Apr 25
I love how gus is the straight man to shawn's particular brand of freak in the pilot so in the second episode they had to immediately course correct and show that gus is just as much of a freak as shawn. dynamic duo of all time.
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I love how gus is the straight man to shawn's particular brand of freak in the pilot so in the second episode they had to immediately course correct and show that gus is just as much of a freak as shawn. dynamic duo of all time.
So we all know arthur has crazy trust in merlin, but to wake up to see merlin rooting around in his keys then poorly try to cover for himself by pretending to look for woodworm and to respond by just lying there in bed and asking what merlin's doing is seriously CRAZY work. Arthur's so used to it by now. And then when someone uses a key to break into the super secret dungeon vault whatever underneath the castle he doesnt think to even blink in merlin's direction.
Always rolling my eyes whenever merlin or arthur say something like "we cannot be friends but we would be good ones if we could" to each other because i mean look at them.
EXCEPT i just watched the first two eps of season 4, where merlin says "i always thought that if things had been different we wouldve been good friends". I did roll my eyes at first because, again, look at them, but im thinking now because usually it's arthur who says it, but coming from merlin? Who hides the biggest part of his life from arthur and constantly keeps arthur out of the loop? Who may trust arthur with his life and with the future of not only Camelot but all of Albion, but does not, cannot trust arthur with his secrets? For merlin, it's not coming from a place of this prince-servant class divide (like merlin has ever cared about that) or from playing out a form of their usual banter, but from thinking, if things were different, that he could tell arthur his secrets and fully be himself around him. And like, they already are good friends, obviously (as evidenced by *gestures at the past four seasons*), but maybe in another life merlin could be as honest as he wants to be with arthur, maybe arthur could know him truly, maybe merlin would live without fear and be able to know that arthur accepts him. Maybe, if things were different, if things were kinder, it would be simple and uncomplicated for them to be good friends.
I'm still very early in gintama but I just finished episode 13 and I'm obsessed with how gintoki describes having important people in your life and loss.
It's inverse to the widespread way that it's generally described in both media and life- that being, loss as a heavy feeling that weighs on the soul, negative emotions in general are described as heavy, connoting burden; whilst the opposite of that is a feeling of lightness, usually referring to how significant (in a positive sense) people in our lives can lift us up and help us carry our burden, as well as the fun, genuine joy that can be experienced around the people we love.
This is a very valid and real description of it, in my own experiences I have felt heaviness, so I completely understand where this representation comes from and I recognise and appreciate it. But the difference is why gintamas depiction sticks out to me.
Gintoki describes the deep care he feels for his friends as 'heavy'.
He quotes Tokugawa Ieyasu, saying, "To live a full life means to carry a heavy burden throughout a long journey." Gintoki's words are as follows:
"It's not really a burden...Everyone's got both hands full of something that matters. You just don't realise it when you're carrying it. It's only after you drop it that you realise how heavy it was in the first place."
Later, when he's literally carrying kagura and shinpachi he says, "you guys are heavy, damnit."
And I'm just really in love with this flipping of the negative connotations of 'heaviness'! Because yeah, love and care is weight on the soul, not in a way that drags you down, but in a way that grounds you. Lightness in this context now connotes something like empty space, a feeling of nothingness or numbness. Love and care is weight as opposed to lightness because weight means it impacts you, matters to you. You're carrying around all this love and it's not a burden, it's fulfilment.
bbc merlin season 5 is infuriating in a way that no other season is. driving me mad.
me hearing binks brew in the background of luffys shanks flashback scenes:
Fabian and jammer are jocks in opposite directions
"one piece is just a silly little pirate manga" I say through tears as I read "don't ever attach a reason to the love you've received!"