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also do you guys remember like a fucking month ago when i was like "man, i'm really interested in the way prime defenders is exploring bodily trauma, what with the relatively hard open to harttowa island & the chimera bioengineering being the first real heavy moments of the campaign, and wavelength being newly lizard mutated, & the Guys In Vyncent's Head, & whatever william and dakota have going on, im curious to see if that'll be a continuing theme!" & then i was like nahhhh thats stupid its a silly superhero show i'm reading too much into it just because those are themes that interest me personally -_- and tossed that entire line of thought in the bin. Well. !!!!!!!!!!!!!

#cant believe i actually just straight up forgot about that. insane. im so good at this game (having thoughts about themes and characters). #pd lb

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like it's such a strange silly relationship he's got to violence and loss and grief and the way he interacts with the world but it's all so very straightforward!! its just strange, not very messy at all!! anyway what i think is important, not to bring up wormward when literally No one will really understand what im saying here by dint of really probably not having engaged with both wildbow And prime defenders, is that like in [redacted scenario] vyncent would fuckin shoot the baby. he would shoot that baby!! he would barely even hesitate! & like sure he'd feel kind of bad after, im sure, because he's human, but i also dont think he'd regret it either, because he is an eminently practical guy who is SO desensitized to violence! just like redacted. anyway. yeag. rotating him in my mind!!!

anyway ive been trying so hard for a while to like, figure vyncent out. turning him around in my hands like a little wooden puzzle to see how he works and stuff. which was hard for a while!! he's really, like, a quiet guy, especially compared 2 wiwi & dakota's insanely messy shit for a while. but i DO think i've finally figured out what makes him tick and its lowkey so exciting for me. like a whole new part of the world map unlocked.

#pd lb

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anyway ive been trying so hard for a while to like, figure vyncent out. turning him around in my hands like a little wooden puzzle to see how he works and stuff. which was hard for a while!! he's really, like, a quiet guy, especially compared 2 wiwi & dakota's insanely messy shit for a while. but i DO think i've finally figured out what makes him tick and its lowkey so exciting for me. like a whole new part of the world map unlocked.

#pd lb

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god whats that one p5 fic where akechi takes haru to go axe murder her dad. thats what i need 2 do w vyncent sol i think.

#txt #ill pull it up l8rrr ugh. now i wanna reread that one.

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TRIVIA TIIIIIME. THIS IS ONE OF THE LONGEST ONES YET !!!! IM SO FUCKING HYPE FOR U TO BE HERE THIS IS A BIG MILESTONE

EPISODE 13 TRIVIA:

- FIRST OFFICIAL PIECE OF MARK WINTERS ART !!!!!! HELL YEAAAAAH THIS ONE IS SO FUCKING COOL. this man haunts me

- bizly is talking about how he was fucking SWEATING all week before they recorded this ep bc he thought for sure william and vyncent were gonna just get in there and mirder the lich immediately. grizzly starts to say something like "no i wont-" and bizly cuts him off like "im not worried about YOU. youre my shining star, my golden boy"

- charlie, in response to this: "well. you should feel better because i cant even win against a WALL"

- grizzly: "i was really hoping youd take the bait and depower the villains. i was hoping to give you a cool idea with that"

- "the lich shouldnt even be alive, hes undead, hes breaking the laws of-"

charlie, interrupting "OKAYYY HEY NOW LETS NOT SAY THINGS LIKE THAT" << GETTING. INSULTED ON WILLIAMS BEHALF. AHA

- Dakotas memory about his dad pranking him in the car is an ACTUAL THING THAT GRIZZLYS DAD USED TO DO !?!?!?!!

- "william took 4 degrees of failure from punching a wall so hard your bone popped out" "yeah kind of like how i took 4 degrees of failure from sniffing a bag of doritos. kind of like how i took 4 degrees of failure from dakota comically picking me up and throwing me into a dumpster. all my trips to the spirit world are so pathetic"

- bizly: "okay let me say. you were going to go to the spirit world at the end of this regardless, i just saw an opportunity there and took it. originally i was gonna have you see a wisp while you were alive and follow it through a door or something" << AAURGRHRGHRGGH. i loooove talking abt williams powers

- HELLOOOOO THE FUCKING ANIMATIC. GOD. MAKES ME FUCKING CRAZY

- they all want to do a body swap episode. fully freaky friday moment where they cant switch back until they learn something about each other. i also want them to do this i think it would be funny

- bizly: "i love dakota dakota is one of my favorite characters in media."

