😭😭😭😭😭

If only.

*When Nat’s family met Bruce for the first time*

Alexei: *drunk* Well, I’m gonna turn in. 

Alexei: *shakes Natasha’s hand and pats her on the back* It was nice to meet you, young man.

Alexei: *kisses Bruce on the forehead* Goodnight, sweetie.

Natasha: Papa…

Natasha: *sigh* Never mind. 

A familiar face…

princess mononoke, except it’s breath of the wild 2 🍃

groovin

I scribbled this in a pool of my own sweat while avoiding real work ... enjoy the extra versions

The Mandalorian is taking the “lone wolf, I work alone, I don’t make friends” irony trope and knocking it up to 200.

Oh, you want to stoically do your bounty hunting job by yourself?? Too bad. Here’s 125 new bests friends and a son. We’re building community whether you like it or not. See you at the PTA meeting later, bitch.

op, that is an excellent tag and should be a part of this post

January 20, 2021

I hate that I fully understand this

Why we can’t have good things anymore

Talking about crappy and happy endings, I feel like popular media completely abandoned the“feel good” ending. And this started way before the recent fuck ups of Supernatural and Marvel’s Avengers.

I grew up with pop-cultural narratives in which everything ended well in a given moment. The Star Wars OT ended with everyone sitting around the fire having a good time. Although sequels and follow-up novelizations later filled the gap, the movies deliberately chose not to tell us what happens in the future. Will Leia and Han get married and have five kids, will they go on a big voyage of space exploration, or will they break up only two weeks into the future? The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie ended with Elizabeth and Will saving Jack before sharing a kiss. There’s no wedding, no flash forward to their 25 kids, no end note that Jack eventually got hanged after stealing from a pimp in Bridgetown. How things went after the end of the story told by the movie was entirely up to the individual viewer to answer - and I liked it that way!

Unfortunately, this type of feel good ending has now entirely been replaced by bittersweet endings where the big bad is defeated but a fan favorite (or more than one) dies for the greater good (Avengers), or by white picket fence endings in which we are informed about the names of the grandchildren the main characters will have in a far-away and completely irrelevant future (Harry Potter). The finale of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy that ended with At World’s End is a weird amalgamation of both. 

Reading reviews and Tumblr rants, it is obvious these endings work for next to nobody. And funnily enough, there’s nothing in the respective narratives that necessitated them. Harry Potter would have been just as fine without the ridiculous and useless epilogue. Same goes for Pirates of the Caribbean, which would have worked just as well without the wedding and resulting waiting-chastely-for-10-years-with-child plot which was basically resolved in an after-credits scene no one asked for. Why couldn’t Supernatural’s Dean Winchester just have a happy hunting life with the angel he so obviously loved, while Sam got out and married a woman (Eileen) already established as a fan favourite? Up until the VERY LAST episode, there was nothing in the narrative contradicting such an ending.

By now, it looks like a deliberate fuck up to me. What are the authors trying to tell us? Life is cruel, but we can always find solace in conservative family idylls?

I wish we could just have the good old “party at the bonfire”-ending back. Whoever prefers edgy endings can then imagine everyone gets eaten by a giant space chicken right after the credits roll, the white picket fence crowd can chose names for the characters’ upcoming offspring, and the rest of the audience can just walk out of the cinema or close the book without feeling nauseated. Seems like a win-win situation to me…

i love this new era of “period dramas but it’s horny” works we’ve been getting à la emma 2020 and bridgerton. like yes creators u understand me… i am a hoe but a hoe who wants to frolic in a field in an empire waist dress and yell when my beloved touches my ungloved hand <3 it’s about the balance baby!

Colin Bridgerton is an entire mood

SIMON BASSET in Bridgerton (2020-)

Bonus:

i haven’t stopped thinking about this since last night

crying at this family portrait posted by nick jr

I’m fascinated by the implicit lore of different members of this family being tasked with looking after this immortal mystery dog