#5a

[best-fictional-snake]

Lugia [Pokemon] vs. Jeff [Phantomarine]

Best Fictional Marine Reptile Tournament: Sapphire Bracket; Quarterfinals, Poll 3/4

Lugia [Pokemon]

Jeff [Phantomarine]

Voting ended onFeb 6

(The bracket color names are just for thematic organization and are NOT representative of the candidates!)

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and feel free to reblog!

Propaganda for Lugia [Pokemon]:

"Just straight up one of the coolest Pokemon ever, and still a defensive titan after like 30 years" "Yes, Lugia counts as a reptile, in my opinion anyway! It's like a flying plesiosaur dragon or something. It's such a cool and unique concept, and Lugia being a monochrome abyss dweller parallels Ho-oh being a rainbow sky bird so well!"

Propaganda for Jeff [Phantomarine]:

"The plesiosaur form of a shapeshifting death god, as misnamed by a child who misheard his proper name! He loves the nickname. He also loves the plesiosaur form because it's like being a noodly pool toy (and the kids like it)."

[cutenormals]

[teenwolf-meta]

Tyler Posey on Scott's Mental Health in Season 5

Tyler Posey: I mean we've dealt with some pretty dark things… to me, I think the darkest stuff that we've ever dealt with is suicide, and that happened with ["Motel California"] in season 3A. That was, to me, one of the darkest episodes that we've had. Interviewer: What kind of challenges is Scott going through? I heard he's going to have some sort of mental breakdown? Tyler Posey: Absolutely, yeah. He's got a couple of mental breakdowns so far this season and it's not even done yet... We're toying with the idea that Scott's pack is being ripped apart from him, only he doesn't know why and he thinks he's the reason why his pack is being ripped apart. That has some turmoil in him, because he's all about keeping the pack together and staying strong. We've never seen him this vulnerable since season one, when he first got turned into a werewolf and was like, “Oh my God, I don't know what the hell's happening to me.” So now he's vulnerable, he doesn't know what the hell is happening, he doesn't know how to fix it. And on top of all the stuff that's happening to him and his pack, there's people dying. So he has no idea where to turn, what to tackle first, and it creates some stress for him. Scott's usually got it together—I mean, he's really depressed all the time and sad because people are dying—but he's always got a plan of action. This time, he kind of doesn’t. Via (x).

[paintballdays]

[melaninglamour]

Water

[spikeface]

heart full

Written for @teenwolf-meta‘s Meta May Monday theme: Transformation.

I’ve talked before about how the conversation between Scott and Liam at the beginning of Heartless shows how much their dynamic has changed since season 5, but I also love how the plan to catch the Ghost Rider in Heartless (6x07) is a reversal of the one to catch the Dread Doctor in Strange Frequencies (5x07).

In both episodes, they’re trying to catch a supernatural enemy with a very risky plan, and eventually, in both, the hellhound will show up and completely throw things off.

But in 6x07, instead of crumbling under the pressure of trying to solve everything on his own, Scott has Liam, Hayden, Mason, and Corey to help him figure it out.

In 5x07, Liam angrily demands that Scott do everything he can to save Hayden--including coming up with a plan. Later, in 6x07, Liam is the one to come up with the plan. I think it’s significant too that he then goes on to doubt the plan (of bringing Theo back), specifically because he’s so worried and stressed about making the wrong choice re: Theo and Scott, as he ultimately did in 5a.

In 6x07, Hayden volunteers to be bait, rather than unknowingly acting as bait as she did in 5x07. She makes eye contact with Scott as she justifies it with “I’m faster,” and I’ve always interpreted this look as a significant one--that she’s forgiven him, and genuinely wants to help. You can see how much it means to Scott as he looks back at her.

Even though Douglas and hellhound-Parrish ultimately throw things off, the chaos at the end of 6x07 only underlines how different things are from 5x07. The plan in 6x07 works, far more than the one in 5x07 did. Theo is there to help for real this time! The whole pack is working together, foregrounding the friendships and relationships that will ultimately tear apart the entire Wild Hunt.

[scottappreciation]

Posey’s acting does a phenomenal job of communicating Scott’s despair in 5A, but I really love the almost childlike uncertainty he brings to the table in this scene from Status Asthmaticus.

Hayden’s dying, he’s fallen out with Stiles, Malia’s in the wind and Kira’s been gone for days, and he’s just seen the first glimpse of havoc the Beast is about to unleash, thanks to the busted school sign taking up half a halfway. And then Lydia texts him—a spot of hope!—so he goes to the library and can’t find her but when he calls her, he hears the phone.

But there’s no Lydia.

He’s already uncertain—there’s been a lot of steeling breaths and half-glazed eyes, and the almost dissociative way he spoke with Theo at the beginning of the episode—but there’s just something about the acting choice of holding the phone with both hands here that feels so small. Like a child clutching to a favourite animal in the dark, or a drowning man to a single piece of driftwood. He knows it isn’t going to help, not in any way that matters, but it’s literally all he has left to hold on to. 

Scott’s arc in s5 is really dependent on Posey’s ability to portray a lot of his emotional state through his body language and line delivery, and it’s little moments like this that really sell the performance.

[el-rincon-de-stelle]

Y él nunca fue declarado culpable, jamás pagó por el daño que me hizo. No admitió su error y yo simplemente callé para así tratar de olvidar.

Stelle✨