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[meanbossart]

Mlord I appreciate the gesture, but I don't think this flower wreath you made me can replace a helmet.

[theology101]

For those less familiar with VTM lore, HJ and LaVonte made an oath not to just kill each other on the Golden Gate Bridge, but to do so after usurping the power of Caine, the God of the Vampires and the fourth Human being to ever exist. Also, when a Vampire devours another of a lower generation, they take and usurp those powers for themselves… presuming they’re strong enough of will and mind to fully take over the soul. Which HJ and LaVonte seem confident in. Like, they looked at each other and said “Together we’ll kill god and be better then he ever could before dying together.”

[soft-n-sweetie]

fat girls in tank tops that are slightly too small. you agree. reblog.

[rizgukgakmybeloved]

Siobhan rolling so insanely well and then immediately being called a whore has to be one of the funniest successes in d20 history

[islandoforder]

still thinking about brennan caving anf giving zac a horse but not wanting to seem like a pushover so making the horse as burdensome and annoying and permanent as possible (when he does not succeed in immediately killing it)

[kimwxller]

I am the vampire Madeleine Eparvier. And my immortal companion is Claudia. My coven is Claudia.

[tubpumpkin]

The illusion of choice 🫩

[puc-puggy]

it's so deliciously fucked up that none of the women in something very bad is going to happen textually believe the man they married is their soulmate. only the men. it's the successful performance of it all and how much of traditional femininity is performance for men. how women are taught to fit themselves around men (around husbands) and those men feel so confident that this woman is made for them because she has carved away or hidden the parts of herself that would undermine that conviction, all the while the woman is completely incapable of believing that man is her soulmate because he is incapable of seeing her fully at all. these men would not recognize their wives' whole selves.

victoria chose not to marry the man she truly loved in order to marry the man who was more devoted to her and who would be obedient, a survival choice in the far more sexist time period she was married in, when a man's power to curtail his wife was far more complete. she never mentions the man she loved again and performs an empty devotion to the husband she chose in order to remain the master of her own domain. and her husband cannot see that. he can never see his wife completely and know that she chose him in order to remain in control. he must believe the whole time that she loved him more than the other, that they moved past it.

rachel's immediate reaction to the witness' explanation is that she is going to die, and we see why. throughout the movie, nicky does not listen to her once. he performs a caring spouse routine to his family's standards by constantly ignoring her wishes. he pressures her about children relentlessly despite her clearly stated preference to have NO children. he decides to drive 8 hours to search for a wedding dress rather than wait for their friends to call back against her repeated pleas to stay with her. the fact that he did not actually believe her about the airplane's doom in their meetcute story is stupid but it is also very significant. nicky pays lipservice to rachel's instincts and anxieties--just enough to calm her into compliance with his desperate attempts to mimic his parents' 'perfect' marriage. he hunts the fox doggedly all day because his father told him to, ignoring his fiancee and pretending to himself that her anxieties are nonsense (always nonsense) until she turns to nell for support. of course rachel does not turn to nicky, why would she? his immediate reaction to every situation is an attempt to disprove and change her conclusions.

nell knows that her soulmate is her own choice, and she is actively in divorce proceedings. she has decided to stop choosing a man that she loves but who is mean to her and who she knows will never ever change for the sake of her wellbeing. she can only look at the man who is convinced that they are meant for each other with shock and grief, knowing also that he must have loved his first wife with the same broken and impotent sort of love that he gave to nell. loving, in his mind, does not require any attempt to avoid causing pain to the one he loves.

right before he forces her into a marriage that ends her life, rachel says she is done betraying herself for nicky. because that is what marriage is to a woman. a cycle of self-betrayal to appease a man

[subpar-celestial]

Just finished "Something very bad is going to happen"

So Nellie was fucking right, huh? You just have to believe that your partner is your soulmate.

I watched the show with my sibling, when the curse was passed to the Cunningham's we were confused as to why Victoria was dying and Boris was not. Then Portia starts going down late and it's like, oh, it doesn't hit everyone at the same time. It just hasn't hit Boris yet. But then it never does, why? They're both a part of Nicky's bloodline, Victoria didn't have him all by herself.

