#so more points to s3!!!!

[c0sm1cxzst4rz]

I haven't seen anyone else comparing this scene to that one wolf meme so I'm doing this by myself 😭

[tvuniverse]

the eddie kissing buck first propaganda needs to be stopped at all cost ✋I know i know, i'm probably going to be taken out back and shot several times BUT hear me out:

buck needs to get off that squeaky spinning wheel and for that he needs to be the one initiating Something -either love confession or kiss or both i'm not picky- because as my good friend Bobby (#rip) said he's always been the one going with the flow and not knowing how he even got into a relationship in the first place so him breaking that pattern is essential to his own personal growth. he hasn't initiated a first kiss on screen a single time. he's always been either caught by surprise (taylor and tommy), or been asked out on a date without necessarily expecting it (ali and natalia), and even his first date with abby mostly happened because of external pressure (hen and athena cornering them), and she ended up being the one to kiss him first later on.

and for eddie it's the opposite, he's always been the one initating pretty much everything with his love interests: calling shannon in the first place and then kissing her first, asking ana and marisol out on a date. He's always had to make that choice for himself, and buck pretty much jumped any time someone showed interest in him and only started considering his own feelings when things started to get rocky in his relationships. So them actually switching that because buck is that sure of his feelings for the first time, oh that would be so juicy, so good, so delicious.

anyway this is not me starting discourse ❌ because i hate that but just me officially campaigning (at the very last minute) for buck initiating the love confession and/or their first kiss. thank you for your consideration 🙏

[creativelycomplex]

New Delainey interview discussing her role as Claudia and her casting announcement for the CARRIE series. Yeah it’s a good week to be a Delainey Stan.

[shutupineedtothink]

Siuan & Moiraine and some 3x08 thoughts (positive)

Hoo boy I don’t know if I should be saying shit but I’m gonna!

I get being angry about Siuan, and tbh yeah idk if showing us her severed head was necessary.

But as for this being kill your gays? Y’all, at least half the people in this show are queer, and this is a world where people die, often violently. I would imagine this is a world where a lot more people, queer and otherwise, are going to start dying a lot more frequently if we get subsequent seasons. And even the most powerful people are not immune to that. To quote another witch, Death comes for us all.

And, truly, as much as I love them, this story does not center around Siuan and Moiraine and their relationship, and it has never promised a positive outcome for them. In fact, the show has been telling us from the beginning that their love will not save them. It’s kind of their whole thing.

It’s always been very obvious to me that they were never going to get a happy ending or make it til the end of the show. Now, I’m someone who thrives on those stories. I live for the bittersweet, the sad song that somehow also expands you and makes you grateful to be alive, and that’s what they’ve always been. “In this life or the next.” “I thought we’d have more time.” “We always think that.” “Then I’ll find you, in the next life and the next, until we get it right.” “And I will wait for you, every time.”

To me, THAT is a far more powerful, far more human, far more romantic and beautiful story than a happy ending. Not that happy endings aren’t good too, in some cases and as we know it’s not cool to have every queer love story end in tragedy. But we do have those happy queer stories now too. We do live in a world where they exist more prominently, and different kinds of people are making more different kinds of stories than ever. This particular one just isn’t meant to be happily ever after. And it never was, it never pretended to be. If you got your hopes up and now you’re angry and sad that this was the ending for them, I get it. Feel those feelings, they are valid. But I don’t think the show is wrong for this choice. I think their story was always heading in this direction, and it was always going to break our hearts. And it’s no less beautiful for it.

So basically what I’m saying is yes the kill your gays trope exists. But there is also nuance to be had here. In a world where we have so much more diversity in stories and representation than we ever have, its no longer that one way is right (happy endings for the gays) and another is wrong (tragic endings for the gays). There’s more to it than that. And when the writers have been telegraphing a bittersweet story for Siuan and Moiraine for as long as they have (and pressing hard on that throughout this season particularly), I can’t be mad about it.

Now I’m a show only and I can’t speak to what happened in the books vs. the show re: Siuan’s plot line. But if I die on one pop culture hill, it will always be “do not judge the adaptation by how closely it adheres to every single bit of the source material.” This adaptation, more than just about any other, simply cannot afford that with the constraints of adapting a 14 book series into an 8 season tv show, with 8 episodes a season. And yet incredibly, the source material itself gives us the in-canon solution: this is a universe with multiple versions of the same story, multiple turns of the Wheel. When you start seeing it as that, as a variation on the book series, which itself is implied to have multiple versions in other timelines (if I’m understanding correctly), then here we are. The show is not the books. It must stand on its own, it must make its own choices.

