#this series is a masterclass

[spicyvampire]

Great and Tyme being worried about each other

4MINUTES (2024) EP. 5

[mistbornthief]

so, to recap Korn's pov:

family business in the shitter

police coming after you blasting Bad Boys Bad Boys etc

parents flee the country and leave you to clean up their mess

hot girlfriend you dont like cuts her losses and leaves you in the dust

younger brother gets shot, nearly dies, currently in coma, refuse to leave him (<3)

can't reach your true love you're currently fighting with

find out said true love murdered a guy and is currently on the run

reunite with true love, no longer on the outs (<3 <3)

go on the run bonnie and clyde style :)

go on the run bonnie and clyde style :(

get confronted by cop. find out 1) your younger brother was involved with your true love's younger brother's death; your true love shot your younger brother in revenge; also cheated on you with the cop (but also you were cheating on him so like this one kinda cancels out)***

fuck this cop. how dare he interfere with your love life. he is the most fixable problem here. go to shoot him.

B A D IDEA

true love takes the bullet, dies in front of you

you've lost everything, when all you wanted deep down was one person

Bonus: act your god damn heart out grieving him

Like that is such an insane clusterfuck of like what, 5, 6, 7 hours? Korn's kinda valid for just being like, you know what. fuck this

[moxyphinx]

SOPHIE OKONEDO as Charlotte Wells in RATCHED (2020)

[randomness-is-my-order]

ngl walker had me absolutely gagged in this scene. this is some really stellar acting coz it physically hurts to hear the pain in percy’s voice, the way his breath hitches, the way his eyes are shiny with tears, the way his voice wavers as he gets more and more emotional. he makes percy so beautifully human, so real, so natural. i’m hella impressed.

[bird-inacage]

Only Friends Episode 6 | "Can't you see that I really care about you?"

These two little reactions that Ray displays in this scene I found incredibly touching. In the midst of Ray's self-destructive spiral, after insulting everyone possible including Sand - Sand is looking him right in the eye and telling him 'I still care about you'. No matter what happens, regardless of what you say or do, I still care about you. You may decide not to care about yourself, but I won't stop caring about you. Sand makes it absolutely clear that he cares about Ray as a fellow human being, meaning his instinct to do so is based first and foremost on compassion, irrespective of any personal feelings he may feel towards Ray. He'll intervene on principle alone. He won't stand by and watch.

This seems to temporarily shake Ray out of his episode. He's looks taken aback and a little choked that the one person who has shown him unconditional concern is also someone he's repeatedly hurt. And I think Ray doesn't know how to handle that. He can't process it. He can't understand why. Especially after what he just did. He doesn't feel like he deserves it. Not someone like him. Sand is far too kind.

So all Ray knows to do is to push Sand away. He's choosing to run rather than confront. Maybe for Sand's own good. He's a burden, a calamity, and a jinx after all. Sand should stay well away from him.

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

As much as I love other adaptations of comics, I have to admit it is so refreshing to see Invincible's team follow the source material so closely, with scenes, screencaps, and even dialogue lifted directly from the comic.

And they could've just had it there, with a direct adaptation that adds nothing new. But no! They're able to make changes and decisions that affect arcs and relationships while still keeping to the original series.

It allows for new viewers to experience the same story but make that experience familiar yet refreshing for people who've already read the comic, all while managing to not break the flow.

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

i started naruto a few years ago and made it to like the second arc in shippuden before stopping so i never made it to the kakashi backstory but....your notes compel me. tell me more.

okay so like take this with several grains of salt because the sum total of my sources here are "my understanding of the plot and characters as synthesized from the Abridged Revised Illustrated Edition my datemate's been writing me over the last two months", a handful of clips, and the only three (3) episodes of this 600+ episode show i've seen in my life, none of the three of which were relevant to the kakashi backstory

h o w e v e r

oh my god. my dude. my man. [holds him up like longcat] there is so much wrong with you and i'm enthralled.

so like here's the thing. here's the big takeaway that i'm understanding. this whole series is an ongoing exercise in generational trauma bullshit and everyone trying so hard to course-correct from their own tragic backstories that they accidentally set up their kids/students to have completely different but still somehow exactly the same tragic backstories, and naruto's chronic case of shounen anime power-of-friendship-itis is, i mean. yes it's him being the platonic ideal of Pure Of Heart And Dumb Of Ass but it's also a direct response to seeing ninja society's perpetual tragic backstory generator and going "this is bullshit, why are we even fighting? tell me what your side is, and i'll tell you what our side is, and then we can figure out how to make our sides the same side so none of us have to fight about it at all!" and honestly i love that but this ain't about him

so like. to explain kakashi we have to explain kakashi's father sakumo first. because sakumo was one of konoha's powerhouses, been on tons of successful missions, well-liked, well-respected, one of the earliest and loudest adopters of konoha's then-new and radical pivot towards a ninja being people first and disposable tools never ideology.

he really, genuinely believed in that.

except then he and his team went on a mission. and it went really, really badly. and he had to choose between completing the mission objective or saving his teammates' lives, and he chose their lives, because those who fail their missions may be scum, but those who abandon their teammates are worse, right?

