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lizacstuff · 3 years

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Liza that 3rd fragman 👀 "if I was born a 100 times I'd fall in love with you everytime" Eda saying this is their last obstacle and nothing can separate them, serkan's "I'll be right back, close your eyes I'm here" If this isn't all a red flag for shits about to hit the fan then I don't know what is LOL (but also how cute to Edser look and them telling each other they love each other very much 😭😭😭)

That fragman is both the SWEETEST and the MOST OMINOUS thing I’ve ever seen. ALL AT ONCE.

Friends... we’re gonna go through some things. That being said, everything is going to be great. These writers have been solid so far, and I have faith they have come up with something really interesting to increase the longevity of this show. And I don’t know about you, but I’m prepared to go through some things if it means keeping Eda and Serkan for longer. (I heart them)

This show is about Eda and Serkan and their love story, at it’s core it’s a comedy, it will all lead to happy things, but... yeah, buckle up!

I have a lot of asks both about the fragman and last ep, so I’m going to answer a bunch under the cut.

Anonymous said: The fandom theories about episode 28 have gotten so wild that I literally think the most shocking thing would be if they actually got married and were not separated (emotionally or physically). What if the earlier painful episodes were to make us believe that things couldn't possibly go right in 28 and it's a reverse psychology trick?

You could be right! I like your thinking. I checked on twitter and I had to back away slowly. The juvenile temper tantrums were too much for me today.

Look, I think it’s clear something big is coming. It has to, there has to be something that shakes up the show. Some of the theories are more upsetting and catastrophic than others, but the writers won’t do anything that dings either character or their love for one another. Whatever happens will showcase the connection between these two and the chemistry between the actors, that’s the point of everything, and anything that does those things is gonna be a-okay with me.

@jan31 Hi Liza. Do you think we are going to see the wedding in 28 or they will leave it on a cliffhanger for next week. Lots of theories going round mainly cos of Neslihan saying new dimensions coming in episode 29, which could just mean married life etc. I have seen suggestions of memory loss, it's all a dream since episode one. I would personally love Eda to wake up like in episode one but for it to be a total turn around and she is the boss and Serkan the employee. Eda being robot yildiz appeals to me!!! I know it will never happen but leave me here with my dreams!!

I started the day at 90% sure they’ll be married in 28/29, but now I’m down to like 30% that they’ll get married in these episodes. I really, really want them to get married before whatever happens happens, because every scenario I can think of for this reset or starting again, seems like it would be better if they were married.

However, the shooting spoilers from today, make me question that. Namely the videos where Hande appears to still be wearing the ring on her right hand. We shall see, that could be for many reasons.

Honestly, though, I wouldn’t hate a memory loss storyline. Seeing one of them (and Serkan’s line in the trailer makes it seem like it might be him) lose their memory and have to fall in love all over again? There are worse fates for a shipper than getting to experience that all again but in a different way.

Anonymous said: Your response to the fandom drama anon was so good, it's exactly how I feel. While I don't know what the old posts that were like are (that's shady as fuck) I did see all the other drama go down and wow. The actresses def need to stay in their lane and some of the fans, hoooo boy, it's obvious they're young based off their reactions alone. Had to unfollow some people once I realized what they were like. Also some of the IRL shipping reminded me of col*fer stuff, reading into everything and blowing it out of proportion (which then gets picked up by paps....). But you're right in that at least the show related drama is tame compared to OUAT. But still, people being too careless even while they know the paps see everything and harass Kerem and hande (omg did you see the video of hande the other day stopped in the van and she looked so overwhelmed 😔)

You’re referencing this post here about yesterday’s drama.

Today Neslihan made it worse by addressing everything and claiming she didn’t like all those Hande-bashing posts because... wait for it... she was HACKED. Oy. Hackers got in and went back two years to like gross posts about Hande? Sure, Jan. While I don’t believe that for a second, I guess that at least gives her cover with Hande so they can all pretend it’s true and move on so it’s not awkward on set. But, yikes, she needs to consult a publicist, she took a narrative that was circulating in certain circles in fandom and made sure all her followers were aware. Not very savvy.

As for the paps coming after Hande, yes I did see her in the car, she did look overwhelmed. Back off vultures!!! That’s why I think Kerem sometimes throws himself to the wolves so that doesn’t happen. She always handles them like a pro, but you can tell she’d rather be anywhere else on earth than talking to them.

The pap stuff is worse than I’ve seen before, they’re like vultures circling for any conjecture (sometimes made up out of thin air) they can turn into a question and blame fans. OUAT actors dealt with nothing like this. Also I can’t believe they never ask about the show. Like after last week? They could legit ask about the sex scene which probably would have given them some angle on the actors that they wanted, (especially since it was too hot for Turkish TV) but they let that pass them by, and instead asked the same questions about being together that they never answer. Dumbasses. They are not only awful people, they are awful at their jobs.

In Van, the paps pay off crew members for info, they always know more than fans. Also I don’t remember stars of my shows getting this level of tabloid attention before. Except for on Riverdale, Lili and Cole generated that level of interest, and while I didn’t pay terribly close attention to them, I feel like they rarely talked to the paps, were just photographed. Also I don’t suspected the CW of calling the paps on them, but I suspect either the network or production company of sometimes calling them on Hande and Kerem.

Anonymous said: Do you think it’s weird that they didn’t touch the kidnapping at all in either trailer? They might not have filmed it in time for the 1st one but certainly the 2nd. And I’m definitely not complaining about the ones we got because its like a fairytale but the kidnapping was the cliffhanger...? 🧐 I think they should’ve just left the princes storyline at “he went back to his country” but then they didn’t so......

If they’d left his story at just going back to his country, then the Prince really wouldn’t have served his purpose. He was brought on to cause some sort of trouble, so they probably need him to cause the trouble before he goes, lets hope it ends with this kidnapping!

And to answer your question, yes, I do think it’s weird that neither trailer touched on it. On any other show I’d think it was a huge red flag, but on this show maybe not as much because a) there’s obviously a lot of romance in this episode, it’s not crazy that they are focusing on that to draw people in with the promos b) this show likes to do cliffhangers that end up being no big deal, that happens a lot.

Who knows it could turn out to be a big deal that shapes the rest of the episode in some unexpected way (Eda’s captured the whole episode and she’s dreaming about wedding prep, or... who knows) but I think it’s more likely that they resolve in the first 5-10 minutes and then move on. Since we know from the summary (not that I trust those) that Serkan goes on the bachelor weekend, it feels like the Prince is taken care of prior to that. I don’t think he’d leave her alone for a second if there was a chance the Prince was still a threat. Perhaps Babaanne is pissed he tried to kidnap Eda and tells them she’ll handle it herself???

Anonymous said: Semiha not being in the promo is highkey suspicious. The actress is promoting the episode lol. She's about to Evil Queen this wedding ceremony but you know what, I'm fine with whatever she has planned if they end up married at the end of the day. What's funny is that since a lot of fans these days will assume that there will be shocking negative plot twists, not actually having one here would be a plot twist so I hope the writers keep them together for whatever's next haha

You’re not wrong, at this point, having this wedding take place would be a shocking twist for all of us! As for Semiha... hmmm... it will be interesting to see what her reaction is to Eda being kidnapped by her pick of suitor. Serkan Bolat might be the son of the man indirectly responsible for her parents death, but he would never hurt her. Take note, Grandbag!

Anonymous said: Do you mind sharing your speculative scenarios?

After the trailer today, I don’t know if I can even remember some of them.

Memory loss

Grandma forces Serkan to choose between Eda and his company/wealth, he chooses Eda and they start over from scratch with nothing

Time jump

AU starting over, showing a different path they might have taken together

Dream

These actors playing different characters in a new story

I don’t think the last three are likely, but they did spring to mind after some of Neslihan’s teases.

Anonymous said: So this show doesn't get like fantastic ratings (it actually seems to be on the lower end compared to all other dizis airing) but the social media engagement is off the charts. Why is that?!? Is the show just extraordinarily popular internationally? or that this is a "shipping" show? I'm floored by the numbers - its like no other show/fandom is even trying

The ratings were terrific during the summer. But to your point, it has a huge fandom both in Turkey and internationally, but it’s worth noting that most of those charts you see where it beats every other show in every imaginable social metric is just for Turkey.

It’s one of those lightning in a bottle situations where you get the right property and the right actors together at the right time and magic happens. And, for sure, the number one reason is the shipping. Shipping drives fandom engagement, and a fantastic ship with a juicy, fun, tropey love story is what this show offers. It also offers up two extremely attractive, talented, likeable leads with off-the-charts chemistry (plus the added speculation about an off-camera relationship that has intrigued more than a few fans, tabloids and gossip sites and fueled interest) who have done a good job of building the fanbase through their social media engagement. Plus the timing is part of it as well. I don’t know about you, but this show hit the spot during this pandemic and the horror of 2020. We all needed this escape.

Anonymous said:Do you think something happened in the writers room after the backlash of 25 and fan disappointment after Ayse's announcement? I feel like a switch flipped and now we're in fanficland with how much good content we've gotten in these last two episodes. Like I thought maybe they should wrap up the series soon before the characters got completely off the tracks but they may be finding their groove now and I'm interested to see what their next twist is after they can write out Balca/Seymen.

I don’t know about a switch flip, this show has been fanfic land since the first episode! The tropes! That is how I described it to multiple people when I first started watching: an AU fanfic come to life.

As for the writing changes, no, I don’t think backlash after 25 affected 26 or 27, because 26 was already 90% shot, and 27 already written. However, I assume they themselves could tell that 25 got just too dark and had strayed pretty far from the DNA of the series. While I didn’t think it was bad, it was not fun to watch and this show ought to be fun to watch.

Let’s hope, however, that the backlash affects future episodes in that they know what works... and what doesn’t. The last two episodes definitely felt reminiscent of the first batch of episodes. Light, funny, romantic. If they can keep that tone... I’ll be thrilled.

Anonymous said: i didn't realize how much i missed "together" edser until watching 27.. it's been so long since they were "officially" together and we also had such few episodes of it.. ppl have been comparing it to 12 and while in some ways i agree, edser are always so different here than they were there. 12 was them navigating their new relationship.. they were more shy and finding their footing.. here they are very much established, as they should be after knowing their love for so long in comparison to 12!

Yes, it was lovely. You know I’ve preached a lot about how even though Eda and Serkan were broken up, they’ve still been together all this time. And it’s true, but there is something about them truly being together that is magical. We never got enough of that the first time around (a writing mistake in my opinion) and they’re so good together it’s lovely to watch.

Anonymous said: Serkan not asking for help from Balca when asking his team for help with the marriage gifts preparations and refusing her offer of help when she asked made me so happy. Good job Serkan! He's learning! She's not trustworthy!

Yes, that was a good moment. And he was eyeing her very warily when she offered. The thing I don’t understand is how has no one caught on that she’s working with Babaanne? That entire office is filled with nosy people, has no one remarked on the number of times Balca has gone up to the office or they’ve disappeared for lunch at the same time? Come on Leyla! Come on Melo! Notice these things!

Anonymous said: Fingers crossed that we finally make progress towards getting rid of Seiman & Balca now that all the girls were drugged and Eda was put in the car in the last episode. Unless Seiman has a change of heart and takes Eda back inside before anyone wakes & the guys get there then the show has to address it. Although I do not think Balca is going to back down unless Serkan straight up tells her he has zero interest in her and never will. Totally fine if that happens in the next episode.

Will Balca backdown even if she’s humiliated like that? She’s so delusional I’m not sure. What I am sure is that she’s dangerous. This came in before we saw the other two fragmans that have no mention of the kidnapping. Hard to picture how that is so easily resolved. Unless she frees herself (which seems unlikely in her groggy state) or maybe Melo’s future boyfriend is able to stop it before they get far? Or I don’t know. I just know that I want to see Serkan lose his mind and all the other characters see Serkan lose his mind and then I want it to be over. LOL.

Anonymous said: As much as I am loving everything Edser, I cannot wait for Seiman, Balca and Grandma to be gone. And I am even more annoyed to think that the show might try to redeem all 3 characters. All 3 of them are truly awful people and no need to waste air time trying to make the audience think any different. Just my opinion...🤷🏻‍♀️. Show please finally expose those 3 for the psychos they are and get rid of them.

Bye bitches! I don’t think there’s any redemption for Balca and Seiman. They both have poisoned/dosed people, hard to come back from that. And there is no need to redeem them because neither is compelling enough to be a long-term character. But maybe Granny, we probably will see a redemption arc for her.

Anonymous said: i know you were worried a few weeks ago that with ayse leaving as writer, we probably wouldn't have the same sort of comedy as previous episodes... but istg the whole kiz isteme scene, especially with chef alex, had me almost crying with laughter. especially when serkan off the cuff just goes "well if that's an option..." to everyone misunderstanding alex "wanting" ayfer for 2 nights and then eda ready to beat him with the flowers he bought her... comedic gold lmao.

SO GOOD! I was thrilled to see that sort of comedy, the sort of comedy we’d come to expect, from these writers. I think it bodes very well indeed!

That scene was amazing. I know Neslihan said that much of it was improvised. Probably that line from Serkan (since Serkan is SO out-of-his-mind in love I’m not sure he could even joke about having Eda only two nights a week! LOL) was improv from Kerem, and Aydan asking about the other nights, and Seyfi bringing up the weekend. And Eda’s very Hande-esque “Ser-KAN.”

I just love rewatching that scene and checking out everyone who is breaking character and just losing it. Cagri most of all. He’s blurred aback there but you can see Ferit spends the whole time laughing or trying to stifle a laugh. Reminds me of Cagri in the scene in 18 when they’re watching the security footage he was losing it in that scene as well.

Anonymous said: i'm scared - I think they are really about to give us all of these happy EdSer scenes only to have something happen RIGHT before the wedding ceremony due to Babaanne. Based on the last episode, I don't think there's any chance of a breakup (knock on wood) but what if Serkan gets arrested, goes to jail for 2 years, and we get a time jump?

This was sent before the last two teasers, so yes I think something is gonna happen. We shall see! I don’t really think Serkan going to jail for 2 years is in the cards, at least I hope not! Besides if Babaanne did that she would have no hopes of ever reconciling with Eda, so that seems unlikely she’d follow through and leave him there for so long a time.

Anonymous said: With the last week's sex scene, they did a lot of fade outs but the scene was basically still there so it wasn't much wasted effort for the actors. But for what they're teasing in episode 28 - idk how they can get away with showing them in the shower at all if Serkan lifting Eda with her clothes on had required blurring? Is Eda dropping her robe even pushing it? It's intriguing indeed.

Great questions. We’re 36 hours from finding out (well I'm longer than that because I wait for the English subs, hee hee) All I know is I want to see these scenes.. one way or another!

#sen cal kapimi #edser #Sen Çal Kapımı #sck spoilers #sck specualtion #sckask #sck episode discussion #asklizac #Anonymous

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guerins · 4 years

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a little summary of fehr and mo’s insta live

HEAT WAVE RE-WATCH - April 20th (2020)

It took Brendan a minute to figure out how to add Majandra to the live feed.

She was wearing a sickass robe. Said robe was discussed like halfway the feed.

They were both drinking. Brendan: red wine and vodka. Majanda: who knows (I think it was also wine. I don’t remember if she said it, though)

Did they toast each other you ask? They sure did. Glasses clinked the screens; I shit you not

Majandra said she wanted to watch the episode beforehand, to prepare herself.

She did. But only the beginning because she could not get through the first scene due to embarrassment.

On the live feed we saw her embarrassment fist hand. Brendan was also feeling weird about it.

She kept looking away, talking to distract herself.

He said the reason why he kept talking while the scene was on, was so he could distract himself from what was happening on the screen as well.

They discussed Majandra’s sweeping abilities -or lack thereof- and Brendan’s mom being on set while they filmed that make-out scene at the crashdown.

They were dating while they filmed that ep. They were on the early stages of ‘courting’ as Majandra put it, so Brendan’s mom being on set did make her nervous.

Brendan said they should not have been making out on the floor of the diner. He said something along the lines of ‘That place if full of cooking grease!’

He shared a little anecdote about how he was on his trailer one day, someone knocks on his door, he opens and ‘oh, majandra delfino is there’

She went to him to rehearse their first kiss. They barely knew each other. Hated each other (she more than him, apparently). And she went and said she needed to see what he kissed llike to prepare herself for the actual scene. So, they would rehearse the kiss scenes. They would make out on his trailer and then film the scenes. Yes, SCENES. As in, MORE THAN ONE. I repeat, this happened MORE THAN ONCE. Majandra claimed she wanted to know what it would be like, so it’d look/ feel good on screen.

Majandra said she now realizes how unprofessional that was, but at the time she didn’t think it was weird. Brendan, on the other hand, thought it was a weird thing to do and still does. Not that she refused to kiss her back then tho…

The hair was a big topic of discussion.

Majandra kept apologizing about hers.

Although they both praised Brendan’s hair.

Brendan said he still has that red shirt from when they’re making out at the eraser room. He said one of his daughters wears it all the time.

Hey, did you guys know the girl playing Vicky Delaney (Kyle’s date at the soap factory) was actually a 40 year-old woman?! Huh. Go figure.

Majandra saying to Brendan that they are now the age the actress is and they don’t look nearly as good. Brendan agreeing.

Majandra said she loved Liz’s voice. That she loved how Shiri would sound different when she played Liz.

The love they got for Diane (Amy Deluca)!!!! Majandra said she was too young to be playing her mom.

Brendan saying how he can now appreciate the grownups scenes and how cool it was that Bill Sadler (Valenti) got to have that storyline with Diane. How he didn’t care about the adult scenes back then because he was kind of a dick and whenever he saw the scenes with the grown-up actors, he’d ask why those scenes were even necessary.

