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This right here is such a huge turning point in Jean’s road to recovery. It’s him finally hitting that point and acknowledging that what happened to him was fucked up, that he’s actually a victim of monsters.
I think the two points of comparison that really made it clear to him were:
His sister being sold. Stuart was right. He wasn’t special. If his parents could do the same thing to his sister who he loved dearly and was the last person in the world who deserved that level of cruelty, then where did that put him? If he deserved the years of torture and his sister didn’t and yet the same thing happened to them both, something doesn’t add up.
Seeing what a true loving father is like through Wymack and Kevin’s relationship. Or even just that kind people exist. I don’t think Jean really has any good examples of what a typical family was like and hearing Wymack talk about taking Kevin in simply because that’s what Kevin needed even without the knowledge that Kevin was his son juxtaposed with his parent’s cruelty probably really hit home that what happened to him wasn’t normal.
This is also the part where he cries and it makes me wonder how many years it’s been since the last time he cried from something that wasn’t forced out of him through physical pain or psychological torture. I don’t think he would cry over his situation because that would imply that an injustice was done to him and he’s been brainwashed to believe that everything that happened was something he deserved.
Idk where I was going this but I’m really looking forward to the next book to see more of Jean’s progress towards healing.
#the sunshine court#aftg#tsc spoilers#spoilers#jean moreau#m#typing this up made me feel like I was doing literary arts homework lol#thoughts on
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This answer made me 🥺🥹! I love this so much! 🫶💕
DMs, do you guys have that one character that shows up in every campaign? That's just a little piece of you that gets to go on the adventure, too.
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What is a hero?
#Link#Zelda#Mipha#Revali#Urbosa#Daruk#BoTW#breath of the wild#legend of zelda#art that represents my thoughts on how each champion makes Link a better hero#also sprinkled in some of that lovely revali and zelda mirror each other's stories which I love (why is that I wonder.)#there has to be some significance?#never mind#thoughts on#each champion's self sacrifice#and how Link is forced to copy them by coming into a new and foreign life and running back into battle with little recovery time#and how Zelda is effectively a divine conduit#and how she sacrifices herself as a protection to Hyrule - like the champions - but doesn't die because of fate#which is an interesting concept to explore#Link is effectively ever champion rolled into one.#he has their powers#and has to face each battle they faced#like the second chance they never got#maybe?#the ramblings of a tired artist#I bit you all#adieu#until my next creative burst#old wip that has been sitting in my art folder for an eternity that I always wanted to post but never did#so here is the wip version
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journey to the west book one, thoughts
so this post is going to be really messy and jumbled, i will take my thoughts one chapter at a time. since this post contains all the chapters in book one imma but everything under the cut and warn ya'll that this is HELLA long.
ok so, before we get into it i just wanna let you guy's know that if the first 13 chapters seem like they have less it's because i only really started to do this on chapter 14 and had to go back through chapters 1 - 13 and look at the notes and tabes i left to gage my reaction to them. some of them have a bit more than others and some have like none at all.
that being said enjoy the absolute crack house that is my no cotext thoughts of Journey to the West volume one!
Chapter 1
monkey is born!!
and he's already being impulsive...
calling him the handsome monkey king is gonna go straight to his head
lier! you are a certified shit disturber and you know it!
ohhhhh so thats how he got the name Sun Wukong, gotcha gotcha
Chapter 2
the dao art seems real complex
love how they casually have the way to immortality written in this book lol
teaching a suicidaly impulsive monkey how to shape shift and fly wasn't a bad idea at all!
he's showing off- of course he is-
aaaaaand he got kicked out for showing off! idiot-
oh damn- thats actually sadder than i thought it would be...
HE CALLS THEM LITTLE ONES!!! CUUUTE!!!!
HOW DARE!?!?!
Chapter 3
holy hell....
op much???
not a monkey scaring a dragon ffs
he is just a menace this entire page! LAMO
GOD DAMN-
THEY WANT HIM OUT SO FUCKING BAD XDDDD
bruh-
ooooooop foreshadowing alert
THATS BULLSHIT!! THEIR EXAGERATING THE HELL OUT OF IT!!!
oh- oh he really fucked up the life and death cycles- damn...
smart!!!!
he was thinking of paying a visit to heaven himself?? without an invite?? oh- that would not have ended well-
Chapter 4
here we go! first rampage through heaven!!
deva
NEZHA!!!!
