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juniperhillpatient · 6 months

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I didn’t want to share this with the link but my one & only criticism of that video I shared is super specific & it’s that the video essayist doesn’t like Dennis trying to kill Dee in the castle. In my opinion that was a beautifully hilarious scene / culmination of a hysterically entertaining subplot & I strongly disagree with her that it fell into the same category as other cases of the show becoming too mean spirited & neglecting to show that these characters care about each other in the latest seasons. I do agree that this is a huge issue & literally everything else in the almost 3 hour video I fully agreed with though so please still know I loved the critique. I just really liked the castle episodes & this is an excuse to talk about it lol -

I actually found the sibling dynamic weirdly sweet in the Covid episodes. The joke was funny because it wasn’t that Dennis literally wants to kill Dee, it was that he was delirious with Covid & thought he was communicating with a ghostly castle which is so funny cmon. And before that they were renting a castle together & she was teasing him while also taking care of him & in a giant castle they still chose to share a room like they’re so cute. It’s my favorite plot we’ve had in so many seasons & I must defend it with my life.

To me it was mean in classic sunny fashion which is VERY very notably different to the way new sunny is mean. It called back to such iconic scenes as “Dee? I swear you would be of more use to me if I skinned you and turned your skin into a lampshade. Or fashioned you into a piece of high-end luggage. I can even add you to my collection” followed by a hilariously horrified expression from Kaitlin Olson.

Dennis rushing at Dee in a deranged attempt to behead her only to pass out & she has to take him to the hospital is great. It’s the above mentioned scene with talk of skin luggage - or Dennis & Dee’s talk of murder & Dee’s confusion and about what the “actual plan” is in “Mac is a serial killer” amped up to 100 to me. It’s “Dennis is a serial killer” jokes done right much like “making Dennis Reynolds: a murderer” & NOT like “The Gang Gets Cursed.” That last one takes the joke way too far by leaving the implication that Dennis might actually be a killer which completely ruins the joke both by explaining it & botching the punchline which should always be that Dennis is a pathetic bitch who WISHES he was a serial killer (side note - other than that, I mostly enjoy “The Gang Gets Cursed” btw).

This became an essay but I wanted to share that extremely good & insightful video without my huge block of text commentary on something extremely specific. However I did want to rant about how much i LOVE the siblings in the castle episode imo that is pure classic sunny dynamics shining through the fog of late seasons overall crappiness lmao I’d actually categorize that specific sub plot as one of my favorites in the whole show which is insane given that it’s from season 15. I just really really love the Reynolds siblings being fucked up but in a funny way that has almost sweet aspects hehe

I also think this is an opportunity for me to discuss WHAT the notable difference is between the “mean” aspect of sunny here & why it works SO much better than the other mostly uncomfortable humor of later seasons. The joke’s punchline is on Dennis - something that’s desperately been needed in the sibling dynamic & the way it’s narratively framed for a LONG fucking time. As discussed in that amazing & super insightful video, new sunny punches down & it’s frankly cringe more often than not. Old Sunny knew who it’s jokes were on & it was always the person just asking for comeuppance by being awful. I’m not saying Dee isn’t awful because that would defeat the purpose of her character but she does suffer from what I call “the Meg Griffin effect.” It also hurts such characters as Britta Perry from Community, Jerry Gergich from Parks & Rec, & Toby Flenderson from The Office. It becomes more uncomfortable & off putting than funny as an audience member after a while to see everyone being consistently awful to one specific character who is not inherently worse than the others but is always the butt of the joke. It’s a trope I will simply never enjoy, personally.

But the castle plot works because it’s certainly deranged & mean (it’s literally not even always sunny if it’s not deranged & dark & mean you might as well give up & watch a different show if you don’t like your dynamics fucked up) but the joke is not -

A. Dennis is a serial killer ooooh edgy! - tired, contrived, Reddit core, unfunny, defeats the point of sunny which is that these guys are all incompetent losers

B. Haha dee is gonna die! She sucks lol! - that is one way to interpret the joke I guess but it’s so clearly actually that Dennis is in a fucking fever infused hallucination about ghosts & dee ultimately has to take his passed out ass the ER because this stupid bitch didn’t get vaccinated

Like it redeems so much or the awful dynamic they’ve built (which they unfortunately double down on anyway later. *cough* the gang goes bowling *cough*) where it’s like…. Isn’t it hilarious that Dennis constantly abuses his sister guys? Haha what if dee literally killed herself lol? Isn’t this so funny aren’t you having fun?

Classic sunny is mean. I’m not trying to say I dislike mean punchlines. But……. Dennis passing out & almost dying Covid IS mean? Dee having to deal with her brother almost beheading her & listening to his deranged conversations with “the castle” IS mean? It’s just that it’s mean in a FUNNY way. Like Charlie getting rejected by the waitress in the musical episode. Like Dee realizing how disgusting her schemes are in “PTSDee” & feeling sickened by herself. Like Frank getting told to fuck himself in his fat fucking ass in the Christmas episode. Or Mac shitting his pants in “Mac Day.” These are all examples of times I’ve found the meanness of sunny funny because it’s about showing what happens when you’re a horrible person who never learns.

Anyway in conclusion I love the Reynolds siblings & the castle plot is the only good part of new sunny goodbye

#Reynolds siblings #trash twins #golden geese #deedennis #Dennis & Dee #iasip s15 #the gang goes to Ireland #iasip season 15

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eevee-haze · 2 years

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🦋 and 🕯️ for ink! and 🎱 for sans? 🌈 for akutagawa?

Okay I'mma put this under a read more because holy wow this got long. But hi hello, I'm Icey/Vesper and I love my boys

What would your character consider to be the most important lesson they’ve ever learned?

For Ink the most important lesson he's had to learn is that the people he interacts with aren't just characters. They aren't just set dressing to the stories the Creators want to tell, and even moreso in Denny since he can't even read Denny's script. The way he came to this conclusion was rather upsetting and would likely require some trigger warnings so I'll hold off on that until he eventually talks to Sinestro about it, but. Suffice to say he's had several run ins with the cracks in that philosophy, so it was a matter of time until it broke. Unfortunately for him he sort of had to stay numb to his job somehow so he clung to the pieces of that ideology until this happened. It's gotta fuckin suck to have it turned right around on him.

What secrets does your character keep from others? Strangers, friends, family?

Generally speaking Ink is a fairly open book. He'll tell people a lot of personal stuff with very little prompting. This is actually done by him on purpose as it gives the impression of having nothing to hide. It makes him approachable, trustworthy, and most of all it generally keeps people from prying into his past. Granted those who know he's a doppelganger created by the Hanged Man put zero stock into his past, but to him it is still very real. Among the things he's hesitant to tell anyone are: his first memories and the lack of memory prior to them, The XEvent just in general since he was very much the villain in that situation regardless of his reasons, the fact that he is physically linked to the wellbeing of his multiverse, Anything and everything to do with Bliz, and to a lesser extent, the existence of the mirror room.

If your character could ask a genie one question and be guaranteed a truthful answer, what would they ask?

There would be two he wants to ask. Naturally the first option would be to ask "Will the time loop ever be broken?" Because at this point he doesn't care if it's broken with everyone dead or everyone alive so long as it stops repeating. Knowing which would be nice so he could prepare for it, but it's not necessary information.

The other is the more inherently tragic of the two and it's more Denny specific as well. It's "Will Spyro and I end up in the same world?" Because he's come to love his boyfriend more than most people from his home world with the exception of his brother. And given how long he's been away at this point it would sting to be permanently taken away from Papyrus, but he would be able to adjust. He'd also just feel infinitely guilty if Spyro were torn away from repairing his relationship with his friends just to be trapped into a possibly infinite time loop, so he'd prefer to end up in the Skylands.

It's part of why this whole plot with the hanged man's illusions hit him so hard. It was the ideal scenario for returning home.

What is one important thing your character has yet to discover about themselves?

Okaaay so this is probably going to sound cliché as shit, but he's yet to discover his own potential. Dazai and Atsushi in his own world both saw it and tried to guide him toward it in their own ways, and now on Denny Chuuya and Khun have been doing the same. He's been moving towards it, but he still hasn't quite grasped it because his mentality is so deeply rooted in his being a weapon- in existing to further the goals of others and not his own. His worldview was solely that the strong survive and the weak perish, but his agreements since joining Denny have prevented him from doing much with that, and so his views have subtly changed over time to be a bit more flexible.

He likely won't realize just how much good he can do for a long while, but he's doing better.

#ryunosuke akutagawa #sans ut #ink sans #denouement rp #look at all this introspection #Akkhun #Sansro #The ships are odd but they're cute yall #love panfandom ships #One day perhaps ink will find love #but i doubt it #yes the color coding was necessary

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paryo-kimin · 6 months

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Criticizing the digital era: Denny Ja revealed a worrying fake reality

The digital era has had a big impact on our lives today. Increasingly sophisticated technology has changed the way we communicate, work, and even think. However, behind this progress, there is one thing we need to pay attention to seriously, namely the false reality that is increasingly mushrooming in this digital era. In his book entitled "Criticizing the Digital Era: Denny JA revealed a worrying fake reality", Denny JA, a prominent intellectual and social activist, thoroughly explores the phenomenon of false reality that we are facing right now. Denny JA highlighted how social media and fake news have become an inseparable part of our daily lives. In this digital era, the use of social media is increasingly widespread. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other platforms have become an important means for us to interact and share information. However, behind its use, social media is also an arena where false reality can easily spread. Denny JA shows how fake news and hoaks have become a weapon in information war on social media. One example highlighted by Denny Ja is the Clickbait phenomenon, the titles that attract the attention of the reader with the aim of increasing the number of clicks. Clickbait often uses excessive or misleading titles, so that the reader will be interested in opening the article. However, after reading the article, readers often feel disappointed because the content presented does not match the title that attracts their attention. Besides Clickbait, Denny Ja also highlighted the role of mass media in spreading false reality. The mass media has great power in forming public opinion. However, in some cases, the mass media is also involved in spreading fake news with a specific purpose. Denny Ja reminded us to always be critical in consuming news and not immediately believe in what was presented by the mass media. In his book, Denny Ja also discusses the impact of this false reality on society. One of the most striking impacts is the loss of public trust in the information presented by the media. Denny Ja noted that the public was more skeptical of the news they read or heard, because they did not know what was right and which was fake. In addition, false reality can also worsen polarization and conflict in society. Denny Ja quoted examples of several countries in the world where fake news has been used to influence elections and deepen divisions in society. This is very worrying, because it can threaten democracy and social stability. Denny Ja then offers several solutions to deal with this fake reality. First, he invited us to increase media literacy. By understanding the way the media and manipulative techniques used by irresponsible parties, we can be more critical in consuming information. Secondly, Denny Ja stressed the importance of supporting reliable and independent media. By supporting quality media, we can ensure that the information we receive is accurate and verified. In his conclusion, Denny Ja reminded us of the dangers of false reality that increasingly mushroomed in this digital era. He stressed the importance of being a consumer information that is critical and indirectly trusting everything we read or hear. By increasing media literacy and supporting reliable media, we can face the challenges of this false reality and build a more intelligent and informed society.

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Look closer to the chosen work of Denny Ja 25: Inspiring Professional Perspective

In the world of Indonesian arts and literature, the name Denny Ja is familiar. He is a writer, poet, and literary activist who has produced many stunning works. Denny JA 25 is one of Denny JA's chosen works that offers inspiring professional perspectives. In this article, we will look closer to the selected work and how it can inspire professionals. Denny JA 25 is an anthology of poetry specifically curated by Denny JA. This anthology contains 25 of the best poems from Denny JA which has been written during the last 25 years. Through these poems, Denny Ja expressed his views on life, love, and struggle. In every verse of his poetry, there is a strong emotional power and deep wisdom. One of the things that made Denny Ja's works so inspiring was his ability to describe the feelings and experiences of humans very deeply and honestly. In his poems, Denny Ja is able to capture the essence of life and bring it into beautiful and meaningful words. He invited the reader to reflect on the meaning of our life and purpose in this world. In addition, Denny Ja also uses rich and poetic language in his work. He chose the right words and combined them beautifully to create stunning poetry. Through the use of creative language, Denny Ja is able to present a strong atmosphere and picture in his poems. He not only expressed his feelings, but was also able to make the reader feel and experience what he felt. Denny Ja 25 also offers an inspiring professional perspective. In his poems, Denny Ja discusses various aspects of professional life, including struggle, success, failure, and ambition. He described the experiences and challenges faced by professionals in various fields. Thus, Denny Ja's works can provide insight and motivation to professionals to deal with and overcome various obstacles in their careers. In addition, Denny Ja 25 also shows that the professional world does not always run smoothly. In some of his poems, Denny Ja expressed the disappointment and failure he experienced in his career. However, he also shows that failure is not the end of everything, but is an opportunity to learn and grow. This can inspire professionals not to give up in the face of failure, but still survive and keep trying. In conclusion, the elected work of Denny Ja 25 offers an inspiring professional perspective. Through his poems, Denny Ja is able to describe the feelings and experiences of humans in depth and honesty. He also uses rich and poetic language to create stunning poetry. In addition, Denny Ja also discusses various aspects of professional life, including struggle, success, failure, and ambition. Through his work, Denny Ja provides insight and motivation to professionals to face and overcome various obstacles in their careers. Thus, the chosen Denny Ja 25 work is a work that is worth seeing closer and inspires professionals.

