#episode 39

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: January 29…

When Steven learns that Garnet has the ability that can see and predict the future, he wants her to predict his future, only to end up seeing his demise and the dangers that can affect his daily routine in life coming from Garnet. “Future Vision” premiered on this day, 9 Years Ago.

#Day in Fandom History #9 Years Ago #Steven Universe #Season 1 #Episode 39 #Future Vision #Cartoon #Animation

[thekingofwinterblog]

Soul Eater Episode : 39 - Totally Uncool

Soul Eater has a number of great episodes, with the crowning jewel the series had being the finale to Maka's second fight with Crona.

However there is another episode that in my opinion is easily the second best, that being episod episode 39, where Crona's finally snaps regarding betraying Maka and the rest of the main cast to Medusa.

It's a very great episode, but the single best part is the way it connects both Maka and Crona rejecting their abusive mothers, just in different ways, while also using that to strengthen the bond between the two of them.

The first critical moment of this takes place in the early part of the episode, where Crona(Who is reeling with internal pains about Medusa, and betraying everyone) and Maka have a conversation where Maka bares her soul to Crona... Sort of.

Both of the two of them have massive, massive issues with their respective abusive mothers. While Medusa is an abusive mother who forces her child to dance to her tunes, and gasslighting Crona to believe nobody except her will ever show "forgiveness and kindness" Maka's mom instead very deliberately fought her exhusband for custody... Then after having achieved this symbolic victory over her husband, she took off, and abandoned her own child, only making contact with her through one sided postcards despite having every opportunity, and frankly a duty as Maka's legal guardian to look after her own kid.

Both of these women left deep, deep mental scars on their own children, just in different ways.

With Crona it is very, very obvious what Medusa has done, and is doing to her own child, as the episode is very much about confronting the effects of that abuse, but with Maka it's a bit less spelled out, and you have to read the subtext.

Maka puts her mom on a pedestal, mentally projecting her as a perfect woman who can do no wrong, not really being able to addmit to herself that her mom has left her and is not coming back. She instead projects all her frustration about everything to other people, more speciffically at the closest male figures in her life, Spirit and Soul.

It's a deeply, deeply unhealthy way of handling cope, and fuels a lot of her character flaws through the series, with both her relationahip with her father(Who though a terrible husband is not exactly the worst dad in the world) and her partner Soul being painted by hyper agression, a short temper, and a mental inability to give them any benefit of the doubt.

Interestingly enough, though chrona doesn't really push the point, it is Crona who is the person in the series who come the closest to realising directly just how fucked up Maka's relationship to her mom actualy is.

The most interesting part of their conversation though, is when Crona asks Maka what her best memories of her mother is, which Maka replies was when she divorced her dad, at which she saw her mom at her coolest.

This is a really, really fucked up thing to say for any child... But when you actually break it down, it gets even worse.

Maka blames her father rightfully for everything that went wrong in her parents marriage... But this divorce was a deeply fucked up thing. Her mother fought with her father for custody and won... Not because she actually wanted what was best for her child, but just to spite her husband. She wanted to rub it in that she won, and got the single most precious thing she could take from him... And having achieved this goal, she left, leaving her daughter behind in the same city her exhusband lived in, and effectively acting as her father anyway.

Its not exsctly clear why she did this. It could be that despite Maka's rose tinted glasses about her mother, her parent never actually loved her back nearly as much as she did her. It could be that she secretely came to resent her kid for a variety of reasons. Or it could be that she simply was too much of a coward to confront and live with the remains of her broken life, so she abandoned the most obvious reminder of that life.

Regardless, despite Maka's assessment that this was the coolest thing she ever saw her mother do, while the divorce itself was justified, what she actually did with it was the cowards way out, and left her daughter with a shit ton of issues, which she frankly was nowhere near able to recover from by the time the anime ended.

Regardless of her intentions though, her baring her soul to Crona about her(in denial) feelings about her mother does not help Crona, who still runs away from Death city, and has a breakdown of sort(a much smaller one than the one that will immediatly follow) after leaving the city and wandering to find a place to be alone.

Feeling completely alone, guilty, and with a massive case of selfloathing, selfhate and fear of rejection, Crona essentially shuts down, while thinking about happier days, the days with Maka and the rest of the gang.

It's here in this sandpit that Crona finally loses it due to guilt and lays it all out as Maka and Soul catch up.

Crona at first rejects Maka's request to come back home with them, angrily shouting that Maka doesn't know anything about Crona's real self.

It is here that Crona really, really loses it and lays out everything, poisoning Stein, still following Medusa's orders, the words, the tone and body language making it abundantly clear that Crona is absolutely wracked with self hatred for all this.