ITS GIVING "who's this sassy lost kid?" VIBES XD
Chapter 5
does he not have a reputation yet???
Wukong is in so much fucking trouble oh god....
idiot
going to war over wine is a very Wukong thing to do-
Chapter 6
when did Nezha get here?
shapeshifter duels man... they be confusing af
oop he got caught-
Chapter 7
they seem to have forgotten what the meaning of immortal is
oop- he's being refered to as a monster instead of a king by the narrator- thats how you know he's pissed beyond all belief...
OH HES MAD MAD
HOLY FUCK
"i have to go exorcise a demon to defend the throne." pg 193
"he ligit just wrote "sun wukong was here" oh the fucking finger lmao
man... calling the banquet that is just salt in the wound.... really it is...
Chapter 8
sandy's got green skin, red hair, noted
it's pigsy -n-
he flirted with Chang'e..... this bitch
i already can't fucking stand him
Chapter 9
so he does have parents! lets see if they ever pop up again-
WHAT!?!?! WHY!?!!
Chapter 10
i didn't take in a sing thing that this chapter sad.... why is it even here-
Chapter 11
no thoughts head empty, why are we still on this? is there any plot relevance or???
Chapter 12
awwww their cute
good for him, coming from such humble beginnings
wow- ok thats kinda a really great honour to be called brother by the emperor
Chapter 13
lots of scenery! neat!
wft....
oop divine intervention o'clock
abuse???? hello??? what the actual fuck sir???
COWARD!!!
i am going to get so sick of him so quickly....
WUKONG!?!?!?!!!!! YER BACK!!!!!! YEEEEEAHHHHHHHHH
Chapter 14
wukong- bud... YOUR FUCKING FILTHY
yell that your not lying makes you less believable
HE'S NAKED?!?! OFC HE IS
brutal.... nice
ight show off, keep rambling about the shit you can do.
gay? /j but fr- i get that a naked monkey coming to your door may be a cause for concern but there was no reason to disrespect him like that-
he has a son??? when???
gross man- like i get you were trapped under a mountain- but gross
brutal... nice
EXCUSE YOU WHAT?!?! NAH, NAH HE DID NOT
A FEW WORDS?!?! FAM YOU READ HIM FOR A WHOLE PARAGRAPH SHUT YOUR MOUTH
thats not teaching tripitaka- a lecture is NOT teaching
GUAINYIN IS HERE!!! oh... Guanyin is here...
oh... fuck...
why is his name just 'Pilgrim' like i get it but i also don't... idk
oh he's gonna do it out of spite now for being called a bogus immortal by the dragon king
that entire painting is just of two gay lovers putting on shoes and getting immortality for it
well, he actually is really convincing, i can see why Wukong went back after those words...
yeah i'd be taken aback too bud
.......YOU COULD FINISH THE JOURNEY RN.... but he won't, that defeats the entire porpoise of it all
THIS BITCH!!!! I WILL ACTUALLY KILL HIM
HE ONLY STOPPED CAUSE I WAS AFRIAD THE FILLET WOULD BREAK
ON GOD I WILL THROW HANDS WITH A MONK I WILL
HE STARTED UP AGAIN?!??!!? STOP!!!!
OH OH! so you stop when you see how the pain is LITTERALLY TEARING HIS BODY APART! fuck you
HE ACTUALLY TRIED TO KILL HIM!?!?!?!? oh my god- i mean.... jesus.....
yes. its a great idea to go to the south sea and beat up the goddess who did this to you... super smart /s
all thoughts of disobedience and rebellion? no shot
Chapter 15
ah yes, lets start the chapter with Wukong hauling ass to save Tripitaka
Jesus them some powerful eyes
omg SHUT UP
YES YELL AT HIM WUKONG!!!
namby-pamby??
lawless lizard XD
harsh
they talk about him like he's not the son of a dragon king...
