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purpleneutrino · 6 months
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Sanji is totally fine…
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flilisskywalker · 7 months
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Remember when you were a kid and those first seasons were cute? And now you are an adult watching Episode 5 of Ahsoka and realizing that it was actually fucked up and that you should have never wanted to be a Jedi?
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runeofnoweyr · 6 months
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MAGtober 11: The Lonely
"Nothing hurts here. It’s just quiet. Even the fear is gentle here."
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n1blakelover · 1 year
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on the bright side im expecting my bee necklace to come in the mail on tuesday 🥹🥹
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uwemagain · 2 years
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Kinnporsche The Series : La Forte | Ep. 7
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lananiscorner · 2 years
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The Sandman rewatch - Calliope
So I like to do this thing where, if I didn’t consider a show a complete waste of time and if it does have an actual arc spanning the season, I watch the season twice–once as a binge watch and then once more episode by episode, because it helps me notice things I didn’t notice at first, especially in cases like this where I’m almost entirely unfamiliar with the source material.
I apologize that the second part of this episode is coming so late—I got a new PC and had to set everything up again properly, so I didn’t have time for it until now.
Trigger warnings: mentions of sexual abuse and rape beneath the cut.
Also, lots of swearing because this one… is kind of personal for me.
Well, we’re starting off with a statement that’s very relatable to any writer: the character comes first.
Wow, way to crush the soon-to-be doctor’s writing dreams, Richard.
Yeah, this Erasmus Fry guy is not suspicious and unlikable from the start AT ALL.
Ok, so Erasmus desperately wants a bezoar for it’s detoxing qualities. Can I infer that he’ll be dead soon? Good.
So not only does this old bastard keep a muse locked up against her will—he keeps her locked up in a dusty old storage room. The actual fuck.
Ah, the old “I’ll set you free before I die” promise. Yeah, I don’t think that one’s ever been upheld by anyone.
She is literally |this| close to decking him in the face. I wish she had, but there’s probably some kind of spell preventing her too.
And we can add “victim-blaming coward” to the list of descriptors for her captor. Fuck you, Erasmus Fry.
“But I must say I found force most efficacious.” Holy. Kangaroo. On. A. Pogostick!
Alright, so actual props to the writing team for saying “rape” without saying “rape”, but what the actual fuck… Erasmus deserves whatever nastiness is coming to him.
Oh, and we’re using the “she’s not human, so it’s ok” defense? Fuck you, Erasmus Fry.
That little smirk on Calliope’s face though, when he says that all his work is out of print now. We stan.
“Little cow”? What the actual hell…
Wow, this guy even negs his fellow writer. What a specimen.
Okay, Richard, this is where you say “you know what, I don’t like this, you can go”.
But nooo, instead we’re installing a second lock on the door! That will surely inspire trust and collaboration!
“Do you think you could… help me first?” Dude, you literally just took slave ownership of an immortal being AND INSTALLED A SECOND LOCK ON HER DOOR in a clear sign of your lack of trustworthiness, what the fuck do you think? Do you even have a brain?
Calliope’s not buying it. Good for her.
Blinking Cursor Of The Empty Page is honestly the most relatable character in this so far.
Yeah dude, don’t open Reddit, Twitter or Insta when you’re trying to write. That way lies the devil of distraction. You should know better.
Okay, so, I can’t believe I am writing this, but I will give him credit for making an ATTEMPT at the entire wooing thing at least. Should he have asked her first what “wooing” exactly means for a muse? Yes. But an attempt was made. He gets a D for effort.
“An artist prays to the muses. He offers vows of service and devotion to the goddesses in exchange for divine inspiration.” Memo to myself: build small altar to Calliope.
“You gave Erasmus Fry what he wanted.” DUDE… Which fucking part of of the word “force” do you not understand??
Dude… your lack of creativity and poor financial choices are NOT comparable to decades of captivity and sexual abuse. Get your head out of your fucking arse.
Daaaamn, Calliope all but saying “yeah, I hear you and I’ll help you, just free me”. She is way too good for this dude. I would have been like “fuck off back to your empty pages” already.
And fuck you too, Richard Madoc.
Once again, props to the writer and director for making very clear what’s happening without being gratuitous about it—that fade to black, the sound of the lock, Richard’s half-buttoned shirt and the scratch on his cheek are really all we need.
I love that they are referencing the 3 OG muses here in Calliope’s prayer (meditation, remembrance and song). They are so much less known than the 9 Calliope belongs to.
Oh hey, it’s the fates! Please don’t give her some cryptic bs advice that won’t help her at all. She’s already dealing with enough shit.
