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marlinspirkhall · 5 months

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Wait a fucking moment

I knew there was a reason this movie slapped

#Diane Duane strikes again!#we don't have to talk about bibble #Barbie: Fairytopia #barbie movies #Diane Duane

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kitheheh · 4 months

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RICK AND MORTY S7 EP 10 SPOILERS

THIS EPISODE WAS SO GOOD! My favorite part is that we get more of a look into who Dianne was as a person.

I always thought that she was smart or was at least a lover of science like Rick was, considering I don’t think it’s likely Rick would have married someone who didn’t share his love of science.

We’ve been able to get hints before of what her personality might have been like through Ricks Garage:

and Ricks Car:

Both have been modeled after Diane and use her voice and both of which have always been sassy or sarcastic towards him.

We also know that Summer reminds Rick of Diane as he’s said twice before in S6 Ep1 and S7 Ep 7 and we all know what Summers personality is like lol

We’ve now gotten the best glimpse at what Diane was like and a hint of what Ricks job was before he invented portal travel:

It’s seems he might have met Diane

1) while he had been working for the government and she may have also been a scientist employed by them

Or 2) she had been arrested by the robot that Rick had built while working for the feds.

(Either way both options are funny)

We see that Diane went to university and received a masters degree and probably loved science like Rick did

We see how her personality is similar to his when they join a drinking contest together, but also how Diane might have been more of a “party person” than Rick was when they were in college.

(I mean this episode suggested she was arrested by a law enforcement drone Rick built)

Considering how she comments on how he used to be a “lightweight” and later on tells him that “her dying made him cooler” (suggesting he didn’t used to be the drunk unhinged man that we’ve become so accustomed to seeing him as) we can assume that she was probably the unhinged one

IN CONCLUSION DIANE IS A SMART AWESOME BADASS WOMAN THAT NERDY YOUNG RICK FELL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR BECAUSE HE THOUGHT SHE WAS COOL IN THIS ESSAY I WILL-

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #diane sanchez #morty smith #rick and morty season 7 spoilers #I LOVE DIANE SO MUCH SHES SO COOL #AND SUMMER FINALLY GOT TO MEET HER #BUT WHEN SHE SHOWED UP I WAS SO SAD BC SHE HAD TO WATCH RICK DIE #I NEED MORE DIANE SANCHEZ PLZ IM TIRED IF LIVING OFF OF CRUMBS #kit talks #summer smith #beth smith

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lakesparkles · 2 months

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If I had a nickel for every time I related to a blue-haired character and this made me want to be better, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Part of my kin list, I think. These two are so important to me!

The cat in the middle is my fursona!

#diane nguyen #bojack horseman #ramona flowers #scott pilgrim #talking about comic ramona here #important to say #my hair should be blue now

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vhvrs · 4 months

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some summer thoughts. for reference, i think she looks a LOT like how beth at 17 wouldve looked so her rickiness is like strong bethiness. the shoulder scar is from some shit in ricks garage almost ripping her arm off (arm scar just one of the few battle cuts that stuck) (definitely has that belly scar forever too). torn on heterochromic summer but i think she deserves it bc you know she would be soooo annoying abt it.

#summer smith #dork art #also heterochromic summer = rick actively struggled to talk to and look her in the face for a while n its why he wouldnt take her on -#adventures bc it just upset him and made him v happy to see SOMEONE got that gene since it skipped beth and morty #ill ngl i considered heterochromic morty at one point too but him having puppy dog brown eyes is virL #n the beth = morty. diane = summer parall #*parallels #think i feel comfy enpugh translating these guys into my style now phew

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coopcoops · 9 months

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remer + getting on squeak's level (inspired by @m4ttstone)

#the way he has to crouch to talk to him lmao #as a shortarse i feel attacked #baseketball #matt stone #trey parker #dian bachar

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mondstalgia · 4 months

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"I'm actually not a very strong person despite my exterior." - "I know I didn't do anything wrong. - translation credit and appreciation to abbyloveslove on tiktok.