OH SHES PISSED AT HIM
so he's called 'third prince Jade dragon' gotcha
he's a fucking idiot
why are you being such a baby all of a sudden??
neat, he got the get out of danger free leaves now
if Rue had been in this part of the journey she would have been pretty interested in that
plot armour be like-
impressive
more divine intervention! oh my god-
so now it's early spring. jesus that means its almost been a year
Chapter 16
i don't know wether to be annoyed or what- were only a page into this chapter
"he may be ugly" BITCH WHAT
yeah... ight... i'd be annoyed with him too
somesones butt hurt that hes oooooold~
everyone is starting to get on my nerves like jesus-
wow the murder plots are real
he askin' for favours like he didn't just beat their asses 500 years ago
he's a little arsonist
LMAO UNO REVERSE BITCH
damn- he's already on shockingly good terms with him
HE SAVED YOU AND YOUR GONING TO PUNISH HIM FOR IT!?!?!
I'M GOING TO THROW HANDS WITH A MONK ISTG
and after all that your response is still murder??? really????
goddman.... he so mad he defiled a corpse- that wasn't very buddhist of you tripitaka
Chapter 17
not tripitaka using wukongs temper against others-
jesus christ man
"thunder god mouth" XDDD best way to describe it 10/10
THE THREATS
XDD the arrogance!! he called the demon "my son" before starting a lecture XDD
he gets annoyed when people call him the BanHorsePlague now, thats so fucking funny to me
he's so real for that though, i'd wanna eat in the middle of a fight too
he is actually a menace to humans goddamn
HE REDUCED THE DEMON TO A BURGER
love how their calling him 'old carcass'
there is a lot of seemingly nice senery in this chapter
how'd they know all of that just by seeing a goddamn meat patty on the side of the road???
this is gonna be a pattern isn't it-
conversations with these two go no where but damn they do be giving me L O R E
he's being so nice now lmao
wft....
ok *fine* she gets a pass but jesus
GRAPHIC
jesus wukong
HA got'em
"don't start trouble again" "i won't" LIES
Chapter 18
oooooh this is the pigsy chapter!!! i can't wait to see some ass be beat!
i- i don't think i like these people...
Wukong really just said don't judge a book by it's cover
why does he always say "your poor monk" it's grinding my gears
"tell me everything!" .... "from ancient times-"
his surmname meant hog....
i can only picture that one manga panel in jjk where Yuta is dragging Yuji along lmao
ancient toilet humour?
"where are you going darling" he says as he returns to his original form
love that wukong is described and then called "virtually a living thunder god"
"i'll follow you to the ends of the earth" (menacingly)
Chapter 19
why do they all have caves?
it is pigsy
damn- Wukong's reading him
are they really throwing celestial law at one another??
he's bragging... really?
ah yes, a summary of the first seven chapters
he really said set your house on fire and follow me
man's really stripped him of all he was worth and then dragged him by the ear... he's like a mom...
HE'S REFERED TO AS IDIOT! oh this just got so much better
lmao both of them going "wine? oh we still drink that"
Wukong admitted to being a light weight XD
pigsy, trying to say a heart felt goodbye, the other two; hurry the fuck up
"you know him and not me? what kind of fuckery is this?"
"he insulted me and the pig?!" "how?" *proceeds to tell tripitaka exactly how he and pigsy were insulted*
Chapter 20
just by the title alone i know imma start to have beef with pigsy
they still call him idiot! YES
it's pigsy getting bullied hours!!!
that- that was a very round about way of calling him a dick Wukong
annnnnd he's boasting again...
huh? flying bricks, talking pots, and dancing tiles... interesting...
this old man has balls
"fix your ugliness" DUUUUUDE
i'm about to highlight each and every time Pigsy is refered to as Idiot! shits too funny!
ahhhhh pigsy's first kill steal!
OH SHIT NVM
dude just ripped off his own skin! what a power move!
jesus-
and we get to the first time tripitaka is truely captured!
"for you culinary pleasure" XDDDD why is that so funny?
this guy's actually quite smart for that
damn...
good wisdom wukong
i love how wukong is so often describes as "the one with the thunder god mouth and hairy face"
he's got a good sense to be this scared of him
monkey-monk?? (why is that so funny to me???)
he just told wukong he was a 'buy one get one free sale'!! AND HE'S THE FREE BIT XDDDDDD
KILL STEAL!!! +1 for butality, pigsy's score is now -99 points!
