i just want to mow hay

most of the male characters in breaking bad are bald because it’s easier to animate

I was just talking about this with my family… like I think Skyler White is a character genuinely ahead of her time. Speaking in feminist terms. So often in shows where a husband is lying to his wife his guilt stems from how oblivious/gullible she is, and how he feels like he’s talking advantage of her by lying, but he can still excuse his actions because of his motivations. It’s the pillow scene: him staring at his innocent sleeping wife and feeling guilty for all the wrong reasons. Skyler doesn’t let Walt get away with that. She confronts him about the real reasons he should feel guilt, isn’t afraid to make him uncomfortable, actually stands up for herself, and never allows herself to fall into that passive role. She is an active character: she sees problems and takes steps to rectify them, and is maybe the first character to see Walt for who he truly is- he can’t get away with “working” her like he can with Jesse. She adds so much conflict and nuance to the story. She is flawed, but unlike Walt those flaws are normal and rooted in actually wanting to help her family, not her ego. I think the people who really hate her and identify with Walt have never had to actually deal with a Walter in their own lives or else they’d figure put that having someone constantly lie to you- and disrespect you by acting like you’re gullible enough to believe them- isn’t actually that cool irl. Anyway moral is that Reddit dude bros are idiots and Skyler is one of my favorite characters.

shinji ikari is probably my favourite blatant transfem egg character that certain people get SO fucking mad when you say that. like I'm sorry that you (trans or cis) put so much of your ideas of manhood onto this character but actually masculinity is a prison for her and I've known like 3 girls like her.

same with how ppl treat Jessie pinkman where it's like the fact that ppl have put so much of their own masculinity projection onto him that any discussion of him being trans etc gets you murdered like it's some personal fucking attack on them.

possibly a controversial statement here but uh... a character being written to have been explicitly deemed male from birth both in and out of universe is in fact probably more indicative of being transfem than some other trans reading?

like there's certain systems of violent gender assignment and societal coercion at play here that make me suspect that the eggy robot boy might actually be more likely to come out as a trans girl than having secretly having transitioned into being a guy the whole time

[ID: a photo in the style of booktok/bookstagram to promote a book series. There are labels with doodled arrows pointing to the centre that say 'found family', 'anti-hero MC', 'bisexual disaster', 'hurt/comfort', 'girlboss wife', 'bad boy meth cook', 'rags to riches', 'bromance', and 'LGBT+'. The image in the centre is an official poster for Breaking Bad.]

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I don’t even need social media or tv or books or movies for entertainment I’m just making this ai generate episode summaries for ‘a pride month episode of breaking bad’ over and over and hysterically laughing every time

I’m going to throw up

another year of Breaking Pride

only thing i know for certain is that if "breaking bad" took place during modern times, jesse would've used his cash to buy a drone and there would've been a sick ass sequence filmed from drone perspective and one episode cold open would've been all scary and sinister and it would end with an ominous shot of the drone laying all crushed and fucked up on the floor to imply harm done to jesse. and it would be really sad

desperately wishing that breaking bad got a tie-in movie in the same vein as toku movies. semi-non-canon, mid-season power upgrades that never show up in the show, movie exclusive villain with some wildly strong powerset

like some russian mobster with ties to the kgb shows up to muscle in on gus' territory, which could ripple into global nuclear war if things get out of hand. only walter white has the skills needed to stop him, using a forbidden recipe of bright red meth thats 1000x more potent than normal. but perhaps jessie's chili p holds the secret to victory...?

watching through breaking bad for the first time after watching this countless times and finding the source of every sound in this video was maybe the best possible tv watching experience I could have ever had

My favourite thing about Netflix mobile is that every so often it glitches and—

i actually unironically love the physical fights that walt and jesse get into on the show because they are so realistically stupid and ineffective. their verbal arguments can really sting because they both know which buttons to push, what kind of insults to fling once they know each other better, but their physical fights remain laughably pathetic until the very end. neither walt nor jesse are particularly strong or skilled, so it always devolves into kicking and slapping and throwing things and fucking biting each other like cats who have to live together and spend all day throwing each other into walls. they fight like preteen siblings, like brothers who have no outlet for their rage and frustration with each other and thus have to wrestle and throttle each other when their feelings boil over. and of course nothing is EVER resolved by their fights because when has a conflict ever been resolved by throwing cash at each other or wrestling in a meth lab?? but it feels so realistic and true that two emotionally compromised, devastatingly angry, extremely different men who are forced to work together at the fucking. Job of all time would lose their shit from time to time and go at each other like 11 year olds at a skate park