You may disagree with the choices the show makes, but don’t disagree on the basis that it’s different from the books. It has to be different from the books, full stop. That’s what adaptation literally means. It means change. I would go on to say that the best adaptations make choices/changes based on the constraints and opportunities of its medium, which is also happening here (actors having to leave the show and move on to other opportunities, so do we let them go out with a bang or not). But I digress.

Now as far as the race politics at play here. Oof. I get it, I see it. And this might be where I shoot myself in the foot. But again… there has to be nuance, right? To me, Siuan stood in her power until the end, even as her sisters turned on her and the Dark closed in. (The sort of reverse parallel bookend of this to Liandrin’s trial in 3x01 is crazyyyy.) She declared herself for the Light and she did not back down even as everything was taken away from her. She shook Elaida to her core, I have no doubt about that. And she said I am the daughter of the river. I am the water itself. You cannot break me. Death is not the end. It is only the door to the next turning of the Wheel.

Also, we had another black woman in this episode who was literally chained up by a white woman and thrown into the sea to drown (talk about making a Choice), who finally found her power by calling on her own advice as a mother to her daughter (aka her inner child?), freed herself from those chains, biblically parted the damn sea and walked out claiming her space and strength as the most powerful channeller in a thousand years. I’m not saying Nynaeve cancels out Siuan. I’m saying they both exist in the same episode, in the same world. Nuance.

If you think I’m wrong, you can tell me so. I would prefer you did so nicely. I’m always open to changing my mind. But there’s what I think for now.

[sengenism]

like, yeah of course gen knew :) of course he understood senku's true intentions without any words being said. truly the most simple yet complicated yet exciting companions ever

[xxplastic-cubexx]

chat if i may speak

[bullagit]

due to personal reasons i am now firmly on team “i hope aziraphale does change heaven for the better actually (going on the assumption that his return is as straightforward as it seemed etc” 

like if the alternative is just this ohhh he’s so NAIVE and SOFT and so WRONG and he’ll have to LEARN A TOUGH LESSON etc etc nonsense then yeah 1000% go for it babe knock it out of the park

i hope choosing hope and kindness pays dividends. i hope the soft traits that made other characters continually disparage and underestimate him and his intelligence turn out to be his greatest assets bc i kinda don’t give a shit about a “toughen up it’s the only way everyone else knows better” life lesson for this character

(which like honestly a lot of the rhetoric is dismissive of the fact that persistent goodness in the face of an existence of disparagement takes great strength and that at the end of the day aziraphale has always been able to stand up in his own way)

[sleepyvib-es]

Hey, sorry to bother you if you're busy but what is going on with the aparent pjo script leaks rn?

Hey <3 so apparently some scenes of Nico's script got leaked and from the post i saw, they describe them as "Nico is more stoic and serious from the get-go while Bianca is more brave and outgoing." Bianca apparently remembers their childhood but Nico does not. He feels like he's "living in his sister's shadow" (set up for that one Hades scene maybe but with tv show Hades also having different personality I don't know how that's going to work). Bianca is apparently Percy's age and had a personality shift as well.

We don't know if the leaks are real or not but Becky did make a comment that has a lot of people thinking that there is a high possibility of all this being true.

EDIT: It's important to note that even if the script leaks are real, it doesn't mean they're final. Things can very well be different by the time s3 airs!

I went back and read the first few chapters to refresh my memory on how they were both described when we first meet them:

As we know from the titan's curse, nico was this happy ten year old kid (according to grover) who was excited to know that the gods, monsters, and heroes from his favorite game were actually real. What makes Nico's arc in the books so heartbreaking is that he did not start out as being pessimistic and sad. Nico di Angelo as a character was a breath of fresh air. This was a happy kid who had his child-like innocence taken from him the moment he found out his sister was dead. It's important that Nico starts out as hopeful and as happy as he did in the books because not only is this such an important aspect of his character but also because this was the first time the audience experiences a major character death and it really hammers in how utterly fucked up it is to be a demigod (if the first 2 books didn't convince you of that).

I want to also note that even though we remember him as being happy, Nico was still a kid. Nico was scared.

I'm just highlighting this because I feel like a lot of people forget. Moments before he was the excited kid who was amazed that all of this was real, he was a scared child first.

Even when standing up for his sister. What about these scenes give the impression that he is stoic and serious and not nervous and afraid?

