#yes i did rewatch the old guard AGAIN
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Feeling so many things after my full rewatch. Especially realising that Ed has spent his life trying to act like people want/expect him to act while secretly privately believing "people can't change", not daring to be himself because he doesn't believe he can be.
"People can't change" is one of his ways of deflecting focus from himself, but he means he doesn't believe he can change. He's spent his entire life convinced that he's this monster, this terrible thing, because of the trauma of his dad's death around his neck like an albatross.
In the Gravy Basket, Hornighost gave voice to Ed's biggest internalised fear: that Stede left him because of what he did to his dad. "You told someone and he left you". This is the wall Ed has never been able to get over, the conviction he can't be more than that.
He was so wary and guarded and yearning when Stede started speaking about loving everything about him. He wants so badly to be loved but is so afraid of it and still doesn't believe he can have/deserve it. "People don't change" he tries to insist right until Buttons does.
Look at the wide-eyed wonder on his face.
Yes, some shock, but also realising Buttons was right. Change is possible. He needed to know that, to see it, to believe it. So much so that when Stede comes back for him, he's a bit tearful and has to wipe his eye.
This is the start of Ed's journey of rediscovery and of change. The sack and bell are an active demonstration. He's figuring things out a bit at a time and has that conversation with Fang that reframes his past behaviour and learns to apologise. He chooses to pause and think.
As Fang observed, he never really took the time to sit with himself and at the beginning of 2x06, he's doing just that and he's struggling. He even admits he's worrying about it, but again, he talks in metaphors - "a storm coming but I just can't see it" - so no one realises.
He's constantly been moving. "You got to move on or blow your brains out", Hornighost said in the basket and even then, he asked "and those are the only options?" He's been moving on his whole life and it didn't work. He tried the blow-the-brains-out-by-proxy and it didn't work.
Now, he's trying to change and he's doing something different and it's a lot. It's so much to be processing and then to have Ned Low show up and knowing it's his fault for shattering Ned's record and almost getting them all killed. A new layer in the guilt cake.
I've said before that his conversation with Jackie in the bar serves a similar function as Stede and Chauncey's in the forest: pointing out that his presence has led to his lover changing to be more like him (ie. ruined), triggering a panic-spiral and flight without warning.
They came so close to having the conversation they needed to have. Stede has been learning to be better about talking about stuff, but Ed had been steadily spiralling all day and those metaphors happened again, leading to a lot of miscommunication.
Ed doesn't want to be a fisherman. "I just know I don't want to be a pirate anymore". He's just grabbing onto the first safe thing that came along. He's dressing in Buttons' clothes and he's making it an active change out of desperation because he's panicking so much.
He throws off his old life and runs because he thinks that's his only choice. Stede is "blowing up" in the Republic & Ed can't be in that life anymore, but can't imagine Stede would give it up when he's just described it as "a great day". He can't imagine Stede would choose him.
When Ed comes back to the Republic and reclaims his leathers, he's not doing it for piracy or to be Blackbeard again. He's doing it to find the man he loves. He's fighting, standing his ground. He is finally able to be himself and say his feelings directly and out loud. He is Ed.
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*me double checking that Fire Force is still on your fandoms list bc it's been a minute and a half*
YEEET REQUESTS!! I'm so excited to see them open again! Also I really hope you're hanging in there. I've been thinking of you as you go through this difficult time, my friend. 💖
*drumroll* OK OK so I've been having serious Fire Force brainrot this past week (I really gotta rewatch it, I love that show 🔥), so I come to you with a humble request for lee!shinra and ler!tamaki (the lucky lecher lure gal, bc I always get her and maki mixed up 😅)
I don't have a ton of specifics but the general idea is that Shinra absolutely cannot function when she tickles him; he gets so flustered he doesn't know whether to fight back or just let it happen 😂 (though I do hc that he would at least be coherent enough to cover his eyes in case her lure kicks in to protect her modesty, which only makes him more vulnerable to tickles and - you get the idea 😈)
Only if you want, as always, my friend! Can't wait to see what you do with this prompt if you decide to take it!! AND HAPPY FALLLLL I'M SO EXCITED FOR COOLER WEATHER!! 🍂🍂🍂
AHH NYM! *running jump hug* I'm so glad to hear from you! :D And with a Fire Force request HELLO? *squeals* God I haven't written for these guys in so long; this was so refreshing and lovely! (And girl SAME!!! It's their hair I swear- they both have the same dark put up look and face akljrekarjkejrj)
Oh my god Lee!Shinra my BELOVED! I've gotcha covered, girl! (got a little shippy at the end whoops! My hopeless romantic side; it gets the best of me lols) This was so fun to write, and I hope you like it! :D (AND YES LETS GO FALL!!!!)
In Shinra’s defense- it was a total accident.
“AH!” Tamaki screamed, arms shooting up to cover herself as she was splashed with water. She had been leaving her prayer session with Iris when she crashed into Shinra carrying a water pitcher.
“I’m so sorry! Here!” Facing away, Shinra yanked off his shirt, offering it to Tamaki.
“Why are you stripping?” She squealed, flushing as red as he did.
“I’m not! I’m trying to be a hero!” He cried back, still refusing to look. When he felt his shirt being taken and heard the sound of her pulling it on, he dared a peek. “Sorry, Tamaki…”
“It’s fine- I’m covered.” She sighed, pulling at the hem of his shirt. It was so big on her- falling mid thigh. At least the bottom of her prayer robes were dry. “Thank you. That would have been an awkward walk back.”
“Hm!” Shinra nodded, still looking rather flustered. A tense silence passed over them both, both too awkward to say anything. “Well- I better go! Um- keep the shirt! Bye!”
“Huh-Wait, Shinra-!” But he was already booking it away, leaving Tamaki standing on her own.
~~~
“And now he won’t even talk to me! It’s not like he really saw anything!” Tamaki groaned at the desk, poking at her lunch. It had been a few days since the lecher incident, and Shinra had been avoiding her like the plague. Anytime they crossed paths, he’d go bright red and give her a wide girth of space-avoiding her eyes.
It reminded her of the kids back at school. The old wound ached in painful memory.
“Hm…that is strange. Shinra never acted like that before.” Iris nodded around her spoonful of pudding, looking thoughtful. “Did he say anything else before running off?”
“Nothing I haven’t told you already.” Tamaki sank further, drooping with gloom. “I just want things to go back to normal. And to give him back his shirt.” It was tucked away in her room, folded and pressed. “He probably got tired of being polite and doesn’t want to take a chance with me anymore.”
“That’s not true! You know he’s not that kind of guy.” Maki reassured, reaching out and taking Tamaki’s hand. “You two just need to talk, that’s all. Put your guards down and just come out with how you’re feeling about each other!”
“Come out with…” Tamaki blinked, then she flushed bright pink, dropping her chopsticks. “What-wait, wait- Huh?”
“Too soon?” Maki shared a look with Iris, smiling a tad sheepishly.
“They’ll figure it out.” Iris stole Tamaki’s chopsticks before nipping a bite of her lunch.
~~~
“Feeling about each other?” Tamaki mused on her walk back to the bunks, shaking her head. Maki was in la la land again- she had to be! Why else would she ask such a question…
As if sensing her thoughts, Shinra appeared before her, eyes downcast in his own thoughts. He looked up just as she did. “Ah! Tamaki! Eh- hey!” He yelped, face red as he looked anywhere but her for an escape.
That’s it. Enough is ENOUGH.
“Oh no- you’re not running away from me!” Tamaki declared, more pissed off than flustered. Without really thinking about it, she charged at him, tackling him into the ground. “Talk to me! Why are you being so weird?”
“T-Tamaki! Let me up!” Shinra had his head turned all the way up, refusing to look back down. “I can’t-”
“What? You can’t be my friend anymore?” Anger curled into hurt, her voice cracking some halfway. “You’re done with me because of the lecher lure?”
“What? No- Not at all!” Shinra looked back at her, panic replacing his nerves. “Tamaki, that’s not it-”
“Then tell me!” She cried, returning to anger. “Tell me what the problem is!”
Shinra opened his mouth, but nothing came out. He looked like a fish out of water, the words stuck in his throat as he helplessly looked anywhere and everywhere but her. “I….I can’t say.”
“Why not?” She glared.
“Cause…cause it’s embarrassing!” He covered his face with both hands, flopping back into the ground. “You’ll hate me.”
“....” Tamaki stared at him. Then- without warning, she grabbed his sides, squeezing.
“AH! Ahehehehehhehe!” Shinra arched at the touch, giggling. “T-Tahahahamki!”
“I don’t hate you- I don’t think I could ever hate you.” She nodded, feeling rather ruffled. “And I don’t care how embarrassing it is- I want to know! It’s the least you can do after all that time ignoring me!”
“I’m sohoohooohhrry! I prohohohohmise it’s nohohohot you!” He cackled, hands covering his face as he kicked and squirmed. “Whehehehell it kihihiihihinda ihiihiihihs? Ahehahahahahha Tahahahhamahahahahki!”
“Which one is it? Is it me or is it not me?” Normally she’d be more irritated by such mixed signals, but Shinra was talking to her again- well; laughing with her anyway. She scritched her nails along his belly and waist, giggling when he squealed. “For a hero, you’re sure bad at talking about yourself. Out with it!”
“AHehahahahahhahhahaha! Noohohohooho, dohoohohohohn’t tihihihihihickle me thehehehehhere!” Shinra’s hands shot to hers, stopping midway. “Nohohoohooho fhahahhahahhair!”
“Too scared to touch me? Afraid you’re gonna get burned?” She teased, squeezing along the underside of his ribs and making him scream. “Fine by me- I get to keep tickling you! Now- TALK!”
“Iihiihihihiihi cahahahhahahn’t! He squealed, face flushed a pretty pink. “TahahhamakIHIHIHIIHII!”
“I’m waiting~” She had switched over to his legs, squeezing his knees with both hands. “You know- cats do this.” She began kneading his upper thighs, further driving him wild. “Talk to me or I’m going for your feet!”
“TAHAHHAHAMKI NOHOHOOHOHOHOOOO!” He howled, punching the ground repeatedly as he thrashed about. Tamaki wasn’t bluffing- she’d absolutely go for his worst spot. “PLEAHHAHAHHASE MEHEHEHEHRCY!”
“Are you gonna talk?” She gave him a small break, stretching out until she was pinning his legs with her body, flicking off a sandal. “Or are we gonna have to get serious?” To further her point, she shaped her hand into a cat paw with her pyrokinesis. Her trademark trick- Shinra was gonna DIE. “Last chance.”
