thevalleyisjolly

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cheese should be free for me. they should give me a little card that i show and it allows me to walk off with any cheese i find in a store or your home

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put those big brown eyes away dude now is NOT the time

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I just think cumulous and ayda would enjoy talking to one another thats all

#THEY WOULD #dimension 20 #fantasy high #a crown of candy

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the way every single one of zac oyamas characters is so autistic

#this is true #dimension 20

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There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees

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my fh/tuc quizzes were such a hit, so here's the acoc version! which a crown of candy pc are you? lmk who you get in the tags? i took it as if i didn't know what the answers linked to and got saccharina

#me when i get my favourite cotton candy guy!!! #dimension 20 #a crown of candy

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Listen I know we love Lapin and all but like Cumulous Rocks is right there

#dimension 20 #a crown of candy #cumulous rocks #my life ethos

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(shook my brain like a snowglobe bc i wanted to contribute to @andorappreciation week and came up with this for Free Day!)

#id in alt #star wars #andor

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don't mind me i'm just obsessing over the visual parallels between the various endpoints of luthen's network, severed from the rest of the web and finding themselves suddenly alone

to quote a fandom friend, "Luthen's sunless space casts everyone in his orbit into shadow"

#id in alt #LUTHEN'S SUNLESS SPACE CASTS EVERYONE IN HIS ORBIT INTO SHADOW #op is your friend a writer on andor by any chance because damn #star wars #andor

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not now kitten, daddy's about to have a mental breakdown from seeing the prices at the grocery store

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i think women should get into polearms in a big way. not a lot of women in polearms these days. would love to see women doing battle with polearms.

#shogun #when mariko took up the naginata i actually gasped in anticipation

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I actually find Donna and Shaun's marriage kind of fascinating and think there's a solid middle ground to be found between the "dead relationship, full of resentment and apathy" and "ideal couple, super in love" camps. I try to give hints of that in the stuff I've been working on (expect gratuitous use of that Shaun Temple is Tired tag), but I really want to explore it a little more deeply.

There are potential consequences from Donna suddenly being a package deal with her best friend and canonical love of her life but neither immediate divorce nor a seamless transition into an alternative relationship structure feel very likely (though there's no shame in using either or dealing with it off-page if it doesn't suit the fic). I just crave some more complex, nuanced takes on them adapting to the changes in or the dissolution of the marriage.

Plus, people are sleeping on the sheer drama of: you fell in love with an amazing but troubled woman and fifteen years later she unlocks memories that fundamentally changed her as a person, including the relationship with someone she wanted to stay with forever. Oh, and the two of them are inseparable again, so you've got a brand new member of the household.

I know we appreciate Shaun's ability to just roll with stuff, but it's a major change regardless of whether you prefer platonic or romantic DoctorDonna. Like Donna being herself in all her glory is gonna make or break that marriage, no matter where their existing relationship is at. And both options have the potential to be interesting. Do they not fit together anymore, no matter how happy for her Shaun might be, or, despite some growing pains, is it as good for their relationship as it is for Donna personally? Does having the memory issue and the financial stress solved allow frustrations in the relationship to heal? Or do they find they're not as securely bound together as they thought? I do think romcom jealousy is boring but suddenly watching someone else irrefutably bring out the happiest, best version of your spouse might bring up some complicated emotions.

As an aside, the parallels between Shaun and Lee also make me a little crazy. She picked another handsome, easy going, virtually silent man who seems to defer to her the vast majority of the time. Their kid has her last name. She sits at the head of the table like a queen holding court. I love it, anything else wouldn't feel right, but I just can't stop hearing, "What does that say about me?" "Everything."

#doctor who

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no it's like. it's like.......blackthorne stepping up to be mariko's second when kiyama doesn't show up. blackthorne not being a catholic, not necessarily buying what they're selling, but seeing how terrified mariko is of committing the "sin" of taking her own life. blackthorne raising a katana to strike down this woman who navigated her way into his heart – because she needs him to be the one to step up and do it, even though every bone in his body is rebelling against it. but what she needs comes first. she comes first. i'm drinking bleach.

#shogun #shogun spoilers

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The subtext of how and when Mariko incorrectly translates stuff on purpose is frankly hilarious. Whether she's trying to smooth things over, is annoyed, or more recently, is jealous. That was actually a really fun and clever thing to do with her character.

#i'm so in love with the role that translation plays in the story and how they explore the space of translation #i just know my old language professors would have a field day and multiple journal articles to write translation in shogun #shogun #shogun spoilers

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toranaga out here playing 4d chess and laying the groundwork to build the brothel next to the catholic church. even in the midst of an impending war and possible surrender he remains a comedic genius.

#toronaga's hidden sense of humour is honestly one of the greatest understated things in the show #shogun #shogun spoilers

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everyone is so mean to yabushige all the time it's almost like -- anyway very funny because it's so well deserved. He's like i am a liar and a schemer and i will play all sides and outthink everyone! and then all the power players outthink him and he's like oh well now im in a significantly worse position. slay. thankfully i am a liar and a schemer and i will play all sides and outthink --

#shogun #shogun spoilers

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After a season of watching Toranaga use subterfuge and trickery to out-maneuver his enemies, the slow reveal of Crimson Sky being Mariko herself was a thing to behold.

One woman as opposed to an army.

One request - return my lord's wives and newborn son - presented to a man who knows that refusal or acquiescence would expose and destroy the lie that's keeping him in power.

One death to galvanise the people against the newly revealed tyrant, who would all but throw open the gates of Osaka and welcome their liberator...their Shogun.

Goddamn.

#shogun #shogun spoilers