Majandra agreeging. She said that whenever she watched ‘My so-called life’ she would hate the adults scenes because they were boring in her eyes.

They now realize those scenes were actually very important.

THE LOVE FOR COLIN! ♥

Majandra: He looks like a baby! Look at his clothes.

Brendan: He was great. I love this relationship he had with Liz. Maria was the best friend but he was also there…

Majandra: Yeah, it was like a trio.

Brendan: (or was it Majandra who said this?) He was the third sister.

Majandra: But Maria was number one. [laughs]

They discussed the turtle neck. Or, as Brendan put it, the ball of yarn Majandra was wearing.

This was a good hair day for Brendan btw, just in case you were wondering. He confirmed it.

The Stargazer relationship was talked about. They had nothing but love for those two.

Brendan addresses Katie’s PJs

Brendan: Katie was really great.

Majandra made the observation of what a sweet guy Alex was to be having this kind of dream about Isabel, and not something entirely different.

Brendan: He even got a tuxedo.

Majandra: Look at the boombox. Like ‘Say Anything.’

Once again, back to the clothes. Brendan’s t-shirt in the bathroom when he and Max talk about how ‘it has gotten complicated’ (Brendan actually said that line twice when this scene came on), he said he still has that shirt and he had to fight to let them wear it on the episode. Apparently, everyone was against it, he had to convince them. The t-shirt has some horses on it.

Brendan also stole a bunch of clothes and memorabilia, Majandra was not so lucky. She went to get some of Maria’s clothes only to find out it was all given to some producer’s daughter. So, when the show was over, she parked her car, opened the trunk and got whatever she could in there. Ended up getting the clothes the adult actors wore.

The way Jason looks at Liz when they’re dealing with the ‘mating ritual’. Majandra said ‘look at Jasons eyes! Ahhhhh’

The golden top maria wears at the soap factory? Majandra didn’t remember it. BRENDAN DID.

What Majandra remembers is that at this point in time in real life, they were sort of on the outs. Mimicking fiction. As they usually did. They were on and off during the entire series and funnily enough, when the characters were fighting, so were they irl. She said that she believed there was a scene in this ep she remembers which means they were sort of fighting.

They talked about how it was also difficult filming when they were on a fight irl but Maria and Michael were doing great. Those were hard days filming. They would come to set and everyone would have to figure out and read the vibe to see how they were doing. Lol.

Majandra saying how it was kind of unbelievable that Isabel would go for a guy like Alex. That she was so beautiful, she looked like she could be dating a college guy. Also, she praised that Isabel chose Alex, she gave the good guy a chance instead of going for a different type.

When they got to the ‘maybe we should have never started this’ Majandra confirmed that they were definitely on the outs irl at this point of the series. She again apologizes for her hair.

Brendan says he was worried about the humidity in this scene because of his hair. He was very protective of his hair. He wouldn’t let anyone touch it. Even today he gets nervous when he goes to get a haircut.

They talked about Valenti’s phone when he’s on a date with Amy. Well, it wasn’t Valenti’s phone, it was the restaurant’s phone but they thought it was Valenti’s cellphone and that he carried it around on his pocked or something. They had a good laugh about it because the phone was huge.

They talked about Majandra’s old phone back in the day. Which was both a cellphone and a walkie. (A nokia, I think they said. It was yellow? I don’t remember the color.)

They could not get through the jail scene. Kept saying ‘when is this gonna end? This jail scene is so long.’ Lol

To be fair, they were right.

They praised Alex for standing up to Valenti. Talked about Liz making the index finger signal as she tells Alex about Max, Michael and Isabel.

Brendan mentions Liz’s crazy eyes in this scene and why Michael was clearly right no to trust her.

Brendan: Look at her, she’s telling him the secret. Knew I couldn’t trust her.

Majandra: Yeah, she’s telling everybody.

Brendan: The bars in the jail. Are they real?

Majandra: What if they started to bend?

[laughs]

[more laughs]

Liz’s roof? All fake. The ladder was short. Not that short though.

Brendan: Yeah, Jason wasn’t on his knees climbing up that ladder.

Majandra: Can you imagine if he was though?

[laughs]

Brendan: Is this their first kiss?

Majandra: It is. I think.

Brendan: He even lifts up her shirt a little! That’s ballsy.

END OF EPISODE.

For the little Q&A

They said they would do the live feed again. Next episode to re-watch would be 285 South (maybe) because that got a lot of votes and they love that episode. Brendan said they should probably do one ep from each season. They talked about B&T. They have a second trailer. They filmed it. (We already knew this. Well…we assumed, but now we know for sure it’s out there.) They are very protective of this new project and getting it done so that’s why they haven’t released the trailer. They are sort of saving it for reasons. They have talked to networks, and continue to work to bring the show to life. There are things they want to keep, easter eggs, like the tobasco bottle, among others, so they are fighting to get those things to stay in the story.

They zoom with Nick and Jason very – and I mean VERY-often. Apparently the four of them are really good friends. They said maybe they could do a live feed with them. And they would also love to have them on B&T, obviously. Actually, they’d love to get as many actors as possible that were on Roswell to join B&T.

They were asked to describe each other in one word. Brendan said the word for Majandra back then wouldn’t be the same as now. They were asked to choose two words to describe each other, one for back then, one for now. Brendan went with ‘Passionate’ and ‘Loyal.’ Majadra said of Brendan he was ‘Blunt’ and now he is ‘LOUD.’ “Crazy, frustrating, agitated, stubborn” were other words to describe each other they used. Majandra said she thought Brendan had a condition, that that was the reason why he talks so loud nowadays. Brendan made sure we all knew that he does not. That’s just the way he talks.

Gags: When Brendan connected for the second video, he had trouble adding Majandra to the live feed (AGAIN) so he grabbed the ipad/tablet/or whatever from where he had it set, to try and work it out. And when Majandra finally appeared on screen, he dropped the ipad/tablet/or whatever to the floor. More specifically to the back of his desk. When he was setting it back on the table, he nearly dropped his glass of wine or flask (?) of vodka. Majandra laughed, he made a panicky funny face.

If I forgot something, I apologize. If remembered something incorrectly (like, who said what) please forgive me, I’m only human. Also, I wrote this down on Monday night after the live feed. Well, it was like, 4 am so… it was actually Tuesday. I was worried if I waited longer, I would forget more details. Anyway, I hope this was helpful somehow. Love you all♥

#roswell #brendan fehr #majandra delfino #roswell cast #Baron and Toluca #sm #live feed sum heat wave #let's hope this becomes a weekly thing ♥#fehr and mo's roswell rewatch #ketchup and two muffins

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throwingideasatthewall · 3 years

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Star Wars Episode 4;

Destroy malevolence

Didn’t we just do that?

I’m assuming this is going to be focusing on the aftermath of the destruction of the malevolence

And the preceding unraveling of general grievous’s net work

[And several acquaintances probably trying to break him out,]

Anyway...

On with It!

Quote;

“A Plan is only as good as those who see it out,”

Odd I’ve Stopped giving much stock into the quotes

Consider ing the last one had a relatively good one

And Is on the lower end of my expectations

My criticism of this Is a Short Plans can be good But People flawed

The narrator sounds a bit more enthusiastic

Weirdly drawn out pause

But it does get the point across

Allows enough time

“ Grievous in retreat,” Honestly Is this where we’re going to start

Like no disrespect- (I have the patience) But are we honestly going to spend the whole entire time watching Obi-Wan fuck up catching Grievous?

That would work with the theme of Jedi Masters

They make it seem a lot less stupid

[Recap

Also I really like the movement on the ship

Much more real istic

Continuing to Hold on it not so much

This is like someone continuously kicking someone when they’re already down

Or like a fire

After a while it just gets sort of boring

Or worrying

And you realize they could just take them into custody

Or that the fire is starting to envelope nearby forest With everyone having a bucket of water

Obi wan, why

Do you torment so?

He can’t even die

If so; He’d be dead

I love how Plo Koon and him are just watching the shit show like “Bitch”

You know they could both take him

But are just that dedicated to being sandry old man

“Commander, how much damage to the enemy ship?”

Have they suffered enough?

Also, geez dude’s been demoted it to commander

I mean I know he’s just Comms Guy But geez. (He probably deserved it)

Oh no, Random dude On The ground

Why?

“ She’s lost primary shields and stabilizers,”

So shooting at it is doing minimal damage

“ It can take all the fire our cannons can manage,”

Okay, time to get you two down there

“ we must summon reinforcements,”

Plo is slowly becoming that we “need reinforcements” guy

Like he can’t do anything by himself

(Except for last episode)

“ That’s why I’m here Master Plo,”

That’s not the right tone

And..... I was kind of hoping we’d get a Master Plo and Obi-Wan episode

This time around

Never mind the fact that Anakin can’t take on grievous

“ what are you able to contact Master (Liam Niara) (That’s how voice text spells it) (I have no idea)

“ Yes, master,”

That’s better

“She’s busy with a bunch of separatist reinforcement’s nearby,”

Bit too much eye movement but otherwise good

“ she won’t be able to give us support till she’s turn ing them away,”

Meanwhile you’ve already pretty much kill ed him

Guess just play poker?

Then we’ll have to do with what we have

Oh now with the teenager around you’re so brave

How’s that going to help?

Burning

On fire

Really, no mercy

Poor droid jerking around

Ex ploding

Perfect balance of kar mic pay back

“We’ve lost our primary weapon,”

Shit just continues to get worse and worse

General grievous is just there with his hands in his head

Not looking too great

“ The hyper drive is dis -abled,”

It’s been disabled since last episode but good repeating

Good to re-iterate

“Argh,”

“ General general,”

The forward engines are shutting down

“ im poss ible,”

Dude, look around

That’s pretty - heavy denial

You should just sur -render

More Sho -oting

This is going to be a sl -ow ep i sode

Ahsoka Managing systems

A not bad role for her

Certain-

“ Admiral Status- Re port,”

Shit’s fucked once again

They’re hyperdrive must be damaged

What you didn’t figure out the first time will Obi won must’ve checked

Compulsively For the 170th time in the last hour

“This our chance”

It wasn’t a few seconds ago?

“all ships target the bridge maximum fire power,”

Dude, what do you think that’ll do

Grievous is made out of pure titanium

It’s like.. a slightly long fall for him..

Generals.. really don’t wanna deal with Grievous’s shit today

Episode is 22:40 Long Left

All they’re doing is shooting at him

Grievous Called Dooku

“Dad I crashed the car,”

Sustained advanced damage

“ I know,”

Just dead panned

“ I have arranged a trap,”

Oohh! Interesting

But Also completely bullshit

Guess this is his punishment

Being used as bait

“To give you an advantage over the Jedi,”

“ I assure you,”

Please no

You’re not compound your failure this day,”

Ah, there’s the chewing out I was looking for

Perfect

Continue

“ war ship to fall,”

Oh so it wasn’t going to be a - get them sent to prison- thing

So how are you planning to unfuck the situation

Cause this looks pretty bad

They will never catch me or this ship

Bless him he’s trying

The expression just says ‘I have no idea how’

Like He knows what’s expected of him but has no idea

How?!

Heading towards you is a very important galactic senat or,”

In the middle of a war zone

Seriously not a good time for a photo op

“ With her as a hostage,”

“call off the attack,”

Ok no one is calling off an attack this important for a senator

Nor should be letting her get captured ....

*Bowing down*

*Assumed authority*

Blue

It looks remarkably better this episode 👍 Also of course it’s Padme Amidala Couldn’t be any of the 4000 other senators we know nothing about

Really getting into the love triangle stuff right away, aren’t we?

Like why couldn’t we slow burn it

(I know she was in the movie) But

I wouldn’t mind “Are you sure the infor mation from the chan cellor Palpatine is reliable?”

Fore shadowing!

Good job authors you get a cookie

“ it was secretly given to him by the leader of the Bank-he Clan, himself!”

Okay Amidala’s tone kinda works

Could use a little more monotone but it works

I gave Anakin like three tries so I’m not gonna be too harsh

There is still time for the minimal improve ment it needs

“ if they leave the separatist alliance it will go along way to shortening this war,”

Er- Okay it makes sense for her character

She’s sup posed to be around the same age as Anakin

“Beep, Beep,”

“ We’re approaching the system now,”

“Oh shit,”

Crud

“ my goodness,”

Best Droid

“This isn’t right,”

Then Move!

That’s a droid warship

“We’re in the middle of a battle!”

Hey, that’s a smart character

Hyper drive out of there

“ we’re scanning a small ship off our bow,”

Get out of there “ Good,”

Yeah, how are you going to get her?

Seeing as how like a million warships are belting your bow?

I know those must be like raindrops to him

But come on

Don’t go into the burn -ing wreckage

And towards enemy fire

Then again she was probably heading towards the Jedi ship

So (as a civilian) that makes sense

“Master I’m picking up a signal near the enemy vessel,”

Tone

Enemy reinforcements

That’s- A Good Call

Respectively

“ it looks like-”

“A Naboo ship”

“Gunners stand day,”

Hey everyone’s competent today!

(Not that there’s anything wrong with enablers being stupid)

This just requires more brain power

“ what in Blazers are they doing out here?”

A valid response

But weren’t they the ones that pledged transport ships?

Like oh yeah stupid going out into a war zone

But not completely out of the question

“ Ahsoka contact that ship,”

Bit too much energy

But still resp ect able

Literally coming from fiery hell

Identify yourself

“Padme what are you doing out here,”

Cringe

That line sounds like boomer. What boomers think high school jocks sound like

And we’re like no

“ I was sent on a special mission,”

Good job Writers

The ‘Bang he Klan Wanted to negotiate a treaty

Good reason

“Get out of there,”

Too Force ful

Better Idea; Have Obi-Wan try to calmly explain the situation to her

Possibly distracting her for general grievous to kidnap

“ Activate the tractor beam,”

Damn we’re going back to old old sci Fi- with tractor beams and shit

I was expecting like a hook and chain, a harpoon

Was not expecting that

That made me laugh

WTF

Tell them some nonsense is going on!

“i’m afraid it’s much worse than that,” Gunners Do Something?!

it’s a beam; it can be broken

“ Padme what’s happening?”

A go- decent response

“ i’m being pulled inside the droid cruiser by a tractor beam,”

Good Commun ication

Whelp, Done

So at 22: 40 Rest of the episode is hostage situ ation?

Inter es ting

Much Better Than Just Shooting at it for an hour

“I will not be made a separatist bargaining chip,”

Initiative

Though Less Emo -tion

Should be recited like something she had to read off a paper

Guessing I’m not Padme I’m Padme’s handmaiden thing only works once

Continue your attack

You must continue-

I hope she get some actual action

Nothing too intense because she’s still a kid

But like a surprise attack on General grievous

Destroy this monstrous ship

That’s kind of like-

How-

I saw the next frame

Wtf-

WTF

HIS FACE JUST-

CON-torts

You are not Romeo and Juliet movie

You are two kids reinacting Romeo and Juliet clumsy

Get it right

“Admiral, order our ships to stop firing,”

No one’s gonna stop this

No one‘s gonna comment...

Okay....

Obi-Wan And Plo Koon are just gone

Left when Anakin started acting unchild like

Never mind still there

Nothing suspicious *Rubs beard*

Whelp

It does not look safe out there my lady

Screw with the tractor beam and leave

No one can stop you

Droid Related

“I see now this whole thing was a trap,”

The Bang’he Clan Works With The-

I can’t even make that joke because the bang’he clan are working with the separatists

Good writers you out joked me

“ we walked right into it,”

Pressing buttons isn’t going to help lady

Sir the republic cruisers have halted their attack

Bit too much emotion for a droid but it works

“Jedi are so predictable,”

Hit him with a gun

Get the repair team up here

“ i’m going down to the main hanger,”

The arm motion was a little weird... for ‘I’m going down to the main hanger’

Street Railways?

Are we getting *tour the inside of the ship??

Nice

This ship must be returned to Count Dooku intact

Nice little interaction

Rail ways

There’s no room for failure

Hard Moral

One on fast speed ing train

Moves over to another pad

Don’t think that’s gonna help

“Come on I’ve over loaded the power system,”

THAT’S actually really clever

Good job whoever gave that order

General grievous goes boom

Fighter door opens

Find a Fighter

And fly out

* Anakin walks away*

You know this would be a good idea if Obi-Wan had ordered him to do so when feeling the emotion of ‘love’, miscommunicating the concept of love, and didn’t realize that’s what he was doing - what clues him in

“ where do you think you’re going,”

“ someone’s got to save her,”

Still too much emotion

“I thought you might say that,”

Did you give him that, did you give him an order relevant to that?

There he goes again

Yeah Someone should really check up on that

Or get Obi-Wan to lay off the suicidal orders

“Craving adventures and excitement,”

No, orders

“ You get used to it”

Could be just a response

But too much reaction And Person ality

Oh, Shit’s On Fire

“Come on 3PO hurry,”

Flaming wreck lady

“not sure this is such a good idea,”

Neither is being held captive

You’re made of like solid gold

Timing

[also the announce in the background like a train station - just cracks me up]

Time to get blown up

“ Mind the gap”

“Mind the gap”

Haha

You two come with me

Command

That droid’s-

No, wait- It’s Amidala

And C3PO

He’s trying to help

Looks Inside

Beeping

Timer

Look like the engine- Are Set To -

Timing

“Destroy themselves,”

He really needed them to say that

Get out of my way

“Ow,” You don’t want to die

That’s just rude

So is death

You should get out of there

He’s going to come back around

Geez

Fire squad is a train wreck

They’re Trying

Crud if this gets back to Skywalker and he thinks she’s dead

After That Speech

Who knows what toxic morals of love Obi-Wan taught him could activate

This could become a train wreck

Ahhh!

