#word hard hope say right

[acesammy]

The thing about how sam’s arc in season 4 is often discussed is that people simultaneously acknowledge that the angels are bad, while claiming Sam is an idiot for rebelling against them.

like I have listened through three (3) rewatch podcasts and they always seem to fall into this loop of going ‘hey the angels are Obviously up to no good’ while also going ‘Sam is really stupid. Why would he trust a demon when literal angels are telling him to stop’

idk man. Maybe bc the angels are Obviously up to no good????

[luck-of-the-drawings]

HOW DO YA LIKE THAT DARK DOG??

BEEN REAL ENAMORED BY THE 'SORRY' BOYS AND THEIR ODD ESCAPADES LATELY. I THINK THEY COULD DO A LOT OF GOOD THINGS WITH THREE GALLONS OF 'FAKE' BLOOD.

[viiridiangreen]

[chaosandwolves]

I think Eddie had more than one realization here

1. Buck is not ok and still struggling more than he lets on/ than he knows himself

2. The lightning changed something not only for Buck but also for Eddie personally

3. It changed something in their relationship

4. Eddie realizes that his own experience with death and the shooting fundamentally changed something for him

5. It's changed for him what he ACTUALLY wants in life, that the fantasy he had about life is not the reality he wants

(6. He starts to understand that maybe he needs to look a little closer at this relationship abd be honest with himself and needs to decide if he wants to risk anything changing between them)

It also looks like he's a bit surprised how he could let himself believe that Buck was his old self and fine. Cause he KNOWS Buck and recognized that something is off but also because he knows from his own experience how much something like this changes you.

It's also very interesting that he asks Buck then "What changed in you"

Cause has he, himself, ever voiced what changed in him?

We have his fear. But that's not the answer, especially not to what changed in him after the shooting.

The fear is related to what happened during the army and that he won't ever feel normal again. But even then we didn't get to know what exactly this means.

We still haven't heard anything from him what the shooting changed within him and how it affects his outlook on life.

And I'm wondering if, maybe, he hadn't realized himself until now that it DID change him.

All in all we're inching closer and closer to the grand finale and I for one can't wait to see what they cooked up for us cause with the way things have been going, they'll give us something we didn't expect.

[mbat]

i know its not for everyone for whatever reasons apply but damn do i love unreality. in horror, in sillyness, in pretty much any context. i actually love the moments i sit there asking 'is this real? what is happening?' and then realizing its not and being in on the fun

whether it be like that one blog that pretends pokemon are real, or horror projects like welcome home where the whole premise is that its based on a children franchise that never existed but it does exist for this projects reality, or the youtube video i just watched that pretended to talk about creepypasta history but it was only talking about creepypastas that were never actually real... genuinely so fucking fun to me. i love it. i need more of it fr fr

[corpish]

it’s heartbreaking to have gotten to the point where when my dad says “I love you” I don’t feel it or even really believe it

[katyspersonal]

It is only first month of 2024, and I've already lost not one but two subjects of nightmares, paranoia and reoccurring emotional torture. I really wish there was another way to get rid of these besides having extremely painful conversations.. but at least these scars are closing, one by one

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

AND FINALLY TIS DOOOOONE!!!!

please listen to this version of the yue boatman song~ they are all beautiful but this one strikes me as the most ying'er version lol. i hope u will like it~~~~ 😊💚💚

lol it took aaaages and i was giving out while drawing this so my mam goes 'well let me see, do i know them??' and i showed her zzs and said 'yes u remember him from our show right??' and she goes 'OH!!! yes it's whxhkhshshhsh! :D' (which is her attempt at saying 'wen kexing') and i was like 'no.....it's. it's the other one :'D' and she goes 'I KNOW!! u know what i MEANT!!! has it been long enough to watch the show again yet?? 🥺🥺🥺'

so now we're doing a woh re-watch soon i guess lmao 🤣🤣

[whenfatecollides]

[daz4i]

love my social worker he's so sweet and i love my mentor/guide/one day i'll find a fitting english word for what her role is too. last time i met the former he said they talked abt the thing i'm starting this thursday and said "while it feels like these circumstances may be impossible for you, logically speaking you shouldn't succeed there, yet both of us are certain you will" which is very nice but also AAAAAAAAAAAAA

[hzrnvm]

emotional. happy, pissed off, all that.

[dipyronegirl]

i have once again been discriminated against for my accent

[jestlingnest]

I'm not done talking about Romeo yet, sorry.

I don't think his redemption (as in "he realized what he did was wrong" not "he made up for every horrible thing he did", i should find a better word for this) was "out of nowhere". I think that that talk with Jesse on the roof was what started to change his mind about stuff. "Next time" he really would try to be a better person... but he's still going to bedrock over this world. Because why bother trying to fix things that he messed up when he could just have a new fresh start?

So when he lost his powers, he knew he was defeated and there was no point in trying to win. Since he isn't so stubborn about being the one in control now, he could think more about what Jesse said to him, and what he had done and why it was wrong. And why he needed to fix it.

