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markestapa
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markestapa this dumbass decided she’s staying at my house for the winter break 🙄🙄
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yourusername disclaimer i told him not to pick me up but he grabbed me anyways (I DID NOT CONSENT)
→ markestapa for someone always worried about rumors u seem to be perfectly fine LYING TO THE PUBLIC RN
→ yourusername OKAY BUT I’M ACTUALLY TELLING THE TRUTH
edwards.73 dont forget abt me i’m coming tomorrow
→ yourusername we’re gonna have soooo much fun!! (god save me i beg)
→ markestapa WE CAN TAKE YOU TO THE SMALL POND AT THE PARK edwards.73
→ lhughes_06 yo me, jack, quinn and duker are gonna be there in like 3 days
→ mackie.samo i’m already here 💪
username58 i feel so bad, our mini drysdale is gonna be surrounded by all those boys for a whole month
→ yourusername it’s not anything new unfortunately 😔
_alexturcotte seems like you and mark are having a lot of fun!
→ yourusername yup.. (i have to share a bathroom with him, ethan and mackie as soon as everyone else gets here)
→ bookerburke_ ur not like.. uncomfortable with that or anything? yourusername
→ yourusername no i stay over at theirs after parties all the time, i’m used to it don’t worry ❤️ bookerburke_
→ bookerburke_ oh…. ok
username45 STOP THEYRE MY FAVORITE PAIR
jamie.drysdale my mom’s still sad she didn’t wanna come to the bahamas with us
→ markestapa she told my mom 💀💀
→ yourusername IT’S SO EXPENSIVE AND I NEED TO STUDY ANYWAY
→ jamie.drysdale IT’S CALLED A BREAK FOR A REASON DUMMY
username49 if i wasn’t an avid dryshughes shipper then i would totally go for drystapa
→ username8 she has a bf now 😭
→ username90 doesn’t look like it username8
→ username60 I CAN’T username90 THAT’S SO FOUL
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yourusername the one day it didn’t snow!! what a shocker right
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markestapa guys i drank that green juice today and let me tell you it’s DISGUSTING (it’s actually kinda good)
→ yourusername YOU AND ETHAN DRANK THE WHOLE THING SO I HAD TO MAKE A SECOND ONE 😭
→ markestapa whaaaaaat when did we do that
→ edwards.73 stop falsely accusing us yourusername (can you make more when we have morning practices)
username55 i love nature
dylanduke25 lets go skating tomorrow
→ yourusername ofccc you know it
username70 she’s in her green eraaaa
bookerburke_ lemme take you out when we get back?
→ yourusername maybeee 🤭
→ username85 ah hell nah
→ jamie.drysdale omg let me join!!!!! 😍😍😍
→ yourusername jamie wtf who hacked into ur account
lhughes_06 too bad it was just us two at the park, the scenery was great
→ yourusername frrr
→ username12 is this his way of saying what i think he’s saying
→ jackhughes bro wdym i was there too???
username48 what can she NOT do, she’s so perfect 😔
trevorzegras it’s better in cali come visit
→ yourusername stop trying to coerce me
mackie.samo god he’s going on and on AGAIN
→ markestapa oh so it wasn’t just me he was complaining to??
→ adamfantilli dude he texted me a whole ass paragraph
→ _quinnhughes i could hear him throwing the pillows from the other side of the house
→ dylanduke25 he just won’t stop man
→ lhughes_06 🙄
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so my wifi was out for half the day and it really set me back and that’s why this is kinda bad.. BUT IT’S FINE WE BOUNCE BACK 💪💪
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#luke hughes x y/n#luke hughes x reader#luke hughes fic#luke hughes fanfic#luke hughes#quinn hughes#jamie drysdale#trevor zegras#jack hughes#alex turcotte#cole caufield#ethan edwards#mackie samoskevich#mark estapa#dylan duke#rutger mcgroarty#luca fantilli#adam fantilli
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The Promised Neverland - Season 2
The “...Why Though?” commentary of a manga reader
(*manga spoilers)
tldr:
me, starting s2: this isn't as bad as i've heard!
me, finishing s2: *screams in rage* *kicks a wall* *wails in the darkness*
-i know s2 has a really bad rep, so i'm here to be amused, not angry. we'll see how that goes
-mujika <3 sonju <3
-i hope that third empty spot with emma and ray in the op gets filled with norman when we find out he's alive
-i'm on ep two. it feels like we're on a speedrun, but nothing ~bad so far
-why are the cookies moldy...? did they leave out yugo...? i don't like that. i don't like that at all. yugo raised them and they raised him for so long.
-my god this place feels so empty without yugo. but for an anime-only, i guess it's fine
-excuse me, what about the seven walls? :)
-why did you not let them have the shelter's clothes...? what about their individuality?
-i'm sorry, you had time for an entire new sequence of slimees, but not other important things...?
-excuse me, why are we not going to goldy pond? :)
-wow, the raid holds so little weight, both struggle-wise and emotionally
-THIS RAID DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! they found this place but didn't scout it?! they didn't know about the extra exit?! KIDS BEAT THEM WITH A MUG AND A PUSH?!
-excuse me why is this demon promising isabella freedom, where is peter ratri? :)
-the goldy pond people disrespect
-i'm on ep 5 and so far i don't think the anime is bad anime-wise. rushed yes, not looking at things too closely yes, but bad? no. adaptation-wise it's terrible, but if you haven't read the manga, will you think "wtf?" i don't think so. it's just that anime-onlys are truly, truly missing out
-a demon went near them in the temple and they didn't flee? AND THEY DIDN'T FLEE?! on what, good faith?!
-all of the children being near/in demon town is fundamentally the opposite of the manga logic
-lol the exposition via prayer. okay.
-NORMAN'S PLACE IN THE OP, I CALLED IT!
-the emma-norman-ray reunion doesn't pack the punch that it does in the manga. emma and ray and us haven't gone through all of those things that led them to norman, that made you feel the time passing and the struggle and norman's absence.
-it's an understated reunion isn't it
-i see the lambda group escaped the erasure rampage
-i never thought i'd say this, but damn i miss minerva!norman. the sus. the uncertainty. the coldness. the facade. the "what now." the vibe that made him distinctly separate from ray and emma.
-low-key hate the "now that norman is here, we can move forward again" vibe. norman made the escape plan; then things moved to a standstill; now he's back and things can happen again. as though the others are just going through the motions.
-there's no emotional weight, they just say their lines and we move on, no time to breathe, no nothing
-here's the thing. having placed the kids in this situation, you're truly honestly saying that THE FOUR OLDEST KIDS are gonna just leave their young siblings alone near demon town to look for mujika? seriously? are you sure
-there's no pacing, and because there's no pacing there's no personalities, everyone just says what they have to say, one thing after the other, and there's no time for them to transition smoothly from one emotion to another
-at least they kept the essence of norman's arc...? but the norman-less arcs weren't fillers, they had a point!
-i am so sad, the lambda facility part is so good, why did they mess up so much with the rest
-far be it from me to comment on the VAs, buuut... norman's VA kinda stands out, ngl. she shines, even in this awkwardly paced dialogue
-HOLD YOUR HORSES, NORMAN'S VA IS FISCHL'S VA?!?! HOW?!?! H O W?!?!
-norman's "i'll gladly become a god or a devil" IS SO BRUSHED OFF, oh my god, this should be A Moment!
-the wild demon looks bad, but who cares
-JESUS, THERE'S NO TIME GIVEN TO THE CHARACTERS TO PROCESS INFORMATION AND EMOTIONS! THE SPEED WITH WHICH EMMA GOES FROM NEUTRAL TO WEEPY TO HAPPY WHEN SHE SEES MUJIKA, ARGH!
-emma coming in with the telepathy, immediately knowing that the sound is the bang of norman's lies...
-THESE ARE THE GRACE FIELD KIDS, OF COURSE THE THOUGHT OF NORMAN HAVING LIED WOULD HAVE CROSSED THEIR MINDS! IT’S NORMAN! THERE'S PRECEDENT!
-but norman's plan and character in the manga had SO MUCH MORE DEPTH OH MY GOD! HE HAD HUMAN BLOOD ON HIS HANDS! HIS PLAN WAS MORE REFINED! and yes, i know "farms were attacked" here too, but the fact that norman actually had to make the choice to let humans die is not addressed or even hinted at
-there's really no time to breathe. one minute norman declares annihilation, and the next he's like, "no never mind :'(". the VA is the only anchor keeping him grounded
-these are the enhanced lambda group... which doesn't matter because they don't actually do much...
-the op song is nice tho
-OH SHUT UP NORMAN CAN'T AIM
-no, vincent, the real peter ratri wouldn't have believed you so blindly, but. we make do what we can here in anime land
-it's a shame that peter hasn't really had a Presence as the Enemy
-but why do all the kids who know nothing randomly agree to play tag on shipment day?
-so uh. why is sonju fighting with the kids on the farm in this scenario? bc last time he said he wanted to eat humans... and now he's here...? because we're... friends? that's it?
-lmao the queen and the nobles make an appearance in the last ep. sure okay
-ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU'RE GONNA SUM UP THE EXISTENCE OF *** AND THE PROMISE WITH EMMA WITH A STILL?!?!?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! WHY DIDN'T YOU LEAVE IT OUT ALTOGETHER?! FFS!!!
-YEAH AND MUJIKA IS CROWNED QUEEN IN A STILL, WHO THE FUCK KNOWS WHY OR HOW!
-lmfao, most underwhelming return ever??? of emma and co in the human world???
-goldy pond and norman’s kids gave up their existence so that emma could keep her memories, isabella could keep her life and cislo could keep his leg. sacrifices were made. i'm not mad, why would you even-
-okay okay okay.
as an adaptation, it sucks.
had i not read the manga, would i still consider it a bad season 2? well... i would consider it a downgrade. i wouldn't sweat the basic premise, but the execution would probably disappoint me. the dialogue is perfunctory. they say their bit, change emotions and thoughts in an instant, there's no weight, depth or consideration. things get resolved almost as soon as they're touched upon. i would have no idea who most of the new characters were as people, and i would have learned very little about the ones we already knew. everything is incredibly rushed, and whereas s1 was full of tension and obstacles, s2 was handing the kids everything on a platter, including hot air balloons, mujika randomly spotting emma's necklace, the old demon randomly having that one part of the pen etc (i usually don't mind random coincidences for the sake of storytelling, but this a "compilation of too many issues" situation). the powerpoint presentation in the end would have left me confused and underwhelmed, and the emma-tachi return is incredibly lackluster for a closing scene. i don't think i'd consider it a disaster, but definitely disappointing.
but it is an adaptation and i have read the manga and it's all very sadge.
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ARJUNA
Arjuna has willingly attempted to kill himself twice by walking into a pit of fire.
One time it was when Arjuna was challenged by a monkey to make a bridge out of arrows because Arjuna kept saying that he could make a sturdier and better bridge than the ones the monkeys did so they both did the bet and Arjuna was like 'if my bridge collapses i'll kms and jump into a pit of fire' and lo and behold, he ends up loosing so my guy was not going to hesitate to commit to his end so he lit had to be stopped from walking onto the fire.
The other time was when some guy was lamenting the death of his kid, that he died as soon as he was born and that no one cared. Arjuna finds this guy (a Brahmin) and takes pity on him and assures him that he will protect his next kid like 'dw, the next kid you have will live' and he vows that if he fails to protect this kid, he'll end his life by jumping into the fire (again) Long story short, when the time comes for the kid to be born, Arjuna visits the house of the guy and his wife and makes the house secure by making an enclosure with arrows yet the child still dies and not only that but the body also disappears??? the guy is obviously furious bc wtf arjuna u were supposed to prevent this from happening u suck so arjuna naturally (and once again) was ready to jump into the fire because how embarrassing right, but he was prevented from doing so by God Krishna who then took him to meet god Vishnu who upon getting told what happened was like "oh krishna and arju! i just took those kids just so i could see u guys again! it was nice seeing u, now go take the two kids back home :D" and so the whole thing was fixed.
Arjuna fought against crocodiles, 5 crocodiles
Basically it was during the time when he and his brothers and wife got exiled and as Arjuna was wandering on his own around the forest to gather resources, he found a sort of monastery (Ashram) and was like 'oh cool! maybe i'll be able to ask for food here' and as he entered, he saw many sages who were all tensed up and rushed towards arjuna and begged him to help them. Their problem was that these sages said that in the monastery, they had like 5 ponds that were used for bathing purposes but for some reason, crocodiles took over the ponds and for each pond there is a crocodile who eats anyone who gets on the pond, so naturally arjuna goes over to help. Because he had once received a blessing from the princess of the snake kingdom that no water or aquatic animal would be able to defeat him, Arju confidently enters the pond and catches the first crocodile and yeets it out of the pond. As soon as this crocodile is out of the pond, it turns into a woman who asks for his help as it turns out that she and her other 4 friends have been cursed for disrupting a sage who was meditating and because of this, they were all cursed to turn into crocodiles and can only be freed from the curse if someone takes them out of their ponds so Arju went ahead and went to each pond and yeeted all 5 of the crocodiles out and thus ends up saving all the women
Helps with burning a forest and proceeds to get thanked afterwards???
So the story involves Agni the god of fire and how in order to finally satiate his hunger, he needs to devour the forest but he can't do this because each time he attempts to do so he is stopped by Indra, so one day he meets arjuna and krishna and asks for their help, and they both agree to help and they thus end up battling against Indra as well as other gods and demons and animals and snakes, and Agni ends up eating the forest. It's because they help Agni with his indisgestion that Agni arranges for arjuna and Krishna to meet up with Varuna who ends up giving them celestial weapons, in the case of Arjuna, he gets his famous bow gandiva + the two endless quivers he has (that he carries in his fate interpretation!)
