincent makes a mocking salute to Wilhelm.

Subtext: But in the end, August is the prefect, so they do as he says and allow the first-years to join the party, even though they have no idea why August is letting Wilhelm get away with it.

Cinematography: This season also does a lot of mirroring where scenes in this season look like scenes in the first season. This particular one mirrors the one where Simon appears at the initiation party for Wilhelm and catches his eye, except it's a lot more sad this time.

Subtext: Oh look, The Theme™ pops up again, and Simon is of course not a fan of keeping the shitty traditions that forced Sara to do something stupid, so that he had to rush to school to check up on her.

Subtext: Wilhelm is an awkward idiot around Simon. He really has no idea how to reconnect with him.

Cinematography: Again, we're mirroring the initiation party in s1 where Simon excuses himself, but this time Wilhelm doesn't chase after him.

Subtext: I'm sorry what now? Nils is not straight? That came out of fucking nowhere, but ok, let's roll with it! Also, whoever subtitled this is obviously familiar with Tinder, but not with Grindr. Nils says that he saw Marcus on Grindr, not that they matched, because that's not how Grindr works.

Subtext: The main theme of the entire show is about social class, if you haven't figured this out by now. Nils is firmly in team upper-class, and tells Wilhelm how he's supposed to handle dating: Only date or hook up with people from your own class, or with people who know how to keep everything discreet, private, and down-low.

Subtext: Wilhelm looks around in confusion, because he expected Simon to be singing in the choir. Where the hell is Simon?

Subtext: Meanwhile, Simon is late and on the bus with his friends on Team Rebound, who are giving him advice that's gonna turn out to be pretty crap.

Culture: Padel is so middle class, Vincent is right! Padel surged in popularity in Sweden in 2021 for some weird reason, and tons of padel courts popped up all over the country. However, the hype completely crashed in 2022, so most of those places are now facing bankruptcy and people actually talk about padeldöden - padel death, so the sport is kind of a joke right now.

Subtext: Wilhelm puts on the most fake smile ever and says hi to Alexander who is back at school. They were all correct when they said that Alexander really wouldn't get punished for getting caught with the drugs, his parents simply bribed the school to hush it down, but their treatment of Alexander will backfire spectacularly on Wilhelm later in the season.

Subtext: The show is doing a bit of exposition here, but it's also reminding us of who knows what about the sex tape, and why Wilhelm hasn't told Simon that he knows who did it. One more thing that will backfire spectacularly.

Subtext: And in a quick throwaway comment we learn that the late prince Erik had a thing with a porn model, and that the royal court successfully swept that whole thing under the carpet, as they do.

Subtext: The rest of the girls thoughtlessly let Sara pick up the tab for their coffee, which is nothing to them, but for Sara it's half her savings. She's treating them without protest, but doesn't buy anything for herself because she simply can't afford it.

Subtext: Don't sit next to him, don't talk to him, pretend he doesn't exist! Simon is really trying to follow the advice of his friends.

Cinematography: Oh look, a mirroring of the scary movie scene where they touch hands in season 1. Except this time Simon jerks his hand away.

Subtext: The Theme! This time it's Wilhelm who's on team fuck the traditions, although he's doing it just to undermine August.

Lost in translation: Vincent actually uses the word kladdiga - sticky, smudgy - about their hands, which in Swedish implies they're all toddlers who should sit down and shut up while the adults are talking.

Subtext: No, Wilhelm really didn't stick up for anyone last season, he threw Alexander under the bus, and he threw Simon under the bus, so we're just heaping on the guilt now.

Subtext: And we're doing some more exposition to remind everyone about who knows what about the sex tape. Here Sara finds out that August knows that Wilhelm knows it was him, and he's blaming her for telling him, even though she hasn't told anyone. Not even Simon, speaking about things that will backfire spectacularly.

Subtext: Sara's plotline is gaining steam, much like she did after touching August, if you know what I mean, eh, eh, eh? She knows he's a piece of shit, she knows he's a bad person that she can't trust, but she also thinks he's hot as fuck and this obviously causes quite a lot of conflicting emotions in her.

Subtext: No, Wilhelm truly doesn't realize this. He's been trying to get close to Simon in order to get him back, but he still hasn't got a damn clue as to why Simon is keeping his distance.

Subtext: Note that Simon going after Marcus is 100% reactive. He asked him for a ride because he needed to for Sara's sake. And now he's agreeing to karaoke night because Wilhelm just hurt him again, and because his friends have been encouraging him to go for a rebound boyfriend.

Culture: Carola Häggkvist is a very well known Swedish artist and songwriter who had her breakthrough at 17 in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Marcus is choosing. She only came in third that time, but won the ESC in 1991 with the song Fångad av en Stormvind. Despite being wacko Christian for a while and married to Norwegian preacher Runar Søgaard, who lost his weapons license after shooting a deer from his bedroom window, she has now mended her ways and is somewhat of a gay icon in Sweden, performing at Stockholm Pride in 2013.

Culture: Främling is about meeting a stranger, falling in love, and taking a chance on this newfound love. Marcus might look like a doofus, but his song choice is pretty clever, although obvious.

Subtext: Can we just appreciate Vincent's dramatics for a second? A first-year not moving their ass off a couch he wants to sit in is apparently causing his entire world to come crashing down. The audacity! Chaos! The system is there for a reason! It provides stability! What's next? Everyone is just gonna sit around playing the bongos? Someone needs to enforce the proper order of things, because August apparently refuses to do so!

Subtext: Some nice foreshadowing here where Alexander checkmates Wilhelm.

Culture: The Swedish Royal Court is an organisation with hundreds of employees who assist the royal family in all their official duties. Here we're seeing the Queen having a late night meeting with some court officials. Although the show doesn't say, it's likely that Minou who was introduced in season 1 is the head of the press and information department, and that the new character Jan-Olof is the Marshal of the Court, which would put him in charge of planning and preparing all official events that the royal family attends.

