#‘thrilled with this liveblog’

[sparring-spirals]

I Am INCANDESCENT with rage what do you MEAN Lolth TOOK AWAY THE MEMORY OF DARIAX BEING BIG SPOON FOR OPAL IN A MOMENT OF COMFORT. AND CORRUPTED IT. NO. NO. AABRIA I COULD EXCUSE THE PVP AND THE TRYING TO MURDER LOVED ONES. BUT THIS???? BEYOND THE PALE. GIVE BACK THOSE CUDDLING MEMORIES.

#critical role #cr spoilers #cr liveblogging #c3e92 #opal #dariax #NO. NOOOOOO. #this is. a joke btw. mostly. I'm the thrilled kind of raging #ykno

[completeoveranalysis]

[7]

Ooh I will say the expression of dark rage on Evil Wolverine is MAGNIFICENT here. They really went all out. This is gorgeous. 

Considering I hate looking at the man THIS looks fantastic! 10/10 Evil Wolverine panel, maybe only beaten by the one where he gets stabbed. 

And I suppose if you were going be mad about anything, being stabbed through the chest is a pretty reason.

Oh!

I mean yeah, I guess that is how it works. You stab a man and he wants to stab you back. 

On a side tangent I love that he has the same Pull-Sword-Out-of-Hand magic that Fai used on Kurogane before they went to Seresu. I’m a fan!

Fai and Kurogane are markedly less excited to see it come back this way but I think it’s neat!

MEANWHILE try not to think about Kurogane, who has spent his entire life haunted by the image of Evil Wolverine stabbing his mother with that sword, is now watching Evil Wolverine pull out the same sword to stab his son. 

I am interested in the hands in the final panel though let’s see what that means. 

OH. 

Oh. 

Yeah I suppose this too would also happen. 

If anyone WAS going to be stabbed by Evil Wolverine here it WOULD be Syaoran jumping in the way to save Lava Lamp. 

We get the whole reversal of Syaoran stabbing Sakura in Nihon, but now he is now defending them and being stabbed in return. 

Potentially foreshadowed in Outo with Syaoran being stabbed by Seishirou there as well. 

(As well as when Evil Wolverine kills Xing Huo, who ALSO betrays him while working for him, who ALSO got stabbed all the way through with the same sword, ALSO IN THE SERVICE OF SAVING LAVA LAMP)

And Syaoran closing the loop of, like… Lava Lamp defending Syaoran by giving him half his soul to protect him from Evil Wolverine, and now Syaoran defending Lava Lamp by protecting him physically from Evil Wolverine. The giving of a soul and the giving up of a soul to save each other from the same man.

IT ALL LINKS UP. 

#Am I thrilled about it? #No! #IS IT NARRATIVELY SATISFYING? #UNFORTUNATELY YES! #YES THIS SYMBOLICALLY SLAPS #Is there time to save him please I still love my clone son #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 209 #Evil Wolverine #Lava Lamp Guy #Syaoran #Syaoran vs Syaoran vs S T A B #I… #OH THE CHAPTER COVER ART? #THE FLASHBACKS FROM SYAORAN’S POINT OF VIEW? #RECAPPING HIS MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS?? #RIGHT BEFORE HE GETS STABBED ALL THE WAY THROUGH??? #UHOH

[storkmuffin]

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. I need this on a poster. My avatar, my doppelganger, my beloved, James Flint.

#the laugh scream of recognition that burst forth from me! #I can't believe I almost missed out on meeting this character #thrilled to bits #james flint #black sails #stormuffin liveblog

[altschmerzes]

y’ever have an idea for a very minor detail in a little story you’re writing that is so immediately delicious to you that you gasp aloud

#gav gab #OUUUUUGHGHGHGHGH #writing liveblog #THRILLED. EXCITED. EHEHEHE. #fic: wriggle up on dry land

[pttucker]

To get this far, they had lost many things. "Joonghyuk-ssi! We leave it in your hands!" "Master! Hurry!" However, it wasn't as if they had been losing things only. Yoo Joonghyuk extended his hand out. The distance of just one person. The distance that couldn't have been bridged without the presence of just one person was finally being closed in. Yoo Joonghyuk's hand reached out while breaking past the letters. The sentences protecting Kim Dokja fell away one by one. The hand that experienced thousands of regressions tightly grabbed hold onto Kim Dokja's collars – as if to yank out the oldest memories from within. "It's time to go back, Kim Dokja."

