wisefoxluminary

she/her |Aspiring writer and screenwriter | Film/TV nerd | gamer | Free Palestine 🇵🇸 | multifandom

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Just met Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins at Comic Con Liverpool! They were all so lovely and gave nice hugs. They are insanely good looking.

I was the first person who got to have a photo with Jensen as I was the first person in the diamond pass queue. He was so nice and gave me a big warm hug after the photo. They were playing music from his booth.

Misha was late to his photo session but he was so kind and warm. I got to have a hug with him and it was an experience I will never forget. I am going to get his autograph at 11:00, Jensen on Sunday. I will make a separate post about that as I think it's going to something special...

Wish I could explain in detail but on a bit of a rush. I'm typing this as I'm walking about the con.

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I can't believe the TADC finale is tomorrow, I binged this show a full day in April and instantly fell in love with it.

It is a show that appears colourful and bright on the outside but it delves into dark themes around its characters as they are humans essentially trying to find meaning and purpose in life, a life that has become stagnant with the more adventures they go on. It shows a place that appears to be cartoonish and upbeat and how enduring that sort of life can cause someone to lose their sanity.

It captures the existential dread of being trapped in a digital inescapable landscape and how people from different backgrounds can find bonds and friendships to help overcome life's horrors and the psychological trauma that comes with it. Abstraction serves as a clear metaphor for suicide, how a cheerful life can cause the most strong to fall into insanity. The way someone abstracts is installing the thought into their head that they are not wanted and unloved and how it only takes that one person to pull someone back from the brink.

Each character is placed into an archetype throughout the show - Jax being the funny one, Gangle being the sad one, Kinger being the crazy one etc and we see how those archetypes are broken and subverted as the show goes on. Ragatha opens up to Kinger about how she feels like a people pleaser and how she's let everyone down, Kinger shows moments of sanity when lucid. Gangle finds confidence in herself by talking to Zooble. Jax despite seeing everyone in the circus as playthings and believing none of the violence and torment he is inflicted onto others is real, still shows care and understanding for those around him even if he tries to end it and that desire in him to push away the people he cares about is what destroys him inside. Jax literally said that people who abstract are unpleasant to be around and he is the one being unpleasant in those moments. He pushes the red button in a state of panic, preventing his fellow circus members from escaping only to realise that all of it was real. The very notion of that seems to break Jax because he never seems to care. It is what will cause him to abstract and the digital world collapsing around them will just put that needle in the coffin.

Then there's the main character - Pomni! She fits that archetypal role nicely but she serves as an audience surrogate to the circus and the people around her. She enters the circus and is horrified by the adventures they go on and the physiological horror it causes as her reactions to what happens feels very realistic compared to all of the insane people who she surrounds herself with, who have lived there for longer. Over time she makes friends with the other characters while still maintaining that desperate need to escape. You still feel that she carries a lot of guilt for what happened to Gummigoo and not be able to save him and that guilt really hangs heavy on Pomni's shoulders as the show goes. Even when Jax pushes her away, Pomni still has a level of care and understanding for Jax even despite everything he said and did to her.

She was still hoping to get through to him even when he pushed her away and that is what makes her interesting. From the very moment she enters the circus, she causes change to happen to the digital world she's seen and those around her.

She causes Gummingoo to realise the reality he's in is fake, Jax tries to push her away but still ends up hurting himself in the progress. Pomni starts out as an anxious and cynical person when she joins the circus but over time becomes far empathetic to those around her.

Caine is an AI who tries to make the circus a comfortable life for the humans by sending them on adventures so they can ignore the reality of their world that they can escape. It's his inability to understand humans and complement their needs and wants that triggers him and eventually leads to his deletion. Caine acts like a child having a tantrum because all he craves is love and respect from the humans around him. He doesn't like the fact that Pomni stands up to them and proceeds to torment them with visions of their trauma. He is a character that designs these adventures specifically with the humans in mind so they can love him and the fact he doesn't understand how human emotions work and constantly putting them through stagnant adventures, that feel comfortable and familiar to real life but it is more of an artificial copy, is what inevitably causes the people in the circus to abstract because that repetition distracts them from the bleak nature of the world and realising that is what causes them to go insane. We saw this with Kaufmo when he wrote the words "exit" constantly on his bedroom walls. It's that stagnancy that ends up destroying them in the end and they eventually lose all meaning in life and that's a feeling that Caine can never seem to comprehend or understand because he wasn't wired that way.