Subtext: From the perspective of the Queen and the court, Wilhelm's outburst comes out of nowhere. He's been refusing to talk to his mother for weeks, and now he suddenly calls them up, rants about Simon being on a date with another boy, and screams that he doesn't want to become king in the future. In addition, he threatens to talk to the press himself, which makes Minou somewhat concerned to put it lightly.

[jeannereames]

Hero Alexander vs. The Real Alexander

Moving to the second half of a recent question:

And if I'm not wrong, you mention at one place that you don't "heroize" Alexander. That's interesting, since he's often worshiped as a mythical hero. Why did you move away from that?

As a writer (and a reader), I’ve always been intrigued by the challenge of humanizing the “inhuman” (which can also include the ridiculously talented).

When I fell in love with Tolkien as a girl, I wanted to know what it would be like to be an elf, to have magic, to live that long, etcetera. Maybe that’s also why I always preferred Marvel superheroes over DC. Their hallmark was to make the fantastic (mutants, etc.) more human.

Now, I love me some traditional mythopoetic fantasy, but I’m no good at producing it myself. What is mythopoetic style? Peter Beagle, Patricia McKillip, Nancy Springer, C.J. Cherryh’s sidhe novels, my friend Meredith Ann Pierce … and of course Tolkien himself, where magic is real and magical creatures are…well, magical. Inhuman. Elves … not hobbits. Like a fairy tale…a myth (hence “mythopoetic”).

Anyway, I love reading that, but can’t write it to save my soul. When I write epic/historical fantasy (and I do see SFF as my home genre), it’s closer to anthro SF than to any mythopoetic style. My current MIP (monster-in-progress) is a 6-book series set on a secondary world where two branches of humanity survived, one of which, the Aphê, have super-convenient prehensile tails. 😊 The character journey for one of the protags across the first three novels is to recognize the Aphê as human and fallible rather than as a “noble savage” wise people. (Yes, questions of “What does it mean to be ‘civilized’?” are among the series themes.)

When it comes to historical fiction, I take the same tack. Alexander is interesting to me because he was a real person who accomplished extraordinary things.* What might he have been like in real life?

Making him too perfect—good at everything, no/few mistakes (just misunderstood), always honorable, etc., bores me. That’s the Alexander of his own marketing campaign. (laugh) It was adopted and refined by some later historians such as Arrian, and Plutarch in his rhetorical pieces (less in the Life but still there). That’s why I’m not a huge fan of Renault’s Alexander, and generally prefer her other Greek novels. Manfredi and (sorta) Pressfield do the same. Tarr and Graham also keep him deliberately at a distance to allow him to remain heroized, but it bothers me less because he’s at a distance. (Btw, I do not dislike Renault's ATG novels; they're just not among my favorites, either on Alexander, or of hers.)

Yet I’m not a fan of the other approach, either: to “humanize” him by taking him down a notch—making him NOT all that, just lucky (Lucian, and Nick Nicastro). Or by upending the heroic narrative altogether and turning him into a megalomaniacal “wicked tyrant” ala Pompeius Trogus/Justin or Seneca (and Chris Cameron).

I want something (and someone) more relatable, even while letting him remain truly astonishing. To humanize the “inhuman.” I realize that’s a challenge as, the moment we do humanize him, it removes him from the realm of the hero, which in turn makes it harder to allow him to be “all that.” For some, any fault is “too much”—the proverbial clay feet—because they’re desperate to have an idol, a hero…not a person. So the haters come out when, for instance, Simone Biles pulled out of the Olympics for mental health and the Twisties. How dare she!

I’m interested in the person. Even if Alexander wanted to be Herakles Take II, he wasn’t inhuman (divine). He was just a guy, and for me, the fact he was “just a guy,” yet still accomplished all those extraordinary things, is the most remarkable part.

I’ll conclude with what I wrote at the end of the author’s note in the back of Dancing with the Lion: Rise (also available on the website):

In the end, whatever approach one takes to Alexander, whatever theories one subscribes to, more or less hostile to the conqueror, we are left with the man himself in all his complexity and contradiction. The phenomenon called “Alexander the Great” has evoked vastly different interpretations from his era to ours. It’s tempting to seek internal consistency for his behavior, or to force it when it can’t be found. Yet no one is consistent. Even more, history itself is distorted by those recording it in order to serve their unique political narratives, whether then or now. Conflicting politics create competing narratives, and histories of Alexander were (and are) especially prone to such distortions. That, in turn, brings us back to where we began: history (like historical fiction) is about who we are now, and what it’s possible for us to become. So Alexander was neither demon nor god, whatever he wanted to believe about himself. He was a man, capable of cruelty and sympathy, brilliance and blindness, paranoia and an open-handed generosity. As remarkable as he was, he was human. And that's what makes him interesting.

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* That some of these extraordinary things would be—and should be—reviled by modern standards is part of the uncomfortable contradiction, and legacy, of the ancient world. This is something I also try to depict in the novel. So there is never a “simple win” in a battle. There’s something ugly shown in or as a result of every single one. On purpose. Battle is, and should be, deeply disturbing.

[taviokapudding]

Simon's joke of "soup of theseus" is so damn good & way more layered than most people think.

Okay so first- what is the ship of Theseus?

So amongst his many misadventures and legends the ship of theseus was a ship the Athenians believed connected them to the divine living person that was Theseus. The thing is, he was maybe Poseidon's adopted kid/the King if Athen's son and probably not real (or at least if he did his misadventures were super exaggerated as royals = divity stories are) but the fate the Athenians had for him & Apollo (the 6 labors is a fun legend that explains their connection and what the original ship may have been) was so intense, they would constantly give maintence as a form of religious worship to said ship on the island of Delos (where Apollo's most sacred sancutary is) every year it would dock to pay respects.