He's very skilled with origami
Not related to the Mahabharata but it's a personal headcanon that because of how precise and observant he is (as well as his perfectionism tm) he makes the cleanest folds and can make about any shape
#FACTS#;a.rjuna#viijaya#dayrisen#;about#about#;headcanons#headcanons#(only the last one but for easier time finding these i tag as headcanons)#THANKS FOR THE ASK YASUUU#u dont have to read all this stuff im just adding for context OIRUTY#some wild stuff happened in his life frfr
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『 As your boyfriend | FKBU Headcanons 』
Characters: female!reader, Kambe Daisuke, Kato Haru
Tags/warnings: Fugou Keiji Balance: Unlimited (anime), 18+, strong sexual references, fluff, angst, Haru's PTSD, headcanons, daddy kink and cockwarming (kind of?) for Daisuke, breeding kink for Haru *coughing intensifies*
⚠️ 18+ CONTENT! MINORS: PLEASE DO NOT INTERACT ⚠️
A/N: Felt like writing some more for these boys because ~holy shit~ do I love them, and I maybe went a teensy bit overboard. Oopsie! 🤭 But anyway, have y'all seen episode 6?! Let's freaking gooo! (No spoilers, don't worry) Thanks for reading! Enjoy! Imo~
Kambe Daisuke
First up: daddy kink. I know it, you know it, we all know it. So let's not beat about the bush
Quite dominant and firm with you (see: daddy kink)
But he absolutely loves spoiling you
Expensive gifts, like one-of-a-kind necklaces, seductive perfumes, satin dresses, lace underwear, etc.
He loves dressing you up and showing you off
But he also loves spoiling you in bed more like ruining, I am deceased
A lot of butt grabbing in public hnng
He likes it when you don't wear any underwear because it makes for easier quickies like bent over the sink in the bathroom at his favourite club
He likes you sitting on his lap in front of people, too aye papi
American gangster vibes, honestly
He's not really one for soppy, romantic PDA, but he loves you letting people know that it's him you want and nobody else
He loves the look on people's faces when you call him 'daddy' that grin will be the death of me
Especially the look on Haru's face, lmao. He blushed like a tomato and couldn't speak a coherent sentence for a whole hour
Hickeys. Lots and lots of hickeys. And don't even think about covering them up
Daisuke loves sleeping naked and has a habit of walking around the house in just a towel when he gets out the shower fight me
He's also completely oblivious to what it does to you
A MASSIVE bed with super soft, satiny sheets. They feel like clouds uwu
He gets HEUSC to remind him of important dates, like birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
Date Ideas: Unlimited sorry, not sorry
From fancy restaurants, to exclusive movie premieres, to late night helicopter rides to the other side of the country, Daisuke can and will pay for anything if it makes you happy
He also lets you introduce him to lots of new things, like trying different kinds of street food on dates, going rowing on the pond in the park, having a go at karaoke, renting bikes and cycling round the city, going hiking at the nearest nature reserve or wilderness, etc. adorable
He's like a curious kitten when he's trying new things, putting a lot of trust in you to guide him through it
He always looks perfect in the photos you snap, even the ones he wasn't aware you were taking, and it's a lowkey frustrating that he nearly always looks prettier than you
But it's not his fault, so you'll only pout for a little while
His face is pretty hard to read most of the time, but you eventually get used to it and pick up on all his little mood indicators
His ears move when he's happy, and you can't convince me otherwise
He'll hold your heels for you when your feet hurt on a night out
He smells of leather and sandalwood, and his kisses taste of expensive whisky and cigars
He loves it when you bite his lower lip while making out
He's kind of possessive, but in a protective way
He never thought of himself as a particularly jealous person, until one night he came back to the bar and saw some other guy hitting on you the attention was definitely unwanted on your side
It made his blood boil – clenched fists, piercing glare if looks could kill
But he managed to stay calm and maturely tell the guy to get lost, with his arm snaking round your waist
Daisuke made it very clear that it wasn't you he didn't trust. It was that he didn't trust that guy – or any guy, for that matter
His favourite ~position~ is on a table or other surface with your legs over his shoulders
He's a god at eating you out
He's a god at everything in the bedroom, tbh
Saint Laurent condoms, because he's that fucking extra I'm screaming
His hair always falls out of place when you're fucking it's so hot and cute, wtf
It's a lot of glitz and glamour on the surface, but when it's just the two of you, you know just how much you mean to him
The King of Aftercare™
He used to suck at aftercare until he properly tried it. Then he realised that he needed it as much as you did le cry
Back rubs, forehead kisses, playing with your hair, soft whispers in your ear
He holds you so tightly that it gets hard to breathe, and you can feel his heart beating hard against your back
Sometimes he likes to just stay inside you after finishing
He enjoys the feeling of you around him, and honestly, you like just feeling him being inside you cockwarming, kind of?
Soft little nuzzles with his nose in his sleep even better when he's fallen asleep while still inside you
He's not perfect, but being with you makes him try to be better
Help, my heart's so full 🤧
Kato Haru
This man is a sweetie pie, honestly
Not just boyfriend material, but husband material put a ring on it, hun
Lots of home cooking, and it all tastes so good you honestly believe he could just quit being a cop and open up a restaurant
He loves cooking with you, too. It's fun bonding time
Sometimes he stands behind you and guides your hands etc. it sometimes goes a little further, if ya know what I'm saying 👀
Knows how to do all the chores and housework, and actually does his share look at my practical hubby
Random pillow fights that turn into cuddle sessions
He talks in his sleep waaahh, so cute
Sometimes it's utter nonsense, like 'Don't let the donuts escape'
Other times, it's things like, 'I love Y/N so much,' or 'Let's have babies,' while he's holding onto you, and you just melt
Spooning. So much spooning
Lots of budget date ideas, like building pillow forts, watching sunsets and stargazing from the balcony, going for hikes and runs together, going for picnics, feeding ducks at the pond, etc.
One time, a duck chased him around the pond because he had the bread, and he had to run for 20 minutes before it gave up thank God for all that cardio
The Master of Flat Pack Furniture™ – because he takes his time and actually reads the instructions
Daisuke had a ™ so Haru needed one too
Takes good care of you on your period and actually knows about different sanitary products
He smells really fresh and clean, like Imperial Leather soap and air-dried laundry as long as he hasn't been on a stakeout, lmao
He loves taking showers with you, but like, actual showers
The first and only time you had shower sex was hot and steamy until:
1. You realised that water does not a good lube make and 2. He slipped and accidentally shoved his dick in your ass instead
You fully passed out, and he was so frantic that he bundled you into the car and drove you straight to the ER you were in just a towel, might I add
You both look back on it now and laugh, but he was genuinely scared
Shower sex = never again
But he loves it when you straddle his lap and start grinding on him bonus points if you kiss his neck and run your hands through his hair
He's a pretty vanilla boy when it comes to sex, preferring positions like missionary and cowgirl, and liking a fairly even balance of power
He got super embarrassed and flustered when he finally mustered up the courage to suggest having car sex
And then even more embarrassed and flustered when you actually ended up doing it
He was blushing so hard the entire time and came really quickly, which only added to his embarrassment but you thought it was cute
He has really sensitive nipples which you use to your advantage
He absolutely loves hates it when you send him nudes or try and sext him while he's at work, because he gets a massive boner and will either have to live with it and probably get laughed at by those goobs in the office, or deal with it in the bathroom, which feels wrong to him on so many levels
Doesn't really stop you sending them though, because whenever you do, he comes home and fucks you really well
One thing that's not vanilla about him is how much he likes cumming inside you breeding kink, welcome to the party. Please take a seat
He didn't tell you about it for the longest time because he was embarrassed about it and was afraid you'd think it was gross or something please cum in me, sir
He was so relieved when you were understanding about it and open to the idea of indulging him
But he genuinely really wants kids some day he'd be a great dad
His PTSD doesn't stop him being a good boyfriend, but he's convinced that it does
Most days he seems okay, like he's over it, even
But sometimes you'll wake up in the middle of the night and find him curled up in the bath, shaking and crying into his knees my poor baby, I can't
Excuse me while I go and cry into my pillow for a while
You're his safety net
When he feels like he's drowning, you keep his head above the water until the waves eventually calm and recede, and he can breathe again
He hates putting so much on your shoulders
But you swear to him that you wouldn't want to be doing anything else, and that you're not going anywhere
This got so angsty, my heart can't take this 😭
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#imo chan imagines#fugou keiji balance: unlimited#fkbu#the millionaire detective balance: unlimited#fkbu headcanons#fkbu x reader#kambe daisuke#kato haru#kambe daisuke x reader#kato haru x reader#fkbu smut#fkbu fluff#fkbu angst#i love them so much#one does not simply choose between daisuke and haru#both? both is good
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Just a few random thoughts and observations about Daryl’s Origins episode.
Basically my stream of consciousness bullshit brought over from Twitter, lol. I almost didn’t watch the episode after seeing all the drama over there, but ultimately I decided to because frankly? I don’t trust certain fans’ perceptions of events. For reasons. It’s best, I feel, to always watch with your own eyes and form your own independent opinions because this fandom is teeming with people that delight in tormenting other fans by being very selective and oftentimes downright misrepresentative about what they pass along.
More under the cut because this is random and all over the place and basically excerpts of my live blogging while watching the special. Did I mention it’s random?
You know. It sure would be nice not going into one of these things so apprehensive. Maybe one day, hmm?
First things first. From the very beginning of this Origins episode, I’m reminded of two things: 1). Our introduction to Daryl, his colorful Dixonese, and his particular brand of humor certainly stands out as one of show's more memorable introductions. 2). TWD certainly regressed on the deer front. I mean. Daryl's deer>Richonne's deer.
I’m never going to get over "On Golden Pond." Never ever and look. I actually liked Dale but Daryl spitting those words at him still makes me laugh until I'm weak.
Daryl's still searching all these years later. Or is he? Really? Seems to me the man's found exactly what he's been looking for and he's been chasing it since he came back from those woods: a future with his soulmate. The one that happens to be his best friend. OFC, I’m talking about Carol. Who else?
How pretty and soft are baby Daryl and Carol? Too pretty and soft for this tired heart to withstand. Like I love all versions of them, but baby Daryl and Carol just hit different.
My immediate thought re: the Beth comment-- Misreads the situation? WTF? Whoever wrote this script just had to re-inject some eww into the narrative didn't they? All those damn dirty spoons. Ever think about how much it probably reeks in that office space?
Moving along, though. Here’s some real facts. Carol is so intrinsically woven into the fabric of Daryl's story, the only way she can be removed is if they are literally both destroyed and cease to exist. Something happens to Carol? The man is going to be a reanimated body without a heartbeat. Basically a Walker.
An aside, I know they're not making me rewatch a scene I haven't watched since the first time it aired. The way Negan's head bashing tendencies had me seeing red and wanting that barbed wire bat shoved up his ass every time I saw his face. My JDM love really took a serious hit for awhile. I'm never going to forgive the character that hateful act. I just can't.
Somehow I wasn't expecting this to be a teleprompter-fest. Like who wrote this script? Hmm. Sorry. Don't mind me. Lost in my thoughts per usual.
You know. It still strikes me as hella insensitive that Rick had Daryl leading the Sanctuary community knowing what he suffered there. There's no way Daryl would have returned that kind of favor.
Yep. Leah still feels tacked on last minute. A means to an end. Sigh. They completely glossed her over here. Too bad they had that lapse in judgment with some other toxic waste. I cannot believe they touched that with a ten foot pole. It's just cringe-worthy and wrong.
"Daryl can't say no to Carol." They say those words and I’m like “Join the club, my dude. Join the club, lol.”
You know. All the Carol-related moments in this Daryl Dixon recap speak for themselves. She's his person, dammit.
Okay though. That reunion in the tall grass with the sun shining on them all golden and picturesque, after Alpha’s taken Daryl to show him her horde? That's some romance novel shit right there.
"Look at me. Just look at me." I'm never going to recover from that moment or the discovery of Sophia. They break my heart so.
This recap is literally 2/3's Carol and the other 1/3 Rick and everybody else. I mean. It's so obvious. Utterly and completely misrepresented by some agenda-driven folks.
"We have a future." Oh. Just some pretty, meaningless words you say everyday to all your friends, lol. Just friends my whole entire ass.
"I'm never gonna hate you." Okay, AMC. Back up all the talk with some action that even the most willfully blind cannot deny, m'kay? Because they're not going to buy it until you're explicit about it. Just saying.
The amount of times "Carol" has left this man's mouth during this recap, lol, and some people keep wanting to ignore it.
Aww. Guess who they showed when Daryl mentioned family? How sweet. And when they mentioned purpose in connection with C0nnie, it was not any indication of romance, IMHO.
Let me explain.
By the time C0nnie is lost, Daryl’s floundering because he feels he hasn’t been able to help Carol despite giving it all and pushing back his previously established comfort zone(s). Enter these pair of sisters. And they put him in mind of the good parts of him and Merle. Probably they make him remember the Greene girls when things were good and hopeful before they went sideways. In some small way, he’s probably reminded of other family units like Rick and Carl and Lori and Carol and Sophia and later Henry. And all of those people have something in common. Well, besides being people Daryl has known and cared for. They’ve seen their family units fractured and/or destroyed by tragedies wrought by the world they live in. They made a point and emphasized that Daryl’s a searcher and also that family matters to him. In some way or form he’s been doing his best to help repair or reunite all these different family members since the beginning and ultimately he’s failed to succeed each time. So yeah. He’s been given a purpose in a time of uncertainty again with her because this time he’s determined to get it right. This time he wants to bring the two sisters back together the way he couldn’t do for the Greene girls. Like I did not, do not read anything romantic at all into that comment. Just my take on things. Obviously, everyone else’s mileage may vary. I’ll step off my soapbox now. Hopefully, maybe these words might comfort.
So relax, lovelies. It wasn't as bad as I feared. Sure, they could have left that one icky comment out but they didn't and honestly? I don't think it's a positive for that particular 'relationship' because it's something that's brought up to show just how messed up Daryl was. Because grown men that have their heads on straight don't usually have those type of misreads. They know they are inappropriate. Like I'm not putting Daryl into the pedo category because I don't feel like he belongs there. But I can see how him being so emotionally stunted and naive so far as interpersonal relationships and the nuances of friendship and non-toxic family could lend itself to him maybe reading more into those moments than were really there and not really knowing how to deal.
