#fith tag

[uozlulu]

They called Iroh Airoh and I was like how? What? What? so then I had to go look it up and apparently it's written as 艾洛, which is Aì Luò, which then begs the question why not keep it as Aì Luò? But then again most of these names are not how I thought they'd be pronounced so this is just par for the course.

[uozlulu]

Since Finral will have to rest before taking Yami back to base portal by portal, it's possible the two of them could get called to assist the Golden Dawn post-attack and it could take even longer for them to get back to the Black Bulls unless Yami figures out quickly it could be a simultaneous attack and that since the Black Bulls are on top of the Spade border they’re a prime target

[uozlulu]

Supernatural season 15 episode 2 reaction and spoilers

I still think the most viable Jack the Ripper theory I heard was local coroner

”Doors have locks. Locks have keys.” My brain: [Sam voice] If there's a key, then there has to be a lock.

Castiel: Even if we didn’t know that all the challenges we faced were born of Chuck’s machination, how would we describe it all? We’d call it “life,” because that’s precisely what life is. It’s an obstacle course and maybe Chuck designed the obstacles, but we ran our own race. We made our own moves, and mostly we did well with that. Dean: Did we? I’ll tell you what we know. Nothing about our lives is real. Everything that we lost, everything that we are, is because of Chuck. So, maybe you can stick your head back in the sand – maybe you can pretend we actually had a choice – I can’t. Castiel: Dean – you asked, “What about all of this is real?” – We are.

I really liked the above exchange. It shows how far Castiel has come since season four and also shows Dean still struggling with one of his core issues: his struggle with people and/or beings trying to control him. If you think about it, Dean didn’t leave when Sam did, he remained under their dad’s influence. That’s why he shows up in episode one all “Dad hasn’t been home in a few days.” Once Dean’s released from John’s control, he has barely any time to breathe before he’s sending himself to Hell for Sam’s sake. In Hell, Dean is first controlled and then in a way loses control of himself as he becomes like the demons. Once he’s back topside, the whole Chuck thing starts up and Dean finds out that he’s been dealing with Chuck trying to control him and his life since before he was even born. It makes sense that Dean is struggling with this because it’s frustration, anger, and resentment that he’s felt time and time again and he probably can’t completely be sure that another something or other, if not Chuck himself, might appear and try to exert control.

Kevin, I missed you. A shame they’re under-utilizing Osric Chau though, but that’s not too surprising. So far season 15 has been suffering from consistent flaws in the series as a whole.

[uozlulu]

lol Now Kagura's actually acting in place of Gintoki since he's too sick to do cases and Shinpachi is calling her Gura-san and this si hillarious and cute. I love it.

[uozlulu]

I just read the preview of your Banana Fish AU ending and i’m really excited of what you have in store! I don’t know much about writing but I really like how you portray Ash and Eiji so far.

Thanks. I really needed to hear this. The response I got to the defunct draft has really been the one thing keeping me going in writing the newer draft. I hope that I don’t lose the ball as it gets longer and longer. I’ve got over 15,000 words in the updated draft. I have a clear idea of where I’m going so that also helps.

I’m glad you messaged me because today I was just like sdlfkjsfljksf about it and this will really help me keep going. Thank you so very much, anon :D

[uozlulu]

Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi trailer reaction post.

My first thought is WWE Raw. Not sure if that's good or bad.

I like the use of colors.

"This is not going to go...the way you think." Can't tell if the pause is dialogue omission or simply the fact it looks like Luke's in pain there.

Hi, Finn. I really hope the lack of Finn means that he's got some big something or other spoilery spoil spoil and not that he got sidelined

"I need someone to show me my place in all this," might be said to Kylo, but it's also possible that Rey's saying that while say inside a cave on the island to Luke. I'm not sure if Johnson is going to do an Abrams where he gives too much away by nodding too strongly to the original trilogy (I hope not), but there were caves and training and eccentric hermits in Episode V, so....but if she is saying it to Kylo and he responds with that hand...who knows. If we look at the use of red in the trailer, there are a lot of options here. It's also possible that the hand Kylo offers is for Leia and we're going to get a scene that looks similar to when Kylo kills Han but he won't kill Leia. Or something. Lots of options.

Also if we look at the use of red in the trailer and the use of red in the posters along with Luke's placement in both, I'm kind of curious what message they're trying to send. There's clearly some sort of symbolism happening but it feels like it could go multiple ways or possibly be a misdirect to keep us guessing.

[uozlulu]

I think that with the introduction of the new guy they might change Ingrid’s diagnosis and reveal that the guy is a real sociopath a.k.a. really evil I don’t know but I hope that’s not where they’re going cause I liked that they showed Ingrid as and with heart though the idea of trying to fix her herself was a little messed up.

This is my concern as well, that the new guy will be framed as the Evil Sociopath (tm). I also think that it makes sense that Ingrid is in therapy and that she would benefit from therapy but the way it's being depicted is really concerning to me especially since we're in a political climate in which new age eugenics is gaining steam.

On one hand, you could rationalize some of it by the characters having realistic reactions to the situation (like how the team is a bit standoffish to Ingrid), but on the other hand, it's the narrative framing of sociopathy that is my bigger qualm.

Like I don't need it to be perfect or anything but I'd like to think in this day and age we could read the room a and not go for a "These people with a mental disorder are evil" storyline. But, this is CBS so...

[uozlulu]

Well that was a deeply unsettling explosion