... no, actually.

just because the ideology had been circulating and people were broadly toeing the party line didn't mean they actually believed in it, and sakumo's mission failure was already causing critical backlash.after sakumo made it back to konoha he was a fucking pariah for it. he was never officially reprimanded, but he didn't need to be if people went out of their way to personally spit at his feet, and... one day young kakashi comes home to find his father's body on the floor, wrists slit and suicide note devolving into begging apologies beside him.

this, as you may imagine, fucked him up, and didn't exactly predispose him towards believing the party line about the value of life.

he gets put on a genin team that was. basically the alpha build of the sasuke-sakura-naruto team dynamic. because it was him, and rin the healer girl with a massive crush on him who he never gave the time of day, and obito the Loudest High-Vis Uchiha Who Ever Lived who had a massive crush on her, and minato their teacher who was doing his absolute best to try and get them through to understanding each other, which is an Ordeal

because kakashi at this point has internalized that the party line is pretty lies for the gullible, that his teammates are only there to drag him down, and it drives obito nuts because that's the same exact bullshit that his family keeps spouting that he's rejected as thoroughly as a 12.9-year-old can, how does kakashi not see that it's bullshit? and there's rin who's looking at kakashi like i can fix him?? and getting upset when he doesn't let them in at all or even really visibly care that they're trying, and it's one hell of a dysfunction junction but minato is working on it.

... and then the worst happens. their team is caught out alone and everything goes wrong. rin is captured and obito's body is half-crushed under a rock and one of kakashi's eyes got slashed out and none of them are going to make it out of this, at this rate, until obito calls kakashi closer and tells him to take his eye. take the sharingan. he'd give him both but the other one got squished. kakashi will do more with it than obito ever did, so use it to save rin. please. and here's kakashi in the middle of field surgery on his dying teammate finally, horribly realizing that sometimes the win condition is, actually, protecting your friends, and he's already lost. but he can still try to save rin, it was obito's dying wish.

by the time he found her it was already too late.

the people who'd captured her had tried, poorly, hastily, messily, to seal one of the Tailed Beasts into her, and she was already dying. she had a demon thrashing in her soul that was tearing her to shreds around it and all kakashi could do was mercy kill her

and she thanked him for it.

and he goes back to konoha, sole survivor of his team, charred by the newfound comprehension of why you have to care and what it feels like to lose what you love and with obito's sharingan in his head and rin's blood on his hands and something in him that was already hanging on by a thread finally snapped.

and the only thing he could think to do, the only way he could even parse that grief through, is to just... make himself into a living memorial to them. he started trying to live as obito. adopt his mannerisms, his interests, craft his entire adult persona around his memories of his friend like a grave offering, and quarantine the bleakly mercenary anything-to-get-the-job-done ice in him off into the hound mask he wore as part of konoha's black ops division, which he joined at the ripe old age of way too fucking young.

he uses the sharingan to incredibly brutally efficient effect, copying enemy jutsus and bringing them back until the library's overflowing with them. but in the end, no matter how many he can technically use, they're still just cheap copies. and so is he.

and in the meantime the uchiha are collectively losing their shit about this random outside kid having one of their eyes in his head and getting all kinds of dubious 'glory' with it, and oh, wouldn't you look at that, they have a prodigy too!

... yeah.

itachi gets shoved through the rank advancements on a timeframe of "whatever he did you have to do it faster and better." and then the kyuubi broke free. and minato and kushina died, and a fuckton of the home guard uchiha died, and suddenly he's the most able-bodied fighter in their clan overnight at age 11 and the uchiha pull strings to get him into ANBU as well.

and kakashi is his teammate.

kakashi is his teammate and kakashi sees in itachi a whole awful lot of the edges of the way kakashi used to be, sees itachi trying to live up to and embody the absolutely impossible ideal of the perfect ninja, and he tries so god damn hard to nudge him gently towards something, anything, other than that.

but in the meantime, the uchiha have been... scheming. with danzo, Guy With The World's Biggest Chip On His Shoulder About Not Being Hokage, who's been marinating in a paranoia spiral for years. danzo had tried to set himself up as kakashi's palpatine, and tried to get him to assassinate hiruzen, and kakashi hears him out, and turns right around and goes to hiruzen with it instead, and danzo is pissed. the uchiha are pissed. danzo warns hiruzen that they're almost definitely going to try again and they're gonna make the uchihas' little prodigy do it this time, and kakashi silently braces to have to fight and maybe kill his teammate he was trying so hard for, and then...

and then itachi, who'd been watching his clan get. worse. for a long time. finds his cousin shisui, his best friend shishui, bleeding out in the dirt, who tells him everything, tells him danzo tried to have shisui killed for finding it out, and it worked, he's dying, but he's not dead yet, so please. make it count.