Shinra gasped for air, hands covering his face as he tried to compose himself. The words rattled his ribs, desperate to be heard, but it was just too, too much! “Tamaki…”
“Hm.” Was all she said at his tone. Then her cat paw attacked.
“AH!” Shinra couldn’t speak- he couldn’t think. He couldn’t really do anything at that moment. The second those fiery claws touched- warm and fluffy despite what they were made of- he was racked with ticklishness all throughout his body. It was like she’d found the one bundle of nerves that activated the rest- making every tickle spot on him burst to life. “AHEHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!”
“Wow- and I thought you were bad without the claws.” Tamaki mused with an impish grin, delighted. Shinra was a mess, flailing behind her like a fish out of water as he guffawed. His face was getting redder- and his smile; normally a nervous tick- looked so real and genuine it made her stop breathing for a moment.
Stop breathing…Oh sh-
“Shinra! You okay?” She stopped, remembering that air was kinda necessary to live. Upon ending her tickles, Shinra curled into himself, hiccups breaking up his giggle fits as he twitched in tickly residue.
“Ahehehehe…hehehhee…I’m ohohokay. Nothing to wohohorry about..” He reassured her, easing her worry. When he could breathe normally again, he rolled onto his back, covering his face with a hand. “Sorry…”
“Huh? Why are you apologizing? I was the one tickling you to near death.” Tamaki shook her head- then paused. “Oh wait- this is the earlier thing, right?”
“Yeah. I…” Shinra dropped his hand as he willed himself to look at her. “I’m about to tell you something…and I don’t know how you’re gonna react, but please hear me out.”
“Okay…?”
“Right. So…erm.” Shinra seemed to shake, mouth pressed into a thin line as he willed the words front and center. To her surprise, he seemed rather flushed- a new shade of pink coloring his already hot cheeks. “The reason I’ve been avoiding you…it’s erm..my shirt.”
“....huh?” That was it? “But- you lent it to me! If you just wanted it back-”
“No! No- that’s not- that’s not it.” Shinra quickly cut in, flushing even more. “God, why is this so hard to say? I…I don’t know what happened, but when I saw you standing there in it…something kinda clicked.” Shinra sat up, looking at his hands as he spoke. “I erm…I…”
Tamaki blinked at him, taking it in. Then her eyes grew wide, cheeks warming as the realization hit her. “Shinra…are you confessing?”
Shinra seemed to flush more, but then he nodded.
Put your guards down and just come out with how you’re feeling about each other!
She internally apologized to Maki for doubting her intuition.
“I guess I am…I’ve er- kinda liked you for a while now. I figured at first it was just us bonding, but then I started seeing, you know? How you light up when we decide to get something good to eat, or how you never give up on your ambitions and goals to get stronger. How you sing to yourself when you’re cleaning up or cooking, and how you always play with your hair when you’re in mid-thought. I just…” Shinra shook his head, smiling a small but real smile. “I realized when I looked at you in my T-Shirt: ‘Wow. I’m falling for this girl.’
But then I panicked and ran cause…yeah.” Shinra chuckled sheepishly, finally looking her in the eye. “I’m not…entirely sure what I’m doing here. I’m probably gonna mess up a hundred times over before I get it right, and I’m sorry if I do. But…if you’d have me, I’d like to be more than friends, Tamaki.”
More than friends…Be still, her beating heart. Looking at Shinra, hearing him speak in that soft voice- the voice he seemed only to reserve for her she realized now, her vision grew blurred. Shinra’s nervous smile grew panicked at her tears, but before he could do anything, Tamaki threw herself into his arms, knocking them both over once more.
“You’re so stupid, Shinra.” She said against his chest, no malice in her voice. “Of course I’d have you.” She sat up, gathering her own courage. “You’re the first real person that didn’t shy away or avoided me- not with the lure, and not when everything was said and done. You saved me more times than you’ve realized. You’re my hero, Shinra. If you’d have me…I’d like that too.”
Shinra seemed to stop breathing. Then he was smiling, really- truly smiling. “Tamaki…” He brushed his thumb over her cheek, cupping her face as his other fingers played with the loose strands of her hair. She leaned down to kiss him-
“Devil! Lady Tamaki- what are you two doing at this hour?” Arthur’s cry of surprise sent Tamaki stumbling, crashing into Shinra’s chest. Amazingly enough, her lure didn’t kick in. A small blessing in a mess of flustered moments.
“Arthur, could you PLEASE not shout? You’ll wake the Lieutenant!” Shinra growled, helping Tamaki up before turning to his roommate.
“Apologies- a knight king as myself must always make sure his kingdom is safe.” If he caught on, Arthur didn’t say- but there was something a bit knowing in that smile of his. “My energy bar is running low- I must recharge. Good evening.” With that, he turned on his heels, disappearing back into the room.
“Odd as ever.” Shinra laughed, shaking his head. Tamaki snorted in her hand, just as amused. “Still- we better call it a night here; who knows who we’ve woken up with our antics.” Shinra swung their hands together before leaning in, pressing a kiss against Tamaki’s cheek. “I’ll see you tomorrow?”
“Sounds good. Goodnight, hero.” Tamaki squeezed his hand in return before letting him go, making her way back to her own room. Shinra signed in content, leaning into the wall beside him.
“So the devil does have a weakness.” Arthur’s voice broke him out of his thoughts, startling him. “Two weaknesses. Good to know.”
“Why you- GET OVER HERE!”
Thanks for reading! :D
#Fire Force#tickle#tickle fic#shinra kusakabe#tamaki kotatsu#Whoops I fell down and now I ship it lols#I just really love lee!Shinra kajrkjaekjrajker#some ShinTama for the soul anyone?#akrkjaerkjeajkajkerjkearjklae
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ALRIGHTY here we are at weeks three and four for the santa clauses series! I did not rewatch a second time because genuinely, these melted my brain. anyway, lets get into it below the cut!
So apparently according to the tsc tag, episode 3 that I missed last week is a sort of filler episode? OH BROTHER REALLY
Normally I would not complain bc I miss old format, 20-23 episode series but because I know this Isn't That? DREAD. how are you going to plot well and good in 7-8eps if some are filler? that is just SO condensed, my guy
Counterpoint to people who were sad about it but: I thought the teen romance was annoying and I'm GLAD they ended it even JUST for a bit (it will come back to haunt again, trust. It’s a disney series ffs.) Whoever is writing this needs to ask a teen about how they talk nowadays. This is not it.
I also think we're driving the whole "Buddy is terrible at everything" punchline WAY past its breaking point. Which I would argue was last season entirely, but. At the very latest, last episode with how heavy on cringe it was. Yes, EVEN for kids/teens.
Again, they are not antagonizing Magnus Antas enough for me to hate him. waaaaay too funny to be a villain. I can't take him seriously and DON'T want to
The way that Noel keeps sideyeing the Betty cutout as if to say "do you see this shit?" during his brunch with the Clauses SENT me tbh. That's bernelle coded and I love it
I do not know why Disney gets OFF on the Clauses being absolutely inept parents but I wish they would stop
SHOUTOUT JUDY OMG JUDY'S ACTRESS THAT’S JUDY JUDY IS HERE YOU GUYS (SCREAMINGGGG)
LOVING the exterior shots of the workshop and Elfsburg. As someone who has POURED over all available screenshots from the movies of those I am LIVING for new angles (even though I do NOT think bernelle would live that close to the Workshop, but it doesn't seem like Betty and Noel can POOF like Bman and Elle can (and do))
I don't know why there are TWO instances of a "misspoken turn of phrase" in this episode but neither were funny and TWO OF THEM was REALLY bad
CHUBBY BUNNY DID NOT EXIST THAT LONG AGO. NOT IN MAGNUS ANTAS' TIME. THAT WAS AN INTERNET FAD LESS THAN TEN YEARS AGO. WHAT ARE WE DOING DUDE. WHAT ARE THESE WRITERS ON (it's not good, I don't want some)
Crossing guard callback? For what? (okay, shrug I GUESS dot meme)
Why does this specific franchise always have to make EB SO WEIRD. WHY. Nothing about this is funny it's just off-putting. Just like the previous EB flirting with Carol's MARRIED MOM in tsc3
This Carol and La Befana scene was actually very good. LOVE it when they actually just let the characters be HONEST with each other. Women supporting women core. Even if Carol's reason for being mad at her was really shallow and obviously stems form Carol's lack of identity as Mrs. Claus because they just cannot wrap that plot point from last season up.
THE LETTERS DEPARTMENT. It looks dope but HATE the explanation for it. Half assed as hell. WARNING! Rant incoming: like from what I know a LOT of postal services have little lore stories about how they get the letters to Santa. WHY COULDNT WE JUST SAY THERE ARE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN SANTA AND OTHER ADULT PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE FOR OTHERS AS WELL? Why is this series so obsessed with making everything only powered by magic and never by others (yes, humans) who want to keep the spirit alive as well? It feels like magic is being used as an "explain it all away" crutch narratively. Even in season 1, the "solution" to mass consumerism wasn't for people to be kind to each other and do little things to keep the magical parts of Christmas alive, it was to show the world that magic was real. Season 2 so far, the answer to everything is also just magic. I'm hoping that maybe the B plot with Kris will touch on this. Because as it stands right now, it feels like the writers are talking out of both sides of their mouth. Commercial Christmas is bad, but Kris is a loser for having a Santa theme park. Like?? Homogenization of Christmas is the Big Bad at large, but also up at the Pole they are trying to find ways to do the same thing to be "current". CHRISTMAS IS MULTIFACTED. It is both secular and religious! That is OKAY, I don't even think "woke" people are arguing about that. Sheesh.
Can't believe I'm micro rambling IN my ramble post. New achievement unlocked omg
The way Magnus Antas picks up on modern slang so quickly practically puts Scott to shame. Good for him
AGAIN, the misturn of phrase jokes. DEAD. Not funny. STOP
If they are going to make Sandra so op that she can just Wanda Maximoff chaos magic "I just say something when I'm mad and it happens, anything I want with no negative impact on me" I will not find that swag. That is in fact Mary Sue territory, lads
Sandra's little outburst @ La Befana was giving magical nepo baby for a moment there. Oof. "Too bad I'm just naturally more skilled than you even though I'm new and you've been a witch forever" girl SHUT. UP. You are like a little baby. Also that is so mad disrespectful like no WONDER La Befana is wanting you to slow tf down. You fly off the handle WAY to easily and we ALL know you lose control when you do! Okay loose cannon! Werk!