It got worse

Seriously who made the droids that have to with stand high water pressure Light weights

Oof

Even high water pressure cannot kill him

Even running away cannot save him

Wonder what that attack would’ve done

Sound the alarm

“We have stowaways,”

Or...

She was never on that ship

Seriously no one besides the republic saw her

I’d go with “she isn’t on board,”

Run

Back to the republic ships

Who are doing nothing while grievous rebuilds

Like, The medical station is right there

You might want to get back on moving them

Just Saying

“ i’ve trusted you already formulated a brilliant plan to rescue the Senator,”

“ as a matter of fact I have,”

Umm,

Weird How to Code that

“ what do you have a Plan B Every good plan has a back up,”

Stop forcing his dependence on you

“ I don’t have a back up yet,”

Too much emotion

Really

Questioning

Not really helping his self-esteem

Really “ we’ll sneak behind them and dock at the emergency air lock,”

So I’m guessing this is going to set up Padme going there

“ That’s your plan?” Discouraging

“Fly land,”

That’s literally what all maneuvers rely on

Also it sounds like something out of a fairy book

Which might explain Anakin toxic behavior

“ Walk in the door,”

“Basically,”

Too much emotion

“Oh Brilliant,”

Dick

Firey Wreck

“ Might I suggest we keep moving?”

Bit Loud There It

“ I think I hear battle droids approaching,”

Talking is not helping

“But we also need to contact the fleet,”

Getting out is the prerogative

They don’t know where you are

And you can’t stay in a constant location

If I can just keep this com panel working

Ahhh!

Well just disappeared

“The Damage to the hyper drive was not as bad as we first thought,”

How?!

It’s been damaged for about two episodes

Also, Good for Her

“ We’ll be able to get underway again shortly,”

With this mess of a ship

Hyperdrive would send half of it flying

It’s barely holding together by a string

You’re screwed

I must inform count Dooku

Seems oddly suspic.

Continue the search

Find the stowaway

How does that change anything in Amidala’s eyes

Getting to know the boss isn’t worth it

Just be more careful

Roger, roger

Commander

Intimidating

*Spark*

Oh She Was In A Cabinet

Thought she made it in

C3PO Looks creepy in one frame

Shit’s Constantly on fire

“If they spot us we’ll be pulverized,”

With what guns??

You’ve been doing all the hitting this entire time

They’ve been sitting Geese

“They’re too busy repairing the ship,”

Thank you

[also Obi-Wan complainers rules]

“ They don’t have time to notice us,”

Cocky

Subtlety has never been one of your strong points Anakin

Neither Yours Person who orders him!

“ Everything I know I learned from you master,”

Point Yes Attitude? No

Oh if only that was true

Should Be

Might be a side jab at how he took orders from the Chancellor

There we go

Only Obi-Wan was worried

“Didn’t You Hear It,”

Your circuits are loose

Or maybe you’ve lost your hearing

From the impact

“ No one’s crazy enough to do that,”

Cut

“Anakin”

Perfect

“You’re Crazy,”

You groomed him this way

“ spinning is not flying”

“But it’s a good trick,”

Too much emotion

Do not want to be spotted

Good job

You’re standing more in the doorway than he is

“I knew it it’s them,”

That droid is just having a day

Aww But his friend came down to check with him

That’s adorable

Oh no

They’re backing off peacefully

ASSHOLES!

Obi-wan specifically

You stay here R2

Again why did you bring him

Another bold strategy by -

Say Skywalker

‘Skywalker’

Ordered

“I presume,”

No, Obi-Wan’s

When it’s not Palpatine’s

“That’s my master”

Children don’t show preference for handlers

“ once they rescue the Senator we will need to reinforcement to finish off the enemy

Sounds nonsense but OK

Dude really Likes enforcement’s “ i’m on my way,”

“Master Plo”

“ We’re receiving a transmission,”

Padme

Weird distance to start a conversation at

Running for some reason

“ Master we found the senator,”

Good

“ We’re patching Her through,”

Helpful...?

What is it with Skywalker and becoming a Barking over- animated Puppet Every time senator Amidala gets involved ?

“Anakin where are you,”

Better; where are your coordinates

“ On lower levels,”

Better but where

“I don’t know,”

Give a better location

For how long

Problem with this whole plan

Give Landmarks

Get to the rendezvous point

“Obi won and I are on board too,”

Better; get to the ship on level ____ on your ___ side Optional; Closest landmark ____

We’ll meet you there

What what are you doing?

Not the best point to argue

Ahsoka, how can we get to the senator

Better how can we both get to the escape pad?

In case we both get separated

Taking longer to coordinate that complicated-

How long till they get separated?

Center of the ship

Half way between the two of you

Neither Ahsoka gave neither

Bad instructions

“ we’re on our way

To a very unspecified point on not specified level at a not specified time

Let the hijinks commence

“ Did you hear that Padme?”

You’re on the same com

“ i’ll be there,”

Some-how

The question to my answer was 22:40

When do the Hijinks begin?

Let’s See

Marching Intimidated

“we just detected An unauthorized communication Coming from within the ship,”

Shouldn’t he be making a phone call?

“ what did it say?”

Interesting

Well we don’t know

That’s how encoding works

We didn’t catch it in time

Off

Droid winces

Monitor all internal communications

Like they’ll do it again

I want that senator on this bridge

Good luck with that

You haven’t even saw her

Rail-ways

Nice

Busy

Should be a cakewalk

Is Not a cakewalk

All the way up there

“I do not see her,”

Yeah, that’s the problem-

She’s here master

I sent it

Or you got the wrong port

(So you heard her voice so she’s clearly somewhere on this ship)

He’s probably late again

But we do have company of another sort

Oh She has a gun

And somehow none of that hits her

And of course that gets the attention

I’m honestly glad they didn’t go with miscommunication Causes fake stand up scenario

Even if this is faux Romeo and Juliet

Good job

Lots of jumping

Look Jedi

Good job nice guy

No wait That one guy had common sense

“I knew that was a bad idea,”

Mercy

That you didn’t show on the other guys

Who were far more hesitant

And you took out that one guy

Who didn’t do anything

Just wasn’t as vocal

Dicks

Jump The peashooter isn’t doing the job?

Jump

He tried

Power Thrust

Ana kin

“ There. they are!”

Bull shit

No way

he saw those guys

On all those Packages

Also ‘the i knew It was a bad Idea Guy Got New Friends

“Fire!”

Fuck

The bridge is out

“Jump to me,”

Try it with a little bit more disinterest

“ I’ll use the force”

Even she realizes it’s not that intense

“ You have to trust me,”

Good Luck

OMG

It looks like she just falls

Also Obi-wan’s in the back like it’s none of my business

Like dude came on a rescue mission And has become completely useless never helped once Complained the whole way there

Manages

“Got you,”

“ NICE CATCH,” Obi -Wan from the sidelines

10/10 Hilarious

“ I’ll fetch the droid,”

What??

This isn’t cute

Disgusting

“Oh the things you do to get me alone,”

KIDS don’t-

Ack-

Please no more smoopy-

nope

I’m putting it in the “bad” corner Till it stops trying to ship children

Bad Movie

That’s Not Cute

Obi-wan Sucks

Can’t even levitate A Droid

“Stop me please”

Poor Droid

Blast You’re Weak

“ That’s not good”

Yeah you’re weak

“Anakin I got separated from your droid,” Thank God

I’ll take care of it

Better “ We’ll meet you back at the Twilight”?

“ I overheard grievous,”

Annnnnd

“ They’re hyper-drive is nearly fixed,”

Soooo, He better get you back to the ship so we can start blasting it with Cannon balls again?

“ i’m already headed in that direction,”

Soooooo, don’t do it, Obi-wan?

Or have Anakin and take the extremely important senator And come back for you later?

“ i’ll make sure the hyperdrive stays off line,”

By shooting it with more cannon-balls?

Ha ha Ha ha ha

We’ll see about that

What?! Person who can do nothing!

Like seriously if they just go back to the ship-

That Jedi

“I’m getting you out of here,”

Good decisions

“I need you to help me find 3PO,”

How?

“ I know I know he does,”

Padme’s expression

“And i’ll be there soon,”

That’s almost adorable

Oh like that

‘Someone stop this contraption,”

Careful Words

Yeet

There We Go

Into those boxes

“ I suppose I did ask for that,”

Ha-he

That got a small giggle out of me

Stomping

Bait

Murderous Intent

Get Fucked Obi Wan

Really rolling out all the stops

Hahaha

“ Hello there,”

[Took a pause. a long break]

General Kenobi

“ kill him,”

Straight. To. The. Point.

More in line with the characterization we’ve seen up so far, not that much for conversation

Dude’s just rolling

There went the others

Bowling pins they are

Oh grievous has a gun

And hiding behind the enemy

Thought he sent both those guys flying

Apparently I was wrong

Must’ve Been a Third

Didn’t Work

Yeet

That poor Droid...

Spark*

That was impressive

Nah he ran around things

It really set up your forces for a brawl among them selves

“Argh,”

Dude, how insecure

“ Guard the hyperdrive,”

Oh yeah he did shit to it

Also sending basic level mooks to deal with it

Shooting Things

Again how did Anakin and Padme end up in the situation?

They were at the train station last

Now they’re at??

And have agroed every enemy

Who should be focusing on Obi-Wan because

That was their last order

Grievous has just completely ignored Anakin

Hiding

You aggroed Them!

Why are you calling Obi -Wan

“Come in Obi-wan,”

Get her to the shuttle

“ i’m afraid grievous is onto us,”

“We noticed,”

Hey you guys Aggroed those guys completely on your own don’t blame Grievous for this

“Ack,”

Those are Tanks

You’re peashooter isn’t going to do much

Also, Anakin shouldn’t be able to take them either

This should be a properly terrifying moment

“ We’ll meet you back on the twilight,”

Good plan

“Obi- Wan!”

Writers don’t screw this up

“Come In,”

His communicuff clearly got damaged

What’s wrong?!

They’re jamming all communication

No again it’s far more likely that his communicuff Got Damaged (Especially with Grievous listening in,”

Not everything is jammed communi cations Yeet, yeet Yeet

That should not work Those are tanks

Anakin is a lightweight

His skill set is unspecified

But he shouldn’t be able to cut more than butter with that knife

Light wieght clankers should pose a challenge

Due to the amount of energy

“That might buy us some time

Unlikely

I suppose you have a plan Yeah, Get to the escape pad

Follow Me

...To the escape pod

C3PO I do believe I’m lost

Seriously you haven’t found this guy

Enemy Territory

And all alone

You’re a service droid

Probably wouldn’t notice anything

“Ah,”

Dude, they’d probably just adopt you into the clan

“ I surrender,”

Again I really want to see the C3PO and battle droids conversation

(When not aware of the other side)

It’s a projector... R2 D2

“ you are a sight for old eyes,”

A nice interaction

“ Master Anakin sent you to find me,”

“ what kept you then?”

He does have a point

Dude got thrown off the train about an hour ago

R2′s just been messing with him

“ follow me,”

“ The general is demanding a status report,”

Oh some driod on droid interactions (without the general)

Nice

Is the hyperdrive re-paired Yet

From there?

“ i’ll give him the good news,”

This isn’t the escape pad

Did you take a wrong detour?

Also no one guarding the super important one panel repair

Just Light weight clankers

Also that’s not good news

(Especially considering it’s one panel)

Surprised this goes so well

Also; now there’s tanks

Surprised you think that peashooter can do anything ma’am

Like seriously should’ve grabbed a bigger gun

The droids have some

And you can’t tell me there hasn’t been artillery laying around this entire time

Yeet

That almost- Turned into murder This is why not going to the escape pods immediately was a bad idea

Again this should be a stressful fight

But turning your child soldier Into an all powerful can never lose child soldier

Is bullshit movie

Opened Door

“Ever since I’ve known you you’ve been playing with droids,”

Ack

“I used to put them together,”

Alright...

Now I only take them apart Child soldiering...

It sucks

So, where do we start

GETTING TO THE ESCAPE PAD!

Obi-Wan supposed to be here any minute!

With whole lot of bullshit!

Move!

First we need to get one of these droids so they don’t know we were here

No destroy the thing and go

They’ll figure it out in like five seconds

When they go to start the thing up!

Running is a good option

“I’m gonna hot wire this ship,”

How does this make anything better?

He’s already down and in kicking position

Everyone’s waiting for Amidala

You’re not helping, good sir!

(In fact I’m pretty sure you’d have to fix something To make it go,”

Secondly, This is a HUGE -ass ship

As a reason it has an electrical team

Squeezing two little wires

Isn’t going to do much

It requires continuous effort to different parts of the ship To make a dent

And I truly doubt such a large ship is going to have such a non-complicated Start-up compared to hotwiring a car

Point being; this shouldn’t work

Give Grievous a little surprise

Again if it’s anything less Then a bomb

Dude isn’t gonna have much trouble

And this is a waste of time

I’ll guess I’ll clean up the droids then

LITERally im possible

That’s a tank!

You carry light weaponry!

Back to the fleet

Plo Koon Is doing nothing

Having tea and cookies with Ahsoka

Our ships are in attack position

So... nothings changed

“Master Skywalker,”

No one else either

“No,”

Deadpanned

“ The droids are jamming our transmissions,”

(More likely reason for that on a -damaged ship)

But Ergh-

“We need to give him more time,”

Opinion!

“ i’m sure we can,”

I’ve been sitting on my ass-

[Plo’s Head Moves -Railway]

We’re back here again?

Obi-Wan should be at the station by now

Everything is behind him

Yeet

Make it to the Coms center

Break Some Shit

Oof Those Poor Droids Good Pa rell els

Splat!

Obi won looking back-and-forth

Obi-Wan you are a Jedi master this shouldn’t be hard

Run

Tum ble

I was fully planning on him stacking it

Roof

Also, Obiwan

Stop fecking Around

Get to the place

Woof

How

Did you end up falling over?

Ironically Obi-Wan shows less emotion than Anakin

* Slashing the train*

Okay... what did I do

Snarky little shit

Could be snarkier

“That oughta do it,”

Ana -kin Doing Obi-wan’s Job

Also Oh shit is he plugging in the location of that supposed fight with master-

How’s the house cleaning going-

Im-

That dude made out of -metal

He is FIVE times your bodyweight!

HOW?

Done?

You MOVED a Tank??

HOW-

That’s-

What ever

* Guys coming in*

Oh yeah that’s a door

I guess repairs are finished

Or they went on lunch break

Prepared to charge up the hyperdrive

Right on it

“Roger, Roger,” -famous last words

Sparking

Driving

Are we seriously waiting on these two

“Are you quite sure the ship is in that direction?

He’s basically a GPS

That way looks potentially dangerous

All of them do

“Haz ardous,”

Better Example beeping irritatedly

“I know the whole place is dangerous,”

Thank you R2- D2

“ I suggest we stay here and let master Anakin find us,”

Bad idea

A better idea than anyone in the ‘let’s meet up in an undisclosed location’ came up with

Good idea

3PO

Fecking Irony

“Don’t just stand there,”

See?

“Let’s get back to the ship,”

Irony

Power up the engines R2

You know Obi-Wan’s likely going to screw up your shit right

*obi-Wan comes around the corner,*

Dude you have shit to screw up

Did you forget?

There shouldn’t be an escape pod for you

What

Hold the ship

No, you didn’t do anything...

Then again he could just cannonball it

How’s that-

Okay Very light bullshit

“ i’ll contact the fleet,”

It’s the most you’ve done this entire time

Focus On The chair

Do cking Clamp

There We Go

Off We Go

It’s still Burning

Grievous Off

Why?

He doesn’t know

Obi-Wan’s off the ship

Last saw him on the train...

(Not followed up on directly)

Flighters, Where I thought they all got destroyed?!

All batteries open fire

Again Plo Koon does not give a shit who dies

(Until sitting on his ass gets too boring)

Also this isn’t his fleet

They shouldn’t listen to him

(Especially after he got his last one killed)

More Shooting at the burning wreck

Turb ulence

And Obi-Wan still didn’t do his job

Guns

You can shoot back at any time

“ I wa-”

Obi-wan being completely useless

Anakin having too much emotion

“I got it,”

Shoo ting stuff

Somehow doesn’t go down immediately

Hit

“ She seems to know her way around,”

Gross

Hit Something

The Hyper Drive

-repaired

Also Obi-Wan didn’t fuck up shit

Dis appointed

Also it certainly as frick isn’t now

After they’ve been shooting

Should we retreat to friendly space?

If You can make there it with it in one piece (Which was the qualifications)

Engage the hyperdrive

With me not on it

“Secret base sector four,”

Interesting

“Prepare-”

Enthus iastic

“Yes, Sir,”

Fighters still chasing

Intense

“Nice Shoot,”

Gross

“Beginners luck,”

Beeping

“Pardin-”

“Hyperdrive is activating,”

Obi-Wan

“ Oh-shit Caught in a lie.”

“-what”

-They’re getting hit with cannonballs Anakin what did you do ?!

(What Did I order you to do?)

Coordinates are locked

“Hyperdrives engaging,”

Shit’s about to go-

Ar-

Sp- arking

Glitzy display Base

“ I think there’s a problem,”

“General I think there’s a problem with the hyperdrive,”

Yeah The ship got refired upon it’s probably re broken

Seriously

“ I thought the hyperdrive was fixed,”

And then it got shot again...

The navigate computer is heading a straight into the moon

What ??

Fools reset the Navi computer

“Quick,”

Tech Support

Dooku

Worst time to call

(Don’t think it could’ve gone more sideways)

Also good job Anakin You crash landed them on a planet with significantly larger surface area and resources that they can use to re-build

Aka you made things harder than they needed to be

Obi-Wan, what are you ordering this kid

Narrowed eyes

-No reset it

“General,”

Harsh

But I’m interested in where this is going

Since Grievous has had a lot of shit thrown at him

Doesn’t matter which side of enablers he still enabling

But I suppose over involved positivity Would be kind of a nice change for him

Over over involved negativity

Speeds off

“Trans -mission Has been cut,”

Intentionally

* also smart droid

“ We’re Gonna die

[Explosion]

How?!

