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mainly posts about the Pitt

[vibrantstarfire]

i just don’t get it. where are all the women. where are all the women in your fanfictions. are they all out of town? did they all go on vacation together? do they all have a dentist appointment at the same time?

[nerdgatehobbit]

This is Gwen's last unguarded, playful moment with Morgana in "The Eye of the Phoenix". Which is why this happy face is getting its own post.

[blossom2blossom]

am i the only one who fucking hates abbot?????? he's a literal war criminal who served in afghanistan and i hate how the fandom tries to paint him out to be this progressive woke feminist man

i like him but i respect the hater agenda lol he's literally a manifestation of the white liberal circlejerk veteran fantasy.... it's one of those cases where i like the individual character but when i think about the broader context they were created in i'm like yeahh everyone involved in this is going to hell

[blossom2blossom]

out of all the jokes to come from daniel becoming armand's nepo fledgling sugar baby by far the funniest to me is imagining the utter horror of being one of daniel's estranged daughters and seeing him on tv promoting that damn book, taking one look at the sunglasses and nails, and immediately writing an email to your sister subject line "UNBLOCK ME HE'S FUCKING USING AGAIN"

[blossom2blossom]

when it comes to crashtos i am ridiculously charmed by the idea of victoria finding her footing as she starts her residency and becoming a massive flirt. a thousand years of karma upon trinity for all the times she left victoria speechless with her comments

[blossom2blossom]

also when i say flirting i don't mean pickup lines i mean real lesbian psychological warfare. iykyk

[vaguedisapproval]

In a more realistic world, a hospital like PTMC would have fired Robby for his treatment of Gloria in season 1 alone.

[nhyhu]

It's tattered, it's broken, but it's mine.

[myfairkatiecat]

Neal and Mozzie make such good partners in crime because Neal is all charming and silver-tongued, yes, but a lot of people are on their guard for people like that, despite how unfairly good at it he is. But if Mozzie walks in first and just starts being absolutely bonkers and insane, and they’re distracted and annoyed and not thinking, Neal now looks even more trustworthy and down to earth and, well, normal, which makes his natural charm work even better because they would so much rather be interacting with him than the guy who is actively being we obnoxious as possible for the sole reason of creating a distraction and making it too difficult for the marks to remember that sometimes people who sound trustworthy aren’t.

[srsly-idontknow]

It's the Good Con/Bad Con routine

[blossom2blossom]

i hope that the pitt never has santos forgive langdon and that the two of them never develop a friendly relationship... this isn't about whether or not I personally think he deserves forgiveness, i think that TO TRINITY langdon has been unforgivable since the beginning by virtue of what he is (white, a man in power) and there isn't anything he can do to earn her trust regardless of whether or not he objectively becomes a better person. and i wld love to see a show where a woman frees herself from the emotional burden of some kind of conflict without forgiveness being the method of catharsis

[samirasystole]

going insane while thinking about that time a hucklerobby made this long ass rant about how hucklerobby was being 'hated on' and that we shouldn't do that and that it was so annoying because there was nothing wrong with shipping and that it was really upsetting being hated on for liking a ship etc etc. reader, they were complaining about people mentioning fandom misogyny in regards to how popular hucklerobby was and wanting fandom to focus more on female characters. and then That account added another long rant under it saying 'yeah, nothing wrong with liking hucklerobby, people tell me i should care more about ships like heather/robby but they were just not as buzzy or interesting to me compared to hucklerobby. write your own shit if you want content like that' like oh y'all are just blatant misogynists and can't differentiate calling out fandom misogyny to a bomb being dropped onto your favourite white boy.

[danlous]

And diary, you'd think a girl whose mama died in childbirth, whose daddy gave her away to a mean old auntie who beat her 'cause no one said she couldn't, who died in a fire but came back by the blood magic of two demons, well, you'd think that girl wouldn't know what funny was. But you'd be wrong, diary. And if I told you, dumb diary, that that same girl was being raised to kill like her demon parents did, to take two souls a day so she could stay in the same flat-chested, hairless-crotched 14-year-old baby doll body as her mind and spirit turn 19, 20, 25, 63, 358, you dumb, dumb diary, I bet you'd say to anyone who'd listen, "Fun? Fun? How does she even get up in the morning?"

[gingiekittycat]

Jesus should have appeared when Aziraphale summoned God with the New Book of Life.

He's God, isn't he? Part of the "triune godhead." Then we could have gotten a completely different version of the scene in the bookshop, one where Jesus defends the world he knows and the people he's met and the things he learned (in his short time back on Earth) about love and generosity and helping people become better people. 

Maybe Aziraphale and Crowley ask him to create a world without angels and demons. Maybe he says, but aren't they people too? Can't they learn about love, and generosity, and helping people become better people? Of course they can. Look at the two of you.

