#the acting in this scene was incredible

[jessieren]

I've only watched Exeunt all the way through once... because it killed me.

Especially this scene

So I thought you should all join in my sobbing misery emotional turmoil appreciation of the ability of these two to deliver that level of emotional connection

I miss them...

[bet-on-me-13]

Danny commits to the Bit a bit too hard...

So! For the first few weeks after his accident, whenever Danny would try to help the people of Amity Park, he would be treated as a Villain.

No matter if he had just defeated the Big Bad of the Week or saved a Cat from a tree, everybody in town only saw him as a Monster or Villain to he feared and hunted down. Danny was really getting sick of trying to get them on his side, until Sam made a suggestion.

"Why not just...play into it?" She said, barely looking up from painting her nails.

It was just an offhand suggestion, but it stuck with Danny. Why shouldn't he lean into it? The people of Amity Park already saw Ghosts as Evil, and they already assumed he was in cahoots with the Ghosts attacking the town. Why shouldn't he just...play into it?

So he does just that.

From that day on, whenever Phantom was spotted he would dramatically monologue about his Evil Plans, or claim that another Rogues attack on the City was his own act of terror.

Box Ghost destroys the towns Warehouses? It was on his orders.

Ember mind controls masses of Teenagers? All part of his Plans somehow.

Every Adult in Town is kidnapped by Young Blood? Danny gave them over to a friend as a Gift.

He crafts an identity for himself as the most Vile and Horrible Ghost that has ever attacked the City, using his own infamy to cement his legend even more firmly. The town only sees a Monsterous Villain, who has eveded capture near effortlessly for months on end, who constantly attacks their City and gets away with it.

Of course he still needs an excuse for how his plans keep getting stopped, and he gets it when his girlfriend Valerie becomes the Red Huntress. Before that, he just claimed infighting or the Fentons getting lucky, but Valerie becoming the Town's Hero meant he had a plausible excuse for how he kept getting "Foiled".

Val was suspicious, because she was not as involved as Phantom painted her to be, but in the end she had no proof of him faking his defeats. And she couldn't come up with any explanations for why he would do that in the first place. I mean, who would fake being a Supervillain? It had to he something else.

This did come back to bite him a while later, when the Justice League decided that enough was enough, and dispatched Justice League Dark to recruit Red Huntress and help Deal with him.

Coincidentally, that was the same day Pariah Dark attacked the Mortal Realm and sucked Amity Park into the Ghost Zone.

And honestly? Danny had spent over a Year proclaiming himself as a Villain who commanded Ghosts to attack the Human Realm, and he had heard about the Right of Conquest being Absolute in the Ghost Zone, so why not make it official? Why not overthrow the Ghost King, become the Ghost King, and cement his identity as a Villain while also forbidding Ghosts from entering the Human Realm without his permission?

He may have gotten a bit carried away and forgotten that the Villain thing was a disguise...but hey! He was still preventing Ghost Attacks! ...mostly. That's got to count for something right?

He may have let the Bit run a bit too far...

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[evebestt]

"It was a raven that bore me news of Laena's death" he knows he fucked up

[theerurishipper]

Local bat vigilante tries not to admit to caring about father-figure, fails

[egophiliac]

so on the subject of the "Crowley is secretly Revaan/Laverne/Levin/please Twst give us his name" theory, I think my feelings are best summed up as "I don't really buy it, but it's funny". like, in all seriousness, I'm not opposed to it; I have enjoyed the writing in Twst so far and I'm willing to trust that whatever happens will, you know, make sense and not be terrible. but I'm just not really convinced by the current evidence! maybe that'll change once we learn more, we'll see!

with that said, may I propose a few alternate theories about the possible Crowley/Revaan connection:

[crispywizardtale]

[pharawee]

[arthursfuckinghat]

"I was gonna say you're like a son to me.. but you're more than that."

"It ain't that complicated!"

How quickly that shoulder pat of comfort turned into a condescending one.

[tinukis]

lusan moment but can we talk about how romantic whole cake island was

ESPECIALLY IN THE ANIME. THE SCENE WHERE IT'S RAINING AND SANJI IS CRYING... THE FUCKING ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTAL OF WE ARE! AND LUFFY SMILES AT HIM AND THEY LOOK BEYOND THE HORIZON AS THE SKY CLEARS.

LIKE????

LIKE????!!??????

oh my GOD. inventors of romance fr

[determinedowl23]

hey babygirl you’re pretty cute lemme show you the complete cycle of life death and rebirth hidden beneath my mask

[panncakes]

Phi. Hmm? Why can't I see you?

LAST TWILIGHT (2023)

[the-labyrinth-of-me]

drowning

[emotionalwhump]

James Fox and Dirk Bogarde on The Servant (1963) Dir. Joseph Losey (P. 1/3)

- "You won't get many better than me, you know. What do you want? An old hag running around the house, getting you up in the morning at the crack of dawn, telling you what to do? My only ambition is to serve you. You know that, don't you?" -

[ruanbaijie]

XIA ZHIGUANG as RUAN NANZHU

THE SPIREALM 致命游戏 (2024) 1.67 adapted from the danmei novel Kaleidoscope of Death 死亡万花筒 by Xi Zi Xu 西子绪

[knight--error]

My favorite moment in Babylon 5 is when a young Brian Cranston shows up playing a (I think unnamed?) bit character only shown on a screen via Space FaceTime. He is commanded to go on a suicide mission to deliver vital information and proceeds to effortlessly out-class every single other performance in the entire show in under ten seconds as his character visually processes grief, fear, resolve, loyalty, and acceptance before leaving the Space FaceTime and never being seen again.

Unmatched.

[hiding-under-the-willow]

I know that you're tired

Know that you're sore and sick and sad for some reason