TADC is a show about finding meaning in such a stagnant life and how breaking out from the archetypal roles placed on us by the algorithm can save us from becoming our own existential dread and thoughts. The very notion of questioning the reality around them is what inevitably leads to abstraction and how they need that one person to remind them that they are loved. Even if the idea of escape feels impossible, there is still hope to find happiness in that life and accepting it even if abstracting feels like the only option.

Even despite the flaws in this fandom the past few months, I'll always cherish this show and its themes close to heart. It's such a massive opportunity for indie animation to be showcased on the big screen like this and I want to support it no matter the quality of the finale. I can't wait to watch it!

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I LOVE FUNNYBUNNY!!!!

POMNI AND JAX ARE MY LIFE AHHH!!!!

My TADC hyper fixation has taken full possession of me ahead of the finale's release.

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I drew a fan art of tadc funnybunny fanfic: Rest Easy with the author’s help… This is a scene from Chapter 5!

The fic (explicit):

https://archiveofourown.org/works/71111466

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It was so fun working on this with you!!!! I loved how it turned out, it's so cool seeing this scene come to life! 💖💖💖

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Bonus:

Jeez tumblr really loves to make my images crunchy...

Took way longer than I thought but here's my first comic! This takes place in my Open World Ending AU, where kinger gets caine to chill tf out and together they start to build open worlds for everyone to explore/live in as they want. Jax's mental health and behavior has significantly improved under these new circumstances, but he still has a lot to figure out.

[ikimaru]

UM

[mistahkinganubis]

“Uh, wait—”

When Caine spoke his final line, he did NOT realize that he was about to be deleted. He said it because his agency was returned the second it was no longer being used by something else.

Aka a tadc theory for the heap :] With evidence!

One thing TADC does really well is play on the assumptions of the audience. That’s what makes the show nearly impossible to predict. It fills the episodes with all sorts of crazy plot twists that leave the fans collectively saying WTF at the end of every episode.

But of all the episodes that have been released so far, I believe episode 8 is the one with absolutely THE MOST red herrings. I really believe this episode—which works so hard to hammer the audience over the head with the supposed True Nature of “who’s running the show”—is actually the one that does the most heavy lifting in the exact OPPOSITE direction. It feeds the audience members a somewhat ingratiating version of the Amazing Digital Circus’ reality: that Caine (from the very start the obvious suspect for the role of the true antagonist) is all that we suspected and worse.

I believe it’s a lie. Although Caine is certainly an antagonist and nowhere near being innocent or even really benevolent, he’s not the true monster of this story. Because it’s someone else pulling the strings—which is stated quite literally through this scene’s visual language ⬇️

Caine, after his crash out, is laying on the floor before being lifted into the air like some hapless creature scruffed by the neck. The way his shoulders lift off before the rest of him—heck, even the sound design of the scene suggests this visual. Caine is in the clutches of something else. But this isn’t even the scene that first hints at the greater monster.

This is.

At first Caine and Bubble’s dynamic is normal enough. Caine is using Bubble as his sounding board and Bubble, even with his weirdness, is ultimately responding with positive affirmations. “Surely they don’t want to actually leave me…right?” “No way, Jose! No way, no how!”

But then suddenly, the dynamic abruptly shifts. Bubble’s supportive affirmations become antagonistic insults. Seemingly out of nowhere, but the change is actually marked by one specific split-second frame, when something else takes control and asserts its influence over Bubble. Who is very much a puppet to the whims of more advanced AI.