What Crona wants in this scene is for Maka to come down there and reinforce everything that Medusa has ever said, every lesson ever drilled in through long, hard, abuse. That Crona is a horrible, horrible person, who does not deserve sympathy or forgiveness, who frankly cannot be forgiven.

It's not what Crona actually wants deep down, but it is what the horrible words being said should logically lead to. It is the easy way out. The cowards way out.

And at first it seems to work, because Maka gets absolutely pissed, and storms down there to confront Crona directly, with Crona not offering a hint of resistance... Only for Maka, rather than punching Crona in the face for betraying her, instead say this.

Maka calls Crona out, but not in the manner she has so often done with her father or Soul.

Instead, rather than act with anger, or rage, lashing out because she feels angry and betrayed, she forces Crona to confront the fact that Crona neither wants to be a bad person following Medusa's orders, nor is completely devoid of virtues, quite on the contrary.

Maka is in this moment, doing the exact opposite of what her "Cool" mom did with her.

After experiencing a brutal, hard betrayal from her husband, rather than take the risk of opening herself up her heart again to anyone, she instead left her old life behind, and after one, final display of anger and rage, she left her own child behind after lashing out at her husband.

She took the cowards way out.

Maka does not take the cowards way out. Instead, after experiencing betrayal from a person she loves and understands, she makes the concious choice to take the hard road. To embrace the seeming madness that is opening her heart again to that person and risk facing betrayal again, despite Crona's words.

Its an extremely powerful moment, not just because it serves to show Maka's growth, how much Crona really means to her, but also for how in the end it ties her thematically to Asura, and the ultimate point of the series. Bravery and madness are two sides of the same coin.

It is madness to open yourself up to someone else, to bare your heart and soul, knowing fully well that action can lead to betrayal and hurt unlike any other... But it is also something that only those who are brave are able to do.

It is something Maka's mother, and Asura was never able to do... But Maka did, and through that, she's able help Crona begin the road to actual recovery as well.

#soul eater #maka albarn #crona gorgon #meta #episode 39 #desert #maka's mother #medusa gorgon #croma #soul evans #spoilers

[real-life-werewolf]

noooo Arthur dont beat up that old man in a public restroom haha nooo ur so sexyyy hahaha

#I LOVE HIM #I LOVE WHEN HE GOES ABSOLUTELY FERAL #malevolent #malevolent spoilers #episode 39 #john: theres blood everywhere 😰 #arthur: YEAH THATS THE FUCKING POINT #go off king

[relaxing-n-podcasting]

This podcast is literally better at describing generational trauma than anything else I've ever watched/listened to.

#dndads #dndads s2 #dungeons and daddies spoilers #dndads spoilers #dndads s2 ep39 #episode 39 #I've had this in my drafts but - posts that make you wish your dad would listen to this podcast with you

[onlyzhuyilong]

“You didn’t let me down.”

#I just wanna know why cmq last words were you didn’t let me down to Xiao Lin like his mentor reassures him he did good …why #does he know he defected? surely no o.o does he think he’ll take Wang down regardless #episode 39 #zhu yilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍 #주일룡 #please stand by for the queue #my gifs #the rebel #lin nansheng #chen moqun #wang yang #沈图南治好了我的悲伤所以没关系 哈哈哈

[ginsoakedgirl80]

this just in: local man stunned by how capable his teenage wife is

Just domming and negging her way into his heart. ah, young love

they are so proud of her \:'D/

hahaha

#episode 39 #A Journey to Love #liu yuning #He Landou #liu shishi #much needed comic relief #excuse my bad quality screenshots #but Jiu will be so thankful for her domming and capabilities that he will chase her once he thinks it's appropriate #Chang Huasen #but then we didn't even get a scene of those two in the end >:( #spoiler #glad that they added the scene between Ying and Ruyi to make clear that she is still thinking of Yuan Lu #like this dude got to win her over with more than a pretty face #she got standards now #ajtl screenshots

[magpieinstitute]

Part 39 was absolutely fantastic, a great set-up for a series finale. Arthur is woefully under prepared to go into the Order of the Fallen Star, he's got many things on his mind and it's going to crash and burn and I can't wait to see how exactly that will happen.

Oh Noel... What a fascinating character, what a callback to the early days of the story! Finding out that he's Roland's old partner, and that he's been in the prison pits was a shock and a half! I absolutely love all the implications, the shape of the larger narrative that's emerging, it's so good!

I think it was extremely reckless of Arthur to spill the beans on John so suddenly, but I'm so glad it worked out and John got to have an actual conversation, a human connection with someone other than Arthur. He needed that so badly. To hear Arthur verbally thank John for his input in a conversation was especially great! And then John forgot...

