Ash

He/him • jack wolfe save me

[irinviolet]

"Gazing into The World"-oil on canvas 100x60cm

ITWV is gonna begin filming and would you look at that, I finally finished editing this behemot, what a nice coincidence.

(If painting is hard, taking pictures and editing them is harder or i dread them more. I managed to make time to finish it because a kind person comissioned me for it.)

[werewolf-transgenderism]

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

prints

[gruntsandpoetry]

Okay so we're all in agreement that it was Lestat who pulled Louis out of the wall in the theatre right? The episode doesn't make it explicitly clear and they only show us Lestat saving Louis during the trial. And in fact they have Louis say he knew the blood he tasted upon being freed was Armand's...

But in the context of everything else that... doesn't actually make much sense? Because here's what actually happened...

First, Louis woke up in the sewer alone...

Why would Armand just leave him there if he suddenly decided to choose Louis over the coven after Lestat saved him from imminent death? After listening to him screaming in agony as he starved in that coffin for... how long? The opportunity that presented itself wasn't Louis being saved from death at the trial on the stage and being locked in a vault. Armand could have taken him out at any time. He chose not to. He chose to listen to him screaming in agony for... days? Weeks????

Armand didn't care. He chose the coven. He discovered Louis was gone and only then did he reach out to him telepathically while he was in the crypt plotting his revenge. Louis asked Armand if he saved him at the trial AND if he pulled him out of the wall. Armand gave the same monotone "yes" as an answer to both. And I think we're meant to understand these are both equal lies in hindsight.

And when Armand told Louis to leave Paris it was clear his only aim was to save the coven. If Armand wanted to be with him he would have been. He only decided to choose Louis after the coven was gone and he had no other choice. Armand was at full strength the whole time. 500 years old. Powerful enough to walk in the sun. He could control the coven with a snap of his fingers.

But you know who wasn't at full strength at the time? Who couldn't have just gone to him right away even though he wanted to save Louis more than anything in the world?

Lestat only let Louis stay in that situation for as long as he did because he was so weakened by doing the mind trick that saved him in the first place. We all saw how rough he looked after Louis had been taken away in 2x07. The way he was standing there swaying on his feet...

He had to regain his strength to go back to the theatre, get Louis out, give him his blood at full strength so that it might heal him. And he only left him there because he believed he needed to let Louis go. Because he was not worthy of Louis' forgiveness etc...

This is probably a conclusion lots of you have already come to but I didn't pick up on it during my first watch because I was so emotionally compromised. I don't know why they had Louis say it was Armand's blood, but maybe we're meant to understand it as another misremembering. Louis trying to reason with himself that it had to have been Armand's blood. Because before Daniel gave him the final pieces of the puzzle, he very much believed Armand had been the one to save him at the trial. The one to pull him out of the wall...

[lighthouseweeper]

I did notice that we never saw Armand actually do it and if he had actually intended to save Louis he would have stayed with him like he did in San Francisco

[nymbug]

let me tell you why this line right here breaks my entire fucking heart. (spoilers ahead for anyone currently watching for the first time!)

cause imagine MICKEY. growing up in that fucking house with that sad excuse for a father. he can’t be who he wants to be, so he’s angry, violent and resentful. to me, it’s very possible that when he had sex with ian for the first time, that was also his first time bottoming (a very scary and vulnerable thing!). he trusts ian enough to carry on fucking him; sometimes in his house where his fucking dad could show up at any time.

then he fell for this ginger idiot, kissed him (which was probably his first kiss with a guy!), went through hell, lost him, found him again, came out because he didn’t want to lose him a second time, fully fell in love with him, he cared for him when he got sick, he protected him.

then he got his heart broken, ended up in prison, where, upon ian visiting him, was told by ian himself that the only reason he turned up was because he was being paid to be there. even after that, he’d shown ian the tattoo he’d done himself to confirm his commitment to him. only to get a placating fake promise that ian would wait for him. which was obviously bullshit at the time but would have been further cemented when mickey never got a visit from ian ever again. i’m assuming mandy didn’t visit him either and then svetlana probably didn’t visit much, especially when she married someone else and started a new life. mickey had nothing but four blank cell walls, and his memories.

