#this ep was a lot (positive)

[feelingtheaster99]

The absolute sheer sweetness of Aelwyn adopting TEN cats from a rescue shelter because they had all been there the longest 🥹

[blingbingbitch]

going absolutly crazy for the one-two-three punch of adya's fucking planned-since-the-dawn-of-time-and-happened-to-arrive-just-when-she-needed-it meteor shower, fig and zara's conversation, brennan's porter revel!

it's brennan's bts video talking about how intrepid hero seasons boil down to 'what can i do that my friends will love?'

it's emily's bts video saying she wanted fig & ayda to have their happy ending. she wanted to roll a new character, but brennan promised she'd want to be playing fig this season (fucking porter).

it's that 17 eps in, right before he drops that she was right the whole time(!!!), he as zara asks her what she wants to do with her life. suggests that once her junior year responsabilies are done (and, you know, saves the world again) she could do whatever she wants. her and adya can go off together if she chooses.

like, fucking, brennan being like 'i promise i didn't make you play this character again when you weren't as jazzed about her as you were. i see the existenal crisises fig and emily have been through together. it will all be worth it, in the next 20mins. and if we ever do a senior year you don't have to be fig!'

idk

it's how i read it

just so beautiful in the fiction and also the meta narritive of friends creating a story together.

like 'i promise there was a reason, and i'll support what ever you want to do next'

i love

[astarlightmonbebe]

it's easy to read the situation between li tongguang, ruyi, and yuanzhou as a love triangle on a superficial level, but looking even one step further, it's clear that there's no triangle about it. li tongguang is obsessed with ren xin; ning yuanzhou is devoted to ren ruyi. ltg's obsession is fervent and all consuming, but it's not devotion. like ruyi herself notes, his feelings to her are on the basis of her as a mother figure in his life, as a replacement for what he never received from his mother. is there an element of romantic/sexual love/desire to it? maybe. more likely he's deluded himself into thinking that, because the truth is, it's doubtful that ltg even understands what love is (platonic, filial, familial, romantic, all of the above, etc), because he has no basis for understanding. ruyi's teachings and actions towards him are the closest thing he has to hold up as an example. what he wants is ren xin, is a replica of the master he had. he doesn't want ruyi, because he doesn't actually care about ruyi. therefore, he doesn't care if she's sad, angry, mad; he just can't bear her 'abandoning' him. we saw this way back when she first meet and left him, both at thirteen and seventeen. although he distrusts her first, she saves his life and cares for him in the way no one else has, hence her first being raised on a platform in his mind. when she leaves for good, ending their master-disciple relationship/training, even though it's for official business and she's not abandoning him, in his mind that's exactly what it is. so now that she's in his life again, he won't let her leave again. he was powerless before, a child with no proper name, but now he's a recognized member of the imperial family, a man who can meet her as 'equals' (even when that's far from the truth). as a child, he could only cling to her legs and beg her, but now he has the power to keep her by his side. it's telling that when he finally gets confirmation of her identity, it's not ning yuanzhou he seeks to harm (even though he detests him and their relationship), but yang ying. yang ying is ruyi's new disciple, and as ltg doesn't know she's a woman, he only sees her as his direct replacement.

ning yuanzhou, on the other hand, is devoted to ruyi. he wants to build a new life and future with her, instead of slotting her into a spot in the life he already has. he's someone who accompanies her on walks and makes her midnight snacks, who holds her when she needs to be held and lets her go when she needs to do things on her own. when she speaks her mind, he listens, even when it makes him discontent/it's not what he wanted/wants to hear. he sees her unabashedly as his equal, and though he acknowledges her skills and abilities, or points out her naivety, he never does it to belittle her; to him, she is his peer, deserving of the highest honor and respect. he trusts her to have his back, and she has come to trust him to have her. he did what she might have thought no man would ever do: he proved himself reliable, so she came to rely on him. yuanzhou gives her freedom and autonomy as both ren ruyi and ren xin. of course they run into problems, but they both learn and grow from them, as individuals and as a couple. yuanzhou's belief in her is unwavering, but adaptable, whereas ltg's is unwavering, but frozen in time, disallowing for any new information to be presented. yuanzhou works with ruyi to accept the changes thrown her way; he seeks the core behind her actions in order to better understand her. li tongguang cannot accept the changes in ruyi's character, because they run contrary to the master he has on a pedestal in his mind.

what li tongguang wants is to return to the past, but yuanzhou offers ruyi the promise of a future, even one that might never come to fruition. there's no triangle about it.

[jennyandvastraflint]

Xena Reactions S2Ep11

I love nature shots. Beautiful. They're so sweet, walking CLOSE

Gabrielle fell

CLAMS

She'll nomm them. XD

.... 👀 "Clams"

Lots of sparsely dressed women running, and men being shitty

GOOD ON XENA FOR HITTING THEM

GAY MERCHANT!!!!!!

"Xena :D"

Beauty contest???

"A feeble excuse for men to exploit and degrade women" real

This dude is so.. 😂 He's a funky gay man tho.

Yes Gabrielle you tell him!

XENA GOES IN sjdhfd

Gabrielle's OUTFIT

"Watch it, clod" PERIDOT!? GREEN DORITO GEM!?

Noooo, that was... Oop

"I find your concern sooo touching"

Please these men are all... 😑

Gabrielle fuck yeah. What is that accent tho

All those women being exploited...

Oop she has a scar.

Did they lock Xena in... She's gonna climb out

"unusually perceptive" MY ASS. GABRIELLE IS SUPER SMART

A BLONDE WIG!? REALLY? 😂

Whomst is sneaking and stealing Xena's armour?

