PARENT TRAP AU BELOVED the brainrot is never ending<3
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God I love this au <3
LOOK. The scene in my head where Scar comes downstairs to talk to Mumbo about something and just stopping at the door to the den, seeing Mumbo and Grian and the twins and seeing how happy they all look, laughing together and looking like a family... and the slow realization that THAT'S the life Grum wants... that there's no place for him and Tubbo in that picture perfect life... the moment he makes the choice to end things with Mumbo so he can reconcile with Grian bc he doesn't even consider that Mumbo could date BOTH of them... all the moments leading up to this, from the moment Scar and Mumbo met (a total meet-cute btw, they both made absolute fools of themselves and then laughed about it for hours and bonded over their kids) through the dates and meeting each other's kid when they decided they were serious... the proposal, moving in together... all leading to this moment where Scar realizes Mumbo is still in love with Grian... It just lives rent free in my HEAD.
And man, Grum's very sudden realization that he just gave up the family he had for the one he never did... that Grian wasn't going to stay, that Mumbo had no intention to ask Grian to stay... coming home to find Mumbo sitting alone on the couch and asking where Tubbo is, bc Tubbo didn't come home from school with him... finding out Scar and Mumbo had split, that Scar took Tubbo and left... the fact that this news didn't make him happy like he thought it would... all the homey little touches Scar put in the home being gone- the blanket on the back of the couch, the books on the shelf, the ridiculously cute and cartoony dishes Tubbo loved... just how quiet the house is now that they're gone... how sad Mumbo is, despite trying to look strong for Grum... and now Grum is part of a custody agreement and won't even be there with Mumbo half the time either... just the moment he realizes how badly he just fucked Mumbo's life up...
And Grian confronting Mumbo about always giving up without any kind of fight... Mumbo defending himself, saying he can't make someone stay when they want to leave... Grian saying "do you really think he wanted to leave? do you really think I wanted to leave?" and revealing he never wanted to leave Mumbo, he left bc it felt like Mumbo didn't want him anymore and Mumbo did nothing to prove otherwise bc he's a wet noodle of a man who's so focused on the people he loves being happy that he doesn't even stop to wonder if they're doing what will make them happy or what they think will make him happy... and just "are you really going to just sit there and let him walk away? again?" and just hjgfjk 🥺
And Grum and Jrum deciding no, this isn't how it's gonna end and tracking Scar and Tubbo down. Them showing up at their front door and Tubbo answering the door. Tubbo telling them to leave bc they got what they wanted, right, so why are you even here, and Grum finally apologizing for everything he'd said and done over the years their dads were together and asking Tubbo to help them get Mumbo and Scar back together bc Mumbo loves Scar and Scar only left bc of Grum/Grum and Jrum's plan/Grian, an just... Tubbo's reluctance to trust them at all... saying how much it hurt his dad and how he doesn't want to help Grum hurt him more... doesn't want to help Grum hurt Tubbo... that Grum never wanted to be a family so why now... and just hhhghjgfjhj
I love them so much 🥺 Most dysfunctional family but they love each other so much and just hhhjgjf it really is the little things, like Scar making breakfast in the morning but now he's gone and Mumbo is the one cooking but his pancakes aren't as fluffy as Scar's and the eggs are scrambled instead of over easy...... all those little additions to his life that he took for granted, now gone and realizing just how much Scar did for him, for them, because they were a family, and now his family is damaged and torn bc he wanted a family he didn't even remember........
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i think the show is playing a smart game of chess here, getting each of our characters in the positions they need to be in. in the arch museum, percy almost tells annabeth that he'd choose her side over his dad's. we know in the books, that this is the sentiment annabeth gives percy in the zoo transport van.. but at the point that percy says this in the show, i don't think annabeth would be prepared to respond in kind. she's too loyal to her mom, to the systems she's learned to abide within. in order to get her to that point, she needs a reason to put percy first.
by making the echidna attack at the arch occur because athena got embarassed and upset about her daughter standing by while another kid made a decision.. and then having percy be the one to stand up and defend annabeth against the monsters that had basically come from athena at this point.. the show is giving annabeth that reason. athena will fight her. percy will fight for her. and now suddenly her character is perfectly positioned to choose percy.
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Just saw someone on Twitter complain about the lack of Japanese people in Oppenheimer, and what did you expect??? Did you want the final act to be the bomb dropping and see people burning alive???
The reason why we don't see a Japanese perspective is because one, including a Japanese perspective, just to see how bad the suffering was would be exploitation. Two, to see an accurate and sensitive take on how the japanese felt about Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan (as incredible as he is) isn't the right person to do this. And three, it's based on Oppenheimer's biography
Oppenheimer, the movie, literally shows you people (mostly the superiors, because by the middle/end of it you see Oppenheimer regretting his creation) doing something dubious and inhumane because they removed themselves away, both emotionally and physically, from the people they are hurting.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima only exist in those men's distant thoughts and imaginations. One guy literally asks to take a city off the bombing because that's where he had his honeymoon. It's disturbing and unsettling, as if those people were not real human beings. The lack of Japanese people drives the entire point home.
Also, Japanese cinema is right there. Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, or Hiroshima (responsible for showing to many Americans the effects of the bombs for the first time) are just a few of the many, many decades of post-war Japanese movies we have
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