Paige's Ponderings

i genuinely could never get over zuko and katara in the crystal catacombs............like why are you opening up to your enemy about your childhood trauma, a blackened part of your heart that no one else has really taken seriously or just brushes over........and why are you offering to HEAL your enemy's scar when you've done nothing but fight against one another............and why are you letting your enemy touch the scar that you've developed such a deep shame over............the war is raging on, and the world is breaking itself outside from both flame and stone, and somehow, in between, zuko and katara tethered themselves with these small pieces of tenderness and empathy.......no matter how brief it had been, and no matter how it ended, and no matter how they faced each other again from opposite sides........like it happened and for a moment, everything was possible and love drew in a startled breath

frank knows he might be about to die and the image his brain produces is karen in maria’s sweatshirt clocking his ass but also comforting him, telling him she’s always with him and pulling away last second when he’s pretty obviously going to kiss her

i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time

maomao’s dedication to ignoring jinshi’s real identity is truly inspiring. the woman who has solved multiple murders based on minor clues in the environment keeps looking at every sign pointing to jinshi being royalty and going “damn, this could add up to something. good thing I can’t do math!”

#aos: the aspirational influence of the all important father as role model is what forges a boy to a shiny hero. twok taught us this#tos: if u think about it the horrors were kirk's real father all along :)#also...tos providing zero backstory between tarsus iv survivor jim kirk 20 years before s1 and the casual lore drop about#not just serious but 'absolutely grim' bullied cadet jim kirk 15 years before s1? then moving 'shore leave' up#to follow directly from cotk & balance of terror??? the network fucked up a lot but the vision was cotk->bot->sl and afdjkadjkd#cool cool cool. choices sure were made.#ngl kirk letting spock's ludicrous secretiveness pass with barely a comment isn't just him being an enabler or gracious or whatnot#it's not like he's volunteered information about his own family ever! even at deneva he was rather notably unhelpful w/ info at first#/bones/ was the one who was like 'oh hey doesn't your brother live here' until aurelan picked up#spock has to use his pro starfleet account search engine to find out extremely relevant facts about kirk's history multiple times!#if kirk raised a stink about the sarek and amanda awkward moment spock would just give him the bitchiest bitch face in vulcan history#and he would deserve it! but really every time i see something like#'we need to come up with an explanation for why kirk doesn't explicitly mention tarsus iv more' i'm like. but do we#bc if you ask me that would be more of a break w/ the continuity of his character than him not mentioning it but going 1000-yard stare#or near feral with rage in situations involving connected issues like food/hunger/starvation or tyranny/mass murder/ecofascism#for an alleged ~greater good—and in a way that no other character does even when others share his general indignation. aka what happens (X @anghraine)

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

Sent a 12 year old on a fake Hero’s Journey last week and holy shit he actually did it

You know what would make a GREAT plot twist? Fidelity.

And yes I mean in the context of romantic relationships, but not only in the context of romantic relationships. Or did AND ROHAN WILL ANSWER mean nothing to you?

Oh noooooooo! The mystery is solved! You’ve solved my final riddle, you are ze new riddle master... Congratulations… You have proven yourselves... quite the adventurers... oh, I’ve landed on Bryan- Bryan, ahhh… Bryan, I’m so proud of zem… I’m going to die now... My life is flagging from my body... I’ll see my family... goodbye cruel worrrrld-

I literally have no context for this and it’s fucking me up.

I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

Just don't fly too close to the sun.

Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant

he understands the website your honour

Oh Dean. Dean, who called his autistic husband to open up and ask him for advice on how to deal with his freshly resurrected mother. Darling. He knew Cas would be garbage at that but he asked and he grimaced at the terrible advice because just hearing Cas on the phone makes him feel better