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I am not taking a risk
Not risking it pals
U know what I want potato of luck
Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.
potato I will never ask you for anything else in my lifetime please potato for fuck's sake
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You wanna know what story we were really cheated out of? The Tom and Jerry-like rivalry between Miss Kitty Fantastico and Amy the rat
Sometimes I wish we'd seen Giles exhibit that bat-wielding, fire-slinging, I'll-beat-you-to-death-with-my-bare-hands-if-need-be level of rage toward Angel when he started stalking, harassing, and threatening Buffy (and her friends) instead of far too late, when Jenny died. Like, his speech to Buffy about passing no judgment on her for having sex with Angel and respecting/supporting her instead was excellent, but... Why didn't he try harder to defend her and her friends from Angel, who presented both a supernatural threat and a very commonplace violent ex-boyfriend type of threat? Where was his anger when Angel wrote "Was it good for you too?" in blood on a wall to shame and torment Buffy? Where was his rage when Angel almost killed Willow and later snuck into her house and killed her pets in yet another blatant threat of future violence?
These are the children in his care! These are the young girls in his care who look up to him as a father figure in the absence of their own! There is an older man--a vampire, no less!--stalking them and scaring them and threatening to do horrible things to them! A monster who has a HISTORY of doing this to young girls. They are staying up all night huddled together, curled up under crosses and garlic, fearing for their lives.
Where was Giles? Where was his rage?
I can't help but think that for all his kind words, Giles was always resigned to Buffy's inevitable death and just didn't or couldn't invest the energy in her wellbeing to drum up that kind of anger on her behalf. He respected her, but he didn't protect her. If she died because of her actions and choices, even if those actions were the choices of a child, so be it. Which is patently awful. That Willow was acceptable collateral damage, too, speaks poorly of Giles' character.
That he didn't go insane with protective fury the moment Angel started personally attacking Buffy, that he didn't throw himself between them and shield her from the predations of an older man will never not infuriate me. Giles had the juice to do it, both in fighting ability and magic craft. If he had stepped in, Jenny might not have died either.
That he was willing to die over Jenny, abandoning the children who loved and depended on him, instead of defending ALL of them right out the gate is maddening.
It's just really disappointing to think about.
It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.
It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.
It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.
It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.
It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.
It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.
It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.
It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.
It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.
It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.
It’s labour rights and less work.
It’s science and arts.
It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.
It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.
It’s sailboats and zeppelins.
It’s the speculative and the possible.
It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.
It’s global and local.
It’s me and you.
Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.
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FALLOUT ↳ Lucy and the Vault Boy
something something Lucy looks to the Vault Boy as a symbol of safety, the beacon of civilization, but also as a symbol for cheerful persistence against all odds, the embodiment of a sort of "success is assured through hard work and ingenuity" message. You can only fail if you don't try. We're in this together. You can do it. Keep going.
meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, the literal face of the Vault Boy is standing right behind her, still keepin' on keepin' on. He has beat the odds. For 200 long years, he's persisted. And it's cost him everything. His looks. His health. His family. To a certain degree, his sanity. His morality and his humanity. He's still here, by God he's still here, but stripped bare, a warped, fucked up fun-house version of himself. Even being the face of Vault Tec didn't save him. They weren't in this together, and no one in their right mind could face the apocalypse and live through it armed with the Vault Boy's cheerful optimism and signature smile. It's a dream. A lie. All of it. He hates Vault Tec. He hates who he was, what they made him before the bomb dropped, and who he has become in this interminable after.
Vault Tec betrayed him. She doesn't know it yet, but Vault Tec betrayed Lucy, too. Vault Tec will betray her again. Cooper was once where she stood. He's just further down the road. I'm you, sweetheart. Just give it a little time. She's doesn't know what lies ahead of her. She doesn't believe any of it yet. But the awful, living proof of it all, the truth behind the smiling lie sold to her from birth, is standing right behind her.
so yeah, he blows a hole in that pretty little lie. Obliterate Vault Boy. Obliterate Vault Tec. Obliterate the smiling fool he once was. Obliterate the lie in front of her, the girl who is so like the man he used to be, because fuck her feelings and fuck Vault Tec and fuck them all. Obliterate the lie and show her the empty, radioactive sky behind it.
I'm finally seeing some not romantic or familial Ghoul and Lucy opinions (thank god) so, my two cents: I have zero protests in terms of the ~moral material but both sides lean on whatever the viewer is putting on it rather than what was actually on screen.
honey you're familiar like my mirror, years ago
You wanna know how I know your daddy, don't you?
So I think all the characters in the Fallout show are spectacular, but I had some thoughts on The Ghoul/Cooper Howard in particular that I just wanted to put down. Owing to his 200+ years of history, he's a downright fascinating, dynamic character, and I can't wait to see what they do with him next.
Anyway, here's my thoughts/character analysis of The Ghoul:
One of the things I found most interesting on my second watch-through of the show was how everything The Ghoul does is motivated by ruthless pragmatism, not cruelty. It can appear like cruelty--sometimes it tips over into cruelty--but cruelty is not the point. The point is always survival. He must survive to find his family. That is his goal and his one guiding tenet. Nothing else matters, everything else is fluid. Whatever it takes to survive.
Not one single thought behind those eyes just two LETHAL airheads
Sarah and James understanding the assignment like no one has ever done before. SMG was manifesting James as a love interest after seeing what they gave her with Marc I’m CONVINCED 😹😹😹
THE MIRRORED HAND PLACEMENTS AND THEIR BODIES LITERALLY MAKING A HEART SHAPE
The air head father daughter husband holy trinity energy is unmatched in this scene
I’ve never seen anyone look so disappointed in Xander for hurting Buffy IN MY LIFE looking at him like how could you speak to my future wife like that??? and you call yourself her friend….
aaaaannnnnddd already completely forgotten anyone or anything else exists
The faces of two people who are forever changed and will be completely haunted by how loved and cherish they felt in the arms of their enemy
thinking about when Buffy comes back in s6 and something's not quite right with her and that look on Spike's face when he says "clawed her way out of her coffin that's how. done it myself" like. he is seeing her. she's herself but different, a little more like him. THEN when Spike comes back in s7 and something's obviously not right with him, and Buffy's face in the church when she realizes he got his soul back and he did it on purpose. to be more like her.
^ when your shadow counterpart returns from their identity-altering metaphysical journey looking more like you than they ever have before
does anyone else think about Spike and Giles looking at each other and seeing a personification of the most despised and vulnerable aspects of their own past or is it just me
SCREAM THAT SHIT UR SO RIGHT.
Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.
Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.
Things change. Yeah, they do. If you make them. Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 1997 - 2003
Spike says his favorite Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast because he identifies with the main character and Buffy is like "Yeah, I guess you do have some stuff in common with the Beast"
Spike "No, I'm Belle. A super strong creature imprisoned me and I ended up falling in love with them"
The more I think about this the more it works
Buffy and the Beast both: have super strength, feel alone in the world, were imbued with these powers without their consent
Spike and Belle: Were outcasts in their European home towns, ridiculed by their peers for their literary pursuits, have a parent they were devoted to, have seen the best and the worst of their supernatural love interest and still decided they were The One