This makes me perfectly sure that something deeper is wrong with John. It's not just pettiness, it's not resistance against Arthur's agency overpowering his own that he misses things or doesn't remember, there is something deeply off. He would not voluntarily forget a special experience like a conversation. Ever. It is deeply concerning and it makes me wonder if it's because he's a fragment and not a full Entity? That the further he drifts from the King, the more tenuous and shaky his grasp on his identity becomes until he can develop an actual self-image and form a new identity, free from the King. He cannot do that while he's so bound to Arthur. Arthur and John are individuals, but they're also one and the same. The one's mistake becomes the other's, they cannot be seen as separate beings. And for John especially, I think this is detrimental.

I think they need more discussions like they had in this episode where they ask each other what they're thinking about, what's on their mind. I think John needs to develop his sense of self so he can stand on his own without the King. And Arthur needs to respect that individuality more. Because John is right, he is a prisoner in there, as much as he's essential to Arthur.

Another thing I wanted to point out is Arthur's story. Meeting Percival again was a nice callback to a seemingly throwaway side point in an earlier episode, but the jury is still out on how important this second meeting will turn out to be. I feel like it's too coincidental, but we'll see where it goes. But the way Arthur told that story, it definitely means a lot to him. It's very introspective, and I think it reflects Arthur's fear that his end goals are going to be meaningless. Whenever John brings up separating them, Arthur glosses over it or dismisses it. I think he's gotten used to a passenger in his mind, and we already know he doesn't cope well with the absence of John. The woman is an interesting figure in that story. Is he hoping that something else will fill the void once he reaches his destination? I can't quite put my finger on the whole meaning yet, but I can't wait to return here in a year or so and cry about the inevitable gut punch it's going to be.

I'm also extremely amused by John asking if he's ever been in a fight (cold, calculating demeanour of someone not to fuck with my ass lol), promptly followed by one of the most violent beatings in a while. John's shock was delicious, but I think Arthur overdid it slightly lol. That aside, it was pretty funny overall.

In general, this was a great, well-paced episode and I am really looking forward to the next one. It's gonna be a doozy, I can feel it.

#malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe malevolent #part 39 #episode 39 #warning: rambling thoughts

[cursed-princess-club]

WHY DID HE WANT HER TO LET GO??? WAS HE JUST PLANNING TO TAKE THE FALL????? HUH?????? FREDERICK????

#cursed princess club #episode 39 #cpc screenshots #it's like that blaine moment at the final war

[wbg-quotes]

Not to brag, but I’m something of a murderer myself.

#episode 39 #season 3 #woe.begone #w.bg

[inkblackorchid]

Ok I know I dunk a lot on Jack, but this right here? And the fact that he originally keeps Carly at arms' length because he wants her to be safe? That says a lot more about his character than any king-of-turbo-duels bullshit. We love a man who has one (1) redeeming quality, that quality being that he cares for the safety of others, especially women and children, without question or thought to his own well-being.

#jack atlas #aki izayoi #akiza izinski #yugioh 5ds #this is another reason why I wish Jack/Carly had persisted beyond the DS arc #because this is such a good lens to observe Jack's character and fundamental principles through #and such a nice contrast to this proud front he puts up #orchid watches 5ds (again) #episode 39 #screencaps

[muchalucha-art]

Mucha Lucha! Episodes 36-39...adios season2!

Despite the fact that this clutch of stories includes some genuine fan favorites (Jot Jot Jot. I now admit I was wrong about this episode at the time), and some memorable one-off characters like Igloca and Caballero de Acero, we (my co-creator Ms Chin and myself) weren't entirely happy with the stories and the direction they were going in. Actually, it was a distinct lack of direction we were concerned about. It had been a LONG season - 26 episodes. Actually TWO seasons combined without a break. Everyone was tired, things were tense, people who were originally more than happy to be part of the series were now getting frustrated that their dreams of selling a hit show of their own weren't happening, writers were getting upset that we didn't like anything they were coming up with...yes, tense! So it really did feel like we were limping to the finish line.

We (us again) also felt that the network Kids WB weren't happy - especially as they held the last of these episodes over (until mid way thru season three!). So we were genuinely concerned that there might not be a season three.

Thankfully with the help of WBA Prez Sander Shwartz, we were able to pitch a fresh start to the third season in the form of the 'Mega matches' (rebranded 'Gigante').

So yes a time of turmoil and apprehension. I could go into detail, but time won't allow that, but as always I am open to questions...:)

Not to disrespect it, but I AM glad 10 rounds of Trouble wasn't our swansong...