AHHHHHHHHH!

Oh man, I love that Sooyoung had her own "I'm not the protagonist" realization moment just like Dokja had all those chapters ago. Just realizing that she's the writer, Dokja is the reader, and the best way for the writer to speak to the reader is through the character.

And so she summons Yoo Joonghyuk.

#yoohankim truly the best ot3 #lmao though I wonder how yjh will feel about this later when he realizes that hsy can just randomly summon him places? #or at least ASK to summon him since I guess he answered the call meaning perhaps he was not forcefully dragged there #either way he's going to be THRILLED to have this new connection with hsy I'm certain 😂 #orv #orv spoilers #orv liveblog #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv epilogue spoilers #orv novel chapter 539 #hsy #yjh #kdj

[flugame-mp3]

EVEN IN DEATH BOBBY CANT ESCAPE DOING SOME BULLSHIT TO SAVE THE BOYS. GIVE MY MAN A REST HES EARNED IT

#theo.txt #spn liveblog #spn 10x17 #spn #i mean dont get me wrong im always thrilled to see jim beaver its just funny to me #when bobby died they were like now we dont have bobby to go to for help ever again this is so sad. fast forward a few seasons and sam and #cas are like well. time for a seance with bobby. break metatron out of jail for us please oh pleaseeeeee #babe its 10 pm time for your seance with your dead adoptive father. yes dear

[makosgotmoxie]

good ep good ep

#ahhh I think we're going to get plenty more time with them #so thrilled #critical role #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #cr c3e55 #cr liveblog #cr cast

[shittyelfwriter]

ALRIGHTY here we are at weeks three and four for the santa clauses series! I did not rewatch a second time because genuinely, these melted my brain. anyway, lets get into it below the cut!

So apparently according to the tsc tag, episode 3 that I missed last week is a sort of filler episode? OH BROTHER REALLY

Normally I would not complain bc I miss old format, 20-23 episode series but because I know this Isn't That? DREAD. how are you going to plot well and good in 7-8eps if some are filler? that is just SO condensed, my guy

Counterpoint to people who were sad about it but: I thought the teen romance was annoying and I'm GLAD they ended it even JUST for a bit (it will come back to haunt again, trust. It’s a disney series ffs.) Whoever is writing this needs to ask a teen about how they talk nowadays. This is not it.

I also think we're driving the whole "Buddy is terrible at everything" punchline WAY past its breaking point. Which I would argue was last season entirely, but. At the very latest, last episode with how heavy on cringe it was. Yes, EVEN for kids/teens.

Again, they are not antagonizing Magnus Antas enough for me to hate him. waaaaay too funny to be a villain. I can't take him seriously and DON'T want to

The way that Noel keeps sideyeing the Betty cutout as if to say "do you see this shit?" during his brunch with the Clauses SENT me tbh. That's bernelle coded and I love it

I do not know why Disney gets OFF on the Clauses being absolutely inept parents but I wish they would stop

SHOUTOUT JUDY OMG JUDY'S ACTRESS THAT’S JUDY JUDY IS HERE YOU GUYS (SCREAMINGGGG)

LOVING the exterior shots of the workshop and Elfsburg. As someone who has POURED over all available screenshots from the movies of those I am LIVING for new angles (even though I do NOT think bernelle would live that close to the Workshop, but it doesn't seem like Betty and Noel can POOF like Bman and Elle can (and do))

I don't know why there are TWO instances of a "misspoken turn of phrase" in this episode but neither were funny and TWO OF THEM was REALLY bad

CHUBBY BUNNY DID NOT EXIST THAT LONG AGO. NOT IN MAGNUS ANTAS' TIME. THAT WAS AN INTERNET FAD LESS THAN TEN YEARS AGO. WHAT ARE WE DOING DUDE. WHAT ARE THESE WRITERS ON (it's not good, I don't want some)