Riley. Girl. "we never see each other" you were just up at the Pole?? Like. OFTEN?? This is so stupid of a breakup but they are teenagers so go off kids, be dysfunctional or what have you. Rah rah, as Jack would say
Episode four now, lord help us. God has cursed me for my (loving this one Christmas movie series) hubris and my work (watching it's hellish series spin off) is never finished
"Reversing a transformation is never a guarantee" what is this La Befana? the Sims? Sounds like transformation ray odds. Magic is not THAT unpredictable, even by in-universe logic
CURTIS-ITIS!??? CURTIS FUCKING EXPLODED??
ARE YOU SO FUCKING FR RN. SO BERNARD IS MARRIED TO A SENIOR CITIZEN AND CURTIS. FUCKIN VAPORIZED?? FROM STRESS? WHAT'S NEXT? Lemme guess, Judy joined the circus. Quintin is a crypto investor or works for Tesla. WHAT ARE WE D O I N G
Not Scott moving the scissors like he's afraid Buddy will shank him or others?? SIR
SANDMAN AHHHHHHHHHH HELLO SIR /POS :D
So they just con him? As though that's a long term solutio-- OH MY GOD NOT SCOTT USING SANDMAN'S SAND ON SANDMAN HIMSELF?? that's ILLEGALE?? According to tsc3 lore: "We legendaries can't use magic on each other?" I am so bewildered by the level of retcon occurring before my very eyes at BREAKNECK speed
Sandra doesn't need magic she needs THERAPY for her ANGER ISSUES bruh. Damn. She doesn't need a rage room (in someone's house too I might add? okayyyy) she needs to learn to process like a normal human being wtf
Scott being able to look like his normal self whenever he wants and they just didn't tell him? For like. 25 years? Like its clear that by the series standards, the elves think he's a total moron. But it pendulums hard and fast between "haha funny joke" and "damn they really think he ain't shit, huh"
Edie being a fashion diva is such a serve she's grown on me this season ngl
"I had to teach him how to do all the Legendaries jobs" Scott I know you're waffling, absolutely FUMBLING but what the FUCKKKKK is that excuse??? What's Cal going to do? Be EVERY Legendary? TERRIBLE AWFUL HATE IT UNINSPIRED. Not to mention, SOME OF THE OTHER LEGENDARIES MIGHT NOT TAKE THAT NEWS WELL. Some might even feel THREATENED
"The man I die for in my sleep every night" UM? Noel? You okay there bud? Holy heck
THE PURPLE JACKET IS SWAG AND SCOTT IS A HATER. HE CANNOT SEE THE VISION
Do you guys think according to this new lore Edie made Jack's suit? because me thinks PERHAPS
Magnus Antas is kind of popping off, damn. Like I think if the gnomes hadn’t given him MAJOR delusions of grandeur and an ego trip, he could have stayed totally a vibe. But stop giving the Santas snow powers and reconning Jack holy SHIT dude. First Scott now him? HATE IT
The way they made Scott and Cal look when "invisible" is Not a Good Look heck. Its like a bad picsart filter
These Scott visions. I get why, its through the Santa magic, right? But dang its corny
So Scott knows Magnus Antas is back now. Okay. They got away from him. Lost visual on Olga, have a bad feeling she somehow sneaked into the sleigh. Weird cliffhanger but EVERY episode has been like that so far
Final thoughts: I feel like they're definitely trying to make this season take itself less seriously, but I feel like the trade off is that the writers are taking too many liberties for diversions from source material and are therefore, losing the plot entirely and retconning movie lore at will and convenience. Tl;dr, it's messy. Concepts are fun until things just become so irreverent they fall apart or lean into entirely unfunny territory. Which is just a hallmark of T*m All*n brand humor, tee em, but you know.
It feels like this series is doing everything and nothing. It wants woke points, but immediately doubles back and makes fun of those same things. It wants us to feel empathy for these characters, and immediately makes them insufferable. I am so confused as to what the takeaway is supposed to be. It all feels so poorly executed--the series retcons itself constantly, not to mention the movies. I want it to be fun, and to take it at surface value, but if you know literally anything about the movies, that becomes a challenge to do. I'm just so confused dude.
I will be shocked if this gets a third season. Truly.
Also, I miss Betty too, Noel. Wish this whole season was about HER shenanigans, instead.
So. See you all next week then?
#coping is our number one skill in this household huh#don't get me wrong! thrilling to have new tsc content to talk about but at WHAT COST#ana liveblogs tscs#I am also nearing a point where I can safely say I hope they don't show more legendaries if this is how they are going to TREAT THEM#tscs spoilers#the santa clauses
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PLEASE tell me about the admiral and gallo plain!!!
Oh fuck yes The Admiral has been on my mind a lot lately, thanks to @timmy-jims-and-the-shindills lol
It's an AU I started writing a few years ago that I'm in the process of reworking now. Originally, it was set around the same time as Mando, and the Ghost crew infiltrates an old star destroyer for intel on the rebuilding Empire and run into Lyste, who's now an Admiral. Lyste ends up having a come-to-jesus and finally defects, feeding the Republic intel to help them destabilize whatever efforts the Empire has been making to coalesce.
As it stands now though, especially after Ahsoka came out, I've been wanting to revisit it and adapt a few things. The two biggest changes I've landed on so far is that Lyste is going to be a commander, not an admiral, which I think makes more sense and adds more tension to the story. I've also decided it will be set closer to the fall of the Empire, so probably not long after the destruction of the second Death Star.
It's full of intrigue and espionage and angst and also my silly little Imperial OCs. I just think Lyste deserves more attention, okay??
"Lyste, put the blaster down." Kallus's voice was steady. Diplomatic. "Please."
Lyste let out a humorless laugh. “Oh, ‘please’ is the last thing I expected to hear from you!”
He was only a few years older than her, Sabine remembered, but he was already going grey around the temples.
“After everything you’ve done.” His voice trembled slightly. “After everything you’ve done, how do you honestly expect me to react? Hm? You break into my ship, you kill my men, you threaten my command-”
“What the Empire is planning to do with this data is-”
“Planning? How could the Empire plan anything like this? We’re defeated! Destroyed, all thanks to you and yours!”
“Exactly! The Empire was defeated, yet its remnants still try to wreak havoc on the Galaxy! Lyste, clinging to the past isn’t going to change the fact that-”
“YOU WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM ME AGAIN!”
There was silence between them for a long moment. Lyste’s breathing had become a bit labored.
“You left me there. Alone. At his mercy.” His voice was hoarse. “Did you know what they would have done to me if they believed you? Did you care?”
This caught Kallus off guard. “I… I hadn’t thought that far at the time, no.”
“Of course not,” Lyste whispered. His gaze, and his blaster, fell just a little. “...Of course not.”
The Gallo Plain fic is a silly little thing I started writing last time I rewatched Red vs Blue. The Empire is going through a command overhaul where they're reorganizing a whole bunch of stations all at once, so Kallus gets reassigned to a little base on Lothal for about a week, just while they finish moving everyone around. The problem is that this is a dinky little base in the middle of nowhere that kinda slipped through the Empire's cracks, and the five troopers stationed there are taking full advantage of that by goofing off. Kallus tries to whip them into shape. It doesn't go well. It's an interesting week for him, to say the least.
It stood out against the unmoving yellow grasses of the surrounding plain, its gleaming metal walls blinding in the afternoon sun. Kallus started toward it with sweat already dripping down his back. It was smaller than he expected, actually, just one mid-sized building in the middle of an otherwise empty field, the sharp angles of Imperial architecture a stark contrast to the smooth bluffs around him.
As he approached, he saw a figure outside the main door. One of the troopers, clearly, although he was stripped down to his blacks and… reclining in a lounge chair? Kallus wondered where he even got a lounge chair, and why he was allowed to sit out in plain view, out of uniform, with his hands tucked behind his head and his eyes closed under the obviously non-regulation sunglasses. Kallus made a mental note to issue a formal reprimand and have a stern talk with his CO as he stopped in front of the man, his figure blotting out the sun and casting a shadow over him.
“Listen, Jenkins, if I’ve told you once I’ve told you a thousand times. Don’t interrupt me while I’m on watch,” said the trooper, turning his head towards him but keeping his eyes closed. “Got to keep the base secure. Rebels never sleep, you know.”
“It seems you do, however,” growled Kallus.
The trooper’s eyes shot open at the sound of his voice, and he scrambled to sit upright and pulled his sunglasses off.
“Oh, karking hells, the ISB! Whatever it is, I didn’t do it. Shavit, I mean– Sorry, sir– Agent, ah, kriff.”
Kallus watched coldly as the trooper stood clumsily and brought himself to a sloppy attention, then kicked the chair away in a vain attempt to hide it from view.
“Welcome to Gallo Plain Base, Agent, uh… Kriff, Agent…”
“Kallus,” said Kallus, his voice dripping with disdain. “You should have received a formal message from command about my arrival some time ago.”
“We did, sir, it’s just…” The trooper cleared his throat, then continued sheepishly, “We thought it was a joke, sir. Or maybe sent to the wrong base by mistake, I dunno. Point is, we um. We didn’t believe you were actually coming.”
“Is that so,” said Kallus, the scorn in his voice nearly palpable. “Well, it seems my work here is cut out for me.” He moved past the trooper towards the main entrance. “Gather the men, I’d like to address them,” he said over his shoulder, “And put your armor on, for gods’ sake.”
Thanks for the ask! I'm excited to see where these go eventually, especially the Lyste fic.
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BL Fight Club: Because if I can’t ship ‘em, I want ‘em to fight
Let’s have a gangland rumble!
What was I thinking? Why didn’t I put these two against each other sooner? I already have their partners in a battle, read that one! My friend Lolly made this suggestion and I just rewatched KP on New Years and binged H3T again this past weekend to get the ultimate fair fight. Let’s get it on!
Kinn Theerapanyakul (KinnPorsche) vs Tang Yi (History 3: Trapped)
Kinn Theerapanyakul is a mid to late 20’s acting head of a mafia family in Thailand
Tang Yi is a 29 year old head of a mafia family in Taiwan
Both of these guys have IT. ALL. Team of body guards working for them? Check. Torture room for their captured enemies in their homes? Check. Great hair? Double check. Initially unwilling partners that become absolutely whipped for their men? Duh. Suits that fit them so well it should be illegal. Swoon. Do both couples spend time in the forest handcuffed to each other falling more madly in love? Tee-hee. The similarities that Kinn and Tang Yi have are pretty endless.
