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[oodlyenough]

and now apparently Penny has won 4 gold medals. CBC is on FIRE tonight lmao

CBC is so tired

[oodlyenough]

spicandspan89 replied to your post:ok i bitched about not getting to see canada’s...

right??? I was convinced she wouldn’t be on the podium. go Penny!!!

7th at the turn!!! i was bracing for disappointment!!!

thank god we don’t have to go a whole week and a half before our first gold again lmao

[oodlyenough]

spicandspan89 replied to your post:god i finally get to watch canada in a medal match...

what a letdown!!! sighhh. at least the ladies are coming through

LOL ikr after i was like that’s what i get for rooting for a canadian man

[oodlyenough]

spicandspan89 replied to your post:lol, after i made that post i went into sirius’...

LOL. actually that would be an interesting research question. it probably dates back to early HP fandom. maybe influence from the Shoebox Project?

It’s definitely old as balls, I remember it from like... FF.net. I’m pretty sure it even pre-dates Shoebox (as did the FF.net fic era), although I think Shoebox had a pretty big impact on how everyone characterizes these characters.

I have to say Tumblr is even worse though, probably because it’s been quite a long time since people have read the books and there’s what, ten years of fandom influence now, and it’s one big game of characterization telephone. Plus Tumblr kind of tends towards twee ~aesthetic~ uwu stuff in general, even when it is a bunch of asshole teenage boys who were almost certainly not making each other flower crowns and warm cups of chamomile tea.

[queensofthekastle]

spicandspan89 replied to your post: “hello there, as a kastle shipper i would like to ask you what's wrong...”:

yeah imo kastle is more tragic and doomed than problematic. the worst thing Frank does TO Karen is when he uses her as bait in the diner. shitty thing to do even though he had no intention of letting her be harmed.

I'd agree, this is the one moment we can really question between them. Although, since he could have just taken her car, I think we can infer that he had a less rational reason for bringing her along: 1) she wanted to come and 2) he wanted her to come. That simple. It doesn't make putting her in danger ok, but I do think it's an interesting moment to consider.

-Stellar

[oodlyenough]

spicandspan89 replied to your post

yikes. are you traveling soon?

pretty soon! end of june - beginning of july. i’m only in england for a couple days which with the state of the dollar is probably good lol

[hawthornewhisperer]

looooved your analysis of 3x05 (both parts!). My only question is, how exactly was Bellamy hoping to protect Clarke by taking her to Pike? At the very least, Clarke would be held prisoner, suspected as a traitor for her loyalty to the grounders and Lexa. Worst case scenario, executed for treason as an example for what happens to those who associate with grounders. Or was Bellamy just wanting to see Clarke punished and wasn't thinking ahead (as per usual, argh)?

Okay, first question: did we get confirmation that Bellamy was taking her to Pike, or are we just assuming that/did Octavia just assume that?  I honestly can’t remember if he said something like “we’ll talk to Pike” or if I just jumped to that conclusion.  If we didn’t get direct confirmation from Bellamy that his goal was to take Clarke to Pike, it’s possible he was like, gonna keep her in his room or something?  Kind of a stupid plan, but then again, so are all his plans.  (And I just remembered that he had other guards with him, so yeah, he was probably taking her to Pike.)

But if we assume that he was definitely, 100% taking her to Pike...I don’t know what his endgame was.  Because just fifteen minutes earlier he was hissing at Octavia to take her braids out because it wasn’t safe to be seen as allied with the Grounders anymore, and Clarke is literally living with them and decided they should join them, so he has to know he would be putting her in danger.  And whatever his misguided motivation for handcuffing her and no matter how furious with her he is, Bellamy doesn’t want to put Clarke in danger.

(Sidenote: I thought it was interesting that Lexa pointed out she would shoot Clarke on sight if she was an Arkadian, and it appears Bellamy is worried the same thing will happen to Clarke if she returns to Polis.  Obviously he knows nothing about how she and Lexa feel about each other and he has zero reason to trust Lexa while Clarke does have a reason to trust that Lexa will at least protect her, but Bellamy and Lexa essentially reach the same conclusion regarding Clarke’s relative safety with the other side because that’s what they would do.)

I don’t think he would want her to be punished, and I’m guessing best-case scenario was he thought he could...plead her case?  With her handcuffed so she doesn’t run back to the grounders?  Idk man, that’s an even shittier plan than he usually comes up with, especially since Bellamy is aware of the dangerous climate he’s helped create regarding Grounder sympathizers.

Honestly, you know what I think?  I think the writers wanted to have Octavia take out a guard while they were walking and have Clarke escape, so they needed to get Clarke and Bellamy out into a hallway for some reason and “turning her over to Pike” was the next logical step.  Much like Bellamy’s whiplash decision to join Pike last week, this decision feels grounded in “what we need to happen” instead of “what this character would actually do in this situation.”  I don’t get the sense that they thought very hard about how stupid this plan is-- and just how much danger Bellamy would be putting her in if he did get her face to face with Pike-- because they never actually considered having Bellamy’s plan come to fruition.  It was just a way to get them moving from point A to point B so the rest of the story could happen.

TL;DR: Idk man.  Idk.

[valeriemperez]

do you know, I pretty much forgot Iris was doing a masters degree? and the fact that the shop robbed us of her graduation really bugs me. it could have been another lovely family scene! what if Iris had only two tickets for the ceremony?? ofc Joe is going. but there's Barry and Eddie. who would she invite??? instant drama!

I really want a fic of this now, haha. Because you know that in the end she’d want to invite Barry, if only because he had a hand in her picking journalism as her sociology elective and that is what led to her current career aspirations. Aww, that would’ve been so much fun to see, and a sort of lighthearted angst we could use much more of.