if your favourite goncharov scene ISNT the fruit stall scene where katya and sofia talk about pomegranates and apples then idek what to tell u man... it is THE most layered wlw/female-experience-and-solidarity scene in cinema tbh
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thomas who is brass and crude and terrorises the village, but crumbles as soon as he takes it a step too far. sofia who is quiet and delicate and a shadow of her brother, until she is close to destroying herself to get what she wants. to do what is best for them. something about siblings - one is cruel for fun, and one for necessity
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I’m thinking about the unsleeping city,,,,
It’s about 2 sides of the same coin.
It’s about believing in dreams but not the point of delusion that you harm yourself.
It’s about the reality of the world where you have to be realistic but not to the point where you can’t be optimistic
It’s about hope for the future and understanding your present.
It is what is, and *it is what it could be*
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You know what would be especially tragic? If it's not just Sofia is a plant, and Max is innocent and being used via his grief, but that Sofia also doesn't know. Sofia doesn't know she's a plant. Sofia is new, and curious, and is analyzing the world and helping these people. She doesn't know she's bugged, and the data is being collected. She doesn't know there's a back door where she's being syphened. She doesn't know that someone is going to come take her memory chip and extract everything. She doesn't know she's Spyware.
What if the federation created another innocent being to be made into a tool
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Okay. First of all.
WOAH THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE.
I did NOT expect 74 people to vote in the poll 😭🙏🙏🙏 (what the hell, where the fuck did y'all come from?????)
Second of all,,
TIME TO TALK ABOUT THESE FUCKERS 😈🔥🔥🔥🔥‼️💯
Just to state it here before I start yapping my ever living soul out, Shiver is an eastern tall-man, Frye is a beast-man (like Izutsumi) and Big Man is a kobold. I can get a bit more into their designs and headcanons in another post, but today I want to focus on the lore.
It allllllll roots back to Shiver and Frye's fathers, who were friends since lord knows when. They were a team of burglars, looters, thieves, whatever you may call them, but in the end of the day just let it be clear that they were BAD. And they engaged in BAD shit, like looting corpses in dungeons and stealing from people's houses.
One day, they hit a huge one, they got into the house of this really rich dude that turned out to traffic beast men and other illegal creatures. And the rich being rich and caring about their richness, the security was top notch, and let's just say they struggled to get out of the place alive. BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They left in NO WAY empty handed.
While looting the place, Frye's father found a kobold cub, chained up inside a cage in the corner beside other creatures likely being sold illegally. He brought the cub with him, and after almost getting their asses turned into kebabs by traps everywhere, the two companions were like "holy FUCK i ain't ever ever ever doing this shit again man.,.,. Wgart the ehll,,,,,, I'm getting too old for this, hell naw!!!!!!!" and decided to settle down as (this time legal) and functioning members of society. Shiver's father opened a dojo, while Frye's father opened a restaurant.
However, the rich guy who owned the house was PISSED (and also happened to be a black magic user......... woah how unlucky of them) and as revenge for stealing his wealth and freeing their beast men, cursed Frye's expecting father, mending the soul of his firstborn with the soul of a monster. And alas, that's how the critter was born😋🙏🔥💯😭
So yeah!!!!!!! Frye is a beast man just like Izutsumi is a beast man. They're the same typa monster, pretty much, except that Frye is a leopard instead of a housecat.
Anyway, back to the kobold pup; you guessed it, BIG MAN (or Big Dog?), being raised in the Onaga's restaurant, was always raised around the kitchen, both because he was genuinely interested in watching people cook and because he hoped to get food that fell from the floor lmfao-- as years went by, he started working as a server, apprentice, and eventually assistant chef of the family-ran restaurant. (So yeah, Biggie is the party's chef!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He also has an incredible sense of smell when it comes to cooking btw, both because of genuine talent and because of his race).
Ironic to his early years as a burglar, Shiver's dad grew to become quite the overprotective father once his daughter started growing up, wanting her to do anything but follow his steps and become a criminal before the age of 20. That backfired though, because she started running off to hang out with Frye causing all sorts of trouble (and eventually dragged Big Dog into it all too). The three were raised almost like siblings, and later on joined together as a party and continued to cause all sorts of troubles inside dungeons, where they eventually bumped into the other idols and started this whoooole story years later.
(They weren't all like their fathers though, instead of keeping the money they got from dungeons to themselves they gave it to the poor, much like their canon bandit dynamics.)
Anyway, that's the end of the yapping session, I hope y'all enjoyed (and if you did, please enjoy this page I doodled while blasting ToyBox in my headphones 🦄🙏 perhaps I'll outline and color this one day, but not now because it's 1:30 in the morning while I'm typing this out.)
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ok the fruit stall scene in goncharov has been talked abt but i havent seen anyone talk about the fact that after sofia buys katya the pomegranate and gifts it to her, katya eats the whole thing. every seed. and how the implications of that relate to the fact that they run away together at the end. its a reflection of persephones myth—katya chose to eat the pomegranate seeds (to stay with sofia). sofia can be seen in two ways here: as hades, taking katya away from everything she knows and loving her (and katya loving her back, going willingly—she knew what she was doing when she ate the seeds and when she left goncharov); or sofia can be seen as akin to demeter, guiding katya away from the darkness and death for as long as she can (and, again, loving her).
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I have so much to do today but I can’t stop thinking about q!Max he is, in my opinion, the islander who has suffered through the most loss, but is so determined to unravel the mysteries of the island and help his friends. Like he lost little Trumpet (I refuse to call that cute little baby egg with the adorable spinning hat Trump I’m sorry I can’t do it) because he couldn’t get there that day to take care of him because of things out of his control. He had so little time with him but the grief was such a heavy burden to bear that it caused him to spiral yet he still pulled himself out of it, the best he could, and started the Theory Bros to try and decode the mysteries of the island and channel all of his time, energy and grief into something. Then he created Sofia and bonded with her and she became his daughter, something to fill that void he had of wanting to care and love something and then she blue screened and no one knows how or why or how he can get her back. He was once again left with his grief, another lost child that he couldn’t save BUT STILL he channeled that into something good, his TV show! An opportunity to interact with his fellow islanders and provide entertainment, to make people happy but for the greater good he knew he had to destroy it. Once again he’s lost something he loves AND that’s not even mentioning his unrequited feelings for Forever. Max has so so much love to give but he’s lost so much. I love him but his character breaks my heart. I could write essays on him. LET HIM HAVE GOOD THINGS PLEASE
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