Btw we don't need to know the specifics of Theseus but he did infamously slay a minotar and Finn did have a good exchange with the Mannish Man to get the enchiridion aka the book that sets Betty & Simon on the paths they are on now so that's neat af

So if you've ever heard about the ship of Theseus being paradox- it comes from the critique that's always existed about that ship's maintenance & religious practices tldr if you are constantly replacing each rotted and borken part of a ship, is it still the same ship?

The soup is a paradox like the ship

That paradox exists in many many scifi and adventure stories like the Nier series & Ghost in the Shell but in this instance we got to first look at the joke literally. Farm world's Finn's wife's soup is the same as the ship. The original soup farm world HW made no longer exists on a technicality, but the way Finn and his kids continue to add on and consume the soup is exactly like the Athenians. It's about the intent of carrying on the memory and keeping the soup around to honor the dead rather than the soup's original recipe {which also is incredibly sad & imples that farmworld Finn is both coping and never learned the original soup recipe}. It's a beautiful way to honor their dead mom/wife and it makes you wonder if that Finn did die if his kids will continue the practice.

But the paradox goes beyond the soup & into our reality

A lot of people have noticed that Fionna's last name is Campbell and Campbells is a real soup brand that would've been around before the great mushroom war. When Marceline gets sick as a kid, Simon goes great lenghts to get her chicken soup- that only worked out because the primordial version of the Mother Gum assisting {which is extreme Bubbeline foreshadowing}. And in that scene the can low key is a campbell design. But what if I told you there's more?

In Cheers, the tv show Simon is seen constantly watching and referencing throughout the original run of Adventure Time & in the recent Fionna and Cake had Carla Tortelli work at a Canpbell's Factory.

Neat references aside the soup ends the moment the main trio hit the remote button and I have a BA in psychology & interest in childrens media and entertainment that I want to milk for once. Metaphorical intention is beyond relevant episode specifics but actually the foundation of Fionna and Cake when it comes to the paradox.

Simon making the soup of Theseus joke is the main problem Fionna and Cake has to address

If Simon can summon his & Prismo's au from his head without proper MMS (Magic, Madness, and Sadness) where does Simon the human start and Ice King end?

As viewers who grew up alongside the series, the majority of 25+ watchers are finding Simon, older Finn, and Fionna painfully relatable because good fucking god we are all traumatized because of the ongoing pandemic.

If you want to focus on the main topic you can skip this part. But if you want to get very serious for a minute, please stay. The majority of people wont to accept what I just said about the pandemic being ongoing because global governments pretending the pandemic is over, the rise of depression and escapism in real time at a social level at a global level but especially in the US where the series is being made, and the daily interactions we have with most people refusing to mask up {with a violent reaction} when there still isn't a cure for COVID has created the perfect enviroment for most people to not accept change or crave extreme change. Fionna and Cake tackles these 2 very common forms of how depression tends to manifest when it's not fully manic to be displayed through Simon (self isolation from poor coping due to loss, detachment from society, dwelling on the past to the point it effects social interactions, extreme forms of religious practice, etc.) and Fionna/Finn (pretending everything is fine, avoidance, going through the bare minimum motions to survive, escapsim and dream of grandure, not caring about sel preservation, no/lack of self control with sweets/coffee, etc.). And I've noted there's a subset of AT viewers who don't relate or find the depections too real to the point they're upset the show's tone isn't as light hearted as AT. The thing is when a global disabling event happens, unless you were under 10 when it happened and even then it's a 50/50 because you probably did lose or know somebody who did die these last several years, you will have some kind of trauma response to it whether you like it or not. Hell, some of you unknowlingly have a gap in your memory about 2020 specifically due to inconsistent sleep schedules that have nothing to do with the shrinking of the brain mass COVID causes that we all call "brain fog" and now that I pointed it out you're probably going to go stare at a wall for 5 mins {sorry btw, doubly if you have long COVID and this is how you found out what brain fog partially is}. As someone who's been dealing with depression since I was a child, it's okay to be not okay given the last several years and doubly if you've been conscious long enough to see the US freefall into fascism too {which I hope encourages those who weren't aware that's been happening to go look into that because we can't get into it right now}. Because I unfortunately know what manic depression can look like - if you find yourself relating to Simon a little too much during ep 3, please talk to somebody who is licensed and trained to do so {not me, I haven't done suicide prevention work since 2017 and am not licensed- I genuienly won't be enough of a resource} okay? Don't throw away yourself nor change yourself for others only. You need to work to accept the past, move on to live in the present, and change yourself for yourself. It won't be easy and resources are out there to not do it alone, alright?

Becuase of how paradoxial and fluid mental health (espeically undiagnosed depression) can be and how AT has it's own version with MMS, could Simon have unconscious MMS still because of Betty's with without a battery but can't tap into it because of his mental state? And could Ice King as we once knew him even be considered a proper person Simon could return too?

The original wish of why Ice King's appearance & abilities is the way it is IS because of Evergreen's impression on Gunter {Evergreen was one of the ice elementals of the past btw- go watch the original Adventure Time for that context}. So Ice King isn't even an original character, just the crown building off the wishes and manifestations of each bearer by emulating a warped version of Evergreen. And that's the main reason why I speculate Ice Thing aka Gunter the Penguin is chill af to the point he got married and can exist with less gems. His wish didn't build off of power to protect Marceline (Simon) nor the power to copy Evergreen (Original Gunter).

As the main trio jump from connected universe to connected universe, more Simons and crowns will appear that are even more removed from our Ooo's crown and it's version of Ice King or Ice Prince or Winter King will only manifest because of the prior and current wishes made. So if Simon does get a crown that isn't the Ooo crown, will the Ice King that once existed even be THE Ice King he wants to be? And will Simon want to be Ice King or an Ice King when the trio do return to his Ooo?

