everyone in this life series is like "wow etho's so washed up" and then etho comes over to say hi and they're all twirling their hair and kicking their feet like school girls with a crush. guys please get it together, most of you have wives.
They were not kidding when they said your favorite interests years ago don’t disappear but just go dormant until you get back into it. Thinking of emerald duo and the banger of a line that was "for you the world, Phil" that was such an insane thing to say. They were THE duo. Nobody could rival what their characters had. No other character duo had this deep of understanding like they did.
Before the doomsday event when techno gave him his only totem of undying to Phil and telling him to drink invisibility pots away from the battle ground. Phil letting himself be used by Techno as the last resort at the drop of a hat as his hidden blade and Techno never allowing for such a situation to occur. Techno trusting Phil with a compass of his location after losing all trust in other characters. Phil trying to aim for the falling anvil with a bow. Techno lashing out at the possibility that they hurt Phil while he's being sent to his execution because there is no world that Phil would willingly give out his base location. Their log cabin connected with a bridge. Iconic. Techno telling Phil that his code name should be Zephyrus not Daedalus because he is so much more than his son's killer. Phil seeing Techno as a kind man in a world that sees him as a living threat. Techno always assuring others that Phil is very capable despite his wings being damaged beyond repair. It was like if you had a target on your back from one, you best believe the other did too.
A god and an angel. Literal match made in hell. They were my absolute favorites <3
if you would like trans women to stop being suspicious of your intentions as a tme person you should probably take the very important step of not making it about you LOL like it actually really is not about you as an individual at all. part of having friends that are marginalized in ways you aren't - something that needs to be accepted to even get to this point - is listening to them discuss violence/oppression/control enacted on them by people in a group you belong to and accepting that they aren't fucking attacking you personally. how do you think people will come to trust you if you've positioned yourself to assume they look down on you specifically?
I think the beauty of Secret Life is that you take a bunch of naturally weird and suspicious people that normally do weird and suspicious things and crank that up to 100. Like their normal behavior is already bonkers. Add game mechanics to that? Wild. Nothing makes sense, everything is a scheme, no one knows what's going on. Yeah.... :)
it's. its the way that martyn has just been moments ahead of dying before jimmy every single time. it's the way that he went yellow at the end of ep 1 and jimmy hit 1 heart and went yellow at the start of ep 2. its the way that martyn fell of the platform and, as if the gods themselves had a personal vice, the dragon suddenly divebombed jimmy and he died TWELVE SECONDS LATER. martyn was first to yellow. martyn was first to red. jimmy follows just moments behind each time.
its the way that martyn is known for devoting himself to a single person and taking as much of the heat and horror off of them as possible at the cost of himself and his wellbeing. the watchers dont want the canary curse to be broken. jimmy is just following his normal schedule of dying and dying and dying except this time martyn is forcing his way in too soon and dying just seconds before.
im just. imagine if the same thing happens for permadeaths. imagine the reaction if martyn and jimmy died at basically the same time except martyn's death message was just before jimmy's. the canary curse is broken, not in some big way where jimmy wins the season or 5v1s an entire team, but through the angry clawing furious devotion of a friend. martyn cant just fight off the forces of the universe with ease but he can do the thing he has always been good at: fighting like an animal and edging his way in despite all odds. he can't make jimmy win, but he sure as hell can make sure he doesn't lose. and maybe things will get better for him after that.
watching cleo's pov, trying to process what on earth is even happening, and as they run past the ruins of the bread bridge, and i was just. struck with something.
there's something about how, this season, the server finally looks more like an anarchy server than anything else, isn't there?