Whelp Obi-Wan has to have a sit down talk with Anakin. about the ‘ Drive the ship into the moon,’ order

Also I realized (thanks to Obi-Wan) they know nothing about what just happened Grievous either decided to just end it

or they’re all dead

Obi-Wan

Dick move

“ I imagine you had something to do with that,”

WTF- orders

“ all part of the plan,”

Obi-Wan schooled Anakin in extraterrestrial terrorism

Cheering at least the ion cannon isn’t coming back

Nice shot

...So Destroy Malevolence

I have to say I really like this episode

Despite the plot stretched thin

There was a noticeable increase in the quality of animation

The child characters were good

The other characters were a lot more consistent And a lot smarter

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Dark Crystal Age of Resistance ep 10 liveblog

“A Single Piece Was Lost”

I don’t have a ramble about the title this time. I’m pretty excited to see how this all wraps up though. Or slightly wraps up while leaving things open. Whatever.

Just a stream of thoughts.

Hi Deet!

Hi Rian!

I quite like this low energy opening showing them waiting for the battle in the morning-

NOPE SOMETHING JUST EXPLODED

Deet, what did you explode?

Rian: “Deet… have you been making bombs?”

Deet: “Well, smoke bombs, so yes?”

Just when I thought Deet couldn’t be better.

Rian reflecting that they’ll need a lot of smoke bombs, probably to run away, if no other Gelfling show up.

Rian: “I was just thinking, I never got to properly see the Caves of Grottan. We should go back together when this is all over.”

Awww.

Oh shit Deet’s arms are secretly glowing with evil energies. I have a bad feeling about things.

Emperor: “Do you sleep?”

General: “??? Yes, sire”

Emperor: “Do you dream?”

General: “No my Emperor”

Emperor: “Neither did I, until I began my experiments with the Darkening. Now my nights are riddled with nightmares.”

And now he’s asking the General if he remembers how things were before they were sundered. The Emperor is philosophical today.

Then he gathers a bunch of Darkening.

The Gruenaks run into the Chamberlain and they want to be freed and Chamberlain is like not yet my dudes, things are going great for me and thats what matters.

Ice cold, SkekSil

Aww the Scientist build some new armor and he wants to join the other Skeksis and prove that he’s a rough and tumble strong boy like the rest but the General and the Emperor just laugh at him and tell him to stay behind and do the nerd stuff.

Poor guy. Poor evil guy.

The other Skeksis have no respect for him but he’s the only one still doing what the UrSkeks were about.

OH HEY ITS BREA hi Brea. Last episode, everyone gathering up again.

Maudra Fara: ‘Hey Rian we cool? Sorry I called you a traitor’

Oh no, Brea and Seladon have to tell Rian and Deet that Aughra died.

Yeah, the Dual Glaive is pretty cool. Appearance wise.

Rian: -stares wonderously at Dual Glaive for a while-

Ok no disrespect but you’re bringing the Ornamentalist to war and think the Scientist is too big a nerd??

Chamberlain: -waving sword around- “WARRRRRRRRRRRR”

Most of the Skeksis preparing for war sequence seems to be them psyching themselves up by screaming war at each other.

The Gelfling preparation sequence has them like training and getting outfitted.

Just saying, one group is taking this more seriously.

Scientist: “I am incontrovertibly the most abused creature in all of Thra”

Gruenaks: =|

The irony is, of course, lost on SkekTek.

Scientist: -pokes frakensteined spiders corpse with random electricity- ‘Well thats not working’

-Proto-Garthim goosplodes all over the Scientist for like a minute straight-

Scientist: “There is only so much callous disrespect a Lord of the Crystal can endure! I have earned a bit of genuine frivolity!”

Turns out that he hid some extra essence in his animal cages so he can hit the goofy juice in times of stress.

The Gruenaks pick up the scalpel. Whoops. Wonder what they’re up to.

Over at the circle of the sun, the Archer is lingering between life and death because of the Aughra essence effect on the Hunter.

Apparently the Scientist’s idea of genuine frivolity is to sit on the Emperor’s throne and pretend to be the Emperor and have podlings play him music and bring him food and call himself Emperor.

Thats. Sure an idea.

OH HI SKEKMAL IS ALIVE AGAIN

And he tears himself free of the strings holding him up, probably confused at all of this, and asks where Rian is.

When Scientist tells him that Rian is at Stone-in-the-Wood and that the Skeksis went to quell the uprising, Hunter calls Scientist an useless coward.

Scientist: “The Emperor commanded me to stay behind. I wanted to fight! I’m not a coward!”

Poor evil guy. This is why he wanted to prove he was a rough boy. Now the Hunter is going to be looking down on him.

Archer bolts up and mummer shouts SKEKMAL and then collapses.

Heretic: “Well…”

Wanderer: “That was… exciting…”

Heretic: “Yes!”

I love these nerds.

So the Skeksis bring: giant swords, nothing else.

They’re not really prepared for anything other than lumbering towards something and killing lots of stuff.

If only the Gelfling had a strong archer class. Instead of being all melee.

Even Kira in the movie knew how to pack a sling.

Emperor sees the small amount of Gelflings that have shown up.

Emperor: “This… is the mighty rebellion I was promised?”

He actually sounds disappointed. Hes had to leave the castle for the first time in a long time and its for this.

Rian: ‘The rest are coming! Really!’

Also Rian: ‘Hey how about single combat?’

Chamberlain: ‘Hey uh Emperor this is beneath you? Let General do it’

General: ‘If my bff Chamberlian thinks its a good idea, I’m in.’

The General hits but also maneuvers like a freight train. But Rian really sucks. He’s just getting tossed around and almost having his puppet junk- Oh there he goes. He stabbed the General.

The Dual Glaive starts absorbing. The General’s…. Something?

General: “Be done with it! Kill me!”

Rian: “I’m no killer!”

HOW DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOING TO GO?

The Skeksis are literally trying to wipe out your entire race and you’re playing the high very high road??

Then the Emperor tells General to gtfo because he’s a failure and the other Skeksis mock mock him as he limps away because the Skeksis love to see each other fail.

Oh, this is some actual cool strategy.

The lady gelfling vault off the male gelfling’s backs and fly around dropping bombs to disorient while the swords gelflings jump in and start poking ankles.

Oh I guess the Skeksis did bring more than swords. They’ve got… boomerang launchers? On their backs? Boomerang catapults?

Its pretty unwieldy but Scroll-Keeper still manages to hit Maudra Fara when she shoves Seladon out of the way to protect the All-Maudra who she acknowledges now that shes not being a dingus.

And then sheee dies.

But on her own time because a fizzgig steals Scroll-Keeper’s sword and hides it in a hole.

I’m overall getting the impression that the Skeksis are dangerous because they’re big and strong but they’re not very good at this.

Greunaks cutting their own mouths open with the scalpel they found. Annnd Scientist finds them.

Greunak: “No! No slave!”

Scientist: “How dare you threaten me? I am SkekTek the Scientist! I am a master of llfe and death! I am a genius! I am a Lord of the Crystal! I… AM… SKEKSIS! -incoherent yelling-”

He grabs them so they shock him with the electrical wires which I think shorts out his eye.

And. Geez. Rebellion doesn’t work too well when you’re a third of the size.

He just picks up one of the Gruenaks and hucks him down the fire hole.

Oops and he just hacked the other one to death.

Put upon and bullied he may be but he’s as bad as the rest of the Skeksis really.

Scientist: -maniacal laughter-

I think he’s going to use the Gruenak corpse to help finish the Garthim.

So the battle is still… going.

ANd I can’t help but think that what would really help here is a shield wall or something.

Gourmet: -flailing and panicking as a Gelfling climbs on his back and punches him in the head or something-

Chamberlain has found where the General has crawled off to.

General: “Friend SkekSil, help me”

Chamberlain: “Mmmm no. -stabs- You…. took… my…. Seat!”

Wow, SkekSil can hold a grudge.

Oh and General crumbles as soon as he dies. So I guess SkekMal really wasn’t dead.

Speaking of SkekMal he just showed up and and captured Rian and broke the Dual Glaive. I say broke but this is why weapons that have to be assembled aren’t as reliable. They’re made to fall apart and fall apart they will. It’s possibly a metaphor.

Speaking of a metaphor, the Archer has regained consciousness and has gone for a walk.

Archer: “I had a dream that I was one that became two. The hunt must end.”

And the walk that he’s taking is off the circle of the sun which is a very tall place.

Hunter: “I have conquered death! I have become more powerful! More powerful than Thra itself! Nothing can stop the hunt!”

Archer: “Now we shall see what lies at the dream’s end” -jumps off circle of the sun-

Hunter: -crumbles to dust-

Archer hasn’t even hit bottom yet. He just knows that he’s gonna die so he starts turning into sparkles midfall.

OH HEY!

Aughra reformed from the Hunter!

Scroll-Keeper: “Oh no, not her again!”

Rian: “Aughra are you alright?”

Aughra: “Of course not, I just returned from the dead!”

Aughra tells the Skeksis that they better retreat to the castle or she’ll mess them up. Emperor is like I’ll call that bluff.

And then…. ARROWS! The gelfling learned archery!

OH HEY ALL THE CLANS! ALSO THE ARATHIM!

Emperor: I WILL NOT LOSE, NO MATTER THE COST! BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE DARKENING!”

And his staff burns with an awesome power and then everything starts exploding. Wow look at the gelfling popping into the air

DEET!

She’s absorbing all of the Darkening!

Skeksis: -laughing at whats happening-

Emperor: ‘ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff’

Deet: “Get away from my FRIENDS!”

And then she explodes into force lightning like Darth Deet

Mostly hitting the Collector

Collector: “That wasn’t so bad!” -explodes-

Skeksis: ‘RUN AWAY RUN AWAYYYY’

Chamberlain has to shake the Emperor out of his stupor to get him to run and for this earns Most Trusted Advisor role again.

All the gelflings are congratulating each other which I find funny because they didn’t do anything mostly except show up. But Rian and me are like hey wheres Deet.

Seladon throws herself at Aughra

Aughra: “Guess you want a hug? Alright.”

And Gurjin is like hey I’ll hug whoever. Free hugs.

And an Arathim takes him up on it.

Gurjin: “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???? Well, why not”

More Gelflings want hugs

Aughra: “Give me some space. I may be newborn but I’m still old!”

THE CRYSTAL SHARD WAS HERE ALL ALONG? IN THE DUAL GLAIVE?? That was a double ‘was here all along’ pull! Wow!

Aughra: “Gelfling, the shard calls to you. You fought well. And tomorrow, tomorrow three suns rise on a new world. And nothing will ever be the same. We have made new enemies. And lost old friends. But the fallen are not truly gone. They have joined the song of Thra once more. Listen… and you will hear them on the wind. For the song has changed. It sounds like hope. But take care. Hope is fragile. Hope is delicate, like a crystal shard. Once lost… now found. And easily stolen.”

HEY UM DEET WHATS GOING ON WITH YOU

She just wandered off looking sithly sickly and making the plants die. Whats happening to good ol Deet??

Aughra: “This victory does not belong to a single gelfling or a single clan! It belongs to all of us! All of Thra, united! This day, the many become one!”

Brea: -holds up crystal shard to transition into the movie theme-

Scientist: ‘HEY WHATS UP JUST CREATING THE GARTHIM AND SIGNALING THE DOOM OF THE AGE OF RESISTANCE IS WHATS UP I’LL SHOW THEM FOR CALLING ME A NERD’

Other Skeksis limp back to crystal chamber.

Chamberlain: “Well look on the bright side, we still live!”

Other Skeksis: -whine sob-

Scroll-Keeper: “Poor Collector! SkekLach never harmed anyone who did not deserve it!”

Hell of a qualifier.

Chamberlain spins the General’s last moments to make himself seem like a cool guy.

Oh. So Garthim is Gruenak plus Arathim.

And so the first Garthim is born. Which will ultimately net SkekTek no respect judging by the Garthim-Master, the guy who made his reputation on SkekTek’s creations, treats him in the movie.

Poor, poor Scientist.

So that was Age of Resistance season 1. I quite enjoyed it overall. I have some overall thoughts and quibbles that I might do another post for. But overall I quite enjoyed it.

My primary thought is “rude to not have a second season announced yet.”

#dark crystal #dark crystal age of resistance #episode 10 #liveblog #welp thats the end #for now

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The Riddle of the model

Anon asked: idk if i sent you my request when they were open but i was wondering if you could do one where reader is friends with orlando but she’s in the popular group ( like the girls in dels ep) and she secretly hates them. something happens between her and the girls and she snaps cus she has bad anger issues like wayne and starts hanging out with orlando and her and wayne meet and you can decide the ending!!

i’m so in love with your blog!!!! could you maybe write an imagine where reader is in the popular group in school but secretly hates all of them and because she’s friends with orlando she hangs out with him for abit and starts talking to wayne (he thought she was like the other popular people before) you can make up the ending <3333

Yes, I named this imagine after my favorite song from Sing Street, sue me

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You were late for school. It wasn’t really your fault, your friends had made you the designated driver for a party you all went yesterday and you had to drive every one of them to six different houses. So, when you came home you climbed to bed and fell asleep immediately, not noticing that you had school in five hours later.

And now here you were. Scrambling through your bag to find your phone (you were sure you had left it at home this morning though) when you got to the Biology class. You knocked and opened the door.

“Sorry I’m late.” You said straightening your top.

You caught the gaze from all the students in the classroom, but you were used to it. After all, you were one of the popular girls, thanks to your “friends”.

You used to like them a little bit more two years ago. But now they were forcing you to do their homework, go to parties with them because they needed a designated driver and they made you wear tops, short skirts and a lot of makeup . Sometimes it felt as if you were in Mean Girls.

But you did what you had to survive highschool.

The teacher only nodded at you, after all, no one gave a shit at this school, so you didn’t have to worry about anything.

The board indicated that you had to dissect a frog in pairs and with one look around the room you saw that almost everyone had started doing it with their respective pair. Your friends were chuckling at you for being late, so you did a bold thing.

You sat next to Orlando.

Orlando was one of the few people (a lie, the only one) that you hanged out with sometimes who wasn’t popular. You and him went way back, you two had been friends when you were younger and when you changed schools you still hadn’t lost that friendship. Then you came back to your current highschool and well, you still were friends, even though your current ones would disapprove of that.

“‘Sup Orlando. We gonna cut this or what?” You said picking up the tiny knife while he looked at you with his eyebrows raised.

You understood why he acted surprised that you wanted to do something related to school. On the other side of the classroom, Willow was painting her nails, Betty was doing her best not to throw up and the rest of them were on their phones.

“Damn, you really want a good grade don’t you?” Orlando said once you made a cut on the frog’s chest.

You frowned and looked at him “This’ disgusting.”

“Yeah well, try seeing a guy who has been hit in the face by a gnome.” He said more to himself than you.

You only sent him a confused look and sighed.

You two began talking about some girl he had a crush on when the door opened again. Everyone stared at the pale boy who couldn’t care less about being late. Wayne went to where you and Orlando were sitting and sat down next to him.

It was a known rule all over the school that Wayne was the type of person you didn’t wanna mess with (I mean, the guy stabbed someone with a carrot once).

But you weren’t the type of person to back away from conflict, god knows that.

“This is (Y/N), she’s pretty cool for hangin’ out with a bunch of assholes.” Orlando told him and you elbowed him.

Wayne only gave him a look with raised eyebrows as in a way of saying “what is she doing here?” but then he stared at the board.

“Heard you went on a date with that Darren guy.” Orlando whispered to you once everybody started copying what the teacher was saying.

You rolled your eyes “He was nice, at the beginning. Don’t think he’s my type, besides, his dad is an asshole. He kept staring at my boobs once we arrived at his house. I’m sure Darren has daddy issues.” You said and pointed at the boy with your head, who had a black eye.

You began scribbling in your notebook when something caught your attention. In the corner of your eye, you could see Wayne grabbing one of the dead frogs and placing it in his pocket. You pursued your lips because god who would want to keep a dead frog in their jacket.

The bell rang and you picked up your things as slow as you could. Your friends were already out of the door when you turned to say bye to Orlando.

“See ya later.” You said and grabbed your bag before going to Maths class, where Betty was waiting for you, ready to talk about this new nail polish she loved.

“This is gonna be a long day.” You thought to yourself.

“Eric’s been asking ‘bout ya.” You said to her once it was lunch time.

She turned red and shrugged. “You know how he is. But what ‘bout ya? When you gonna get a boyfriend?” She asked you with a smirk.

You were about to make a remark at her (something about her lying about being a virgin with wasn’t a bad thing though) when two girls came to your table.

“Hey”

“Hi”

All the girls turned to them slowly, annoyed that someone was interrupting their so important conversation.

“Hi, I’m Del. This is Natalie.” The smallest one of the two said.

“This a gay-straight alliance thing? Or...?” Willow said and you did your best not to roll your eyes.

“I hate the people.” Natalie mumbled to the other girl.

“Well, we’re holdin’ a blood drive next week. It’s for our hockey team. You know, our goalie got hurt pretty bad.” Del said but the girls weren’t really interested in that, so you jumped in.

“Count me in.” You said with a smile ignoring the dazzled stares from both your friends and the two girls.

“S-sure! We’ll write you in. Anybody else wants?” Del trailed off.

The girls remained in silent. You wanted to said something to them but knew it wouldn’t change anything in the end.

“Dude took a blade to the jugular.” Natalie began. “Vein just ripped open, and blood was spurtin’ everywhere like a fuckin’ faucet. He almost bled to death right on the ice, and then, when the paramedics finally came, they were slippin’ and slidin’ in all this blood and one of ‘em actually threw up.”