(bizly: "because i relate to him"

charlie: "well THATS worrying.")

- "dakota doesnt necessarily *ignore* the why when thing happen hes just really... slow. it takes him a long time to reflect on things. it either takes him a really long time to process things and come to a conclusion OR he will just pull sage wisdom out of thin air because hes so simple minded. he'll just think for a really long time before he comes to these ideals that ive written for him as a player. itll come around, it'll just take him a long time to get there. as a player i know what kind of hero i want dakota to end up as at the end of it all" << i cant even add anything to this. grizzlyplays i am shaking you like a sack of rocks

- another mention about how dakota and chip riptide would be best friends i love this recurring bit

- "what did you guys think about seeing wavelength in the prison"

"uhh. hes mean :("

"it was awesome seeing him again, he scares me"

"it made me feel guilty that we havent found ashe yet"

- grizzly: "if he gets out of prison im gonna kill him" << HEAD IN HANDS

- "william wisp experiences incompetence consistently"

- hey remember in the episode how when william rolled to see if he was okay breathing inside the prison cell and bizly said something along the lines of "youre only hyperventilating because you *think* you should be, youre actually fine" << think about this in context with what you know now :) and hold onto it for the beginning of 14

- theyre talking about what happened between william and mark over the 10 month timeskip: william contacted him at some point, not really about anything in particular, just to ask him if he knew anything about ashe that could help thsm find him/updating him on their progress finding ashe. then when they started playing again william stopped contacting him (for meta reasons, charlie just forgot that was an option BUT) bizly took note of that anyway and thats why mark was so hostile right off the bat. he just like. stopped hearing things from william and didnt know what was going on anymore. so when they showed up here and had no update on ashe whatsoever it just made him think they werent actually doing anything to find him

- grizzly: "man you would thing being in prison and losing his son would give this man some perspective and adjust his personality but he just became more of an asshole"

bizly: "no, the problem is youre not thinking about it from his perspective!! youre only thinking about it from dakotas point of view where hes a villain and hes doing bad things so hes bad. hes just a guy who thought he was doing what he had to do to keep his son safe"

charlie: "okay but he like locked his son up forever"

bizly: "yeah i never said he was a good person! and then some teenagers came along and made him rebel and now he wants to be a super hero and the first thing that happens is he gets possessed" << THANK YOUUUU BIZLY. THANK YOU BIZLY. JUSTICE FOR MY HORRIBLE MAN

- they keep referring to overlord as "alligator guy" because they forgot his name. charlie even at one point goes "yeah and he was a crocodile or whatever, dont you know those are power level 9" << this will never stop being funny to me

- "HEY WILLIAM what do you think about dying again"

- charlie is Very concerned about the no blood thing. his theory rn is that the archway he saw was like "crossing over" for ghosts. like fully passing on and not being ghosts anymore. seeing himself/his memories in the prison cells was very poetic, he kind of feels trapped by himself right now. hes the most curious about the 5 empty chairs and what that could possibly mean

- theyre trying to figure out who the group of 5 could possibly be. williams old group didnt have 5 people, prime defenders doesnt have 5 people even with ashe so they have no ideas right now and are excited to find out more :)

- "williams pretty fucked up right now to be honest!!! we just spent an episode and a half arguing about how we're allowed to kill the lich because its undead and not human. and then he learns hes fucking deteriorating. uh oh! now hes probabky thinking 'am i even a person?' i dont even know if he knows what to think about the spirit world right now i think hes just kind of panicked"

- "if only the ghost of party city were here, hed know what to say about this"

- "how is vyncent feeling right now?" "hes still kind of pissed. his one goal of killing the lich after all these years was just ripped away from him. hes accepted it for now but if that lich escapes. man hes gonna go nuts"

SUCH an insanely good episode dude hoooooly shit. head in hands. everybody say thank u bizlychannel!!!!! man. this was SO good man it really does feel like.... not a turning point, necessarily, but very important. honestly, really glad that by now they've had time to really like, sit with their characters & the world & let it all steep for a while? this season already really feels like such a tonal shift & kind of a step up frm season 1 so far!! (NOT that season 1 also wasn't really fucking good. but a lot of what we've got in s2 so far feels a lot more settled and cohesive) im here for it!!! LOVED the animatic that shit was crazy. if thats a precedent they're setting now im gonna go wild.