Wukong actually let him have credit for the kill? goddamn- is that character growth i see?
Chapter 21
no he does not!
Aqua man?????
Really?? *face palms*
why does he insist on calling himself grandpa?
is he about to disapline him like a grandpa too??
Coward
the divine wind of Samādhi? like the Samādhi fire? NEAT!!!
more divine intervention i see
the trend of calling pigsy an idiot continues and i am thriving in this enviornment
can he be any less annoying?
*crybaby beings to play on loop in my head*
idiot
it was the fucking gold star of venus
very humble wukong
lawless ape! XDDD
love that offending the great sage is quite possibly a crime punishable by death now
Chapter 22
its sandy time!!!
wouldn't that be qualifies as an inland sea?!
i don't know how to feel about that entire passage
cloud surfing lessons
he called Wukong his assistant- oh boy if he had heard that...
he can be there in half an hour?! wild...
sandy is aquired
Chapter 23
still love that his nickname is practically idiot
please- stop refering to your staff as a rod- i can't take reading "you'll get a ___ from this Huge Rod!" anymore T-T
you fucking idiots- your banter has now left the master stranded and he's gonna get captured by demons!
serves you right
Wu kong being so shocked he actually acted poliet?
Unreal and nonexisting- well those are some red falgs if i've ever seen em in this book
SHIT JUST GOT SO MUCH FUNNIER OMFG
she just keeps going!? dude- please- how can someone have so much
omg- this is all a test of character isn't it...
tripitaka; wukong you stay! Wukong; the fuck you mean me!? make pigsy stay
the entier latter half of this page pisses me off. fuck you pigsy
OH EW! SEVEAR ICK- GROSS
I FUCKING HATE YOU YOU GREEDY WHORE
I KNEW IT WAS A TEST OF CHARACTER!!!!!! I WAS RIGHT!!!!
Chapter 24
serves him fucking right
i agree with Wukong, leave the pig and go
holy hell they haven't even covered one tenth of the distance yet?
this is the chapter that that one monkey king animated movie was about.
to cowardly to do it himself so he's gotta wait for Wukong lmao
thus begins an entire two-ish pages of Wukong stealing fruit again
Wukong makes me nevious frfr
if it were so embarissing maybe you shouldn't have done it in the first place
Chapter 25
wukong.... buddy.... no.....
good plan boy's
dude can pick (break?) locks.... good to know
why do you fight first and ask questions later....
he escaped thrice, got catpured thrice, kept playing tricks..... dude just wouldn't fucking stop....
#journey to the west#jttw sun wukong#jttw pigsy#jttw tripitaka#jttw sandy#thoughts on#thoughts about#its a jumbled mess#have fun#no context
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Thoughts on Netflix's Rustin
I watched Rustin over the weekend. I really liked it Colman Domingo was fantastic and deserves his nominations. The film focuses on the conception and development of the 1963 march on Washington DC and how Bayard Rustin's involvement was downplayed because he was an unashamed gay man. One character is supposedly mostly made up, Rustin's main love interest. I think they did think to give Rustin a black love interest, I don't know if he was interested in black men, but the two known long term partners he had were white. But it also shows what closeted black men of the time went through. There is a white staffer that Rustin has a passing fling with, but he's more into Bayard than Bayard is into him.
Also, there's a portrayal of baby John Lewis
It makes me want to be a low key modern day Rustin. Something to aspire to.
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Finished (re-)reading Goethe's Faust start to end for the first time in at least ten years or so. Some things I had not remembered:
the devil really is horny as hell in this one, especially in the Walpurgis night scene. Specifically very horny for Faust and witches, not particularly interested in city girls.
there actually is a prose scene, and exactly which scene it is and what the prose is about has probably fed literary analysts for a century, very nice
I do feel bad for Valentin lol
the full Walpurgis night scene with all its bits and bobs might actually be pretty hard to perform, but the secret of theater is you can just leave stuff out
speaking of leaving stuff out, the Gounod opera has a lot more text straight from the source than I remembered, just the whole context and vibe is changed in such a way that it comes across a lot more harmless
and yet I somehow can't help but picture Roberto Alagna as Faust because his acting choice of making this face for the entire runtime: :< (😟 for the zoomers) fits the character really well
as does the way he gets manhandled by the devil in the two recordings I've seen
really a very well written play ngl
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My Roman Empire is: some of the best writers died of poverty and starvation while their works now earn millions to publishers. How tragic. How painful. How beautiful. How hurtful.