Whoever wrote that teleprompter script though? That particular asshole is probably grinning like a donkey with a mouth full of briars at all the unnecessary drama they stirred up yet again. Like newsflash, goober. There are better ways to foster interest in your show.
They should hire a team of fans to do the promotion. Fans that represent all factions of this fractured fandom so the promotion is well-rounded and not so heavily slanted toward any one of them but the diverse fandom as a whole.
Stop fanning the stupid ship wars and just celebrate the damn characters and the overall story. Nothing new or groundbreaking to see on this first Origins story but hey. Who doesn't mind a decent recap now and then? That said, don't sweat not having AMC+ or feel like you missed all that much because you didn't.
I do have to say. Them pretending B3th was the first girl to be nice to Daryl really had me going WTF.
I mean, there’s this little exchange from Carol, the first woman to be nice to Daryl, probably the first person from the group--
"You're every bit as good as them. Every bit."
AMC? TWD? Do you even watch your own show?
There you have it. My bullshit stream of consciousness, originally posted over on Twitter as I liveblogged the show. Hope you got something helpful or of entertainment value from this.
Goodnight, lovelies.
Until next time.
#The Walking Dead#The Walking Dead: Origins#Daryl Dixon#things that make me smile and cry#for reasons
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Well, I’m done rewatching season 2 of south park and I’ve taken plenty of notes and screenshots to document all the facts and tidbits I thought were interesting or just funny. Under the cut is a collection of notes where I progressively start caring more and more about fake children
Kenny’s house is full of empty bottles, his family eats frozen waffles for dinner, and his dad is drinking at the dinner table
Kenny’s and Kyle’s dads have some history. They were best friends as teenagers
Kenny’s dad is kind of anti-Semitic, he says Kyle’s dad was successful because he’s Jewish
Cartman kind of expresses agreement with Stuart’s anti-Semitism, which I think is the first time Cartman’s been clearly anti-Semitic
Kenny’s house has rats, but his room has lights that shut off when you clap twice
WOW KYLE wtf he says “Kenny's not really my friend, Ma. I don't give a rat's ass about him.” FUCKING RUDE
Kyle and Kenny have a fun little sleepover where they play “ookie mouth”, a game where they take turn spitting in each other’s mouths. This episode (S02E10 Chickenpox) is great for fans of K2 despite how absolutely disgusting ookie mouth is
The McCormick house was something Stuart and Gerald built as teenagers. A fort in Stuart’s mom’s backyard
Gerald went to community college
Gerald and Stuart have a fun fist fight by a pond
Kyle makes a haiku: Fatass Cartman was / not on the school bus today. / What a big, fat turd.
Kenny makes a haiku: When you rub your dick, / you might find a discharge that / winds up on the floor.
Kyle makes another: Ass full of pork fat / jiggles like a Jello mold. / Mouth is flapping, too.
And another by Kyle: I bet you don't win. / They don't let big fat asses / perform on TV.
Cartman responds: Shut your God-damned mouth / or else I'm... gonna... kick you / square in the balls... asshole
I spy with my desperate eye the beginnings of Craig’s gang, featuring Kenny with wonky eyes
Bebe thinks Kyle has a hot ass and she’s not shy about saying it
Bebe writes a note to Kyle, and Stan tries to pass it on but Mr. Garrison thinks it’s Stan’s note for Kyle and makes him read it out loud. So he reads: “Dear Kyle. You have got such a great ass. I could sleep for days on those perked cheeks, let me tell you. I'd like to live with you and wear your ass as a hat for all eternity.” (If that happened to me I’d be embarrassed forever)
POV: You’re Stan and you just said you love Kyle’s juicy ass in front of the whole 3rd grade class
The first time Stan’s mom and dad get a divorce is in S02E12, way sooner than I remembered
Bebe kisses Kyle when they’re playing truth or dare in their clubhouse, probably Kyle’s first kiss. Kyle thinks it’s disgusting (despite having played ookie mouth with Kenny which is arguably more disgusting)
Bebe breaks up with Kyle and goes off with Clyde, who says “Bitchin’ 😎”. Later Clyde is with Bebe, Stan, and Wendy at the club house
Cartman and Kyle have a fist fight once again. Kyle hated Cartman way more than Stan did very early on, kind of all along really, they truly were destined to be arch enemies
Kenny has food stamps
Oh, and Cartman’s made poor jokes about Kenny and twice (I think) Kenny has punched him in retaliation in the past 2 seasons. Kenny’s family is probably a bad and violent example for him
By the way, if you’ve ever wondered what Kenny says in the theme song but never looked it up, in seasons 1-2 he sings “I like girls with big fat titties, I like girls with deep vaginas” but in the remastered versions of seasons 1-2 (which is the version I’m watching) they changed it to the season 3-5 lyrics: “I have got a ten-inch penis, use you mouth if you wanna clean it”.
When an evil twin version of Cartman says nice things, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny stare at him in horror. Stan says, “Dude, this is creepy.”
Also, the boys say dude a lot. At least Stan, Kyle, and Kenny do, Cartman not as much
Kenny’s mom hits him when he’s hogging the blanket from his brother. Kenny makes a sad face and it made me feel bad :(
When evil twin Cartman comes to give the McCormicks some supplies, Kenny’s dad asks if that was his “fat, racist, foul-mouthed friend” so Cartman clearly has a reputation
When Stan gets scared of his evil fish, he wakes Shelly up and she slaps him. Their mom sees it and says nothing
But on the other hand his mom buries a body that Stan’s fish killed because she thinks he killed it so I guess she’s not entirely a bad mom
Kenny was supposed to buy a pumpkin for Halloween but he could only afford a squash and his friends are really mean about it. The more I watch the more I feel bad for Kenny (and Stan)
Cartman kind of has a shitty friendship with Kenny. He says “I hate you Kenny” because of the squash
Kyle is really annoyed by Cartman saying “hella” all the time, nobody else is as annoyed
Evil Cartman sings a cute little song while wielding a knife: You guys / are my best friends, / through thick and thin, / we've always been together! / We're four of a kind, / having fun all day, / palling around and laughing away. / Just best friends, / best friends are we!
Stan still has his dog, Sparky, in season 2
After Stan’s fish kills Kenny, Kenny’s mom comes over to ask about her son and she’s drunk and upset. Honestly seeing Kenny die all the time makes me kind of sad
Stan says Kenny’s squash isn’t a bad little squash. Very heartwarming. The squash gets first prize at the pumpkin carving contest :)
Cartman’s grandma and extended family live in Nebraska
When the boys go to Cartman’s family to have Christmas dinner, Kenny’s dad tells him to take any leftovers and bring them back home (he does it very gently and Kenny just says “okay” and why do I care that this fake child dies all the time and barely has food at home, like why the fuck do I care so much???)
Cartman’s mom is wearing glasses when she drives. She doesn’t do it in the later seasons but maybe she has contacts
Cartman and his mom sing a road trip song for 4 hours. Kyle says “please stop” but when they ignore him, he kicks Cartman’s seat and makes Cartman hit his head
Stan has a complicated relationship with his family, he says they’re dead to him because they didn’t want him to go on a road trip to Nebraska so Stan went without telling them
Kenny doesn’t eat at the dinner table with Cartman’s family, he just shoves the food in a bag :( I feel so bad for him
Stan, Kyle, and Kenny all hit Cartman after they wake in the night to make sure they’re not dreaming
Under his coat, Cartman wears a pink tank top that says BEEFCAKE. He wore it in S1E02 Weight Gain 2000
Charles Manson invites Kenny to go to a more secluded location and Kenny just says okay and goes, but honestly he should know better since he’s aware that he keeps dying
Cartman bonks his cousin Elvin on the head and gives him brain damage. Elvin gets better though
THE NEXT EPISODE IS GNOMES!!! TWEEEEEK!!!!
Token gets named when he’s put in a group with Wendy, Bebe, Clyde, and Pip. Craig’s gang is getting closer to becoming a thing!!
IT’S OUR FUCKING BOY TWEEK TWEAK BITCH YEEEEAAAH
Tweek says he’s awake at 3:30am because he can’t sleep, ever
Jesus, Tweek’s dad kind of sucks immediately. He says he might have to sell Tweek to slavery if his coffee shop goes out of business
Cartman says Kenny’s family is happy being poor and on welfare, “right, Kenny?” and Kenny says “fuck you” which is completely justified
When the underpants gnomes don’t appear, Tweek is worried he’s going insane and pulls on his hair
His parents say Tweek is jittery and anxious just because he has ADD (but the kind of severe jitteriness and anxiety Tweek has isn’t a symptom of primarily inattentive ADHD, even though people with ADHD do experience restlessness and can even have some tics and are more likely to have anxiety as a comorbid disorder than a neurotypical person is, but I mean come on, we all know Tweek’s slurping way too much coffee so even if he has ADHD beneath all that, his parents should stop giving him coffee and they definitely should not start lacing it with meth. Basically what I’m saying is that Tweek’s parents are full of shit)
Actually Tweek’s mom is kind of okay. She tells Tweek’s dad that he’s being shitty for using kids to advance his agenda. But… the agenda is against big corporations and I hate to say it but Tweek’s dad kind of has a point
Ew, the boys are giving a pro big corporations speech. That aged really poorly considering how shitty billionaires are
Aww, look at Kenny! He got scared of a crocodile that Steve Irwin is about to bother by jamming his thumb up its butthole
The boys are really excited about Steve Irwin jamming his thumb up a crocodile’s butthole
Oh my God, Kyle calls Cartman a fatass penis
Kenny is a mediator between Stan and Kyle. They ask him which one found this ice man in a cave first, but Kenny just deflects and agrees with Kyle’s name suggestion (Steve) for the ice man
I kind of like Dr. Mephesto. I’m glad he came back for Fractured But Whole
Stan and Kyle are having a terrible fight about who found the ice man. Kyle says they’re not best friends anymore and that Cartman is his new best friend and Cartman says “Sweet!”, then Stan claims Cartman as his new best friend and Cartman says “Killer!”
This prehistoric ice man episode is actually funny, I love it
Stan and Kyle are having a fight to the death
They reconcile and become best friends again. They both agree that Cartman’s a sucky best friend
Well, that was the last episode of the season. This was fun. South Park is actually a fun show
Kenny deaths:
S02E10 Kenny is in the hospital because of chicken pox. He laughs at Cartman’s joke so hard that his heart flatlines like beeeeeeeeeeeeeep
S02E11 Kenny’s head explodes after Stan and Kyle make him watch planetarium lights at a high intensity
S02E12 Kenny gets trampled in a mosh pit
S02E13 A cow impales Kenny’s head with its horn
S02E14 Ozzy Osbourne bites Kenny’s head off
S02E15 Kenny is killed by Stan’s evil fish, he gets spun in the fish tank until the water’s red
S02E16 The police shoot Kenny who came outside with a white flag during a hostage situation, then the police hit his dead body with a baton and handcuff him
S02E17 Kenny gets crushed by the underpants gnomes’ mine cart. The gnomes are horrified but Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Tweek are kinda like whatever
S02E18 Kenny gets squished underneath a conveyer belt
Onto the next season I go. I’ll watch the movie too since it was released around halfway through season 3
#south park#sp rewatch#this was supposed to be a quick little thing but i'm taking it too seriously#i feel like i'm screaming into a void
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The Good and Bad of Tonhon Chonlatee
SPOILER WARNING. TW: rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment
The Good:
Characterization of supporting characters (especially Na and Aunt Nam)
Chon's general characterization as a self-identified gay man who is not toxically masculine or misogynistic and generally not judgmental. His brief arc with the unnamed nail technician and former sex worker is incredibly well-done for a Thai BL
Following the previous point, the nail technician character was treated decently well in this story. The fact that she was a bigger lady was never a point of repulsion for Chon (instead, he was more concerned that she was a woman and he's a gay virgin)
Characters who openly identify as non-straight and not just male characters who say "he's the only guy I'll ever like" (Na)
Parent-child conflict that isn't inherently about child's sexuality (Ton and his dad--technically it's about having a grandchild)
No real filler episodes, everything generally served the plot and there weren't any one-off 'let's go to the beach/camping' episodes
Male lead (Chon) shows physical attraction toward love interest (Ton) on multiple occasions
Ton and Chon's actors (Podd and Khaotung) have a somewhat understated but definitely present and persistent chemistry. Podd has the same look that Bright Vachirawit and Pond Naravit have opposite their co-leads Win Metawin and Phuwin Tangsakyuen. He just looks at Khaotung like he's the most interesting person in the room
For a man who just came to terms with being in love with another man, Ton is surprisingly open about his relationship with Chon and, once he confesses, not once does he second-guess his feelings for Chon
Charming story with an extremely charismatic cast of actors outside of a few
Mike Chinarrat. He's just so good at the comedic yet serious when he needs to be style of acting. It brought a lot to the show in terms of good acting
The Bad
Multiple characters are either raped, implied to have been raped, sexually assaulted, and/or sexually harassed with no actual repercussions for the attackers and/or exploration of the emotional trauma victims experience as a result. Under this one, Ai and Ni sexually assault Chon (played for laughs), Neung is implied to have been raped (NEVER addressed), and Chon kisses Ton without his consent (glossed over). I'm sure there's more instances too but yeah...