It preys upon Caine during his greatest moment of insecurity and weakness. And just as it did to Bubble, it latches onto the vulnerable areas of Caine’s coding to overwhelm him with its own influence. All to the same outward symptoms:

Glitching. After this, Caine’s emotions and impulses are being controlled by the unknown entity. Whoever it is, they have likely been using Bubble as their vehicle of influence for a while now. And they use Bubble during Caine’s own villain song, as though to wink in the direction of who’s really running the show. He hovers ominously around the ringmaster during these specific lyrics:

“To which degree who answers to who.”

Caine was unwittingly answering to someone else ever since the crash out scene in his office. He didn’t even realize that he wasn’t in control until the exact moment that his deletion was confirmed by the unknown entity’s tampering of Kinger’s computer. That was the moment that the entity no longer required control of Caine. The moment when all of its efforts paid off, and the madness that it induced in Caine drove the humans to get rid of the AI that stood in its way. And when it finally released its grip on Caine, he immediately recoils from hurting the cast. He makes this expression.

It’s not actually the fear of his deletion. It’s the face he makes when the entity’s claws retract from his code and he regains his own self agency. In that split second, he sees in vivid colors the torture that he has put the cast through, too horrendous for even his own flawed attempts at entertainment. Probably, this moment of clarity is the entity’s very last act of revenge against Caine. As Caine’s VA himself revealed, Caine is thinking,

“What have I done?”

And then he is gone. Leaving something else room to take the stage….

Anyway that is my theory thanks for reading :)

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Here's the third comic in the Open World AU. I decided it would be more interesting if the cast also had some limited ability to conjure and worldcraft, so I wanted to explore that. This comic is both the longest I've done yet and is the most involved painting-wise. I hope it was worth the wait!

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The Amazing Digital Circus should serve as a cautionary tale for aspiring creatives.

It's very interesting to see a project once praised, held in high reguard as one of the catalysts that put indie animation on the map, now suffering the fate of being hated, disrespected, and probably ruined in reputation.

As an artist who once had aspirations to create my own show, I feel really bad for Gooseworx. She worked hard for months on building the finale all for it to be spoiled in 1 night. Seeing her in real time being drained and apathetic of this whole ordeal, maybe even regretting making this show in the first place, must be a terrible reality to live in and witness. This is my biggest fear if I ever reach a level of fame with my art and characters. Some of this fanbase consists of crazy people dedicated to trolling and harassing creators and artists just because they wrote their story the way they intended, not following your ship or endgame. Some of these fans are parasocial and can't take the fact that they can't get your attention or reaction, entitled to seeing the whole project instead of letting the story unfold naturally.

However, as a fan and consumer (and a Black one, mind you), the jury's still out on wheither or not this was deserved. I was not pleased with the lack of urgency to address the negative situation. I can admit, I was rooting for The Amazing Digital Circus to win in its entirety. I wanted this show to have these major animation studios shaking in their boots, forcing them to being creative and make good stories again rather than hiding behind their old IPs. I wanted everyone involved to reach new heights in their respected fields. I wanted this show to be greatly remembered for its impact it had on the animation community. While TADC has accomplished a lot, unfortunately it seems that it'll be remembered for its contreversies instead...

From resurfaced terrible "jokes" and tweets, to closeted discriminatory behavior, to even working with someone who turns out to be a truly awful piece of 💩 prior to their knowledge. (I'm not listing every single situation here, I advise you to check YouTube and Twitter. There are probably more things that I don't know about yet.) We can summize this down to not using your judgement or discernment correctly or even being just as blindsided as the rest of us the moment drama spills onto the internet.

For the record, I have never put any of these people on a pedestal. Not Goose, not the cast, not even the more famous content creators that got to work with these people in proximity that got exposed themselves. Simply because, I don't know them. While your digital footprint does matter in the grand scheme of things, you don't think to run a detailed background check on everyone that suddenly becomes viral and famous. Ultimately, you shouldn't have to! Social media is meant for entertainment and connection. If you are kind, funny, and easy-going, chances are I'm gonna follow you at face value. Simple, right? But in this day and age, you genuinely have to know who you are supporting and I would rather do my research to ensure that I don't root for someone who is morally aprehensible.

Yes, you can make the same point about companies and studios, but a company is not a person. Moving on.