I will never understand hate. I don't understand spending your time of day to make someone else's life miserable. But especially Bo Wen's. Apparently there is a hate group for him on weibo, I believe it started with the rumors about him having a girlfriend. I don't get it. This man is one of the sweetest, most caring, gentle people in the public eye that I know. He cares about his friends, about his acting partner, enjoys life and is passionate about his hobbies as much as he is about work. There is nothing to hate. I wish people were better and I wish the BL fandom did better. All I can say is, I'm with DianDian on this one: "I think you did a very good job."

#even here im a little annoyed with fans screaming kiss when he is talking about his struggle of dealing with hate #just grates me a little but eh #kiseki dear to me #kiseki: dear to me #louis chiang #taiwanese bl #jiang dian #chiang tien #nat chen #chen bowen #natlouis #taiwanese actors

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fear-no-mort · 5 months

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you can list on one hand the things i wouldn’t do for a scene that’s evil morty and diane meeting and just talking. her death is, in an indirect way, what lead to him and every other morty being trapped in the central finite curve. evil morty talking to diane would be like him realising that it isn’t all hate and harm and that the cfc, something he’s only ever viewed as a prison and something specifically designed to hurt him, was made out of love

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pickletrip · 7 months

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Everyone wants answers but no one is willing to talk and communicate in a way that brings about a resolution. They really need to sit down and talk but Ai Di is convinced that Chen Yi hates him for what happened that night. And Chen Yi wants clarity - is it about the sex, Ai Di leaving the gang, and/or Ai Di going to jail?

#kiseki: dear to me #kdtm #taiwanese bl #talk to each other #set aside your hatred for one second and clear the room #it's going to take a lot of work to get them back on the same page #i need them to resolve this conflict and be happy together because I want ai di to be happy #nat chen #jiang dian

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dummy-morty · 11 days

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on one hand i hate fridging and i hate how diane as a character basically only exists to provide rick with a crybaby backstory.

on the other hand i actually am going really crazy over the fact that rick prime truly and actually and for real killed her off in every single universe just to spite rick c-137 ("you're the only thing i can't replace" from the fear hole episode did something insane to me) especially since the rick we know is so used to hopping dimensions when shit goes south. in this case there are absolutely zero chances for him to try again and it's one of the few times he DIDN'T cause the problem he's running from in the slightest... i guess it does give some new insight as to why he's so attached to the morty prime and the current smith family, because in a lot of ways they kind of ARE his second chance, even if that wasn't his original intention...?

which just brings me back to being upset about diane's character only being used to further rick's development once she's dead... sigh

#i dunno. there's only so much you can do with a character who died ages before the events of the show #they crew did say that the diane in morty's fear hole sequence was basically Her.. as far as characterization goes #but i wish we could see her relationship with rick and beth. what they were like before everything happened #we know that rick loved her but we don't actually know what that looked like. so diane seems kind of flat #idk i'm just yapping and talking in circles right now. idk if any of it makes sense #anyway. regular tags for navigation ->#rick and morty #rick sanchez #diane sanchez #just chatting

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quinintheclouds · 2 years

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I love Diane

[Transcript]:

Guy: What about that girl who opened up a lemonade stand to help pay for her father’s cancer treatment? Diane: How is that a feel-good story? “Hey, America! We’re the only developed nation without subsidized healthcare, so this child joined the workforce in a desperate bid to keep her father alive!”

[later]

Guy: Whitewhale’s not evil. They’re just capitalists. Diane: What’s the difference?!