But the differences are glaring. Tang Yi feels such a devotion to the men working for him he is willing to do anything to make the gang go legitimate to give them a chance at a normal life. Kinn doesn’t care so much about his bodyguards tho….why didn’t any of them have bullet proof vests? RIP Big. No one person is bigger than Kinn and in turn his father Korn. Tang Yi’s adopted father sacrificed himself for the gang, even his birth father did 28 years in prison to advance the mission of the gang. They are one of the most selfless mafia families I have ever seen!
Kinn and Tang Yi both don’t have a problem getting their hands dirty. Tang Yi will put those brass knuckles on and eff people up bad. But he isn’t going to do the dirty wet work himself, he leaves that to Jack which does make him lose points. Kinn DGAF. He point blank killed two of his subordinates in front of his others no flinching. Kinn is not wrestling with the thoughts of going legal because doing morally wrong or grey things don’t give him pause like they would Tang Yi.
This small advantage will put our winner over the top.
Winner: Kinn
Theme music:
A random picture of Chris Wu who plays Tang Yi…yes please
#bl drama#bl series#thai drama#taiwan drama#bl fight club#welcome to my fight club#fight club#spotify#kinnporsche#kinn theerapanyakul#mile phakphum#history 3: trapped#tang yi#chris wu#[jj reviews]
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I have an actual idea for a possible story for Shiny and the weasels! I mean like something that could be a multi chapter fanfic?? I'll never get around to it, I know. But I still wanted to tell you about it since I think you might like it ^^
Somehow, the weasels are brought back to life, sans Smartass since he needs to be drawn again (I'm still figuring this out, though). But it's the 70's-80's, now. Toontown is so different, and the boys stick out like sore thumbs. They all run into Shiny while she's on the run from the police. I'm debating whether or not the five of them all manage to run away, or they all get brought to the station. I'm leaning more towards the latter, though, since Shiny actually recognizes them all and can see they are struggling with adjusting to modern Toontown, and offers her assistance in exchange for theirs (with what, I'm not sure. By now, Shiny has mostly moved on from the burlesque life and is mainly a home brewer who dabbles in various crimes. Maybe she tells them she needs help covering her tracks, or she wants to get out of Toontown. I'm debating it 😅).
I'm kind of imagining the exchange happening similarly to Chel and Miguel and Tulio from The Road to El Dorado (which is kind of fitting, since I recently rewatched the movie and it was what inspired me this plot XD)
Greasy, absolutely not checking Shiny out while regarding her with suspicion: And why should we help you, eh?
Stupid: But why not? She's trying to help us!
Wheezy: Not for free, though...
Shiny: Ah, you're right. Why should you? I mean, after all. You all definitely know what's been happening in Toontown, all the three decades you all have been dead.
Greasy: =_=
Shiny: You are all very much aware of all the secrets these toons, old and new, have. You already know the new laws that have been laid out...
Weasels: *glancing to each other*
Shiny: Oh! And we can't forget your designs!! You don't at all need to know how to adjust them to fit in with the times? Of course not. Especially not from me, who's been at this since the 30's-
Greasy: !?!? There is nothing wrong with my style!-
Shiny: So you don't need my help? To keep the pigs off your tails while you figure out how to bring your boss back? I'm certain they'll be so understanding with you boys trying to dip the whole town-
Greasy, waving his hands to get her to shut up before the guards overhear: Alright! Alright, we can negotiate, hermosa...
Yeah, this idea is still half baked. But I'm thinking that for a sequal fic with Griny, this is how they get together. I also have a scene in my head where, after they start to get closer, Shiny and Greasy sit down together with a box of photos she has from her whole life. Some of them just places Shiny wanted to remember, some of them with her coworkers who have all gone on to do their own thing. Some of the photos just Shiny all on her own... And in the middle of this, while looking at some photos of Shiny in her club days, Greasy wonders aloud how he never heard of such a beauty when he was alive. And Shiny just shrugs, saying how they probably did see each other. He's a hound, and she worked in the profession that Greasy would have dumped his money in the most; he most like was one of her clients at some point, "But neither of us cared enough to actually see each other. Not like how we do now." Just a very deep moment between them both that shows each other how they think and how far they've come.
//This is adorable! I'm seeing Shiny meet up with the boys in like, a jail cell and her reaching through the bars juuust slightly to persuade Greasy and grind him down. And them being in the 1980s is a yes from me as you know 😆 40 years on, how things have changed, how they will continue to change etc.
As for Smartass being brought back to life I did read a fic once where the weasels got his old model sheets and found a photo copier that worked like a reanimator and brought him back that way and he's conpletely disorientated but soon his memory starts to jog. I'd be curious to see just how much he remembers from their old job and fighting Eddie Valiant. And of course, Greasy finally getting a woman who can keep him under her thumb understand him! 😂
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Rewatching winx season 4 for nostalgia and realizing how wierd some things are
Episode 9
Yes we get it ogron, you want the white circle, no need to keep repeating yourself.
Ah yes Jason queen, I hate him
No musa, friends don't have anything better to do when you're on an important phone call
Thank you bloom for jumping to help
The last time we hear musa be the lead singer in this season :(
Cute artu~
Why didn't roxy have the circle from the beginning
You of all people? What do you mean bloom?
Thank you helia for being the only one with common sense
Sky you can't ditch your job for a surfing contest, you either brandon
Riven and nabu Bonding, awwww
Hah! I take it Sky and Brandon can't actually surf
Stella, please do some couples therapy, you're opinions on dating aren't really very healthy
King erendore? Oh wait I forgot this happened
Flora is right and I loved blooms oh no, she sounds so resigned
Artu is so smart
How exactly does nebula know roxy's name?
You know the first time I watched this I assumed nebula was a witch, forgive me but I think all of her actions here lead to that assumption
Why is Stella getting the vision of roxy?
They walked out so awkwardly
Didn't the girls just leave the bar? Now they're back inside as if they never left
Didn't musa read the book of fairies? She should know about the wings
Hah! Duman's reaction was funny
Yeah beat his ass girl
I find it both odd and yet very realistic that the wizards don't recognise nebula
Oh wow nebula's pissed
Love how all but ogron dodged, shows how his power effects his fighting style
Wait? She waited for centuries? Again with the lack of consistency with the time line people
You know what would have been cool? Roxy transforming into nebula's fairy form
This whole ass fight looks so pathetic
Run away boys, run away
How old is nebula if she was in the book of fairies?
How are defense shields supposed to help?
..... that somehow worked?
Also love nebula talking to roxy out loud while possessing her
How the absolute hell did that work?
Love the personality change, roxy would've totally freaked out if this were the first few episodes
Also love how nobody's questioning the man dressed like royalty with GUARDS in a bar talking to waiter about royal responsibility
Speaking of the royal seal....
Hah! He guessed right
The pawn shop owner must be absolutely baffled
That has to be morally questionable, why did you do that musa
Erendor has very good points, but still whose ruling erakleon?
Couples adorableness, naaw
Also good job riven, your really trying
Surprised nothing broke on that crash
SEXUAL INUENDO!!
This episode is summarised by Sky and his dad are about to cause a political crisis, and Roxy's brain has been stolen by bling.
Episode 10
Roxy is the most realistic character here right now
I love how opposite bloom and roxy are, meeting magic one embraces it the other rejects it
Stella you own a business, of course you work alot
Seriously, how does belief in magic weaken the wizards? They had magic before humanity forgot fairies
What's up with musa?
Stella, please don't, at least one person will think your insane
Wtf tecna? What frequencies? Do humans give off frequencies when in trouble, what are you searching for panicked screeches?
Thank you for asking the good questions musa
.....bloom..... WHY DID YOU PUT ON THE CIRCLE WHEN YOU SAW WHAT IT DID TO ROXY?!
No, no, turning a pet into your double to take care of a shop is a terrible idea, aisha
There is no need to apologise for perfectly reasonable reactions roxy
Isn't the loft directly above the shop? Where is musa going to meet riven?
Aaaaaaaaawwwww nabu's shirt is too big in such a cute way!
That man in the background looked so confused why the girls presented the door to tecna
The girls in the shop vaugly remind me of the trix, wouldn't that have been a plot twist lmao
Haha, this is backfiring so bad!
Why did the girls gasp? The knew Stella was going to say that
Also that guys reaction would probably be mine too
Haha! I already said that someone is going to think they're crazy
I'm not going to coment on the riven/musa drama with Jason here, it annoys me so much
Jason is just so oblivious to all that's happening
Stella already convinced several humans about fairies, just do what you did before?
Roxy is so wise for her age, and so right
Useless mcguffin wings, they could just fly (but I do love the designs)
Noooo, we don't actually hear musa sing?
Safety rule people, don't crowd around a burning building it could collapse and you are taking away the authority's attention
That dude barely even cares he's looking at mythological beings hes just worried about that poor family
The call for help sounds like Stella
The little girl looks like miele
THEY HAVE BUTTERFLY WINGS WOMAN WTF DO YOU THINK THEY ARE, DEMONS?
the wizards are immune to fire, they just walked through it
THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, COLLAPSING BUILDINGS!
just casually going to leave while taking this random girl with us- wonder what the bystanders thought
Super hearing residents
Riven, think before you speak
Jason, don't talk about situations you don't understand even with good intentions
I said the idea of turning pets to doppelganger is a bad idea
#winx club#winx helia#winx aisha#winx anagan#winx bloom#winx brandon#winx duman#winx flora#winx gantlos#winx musa#winx stella#winx tecna#winx sky#winx nabu#winx riven#winx timmy#winx club reaction
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Mal's Future Sukka Headcanon Timeline (Part 1)
hi guys, i'm currently in the middle of an atla rewatch so y'all know what that means: i'm being insane about sukka again. i've finally worked out my personal headcanon future for them after the events of atla and the comics, which i will be sharing here.
this post is basically just a bulleted list of events that happen. things they do, when they have their kids, more things that happen, all up until the events of tlok, which i tie in. (i currently have two different 'tie-ins', depending on how angsty i feel).
a few points before we start:
no, suki did not fucking die young
sokka is not suyin's father
i gave sokka and suki A Lot of kids. 12, to be exact. yes, you read that right. i will explain further in the post why they have so many and what allowed them to successfully raise such a large family
i've published a fic with sukka babies in it, however my timeline is now different from what i wrote then. that fic is of course still staying, because i love it, but it's no longer part of my 'personal canon', if you get what i mean
and finally, just remember this is my personal headcanon timeline for them. don't like it? go make your own headcanons. i'm sharing this because i love talking about sukka and their future together, i'm not trying to insist that This Is Definitely What Happened. it's all for fun!!
