#correct lines

[sitdownmsgomez]

Remedios:  Ganda lang ito, Goyo. Mawawala rin ito. Tatanda ako at ang pagkatao ko na lang ang maiiwan. At hindi mauubos ang magagandang dalaga dito sa Dagupan.

Goyo:  Kapag sinabi kong maganda ka, kasama doon ang kagandahang loob mo.

[comradeocean]

shoreparty replied to your post: ima cry

awwww. while harry was like, ‘yeeha opportunity to do summer of ‘69 and strut like jagger’

what. a. loser.

and how sad that kind of loserdom is celebrated while we'll probably never ever get to hear Zayn do a cover of Pony.

[comradeocean]

The only part in Little Things that really makes me cringe is when Niall sings "You'll never" instead of "You never" and it's kind of a huge huge clunker bc the rest of the song is in present tense - like, this is where you are now and here is what I am doing to support you on your way towards... self actualization or something - and it's actually pretty sweet. But that future tense! "You will never" you will never get past this your perpetual state of disaffect it is now but also always forever in the future, this is just you are, you will be always trapped by it and grotesquely trapped by the need for codependent affirmation. or something. It bugs me so much! And when combined with the 'meant to be' part at the beginning it becomes genuinely creepy. ugh.

[comradeocean]

WMYB orchestral and without So c-come on. You got it wrong. To prove I'm right I put it in a song-on-onnng is like that bit in The Last Samurai - 

I would say But he is like a man who plays Yesterday on the piano with Brahmsian amplitude & lushness and so casually kicks aside the very thing which is the essence of the song he is like the Percy Faith Orchestra playing Satisfaction and he would say Listen to this and he would read out a sentence which was like Yesterday with Brahmsian harmony or the Percy Faith Orchestra playing Satisfaction by special request

[comradeocean]

obsessive fangirling: super duper manpain edition

so I've started watching Dexter again after skipping out on season 5 and 6 and most of 4.  

and I'm realizing that apart from all the law and order/vigilante fetishism*, it's kind of the ultimate expression of using Women in Peril for manpain.

(the display of man emotion that fandom vicariously eats up)

because here is someone who, according to canon, is a serial killer narcissist incapable of relating to other people or having any feelings beyond his ~lizard brain~ 

and with that level of remoteness, the bar is set extra high, and the payoff that much more special when he is undone by any kind of emotion. 

and oh you know what prompts his feelings surfacing??? plotlines that endanger the life of one of the two women close to him over and over again. and eventually a seasonal big bad that kills the other one.

ugh I just really wish in the last episode Deb had called for back up or shot and injured Minotaur man herself prompting him to run off or anything other than Dexter saving her again from near and certain death.

like, poor Deb, so many levels of mindfuck dealing with Dexter and having Minotaur Man happen while knowing Dexter's waiting with his told-you-so and that his serial killer lizard brain just saved her life and knowing that he expected/wanted something with Minotaur Man to happen all along so he'd be proven right and be given more leeway to do what he wants

and Deb being so exhausted that she just gives up and falls in line and gives him what he wants. because it's not just Dexter she has to challenge, but also the fucked up ness of Harry, the other person in her life she absolutely hero worships.

and because she's also got a continuation of that season 6 subplot going on. and I'm actually totally in love with how it's all written as subtext this season. Jennifer Carpenter is playing it so well - the way her voice gets all strained and uncomfortable in the scene in 1x03 when she says how she can't help who she is either which is why she's asking him to move out and the scene in 1x02 when she talks about how fucked up her alternatives are - and in both cases Deb is also alluding to her own situation of being in love with her serial killer brother. oh my god the melodrama is so amazing I love it.

I think one way the season arc could go is the Minotaur Man getting killed by Dexter, but in a messy way which leads to police investigation and LaGuerta thinking that Deb did it and that she's either the Bay Harbour Butcher or connected to him in some way. I really hope LaGuerta doesn't get offed because it's kind of astonishing how much fandom hates her and Deb and their schadenfraude at the two of them taking each other down would be too much to bear.

*this is probably true of like 90% or something of the vigilante genre but I'm still annoyed how much Dexter (and the conversation around it) serves a law and order agenda. in that the primary violence in society is what results from the ineffectiveness of police/state (who are hamstrung with wishy washy bleeding heart liberal law makers) not being powerful enough, rather than the police/state itself. but whatever. it's nearly impossible to find ideologically correct trashy brain candy anyway.

also, this show has the worst track record (aside from maybe Heroes) with killing off/sidelining its black characters. we're 4/4 5/5 at this point which is FUCKING RIDICULOUS. (Doakes, Esme Pascal, Brother Sam, Mike Anderson, Anton)