trampled grass

YouGov did a whole official poll on Americans' views of the middle ages and I’m obsessed

I'm in the 9% of respondents who think that the black death was based

I forget that most people love their parents until I have a conversation like "I have to call my mother." "That sucks. Do you want me to kill her for you?" and they look at me like I just grew a second head

Okay, I want some numbers on this (on the queer and mentally ill website).

Anirudh Pisharody as Ravi Panikkar 9-1-1, S08E14 - Sick Day

to ME this was the episode where everyone steps into roles they learnt from their mentors. Buck steps into mentoring Ravi the way he learnt from Bobby. Ravi steps into defying orders to prioritize what needs to happen the way he learnt from Chim and Buck. but just as mentoring is about the lesson, it's weight comes with a test. this episode is a test of the 118 - as a team and as individuals. Bobby is being tested as the person who led them into this situation but can't get them out. Ravi is being tested about his lesson of stepping back onto the horse. Chim is being tested of not being allowed to help when that is the whole origin of how/why he became a paramedic. Hen is being tested by being the patient herself. Buck is being tested by not being inside with his team when that's where he has always wanted to be. and Eddie is being tested by being away from the home he built, the family he said was the one they chose. which makes it even more important when we see that Eddie's mentoring was always on a personal front, Bobby always encouraging him to let himself choose what HE wants, let go of previous things and be open to what can happen now. also this is setting it up perfectly for Eddie's arc coming back for him of 'the ties that matter are all in El Paso'. if he was already back in LA then that line is moot. but now he gets to choose what is beyond the assigned option. this is the 118 re-forming themselves into the team that has grown.

4.06 › 5.02 › 8.14

118, sound off. 9-1-1, S08E14

thinking about how it was immediately apparent that ravi was spiralling about the baby, how everyone clocked it, but it was buck who coaxed him out for drinks to try and take his mind off it. buck, the guy who practically invented the spiral, who kept gently trying to disrupt ravi's own spiralling before being firm when he had to be. buck being the guy he needed when he was in ravi's position. buck being the guy he HAD when he was in ravi's position.

Ao3 campaign filling up in a blink of an eye is a joke

At this point making fun of it feels bad. Idk who are donating. But you people have money for your fic website but have no money for human lives.

Could cry you know. I could cry and I do feel like crying but uh. What's the point? I am just speechless that people can donate and reach $75000 in a day on a scam but when requested to donate to a fundraiser, a huge portion of fandom bloggers will accuse the families of being scammers and bots.

Linking my friend's fundraiser to this post because the situation has become dire.

Requesting people that if you are reblogging the post, consider sharing my friend's fundraiser. It has been five days since he has been able to buy food for his family of 24.

tbh the adult survivors forgetting and remembering the events of the wilderness as the narrative requires is big “dany kind of forgot about the iron fleet” energy. oh you see in the first season adult tai likes adult shauna because she’s simply remembering the stuff that had happened in the first season of their teen life! all the adults treated misty like a psycho despite her being honestly nowhere near as bad as lottie or shauna because they forgot about all the stuff that happened chronologically closer to them! adult natalie considers travis the most important relationship in her life because she was just remembering the several months they were together in the wilderness, instead of the nearly a year in the wilderness they barely spoke a single time! you see it all makes sense if you assume the audience is made up of morons who only remember the most recent thing you’ve shown them! whatever I’ll keep watching that garbage

yellowjackets is genuinely so fucking bad this season i have to laugh. the writing is so ass! they truly don't know what to do with any of their characters. they introduce random twists purely for shock value, refuse to actually elaborate on the interesting parts of the plot, and leave so many storylines half finished.

this is coming from someone who really loved season 1, both the teen and adult timelines were actually interesting. the writing was well done and cohesive and the choices that were made actually paid off or were implied to be explored in later seasons.

season 2 dropped the ball a bit. the first half of the season was basically just setup for the teen plot last 3 or 4 episodes. the adult timeline was fine? but mostly directionless - it didn't feel like there was really any continuity between episodes, just a bunch of diconnected events and callbacks/parallels that were supposed to make the audience Feel Something, and it worked to some extent for me - enough that i could overlook some of the shortcomings of the season and try to enjoy the show for what it was.

season 3? genuinely awful. there's one episode left and like three things have happened in the teen timeline. there's basically no stakes in the teen timeline right now either because we know they don't get rescued until during or after the next winter. instead of actually spending time on any main characters other than shauna (ESPECIALLY taissa and lottie, who are some of the most interesting characters on the show, and we can get into the implications of the writers ignoring their woc another time) the writers are putting their time, effort and budget towards melissa, a character who literally was not named during the first season of the show and had like ten lines in season 2. the adult timeline is also a whole lot of nothing! shauna's on some kind of wild goose chase, taissa and van have no characterization or plot outside of each other, no one really cares about the fact that nat died last season when they all seemed to respect her greatly in season 1, and for some fucking reason, lottie is dead. mind you, we know next to nothing about who she really is outside of the wellness guru we saw last season. all of this is being sidelined for the melissa plot which is just truly so idiotic i can't bring myself to watch any scene with her with a straight face. and with episode 9's ending of melissa stabbing van, i really feel like the show has gone off the rails. her entire plot this season has been about whether she and taissa are going to have a future. whether van will survive cancer and the wilderness is appeased by natalie's sacrifice in the season 2 finale. but no! get rid of all of that for background character #4 who has literally no personality but gives your season shitty underdeveloped #gay representation! or whatever

feels like all their budget is going towards landing big name actors (hilary swank joel mchale elijah wood) but literally for what 😭 no one wants them there!!!!

didn't want to say i called it before watching the finale but i did LOL what an awful ending what an awful season i'm so done with this show

one of the most egregious things the writers have done is keep mari as pit girl - for a show that seems to really care about giving their audience plot twists, they couldn't do one last one? especially when everyone has been saying mari would be pit girl since episode 1? especially when hannah was introduced and it would make the most sense for her to be pit girl? but no ofc we have to save the white characters even when they have no personality and get rid of the brown girls who have been around for the entirety of the show!

callie's "confession" scene was also so poorly acted and if anything it solidifies that the writers made a horrible decision in killing lottie AND WE STILL KNOW NOTHING ABOUT HER IN THE ADULT TIMELINE. honestly don't understand why callie's such a big part of the show when sammy's storyline as a child of a survivor is so so so much more interesting.

and at the end of the day sure we got some emotionally charged scenes (pit girl hunt, natalie escaping the girls to call for help etc etc) but there was practically no emotional buildup throughout the whole season for these moments so when they were happening they just felt empty.

i have lots more to say about the writers and none of it is good but yeah just racist and stupid as hell all around

YELLOWJACKETS 309. How The Story Ends