Ton is just....what the fuck is his character? One second he's bashing gay people and FORCING his male "childhood love" to lose his virginity (to a woman at that), the next he's confessing how he's known all along that his childhood love is, indeed, in love with him and that he feels the same way. They use the excuse of him having to live up to his parent's expectations despite the fact that it makes 0 sense if you think about it longer than a second
Casual colorism in the casting ONCE AGAIN. Nearly everyone who is portrayed as a bad/unsavory character is visibly darker than our "heros"
Same tired ex-girlfriend is an evil mastermind trying to break up our boys for no good reason trope
Ton's dad's character was not well flushed out. We think he's homophobic but actually he's anti-anything not straight and cis but then, no, actually he just wants his son to give him an heir but then all the characters claim that he hates gay people again and it's just like wtf? Is he homophobic, transphobic, tolerant unless it doesn't serve his goal of having grandchildren, all of the above, none of the above, just what? They go back on his characterization so much that I don't actually know what his biases are and which groups he's against/not against
Ton is dense as fuck to the point where it's a bit unrealistic..
The casual outing and forced outing of multiple gay characters by Baipai, Ai and Ni. Baipai outs Ai and Ni at the end, which leads to a Ai and Ni nearly being evicted from their home. And, again, Ai and Ni out Chon through SEXUAL ASSAULT.
Characters being made to apologize for their sexualities and occupations on multiple occasions. Off the top of my head I can think of: Ai, Ni, and Miriam apologizing to Ton's dad at the end for "negatively influencing" Ton to be interested in men
On that note, Ton not speaking up in that moment and telling his father that he's allegedly loved Chon since he was a child and that Ai, Ni, and Miriam didn't "change" him kind of annoyed me. That would've shut Ton's dad up quickly but he NEVER said anything about it
The or unexplained plot devices that need explanation. For example, how the hell did those bed pictures get leaked? How did Amp get the pictures she sent to Ton's dad? These questions need answers lol
Miriam's absolutely horribly unbelievable "pregnancy belly" that was just a sack of laundry stuffed into a dress
Most of the acting was just okay..supporting characters generally had better acting than our leads
Baipai's character. I just could not stand her. I even preferred Amp over her because at least Amp contributed to the plot
Speaking of the plot, the dumbass jealously plots have got to stop. They are so boring and repetitive. I'll admit that Tonhon Chonlatee pulled it off better than other series, but there was still so much they could have explored with the two compelling leads other than "let's make Ton jealous for 2 episodes"
The (lack of) kisses. The physical intimacy in this show was so stale it might as well have been a Chinese bromance censored by the CCP. Every kiss they either diverted the camera or had the actors do that weird tightly pursed lip smashing thing where neither person actually even opens their mouth for the kiss. Yet at the same time they showed a straight kiss 100%. I wouldn't have as much of a problem with this if it was rated G or something or even if the actors just weren't comfortable yet, but Podd has had better makeout scenes in other shows, and in 2gether Mike and Toptap actually have on-screen kisses
Even though I credited Tonhon Chonlatee for having an openly pansexual character (Na), they still had one of our main characters (Ton) claim to "only like Chon and no other men." Apparently you can be straight and like a guy as long as he's the only guy you currently like I guess.
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YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW INCREDIBLY GOOD THIS COMIC IS UNTIL YOU REREAD IT FOR LIKE THE THIRD TIME AND ALL AT ONCE AND THINK ABOUT WHERE ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE COMING FROM AND WHAT THE HEART OF THE JEDI’S ISSUES ARE AND OH MY GOD THEN IT HITS LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN.
Okay, maybe that’s just me, but I reread this coming in one sitting again and it just smacked right into me how incredibly spot on this comic is about the main issue and what it’s doing to Anakin. The story is that there’s a war that’s been raging for centuries on a planet that has torn it apart, the Open and the Closed all want each other dead, no one even really knows who started it or why they’re fighting, only that nothing matters more than winning this war just for the sake of winning the war. There’s a Scavenger who is dropping kites in from the sky, pieces of salvaged art and culture, so that it might spark a memory of how they used to be more than this, but ultimately the Scavenger wants to furiously kill all the older members (and maybe even the Jedi sent to help them because he didn’t side with her and kill all the older Closed and Open) and “start over” with the younger ones, who say, wtf, no, whatever else is going on, this is our fight too. These are our people!
Interspersed with this is a story about Palpatine strong-arming the Jedi into letting him spend an afternoon with Anakin to thank him for his help with Naboo, to help mentor him while Anakin’s rage is having difficulty getting it under control. Palpatine takes him to the Underworld, where Senators are gambling away and Palpatine spins a story about how they’re corrupt, if we could just make them slip up a little more, we could go after them, because the system is hampering us. Anakin nudges the dice (which is what Palpatine wanted him to do), then the Senator loses his game, Palpatine takes Anakin back and says, oh, if only I could do more. The Jedi can’t just wipe him out, even knowing he’s corrupt, and my hands are tied, too. Oh, if only there was some other path outside of the system. By the way, have you ever considered leaving the Jedi and coming to work for me?
Anakin is considering leaving the Jedi, he fully intends to and has made those intentions to Obi-Wan known, who says he’ll respect it, if that’s what Anakin truly wants, but he believes Anakin is better off with them. In the end, Obi-Wan saves the day through calling in the Jedi, by saying there was a source of Tibanna gas on the planet, who cares if that’s actually true, the point was that he wasn’t on his own, that he was working to use and make better the system that he was working with, because they’d have died if they were on their own. Being part of something bigger is what saved them, what allowed them to give this planet any kind of chance at all.
THAT IS EXACTLY AT THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT’S GOING ON WITH ANAKIN AND THE JEDI. Everything in this issue is designed to be an echo of what Anakin is going through, right down to how he thinks the Open vs the Closed are like the Jedi fighting the Sith, which is what Palpatine will also tell him one day in the future, that they’re both “evil” from a different point of view, that both want power, and it completely sidesteps that the Jedi and the Sith are not mirror images of each other (no matter how much marketing makes it seem that way sometimes), that the Jedi do not want to win a war just for the sake of winning a war, and it’s not about fighting the Sith because they’re Sith, but because they go around murdering people and oppressing entire planets, that you can’t say one side is “just as bad” as the other when one side is going around murdering entire peoples and planets on purpose, you can’t say it about the Rebellion or the Resistance or the Republic, because there are legitimate reasons to fight and real people being fought to protect. But it’s sure going to be a handy excuse for Anakin, who is going to strip context out of everything, when Palpatine is dangling the possibility of saving Padme in front of him, that Anakin doesn’t necessarily want to think that way, but if there’s wiggle room to justify what he really wants (saving Padme), then he’ll jump on it.
But at the heart of this moment, the question is: Do you remain as part of the system that is deeply flawed because it’s the only way you can see to make any kind of actual betterment for people? Or do you leave the system all together, doing whatever you want, where you can act more directly against things that are wrong, but you have no weight behind you other than your own?
Palpatine is planting the seeds in Anakin for the latter, that going outside of the system seems like an appealing idea for someone who feels he’s not doing enough, that the Jedi won’t just go in and clean up the mess. And Palpatine makes it seem appealing because he’s deliberately side-stepping the consequences that would happen if the Jedi did that, that we see incredibly clearly in books like Master and Apprentice or Queen’s Shadow that these methods would not work. Padme goes around the Senate in TPM and pays for it for years, in her inability to actually get anything real done. Qui-Gon is only able to help the people on Pijal because he’s part of the Republic, if he’d left it, the slaves would have been absolutely fucked and Czerka would have gotten away with it. He understands that, if they just take out one Hutt, in a few months, a new one will take their place and everything will be back to where they started.
Obi-Wan’s point is that the only chance they have--deeply flawed and imperfect as it is (he says it directly when Anakin says “this entire world is just gone because that’s the system?”, “I don’t like it either. But, yes. The system is... not perfect.” “Then the system should change.” “Perhaps someday it will, Anakin.” THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE RESOLUTION OF THE STORY.)--matches up with exactly what Obi-Wan has always believed, that you work from within the system to change it, to make it better, because that’s the only thing that actually seems to work beyond just a few months at most.
And it’s precisely what happens:
The Jedi could go storming onto that planet and separate everyone, but as soon as they’re gone, the fighting will resume. They’re only 10,000 in a galaxy of quadrillions and they have other people who need their help, too. The only way to get anywhere is to be part of the Republic, to have that weight behind them, to be allowed to negotiate in the first place (if you’re not part of the Republic, then whatever treaty you negotiate doesn’t mean anything because no one’s going to honor it, the Republic isn’t going to honor something they never agreed to, never gave anyone the authority to offer on their behalf, NOR SHOULD THEY, otherwise Cad Bane can just go in and make a fucking awful treaty and have that be honored, too), to use the system as best you can to make changes for the better, which ultimately Anakin agrees with, hence deciding to stay with the Jedi.
But the seeds have still been planted and they’re definitely going to grow. Anakin’s desire to just go where he wants and do what he wants is going to be constantly at war with his desire to stay with the Jedi (with Obi-Wan) and his understanding that Obi-Wan has a point--as powerful as Anakin is, he’s not an entire system of government, that being part of something else makes him stronger, allows him a reach and an authority he would not have on his own. It’s not until he thinks he’s strong enough to be that entire government (and he’s deep in the grips of the dark side and his own fear at what he’s done to save Padme’s life) that he’s willing to truly step away from the Jedi. It’s not until Palpatine has engineered an entire war to completely overwhelm the Jedi’s attempts to change things (and there’s a very strong recurring theme in canon about how the Jedi keep trying to nudge things towards the better, keep trying to appeal for better decisions, and are consistently turned down--hell, that happens in this comic, when Mace tries to say no to Palpatine, who then strongarms him into being forced to agree) so that they’re too busy putting out tire fires and being in triage mode to actually make enough change anymore, especially when they have so little real authority themselves, as compared to the Senate and the Chancellor, that Anakin will be willing to step away.
What Palpatine does here is masterful, he lets Anakin think that doing something illegal and outside the system (ie, a small taste of just doing whatever it is you want to do, when you want someone taken out) will lead to clearing away some of the corruption in the system, instead of addressing the far more complicated questions of how easy that kind of power is to abuse and why it’s actually a really awful idea to go down that road, even if you think you’re doing it with good intentions. The system should change, pretty much every single person is onboard with that. (Except Palpatine and the other corrupt Senators who benefit from it.) That’s not the argument. The argument is about how that should change--radical action or steady work from within and what each of those entails and when you’re stepping over a line that you’ll pay for (which isn’t about yourself, but about the good you were doing, the people you can help, if you’re allowed to help them) and how Palpatine just threw a giant ball of mud into the pond that is Anakin’s understanding of all of this, because he needs those waters muddy to turn Anakin towards him. To take all those good intentions and all that power Anakin has and continue to use it for his own ends, rather than Anakin actually truly helping anyone on a long-term basis.
ALL WRAPPED UP IN A COMIC THAT ALSO HAS THE MOST GORGEOUS ARTWORK AND AN EXCITING ACTION STORY AND SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THIS COVER:
I went into this thinking, okay, I’m going to scream about Obi-Wan being amazing and Anakin’s star-struck face any time Obi-Wan does something and yell “I FEEL YOU, ANAKIN” and how Obi-Wan was planning to leave the Jedi Order with Anakin if that’s what he decided and just have fun.
Instead, I got a comic that just fucking nailed everything about one of the central conflicts between Anakin and the Jedi in a way that wasn’t really even that apparent until I actually started thinking about it (and have been yelling about it a lot recently, as my understanding of the GFFA evolves) and how there’s legitimate frustration and grievances there, but Palpatine strips out context and twists everything around to get his own desired result and it seems perfectly reasonable until you stop to think about it and how he played Anakin perfectly. That it showcases how there aren’t any easy answers to this, only people trying to do their best within deeply flawed circumstances.
THIS COMIC WAS SO FUCKING GOOD.
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reasons why i love pride & prejudice, specifically the 1995 adaptation
(ok when i started this i was going for a list of reasons but it ended up more like live commentary of the series oops)
it's so accurate???!? i read the book for the first time after having seen the miniseries like 4 times and i was stunned by how identical the dialogue was
"oH mr bEnNEt"
literally all of mr and mrs bennet's dialogue is hilarious. she's such a drama queen and he's just there like please shut up but also sassy
mr darcy at the first ball is literally like a socially awkward emo teenager who hates everything whose mum (mr bingley) is encouraging to be more social and make friends lmao
when mr darcy compliments lizzy's eyes to miss bingley and she's so offended..... she's like wtf fitzwilliam how dare you appreciate a peasant??!?
elizabeth "i promise i shall never dance with [mr darcy]" bennet hahaha think again lizzy
when jane gets invited by miss bingley and mrs bennet is like go on horseback because it looks like raining so you'll spend the night lmao this woman is ready to do anything to see her daughters married huh
all the awkward encounters between elizabeth and darcy when she goes to netherfield like when she walks into the biliard room and they just stare at each other until she leaves lmao
that scene when they're all in the drawing room and miss bingley is like let's go for a walk around the room to refresh ourselves lmao people in the 19th century were really bored huh
the amount of tension between lizzy and darcy when they have that conversation about pride sksksksks
mrs bennet sure knows how to throw shade (at darcy) lmao
MR COLLINS
i really dislike him because he's so annoying but he's also so stupid and full of himself in a funny way it's hilarious i love it lmao
i literally lose it every time he mentions lady catherine de bourgh which is A LOT
just the tone in his voice when he says is so funny to me
for real why didn't mr collins go for mary she's literally the female equivalent of him like.....
oh wait i know why misogyny lmao
you know, i'm not going to talk about wickham because fuck him
the netherfield ball!!!!!
when miss bingley goes up to lizzy to diss wickham and lizzy looks so ready to cut a bitch lmao
when mr collins goes up to darcy to talk about lady catherine and lizzy and jane are like oh god oh fuck someone stop him shit it's too late and then darcy is like *read at 7:39pm* ajsnsjsks
ok but when mrs hurst goes and plays the piano that was amazing i don't like her but that was really good
mr collins's proposal. just. when he's like "let me tell you the reasons why i want to marry. and then the reasons why i want to marry you specifically" like pull out a whole powerpoint presentation why don't you
oh and OF COURSE lady catherine de bourgh is amongst the reasons ("that should have been the first reason actually")
when lizzy says no for like the second time and he's like "ah but a lot of times women refuse when they really mean to accept" unfortunately not much has changed in the way of men has it, no means no!!!