Alright, so I know that this exposition dialogue about Calliope’s relationship with Dream is supposed to be very tragic, but imo the real tragedy here is that Calliope and Morpheus had a son and named him… Orpheus. You are a literal muse and the king of dreams! You have literally endless inspiration and THAT is what you name your child? I can’t.
Well, at least the fates were not being super cryptic or vague this time.
“I think it probably speaks to the author’s pretension.” YOOOOOO! Go off, random lady!
“I do tend to regard myself as a feminist writer.” FUCK YOU, RICHARD MADOC!
Okay, but this line hits pretty hard upon rewatch, because in my current active franchise (FE3H), we literally just witnessed two users getting bullied off social media by a bunch of Reddit dudes who use their “defense of a feminist icon character” as a moral shield, painting themselves as feminists while harassing RL people, some of whom are women. Like, this is just so fucking vile.
“From the women in my life.” That’s a very nice way of putting “from the woman I am locking up and raping in the room upstairs”, Richard Madoc. God, I wanna strangle him and Erasmus.
And of course he’s now four successful novels into his career and STILL not letting her go.
“Can you not allow yourself to enjoy our success?” Oh, you mean “can you not allow yourself to enjoy me getting rich off of literally raping you for inspiration?” What a pretentious fucking prick.
That tiny smile of hers when she sees that the sleeping sickness is over and puts 1 and 2 together. <3
Ooh, and it’s the melody of the Dreaming making its comeback as she goes downstairs to look for pen and paper! <3
Bwahahaha, he said the name for her. Congrats, Richard, you just fucked yourself.
Richard about Erasmus: “He was… very kind.” As kind as a chain saw to the nuts, you mean.
Ahahaha, he poisoned himself! Serves him right, old bastard. Good fucking riddance, Erasmus Fry!
Alright, now this scene with Calliope and Dream… this fucking scene. There is so much goodness here, especially if you have personal experience with being an SA survivor, which I unfortunately do, so here’s a numbered list before I start screaming into the void:
Note how Dream, who was imprisoned for longer than Calliope, lost his beloved raven, and then had to deal with Joanna, Lucifer, John Dee, the Corinthian and a fucking Vortex to get any semblance of normalcy back into his life, instantly, and without hesitation, states that he thinks that what Calliope went through was worse. It is SO freaking common for men to not take SA seriously, so to hear someone who’s canonically a bit of an insensitive prick who went through plenty of trauma himself STILL acknowledge it for the absolute fate worse than death that it is is just so… validating? Tearjerkingly heartwarming?
“Comparing our suffering only compounds it.” What a raw line from Calliope! No, we’re not here to play Suffering Olympics. We both went through awful shit. The best we can do is try to move on.
Calliope, who said that she despises Dream, still acknowledging that what he went through was awful and she’s glad he’s free (even though she literally is not, right now). No jealousy, just relief. What a queen.
Calliope to Richard: Please free me? Richard: lol nope. Calliope to Dream: Please inspire him to free me? Dream: All that and more. -- Absolute legend.
Calliope pointing out that no punishment could be enough—and you can see in Dream’s face that she’s got a point that he hadn’t considered, because no matter how awful he thinks Richard treated her, at the end of the day, he knows nothing of her pain, her loss, and vengeance will not bring back what he took from her. I wonder if he thought back to his conversation with Death in that moment—about how all he had been able to think about during his own imprisonment was vengeance, but when he finally got it, it wasn’t satisfying at all.
Calliope: Why? Because I was once yours? Dream: Because he hurt you. -- Do I have to explain this one? Like, honestly, one of the worst things about SA is how demeaned and devalued it can make a person feel, and I could only imagine how sharply Calliope must have felt that, given that neither Erasmus nor Richard considered her worthy of being treated with humanity simply because she is more than human, and here is Dream saying “you are enough—I don’t need a selfish reason to want to hurt the bastard—he hurt YOU, and that’s more than enough.” ;_;
Dream asking PERMISSION from Calliope to let him help her. She is the one who called for him, so one could say consent is implied, but after 60 years of her consent being denied, Dream realizes “implied” no longer cuts it and instead asks for her EXPLICIT consent. With a “please” on top! I’m not sure we’ve even heard him use that word in any other episode. Absolute legend.
That look of ice cold murder when she asks him what he’ll do to Richard. CHILLS!!!
And one final word in this scene: note how Dream does not touch Calliope. They were married once. They had a kid. He’s made it clear he still has feelings for her even though it’s been thousands of years and she said she never wanted to see him again… but he does not touch her. It’s such a small detail, but from the perspective of an SA survivor, that’s HUGE.