.......................................... And Then The Uchiha Massacre.

and now itachi is one more person that kakashi tried to care about who got destroyed.

and then fast forward a little bit further, he's been retired from active-duty ANBU after a decade-plus of service because the sharingan is starting to burn him out, he's starting to lurch to a halt like unwound clockwork without something to Do, and... he gets given team seven. the worst of konoha's gremlin children.

a bitter, disillusioned loner with a chip on his shoulder and the skill to back it up, the healer girl with a crush on him that he never gives the time of day, and the Loudest High-Vis Pest In The Village.

you see where this is going.

kakashi who at this point has been coasting along by bouncing between mask-personae for years is now having to dynamically engage with life again because if he isn't present and actively responding to his team then there's a nonzero chance he'll turn around to find all three of them chewing on the drywall and he cannot default to scripted responses because they don't work on a pack of middle schoolers hellbent on squabbling til the cows come home. and it's kind of good for him?

but also, uh. [gestures broadly towards... Sasuke(TM) and the rest of the plot]

and yeah i'm not gonna get too much further into it because i'm not confident enough in my own comprehension of the timeline to do that XD but like.

hatake kakashi is a scarecrow of a man stitched together out of his dead best friend, a hunting hound, and his dead best friend again, who's spent his entire life behind one mask or another, who over the course of the series keeps surviving shit that by all odds he shouldn't have, or survives specifically because the people he cares about throw their plot armor around him before they die, and he has a personality mostly composed of the crumpled-up pages of the memetically worst-written trashy bodice-ripper novels ever published because obito used to love them and the inexplicable receipts of other people's love for him, and i want to put him in a gas station hot dog roller and perceive him.

thank you for coming to my ted talk XD

[rhaenella]

Ed Speleers' facial expressions masterclass: the 'charming and cute as hell' smile

“And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”  – Suzanne Collins

[crossguild]

op is also my favorite for the way it takes people who are marginalized, who are outcast, who are freaks, who function outside of a rigid authoritarian structure and goes 'AND THEY'RE FUCKING AWESOME' yet it doesn't diminish the importance of community or family. and it's also so so good at detailing how societal strata intersect, how one issue will roll into another, how no social problem exists in a vacuum.

there are knuckleheads who'll try to say that one piece isn't political, and then you look at the, just off the top of my head, the island of people who were poisoned by heavy metal over successive generations because of capitalist greed, which the government covered up in order to extract more resources from them, and then committed genocide to prevent them from fleeing a war (instigated because a nearby country didn't want people moving there to escape the heavy metal poisoning) because the world believed their heavy metal poisoning was a contagious disease and would discriminate against and ostracize anyone who had it. the sole survivor of this genocide was so traumatized by this experience that he joined a group of terrorists, one of whom saved him with their selfless love and sacrifice.

it has just made the case against greedy corporations poisoning communities to extract resources, touched on the history of lead poisoning and asbestos and minamata disease and the AIDS crisis, made a comment about cycles of abuse and trauma and authoritarian violence (to be fair, almost every arc is commentary about cycles of abuse and trauma and authoritarian violence), made a case for open borders (to be fair, almost every arc is also a case for open borders) and then ultimately it makes a statement about love and community and doing what's right in the face of insurmountable odds.

it's honestly my favorite thing in the world

[monkshooded]

I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about hptv

[beldaroot]

revolutionary girl utena is kinda blowing my mind... like this shit needs to be taught in schools i'm so serious

[cassmouse]

I am thinking about Reservation Dogs again- it continues to be the most incredible series I've ever seen with absolutely no exaggeration

To all my mutuals who didn't see how in pieces I was about the final season when it came out last year (and my absolute obsession with it): PLEASE go and check it out it is single handedly the most magnificent thing I've ever seen

[smallpotato80]

[quietwingsinthesky]

portal 2 haters dni

[jmkho]

Lately, in times of personal crisis, Oliver 'fucking' Reed's voice saying, '-so baby, and for whaaaaaat?' has played in my head EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

I have finally finished all of Cabin Pressure. and I am simultaneously heartbroken that there are no new episodes for me to listen to and absolutely overjoyed at that ending. I think I can safely say that this series has one of the most fulfilling and completely satisfying endings I have ever found in a story, with absolutely perfect outcomes to every character's arc. I'm just brimming over with feelings right now. wow. I absolutely foresee many enjoyable relistens of this series in the future and I am so happy about that <3 <3