Willow gave you an amused look and you only shrugged.

“Could be fun. It just pain for one second.”

“Yeah, exactly. One second a you help a lot of people. They were able to save him thanks to people chipping in and donating their blood, much like you guys” Del said and you two exchanged smiles. “So, what do you think?”

“What’s in it for me?” Willow asked with a boring look on her face.

“Uh, the sattisfaction of helpin’ others?” Natalie remarked.

Willow scoffed “Do we get out of class?”

Del rolled her eyes in a dissapointed way “Yes.”

“Should’ve just opened with that”

“Hey, uh, while I’m here, I’m also running for Class President, so, you know, maybe if you like, you could vote for me.” Del said and you felt sorry for the girl because the looks your friends gave to each other said everything.

“I’ll let you copy my English homework.” Del said and Betty snickered.

“We already have her for that.” She said and pointed at you. “Hey, uh, didn’t you and your dumpster-fire of a mom get thrown out the Courtyard Park Hotel the other day? It’s Oxy, right? Not crack. Or is it both?” She finished with a smirk.

“Hey, Ugly Betty, eat a dick.” Natalie said and you bit down a smile.

Betty only scoffed “You know what?” She said turning to you. “I’m thinking’ I’ll run for Class President. Maybe my campaign platform could be “Crack is Whack.”” She finished and Del left.

“Yeah, I heard Eric Powers liked your crack. By the way, just because you take it in the ass doesn’t mean you’re still a virgin. So, yeah. Fuck you!” Natalie said and lifted her two middle fingers before leaving.

Betty only scoffed. “Can’t believe we’re doing this because of you (Y/N).” She said mispronouncing your name.

“Seeing as you like helping others so much, why don’t you donate your hair? We could cut it today, after school.” Madison said and the girls laughed.

Why did you have to be born with such a bad temper?

“It’s (Y/N).” You said closing your hands into fists.

“What?” Betty asked furrowing her eyebrows.

“I said it’s fuckin’ (Y/N). We’ve known each other for two years and you’re unbelievable...You know what? I’m ditchin’ all of you.” You said picking up your bag.

“What? You don’t have anybody else. We made you.” Willow said rolling her eyes.

You smirked before grabbing your can of soda. “Guess I’m gonna be a nobody now, amiright?” You said and poured it down onto Betty. “Fuck you.” You said before leaving.

“You bitch!” Betty shouted while people whistled at you. No one would have expected that, you were a popular girl, just like them.

Seems like that changed now.

You walked through the hallways before finding the person you were looking for.

“Del!” You shouted and she turned around, Natalie by her side ready to punch you if you said anything hurtful. “I uh, I wanted to help you with y’know, becoming Class President.”

“Really?” She asked confused

“Why the hell should we believe ya?” Natalie said.

You took a deep breath holding your bag tighter “Well, Betty doesn’t give a shit ‘bout changing things ‘round here and I don’t want school turn into hell. You seem like you want to make school better and the people around here too, don’t cha?” You said and she smiled softly.

“Hell yeah. It could be fun, it’s time we make new friends, y’know.” She said to Natalie who only looked at you.

“...Fine, if she ain’t like those bitches then I’ll guess.” She said and you smiled.

“Great, I can’t wait to change from these things, I can’t even breath.” You said and finally Natalie smiled.

A few days passed and you got closer to the two girls. You had met Del’s family one time you went to her house to help her with her speech and some decorations for her campaign. They were different from your old friends’ families, but hella better. Del’s mum was thrilled that her daughter had a new friend and you liked her, even though they were all those rumors about her being an addict.

Del’s dad was a bit confused as he had never seen you with Del before, but he got used to it. And Del’s brothers were funny even though she said they were annoying as hell.

And now here you were, sitting in your couch watching TV as your mom made the final touches to the table. It was Thanksgiving Day and after spending the morning with Del and Natalie in your pool, the two had to leave to celebrate with their families.

“(Y/N), someone knocked on the door, can you get that?” Your mum asked you while stiring something in a pot.

“Sure ma.” You said standing up and straightening your dress.

You made your way towards the door and you were shocked when you opened the door and found Wayne.

“Hey.” He said looking directly at you.

“Uh, hi, what you doing ‘ere?” You asked trying your best to be polite.

“Orlando told me to give you this. From Biology.” He said handing you some papers.

You recognized Orlando’s messy handwriting and smiled slightly. “Thanks, he coulda come here though.” You said but Wayne only nodded and that was when you noticed it.

The poor boy had a bruise on his cheek and a cut above his eyebrow.

“Oh shit, what happened to your face?” You said touching the cut where blood was.

He didn’t seem to mind the lack of distance between you two so he only shuggred. You sighed and decided you couldn’t leave the boy alone on Thanksgiving Day, he had brought these notes that you needed because you didn’t bothered to write.

“C’mon, I’ve some bandaids.” You said grabbing his arm taking him inside your house.

“Who is it (Y/N)?” Your mother asked from her place on the kitchen.

“Uh, just a friend ma. We’ll be back in a second.” You said before going to your room.

When you came back from the bathroom with bandaids, alcohol and cotton, Wayne was sitting in your bed looking at some old photos you had.

“Oh gosh, don’t look at that. I look awful.” You said sitting next to him.

“Didn’t know you used to wear glasses.” He said but you only shrugged.

“I used them in my old school. I changed when I was twelve.” You said crossing your legs.

After a few seconds of you dabbing alcohol on his cut, he spoke up again. “Why did ya do it?”

You furrowed your brows. “Uh, kids were fuckin’ mean there?” You said though it sounded more like a question

“No, I mean, why did you pour that soda on Betty?” He asked confused.

You rolled your eyes. “They are all a bunch of bitches, couldn’t stan ‘em anymore.”

“Why did you hang out with ‘em?” He asked and you almost told him to fuck off but he was asking it in a curious way, not in a incriminating one.

“Well, when I changed schools I knew that in order to survive, I had to have a trustworthy group. Now, Orlando is my boy but he gets his ass kicked almost every month. So, I had to hang out with these girls and, nobody bothered me. You gotta do what you gotta do.” You said standing up and saving the bandaids that were left.

“You aren’t like ‘em.” Wayne said with a faint smile. “You’re better.”

You smiled at him in return and decided that maybe this boy wasn’t as bad as everyone said, he was better than the boy everyone described.

“Thanks.” You said and heard the sound of people coming in. Feeling confident, you decided to throw a shot in becoming Wayne’s friend. “You gotta a place to be? Celebrating at your house or somethin’? “

“Not really.” He said and you remembered that his dad had cancer. Shit, now you felt bad for the boy.

“Wanna stay ‘ere and eat somethin’? Heard you ate a frog the other day.” You said chuckling.

“Yes.” He said and smiled at you and boy did you grow a crush on him having dinner with your relatives and him.

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You looked at Del who had just entered the gym where the blood drive was taking place. After her speech you two and Natalie had gone out for pizza and then, at night, you had received the news that Del’s mom had died.

Everybody at at school knew that, and you were worried about Del not being her usual self. But you had to let her grieve. Supporting her was the only thing you could do.

You got up from your place and went over to some tables where boxes of cookies where. You grabbed a peanut butter one and were going over to the hockey team when Wayne approached.

“Hey.” He said taking one of the coconut ones.

“Hiya.” You smiled at him. “You gonna donate too?”

He lifted his arm showing the bandaid that was on the place where he had donated blood.

“Cool.” You said chewing your cookie. “Nice shirt, like the color.” You said pointing his yellow shirt.

He gave you a smile and wow, he’s so cute when he smiles. “Thanks. Uh...you wanna go out sometime? ” He asked scratching his neck.

You almost dropped the box of cookies you had on one hand but forced yourself not to. “Like, y’know, in a date?”

He cleared his troath. “Yeah, like a date.”

Wow. Who would have thought that a crazy kid like Wayne was such a nervous guy with dates? You opened your mouth to answer that hell yeah, you’d like to go out with him when screams caught your attention.

Del was ripping open all of the blood bags and throwing them all over the floor. It looked like something out of Carrie.

She left the gym and you grabbed your things following. Before you went after her, you turned to Wayne.

“Sure, let’s do it.”

#wayne mccullough #wayne imagine #wayne mccullough x reader #wayne mccullough imagine #bruised hands and hearts #wayne #<3 #wayne x reader #fic tag

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ghosty-schnibibit · 4 years

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first new taz liveblog in a month, and also first taz liveblog of the new year, woohoo! ^u^

after i’m done with this episode i’m going to go back and relisten to everything, i know we’re only five episodes into this season but it feels like it’s been a million years and i need to refresh myself on the rules of this world

jesus it has been so long since the last ep i forgot most of what happened, i have never needed the "previously on" more than i do now

oh we were rolling initiative! okay nice, love starting off eps with a fight

wait how is this spelled??? i thought it was just xorn :?

do not change it griffin, this sounds absolutely fantastic

jesus they all beefed it

wait how much plus to initiative does argo get? jesus

i missed fitzroy's voice holy shit

cool! i forgot my favorite boy bought a cool sword

yay! go argo! first hit of the fight :D

damn that is such a fun descriptor

you don't have to be mean to this sweet boy fitz

oh right! this is the cool table thingy he shared

maybe ya shouldn't have gone for the nearly already dead one :/

... is that a real spell? i think that's a pokemon move???

jesus firbolg, goddamn

JESUS CHRIST FIRBOLG

what about the other ones that died, did they burst too?

go argo :D

they're a bunch of scaredy babies

aww, i like combat encounters juice :(

is clint talking as clint right now bc that is absolutely not argo's voice

well that sure was a noise :|

oooooh i love this music holy shit

pretty rocks :000

he's a night light boy! a magic detecting night light boy!

damn clint is killing it with his rolls today

wait what??? oh no, is this a thrall???

i am so intrigued by this, i have no idea what's happening but i am excited by the possibility of what it might mean

i did too rainier, i did too

"one's a souvenir, two is kleptomania" ilu argo

leon i am so suspicious

fitzroy me sweet dumb baby

so _ _ T T _ _ _ _ _ E ... hmmm

more confirmation that fitzroy is a himbo lol

oh good clint remembered to do argo's voice lol

i don't think that's how it works?

rainier my sweet baby ilu

i love you firbolg friend

B U T T E R M I N E

oh cool! so they have a way of knowing how close they were! this is a good puzzle trav

so now we're working with B _ T T _ _ _ I N E

i want to go to butter mine now

clint that that scared the shit out of me

bottom line!!! go argo :D

oh fun griffin's back for the ads for the ep

i saw a pic of their new baby on twitter, she's so cute ^u^

i desperately need me some of that twenty-funny merch

oh fun! new dice B)

fitz is just a permanent nightlight lol

WAIT... HE'S A KNIGHT LIGHT

... glew??? travis my boy that’s not how past tense works

fitz my precious fucking dork baby

i think it has hands from the art i saw when googling it last ep

the grand arc of taz is just clint getting better and better at rolling until he reaches beyond even magnus in terms of sheer stat boosts

"yes. it speaks common." pfff

so is it incorporeal? or are the walls incorporeal? hmm...

aww fitzroy, my sweet dumb boy

FITZROY 👏 IS 👏 A 👏 HIMBO

bye bye souvenirs lol

... so the xorn didn't know what was going on? aww poor guy :(

fitzroy he does not have to say it you are handing him a physical subpoena my dipshit boy, just give the new xorn buddy the rock

i know i'm meant to be picturing a xorn but my brain is just playing the goron city music on repeat

"i'm not really sure how planar travel works" the irony of this line coming from griffin's character is sending me

so did he get sent to the prime material plane against his will?

i cannot wait to see art of those photos lol

nice, good roll for fitz!

oh shit, how the hell did that get there

can he climb up to it? oh well apparently not lol

"hey google? size of xorn"

xorn is a beef boy

gotta get bud to the move reminder lol

"say you're doing something and then let travis tell you no" pfff

NICE, go clint :D

bye xorn buddy!

we've solved the xorn puzzle :D

fun times, fun times

oh yeah we get to have this scene

is this the music from the scene in episode one? with the thing that was in the dark spooky woods?

that's a good deception check for one word

aww leon :’(

i am so worried for everyone now, holy shit

back to the goofs lmao

yay! first assignment done, back to school

first new taz ep of the new year! that was super fun! i’m both excited to see where the new threads are going vis a vis the rift and nervous given the little scene with leon at the end there

see you guys whenever the next ep comes out ^u^

#taz #taz graduation #taz spoilers #the adventure zone #ghosty liveblogs taz

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shijiujun · 5 years

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History3 ep 13 summary - TUGS AT UR HEARTSTRINGS BUT it’s a good episode

I’m soooo tired but the energy has come again because of Trapped HAHAHAHA the thought of BIRTHDAY SCENE gives me strength to go on praying there is NO JAM on the live stream today we’ll see

OMG what the hell we don’t get a bed scene so the two bed scenes that the writers were talking about WE WILL GET THEM SOMETIME LATER it might be after birthday scene now that I think about it but also guys I think you’ll like this episode because the PLOT MOVES and there’s plot development thank god and we actually delve into serious stuff - the dilemma of Tang Yi as a mob boss and Shao Fei as a police officer finally comes into play here

Shao Fei runs off after Tang Yi kisses his wound (DAMN HE PRESSED HIS MOUTH TO THE WOUND FOR SO DAMN LONG?!) and asks if it still hurts and Tang Yi just laughs and says ‘he’s still too soft’ AND SHAO FEI IS LITERALLY HYPERVENTILATING IN THE TOILET THEN WE GET DOMESTIC SCENE - Tang Yi cooking in the kitchen for Shao Fei WITH AN APRON ON and Shao Fei is all: “it smells so good! is this the spicy dish we had with coke the other time?”

and wow BEST HUSBAND IN THE WORLD JUST SMILES AND GOES: “you can’t have spicy food or coke while you’re recovering”

shao fei: *pouts* “you’re so stingy, controlling this and that”

DOMESTIC HUSBANDS THEY ARE RIGHT HERE GUYS!!!!!

so they sit down and cute shao fei takes a bit of the dish and puts it on tang yi’s rice first before eating himself (i LURVE THIS) - and tang yi obviously is kind of amused and touched that shao fei did that, and as they’re about to eat that’s when tang yi broaches the topic of shao fei staying at the police station because it’s safer for him there, and obviously shao fei is all ‘WHY?!’ and demands to know a reason and i thought they were gonna start fighting but thank god they’re both soft smol bbs so they just look at each other waiting for the other person to say something, and tang yi goes: “i’ll tell you, but you must promise to stay out of it. if you can’t promise me that, i won’t tell you”

so shao fei obviously agrees and tang yi starts the flashback by saying: “do you know what it’s like to grow up in a place where no one cares about and loves you? that’s the kind of place i grew up in”

AND YES HERE WE GET TANG YI AND BOSS TANG AND HONG YE BACKSTORY (still waiting for Shao fei’s COME ON) - This entire like flashback tugged at my heartstrings guys TUGGED AT MY HEARTSTRINGS I almost cried?!!! - So young Tang Yi was adopted by adoptive parents because the mom wanted to adopt him but the mom died, so the dad was never supportive of his wife adopting tang Yi and when she died he became neglectful and abusive

We start off with young Tang Yi going home and it’s his birthday but obviously the terrible dad doesn’t notice, but Tang Yi goes to his room and eats food and is about to eat cake in front of the photo of him and his mom - the dad comes into the room and he yells at tang yi for going into his room to steal the photo of him and his mom - tang yi says that it’s not his, it’s a photo of him and his mom

and the dad goes: “she’s not your mom and i’m not your dad!”

tang yi doesn’t get why he can’t have the photo and snarks back and the dad slaps him, and says a bunch of other stupid shit, so tang yi leaves home with literally just the clothes on his back and the backpack (can’t rmb if he took the photo or not) - and this scene was truly realistic, i felt that slap and everything so kudos to the actors playing young tang yi and the dad?!

then next scene: we see a super skinny hong ye fighting with a bunch of older male teens over the bicycle they stole, and tang yi is somehow there as well, and they end up fighting with the older teens - long story short, boss tang (tang guo dong) passes by with a SUPER YOUNG LOOKING DAO YI OMG?! and they help tang yi and hong ye out - boss tang tells them to hurry and go home, and hong ye just simply says: “i don’t have a home”

boss tang stares at them for a while, and although tang yi doesn’t say a thing you can tell by his clothes and dirty face that obviously he has been on the streets for a while as well? so boss tang is all: “you guys hungry? want to eat some food?”

tang yi, the cautious, smart boy who knows that most strangers are up to no good, says no, while hong ye who really is hungry, says yes

anw in the next scene boss tang and tang yi are eating at the table alone - although tang yi isn’t eating (and boss tang mentions that hong ye has already eaten three bowls of rice), so boss tang leaves tang yi to eat by himself and give him some space while he goes check on hong ye to see whether she’s gone for a shower yet

a year or less later, we see tang yi coming home to the house, and boss tang is cooking dinner - it looks fucking delicious btw and i haven’t eaten dinner so jfc i really wanted to reach into the screens for those golden fried mantous (buns) - anw, tang yi is holding onto a little box that is definitely a cake for his birthday and boss tang tells him that dinner is ready so he can come down after he’s put away his stuff - much later, the sky is dark and they’re eating already and BOSS TANG says there’s one more dish and then switches off all the lights, much to tang yi’s confusion

then boss tang comes out with a cake!!!! omg sweetest thing ever - after that they sit at the couch and make playdoh or clay figurines of ‘old tang’ and ‘little tang’ - it’s the cutest shit i’ve ever seen

so while tang yi is reminiscing all of this, he says: “boss tang gave me my first home, my first birthday etc. etc.” - basically boss tang gave him the home he never had, and then he says to shao fei: “but on that day four years ago, i watched him bleed to death in front of me - can you imagine in that moment i lost everything, and my life was ruined? do you think i can let the person who did this go?”

shao fei: “so that’s why you said you didn’t know anything, because you were waiting to take revenge yourself”

then: “tang yi, the best punishment for that person is to get justice under the law”

and of course tang yi insists that he will never ever give this person to the police, he WILL take revenge by his own hands - and shao fei dishes out what probably is the most realistic line in this entire damn show (and one that i think we’ve all been waiting for): “but tang yi, you know that if you take revenge on your own, as a police officer, i will have to catch you?”

and OMG THE HEARTBREAK BETWEEN THEM BOTH!!!! tang yi’s eyes are already watery and he just says: “you do what you need to do. i do what i need to do”

GOSH COULD THEY BE ANYMORE HEARTBREAKING LIKE WE BARELY JUST GOT THE HAPPY PARTS TWO EPISODES AGO?!! (and though i say that i think this episode was about time, because we really needed to move on the plot!!!!)

the next scene we get zhao zi asking online on a forum “what to do when a guy confesses to another guy” AND OMFG THIS IS HILARIOUS he gets the following responses:

“welcome to a whole new world”

“rmb to prepare some VASELINE”

#gaypanic!!!!!