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Why It Worked: Kung Fu Panda 2

Introduction: Kung Fu Panda 2 is an animated action comedy and the sequel to Kung Fu Panda. Released on May 26, 2011, the film stars Jack Black, James Hong, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogan, David Cross, Lucy Liu and Dustin Hoffman reprising their roles as Po, Ping Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Crane, Viper and Shifu respectively. Additionally, this film features the voice talents of Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh, Danny McBride, Dennis Haysbert, and Jean-Claude Van Damme as Lord Shen, the Soothsayer, the Wolf Boss, Master Storming Ox and Master Croc. The film recieved positive reviews, though generally critics prefered the first one over the second. According to Rotten Tomatoes, 81% out of 182 critics aggregated gave positive reviews with an average score of 6.91/10. Even still, the film was a box office success, earning $165.2 million domestically and $500.4 million from other countries, bringing the worldwide total to $665.7 million. Since the films release, the film has been hailed as one of the greatest sequels ever made, animated or otherwise. Having rewatched over and over for the past decade now (feel old yet?), I definitely agree that this has all the hallmarks of a great sequel and definitely stands toe to toe with the likes of Terminator 2, The Dark Knight, and Toy Story 2 when it comes to outstanding sequels. So without wasting any more precious time, let's dive in to what makes Kung Fu Panda 2 even more awesome than the first one (leave a comment if you remember when Jack Black made that promise at the 2009 Kids Choice Awards).

The Plot: Lord Shen creates a new weapon that's capable of taking out kung fu masters with a single blow. As Po and the Furious 5 set out to stop this dastardly villain, Po learns more about his past and how to find inner peace. After the opening done in the style of Chinese shadow puppets, the film takes its time setting up the main conflict of the film, which goes much deeper into the vulnerable side of Po than the first. The film explores the feelings of pain, anger and trauma in a blunt and honest manner, letting moments such as Po's confrontation with Shen or him discovering his old village marinate without breaking the tone of these scenes with a needless joke. That's not to say there aren't any funny moments in the film. This film is still packed with alot of funny moments of slapstick, clever one-liners and hilarious gags. The entire scene in which Po and the 5 don a dragon costume and devour wolves only to poop them out still has me in stitches. The best part about tge film's story is how it uses it's animation. Specifically how it utilizes 2D animation for Po's flashbacks as well as the really funny dream sequence. They also outdid themselves with the action set pieces, with Po and the 5 using great teamwork and comerodery with one another. Also, Hans Zimmer and John Powell deserve major props for their excellent score for this film.

Cast and Characters: I've said it before and I'll say it again: Jack Black is the ONLY man who can do Po justice. He really outdoes himself when portraying Po this time around. In addition to still being his lovable goofy self, Jack also sells Po's frustration and anxiety. The best moment for Po is easily when he finds inner peace in his old village. When the Soothsayer asks him who he is, he says this line: "I am Po...and I'm gonna need a hat." This line fits so well with Po and Jack Black delivers it with such confidence. This film also gives more screen time to the Furious 5, which I very much appreciated. Each of the members is given more time to express their unique personalities and share a bond with one another as a team. Monkey is smart and has some fun moments as well as funny lines (delivered by the one and only Jackie Chan). Crane makes good use of irony and is pretty chill generally speaking. Mantis is also given some unique quirks such as not like being called cute and nonchalantly mentioning that if he meets up with a lady mantis, she'd eat his head. Viper is also sweet and is always willing to catch Po when he falls. Tigress, though, shares the most screen time with Po, which makes perfect sense as she's very much everything Po isn't interms of fighting style. Tigress is strong, fierce, agile and when she wants to, she can be merciless. She also has a soft spot for Po, even if she doesn't always show it. The Furious 5 are all essentially Po's brother and sisters; they may not always agree with him, but they always look out for him. Then there's our main bad guy for this film, Lord shen. In contrast to Tai Lung, Shen has a more calm and calculated demeanor, and utilizes weapons such as knives, spears and canons to get the job done. He also has an army of wolves at his disposal to do his dirty work. What makes him one of DreamWorks Animation's best villains is how he doesn't hesitate to try and kill our heroes or innocent civilians, yet he realishes in taking what he wants even if the Soothsayer says he's wrong time and time again. He's also the catalyst for Po being found and raised by Ping and sealing his own fate.

Where It Falters: While I wouldn't change a thing about this film, I do think it's still unfortunate that Masters Croc, Ox and Shifu were given limited screen time, particularly Shifu. I 100% understand this decision though as the film needed to focus on Po and any additional scenes with these 3 masters would take away from the film's main story. Still though, Dennis Haysbert, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dustin Hoffman all gave really good performances as these characters and they more than serve their purpose in the plot, so it's not a true deal breaker.

Conclusion: Kung Fu Panda 2 does everything a great sequel should do and then some. In addition to having a well written story, a strong cast of characters and very funny moments, it doubles down on what worked the first time around an includes more character development, outstanding actions scenes and stupendous vocal work from Jack Black. This is indeed one of the select few sequels to an already great film that surpasses it in terms of quality. If you haven't watched it, definitely check it out next time you're in the mood for some laughs and intense action. Skadoosh!

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Musical Car!

What’s interesting is that the musical has a sign advertising Jesse’s name; Did he stop by the Musical Car at some point and inspire the denizens there with a speech about empathy, and how differences are okay? We know that had to have taken place prior to him, Lake, and Alan Dracula entering the Carnival Car, meeting The Cat, etc. Either way, I’m not at all surprised that someone as open and friendly as him would say such things, especially with an unconventional friend like Lake; And obviously he stuck by his words in the end, didn’t he?

Lemme tell you though… I was legit disturbed by that raid, as well as seeing those poor denizens get legitimately hurt and injured for no reason at all, and that ONE decapitated dude almost getting wheeled, only to be converted into Simon’s thing; Like, screw you Apex. That’s what makes Simon and Grace interesting; I’ve always imagined the concept of more problematic protagonists for this series, so it’s not much of a surprise to see Book 3 dive into this! Given how much more, well… WORSE Simon and Grace are, pehaps it’s not all-too surprise that their arc was confined to HBO Max, given the even more mature tone set by them and their actions!

Honestly, those two rapidly switch and range from terrible, nasty jerks I want to punch, to misfits with banter and chemistry, and plenty of comradery; Especially for people they DO care about! It really drives the point home that not every bad person is PURE evil, like they don’t spend every waking moment plotting how terrible they can be, and most don’t even consider themselves as bad! It’s disconcerting, but a good look into their mindset; With Grace genuinely trying to be nice and caring to the kids and not hurting their feelings, but also repeating Amelia’s lies about the train denizens being there for the passengers’ benefit, and… More on that later.

Also- Glad to see Grace make fun of Simon’s fashion sense and acknowledge it, but at the same time… Either he was ten when he began to wear socks with sandals, AND/OR he was ten when he first met Grace; Presumably on the Infinity Train, although the idea of two individuals knowing one another PRIOR to boarding it is also fascinating! Especially given how Book 2 discussed the idea of fate and pre-determination in one’s paths and all…

It’s interesting to see that not all Apex kids are against the denizens, like some DO want to make friends with them (albeit in a very invasive manner), but Grace and Simon just shut them down. I have to wonder if they themselves also had a similar moment with Amelia, only to be brutally shut down; And Amelia is objectively worse than those two considering how much higher her number is, and how SHE was the one who started this dumb ideology in the first place (instead of just being taught it at a vulnerable moment in her life like everybody else)!

What’s worth noting is that Simon has a device that can detect the presence of other passengers, which is both VERY cool and VERY useful; I have to wonder if it’ll detect Hazel in the Jungle Car however. Given the speculation of her being a train denizen, it’d serve as neat, subtle foreshadowing as to her true nature, and I can see the show touching upon this! Also, the aesthetics of that device reminds me of what The Cat would own; Given how she’ll make a return this Book and has had a run-in with at least Grace in the past, I can easily see it being something she’d own. She IS a collector of useful things, after all… And I have to wonder if maybe The Cat was even a companion of Simon or Grace; Or maybe even Amelia! Perhaps the Passenger-Detector was a ‘gift’ from Amelia…

(I mean, they HAVE to bring her back in Book 3, given how her ideology and actions are a direct consequence of everything that happens, and would fit nicely into her eventual redemption arc. Not to mention it’d give a fascinating insight as to what was going on in her mind when she indoctrinated the Apex.)

Neat detail seeing the Unfinished Car with those corgi diplomats, and nice joke with that one turtle talking to what’s later revealed to be a phone with a line that’s already cut anyway! Grace breaking her Harpoon Pack makes sense; She wasn’t seen with one in the trailer and posters, and I guess it’d help ‘balance’ things if only one protagonist had a Harpoon Pack; So they can’t just skip over cars on their way back!

Speaking of a way back; We have a set number of cars leading back to the Mall Car, so in other words we have a way of keeping track of the journey’s progress! It IS worth noting that the cars could always rearrange… It’s interesting to learn that cars apparently don’t move when passengers are inside; I always assumed that sometimes they might’ve and a passenger wouldn’t notice because all the cars look identical from the outside, and also being inside a pocket-dimension kind of skews around with the sensation of what’s going on outside. It’s possible that Simon and Grace actually felt the movement because of the Unfinished Car’s unusual nature…

Regardless, after that disturbing opening scene it makes sense that One-One is stepping in! Given how he values the passengers more than the denizens (as seen with his second and final interaction with Lake), it makes me wonder how much he actually CARES; Or if he can’t afford to have people ‘breaking equipment’, and/or is mostly doing this to lean the Apex towards becoming better people by confronting them over their actions! At this point, they may end up pushing One-One too much and he’ll have to send in his Steward…

Getting onto some existential crisis, the cruel thing about Simon and Grace saying that the denizens are made for them is… They’re actually kind of right? NOT that this justifies at all their wanton, senseless cruelty towards the train denizens… But it ties back to Lake’s existential crisis in Book 2, the realization and likelihood that she (and maybe even the Mirror World) was made purely for the character development of people like Tulip and Jesse! One-One himself outright says in the Book 2 Finale that, YEAH; Train Denizens are supposed to stay on the train because their entire purpose, their entire means of creation was just to fulfill what the passengers need!

…Obviously, using them for raids ISN’T what One-One (and/or whoever made the Infinity Train/the Infinity Train itself) intended… But the disturbing realization still stands that the denizens’ purpose and creation in life is for the betterment of passengers, to accompany them, aid them… In the past, I’ve speculated how some Cars and their inhabitants don’t seem to have much of a personality beyond being a basic caricature to fulfill the ‘theme’ of a car, as well as aiding in passengers’ journeys! And obviously they’re all PEOPLE, but again this ties back into just how real the pasts and worlds of denizens were, as discussed by Mace; The idea that entire histories and cultures have been fabricated, and pre-programmed into the memories of denizens.

Needless to say, it’s very disturbing… And if Simon and Grace ever change their stance on denizens and even start vouching for them, it’d be a brilliant reversal of their beginning attitudes to have them call out One-One for making sapient people for the sole purpose of serving others; Which could be a dilemma for him given how HE may have been made for the purpose of others! Given how Amelia taught the Apex her ideals, and she was Conductor for a time and thus had rather intimate knowledge of the Infinity Train… perhaps what she says about the denizens being just ‘toys’, made for the passengers, isn’t too far a stretch from the truth; Obviously a dark, twisted, and selfish distortion. But it’s emblematic, reflecting a deeper, underlying issue that could lie with the Infinity Train itself.

