#time for a rewatch perhaps

[clayandstuff]

Hi, this isn’t really a question it’s more of a sort of statement? Anyway I just wanna say how much I love your Becho posts, the analysis is perfect, and I just love how you throw shade at BlOrKeS being wilfully ignorant because they wanted their fanon ship to be canon, tho BlOrKeS being annoying is still prevalent today, as seen on TikTok and Instagram a lot, by them saying that Becho is toxic and Bellamy didn’t actually love Echo he used her cuz he didn’t have Clarke which is total BS to the max and contradicts canon which is what they are good at. But I know this is getting long and probs tedious, but I just wanted to reiterate how fantastic your Becho posts and analysis are, and how superb your edits are of them. Have a happy new year 😊

awww thank you!! This message made my day! I hope you have a happy new year as well! I have spent countless hours making Becho edits, and I could spend countless more! They are the moment, always were, always will be. I LOVE THEM! 

Becho is truly the cutest, sweetest, sexiest, softest (and not to mention healthiest) ship on the show 🥰🥰🥰, Bellamy loved Echo with his whole giant heart (and never Clarke!) and blorkes can die mad about it!!

ah blorkes making shit up, what else is new? 🤪🤪🤪 how does that embarrassment of a "ship" still have cultists in the year 2022? Almost 2023?! I think they all need professional help, because clearly what's on screen never mattered to them in the first place. (but by all means blorkes, keep making a stink about the show, never let it fade into oblivion, keep it’s legacy of clowning on you and making you look like absolute fools alive and well for years to come)

Shippers don't understand what the word toxic means and they throw it around against ships they don't like - but toxic has an actual meaning and it isn't Bellamy and Echo's relationship... maybe they should reexamine how a certain murderous blonde treats Bellamy and his family while claiming to be his friend. Blorkes are so exhausting, I’ve already debunked their most delusional takes. Blorkes are laughable, and always have been.

I literally cannot comprehend how anyone watches the show and doesn't adore Becho. Just say you hate Bellamy and don’t care about him, just say you want to self insert as Clarke and fantasize about f*cking the abuser that played him - it’s never been about Bellamy Blake the character, leave him alone you crazies! Imagine shipping him with his MURDERER (who also left him in a fighting pit to die), instead of his actual girlfriend - who would move heaven and earth for him and do anything to keep him safe! I simply have to laugh every time I watch season 5 and get to watch Echo choke out Clarke for leaving Bellamy to die, that scene fuels me. Like the narrative couldn’t be any more clear. Not my fault blorkes are dumb as rocks and choose to ignore the show and what’s actually happening in the narrative and between the characters. That's on them if they want to be eternally, willfully obtuse, they will never know peace and that makes me sleep soundly at night!

The show is over. It has been for years. They lost (embarrassingly so, the biggest L I've ever seen). End of story. Period. It's OVER. They need to accept it, get over it, and move on. It’s so funny how they make things up in their heads and then act like it’s the truth. I simply have to laugh.

Anyway, happy 2023 everyone! Becho still owns my heart! ❤️🥺❤️🥺❤️

enjoy some sweet Becho gifs below 🥰

[wolves-in-the-world]

the thing about eliot spencer as a character, right. the thing about him.

(and as always your mileage may vary on my analyses so if we disagree that's cool actually)

is that he is in fact a somewhat emotionally constipated idiot who is occasionally sensitive about his perceived masculinity and gets defensive about emotional intimacy around other men (largely hardison, who's much more comfortable expressing affection and embracing a softer kind of masculinity), but eliot displays enough emotional awareness and sensitivity and respect for women etc etc that anyone who's been subjected to that era of television will put on rose-tinted glasses without even looking twice.

(and he is, don't get me wrong, incredibly emotionally aware for a professionally punchy guy with enough trauma to sink the titanic. it still startles me to see.)

on top of which we have the layers and the accessories and the excellent hair with the secret braids and the way he barely has an ego and he's good with kids and protective of his team without taking it too far, and some of us never stood a fucking chance.