I ALSO THOUGHT THEY WERE GONNA MURDER THE LICH. i was like ohhhh great this is how we get the vigilante on the run arc its gonna be so bad theyre never gonna see tide again. phew!!!! i mean, i, too, still think the lich should be dead. but. also yeah WHAT DO YOU MEAAAN THATS A REAL THING HIS DAD DID. FUCKING CRAZY.

what else.. having so many thoughts about william's Situation . as always. man. it's so fucked up. i have no clue where any of it's going dude... the only thought i have is that i don't think. we have any real context for the five thrones thing yet. i don't think that's related to anything we already know except. mayyybe mal. i think that's some spirit world-specific bullshit! we'll see though. we'll see.

YEAH <333 DAKOTA IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS IN MEDIA TOO <33333 auaurrghghhggghhh. ohh hes so everything 2 me. also i love seeing characters who don't Get Everything Immediately. like yeah! you got time to parse through it all in yr brain man. hell yeah rotate it in ur mind for weeks before coming to a conclusion!! no one has their entire belief system hammered out in advance!!

+ also feeling fucking unhinged over mark winters. as always.

#GODDD this was great trivia thabk u mac ive been chewing on it all dayyyyyyyyyyy... i love u permanently incompetent at everything Except #being a scooby doo character william wisp. #mac tag! #pd lb #man. i wanna talk about william wisp for another several hundred words but i feel like i should finish 14 first.!!

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woe ghostkicks hugs be upon u!!

#srb

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pretty sunsets for u !!

ohhhhh those r so lovely!!!!!!! thank u..... we haven't had many pretty ones lately this is healing something in me i think <33

in exchange, Beafts examining cereal + a lovely patch of Huge (!!!) poppies i saw on a walk :]]]

#click tag! #how have u been!!! <333

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twin time!!!

#gf

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#meee

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BEFORE

AFTER

also later he puts a patch over the bandana so it doesnt say soda anymore. this is the saddest thing thats ever happened in the entire fucking campaign

oh my god this is so fucking tragic?????? head in hands. william wisp decomposing corpse boy WHO the only tragic horror I know is Soda Curse!!!!!!!!!

#GGSKSKDJFHDHDFJFF. HELP. #also he's so cute.... auaua #mac tag!

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i think that people should start using “in poor taste” as a descriptor again given it is often the most applicable and clearest phrase when discoursing about media and analysis; sometimes a piece of art isn’t actually THE most problematic thing of all time is is. ​just in poor taste (not JUST in poor taste as a reductive take on potential harm but/and as in regardless of intent the impact is this was an offensive or stupid take/choice)

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i gotta get into more late 18th early 19th century texts man look at this. just. whole paragraphs of different languages and the laziest translation summaries imaginable.

#happily enough these r the only three languages i can read with working fluency!! so. enrichment for the next couple weeks #txy

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sound design soooo good in the suckening btw.

#maybe TOO cracked. had 2 take my headphones FULLY OFF for the barfing. perhaps even worse than that one red valley scene where the human #meat blood slop spills everywhere. holy shit!!! ALSO HORRIFYING THINGS HAPPENING 2 SODA RN BTW. #txt

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obsessed w grizzly trying 2 argur that INKY BLACKNESS SEEPING FROM THE SHADOWS is normal and not creepy

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U want something and then when u get it it’s like omg………… I’m scared

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etched map of then-syria and palestine, printed + published in 1807. don't know enough about west asian and levantine history to comment on its accuracy or changes, but it's a plate from the memoirs of jean de joinville's vie de saint louis ix, trans. thomas johnes, & was most likely commissioned or loaned from longman & co publishing. the memoirs were originally written around the mid-13th century, so it's unclear to me which century it was current to. <3

#i do not. talk about the current palestinian genocide here often because this is effectively my stupid little online diary where i post #gay shit to a tiny audience who is also certainly given the demographic as well informed & such as i am. .& i don't consider that type of #online activism to be often useful given yknow. my reach & audience etc. anyway this made me feel such intense emotion.... was just. #leafing through this text i picked up for nothing at a thrift store a while ago & ran into it. can't really articulate my thoughts well but #it is there!! look at it!!! older than the settler-colonial state!!! those cities have existed for so long and they always will & their #presence & dignity has lasted and will last & be preserved even in the most forgotten and unexpected of places. #which is something that i think should be kept in mind. #txt

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crazy how much just laying under weighted blankwrs in a dark room for half an hour will fix u sometimes!!

#i feel like a half dead bowl of spinach that just got soaked in ice water for a while. literally i needed that so bad. #ok hbbbbbh friday. feeling marginally less awful im gonna try n make some progress on my nightmare of a room! #txt