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Calling each other when they can’t figure out what to wear on their date, they’re so cute!

#the rookie #the rookie liveblog #cogent liveblogs #the rookie spoilers #chenford

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a short list of bits from the past couple Road to PARTIZAN eps that have put a wild, open-mouthed grin behind my mask as i (you guessed it!) listened to them at work:

ONE. Briar Brightline's mood hat.

TWO. Art, Austin, and Keith playing pitch-perfect rascally, irreverent 7-year-olds alongside Jack's greatly distressed, long-dead mech pilot.

THREE. "Hey, Austin. You wanna know what the weak point of a mech is? The fucking pilot."

#mine #friends at the table #f@tt liveblogging #the road to partizan #no cogent meta from me this time around (although i am touched by how many people liked my last liveblog post about the dialect game) #because work has been a headlong SPRINT of activity this week. and also my grad program starts next week 😨 #but. i was SO delighted to listen to this group play children again; it's always SO funny #and i was even MORE psyched to get the context of the ''weak point of a mech'' quote #also very funny (having listened to PARTIZAN): austin responding to everyone losing their shit over that by going #''just you WAIT until you're introduced to jack's pc for PARTIZAN. just you fucking WAIT''

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ohohohihohohihohoho??????

#1) okayokayokay i was wondering how john was so cogent if my fallen star theory is on the right track #but now if he doesn't remember that woman's painting... and she's the puppeteer... #2) MOM?????? IS THIS MY MOM??????????????????????? #i mean i know she's not supposed to be That Lilith but she also kinda is right? #I'M SOOOOOOO EXCITED OMH #chi blogs malevolent #chi liveblogs #malevolent spoilers

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Patreon poll results!

Gamestream: I guess we're returning to Slay the Princess! I did want to finish Fatala Twelve and I'll be real I have forgotten a lot of the details of slay the princess but I remember liking it so we'll see how it goes! I KNOW I had a real cogent idea of something about the game putting in mind of the experience of god but now I can't remember why I thought that.

Liveblog: Tied between the second utena musical and Paranoia Agent, so I'll have to decide what I want to do before we start!

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Finished Ward Act 2.

thoughts under cut.

I live in hell, lament.

I don't mean to be a hater more than like, what's comedic in the liveblogs to sell the bit. but also whenever i give this fucking serial an inch it throws sand in my eyes and spits on my face. when i go "oh this interaction with children is sweet, i'm glad that Vicky is at least to get some measure of comfort vicariously" they hit me with the "actually one of them might be powered so we have to funnel them into the paramiltary death squad fasttrack" and "Victoria is now going to be a freelance strikebreaker, but this time with Less Oversight". she also wants to fuck her therapist so like, sure. fuck it. i guess we're at that point now.

it's so fucked up very clearly seeing the artifice surrounding the actual genuine compelling core of the story of someone with terminal copbrain due to her trauma and upbringing learning to heal get fucking, impaled fourteen hundred times over by Wildbow moments. There's nascent themes here! of healing! of loss! of taking uneasy, shaky steps forward and trying to mesh the inherent hypocrisy of knowing your abuser deserves a second chance but feeling like that you'd rather kill both of you than be the one to give it to them. I Get It. i really do. but also please stop framing the strikebreaking like it's a good thing.

Sorry i just need to go on here to say that it's supremely funny to me that throwing cars in front of people during a panicked evacuation because they disrespected her Special Baby Girl authority is AFTER all of the conflict counselling is so fucking good. Like??? this is after, huh. it's okay since civies aren't people i suppose, just cargo and luggage

I'm not actually sure if wildbow knows what a strike is. "they're not striking, the two construction groups have just banded together to withhold labor", you say? I don't know maybe it's an intentional oversight on the character's part but at least mention that, goddamn. was he really that proud of the insult Glory Hole to use it twice, too? every time he tries to be witty i genuinely sink into my seat and start boiling alive in second-hand shame. that flirting scene was fucking terrible and the "wow so witty" he gave himself was fucking terrible.