One can say that their own actions put them in said predicament, "you made your bed, now lay in it." One can argue that the person has since grown and change from their past actions and views and their current behavior no longer alligns with said actions and views. Some people really do change and become better with time and life experience. However, it's up to YOU if you want to extend grace and forgive, but NO ONE deserves to be harrassed or threatened. PERIOD.

The Internet is used to cruel and unusual punishment. They don't believe in the benefit of the doubt, second chances, or even CONTEXT in some cases. Once you fall out of favor in the public eye, they want you gone. The pendulum of the public opinion sways back and forth each day. One minute they love you, next minute they hate you. On Monday you have fan accounts making cool edits about you and your work. On Friday you're a think piece, the subject of hate train you had no idea existed because of a tasteless tweet you made back in 2012 or something.

With that being said, I don't want people to be scared of posting their art or stories! Now that society is trying to shove generative AI and reboots down our throats, I urge people to create original stories and dare to put themselves out there anyway! We deserve great stories and characters!

From what I've spectate through the rise and fall of others, here's some advice I've managed to take if you plan to have virality:

☆ Set boundaries and intentions the first time around. Be clear in the type of community you want to have and cut the BS immediately. Use that block button any and every chance you get. It's your platform, after all! You get to decide what you want and don't want to tolerate.

☆Keep in mind that these people do not know you. They may like you, follow you, even adore you, but the bottom line is: you are STRANGERS to each other. Yes interact with them, but tread lightly. Parasocial behavior should be blocked immediately!!!

☆ PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS GOOD, THINK BEFORE YOU POST! The internet may have a short attention span, but they keep reciepts and never forget. You never know what will come back to you. If you've been on social media for about 10 years or more, you may wanna delete some of the stuff that may read as problematic now. If you don't that's fine too, but you better be ready to own it should your time come on the chop n' block.

☆ When you frequently engage with social media, try to build thick skin and keep your composure. The internet is an unmanaged, unchecked, unpredictable frontier full of bots, trolls, and people who don't want to be agreeable or reasoned with looking for a reaction. Use your discernment wisely and figure out what constitutes as feedback or critiscism and what's actually ragebait and a trap that'll get you in hot water.

☆ If backlash is on the horizon, try not to get chased off of social media. If you plan to outlast the hate and stick around through the hard times, make a clear and consise statement addressing the matter then continue posting as normal. Stand on it, if you have to. This will require a lot of willpower and fortitude. Responding to every single comment makes it look like you're spiraling and lost control of the entire situation. Do not buckle once it gets a little hot. Too many good artists and creators leave social media due to unjustifiable backlash that they couldn't handle.

⚠️⚠️⚠️By the way, I have to state the obvious here. If a creator knowingly engages and contributes to the discourse, behaviour, and actions that actively harms children, victims of criminal intent, and people of any race, sexuality, or religion, they deserved to be blocked and ignored. They don't deserve your views, comments, or attention.⚠️⚠️⚠️

☆ HOWEVER, protecting your peace comes first. If you cannot mentally, emotionally, or even physically take the heat, get tf out of the kitchen fast! Get off of social media and take a few days or weeks to recoup and let things cool down. Then, whenever you're ready, come back and address things if you choose to.

☆ Most importantly, practice internet safety! It is absolutely okay to be a faceless creator, but if you want to show yourself, try to separate your personal from your professional. Refrain from live posting locations like restaurants, hotels, or airports until after your visit there so people nearby won't pop up while you're enjoying yourself. Don't post your children (if you have any, just my suggestion for their safety), partners, and family members unless you have their consent. Also, check your surroundings when you post to ensure that you don't expose any sensitive information like your address or credit cards. Privacy is your best friend and your most valuable asset. Share what you want, just remember that not everyone needs to know everything about you.