Crossing guard callback? For what? (okay, shrug I GUESS dot meme)

Why does this specific franchise always have to make EB SO WEIRD. WHY. Nothing about this is funny it's just off-putting. Just like the previous EB flirting with Carol's MARRIED MOM in tsc3

This Carol and La Befana scene was actually very good. LOVE it when they actually just let the characters be HONEST with each other. Women supporting women core. Even if Carol's reason for being mad at her was really shallow and obviously stems form Carol's lack of identity as Mrs. Claus because they just cannot wrap that plot point from last season up.

THE LETTERS DEPARTMENT. It looks dope but HATE the explanation for it. Half assed as hell. WARNING! Rant incoming: like from what I know a LOT of postal services have little lore stories about how they get the letters to Santa. WHY COULDNT WE JUST SAY THERE ARE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN SANTA AND OTHER ADULT PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE FOR OTHERS AS WELL? Why is this series so obsessed with making everything only powered by magic and never by others (yes, humans) who want to keep the spirit alive as well? It feels like magic is being used as an "explain it all away" crutch narratively. Even in season 1, the "solution" to mass consumerism wasn't for people to be kind to each other and do little things to keep the magical parts of Christmas alive, it was to show the world that magic was real. Season 2 so far, the answer to everything is also just magic. I'm hoping that maybe the B plot with Kris will touch on this. Because as it stands right now, it feels like the writers are talking out of both sides of their mouth. Commercial Christmas is bad, but Kris is a loser for having a Santa theme park. Like?? Homogenization of Christmas is the Big Bad at large, but also up at the Pole they are trying to find ways to do the same thing to be "current". CHRISTMAS IS MULTIFACTED. It is both secular and religious! That is OKAY, I don't even think "woke" people are arguing about that. Sheesh.

Can't believe I'm micro rambling IN my ramble post. New achievement unlocked omg

The way Magnus Antas picks up on modern slang so quickly practically puts Scott to shame. Good for him

AGAIN, the misturn of phrase jokes. DEAD. Not funny. STOP

If they are going to make Sandra so op that she can just Wanda Maximoff chaos magic "I just say something when I'm mad and it happens, anything I want with no negative impact on me" I will not find that swag. That is in fact Mary Sue territory, lads

Sandra's little outburst @ La Befana was giving magical nepo baby for a moment there. Oof. "Too bad I'm just naturally more skilled than you even though I'm new and you've been a witch forever" girl SHUT. UP. You are like a little baby. Also that is so mad disrespectful like no WONDER La Befana is wanting you to slow tf down. You fly off the handle WAY to easily and we ALL know you lose control when you do! Okay loose cannon! Werk!

Riley. Girl. "we never see each other" you were just up at the Pole?? Like. OFTEN?? This is so stupid of a breakup but they are teenagers so go off kids, be dysfunctional or what have you. Rah rah, as Jack would say

Episode four now, lord help us. God has cursed me for my (loving this one Christmas movie series) hubris and my work (watching it's hellish series spin off) is never finished

"Reversing a transformation is never a guarantee" what is this La Befana? the Sims? Sounds like transformation ray odds. Magic is not THAT unpredictable, even by in-universe logic

CURTIS-ITIS!??? CURTIS FUCKING EXPLODED??

ARE YOU SO FUCKING FR RN. SO BERNARD IS MARRIED TO A SENIOR CITIZEN AND CURTIS. FUCKIN VAPORIZED?? FROM STRESS? WHAT'S NEXT? Lemme guess, Judy joined the circus. Quintin is a crypto investor or works for Tesla. WHAT ARE WE D O I N G

Not Scott moving the scissors like he's afraid Buddy will shank him or others?? SIR

SANDMAN AHHHHHHHHHH HELLO SIR /POS :D

So they just con him? As though that's a long term solutio-- OH MY GOD NOT SCOTT USING SANDMAN'S SAND ON SANDMAN HIMSELF?? that's ILLEGALE?? According to tsc3 lore: "We legendaries can't use magic on each other?" I am so bewildered by the level of retcon occurring before my very eyes at BREAKNECK speed