so, without further ado, let's into the timeline stuff <3
after the events of A:TLA, Sokka and Suki then spend the next few years helping out as Team Avatar. Suki splits her time between guarding Zuko in the FN and traveling with Aang, Katara, and Sokka
by the time they're 18, Sokka and Suki know that they've found 'the one'. they both know that they're endgame for each other. sure they're young, but why wait?
i like to imagine they elope on the battlefield. fighting some baddies or another, one of them is like 'hey, we should get married!' and the other is like 'i love that idea! aang, you're the avatar, you have the power to marry people, right?'
they get battlefield eloped, but end up having a 'proper' wedding with their friends and family when they're 19
they're ridiculously in love and very happy to be married
so, they weren't planning on having kids right away. they're very young, there's plenty of time for that in the future
however, life has some other plans for them
Suki gets pregnant very soon after the wedding. like, right after the wedding, honestly
at first she doesn't really want to believe it. but eventually she can no longer deny it, and it's time to face the music
i want to emphasize here how complex feelings can be about pregnancy. Suki wants kids, but she feels very thrown off by getting pregnant so quickly and so young
but she and Sokka make a wonderful team. although they're both worried about the future and what it will look like as a family of three, they begin to get excited about welcoming a baby
their first baby is a little girl they name Yuki, born on a warm spring night on Kyoshi island
and while in some ways their lives do change, it's much less than they expected
both Sokka and Suki take to parenting like fish in water
so now they're just continuing their regular jobs and adventures, but with a baby in tow
Sokka with a baby carrier lives rent free in my brain tbh
for a while things continue pretty normally. Suki is no longer in charge of guarding Zuko, as that's a bit more dangerous than she's comfortable with, she's still the leader of the Kyoshi warriors and all that entails
and then Suki finds herself pregnant again, when Yuki is about seven-eight months old
this sort of forces her and Sokka to reevaluate their plans
Yuki is a great baby. but soon enough she's going to be a toddler, and they'll have a second baby to take care of
when Suki is too pregnant to work anymore, they have to make some decisions
they love their kids. they love their family. they love their communities. they love their jobs
after some discussion with the rest of Team Avatar, Sokka and Suki elect to take a step back from all the Big World Peace missions
they want to raise their family
their next baby is born, another girl that they name Saya
everything starts to feel right
as much as they love helping out the entire world and bringing about world peace, they also love raising their little family together, being able to benefit from the peace they've helped create
nobody blames them for this, of course. they've done their part in saving the world. now they get to live their quiet life and raise their kids in a peaceful world
they still work, of course. Suki still leads the Kyoshi warriors, and Sokka is always in close contact with their friends, giving his advice wherever needed. he's just not traveling as much, staying home to look after his babies
now is a good time to point out that Sokka and Suki are amazing parents who take a very equal role in raising their kids
they also have a very close-knit community to help them out. Kyoshi island has such an emphasis on community. there's always someone to help out. their kids are taken care of in equal part by their parents and the larger island community
this strong community is a major reason why they end up with so many kids. they have the support system around them to do so
Suki gets pregnant again when the girls are 3 and 2, and has another little girl that they name Umari
time passes peacefully
Umari shows waterbending abilities right after her second birthday. a bit unexpected but not totally surprising
around this time Sokka and Suki decide to move to the southern water tribe for a time, to help Umari harness her waterbending
and at this point Suki decides it's time to hand over her mantel of leadership to another very capable warrior. she can't very well lead them if she's living in the south pole
it's a very bittersweet moment for her. she's adored leading the Kyoshi warriors. she'll always be a Kyoshi warrior, of course, just not the leader anymore. she's sad to leave them, but at the same time she's in a new phase of life at this point, and focused on being a mother
and before anyone says any kind of bullshit about Suki giving up her career for motherhood, i want to emphasize that that's not a bad thing, when it's the woman's choice. being a mother is important work. Suki was not forced to give up her career to be a mother; she was successful at being both for a while. but she chose to give up her position as leader for the benefit of her daughter learning waterbending in the SWT
and in the SWT she still works. there's always plenty to do
soon after their move she and Sokka welcome their fourth daughter, who is named Kyiasa
and then Hakoda decides he wants to retire as chief
Sokka, as his son, is technically next in line
and Sokka loves his tribe. he's happy to serve as their chief for a few years and help rebuild
so they stay in the SWT for a while
during this time they welcome two more babies, both girls. Akedi, born three years after Kyiasa, and Kanna, two years after Akedi
Gran-Gran Kanna passes away right before Kanna 2 is born, which is where she gets her name
Kanna also happens to be a waterbender as well! Oh yeah and Kyiasa is an earthbender, which absolutely nobody was expecting. Apparently Suki had some earthbending ancestry she never knew about
eventually though, Sokka decides to step down as chief as well. his family is still growing, and he wants to be present for their childhood
with the SWT more stable, the family decides to move back to Kyoshi
one of the first things they do when they get back? have another baby lol
they welcome their first son: baatar
at this point, with the kids getting older, it allows them to do more traveling
they spend time on Kyoshi, time in the SWT, time in the Fire Nation, time in Ba Sing Se, time in Republic City
the kiddos all love traveling
and of course, Sokka and Suki are still having more babies. they're wonderful parents, they love their kids, and Suki has a relatively easy time with pregnancy and childbirth. why not?
again, the emphasis on community. it's only through this supportive community they are able to have all these kids
they welcome more kids: Senna, Iknik, and Kio
at this point Sokka and Suki are in their late thirties. when Suki goes years without getting pregnant again, they assume they're done having kids, and get happily settled as a family of 12
life goes on
then, five years after Kio's birth, Suki finds herself unexpectedly pregnant again. wild
they happily prepare for their eleventh baby
but life has one last surprise for them
omfg i've run out of room. to be continued!!!!
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Hello honey!
To be completely honest, I know basically nothing about Poe... I only knew the Annabel Lee poem and the raven. Other than that I was completely lost. I want to look up all of the references that were used and then rewatch the show again with this knowledge in mind. The whole show was so aesthetically pleasing with a great horror story that has a cool deeper meaning. Plus, I just enjoyed watching the family die cause they were all terrible people. Camille has hot boss ass bitch rights though, this excuses her behavior. House of Usher is my second favorite Mike creation, after Hill House. Then Oculus and Hush. Bly is too sad and Midnight Mass too boring to be mentioned. AND YES VERNA AND MADELINE!! I GASPED WHEN THEY KISSED. Younger Madeline is so hot, I loved her in the Scream TV show. My favorite scene at the end was when Verna put the personal belongings on each of their graves. It showed again what kind of person they all were and what was most important to them. Beautiful.
Excuse me ma'am, where did you hear that?? I only heard about Jenna because she is booked and busy but even she wants to make time for Scream. I absolutely LOVE scream but not with Sam in it even more. If Melissa is not in it I will riot!
And this or next weekend, we will get a 5 month old central Asian Owtscharka puppy!! I'm so excited!!
Annabel Lee is probably my favorite poem by him. I only know so much about his work because the high school I went to had an English class that was only literature like that; and we would read Poe’s work for about a month. You should definitely look up all the references and then rewatch it!! I loved the reference to Roderick and Madeline sealing his boss up in the wall, based off of The Cask of Amontillado. They ALL were shitty people, but I did kind of like Viv. Camille automatically gets a free pass, she basically did nothing wrong compared to the others. I haven’t seen Oculus or Hush, but they are on my watchlist. Gerald’s Game is a good movie by him that I really loved, but there’s one scene that messed me up 😬 The only thing that was interesting about Midnight Mass were those angel things. THEIR KISS CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD, BUT I LOVED IT!!! Is it bad that I’ve never seen the Scream TV show? That final scene with Verna was so chilling and the impact it had was astonishing!! Roderick getting the whiskey glass was chef’s kiss
I’ve seen it over the past couple of months on Twitter about Mel not being in 7, but I highly doubt the new directors will exclude her. I mean, without Mel and Jenna, there goes half of their audience. I need to see Sam in her tank tops or else I will lose my mind!! We can riot together
When you do get the new puppy, I would love to see some pictures of them!! I googled some pictures of the breed and they are so adorable!
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some fun details i’ve found in my owl house season 2 rewatch:
we all know this frame, and the ingredients to make a Grimwalker: a Galderstone (as seen in Gus’s episode Through the Looking Glass Ruins), Stonesleeper lungs
aka this little dude:
who was asleep in the Collector’s tomb in the skull of the Titan, and who Phillip DEFINITELY murdered.
also needed is Palistrom wood (which i’ll get back to in a sec), and Selkidomus scales. but for the first time I realized that the first time we meet Hunter as the Golden Guard, he has, in fact, been tasked with hunting the Selkidomus.
therefore this whole episode becomes about Hunter, a clone of many past murdered clones, being given a mission to hunt down an ingredient to make a new clone, presumably that will be used after Belos kills him. meaning Belos is already planning on killing him and making a new one, and is making Hunter unknowingly participate. fun, right?
and since we’re already talking about Belos’s plans to kill Hunter, huh. Why is the Grimwalker tome laying out like that in the first place, flipped to the instructions page? I’d like to point out that we are told over and over again that Belos quite literally kills people when they fail their missions. take Kikimora after the debacle at eclipse lake:
she fails one mission and is on threat of death. which brings me back to the Grimwalker tome. why does Belos have it out? well my friends, just for context, the last episode we had about the two of them was in fact Hunting Palismen, where Hunter famously failed his mission to return the Palismen. Therefore, we can assume that Belos was already either sensing ‘disloyalty’ from Hunter or imagining it, but either way he was preparing to start over.
speaking of Palismen! Palismen wood is specified as Keratin, which is a protein that makes up hair, nails, and, yes, skin! this one is a bit more obvious, but not only is Hunter made up of dead Palismen,
THAT’S Palismen wood baby. Mr. 400 year old decaying man is keeping his skin looking good by harvesting Palismen wood, one of its many uses, I’d imagine.
while we’re on the topic of Mr. 400 years old, I do want to mention this line in Elsewhere and Elsewhen, which is thrown away right before Luz and Lilith decide to time travel:
Not only did the emperor know Lilith was going to travel back in time, he wanted her to. He designed it. This man was scheming the entire season and I didn’t even realize it.
This post is long enough so I’ll get off my soapbox, but I’d like to conclude with just a hearty, what the fuck, dana. what the fuck.