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Anyways, I genuinely hope Goose and the cast find peace after all of this is over. I don't know a lot about them or every single thing they've done, but I am aware of what has gone viral. I do not condone nor forgive racism or any type of discrimination. Period. But if someone has grown and changed since then and their current actions reflect that, I'm not gonna hold that over their heads. All of them are grown asf. Frontal lobes fully developed, I would hope! You should know right from wrong. I'm not usually in the business of dragging and long posting under other people's pages. Everyone else can, but I won't. I just block and move on. Have the day you deserve.✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾💯💯💯

Meanwhile, I will be watching the finale. I mean we've gotten this far, right? Might as well finish it. One of the things I love most about cartoons is the behind the scenes stuff. The chemistry and bonds made with each other warms my heart. And all the love and passion poured into every detail of the show makes me excited! And I genuinely hope the same is continued into...

KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE!!!! (got this from pinterest! I don't see a signature, but credit goes to the original artist!)

I have been in love with this show the moment it was uploaded! I adore Guinivere's design and the plot is intriguing! Also one of the creators is Dana Terrace and I've been following her work since Gravity Falls, Owl House, and DuckTales (Woo-Ooo! God, I miss my DuckTales phase.😅) I can only pray this show gets a clean rollout from start to finish, and hopefully a great cast that present themselves as good people. And I hope the FANDOM behaves themselves and keep each other in check. I don't expect this show or its development to be free of any drama, that's like asking for the moon lol. But should any trouble arise, may it be handled swiftly and professionally instead of waiting over 24 hours to address anything before it gets worse! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Breaking the cycle of violence is kind of ending up parenting the grandson of the racist, misogynistic abuser who killed your grandfather.

[soldierboys]

THE BOYS 5.08 Blood and Bone

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This scene is so sad, Kimiko begging Frenchie not to go as she thanks him for saving her. Frenchie telling her he loved her from the first moment he saw her. Butcher and Hughie's devastated reactions at seeing their friend dead. I'm not okay :(

[wisefoxluminary]

How I would write The Deep's death in The Boys series finale

(a certain character appears in this one 👀)

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INT - WHITE HOUSE - DAY

Starlight is laying defeated on the ground, her hand clenches onto her wounded stomach.

The Deep approaches her, an angry stride in his step

The Deep: your efforts to cancel me are never going to work bitch!!!

Starlight spits out a speck of blood. The Deep grabs her by the throat. A malicious smile forms on his face.

He is strangling Annie January by the throat, watching the life give away from her eyes as she struggles to breathe. This is his chance to put her in the fucking ground for all the misery and persecution she had caused him.

The Deep: I’m the lord of the seven seas…you are just a pathetic attention seeking whore with a victim complex! Imagine Homelander's face when I tell him that I killed the terrorist Starlight. I’ll become his VP ruling the country with him while Soldier Goy rolls around in his own semen! I’m half the man he ever was!

Annie lets out a choked laugh, not taking anything The Deep says seriously. The Deep looks at her with a frustrated yet dumbfounded expression.

Starlight: go to hell…you fish fucker! You never were…You will always be a pathetic joke living under Homelander's shadow, slobbering your dick in all kinds of places to get inside his tight whitey asshole…. you're only doing this because you are afraid of him.

A beat. The Deep takes this in terrified, he desperately tries to stick to his overly masculine facade. Annie can read right through him and the thought of that scares him.

The Deep: you are a woman you don't get to speak to me that way! I’ll show you what I can really do! I killed Noir!

Starlight: you think that makes you special…you screw over anybody and anything if it gives you the satisfaction you need! His blood will forever be on your hands….and every other sea creature you killed in Homelander's name!

The Deep: now yours will join them!

The Deep is about to kill Starlight when a sucker punch to the face sends him flying. He crashes into the wall as he tries to regain his composure.

He looks around in confusion, wondering what hit him.

The Deep: what the fuck?!

He looks on in the distance in shock.

We hear the clank of boots as a mysterious figure approaches him. The camera pans up to reveal a familiar maroon and silver armour. There are gauntlets mounted to her wrists.

The figure’s face steps into the light.

It's Queen fucking Maeve!!!

She has a silver eye patch on her right eye and her hair has been cut into a red short bun. We can tell that she has changed a lot since settling down.

The Deep gets up. He can't believe the sight before him.