I just love every second of this entire fucking scene. Brb, gotta find and murder whoever is cutting onions here.
“Be quiet.” Jesus… Tom Sturridge does “unnervingly polite, tranquil fury” so fucking well!
“I will not call any HUMAN agency.” And that is when it probably dawned on Richard that he had fucked up.
The way Dream rose without blinking when Richard tried to weasel his way out of this—perfection! The sheer disgust with which he spits the word “defiled” (for anyone who hadn’t put 1 and 2 together yet)--sublime!
Dream here with the classical punishments—like, this is the kind of stuff you’d legit see in ancient Greek myth. Oh, you wanna see the future? I’ll let you see the future, but I’ll also make sure no-one will ever believe you. You want ideas? I’ll give you too many to handle.
Calliope’s smile when Richard asks her if she’s giving him nightmares now. <3
That moment when he sees Dream in the audience—perfection.
Okay, but most of his ideas are actually rubbish, which is understandable, give whose brain they are springing from, except maybe for the one of a city where the streets are paved with time. I would read that.
Imagine you’re a woman attending a reading by your favorite author and then he starts scribbling stuff on the walls in blood and talking about how he’s keeping a woman locked up in his mansion—like, at that point I’d just leave. Maybe call 911/equivalent on my way out.
And just when you think Erasmus Fry cannot get any worse since he is… you know… dead for several months at this point, we find out that the book he was particularly proud of and wanted to go back into print, was the one with the byline “She was his muse… and the slave of his lust!” FUCK THIS ASSHOLE!
Awww, Calliope’s back in her normal clothes with her traditional hairdo!
And just in case we think Dream’s thoughtfulness was a fluke, when Calliope says she’ll work to rewrite the laws she was bound by, because neither she nor her sisters had any agency in those, Dream assures her he’ll make sure to make those changes in his realm as well. Legend!
“I will not forgive what he has done, but I must forgive the man. Not for him. For me.” Translation: “I do not want to spend the rest of my eternal life feeling angry and hurt every time I think of this dude—I want him to become worm food like he deserves and let his memory fade into the sunless lands.” Kudos, Calliope.
And again, Dream being like “I don’t get it, I think you’re too nice, but it’s not about me, it’s about YOU and if that’s what you want, sure I’ll let him go”.
Meanwhile, in a nice little parallel, Richard Madoc is STILL not listening to a thing the women in his life are saying (i.e. not bothering to answer Nora’s questions).
Also, on one hand, yes, it’s very… Dream… of Dream, to stop the punishment he inflicted, but to do so in a way that’s even more punishing, but I think there’s another reason he did it too: at the end, Richard doesn’t even remember anymore who the woman he kept locked up was, which means he won’t be able to go after her and try to capture her again, he won’t be able to publicize what he did to her as some kind of vengeful, victim-blaming BS (see Erasmus wanting that one particular book to go back into print), and he won’t be able to try to go after her sisters either. He will no longer be able to reap any further benefit of the “gifts” he already took from her either, because he’s in no further condition to coordinate sequels, adaptations, interviews, whatever. Dream has made sure that Richard no longer has any avenue to hurt Calliope further or get further gains from the hurt he already inflicted.
Dream be like: okay, that was enough of an emotional roller coaster for now—the talk about our dead son will have to wait.
And at the end of it all, it is Calliope who touches him, not the other way around. ;_;
Finally, I love that we end this episode not with Richard or Dream, but with Calliope, happy and free. Perfect place to end it.
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renatogpadilla · 1 year
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I've been waiting for this episode for the last 4 volumes and by GOD the wait was WORTH IT!
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spectorbear · 2 years
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steven IMMEDIATELY worrying about layla when he literally has to save himself from fully dying is so precious to me
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nothidd3n · 2 years
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gonna be honest i cried a bit
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mochimellowd · 2 years
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"WHAT DID YOU DO? YOU KILLED THEM ALL!"
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phenioxrising · 2 years
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talkfastcal · 6 months
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OHHHH MY GOD THIS IS THE EPISODE
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ichabodcranemills · 7 months
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Holy fucking shit Val
Val. Val. Holy shit.
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beam-meup-scotty · 5 months
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spock , roughly two seconds before doing something so unhinged no one else has even thought of it : good thing i’m a vulcan and i would never do something irrational or illogical lmaoo
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umblrspectrum · 11 days
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you'll never guess which movie i finally watched after 2 years of being lazy
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rileyclaw · 1 year
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turn on the lights, this cannot last forever
watching and dreaming promo
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