#excellent writing

[abbielauren2024]

Seriously y’all are the best! <3<3<3

[porkymcsly]

Everyone always says season 1 of Rebles takes a while to get good.

Lies!

I'm on my first rewatch and it's absolutely good from the start. As a first time viewer it can be hard to really notice but It's laying the foundation so that it can deliver on the emotional moments down the road.

Every episode you get new insights about the crew. Each character has a distinct way of solving problems, how they express their feelings, and how they interact with others.

We also get little bits of info about their pasts sprinkled throughout each episode that help inform their current motivations and make the viewers curious to know more. All of that- and it's wrapped in a fun action adventure show with lightsabers!

I really have to praise this show because for so many years I assumed it was a crappy cartoon with no depth. When I finally watched it, I was shocked at how wrong I was and it's now become one of my all time favorites.

[colleybri]

A blink and you miss it moment of Cassian becoming an excellent leader in episode 9 of Andor.

Ulaf is slowing the team down, and Cassian (‘Keef’) has the idea to swap places with Taga. Taga asks why and Ham rather brutally tells him “Keef is faster”. Hurt, Taga grumbles “There’s a better way of saying that!”

After Kino comes over to investigate, he asks Cassian whether the swap was his idea, clearly about to compliment him.

Kino is still quite antagonistic towards Cassian (who he has marked as a troublemaker like Melshi) so we might expect him to enjoy receiving some praise but instead of accepting the compliment, Cassian says that the swap was Tagas’s idea. “Are you kidding?” says Taga in respect, and happily accepts the praise, making up for the insult 30 seconds earlier.

Earlier, Cassian wanted to avoid attention for self-centred reasons . Now, this trait is becoming a positive leadership quality . Standing behind others, encouraging them on, freely allowing them to use his ideas and even his words. Motivating them to find their own motivation. 

^^ Kino using Cassian’s words

I think Kino realises exactly what was going on here and comes away with new respect for Cassian. Kino is the figurehead and voice of the prison rebellion, but it’s pretty clear who is the real leader.

[otherpeoplescreativity]

Leverage: Redemption Season 3 Episode 9

a.k.a. "The Polygeist Job"

That final, interrupted line at the end of the episode:

John Rogers, Chris Downey, Andrea Janakas

as writers

and therefore responsible for this

you are SO MEAN to the entire fandom!

10/10. No further notes.

[novocrystalis]

Just got done watching KPop Demon Hunters and it is excellent

expect fanart of the girls soon

ish

perhaps

idk

maybe

[tall-glass-of-nope]

“I respect your struggle. I really do. But don’t advertise tactical opportunism as pious morality because that’s when you lose me.”

- Captain Mercer

(The Orville, season 3 episode 8 “Midnight Blue”)

[dragonsir]

Guess 6 is spindlehorse's favorite number, huh?

[thequeenofsastiel]

The further I get into Anne Rice's work, the more frustrated I become by the way people dismiss The Vampire Chronicles simply because they're about vampires. I'm currently devouring the fifth book, and her writing is honestly the most beautiful I've ever encountered, and I've been a voracious reader since I was a child. The mythology is complex and unique, the characters three dimensional and fascinating, and the prose! I could wax poetic about it for far longer than most people are willing to listen to. The imagery is vivid, and the emotions she can evoke with her words are profound. I've been on the verge of tears multiple times at the sheer beauty of it all. Yes, it's about vampires, and I get that people are sick of vampires by now, but I genuinely can't recommend this series enough. Each novel is better than the last. The one I'm reading now is almost overwhelmingly gorgeous. I just. It's mind-blowing that she isn't considered one of the greatest writers of all times.