#this is.......sheer nonsense

[tabbyofwisdom]

Don't ask me why I'm doing this now. Maybe it's because we're hitting the one year anniversaries of the end of the show, but here's a thesis that I've been ruminating on as to why I believed the symbols from the psychic pointed to Ted.

Presented below the break

My thesis, if it can be called anything, is that each of those symbols were meant for each of the three romantic interests in Rebecca's life, that they symbolized that they were one part of what Rebecca wanted and needed but that they were not the right man. I'm going to break down each symbol. Also, I don't remember reading anything like this but if someone has written something like this, I apologize.

The Green Matchbook: This was for Sam. Sam came into Rebecca's life and showed her that she could have fun again. That love can be fun. In season one, Sassy says, "No, the real Rebecca is silly. Strong, yeah, but not cold." She's relearning fun. But Sam is too young. The power dynamics honestly are really cringy. It's one thing to date someone more than half your age, it's another to date someone you pay that's more than half your age. Aside from that all, their life experiences are totally different. His is just beginning. Rebecca is, to use a metaphor, a phoenix. She's starting it all over for the second time, but she's got a lifetime of experience.

Shite in Nining Armor(honestly, this 'sign' was so stupid, imo): This one is obviously John Stamos Wingsnight. Rebecca's relationship with him was all about learning that love is leaving yourself open to being heartbroken. He obviously was not the person that was meant for her to be that open with......but he was age appropriate.

Upside down, drenched, but safe: Ok, this is the big one and the most controversial. This is boatman. She falls into the water but ends up being fished out by him. Their evening is all about Rebecca learning to let go. She's always dressed to the nine's and is always put together. She never lets her hair down, to be colloquial . That evening she lets herself be Rebecca. 100% her. Silly, in command, sweet, hopeful. We get to see the person Sassy knew but with the strength and stripes that she has earned through her marriage. Flashing back to a year ago, I was so happy to see this. I thought, "This is it. This is Rebecca and now that she's let herself be herself, she can be that with Ted." 😒 I have SO many issues but I'm just going to focus on "Sunflowers". As a woman, I was so nervous throughout the episode. If I was in a foreign country, by myself, fished out of a canal by a strange man, and he threw his phone into the canal(thus eliminating any type of communication) and then he made a joke about how my drink was not spiked, I'd be out of there faster than a Ted Lasso spit take. Again, I was so happy to see Rebecca let herself be....herself but I was just uncomfortable the entire time. When he kissed her foot due to 'habit' I was like, NOPE GIRL, GET OUT OF THERE. He's weird at best. I think the writers were going for "meet-cute" of the 90s and 00s romcom persuasion but we've all come to realize that those movies are rife with misogyny and creepy male behavior and while we may still look back with fondness for them, we don't like to see it in our new media. It wasn't cute. Beyond all that, if you're looking at this through a literary lens, you've seen the two signs so far but the wrong men for Rebecca. Logic would dictate that the third is not right either but that we're close to the end of our journey.

I felt like these signs were pointing the way for Rebecca to realize her feelings for Ted(apparently I was deluding myself). I'm reminded of a post that broke down the response of Darcy and Elizabeth from Pride and Prejudice after the first proposal. They both individually went out and worked on themselves and then came back together after they had realized their faults and worked on them. But the key is that they didn't do it, Darcy does not do this, in order to try again. To try to get the other one back. It was a realization of things, in this case pride and prejudice, that they individually worked on because it was pointed out to them. I bring this up because I see Rebecca's signs, and Ted's therapy(but I'm not going to get into that right now) as them working on themselves. Through these three men, Rebecca learns, or re-learns, things about herself and about what she wants out of a relationship. She gets back to herself, but with the wounds she gained. She is a better and stronger person. They are sign posts pointing to where she should go and where she should be headed. Follow these signs and you will get your lighting.

Rebecca wants someone to have fun with, to feel safe enough to be open to being hurt, and to be herself, wholly and completely. Who in our little show does that for her? There are so many instances where Ted proves time and again that he is all these things. From the insistence of Ted's that Rebecca join the team for the exorcism to his joy at seeing her join the team on the bus in Amsterdam and his laughter at her singing. The absolute care Ted takes to make sure she always feels safe and always has an option to say no, or to voice her concern and the forgiveness he gives her for her sabotage plans. With Ted, Rebecca was always able to be herself. It's slow to come out but through his use of "Oklahoma" we get pure, honest Rebecca. Through Biscuits with the Boss, Ted takes the time to get to know Rebecca, not Ms. Welton, but Rebecca. Ted gets to see the huge generous heart Rebecca has. By the last season Ted is open enough to ask "Am I a mess?" and Rebecca can respond that of course but she is too and that's why they get along.

