what i absolutely adore about mobius is that he never stops being kind. EVER. he has gone through so much and no matter what happens he always chooses kindness over anything else. we've seen him comfort strangers countless times without hesitation because he's just THAT good and he would never turn away from anyone in distress. even when he's clearly upset he's still kind enough to explain to victor what he's drinking and not even be annoyed at his constant interrupting but just say "hold on a second" in a gentle tone then focus on him again DESPITE EVERYTHING GOING ON to get him hot chocolate bc why wouldn't he do so? he doesn't question these actions because they come naturally to him, kindness is in his nature. why shouldn't he try to lighten the mood and be kind while they wait for their end? why shouldn't he reassure and comfort everyone around him while he's actively falling apart? these aren't questions for him bc he's at his core the kindest person in the show and he will always ALWAYS have time and space to be kind. god.
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i’m not a fan of vivziepop and tbfh i think she’s kind of a weirdo! so this is more of a comment on the fandom/people in general, but i think it’s interesting how so many of y’all complained about how there isn’t enough focus on the women in her shows, but when hazbin hotel drops, a show that has a well-written female main character and a sapphic couple—with a love interest who’s also pretty well developed—that gets plenty of screen time and u ignore that for the men in the show. like nobody talks about charlie at all unless you’re associating her w the gay ships. isn’t that funny
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guys cmon. be ffr please. akemi did Not love taigen. the only reason why she was desperate to search for him to the point of putting herself in danger is because she didn't want to get married to an abusive man (which she believed at the time that takayoshi was). when seki tried to dissuade her from running off, her reason was not "but i love taigen and wanna be with him 🥺" it was because she refused to be controlled and have her autonomy taken from her; she literally says "i won't be locked away in edo married to a stranger." and when seki still tries to argue that getting married to the heir of the shogun would be better than getting caught by brigands, she then says "that kind of man"—referring to takayoshi—"treats women like animals. they say he's a tyrant." and when seki chuckles and says "what man isn't?" her response is "you." she doesn't even talk about taigen. she is using him as much as he was using her. they both see—or, well, saw—each other as means to an end. for taigen he saw that marrying into the tokunobu clan would elevate his status and wealth. for akemi she wanted the right to choose who she married, and she wanted that person to be someone kind. that's it! neither of them loved each other. but since they were courting of course they acted sweet to each other, and they do still care for one another, especially due to their romantic history. but let's be real! akemi is a boss bitch who dropped taigen and forgot all about his ass as soon as she saw takayoshi was a nice guy. because duh? not only is takayoshi a better lover (it's implied their lovemaking lasted a long time) but he's also kinder towards her and presents her with an opportunity to claim power and freedom, which she would not have if she had married taigen, as she would have still been stuck under her father's thumb. so literally why should she settle for taigen's stupid ass! she may be a little naive at times but she's still incredibly intelligent. she would not do something stupid for the sake of "love." you know who would though? taigen.
