hey Syl! ❤️

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc

I straight up do notttttt understand why "claiming" is such a thing in spuffy fanfic like yes I get it with vampires why you'd be into biting and blooddrinking (though I personally think it's still ooc for spike) but a whole special special vampire marriage mating ritual that's constantly getting accidentally triggered by cringey possessive dialogue... charlaine harris did it better in the southern vampire mysteries!!!!!

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

jasmine is rly good like rly rly good.......ultimately my thing with ats s4 is that i don't think it's a bad story i think it's a good story that they told really really badly. the CONCEPT of cordelia getting possessed by a former PTB who is disillusioned and thinks humanity needs saving is actually so fire it's just executed in such a foul and misogynistic way that deprives cordelia of her voice and encourages us + the characters to blame a woman for her own rape for at least 6 episodes. also angel losing his soul is like the chekov's gun of ats, it needed to happen, but angelus is such a flop in s4!! he doesn't do anything!!!! also joss did not tell charisma cordelia was possessed so she can't play the character properly until "calvary." (luckily charisma took her role really seriously, per alexis denisof moreso than anyone on set, so she does play cordelia differently starting with 4x07 because she's trying to play a version of cordelia who would do those things.)

also like i enjoy faith's return but they also kind of waste her. and "orpheus" is like. show-ruining. why are we pretending angel and angelus are different people. and gunn is like nowhere to be found this season except when they have him accidentally hit fred in "soulless" after fighting over her with wesley (awesome racism and misogyny guys). URGHH.

but then the jasmine arc goes so hard!!! and actually ties in with cordelia's arc really well bc cordelia's arc is that of a humanistic christ figure, a human who ascends to sainthood/godhood, meanwhile jasmine is more literally like the myth of christ in that she is a god who comes down to earth to save humanity except that her methods are evil and she eats people, and she pretends to be cordelia (a la the antichrist pretending to be jesus's second coming).

also lilah is there and i love lilah and this is her best season for sure. and weslah is there and weslah is so good...there's a dollar bill in your pocket that says otherwise!!!!! and i actually quite like connor, i don't think he's always served very well by the writing but he's lowkey rly funny lol. ALSO the darla/jasminedelia scene in "inside out" is CRAZYYY like waow.....a good scene? in my s4? it's more likely than you think...

okay so x-men gold #26 has the flashback + subsequent conversation about the meeting in the present. i think where my frustration at the writing of these characters comes from is in the fact that even as piotr says how young she was, kitty immediately says that "with the way he looked, kinda didn't have much of a choice." which is claremont's legacy of purposefully sexualizing a teenage girl.

as far as i can see, no one has every outright written out that the relationship was wrong or that something that shouldn't have happened. even in modern comics they don't say that it's wrong, just that they don't work out while leaving space for the future or having future alternate versions still be together regardless.

it happens! the first show to come to mind is lost, which isn’t exactly the same because it changed hands through multiple creators, but jj abrams co-created lost and co-wrote the pilot and directed the pilot and then stepped back as soon as he’d gotten it off the ground. he was never the showrunner. and for whatever reason the second show to come to mind is elsbeth (tv’s two pillars! lost and elsbeth); robert & michelle king created the show and wrote the pilot, which robert directed, but they aren’t the showrunners. robert still directs sometimes though.