#bojack horseman #diane nguyen #bojack season 6 #quinpost #thinkin about making a compilation vid of times bojack horseman being progressive #bc some dudebros are like 'bojack was good until it got political'#but like my guy #the 2nd ep (the first written) is literally about how we glorify the military and 'refuse to hold our own gvt to the same standard'#bojack was political from day one #you just don't like that it had commentary on abortion/gun control/harassment/capitalism you disagreed with #if you left the show bc it talked about aces and aros or bc it was feminist and anti-capitalist #that's not the show 'getting political'#it's you getting butthurt cause you're used to adult cartoons having shitty worldviews

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librathefangirl · 8 months

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A Libra NNT Analysis: Meliodas' Demon Secret

Masterlist

Part 1: The Start of a Millennia Long Secret (pre-season 1)

Okay, time to finally get this started. And I want to do that by saying what I've said before, and probably will say again: The Seven Deadly Sins is an anime that needs to be watched (at least) twice. It's like Zaratras says:

Looking back, especially at the earlier seasons, so many things get another meaning when you know the whole story. Meliodas' demon secret is no different. The first time around you get to learn about it along with the characters. The second time around you can see the nuances of it, the symbolism and relation between it and the rest of the story. This is why I wanted to do this analysis series in the first place, to look at the earliest episodes with the perspective of knowing exactly who and what Meliodas is, and see how his demon secret is developed - or rather, how it's revealed. This means that yes, there will be angsty ramblings similar to my previous posts on the subject. I mean how could there not, because a) it's me (and if you know me, you know I love angst), and b) Meliodas really hid who he really was from the people closest to him for so long...

But! Before we get into how Meliodas' secret is revealed I want to take a look at how it was formed. Starting with the why.

Actually, first I'm gonna put a read-more because this got long :) Continue reading for: the reason behind Meliodas' secret, 3,000 years of history, the fall of Danafor, and the Seven Deadly Sins knows... what?

Meliodas' demon secret doesn't actually become a secret until after the end of the First Holy War. Before the end of the war, he has no reason to try to hide it. Everybody already knows what and who he is. For those who don't, well, they soon figure it out. He doesn't hide it; he openly uses his demonic powers and shows himself as a demon, because again, he has no reason not to, and he even admits to being a demon when asked about it. This, to me, is especially noteworthy since this is something we're shown repeatedly that he doesn't do after the end of the war.

After Meliodas and Elizabeth's confrontation with their parents, and the following death and cursing, Meliodas wakes up to a new Britannia. A demon-free Britannia. The war has by then ended, leaving the demons sealed away and the goddesses having lost their physical forms. A new era has started in Britannia. An era where the demons are becoming nothing more than a great evil sealed away by the goddesses. The more years that pass, the more solidified this view becomes. The humans who once had encountered demons, all die or are already dead. By the time of the first season, the demons are just monsters of myth. While there are still some people who know about demons, like Gerheade (who lived through the war) and Elaine, we're also shown that most people don't. They struggle with the idea that such beings even exist, or have a very limited knowledge of demons. We can probably also safely assume that nobody is exactly considering the possibility of a "good" demon. After all, that was already a foreign idea back before they were sealed.

So, given everything we know about this new Britannia and how it came to be, it makes sense why Meliodas would choose to hide the fact that he is a demon. He has no reason to believe anyone would accept this about him. While the world before was also filled with hate and fear towards demons, back then he at least had Elizabeth. And his entire race, even if they did hate him too (but not for being a demon). Now he is all alone, stuck trying (and failing) to protect Elizabeth in a world that doesn't understand demons. People knowing he is a demon would also make it a lot harder for him to live among the humans, which we know he has done repeatedly during in his attempts to keep Elizabeth safe and in his search for a way to break the curse. So, yeah, it's easy to see why Meliodas' demon secret would come to be.

At the same time, I think it's really interesting to point out that while Meliodas does hide that he is a demon and won't even answer the question when directly asked about, he doesn't really lie about it either. He doesn't say he is a demon, but he also doesn't say he isn't a demon or that he is human.

We don't get to see lot of what happens to Meliodas over the 3,000 years between the start of the curse and his arrival in Liones. What we do see is Meliodas, repeatedly, living human lives with Elizabeth's numerous reincarnations. Because of this, the most significant moment we get during those years in regard to his demon secret is the fall of Danafor.