Of course at first he wanted to run from his problems by staying in Terminal Space. Many people that he's hurt would celebrate his death, so this is what he deserves, right? No. This still isn't the right thing to do.

If Jesse chooses to take him with them, he realizes that he shouldn't die to avoid facing the consequences of his actions. So either he escapes from Terminal Space with the others and decides to make an effort to help people he's hurt and make up for what he's done, or he sacrifices himself not to die, but to save Jesse and their friends.

So TLDR- him changing his mind wasn't as immediate as it looks at first glance, Romeo just needed to get past his stubbornness and need to be in control to fully realize that even if he was going to make an effort to be a better person, he shouldn't bedrock over everything just to hide his mistakes from himself.

[demonsfate]

altho i've been making jokes about jin including DJ in the Buddy Group. SERIOUSLY SPEAKING about my depiction ... jin still doesn't see DJ as a friend, and it may be difficult for him to. DJ took lives that will never return, and then all the horrible things DJ did to Jin - the way he treated him.

however, due to purifying him and taking away those influences i've mentioned previous posts - jin also doesn't feel like he has the right to completely condemn DJ. this is now a DJ who wouldn't have done that, this is now a DJ who lost his lust for power. sometimes, jin wonders if he even counts as the same person anymore. plus, because of his own mother's beliefs - jin does wanna believe that anyone can change if they're willing. even if he's uncomfortable with being buddies with DJ, he's also willing to still keep him around, and talk to him if he wants. (as jin knows well isolation only makes things worse)

[mbat]

people take aziraphales 'i forgive you' way too literally actually

i mean its his like. go to angel phrase when he thinks crowleys just being too much of a demon right? "youre a demon going against god so i have to do the good angel thing and forgive you because no one else will"

even when he agrees with crowley he says it i mean. the bandstand scene is the other scene im thinking of, aziraphale says he agrees with the great plan but hes directly going against what everyone thinks is the plan, but he cant just say he doesnt agree with it so even when crowley is like FUCK THE PLAN!!! aziraphale has to be like uhh actually uhhh.

"may you be forgiven" shut up you know just as well as he does that the supposed plan sucks but youre too scared to get in trouble so you just pretend to like all these things just as you always have. but you cant even blame aziraphale. he doesnt want to fall, who does?

i mean when crowley kisses him he just got the offer of an angels lifetime. of anyones lifetime he thinks. and he can even bring crowley! but crowley doesnt want what zira thinks is the only good option, and hes even trying to get zira to say no to it too. ziras deep in that 'my abusive family is in their nice phase right now though!' moment so hes like, mental gymnastics right then first off.

whats he going to do? turn it down? surely not! i dont want to say he thinks crowley is tempting him cause i dont believe that. he just thinks crowley is... well in that moment he thinks crowley is being too much of a demon right? zira holds on so tightly to the angels and demons good and bad stuff even after time and time again knowing its stupid, so when crowley is going against what surely must be the offer of a lifetime then surely crowley is just being ridiculous and a demon, cause of course a demon would reject heaven. of course a demon would no longer want to do good.

"i forgive you" he says. what he means is "youre going against goodness and i have to be a good angel." what he means is "youve hurt me and i need to be a good angel." "youve broken my heart but i need to be a good angel." "youre going against god by rejecting this. by doing what youve done here. and i need to be a good angel." "youre a demon and im an angel and we cant be together like that no matter what you think (because surely heaven is correct), and above all else i need to be a good angel,"

"because what other choice do i have?"

[phantastragoria]

Not sure if it's okay to send you this ask but I actually feel the same way you do about the end of vol 3 and I've been feeling pretty alone about it. I haven't said much because I don't want to seem like I'm being mean about the movie. I think my issue is the team hasn't spent years and years together. Most of them were snapped for 5 years. When they came back Gamora was dead and then Peter was clearly left suffering and dealing with the trauma for a while. I can live with the idea of "we've all grown to need time apart and want to do our own things" but I don't think the build up and execution was there. Not just for those on the team but also 2014 Gamora who was literally just coming back to the story and finally getting to see who these people were and what her life was once about. Then it's over and it doesn't feel like enough of a resolution. I also don't love how Gamora was treated which is a whole other topic but I disliked how it seems like there hasn't been any issue with her death for anyone but Peter. There doesn't even seem to be any memories of her lingering with the team. I have so many thoughts around this that I'll be thinking about it for a while but man, she was murdered by her abuser and most of her family are victims of abuse and I dont think the aftermath has been handled very well at all. Mostly I think there needed to be another movie In between Endgame and vol 3 to hash out what happened in Infinity War/Endgame and to progress some of the characters more and build up to the more Rocket focused ending where they all part ways. Or vol 3 needed to not be quite as focused on Rocket. Not saying he shouldn't have the most focus, just scale it back a little because other things desperately needed attention.