LIKE WOW chinese netizens, you guys are real damn helpful?!!!! HAHAHAHHAA anw i totally died at the vaseline part and the funniest thing was zhao zi, at work, was READING THE RESPONSES OUT ALOUD like did you want the entire police station to know that jack, a well-known gangster and criminal, wants to bang you? and then yu qi who sits next to him (she’s recovered at least on the surface and moving on with her life ATTA GIRL YOU GO!!!) gives him the WHAT THE FUCK look at the things he’s saying - then zhao zi goes to shao fei and asks him the same thing, but shao fei was the one who confessed in this case, and zhao zi just shook his head and goes: “irrelevant, totally irrelevant”

then we move to tang yi’s house!!! omgggg TANG YI LOOKS DAMN FINE WITH THOSE EARRINGS AND THAT WHITE TURTLENECK i would like to thank the wardrobe in charge for picking out tang yi’s HELLA FINE CLOTHES

anw, hong ye and dao yi are there to discuss work, and she’s obviously still mad at dao yi, and tang yi then peruses some files on the project they’re on and picks a company - hong ye is like: “are you sure? they’ve only been around for 5 years”

and tang yi goes on and on about how he thinks the founder of the company is a good and capable person, and that hong ye should meet him because for work, and also secondly, because the founder actually told tang yi that he kind of liked hong ye at a party previously (so anw this founder is the guy we saw in the previews) - and then obviously dao yi is not happy about it and tells tang yi not to do that, but tang yi reminds him that: “if you keep on regretting, you’re going to miss her and you will miss this chance forever”

ah de turns up then and tells tang yi that chen wen hao has invited him for tea next week and tang yi says: “i’ll be there” - ah de tries to discourage him from gg but we all know that tang yi is doesn’t usually listen to ah de so he ignores him

the next scene: tang yi opens the box and we see the birthday hat from his first birthday with boss tang and the clay house he made when he was younger that represented the home that boss tang gave him, and he says to himself: “a year has passed again, happy birthday (to himself)”

AND YES LI ZHEN JIE AND BOSS TANG HAVE THE SAME EXACT BOX THAT THEY GAVE TO SHAO FEI AND TANG YI SO THEY ARE DEFINITELY CONNECTED AND EVERYTHING I really can’t wait to see how it all plays out!!!

anw we’ll get all the crazy scenes like the drugging part and the knifing parts PLUS BIRTHDAY SCENE TOMORROW - everything exciting is only happening tmr so let’s all prepare for death tomorrow friends!!! i’m just glad they’re moving things along but i’ve really got no idea how they’re gonna squeeze:

1. dao yi and hong ye

2. jack and zhao zi

3. tang yi and shao fei being happy and all and omelette scene and DOMESTIC HUSBANDS

4. slightly more backstory to reveal the incident four years ago

5. tang guo dong + li zhen storyline briefly at least

6. li zhen and shao fei relationship

... all in the next 7 episodes, which is like about 3 hours worth of screen time, i really got no idea

i really liked this episode though! really liked that we saw young tang yi and younger boss tang!!! <3

#history 3: 圈套 #history3圈套 #history 3: trapped #history3: trap #history3 spoilers #summary #spoilers

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lynxgriffin · 5 years

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Straight Outta Monster Narnia

HEY HEY I WASN’T EXPECTING TO DO THIS EVER AGAIN BUT WE’RE BACK

I’M GONNA PLAY ME SOME DELTA RUNE HERE

THOUGHTS AS I GO! ARE UNDER THE CUT!

Here we GOOOOOOO~!

Survey Program! Nice! Ominous!

I am here yes!

Truly excellent dude

OH MAKING A VESSEL NOW what are we Xehanort

NEATO I can pick Chara or Frisk heads or others…

Let’s do someone new. This kinda longish hair head.

STRIPES FOR DAYS! Longish sleeves, methinks

The legs are almost all the same LMAO

This is so friggin creepy I l OVE IT

Favorite food is PAIN nah it’s soft

BLOOD TYPE D. D for DOGGO

You have been gifted with kindness, not-XionFrisk

Pain AND seizure. Kinda wonder what happens if you say no tho…

But I don’t want to start over so let’s go with yes

OH FRIGGIN BUUUUURNED BY THE GAME, HAHAHA

Hi Toriel, you’re looking nice!

That’s a lot of friggin trophies over there

Also Kris, you need some eyes

RELIGIOUS SKA

So we have overachieving perfect child and sad boring child, okay

Awww Gerson wrote a book! How neat

It’s only you…..FOR NOW!!!!

It just isn’t home without white fur stuck in the drain, is it

CHAIRIEL’S RETURN!!!!

Also there’s some weird graphical flicker going on when I move and I wonder if it’s not because I’m playing full screen here

“Spray For The Boys, Flamin’ Hot Pizza Flavor” Damn Toby I missed your incredible sense of humor

DOES TORIEL USE PET SHAMPOO please say yes

ASRIEL’S AT COLLEGE AND UNDYNE’S A POLICE MONSTER, PERFECT

PROFESSOR ALPHYS IMMA GET AN A+ IN ANIME CLASS

DAMN who do I pick as my partner

Like…I really want Temmie…but also Snowdrake…

Random snake is also very good…

Ahhh I see this is gonna be pre-determined

HAHAHAHA FUCKIN BURNED AGAIN BY THIS HORRIBLE BLUE DUCK

Thank you cool snake I love your origin story

Oh this reindeer girl is very cute

MOTHA. FOKKIN. SUSIE

I instantly love her, goodbye

Oh Alphys you’re so not good at putting anyone in trouble

I JUST REALIZED TEMMIE HAS HER EGG ON THE DESK

Susie are you eating chalk

Oh sheet I like Susie less now

GAH DAMN THIS ESCALATED QUICKLY

Susie, Kris doesn’t even HAVE a face

Haha totally cut off my answer there

Hmm. I sense…a theme here.

Wow this really is putting on the restrictive aspects here

Now that’s a spooky face

Oh it ain’t gonna be that simple, mean girls

Well, this sure seems like an underground! Also…Kris is green now, okay

Hi there creepy waving things!

To reiterate: this is soooo creepy AND I LOVE IT

Puzzles! We got puzzles again! CREEPY PUZZLES

Whelp, we found Susie, just kinda hiding out in a…dead dust bunny thingie

LOL so much for a party member following you around

Well this is a new and interesting take on the bullet hell mechanics

Such interesting and different architecture

THE KINGDOM OF DARKNESSSSS

Yes let’s take a sudden HARD SHIFT into Final Fantasy

THE QUEST OF THE DELTA KNIGHTS that was an MST3K ep you know

About like…Leonardo da Vinci actually. Except he was a whiny bitch

LMAO Susie just “nah destroying the world sounds neat”

JOKESTER SANS GLIDES IN A FLAMING TRICYCLE SURE WHY NOT

VERY DIFFERENT COMBAT SYSTEM

“Dunno how I got an ax but like, that’s cool”

CAN’T WAIT FOR THE REMIXES OF THIS BATTLE MUSIC OKAY

Dunno if there’s a pacifist version of this game but I stick to tradition so I’m gonna try it

RALSEI. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

THE POWER OF FLUFFY BOYS SHINES WITHIN YOU it sure as hell does, game

The heckin heck Ralsei is so cute

Yup yup we gonna try pacifist this first time!

“If you’re reading this…I guess you’re dead.” Fair enough.

Gaster noises when trying to use the cell phone, hmmmm…

It’s an inverse papou fruit!

Susie just up and attacks this cake, all right

Battle is cool but it’s gonna take some getting used to, think I accidentally used both of my items

YOUR SENSE OF DIRECTION WON’T SAVE YOU NOW

“It’s like a dinner made out of three glasses of milk” Ralsei you’re SO CUTE

Now to see if TP stays leveled between battles…

“I thought you were running away.” / “Yeah, I finished.”

Fugdamn I want —pictures of Spiderman— remixes of this music ON MY DESK TODAY

FRIGHTENING FANFARE

Damn that puzzle still is tricky

Gah damn that was hilarious but also terrifying

We have the power of FLUFFY BOYS and MEAN GIRLS we are UNSTOPPABLE

Ohhh so that’s what the heart outline does!

Now that is a coooool cat and I like him already

Awww I don’t have enough money for the spooky sword

Susie just roastin’ everybody left and right

THEY GOT BARRY

These mechanics continue to be interesting and a bit more complex

“Damn, didn’t get to impale myself” I’m sure you’ll get your chance Susie

It’s really interesting how we’re basically group-battling to PREVENT the tank from beating the crap out of everyone

Oh now that light trick is weird

They keep throwing the usual chess and playing card guys at us and somehow I’m Suspicious

Is that a bucket. ARE Y’ALL HOMESTUCKING AT ME AGAIN

LMAO did Susie call us the Fuckboys or something

Oh, the Shit Squad, I guess!

THE POWER OF THE SHIT SQUAD SHINES WITHIN YOU HECK YESSSS

“I, Mr. Society, am far too intelligent to ever bow down to such a tyrant!” Hmmm.

Oh, it’s Sir Lion Plateface again

L E G S

THE BOSS JUST DRINKS A GALLON OF MILK THAT’S FINE

Well Ralsei got kinda junked there but WE DEFEATED SIR LION PLATEFACE

Cakes…are also my enemy…

Yeeeeah kinda saw that one coming

Susie I get the feeling you’re not going to enjoy being a bad guy either

Dang son I have no clue what’s going on anymore WE JUST HAD SOME SALSA IN A TREE STUMP

This jack’s got my number

That sure is a three-eyed three-headed cat thingamajig

Awww I like Clover

“All proceeds go to kicking your ass” CAN I USE THIS LINE IN REAL LIFE PLEASE

Hot damn we just squeaky hammered our broken cake into ULTIMATE CAKE

Why does a sweet little boy have a mustache indeed.

Create a machine to thrash your own ass, nice

It’s my beautiful death laser duck! Tops in GUN’S

Man Susie and Lancer are just having the time of their lives here

Finally, respect for pinecone-eaters!

Awww Susie, are you actually starting to worry about someone who respects your eating of chalk and pinecones

Oh thank goodness, got through that maze thing

Yes, finally, it’s our DUCK TANK LASER

Why does it say Tuna on it

“Your design sucked so we blew it up” This is like that one Berlin tour guide I had

GANGED UP ON THEM WITH KINDNESS, HA

Whelp, back to telling enemies that Susie will kick them in the shins I guess!

YES LANCER JOIN THE SHIT SQUAD

OMFG THAT FAAAAACE WHAT IS THAT FACE

Hey we’ve got a full Final Fantasy team now! Neat

STOOL FORME

I like how Lancer just sliiiiiides around outside the party instead of walking with

Hmmm well that friendship feeling didn’t last long

You done got locked in the dungeon

Yup sure did eat that jail moss two minutes in

HUH, we’re controlling Susie now

In which choices do not matter…

SUSIE’S FOKKIN PISSED

And we can’t control her actions…but why controlling the human soul?

A pair of eyes got arrested?! What IS the world coming to?!!

Oh dear, we found a bunch of kings in baby jail

Why are these filthy cages so happy-looking

Awwww Susie joined the party for realizes!

So, this about final boss point for this business?

Why are you guys just sitting on a pile of loot

And just who is this sassy lost child?

BAAHAHAHAAA

HECK YEAH WE GET TO FLIRT AGAIN

I am now BED INSPECTOR yes

Hello again fancy blue boy

“Can…can we see it” / “No.”

This sure is a jammin party with CLUB MUSIC OH HO HO HO

Awww he put his bicycle to bed

‘Welcome to my shop, you ungrateful worms” HELL YEAH

I do not wisheth to hear your MP3s! I would rather listen to the sweet song of Death!

Prepare for a battle with…WHATEVER THIS IS!!!!

JUST FUGGIN CHUCK RALSEI AT SIR LION PLATEFACE, I LIKE IT

Six dollars, for all of that?! Geez

WHELP this looks like final boss time…

Hiiiii there Lancer

Oh dang is gettin serious now

Oh woooow that’s…someone’s fetish right there

HOKAY that was tricky but! Having the defense abilities certainly helped with pacifism through that…

Despite ending this peacefully, I don’t think this scene is gonna end on a happy note…

W H E L P

DAYUM that face from Susie!!

Awwww poor Ralsei

We only have BAD-byes WUAH WUAH WUAAAH

DAWWW lil’ Asriel-lookin dude with glasses (and YES I see that anagram there)

LMAO Susie’s face

EPIC ROCK MUSIIIIIC

Also I’ve really been enjoying the color effects

Awww look at this epic adventure you two had in the closet

So basically we went to Monster Narnia, neat

Awww Susie likes Monster Narnia

Oh no we worried Toriel! THE WORST

LIBRARBY

YOU STUDY THOSE HOT DEMON COMICS FOR COLLEGE, TEMMIE

Hiiii Toby you busy makin’ something!

ALPHYS NO, YOU BETRAY MEW MEW KISSY CUTIE

OFFICE UNDYNE, DOn’T ARREST ME

I like reindeer girl’s rowdy hospitalized dad

PARTY ANIMAL TORIEL CONFIRMED

I like how there’s just a poster on the wall in this room that reads PAIN

The police tape simply reads NGGAAAAAHHHHH!

Good grief there’s SO MUCH STUFF TO EXPLORE HERE BUT I HAVE TO KEEP GOING

Snowdrakes don’t have arms, oh no!!!

“Does it hurt to be made of blood??” ….Yes. Yes it does.

HIIIIIIIII SANS

Woah woah woah WOAH WOAH SANS

Everyone is here! Even Ice Wolf!

Yes I’ll take a Double Ice Pizza you weirdos

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD IT’S BURGERPANTS

10 OUT OF 10 GAME NOW

HIS FACES!!!! “C H I C K S”

That was brilliant, Burgerpants, thank you for existing

Catty!!! Hey where’s Bratty!

Noooo you gotta be besties with Bratty!

Brother Doug…?

Oh no, Mettaton, come out and talk to us!

ASGORE, HELLO

OMG Asgore hugs

Soul flowers….???

Awwww got some flowers for Toriel

THE GAY GUARDS IN THEIR GAY FLANNEL, YAY

It’s so late but I can’t stop until I’ve talked to LITERALLY EVERYONE

Thaaaat’s politics! …Rarely.

Comes to church for the fruit juice, sounds about right

DOG GRAVE, NO

Let’s go into the woods…what could go wrong…

Why can’t I get into the creepy shed…

Well, I think I got everything, so let’s go home now…

ASRIEL MAINS YOSHI IN SMASH CONFIRMED

Awwww Toriel is not big on Asgore’s bouquet!

OKAY decided to go to sleep here.

…Well that didn’t work out great

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

UUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WHAT??????????

WHAT????????????

WHAT?????????

HAHA I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THE FUK HAPPENED IN ALL OF THIS BUT UH. WHEN’S CHAPTER TWO??

THAT SURE WAS A HELL OF A THING

No really Toby please WHAAAAAAATTT

OKAY I HOPE I DIDN’T MISS ANYTHING IMPORTANT BYYYYEEEE

#undertale #delta rune #lynx plays delta rune #lynx plays undertale #undertale spoilers #delta rune spoilers #scheduled this so it posted after the no spoilers rule so hopefully that works out #NO PLEASE WHAT HAPPENED HERE I STILL HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS #also I NEED MUSIC REMIXES NOW #also also so uh #EXPECT ART IN THE FUTURE #SORRY I CAN'T HELP MYSELF #including doing the running commentary thing!

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staircasttext · 3 years

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Ep 05 Transcript: Tigerclaw's Callout Post

Episode 5

[intro music]

PAZ: Hi, everyone, welcome back to Stairway to StarClan, a Warriors Cat reread pawdcast. I'm Paz.

JULIAN: I'm Julian.

LIZ: I'm Liz.

PAZ: And today we are back with, I think we're really peaking in the action here. We read chapters 19 through 21. And although it was only three chapters, a lot happened. Want to give any pre-summary impressions or just go right into it?

LIZ: Well, full disclosure, apparently I read one chapter too many last time.

JULIAN: I didn't want to say anything.

LIZ: You gotta stop me.

PAZ: I just assumed maybe I missed something. And I was like, yeah, I'll go with it. Sure. That happened.

LIZ: There's one brain cell in this podcast and we pass it around.

JULIAN: Well, you got a head start. So you only had two chapters to read.

PAZ: Well, I had less fun though. That's not a meal. It was very drama heavy, which I loved.

JULIAN: I my notes are just a bunch of frowny faces. Like every other line, I have just a little frowny face.