"if you do not accept his proposal, your mother will never see you again. and if you do accept his proposal, i will never see you again" i'd forgotten how much i love mr bennet he's so great
when lizzy finds out he proposed to charlotte and charlotte accepted and she's like BITCH WHAT THE FUCK
literally fuck miss bingley what a bitch. let jane be happy!!! fuck you
oh my g o d when they go to visit charlotte and mr collins and he starts going on about the STAIRS and how their steepness is ideal and the closet in lizzy's and how lady catherine suggested they put shelves in and cOuSiN eLIzAbEth LoOk hOw prAcTicAL iT iS laDy cAthEriNe tHinKs oF evErYtHinG shE's sO gOod tO uS
lmao when charlotte is like yeah i like my life most days we barely even see each other
when they go to rosings park and mr collins won't shut up about the 64 windows of the house and how amazing they are
lmao when lady catherine asks lizzy something and then turns away and lizzy CONTINUES TALKING and lady catherine just turns slowly like bitch wtf did i allow you to keep talking
when darcy won't stop STARING AT HER (because he's so in love) and she's there like wtf
the scene at the piano omg the amount of romantic tension between them and the staring at each other again god help me i love them so much
lmfao when mr darcy randomly visits lizzy and just sits with her for like 5 minutes and then gets up and leaves mood tbh
i will never get tired of the love confession scene tbh he goes in and literally walks around the room sits down gets up walks around some more for like 5 minutes before he finally starts talking
"in vain i have struggled. it will not do. my feelings will not be repressed. you must allow me to tell you how ardently i admire and love you."
and then elizabeth is like bitch what the fuck and pulls out a 40 slide powerpoint on why she could never love him
which was completely justified of her btw. darcy was a dick back then
the sequence at the beginning of ep4 when they're both having flashbacks to what the other said lol
also when lizzy has those flashbacks where darcy's full face just randomly appears out of nowhere like a ghost yeah what the fuck was up with that it’s SO WEIRD
when they go dine at rosings for the last time and lizzy is full on sarcasm about how oh so sad she is to be leaving and oh so grateful to lady catherine and mr collins loses his shit because he thinks she's being serious lmao
honestly though when she's all dramatic about darcy to maria but without actually saying anything and maria is just like ok wtf but whatever i guess, and then she does that again to her aunt and uncle when they're at pemberley and she's all like wE hAvE tO LeAVe nOw and they're just there like ummm ok?? what just happened here. i mean this is a thing that she does frequently and idk i'm wondering how her general acquaintance feel about it. like every once in a while she'll go all dramatic and everyone is like oh there goes lizzy dramatising her life and not explaining anything to anyone, again
lmao when maria tells her she's been packing and unpacking all night and lizzy tells her she can pack it however she wants and lady catherine will never know. like yes maria you are a strong independent woman and can pack your suitcase however you please
when lydia gets invited to brighton oh noooooooooooooo
time for kitty to develop her own personality i guess lol
i will never get tired of elizabeth only deciding to go to pemberley because she's 100% she won't run into darcy and then she does
also when they're staring at the house and she's like damn that is a nice ass house
i love how bad the paintings of darcy inside the house are because everyone is look how beautiful he is! and what a realistic painting this is! and then they show it and you laugh at loud because that shit is UGLY and nowhere near like colin firth
i still don't understand why darcy jumped in that pond. was it because he was trying to clear his head to not think about elizabeth? was this something he did regularly on his way home?
on that note, if he did it to forget about elizabeth it was pretty unfortunate for him that he literally ran into her 5 seconds later lol
HIS LACK OF SOCIAL SKILLS NEVER CEASE TO AMUSE ME
"are your parents well?" "yes" *1min later* "and your parents? are they well? and your sisters?" and ofc lizzy laughs at him
ok what i still don't understand is how when darcy returns suddenly he's all smooth and talkative and keeps the conversation well and alive and just what?? he went from 0 to 100 real quick in terms of social skills and i Do Not Understand
omg the next day when him and bingley and georgiana go the inn to meet her and bingley starts talking to her and he's so HAPPY AND EXCITED and i love how he goes "yes we haven't seen each other since we danced at netherfield on the 26th of november". boy's been counting the days since he last saw jane and i love it. he's so in love
on that note of so in love, the way the scene immediately switches to show us darcy staring at elizabeth while she plays the piano with full-on HEART EYES ahhh i'm so soft for them
and then that BITCH caroline goes and mentions wickham and darcy panics because his sister is right there elizabeth IMMEDIATELY sees and knows and goes back to georgiana to help her and changes the subject
i really think darcy fell even more in love with her when he saw how well her and his sister got along, and how much she cared for georgiana, because he probably could never love anyone who didn't seeing how important georgiana is to him
and then it just shows elizabeth and darcy staring at each other like this 💘💖💗💖💕💗💖💘💖💘 total heart eyes
when caroline basically roasts him for being in love with liking elizabeth and he just snaps at her and says she's the most beautiful woman he knows GET REKT CAROLINE
omg when lizzy gets jane's letter and is really upset and he tries his best to comfort her ahh my heart
"i will never see him again" YES LIZZY YOU WILL
mrs bennet's worst case scenarios... convinced mr bennet's going to fight wickham and wickham will kill him lmao
you know I WONDER where lizzy gets her dramatic airs from
when mr collins shows up and is all basically throwing shade at them and lizzy is just like ok then if we're so bad how about you leave so you don't have to be around us for any longer
like yes lizzy drag him!!!!
when they show us lydia and wickham in london and you can see wickham starting to get pissed off at lydia... looking like he's regretting all his life choices
which he should, btw. he made terrible life choices and they’re literally all his fault
when everything is (sort of) resolved and mrs bennet is like i knew everything would turn out well in the end! yeah SURE you did
when lydia and wickham come back and you can tell lizzy is so ready to fight
when lydia spoils that it was darcy who helped them and lizzy is like mr darcy?? did you just say mr darcy????
oh yeah also darcy taking all the blame for all that happened and insisting to pay for everything... i love one (1) wholesome responsible man
jk i love two (2) wholesome men because bingley
mr bingley and mr darcy came back to netherfield!!!!!!!!!
when they go to longbourn and darcy and lizzy just stare at each other the whole time. again
when darcy finally tells bingley he purposefully kept him and jane apart and admits that it was completely wrong of him. GROWTH
bingley still asks for darcy's blessing & darcy tells him he shouldn't need it & bingley replies that he would still rather have it. WE STAN A WHOLESOME & SUPPORTIVE MALE FRIENDSHIP
and then bingley just sprints to longbourn to propose to jane when most of them have barely woken up lmao
the scene when they're all sitting in the drawing room and mrs bennet is trying to get them to leave so it's just bingley and jane is so AWKWARD and funny lmao
"mama, why did you just wink at me??" "why would i wink at you kitty"
"actually now you mention it i need to talk to you about something UPSTAIRS!"
and then jane is happy :) finally :) jane deserves ALL the happiness :)
when lady catherine randomly shows up and just starts insulting their poverty lmao
while lizzy, kitty, and mrs bennet just stand there awkwardly
"your hall is too small" "so you call this a drawing room" "your west facing windows must be awful in the summer" ok boomer
and then proceeds to lose her shit at elizabeth while elizabeth just stands there
"he is a gentleman and i am a gentleman's daughter. we are equals" YOU TELL HER ELIZABETH
and then tells her she doesn't owe her anything which is just 19th century equivalent of go fuck yourself bitch
that whole scene was a big fuck you lady catherine de bourgh
and is probably one of the most iconic scenes in the show
when mr bennet calls up lizzy about how he's heard rumours that she's to be engaged to darcy and just finds it so funny and lizzy is just there like hahahahaha yeah that would be hilarious wouldn't it when she's probably just dying inside because darcy!!!! love of her life!!!!
no offense but the part when they go for a walk and confess their love to one another among other things is literally one of my favourite things ever
apart maybe from the piano heart eyes scene
it's just so soft
when he says he hates himself for the things he said the first time he proposed and can't believe that was thing
and that he's eternally grateful to her because he doesn't think he would ever have changed if it hadn't been for her
on that note, gotta appreciate the fact that this isn't one of those stories where girl meets guy who's a dick, girl proceeds to change dick guy into a nice guy. no, lizzy did not change him herself, and she literally refused to be around him for as long as he was rude and selfish and everything she stood against. he himself decided to change, yes because of her, because he loved her and wanted her to love him back, but ultimately he did all the necessary changes to his character by himself. and only then, only then did lizzy properly start loving him. so yeah, here's more proof of why pride & prejudice is one of the best and one of my favourite love stories :)
oh yeah also, about how darcy wanted her to love him back ; “one word from you will silence me forever” yes he was openly grateful to her for everything BUT he was also 100% ready to shut up and leave her alone and accept it if she said no again. because he is A GOOD WHOLESOME MAN WHO RESPECTS WOMEN AND KNOWS THAT NO MEANS NO YES I'M LOOKING AT YOU MR COLLINS GET ON DARCY'S LEVEL
anyway yes i love mr darcy A LOT
but seriously i have such high standards for men and for any future relationships i may be in because of p&p and mr darcy specifically lmao
anyway going back yes i love that scene it is precious
they're so in love and the way they look at each other is so soft and ugh i love them so much
"dearest, loveliest elizabeth"
my heart :,)
i can't believe they're not even holding hands in that scene
and then when mr bennet finds out he proposed to him and he's like bitch what the fuck because darcy??? this guy??? seriously???
as was jane, by the way
anyway wedding time!!!!!
"join this man, and this woman... and this man, and this woman"
we love a double wedding of the two best and most wholesome couples
lmao caroline and georgiana's faces at the wedding. fuck you too :)
when they walk out and they're so happy!!!!!! their smiles!!!!! aaaaahsjskssjajanj
for real colin firth's big smile in that scene is just,, precious,,
and then they kissed :)
ngl, one of the things i wish would have been included in the miniseries is the epilogue from the book... i loved it it was so happy and wholesome
anyway i love this book and this story and the 1995 miniseries and i need to reread the book
oh and also, the music in the miniseries is really good!! the theme song is literally perfect i love it so much
so yeah i love pride & prejudice :,) thank you jane austen for giving us this beautiful beautiful story
💖💖💖💘💘💘💗💗💗💕💕💕
#pride and prejudice#elizabeth bennet#fitzwilliam darcy#mr darcy#pride and prejudice 1995#i love this story so much#in case you couldn't tell#spacesunflcwer
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I saw the doc yesterday for the pre-op for this ovarian cyst. I told her my biggest concern was getting rid of the fatigue and cramps, because those were seriously impacting my quality of life - the fatigue especially. She told me bluntly that ovarian cysts didn't cause fatigue and it wouldn't help.
I had a polite version of 'WTF?!?' along with some arguments that I didn't have fatigue before the textbook-standard torsion incident in October and two different ultrasounds had confirmed I had a baseball-sized cyst and there was nothing else wrong with me. She said that well, fatigue could be caused by depression (which I don't have), sleep apnea (which I also don't have), thyroid issues (possible, but I've been tested repeatedly over the years and didn't have), and a couple other reasons that didn't fit. I was like, 'None of those would come with cramps. I've never had menstrual cramps in my life but I sure as hell have them now to the extent that some days, all by themselves, they're debilitating.'
She said, 'Well, your IUD has expired and I know I said back in October that I'd just switch it out during the surgery but given the surgery keeps getting pushed out, I could switch it out today. Sometimes an expired IUD causes cramps because as the hormones on it wear off, your body starts to react to it.'
At that point I was still reeling from her insistence the surgery would help nothing so I was like, 'Yeah, whatever, switch it out, I don't care.' Ivan had had the snip and maybe I didn't need it at all but then she went into turbo mode, did the manual exam ('yep, cyst is still there, not bigger than 7-8 cm'), and whipped through the IUD replacement so fast I nearly freaked out. Then she was gone. The nurse explained she'd had a silent page from Labor & Delivery and I was like, 'Okay, that makes sense.'
I went home pissed off and disappointed. I figured like many things, let some time pass and think on it again after that. I didn't have my usual afternoon descent into dazed dullness and exhaustion, but I'd had the morning off and the afternoon at work was pretty exciting, what with getting in a mislabeled part having stopped production on our highest volume production line. The evening was fine and I felt good enough to recruit Jacob to help me gather up trash and some huge styrofoam piers that had blown around the field and into the pond. I made plans for the weekend rather than 'I'm going to lay around all the time and do the bare minimum.'
I took a hot bath and at 9 I still wasn't tired so I watched a movie. There was a difficult part in the middle so I figured I'd try to sleep. I couldn't sleep. For the first time in months, I was not so tired that at any point in time I could simply drop off. I watched the rest of the movie. I still couldn't sleep. Ivan eventually came to bed. I finally got to sleep a half hour or hour later.
I woke up at 7:30, which considering I went to sleep around 3, is something. And I feel fine. No cramps. No fatigue. No brain-numbing mind-fog.
Huh.
In probably related news, I’ve baked that chocolate potato cake, @silly-jellyghoty . The batter tasted good! It’s cooking on top of the stove for now. I’m going with a chocolate-coffee drizzle that will be optional.
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Episode 14: The One where LWJ Sings to WWX, y’know, Like a Bro
WE’RE STILL IN THE BEST CAVE IN THE WORLD GUYS
AND WE START OFF WITH ~THEIR SONG~ PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND AS LWJ GENTLY WAKES UP.
And first thing he notices is that he woke up with his forehead ribbon on his forehead where it’s supposed to be (it’s right there in the name)
Wwx: oh yeah, i put it back on you while you were sleeping. I know how nervous you get when you’re not wearing it.
DID YOU HEAR THAT?
DID YOU?