The show didn't go the way it seemed to logically be going and many of us were left heartbroken and confused. There are many more signs that can be talked about (the September 13th connection, the way Rebecca can tell when Ted is having a panic attack, etc. etc.). Those are for later posts.

If you're still reading, thanks! And you're as crazy as I am :)

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

I find myself funny and I’m making it everyone else’s problem.

[note-boom]

The best thing about BSD Lucy Montgomery is that she is trying so hard to live her fairy tale dream, like asking Atsushi to save her from the Guild and all that nonsense.

Instead, she just gets beaten by him once when they're enemies, gets out of the Guild on her own, and has to save that sorry boy's life over and over again.

Like, sorry, Lucy girl...you're not the damsel in distress in this fairy tale. You're the prince charming who had a bit of a villain arc and now is doing good out of sheer spite and stubborness. Better luck next arc?

[nympippi]

new 2 tumblr so idk if im in the right place for requests and u dont actually have 2 draw this JSHDHS buuuuut

in my head griffin n vance r like half brothers or something. whenever vance hangs out with bruce (cuz they r also friends in my head) griffin will tag along sometimes, bruce likes to take photos with a polaroid camera n one of his fav photos is one where:

- vance is glaring at the camera with a middle finger because he didnt want his picture taken (he’d never admit that he actually likes this picture)

- bruce has his charming, radiant smile like always

- griffins in the middle of both of them pulling a silly face, sticking his tongue out or something like :P

whoops this is long but . idk theyre just all friends to me HSHDHSH

Firstly! Hi welcome to tumblr and thank you for sending this headcannon!! :D

And now secondly, while I don’t exactly headcannon Griffin and Vance to be half-brothers I find the visual image of Griffin hanging around his big brothers friends and feeling so cool to be really cute! And plus, Bruce is an absolute sweet heart and just a great friend to Vance so Griffin automatically adores him. <333<333

[pharaohbean]

i finished the xianzhou luofu arc (+ dhil's companion quest) like yesterday

what the actual frick did i just witness. who gave dan heng that right to be pretty. WHO LET THE BOSS BE HARD (<- wiped once). and holy cow i have SO MANY COMPANION QUESTS ALL OF A SUDDEN

currently working thru the Ghost Bit Thing. i have So Many Wishes for Greek Chalk Architect (dr. ratio, blame my brother he wants him) and hopefully DHIL when he reruns :pensive:

ALSO CAELUS NOT SPEAKING TO DAN HENG AFTER HE RETURNS IN HIS IL FORM?? I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT (no one could get him to open up!! it wans't just him to dan heng it was him to everyone!! and i just- AUGH)

(also can we agree that dan heng and bailu should absolutely be siblings or smth like that. because i watched their convo in dhil's companion quest, saw the line about dan heng not having dan feng's healing magic, and immediately went "that might be because bailu has it-")

[sandflakedraws]

Are you doing the Pantheon? Good Fucking Luck I didn't manage to get past Grimm

indeed i am. i'm stuck on the final pantheon but i'm only one good round of absrad away from getting hollow the goddamm exit they deserve

[lavalampstealer]

Putting this out there for the TSP and IEYTD people (please let there be some):

Swap AU where Stanley/Narrator and Phoenix/Handler swap places. A mashup AU where Stanley is Agent Bucket or something. A different swap AU where the British Voices trade places for a bit.

What if Phoenix and Handler were in the Parable? Hell, why stop there, put Fabricator as the Curator and Zor as the Timekeeper and Prism as Mariella. Would Phoenix keep their TK implant? Would Stanley gain one? Who knows, let the shenanigans go wild.

What if Stanley and Narrator were spy and support agent together? Put the Bucket in as Zor. Do it. I dare you. it’d be funny

[thegeekyartist]

Tumblr when more than 2 things are popular at the same time: Is this the new Superwholock?

[icewindandboringhorror]

Hrmm... put together a roommates quiz finally after years of thinking it would be an interesting idea lol.. Though obviously not meant to be taken super seriously, I just like thinking about this aspect of personality compatibility. Like yeah, maybe you could get along with someone just chatting with them, but living together is such a different thing. .. curiouse...

[thephilosophersapprentice]

About a week ago I read the stupidest opinion piece I have ever seen from a philosophy professor who I will fortunately never have the displeasure of actually meeting due to me being 1) out of college and 2) living in the midwest rather than the east coast.

One of the points he made in his article was claiming that in the Lord of the Rings, industrialization is bad because it's industrialization.