At the very beginning of the show, I believe first episode, one of the first things Victoria says to Rachel is "I'm sorry for what this will do to you both," or at least something to that effect. She's not talking about the curse, she can't be. She doesn't know about it yet, none of them do at that point. She's simply talking about the marriage. So the woman who idealized and romanticized marriage to all her kids is sorry for what marriage will do to them both. What does that say about her own marriage? She doesn't know Rachel, it's not some commentary on her, no it's marriage as a whole. She clearly doesn't believe in it, in her own even. She doesn't think Boris is her soulmate. So she dies. But Boris? Boris idolizes Victoria, he puts her up on a pedestal. He thinks she's perfect, his soulmate. That's why he lives while she doesn't.

Then that gets you thinking, Nicky lived too. It's easy to think he was in the same mindset as Jules and Nell at the end. Simply trying to pass the curse back for their families sake (not that I blame them, they have a child to think about, the needs of the many outweigh the few). But I don't think that's true. He fully thought they were soulmates, he thought it woild stop the curse for his family and her. Because they're soulmates so she shouldn't die, right? Except she no longer believes they are, after everything I don't blame her.

But if this is all true and it's all about belief that means if Nicky had just said yes at the alter none of that would've happened. She was certain up there, she believed with her whole heart and that would've propelled them. It would've saved her. But...Nicky likes a good story.

[heavenisclosed---tobothofus]

Presumably Nicky also had to not say or do anything to fuck it up until after sunset though, because “sunset on your wedding day” was the deadline for the curse. So anything which shook Rachel’s belief in their relationship before then could have put her in danger, even if Nicky hadn’t pulled that stunt at the altar.

Nellie was right to an extent IMO: in the sense that you do make your own reality, but that you can’t save yourself alone.

[kaif-ene]

I think the best part of SVBIGTH is how we’re told how kind and sweet Nicky is while we see no evidence to support this repeatedly, almost exactly how a friend tells us her boyfriend’s “the best” but we never??? see??? it???

[inthemoodforblastt]

What I love about Nell and Jules being soulmates is that they were actually on the verge of getting divorced. Yes, they are soulmates, they complement each other, they truly see one another (really see each other, because they’re honest, open, and have total communication, which is exactly what Rachel criticises Nicky for lacking), and they accept each other as they are. But that doesn’t guarantee a perfect marriage.

Marrying your soulmate doesn’t make a relationship perfect. It doesn’t mean there won’t be problems, or that it won’t require work, or that it won’t go through crises or even that it couldn’t end. What it does mean is that you’ve found someone who sees you and accepts you as you are, even when you’re a mess. But from that point on, you still have to build the relationship, work on it, maintain it, and understand that just because that person sees and accepts you doesn’t mean the path will be easy or perfect. If anything, it means that even in the worst crises, you’ll always be able to rely on each other, because at the end of the day, you’re partners. Jules even said it himself, before anything else, Nell was his friend, and that’s one of the keys.

Honestly, I love that instead of portraying the only couple that actually “makes it” as some idealised, perfect relationship, they’re shown as something much messier, full of issues, even a bit dysfunctional. Finding your soulmate doesn’t mean anything if you’re not constantly putting in the work.

[monidoll]

the solarpunk party is being torn apart by an ideological divide between the orthodox yogurtists and the progressive post-yogurtists

[monidoll]

[genderless-art]

god imagine being ana lopez, youre engaged to the most annoying man in earth and then here comes a hot french vampire to take you on the sapphic adventure of your dreams

[heytherecentaurs]

I love that Brennan’s utter contempt for technocrats meant he couldn’t let the plot shift away from San Francisco without beheading Davis Otherman. I respect it. He was like, “Here’s the biggest piece of shit and exactly how evil his ilk actually are. Now watch me, this narrative’s god, actively choose to smite him for his sins against humanity.”

[brennan-lee-mother]

Brennan quickly establishing that the big bad of this season is of course capitalism but specifically in the form of the appification of everything is something that can be so personal

[islandoforder]

it’s just so on brand for brennan to be like yeah i’m putting stephen king in the campaign but she’s a black indigenous woman and instead of maine she’s hyper focused on the pacific northwest

[jingle-knight]

He’s lame, he’s cringe, he’s stupid, he’s obsessed with justice, he thinks he’s a superhero, he has a dumb fucking superhero name, his cape is shaped like the moon, he’s bald, he’s a bouncer, he’s 7’5, he’s fucking busted as hell, his sidekick is cooler than him, he’s probably old as balls, he wears a fedora, his name is dumb, his superhero name is dumber. He’s washed, chopped, and cooked, and he will NEVER serve, NOR will he eat. Brian Murphy you’ve done it again