Skelly

I started watching dexter and it’s genuinely wild shit. His inner monologue will be like ‘this would be considered a kind action, if I had a heart. But unfortunately, I feel nothing inside. My chest is an empty cage, with no warmth inside it’ and he’s doing some shit like saving a puppy that almost got run over or something

Reblog if you’ve been around long enough to remember Lemons

very big fan of when shows put wigs on actors and say ‘yeah. That’s him when he was younger fuck you’. No anti aging ai, no teen actor hired. Just. The same guy with a fuckass wig

like fandom concepts of “media literacy” have conditioned a very specific form of reading where there is now a singular “point” of any work and the only task of any interpreter is to figure out what that is and then attack anyone they perceive to have failed in this task as “media illiterate” or its correlates. the political implications of said “point”? not a thing the media literate must concern themselves with. discussing the craft - questions of structure, aesthetics, etc. - with which that point is conveyed? a detriment to being “media literate” to even consider such a thing. multivalent meaning and contradictory readings and productive tensions and alternate analytical lenses? what the hell are those

no because imagine having a platonic soulmate in the way ned and peter are soulmates !! truly it makes me sick thinking about the fact that ned constantly felt peter’s presence !! and wanted to find him !! and felt connected to spiderman the whole time !! and instantly fell back into old habits with peter as spiderman !! and remembered his best friend through something so simple yet so special between the two of them !! i’ll throw up !! ned and peter i love you !!

“you are not immune to propaganda” but specifically cop shows and courtroom dramas that portray acquiring evidence illegally and not executing basic rights as. like. somehow good things? the evil suspect exercising their right to remain silent is always guilty obviously and the valiant cop that broke into someone’s house or hacked into someone’s personal laptop is always the heralded hero of justice. like girl. your humanity.