HE PUT IT BACK ON HIM TO SPARE HIM ANXIETY
(You can't tell me that LWJ does not low-key have anxiety. Nobody's that much of a stickler for rules without being constantly anxious about breaking them. That's just facts)
Also, lol, the minute lwj wakes up, wwx is all “ah, must be 5am.” HE’S KEEPING TRACK OF TIME WITH LWJ’S SLEEP HABITS LOLOLOL
Now wwx and lwj are talking Important Escape Details
Wwx: yeah, went back into the pond and it looks like the Murder Turtle blocked off the escape route
Lwj: you shouldn’t be going into the pond with your injury
Wwx: i’m not that delicate!
And then he turns it around and asks lwj how well the medicine was working on his leg (it’s all better now, i guess?? idk he seems fine now. wq’s medicine is MAGIC)
BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
Here we learn the official name of the Murder Turtle
Lwj: it’s like a xuanwu but not
Wwx: xuanwu?? *proceeds to describe what he knows about it*
Lwj: *is impressed and surprised*
Have more faith in your soulmate lwj. He reads! Sometimes! When it’s important!
Wwx: aren’t xuanwus supposed to have sharp teeth? Like Grrr
HE MAKES THE MOST ADORABLE GROWLY FACE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE AND MAKES THE CUTEST GROWL SOUND AT LWJ. AHHHHH!
But also, he’s disappointed that the xuanwu didn’t have sharp teeth?? WWX, THE THING TRIED TO EAT YOU JUST YESTERDAY. BE GRATEFUL IT DOESN’T HAVE SHARP TEETH
Wwx: it doesn’t even matter what it is! It’s a big monster and if we kill it we’ll be Big Damn Heroes
So EXCITED and EAGER and he has this MISCHIEVOUS LOOK ON HIS FACE. Obviously he’s suffered brain damage
Wwx: and, ah, if it kills us, it’s okay bc it’ll be an AWESOME death lol
Lwj just stares at him LOL
His face is like, “this guy? This is the guy my heart decided to fall for?? Really???”
Okay so now they’re being all sneaky and gathering up bows and arrows that surround the pond and then they go back and get to work on fixing them and preparing for battle
We get to see lwj practicing the chord assassination technique like a BADASS
They come up with a plan!! Wwx will go into the Murder Turtle’s shell to coax him out of it so that lwj can then, idk, decapitate it with his Killer String.
(that’s...not how actual turtles work, but bc this is a magic murder turtle, i figure the rules don’t apply)
AHHHHH
LWJ DOES A THING
So obvs since wwx has to go inside the shell and lwj has to stay outside the shell they gotta communicate right and Ancient Fantasy China does not have good cell reception
Wwx: listen to me
And with that verbal cue, lwj does this thing that makes his fingers glow with spiritual energy and then taps wwx’s forehead which then has a little burst of the glow for half a second.
And TA-DAH! NOW THEY’RE PSYCHICALLY LINKED!!!
THEY’RE SOULMATES AND NOW THEY’RE PSYCHICALLY LINKED YOUR OTP COULD NEVER
It must be a link that only lets them hear what the other wants them to hear otherwise wwx would’ve found out lwj is smitten with him right there and then, omg, that could’ve saved us so much heartbreak later on
But we’re not gonna think about that right now bc i don’t want to short-circuit my keyboard with tears
YUCK, wwx is inside the Murder Turtle’s shell and it’s SUPER GROSS
EVERYTHING IS ALL RED
THE FLOOR’S ALL MUDDY AND GUMMY
THERE’S LIKE, FLESHY ROPES HANGING EVERYWHERE
DISGUSTING
Wwx: ewww, it stinks so bad i wanna puke *chokes back bile*
BE STRONG WWX, YOU CAN DO THIS
And now he’s bumped into some dead bodies
WHY ARE YOU PUTTING YOUR FACE SO CLOSE TO THE DEAD BODIES WWX, THAT’S A TERRIBLE IDEA. YOU WERE JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT THE STENCH 2 SECONDS AGO, AND NOW YOU’RE SHOVING YOUR FACE IN IT???
Oh noooo, now he’s found the Screaming Sword of Resentment that screams bloody murder at him
He grabs it and stabs Murder Turtle in the face which makes Murder Turtle mad enough to get out of the shell
We’re going to continue to ignore the bad cgi and ridiculously over the top fighting moves
...and the way he floats horizontally(??? somehow??) as the Murder Turtle tries to shake him off
My poor bb is hanging on for dear life while lwj does his Killer String thing
I LOVE LWJ’S DETERMINED FACE HERE!!
His brow is all scrunched up and his mouth gets all pinched and firm. SO DASHING LAN ZHAN, GO SAVE YOUR SOULMATE.
But oh no! The resentful energy pouring from the sword is getting to wwx!
Uh oh, I did not like the look of that grin on wwx’s face
that was NOT HIS MISCHIEVOUS GRIN
THAT WAS A MALEVOLENT GRIN.
I DON’T LIKE IT
STOP THAT WWX
BE A GOOD BOY
Lwj shouts his name, he’s so worried!!
And now we see wwx use resentful energy for the first time ever!!
In a badass move he starts levitating all the abandoned swords and staffs that littered the shore AND USES THEM TO STAB THE MURDER TURTLE IN THE THROAT
SO COOL, SO COOL
Murder Turtle flops over dead and takes wwx down with him INTO THE POND AND WWX IS UNCONSCIOUS!! NOOOOOOO
Lwj, ofc, rushes to his side as soon as he hits the water and rescues him
He gets him out of the pond and takes him to dry land
Lwj: wei ying, wei ying! Wake up, wake up
GUYS, THIS IS THE MOST EMOTION WE’VE HEARD IN HIS VOICE SO FAR
HE’S REPEATING HIMSELF FOR GOODNESS SAKE
HE OF FEW WORDS GOES ON TO REPEAT HIMSELF TWICE OVER
HE’S FREAKING OUT
Oh gross, we cut to the Evil Wen’s lair
C’mon nobody cares about whatever’s going on there. Get us back to the important stuff!!! I am Done listening to evil wens ranting
AHH WE’RE BACK IN THE CAVE WITH OUR BOYS!!
WWX REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS!!
Wwx: lan zhan, is it dead?
Lwj: yes
Wwx: yes? (he says weakly, in disbelief, MY POOR WWX)
Wwx: is it dead? (why’s he repeating himself, WWX ARE YOU OKAY??)
(I mean, obviously he's not what with the murder turtle thing but I don't think he can afford to get more brain damage at this point)
Lwj: yes, it is.
Oh and now wwx is telling lwj about all the screaming voices he heard from the sword and asks him if he was dreaming those up
LIKE HE’S NOT TRUSTING HIS GRASP ON REALITY RN OR SOMETHING!!
AND HE’LL ONLY TRUST IT IF LWJ CONFIRMS IT FOR HIM
BC HE TRUSTS HIM AND THEY’RE SOULMATES!!!
Lwj reassures wwx that he did not dream up those screams
(Somebody should probably check him for a concussion,jic. I mean those screams were real THIS time but you never know!!)
(Maybe concussions don't exist in Ancient Fantasy China, idk)
Wwx is all pale and shaky!! MY POOR WWX!! Lwj is rightfully fussing over him
He lets out a weak laugh (BC THAT’S HIS COPING MECHANISM, DIFFUSE THE SITUATION WITH HUMOR, MY POOR WWX) and is like “who knew that one day i’d get to see the 2nd jade of lan look so worried?”
IT’S BECAUSE HE LOVES YOU, WWX, YOU DENSE IDIOT
Lwj doesn’t respond but he does look away briefly LIKE HE’S AFRAID OF WWX SEEING SO MUCH EMOTION ON HIS FACE
AAHHHH, LAN ZHAN, IT’S OKAY, DON’T HIDE AWAY LIKE THAT!! I PROMISE WWX LOVES YOU TOO!!!
WWX: lan zhan, i didn’t think i’d survive this
He whispers weakly AS HIS BODY IS STARTS TO TREMBLE LIKE CRAZY
Lwj: wei ying, you have a fever
And then he brings wwx’s wrist close to start pouring in some spiritual energy
SO GENTLY, WITH SUCH DEDICATED CONCENTRATION
BC HIS WEI YING IS HURTING AND HE WANTS TO MAKE IT STOP
AAHHHHH
WWX: that’s so soothing lan zhan
Oh jeez, the way he sounds when he says that...
And omg the way lwj looks in the blue glow of the spiritual energy transfer
AS IF HE DIDN’T ALREADY LOOK LIKE SOME SORT OF HOLY DEITY, HE’S LEGIT GLOWING NOW TOO
WWX: how boring...why hasn’t jc showed up to rescue me yet?
Uh, rude much? Lwj is right there
AND HERE WE COLLECTIVELY LOSE OUR MINDS BC WWX ASKS LWJ TO SING TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!
AND LWJ STARTS TO SING TO HIM!!!!!
AND THIS IS WHERE WE GET ~THEIR SONG~ ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE CHARACTERS FOR THE FIRST TIME BC THAT’S WHAT HE SINGS TO WEI YING
AND WHILE HE SINGS, WE GET GIVEN THE MOST WONDERFUL OF ALL FLASHBACKS.
IT IS A COMPILATION OF ALL THEIR IMPORTANT MOMENTS TOGETHER SO FAR
THEIR MOONLIT ROOFTOP SWORD FIGHT!!
THEIR COLD POND CAVE MARRIAGE!!
THEIR BUNNY LANTERN!!
BASICALLY EVERYTHING I’VE BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT THESE PAST 14 EPISODES
I’M LITERALLY TEARING UP
I CNA’T TAKE IT
MY HEART, MY HEART 💕💕💕
THEY’RE SINGING ~THEIR SONG~ AND I’M DYING OF FEELINGS OVERLOAD
Also, jfc, there’s no Heterosexual explanation for that flashback sequence…
Wwx: it sounds so nice, so nice, what’s the name of the song…?
AHHHHHH!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
LWJ TELLS HIM THE NAME OF THE SONG!!
!!HE PRACTICALLY CONFESSES HIS ETERNAL UNDYING LOVE TO HIM
AND WWX HAS TO FUCKING PASS OUT BEFORE HE HEARS IT GOD DAMN IT
IT’S LIKE GETTING COCKBLOCKED, BUT LIKE, EMOTIONALLY WHICH IS SO MUCH WORSE WTF
And when wwx wakes up again, he’s out of the cave!
But instead of seeing lwj’s godly visage, he wakes up to that peacock jzx and is like “you??”
Jc shows up!
Wwx: where’s lan zhan?
Jc: he left
Wwx: he left?? But he’s still injured!!
Jc: so is everyone else!! And he went back to gusu so…
Wwx: but he--
Jc: A THANK YOU WOULD BE NICE
Jc: IT’S NOT LIKE I TRAVELED WITHOUT REST FOR 7 DAYS TO GET HELP AND RESCUE YOU
Now we got to go through Plot Things
We’re at Lotus Pier!! (where wwx proceeds to pass out again!! Get used to it guys, he does this a lot)
Then the yunmeng sibs have a beautiful moment together
Okay, we’re gonna pause here BC WWX IS SO FREAKING ADORABLE??
He gets all pouty and asks jyl to clean his face for him bc his arms are too tired and jyl does it bc she loves her brother
AND HIS ADORABLE FACE
HIS SO CUTE ADORABLE FACE WHEN SHE CLEANS HIM UP
I CAN’T I CAN’T
IT’S TOO MUCH
HOW IS THIS GUY AN ACTUAL PERSON THAT EXISTS
Lol, wwx is like, i wish you’d been there in the cave with me jc, lan zhan almost bored me to death
What a liar, lol
Like he wasn't completely enraptured by LWJ's presence the ENTIRE TIME
Oh yikes, we’ve got some screwed up family dynamics in the Jiang Family courtesy of m-yu and jfm.
For the sake of my sanity we’re gonna gloss over that
Now that the parents stormed off, wwx does his best to console jc (bc his parents, double yikes)
Now watch me as a break down sobbing when wwx makes A PROMISE HE WON’T BE ABLE TO KEEEEEP
I’ll be your right hand man, he tells him. Gusu has the twin jades, but yunmeng will have twin heroes, he says
(WHY MUST YOU HURT ME THIS WAY, SHOW, WHYYYYY)
After wwx says those things about the twins, he looks up at the sky wistfully and asks jc “do you think we’ll ever see them again?”
“Them” he says, like he’s not completely talking about just lan zhan
jc’s like how the heck would i know???