The crown and it's many versions is a paradox that can only be resolved if Simon and Fionna can work together but also set aside their depression to address what they both really want and what that wish's intention will do to themselves and those around them. In short, shit's deep

I applaud the team for Fionna and Cake for tackling such a layered problem and I'm excited to see how Simon's soup of emotions, Fionna's growth, & magic crown of Theseus is addressed.

[dovveri]

tw: sa lolololololol

tldr: white men are the shitstain of humanity

THERES NOOOOO WAY just watched a tiktok (so perhaps not accurate i did a quick google search and couldnt find anything but like… everyone tries to hide shit that the US and europe have done lolol) abt how comfort women in korea altho ‘liberated’ by the us were still used by american soldiers after they kicked the japanese out and then all the people in the comments are like well duh oxford study!! like cant help it if asian women are throwing themselves at us smh! cant help it that asian women are hot!! its not our fault lol theyre the ones that come after us! im white and its so easy to date asian girls in my experience!!

BOIIIIIIII WHAT THE FUUUUKCKKCKCKCKCKC the oxford study is literally not. real . like its so disgustinf to me as an asian woman like this is why i coukd neveeeer date a white man and hello? in the entire video did u not comprehend what comfort women were?? these women are NAUT throwinf themselves at american men bffr they were SEX SLAVES. ur ltr saying oh shes a prostitute so her consent doesnt matter bcs its ltr her job like MEN DONT UNDERSTAND CONSENT . they say they do but they dont and thats why sa and sexual harassment stats are actually likely severely underreported bcs like tmi i was sa but like im not gonna report that bcs . personal choice wtv but i doubt he thought it was sa and i myself didnt realise why i was so uncomfortable during it until after it ended and i called a friend bcs i was . yeah and he asked me if the guy had asked to do this first and i was like . oh! he didnt! and i didnt want to make him feel bad and say stop! like its wtv im revisitinf that when im like 50 idk but the point is men dont understand consent and it SHOWS

and white men talkinf abt how asian women just throw themselfes at rhem is soooo just . sooooo like im going to go to america and buy a gun like breh wtf . firstly, thats so self-centred erm i have lots of asian friends most of them hate the asian men in the dating pool here which is why they wouldnt mind dating a white guy . secondly, the fetishisation of asian women ??? it absolutely disgusts me some of the men in these comments blaming the hyperfeminity in asian culture that makes them more attractive to heterosexual males like HUH????? what kind of incel hole did u crawl out of wtaf. YES i can admit that there is white-worship within asian communities simply bcs they are more successful (and they are more successful bcs of systemic racism lol) but that does not make it okay to treat asian women like theyre ‘easy’ and boast abt how many asian women youve been able to fuck like if the demand wasnt there? the supply wouldnt be either. the demand being white mens fetishisation of asian women and the supply being asian women. its like porn. if men didnt demand porn to the extent that they did, maybe porn wouldnt exist and we could live in a safer world were women werent raped everyday on screen for the sexual pleasure of other men. thats a whole other rant tho i hate porn and only white liberal feminists are pro-porn bcs theyre stuck in 2nd wave sexual liberation feminism (simone de beauvoir who spearheaded 2nd wave feminism voted for age of consent in france to be 13 btw) funnily enough, the only type of feminism men agree with.

[mermaidsirennikita]

Any suggestions for good novella audiobooks? Or novellas available as audiobooks? I want to be consumed by lust while I deepclean my apartment but I don't wanna wait for six hours of lead up lol

Oh sure, I listen to a lot of audiobooks!

Generally speaking, if you want an audiobook that gets to the point FAST I'd recommend Sierra Simone. She's always gonna write the hottest book on the block that's also a great, well-written story; and it doesn't matter if it's an audiobook or not, you'll get into the sex quickly.

Books I know she has on audio that are also novellas:

Sanguine. Actually a short story and it's FREEE in audio. M/m, a vampire is on vacation or something and a former vampire hunter/priest knocks on his door. Heat and surprisingly adorable romcom shenanigans ensue.

Salt in the Wound. Not free in audio, but it is a legit novella and it uh does not fuck around. The beginning of her Lyonesse series, it focuses on a poor little rich girl who likes to Fight and wants to be a nun, except oops her dad wants her to marry the Dangerous Older Sex Club Owner/Maybe He Kills People guy. Obviously I love this series, and it's some of the hottest shit you'll ever read/listen to/whatever.

Her Ivy Leavold series is a trilogy of novellas that essentially amount to "what if Jane Eyre was REEEEEEEALLY REEEEEEEEEEALLY sexy. The Molly O'Flaherty series is also made up of novellas and is in audio. Pretty sure The Chasing of Eleanor Vane (heroine is engaged to a loser but wants his uncle/guardian) and The Last Crimes of Peregrine Hind (m/m, highwayman kidnaps a dandy for Revenge) are also in audio. They're short, they don't fuck around, but they do FUCK.

She also has Supplicant in audio, which is a novella about a woman who gets left at the altar by her fiance (who was also her professor) and basically ends up back in his orbit a few years later. Angsty, but also like, VERY quickly gets down to business lol. And of course, because it's Sierra Simone, they study people who do rituals and shit together and have a lot of worship kinks.

Alexandra Vasti's Halifax Hellions is a series of standalone historical romance novellas, all in audio now, definitely sexy and hilarious. You have In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation (brother's best friend, roadtrip romance in a bid to stop the zany heroine's twin sister from eloping with the wrong man, virgin hero who's wanted the heroine for yeeears); In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint (my favorite of the three, the twin is interested in BDSM and draws erotic art of the hero who finds out and is like WHAT, growly stern man and horny heroine shenanigans ensue); and In Which Winnie Halifax is Utterly Ruined (heroine is a farmer who accidentally ends up pretending to be married to the hero, except they're kinda real married now?).