To these changes I'll say: why are we doing this? why are we meshing nico's, i guess you could say future(?), outward personality with the one he had before experiencing the Horrors. I say this lightly because nico from the books was never a rude character. He was never someone that needed to be taught how to politely talk to people or make conversation. This is the same character that befriended a goddess, who was the first to notice her when no one else has. Nico having a bright personality when we meet him and still being so full of hope and kindness even after everything that happens to him is so important to me.

Bianca in the books was rightfully a bit more cautious. She was the one who would ask questions before accepting everything that these literal strangers were telling her.

Bianca worried. She had no choice but to be the caretaker, the responsible older sister who always needed to keep herself and her brother safe. Bianca is indeed brave in the way she demands answers from Dr. Thorn (the manticore) and everyone else but it wasn't because she was a girlboss tm. It's because she had to be:

But despite all of that, despite being bold enough to demand answers, she was still scared.

And for as much responsibility she carried, she was still just a child. She was this 12 year old kid and her being this young with so much on her shoulders while having absolutely no support system is quite literally relevant to her character like this is literally the reason why she joined the hunters:

Bianca being percy's age doesn't take away from how heartbreaking her story is but it does make me wonder why. Why are we aging her up? Is it too much for the audience to see the reality she faced for what it is? Is it easier if Bianca is portrayed as a 14 year old girlboss and not as the 12 year old child she so clearly was? This isn't me saying that all of this is okay to go through as long as you're 14+ btw because obviously not but it does make me question the writers. The books were targeted towards kids as well so saying "oh it's for kids of course they're toning down the horrors" as reasoning for all this falls flat to me personally.

Also, I understand wanting to make bianca a more well rounded character (there is valid criticism of how her character was handled in the books) but do the writers really only have one way of "adding depth" to their female characters? I haven't seen the full script and this may very well all be fake but it's like... if there's one thing the books got right, it's that these kids were allowed to be scared. Bianca was allowed to be worried about her first quest considering her lack of experience. She was the one, along with her brother, who needed to be saved from the manticore! and that's okay.

It doesn't make it anti-feminist to show female characters needing to be saved. It doesn't make it anti-feminist if your female character does not start out as badass and brave. It doesn't make it anti-feminist for the new girl to be less experienced or less knowledgeable of the world she just found out is real compared to the main characters. May I repeat, this is a child. A 12 year old child who was asked to make a choice right after witnessing another child fall off a cliff. Bianca was hardly given any time to process everything that had just happened, and then she makes a choice for herself that strained her relationship with her brother right before she was picked to go on a doomed quest. Bianca di Angelo should be allowed to feel scared, relieved, anxious, angry, sad, and confused and still be a strong female character.

To put it simply: everything we've seen so far from leaks is a mess. The way the di angelo siblings are described does not stay true to their characters from when they make their first appearance. Fans are rightfully upset at all these (supposed) changes because I mean... these are characters we've known and loved for nearly two decades. We love them just as they are. Nico's introduction to the story is iconic. I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone in the writer's room would want to ruin such a solid character lmao

Another reason why people are complaining is because if the leaks are real, it means that Will Solace apparently makes an appearance in s3. If we consider the timeline from the books, Will isn't a character until the last olympian. It seems like the writers are speed running solangelo, just as they did in s1 for percabeth. I personally would have liked to see Will as his own individual character first. If we had to have will appear earlier than he did in the books, I would have loved to see him as a background character (same with charles, silena, etc). It would be nice to see will as a camper, a younger brother, a friend first before immediately pairing him up with nico. Again, I don't know how it all will play out in the show but having the first time we meet will also be the first time he meets nico just feels ... rushed? fan servicey? I say this as someone who loves both these characters and ships them.

As a fan of bianca, nico, and will I want better for these characters. I want the source material to be respected. There is a way to move them from one medium to another without drastically changing who they are. Also this is a personal pet peeve of mine but richard please not everyone meets their soulmate when they're 12-14. The first person you befriend does not have to be your future lover. I see a lot of fans being excited for this because they get to make cute tiktok edits of their favorite characters and ships and like ... sure. okay. Do you not care that they fundamentally aren't the same characters you know and love though?

[aroaceleovaldez]

i would like Rick to stop making books. i was going to continue that sentence with "for advertising or blatant PR reasons" but yknow what i can also just stop it at in general too tbh.

