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@crocordile I finally had free time and finished watching the latest Voltron seasons, needed a new marathon show while working on sewing projects -thus something in english/no subtitles. I had watched the pilot two or three years ago and had wanted to watch the series. I knew the Stan twins reveal because I’d seen the spoiler posts about it when it happened on tumblr and some of the speculation posts before that. Plus, back when I was watching Young Justice and Green Lantern AS, during the hiatuses and cancellations, everyone was mentioning Gravity Falls as a good alternative, so it was one of those ‘been on a list forever to watch.’

So years late I’m finally marathoning Gravity Falls. The art style isn’t my cup of tea, but it charmingly works for this show. Sadly I wish I wasn’t spoiled for most of the big twist reveals – hey, I still remember around the first season seeing posts from people I was following talking about the twin theory and then the SPOILER SPOILER IT’S TRUE, so the whole Stanley/Stanford was one of the only things I knew for the longest time. Which, I wish I didn’t, or had been watching when it was first airing, because I wish i could watch this without the pre-confirmation and have the fun of theorizing with the assured but not certain knowledge of what was the reveal.

And usually I’m not like this- I like to be pre-spoiled.

july-19th-club:

i love the Terry Pratchett Discworld “City Watch” miniseries:

  • Sam Vimes Confronts His Alcoholism and Depression
  • Sam Vimes Confronts His Complicity In Casual Racism 
  • Sam Vimes Confronts Irresponsible Development of Artificial Intelligence, and Also, Arguably, Transmisogyny 
  • Sam Vimes Confronts Eastern Europe and Attendant Politics
  • Sam Vimes Confronts: War Crimes
  • Sam Vimes Confronts the Failed Revolution that Gave Him Post-Traumatic Stress 
  • Sam Vimes Confronts Fatherhood and His Inner Demons
  • Sam Vimes Confronts: Work Vacation

ekjohnston:

demandingbillydolls:

One thing I kinda take issue with in the whole Fanboy Takes on the Prequels Discourse is this:

What often seems to come up in discussing Anidala is: “Of COUSE Anakin loved Padme. She’s HOT. But why oh why did Padme love Anakin? He’s immature and whiny and cries a lot and has emotional breakdowns”.

Does anyone else notice the weird disparity here?

In this discourse, Anakin is permitted to be (at least initially, if not only) interested in Padme because of her looks. Padme, however, could only conceivably be (again, at least initially) interested in Anakin for his *personality*.

Tbh Hayden and Natalie are both ridiculously beautiful people, and I think AOTC did its job of articulating why the characters would care about each other beyond the fact that they’re both so pretty, but it seems like (apart from the fanboy aversion to the melodrama and plethora of romance tropes in the love story–Right down to a damn balcony scene with Anakin in a romance-novel-style open shirt) there’s this cultural undercurrent that Padme’s physical attraction to Anakin doesn’t matter. Because women, am I right? Men are the visual ones *sarcasm*.

Honestly, it just annoys me every time I see it pop up. Yeah, dive in and try to discuss why certain things in AOTC weren’t deal breakers or red flags for her, or if you felt they should have been, or whatever the case may be–that’s actually an interesting conversation imo that often gives a lot of insight into Padme’s character–but don’t imply that her attraction doesn’t matter or is irrelevant to their relationship. It’s not.

Padmé’s “oh no, he’s hot” moment in AotC is, like, LEGENDARY, tbh. And they’re both so bad at Talking to People (Outside of Work) that she says THE WORST THING IMAGINABLE. It’s glorious. I love it.