Thinking about Dick snatching a cig from Jay's mouth to take a drag of it, and then blowing the smoke to the side.
Jason stands there dumbfounded. Staring at Dick's fluttering eyelashes, the way how his lips wrap around the slight cylinder shape, and how he's breathing in the smoke and then blowing it.
Dick didn't smoke, as far as Jason knew about him, but the way in which he walked over to Jason, who was waiting on the side to collect Dick after the funeral, put his hand on Jason's shoulder for support while the other swiftly took the cigarette that Jason just lit up and took a heady smoke of it like he was a regular.
Jason was stunned. And oh god he was so aroused. Which was absolutely inappropriate considering their current disposition and the very public space they were at.
He was ever so grateful for the long coat he was wearing at the moment as it covered his front quite well, otherwise he would appear as an inconsiderate asshole right now..
Dick doesn't linger on it much longer than that though, as he returned the cig back to Jason's lips and patted him on the shoulder signalling the need for their departure. No words exchanged, Dick can't bring himself to form them at the moment, and Jason is in no need for them to understand him.
He trots after Dick just like the lovesick dog he is.
Plus this is the sweetest cigarette that Jason has ever had in his life.
Such a good treat it was, he guesses.
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How is amnesia lazy? I think it's interesting and fun to explore :(
Boy you're in for a ramble.
It's mostly because of the way it's used as an escape button when an issue doesn't have resolution. We saw it in the DSMP because, c'mon, we knew Dream wasn't going to die and neither was Tommy + they needed some sort of redemption arc for Dream so he can take part in season 2 of his own SMP, the thing is that felt pretty damn useless? Because that's no actual redemption, Dream never felt bad for torturing and killing Tommy, they just forgot and because they forgot it didn't happen ^^
And they're not the only ones that have pulled the amnesia plot for a dire situation like that. We know some characters can't die because Karmaland isn't over and if they eventually make Karmaland 6 and they want it to be a direct continuation to Karmaland 5 if someone dies it could be... Complicated... Right?
Except it's not! We had other ways for dealing with those issues. Want an example? REVIVAL, MAN!!!! Alexby did die once and came back to tell the tale. They could've given the war a violent resolution and have their characters revived later like Alexby did. Maybe even have the survivor party feel bad for what happened because it didn't have to end like this? Maybe, who knows.
But let's say that's off the table for x or y reason... At beginning of Karmaland there were many theories about the heroes coming from different universes, not from the same Karmaland, what does that mean? It means that they can kinda pull a GTA Roleplay move, aka killing a character and bringing in another one to replace them, example? Auron roleplayed Gustabo in GTA Roleplay, but he killed him in the beginning of London Eye Roleplay, and he continued roleplaying with Toni Gambino. An option there could've been having either Quackity or Luzu killed and replaced by another Quackity or Luzu from another universe, and considering the multiverse is canon in Karmaland it would've opened the doors for something pretty cool to explore.
Another way, and this one is pretty simple... Is to just stop the war. How so? Well we saw that Sapo Peta could make it so Quackity and Luzu couldn't harm each other, remember that Luzu tried to shoot Quackity and nothing happened? Well there you have it.
And yet another way was to leave the end of the war for Karmaland's finale so that they could really have one killed without affecting the season.
Now with all of this I don't want to say how ccs should do their stories, I just want to point out that there were many ways to work with what they had going.
Amnesia isn't necessary a bad plot, if it's worked with it can give us a lot of content, take for example Lolito! He pulled the amnesia card in Karmaland 4 and did pretty well, people were trying to take advantage of him, there was some comedic relief AND HE EVENTUALLY REMEMBERED! He worked with that one and it was good.
To finish this I just want to say that although I hate amnesia plots when they're used as an escape button, it's not necessarily bad, lots of people enjoy it and that's okay, but being overexposed to that sort of plots just turns you into some kind of Grinch for them and that's what I am right now, I've had to deal with at least 5 amnesia plots in this same year and it's getting awfully exhaustive.
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hey kinda weird question but do u think S3 would have been better if it was released over wider dates rather than how it was? like weekly? I feel like the hype will die down really quickly so it's kinda sad
Oh yes absolutely. I think the general concept of releasing a season all at once is Not Good because it actively encourages this mentality of like…binging the entire thing on the first day otherwise hey, you’re behind! You’ll be behind, everyone else will have seen the entire season and you’ll be out of the loop. That’s literally the reason why I sat down and watched the entire thing today because even tho I blacklisted all the spoiler tags I knew I’d end up getting spoiled to something eventually, which is actually another big part of it. Watch this 10 episode season as quickly as possible so you can discuss it with the rest of the fandom and be Cool and Hip and Up To Date and also so you aren’t spoiled to the entire plot after the first episode.
Also watching all that in one sitting cannot be good for my health, personally, and I mean both physical and mental, ESPECIALLY with a heavy show like TUA. There’s a LOT of stuff it throws at you and bc of the whole binge mentality you don’t really get time to process and decompress after watching an episode, because you’re immediately jumping into the next one. It’s much more difficult to watch an entire season and try to emotionally process everything that happened. I’m still reeling and I feel so emotionally pummeled I’m going to wake up exhausted tomorrow FOR SURE.
I’m being absolutely hypocritical for calling out all this and still being a victim to watching the entire thing LOL but yeah it’s definitely an issue, and not just with TUA, with streaming platforms in general. If this were releasing on a weekly basis rather than all at once I’d have way more time to emotionally process, make theories and predictions for the next week’s episode, discuss things with the fandom, and generally consume the season at a much more moderate and healthy pace.
SORRY for the long rant but yes long story short they should definitely stop dumping entire seasons on us in one day and stick to a weekly release schedule. For my mental health, sanity and patience. Lmao
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