Danafor is an example of a human life we see Meliodas living with Elizabeth, or Liz in this case. From the flashbacks of his times there, provided by the druids' trial, and his interactions with Cain, it's safe to assume that the people of Danafor saw Meliodas as a fellow human - a stupidly overpowerful human perhaps, but a human nonetheless. When Cain learns that Meliodas is in fact Meliodas (and not his son) he is, understandably, shocked. After all, he clearly expected Meliodas to age like a human would and not still look as young. Danafor, or rather the fall of Danafor, marks the beginning of the unraveling of Meliodas' demon secret. This is the first time in who knows how long that Meliodas uses his demonic powers. It's also the first time he's faced with someone who knows who and what he really is (not counting Merlin and Elizabeth with her memories regained) with the appearance of Fraudrin. Even disregarding Fraudrin's future possession of Dreyfus, the events in Danafor (Meliodas' destruction of it and the Coffin of Eternal Darkness) have significant repercussions for Meliodas going forward.

After Danafor, Meliodas life becomes different. Back in Danafor, he was greatly respected as the leader of the Holy Knights. In Liones, he still has respect and status as the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins, but he (along with the other Sins) is also seen as a criminal and sinner. By then, rumors have also spread about what happened in Danafor and Meliodas' part in its destruction. We don't really know for sure what exactly those rumors entailed or how close to the truth they were (they most likely did not involve "demon" or "demonic powers"), they still told a story of Meliodas being the one, not only to destroy Danafor completely, but also kill its citizens.

So, from what we can see, Meliodas' arrival in Liones comes with a new life and a different role. While he is still mostly seen as human, he is also seen as more of a "monster" than before. Both Zaratras and Hendrickson admit to having sense Meliodas' true identity during some of their earliest encounters with him.

That brings us to another interesting thing to look at before I get into analyzing the individual episodes: the extent of Meliodas' demon secret. Meliodas is generally seen as a human, but his secret isn't a complete secret. It's not a situation of nobody knows nothing, as seen above. Of course, how much is known depends on who's perspective we are talking about. So, since it's kind of important for these breakdowns, and it intrigues me to talk about, let's end this part with looking at what the fuck do each of the Seven Deadly Sins actually know about Meliodas in regards to his demon secret?

The most obvious (and also easiest) to start with is Merlin. She is the one who knows the most about Meliodas, seeing as she first met him 3,000 years ago before he even betrayed the demons. To her, there isn't really a "demon secret", only a secret he is keeping from everyone else. Merlin knows Meliodas is a demon. She knows what kind of demon he is and was, his past with the demons and Stigma, even about the curse at the hands of the Demon King and Supreme Deity and what it means for him.

I'm gonna try to do these in order of who knows most, so next up is Gowther, who - well, who the hell knows what he actually knows? But he is the one, next after Merlin, who is the most knowledgeable about Meliodas. Technically, he met Meliodas before even Merlin did, since he was (as his creator's proxy) in the Ten Commandments alongside him. It has also been revealed that the original Gowther was one of Meliodas best friends (Q245, Q&A Corner of chapter 234 in the manga). But Gowther also did erase his own memories prior to season 1, after Nadja's death. Despite this, Gowther is still shown to know more about Meliodas' secret than the others. When the group is first reunited with Gowther, he points out to Meliodas that none of them are of the same race, hinting that he knows Meliodas is not human. Though given his powers, to me at least, it's hard telling exactly how much Gowther knows about Meliodas.

Merlin and Gowther are more or less the only Sins with any real knowledge about Meliodas' secret, but that doesn't mean the others don't know anything. In fact, most of them have gotten some hint prior to the events of season 1, proving that Meliodas' demons secret isn't absolute. Among the remaining Sins, Escanor is the one with the biggest reason, I think, to suspect something. Escanor has, after all, seen Meliodas in his demon form. He might not know exactly what Meliodas is, but he should definitely suspect that Meliodas isn't human. The moment I'm talking about happens during the battle between Escanor and Meliodas, when Meliodas is trying to convince him to join the Seven Deadly Sins. During that battle, Meliodas easily defeats Escanor by releasing his Assault Mode. This means that Escanor saw him with his black eyes and demon mark. Like I said, Escanor probably didn't know what it meant at the time, seeing as he hadn't actually met another demon by then, but at the same time, it stands to reason, that Escanor shouldn't be seeing Meliodas as quite as human as the rest of Liones did.

