#the cast is only complete with her

[tuiyla]

no exactly re: jackie being seen by some people as this cruel queen bee character. she definitely had her flaws both as an individual and when it came to her friendship with shauna, but i feel like at the end of the day she was just your average teenage girl and she did care so deeply about her best friend. even if she had her moments of being self absorbed or dismissive towards her. shauna obviously being flawed as hell too and that’s why i find them as characters and their dynamic to be so damn interesting tbh. also love natalie! i do want to see more of her beyond her relationship w travis though 😭

Yeah exactly like Jackie was just so normal, your typical teenage girl. Obviously she had flaws and the way she handled her and Shauna's power dynamic was kinda fucked up but she wasn't any worse than any other teen girl. Her flaws just made her a better ch and more tragic that that was the totality of her life. I think that contributes, too, to fandom perception of her because she never got to survive and become an adult and more than the 17 yo version of herself. She exists in this limbo and she's forever gonna be a kinda bitchy kinda self-absorbed teen who had so much more to live for. I just don't wanna engage with people who don't see the tragic beauty in that lol. And I deffo don't see how Jackie could be called cruel.

Aah Natalie is so clearly the most sensitive out of all of them but also has this fucked up home life and is A Mess as an adult so I think we lose sight of just how much she feels. And how mature she is, probably the most mature out of all of them. I do wish we saw more of her outside of the Travis relationship, too, particularly teen Natalie who just seems so level-headed even as the others give in to madness. She was reasonable with Jackie, understanding with Travis, such a good sport with Ben, overall the single most sane person in the group. In the Pilot she's introduced as this misfit and we assume she'll be the angsty girl and see how close she is to breaking in 2021, but she has such a big heart. Case in point, episode one! Idk she's just a refreshing character and I feel like she seems the most outwardly messed up in the present because she can't bury the weight they carry deep down like the others. Like how Shauna lives Jackie's life and pretends being the housewife is enough and how Misty is so delusional it's actually impressive. And whatever the fuck is going on with Tai and her alterego. Jesus fucking christ that's so creepy.

[wonder-worker]

Thinking about Elizabeth Woodville as a gothic heroine is making me go insane. She entered the story by overturning existing social structures, provoking both ire and fascination. She married into a dynasty doomed to eat itself alive. She was repeatedly associated with the supernatural, both in terms of love and death. Her life was shaped entirely by uncanny repetitions - two marriages, two widowhoods, two depositions, two flights to sanctuary, two ultimate reclamations, all paralleling and ricocheting off each other. Her plight after 1483 exposed the true rot at the heart of the monarchy - the trappings of royalty pulled away to reveal nothing, a never-ending cycle of betrayal and war, the price of power being the (literal) blood of children. She lived past the end of her family name, she lived past the end of her myth. She ended her life in a deeply anomalous position, half-in and half-out of royal society. She was both a haunting tragedy and the ultimate survivor who was finally free.

[whydotheycallmechimney]

every single one of Elijah’s love interests are incredibly hot and badass woman, and that’s just what happens when you’re the sexiest man in the entire tvdu

[bitchthefuck1]

That one chef saying that the worst thing about a bad boss is how they unlock that behavior in you and seeing Carmy mirror the attitude of the chef that terrorized him and gave him panic attacks and then ending the season with Syd having a panic attack because of the stress of working with Carmy...diabolical.

[soliusss]

what the fuck is up with Reyna. who tf is she. how did she become this crazy crime overlord. who was she when she was a child. is she single- [gunshot]

(Seriously tho this ur excuse to tell me absolutely anything you want about her bc I am Obsessed)

childhood lore is secret right now (I cooked really hard with it tho believe me I want to share but I'm storing it for the future) but she grew up on a farm in a village in the American Midwest. (the main story takes place in an alternate timeline where the world's structure is similar but slightly different to reality) How she got the international criminal empire is uhhhhh scratches head not sure the mechanisms of how exactly she did that for now but she was very very motivated about scouring the world for evil and forbidden information. crime empire is simply the most efficient way of going about her plans. The short explanation of her motives is that she wants to starve gods.

