Every Day I Think Of That One "blooper" From Fight The Future Where Scully And Mulder Aren't Interrupted

new fanfic: i use hozier’s lyric "i’ll crawl home to her" to apply it to an AU with the doyle storyline

my favorite frequently mischaracterized sunshines...

i love zack addy so much. he's oblivious, he's loveable, he's dorky, he's pathetic, he's the youngest of EIGHT, he asked his friends what "take a hint" means, he wears stupid flannel shirts to work with dead bodies, he's secretly an amazing singer, his boss/mentor is practically his mom, he's only ever punched someone once and it was his best friend, he lives above his best friend's garage, he corrected the dissertation committee while he was defending his dissertation, he's a rational empiricist but his mother still thinks he's lutheran, he and his bestie put a frozen pig through a woodchipper, he broke out a psychiatric facility using a library card, he can do complex math problems in his head, he's a nerd but comic books and the likes and foreign to him, he often thinks about building robots to take over the world, he confessed to killing a man he didnt actually ever lay a hand on, and he does it all with a slightly disgruntled look on his face.

Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff. (edit: yes, cliff then hyenas. But cliff first. Lol.)

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took a step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

bro thinks he needs to sneak his way into a weekend trip with them

this shit looked so fun

They are emailing eachother

how to say "I love you" in x-files [105/?] ⤷ 6.04 — “Dreamland”

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

How do you do it Scully, how do you fight that urge not to climb your hot nerdy coworker like a god damn tree at any given chance like HOW GIRL?