[all-pacas]

honestly can we talk about how over house chase is in s3

when he told wilson "i'm not waiting anymore" he fucking meant it. he seriously goes the rest of the season ignoring house, overriding him, pushing his own ideas over house's — by the end of the season he's doing it to house's face, calling him out on his lies/manipulations. (he also, amusingly/predictably, transfers all his asskissing to cameron.) it gets overshadowed by foreman's resignation/fall into despair and by cameron's similar but more obvious disillusionment, but it's. it's very much there. i'm watching half wit, and sure, we have the crying and the hug — chase still likes house — but we also have house ordering the team to do a procedure and chase, not foreman or cameron, being the one to tell him no.

and this leads directly into his 'boundaries era' of s4-5, which again — it isn't that chase dislikes house. he's always liked house. but he isn't seeking approval. he isn't trying to win house over. he has a job he's fantastic at, he has a life outside diagnostics, he doesn't need house, and he's no longer sucking up and trying to win favor. even when chase returns to the team, he never reverts to his s2 "lapdog" persona; he's quite willing to go behind house's back or over his head whenever he feels it's necessary (from private lives's "i noticed this and did a whole procedure on my own last night" to the c word's "house isn't available so i'm going to figure this out myself"); he isn't doting or passive.

and it all really does go back to finding judas, and that punch. chase isn't waiting anymore, and he never really looks for house's approval in the same way ever again.

[soapcan18]

The fact that Michael only appears in six episodes, and only speaks in FOUR of them, yet still became the fan favorite is hilarious. No one can resist the charms of silly spiral man

[ingravinoveritas]

You know the way David wears the same sweaters over and over and holds onto clothes and other things he loves, things that mean something to him, over the years? Seeing the video of him at the Macbeth stage door tonight, that's how it feels like he is holding on to Aziraphale and Crowley and Good Omens...

[jazzy0clock]

FINEEE I’ll get into it a LITTLE cuz it’s kinda long.

Sorry for the false advertisement, this au isn’t really a Teru and Shou focused but they do have their moments which does drive them closer. THEY NEED TO BE FRIENDS IDC. That comic was a scene from the aftermath of what happened with Ritsu.

Oasis is an underground organization that’s filled with some talented espers that only have mental and cursed related abilities. So none of these people can actually fight. (For example there’s an esper who has the ability to see the future through visions, or an esper that has the ability input illusions, or an esper with similar powers as Sakurai but with no combat skills.)

It was created for one purpose only, and that is to “save” the world. It’s run by a powerful esper (who I thought was dead??? But apparently he’s alive?? And was just in recovery?? Idk it was plot twist for me cuz my twin thought of this part) Muto Zenya.

As shown in the series, Muto was never really included with the 7th division meetings and such, which is because he had his own personal goal. At least in this au.

Due to his ability of illusion mental attacks, he was able to recover fast from his mental shock. The mental shock he saw when Mob reversed his powers back at him revealed just how powerful and dangerous Mob is, which can get in his way of world domination. So only Mob is Oasis main target.

Oasis is not at all a bad organization, these are serious and intelligent people who actually want to save the world. But by “save” I mean Muto has tricked the whole organization into believing Mob is an atomic bomb for this world through his illusions. The poor boy is no longer human, but a monster that took over him when he was 11. Muto lied to everyone, and through fear they strongly believed it. Even the esper who can see the future was shown Mob destroying the world (due to Muto) which was also enough to convince everyone that Muto was not lying… Though trying anything on Mob is too dangerous and unstable.

This leads to his brother, Ritsu.

[my-coven-is-claudia]

pondering how katelyn essentially replaces garroth in the gar/laur/aph dynamic during s2. like garroth, katelyn builds a rapport with laurance and becomes his comrade in arms. she plays the grounded, well-mannered, strategist to laurance’s impulsive, confrontational, casanova self. she also develops an close relationship with aph and acts as her personal guard, becoming extremely protective of her. honestly, katelyn slots in perfectly into this trio, adapting almost seamlessly and it allows her to grow and change as a person. and then garroth comes back. someone needs to be displaced. laurance leaves. you cannot have both.

[lavenderteacat]

as a Certified Timeloop Enjoyer(tm) I am of course already being SO well fed by Bridon Arc (posting as of ep 2) and the implications for the rest of the series.

But also if it ends up being that Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi are literally BOTH repeatedly timelooping to save each others lives and hiding it from each other, I am going to Lose My Mind

[houseshousewife]

Watching House, you just have to accept that sometimes the writers will make him act gross and slightly out of character.

1; because of the times, and 2; likely because the writers have their own weird fetish about it 🙄🙄