[queerofthedagger]

I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. ―Amal El-Mohtar

A very belated gift for @snapshotmaestro <3

[stonktronk]

The Naked Time is genuinely so good. istg star trek original series is great to study if you want to write good stories...Episodes like this one provide positive examples to strive for. Meanwhile, there are plenty of miserably awkward episodes to watch as counter examples. TV show of all time

[piedoesnotequalpi]

Shout-out to 92sies Medda for attempting to punch a cop

[soullessjack]

the soulless jack “arc” is both very horrifically sad and very horrifically funny bc on one side everybody is freaking out panicking brandishing weapons thinking that jack went dark side slash rogue slash awol or that he finally succumbed to his dominant evil genetics and betrayed them or something , meanwhile jack on the other side is almost-crying and panicking and hallucinating and literally punching the air because he’s so upset and confused about what he did and afraid that he’s gonna lose everything if he can’t fix it . like

Bobby: yerp he’s too outta control and sick I’m sorry I fought alongside him too but we gotta put the dog down boys he clearly chose his side and was obviously genetically predisposed to being evil anyways. I’m gonna get my gun

Jack: IF I DONT BRING HER BACK AND FIX THIS I AM NEVER FUCKING SEEING THEM AGAIN AND THEY’LL NEVER WANNA BE FRIENDS AGAIN I DONT KNOW WHAT TO FUCKING DO I JUST WANT MY MOM I JUST WANNA GO HOME I AND HAVE EVERYTHING BE LIKE IT WAS PLEASE GOD

[scurvioli]

@koifsssh Its your boy! A little WIP of something I was thinking lately

And i Believe its kyleeartistlittle's AU

[kindaorangey]

NOTHING beats watching the first episode of superstore s4 watching amy and jonah explain all the reasons why them dating would be too complicated only to get to the end of the episode and see that they've been together for 6 months despite all that<3333

[polaraffect]

bro I'm at the level of seasonal depression where my brain is like "maybe I should watch supernatural...."

[kayvsworld]

i want to do a rewatch of some mcu movies but i worry that i am at risk of remembering how fundamentally aggressively incurious those movies were abt everything & anything that happened in them and it will make me temporarily insane

[poisonedfate]

i honestly had forgotten about kilgharrah's weird little goodbye in 04x02. what do you mean he was just going to let merlin sacrifice himself? and it had to be the cailleach that brought up the whole "it's not your time yet" point? yeah, uther is no longer in any position to be king, but arthur isn't exactly there yet either + he has morgana (and co) on his heels. and perhaps you could argue kilgharrah knew what lancelot would do, but why the big goodbye then? why the "oh, merlin, from the moment i met you-" moment? i guess it could've also been done for the sake of the audience, like a misdirect, but there? were other options? the scene could've just gone as usual, with merlin simply ignoring kilgharrah's advice. but no.

definitely an interesting choice when it comes to storytelling, it almost feels a little final already. like merlin has gotten him as far as he should've, which perhaps is simply there to mark the decline in choice-making (although, i'd argue that already happened in s2, so maybe just the darker tones in general is the point they're making).

then again, the cailleach does, in fact, say it's not his time yet. and if we're talking about that scene: i think an interesting choice of wording was also the whole "even if you want it to be" line that gets thrown in when talking about merlin sacrificing himself (see: "your time among men is not yet over..."). again, a very different kind of tone is brought in, which really makes me think that from the very beginning of s4 a darker storyline was being hinted at, even beyond the overall turnaround from s3 to s4 - as if solidifying the change in overarching concepts. all this to say - the whole "beginning of the end" feeling was very prominent in the first two episodes of s4, especially in the underlying themes. i honestly don't know how much of it was truly meant as such, but it's certainly a worthy checkpoint when rewatching, knowing what's to come.