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morb (verb) is more than just a word she's like a brother to me
#thoughts on#'its morbin time' and '(to) morb out' and all variants thereof are permanent fixtures of my vocabulary#morbius himself is barely even a concept to me. i don't care for the movie. but my brain chemistry was genuinely altered#for the better frankly i think
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everybody in the enhablr seems to be moots with each other . i say we do a giant gc
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Thoughts on cryptocurrency.
Subject of discussion: How is cryptocurrency different from regular money? Well, I'm no economist, but like it's not? Like, at all.
Money is worth what people say it is worth. That's the whole point of money. You give me three goats and a bushel of grain and I will give you this dumb metal disk that is totally worth three goats and a bushel of grain. A bushel is a thing, right? I didn't just make that up?
The difference between cryptocurrency and, say, the United States dollar is that with cryptocurrency the currency is worth whatever the person buying is willing to pay, whereas with the USD the US government tells you the money is worth something and you take it at face value. I think there might be some vague idea of gold somewhere, theoretically backing it - I think the understanding is that you can exchange a one dollar note for one dollar's worth of gold on the condition that you never ask to exchange a one dollar note for one dollar's worth of gold - but I've never seen it. Have you? If it didn't exist would we know it? Or would literally nothing change? I'm pretty sure I read about this in a book once. What's the point of a few tons of gold when you have an army of killer robots buried outside your city?
Also I think there's something called a blockchain involved with cryptocurrency, but I don't actually know what that is. It's all a bit too technical for me.
Money is not really a thing. In fact, it's even less of a thing nowadays, with the advent of online banking. How does 1s and 0s equate to $50,000USD? I wouldn't know, I don't have $50,000USD…Give me $50,000USD.
It is a thing only insofar as we agree that it is a thing. That having been said, you won't find me agreeing that cryptocurrency is a thing. Maybe I'm missing out on the next big innovation. I don't care. I'm an old man, closer to 100 years old than I am to 1000 years old. I don't the time or patience to deal with that shit.
I'm all out of fucks to give at the moment, but if crypto ever turns legit, I think we can both agree that I was totally on board with it the whole time and also that I deserve a lot of it.
Cheers!
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Thoughts On: The Sunshine Court
by Nora Sakavic [goodreads]
Aka, if I didn't put myself on a social media blackout, these would have been my live tweets. Spoilers below.
Gosh. What if Jeremy starts to hate Kevin for not doing 'enough' to help Jean. That’d probably hurt him so bad lmao Though I don't really thing Jeremy gives off those vibes. He's too sunny.
Also, now I’m thinking of Jeremy being a very normal kid with a normal background completely unprepared to help someone with absolutely massive amounts of trauma. Like. This kid being like, look at my normal jock life and then suddenly is exposed to the dark underbelly of organized crime.
Like. With Andrew and Neil, Neil was already familiar and Andrew at least is familiar with how bad law enforcement is so it’s all a non-issue. Jeremy though… what’s his story???
Jean over here probably texting with T9 on a flip phone
Which fox uses T9, which one taps the number until it gets to the letter they want, and which one has a phone with a keyboard?
Have I mentioned that I love Renee? I feel like she’s often seen as an uwu good girl Christian. But like. She’s so badass. I think she said it herself that she’s a bad person doing her best to be good and you really get that with the “smile that doesn’t reach her eyes”. Fucking love her.
Okay the uni president thing is actually kind of funny. Because I work in an athletic department and it reminds me of when the president requested access to the team practice schedules so I was in charge of setting up an account in our messaging app with the instructions to grant him access but with absolutely no power to do anything else
Do you think Renee will put "Destabilized Evermore leading to its eventual downfall" on her resume when she applies to the Peace Corps? I know this is not how it works but....