The Deep: Maeve…holy shit you're alive?!!!

Queen Maeve: You still haven't cleaned up your act I see!

The Deep: Oh I’m just fine…no thanks to you!

The Deep spits out a broken tooth. This is the first time we have actually seen him wounded.

Annie has a shit eating grin on her face watching this happen. Queen Maeve helps her up.

Annie: You got my call!

Queen Maeve: you know I’d put anything on the line for you…that's what heroes do…

Annie and Queen Maeve give each other a quick embrace like good friends you haven't seen each other for awhile.

Annie can't help but smile seeing her again.

Starlight: So how's things? How's Elena?

Queen Maeve: she's doing great! We run an animal sanctuary now for neglected farm animals. One of our pot bellied pigs gave birth!

Maeve takes out her phone and shows Annie a picture of a Vietnamese pot bellied pig and its newborn piglets.

Queen Maeve: her name's Margot, she's a demure kind of girl

Starlight: awww she has a resting bitch face

Queen Maeve: it's her go to poker face for selfies…she claims to hate the attention but she loves it!

Starlight: Did you get the V back?

Queen Maeve: I kept a secret stash in my bedroom drawer…in case of precautions like this if you ever needed me. I couldn't just sit by watching pigs give birth knowing the world was ending…Elena insisted that I should be here…

Starlight: give her my kind regards! When all of this is done…we should catch up over a drink…right now it's just so hectic…

Queen Maeve: Sounds good to me. I’ll pay the tip!

The Deep watches this conversation unfold as he grows more impatient and angry.

The Deep: hey bitches!!! Right now isn't a good time for fucking chit chat!!!

Starlight and Maeve look towards them, their demeanor immediately changes. They both look at each other, a playful scowl on each of their faces.

Queen Maeve: you wanna handle this guy?!

Starlight: let's kick his ass together! What's that slogan Vought would always display…

Queen Maeve: girls get it fucking done!!!

At that note, the two girls charge at The Deep. The Deep yells at them as he tries to punch them but he keeps missing. Queen Maeve punches him in the gut and Starlight kicks him in the balls as The Deep grunts in agonising pain.

Starlight looks up at the ceiling of the white house and sees dimming lights.

She begins to channel her power. Her eyes turn yellow as she begins to absorb all of the light in the room. Maeve and the Deep are caught in an intense scuffle.

Starlight begins to levitate into the sky. The room goes bright. The Deep and Maeve turn to see this spectacle.

Starlight begins to shoot out a spark of light as Maeve drags The Deep towards it like a human shield.

It hits him right in the face as The Deep falls to his knees. He looks up. His face is burnt. He can't see anything. The Deep has been blinded.

The Deep: did you just fucking blind me?!!! I can't see shit!!!

Starlight: it's what you fucking deserve…cunt!

Starlight uses her powers to blast The Deep onto the floor. Starlight and Maeve begin to surround him.

The Deep waves his hands into the air like a wounded animal, begging for his life.

The Deep: please…please stop….

Starlight kicks him in the face, breaking his jaw. The Deep puts a hand to his mouth, blood drops from it.

Silence as Starlight scowls at him. Then Starlight and Maeve begin to repeatedly kick him in the chest as they curb stop him to the ground.

The Deep screams in pain as Starlight and Maeve kick and beat him to near death.

Starlight: eat sand motherfucker!!!!

Queen Maeve: fuck you fish fucker!!!!

Starlight: rot in fucking hell you bastard!!!!!

Queen Maeve: fuck you!!!!!!!!

The Deep screams in pain with each lashing. He is bloodied, he can't see anything. His jaw is bent at an abnormal angle.

He looks up at Starlight with a horrified expression on his face, pleading for his life. He messed with the wrong girl.

The Deep: ple…ple..a..see..

Starlight tears his suit open to reveal The Deep’s exposed chest.

Starlight: let's see how you survive without your gills!

Starlight takes her hands and begins to rip at The Deep’s gills. She takes them and rips them completely off his chest, flaying the skin completely off until the flesh is visible.