[chiropteracupola]

*beckons you toward a cardboard box, except this one's upside down propped on a stick with string tied to it* Tom Pullings clad in a cheerfully wooly scarf

our tom <3

[starbuck]

My new favorite activity is scrolling through the black sails tag and commenting my interpretations on random people’s posts and they’re like “wtf are you talking about?” and i’m like 👍🏻

[variousqueerthings]

I note that I don't, and I never, was much of a fan of doctor-and-rose as romance, but that I -- rather than get annoyed at the romantic-coded scenes -- had a tendency to simply read them from a totally different perspective, and really maybe should have been a sign of sooomething different about me, that I continuously felt that the doctor's concepts of connection must be so alien, that to call it romance would be to diminish the actual Thing that they had, which was presented as such onscreen (to my mind then, now I realise what was happening, but I prefer what I had going on), which is basically that the doctor was a shell of a person, hurtling towards destruction (he would have died without rose in ep1), desperately lonely and sad and traumatised, and she retaught nine -- and by extension ten -- how to love the universe, at the same time as nine and ten taught her the same. (I think about the scene in father's day, where while they're arguing, rose says that she knows how sad he is, and he'll just hang around the tardis waiting for her -- she knew!)

and then on top of that with sarah-jane (which, I never watched the classics as a kid, so I didn't have that context for her beyond what the episode presented) it felt like that was sort of confirmed and made even more canon through this idea that the doctor is constantly mourning the inevitable deaths of their companions and would rather simply leave them behind at some point than watch that happen (and they've seen that happen before, although dying for a cause versus just... dying, because you die, while they don't, they just continue on and on, always seeking connection, always knowing that time will take them away, that's a whole other thing)

and then of course there's ten's... I would call it "sex appeal" because it's david tennant and with his performance there's immediately a bit of a focus on oh he's quite pretty and he faints/is knocked unconscious in both of his first episodes, and a lot more flirting, and the people want to see sparks or what have you... but the doctor as portrayed and written is still... not coming at it that way. yes yes girl in the fireplace but also, once again, doesn't work for me, because I find it soooo much more interesting that the doctor would imprint on A Life - and a life that they admire -- and speedrun the exact thing that they're most afraid of with their companions... that she ages and dies and it's the one thing that the doctor simply cannot stop

meanwhile rose is quite young and swept up in this whole massive adventure and very much reads the doctor not as an alien (frequently surprised by their alien-ness) and gets jealous of sarah-jane as if she's an ex, and renette as if she's... a replacement? but really it's more that the doctor met her at the point when she was about to accept her life as it was. not an exciting life, not a bad life, but always having to ignore the idea that there must be more to it than this. and the idea that she might be unceremoniously dumped back in that after seeing just how This the this could be, of course that's terrifying. and of course she's simultaneously taken with the dashing doctor and the jetset life, and worried she could be replaced, because to her the doctor saved her at 19 years old. in some ways the doctor created her (considering who she becomes after dooms day)

contrasted to martha who initially has a similar kind of experience, but the doctor doesn't meet her at the space she's in with them -- ten is leaning on her, like they did with rose, but not giving anything back unless kicking and screaming and traumatising her whole family. martha's trajectory is so so tragic, because she barely gets a taste of the splendor versus the horrors and the latter marks her for life. but she also knows to walk away from those overwhelming feelings, rather than give into them, she knows they'll never be rewarded and she also grows beyond wanting to be a crutch for the doctor (the fact that she then ends up as a soldier, well... ouch)

and then of course donna, who never has those fucking awe-feelings to begin with and whose connection with the doctor is explicitly de-romanticised but never placed on a lesser pedestal as if there's a hierarchy of alloromanticism. topples those pillars, never sees the doctor as anything but what the doctor is. good old donna. (sobs.) (but also... cautious hope for the specials.) (but also sobs.)

my point being. just don't buy alloromantic doctor, they're a near-immortal alien. it's such a dull simplistic way of reading their relationships to other beings. other point being. all those women who were making heart-eyes at ten, wish they'd met thirteen and had a... "yeah, this still works for me," moment. their horizons, too, are broadened by seeing More. (that or they realise they were never actually "in love" but just thought ten was a sexy skinny little snack and it blinded them.) (although jodie whittaker, too, is a snack.)

and lastly lastly ofc, is that if the doctor has a longterm (by doctor time measurement) intense relationship with anyone, whatever that might be called, it's the tardis. and that relationship is also so alien it cannot be quantified by human words for concepts

[rcarx]

not ava celebrating mid-fight for kicking someone over despite getting punched in the stomach literally a second earlier skdklsld

[c-kiddo]

going 2 learn how to reality shift like those kids on t*ktok so i can show caduceus criticalrole the over the garden wall soundtrack