We’re going to see the reaction to Riko’s death from Jean’s POV!!! I wrote a ficlet about this!! It’s gonna be so cool to see what really happens!!
Wtf Jean’s 19?!?!
I'm saying this like everything that happened to him wouldn't have been just as horrifying if he were Kevin's age. But like. WTF??? He's Neil's age!!
LMAO everyone wants to choke Kevin out
“You were injured in a scrimmage” DAMN. I did not expect that from Abby. She's so done with Jean's evasions
I was being kind of mean to Kevin earlier and now I’m going to cry. He was just doing his best too :( what can you do when you’ve been raised in the system?
Kevin, Neil, and Jean are in the idiot exy trio
It’s so fascinating to know that this was the version where Jean lived because you can see the parts where his life could have ended. Like if Abby left the pills. If Jean made it back to Evermore. If Wymack didn’t threaten Tetsuji.
The way that they’re (Neil is) playing 5D exy mafia chess is so extra 😭
Everyone really looking to Neil for their courage. Neil was brave so I can be brave (or at least follow him). What would Neil do?
Do you think the other exy coaches know exy was built on blood? Or at least that Evermore was?
Jean and Kevin in the corner at the party full of Ravens: They don’t know the extent of Riko’s violence
I’m starting to realize that Jean is a lover... [Redacted: This is getting it's own post because I have feelings about this.]
JEREMY!! HELLO!! I DON'T KNOW YOU. ARE YOU DEPRESSING TOO?
Jeremy is so normal. This is going to be so good. He’s literally going to be like “why did you say it like that? You know that’s fucked up right?” Call it like it is my dude!!
How the hell did they get the seniors on board with a smaller line up? They’re giving up a chance at a championship run... Ah.
Oh. He’s rich?? Jeremy is rich? With a butler? Is he secretly going to be tied to the west coast mafia? And taking Jean on will create a bond between east and west?
OH HE’S POLITICIAN RICH. Damn. You know there's blood money somewhere
Are you telling me that the sunshine court is a nickname between Kevin and Jean (and maybe some others? I don't remember if it was ever mentioned in the other books) for USC? And it’s typically called the Gold Court? Cause if so, they’re soooo starved
Do you think Jean knows (or remembers) how to use money? Since he’s been locked up in the Nest for so long? How many social norms has he forgotten? How awkward is he going to be relearning them?
Oh god. Jean found out from Jeremy! Holy shit I was not expecting that. Damn. Also. He's alone :(
Renee and Jean 😭
I’m so glad they talked about redshirting. I was SO confused why they could go five years when the rule is 5 years to compete 4 seasons.
Radiology equipment in their exy stadium?? Man I forget how rich some schools are
Watch Jean break out in hives the moment he gets on clothes that are outside the monochrome color scheme
Oooo Jeremy, show me your spine. I want to see him mad. I want to see him lose control.
And then I forgot I was taking notes because I was too absorbed. When is the next book supposed to come out again?
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Thoughts on Lieutenant Jacqueline Sloane?
After she inevitably got yanked out of Afghanistan I think she deserved to settle somewhere warm, somewhere with sand and riotously colorful sunsets. I hope she surfs in the morning, or paddle boards before coffee, just to set the day straight. I hope she owns a little something somewhere that she lets the locals run, just so that she can breeze in and have a drink with them, maybe sass some regulars on her way through. I hope she reads, and makes friends with her single mom neighbor, maybe takes in a grumpy neighborhood cat. I hope she buys a shitty old Jeep with a questionable transmission just because the previous owner had named it Bodhi. I hope that she never gives Izzy her forwarding address.
#anon#jack sloane#thoughts on#rereading this i think i did it wrong#you meant the young jack didnt you#sorry Charlie
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work‘s gonna be a bitch today, but I hope that I can finish writing one thing I’ve been working on after work today, but until then, please feel free to send me some short asks, mtl, thoughts on…, etc, 🫶🏼
I‘d be more than thankful for something to entertain me throughout this shithole of a workday today😭🤍
Hope you guys have a great day/night!🫶🏼🫶🏼
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Watched a Control theory video and now I’m wondering why Jesse wasn’t enlightened to the point of ascension/ transportation as Darling was. Did she just not want to pursue that, or was Darling’s circumstance different? They both had multiple experiences with Slidescape 36, right, or did Darling have more exposure to Hedron resonance than Jesse did with Polaris? Why didn’t Polaris teach her as Hedron taught Darling? If Hedron and Polaris are of the same resonance, even if they are not the same entity exactly, wouldn’t Jesse be given the same opportunity? Polaris literally took up residence in her head. If Hedron was only a conduit, then Jesse should have the same potential to go wherever Darling went…
I would kill for more info on Hedron and Polaris in Control 2.