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Well. hrm. the way they all connect to each other. like it’s all starting to look like a circle of some sort. jess as rory’s mirror/reflection/narrative foil but also jess as he pertains to luke and jess as he pertains to lorelai. luke breaking the church bells luke who says he was troubled but they gave him a chance and just bc a kid has issues doesnt mean they don’t deserve that. luke who is a figure placed against the rest of the town, just in the sense that he is not like them, he does not hold their values, he doesn’t even sound like them. which is of course a result of scott patterson’s new york accent, but adds to this theme anyway. and they use jess to build this picture, because they walk the same and talk the same and they’re stubborn—independent to a near self-endangering degree—and emotionally repressed in the same way and luke himself admits that he spent more time working at his dad’s shop than he did at school, which jess also does. but jess and luke are also. very very different when you get past these similar values that are maybe ingrained into them through different circumstances and same genetic makeup. and in their differences you get a lot of jess and lorelai’s similarities. when it comes to their family dynamics and how it’s affected them in particular. it’s made them independent yes, but it’s also made them hypervigilant, almost paranoid in the way they are allergic to accepting help and especially accepting help from the people who hurt them. jess only goes to his mother’s wedding because luke asks him to, lorelai only asks her parents for money because rory needs it for school. and they, and this is where they differ from luke, don’t know how to trust people and so they don’t know how to talk to people. where luke’s particular brand of emotional constipation comes from a general cluelessness as to how to do it—which is why the tapes helped him so much—lorelai and jess’ come from emotional responses to the situations they grew up in. while it was different—lorelai growing up rich, jess growing up poor—the effect it had on them still resulted in something similar. lorelai with her overbearing manipulative mother and (emotionally) absent father, and jess with his neglecting manipulative mother and (in all senses of the word) absent father. the ways that, despite their effort to distance themselves, they still end up with similar mannerisms to the parent they have the most conflict with (lorelai and her controlling nature + that scene where they have the same nighttime routine, jess and his love for books + tendency to run away). and of course, their romanticism. their big confessions and period drama-esque speeches and, yeah, i do think in a way jess was asking rory to marry him in 4x21. come with me. let’s get married. luke and rory both being the most important people in their lives. literati+javajunkie where they are all melding into each other, and luke is rory and lorelai is jess but on the surface level dynamic luke is jess and lorelai is rory and they are all each other. on accident. by sheer nature of making jess as a character for the sole purpose of interfering with luke and lorelai’s relationship (which means he is important narratively to them both) and by making him rory’s love interest/foil (because ASP casted him before she even had the idea for the character) you have now made an accidental blending of them all together. he is like a skeleton key of a character. Okay. okay.
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When you really think about it, some of these new shounen shows like JJK, BNHA and Demon Slayer are lowkey as bad as older shoenen shows when it comes to how they treat their female characters.
The only difference is that new shounen learned this neat trick where they will allow their female characters to have one epic moment in a side-fight that can easily be removed without effecting the plot too much and somehow that’s enough to gaslight people to think that they’re watching peak feminism.
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I still cant get over how incredibly stupid Booker and Elizabeth are in Bioshock Infinite. Specifically with the universe hopping.
Like... why are they so goddamn fixated on getting guns from specifically Chen Lin to trade to Daisy Fitzroy for the airship they stole earlier??? JUST STEAL A DIFFERENT ONE. ITS THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE AIRSHIP IN COLUMBIA, JUST GET A LESS OBVIOUS RIDE YOU IDIOTS.
And then the universe hopping, ohhh my god. How do any of these idiots not realize that they made the deal in the first timeline, yknow, the one where their guy is dead. Go back to Daisy, and tell her what happened, it cannot possibly be the first time shes dealt with that. Fucking hell, take May Lin with you for good measure, she obviously needs to get the fuck out of there before she's also arrested, and getting the wife to safety will make it clear you're legit. Or bring Fink's head as an apology gift, that would work too. There are other steps to take before hopping dimensions.
And like... instead they bounce to a timeline where the guy was arrested but let go, except he cant make the guns there because his tools were stolen. So they go to the police station to steal back the impounded tools, but shockingly a full fucking gunsmith shop is more than two people can carry. So they hop dimensions AGAIN to a timeline where the tools were stolen back by other people... then march out and cheerfully demand their airship, as they have provided the guns. Except no the fuck they didn't, someone else got Chen Lin out of prison, the Vox Populi stole his equipment back, he made the guns, and they handled the pickup. Booker and Elizabeth completed their deal by ensuring they had literally nothing to do with making it happen, ending in a timeline where there was never even a deal in the first place.
And then when Daisy Fitzroy doesn't hand over the airship, they throw a tantrum about how shes a lying bitch that backstabbed them.
LIKE REALLY GUYS, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU EXPECTING HERE. WHAT WAS YOUR GAME PLAN.
It's just... so, so stupid. Just tell Daisy what happened, or go steal another airship. None of the portal fuckery is necessary or helpful.
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