(Especially since Owen Dennis said that One-One and the Infinity Train can be wrong…)

Given how Amelia made cars with denizens that only ‘turned on’ once a car was considered ‘complete’ (or close to it), it suggests that she knows all about the artificial, pre-programmed nature of denizens because she’s made a few ones; Which when coupled with how she probably tried to make a Fake Alrick, and ultimately realized that a replica would never be the same… Eerily, it lends to the idea that part of what made Amelia realize this at the end of Book 1, was her mindset that denizens are just follow, fake copies of pre-existing things and aren’t even real to begin with.

THAT is a cruel twist; That the very ideas that founded the Apex and caused our issues in Book 3, were low-key what helped Amelia wake up from her fantasy and realize that she needed to confront her issues! Given how high her number is, it only makes sense that while she’s making progress, she STILL has some more fundamental problems to tackle; Specifically the idea that while denizens aren’t the same or ‘real’ as the original, they’re still people and whatnot!

All in all, a VERY fascinating watch! Just eleven minutes, but I’m hooked in; Sure this does tie a lot back to previously-established concepts, but what story-driven show doesn’t? It really recontextualizes and makes you think back about what WAS discussed already and how it changes with the more we learn and explore!

#infinity train #infinity train book 3 #infinity train cult of the conductor #infinity train season 3 #infinity train spoilers #infinity train season 3 spoilers #infinity train grace #infinity train simon #infinity train amelia #analysis #spoilers #it spoilers

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Job at hand: Must know 16 programming languages

Everything from waking up in the morning to seeing the weather every day before going to bed at night can now be seen in just a few clicks. This has been made possible by the development of technology. To put it more clearly, for the benefit of software and various applications. Software dependence is increasing with time. "Software is eating the world," said Marcy Andresen, a U.S. technology entrepreneur and investor. "The whole world is now in the grip of software. These much-needed or useless software is created by coding." Coding is done using programming languages. There are many languages in this programming. Some of these languages are very popular and more helpful in the job field. An organization hires programmers according to the type of work. So before learning programming, one should have an accurate idea about the fields of work. The popular business magazine Business Insider has compiled 18 popular programming languages based on a survey of stock overflow and TOB index.

The report highlights the languages that are currently popular and in demand in the job market.

Java

Java is a programming language. Since Sun Microsystems designed Java in the early '90s, it quickly became one of the most popular programming languages in the world. This language is now used to create applications for the mobile platform Android. In addition, various business software is created with the help of Java.

C is a programming language. It was created by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs while working in the '70s. . The first purpose of creating the language was to use it to write code for the Unix operating system. It soon became a widely used language. C has had a profound effect on many programming languages. The most interesting aspect of it is its portability. Programs written in this language can be run on computers of any operating system.

Python

Python is a high-level programming language. It was first published in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. Much emphasis has been placed on the readability of the program while creating it. Here the programmer's work is given more importance than the computer. Python's core syntax and semantics are very brief. However, the standard library of the language is much richer. Among the big projects that have used Python are Zop Application Server, Emnet Distributed File Store, YouTube and the original BitTorrent client. Among the big organizations that use Python are Google and NASA. Python has multiple uses in the information security industry. Some Immunity Security Tools, some Core Security Tools, Web Application Security Scanner WAPT and Fazar TAOF, are particularly noteworthy.

PHP

PHP is a scripting programming language, which was originally designed to create websites. It incorporates command line interface capabilities and can use standalone graphical applications. Rasmus Lordruff invented PHP in 1995. Most of it is used to create web servers. It can be used for free on almost all operating systems and locations. According to Wikipedia, PHP is being used on more than 2 million websites and 1 million web servers.

Visual Basic

Visual Basic is abbreviated as VB. Software giant Microsoft launched the language in 1991 as an improved version of the old Basic language. As per Wikipedia, it is the most broadly utilized programming language in PC history. Although it is an old programming language, it is still used today.

JavaScript

The JavaScript programming language is very popular for creating web-based applications. Java has nothing to do with this. JavaScript is being used on popular website sites around the world.

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Google develops the programming language 'Go.' Its structure is not at all complicated like other object-oriented languages. There is no question of sub classing here. It has brought different dimensions or different tastes in object-oriented programming in the use of interface. It has the imprint of Python language. Google always favors Python a little bit. Like Python, it supports Go and Slice, which allows you to refer to a specific part of an array with a simple syntax.

Ruby

Ruby is another popular programming language. It very well may be utilized to foster work area applications and web applications. Its different mainstream systems make the work simpler. Its various popular frameworks make the work easier. It is much easier to maintain the code in this language. No need to comment too much. If you look at the code, you can understand the purpose of the code. Ruby has no semicolon. It is White Space Independent. The use of brackets is very low.

Swift

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Objective C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. Smalltalk's message exchange system has come together with so many C languages. It is currently used mainly in Mac OS X, iPhone OS. It is based on the OpenStep standard - the main language of the NextStep, OpenStep and Cocoa frameworks.

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Larry Wall invented the Pearl language. It was first published in 1986. Features have been borrowed from C, Born Shell, Oak, Sed, and Lisp in this language. It is highly effective in string processing.

The other five programming languages on Business Insider's list are gravy, assembly language, Pascal, Matlab, etc. If you know these well, there will be no problem in getting a job worldwide. A programmer does not have to be unemployed if he is fluent in these languages.

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'The Empire Strikes Back' at 40: What the 'Star Wars' sequel's iconic special effects owe to Ray Harryhausen

By Ethan Altered-States (Ethan Alter)

Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Movies • May 27, 2020

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-empire-strikes-back-star-wars-special-effects-ray-harryhausen-212159259.html

[article was edited for brevity, clarity, and to omit dumb commentary by the original author]

Dennis Muren poses with an AT-AT walker behind the scenes of The Empire Strikes Back. (Photo: Lucasfilm)

Both Ray Harryhausen [special effects creator prominent in the 1960s for stop-motion animation] and The Empire Strikes Back (ESB) are celebrating milestone anniversaries this year. 2020 marks the 100th birthday of Harryhausen, the special-effects pioneer behind vintage Hollywood spectacles like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts, as well as the 40th anniversary of the second movie in the Star Wars original trilogy.

But they have more in common than the calendar year: The AT-ATs and Tauntauns that walk through ESB are inspired by Harryhausen’s menagerie of stop-motion creatures, from cyclopses to krakens. “They had character, they had performance and they had purpose,” says Dennis Muren, who parlayed a childhood spent watching Harryhausen’s films into a groundbreaking career as a Star Wars F/X legend. “They were wondrous to look at, and the designs of the shots were dynamic. Ray’s work grabbed you emotionally, because it began with him. I’m the same way: being emotionally connected to the performance and design of a character who, simply put, looks really neat.”

Currently the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Muren first joined George Lucas’s pioneering visual effects studio in 1976, when it was still making and photographing spaceships in a Van Nuys warehouse. After the success of Star Wars (A New Hope), Muren followed ILM to the Bay Area as Lucas planned for a sequel. “It was the hardest film by far,” Muren says of how ESB came together behind the camera. “Everything just got bigger. The spirit of the film was still fun and adventure, but it had more romance, it had more action, the Empire was bigger and the universe was bigger than we thought on the first movie.”

Muren’s role also expanded with ESB as he took point on directing the fleet of miniatures in the film’s iconic opening on the ice planet, Hoth. With the advent of digital technology still many years away, Muren and his team brought the Rebel’s herd of tauntauns and the Empire’s squad of AT-AT walkers to life by hand. And through it all, he followed the example established by Harryhausen.

“I always think of the Cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, who comes out of his cave roaring and angry, and his hands are up because he’s ready to grab one of the sailors,” explains Muren, who later won his first Oscar for his work on the film. (He currently has nine statues, the most of any living person.) “That’s what I always strive to put in my work: that there’s a reason for that creature to be there. You’re not just giving the audience an effect: You want them to feel something from it, whether that’s ‘Oh my God, that’s amazing,’ or ‘Oh, that’s really creepy,’ or ‘Wait, that’s impossible!’”

In honor of ESB's 40th anniversary, Muren walked us through the seemingly-impossible task of making the Hoth sequence, and his own close encounter with his F/X hero.

Yahoo "Entertainment": You said that The Empire Strikes Back was the hardest Star Wars film to make. What was the reason for the degree of difficulty?

Dennis Muren: Well, The Phantom Menace may have been equally difficult, because there was a lot of real groundbreaking work on that in terms of getting all the digital stuff to work. But we had two supervisors on that. For Empire, we had just moved up from Los Angeles, and only brought about 12 people up from the 50 in L.A. and had to hire locally just to get the thing done. All of us working on it wanted to top ourselves, and George had already done that with the designs. The number of lands and battles you saw in Empire was at least five times more than you saw in Star Wars. You had an ice planet and a city in the clouds — how are you going to get that to look right?

Doing any kind of compositing over a light-color background is very, very hard. And the whole movie was full of that in addition to your normal space battles. The vision was so big, and we had a couple of years to do it, but it took us so much time to get the fire to do it and the people to do it. We all wanted what George wanted, which was also what the audience wanted: to show you that this universe is so much bigger than what we saw in Star Wars.

Yahoo "Entertainment": What was the most challenging part of the Hoth sequence specifically?

Dennis Muren: The opening tauntaun shot was one of the most difficult things, and the most interesting. The story behind that was that George had brought back this helicopter shot from Norway [where the Hoth exteriors were filmed], and it was about 200 or 300-feet off the ground with the cameras looking straight down. He didn’t know whether if that shot was going to be necessary to the movie, but at the very end, he said, “Yes, it’s necessary to have this shot. Do you think there’s a way you can add a Tauntaun to this?”

There wasn’t! There were no tracking markers on the ground that would have helped us make the stop motion camera map exactly with the moves the helicopter made, and then we could have combined that with an optical printer. But none of that stuff was there. I thought about building a big model, but I didn’t think it would work with the background. George said, “Well, just think about it.” I spent 15 minutes thinking about it, and figured it out in 15 minutes! I learned an amazing lesson from that: There’s usually an answer, there’s always some way that you can fiddle around with what you know to attempt. If I had stopped thinking at 14 minutes and 59 seconds, we wouldn’t have had that shot in the movie.

Yahoo "Entertainment": The tauntauns definitely feel very Harryhausen in their design and behavior. Did their form match what you could accomplish then with stop-motion or did the stop-motion dictate their form?

Dennis Muren: George had the idea for a galloping horse kind of thing, and I think Ralph [McQuarrie] and Joe [Johnston] worked on the design. I was involved in how we were going to create a setting that looked like it was going to be real, and wouldn’t be encumbered by any of the cameras. I don't know how many shots we had of it — maybe 12 or 15 or something like that, and they were some of the last ones we did. There were a couple that George added right at the very end of that. It was like, “We can finally take a breather after two years, but no, there’s one more shot!”

Dennis Muren (behind the camera) filming Suzanne Pasteur (a friend of Lorne Peterson's) on her horse for tauntaun movement reference. (Photo: Lucasfilm)

Yahoo "Entertainment": I remember connecting to them very strongly as a kid — I always through they’d be fun to ride.

Dennis Muren: That comes from the design and purpose of it. It doesn’t act like an evil creature: It’s a fairly big, bulky thing and it actually looks kind of cute with a horn and steam coming out of its nose. It’s not a creature that could kidnap you or anything — it’s just a beast of burden. That’s true of all the Star Wars movies: The behavior is familiar, so the audience can relate. Even with the designs of the spaceships; I tried to show how they would bank off to fly to another planet or something, like an airplane would do in the air even though there’s not gravity in space and that would never happen. It looks really neat and you can relate to it.

Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) on a tauntaun on the planet Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back. (Photo: Lucasfilm)

Yahoo "Entertainment": In terms of the AT-AT walkers, that’s a case where you’re bringing character to a non-living thing. There’s behind-the-scenes footage of the ILM team studying elephants for movement reference.

Dennis Muren: When we saw the designs, we thought they were kind of like big animals. We went to an animal park in Dunn, California, and put a bunch of chalk marks on the elephant and had it walk by left to right and right to left with the camera on. That gave us the weight; those things would have weighed thousands of tons, and we had to make it look like they had gravity or else they were just going to look silly — not as powerful and as evil as they're supposed to look. We also shot the elephants in slow motion to make them look even bigger, and observed traits like how far up the knee goes up and how far forward the body travels. Does the foot just lift up? Does it drop back down again? All that stuff was used as a basis so that when we went to animate, we had a body part to do that.