Sandra doesn't need magic she needs THERAPY for her ANGER ISSUES bruh. Damn. She doesn't need a rage room (in someone's house too I might add? okayyyy) she needs to learn to process like a normal human being wtf

Scott being able to look like his normal self whenever he wants and they just didn't tell him? For like. 25 years? Like its clear that by the series standards, the elves think he's a total moron. But it pendulums hard and fast between "haha funny joke" and "damn they really think he ain't shit, huh"

Edie being a fashion diva is such a serve she's grown on me this season ngl

"I had to teach him how to do all the Legendaries jobs" Scott I know you're waffling, absolutely FUMBLING but what the FUCKKKKK is that excuse??? What's Cal going to do? Be EVERY Legendary? TERRIBLE AWFUL HATE IT UNINSPIRED. Not to mention, SOME OF THE OTHER LEGENDARIES MIGHT NOT TAKE THAT NEWS WELL. Some might even feel THREATENED

"The man I die for in my sleep every night" UM? Noel? You okay there bud? Holy heck

THE PURPLE JACKET IS SWAG AND SCOTT IS A HATER. HE CANNOT SEE THE VISION

Do you guys think according to this new lore Edie made Jack's suit? because me thinks PERHAPS

Magnus Antas is kind of popping off, damn. Like I think if the gnomes hadn’t given him MAJOR delusions of grandeur and an ego trip, he could have stayed totally a vibe. But stop giving the Santas snow powers and reconning Jack holy SHIT dude. First Scott now him? HATE IT

The way they made Scott and Cal look when "invisible" is Not a Good Look heck. Its like a bad picsart filter

These Scott visions. I get why, its through the Santa magic, right? But dang its corny

So Scott knows Magnus Antas is back now. Okay. They got away from him. Lost visual on Olga, have a bad feeling she somehow sneaked into the sleigh. Weird cliffhanger but EVERY episode has been like that so far

Final thoughts: I feel like they're definitely trying to make this season take itself less seriously, but I feel like the trade off is that the writers are taking too many liberties for diversions from source material and are therefore, losing the plot entirely and retconning movie lore at will and convenience. Tl;dr, it's messy. Concepts are fun until things just become so irreverent they fall apart or lean into entirely unfunny territory. Which is just a hallmark of T*m All*n brand humor, tee em, but you know.

It feels like this series is doing everything and nothing. It wants woke points, but immediately doubles back and makes fun of those same things. It wants us to feel empathy for these characters, and immediately makes them insufferable. I am so confused as to what the takeaway is supposed to be. It all feels so poorly executed--the series retcons itself constantly, not to mention the movies. I want it to be fun, and to take it at surface value, but if you know literally anything about the movies, that becomes a challenge to do. I'm just so confused dude.

I will be shocked if this gets a third season. Truly.

Also, I miss Betty too, Noel. Wish this whole season was about HER shenanigans, instead.

So. See you all next week then?

#coping is our number one skill in this household huh #don't get me wrong! thrilling to have new tsc content to talk about but at WHAT COST #ana liveblogs tscs #I am also nearing a point where I can safely say I hope they don't show more legendaries if this is how they are going to TREAT THEM #tscs spoilers #the santa clauses

[francesderwent]

watching A Series of Unfortunate Events for the first time like “oh hey, television used to be good”

#television made BEFORE the last five years! was really fun! #(not you fx’s the bear and complete fiction’s lockwood and co you’re angels and we’re thrilled you’re here) #Cate liveblogs!