And we could have gotten a beautiful mirror to the end of Season 1, where Christ does the same exact thing as the Antichrist, where he doesn't destroy the world but puts it back just the way it was. Even slightly better. 

Because angels and demons should have a chance, too. 

[fluencca]

I have having thoughts and feelings about how delicately Sara plucks the tube of the Raphael out of Kramer's hands and caresses it, her smile beautiful and disbelieving, because as far as she's concerned she's the main character of the day's events: she finally got her painting back, she beat Neal at his own game, and she probably made $300k that evening.

[myfairkatiecat]

i enjoy starting drama and you have a good amount of fandoms so: what’s your hottest take for every fandom you’ve been in. i mean actually hot take, smthing most ppl would disagre with. i want to see what happens

Oh??kay??

“Make all your fandoms mad,” anon said. “For my enjoyment,” anon said.

I didn’t have to reply tho so this is half on me. Alright be kind folks 🫡

Ummm ok so I’m gonna go by the fandoms I have written fic for on AO3 cause otherwise idk how to define “fandom I’ve been in” lol

Also fair warning I haven’t been in some of these fandoms for a long time so I’m not necessarily up to date on what’s currently a hot take

Star Wars: Han Solo’s behavior towards Leia in the empire strikes back was not sexy. I came around to their relationship eventually but that wasn’t it

Merlin: Kilgharrah wasn’t a bad guy. He was doing his best ok? His one real ulterior motive was getting himself released from the dungeon in Camelot and tbh if I were him I’d try to burn that place to the ground right after too. But when it came to the prophecy and destiny I genuinely think he was attempting to give Merlin the right advice. But destiny is weird ok?? I mean Merlin gave Arthur bad advice with the Disir accidentally bc he was trying to make destiny go correctly, so can we really fault Kilgharrah for messing up now and then?

Wicked: you are not subtracting or erasing any core aspect of the (musicalverse) story by reading Glinda and Elphaba’s love as platonic.

KOTLC: Quinlan and Alden were never gay for each other. “Cognates” does not mean “romantic love” and Quinlan’s marriage may have fallen apart but Alden and Della are happy, ok?

Miraculous Ladybug: a LOT has gone down in this one since I stopped interacting like four years ago but. Way back then. My hottest take was that marichat wasn’t the best side of the love square and never was

White Collar: (checks notes) uhh stealing is bad? But ok no seriously I think my hottest take in this fandom is that Neal is morally grey and that his crimes were neither victimless nor justified. I mean I love him and his crimes, it’s part of what makes him such a good character but. The story is something of a redemption narrative—but not to the expected conclusion in that case (fully law-abiding Neal) which is part of what makes it so interesting. Neal and Peter sort of both learn aspects of morality from each other—Peter learns morality isn’t synonymous with the law, Neal learns that sometimes the law is there for a reason and that some crimes aren’t as victimless as he might think. But that doesn’t, like, work unless Neal starts out a little morally lost. yes he hates violence but like murder is not the only crime that hurts people

The Inheritance Games: I like Eve as a villain. I think she’s interesting. I can hate her on behalf of the characters when I’m reading the story but like, she’s a cool character to me

I thinkkkk those are the only like, big ones? If I missed a highly important one someone let me know. But yeah those. are opinions I have! I am realizing the one I fleshed out the most was white collar and in my defense I’m currently hyperfixated on that one. But I do think all of these actually do count as hot takes so! I did the assignment, we’ll see how it goes

[franticyoohooing]

Building off your White Collar one:

Neal should not be working in law enforcement. He’s a better person from his time working with the FBI— less careless, less of a lone wolf— but he doesn’t believe in the legal system, and I can’t imagine him ever carrying a gun. Even setting his lack of paper qualifications aside, Neal would be a terrible FBI agent. He starts the series morally grey, and ends it somewhat less morally grey, but still the kind of guy who will engage in a crime he doesn’t think has a victim.

I think I find the finale less depressing than some people because I didn’t take it as the last time Neal and Peter saw each other; I took it as Neal needing some time alone to figure out who he really was. Maybe it’s because I’m the parent of newly adult children? Neal’s kind of a late bloomer, and he’s had Peter and Mozzie in his ear telling him who he is, and now it’s time for him to make up his own mind. (I also think Neal assumed that Peter would use the key on the storage locker far more quickly than he actually did.). I think the series is not about whether Neal is a cop or a criminal, but about whether the weird but loving friendship between Neal and Peter can survive, and I think it does, off screen.

The image of Neal in his Devore suit and hat walking through Paris is from Peter’s POV, not necessarily what actually happened.