Salmonis being a shittt

A TRANS WOMAN? An enby? We love it. They're sweet.

"Who cares about the girls" the dudes SUCKKKK

"The power, the passion!"

Did someone rip her dress?

The winged costumes are cute

Yeah well that performance was

MAKE HIM BEG. MAKE HIM APOLOGISE. HEHE

These hobbies sound kinda... Lame

"HER LOCAL HESTIAN VIRGINS" fuck yeah! Asexual rights

"This means war" snfjdsh

"Honey I'm no princess, I'm a queen" YES YOU ARE!!! 🥰

I hope Miss Artiphys wins, she (they) are so sweet

"I don't understand why you don't sing" AHAHA GABRIELLE WANTS TO HEAR XENA SING

Urgh those men SUCK

"What is it with you three?" literally, Gabrielle

Damn she'll fix it

This woman is kinda sus

She's amazing. They're all traumatised and hope to get away or something better

"What about your feelings, don't they count?" YES AAAAA

I love this. Women support women.

Beautiful nature shots.

Well this sounds like someone manipulating... Sawing

Wow they literally do not care so long as she's pretty...

"Whatever that song you just played was"

Miss Artiphys is beautiful

A snek. A DANGER noodle

UH OH

She saved her but shoved her aside...

A THONK

Whoooo's doing all thissss

I FUCKING CALLED THAT SHE'S SUS

Also him.

"I'd stake my life, where in fact, I'm staking yours" okay that's kinda funny

AHAHA SHE TIED them up so they heard the confession

"Don't hate me cos I'm pretty🥺" sjfjdhd

I hope Miss Artiphys wins. XD

OMG YAYYY SHE QUITS BC XENA INSPIRED THEM

YAY THE ONE DUDE BEING LIKE "She wants to quit, shut"

Let's ignore Salmonius's look. But look at them so cute! So glad they won!

MISS Artiphys KISSED XENA???

Gabrielle is like O_o My gf??

Love the kiss tho XD

I'm... the "She's a man?" "Yup." Ehhh... Not amazing but it's a show by cis people in the 90s. Apart from this? Amazing. Like, maybe Miss Artiphys is a drag queen. Or genderqueer or a hermaphrodite? Greek mythology? Trans woman? Queer. Miss Artiphys is queer. And it doesn't matter. Because: "Beauty is beauty." as Xena said

[archorcist]

most of my verses don't factor in adam's death (with the exception of his sinner verse where he returns as a demon) but if and when they do, his death was at the hands of lucifer!

[hawkeyes-boy]

mash (s4e24) really said people are dying and america is dancing. There's not enough blood for all the bleeding and america is celebrating. there's a war and america is laughing. And now its 50 years later and they're still right.

[sleepymrshmllow]

okay I haven't seen ep 7 yet and I really liked a lot about ep 6 but eek the pacing was so off and im kinda sad about it :( like it was almost distracting compared to the previous episodes (the dialog was also kinda off to me in this episode?? did anyone else feel that way?)

I feel like the first 5 eps were paced so surprisingly well and I can't help feel a bit disappointed? this episode really could've used a longer run time (or yknow, having 10 eps probably would've helped a lot, but I understand why there's only 8).

I was so excited for this episode in particular and it really could've been so good if it had more time </3

[cringefaildiaz]

everyone else is setting their expectations for tonight meanwhile im sitting here preparing myself for the absolute fucking banger this ep is gonna be

[saintlesbian]

hiiiii i just had a really good job interview this morning so i am in a GREAT mood 2day ^_^ and now im really in the mood to draw so. I’m thinking i might stream l8r

also i wanted to do a 48 hour zine challenge so. im makin a lil sprina fanzine 4 fun lol... here’s a sketch i did 4 tha cover so far

[koishua]

shining solo ep 8. my reaction rn 😐😐 took it a bit hard lmao

[ninjasmudge]

making my way through taz steeplechase and emerich is rlly gonna be hunted down by five nights at freddys huh

[unproduciblesmackdown]

and i draw parallels solely on the cinematographic basis of “when my man is no more than a millimeter away from perturbation at all times but you give the Whole Right Half Of The Screen 3/4 Closeup of Harrowing Recontextualizations” like that’s right. we’re living it up

[justthatspiffy]

there's such a jarring difference in watching dating reality tv when you're single vs in a healthy relationship

when i was single i watched it almost as an exposure therapy to people being vulnerable and performing romantic gestures, and while i had many moments of "no! that is not how we communicate with our partners!" and awareness of the hilariously compressed timelines of these shows, i was not overwhelmed in cringe

now, while i don't have any more romantic experience than the people in these shows (tho i may have plenty more communicating-in-healthy-ways experience), the romantic performance is thrillingly novel, the vulnerability is alarmingly rushed, and it's overall not as interesting to watch

[romanceyourdemons]

Hi I actually read your new fic and it's really good btw but I had no idea about any of it, but I started watching The Untamed because of it

in episode 12 of the untamed there is a dog that is a very large puppet. it does not appear in any other episode. your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to say hi to the large dogy for me

[modwyr]

i think voyager would have benefitted from being more serialised, at least when it comes to character development. i think the fact that the crew is made up of two distinct groups with different values and experiences that are thrust into this crisis should be something that is developed slowly over the seasons, so that when they finally return home the crew is something completely new and weird to the rest of the alpha quadrant.

[sanguith]

POSITIVITY TIME quick everyone reblog in the tags with at least one thing that:

1: you're appreciating right now in your surroundings

2: you're looking forward to

3: something you're feeling proud about

4: something you're generally grateful for

could be anything, big or small, long- or short time, simple or complex, as long as it makes you feel happy.