Oh it's absolutely fine to send an ask about this!!! I'm always up for a discussion, and honestly, it makes me feel better that I'm not the only person not completely happy with the ending, solidarity my friend.

I want to preface this all with I DON'T hate the film, and I thought it was way better on a 2nd viewing, but I really don't think it's a crime to criticize it because nothing is perfect (Vol. 1 + 2 aren't either) But Vol. 3 really has some deeply ingrained issues that should've been dealt with, or at the very least acknowledged, because as it is they really stand out, especially on a second viewing or if you've marathoned all the films together, and they literally drag the film down.

Gunn said on Twitter in response to something that he wanted Vol. 3 to be able to stand on its own without the viewer needing to have seen the other films (and by extension IW+EG) but that is so unhinged when it's literally titled as the third in the series at this point lol. Like it's extremely weird to have let IW+EG affect the Guardians as much as they did and then not even try and deal with the aftermath of it all in the last film featuring (almost) everyone together... ???

He's made it clear Rocket is his favorite and that he only came back to do Vol. 3 because he wanted to finish his story, I don't doubt that's true even if I think having a single character be more important than the others is the wrong choice and leaves the whole story as a trilogy a bit lopsided. But even so, if that's the case then it's crazy to not even have Rocket's thoughts on all of these things that've happened in the last decade as if it wouldn't be traumatic to lose your loved ones for years, and how hard it would be to readjust to life after it all. I kind of can't see him letting everyone leave so easily at the very end, especially after he almost died, so I'm just left feeling confused at the choice at best and vaguely unsatisfied at worst.

Maybe Gunn didn't have as much control over their appearances in IW+EG as he says he did. Maybe they really did completely derail the road to Vol. 3 and he just won't admit it, but the film as it is doesn't help in any way by pretending nothing there happened at all. I don't see any logical reason for the audience to just go along with "For some reason Gamora left, she might've died but also maybe not, who knows. Peter is sad and the rest of the team want to move onto something else. " and then the only hint at that last part is... Mantis telling Peter to go see his grandpa, so that leads to everyone else having a change in goals too, huh. I know it's not meant to be forever, and we're to assume everyone keeps in contact with each other, but the ending really makes it feel like no, we'll never all be together again, so bah.

And concerning Gamora, I agree with what you've said. I could write an entire book with my issues of her overall treatment in the narrative and the implications of her character from the comics getting adapted like this, but I'll spare you the speech and just say the TLDR is everything starting from IW onwards concerning her (the specific framing around her murder and then time travel bringing in 2014-Gamora, and the complete lack of acknowledgement about either version of her from the rest of the team) never should've happened. It's all such a mind-boggling choice, I can't get over how much of an afterthought Gunn made her at the very last minute.

It's funny you mention the need for another film to deal with the emotional fallout of everything post-Vol. 2, because absolutely, but they kind of had the chance??? I realize the Holiday Special isn't film length and is meant to be the calm before the storm of everything that's to come, but in a post-Vol. 3 world I can't stop thinking about how it was SUCH a missed opportunity to not have that be the sobering moment for the characters to talk about everything that happened in the years everyone was snapped. It could've even been the perfect time to plant the metaphorical plot seeds of everyone wanting to go and do their own things after what happened because they just can't make life feel the exact same as it was before, and understanding things can never be the same after something like that.

Even the last lines of the song used in the Holiday Special feels more appropriate for the Guardians as a family struggling to keep it all together (and trying to deal with the sudden loss of Gamora) than it relates to Peter and Yondu, in my opinion.

I would have preferred a more out-there story in general, something to give everyone equal stakes in the plot, but I do think Vol. 3 could have stayed overall the same if any of this was addressed or even mentioned in one or two lines of dialogue somewhere. Because as it is, it really feels like we missed something important between it all, but we didn't from what we we've been shown. I don't think it would have killed Gunn to include a quick moment where someone just says to Peter "I miss her too and I get everything's been way harder lately, but you can't let it grind your life to a complete halt like this." or something!! ANYTHING!!!

And if we absolutely had to stick with the time displaced Gamora plot... When she was snooping around on the Bowie by herself i dont get why she didn't get to see some old photos or something of the team during happier times (including 2018-Gamora specifically) and realizing that they really are going so far to save Rocket because they genuinely love him, and once upon a time they loved her too. 2014-Gamora getting to see the life she very nearly COULD have had within mere hours in her own timeline (without the threat of Thanos ever taking that away, mind you) but having to come to terms with the life she's made with the Ravagers in the present day. That would've been a more appropriate arc for her, I think, then her presence in the story wouldn't have had to only center around what Peter lost and nothing else and we'd at least get the idea that the others still had her on their minds even if they outwardly "moved on."

But also? Another missed opportunity to not have a moment when 2014-Gamora is in a battle with the other Ravager leaders mirroring the hallway scene with the Guardians that could have been when Peter (and the audience) "get" who she's currently more comfortable with in a basic sense, but... you know... it is what it is or whatever.