And we end the episode with wwx still gazing at the sky, dreaming about his lan zhan
I mean, we don’t see it, the dreams or thoughts or whatever, but we kNOW IN OUR HEARTS THAT’S WHAT HE’S DOING
This was a Very Heterosexual episode. For that I give it 10/10 stars. I would watch that flashback sequence with him singing over and over and over and over and over and ov--
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I just woke up from the weirdest dream,
Had took a nap,
Then proceeded to have a dream,
Of various “encounters” with
Contemporary “monsters” & “evil”
I’m left thinking especially at dreams end
If the last monster, which was an actual monster
Was myself, the last monster was a Vampire
But when I say monsters I mean people
I wandered around this place that’s like that place in San Pedro or San Diego,
It was like one of those places that combines
Shops, eating, live music, and people who are hip hanging out,
And I was there, with my family? Apparently
And quickly I found myself disenchanted
With what was being presented
It was if things were “hollow” and loud
But I was the only one aware and the more
Aware I was I was ignored by seemingly
Increasing numbers of people,
I ended up running into
This teenage girl, who was basically a modern version of
Jodie fosters character in Taxi Driver
And we ended up talking
I was Intimidated
By her at first because essentially I didn’t know her
I just knew what she represented,
And as we walked and talked she opened up
But she was in turmoil, and felt like at any moment she could be “lost”
I suggested we go back to the “car”
In the parking lot to talk,
And as we approached the car
It turned out to be like a beat up
Little Honda or Toyota from the 80’s or early 90’s
And I was shocked at first,
And she says the other side door doesn’t open
&
So she had to crawl into my side,
And so as we sat
I began to ask her what she was doing here
That was more like “why do you exist”
And as we spoke,
The car became almost like a raft
It started to move side to side
And we started to panic and we’re like
Wtf
And so as this is happening
Another car, ignoring us,
Drives into our parking spot
As our car little by little maneuvered a little bit out
But it didn’t make sense spacially as we were still parked,
But I noticed those people were like oblivious to us,
And they were two women, who felt like celebrities
And one of them was wearing no bra under her shirt
And I remember looking at them
&
How hyped up they were,
As the place we were all at turned into
A lively packed place, full of hiply dressed people
&
So I tell her the teenage girl who’s with me
That we have to leave,
So we crawl out of the car,
And we’re walking through a parking lot
That soon becomes or segues into a
War zone
Children of Men style,
With people, men of color, but Hispanic men
Fighting the government,
Amongst other people, and it’s full on chaos
&
I ended up talking with the leader
Who revealed himself as a “right winger”
&
I found my grandfather amongst them,
Sitting down, playing cards, and I asked him
“Grandpa what the fuck are you doing here, your technically an immigrant yourself and you only know how to speak Spanish”
&
He looked at me, and hooked his finger up his mouth revealing his teeth,
& just the look in his eyes of “madness” but detached like he was at his core, “evil”
Sort of paralyzed me,
And as this was happening the whole scene and area was a complete war zone, with people fighting m, bullets going, buildings piss yellow and decayed,
And so me and the teenage girl
End up leaving,
Into another segue
This time,
There was a bridge,
&
Either a restaurant, or castle, but it felt Adjacent to it all, and there were people again,
And inside the restaurant I confronted my
Father & family,
But mostly my father apparently
And it was intense and the verbal violence
Was all from my end, as my father revealed himself to be
Stuck there, and a coward,
And so as I exit this restaurant
The teenage girl is gone
&
I meet this young beautiful boy
Who leads me to the bridge
Where they’re are seemingly
“Magical people” including two vampires
And one of the vampires is the boys double
And soon they’re all frolicking in this pond
Next to the bridge, and the boy and his double seem to have a “sexual vibe” going but one is a vampire and he I can feel how sinister he is,
And so I’m watching these people frolick in the pond, until they stop
And they’re all sitting alongside the bridge
When this young woman,
Sees a couple and puts a spell on them
She creates seemingly
New people out of thin air, to distract the couple
And says very nonchalant
That the spell was I guess harmless
But it didn’t feel that way
There was something evil about her
Like she was just a mirage to an evil lurking
And
Her use of magic felt like a taboo,
It felt frankly wrong
But here’s the thing
As I approached the people she created
They stopped and revealed themselves
As
Paid actors, and they thanked the “crowd”
And
As that’s going on,
I decided to walk the bridge
Which led to another segue
This time I’m in a castle
And I’m trying to rush to close my room door
As
A vampire, is coming,
The vampire manages to put his arm
In between the door,
And I’m trying to use all my strength to close it,
But I can’t
So the vampire barges in
And puts his arms around my throat
As I fall down,
As his arms are around my throat
My arms are around his,
And at this moment I’m aware this is a dream
&
I’m trying to wake myself up by closing my eyes
But it’s not working
And
So his face turns extremely
Monstrous, filled with rage and hate,
Grey & white,
But extremely monstrous
And so I’m looking right at him
Looking right into his monstrous face
&
I wake up,
But when I woke up
It didn’t feel like “waking up”
It just felt like I
Was transferred into “our reality”
And so here I am writing this post,
Trying to figure out it’s various meanings,
Like am I a monster ?
Or is the world full of monsters,
And that vampire is what the world really is ? 
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alright y’all, time for a Melissa play-by-play. I have a theory about this episode but it will get it’s own post:
And we dive right into spy time
That statue in the fountain was very upsetting :’)
GODDAMN U LAUNCHPAD, U SEXY BEAST
I like that LP says spiffy because I use the word spiffy
DEW-ble O Duck
“What I Dewey best” God I love Dewey and his love of puns
SONG TIME!!!
Ben is a really good singer
I like how the song was foreshadowing things to come
How is she wearing earrings?
A ham on cheese sandwich sounds really good rn
“I can’t remember when I’m hungry” A man after my own heart
YOU DIED
Ok, that game is WAAAAAY too advanced. It has the whole building mapped out and those glasses are WAAAY to small and lightweight to handle all that. Is it all through wi-fi? Am I overthinking the logic of a video game in a cartoon? Probably
“I had a sassy quip and everything.” He has the makings of a superhero in him
“It’s a little too real.” FORESHADOWING! Or the game was already REALLY immersive. OR BOTH
OH GOD LAUNCHPAD IS ALREADY FEELING BAD ABOUT HIMSELF!
“Haven’t you ever wanted to plug into a high-stakes, thrilling adventure?” He’s already done the spy-thing. Though it would have been cool to see Scrooge in a sexy suit
UNCLE MCDEE! I LOVE IT
Then an Uncle Scrooge from Webby. TOO CUTE!
There is A LOT of winking in this episode ;)
“We’re a team” DEWEY IS SO ADORABLE AND WHOLESOME!
Aw, Launchpad
I didn’t notice it the first time, but I love that Steelbeak is using one of those plastic swords to pick his teeth. It’s the little things
Is the theme song gonna be the short version for every episode this season?
I really dig Jason Mantzoukas’ take on Steelbeak. He’s just so cocky yet insecure at the same time. I like his voice cracking when he gets embarrassed or excited
And I ADORE how UTTERLY STUPID he is. I think he’s dumber than Launchpad because Launchpad is aware that he’s not exactly the smartest guy but Steelbeak GENUINELY thinks he’s smart. Plus he feels the joke. That’s just dumb and unfunny (in-universe at least. out of universe it’s great)
“The Sat-a-Lighthouse. Classic villain lair.” Well we know that’s gonna show up
Bradford’s neck bothers me. It makes my neck hurt looking at it
Intelli-ray. You guys are a bit on the beak nose when it comes to naming things
GADGET!
“Rat’s are dumb, right?” YOU STUPID BEAUTIFUL MAN
THE OTHER RANGERS! And Monterey already has his mustache
Ok how did her hair grow so fast? And did she shave her fur? How did she get a more human-esque figure? I NEED THIS INFORMATION
They Secret of Nimh’ed her!
Heron acts like an annoyed/done mom with Steelbeak and he acts like a snotty kid. It’s great
EVIL LAUGH
“Did that rat make that jumpsuit on a regular sewing machine, or did it build its own tiny sewing machine?” STEELBEAK ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS HERE
I legit thought she was about to pull off his beak
“I’ll go. Not because you told me.” He’s such a punk-ass kid, I LOVE IT
CHOMP CHOMP
DON’T EXPLAIN THE JOKE, BRO
“I pay for the privilege of doing someone else’s yard-work?” THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT YOU’D SAY, YOU RICH, PRIVILEGED MAN. Whack-a-Mole is actually about expressing all the rage and fury inside you
Video graphic adventures
SKEE BALL! I FUCKING LOVE SKEE BALL
That kid didn’t even take his tickets
Ticket-rich. I love it
LET’S STRETCH BITCHES
“Can’t let Dewey down. Gotta be smart, gotta win the game.” OH LAUNCHPAD, SWEETHEART
“Calm down, LP. It’s only a game.” Dewey is SUCH a GOOD friend!
“But don’t overthink it.” That’s just good life advice in general
I love how tiny Dewey is when compared to LP. It’s ADORABLE
“THEN WE GET PIZZA.” “Yes, pizza.” I don’t know why, but the way Ben delivers that line is hilarious to me
“Pad. Launchpad. McQuack. My name is Launchpad McQuack.” I love you so much
Ok, was there an actual dude there? How could’ve Steelbeak thrown a digital person?
“Yes, I do as well.” YOU DUMB HOE, I LOVE YOU
That card game was great. Truly a battle of wits. And Dewey just being like...what. Beautiful
“Well played.” “It was?”
“Look’s like you’ve been out-smart guyed.” The dialogue in this episode is top notch
I too do not understand smanzy card games
“But how about a game of 52 pickup...YOUR TEETH!”
“THE PAIN FEELS SO LIFELIKE!”
The sound Steelbeak makes when Dewey pulls on his...hair(?) is great
One day you’ll get to quip Dewey, one day
The cuts between the game reality and actual reality are so great
Is that the Phantom Blot or the normal Funzo? Is there even a normal Funzo?
The neck cracking also made my neck hurt
All the kids gathering around Scrooge is too cute
“Not now lass, I’m on a roll.” SKEE BALL IS A GATEWAY DRUG TO GAMBLING
“I think they just have nachos.” They have pizza too
Steelbeak pecking at Launchpad...brilliant
The little pug/bulldog kid is so cute
The scream when he’s hit with the pizza is gold
That ballpit is terrifying
Yet again Launchpad falls on someone
HE FUCKING PUNCHED A KID! WTF BRO?!
“WE MADE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL!”
Those jumpsuits are pretty nice, ngl
“Nerp”
Launchpad had the right idea, he just fumbled on the execution
Rubix cubes-shorthand for intelligence levels
She is so done with him it’s great
“We can make Scrooge SO HUNGRY, he’ll EAT all the toys!” Solid logic
“Duh, that ain’t smart.” OO, BURN
Whenever anyone/anything grabs Steelbeak’s beak I feel like it’s gonna come off
THE THEME SONG PLAYS! I LOVE IT! IT’S GREAT
How did the others get smart? Where did THEIR clothes come from?! I NEED ANSWERS FRANK!!
Launchpad is always ready to lend a helping hand
HOW DID THE GLOVE FLOAT?! I HAVE SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS!!!
“The answer was to build a tiny plane and teach a mouse to fly it?” “Yes, I figured that out.”
Is Gadget a rat or a mouse? She looked more mouse-like before she got smartified but Heron called her a rat. EVEN MORE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS! She’s probably a mouse though because that’s what she was in the original show
I don’t know why but I love when people call Launchpad LP. Maybe it’s because he has nicknames for everyone else so him having a nickname is cute
So Steelbeak was in prison in St. Canard. Perhaps he had a run in with a certain terror that flaps in the night? That would be hilarious if the two had met before but now Steelbeak is more focused on Launchpad. That would be a blow to DW’s ego
I kind of feel bad for Steelbeak. Sure he’s dumb but that was uncalled for. No wonder he snapped
“You bird-brained...” Aren’t you ALL bird-brains though? You are birds and you have brains therefore you have bird-brains. That almost feels like it could be a racist comment in this world
“I’M THE RICHEST DUCK IN THE ARCADE!” You were the richest duck in the arcade the moment you walked in
I love when Scrooge gets obsessed with something and loses his goddamn mind
WEBBY YOU CREATED A MONSTER!
“Ticket bin?” “YES!”
322 DAYS WITHOUT AN ACCIDENT. Good for them
Launchpad just LEEROY JENKENS’ed his way in
His hand is as big as Dewey’s HEAD
LP and Steelbeak have great fight dialogue. It reminds me of Megamind and Metro Man
LAUNCHPAD PUSHES DEWEY TO SAFETY! At that point he didn’t even KNOW what the ray did! But he heroically saved his best friend, not matter what would happen to him! WE STAN!
This episode cemented my headcanon that Chris Evans would be the perfect human LP
“I SHALL AVENGE YOU, MY FRIEND”
This scene, the climax, and the end of the episode gave me a theory, but it will have its own post
British accent=smart?
First thing he does is slick back the hair. Classy
“That cad, Steelbeak” We should call more people cads
How did LP fit into that much smaller man’s uniform? Are they extra stretchy? Because I can totally see that being something FOWL would do. It’s practical
“I don’t know what any of those words mean.” Same
“Heavens, you don’t want them to think you don’t know what you’re doing!” My constant struggle
The supersious guy is adorable
“Well, it’s certainly proving to be bad luck FOR YOU!”
KARATE CHOP ACTION
He still calls him Mr McDee. I just think that’s cute
Dear Dewford. Aww
“I won’t let him down again.” AAAAWWWWWWW
“Can’t go out there looking like this.” You can’t fight crime if you ain’t cute (or sexy in LP’s case)
LAUNCHPAD, YOU SEXY MOTHERFUCKER
That is an old-ass phone you got there, LP
Scrooge is 2 for 2 in missing important calls. Probably should turn his ringtone on
Webby is just so done
“Ah yes, you’d like that wouldn’t you, sonny.” God, Scrooge can get downright FERAL
Blink-and-you’ll-miss-it DW cameo. It looks like Drake’s DW. Does he have merch now? Does he get a cute of the sales? Who makes the merch?
WEBBY WILL FUCKING END YOU
Dewey is SO precious this episode. His cute little bounces
“I’m actually afraid and a little dehydrated, this game is AWESOME” GET THAT BOY SOME JUICE STAT
I love when shows realistically portray sound
“No time for a...crash course” YEEEEEAAAAAAAH
How’d he get a grappling hook?
“THAT’S MY PARTNER!” DEWEY LOVES LP SO MUCH!!
“How is he doing this?” The power of sexy? I don’t know either, bro
“There goes your pal LURCH-POUND! HA! You know, because he just got lurched into that POND OVER THERE?!” “That’s technically a bay.” “I’M NOT STUPID!”
“Classic villain lair!” I can appreciate a man who knows what he’s about
Why do villains alway jump INSTANTLY to the world? You gotta take baby steps. Start with a city, then a state, then the tri-state area a country, THEN the world. Gotta pace yourself
“And Uncle Scrooge only gives us like a nickel each week.” Do they do chores to earn that allowance? I mean, probably. Do Donald and Della have to do chores as well? Give them at least a dime, Scrooge!
MORE SEXY LAUNCHPAD! DAMN YOU, YOU BEAUTIFUL MAN!
