relistening to couriers call and,, my guys,, Drew Mierzejewski’s storytelling is Phenomenal
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Goddd Arthur Bella and Daniel, they all just wanted a family in a way that they thought would be best for the others, a way they thought would be best for them, and they all missed that. No-one wanted Bella and Arthur to marry each other, literally none of them, and yet they were forced into it and it ended tragically.
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having dissociative identity disorder and getting into malevolent is so funny in the best way possible. whilst Obviously the form of plurality depicted in malevolent isn't DID, it still is a form of plurality, and so they still have many similarities. whenever i listen to john and arthur bickering i just fucking cackle because no yeah this is just The Plural Experience. just 2 seconds ago some fucker in my head yelled at me for making a decision they didn't want me to.
it's also funny because like a lot of the most compelling parts of jarthur are just an everyday part of most of my absolute closest relationships because they mirror those of me and my headmates NDISBSKSBSKSSNKSSMSMS.
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Title: "flash-frozen in the driver's seat"
Fandom: Midst (Podcast)
Categories: G, Gen, No Archive Warnings Apply, Complete
Word Count: 3613
Characters: Phineas Thatch, Tzila Guthrie
“Why do you have that?” Tzila asks.
Phineas opens his eyes. She’s pointing at his abacus with the back of her pen. He looks down at it and frowns. “It’s my abacus.”
“I know what an abacus is,” says Tzila, rolling her eyes. “Why do you have Caenum? Didn’t being a soldier and solving mysteries or whatever get you a ton of Valor?”
Phineas and Tzila have a conversation in the quiet halls of the Lazaretto.
(hi everyone it's ME again! back with another midst missing scene i couldn't stop thinking about.)
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Okay so I keep coming back to "shouldn't you say thank you?"
Because it's not aggressive and confident like when she leaves with Willy, and it's not sheepish like when she's caught with the clicker, it's something else entirely.
Scary has done the team a service. She has just solved the problem that they've spent two months on, she is being a team player, she's earning the position of leader that she didn't originally want, she's making her friends proud.
But she is so deep into Willy's manipulation that she cannot see what happened. She gave the command to kill a man at a dinner party in front of his peers and their children. She set Willy Stampler, known monster who wants to absorb the doodler and become god, free, with no knowledge on what he might have done to their family and friends.
And when Linc reacts (justifiably) negatively after watching a man die in his arms, this is where Scary finds herself. This is where she says "shouldn't you say thank you?" Not as a snappy line, but out of genuine confusion. Why don't her friends appreciate what she's done for them? She was trying to help, shouldn't they be thanking her for it? Why don't they understand her? Why don't they say thank you?
Scary, more than anything, wants to be seen and appreciated, something she's found in Willy Stampler. The more she spends time with Willy, the more desensitized she becomes to her actions. And the more desensitized she becomes to her actions, the more she alienates everyone else around her.
And you can get mad at Scary for choosing Willy. Even without the knowledge we the audience have about all the terrible things he's done, she still had the journal recap, right? She should still trust her friends not wanting to work with him, right?
But Scary Marlowe is choosing to trust a man who has shown her kindness. And why shouldn't she? After all, she's only a kid.
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With each new volume, I am consistently so impressed with the TAZ graphic novels from an adapational perspective. Eleventh Hour is a long arc, with a lot of material to cover, and they managed to not only seamlessly trim it without sacrificing an ounce of its charm, but also add depth to the existing characters (that first conversation with Ren!!! I could write a whole mini essay on that conversation alone) while smoothly integrating additional material from the interludes into the main story a diagetic and meaningful way. I'm just so impressed, it's such a great example of storytelling and adaptation and working to your medium. It's so well made. I can't wait for Suffering Game
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