in the midnight hour

to be honest, i only personally care about plotholes when they appear in writing i already have a bunch of other problems with. if i like something enough, i'll give it a pass/invent an explanation in my head. i can't find the exact quote, but roger ebert said something about this. to paraphrase: "the movie's problem wasn't [such and such inconsistency], its problem was that i was bored enough to be thinking about that."

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

this for real fucking works

i spent my whole commute thinking about the way that as soon as eddie recovers from his initial surprise that buck came running into the hospital, buck wants to see the damage, and eddie switches directly into his Nobly Suffering schtick. evading eye contact. his little mm yeah as he acknowledges, yes. it’s going to be quite the shiner, that’s correct buck. he covers his black eye back up and is suddenly subtly playing up how injured he is now that buck here in a way he was NOT doing at all with athena and alex before he arrived??? eyes closed, faint grimace, he’s so tortured for a solid 2 second beat. eddie 100% wanted buck to fuss over him you can’t convince me otherwise. which makes it even funnier that, instead of any of that, buck’s like. good news. this is totally marketable. sex sells eddie! :) and eddie who literally wanted to play a lead role in your local hurt/comfort tag on ao3 is like. wait no. betrayed. :(

IIRC, they had to terminate the project because the crows were attacking humans who were smoking cigarettes in order to get the "butt."

Let The Crows Force You To Quit Smoking

you are lord ashford. you love your daughter dearly and spend money you don’t have to show her off for her 13th birthday. look daughter how the entire country comes to celebrate you. you are loved. look lords, how wonderful my daughter is. and then some fuck ass hedge knight has to go and punch a prince and all of a sudden the heir to the throne is dead

Enemies to "I accidentally came across you while you were vulnerable and scared and I'm not a total asshole so I tried to help you" to "accidental mutual uncovering of softer sides and vulnerabilities" to "I can't be mean to you anymore, not out of pity but because it would feel weird betraying that brief truce we had" to "Fine I'll make an effort to be nice to you now I guess" to "actually now that we're not actively hating each other you're not so bad I guess" to "i think we're friends but I'm not going to say that because I'm afraid you're not gonna feel the same way" to "oh you also think we're friends? Great" to lovers