We also had some really good equipment to look at the frames as we were shooting them and make sure the animation was working well. Like now, there's all sorts of stop-motion photographers, and ours wasn’t done like Ray would have done it where you couldn’t tell if you made a mistake and could go back and say, “Did I move this too far?” We were able to compare and say, “Oh yeah, we did move it too far,” and then change it to move to a better place. So it's probably more of a fluid motion than you might have seen before and that was important. Any sort of chatter in the stop-motion looks like the mechanics of the walkers. They're all mechanical anyway, so there's got to be little bumps and grinds in the motors. So that adds to the feeling, you know?

Yahoo "Entertainment": Besides Hoth, what was your favorite sequence to work on?

Dennis Muren: I don’t know — they’re all so different! [Laughs] I really like the asteroid sequence; that might top Hoth a little bit. It was also really difficult, but a lot of fun to do. George wasn’t interested in the beats of the action, but the attitude. It had to have a certain clarity to see what was going on, which was difficult because the asteroids were coming in from any direction. I did a mock-up of that sequence and realized that everything had to be based on the Millennium Falcon blasting through the asteroids. We came up with the idea of having all the asteroids going in one direction, from one side of the screen to the other, and then you could show how the Falcon makes evasive maneuvers.

Yahoo "Entertainment": Did you get a chance to meet Ray Harryhausen before his death in 2013?

Dennis Muren: Oh, yes. I was probably about 14 at the time, and he used to be in the phone book as was almost everybody else in those days in L.A. I called him up, and he was living up in Malibu, so my mom drove me two hours up to his house, and I met him and his wife. They were just the nicest couple in the world. They invited me in for an hour or two, and we kept in touch. As I got older, I went back to his garage and showed him my home movies, and he showed me some of his early home movies. He was a kindred soul. He later moved to England, so I didn’t see him very often after that.

Special effects legend Ray Harryhausen working on a model for a Clash of the Titans character. (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)

Yahoo "Entertainment": Did he ever visit you while you were making Star Wars or Empire?

Dennis Muren: No, but I did see him while I was working on Dragonslayer. We were at the same studio in England, and he was making Clash of the Titans. I think I brought him by to show him the dragon, and the rear-projection work. We were working on the next step beyond stop-motion, which was the combination of animation with a motion-controlled motorized camera. He didn’t entirely relate to that, and I can understand why: It could take five days if you’re lucky to get a full shot. At the end of the day, [his method] didn’t have quite the realism that ours ended up having, but he also had the energy to just get in there and grab the figure with his hand and spend the next eight hour animating it.

After Empire and things like the Tauntaun sequence especially, I realized that we needed to get away from stop motion and try and look for something else. I would say that we didn't get the tauntaun to move quite as much as we wanted to, and there were some shots that we didn’t quite finish. But George was utterly accommodating about everything, and there was a feeling of real accomplishment when it was all over. Empire just opened everything up: You can see there’s a lot more stories you can tell, and they’re still going on.

#star wars #empire strikes back #empire40th #ray harryhausen #george lucas #lucasfilm #yahoo news #stop-motion #80s movies #i love the 80's #denis muren

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One aspect of sticking up for FMA03 (and believe me, I will put myself out on the front lines if need be) that never felt right was the whole "maturity" aspect. Specifically, how this term has become very nebulous when it comes to evaluating genre fiction as a whole and often gets used in a sort of "my tastes in fiction are far superior to your plebeian tastes." Yes, the Brotherhood side does it too but two wrongs do not make a right in this case especially. Sorry if I'm... unloading on you.

Before I say anything, I’ll just start off with this:

As far as “maturity” goes, there are honestly times I think Brotherhood is more so than 03 and equally vice versa, so I definitely don’t think it’s good argument to use to trash either series with myself.

But I’m personally on the neutral side of this entire argument. I’m not going to claim Mangahood to be the ‘weaker’ one of the two simply because of what people label as “maturity”(which is a simple matter of what a specific individual themselves labels as such), and in my opinion, both series have equal strengths and weaknesses and what one series lacks the other makes up for and vice versa(at least in my opinion).

Lowart on Youtube has done a really good job at explaining the faults of both series in his FMA analysis videos, and he does a much better job at explaining it than I probably ever could, but I’ll give some of my own thoughts on the matter.

This is just me, not a direct attack on the series, nor is it a way of saying that one series is inherently “better” than the other because of it(because in the end opinion is opinion and everybody has different takes and feelings on things. But, sometimes, I do personally have minor issues with some of Mangahood’s Comedy. Of course, I also have issues with 03′s comedy sometimes too though, so I’m not claiming it to be innocent or anything, it’s just that 03 doesn’t have nearly as many comedic scenes as Brotherhood, so I tend to notice it more in Brotherhood.

Don’t get me wrong. Brotherhood has some hilarious moments, and fantastic humor, when the time is right.

Like just to name a few:

- Bradley, of all people, trying to skip out on his work and catch a breather away from his bodyguards.

- Ling, just Li NG. His intro, and just every comedy scene with him is PERFECT.

- Scar wanting to pet Xiao Mei.

- Alphonse and Xiao Mei’s moments together - both adorable and Hilarious

- Alphonse saying they should feed Roy to Gluttony, and everybody calling Roy useless, and the interactions with Roy and Ed

- The humor in the Nina episode, which is honestly fantastically written, something I’ve actually discussed before in another post(heck, I even felt the comedy with Nina and the Elrics in Brotherhood was so good that the comedy in 03 for that specific scenario wasn’t as strong or satisfying, even though the 03 Nina event did better in other ways).

- Some of the scenes with Hughes and Roy

And there are others too but I won’t go on to list them all.

So my issue doesn’t lie with the argument of “maturity” or comedy in the end, but more in terms of tonal consistency and the timing.

For example, if there’s a particular incident I can think of that I personally preferred the way 03 handled it over all, it was the reveal about the philosopher’s stone and the ingredients to make one. I was going to bring up Yock Island and how 03 handled that far closer to the manga and just how it played out(with how Mason’s presence and purpose was next to completely erased in Brotherhood), but I feel like that would be a bit of an unfair comparison for this post, so I will go with the latter.

Take the Brother’s situation into consideration first. They lost their mother, and in trying to bring her back, Ed lost his leg and later his arm when Al lost his entire body. They’ve been through so many terrible things and faced so many misfortunes on their journey while searching through thick and thin for the past few years to correct the worst mistake they ever made in their life. Edward and Alphonse have been living with all that guilt for so long about this, so their losses shouldn’t just be treated of as if it’s not really that big of a thing, like their goal isn’t really that important to them(they literally burned down their house and left behind their home town for that goal after all). However, with that said, Ed and Al uncover the meaning behind Marco’s research notes, and yes at first they are horrified to find out that the thing they’ve been searching for since starting their journey can only be made by sacrificing human lives.

So many people the Brothers knew up until then had already lost their lives. Trisha, Nina, Winry’s Parents… And even Alphonse nearly lost his own(;Ed almost lost his Brother). Needless to say, the brothers understand all too well the value of a human life and just how precious it is. To find out that numerous people had been killed for the creation of the very thing that they’ve been looking for all those years… It would have been revolting, horrifying. And their initial reaction in both 03 and Mangahood was just that.

But the way the events play out is so different, mostly in tone and how the brothers come to terms with the matter.

In 2003, we’re able to sit for a while and are able to look at things from Edward’s perspective and what he was feeling (Although I did personally have an issue with the way Alphonse tried to move on from it like it was next to nothing and encourage Edward to do the same, but he tends to do that in 03 a lot, just like he did back when Nina died, I guess it’s part of the compartmentalization thing I discussed before. Still, I can understand if somebody has issue with that.)

Ross is a major support in the whole situation and actively encourages him to continue his research despite knowing as much as she did at that point. She doesn’t start talking as though she got herself “into something dangerous”, even though she’s definitely unsettled by the matter. In front of Edward and Alphonse, she puts her own feelings aside putting on a strong face for the boys, giving Edward an inspirational speech that isn’t over exaggerated and just feels… natural and right to the tone and mood of the whole situation. Which manages to perk him up. Heck, she even offers to look into the matter herself.

Meanwhile, in Brotherhood and the Manga, it’s Armstrong who does the perking up. Whereas in 03, Ross feels that it might be better to not get him involved on the matter, so she keeps him in the dark about it, in Mangahood, Armstrong overhears Ross and Denny talking about the matter right behind him(as if he wouldn’t hear them), Ross and Denny can’t keep a lid on it, and Alex then gives his stereotypical over-dramatic entry, bursting into the room and giving an exaggerated speech about the Brothers finding out about the truth of the Philsopher’s stone and how sad it was, which personally I didn’t care for, because the tonal change felt forced and out of place for me. Of course, for some this wasn’t a bad thing. For some, they actually preferred Brotherhood’s tension breaker, so it really just depends on the person and their preferences.

And 03 has it’s own fair share of this kind of thing too so I’m not saying this is only Brotherhood that does it. Like when it came to Armor Barry’s intro. Barry, the serial killer who had, as a human, kidnapped Winry, and attempted to kill both her and Edward, leaving Edward in tears due to the trauma… Despite finding out that that was who it was… Alphonse’s reaction was pretty neutral on the whole thing and that’s one specific scenario of Al being calm through everything in 03 that just really bugs me. And for them to still have comedy with Barry on top of this… Idk. In Brotherhood, this wasn’t nearly as much of an issue, since Al even didn’t know Barry before that.

There are times, that I just like a more solemn or at least sensitive take on things. But it can’t always be said that what is more “serious” to me is always “serious” to you. It’s all a matter of the viewer’s taste

And the most important thing that should be said:

These differences don’t inherently make either adaptation more ‘valid’ than the other.

Even Izumi’s blood vomiting…

I definitely respect the tragic approach 03 takes with it, as there is a huge sense of urgency and severity about it. But Mangahood also had its own sense of seriousness (like in the flashback with Izumi transmuting her child) while still having a more comedic approach on it, which wasn’t always necessarily bad (minus the joke about her wiping her blood on somebody else which is honestly gross and I’m glad didn’t make it to Brotherhood).

In fact, the more I think about it, the more I feel like this humorous side in Mangahood helped give Izumi a sense of agency to say that she’s making the best of it, and remaining strong against the odds of her condition (kind of like All Might from MHA) It additionally reminds me of Toph from ATLA who is blind but can still joke and be jabbed at without it feeling too offensive. You feel bad for her, and you have a lot of respect for her, but you also can’t help but chuckle a little about her stubbornness.) In most cases, they’re both thought provoking takes on the matter, and neither is wrong.

I just do personally have issue with sudden tonal changes at points (not chibi moments in battle, but in other scenes like I’ve discussed), but in the end that’s just me, because many others have claimed that they personally like Brotherhood better in its humor while others have said the exact opposite. Really, it just depends on the individual, and their interpretation.

All though I will be honest and say that I’m not a fan of slapstick. Winry hitting Ed with a wrench happens in Brotherhood a lot, while it happens in 2003 like two times(one of which Winry even apologizes). But honestly, in the end, I just ignore the comedy of both series that I don’t like because there’s plenty of stuff that I do like, and both tackle some very mature themes.

Anyway, sorry this got so long. It’s 4:50 AM, so my thoughts may seem a little jumbled and present the wrong message. Bottom line is I love both.

#fma #fma 2003 #fma 03 #fmab #fma brotherhood #Fullmetal Alchemist #Full Metal Alchemist #FULLMETAL #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood #Fullmetal Alchemist Manga

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I haven’t said anything about Wallis in a long time because I was sick of the misconceptions and the drama and just everything, but I saw this article on a different site and it made me so frustrated I figured I’d come back and say my piece on it. Not really here to argue about how any of y’all feel about Wallis or Meghan but rather the inaccuracies and disingenuous comparisons made in this article.

Part of the reason I even clicked the link is that I recently finished Anna Pasternak’s biography of Wallis. And I liked it. It was actually a very good, balanced, book. Not a particularly deep exploration of her life, but she debunked some of the false stories and it seemed pretty well researched and written and I probably agreed with 90% of her conclusions as someone who knows Wallis’s life backwards and forwards. It was also, as far as royal biographies go, a relatively feminist interpretation of Wallis’s life.

So, I was expecting this article to be about the media’s sexist mistreatment of Meghan and that perhaps the headline was a bit clickbaity but the actual article would be good. Tragically, I was mistaken.

