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So far not seeing a lot of 'Walking' with the dinosaurs in this reboot. Stick my boy in front of a greenscreen and let's gooooo.

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“Eww don’t ship them ! They’re just friends/ they hate each other/ they barely have any interaction/they never even met/they’re not from the same series !”

Pussy. Back in my days, we shipped Elsa and Jack Frost to hell and back because they were both ice themed.

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sometimes i worry that *i'm* wrong and SU is bad/rushed/blah blah. then i remember whites fragile need to be perfect and ego defense of thinking she's fixing things. i remember how its perfectly mirrored by stevens need to fix others. how its both beautifully symbolic in CYM an made more explicit and heart-rending in future.

yeah that shit rules. white being reformed is great. its the ultimate rebuttal to the ideology that only good/useful/perfect people deserve to live- which is exactly the standard white held herself and everyone else to. it mirrors stevens arc of selfless heroism. it mirrors the toxic, insecure selflessness thats plagued everyone from pearl to jasper to rose about what it means to "deserve" to live it ties into "love like you" of how learning self-love is intertwined with loving others. it ties into how steven can't let go of his hero role until he's confronted by *literally* having his own mind in white's body, hating the idea of being like her yet ironically reacting exactly how she would - "this is someone bad for society, they should be shattered, this is what's best for everyone." trying to hurt her only hurting him. trying to help her helping all of gemkind - from the corrupted gems to dismantling a system that was held up by those exact ideals.

yeah no SU is fantastic. i'm so sad that its reputation is "oh well it wasn't that good, but it had some lgbt+ rep :)" which is just about the most condescending crap ever. i would gladly flip it. i think most cartoons that have come after SU haven't been that interesting, they've just been mostly generic stories with some lgbt+ rep.

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Have this out of context panel from a meme I made for reddit

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Dr/Rose fanfics are about to become real weird guys.

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look it's worth a try.

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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the ranis needed a reality that would break. they needed it thin and weak, a reality that would not hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. so they chose a right-wing populist’s fantasy. amazing

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The Circle Begins Tamora Pierce (plus everything else she wrote but that was my favourite of her series)

not allowed to say Harry Potter, but what was your book series obsession as a teen

mine was definitely Eragon

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Hmm I'm choosing not to get involved in the Eddie/Buck argument discourse but the one thing that does bother me just the feeling that the writers are not letting Buck have growth. Like, there's been so many episodes focussing on the fact that Buck actively wants to improve himself he goes to therapy, he buys self-help books, he keeps making steps to try and improve himself and every time he is a) not taken seriously by his friends (Buck being Buck again) and b) not actually allowed to improve.

He isn't allowed to have a support system outside of work, his relationships all implode, half the time it feels like he's not even allowed to be upset (I'm sorry finding out your best friend is moving away is upsetting and having an emotional reaction to the news does not mean you want them to pick you over their son). Like, he's barely allowed to be friends with ppl not in the OG firefighter crew (they made a whole episode about the fact that despite Ravi being involved in half the shenanigans that he and Ravi aren't friends?).

I mean, I know it was a while ago, but the whole picking a couch thing was supposed to be a metaphor for him getting comfortable with himself and making his own decisions and existing in his own space and instead they resolved that by having his parents buy him one. I just feel like they're constantly making a point that Buck is trying to work on himself but whenever something happens they default back to Buck is emotionally immature and not coping.

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Okay, it's going to be hard for them to bring him back after a whole episode about coping with the grief of his death but I still have faith.

Okay, it's going to be hard for him to dig himself out of the grave after two weeks in a freezer but I still have faith.

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Okay, it's going to be hard for him to dig himself out of the grave after two weeks in a freezer but I still have faith.

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OMG I was super sus of Aliss so I rewatched the episode and she is 100% possessed. Like I' don't think we ever actually meet the real Aliss. 'm not sure if we ever actually me the real Aliss or if the monster was just that good at pretending to be her or if it was mostly Aliss but the monster occasionally took over. When they are discussing whether or not there is something behind Aliss's back and she's trying to convince them that there's not SHE DOES A FULL 360 SPIN.