Now let's talk about Ban. The interesting thing about him is that while, out of the last three Sins, Ban is the one who knows the most about demons, he is also probably the last one who would (willingly) suspect Meliodas of being one - something that he shows later in the first season. Ban's knowledge of the demons comes from him encountering and fighting the Red Demon during its attack on the Fairy King's Forest. This means that his knowledge of the demons as a race is very limited compared to Merlin (though to be fair, most people's knowledge is limited compared to Merlin, especially about demons since, well, very few people seem to know what the demons really are anymore). The Red Demon is also a huge part of Ban's struggles with the idea of Meliodas being one, as he obviously can't let himself put Meliodas equal in any way to the monster who killed Elaine. Still, even if he doesn't want to, Ban has reason to suspect it even before season 1, given what happened with Meliodas' dragon handle. When Ban tried to take the dragon handle, Meliodas cuts him with black flames. This is also the one and only time something has managed to leave a permanent scar on Ban's body since becoming immortal. Both of these indicate, if nothing else, that Meliodas isn't as human as he first appears to be.

Between Diane and King it's a little hard to tell who knows most, because let's face it, neither has much knowledge about Meliodas' secret at this point. Though I would probably have to say Diane does - mostly because I've got an issue with King's knowledge, but more about that later, let's talk about Diane first. Diane doesn't have much knowledge about neither demons nor Meliodas' secret, but, like the others, she has some reason to suspect him not being human. Diane was there and saw Meliodas scar Ban, meaning she saw Meliodas with the black flames just as Ban did. Later, during the events of the Vaizel Fighting Festival, she also admits to having seen "that look" on Meliodas, referring to how he looked while defeating Ban. So, yeah, not much knowing but still some hints.

Now then, last but not least, King. Okay, to be fair, he is one of the Sins with the least knowledge about Meliodas' secret. He also, like Diane, lacks the knowledge of demons in general. He wasn't there during the Red Demon's attack in the Fairy King's Forest and has shown himself to not share Elaine's knowledge about demons, given his reaction to seeing the Red Demon's corpse. He even expresses shock that beings like the Red Demon have actually existed in Britannia. As for Meliodas' secret, when King first meet him in the manga, he literally calls him human. By the time of the first season, King is seemingly still holding this view, later expressing his surprise that Meliodas looks exactly the same despite 10 years having passed.

But I did say I had an issue with King's knowledge, didn't I? Well, unfortunately, I do. It comes with that first meeting between King and Meliodas. As much as I love it, it provides some... inconsistencies, especially in regard to the reveal of Meliodas' demon secret - and since that is what this post is about, it's only fair that we address it. Okay, so here's the thing. King was captured 200 years ago. In the manga page above (first panel, lower left corner) you can even see Helbram's dead body still lying on the ground, proving that it was 200 years ago. Now, Meliodas being there when King is arrested by unnamed knights 200 years before he and Merlin decide to form the Seven Deadly Sins, while a coincidence, is not that unimaginable. But King remembers that moment. He references it to Meliodas in the druids' cave and thinks back to it in the fight against Chandler, which means he clearly remembers the Meliodas 200 years ago as Meliodas and not just some random knight. But then when they are reunited after only 10 years he suddenly thinks it's weird that Meliodas remains unchanged? I just- that is what is happening, right?? Anyway, let's just... drop it for now.

Okay!

So what do we start of with when the fist season begins? Meliodas, who has kept the fact that he is a demon a secret for 3,000 years because Britannia is now "demon-free" and demons are seen as ancient evil monsters; Merlin, who knows everything; Gowther, who knows he is not human; and the rest of the Seven Deadly Sins, who still think of him as human(?). At the same time, the events of Danafor's destruction has set the wheels in motion regarding Meliodas' demon secret finally being revealed to everybody.

Coming soon - Part 2: Cracks in the Mask (season 1 part 1)

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