Tycoon by Joanna Shupe is in audio; it's one of her first (maybe the first) Gilded Age books, and it amounts to the heroine ending up in a fake married (or engaged? It's been a while) situation with the hero on a train as she tries to evade Criminals.

If you wanna dip your toes into fantasy, Ruby Dixon's The King's Spinster Bride is delightful. The heroine is a spinster princess and the new king of the conquering nation (who knew her when they were younger) shows up like "WE'RE GETTING MARRIED". Lots of voyeurism, pussy worship, all that good stuff. But intensely sweet, too?

And if you wanted to try Immortals After Dark... it does kick off with a novella... The Warlord Wants Forever. In which Myst the valkyrie gets captures by vampire Nikolai, bloods him (which in Kresley's world, for vampires, means essentially sexually reawakening them, as Kresley's vampires can't get it up because their hearts don't beat... and then when they meet their "Brides", a term that is genuinely gender neutral btw, their hearts begin beating and they are hard until they can get off while being touched by said Bride) and then leaves him with the boner from hell for

FIVE. YEARS.

So understandably. When he finds her. He is a bit upset.

Kresley's audiobooks are among the best because they're narrated by Robert Petkoff, who is INCOMPARABLE. He will give you 75 different accents in one book, PLUS the most INTENSE orgasmic moaning I have ever listened to in an audiobook.

(Shoutout to Lothaire, in which he had to be like "ELIZAVETTAAAAAAAA" a million times. Because while there isn't a single Kresley hero who doesn't screamgasm, Lothaire is a special one.)

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Have you seen/heard of the film "Absolutely Anything" (2015) before?

Incase you haven't, It's essentially about this guy (played by Simon Pegg) who gets wishing powers given to him (albeit unknowingly) by a bunch of aliens (btw the aliens are voiced by the Pythons, save for Graham obviously) and the guy can now wish for "absolutely anything" (hey that's the name of the film!) . Also, one of his wishes is making his pet dog talk (the dog is voiced by Robin Williams, which makes this his last film/acting/voice role before he unfortunately passed away in 2014). Also the guy has a crush on his hot female neighbour (played by Kate Beckinsale) who's also dealing with her over the top crazy military ex-boyfriend. Also, the film AA would be Terry Jones' last film as a director before he unfortunately passed away in 2020.

I've watched the film for the first time in like April/May of this year, since I watched it, I have some thoughts on the film.

It's certainly NOT the worst film I've ever seen, in fact I actually did laugh at a couple of jokes here and there in the film. And ofc, I like Simon Pegg, he's always great! Robin Williams as the dog was also pretty cute and adorable, and i liked Kate Beckinsale she's pretty good here imo. Ok uhh what else? I mean, i like the alien character played by Michael Palin, I think the turtle-like alien design really suited him really well! And I like the actor who plays the crazy military ex-boyfriend, I think his hammy performance really suited the character, plus I laughed a bit when he was on screen. And another thing I liked was the film was the Kylie Minogue song during the end credits.

The others things in this film that I kinda found a bit "meh" was the film's execution of the actual concept of wishing for, well, absolutely anything. I feel like it could've done more with the concept, but it just felt like, idk, a first draft version of the script was made up in 1 day and then the rest of the film was filmed using just the first draft script. Also there's this one subplot in the film where Simon Pegg's character's colleague/friend called Ray (played by Sanjeev Bhaskar) who has crush on a P.E teacher, and so Pegg's character wishes the P.E teacher worshipped Ray. Once the wish is granted, instead of the P.E teacher falling in love with Ray, she instead actually worships Ray like a god/Messiah, and rest of the film shows the P.E teachers' (plus other people) building obsession of and cult-like following of Ray. I felt like there could've been more to the subplot as I did find it quite interesting, maybe it could've gone "Life of Brian"-esque with it? But, like, it just...ends. like it just ends with no proper or even funny solution.

Ok, but overall, I did kinda enjoy the film, probably more than I expected. Maybe in a "so-bad-it's-good" kinda way? Actually, I think I'd more accurately actually call it enjoyable in a way "sick-in-bed-with-nothing-to-do" kinda way, ya'know? All in all, I'd give AA maybe a 5/6 out of 10. It's not bad, but it's certainly not "laugh out loud" funny, but it's kinda decent tbh.

It's on Amazon Prime if you wanna watch it btw!

Do let me know your thoughts once you've time to see it!

I need to watch this. Thanks for the review Yonder!

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

What your favorite comic book writer says about you:

John Byrne: When you say you wish comics would go back to the 80′s and 90′s this is what you mean. Also, you like to forget he went nuts on a forum once.

Mark Millar: You are a walking contradiction. You love really fucked up edgy stories and you like good stories with good morals as well.

Garth Ennis: You are the edgelord supreme. You also like war stories and the Punisher.

Frank Miller: You are one of two people: 

1.You are an edgy 14 year old who just discovered TDKR. You proclaim him to be the greatest, edgiest writer. You also like to pretend his post Sin City work doesn’t exist.

2. You’ve read his other work besides TDKR and can appreciate how he can go in depth with some characters. This is before he went nuts btw.

Pau Dini: You are a chad with good taste.

Dwayne McDuffie: You like great well written diverse characters. You use him as the gold standard of writing diverse characters.

Jason Aaron: You have shit taste.

Ta Nehisi Coates: You are black, and you love being black, and tell everyone the first chance you get how black you are.

Alan Moore: You are 1 of 2 people: 

1. You either have only ever read Watchmen and think he’s the greatest thing to grace comics ever and everyone must bow down and worship him. and believe Watchmen should be the norm. 

