people when trauma victims act traumatized especially in a way that is unpalatable to them because it involves lashing out and unpredictable moods and having boundary issues rather than just being demure, sad, and consumable

a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale

ANTONY STARR as Homelander The Boys | S01E07

We were not prepared. 52 people were very wrong.

I was wondering why they decided to make a post about the hair in particular. Well, the time of wondering lies in the past.

What did I miss? What was it?

Wait if Homelander debuted at 16... did he do random superhero work for 2 yrs before his ep of Diabolical or was he 16 in that episode? If so imma go personally dig Madelyn Stillwell grave bring her back to life and kill her myself for sexually abusing Homelander. Like really that scene had to be even more disgusting!? she was straight up groping an underage boy!? Like for how long was she molesting and grooming Homelander for?? Did he got too old for you Madelyn is thats whats going on in S1??

Wait. Madelyn grooming Homelander is canon???? Omg, I thought it was just Fanon 😭

“we need more morally grey female characters” “we need fucked up & complicated gay characters ”

You couldn’t even handle HER

Am I the only Catra fan who didn't like Catradora? My issue with her redemption arc is not that she got redemed but that her redemption was based on Whumping the evil out of her and then fixing her with the Power of Romantic Love, a trope I also hate in m/f and m/m to be honest.

Methiks Catra's redemption arc should have revolved around Scorpia, the one real friend she ever had and whom she treated like dirt. You know, since it's supposed to be a kids show about friendship? Also, while we are at it, turning Glimmer and Bow's relationship into a romantic one also sucked. It's like the show lost all its original meaning.

I've been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.

I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material--I can't actually call it fabric in good faith--and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they're not made of asbestos. They're only separated by time.

There's no wood used in interior design unless it's a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every "apartment hack" I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.

I've been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and "growth" and "profit" are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.

everything is more expensive, and everything is getting shittier.

I think people sometimes misunderstand why we come up with such elaborate justifications for shipping two characters together. I don't justify my ships because I feel that I need to; I justify my ships because squinting at the published canon with furrowed brow and asking myself "okay, how exactly would this work?" is my idea of a good time.

How do I explain to the TikTok algorithm that I want little meow meow, babygirl, mommy kink edit of the Homelander and not the sigma male ones?

You say this, but there's canonical evidence that this guy suffers from premature ejaculation 😩

I would still dedicate myself entirely to him for as long as he lasts, though.

You ever think supernatural creatures that consider humans potential prey have that "cat chases a bear up a tree"-thing? Like how bears, being an apex predator, have no concept of something that's sufficiently prey-sized deciding to attack instead of fleeing, and cats have no awareness of the fact that they can die. So every once in a while a cat and a bear come face to face in the wild for the first time. A bear doesn't understand what this creature is that isn't trying to flee, and starts sniffing. A cat doesn't understand what this creature is and decides to slap it. Utterly baffled, the bear decides it's best to get out of here. The cat starts chasing because obviously anything that flees is prey.

Imagine having an Entity in your home that eats creatures like you, but has never caught a human before. It doesn't understand why this prey isn't trying to escape, the human is clearly unnerved by sensing A Presence but still keeps stubbornly sitting on the couch watching TV. The Entity moves a piece of furniture, making an eerie creaking noise, planning to raise terror in its prey as a way of playing with its food. But instead of even turning to look towards the source of the sound, the human just yells into the empty house:

"WHATEVER THE FUCK JUST MADE THAT NOISE HAD BETTER FUCK OFF, OR START PAYING RENT."

The Entiry freezes in place, and decides that whatever is going on, it's not worth the risk to find out. Better leave while it still can.

— John Darnielle, interviewed by Helen Rossner in The New Yorker, 24 April 2022