#blather

[zagz]

absolutely obsessed with the religious imagery in this shot. yeah i would cheer him on from the front of the cult follower crowd

[mariedemedicis]

okay i know the manor isn't like an inherently magical space and doesn't work like that but i think it would be kind of neat if it like materialized rooms and things by need

like i'm on the charmed wiki and it says "The manor has four bedrooms on the second floor, which consists of one master bedroom and three smaller bedrooms. All four rooms are shown, and confirmed, in Season 8, however, there may be more than just four."

and it also says "In season 8, Paige is seen in her own separate bedroom, along with Leo and Piper, Phoebe, and Chris and Wyatt's shared room. Therefore, this confirms that the manor has (at least) a fourth bedroom."

and there's a whole changes in layout section

oddly enough structural continuity on tv shows with multiple seasons tends to be fuzzy even though you'd think dealing with physical aspects would be easier to recollect than writing ones

but yeah i think it would be fun if it did like a house of many ways/howl's moving castle thing, i mean it's located on a spiritual nexus and four known generations of witches have lived there, like why not

[timetot]

sharks vs habs game just shaved a week off my lifespan

[femmeduskwight]

this is what flins looks like to me. a long lanky horrible spindly ghoul of a man.

[niobiumao3]

I've been thinking about the whole Crosshair and CX-2 situation, and I am beginning to wonder if, should CX-2 prove to be Tech, Crosshair didn't, in fact, know.

In an interview before the premiere, Michelle Ang mentioned Crosshair getting to see forgiveness and real love in the face of a great betrayal. Now, Crosshair's great betrayals are long past. So, is this some NEW betrayal? Is it someone ELSE betraying and being forgiven? CX-Tech fits the later very neatly, however, there might be another option: that Crosshair DOES know CX-2 is Tech, and has been not telling everyone because he blames himself for it happening and is sure they'll all turn him out the second they discover it (Omega included).

I'm of two minds here.

Crosshair didn't know, because Tech was put straight into conversion from medical care, and so Crosshair never saw him.

Crosshair DOES know, and feels black-hole sized guilt about it to the point where he can't bring himself to tell anyone.

In the #2 bucket goes a few things:

We see, repeatedly, that Crosshair isn't saying everything about Tantiss. This is as true for Hunter (the person always mentioning this) as it is for us, as our POV on Tantiss was almost exclusively Omega. Hunter knows Crosshair hasn't told them everything, and isn't going to push him except in specific instances where it really woulda been nice to know.

We do know that the CX conditioning is bad. Like, really bad, bad enough that wiping out your identity--not just the chip but like, you, yourself--is part of it. Or, so Crosshair says (and Tech in S2), though of course the truth of that might be more complex. This is reason enough for him to not talk about things. Except...

When Rex and Howzer explain they have a CX in custody Crosshair is immediately spooked. Then he's even MORE upset when he sees who it is. Or is it because of who it isn't?

If he knew CX-2 was Tech, and sees CX-1, he knows there is only one other CX they're sending after them, and the absolute last thing he would want is for them to have to kill Tech to get away. Or worse, kill the person who used to be Tech and can't be reclaimed (from his POV). Either way, from his POV, it is all bad news that CX-2 is inbound.

And as much as I feel Cross just isn't a hand to hand badass, at the end of his one on one with CX-2, he is clearly giving up. Everything CX-2 is saying is battering him emotionally and dousing the fight in him. Which makes a lot of sense, if he knows it's Tech.

For #1, well, the explanation is much simpler: we, and Omega and Crosshair, never see Tech in CX conditioning because he was in a bacta tank for part of it and then into a pod for the rest. He might have even converted quickly if we're to assume he had amnesia from the fall. (I suspect, should he prove to be CX-2, we won't get an explanation for this.) This actually would give Omega AND Crosshair some severe guilt, realizing when they escaped they left Tech on Tantiss in Hemlock's not-so-stellar care. It makes sense Crosshair would never want to go back--the conditioning sounds pretty awful. But then his reaction to CX-1 is a little less clear; we know there aren't very many CXes at this point, so why is THIS one such a concern to him? He just appears to be a reg. And CX-1's use of 'brother' is also very pointed. Which would make sense if CX-2 is Tech, who would have referred to Crosshair as his brother...

Anyways. We'll see if this pans out. I'd considered this might be the case even as I was like 'are we really doing that', and while I'm not a fan of this plot in the overall, like a cat being dragged outside on a harness for some enrichment I can grudgingly accept it. Mostly.

[misqueue]

There's a bunch of things and comments and posts I want to reply to today, but am having an unfortunate bout of crashing fatigue + eyestrain, so I need to take some time away from screens. <3 to you all!

[gimme-a-chocolate]

I srlsy feel like ppl are putting im sol up to a higher standard than MLs in kdramas bc MLs are oftentimes noble idiots even tho the FL doesn’t deserve it and no one blinks an eye bc they expect of it a man. im sol’s MO is the same and has always been the same - to save sunjae, not necessarily to receive his affection. just bc sunjae is a puppy dog and doesn’t deserve to be treated this way (ie removing his agency and not involving him in her decisions) doesn’t mean im sol is behaving badly🤷🏻‍♀️

[etym-a-day]

blithering, adj.

First attested in the 1880s as the present participle of the verb blither, this word is now a fossil word, attested in Modern English usage only in the phrase blithering idiot, in which it has been consistently attested since its earliest documentation.

The verb blither from which it comes is first attested in 1868 and is a variant of the Scottish and Northern English dialects' word blether (first attested in the 1520s), both variants meaning "to talk nonsense". In other dialects of English, this same word was blather (also first attested in the 1520s), a form of the word which has survived into Modern English usage, even if somewhat rarely in the present time.

The verb blather (again, blether in certain Northern dialects) is likely from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse blaðra, meaning "to mutter, to gossip", which itself is either imitative, or from Proto-Germanic *blodram, "something inflated" (from which we get Modern English bladder), which in turn is from Proto-Indo-European *bhle-, "to blow", which is itself almost certainly imitative in origin.