#mucha lucha! #mucha lucha #episode 39

[thekingofwinterblog]

You Have a Really Cute Smile

In Maka's motivational speech to Chrona in episode 39, Maka gives a number of assessments of Chrona's good qualities.

Most of it is related to Chrona's personality traits.

All except for one.

"Plus... I know... You have a really cute smile."

It's not... Untrue... Crona does indeed have a cute smile...

But it doesnt really seem to fit in with the rest of what Maka is saying.

Funimation certainly thought so, as they changed the line completely to Maka telling Crona that it hurt seeing her friend get hurt like this. And I've never seen anyone else really comment on it, or speculate what it means.

Frankly speaking, on the surface, it really seems like Maka is genuinely flirting here, as the line seemingly only makes sense in a romantic context between someone who romantically loves the other.

And while i am shameless Cromaka trash, thats not actually what this is though.

Croma does have a cute smile... But the the face Crona makes when genuinely happy is not what Maka is refering. She is refering to a very, very specific and deeply personal smile Croma once made... One which only she got to see.

That smile of course being the One Crona made during the connection between their souls at the end of their fight in episode 21.

That fight, and it's conclusion was Soul Eater's peak, when all it's themes, message, and character writing was at it's absolute strongest to forge the best relationship in the series.

And the smile that Crona made then, which only she ever got to see(as physically Crona was to much of an emotional wreck to do anything but grab Maka's hand and cry), is for Maka the symbol of who Crona really is.

It is a smile that matters deeply to both of them, a smile that symbolizes Crona that is separated from Medusa's will and coils.

It's this moment, this reference to a shared, deep personal connection between the two of them that is the turning point, where Crona's wall and facade crumbles, and every single feeling of hurt, fear, sadness and internal conflict opens up for Crona.

Ultimately serving as the big turning point for both of their character arcs leading into the climax.

All originating from one cute smile.

#soul eater #maka albarn #crona gorgon #meta #episode 39 #episode 21 #a cute smile #analysis

[real-life-werewolf]

john asking arthur if he knows how to fight is the funniest fucking thing to me. "do you think...i would be a worse fighter if I could see????" LIKE JOHN IS SO SILLY. you didnt help him fight you explained what was happening babygirl 💕

#hes so so sos os os so silly #also arthur then going on to beat the absolute shit out of the guy #beautiful #poetry #malevolent spoilers #malevolent #episode 39

[basedkikuenjoyer]

You know what? No, Miss Kaya deserves her own post. Look at her! She's a natural fit for this spinoff. Note the wheelchair Usopp has too. Favors the more modest long skirt like Kiku and honestly yeah, she's a fifteen year old in the main story so it makes sense you're in school with them. I do love her as the sick kid Usopp is old friends with. Means she can always loop back in but you don't have to put her on the same tier as Koby & Vivi. That's the magic of Academy, you can play so much looser with the cast. Makes me wonder if we'll see Nojiko at some point, hell maybe even folk like Bellemere or Kuina are still alive!

Might ultimately be where Kiku ends up, Marco drifted in as a casual doctor buddy with Chopper at the end of this chapter. Ace is still around for this so Izo hanging around is always more believable. How's this for a pitch? We combine two great story ideas. Give us an Ace/Izo/Luffy/Kiku chapter because how can you not? Bakura Town parody. Kiku gets tickets for a big sumo expo from a certain Yokozuna. Invites Luffy because he likes sumo. Ace and Izo run into each other with a mutual misunderstanding...mistaking arranging that for a date. Sumo shenanigans ensue with the big brothers trying not to get caught spying. Have Zoro stagger in as the jealous third wheel or Tsuru intervening because she wants it to be a date.

#one piece #one piece academy #kaya #oh yeah it was supposed to be about her #there's also potential with kiku/kaya being girls Usopp had big moments with #episode 39

[girlwholovesturtles]

Martin writes poetry and is now missing!

Sasha is dead?

Jon and Tim are face to face with the Hive!

And the O2 may go off and kill everyone in the Archive?

There's one episode left in the season and I am so, so curious how this is gonna be wrapped up.

#tma #the magnus archives #episode 39 #live blogging

[ginsoakedgirl80]

The goth wedding of the century

#Till the End of the Moon #she took his hand - she didn't do that in the mortal wedding #love that this is basically the devil version of Ming Ye and Sang Jiu's wedding #hoping for a comparison of the dancers and musicians in the both weddings pls gif people (ㅅ´ ˘ `)♡ #devilized Dunhuang style like whoa #excuse my bad quality screenshots #episode 39 #spoiler