I know I've talked at this before a little bit but bear with me. I definitely understand the desire to push away from a lot of the (again, mostly joking but sometimes somewhat serious) "Tumblr fandom characterization" of a character like Jesse from Jesse (I believe in your language the word is "woobification". Our cultures share so much), but I just do not think posting about Jesse as "a GROWN MAN who KILLS PEOPLE devil emoji" is the way to do it at all. Positioning Jesse Pinkman as a character "who kills people" without nuance is so fundamentally at odds with the content of the show and the way he's depicted, his reactions and his feelings and his trauma, that it can really only come from a place of pure contrarianism. It's a characterization completely fueled by a desire to push back against the funny and/or cutesy Jesses that have dominated brba spaces that's also fully reliant on the idea that "killing people" = mature, serious character, that it's the violence that makes brba a "mature", "serious" show, which is kind of a bad read, in my opinion

I also think the argument that Jesse can't be "a kid" (he's like 23-25 surrounded by middle aged men) because he "does drugs" and even "has tattoos" is an almost childlike view of what adulthood is. Jesse is certainly an adult, but he's still young and that's a significant part of the show! He's still coming into himself and that's not devalued just because he has some ugly tattoos

Also also it reveals a lot of people's preconceived notions about drug use, because it's almost always "Jesse does drugs and kills people", as if those two acts are at all comparable, and interestingly as if using somehow removes one's ability to be young or relatively innocent or "good". It's just hard to believe we all watched the same show sometimes with the ways people talk abt him and these sorts of themes. Save for like, the early-seasons homophobia thing which I've talked about LMAO, I think Jesse from Jesse is far from the "problematic fave" people like to slot him into. It's almost like he's the major sympathetic character of the show and he doesn't like killing people and you're supposed to like him

"Ayo Mr. White! I just heard this phrase; The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. You're smart 'n shit, do you have any idea what that means, bitch?"

"Jesse, we - fine. I might as well explain, we're done cooking for Gus for today. You heard a line by the famous German author Hermann Hesse; specifically, from his 1919 novel 'Demian'."

"Demian? I thought that was just the name of that gay little bitch from the gacha game Skinny Pete likes."

"Jesse, you imbecile. You went through all your big years of high school and you never once listened to a Hesse lecture?"

"Demian follows the story of Emil Sinclair, a boy in Germany who slowly finds himself falling into the 'world of evil'. It all begins when another boy of his school, Franz Kromer, tempts him into keeping money from his family. An older boy, Max Demian, takes up for young Sinclair and drives Kromer away.

Years go by, and Sinclair, who grew up Christian, finds himself filled with desires he finds sinful; he blames Demian for this, and he hates himself, too. How could he have fallen into this world of evil, after all? All he wanted to do was thrive, why was that so hard?

As it turns out, he just needed to break free and accept himself for who he was. He needed to thrive to the beat of his own heart and live for himself, not for any god nor for his father or mother.

In the end, Sinclair and Demian reunite, and Demian departs as they enter war with a kiss. He disappears, yet Sinclair sees features of his friend and guide in himself in the mirror.

The novel has themes of Jungian and Freudian psychology, Catholic guilt, and self-liberation.

There, was that satisfactory? Or were you dozing off and not applying yourself, just like in class?"

"Damn, bitch. That's a lot to take in. I guess I'm a bit of an Emil Sinclair myself, Mr. White."

"In the end, Jesse, we must listen to our own hearts. We can't truly sort most things into 'good' and 'evil'.

And... I don't want anyone else to domineer over you."

this is so fucking real thank you evil mario

This is actually a kin memory I have from my life as Walter White

so fucked up that walter white is out there right now stealing christmas. just hauling that shit away. and lying to jesse that he’s just taking his tree back to his workshop to fix it up because there’s a light on one side that won’t light quite right and getting him a glass of water and sending him back to bed?? that’s fucked.

if i was one of the guys who worked at Los Pollos Harmanos i would have been so fucking pissed when Gus died. like look at that scene in Better Call Saul he was such a great manager. imagine the first good fast food manager you had got blown up. i woudnt even care he did all the drug stuff he gave paid holiday. they make a big deal out of his crimes but they never talk about his virtues. being the world’s only decent retail manager.

AND he was hot