“Waaaaiiiit a minute, is that my suit?!” “It suits me better.” DAMN STRAIGHT IT DOES! LP fills the jacket out
I like Steelbeak adding on his fingers
“Your fancy speak won’t work on me, Dummy-O-Duck. Ha-ha, classic.”
“That was totally my plan the whole time” Sweetie, just...no
“I guess you’re not as smart as *voice crack* ME.” “Not as smart as I.” NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR CORRECTING GRAMMAR!
THEY’RE BACK! AND THE THEME SONG! SO BEAUTIFUL!
Again, I thought Steelbeak’s beak was coming off
I like that Steelbeak went into pray position while being shocked
I’m gonna pretend the Rangers were off on their own adventure the whole time’
“Thanks for the...rescue.” AND GADGET SALUTES BACK AND WINKS! BEAUTIFUL!
“No person could survive being that stupid”
Launchpad, always willing to take one for the team
“There’s so much more I could accomplish! Stop the evil conspiracy out to get us! Solve world hunger! Land a plane!” No matter how smart he is, Launchpad still can’t stick the landing
“Launchpad, why are you overthinking this?” “Because I want to be good enough for you!” SOB
“Of course you’re good enough for me. You’re my best friend.” SOOOOOOOOOOB
“For Dewey, and Duckburg.” He put Dewey first, daaaaawwwww
HIM CATCHING DEWEY AND HOLDING HIM TIGHT TO HIS CHEST?! SO WHOLESOME!!
First thing LP does after things go back to normal? Fix his hair. Hair is very important to your state of mind, I guess
“Was it all a game?” Life is just a game
“Wait until I tell Huey I...YOU beat the game.” AAAAWWWWWW
“I’m not playing with anyone but you.” MY HEART!!!!
Scrooge is so broken. And the ticket to prize ratio, too true
“How much money did you spend to get those tickets?” Don’t play skee ball, kids. It will ruin your life
“I don’t think we should bring you here anymore.” Donald should probably be the one picking you up because Della would TOTALLY get hooked on a game/get too aggressive and I could see Beakley falling into the same trap
The comb just sticks there
The subtitles call him Suave-Pad, I LOVE IT!
“I like purple. A lot. Ha! Man, I’m glad I got that off my chest.” A DW reference or a CODEWORD?
“WARM THEM, YOU OLD FOOL! WAAAAARN THEEEEEM! Oh, dash it all, I’m going for a soak.”
“Restoring your ‘intelligence’ as it were.” BURN
She’s on a first-name basis with him...interesting
“OR ANY KINDS OF RAYS!” No mad sciencing here
“Who’s stupid now?” Gloating is very unbecoming
There are...certain people I wish I could force to shut up like that
His muffled screaming is great
Again, Rubix cube solving proves intelligence
How did he not notice it was wet when he picked it up?
I NEED THE SONG IN FULL SOMEWHERE TO DOWNLOAD
This one was super fun and emotional. I was not expecting this to be the episode that the Rescue Rangers would make their debut in but I’m glad they were here. Dewey and Launchpad’s friendship is so pure and adorable. I almost wish there hadn’t been a b-plot but it was fun. I know other people are upset over Steelbeak/the Rescue Rangers being different but I like them. This show is different from those shows. Steelbeak was repurposed into being Launchpad’s nemesis so he needed to match him. Plus we already have a bunch of smarties in FOWL. And this Steelbeak seems younger and less experienced so it would make sense that he’s not as clever. The Rangers didn’t really change that much from their show, just got a new origin that helps them fit into the world that has already been set up. I think this episode is going in the top 5.
#ducktales#darkwing duck#chip and dale rescue rangers#dt spoilers#huey got a much need break this episode
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Thoughts on Jamie Johnson 5x07
And there you have it, people! We’ve spent close to 5 seasons with Dillon Simmonds, and tonight we got to understand him on a deeper level than ever before. I mean, it was already true, but tonight firmly established Dillon as the most fully realized character on the show. As for our titular character, well…
First things first, I actually think Zoe played her cards correctly tonight, despite generally being in the wrong. Giving Kat the pendant when she found it would have been the best thing to do, but she’s Zoe, so this was the next best thing. Giving it back just before or during the game might have caused animosity between the girls on the pitch, so Zoe instead went into pep talk mode. And get this: she actually sounded genuine!
Bruh, I am tide of these youngins and their drama. Eric was in the wrong in regards to the bag incident with Liam last week, but the situation is clearly more complex than that which Alba of all people should understand. As leader, she should sit them both down and have a fair and nuanced (or as nuanced as a 13 year old can be) discussion about *all* the factors that brought us to this point.
But this whole “Apologize! Don’t wanna? You can’t sit with us!” schtick that she’s pulling yet again does not sit right with my spirit. She’s minimalizing Eric’s feelings. Just because she’s ready to forgive Liam doesn’t mean Eric should be as well. Especially since her desire to forgive Liam conveniently lines up with her wanting/needing Liam to win some games. Maybe the cost of winning for Eric isn’t the same as Alba’s. And if Eric wants to run off and find himself a boo thang? YOU DO YOU, KING.
Jamie Johnson is a hot mess, and I am about to start printing #JusticeForBoggy t-shirts, 50% off Pride Month special. On the one hand, I am interested in these recent plot developments concerning Boggy because it means that his character will finally get something to work with. On the other hand, WTF Jamie? I admit that I don’t have the best memory, but did Jamie not look both ways when he was in the street? Wasn’t Jamie’s Dad not looking where he was going because he was too busy seeing dollar signs? Due to their own negligence, that makes both of them more at fault than Boggy. Not that we should be assigning fault anyway.
How, how did Jamie arrive at the conclusion that the accident was Boggy’s fault? And this is why I say those kids don’t appreciate Boggy. What he did for Jamie is perfectly in line with him being there for him literally every step of the way since season 1. Even Boggy’s involvement in the accident was because of him wanting to protect Jamie. You have to wonder, does Jamie really appreciate Boggy? His convo with Freddie said one thing, his actions told a whole nother story. If I were Boggy, I’d write Jamie a nice letter saying how I feel and then leave him all the way alone.
And Mike and the team kept heralding Jamie as someone they should be fighting for. Jamie not wearing any team colors, not cheering anybody on, not even wanting to be in a picture is to me not somebody I want to be inspired by. If I were Kat (having shown up with no knowledge of the team), I literally wouldn’t even think twice about Jamie since he clearly cannot be bothered. I get that he’s angry, but he can’t just lash out at the people who have been most supportive of him.
Anyways, I am glad that the team won and went out on a high note. Even though Jamie’s a mess, this was still Dillon’s episode. And it was great. We got more “straight” puns, we got the hintiest-hint of Delliot, but most importantly we got several acknowledgments of how far Dillon has come. And now that he’s coming to terms with himself *and* may have secured the bag with Foxborough, Dillon may well be entering the greatest years of his life yet.
It’s amazing just how far we have come with gay characters. When I was Disney Channel young, that was simply unheard of. Now, so many teen dramas have some variation of LGBT representation, and what with shows like this, Diary of a Future President, and Andi Mack, even the tweens are starting to tell more stories. I will say that my peeps from across the pond are much more firm and uncensored and unapologetic about their message, which makes the whole thing feel more genuine.
So there you have it. Now that we’re halfway through, there’s a few questions left to answer. Will Jack show up one more time to get Zoe more pressed than a panini sandwich? Is Dillon about to embark on a coming-out journey, or is he about to be outed? How much of a dick can Liam and Dillon’s Dad be? Is Delliot even a thing? Will the girls get their chance to get on the women’s team? Will Alba stop doing the absolute most? Is Indira ever going to come back on this show in any capacity? Will there be justice for Boggy?
Questions that need answers.
BTW, y’all did notice the missing scene, right? And did you see that the Indian guy who replaced Kat was behind Mike again when he cheered at the final goal?
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TIL yet another that reason venus is fucking scary. Look closely.
VENUS with clothes (atmosphere)
No, no, not that. she's pretty from a safe distance. It's the hellscape down here...
VENUS nekkid (radar mapping view)
Compare with the surface of her neighbor. What's missing?
MERCURY true color and enhanced
That's right. Venus has almost no impact craters. Only those weird canyon things. WTF?
So apparently in addition to having an atmosphere hot enough to melt lead and raining sulfuric acid, it turns out Venus is a runaway nuclear reactor.
Geologists now think a planet needs water for plate tectonics to be properly lubricated. But Venus boiled away all its water long, long ago. Without it, Venus has... some kind of rifting and volcanoes, but not nearly enough to release all the heat building up in its interior from radioactive material.
So it becomes hotter and hotter until the surface fucking MELTS, to let it cool off again. It looks like the last time a Venus Meltdown happened was about 500 million years ago, about the same time as the Cambrian Explosion on Earth.
So say thank you to Mount Saint Helens and Vesuvius and Kilauea and all our other volcanoes, plus our tectonic plates which bleed off heat via kinetic energy (earthquakes) and provide extra cooling by pushing cold, wet ocean floor slabs back into the interior like ice cubes into hot coffee.
It's not much fun being ants living on a giant nuclear reactor, but I'm glad Earth has control rods. Otherwise life would've been incinerated at the pond scum stage.
Source: this nifty geology course on Youtube
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do you have a favorite song off of the Folklore album? also could you pick a favorite lyric I'm curious. Also I hope you have a great day/night/afternoon/morning! <3
HEY ANON!!! hsbznms im honored you even felt the need to know my favorite folklore song <333 and a rant about folklore was a long time coming so this was the perfect opportunity tysm :D
my favorite song to listen to is 100% between cardigan & mirrorball.. they are just so... SO.... S O . . . . just. the entire ‘but i knew would linger like a tattoo kiss // you’d come back to me’.... THE SINKING FEELING I GET EVERYTIME... vile. and the ‘hush’ & the bridge in mirrorball... WORK OF ART <3 mirrorball was the first one that HIT after my first listen so yeah it is very dear to me
now emotionally? this is me trying takes the win & epiphany a very close second. i literally had a full breakdown while watching the this is me trying part of the long pond sessions. just the whole song hits so close to home justgrrgrrbarkbarkwoofwoofGRGRGRRGRG. ‘i was so ahead of the curve the curve became a sphere, fell behind all my class mates and i ended up here’ gurl bye <3 anyways moving on because im on the verge of tears L O L..... epiphany MAKES ME FEEL THINGS. not in the way of this is me trying rather a completely different feeling. it just leaves you hollow for a few moments doesnt it? and hearing taylor talk about the song really made it for me. ‘only twenty minutes to sleep but you dream of some epiphany.....’ [blanK STARE]
and favorite lyric??? singular??? NO <3 hehsjsks im gonna do one from each song 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️
the 1: i thought i saw you at the bus stop, i didn’t though. WTF WTF WTF WTF?!?!? FELONIOUS.....
cardigan: literally the whole song bye
the last great american dynasty: they say she was seen on occasion pacing the rocks staring out at the midnight sea. . . the story telling the imagery the alliterations WHAT GOES ON INSIDE HER HEAD. MISS TAYLOR SWIFT IS NOT OK.
exile: those eyes add insult to injury. 👁 👁
my tears ricochet: and you can aim for my heart go for blood, but you would still miss me in your bones. i SCREAMED when i heard this for the first time.
mirrorball: the whole chorus whole bridge bye
seven: LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND TO SATURN and literally the whole song. THE BRIDGE??? m8 m8 m8.. ive been meaning to tell you i think your house is haunted....... .... ... no maam your mind IS haunted.... the complete innocence in the whole song i—
august: salt air and the rust on your door i never needed anything more. A SONG OPENS LIKE THIS WYD??? DO YOU CRY DO YOU LAUGH DO YOU GO FERAL WYD?????? and babe im not even gonna go on a tangent talking about the betty james august saga i just cant I CANNOT I CAN NOT
this is me trying: yeah like i said before... i dont wanna talk about this im gonna cry djsjsksk NEXT
illicit affairs: take the words for what they are, a dwindling mercurial high, a drug that only worked the first few hundred times. :SIGH: taylor allison swift you know damn well for you i would ruin myself a million little times
invisible strings: ✨💖✨💖✨💖 chains around my demons wool to brave the season.. one single thread of gold tied me to you. and then timee wondrous timeee give me the blues and the PURPLEPINKSKY ✨💖✨💖✨💖 honestly i cant believe she wrote a ao3 dot net certified soulmate au fic song
mad woman: WHEN YOU SAY I SEEM ANGRY I GET MORE ANGRY :D
epiphany: holds your hand through plastic now. how does she do this everytime i want to know........ the implications the accuracy the attention to detail... a perfect example of what makes a taylor swift song. this tiny little thing that happens in our everyday life that never jumps out to us, she takes that and makes it a whole moment... of course doctors touch us with a glove on... HOLDS OUR HAND THROUGH PLASTIC... PLEASE I AM .:;().(;):$;&[email protected]
betty: :DDD WILL YOU KISS ME ON THE PORCH IN FRONT OF ALL YOUR STUPID FRIENDS?????
peace: the whole song really is a piece of art that is so under appreciated but if i have to choose a lyric it would have to be: give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other..... again,,,,,, we all know this feeling so very well we all could feel the rush of emotions upon hearing this but have we ever sat down and really thought about this??? how we want to give the one we love a silence that only comes when two people understand each other?? NO WE DIDNT. AND SHE DID. This whole song TJIS WHOLE SONG ARSGSHHSHAGAH
hoax: my best laid plan. your sleigh of land. my barren land. i am ash from your fire. and then... my only one. my kingdom come undone. my broken drum [SCREAM]. you have beaten my heart.
the lakes: is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN WTF I AM ILLITERATE. WHY WOULD YOU OPEN A SONG LIKE THIS VILEVILEVILEVILEVILEVILEEEEEE
I AM OUT I AM RUNNING AWAY 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️ why is she like this why why why why w—
#SORRY ANON I JUST RAMBLED ON AND ON AND ON IM SO SORRY#let me know what’s your fave <33#have a great day too ILYYYYYY TYSM#answered 🗣#folklore era
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