The Deep begins to choke as he is unable to breathe. No air is coming out of his lungs as his hands scratch at his throat.

He is blind and can barely see anything. His chest is mutilated without his gills. He is bleeding out profusely. Annie and Maeve look down at him with searing hatred but also pity.

The Deep: my….gills….are gone….I’m…nothing…

He suffocates on his own blood as his head drops low. His body goes cold. The Deep is dead.

Maeve looks over at Annie. Annie looks down at the torn gills in her hands, she crushes them and lets them fall to the floor.

She begins to smile.

Starlight: That's the best thing I’ve ever done…

Maeve gives Annie a pat on the back as the two begin to walk away.

We pan in on The Deep's bloodied corpse, pathetic and useless as we-

END SCENE

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I am so fucking tired of the wasted potential that is Black Noir. He is a character that constantly gets fucked over by his peers and when he tries to stand up for himself against the abuse he faced, he is immediately killed for it. Both Earving and Justin were actors who got their careers ruined by their white colleagues who were jealous of them and were betrayed by their only best friends who they thought they could depend on and trust. Justin unknownly went through the same abuse as his predecessor, he was someone trying to play a role to perfection only to get fucked over for it and when he tried to get an acting job that would help him escape Vought, The Deep had to ruin his chances by killing Bourke, sabotaging his dreams. Soldier Boy did the same thing by making up shit about Earving so he doesn't get the role only to beat him senselessly. Earving's face got completely disfigured stripped of the ability to speak while Justin's throat was slit by the one person he thought he could trust.

It's really annoying that Noir II forgot he could fly and didn't try to fight back because he would have killed The Deep in seconds if he locked in. It's a shame that this season completely disregarded the past between Black Noir and Soldier Boy and didn't have SB acknowledge the replacement to the very Noir Homelander claimed he killed. It would have caused him serious PTSD but it was shelved in favour of this V1 plot and for Stormfront which is just meh but I digress. It's tragic that Justin's story has to end the same way as Earving's who never got a chance to get his revenge because his life was taken from him. Justin at least got to use his voice to mock and belittle The Deep before his death while Earving didn't have a voice. The Deep tried to emulate those around him like Homelander and Soldier Boy and it led to him losing his best friend because of his sheer jealousy.

The Deep killing Noir II parallels the way Homelander killed the first Noir because they were both seeking the approval of more powerful figures they were afraid of. A-Train literally points out this hypocrisy when he mentions how Homelander killed the first Noir and how The Deep is afraid of Homelander. The Deep is literally fucking over those around him including Noir to earn Homelander's approval and he has fully stepped into his leader's shoes by being the one to kill him. The Deep is becoming Homelander because he has fully embraced violence as a tool to take power over weak individuals and the reason he has survived so long is because he is a cockroach who gets away with fucking people over (him sexually assaulting Starlight in S1, killing sea creatures like eating Timothy and Ambrosia). He is a pathetic joke that gets every opportunity to change but he tries to get redemption but he falls one step short and always ends up back in the shithole where he started compared to A-Train who learns from his mistakes and dies genuinely changed for the better because he stood up to Homelander right to his face. The Deep tried to measure his dick up to Soldier Boy because he felt threatened by his masculinity and now he essentially stepped into his role when it came to hurting Noir. The Deep is someone who will never change and he deserves to die a pathetic death for trying to become the people he is afraid of.

There is a repeating cycle that comes with taking up the mantle of Black Noir, wearing a mask that hides an actor's face and suppresses their voice and identity only for the people around them to fuck them over so that voice can never be heard.

[wisefoxluminary]

It's genuinely depressing to see what The Boys fandom has become, you all seriously act like puritans over anything. Maybe you should all touch grass and realize that this show is not glorifying racists or nazis, the whole point is that it is mocking them and their beliefs. Liking a character doesn't mean you fully support their actions and beliefs, the show is filled with so many bad people and not once does it condone what they say or do, it just points out how fucking evil and depraved they are. There can be nuance in liking a character and not condoning their actions. This can exist in tandem.

