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I have such frustrated feelings about Why Women Kill.

I adored season 1 so much, it was brilliant! The writing was solid, there was a tension to the mystery, parts of it that only unraveled with time.

And this show was actually unique. The way it told three murder mysteries in three different time periods that all shared the same location was incredibly cool. As someone who loves the look of a period piece from the last century, it was so nice to see the costumes, the cars, the sets. The way the show transitioned between time periods too!

That’s not even mentioning the cast, the cast was fucking amazing, I mean, you don’t cast Lucy Liu and don’t get praise for that, that’s a given, but Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste were also amazing.

An incredibly talented cast that got to work with a solid script in a refreshing concept of story-telling.

And then they just… threw everything unique about the show out of the window in season 2 and made it the most average, mediocre thin, just another run-of-the-mill crime show. Sure, it was still a period piece, but only one period.

The concept of switching between periods, which was the unique and interesting aspect, was gone - and I can only assume that was some stupid greed decision of “oh well, if we keep doing 3 decades a season, we’ll burn through the past century way too fast so let’s slow down!” or something. But I’d rather have had three incredible seasons that had wrapped it on 90 years total and kept the model of story-telling that the show first used, than what the show ended up doing.

Not to mention that there was just… no real… Season 2 lacked appeal. The stories of the three murderesses had intrigue, for one, it wasn’t even entirely clear who would end up the murderer and who would be the victim, and then there was compassion woven in too. They were complex. Season 2 just fell incredibly flat and was so much more predictable.

It was also such a drag. Because it had one story that it told over the span of the same length as season 1, which told three stories. So they stretched this out to trice the length it should have needed.

All of this is to say, I wasn’t surprised when this show got cancelled after season 2, because of course did it get cancelled after season 2. In a sea of shows that get cancelled too early, this one actually did that to itself by self-sabotaging so hard.

And yeah, I’m still mad about that, because I just rewatched Sandman and saw Kirby and was reminded of Why Women Kill season 1 and how great this show could have been if it had kept the anthology format of telling multiple stories within one season, if it had managed to keep even just half the quality of season 1.

Headcanon that in College Ford briefly developed Scurvy, so with Fiddleford binge ate 20 something oranges before passing out in a pile of orange peel together

The cat stan au is the funniest "Ford and Stan fix their relationship on their late twenties/early thirties" au. Soley bc the author decided that they wouldn't go for Fiddauthor and also didnt not go for Fiddauthor. They made those men coparent a bug together. This is so much funnier than having them just kiss. One of them hates said bug for like a solid month while coparenting him. They aren't even tempted to hook up or date each other but they are parents with one of those men's wife, their roommate who's the others brothers ex, and a magical brother cat They collectively parent Shifty as a unit of five.

For a large chunk of time Fidds was convinced Shifty would eat them in their sleep one night! Imagine coparenting with your college roomate (whos married heterosexually) and he thinks your baby is evil and wants you for lunch! Imagine leaving your family for science with your bestie and said bestie accidentally makes you adopt a kid that you hate bc its a sin against god..

Tate and Shifty became twins with extra steps. Shifty is brothers with Tate and Tate now has new uncles that are sort of parents to his brother. The boys are bros but only really have two parents in common. Which almost sounds normal until you remember that one of them has five parents.

Carla is there sort of parenting Shifty at times but is mostly just a babysitter/roommate and Stan is feeding the bug dead birds. Stan watched his brother treat the alien bug child like a creature in absolute HORROR for at least a few weeks. Stan orchestrated a baby heist (mind you as a cat) bc Ford and Fidds were being bad parents.

This is so much funnier than just making Ford and Fidds have an affair they are instead doing something much more baffling. At least them cheating is simple this is instead a QPR with alot of convoluted steps. They didn't even know they were coparenting till like a month in either.

Oh cat stan au the fanfiction that you are.

one more one more

same au thing as last time

“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

Season 4 of Once Upon A Time is weird.

I Will be fighting the writers of the first half of season 4 in the Tesco's carpark at midnight. WTF were they thinking???? Bo Peep is a slave owning war mongerer????? Who BRANDS people?? ELSA????????? With Frozen accurate backstory???? Ingrid was okay but they DIDN'T NEED ELSA FIR THAT STORY TO WORK! It probably would've worked better without Elsa - and I dont dislike OUAT Elsa, but she didnt need to be there and it probably would've improved the season if she wasn't there.

Tho the queer villain throuple of Cruella, Ursula & Maleficent is very fun. And make the second half of season 4 a lot better than the first.

I have pretty mixed feelings about the author tho, like hes interesting in concept, and the execution isn't the worse, but it could be better.

Regina is perfect as always (I love her) (too much) (shes so pretty) (I'd let the evil queen kill me) (I wanna raise Henry with her and be her wife) (I cant tho) (so Emma & Regina should kiss) (but I do actually like Robin)

Robert Carlyle is amazing as Mr Gold and Rumple still.

I kinda hate Snow this season, she stole Maleficent's baby, cursed the baby & only regretted it upon realising it was human, hides things from Emma, shames Emma for her magic & considers letting Emma get rid of it, and more.

the fact, that so many Christians and Christianity-influenced fans of Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica see Homura as a villain honestly reveals a lot about what is wrong with the faith, media literacy and the general attitude towards mental illness.

On one hand you have aliens seemingly devoid of any moral system at all, acting purely out of self-interest while pretending to work towards some grand utilitarian goal the results of which will never be experienced by the people affected by the system they created. The Incubators literally rip souls out of children and turn them into a physical object, so that it can store more energy than it took to create it and explode, releasing all of it so that the aliens can then collect the surplus they're after. The psychological effects of that are shown to be equivalent to a perpetual psychotic breakdown shattering the personhood of the victim, dooming them to years of torment that cannot be escaped by any means other than being killed by a magical girl.

On the other hand you have a desperate struggle to protect a sweet lesbian bean girl too devoid of self-worth not to sacrificially throw herself away at the first occasion, time after time after time until it turns out that even a complete rewrite of the universe won't achieve anything permanent unless the Incubators are completely and utterly defeated for good. You have a drastic measure meant to prevent a reactionary takedown of Madoka's universe, taken right after experiencing the aforementioned breakdown.

And then you have imagery of a God and a Devil superimposed on top, contrasting the traits of the characters in a way that should have made it clear the symbolism isn't used in a standard Christian way at all.

But it doesn't matter, because there's so much more discourse on Homura being supposedly in the wrong and evil, accusing her of psychopathy while the actual low empathy villains are doing horrible things for reasons completely unrelated to lack of empathy anyway.

There's a lot of examples of bias, poor media literacy and broken discourse, but this one really bothers us a lot on a personal level and we don't even have a single fictive from the show

I hope that the upcoming movie manages to handle the mismatch between the actual politics of the franchise and its image, but honestly it's gonna be one hell of a job in this climate

/Oneesama

Ford "Icarus didn't flap hard enough" Pines

Asriel: Marissa, come with me to the new world. We can face its challenges together

Mrs Coulter: I'm sorry, I love you but I want to stay with our daughter

Asriel: huh?

Mrs Coulter: ya know, our illegitimate child?

Asriel: Tell me what she looks like and I might remember??

Mrs Coulter: okay so you know Lyra? She has that little rat Daemon. You gave her away to Oxford

Asriel: *halfway through the portal* I'm sorry, who?

My favorite way to play with Gravity Falls Timestuck AU is to have Mabel trying soooo hard to have a nice and normal time hanging out the worlds two most mentally ill men while Dipper is having fun committing crimes with Stan while also desperately trying to convince him that maybe they should kill current President Ronald Reagan pretty pretty please