^Wild thing to put slip in there, by the way. "yeah they acted like a union, y'know, making sure the kids were educated, sane, not being SLUTS, not being abused, etc etc"

These writeups aren't edited or like cohesive or coherent at all almost entirely because if wildbow doesn't feel the need to why should i. fuck off, it's ward.

oh right! the therapy group! the therapy group pisses me off so much dude I hate that i love them all i hate that their dynamics are good i hate that they have good chemistry and play off each other and that they feel believable and I hate that i'm gonna read more of this just to see them. Fuck me

uhhh lemme just go down the list... I haven't been given enough information on Chris but I'm liking what i'm seeing tbh, he's cagey and kind of idealistic but also he's like. 13. that's just how they are it's very convincing

Kenzie is good! i like her! she[realises i'm gonna write "is very convincing and compelling for all of these] uhhhhh mirrors a lot of the hangups i had as a kid but also I do in fact completely understand why everyone else wanted me Not In Danger back then

Ashley is too good and hot for Victoria "Cop" Dallon. that is all.

Byron and Tristan are a really interesting character concept to me actually; I have cogent thoughts whirling around in my brain but the only joke i have is that what if they starred in a variant of All or Nothing wouldn't that be fucked up

Rain O' Fire Frazier. She's so trans-coded it's unreal. I love her and how fucked up she is and how she's literally just in this to not get Murderized by her metaphorical family. Girl Same. It is really funny that she gets introduced with a functional kanji pun,

shows up with all her shit fucked up and cracked,

and then leaves with the closest thing of explicit lesbianism that Wildbow has written other than Victoria Dallon's weird thing with the milf therapist.

but from what i hear of Wildbow i'm pretty sure he'll add in a passage about her wanting to settle down with a nice Decidedly Male guy and get pregnant or whatever.

the main thing about Sveta is that she goes "well i *see* myself as disabled" while being like. a quadruple amputee. girl if you are not disabled who is

god. i love these characters. it's such a shame that they're gonna become cops. i hate it here. i hate that i'm gonna read like 1.8 million more words of this. fuck me. fuuuuuuuuuuck.

all in all 7/10 so far

#ward lb

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So just go with... StarGIRL is cancelled. And we can have season 1 of Star WOMAN, featuring the fully formed JSA in their mid to late twenties, over on HBO Max. Right? Done and done. it’ll be great. 

#cogent liveblogs #stargirl #stargirl spoilers #stargirl liveblog

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The Big Sky season finale asking the real questions like: how many different shades of desperation and despair can Jensen demonstrate within the course of a single hour of television?

#big sky #big sky spoilers #big sky liveblog #cogent liveblogs #jensen ackles

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Kanan, Ezra, and Ahsoka: let's ask the temple how to deal with the inquisitors

The temple: no time for that. Time to face your inner demons!

Kanan, Ezra, and Ahsoka: Not very helpful but okay.

#star wars rebels #rebels 2x18 #cogent liveblogs

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“Not all superheroes fly through the air. Some fire arrows”

So

True

Paula. 

So

Very

True

#arrow #hawkeye #stargirl #stargirl liveblog #stargirl spoilers #cogent liveblogs

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Tim and Lucy can't just casually throw around comments about "our kids will" and expect me to survive the episode

#the rookie #the rookie spoilers #the rookie liveblog #cogent liveblogs #chenford

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His friend died, he lost 66 years for a project they then shut down unfinished and then they tried to take his cat?! The sheer, unmitigated gall. 

#lightyear #lightyear spoilers #lightyear liveblog #cogent liveblogs #in this house we stan sox

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Maul just falls down pits into dark trash heaps and stays there for ten years and won't die and then he gets back up an starts trying to kill people again. like does he eat? does he not need anything? How can he survive so long just laying in the trash?

#star wars rebels #the clone wars #what a weird villain #cogent liveblogs #rebels 2x21

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Maul: Oh I'm just a poor old man, so helpless

Also Maul at that exact moment: *walking around shirtless and absolutely shredded*

#star wars rebels #cogent liveblogs #rebels 2x21 #lucky for him ezra is oddly trusting

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That ending scene with Jenny and Beau was genuinely very sweet and I quite liked that.

#big sky #big sky spoilers #big sky liveblog #cogent liveblogs #jenny x beau

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The entire team gossiping about relationships on the radio, with Grey chiming in, is a dream come true

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I love that Maul's all demented and evil and whatnot but at the same time he took one look at Ezra and said "I'm keeping him" and tried to aggressively adopt him

#star wars rebels #rebels 2x22 #cogent liveblogs