#the owl house#long post#also not even gonna talk about how they tested kikimora in that episode and i'd bet hollow mind was all about testing Hunter#boop beep#oh also i forgot about luz testing all the glyphs in phillips margins and finding the petrification one#which was used to kill one of the golden guards#i'm just too tired to add that rn
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[McCoy/Spock] Bread and Circuses ficlet
I found an old thing from the time when I wanted to write Bread and Circuses related fic, but I don’t think I’m gonna work on it again anytime soon (or ever). Since I rewatched the episode yesterday and saw this in my folder, I decided to dump it here~ I hope you enjoy it! (even though it’s just a rewrite)
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The booing coming from the loudspeakers in the arena grew louder, and the gladiators became frustrated, voicing their dissatisfaction with both Spock and McCoy. Spock knew he had the stamina to last for several hours, but McCoy was already brought to his knees.
Spock’s stomach twisted.
“Do you need any help, Doctor?” he called out to McCoy, watching him struggle under Flavius’s sword.
Spock did not mean to anger McCoy, yet that was exactly what happened. Frustrated and furious, McCoy made several strikes at Flavius, shouting back at Spock. To Spock’s astonishment, as if the fury at him fueled McCoy’s tired body, McCoy got back on his feet.
Flavius seemed to lose his patience and attacked McCoy with all of his strength, charging at him with murderous slashes. McCoy stumbled and fell, Flavius’s sword aimed at his neck.
Something squeezed around Spock’s heart, and he attacked his opponent for the first time. Not thinking about the consequences, he disabled him quickly and raced across the arena. Avoiding Flavius’s slash at his torso, he immobilized him with a Vulcan nerve pinch.
They were immediately surrounded by guards, guns aimed at them. Spock glanced at the Observers’ Booth. He had broken the rules and endangered all of them – himself, McCoy, and Jim. The shame and guilt rose inside of him. By saving McCoy, he might have started an even worse fate for their captain.
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Shame, guilt, anger, frustration, anxiety, worry. All of them stirring in Spock’s stomach, in his mind, as he tried to pull the iron bars loose.
He put the Captain in danger.
Spock had seen McCoy laying on the ground, a sharp blade mere inches from his neck, and Spock’s body acted on instinct. No thinking, no hesitation. It had not mattered if he was shot down by the guards. It had not mattered if he was struck down by a blade. McCoy was in danger, and Spock could not just stand by and let it happen. Not when he could prevent it, and a doctor’s life was more important than the life of the first officer.
But a captain’s life was above everyone else’s. They needed to escape and find him.
The bars rattled, but they did not move even an inch.
“Angry, Mr. Spock? Or frustrated, perhaps?”
Spock was aware of McCoy’s eyes on him, but he wished he would not speak. Not now. Not when he could not afford any distractions.
“Such emotions are foreign to me, Doctor,” Spock said, keeping his voice cool. “I'm merely testing the strength of the door.”
“For the fifteenth time.” McCoy sounded amused.
Spock hid his irritation and continued looking for any weaknesses. They had no time for pointless conversation. They needed to escape. But McCoy had something else on his mind. He stood up and came to stand next to Spock.
“Spock, uh,” he started, his voice gentle. “I know we've… uh, had our disagreements.”
The embarrassment in McCoy’s voice was most uncomfortable. Spock uselessly held onto the cold bars.
“Maybe they're jokes. I don't know. As Jim says, we're not often sure ourselves sometimes.” McCoy chuckled.
Spock needed to make him stop. It was not the time. He did not want to remember. He did not want to be reminded.
“But what I'm trying to say is—”
“Doctor, I am seeking a means of escape. Will you please be brief?”
Their eyes met. McCoy’s expression was defenseless, open, inviting.
“Well, what I'm trying to say is you saved my life in the arena.”
McCoy’s smile brightened up his whole face. It was blinding. Feeling a strange flip in his stomach, Spock suppressed it. Hard. It needed to stop.
“Yes, that’s quite true,” Spock replied, cold and impatient.
As expected, McCoy’s soft, amiable expression fell, and he exploded. But Spock did not want McCoy’s gratitude. He did not want to be on the receiving end of McCoy’s emotions and warm feelings. Not when he was eaten from the inside by shame and guilt. Not when Spock had acted emotionally and run across the arena to save McCoy from certain death.
Not when they could not be sure that their captain was safe.
“Doctor, you must remember I am entirely motivated by logic.” Spock was not sure who he wanted to convince. As he continued speaking, he felt McCoy’s heated gaze on him. He focused on loosening the bars again when McCoy pinned him to the wall by his shoulder. Spock let him. He knew he had lost.
McCoy’s quiet fury and intensity tore into Spock’s shields, cutting into every fiber of his being. McCoy was so close, the warmth radiating from his arm seeping into Spock’s shoulder. Spock could not bear to look at him. He turned towards the bars, and McCoy’s hand fell.
“Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine, warm, decent feeling.” Spock was aware that McCoy was deeply hurt by his refusal to accept McCoy’s gratitude. It radiated from him in waves, getting through Spock’s shields. He needed McCoy to step away.
Spock tightened his grip on the bars and focused his mind, repairing his shields. When he was sure his face did not betray his inner turmoil, he turned to McCoy. “Really, Doctor?”
McCoy’s eyes flickered and he broke their eye contact, his whole body relaxing. There was an inexplicable sense of satisfaction that Spock managed to make McCoy finally give up.
"I know," McCoy said. "I'm worried about Jim, too."
Both of them knew that the last minute had nothing to do with the Captain, but Spock accepted the truce gratefully.
#spones#Leonard McCoy#spock#star trek tos#my writing#this was probably one of the very first spones things i've written actually
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I’ve been thinking about it lately and I think that the sigils makes people weaker.
--To give a quick recap of how magic works in TOH, Eda explained it in The Intruder “Everything depends on the spell circle. The bigger the circle, the more powerful the spell.”--
In the body swap episode (Once Upon a Swap) is when you realize just how stupidly powerful Eda is. The reason why I say this episode is because when Luz is in her body, she accidentally makes so many spells that are extremely powerful and she’s not even drawing circles.
When Luz does draw a circle (which she does on accident) it’s massive.
That means, making a circle this big is something that Eda could just do.
When the Basilisk invaded Hexside in The First Day, it was only the kids that wanted to study wild magic that were able to take it down.
In Agony of a Witch, when Eda and Lilith have a real fight. In the fight Eda says “[...] how pathetic are you [Lilith], that you can't best me at my worst?!” And as much as I love Lilith, Eda’s right, she is pathetic. This fight is five minutes long, Eda has already been losing her magic, and she’s losing it faster as the fight goes on. Everything is in Lilith’s favor yet she’s losing.
In the end, Eda only “lost” because of the Owl Beast and because Lilith manipulated her. Without those other factors, Eda would’ve definitely won.
*Before anyone mentions it: I know that Lilith doesn’t have a sigil. But Lilith isn’t a Wild Witch
In Young Blood, Old Souls, when Luz ran into Belos, she was not only able to hold her own against him but she got a clean hit on him. Yet Luz has only been learning magic for about a month by that point.
In Through the Looking Glass Ruins, Bria mentions that no one has been able to find Galdorstones but since Luz gave Gus him glyphs, they therefore had the power of Wild Magic on their side and became the only people to get Galdorstones.
In Eclipse Lake, Amity was able to singlehandedly take down Hunter. She only “lost” because Hunter manipulated her. One could argue that it was an unfair fight because Hunter doesn’t have magic but I’m against that. Hunter is a well established fighter. The fact that he’s “the youngest Golden Guard” is a testimony to his fighting abilities. So by all means, this was a fair fight.
I just rewatched Elsewhere and Elsewhen and a scene that stands out to me is when this kid makes an Abomination.
This one kid made a giant Abomination with a tiny circle. And this Abomination is very similar to a lot of Amity’s yet she uses much bigger circles to get them to be that big.
To use an example, in Covention, this is an Abomination Amity made with an enhancer.
The circle Amity makes here is so much bigger than the kid’s and yet the Abomination is still much shorter than Amity.
*Once again, I do know that Amity doesn’t have a sigil.
In Labyrinth Runners, Gus took down Adrian, a coven head, not only by himself but on accident. Yes, Gus is a prodigy but being a prodigy can only take you so far. Gus is still a 12 year old kid that’s still learning how while Adrian has years (if not decades) of experience that Gus doesn’t have AND a magic amplifier. Bump himself even brought this up how pathetic it was for them to lose against a bunch of teenagers. So by all means, Hexside should not have come out victorious. But they did and I think that this is because wild magic is more accepted.
Also, this post has pointed out that Odalia might not have a sigil but Alador does. So if my theory is right, that does explain how Odalia was able to easily overpower Alador in their fight.
Overall, what I’m trying to say is that Wild Witches consistently had a certain upperhand that Coven Witches simply don’t have.
#toh#the owl house#toh seaon 2#the owl house season 2#toh theory#the owl house theory#luz noceda#eda clawthorne#edalyn clawthorne#lilith clawthorne#odalia blight#alador blight#amity blight#Gus Porter#augustus porter#belos#emperor belos#the not spoiler house
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Monthly Muppets/Pirate Month: Muppet Treasure Island Review!: The Darkest and Most Tim Curry Muppet Film of All (Comission for Emma Fici)
Hello all ye swabs and welcome back to pirate month, my look at a bunch of pirate media as we sail out of summer, as well as Monthly Muppets, my monthly look at muppet media as comissoined by my good friend emma.
Today’s film is one I did see as a kid but hardly remember as did my co-pilot for this one @jess-the-vampire. I dont’ remember hating it but I do remember drifting off, findng parts boring and only remembered cabin fever and part of Kermit and Piggy’s duet. Little Me was just ambvalient to it unlike say Problem Child , Heavyweights or Little Rascals which conversely i’d watch on loop at my grandmas. Classics one and all that i’m bound to cover someday (Or sooner if you want to comission it, wink wink)
So it took me until the tender, innocent age of 30 to not only watch it again.. but to truly enjoy it. Dosen’t mean kids can’t, i’ve heard plenty of people loved and grew up with this one, i’ts just the weird ass path i’ve taken in life I suppose. On rewatch.. this film was excellent if not at all what I expected. I mean it is in ways; i’ts an adaptation of a classic british novel , done because Christmas Carol was a huge hit so the Muppet Crew wanted to keep going down this road, and as far as I could tell production went well. While Tim Curry wasn’t the first choice in mind, they also had the equally great casting of David Bowie and the baffling casting of Mic Jagger (who is a great musician but just dosen’t have Curry or Bowie’s Charisma), in mind, otherwise productoin went well and while the film didn’t do great in the box office, thus leading to muppets from space, the first film covered for this feature, it as should be clear did great on home video.