2. Or you have read his other works and like his depth to comics but also understand he is not a god to be worshipped but just a writer. And that watchmen should not be the norm and Tom Strong is a much better embrace of superhero comics.

Grant Morrison: You are an alt chick in her 20′s that likes weird, trippy esoteric stories with a deeper meaning.

Kurt Busiek: You love fun straightforward super hero stories that are very well done.

Geoff Johns: You have great nostalgia for Barry Allen and Hal Jordan and silver age nostalgia. You like fun, expanding stories but that’s all you like. You cannot write philosophical stories to save your life.

Mariko Tamaki: You really like social commentary despite how dull and poorly done it is. Also, you obsess over food a lot.

Jonathan Hickman: You have the patience of a saint or you have nothing going on in your life.

Greg Weisman: You love well written planned out organic stories and you love Shakespeare.

Christopher Priest: You like well written stories alongside being black. And in depth character arcs that kind of peter out at the end.

Gail Simone: You love her earlier works and pretend her post 2011 works are still good even though they’re not.

Chuck Dixon: You love gritty crime stories, action stories and espionage. You are also probably a conservative.

Larry Hama: You love military adventures and are obsessed with ninjas.

Charles Soule: You love incorporating how the legal system works into your stories. Otherwise you are pretty good compared to your contemporaries.

Vita Ayala: You are woman in your 30′s who thinks she’s hip with the kids but is not. You desperately cling onto your youth. You use Twitter way too much.

Tom King: You are a masochist. You and Tom King desperately need to see a therapist.

Nick Spencer: You like smaller street level character stories. You cannot write event titles and social commentary to save your life. You should stick to street level stories.

Mark Waid: You like fun wholesome stories. You also cannot write social commentary to save your life.

Chip Zdarsky: You are competent at super hero writing. You maintain this equilibrium of being good but never great.

Gene Luen Yang: You like Chinese mythology and the “Asian American Experience” TM. In fact that’s all you seem to like.

Brian Michael Bendis: You are 1 of 2 people.

1. You love his older work and how he handles street level characters. You also acknowledge he went to shit as a writer once he got to work on the Avengers.

2. You blindly read his work no matter what. Even though he has gotten worse as a writer. You believe dialogue is more important than visuals. You love his walls of text to the point you would read a novel by him. But you are too insecure to read novels because that’s for grown ups and you are still mentally 14 years old.

Warren Ellis: You like stories that are fucked up but also have something poignant and deeper to say. Also, you like to say the word, “fuck” a lot.

[lobotomy-maybe-bestie]

14 for rqg! and 10 for Sasha :D

14. Top five songs you would add to an RQG playlist:

Ohhh this was difficult! There are 59 songs in my RQG playlist how can I choose only five! But:

-Cotton - The Mountain Goats

This song for me is representative of the first few rqg episodes, like the prologue and everything leading up to zolf's arrest in dover. It's about each of these characters throwing some of their past away (for Zolf it's the ship accident, for Sasha it's Other London and for Hamid it's getting kicked out of university). I did a whole seperate post with lyrics once, actually. Anyway Sasha's verse is "This song is for the soil/ that's toxic clear down to the bedrock/ where no thing of consequence can grow/ drop your seeds there, let them go" keep that in mind for further down the list.

-See Her Out (That's Just Life) - Francis and the Lights

It's a VERY Mr. Ceiling song. There's nothing to say about, I just love it. (Fun fact I set my alarm as "But that's just life/ I lived it twice" bc it will be funny if I ever experience a time loop)

-The Times They Are A-Changin' - Simon & Garfunkel (yes i like the cover better than the original)

This song would, in a musical version of RQG, be the interlude song after the time travel, to update the audience on everything that's happened in the 18 months. First verse is Zolf, second is Wilde, third is Einstein, fourth is Apophis, fifth is Sumutnyerl.

-Ashes - The Longest Johns

Just a sad little song about loss and friendship that almost makes me cry when I hear it. First verse is about Hamid, second about Grizzop, third about Zolf, fourth about Sasha, fifth about Azu and sixth just about their situation in general ("What will we do when the world it is ending/ And time it is halted for friend and for foe/ Try to hold onto the time as it passes/ I'll tend to the flame, you can worship the ashes"). Also btw Sasha's verse includes "Bury some seeds and expect some strong branches" which is a nice and unexpected inversion of her verse in Cotton. (Also also I wrote a whole fic to this song once)

-London Calling - The Clash

Just has to be the song for the endgame. Not much else to say about it.

10. A song that makes you feel angsty about Sasha:

So many of them lol

-Steal Smoked Fish - The Mountain Goats

What can I say except "God bless all petty thieves with tins of oysters up their sleeves". Just Sasha in Other London and then with the party and just... man ;_; I care her so much.

[caramelomachiato-blog]

The Shadowhunter chronicles faves (spoilers for lord of shadows)