PAZ: Yeah, I feel that.

LIZ: So much is happening.

PAZ: So much is happening. And I guess I'll go tell everyone what was happening. So, this week, as I said, we read chapter 19 through chapter 21. And chapter 19, as Liz helpfully previewed for us last time, immediately picks up with Firepaw returning to camp after overhearing Tigerclaw. Firepaw meets Graypaw and Ravenpaw, and then goes off to get poppyseed from Spottedleaf for Graypaw's injury. Spottedleaf tells Firepaw that the spirits of StarClan are restless. And they then compel her to tell him the prophecy as if through possession, and Firepaw isn't really sure how to take that and leaves.

The next morning, Graypaw and Ravenpaw leave the camp with Tigerclaw for training. Firepaw goes off to his first training session with Bluestar, and they go to train alone. And Firepaw keeps thinking about how this is his chance to warn Bluestar about Tigerclaw and Ravenpaw. However, Firepaw cannot work up the courage to voice his thoughts, and then gets caught up in the fight training with Bluestar. There's a scene of him training with Firepaw getting some tips on how to be a better and smarter fighter. And the chapter ends with Firepaw returning to camp, and realizing he completely forgot to tell Bluestar about Tigerclaw.

In chapter 20, Firepaw returns to camp and realizes Ravenpaw has not returned with Graypaw. Firepaw is worried something happened to Ravenpaw, but he eventually returns with freshkill and say Tigerclaw forced him to hunt in ShadowClan territory. Ravenpaw gets anxious when Firepaw says they should tell Bluestar about this and retreats to sleep.

When Firepaw eventually goes to the apprentice den, he sees Ravenpaw is having a nightmare. He wakes Ravenpaw up and tells him he overheard Tigerclaw plotting to frame and kill him, and Ravenpaw understandably freaks out. Firepaw finally gets Ravenpaw to tell the story of how Redtail was murdered by Tigerclaw, which he accidentally saw. Firepaw promises to help Ravenpaw. There's so many paws to say.

In the morning Graypaw and Firepaw go to visit Brindleface's new kits. Firepaw goes and sees Yellowfang first, who says she probably wouldn't be welcome on around the kits. Firepaw visits the kits and realizes that the ThunderClan cats still don't fully accept Yellowfang.

Bluestar then calls Firepaw to another meeting alone, where she shares some of her worries about the clan with him. She mentions how much she and the clan are relying on Tigerclaw, and Firepaw decides he can't tell her his suspicions about Tigerclaw. She then shares that she actually lost her seventh rather than her fifth life to the rats.

When Firepaw leaves the meeting Brindleface screams that someone stole her kits. Everyone in the camp tries to search for them, and Firepaw spots Yellowfang leaving. Then Tigerclaw cries out and the cats run to see him standing over Spottedleaf's dead body.

Chapter 21 opens with Frostfur proclaiming that Yellowfang must have killed Spottedleaf and stolen her kits. Tigerclaw is quick to reinforce this suspicion. The storm starts during this scene. Tigerclaw wants to find Yellowfang immediately, but Bluestar refuses to let anyone leave the camp during a storm. Bluestar then calls Firepaw into another private meeting. Bluestar asks Firepaw to find Yellowfang and bring her back for questioning. She says she does not want to send Tigerclaw because she believes that he would kill Yellowfang, and Firepaw is the only one who can convince her to come back.

Firepaw goes to leave the camp, but on his way out he sees Frostfur angrily chase Ravenpaw away from the nursery Firepaw realizes he has to help Ravenpaw now and asks Graypaw to help him take Ravenpaw away from ThunderClan. Graypaw suggests that they take him to Barley. The three apprentices go to leave but are stopped by Tigerclaw, but Bluestar lies to cover for them.

They then rush out across clan territories as the storm gets worse. Firepaw finally explains the Graypaw that Ravenpaw needs to leave because he saw Tigerclaw kill Redtail. The three reach the end of WindClan territory, and Firepaw says Ravenpaw must take the rest of the journey alone. Ravenpaw worries about his fate and his reception, and Firepaw promises he will keep Ravenpaw safe by telling the clan that Ravenpaw is dead. And that's the end of our reading this week.

JULIAN: Damn.

PAZ: Yeah, it was pretty intense. I mean, as Liz mentioned last week, extremely funny that Firepaw does indeed just completely forget to warn Bluestar.

JULIAN: He's-- I have written down Firepaw himbo, which is not really an accurate usage of the word himbo. But he's just so dumb.

PAZ: He's so brainless.

LIZ: He's got a classic case of protagonist no brain. Like...

JULIAN: That's why he needs Graypaw around.

LIZ: Yeah. For the exposition, that's where the brains are held. I was pretty hard on him last time for just forgetting. But I'll rein it in a little because he he did like take some pretty decisive action after he remembered.

PAZ: Yeah, what what gets me though, is that in the other a scene where he's alone with Bluestar, where he's like, Oh, I have to tell her, he decides just not to tell her because it would like make her sad or something. And I'm like, I think knowing your deputy, like, murdered members of your clan is important. I don't think you just leave that alone. I think you need to tell her.

JULIAN: You can't just like not share that because you're afraid that she'll be sad. She's gonna be sad when she finds out that you hid it from her. Or when Tigerclaw kills his apprentice.

PAZ: I was like, Firepaw, do you think it'll just be like, if you get Ravenpaw out, everything will be like fine? Like Tigerclaw will just be like chill then? Because I don't think that's how it works.

JULIAN: God.

LIZ: Oh, my desperate murderous desire to become the number one cat will stop once I don't have to deal with my stupid son. Adopted son, student, whatever.

PAZ: There's no way I could be like, trying to kill the leader or anything.

LIZ: I'm not asking you about how much longer she has to live for any nefarious reasons.

JULIAN: Also, the fact that she just like drops that she's on life number eight.

LIZ: Ahh!

JULIAN: Is... that's a lot. That's a lot, Bluestar. Where did you lose the other two?

PAZ: Why are you also telling this only to this, like, teen, this high school senior?

JULIAN: God. Bluestar needs a friend.

LIZ: She had one. She's accused of murder now. What can you do?

JULIAN: That's true. Well, that's a wife.

PAZ: Yeah, what can you do?

LIZ: Wives should also be friends. Right?

JULIAN: Yeah.

LIZ: Wives and friends.

JULIAN: Yeah, but wife should also be friend, but sometimes you need a friend who's not your wife.

PAZ: Yeah.

LIZ: That's true.

PAZ: I mean, I guess her friends got killed because those are presumably the other deputies.

JULIAN: [hisses] Ooh.

PAZ: And now she has no one to talk to except this child, I guess.

LIZ: You're my best friend now. You're my son and best friend.

JULIAN: Totally fine and normal.

PAZ: She oscillates between like extremely stupid in this set of chapters and then also like, smart. I don't know how she doesn't suspect anything about Tigerclaw. It's so weird.

JULIAN: Like--

LIZ: I guess it's-- oh, go ahead.

JULIAN: I was gonna say like, part of me wants to think that she does kind of suspect something, because of how often she tries to, like meet with Firepaw where her guards aren't there. Um, but also, it doesn't seem like she actually does, so.

PAZ: Yeah, like, I guess like the explanation in this chapter was she thinks Tigerclaw is like too happy to jump the gun, but that seems to be like the only reservation she has about him, which is like, okay, I personally would find this suspicious if two of my deputies had died within like, I don't know, a couple months of each other. But you do you, Bluestar.

JULIAN: And like that two of my deputies had died within a couple months of each other, and that the deputy who had stepped into their place was like, just a real piece of shit.

PAZ: Yeah, she basically says he's like a real piece of shit. But she's like, he cares about our clan. So it's okay.

JULIAN: Awful.

LIZ: Are they like, even friends? Or is this just like, well, I got to live with this guy because he's good for the clan.

PAZ: I don't get the impression that they're super close.

LIZ: No. Yes, I was going to say like, Oh, it's like a blind spot. Because like, she's worked with him for so long. And like they're friends, but they're not really.

PAZ: I guess the situation is just like, everything's kind of really bad right now. And I guess maybe she's focused on that instead of other bad stuff. But.

JULIAN: Yeah, like, it doesn't even seem like he respects her. Like in the last chapter, where Firepaw, Graypaw, and Ravenpaw slip out, like Tigerclaw catches them. And there's this whole big confrontation. where, Bluestar is like, no, I told them to go do something. And he keeps pushing back on that. And it's like, well, you know, not to be supporting, like, absolute power from the leaders here. But also, it sounds like you have a mouthy deputy and you shouldn't stand for that.

PAZ: Yeah, yeah. He like back talks her like multiple times in this set of chapters. Like when she says, like, no one can leave the camp because of a storm, he like, really argues against her.

JULIAN: There is a moment where Firepaw is not complete himbo in the first chapter, where like Tigerclaw wakes them up for training. And he glares at Tigerclaw I think the sentence is "Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for a few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies." And I'm like, holy shit.

PAZ: I did like that line.

LIZ: That was really good.

PAZ: I mean, I guess is that-- the trainings scene with Bluestar was cute. But it was also like, Oh my god, you forgot.

LIZ: Like, I get it. She's cool. You're awed by the power of girl boss.

JULIAN: Your friend is going to be murdered.

PAZ: Your friend is gonna be murdered. He's so terrified.

LIZ: If like, if the stakes of that were lower, like, just some other drama, I might understand. But this is life and death.

PAZ: Yeah, for real.

JULIAN: Like we don't have time for a fun little Mr. Miyagi trading session.

PAZ: I guess the next thing of note that happens is like Ravenpaw coming back from his outing with Tigerclaw. And once again, Tigerclaw seems to have tried to get him killed indirectly by sending him to do the very illegal and kill on sight activity of hunting in ShadowClan's territory.

JULIAN: I feel like Tigerclaw is-- like Ravenpaw is the kid who comes home, and is like, oh, my teacher took me on another murder field trip today.

PAZ: And then everyone's like, Oh, that's nice.

JULIAN: How was your time at the knife factory, Ravenpaw? Good?

LIZ: Tigerclaw is evil Miss Frizzle.

PAZ: Oh my god. Hey, what's the fucking Magic School Bus line? Like not another stupid murder field trip.

LIZ: Tigerclaw, why can't we have just a normal field trip like to look at the regular mice and not snake hell?

PAZ: It's like almost comical, except Ravenpaw makes me extremely sad.

LIZ: He's the saddest little cat in the world.

JULIAN: I have a little note, when he wakes up from like his horrible nightmare, just like, buddy.

PAZ: I know.

JULIAN: How often is he waking up, like, completely disoriented from nightmares of being murdered by his mentor?

PAZ: Yeah, he's probably so scared he's gonna get fucking murdered in his sleep because Tigerclaw would do that.

LIZ: Totally. Just, this cat has anxiety.

PAZ: For good reason. Um, yeah, that scene made me super sad, but Firepaw was like a really good friend with like comforting him. It's very sweet.

LIZ: Once he remembered.

PAZ: Yeah.

JULIAN: The scene with the kits is cute, but I'm very sad that they still don't trust Yellowfang.

PAZ: Yeah, these cats are so xenophobic, and easily swayed by the words of one guy, apparently.

LIZ: One shitty guy. I don't think-- he can't be like that great to anyone else.

JULIAN: Right?

PAZ: Right? She just saved like, all the kits from death. Like, please chill.

JULIAN: She saved all the kits from death. Like, I feel like that should get her more than a day of like, people not hating her.

PAZ: She was the Twitter main character of the day in a good way, and then it went away.

LIZ: I regret to inform you that really good cat who saved all the kittens is actually bad and a murderer.

PAZ: Tigerclaw was tweeting that out. Tigerclaw, a thread: Why Yellowfang Sucks.

JULIAN: Tigerclaw's 500 page Google Docs call out post for Yellowfang.

LIZ: Oh my god.

PAZ: And Ravenpaw.

JULIAN: And Ravenpaw. There's multiple sections.

PAZ: Oh my god, it is just the like 500 page call out post of some like 30 year old, like writing about like a 15 year old. It's just that. That's what Tigerclaw's doing for Ravenpaw.

JULIAN: God.

LIZ: Tigerclaw typing furiously, Ravenpaw is making our clan a hostile environment for me specifically.

PAZ: Oh god.

LIZ: I know he's just 12 in cat years. But he's a murderous, horrible, man.

PAZ: Tigerclaw, #clandad.

LIZ: Ugh.

PAZ: Another really funny thing was Firepaw like reassuring Ravenpaw and like him being like, it's okay. Graypaw and I will-- one of us will stay by your side at all times. And then the very next paragraph is them like both leaving the apprentice den. I was like, oh my god.

JULIAN: He forgot again.

LIZ: I think we're just bringing our human values into a story that just doesn't have it, and our human value is having object permanence.

PAZ: Cats are supposed to have better memories than dogs, though. Come on, guys. Step it up.

LIZ: You can see him.

PAZ: Also, I've posted a picture in the chat I hope we can enjoy.

JULIAN: Aw.

PAZ: That's a very good cat.

JULIAN: Oh, that is a good cat. He's standing on his back leg like a little human man.

LIZ: Cause he's nervous. He's got to get a vantage point, you know, to see all the people coming for him.

PAZ: Oh, something very sad that I learned while looking at the official Warrior Cats family tree is that the cat who like lashes out at Ravenpaw like when he tries to go to the nursery, Frostfur, is also his sibling.

JULIAN: Nooo.

LIZ: No.

PAZ: Why do all of his siblings suck and hate him?

LIZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: Oh, this is awful. Ravenpaw...

PAZ: His life sucks so bad.

LIZ: They don't deserve him. He's my sibling now. This will work.

JULIAN: There is kind of a nice moment in Firepaw's conversation with Bluestar where he slow blinks at her. I made a note of that. I thought was very cute.

PAZ: Aw, I didn't notice that. That's so cute.

LIZ: Just little guys.

JULIAN: They're just little guys.

PAZ: They are.

JULIAN: Out in the woods.

PAZ: But then Tigerclaw murders another person.

LIZ: Oh my god.

PAZ: RIP to Spottedleaf. I really thought she was around longer.

JULIAN: Same.

LIZ: There's like significant, like from my, my vague googling. There's like significant art around, I think.

JULIAN: Yeah, she left such an impression on me as like a young did not know I was gay baby that like, I for sure thought she lasted more than like three quarters of one book.

PAZ: Yeah, I thought she was like, pretty much alive this whole first series. Because like, even I know about her, like, as someone who really only read from the second series onwards. Maybe she shows up in like StarClan a lot. I don't know.

JULIAN: Maybe?

LIZ: That could happen, yeah. Maybe she faked her death.

PAZ: She did that like doctor thing where they take the death pill.

JULIAN: I'm sure if she took enough poppy seeds she could like slow her heartbeat a lot.

PAZ: Yeah, I don't know. But I'm assuming she's actually dead. I have no idea.

JULIAN: I think she's actually dead.

LIZ: Tigerclaw-- I don't think he's thinking things through very well. Because let's definitely murder our only doctor and then frame the other doctor at a time when we are being, like, severely attacked. That's cool. That'll be great.

PAZ: It's okay. He read like one Wikipedia article on medicine. And he's totally got this. And he is the expert, and he will reply to you on Twitter, saying that he knows more than you, someone with a medical degree.

JULIAN: Tigerclaw was a pre med student 15 years ago.

LIZ: Oh. Ooh.

PAZ: Yeah. And it's amazing how he's like, he's literally standing over Spottedleaf's dead body. And everyone's like, Oh, no, it must have been Yellowfang

JULIAN: I feel like these cats need to read more murder mysteries so that they know that it's always the person who finds the body or the last person who saw it.

PAZ: Right? That's a classic.

KIP: [mew]

PAZ: Hi, Kip.

LIZ: Kip? Did you do it, Kip?

JULIAN: God, it is really sad that Yellowfang jumps immediately to like, Well, I have to leave. Like--

PAZ: I know.

JULIAN: No one trusts me. I gotto get out.

PAZ: Well, I also assume Yellowfang is smart enough to notice that like Tigerclaw isspreading rumors about her. Unlike Bluestar, who apparently doesn't notice anything.

JULIAN: God. Protect your wife better. Bluestar

LIZ: I know you're busy, but come on.

PAZ: It is um, it is nice that Bluestar doesn't immediately jump to like, believing she's a murder.

JULIAN: Yeah, no, she says something about like, I don't know. I need to know the truth.

PAZ: That is her wife. You gotta have a little trust.

JULIAN: Give your wife a little of the benefit of the doubt.

LIZ: Yeah, that's pretty sweet.

PAZ: That was like a-- she did have like a pretty good plan of like, getting Firepaw to go out and find Yellowfang.

JULIAN: Yeah, her friend.

PAZ: Her one friend.

LIZ: Bluestar, they're just dropping like flies around her. And she's old. She can't talk to like the young hip cats. She's not that old because she can't talk to like these super elderly cats either.

JULIAN: Is Bluestar-- Bluestar is MILF aged, but not in fact a MILF?

LIZ: No.

PAZ: No, cause she's a cat.

LIZ: True, but she also doesn't have children, right?

PAZ: It is that that Sandra Oh post, though. She doesn't even have children.

LIZ: I don't wanna call these cats MILFs.

PAZ: No.

JULIAN: We can stop. We can stop.

PAZ: Um...

JULIAN: Middle aged.

LIZ: Right, right.

PAZ: Middle aged girl boss.

JULIAN: She's a career woman.

LIZ: She's a career woman.

PAZ: Yes, she is. Um, yeah, I mean, so the the last chapter kind of goes into all the, like, accusation stuff, and like, the storm going on during all of it's very atmospheric. I enjoyed it.

JULIAN: God, and then they're just like, alright Ravenpaw, time to go. Let's go. We're taking you to Barley. No time to say goodbye.