And then looking at her story there's all the other inconsistencies

she did lie about the entire circumstances of the base 'going mad' which didn't really send of alarm bells because she wanted to go home and telling them she's infected with an alien parasite is not gonna get her off that rock.

she says her friend was going to kill her with her bare hands...but that doesn't match up with how everyone else was killed. They apparently were either shot (to kill the possessed) or killed by going behind someone. Why would the friend by trying to kill Alyss?

the 'I've never heard of you' and her tone sounded so weird to me even from a first watch through. It was so harsh and a weird jump from general querying about humans.

The sinister creepy only helmet with the lights off in the air lock and four people on the panel thing obvs.

the fact that the 'it jumps on to the person who killed the previous possessed' turned out to be false. Now that could have just been Aliss being wrong. The monster could have led them to believe that without it being true. But added to the others it does look suspicious.

With all that in mind, I'm wondering if maybe Bel seeing the monster behind Aliss was an accident. Like too many people saw it coming out of the well. It couldn't get away from that. But it knows that when humans are stuck, other humans come and get them. That's what happened on Midnight. So, kill everyone in the base, destroy the footage (because something damaged that footage it wasn't just coincidence), pretend everyone went mad and you were just the poor innocent survivor.

Once someone had seen the actual monster though, the gig was up. Aliss (or the thing controlling Aliss) attempted to play the nothing's wrong, look nothing behind me, you don't see anything card and it didn't work. So it went for the next best thing, created a threat separate from 'Aliss' that can be 'destroyed' or escaped.

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I mean, unfortunately as someone who was a massive Harry Potter fan, (I adored it more than anything from about the ages of 7+ well into early adulthood) my teenage self was desperate for a Harry Potter TV series to be made and knew other people who also agreed. As beloved as the films are and as relatively faithful to the books as they are, later films do miss out a lot of moments from the books that diehard fans wanted to see and once the trend of adapting books into TV shows rather than films really kicked off, I was hopeful that Harry Potter would be one of them.

...Obviously then the TERF bomb hit and my views drastically changed. (I know I came to the realisation late but I used to be chronically offline. I didn't even get Twitter til five years ago)

But like, I don't think it's ridiculous to say that there were (And I presume still are) a decent chunk fans who wanted to TV show to exist. Not because they didn't like the films but because they wanted to see the world expanded.

(I do kind of agree with the JKR is doing it to spite the original cast for disagreeing with her theory tho)

The thing that gets me about the impending Harry Potter show is like. I'm able to, for entirely hypothetical purposes, put aside my disdain and disgust for the author's full-tilt bigotry and put myself in the shoes of someone who's still a Fan, like I would be if the author hadn't doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on being a full-tilt bigot, and even then, imagining the alternate universe where JKR remained a staunch ally and well-meaning if clueless liberal philanthropic darling, I still can't quite wrap my head around why I'd want this show to be made

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If I had a nickel for every time Doctor Who had an episode set on a planet named Midnight that scared the absolute bejesus out of me, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's twice as many as I ever expected to get!

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you're playing dress up? a traditional Earth ballad, the Earth's FUNERAL song is on and you're playing dress up??

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Minato lives

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Just finished a Court of Fey and Flowers (Dimension 20 knocking it out the park once again) and I really, really wish that Hob and Rue's confrontation about the broken engagement had happened separately to the relationship confrontation.

I just think there is such a fascinating arrogance to Rue in that moment, that we really don't get to explore because it's shuffled back behind their confrontation with Hob about their feelings.

Like, their reasoning to split up the marriage between Gribulba and Apollo was because they weren't really in love. But it was never put forward as a love match, it was a political engagement. And like if all parties involved in the marriage were in agreement, how was it Rue's place to break that because they didn't like the idea of the existence of a loveless marriage. It's similar to the thing with the Lords of Wing. The cousins announce that they are looking for engagements and plan to be more mature that season, Rue enters a bet on whether they can fulfil those requirements. And tbh, it's cool, but it did feel slightly unfair to me that when they went to discuss the terms Rue pulled a bit of a bit and switch by adding in the terms about love (not something that had ever been talked about the day before when the wager was made).

Like, I think in some ways Rue is a deeply empathetic person, but in others they put the things that they deem important on a pedestal and assume that hey must be equally important to everyone else. I think that's why they fail and continue to fail to understand Wuvvy, despite her being pretty verbal about her emotions and like straight up saying stuff to Rue's face as times. Because for Rue it was a choice between love or duty, so they cannot understand the idea of those two things being combined. and it is so interesting to me because in many other moments, Rue is very emotionally intelligent, especially when connecting with Binx and Adhera.