Neal’s a really good painter and sculptor, but the artworks he made that are most him are both installation artworks. One is the skyline of New York from his apartment, made out of sand, which captures the beauty and evanescence of his life there. The second is the storage container that explains the final con. Both do a fine job of transmitting a state of feeling unique to the artist. I think Neal’s real problem as an artist is that he’s decided paintings are his medium, and they aren’t, which is why he feels like he’s just a forger. I would love to see him create a room that conveys the feeling of being at the FBI on a busy day.

[myfairkatiecat]

Definitely. I mean Neal could never be an FBI agent anyway because the fact that he is a convicted felon immediately disqualifies him. But I’m actually glad he had the opportunity to work on that side of the law for a few reasons. One was the bonding it allowed him to do with his team, allowing him to really learn how to not work alone but have people backing him up. Another is the way it showed him why the law sometimes matters. Pointed him towards where maybe his law-blind sense of morality wasn’t perfectly serving him. For example, when he sees Rebecca get brought in for questioning after he used her key card—he probably never even THOUGHT about or CARED whether he got people fired by picking their pockets or conning them as a part of a heist, but he was sort of forced to think about it. He spent more time on the “consequences” side of the crimes they solved which I think in turn made him a better person, even though I agree he’s never going to believe in the law the way Peter did, and I also think post-canon Peter may adapt a slightly less rigid view of the law because of the things Neal’s story showed him.

The finale is depressing to me because Neal’s friends spent at least a whole year grieving him and that’s genuinely so sad to me it makes me sob every time. Like I also headcanon they meet back up again and continue to be friends and possibly better for it, I’ve written a zillion fics about it, but also, ouch. But!! You’re so right about how he had Mozzie talking in his ear, and then Peter—he loved his friends but he had a lot of people telling him who he really was, and it was time for him to figure that out for himself. Last time he tried he was a runaway teenager fresh out of witsec angry with his dirty cop father and did not end up going down great paths. He’s seen more of the world and of life now, morally he’s improved and he’s learned a lot about relationships and consequences, and now he can actually figure out what kind of man he wants to be.

I don’t think the painting vs sculpting thing is why Neal thinks he’s just a forger. I think it comes down to his undervaluing of his original art, as encouraged by Mozzie (when Mozzie BURNS ALL HIS ART at the end of s2 and then says jn 3x1 “you’re talented, by Van Dyck has you beat” and Neal doesn’t disagree) and what he said to James in season four: “You want to know why I don’t have much original art? I’ve had three names and dozens of aliases because of YOU. And to be an artist… you have to know who you are.” I think it’s a combination of knowing his original paintings were never going to be worth the millions his forgeries were, internalized insecurity that presents in his mind as objective fact, and a lack of real identity. Usually playing a character makes him unsure of who he really is and always painting forgeries makes him feel like he’s not a real artist—and perhaps, post-canon, as he spends time figuring out who he really is, he is also able to become the artist he absolutely can be.

[finngualart]

i like it when they go a little feral

[darkshrimpemotions]

We don't talk enough about how Stephanie adultified a bunch of Indigenous teenagers. We talk a lot about the racism in Twilight but we do not talk enough about that.

[darkshrimpemotions]

Adultification of children of color is a key component to racist violence. A Black child gets shot by police and the news calls him a young man. An Indigenous child goes missing and they call her a young woman. R. Kelly's victims were called women and young women and fast instead of what they were, which was little girls. Children.

Children of color are denied their childhood, denied their innocence, in order to minimize the horror of what is done to them, to absolve the adults who harm them of accountability.

And that mentality is baked into Twilight. Jacob and the other Quileute children are described as looking "physically 25." Meyer frequently emphasizes how massive and grown they look at the same time as she emphasizes their uncontrollable anger and aggression.

Meyer spends two and a half books writing about Jacob as though he's a grown man before she makes him imprint on Bella's demon spawn, to make readers forget that this is a 16-year-old child who has already had so many choices taken away from him being mentally, emotionally, and physically enslaved to the child of his oppressors. And as a result fandom talks about Jacob as if he's a pedophile, forgetting that Jacob no longer has any free will.

Meanwhile the same fans who call Jacob a pedophile will handwave 100+-year-old Edward's pursuit of another literal child on the grounds that he's "mentally seventeen." Edward, a white adult predator who knowingly and wilfully pursues, traumatizes, and emotionally abuses a teenage girl is afforded grace and innocence by the fandom. Jacob, an Indigenous child who has his free will completely stripped away from him a piece at a time by a family of white predators who call him a mongrel and a mutt every chance they get, gets called a predator by the fandom while his actual plight is completely ignored.

[all-seeing-eyer]

so Fitzgerald "shot down and killed a plane full of innocent civilians" Grant is divorcing Millie because she gave a list of names to a guy blackmailing her and him over the illegal things done for him