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[shannonallaround]

After pondering on it for several days, I have officially decided I did not like the direction of KFP4 and have banished it from my brain. It is no longer canon. KFP4? What's that? Don't know what you're talking about.

[sage-lights]

thinking about amangela angst during the filming of the "love is blind" video...

angela is high off the energy of the cast and the fantasy of marrying amanda, but she watches as amanda slips the plastic ring onto her right hand and not her left (because her left ring finger is already occupied by her real wedding band). then boom, it's the most brutal crash down to reality ever, and angela has to carry on the video with the same energy level as before the realization. only now she's also hyper aware of how none of this is reality. they're all just playing pretend 🤕🤕🤕

[end0r4]

But we're... we're good together. I don't want to be here. I want to be wherever you are.

Hacks: The One, the Only

[roobylavender]

obv the movie is titled zoey 102 but the most annoying thing about it was that we didn't even really get to see quinn and logan in their relationship. like the focus was almost always on their conflicts with regards to the marriage but the first real moment between them where it wasn't about that conflict was when they had their first dance and quinn teased him about the oyster shuckers. and it was such a small moment but i loved it and i want more insight into their daily life and the everyday teasing and uplifting and idk like again obv the title is zoey 102 but i don't think most people would disagree that it fully being a movie about quinn and logan would have been so much better. like the zoey and chase plot took up so much unnecessary space and their sudden bout of closure didn't even make sense bc they had one conversation prior to it after over a decade of mutual non-communication so why was any of this more important than quinn and logan. esp logan tbh. like quinn kind of had the liberty of a few moments to herself where she expressed her worldview in her own way but logan had close to none up until the proposal and yes i do love that he's quinn's number one supporter but i also wanted to know what that was like outside of the context of the wedding if that makes sense. like how he exists in their day to day relationship. there were glimpses of that in the final wedding sequence but i wanted so much more and i know the idea of a spin-off is so delusional at this point but the cast do apparently want to do it and i for one would love an exclusively quinn and logan spin-off where zoey and chase can be side characters ig 🙄 so.. why not!

[cathodic-clairvoyant]

There's a lot about discussion of hdwr that baffles me (not all discussion to be clear, because i do think there's a lot of good discussion about hdwr. But equally so are there the ones that make you wonder if you're reading the same story) and I think one that is especially annoying is the constant infantilization of miwa as this passive eternal victim. It drives me up a wall because this is quite literally an issue she's struggled with within the text of the story! She had an arc about how she dislikes how people treat her this way like towards the beginning of the story! And like even ignoring that, this story is about like nuanced and realistic portrayals of being in relationships and learning how to navigate them and so it's like what's the point if you're going to immediately reduce the characters to "the victim" and "the victimizers?" Is that even interesting? Is that a useful lens to look at interpersonal relationships?

[hussyknee]

List of Why The Fuck Didn't I Realise I Was Into Women Sooner #2: Catherine Zeta Jones's sword fight with Antonio Banderas in Mask of Zorro.

That part where her hair was hanging loose and wild and he'd cut the shoulder off her nightdress and she disarmed and advanced on him like an avenging Fury, eyes ablaze and breathing hard— fundamentally altered my brain chemistry. Haven't been the same person since.

[sonknuxadow]

i dont know what would be worse if amy is never in the sonic movies at all or if they do introduce her in the next one but shes pushed to the side and doesnt get the amount of focus she should be getting considering shes a main character and this is her introductory movie because theres too much other stuff going on with shadow and/or they just completely butcher her character

[kitconnor]

oml if i see one more taylor as evelyn hugo cover im just going to cry

[gio-cosmo]

Guys I am so excited for LIS Double Exposure but I am also so so nervous

[iftitah]

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