“This sexist scapegoating is probably as unfair today as it was in 1936, as both Edward VIII and Prince Harry were ambivalent about their royal responsibilities before their marriages. But there are lessons in history.”

I agreed with this part: I had been hoping that perhaps she would articulate what I’ve felt but rarely seen spelled out in the media: that like the Abdication was unfairly blamed on Wallis even though she had nothing to do with it, that “Megxit” was clearly something Harry had wanted to do for some time and that it was more Harry’s decision than Meghan’s and it’s extremely sexist that everyone is baselessly assuming it was her idea. There also seems to naturally be a 100% overlap in the demographics of people who think Harry leaving is a horrible betrayal of his family and dereliction of duty and people who are inclined to be sexist and racist towards Meghan either way.

“It became his life’s aim for the world to know and adore Wallis as much as he did. Alas, this festering emotional sore was not lanced during his lifetime. Will this become Harry’s angry preoccupation, too?

It’s agonising, as Edward Windsor discovered, when the world misguidedly mistrusts your wife. Yet the solution is not to fight back, but to retreat and enjoy the private tenderness you have, together.”

This is fake news. The Windsors did fight back against false media stories, starting in 1937 when they sued the publisher of Coronation Commentary by Geoffrey Dennis. They also did numerous interviews over the years, they each wrote a book, and wrote articles defending themselves.

“Unlike Meghan, Wallis understood the royal creed. While it appears Meghan seeks to control her public narrative, allegedly encouraging friends to speak out and now trying to censor her press, Wallis resigned herself to the mute impossibility of her situation.After the abdication in 1936, she wrote plainly to Edward: “The world is against me and me alone. Not a paper has said a kind thing for me.”

Admirably, instead of openly bleating about her situation, Wallis schooled herself to survive the shadow side of infamy. This she summed up as “to have one’s character day after day laid bare, dissected and flayed by mischievous and merciless hands”.Wallis contained her suffering with laudable resolve. Meghan would do well to learn from her predecessor, who triumphed with a “kind of private arrangement with oneself – an understanding of the heart and mind – that one’s life and purposes are essentially good, and that nothing from the outside must be allowed to impair that understanding”.”

These are all real quotes but none of them say what Pasternak is suggesting they do. Wallis didn’t just lay back and accept the fact that everyone hated her. She did push back on numerous occasions, though admittedly not as much at first. Meghan is also not trying to censor the press, she is just very smartly refusing to grant access to publications that have treated her unfairly. The Sussexes are not the first celebrities, or likely even the first royals, to make this decision, they are just choosing to be more transparent about it and making it clear that they will no longer dignify nonsense from racist tabloids with a response. In some ways, when you think about it, that’s doing exactly what Pasternak is saying Meghan should be doing. The Sussexes are choosing to not even comment on articles from tabloids that have a history of treating them unfairly.

“If Meghan were more emotionally contained – which is not the same as having a stiff upper lip – might she earn our respect? There is great merit in stoic dignity, as the Duchesses of Windsor, Cambridge and Cornwall can attest.”

Wallis tried being emotionally contained and she also tried being more emotionally open. She got criticized intensely for both. And eighty years ago there was a lot more to be gained by “stoic dignity” as she calls it, that just doesn’t apply at all in today’s culture. She doesn’t mention Princess Diana, who was much more emotionally open, and significantly more popular than all the people she does mention.

Then she goes on about how Wallis tried to repair David’s relationship with his family, with quotes to back up her claim, and contrasts it to Meghan, without anything at all to back up her claim Meghan is acting differently. We know basically nothing about what’s gone on behind closed doors between Meghan and the royal family. Anna Pasternak is making exactly the same kinds of baseless assumptions about Meghan that the media made about Wallis that, once we had more information, turned out to be completely wrong. David was the one who made demands, and behind the scenes Wallis generally tried to discourage him. The royal family blamed Wallis without knowing or caring who was really behind it. We have literally zero information about these dynamics regarding Harry and Meghan and the royal family.

“Wallis did keep Edward happy – he adored her until the last – but nothing changed for her. Everything can still change for Meghan.”

So Pasternak’s advice for Meghan is that she should try doing things that didn’t work for Wallis because maybe they’ll work for her? She does not at any point make an argument as to how the media culture has changed that might make things work better for Meghan, which I suppose would be a legitimate argument she could make. No, her argument is basically: follow in the footsteps of a woman who everyone in Britain always hated and still hates or else you may be hated even more. Not to mention she is oversimplifying Wallis’s relationship with the press and her handling of the royal family to a ridiculous degree.

“If she restrains her husband from ill-advised outbursts, if she accepts her own press and if her marriage is as long and devoted as the Windsors’ was, then she will prove, just like Wallis did, that the sacrifice was worth it. And we may come to love and admire her as Harry does.”

I’m mainly going to focus on the first part here because this is exactly the sort of sexist bullshit she specifically tried to debunk in her book on Wallis. Wallis couldn’t control her man, and he did and said much more damaging shit than Harry has done. It’s not the responsibility of a man’s wife to keep him from making bad choices, and Meghan, like Wallis, has already been baselessly attacked as a domineering control freak who has her husband pussywhipped. Read the comments on any article about the Sussexes: people blame Meghan for anything Harry does they don’t like and give her absolutely no credit when he does something they do like. I’m sure Meghan shares her opinions with Harry, and we don’t know if she agreed or disagreed with his recent comments, but he is a grown man who makes his own decisions. Furthermore, if Meghan wants to pick a fight with her husband and demand to look over his shoulder every time he talks to the press, she’s going to significantly reduce her chances of making their marriage work. Which, according to Pasternak, is also something she needs to devote her energy to.

This article not only feels extremely unfair towards Meghan, it’s not accurate about Wallis, and it’s entire thesis is based on assumptions about what Meghan is saying and doing behind closed doors. It’s also a missed opportunity: there’s a lot Meghan could learn from Wallis’s story, though unfortunately more of it is about what not to do than what she should be doing.

#Duchess of Sussex #Duchess of Windsor

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NYC ~ Mathew Barzal

Chapter One

Ch. One ~ Ch. Two ~ Part Three ~ Ch. Four ~ Ch. Five

A/N: Yes, a lot of you may recognize this specific title/player combo from a blog who no longer wishes to associate with writing. I privately messaged them and requested permission to read their previous work that has always been my favorite. Not only did they give me access to read everything, but they’re allowing me to have all of their series and tweak them into my own. The story line will remain the same, but I have decided to change the POV that way I can slightly customize the story. I apologize if you dislike not having “Y/N” in a story but as I continue to study creative writing, I believe it makes a story easier to read. I hope you enjoy, I greatly appreciate feedback!

Check out my Wattpad where I will be posting this series and others as I go!

Authors Note: Based off this YouTube video. Yes, I purposely gave the children different names.

Word Count: 1,878

Warnings: Mature Language

Misc. Characters: Cassandra~You

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I’ve been nannying the Seidenberg’s for a little over a year now. My parents lived in the house next door while I went to a university in the city, living in an apartment close to campus. Dennis and Rebecca figured since I was a familiar face to the kids, with always being invited to small holiday get together parties my parents would hold, that I would be the best option to take care of them. That way Rebecca could go on road trips, or have fun with the other WAGs without worrying about the kids.

I got along with the three kids very well. After being with them for over a year, they feel like my own siblings. The boy, Dakota, was the youngest and he always loved to play street hockey with me in the driveway. The girls would play along as well, but he’d always be the first to ask. The two girls, Natalie and Marisa, always brought back memories of my old dancing days. Wanting to stay downstairs and do gymnastics or make up dance routines until they couldn’t stand anymore. As you can see, the kids kept me very busy and active.

Normally, I would only nanny on weeks when Dennis went on road trips and Rebecca wanted to join. Or random nights that the WAGs decided to hang out. However, over the summer I found myself at their house quite often. Sometimes only because the kids just wanted to hang out and play.

The summer was coming to an end and the hockey season was about to pick up once again. College was unfortunately beginning to get rough as it was now my senior year, but the kids always knew how to ease my stress and bring the child out of me, which is why I enjoy being with them so much.

Tonight, Dennis and Rebecca had gone out to attend the season kickoff dinner. They requested that I sleep over their house as they planned not to be coming home until after midnight. They have a guest room on the upper level that I usually sleep in during the road trip weeks. The room is comfortable, I love it. They even allow me to customize it and accent the walls with pictures that the kids have drawn for me.

After a couple hours of driveway street hockey, once the sun started setting, I then settled on the basement couch with the kids, popping in a Disney movie. The time was inching close to midnight, but we all ignored it. The girls laid on either side of me, with my arms around their shoulders while theirs crossed my stomach. While Dakota laid on the floor by himself in front of us. It wasn’t long before all three of them had dozed off into a sleep. Not wanting to move and wake them up, I figured I should drift off into sleep as well.

I heard a sudden noise which broke me out of my sleep. My mom instincts kicked in remembering the kids were with me. I quickly jumped up to see who was in the room, ready to attack if it was an intruder. The lights were still dim in the basement as the television asking if we were still watching was the only thing to illuminate the space. It took a moment for my eyes to adjust but soon enough I heard Dennis’ hushed voice.

“Sorry! We were trying to be quiet.” He whispered tiptoeing down the last stair. After his statement I was blinded by the overhead lights being turned on. My hands quickly covered my eyes, rubbing them to regulate my sight once again. I then heard the kids simultaneously groan “daaaad” behind me as they woke.

“Come on. Go on up to your rooms. I️ know Cassandra would love to be laying in her bed right now.” He continued. He definitely wasn’t lying about me wanting to be in my bed at the moment. Laying on the couch left a kink in my neck that I couldn’t help but absentmindedly attempt to massage out.

Once the kids retreated up the stairs, I noticed a male, averaging the same age as me, walk out of the spare bedroom adjacent from the couch. He had long, dark, slicked back hair. He was wearing a T-shirt that showed off his toned veiny arms, paired with black skinny jeans.

I’d be lying if I said he wasn’t attractive. In fact, he was almost unreal. His face was perfectly chiseled while his body looked like it was carved by angels. I couldn’t help but stare at every little feature on him. It was almost as if he had just walked out of a movie. Next thing I know my eyes trace back up to his face and he’s staring right back at me. I felt my heart beat rise as a genuine smile that could light up the whole room pulled across his lips.

I was guessing he was one of Dennis’ teammates. As if the Islander t-shirt didn’t give that away. But, he definitely wasn’t one that has been invited over to the house previously as I’ve clearly never seen him before. So, I figured he was a rookie and Dennis invited him over for dinner.

“Cassandra, so sorry I️ probably should introduce the two of you.” Dennis began once he returned from bringing the kids upstairs. I hadn’t noticed earlier, but I was staring at the boy in silence for an uncomfortable amount of time. Causing heat to immediately flood my cheeks in embarrassment. Figuring there was no way he didn’t take notice to my lengthy admiration.

“This is Mathew. Mathew this is Cassandra.” He introduced. Mat was quick to hold his hand out to me, stepping closer. “Hey, it’s nice to meet you.” He stated with a distinct Canadian accent. I took his hand into mine and shook lightly as I silently prayed he wouldn’t notice how sweaty my palm was.

“Same to you.” I responded. Not nearly as confident as I pleased. In fact, I’m pretty sure I sounded like a shy 3rd grader introducing themselves to the whole class on the first day of school.

“Mat is a rookie this year. So Rebecca and I️ decided it would be smart to allow him to stay here for his first season. Just so you don’t get confused when you see him walking around.” Dennis exclaimed.

As he finished, I was pretty sure all of the color in my skin sank, just like thermometers do when the temperatures drop. The thought of having this painfully attractive boy around the house excited me in all the wrong ways. The last thing I needed was a distraction. However, he would be gone on road trips the same time as Dennis. So, hopefully I wouldn’t see him that often anyway. Even though I’d hate to admit that I really wanted too.

“Welcome!” Was all I could say as I was still in shock from the whole situation. I attempted to sound as enthusiastic as possible. Mat sent me a sympathetic smirk. Almost like he felt bad for being here even though it wasn’t even my house. Making me feel self conscious of possibly sending him the wrong vibes.

“Well Mat, I️’m going to go grab your other suitcase. Make yourself feel at home.” Dennis offered before making his way back up the stairs. Eternally I began screaming for him to come back. Not wanting to be left alone with the boy whose bones I was ready to jump at any given moment.