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Thoughts on The Little Mermaid (2023)
When I was a kid I was very intense about The Little Mermaid. I haven't seen any of the Disney live action remakes, but I was curious about this one. Spoilers ahead
First off the CG isn't as jarring as some of the first images showed. Ariel's sisters are all different ethnicities and my first thought was that King Triton had several concubines and Ariel is the only child born of the Queen therefore she is the favorite. That's my headcannon. Overall the story is pretty much the as the 1989 film. They changed things to fix some plot holes, for example Ariel doesn't sign Ursula's contract with her name instead Ariel takes one of her scales to make a blood contract. The thought being if she could sign her name she could write down everything and tell the prince. But she could draw a picture.
Ariel isn't just lovesick over the prince. She has a strong desire to explore the human world and she then she just so happens to fall for the price. In the spell Ursula make Ariel forget that she has to kiss Eric to break the spell, but they are attracted to each so it wouldn't be that out there that they kiss.
Eric gets more of a story and even has a song. He's a little bland at first. You would not be able to pick him out of the ship's crew in a line-up. He's the adopted son of the royals. The king has passed and Eric has just turned 21. Also Eric is a hoarder with wanderlust like Ariel and they bond over that. Eric wants to keep up with the world and make a positive difference.
The kingdom looks like it's based in a Caribbean region. The queen is Black but has a British accent. In the marketplace people are playing steel drums. The town's people are pretty diverse. In the scene at the market Ariel's original voice actress, Jodi Benson, makes a cameo as a merchant. She sells digglehoppers and Ariel uses in her hair. The snorffblatt (pipe) is cut from the movie. Ariel is about to ask Scuttle about it when it's knocked out of her hand and never named.
There is a reason for the animosity between humans and merpeople. Merpeople will use their siren song to lure sailors to their death and humans are destroying oceanic ecosystems with ships and travel. Also Ariel's mother was killed by humans, but they don't say how. At one point I thought that it would be revealed that the queen was Ariel's biological mother and she fell in love with the human king, but that would be a messy storyline. The queen is very concerned about upsetting the sea gods.
Ursula is great. They made her Triton's sister, she is in the musical and was supposed to be in the 89 film. Pat Carroll was the voice actress in 89 and her voiced played off Jodi Benson's so well. The scene where Ariel gets her voice back Ursula yells are Eric to get away from her but it's Pat Carroll's big brassy voice. A stark contrast to Jodi Benson's lithe voice.
They cut the weddings. Eric and Vanessa are having an engagement party. She does not kick Max the dog. I was worried about that. Ariel and Eric just end up traveling the world.
Also Ariel does not call King Triton daddy. She calls him father. Daddy hits different in 2023.
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I have this headcanon for Donna Elvira where she's not a noble by birth but some sort of city person who had a job and her own household and who was pretty thrilled to be ennobled by marrying Don Giovanni.
It's fun because:
gives her a better reason to be so obsessed with him, even after everything he does
explains why, in the opera, she doesn't have any brothers, father and so on arguing for her, she's on her own
nice parallel to Zerlina for the fermati scellerato scene
also gives some additional bitterness to the whole Leporello missed connections situation if they're from the same class
also in terms of the catalogue aria it's more fun if she feels inferior to half the listed categories of women
also we know Mozart wrote the opera for the Nozze superfans and that would make her more similar to Rosina
also also she's a mezzo carattere which is not normal for a noble (although it has been argued Mozart / Da Ponte made their nobles mid on purpose for political reasons)
and finally she just seems like she'd have a job. Practical! Decisive! Stressed out!
#isabella is pretty much the highest ranking noble in the molina play but let's not think about that#don giovanni#donna elvira#thoughts on
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