What caught me off guard.. was the tone. See I forgot just how seriously Christmas Carol took things, essentially being an almost straight adaptation of the book but iwth some muppety jokes and the various muppet cast members dotted about and playing apporirate parts. Still fully muppety but far more serious than the usual madcap antics. Treasure Island takes that and runs with it, but while Christmas Carol’s darkness comes from the fairly dark subject matter, a bitter greedy old man, the things that he lost becoming this way and the horrible things to come for him and those around him should he stay th ecourse, this is an adventure story and being an adventure story written before censors stepped in for children.. it’s one shockingly paved in blood and something that the movie mostly stays very close to. The OPENING SCENE is a dead serious and wicked cool musical number, and as has been standard since Labyrinth i’ll get to those later on their own, about pirates, dead men telling no tales.. and that ends in Captain Flint MURDERING most of his crew to keep the treasure secret. We don’t see it but most muppet productions don’t open with cold blooded murder for pure greed, nor are most bits of mupet violence played dead seriously like this
And this isn’t a tonal clash: While there are PLENTY of jokes, and all time great ones for the muppets as a whole the story and it’s stakes are mostly played dead serious. And you’d THINK this wouldn’t work.. while the muppets can have truly good truly deep stories, see the 2011 movie, usualy their more in the line with personal drama when drama does crop up. The muppets usually don’t do big sweeping adventure stories. Yet.. it works pefectly. The jokes are spaced out well from the dramatic scenes and the action set pieces, so the transition isn’t jarring. For instance at one point Tim Curry’s Long John Silver valiantly holds back his traiterous crew to save Jim, our human lead more on him in a sec, we get some space to progress the plot more with Jim, and then we cut back to an all time great gag as his crew literally hand him a black spot (a black spot, aka the black death, was seen as a polite vacation certain doom. Full credit to jess for just casually knowing that) The film can be as madcap as a muppet film needs to be, with it’s all time best bit being the roll call
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I saw this on tumblr years ago and it’s lived in my head with ME paying it rent for the pleasure of staying ever since. One of the best muppet bits period and one of my personal faviorites. I mean you have this, yet it dosen’t detract from the story.
Getting into the story so we have context, and because it makes it easier to get into some bits, the story follows Jim Hawkins, a young lad played by the equally young at the time Kevin Bishop. He is incredibly good in the part despite his age, being a bit shouty (as child actors tend to be) but still earnest, heartwarming and when needed steadfast in his convictions. And i’m proud to say Bishop had a career after this, mostly tv but he IS the current voice of 2D of the Gorillaz, and that will never not be the highlight of anyones resume.
Jim is an orphan, a slight change from the original where his parents both lived and his dad only died shortly into the story, but one that makes sense: it streamlines things and makes his close friendship with Gonzo and Rizzo, who are apparnetly also children? It’s Vauge, and both were SUPPOSED to be in jim’s part entirely, but the execs figured the two just didn’t fit for the emotoinal core of the story.. and were right. The two are amazing characters but they just don’t WORK as a wide eyed 12 year old boy. Granted that leave sme scratching my head why they didn’t just use robin, the actual child in the muppet troupe, but Bishop was great, so it worked out.
Jim toils at an inn for a selfish boss who can always tell what anyone says “how does she do that”, listenting to the stories of Billy Bones played by Billy Connoly, who has pride at being the only person killed in a muppets film to die on screen. The landlady, Mrs. Bluvridge is played of course by british icon Jennefer Saunders. Always a delight to have her pop up in something. While most of the pub thinks bones is full of rum soaked barnacles, turns out he was righ tin the tale he tales, of being one of the only ones to know where Captain Flint’s treasure is via a map he stole. Naturally he gets beset by other pirates, and Jim and co barely escape thanks to Jennifer Saunders FIGHTING THE PIRATES OFF. God I love this job.
They convince the son of a lord, played by Fozzy, and his assitants played by bunsen and beaker who naturally had a gunpowder mishap shortly before meeting our heroes, to fund a trip. Unfortunately the rich dimwit son trusts the tiny man in his finger to hire the crew
So while the captain is the utterly stalwart, kind and resonable Smolett, played by Kermit the frog here, and his first mate the stick in the mud who wants to commit attrocities in Smolett’s name only for Kermit to say
Or somethign like that, the rest of the boat is a wretched hive of scum and villiany, and to no ones shock are both the ones behind the attack on bones and the former crew of the traitorious captain, all lead by the MVP for the film, the man with the sexiest non-keith david voice in the world, the sexiest man to ever put on panty hose, and that’s a long list, and one of the coolest guys to ever live, Tim Curry, playing Captain John Silver.
Curry is the best part of the film, and yes i’m aware it’s a film filled with the muppets at the top of their game. He’s the rare actor who upstages the fucking muppets, and he does so with gusto, playing the roll of Long John Silver to the hilt, and doing so better than I’ll wager anyone ever has. I could be wrong as i’ve barely seen any adaptations of treasure island, but I doubt I am.
He plays Silver as smooth, charming, able to easily bond with young Jim and quickly taking the kid on as a surrogate son, genuine in his love for the boy and care for him. That said he’s also cunning, ruthless and when he goes full ham he goes FULL HAM, with a wonderful song we’ll get to later to show that off. He’s at the same time threatning and charming as all hell because i’ts tim curry, it’s what he was born for. He’s clever, ruthless, and cool, yet also can be funny as seen with the black spot scene and his musical number, without ever breaking character. He plays off the muppets without missing a beat and the film would not be as good without him as it’s core. And that’s INCREDIBLY rare to say for a muppet movie, but it’s the truth; Tim Curry takes the film seriously when he needs to and has fun the whole time, and this is to this day one of his faviorite rolls and makes me even sadder he’s retired. He’s a swashbuckling badass bar none and the gold standard for pirates for me now on... well okay much like the gold standard for sexy voices it’s a tie but in fairness.. his competttion is VERY steep
So yeah Curry rocks as silver and rolls easily, with him and Kermit playing move for move. Kermit is also amazing in this, being a tough but fair captain, only taking jim’s map when it’s clear the danger of someone stealing it is too great and almost, ALMOST beating silver: after Jim overhears he’s behind the mutiny, Kermit plans to MOTHERFUCKING MAROON THEM FOR A YEAR. It only dose’nt work because silver, being tim curry, is one step ahead and takes jim.
And Silvers relationship with Jim is another key part of the film, as the two geninely bond and the only thing you can trust about silver.. is that he cares for the boy. His attempt to make jim join them dosen’t seem born out of ego or neceisity, he could simply just toruture the boy into it or have his crewmates back on the ship bring someone as a hostage.. but he dosen’t. He wants Jim to join him because he wants his son back, gladly defends the boy and kills poor dead tom at gunpoint when that fails, and the final confrintation between the two is truly heartbreaking. We’ll get to that. Curry and Bishop play off each other wonderfully.
For now though, our heroes thankfully sent a landing party of Steed, Gonzo and Rizo. Unforutnatley they run into the weakest part of this some wild pigs
Not you pal, but it IS nice to see you again.
No it’s another stock “savage natives’ sterotype , who have made piggy, aka Benjamina, a CHOICE for a name instead of just calling her benni since she’s adapted from a male character. I am so fucking tired of running into this crap in my reviews. Like i’ts not just general racisim. I’ve seen plenty of that too. but this kind of stupid shit was in everything and i’m glad i’ts gone because this was irritating and Piggy really adds nothing to the film. She has a romance plot with Kermit.. and that’s about it. Their number as they hang off a cliff together is also a crime for the ears.
So with that we cue the music for a second. And the music here is mostly really good.. but what isn’t grinds the movie to a halt. So let’s talk about them
The opening number, Shiver Me Timbers, is an omnious, forboding and perfectly mood setting piece, and easily the films second best number, with only one we’ll get to topping it. It woudlnt’ be out of place in any work with pirates and should be mandatory for pirate works but alas, not the world we live in.
Something Better is a VERY boring, very typical “I WANT A BETTER LIFE BY GOSH BY GOLLY” number. It’s nowhere near the best in it’s genre and just wasted 2 minutes of my life instead of really adding anything. Could’ve been cut without any real issue.
Sailing for Adventure on the other hand captures the spirit of adventure the other song was going for MUCH better as the crew of the hispanola sings their hearts out about the voyage and it is awesome. Flawless, no notes.
Cabin Fever is the most fun song and a wacky number where all the muppets aboard not part of the plot bar fozzy and the ambigoiusly gay duo have a party have a ball. A true bit of fun.
Professional Pirate is my faviorite. It’s also tim Curry’s main song and as should be clear anytime tim curry sings it’s fucking trancendant. Though we already knew that LONG before this movie
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It should be also mandatory tim Curry sings this in every work he’ sin, but sadly not the world we live in once more.
Love Led Us Here Blows. It’s a power ballad between kermit and piggy, and we’ve not only got better love ballads from both, but this one goes on for an enternity. The only entertainmetns is the weird cuts to the pirates findign the gold and partying, the best being the shot I used as the main one for the review: Tim Curry grinning ear to ear while making it rain. As bad as that song is, it gave us that and i’ll give it that.
The final song is Love Power by Son of Bob Marley. It’s a generic Reggae Song and is only MARGINALLY better than Love Led Us Here. It dosen’t fit the film at all, feels horribly out of place and feels like the most “Stuido Mandate” thing i’ve seen since the Iluminati section of Multiverse of Madness
The climax to the film before that though is great as we get a full on action scene that works with the muppets.. and Sam, who was sent away on a dinghy but I forgot, who is THE ONLY verison of mr. arrow to surivive suprisingly enough, boogtey boogetys the pirates into fear and allows our heros to save the day. we also get kermit swordfighting tim curry and doing backflips
It’s the scene after that’s the real climax, as Silver attempts to sneak away with a few treasure chests.. only for Jim to confront him. It’s utterly heartbreaking, with Jim wondering why Silver did all this, and Silver admitting he can’t turn back, it’s too late for him.. but that his love for the boy, for his son.. was never in question. Both are clearly heartbroken.. but both have taken a path the other can’t follow; Jim has found a family who values his honesty and inegrity and Silver can’t be a part of it. The best he could do is stay and be executed.. so go he must as the two tensely stand off, Jim with a whistle, Silver with a pistol.. and Silver backs down, unable to hurt his son. Turly effecting stuff, especailly Kermit who was there.. and who says Jim did the right thing. Our heroes take off for wherever adventure takes them, Silver ends up with his boat sinking (an original additon though him somehow escaing is part of the story. Weird), and we’re out
As you can probably tell this film is awesome it’s only problems being love lift us up and the piggy subplot that feels tacked on just to get her into the movie. Seriously cutting that could help the film’s pacing amazingly and get rid of some good old 90′s racisim. Everyone wins. But otherwise.. this film is a masterwork, it’s rightfully loved and I recommend checking it out. As for where it ranks with the muppet films i’ve covered so far, well thanks to letterboxed instead of typing you, I can just SHOW ya
It sits at a comfy #3 as while having a weaker plot, I felt most wanted was slightly stronger, though both are pretty close in quality.
