Man Who Is Known For Stealing Fire Trucks Shocked At Stealing Another With His Dad

The perfect take

ABIGAIL (2024) SPOILERS!!!!!

ok im ngl, looking at the whole situation from dracula's perspective is actually pretty funny to me. like you LOVE your daughter, you do, and so of course you want to keep her forever. so you turn her and even put in additions to the house for her protection and as tribute - like the metal window covering in the library and the painting on the wall that dean finds when he's exploring and even that statue in the library of the adult and the little girl. you keep her safe, probably train and teach her, make her an essential part of your criminal empire by giving her the role of head hitman, and when she's not doing that, she has the freedom to do whatever she wants and the means to do it. and should she ever need you, you come immediately.

the only problem is, she's 12. forever. like i genuinely dont think that fact sunk in and he's honestly about to be bopped over the head with it SO HARD

What's interesting to me about Jod and his relationship with the kids by the end of the series is that it's so in-between.

It's not "actually I've come to care for these kids and I will give up my plan to protect them" but it's also not just that he's evil and doesn't care about them.

He does betray them and he does a lot of harm. He threatens them and their families and their home in a very genuine and traumatic way. He brings destruction and danger down on their home. He does not make the turn to help them or side with them against the other pirates. He stays on his course, stays a bad guy.

But at the same time, as much as he threatens them (in the pirate horde, in the ship and on At Attin) and their family, he doesn't actually hurt them. (in fact I think the only ones we see him actually physically hurt are 1. SM-33. 2. The werewolf pirate guy 3. the supervisor droid). And I don't know that the threats are empty, but he's certainly very reluctant to actually enact that violence, and his plan might not have fallen through if he had been more willing to hurt them. He's not willing to stop for the sake of the kids, but he'd much rather get through his plan without harming them. And when he KB is falling and he thinks she probably died there is real fear and regret in his face. He didn't want that.

All of this is an outpouring of his misguided worldview. Because again, Jod isn't a villain who can't recognize right and wrong. He knows what Good is, he's seen it. But his problem is despair so he believes that Good is not worth it, and is not powerful enough to make a difference. And because of that he becomes the manifestation of the cruel place he believes the world to be. The good in him is THERE but its not strong enough to really change him, but it's because his despair doesn't believe it can be. And so he becomes the very thing that made him-- he watched his mentor/parental figure killed in front of him, and he stands there threatening to do the same thing to Wim and Fern.

But he doesn't, because he isn't quite the villain that the Empire represents. Even though the difference doesn't come from him actively making a choice for Good, it does come from there being Good still in him, even just in the form of hesitation. Good is still powerful even when he's denying it. And then little ember in him is not what saves the day--that's the kids and their families and the New Republic. But it is there and it does mean that even though he stays a villain there is that moment of Wim calling out to him, there is still that spark of hope that Jod can be saved one day too.

brb the whole discord in an uproar at the UNCONSCIONABLE results of Mister Global 2022

I’ve spent all Easter weekend camping and writing a nowhere boys fanfic and I’m sooo close to finishing, I’m just missing a little bit of the middle and I have no idea how to end it

But I’m so happy that I actually wrote so much in the last three days in between all the card games

It’s mainly Jake centric and I’m excited to make a contribution to the fandom of one of my favourite shows as a kid

What the hell was that captain tuttle episode? That was amazing

character misses their shot and the villain goes "ha! you missed." and the main character goes "did i?" and then shoots the villain again while they're frantically looking around the room for what the hero could possibly have aiming for instead

Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

Initially I had no interest in watching the new Ghostbusters movies (Afterlife and Frozen Empire) as I was wondering how on earth they were going to work this in with kids.

**contains spoilers**

I watched Frozen Empire (FE) the other week and was immediately counting down the days till Afterlife came onto Netflix just so that I could see more of these characters. I’m a sucker for family dynamics and good family relationships and for me FE ticked all my boxes, especially with Gary Grooberson and his interactions with the family.

My main point of this post is Phoebe Spengler. Since the first moment she was on screen I was glued to it. She’s quite androgynous in appearance to me and I’ve been finding myself wanting more of that represented in media these days.

I like all the characters but Phoebe really stuck with me. Just look at her:

(Don’t get me wrong, I love Trevor too, but Phoebe is just 🤌)

These two movies had a good family dynamic with siblings portrayed in a way that didn’t make me cringe, an adult being very mindful of the developing family relationships he’s building AND a neurodivergent young teen who’s androgynous in appearance? That and I’m 90% certain Phoebe had a crush on Melody in FE.

I neeeeeed to devour movie analysis and fanfictions on these films and Phoebe.

8/10

she really hates ghosts

shut up