#which is fascinating

Nightwing is a great example of a fighter who has weapons designed to create and maintain distance (long escrima sticks, sometimes electrified) who does not give a fuck about distance at all and gets up IN someone else’s guard and uses that to choke/throw/etc up close.

i don’t know that i can put my thoughts about the first episode into coherent words but what i will say is that my favorite scene in the entire thing was the first one, which feels a bit bittersweet seeing as it’s so drastically different in tone compared to what follows. it was so beautifully shot and constructed and i wanted to live in that room of burning treasures and glass boxes and coy glances and unspoken tension and missing pieces in the form of an eye and a leg and the way it felt like almost an intrusion by the audience, seeing these characters so vulnerable and bare, so altered and yet so them and just. i’ll be thinking about it for a very long time.

So sorry for the double ask but I immediately thought of this sobs

Mrs. Westenra employs two different harmful gendered expectations at once:

Honest statement about the latest Fourever You? My problem was not the neck kissing or shorts lust or anything. Arthit apologized for that! It was when he basically forced himself into Dao's room and refused to let go of him even when Dao made it clear that he was uncomfortable and did not like that. Because he never apologized for that. Arthit never even acknowledged that. Everything else? He was aware of what he did wrong and faced it fully.