“Does your neck hurt?” He questioned. My gaze shifted from the stairwell to Mat who only stood about a foot away from me. My head cocked to the side in confusion, while my face muscles tightened, wondering how in the world he knew about the kink that had formed in my neck.

“How did you…?” I began to ask before Mat cut me off to explain.

“You’ve been rubbing it since you stood up.” He answered, pointing to his own neck to imitate my movements. He spoke low and cleared his throat. Making me feel slightly better about this situation seeing he seemed to be just as awkward as I was at the moment.

“Yeah. I slept wrong on the couch and now I️ have a knot in my neck.” I responded while rolling my eyes, annoyed with the pain.

“Want me to try and rub it out?” Mat proposed. A moment of silence fell over the room. My mind immediately wanted to respond with ‘Boy you could rub whatever you want’ but obviously that wasn’t reasonable. I tried to stay calm as my heart began to race even faster to the point I would bet he could hear it.

“Can you please?” I replied as my mind began to contemplate if that was a good enough response or not.

Mat then moved behind me. His fingertips, oh so gently, braced themselves on my right shoulder. His thumbs then started making small circle movements into my skin causing goosebumps to rise that I hoped he didn’t notice. But taking by the deep chuckle I just heard behind me.. he noticed.. and is flattered.

The pressure from his thumbs found the perfect spot on the knot. Kneading it away as my facial expressions tighten in pain. Knowing that it has to hurt before the muscles will relax.

“Am I️ getting it?” Mathew questioned. He knew the answer. He could tell by my face, the goosebumps and the way my shoulder was slowly moving farther away from him. He knew I was enjoying it, so he was instigating.

“Yes.” I groaned with my teeth grinding together. Features still continuing to tense. However, he slowly and gently removed his fingertips as I then felt total relief over my neck and shoulder. I circled my arm around a couple times to ensure the pain was gone and behold, Mat had magical hands.

“Thank you a lot, it feels so much better.” I spoke relieved, turning to face Mat who was standing much closer than I had anticipated.

“No problem. Anytime.” He whispered due to the small amount of space separating us. His statement was followed by a wink that was powerful enough to blow me off my feet. But to maintain my authority, I plastered a smirk on my face, and winked back.

“Have a good night.” I said before confidently turning around to walk up the stairs. Proud of myself for appearing unfazed instead of the sweaty mess I was on the inside.

“Oh, I️ will. Goodnight.” Mat responded. Thankfully I was facing the opposite direction, that way he couldn’t see my eyes roll through my head at his sly comment.

Once reaching my bedroom on the upper level I laid in my bed staring at the ceiling fan. I knew it would be unprofessional and a risk to my job if I even thought about attempting anything with Mat. But at the same time, he was almost impossible to resist. Who knows though, he might not even be interested at all and I’m wasting my time thinking about him for nothing. Yet, it was also so hard to get him off my mind.

#Mathew Barzal #Mat Barzal #New York Islanders #NHL #Hockey #Imagine #AU #Fan Fic #Fan Fiction #Series

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There’s a theory that Rose is most likely to die in this season since Jennie mentioned there’s gonna be a major death towards the end & villain usually gets their (literal)dead end in telenovela; which I hope not turned out to be true as well as lowkey agree at the same time. How do you think about this?

so, nonnie, i...have a lot of thoughts about this. because this does involve talking about pics, etc. from the last day of shooting, that may include spoilers other people don’t want, so putting this under a cut.

yeah, pretty sure rose is going to die.

you’re right that jennie mentioned that there’s going to be a major death near the end of the series and also she’s mentioned that villains in telenovelas don’t get happy endings (even if there’s some wiggle room - and i’ll get into that part in a bit) - and both of those seem to point to rose dying. but! we can be even more specific! major death means that it’s probably going to be either one of the main characters (jane, michael, rafael, xo, alba, rogelio, petra) or one of the main reoccurring characters (rose, luisa, jr). of these, the only two who weren’t at the jafael wedding are michael and rose. (actually i can’t remember if rogelio was there or not but let’s be real, they probably aren’t going to kill him off. there’s no narrative purpose to that. and this, i guess, is assuming the writers even care about narrative purpose at this point.)

anyway. what this basically means is that everyone else in that group is safe. which means either rose or michael dies. and, yeah, there are good reasons that neither of them would be at the jafael wedding (obviously rose is rose and michael is in montana - although he’s supposed to be coming back for another episode - more on that below, too), but the point of the matter is everyone else is safe.

jennie’s not stupid enough to bring back michael and do all that shit to him in the first half of the season and then just kill him when he comes back. at least i don’t think she’s that bad of a writer, but this season.... i’m giving michael plot armor.

which leaves rose. and given that rose is being trumped up as returning to villain form this season - given that one of the articles earlier on mentioned that rose might turn against luisa since she is now seeing luisa as the reason she’s in prison instead of rafael (which is who she blamed in season four)--

i doubt rose is making it out of the series alive. i honestly think the episode she dies is likely the episode where michael returns, and if someone is killing her, i hope it’s him. that would fulfill that aspect of his narrative arc. and if luisa is working with rafael and the police against rose (which i think is likely...and went into at length in another ask), it makes more sense for her to be working with michael because she’s worked with him previously (in seasons one and two). the only other person who would have a fulfillment of character arc by killing rose would be luisa. and i don’t see that as being in her character and honestly that would bother me even more than killing off rose does. she just as easily can fulfill her character arc by officially turning against rose and choosing raf/family/toxicity/etc. over her in a final moment without having to be the one who kills her. and - returning to villains don’t get their happy endings, even if there’s wiggle room - i think that’s actually referring to luisa. because even if rose dies, luisa can still be with her family. that’s not her happy ending, which would be with rose, but it’s wiggle room for her to still be happy, even if she is romantically alone and lost, you know, the greatest love story ever told and, ah, you know, the one person who actually supported her through the past four seasons without expecting anything in return she just loved her like-- but this isn’t what you asked for. you asked me how i felt. and you can probably guess how i feel about it from the tone of the previous paragraphs - i think it’s shit. and here’s why! first of all, please note, going into this season, i didn’t expect luisa and rose to stay together. i thought trying to do that and have luisa still be family with raf would be really hard, and i didn’t think they would go the narrative route of redeeming rose, even though they’d started down that path and could have done it. there were other things they seeded (like dennis thinking michael might have been working with sin rostro) that they could have used, and they just didn’t. there were things they could have chosen to do and they chose to do otherwise. i thought luisa might have used up all the money to free rose, but they did the milos thing. etc. i’m tired, friends. very tired when it comes to jtv and their treatment of luisa. anyway - and i’ve posted about some of this - it feels like the series is teaching a handful of very problematic things with this narrative (and let’s be real, season five appears to be full of problematic narrative teachings but. not getting into all of those. just. not. you didn’t ask, not going there). 1) family > romantic relationships.

in and of itself, not a bad thing to teach! sometimes this is true! but not always, and here’s the problem: rafael and luisa’s relationship is toxic. not saying there aren’t elements of toxicity to rose and luisa’s relationship because there definitely are, but i do believe that raf and luisa’s relationship as it has been shown to us by the series is far more toxic to luisa’s mental health and wellbeing than rose and luisa’s is.

see, here’s the thing - luisa forgave rose. and every bad thing rose has done to luisa can be easily explained - rose says in season two that she had to get elena put in jail to free them - her and luisa - and given that when rose was not doing what elena wanted at the beginning of season two luisa was kidnapped and tortured - luisa being a threat to rose’s marriage to emilio (telling emilio that they were having an affair) would likely have gotten her killed. putting luisa in a mental institute? not okay. removing luisa as a threat in a way that doesn’t get her killed? a little bit more okay - and the show lampshades this because in the list of things rose did to luisa that they showed at the beginning of the season putting her in a mental institute is not on there. (but maybe that’s because we’d have to address the problems with luisa’s arc in season four, namely that luisa is blaming rose for something rose was not involved in - luisa should be mad at magda and anezka for gaslighting her, luisa should be mad at petra for not getting her out of the mental institute as soon as she knew what was up, luisa should still be mad at raf for throwing rose in jail - but no, that’s all rose’s fault-- anyway.)

killing emilio and kidnapping mateo were business. they had nothing to do with luisa personally. they may have affected luisa, but they weren’t about luisa. wearing a different face was a safety protocol - and rose did this only twice and the second time luisa knew, so there’s no reason to hold that against her. and rose kidnapped luisa because both luisa and michael trumped up kidnapping as romantic and rose wanted to explain everything to luisa and i tend to headcanon that luisa fainted instead of rose drugged her but you know. to each their own, i guess.

but also? the things rose did? all in seasons one and two. with the exception of kidnapping luisa, all of those things were problematic to luisa in seasons one and two. (the face-changing not included because post-susanna, luisa would have known and it wouldn’t have been an issue.)

for three years, rose didn’t do anything. she gave up her entire previous lifestyle to be with luisa. she chose luisa over her criminal past because she loved her. because luisa was more important.

further - rose is the only character we see constantly trying to make sure luisa isn’t drinking and constantly checking in on her with no ulterior motive than just making sure luisa is okay (you can - and i have - make the argument that calling luisa when luisa was on her bender in season one had more to do with making sure rafael didn’t lose his shares in the marbella to protect the criminal plastic surgery ring business - actually you can make ulterior motive comments on a lot of rose’s stuff if you want that interpretation, but i don’t think that lines up with what the show has shown us of rose. with the exception of that phone call. anyway). rose is the only character who seems to actually consistently care about luisa. and the three year time skip proved that she could and did change for luisa. they had a healthy relationship. there was no reason to believe they did not have a healthy relationship. (this blog does not subscribe to the season five rose let luisa get black out drunk because it does not line up with the rose the series has shown us up to this point. writers, character consistency. anyway.)

further - rose went above and beyond to make sure that luisa was comfortable with her after everything that happened - often to her own risk and detriment. after killing emilio, rose told luisa were he was buried - which would implicate her in the murder - and wrote her a letter about it, which is almost as good as a signed confession. rose reached out after mutter kidnapped luisa - and, yeah, they didn’t talk about police stuff and, yeah, susanna shut that shit down as soon as luisa told michael - but it still happened. rose gave luisa her kill sheet, which was as good as a signed confession, and apparently told her where the bodies were buried. rose kept in mind the time zones and when raf sent luisa a happy birthday email she gave it to luisa instead of deleting it or destroying it because she knows how important raf is to luisa, and because she knows and understands the importance of their relationship, she went out of her way to make sure she and luisa could still be together and luisa could still visit raf, despite how risky that was for her.

and if you really want to include the black out drunk scene, rose literally signed over all of her bank accounts to luisa, giving luisa full access to everything she was doing whether her money at any moment in time, including if she was still incolved in any shady crime lord business.

rose did everything she could to have a healthy relationship with luisa, and for three years, they had a healthy relationship. rose only returned to being sin rostro when she was worried that someone else had turned luisa against her and when she was realized she would need to get out of jail herself.

and if you want to bring up michael and torturing him, please realize this is something that didn’t come up until season five, and regardless of that, rose was still better for three years.

compare this to rafael’s treatment of luisa throughout the entire series.

no, rafael might not have the huge moments the way rose does, but he does not have to. rafael consistently shows a lack of caring towards his sister - when rose was worried about where luisa was in season one, rafael’s just “she’s on a bender; she’s hiding, it’s nothing new, don’t worry about it”; when emilio came to visit the marbella in season one and they threw the huge party, he intentionally didn’t invite luisa - which, given circumstances, might be understandable except that this is blatantly disrespectful and hurtful to emilio as well, who is his main guest; rafael consistently forgives everyone else except luisa; rafael consistently only goes to luisa when he needs something from her, and once he’s gotten what he needs, he stops caring about her. rafael had no reason to suspect that luisa was with rose for the three year time skip and had proof that eileen wasn’t rose and yet still didn’t let them around mateo - and it does not matter that he was right in those circumstances because he had no way of knowing he was right. rafael doesn’t want to visit luisa when she’s in rehab or the mental hospitals because he expects her to say the same thing she always says, which means he gave up on her during season one.

and worse, luisa blames herself for the bad things that happen to rafael and he never brings up that these things are not her fault. luisa doesn’t control who rose kills. (and let’s be real here, rafael didn’t really like emilio, so his upset over rose killing him seems a little displaced.) and the episode where it’s revealed that luisa is blaming herself and feeling so guilty she wants to drink over it about disappointing rafael, the show tells us this makes rafael a good brother, when in fact it’s just rafael is driving luisa to drink because he will not forgive her.

and luisa constantly and consistently tries to prove herself to rafael without it going anywhere. (not going into season five with regards to this.)

and the irony of all this is that rafael consistently chooses romance over family with his relationship with jane and that is rewarded.

rafael’s relationship with luisa is consistently more demeaning to her and has more of an emotional and mental negative impact on her but somehow that relationship is the one that is touted as more healthy. it’s not.

and this is especially problematic with regards to the lgbtqia+ viewship because it’s teaching us that being with your toxic family is more important than being with your partner. even if luisa as a lesbian is not the main reason for the conflict between her and rafael, that implication is still there, especially given that the straight relationship between jane and rafael is allowed to be romance > family with regards to rafael.

this is a problem.