Next Month: It’s time to hit the big apple as the muppets take manhattan! Will I like it better this time than I did first seeing it years ago?
But find out next month and thanks for reading.
#the muppets#muppet treasure island#tim curry#jennifer saunders#pirates#pirate month#treasure island#kermit the frog#miss piggy#fozzy bear#gonzo the great#rizzo the rat#jim hawkins
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And now this guy’s here! Can’t go an entire episode without showing off YOUR favorite character.
(yes you, you know who you are)
Turns out the Emperor caught wind of the Blights’ little private sale and is not too pleased with them essentially providing the people with a private army.
I think I mentioned last season that Belos was clever in the sense that he knows how to stay in power without having to resort to shows of force. He was willing to let Eda & Gang escape from the petrification ceremony if it meant the citizens of the Isles stayed complacent. He even managed to spin a story about how it was all the will of the Titan.
This too is a clever move. Removing a large company, banning their products, or imprisoning its owners might cause a ruckus. But buying up their product and even hiring them to further develop it in the name of the Empire’s glory? Some potential customers might be a bit miffed, but they are less likely to start whispering dangerous lies about their wise and merciful leader…
Random note, but I kinda miss the old outro, I think I liked it better.
Anyways, that was Episode 2! I very much enjoyed it. The reveal of the Blight parents, the return of Willow, Gus & Amity and some juicy lore around the glyphs were the obvious highlights. It even had some nice action in the second half and you know I like me some action.
As per usual, I rewatched the episode in one go and here are some things I either missed or forgot to mention:
•Momma Blight uses the Mittens nickname. Either she came up with it, or Alador, or the twins did and it just stuck.
•Amity was keeping a photo of her new friends with her during the presentation and it’s making me feel a little soft on the inside, all squishy in my guts. It’s either that or the banoffee pie I ate earlier.
•After Amity easily destroyed the first Abomaton at the start of the episode, Momma Blight hurriedly announces a second presentation next week. As it turns out, they did hold a second presentation, presumably next week.
•There’s a sign in the Park’s residence saying ”Home Teeth Home.” Is it just a pun, or clever foreshadowing that one or both of Willow’s dads are dentists? Time will tell!
•Luz is starting to blush back at Amity. The mutual attraction is growing! Finally! Don’t get me wrong, hilariously oblivious Luz is hilarious, but it can get a it old after a while.
•I spotted Alador’s Abomination Coven brand on his wrist. In the scene where he calms down Odalia after the presentation ended. Just as he takes this hands off her shoulders you can spot it, for split second.
If I had one complaint about this episode, it’d be that Willow & Gus really didn’t contribute much. Don’t get me wrong, I love them and it was good to see them again. But imagine for a moment that Amity didn’t go get them before running off to save Luz. What changes? Nothing. They did nothing to help save Luz. They didn’t even help get past the guards, Ed & Em did that. Again, this is a minor complaint, I just think it’d’ve been nice to see them do something.
The Blights, the Blights… what to make of you?
The impression I get from this episode was this: Odalia is an overly controlling mother. She is obsessed with her family’s status and riches and will push her children (or mostly Amity) to be the best… even if it ends up hurting them. Alador is a bit harder to pin down. He mostly appears to be very apathetic to everything going on around him. In the end, he does end up convincing his wife to let Luz, Willow & Gus back in Hexside; he even snaps at her, though only for a brief moment. He then calmly reasons with her and plays to her desires. I get the sense he avoids conflict… even when he shouldn’t.
I want to briefly mention the twins. It is implied in earlier episodes that they get away with more stuff than Amity. This makes me think that Odalia was unable to control them and they turned out to be trouble makers, which is why she exercises more control over Amity, to make sure her potential isn’t squandered.
There is probably more I could say about the Blight parents, more speculation and theories, but I think I’m gonna end it here. I get the feeling they and their relationship with Amity is gonna be important in future episodes, so we’ll save some juice for then.
If you excuse me, now I gotta go and read up on medieval siege engines and boulevards. Until next time, take care of the planet Earth and remember that anything can happen in space!
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I haven’t posted on here in a while but I got inspired on my rewatch of Entrelazados. I’m a big Mallegra shipper so I had this idea for a missing scene in the timejump in the finale. Hope y’all like it!
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“Whose idea was it to adapt my manuscript as a musical in 3 months?” Caterina exclaimed as she sifted through papers
Allegra laughed as she handed her mother sheet music. “It was ours, Mama. But you have nothing to worry about, we’ll do it in time,”
Ever since Allegra had proposed redoing the theater as “Sharp Stage”, Coco and Caterina had immediately been on board. Coco had actually proposed adapting “Anos Luz” since Caterina had never been able to publish it and all 3 immediately loved the idea. They only had a few months but with Allegra’s love of musical theatre and Caterina’s writing, the process was flying along.
“I’ve been meaning to ask you something, sweetheart.”
“Yes?” Allegra said as she stacked some of the script pages together.
“The song you used for the auditions, how did you get Marco’s song?”
“What?” Allegra turned around sharply, dropping all the papers in the process.
“Ay, Allegra!” her mother said, annoyed. She started restacking papers
“Sorry, sorry” Allegra said as she tried to help, caught completely off-guard by the question.
“So how did you get it? Marco…died in the fire many years ago. He never got to release that song,” Caterina said with a somber tone as she remembered Marco’s love for music
“Ah, yeah. So..so…” Allegra stuttered as she tried to come up with an explanation.
It wasn’t like she could just say “I found this magic bracelet in the walls that time-traveled me back to 1994 and I fell in love with Marco while being part of 11-O’Clock. Oh, and I saw him die in the fire and was distraught so Felix convinced me to audition with the song because I didn’t want to do it anymore”
“Oh, when Felix and I went to the theater ruins, Barbara had lots of old tapes and that was with the stuff she saved. It inspired me, or he did. Anyway, that’s where” she babbled
Caterina nodded, a bit skeptical as her daughter was acting very strange.
“Mama, Barbara told me about Marco and his girlfriend, Laura. Um..what were they like? What happened to them?” Allegra asked, curious to see what her mom would say about her and Marco’s relationship.
“Ah, Marco and Laura,” Caterina said, wistfully remembering the two lovebirds. “They both died in the fire. No one knows what they were doing there but,” she sighed
“I do miss them. They were so in love, Allegra. When one of them would see the other, their eyes lit up. Laura was so talented, and so was Marco. They both loved musical theatre, and just music in general. Marco and Greta used to be together, you know,”
“Really?” Allegra feigned ignorance even though she already knew.
“Yes. Surprising, I know. But I don’t know, when Laura came into our lives; he was the happiest I’d ever seen him. They loved each other so much and..” Caterina wiped a tear way as she remembered her friends.
“Are you alright, sweetheart? You look like you’ve just seen a ghost,” Caterina said concerned. This zapped Allegra out of her stupor. Hearing her mother’s recollection of what Allegra had lived with Marco broke her heart even more than it already had. She couldn’t escape the image of Marco falling into the fiery stage.
“Um..yeah. I’m fine. I think I’m just..moved by the story. I feel a little tired, can I go lie down?” she said, trying to escape.
“I suppose. You’ll have to help me after dinner, typing out the new outline with songs. But go ahead, I’ll finish organizing.”
Allegra bolted up the stairs as she felt tears filling her eyes. She went to her bedside table and lifted the lamp, uncovering what she’d hidden underneath.
It was Marco’s guitar pick bracelet. The one he’d given her before he..
The tears flowed harder. She held the bracelet close to her heart and lied back in her bed.
“If only I could see you again”
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Ahsoka live reaction part two cause I'm late 'from halfway thru episode 4
Look they destroyed the map anyway Sabine
I feel like these light Saber fights would be more impressive with dramatic lighting
Anakin!!!!! And it's Hayden!!! Happy dance
The rubber of here's lekku is a little annoying, couldn't they try to make it look more life like?
LIVE ACTION CLONE WARS
LIVE ACTON REX!!!
THERES HOPE FOR YOU YET LITTLE ONE!!
Not quite sure who said ahsokas has no character development and not enough screen time, are we watching the same show?
Cool to see her without her headdress
Look how beautiful my girl is
She looks so happy!!!
Ok episode 6
Ngl, that bad guy is making a lot of sense, it is a cycle
Yes Sabine, what are you doing?
You know it the spoiler gifs I saw, I got excited that it was old corrie guards, but it's just rope :/
I have many questions. Like how did they feed that many people, and keep his uniform clean and pressed?
Ezra whennnn????
Little crab man is so cuteee!! Look at his little suit!!
EZRAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Ep 7
"Really? You should have said something. :D"
Oh I'm so happy to see sassy ahsoka back, and she's happy too :D
Hope we can see Ezra with his lightsaber again
Guy sounding like the beginning quote of clone wars ep
"Oh not this again" Sounds like something rex would say huyang lol
I don't have time for this says the girl who cheated death again
Sounds like ahsoka lol
Again! With the lack of dramatic lighting. Use the mist, make it rain, make it darker, something!! A light is not impressive in overcast weather.
Thankyou to the writers for making ahsoka sound like ahsoka "perhaps I don't have to ;)"
Glad to see storm troopers still can't shoot
Ep 8
Oh I like the shots for scale of how massive the ship is vs how small they are
So cool to see three lighsabers again, like the prequels
I wonder if he made it with ahsokas old blue ones. Did she get those back or were those buried?
Zombie stormtroopers, thats new
Ooh nice sword choreography
The Star Wars theme!!!
Run to hug your adopted son!!!!
So happy ahsoka got to retire somewhere nice :) she deserves some peace
OMG!! OMG OMG OMG ANAKIIIIIIIN!!!
Ok I am such a happy little camper, I really liked this series. It wasn't perfect, but I liked it and might just rewatch
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