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Kevin

@the-alethiometer

I'm Kevin. Pronouns are he/him/his. I'm a fan of essentially everything, especially Doctor Who, Fullmetal Alchemist, Castle, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra, Stranger Things, Percy Jackson, The Hunger Games, Mission Impossible, Cloak & Dagger, The Boys, Attack on Titan, The Magnus Archives, Shadow and Bone and the Grishaverse, His Dark Materials, Arcane, Your Name, Warrior Nun, The Witcher, Beauty and the Beast, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Blindspot, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Prodigal Son, Outlander, Timeless, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Fantastic Beasts, The Haunting of Hill House, James Bond, Dune, Pacific Rim, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Game of Thrones, Forever, and many more. I blog about whatever I like. Spoilers for a LOT of things, so beware.

Do you ever think-

About how Gwen is looking at this picture?

How many times did she look it at it in her phone? How often after a long day, she would just reach for this just to remember better times, when she had someone to joke about all of this?

Of loving this memory so much, it became a polaroid that is probably her most treasured thing.

And wanting to have it with her even when it must hurt like hell to see this now, even when is risky- Because Miles's means enough to her this picture is enough to comfort to be the only thing she wants now that she seemingly lost everything.

No, I am not normal about them.

I love saying “of course” instead of “you’re welcome,” like of course I’m helping you that’s what I do, you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which I’m not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.

do you ever have those random moments when you just realize how much you love something? whether it’s listening to your fav song or going back to a hobby you loved as a kid or when you get coffee and for some reason it’s just perfect that day and you’re reminded why you order that exact coffee everyday

out of curiosity i wanted to compare this metric to david zaslav's salary, so lets specifically compare it to his earnings last year which was $39 million. if the studios referred to in this article continue to lose this amount consistently week to week, over the course of a whole year it STILL wouldn't total up to $39 million. it would take just shy of another 3 months for them to lose as much as this one man made in one year. that's how grotesquely overinflated his paycheck is and that is precisely why this strike needs to happen.

Can we talk about this for a moment? Because this scene hit for me on such a poignent level.

We've seen so many versions of Superman's origin story be it in the form of comics, cartoons or live action and nearly every one of them involves a flashback to baby Kal-El being shipped off in a pod moments before Krypton's destruction. But, in this show, Clark never learns who Jor-El really is. He doesn't know his parents were trying to save him, hell, he thinks his whole species are a bunch of monsters who were trying to invade Earth.

And then this scene comes along and it's just executed in a such a *chef's kiss* manner. Jor-El saves Clark from the ship's explosion, probably mirroring exactly what happened to him when he was a baby. That Kal-El. My Son. Live. really feels like it carries an echo of the same words spoken to him before he was sent away from Krypton.

Clark doesn't know any of this, he doesn't know what he is or where he came from, and instead of showing that to us in a flashback from his past, we instead get to watch as Clark re-experiences what it would have felt like to be sent away for his own protection. To be shot out in an escape pod moments before an explosion that would have otherwise killed him. Of having his father sacrafice himself yet again to keep his son safe.

It's reinventing the past through the present. It's telling us the same story, delivering the same heartbreak, just in a different packaging this time around. And the show pulls it off flawlessly.

Oh my god I'm not okay.

One of my FAVOURITE ship dynamics to write or read in fics is when two characters are basically already a couple but they just haven't realised it yet. They call each other up at like 3am, they cuddle, they sleep in the same bed, they fall asleep in each other's arms, they hold hands, they practically live together, they talk about having a ~ special connection ~, they just haven't actually kissed or done the do or talked about their feelings yet so they're still both like "but I just don't know if they like me in that way!!"

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blumineck

"Why are there so many female archers in fiction?"

Please forgive the clickbait-y title! This is a super complex and interesting topic that I barely scratch the surface of here, but I hopefully will be able to do more justice to things like this in the future!

Also, it's not the point of the video, but I had fun with the outfits in this- do you have any faves?

As always, please consider supporting me on Patreon if you can, or watching on youtube if not!

that being said though miguel has some serious shit going on too. spying on yourself and your family from another dimension and hiding the evidence of that you’s death so you can steal his identity and family without them knowing is deranged behavior and idk how we just kind of let that one off backstory slide. can u imagine if a stranger from another dimension stole your husband’s or father’s identity and pretended to be the man you loved for YEARS because he’s lonely? literally the fucking fuel of nightmares. as u can see spider society is having a normal one

do u think anyone noticed that he was Off? do u think his wife looked at him one day and wondered when did his hair get so gray? do u think she ever heard him speak and felt like the cadence was all wrong? did he ever not remember an inside joke? do u think the browser history on their home computer included google searches of “capgras delusion”? the shit horror movies are written about

THANK YOU I HAD BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS CONSTANTLY, FOR WEEKS.

I had been thinking of doing a post but I felt will get too much into speculation territory???

But this is honestly insane, and is also the creepiest thing I think his man has done. Which says a lot.

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leepacey

burning man 2023 explained

  • burning man is a festival for rich white people who want to smoke weed and trip acid in the nevada desert and pretend they're one with the earth. it's not a music festival or anything that serves any purpose, it's just vibes
  • a hundred year flash flood just hit nevada, including where burning man is being held this very weekend
  • dry desert ground can't suddenly absorb water, let alone that much water all at once, so now burning man is a giant mud pit with THICK deep mud
  • nobody can get in or out, so they closed all the roads
  • FEMA just told the *73,000 PEOPLE* stranded at burning man to shelter in place, ration food and water, and essentially "you're on your own, good luck"
  • the port-o-potties are overflowing into the mud they're all walking around in
  • the official CDC twitter account tweeted (and then deleted) that there's a confirmed ebola outbreak at burning man, but people are pretty sure it's just trench illnesses. like actual WWI trench illnesses
  • earlier this week, climate activists protested against burning man, and all the attendees drove right past them (and yelled at them, and tried to get them arrested, etc)
  • there's a private jet at burning man where people can join the mile high club. it just takes off and lands all day and lets people fuck in it. no word yet on the fuck plane's current status/location

and lastly: when the ground here gets wet, the sea monkeys hatch

I’m sure you could guess, but I like the “there’s a good person in you somewhere” trope in fiction. I think it’s a good mentality to have, even if I struggle with it sometimes. 

However, I do think it’s less of a “person” deep inside someone, and more of a choice. Because while being a good person takes a lot of long-term, consistent effort, making a good choice can happen at any time. It’s always an option, no matter what has lead up to it. If you begin making good choices, you begin the work to become that “good person inside”. 

Everyone can become a good person, because everyone is capable of making a good choice.