2) it further exacerbates the “women in love are weaker” issue.

what i mean by that is this - if rose was not in love with luisa, rose would not have been caught. rose would be on her island. safe. (or potentially she could still be working as one of elena’s underlings because she wouldn’t have a strong motivation to get out from under elena’s thumb and then i guess in that case maybe she would have been caught, but that’s me using what they showed us in season two to try and talk about the elena/rose dynamic that they basically threw away in season three and decided not to deal with again - so you can see i’m still a little salty about this but you know what, their show.)

rose wouldn’t have given her kill sheet to anyone. rose wouldn’t have implicated herself in emilio’s murder because they wouldn’t have been able to find his body. rose wouldn’t be pretending to be eileen, so eileen wouldn’t have killed scott. rose likely wouldn’t be returning to miami to get caught. she’s got no reason to do so.

what this tells us, then, is that rose’s love for luisa and willingness to do what luisa needs is her weakness - her only weakness.

which potentially has another fun complication of a woman’s love for another woman makes her weaker because you can make that argument with luisa, too - that her love for rose is her main sin throughout the entire series because if she was a good sister, she’d pick rafael over her lover - but the focus here is on rose and why killing rose off is shit not on luisa - but it’s hard to talk about rose without also talking about luisa (and then talking about rafael, because that’s the love triangle - rose chooses luisa chooses rose - but i’ve addressed that in a different post, too).

and jtv is not the only show that does this. women are consistently told that being in a romantic relationship makes them lesser, that their emotions make them lesser, and for rose, who is a sociopath, who has a problem with emotions in the first place, having emotions and choosing to act on them literally makes her weaker.

this is a problem.

3) it tells us that no matter how much you change, you can never be more than who you originally were.

and here’s part of why the time skip was a huge problem and likely why they have to do the rose let luisa get black out drunk thing in season five - rose kept her word and gave up her crime lord business to be with luisa.

when luisa makes the claim in the season three finale that rose changed, she was right. rose changed. for luisa. there was no reason to believe that they did not have a healthy relationship during those three years, with the occasional fight over rose not wanting to go to miami because that’s risky for her - but even then, they still went. the show gave us nothing up to that point to believe that rose hadn’t changed. it still hasn’t, not in a believable way. even if you bring up michael - that was before the three year time skip.

one of the entire points of rose’s relationship with luisa was that luisa was more important to her than anything else and that she would do anything for luisa and be anything for luisa. of course, rose changed.

just the show? the writers? they don’t care. because rose is a villain and villains must be punished. never mind that rose changed and stopped being a villain for luisa. what she did early on can’t be forgiven by the show’s writers. and so she has to return to form and be a villain so that they can punish her and, likely, kill her off.

and, okay, you want to bring up season five and rose’s actions there and at the end of season four? let’s talk about that.

but to talk about how rose is acting in season five, we have to talk about season four from rose’s point of view.

at the beginning of season four, rose was in jail. she still was at the end of season four. as far as i know, she still is in season five. but at the beginning of season four, rose was in a relationship with luisa. luisa was trying to get her out of jail. her girlfriend of the last three years - the love of her life - loved her and was trying to help her. (yes, rose killed a minion. one who was probably watching michael. likely because she expected rafael to turn luisa against her. or because something might happen to luisa and she would need to find out. or something - she’s in jail, she wants collateral.)

and then, all of a sudden, luisa dropped off. was gone. disappeared. no contact, no explanation, no nothing to give rose any indication of what happened to her. she was just gone.

rose was a crime lord. rose knows luisa is her weakness. do you know what probably went through rose’s mind at that point?

she probably panicked. the last time luisa randomly disappeared, mutter had kidnapped her and ended up torturing her due to her connection to rose. she probably sent out as many people as she could to find out what happened, and that’s what led her to rafael.

all of her actions past that point are 1) to get in contact with luisa again and find out what the fuck happened (although she knew. she knew it was rafael. because it was always rafael. even when he was wrong) and 2) to get out of prison, where she would not have been if she hadn’t trusted luisa to get her out or chosen luisa knowing she was likely to get caught.

honestly - the satin road is likely money to go to the account to get her out, which was supposed to be what luisa did. and rose was letting luisa take care of that instead of returning to her criminal roots to do it herself - that was the point of her arc in season four. not that luisa had to be involved in criminal activity but that rose trusted luisa instead of doing criminal activity- a trust that is consistently shown to be misplaced.

so, nonnie, let’s just say that i do not have happy feelings about rose dying. i expect it to happen. but i think, narratively, it’s a shit decision.

and one of the bad parts about this - to me, anyway - is that petramos is showing that they easily could have given rose and roisa a redemption arc. and they’re choosing not to. because they want to punish a villain, and rose is the designated villain - despite her changes over the series - as opposed to, say, magda, who has not changed, who has given no indication she wants to change, who has consistently fucked over petra both on her own and through her manipulations of anezka.

like, let’s be real here, magda is worse than rose is. the show has not given magda any redeeming qualities. and she’ll probably get out of the series completely free, the same way she has for her gaslighting of luisa.

but, you know, that’s more salt than maybe you asked for.

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kateeorg · 5 years

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I quite enjoyed this! I was honestly glad when it was announced to be a mini-series, because I didn't want to see Tulip suffer for years on end trying to get home. But now I'm intrigued about getting to see other characters traverse the train!

I liked that, as in Over the Garden Wall, they put the darkness up front. Creator Owen Dennis has specifically stated he "wanted to avoid the way a lot of animated, adventure-focused shows gradually introduce darkness into the picture after leading with more lighthearted plot lines," and I appreciated that. I'm not a big fan of dark and scary generally, but knowing it would be creepy going in kind of helped, somehow.

In fact, the ending didn't end up being as bleak as I imagined - Like, so many people were convinced One-One was going to turn evil or Tulip was dead all along or that person in "The Grid Car" had been disintegrated. None of that was true, and I'm glad for it! Not everything has to be worst-case scenario.

Like even though "The Ball Pit Car" was so gutting, it would have been 10x worse if all the episodes leading up to it had been completely silly and lighthearted (plus, I've come to expect that the innocuous sounding episodes in modern cartoons tend to be the most depressing nowadays, so I felt semi-prepared).

Some other observations:

Ashley Johnson and Ernie Hudson's voice work in this is so great. I've been loving Ashley on Critical Role, and her delivery on, "You can't even build a car without any turtles in it!" was thrilling. Atticus reminded of the fact that Hudson's role in Ghostbusters was originally written to be smarter and more credentialed than the others, instead of the working class everyman he ended up being, and liked seeing the actor channel that here - such different performances! (Also, Rhys Darby from Voltron cameos as Randall in Episode 2, which is always fun)

Atticus is best boy/man The whole corgi car is still just the best concept, it's a big part of why the original pilot was so lovable, but I also love the new bits like "Ugly Irwin". But even the old bits like "If we tried to cross the treacherous two-foot depths, we would surely drown" and "My people have been working on this technology for decades!" are still hilarious, reminding you these proud beings are still dogs.

I particularly liked the concept behind "The Crystal Car" and all of Tulip's popular song parodies XD. It really drove home the theme of Tulip’s development - you can’t hack the healing process, you have to be authentic and vulnerable to move ahead.

The show never really answered why all the passengers have those videotapes, did it? Like I loved how they used that device more than once in different ways to observe memory, but were they always meant to be a trap, or are they meant to be a last-ditch resort to incite emotional growth, considering the train's true purpose?

Why did The Cat say the conductor was a "he" at the beginning - did she not know, since she could never see the final memory until One-One showed up? Or was she just being misleading? So many questions still!

And why was the Steward in the Corgi Car at all??? Does it have to do with why the Unfinished Car was similar to the Corgi Car?

The idea of The Chrome Car and Tulip lacking a reflection now really weirds me out, but all the stuff the mirror self brought up to Tulip was so eye-opening!

Amelia's backstory, man. The subversion of the Conductor's identity and the connections to the Unfinished Turtle Car and the parallels to Up are so intriguing.

The subtle hint of Amelia hacking the pay phone with a melody tone in the flashback and the theme song melody being the key to controlling the train (as seen when One-One stops the Steward right near the end) was a particularly nice touch.

Also, note Ulrick's essay topic at the very beginning of the flashback - Alice in Wonderland. A young girl traveling through a nonsensical world with a mysterious cat? Sound familiar? (I would argue there's also a less-intentional parallel to Wizard of Oz - a young girl runs away, then gets swept to another world, finds friends, and learns to appreciate what she left behind)

I would have liked a little more insight on what's changed for Tulip since leaving the train, but what we got was effective for the time it had. I'm a sucker for a happy ending, and this one was definitely earned.

#Infinity Train #infinity train spoilers #tulip olsen #ashley johnson #one-one #atticus #king atticus #ernie hudson #the cat #the steward #the conductor #alice in wonderland

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airlock · 5 years

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airlock grades the Punchable archetype

so far, a majority of the Fire Emblem villains I’ve covered in this series are the sort who are meant to be liked, forgiven, sympathized with... these here are not those ones. these are the ones whose singular purpose in the narrative is to piss you the hell off. so, which of them played that role to excellence?

(do note: under cut are spoilers for… everything, and also a significant amount of me criticizing or blamming characters that you might- okay, yeah, no, you probably don’t like anybody on this list, but you may still strongly disagree with my opinions of them. you’ve been warned! ha, no way these fools would set about reading the whole post now... what!? impossible!)

a foreword

so, to be very specific, I’m not rating every flatly irritating miniboss here; the definitive aspect here is that the character has to be a recurring one, whose extended screentime never quite ends up giving them a chance to be something other than vile. but more important than the hair-splitting here is giving some consideration to how exactly I’ll be doing the rating; after all, I’m not supposed to like any of these people, but there’s still better and worse ways to be despicable as a character.

I’m running pretty much on two central critteria: is this character entertaining, and is that character satisfying to take down. it’s more important to hit one than to hit both; a character who hits neither is significantly more likely to be a pure waste of bile, however.

without further ado, let’s start gritting those teeth!

fuck this guy

(9/10)

directly enabling the single most badass scene in all of Book II obviously lands you on the upper echelons of this here character type. but that’s just the effect; we should peer into the cause of what makes him work so well!

of the critteria I mentioned, Lang goes for the latter: he’s not only quite satisfying to defeat, it’s also great anytime someone finally talks back to him and puts him in his place. that’s because he’s not the sort of character for whom this sort of thing is a given. a lot of the ones we’ll see ahead of him are incompetent toadies on top of being amoral, but not this guy; he knows exactly what he’s doing, relying on the backing of the most powerful nation in the continent to plunder, raze, and oppress to his heart’s content. the business of doing something about this dipshit gets severely delayed by the dire consequences of crossing him -- until Marth finally decides that enough is enough.

and THEN Jagen tells him to meet him 9 PM at the Grustian denny’s parking lot for an old man brawl-

fuck this chin

(3/10)

I struggle to understand ol’ Kaga’s obssession with jealousy as a villainous character motivation, I really do. it’s one entirely realistic thing to envy someone for having riches, fame, status, influence, the attention of one’s crush, or other such things that are more or less objective and palpable. it’s also entirely a thing to have an inferiority complex and fear or spite people one perceives as being more talented, better looking, stronger, smarter than oneself. but the way these characters are written tends to come across like they’re furious because they’re underwritten gonk and not everyone else is.

... which hey, would be a pretty upsetting thing if it happened to a real person, but I don’t think meta-commentary is the point here, is it? I sincerely hope it isn’t...

fuck this lady

(7/10)

the second leg of Genealogy of the Holy War finds you facing the same sorts of enemies most of the time: half of them are Satanists, and the other half are unfortunate innocents trapped in the crossfire of courtly intrigue. it’s exactly because of this that the arc desperately needs a villain like Hilda.

