I'm Tired Of Seeing The Word Grooming Taken Out And Used All The Time By People Who Probably Don't Understand

Arthur, bitten by the Questing Beast: If I die, how much will you miss me?

Merlin, rolling up his sleeves to fight Nimueh: It's cute you think death can get you out of this relationship.

I'm rewatching the episode, and Belos is SO deeply fuckedupedly religious, holy. This is ALL about Institutionalized Christianity. No wonder Disney cancelled this show. Promising myself to not make this too long so here's some quick points:

Humans are born into sin, inherently sinful and must spend their lives repenting for their nature (simply by being 'witches' he probably believes there is no such redemption for the inhabitants of the Isles anyways).

Your soul will be doomed to the ashes of hell if you don't repent now. Belos probably saw the 'devil' in his brother and thought he was doing a service of god to kill him.

Remember we are dealing with The Demon Realm. Belos probably believes he is trapped inside some kind of hell. The Titan is the BI's version of God, and he just repeats the rhetoric he's internalized to make it digestible for the citizens here.

He literally thinks he is a saviour and all of the carnage is worth it because he is ridding the world from the influence of the demon realm; which I am sure is very intentionally a society free of homophobia and racism, things that have been largely installed by Christianity and religion.

I might go so far as to suggest that Hunter's grooming by Belos (which doesn't have to be explicit in that way) is probably in reference to the proliferation of grooming done by priests, often with the excuse of this is 'how god wants it' / 'the titans plans'.

🔪 he can have a little violence as a treat

Willow: seriously..

Hunter:🤨

Gus: you're embarrassing me, dude

Camila: oh my 🤭

Luz: dude

Amity:urgh

The regret on Gus’ face. He knows he could do better. He so easily could. And yet he’s after... HIM.

(Also supportive Mom Camila loving and enjoying the antics of weird kids.)

Con sonido! 🔈🔉🔊

Help I’m thinking about Eddie inviting abuela Pepa and buck over for a family dinner after he started learning how to cook and Abuela tasting his food and teasing him by saying “ay mijo ya te puedes casar” and eddie subconsciously looking at buck and blushing

You can tell by the reaction people have to Penelope asking Colin to kiss her whether they ever experienced being a wallflower/insecure fat girl at a party or not.

Because you say it's pathetic, I say it's relatable, no matter how desperate it may sound. If you've never had your insecurity eat you up from the inside (but also the outside, as Portia literally told Penelope that she was delusional for thinking she was gonna find a husband in her third season out) to the point you genuinely, wholeheartedly believe no one will ever love you unless you physically change, then obviously the scene is off to you.

But Pen literally told Colin she felt stupid for thinking she's gonna find a husband (she just started believing what the ton and her mother said) and that she knows no one would want to kiss her. And for a romance girl like her, do you think the thought of never having a kiss, never experiencing that passion, would be easy to bear? I can so relate to being the most romantic of the bunch but also being the loneliest and aching for physical and emotional romantic love.

She is so vulnerable and so real in that moment but y'all gotta bitch about it because it doesn't make sense to you. It doesn't make sense to me either because she's gorgeous, but that's the thing - no one ever told her she's gorgeous and actually meant it. And even if they did, there must be 10 more people who didn't that keep that insecurity in her, specifically her sisters and her mother.

Nicola said this one was for the wallflowers, and it truly is, so if you find scenes like this cringe, you just don't relate to the character enough to feel it and recall moments when you had the same thoughts as her.

Happy pride month!

To My OTPs

Luz and Amity, Willow and Hunter

Merlin and Arthur

Emma and Regina

Aziraphale and Crowley

Liana and Alexa

Bilbo and Thorin

Needy and Jennifer

Eddie and Richie

Eve and Villanelle

Bilbo: How sad🙄💅

Maybe stop being rude and don’t steal his spoons