No! Industrialization in the Lord of the Rings is bad because it damages the environment, it's following the same lines as real-world industrialization (aka exploited factory workers who often suffered horrifying injuries, the OSHA laws written in blood, the triangle shirtwaist factory fire!), the control factory owners chose to exercise over their workers being everything but legal enslavement, and it's making everyone miserable for all of those reasons!

I don't know how anyone could read the chapters on Mordor, Isengard, and the Scouring of the Shire without taking away that Tolkien's message was partly environmentalist, partly that people deserve to be happy, that industrialization is bad because it's hurting everyone, not just destroying their way of life but making people miserable and leaving them to starve!

Anyways. I bet the professor citing the lord of the rings has never actually read the books and probably not even seen the movies because he puts out the sort of navel-gazing drivel that makes it obvious he thinks "frivolities" like fantasy are below him.

It's a good thing that I will likely never meet this guy, because I would throw hands with him in a McDonalds parking lot.

[cumdumpstiel]

another day, another blocking an ex spn mutual for getting into terf shit. literally pick a fucking struggle

[randomnameless]

Which is stupider, Brave!Lysithea agreeing with Supreme Leader and thinking that getting rid of crests will automatically cause the concept of people with more power over society than others to disappear, or Brave!Marianne idolizing Momo despite presumably knowing full well how much of a monster he was?

B!Lys without a doubt !

B!Lys thinking crusts makes people nobles erases Judith, Holst and hell, even Marianne herself from Fodlan (Marianne is a noble because she was adopted by Edmund, not because she has a crest, hell, her crest is hidden!!).

B!Marianna can sort of exist in the post VW limbo where it is probable that post VW Claude never said a thing about the origins of the Relics and the identity of the Elites to his classmates (just as it is probably he told them, the game doesn't want you to think about those pesky "issues") - but B!Lys exists in a verse where she ignores members of her own faction so...

I wouldn't say it's stupid per se anon, but it's a case of FEH completely ignoring events from the games to create characters (re : Ayra training A!Mareeta) with the Fodlan speciality : the vast majority of the FE16 characters (not their Nopes versions!) cannot have definite personality traits or connect two dots, because if the stars align a certain way, they can join Supreme Leader/ditch their country/family/friends for Billy's pretty eyes. Unlike the Lord who are from their, well, canon versions, B!Lys cannot say Supreme Leader's "reasoning" is nonsensical, because Lys can join Supreme Leader, let it be for Billy's pretty eyes, or because she is the only unit in the game to be able to look at her city being invaded and her friends having been massacred, and choose to side with the invaders to save her life (tfw Lys adopts more willingly the Almyran POV than Hilda, who rejects it in CF and dies fighting to protect her leader/friend).

[note-boom]

New theory

The ADA member to PM transfer will happen but they'll get their person back when Fukuzawa passes the leadership torch to Kunikida, who WASN'T the one who made a deal with Mori and hence is not technically obligated to keep that promise. Because that was obviously the plan all along right?

[meatriarch]

thoughts wandered to d.bd and the texas kiddos' au's for it and granted, i havent really given them too much thought since coming back from the my original hiatus / taking all my d.bd muses officially off the roster,

but i do just think its a lil' funny thinking about how these friends from the early 70s who were likely mid dealing with the chainsaw wielding c.annibals in texas got plucked out of thin air and plopped down in a whole other version of hell like, what the actual fuck do you even mean theres a guy who electrocutes you and a giant pissed-off demon running around and ghost girls and-

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

As somebody who spends a lot of time on the apps looking for local FWBs I don't think you're being clingy or expecting too much to want a reply in a reasonable time frame. Sure, FWB situations are usually built around both of you wanting to fuck, but that's just like any other activity. If you were trying to get things going with a new tennis partner you'd still expect them to get back to you in good time when trying to organise sessions. If they're not down to hash out some plans with you they're not a good match. You do deserve better, and it's okay to check in with people if they don't get back to you.

I really appreciate this, actually. Just feeling especially insecure about this because I know he has several other benefit-situations so I'm just one option of many (which is exactly why I previously preferred to stay away from FWB/ENM/etc, because I hate feeling like I'm in a goddamned lineup competing for attention) But you're very right. I sent them a short text after reading this ask, just asking if they'd found a good spot on their calendar yet. I'll leave it at that for now. If he doesn't get back to me or if I come across as needy for wanting to figure out a schedule, oh well.

[favvnsongs]

everyone makes the carolina & tex "you're not my real mom" jokes but like. she and epsilon have Definitely had a "fuck off you're not my father" conversation.