Phantomvalkyriee - ✨phoebe✨

The many sides of Diane Chambers [1 out of ?]

Better Call Saul is a story about a man undergoing multiple identity crises, selling out his morals in order to get ahead in a world that’s always kicking him down, but in doing so destroying so much of his soul that eventually he decides to become this clownish caricature of himself not only because it’s too painful to live as his real self, but because he no longer knows who the real him actually is anymore.

Breaking Bad is a show about a man who gets cancer and then develops the worst Main Character Syndrome of all time.

Wanda: (at least partially responsible for) bending and curating reality to make a town enact a simple, happy, family sitcom life as her coping mechanism for/retreat from her grief and loss; threatens S.W.O.R.D. not to fucking try her again, or else.

Me:

as sad as it was to see suzie toot go home, in a way I'm glad she did. it would have been a tragedy if we never got to see her in that lalaparuza

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Hi I am super gay for Lilith Sternin

Emily Prentiss: *hovering over an unsub with one hand on his throat, the other with a gun pointed at him as she threatens his life*

Me:

In my opinion the hardest thing to swallow about TLoU 2 is how it challenges protagonist-centred morality with Abby. Because the thing is, Abby really doesn’t do anything worse or better than what Ellie or Joel have done. Her motivation for killing Joel is literally identical to Ellie’s own motivation for seeking revenge. Yes the way she kills Joel is horrific but Ellie kills people just as brutally (esp. Nora), and the more people talk about how much they hate her and wanted to fuck her up at the end of the game just proves that you’re capable of understanding her impulse to enact extreme violence on someone out of revenge. The only thing that makes Abby “worse” to the player is that she kills the protagonist of the last game and traumatizes Ellie, both characters who we’ve come to know and care about from a meta perspective. She is a direct challenge to the ingrained assumption we have when interpreting a text that the only characters who actually matter, who are actually human and deserve our empathy, are the protagonist(s) and their allies. And yeah, that can be a hard thing to adjust to, but personally I love narratives that challenge my own assumptions about fiction and whose perspectives matter.

Lovecraft Country - Season 1 - Episode 5