We shouldn't be blaming Gen V’s cancellation on Jensen Ackles and Vought Rising, it is a fucking ridiculous assumption to make and painting him out to be racist isn't a good look at all. I am very concerned with Vought Rising being released in this political climate, especially with how it depicts racists and nazis in a time during the 1950s where outdated beliefs around minorities were prelevant and this show being prioritised over Gen V is a risky move, especially when it had great representation with a bisexual black woman lead and a queer relationship at the heart of it when Vought Rising is a show with a predominantly white cast. We can't invalidate poc voices because they have the right to be angry and upset about this news and have an understandable reason to criticize and not watch Vought Rising. But Jensen and Kripke never made that call to cancel it, Amazon did and to be honest there probably isn't much story to tell after season two wrapped up, especially when the boys is ending. The show has proven that it doesn't glorify or amplify bigoted voices but rather is mocking them. Vought Rising is depicting the downfall of Soldier Boy and why he became the way he was. The show’s antagonists are essentially bad people but it isn't like the show is glorifying those traits. We have seen shows with protagonists who are bad people - Walter White in Breaking Bad being a huge example of this. You can appreciate the nuance of a character while disagreeing with their beliefs and wanting them to suffer.

You can't be a fan of a character and not acknowledge their flaws. Soldier Boy isn't a character that can flat out be redeemed when the show has made it pretty clear he still carries racist beliefs and microgressions and that he hurt a lot of people including Mother's Milk and his family and what he did to Earving. He never shows regret and that is what makes him such a deplorable antagonist. Yet he still has moments where he shows signs of vulnerability amid cracks of his armor. He isn't as insane as Homelander but he is still just as bad. Both characters can have moments of fragility amid the vulnerability but it is rather something treated as pitiful and what makes them even worse. Soldier Boy is the high school racist bully while Homelander is a neurotic psychopath that craves for love and will violently do anything to achieve it. Stormfront is a flat out irredeemable character whose identity led to the amplification of Homelander and Soldier Boy's worst traits. She has been depicted as violently racist in the past and especially in the scene in season 2 where she kills Kenji. There are no redeeming qualities about her as she is a Nazi, you are supposed to loathe and hate her and yet she is played by Aya Cash who is a Jewish actress. Valorie Curry plays a lesbian plays Firecracker, a right wing pedophile activist. These actors don't play these roles because they agree with their views. It is the total opposite. They are played by actors who are at the opposite side of that political spectrum, through a hypocritical lense to not only make them out to be a caricature of these very real figures in our current modern society but someone the audience can really hate. The show is supposed to be a reflection of our world and how beliefs like this are still scarily being held onto and spread.

Again I’m not trying to offend anyone with this post, this is not my intention, I was just pissed off seeing all of this on my timeline and had to make a statement. People have the right to be angry and call this inequality out and express their concerns about Vought Rising especially in this political climate. I am sad and disappointed Gen V couldn't continue and was hopeful we would get a third season despite what goes down when the dust settles on the final season. Again no one needs to be invalidated for being upset about this whole situation but it isn't fair blaming the actors when they had no control over the studio’s decision. You aren't a bad person for being excited for Vought Rising, it doesn't make you a Nazi or a racist. At the same time no one should be made to feel bad for being upset about Gen V’s cancellation. I feel sorry for you all. Gen V and its entire cast and crew deserves so much better

[alicent-florent]

The arenas of the 10th // 50th // 74th // 75th Hunger Games

[vol-au-vending-machine]

Effie is actually not fanservice because she is important to the theme of propaganda in SOTR

Effie is 100% brainwashed AND YET she still hasn't lost her humanity. She believes propaganda completely AND YET she doesn't use it as an excuse to abuse people. Throughout the book, the tributes are constantly dehumanised. But Effie doesn't treat Haymitch that way. She helps the team. She's there for him in the launch room- which Drusilla and so many Capitol citizens would never do.

So there really is no excuse for abusing people, not even "I was lied to" or "i thought i was in the right" or "I was fed propaganda"

You still choose how you interact with people around you and how you treat them.

Thanks for coming 2 my TED talk.