Hilda is just someone who doesn’t particularly mind if the most effective path up the social ladder involves destroying her relatives, daughter included, or capturing children and forcing them into murder tournaments. how is the imperial machinery of tragedy and death supposed to run without someone like her cranking a couple of the levers? er, I mean, you don’t really crank levers unless you’re doing something weird, but... okay, moving on

amidst all of the battles you might struggle to feel were worth fighting, Hilda here serves as a reminder, as a face of every reason why the Empire is the enemy and must be defeated.

and yes, making Tinny kill her rocks

fuck this guy IN AMERICA

(2.5/10)

not too long ago I would have dropped him a straight zero, but I’ve recently been reading through the Project Exile text dumps for a new Thracia 776 fanslation and what can I say, they put good work into making him tick properly and I essentially have no choice but to keep that sort of thing in consideration when making the ratings, being that all of the other villains are also characters I only have indirect contact with through a translation that may have improved or worsened things.

but the good work is no miracle -- although given much-needed entertainment value, this guy is still who he is: practically a standard-fare asshole miniboss who ends up getting three whole chapters to chirp into. and to make matters worse, you only actually get the payoff to him in one of two possible routes!

I am strong, I am clever, I am handsome, and most importantly, fuck me

(4/10)

I can’t possibly deny that his antics are some of the most hilarious on this list; the ridiculous speeches, the facial expressions from the manga, the fact that he gets demoted on screen... and I mean, they got Kaiji Tang to put voice to his high drama on Heroes, on top of it all!

alas, it just really spoils the fun to a significant extent that his very introduction in Binding Blade sees him macking on a captive prepubescent girl. however entertaining it may be that she snatches his wig on that occasion anyway.

fuck this morph

(5/10)

yeah, some people wish. notably including Brendan Reed-

the thing with Sonia is that she’s a little less believable than most folks in this archetype -- specifically because she’s not, like, working within the structures of power that would let her get away with being as much of a dip as she wants to; she’s earned her influential position by seducing the boss, which is hard to buy when, however attractive she may be, she never has a single positive interaction with anyone and nobody trusts her (barring Ursula on both counts, but she’s not the one who needs to be brought on board anyway). I realize what a phenomenon it is to think with one’s dick, but come on; surely, you don’t let your new friend with benefits tell you how to do your job just because she’s that good in bed or something.

that said, although her overall spot on the plot feels weakly implemented, she still makes for a tremendous bulwark to overcome specifically within Nino’s subplot. what a powerful confrontation against a lifelong abuser she provides in the end!

do not fuck this guy what is wrong with you

(3/10)

Valter is just uncomfortable as a character, which is limbo as far as emotion-inducing goes; it’s not particularly entertaining, and nor is it artfully terrifying in the way that Orson is. furthermore, I normally praise Sacred Stones’s antagonists for averting the way of behaving like a plot device, but this guy is the exception; he seems to primarily show up to cause trouble because trouble needs to be caused.

I feel like he’d have made for a far stronger character concept if his backstory had been handled differently, being more specific in what part of his mind broke when he held the cursed lance, instead of just being “now he does bad things and talks like he’s vaguely horny throughout”.

at least he’s quite a bit entertaining in Heroes where he gets voiced lines and no particular characters or plots to interact with -- but if that’s what it takes to make the character shine, it doesn’t really say good things about him.

fuck beauty

(5.5/10)

so, the truth come out: does this guy is deserve becoming the absolute teacher’s pet he’s been since Radiant Dawn? my verdict on the matter is: not really.

I mean, Path of Radiance actually writes him into a solid niche; for all the big words he emits about being a patron of beauty, he’s ultimately just the same kind of petty, ostentatious garbage that poisons the governance of Begnion, and finally taking him down for good and all makes for an excellent dive after all the work it takes to set the light of justice on him -- not just in Day Breaks (oh gooooooooddd) but over the course of the several chapters it takes.

it’s all downhill from there, though. his appareance in Radiant Dawn is not only unecessary, but also a deviation from the established writing to focus on pallid, ineffective jokes, like someone invented Heroes writing before the thing itself happened. he fights on your side because now he genuinely cares about beauty and art to the point he’ll fight a goddess over it? yeah, that’s not who he was.

and seriously, one strongly gets the impression that, in that appearance onwards, the punchline is just supposed to be that he’s fat, bald, wordy, and has a shitty mustache -- which, besides being blatant fatphobia, is seriously stale; “it’s funny because he’s ugly” is, like, at least two random minibosses per game, usually more.

fuck the senate

(2/10)

although he jabs a lot of the buttons that should make for an entertaining and stalwart hate sink, it ends up not really working.

his narcisism lacks the performatic grandeur of the likes of Narcian; it lands as pastiche at best, and common annoying smugness at worst. and although he’s powerful and influential enough to cause a bunch of problems, he’s introduced at a weird time that fails to make his specfic capabilties relevant to opposing the protagonists, and he ends up not doing a lot more than severely inconveniencing Zelgius (who is on his team) a couple times.

at least, the battle dialogue against him in Part 4 still provides some of the most fierce drags in Radiant Dawn

fuck the valm arc

(0/10)

seriously, fuck it

but ahem, onto the guy in question: he’s an annoying waste of writing space that doesn’t seem to be intended for any reason other than making the rest of Team Bad Guy look good, plain and simple.

you might be thinking, airlock, this is the third Awakening villain you blammed in four posts, are you just biased? the answer is: yes, but even if I were being perfectly fair, let’s be real, antagonists are just not one of that game’s strengths, overall. that just happens sometimes; I can really say the same thing of like Thracia 776, y’know?

fuck playing f- yeah, okay, that’s just low-hanging fruit

(??/10)

honestly, from this distance, none of Fates’s fixed antagonists bar Anankos really give me the impression of not just being despicable pastiche, but I’m guessing he’s supposed to be the one who actually intended to take it as a niche?

so, I’m just going to assume you hated this, but how was it? are you glad it’s over, or do you regret having read it at all? we’re probably not going to be spared from one of these characters on Three Houses, but specifically how much would you like to hate the one that comes along? to be honest, your thoughts aren’t remotely as good as mine, so I wouldn’t bother replying or reblogging to share them, worm. what? you’ll do it anyway!? how dare you! do you know what I’m capable of!?

#airlock grades the villain archetypes #fire emblem is tagged in this post

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Hold on, this is going to get long

I want to talk about Dennis and work out some timeline and psychological stuff I’ve been thinking about.

Dennis’s struggle with younger women is never really explained in the movie, but I think we can work out some good theories.

For one thing, timeline-wise, we know that the full takeover of Kevin by Dennis and Patricia took place in 2014 (3 years before the events of the movie). But while it may be tempting to assume that this was the same day as the incident at the zoo, It wasn’t. We know this because Dennis and Patricia had apparently come out of banishment before that secretly and were taking the light from Barry at times without him knowing; this went on long enough for Barry to start suspecting something (according to his video diary). We don’t know how long, but let’s rough it and say a year.

However, we then also have to add in the time that Dennis and Patricia actually spent banished. Even if we only give this a year too, that means that Dennis was banished at least 5 years before the movie. If we go with how old he looked on that train platform and guess at his age being 29 in Glass, that means Dennis was 25 or younger when banished (because he was the first alter at 3 years old, I’m going with the idea that he aged concurrently with Kevin because that’s how close he was to him, even though some of the other alters seem to have set ages).

This means that Dennis, as a 25-year-old man, was attracted to girls around 17. Now, I know this will shock tumblr which likes to inaccurately through the word “pedophile” around, but this actually isn’t that strange. Most guys around this age notice when 17-year-old girls are attractive. However, guys who don’t suffer from compulsive disorders can probably put those thoughts aside as inappropriate and go about their business.

But Dennis does have compulsive disorders, specifically OCD connected to punishment for “doing something wrong”. I’m not an expert on OCD but I think it’s likely that even when everything is clean and “perfect”, Dennis probably still dwells on what if’s. I’m sure he can’t stop thinking about what he could or might do wrong. These are probably extremely upsetting and intrusive thoughts that plague him all the time.

Now, this connects to my own personal headcanon that Dennis is NOT actually preoccupied with young girls or only young girls in any kind of real pathological way.

With run-of-the-mill men who gravitate to younger women, there tends to be a desire for dominance; they like the power imbalance. However, despite what some people assume, I actually don’t think there’s a whole lot of canon material to suggest Dennis is a control freak in that way; in fact, he seems pretty submissive to Patricia and let himself be banished by the other alters; I know many have the headcanon that he’s uber dominant, but I don’t know ... I think that’s a facade. I think the main person Dennis desires to have ultimate control/dominance over is himself. Plus, while we could apply that sort of psychology to Dennis because it’s the most common in real life, I don’t think there’s actually anything “common” about Dennis or Kevin’s situation.

I think Dennis had some pretty normal thoughts about attractive teenage girls, but because he has so much shame and worry connected to “doing something wrong”, he simply couldn’t put them aside as other men would.

He probably dwelled on it; at first in a paradoxical way because he knew it was wrong and shouldn’t think it but that simply made him think about it more. Then it likely escalated (because thoughts you dwell on tend to escalate) until those thoughts became intrusive enough for the other alters to intervene; and the fact that - I’m going to guess - Barry told Dr. Fletcher that Dennis struggled and knew what he was thinking was wrong, makes me think the other alters may have even been trying to protect him by banishing him.

(There may be some other reasons for his attraction twisted up in there too; perhaps he’s attracted to their innocence or maybe even a little bitter about their innocence. Some have mentioned that there is some indication that Kevin’s mom may have even engaged in some sexual abuse towards Kevin, which would open a whole other bag of worms when it comes to attraction and maybe an instinct to gravitate towards women who do not in any way remind him of his mother ...but I think any of those possible reasons are still blanketed by the larger issue of compulsion and there aren’t as many canonical clues to back them up as the driving force behind his issue)

This would also explain his very strong reaction to what those girls did to Barry or Kevin. And I think it’s really telling that his reaction was not to be intrigued or happy about the contact with younger girls, but apparently super protective and angry (let’s be real, those girls doing that is the reason why the “impure” are often teenage girls - because Dennis is super pissed off about that “attack” and how ignorant those girls were to other people’s possible trauma; not because he just wants to surround himself with temptation; in reality, I think Dennis would actually go out of his way to NOT surround himself with temptation under normal circumstances).

Now, none of this excuses his behavior (which is actually way worse than simply creeping on Marcia - the dude was prepared to let them be sacrificed to bring a supernatural being to life, so in the grand scheme of things ....) but I’d like to think that this aspect of Dennis wasn’t just added to up the tension/horror in the movie but was actually thought out when it comes to his character, and to me that most logical, careful way of doing that is to connect together these two primary struggles Dennis faces and then connect them back to his primary purpose as a protector/shield, and most likely the alter who experienced the most direct abuse and humiliation from his mom (or “Kevin’s mom”, as his says, which is an interesting detachment).

I also want to point out that I think it’s clear that Dennis’s problem probably wouldn’t go further than the dancing thing because I think he has issues with touching people too much, or at least people he doesn’t know or trust at all (Hedwig even says that in Glass when the guards start getting handsy about escorting him into the caged part of the hospital, and he reacts very strongly to Casey touching him even though it kind of melts into something nicer after his first instinct to pull away)

He can probably also justify to himself that the dancing thing is less harmful than it is (he even refers to it as simply “bothering” them and not molesting or rape). He would have to do this to protect himself; it’s clear he has a sense of compassion because he shows it to Casey and reacts emotionally when Dr. Fletcher tells him that the girls are “suffering” like he’s been trying hard not to believe that.

I fully admit I like Dennis, and I was happy to see him finally see the error of his ways and the Beast’s methods in Glass, but I feel like if he were just a straight up molester/raper, then giving him that redemption would actually be irresponsible of the writers if they never really address this elephant. There would have to be a more complicated, sympathetical psychology behind his redemption in order for the audience to be accepting of it, and I want to appreciate the character arch I saw which is why I need to work this out for myself.

#dennis crumb #kevin wendell crumb #split movie #glass movie #james mcavoy #casey cooke #this is just my speculation #others can and do disagree #and i understand why some would hate him or hate the idea of shipping him and casey #but i do ship him and casey because i think they're both the most traumatized and could have understood each other with time and healing #but he was killed before either of them could make it to that point

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