Okay but I'd protect: Kieran, Mark, Christina, Ty, Kit, Livvy (;-;), Dru, Tavvy, Helen, Aline, Diana, Jem, Tessa, Will (;-;), Alec, Magnus, Max and Rafe, Raphael (;-;), Simon, Izzy, Maia, Max (;-;), Jules, Alec, Kieran, Ty, Livvy, Alec, Magnus, Kieran, Raphael, Ty, Livvy, Dru, Diana, *repeat* with my life I love them so much I love Kit and relate to him on a spiritual level. I love his relationship with the twins (especially Ty if ya know what I mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ) and his frustration with Shadowhunters (he's expressing the viewers words tbh). I love his understanding and need to protect Ty. It's great to see someone doing the right thing for my baby bee boy. I love Dru so much being a middle child is hard, especially when you're 'too young' for literally everything and people forced your younger sibling on you. Also she's beautiful and her talks of insecurities about shape and weight really hit it home for me and I'm sure lots of other. I literally cried when Jules said "You're our heart baby girl. You're the heart of the family." Tavvy is the cutest bean and needs protecting. That's all that needs to be said. Also if anyone hurts him I'll find you. I loved Diana a lot from the beginning. My attachment to the Blackthorns meant that anyone who was nice to them by association caught my interest and deserved attention. But I liked her character, especially when she essentially told Zara to shut the fuck up ngl. Her coming out story was a cherry on the cake tbh I wasn't expecting it and I cried over her story (also her sister ;-;). I love Diana's design too. She's overall a great Character. I love Helen and Aline so much. Their relationship, dedication, meeting, everything about them alone and in a pair is just so great. Also I'm high-key gay for both of them. But Aline dedication to her wife made me cry I'm-- I'm just in love with them ok? Okay but Tessa Jem Will Tho yass I love them I haven't even finished their series (I've read lord of shadows but I'm only on clockwork angel aka the first one ;-;). I live their dynamic. Tessa's just beautiful and great and smart and badass af. Jem is precious I love him. Will is so great I actually prefer his herondaleness to Jace's. I love their interaction. And their Camille and Magnus interaction were the goodest of good shits™ 👌. Do I really need an explanation for Max and Rafe tbh. Like Tavvy they're both adorable and amazing. Also Max is blue (I love the fact he's blue). If anyone ever hurts or bullies them I'm coming for that person. Simon and Izzy. Well what can i say, Izzy is hot and Simon is chill (mah man). He's honestly such a geek ("tell me a bedtime story" "k *plot of starwars*"). He should meet Kit tbh. I love Izzy in book and the TV show (and not just because Emeraude Toubia is impossibly attractive). I live her character. I love Simon's character. 'Nough said. Max, well, uh we don't talk about that. F U C K Y O U S E B A S T I A N M O R G E N S T E R N ! ! ! I loved Max so much, though, I wish I could have protected him personally. He was so cute and loved reading and felt like no one noticed or listened to him or borderline ignored. (That sounds familiar call out post to my toxic friends and family). He's a 13 year old boy you should be ashamed! Tbh I loved Maia since I first read about her in the books. She was so strong and badass and pretty and great. Also that one time where izzy says if she was attracted to girls she'd tap that ass. Also when she killed that asshole I was like yasssss queen slay!!! Rip Kyle tho I miss him. She pretty great in the TV series too, W E A RE N O T T A L K IN G A B O U T T H E C L O S E T S C E N E I R E P E AT N O T!! Jules, Jules, Jules... he's a fucking amazing brother lets start with that. He's had to essentially, apart from Emma and Diana look after his siblings, the institute and everything else singlehandedly. He's always there for them. He's also an artist ! That's great I love artist characters idk. Can we also talk about his way with words dang dang diggity dang dang dang he can talk anyone into seeing to his POV or believing his words. He a great boi. He just needs (some milk, sorry it's 2 am) a permanent vacation with Emma in an AU where parabatai bonds won't make you crazy if you be fucking yo parabatai. So he can fuck Emma, essentially is what I'm, ever so subtly, getting at it. Christina Rosales is beautiful and deserves the world and to stab Zara Fucking Dearborn through the heart. Ok I love her but I love Kieran more so she better not hurt my boi Kier. Also I'm down for some KierArkTina anytime as long as they spend some (a great amount) time to sort out their issues and love each other properly. Mark is great tbh (but again I love Kieran more so don't hurt him mah boi). Like I love his personality and character and appearance and speech patterns they're like the perfect blend between nephilim and faerie and I love that. I love him, that coat scene tho and the kitchen scene and the many scenes where he talks to inanimate objects. Also the make out scenes got diggity damn kierark. Also talking about kierark ppl be like Kieran was so bad to mark yeah but mark was bad to Kieran too. I'm not excusing mah boi here or mark but yeah they both not angels (hahaha). Tbh I loved Raphael so much (also saphael). He was so great I loved this lil asshole so much I cried when he died so much. S E BA S T I A N F U C K IN G M O R G E R N S T E RN !! ! Also ! Ace! representation ! Is ! Important ! I'm! Happy! But yeah Rip this babe. I loved Ty and Livvy ever since I first read them in the books, I was super excited for an autistic character and related to Livvy as my little brother is also autistic. (Livvy deserved better tbh). They're just so great and cute, I love them. We don't deserve them tbh. I love ty, I'm sorry, Sherlock so much and his twin sister (Euros lol don't shoot me) is an inspiration. Livvy is so protective and I love her. Ty is just so protective and I love him. I love them both so much. Kieran, mah boi, my sass ball, my salty bitch, my faerie boi, my king's son, my slayer, my great handsome beautiful amazing boi. Okay I don't even know why I love him so much I just do. He's misunderstood and before yall bitch at me like oh that poor special snowflake he Hurting he misunderstood poor bean do he need a tiny violin to play sad music for him where's thE P R O O F OF T H I S BI T C H ! !! Yall can read up on this subject on other post about it I've reblogged. O K A Y he did some bad things he regrets and wished he could rewind and stop. Um. So has almost every other fricking character in this book series apart from really young kids don't just blame my baby gods guys. Magnus is just the best, if you hate him you're wrong doesn't matter who you are or what ever. You're wrong. He's a great great bf, fiancée, future husband, father, future uncle, babysitter, cat sitter, lover, friend, Warlock, person and soul. I love him I'd give up all my soul and body for him. I worship him, I love his design, speech patterns, personality, methods, over all character and just everything. If I wasn't attracted to female only I'd high-key be crushing on Magnus Bane. Bi the way (see what I did there) he great don't ever hurt. Also he slays. And Harry Shum Jr. does a great job portraying him in the series, he great. Drop everything because you've come to the last of the superior squad (Ty, Livvy, Kieran, Magnus and Alec) Buckle the fuck up guys it's time to go for a spin in the Mystery mobile (or w/e the fuck it's called). Ah Alec, my biggest fave rivalled only by Ty my other biggest fave, he's so handsome brave and amazing. Malec is like supreme OTP (with Kitty and Kierark of course) I live for their dynamic both in the book and on the screen in the TV show. I love Alec as he's incredibly relatable, beautiful, great with kids, a great leader, a great bf/financée/lover/husband, a great person. I love him. If i could if adopt him as my son. I'm screaming he's just so good. Also he hecka attractive for a guy if i was a guy 10/10 would bed and we'd this handsome boi. Also the way he roasted Zara Dearborn, she was more like deadborn back then. (Also when Kieran joined in I cried tears of joy). When are we gonna talk about his alleged bondage kink btw? Hmu with fic and Fanart with this if you have it. In conclusion I love them all very much! Special mentions to: Gwyn, Arthur, Malcolm (idk why), Annabel (kinda i guess), Jaime (Un petit peu), Nene, Nerissa and Aodaon (?) (he cute).