[banqanas]

New thread bc the last one is becoming too long to scroll 🙏🙏

LAST SONG (?) I THINK

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO SANDAIME J SOUL BROTHERS RYUSEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#banantxt #banan liveblog #ITS ALWAYS SO THRILLING AND EMOTIONAL SEEING PEOPLE DO THE JSB HAND SIGN 😭😭😭😭😭🫶

[bronzetomatoes]

i love Falsettos bc the minimal set design makes half the show for me. like if they made a film adaptation i would cry myself to sleep its just not meant for that

#look anika's talking! #however i do find it funny that the rest of the cast just sits on the big Prop Box watching while whizzer & marvin have there whole. thing. #during thrill of first love #liveblog moment #falsettos

[sparring-spirals]

*Seeing Ashton and Laudna for the first time* "Baby I hate to tell you, but they look half dead already." 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e59 #im SO thrilled about this collisiom o h my god #cr liveblogging

[completeoveranalysis]

OOPS my hand slipped and somehow opened all my liveblogging windows I guess I have now choice but to read Tsubasa OH WELL!

#Who am I to argue with a fake scenario? #Liveblog announcement tag #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Vol 204 #I think #.... Yes 204 #Officially under 30 chapters to go! #Am I just continuously thrilled by counting backwards? #Maybe so!

[storkmuffin]

OMG I love her. I love her I love her I love her.

The thing is, this is exactly the sort of scrape-your-face-off glare that Flint used to give Silver all the time in S1 and so I am having doubts, grave, grave doubts, given how James is behaving right now in Black Sails XXII.

#who is this? she's so amazing! i'm so thrilled she's here! does she stay? #black sails #storkmuffin liveblog #john silver #james flint

[altschmerzes]

‘putting entirely too much thought into a very minor detail in a fic that will be referenced maybe once or twice and guaranteed nobody is probably going to actually notice’ and other little joys of writing that make life entirely worth living

#gav gab #i am not being facetious i think this is great and a lot of fun and everyone should do it #anyways i am thrilled to report i jsut decided which book ted is gonna give jamie in the baby jamie au #and it took me like. twenty minutes of deep thought and poking around #but i am ENORMOUSLY pleased w myself right nwo #writing liveblog #fic: wriggle up on dry land

[pttucker]

His voice was fading away, yet it was definitely not the voice of a man preparing himself for death. Almost at the same time, roars of crackling thunders could be heard coming from the far side of the heavens. They did not belong to Indra's thunderbolts. The space-time was distorting, and the noises were generated by something crossing over a gigantic Gate. Yoo Joonghyuk couldn't see that spectacle, but Anna Croft witnessed it in his stead. It was an army enveloped in pitch-black darkness; a single realm buried deep inside an ancient Myth was currently crossing over to this world. – Yoo Joonghyuk, you stupid bastard!! Yoo Joonghyuk heard the loud yelling from the one standing at the forefront of that army and spoke up. "…Because I have allies in this turn who won't betray me." [Nebula, < Underworld >, has joined the 'Great War of Saints and Demons'.]

Joonghyuk! You’re not allowed to yell at Dokja when you do stupid stuff like this!!!

Awww, but he trusted Dokja to come in time to save him.

BUT STILL DON’T DO THINGS LIKE THIS JOONGHYUK!

But also that was awesome and Dokja is totally gonna fanboy super hard over you destroying one of the strongest constellations of Vedas in a single strike. Right after he gets done cursing you out and grumbling with Sooyoung about what an idiot you are.

THIS WAS NOT PART OF THE PLAN JOONGHYUK!

But it was very Protagonist of you.

#honestly I do know that dokja’s whole thing is redeeming characters who were evil in previous rounds #and even creating partnerships with people who yjh never even met #but I’m still not super thrilled about trusting anna croft #I’m waiting for the moment she decides it’s more beneficial for her to betray them #but I guess at least for now she did save yjh long enough for dokja to show up #also I know ORV has mentioned before that yjh chose to carry his memories to the very end #so it’s interesting to see that anna chose to forget after so long #though that does bring back some old theories of this not being dokja’s first rodeo #and that’s why there’s versions of TWSA in his Library that he doesn’t remember #who’s to say this isn’t HIS 1863rd turn and he couldn’t bring himself to retain the memories… #oh and of course I love that yjh believes in dokja’s plans so much that he’s willing to save anna croft to fulfill them #in addition to his own desire to not allow her to forget the reason for his hatred #yjh #kdj #anna croft #orv #orv spoilers #orv novel chapter 391 #orv liveblog #omniscient reader’s viewpoint