then he plotted a full on jail break, going so far as to make a woman fall in love with him to do it. he went BACK to chicago at the risk of getting caught and getting even more jail time. all so he can see ian gallagher one last time before he heads for the border and leaves forever. all so he can see if there’s even a small fucking chance that ian might come with him.

and even here, in this moment, mickey’s still unsure. even though ian’s left with him. his “did you ever think about me?” just cuts so deep. cause he was alone in there, probably definitely thought about ian every single day. the truth is so loud in that question. it’s not just a “did you ever think about me?”, it’s him wondering it in the first place, which so clearly tells us that there wasn’t a day that went by where he wasn’t thinking of ian.

so this line, it just… breaks my heart.

mickey milkovich you will always be my number one ☝️

psa: i’m not hating on ian, for anything! i love ian, he’s my pookie (and my number two!) he had his own shit going on and he had a lot of stuff to figure out, not just mental issues! but him telling mickey he was paid to be there was just so OOC and again making mickey sound abusive to caleb when they both have a history of beating the shit out of each other. fuck the writers for that one. fuck them up the 🍑 with something spiky!

[velvet4510]

So Five goes from “guy who will literally break time and space to save his family” to “homewrecker stealing his brother’s wife and leaving them all to die”.

Thank you, Umbrella Academy. You just provided the ultimate textbook definition of character assassination. Well done.

[astravore]

I feel bad for Gerard way rn., like IMAGINE you work upwards of 18 years crafting and ensuring that your comic gets on the big screen, only for fucking Steve Blackman to nerf you with the most atrociously out of character, plotless, anger inducing writing to ever grace Netflix minus the select few in the LAST FUCKING SEASON. Steve Blackman trust you will be dealt with, GERARD WAY IM SO SORRY

[sunriseseance]

I've been sitting on this hot take since 2019 so I won't pretend it's relevant to anything at all but:

The Umbrella Academy are not siblings because they were adopted by Reginald and raised together. They're not siblings because Reg had them call each other brother and sister. They're not siblings because they grew up under the same roof with the same deranged patriarch that they called dad.

They're siblings because they choose to be. Because they would sneak out together in the middle of the night. Because they worried about each other, and checked on each other, and hated each other, and loved each other. They're siblings because they chose to be human, chose to be people, in the face of something horrific. They chose each other. They chose all their mess and all their bullshit and they did it on purpose. That's worth something.

[solarpunk-aesthetic]

Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…

[Oxford Photovoltaics]

[fartsandprayers]

[jupiter-rebel]

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Put this in the Louvre

[lotsofminidots]

The shipping in the show has some AMAZING potential, but can we talk about Nikos and Edwin's BOMB FRIENDSHIP?? I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEY HAVE SUCH A GREAT DYNAMIC. Two people with autism bonding and helping eachother emotionally. I LOVE THAT!!

[simonemalec]

why you should watch dead boy detectives on netflix

[neon-travesty]

Edwin and Charles are each other's light in the dark

[cloudywrites0]

"sorry no version of this where i don't rescue you is there"

"a lot like you maybe thats why i like her so much"

THATS SO NOT PLATONIC OHMYGOD

[dulltulipz]

okay welcome back to me being so in love with charles and edwin.

also this article is just amazing.

LIKE FIRST OF ALL they are giving us the ship name and saying they want to be together and down for anything in the future.

SECOND OF ALL. THEY ARE GONNA SHOW UP ON SANDMAN. WHAT.

i’m so fucking in love with these two and this show ughhhgg. Use the chedwin tag for the boys!!!

[landwriter]

how is it not one person is talking about the Ghost Post in dead boy detectives. imagine being such a mailman in your life that you continue doing it into the hereafter. no eternal rest while there’s mail to deliver. other ghosts don’t know why or how you do it. you are arcane to even the occult

all day in and out you just show up places and shout MAIL CALL and then say vaguely ominous things like “Mail gets delivered wherever you go” and before disappearing into the built in bookshelf. i want this job so bad

[tanrak]

Edwin & Charles hugs.

[my-lesbian-romance]

Literally him