[sapphicalexaandra]

anyway that was a really good episode!!

this is what i love, pure development through character interactions and ‘internal’ struggles beind dealt with in-depth...and this has confirmed even more how what i care about and love the most is the lightwood family and all their relationships between one another ç_ç there’d be so much to talk about omg how can you be coherent and comprehensive about it all...

isabelle my precious baby...i still don’t like what they chose for her special ‘dark’ storyline but i’m trying not to think about that and just enjoy emeraude’s performance that is just so brilliant; i already said that i would like all of this better if it was a way to bring forward all her life-long issues of growing up neglected by her mother and always taking care of everybody but not herself (how are her and alec so different yet so alike??? my babies) and they kind of are doing that, her saying that she’s really not that strong gave me all the feels because, yes you are baby, but of course you are and should be also vulnerable and deserve all the support in the world ç_ç

i don’t know where they’re going with that raphael thing like???? #noromo, but either way i do like him as a character and loved that he got to talk about his experience (saving raphael santiago was my favorite of the short stories in the bane chronicles), and he is trying to help her in his own way, so their last scene together was kinda sweet (but alec probably won’t be happy about his involvement with izzy’s deal, next week is gonna get angstyyy - keep hate and pre-episode biases without context away from me btw, remember that characters are allowed to react to things and can be both wrong and right at the same time right?? yeah)

i also loved maryse here, they should have her here more often nicola is great, also i’m glad!! that we got her to develop from just ‘’bigoted bitch mom’’, because ever since last season i recognized in her the same struggle that alec had to overcome (duty-follow orders-your personal problems don’t matter vs love for their family), and this is the aspect that makes me so interested in shadowhunters as a whole, because they grow up to completely dedicate themselves to a ‘’higher’’ cause, obliterating themselves in the process while feeling they should be worshipped for their sacrifice, yet constantly at war with their own human nature trying to get out...and i will never just dismiss that, this kind of complexity is so very human and is so compelling and heartbreaking, so i’m glad we’re getting even the ‘older’ maryse who has done so many horrible things back in the circle days, and even later as a neglectful and demanding, at times heartless, mother, all while still feeling so much for her children, starting to own up to that, trying to make amends, or even just //trying// for her children, showing that she is human as well (also don’t get me started on robert cheating on her, i’m also glad they brought this aspect in the show because they were villanizing her too much in favor of robert, which isn’t a saint as well). and all of this reflecting on max was so well done, how this children grow up in this kinda prejudiced environment (the rune ceremony was so pertinent too)...but things are slowly changing for the better. plus mah boy jace getting some love is always good

which leads us to the hallucinations, they were done so well??? like i said, my favorite kind of character conflicts are their own internal struggles and an episode focusing and projecting them on the outside?? count me in. 

(i didn’t even dislike climon lmao, after all i do love me a friends-to-lover trope, i just don’t like/care about simon very much and clary isn’t my favorite either so i usually don’t care about their scenes, but here they were kinda sweet and actually managed to make me feel something for them, while i did cringe at the clace scenes)

how badass was that warlock fight scene? magnus was great as always this episode, i winced when he pulled out that book because i realized that was the endgame #yikes

valentine kindly take your filthy hands away from madzie, you bastard

yeah no luke after that great call-out scene at the start, sigh, but i loved that part anyway, because jace and clary tend to be all downworlders saviors like in 1x09 and needed the wake up call

things are in the clear between our fam, jace why do you still want to keep things secret it’s not the time

can you all tell i’m procrastinating trying to not get to the alec part because boyy...my heart still hasnt’ recovered from that ç_ç what can you say, he has so much self-hatred and guilt and is so ready to direct that inwards (this has...no correlation to me nope...i’m completly detached from this yep...who am i kidding) how even after clary reassured him at the end, his face still fell when she went away, this issue is NOT gone at all like, obviously....i’m at least glad it’s not been sweapt under the rag and i hope it still won’t...also my sweet sensitive boy hugging his mother and pulling that face trying to keep the hurt away over wanting her not to hurt anymore....(this makes me remember that great magnus/jace scene, the alec protection squad, pls do that, which also makes me remember the parabatai being protective of each other the entire ep, i love me that)

i’m just rambling to pass the time at this point, but anyway yeah i really liked the ep, i didn’t even mention everything i liked i’m sure, but it was good, and i’m trying to just---not think about the eventual misgivings because last week i was left with such a bad taste and my love for the show felt like dying, and i don’t want that because after all i do love it and still want it to be my happy place (plus i’m about to watch s*pergirl and i already know thAT’s gonna be ....yikes)