PAZ: I mean, I guess like, okay, so like Firepaw's still too stupid to realize that Tigerclaw definitely killed Spottedleaf. But at least he figured out like, now is the atmosphere in which a cat could definitely get murdered. So let's go, Ravenpaw.

LIZ: I do like that as soon as he figures it out, even though it takes forever, that he just like just snaps right to it.

PAZ: Yeah.

JULIAN: He's a cat of action.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: He sure is.

LIZ: Barley's cool to hang out with.

JULIAN: Barley is cool. Can we talk about the-- is that too spoilery?

PAZ: Um, I don't know. I don't know like when it actually comes up in the...

JULIAN: I think it mostly comes up in the extra book that I don't know that we're actually going to read.

PAZ: Yeah, I mean, I know that, um, like Ravenpaw shows up later in the series to like do some stuff, but I don't. Yeah, I don't know. I guess we can talk about it because I want to.

JULIAN: I want to very badly.

LIZ: Let's talk about it. I'm so confused.

JULIAN: I'm sorry. So when we were carefully teasing the cat that Barley was gay with last episode.

LIZ: Ohh.

JULIAN: Yeah.

PAZ: It's Ravenpaw.

JULIAN: It's Ravenpaw.

PAZ: I thought you would have figured it out cause I kept like googling Ravenpaw and also talking about Barley.

LIZ: Well, I'm Firepaw. I don't know shit. Good for him!

JULIAN: Yeah, yeah, he gets to go live on a farm and have a nice pastoral life.

LIZ: That's what he deserves. I don't want him to be in like this war torn like cat society where your siblings will just like drop you immediately. Your teacher is gonna constantly comically try to kill you.

JULIAN: Barley will never let you down.

LIZ: He won't. He's great. Good catch.

PAZ: Yeah. Ravenpaw is listed as his partner on the wiki. I did see some drama in the forums apparently that he used to be listed as mate, as his mate, and like the authors have referred to them as mates. But the wiki will not for some reason. And there's contention.

LIZ: Well, as podcasters of an official Warriors podcast, I'm just saying we have some, some some rights. Some editing rights. Just saying. Not that anyone's gonna do anything at this point.

JULIAN: Oh, yeah, I'm in the Talk page, and there is a lot of back and forth.

PAZ: Oh boy. "Vicky has stated that Ravenpaw and Barley loved each other and their life together and never regretted leaving ThunderClan." Very, very sweet.

LIZ: Aw.

PAZ: Yes. I mean, I'm sure there'll be more to talk about that in the future. But do not worry, everyone, Ravenpaw is leaving this murder plot to go live on a farm and be gay. And that's exactly what he deserves. And kudos to Graypaw for coming up with that idea. His one thought.

LIZ: That was good.

PAZ: I think he's even more head empty than Firepaw. But that's fine.

JULIAN: Well, his head is full of backstory.

PAZ: It's true.

JULIAN: He doesn't have any space for anything new because he's got all of the exposition.

LIZ: Yeah, he's like Sherlock Holmes. It's all just full in there. And if he gets too much new knowledge, it comes up, comes back out. You know? Is that how that works? I've never really read those, so. I mean, since we're on about like, Ravenpaw right now, I think the faking his death thing is very cool.

PAZ: Yeah.

JULIAN: It's very nice.

LIZ: It comes in at a nice dramatic moment, too.

PAZ: Yeah, it's like the very end of the chapter. It's good. The visuals of it are just so good like doing this huge storm like out on the moors.

JULIAN: I just can't get over the fact that like, they don't really say a proper goodbye to him either. It's just like, this is as far as we can take you. Get gone.

PAZ: I mean, I guess the reason for that in-universe is they do have to go find Yellowfang.

JULIAN: Yeah.

PAZ: And I don't know, maybe... they probably do visit him. I guess he's not like going to Scotland, or whatever. I don't know. Maybe this is in Scotland.

LIZ: He's the equivalence of like, I've moved to another city, but the city is right next to yours.

PAZ: Yeah, he just moved like a town over.

LIZ: Like, if this was my city, he'd still be in LA County.

JULIAN: Yeah, like, I assume, I guess it's that like they can go visit him again. But.

LIZ: I hope they do.

PAZ: I hope they do. Yeah. [sighs] Poor Ravenpaw. I'm so sad for him.

LIZ: He's a very sad boy.

PAZ: Something I noted down in this chapter is they use a very cute unit of measurement, which is a kittenstep.

JULIAN: Aw.

LIZ: Awww.

PAZ: It was just a very cute phrasing them in the middle of this very dramatic escape.

JULIAN: Aw.

PAZ: Kittenstep.

LIZ: Adorable.

JULIAN: I remember seeing like pawsteps, but kittenstep is really cute.

PAZ: It's so cute.

LIZ: They're just little guys.

PAZ: They are.

LIZ: So also the implication that like Ravenpaw is just forever-- I mean, I know in the end that he is forever, like, gonna live over there now.

PAZ: Yeah, sorry, I guess we spoiled that for you.

LIZ: I wouldn't come back if I was him. But yeah, is he not gonna, like, just return briefly to like, clear his name or anything?

PAZ: I don't know. I guess we'll see.

LIZ: Or like, is he is he permanently like fake death? You know, we'll see like you said, That's interesting, though.

Yeah. If I were him, I would not want to come back, but.

PAZ: No.

LIZ: No.

PAZ: Because like, it wasn't even just Tigerclaw who was horrible and treated him. Tigerclaw easily convinced everyone in the clan, including his own siblings, that he was horrible. So.

LIZ: Is ThunderClan homophobic?

PAZ: Oh no.

LIZ: I hate that.

PAZ: No, Bluestar's wife.

JULIAN: God, there was like, I saw some discussion of this on the forums that you linked, Paz, about people being like, oh, it seems like Tigerclaw convinced them all too easily. And like, I kind of don't think so. Because that is how, like, fascism works kind of is like, you know, Tigerclaw is a really good speaker and also like, they have an external enemy. It's not that hard for him to convince people to be like, oh, there's an external enemy. And also they have spies among us. Don't pay attention to all the evil shit I'm doing.

PAZ: That's a very good point.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: Yeah, cause I mean, it's already established as a very inherently like xenophobic culture. So probably very easy to twist that.

JULIAN: Yeah. And like there is an external threat. ShadowClan like, does want to get them. But also, you know, Ravenpaw doesn't.

LIZ: No, cause he's just a little guy.

JULIAN: He's just a little guy.

LIZ: He's a little guy. He's a great student. He gets top marks on all his murder missions. Yeah, but like Tigerclaw is also like, actively, like, cultivating that atmosphere of like paranoia, because they didn't they didn't used to have like, guards around the president before, but they do now.

JULIAN: Yeah. And like he's one of the loudest people like talking about how Yellowfang is a threat.

PAZ: Yeah, I think comparing him to sort of like a cult of personality, like fascist-esque leader is a really good point. Because he's definitely using ThunderClan's like own internal bias to his favor in terms of getting what he wants and convincing people of his point of view.

JULIAN: He sucks.

PAZ: He really sucks.

JULIAN: Yeah.

PAZ: And that's why Firepaw should have said something to Bluestar, because the problem is not going away even though you've gotten your friend to safety.

LIZ: Like, I wonder if that's gonna look like more suspicious later if-- I don't know. I mean, he is dead to them now. So this is another thing that has to be like, dealt with once we read. And like Tigerclaw does have to deal with the fact that like, he wants to make Ravenpaw look suspicious, but he's not an outsider. So he can't rely on that. So he like, says, Oh, he's not really one of us. And that's like a pretty classic tactic there, right? Like, oh, yeah, he was-- he's from here, but he's not like us.

JULIAN: Yeah, I think-- I may be misremembering, but I think he's also the first one like, after the ShadowClan battle to be like, oh, it was too easy. There must have been like spies in ThunderClan.

PAZ: Yeah, I think he's the one who definitely starts that idea. Um, there is a forum thread I guess with some interesting info in terms of Tigerclaw and Ravenpaw. Which I guess I can just read.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: So this is in like the new forum that people made after the old official forums closed. And this person said, like, oh, I've been rereading the Warriors books. "But one question really bothered me when reading that I'm kind of surprised people don't notice more. Why doesn't anyone in ThunderClan notice that Tigerclaw is A, evil and B, abusing Ravenpaw? He constantly snaps at the apprentices, for one, and he's constantly putting down Ravenpaw in a context where anyone with a working brain would notice that he's being way more harsh than necessary. Does nobody except for Firepaw notice that Ravenpaw can't walk two steps without Tigerclaw verbally abusing him?

I'm not even getting into that part where Tigerclaw apparently got the nursery queens to believe that a scrawny eight month old cat who jumps at his own shadow is a danger to the clan/a traitor because lol. Why did Bluestar even give someone like Ravenpaw a mentor like Tigerclaw anyways? Someone like Whitestorm would have been a lot better in my opinion."

And the next reply was, "I don't know about the other stuff, but I think I saw somewhere that Ravenpaw was given to Tigerclaw to help him out of his shell or something." And then someone said, "however, in Redtail's Debt," which is either a manga or a special book, I don't know. "Ravenpaw is apparently this oh boy, I want to fight apprentice who only gets extremely timid and anxious after he sees Tigerclaw kill Redtail." To which OP just responds, "what."

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And then someone else says, "I would say it makes sense that a traumatic event would change someone. Like in Bluestar's Prophecy, it was told he was a timid as a kit, but I think it's weird that he would go from timid to battle hungry and then back to timid." So forum people seem divided over that canon that he was apparently ready to fight as an apprentice.

JULIAN: It sounds like the the lore bible needs to be updated.

PAZ: But I think it's interesting if it is canon that like the reason he went with Tigerclaw was to like, make him more confident, and then the exact opposite happened.

LIZ: Mm.

JULIAN: Aw, buddy.

LIZ: That sucks.

JULIAN: It sucks so much. It feels like the Warriors-- the Warriors. The Warrior Cats have like this sort of system of like, at least especially with Tigerclaw of like, kind of like paying your dues. Like you get the shitty job as an apprentice. And then, you know, once you become a warrior, you get to then bully the apprentices, and that sucks.

PAZ: That's a terrible system.

JULIAN: It's a bad system.

PAZ: Maybe there's some people who just shouldn't be teachers. It's a novel concept, I know.

JULIAN: Yeah, there really aren't a lot of jobs that you can have as a cat.

PAZ: No. You can either be, one, baby, two, teenager in training, three, warrior, four, doctor, but that can only ever be two doctors at once. So that's not really viable for most cats. And five, leader. That's it.

JULIAN: Don't forget, six, pregnant, and, seven, old.

PAZ: Yeah, sorry, I did forget.

LIZ: Why can't there be more doctors? It seems like there should be.

PAZ: I don't know.

JULIAN: I think the cats actually need to specialize a little bit because like warrior is such a catch all like, oh, you have to be good at fighting and hunting. And also you need to be good at teaching so that you don't fuck up the next generation irreparably. And like those are conflicting skills.

PAZ: Right?

JULIAN: Like someone who's a really good, like, brutal fighter is not necessarily going to be great with kids.

PAZ: Just-- I mean, that's Tigerclaw

LIZ: What if they got like a therapist cat? There.

PAZ: I think they really could use that, especially Bluestar.

JULIAN: When will the medicine cats develop therapy?

LIZ: How many problems in the Warriors series would be solved if there were cat therapists?

JULIAN: Well, I think there's like-- at some point, I don't remember if it's in this book or later books, but like one of the medicine cat one of the cats is like anxious and having trouble sleeping and one of the medicine cat is like, oh here, like take this. And it's like, Okay, well, thanks.

PAZ: Psychiatrists, I guess.

JULIAN: But also, like, you know, there's not really much mention of the root cause.

LIZ: It's almost like they live in a war torn cat society where no one shares.

PAZ: But we're free.

LIZ: We're free to get all the ticks we want.

JULIAN: We're free to get murdered by Tigerclaw, by Tigerclaw's increasingly like crushing iron paw.

LIZ: Eugh.

PAZ: Once again, all issues would be solved if they just went inside.

JULIAN: They don't even have to go inside. They could go like pull a Barley and live on a farm.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: Yeah. Barley seemed like really living the life.

JULIAN: Like he can have a roof over his head, and like, presumably if he gets too fucked up the humans will take him to the vet. Because I wouldn't want like a really busted barn cat around. And like also he doesn't have to you know get his balls chopped off.

LIZ: So he can still go to heaven.

JULIAN: So he can still go to heaven.

PAZ: He doesn't though.

LIZ: Oh, that's true.

PAZ: He meets one of the very important criteria, which is, one, having balls, but he doesn't meet the other, which is, two, believing in cat heaven, so.

JULIAN: Damn.

LIZ: Well, he can't, but theoretically, the other ones could if they just lived on a barn.

PAZ: Yeah.

JULIAN: Right, if you took a bunch of believers in cat heaven, and plopped them into a barn.

PAZ: We've made a church. Hold on, it's all going wrong.

JULIAN: We've just made them-- Firepaw's become Catholic again.

LIZ: Not again. It keeps happening.

PAZ: Oh god.

LIZ: Barley comes inside from like, catching some rats or something. And there's just all these cats at church in his little barn.

JULIAN: They've pulled some hay bales into place to become like pews. Oh, this is awful.

LIZ: Oh no. You've put a dome in my barn. I don't need that. Why are these frescoes in here?

PAZ: Why aren't there any cat artists? There's a question.

JULIAN: Yeah. That is a good question.

PAZ: God. There simply are not enough roles in this cat society.

LIZ: There should be at least be like cat like oral storytellers.

JULIAN: Right? I feel like the elders like do some of that.

LIZ: Yeah.

JULIAN: Cause Lionheart talks a little bit about like, Oh, don't you listen to your elders? When LionClan and TigerClan come up.

LIZ: I want some like oral storytellers doing like lyrical ballads and like fiction and stuff, though.

PAZ: Oh fuck yeah. I guess there has to be-- I guess the cats also function as builders because they, like fucking repair their wall in this chapter.

JULIAN: Oh yeah, that's true. Where are the cat engineers?

LIZ: What's that wall made of again?

PAZ: Oh god, I wasn't paying attention.

JULIAN: I think it's like leaves and sticks and stuff. It's like kind of a hedge.

PAZ: Yeah.

LIZ: Do you think that RiverClan knows some beavers?

PAZ: No, because there aren't beavers in England, right?

JULIAN: Um, I don't know.

LIZ: I don't fucking know.

JULIAN: There might be-- muskrats build like something similar, I think.

LIZ: [typing] Are there beavers in England?

PAZ: We're really just a podcast that googles animal facts in disguise.

LIZ: Where do beavers live? Knapdale, the Tay, and the Otter are the only places in the UK with wild free ranging beavers. So yes.

PAZ: No but are they native?

JULIAN: Hell yes.

PAZ: Or were they like...

LIZ: They're native. It says they're native.

PAZ: Are you sure? Cause-- no, that was the whole fucking thing with the Beaver Wars or whatever is like, Europeans got--

LIZ: The what?

JULIAN: No, no, no. There's two extant species.

LIZ: Is that another book series?

JULIAN: There's the North American beavers and the Eurasian beavers.

PAZ: Then why didn't European people-- why didn't the European people go cuckoo over the the European beavers?

JULIAN: Cause they killed them all already. Um, "it was once widespread but was hunted to near extinction for its fur. At the turn of the 20th century, there were 1200 beavers in all of Europe and Asia."

PAZ: Oh my god.

LIZ: Oh my god.

PAZ: I don't think these cats are meeting beavers.

JULIAN: Yeah, it was pretty rough.

PAZ: I think they're all fucking dead.

LIZ: This is written in the current, though, so maybe they're making a comeback?

PAZ: Maybe.

JULIAN: Oh, yeah, it's back up to 600,000.

LIZ: Nice.

PAZ: That's pretty good.

JULIAN: Hell yeah.

LIZ: Good to have them around. So maybe, maybe the cats are getting some some tips from the beavers if they're in RiverClan.

PAZ: Oh, no.

LIZ: No?

PAZ: I regret to inform you, this map of beaver range, the British Isles are untouched.

JULIAN: Oh, here we go. "The first sustained and significant population of wild living beavers in the UK became established as early as 2001 in Scotland." Oh, there's a whole controversy about these beavers.

PAZ: What's the controversy?

JULIAN: So the beavers were escapees from captive beaver sites, or illegal releases.

LIZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: So Scottish Natural Heritage initially planned to remove them.

LIZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: "But proponents of the beavers argued that no reason existed to believe that they were of, quote unquote, 'the wrong genetic stock' and that they should be permitted to remain."

LIZ: Wait a minute.

JULIAN: "One beaver was trapped by Scottish Natural Heritage on the river Ericht and was held in captivity in the Edinburgh Zoo."

PAZ: Free him.

LIZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: Let me out!

LIZ: Just the one of them? He's so lonely.

JULIAN: Oh, man. Yeah, there weren't, um, it had been 400 years since there were any beavers in Scotland. That sucks. That does make sense though. Because there are beavers in the Chronicles of Narnia.

PAZ: Oh, you're right. I remember them. They were like married or something? I don't know.

JULIAN: Yeah.

LIZ: God, I read those books and I remember very little about them.

PAZ: Me neither.

JULIAN: I remember a lot about them. But this is not a Narnia reread podcast.

PAZ: Yeah, I mean Chronicles of Narnia is the series if you want a cat to become Catholic. Anything else to say about these chapters?

LIZ: I don't know how we got here.

PAZ: Me neither. I can't track the arc of that conversation.

JULIAN: We were asking if RiverClan knew any beavers.

LIZ: Oh right, because of the cats have walls.

JULIAN: Cause of the building.

LIZ: Beavers build things.

JULIAN: Yes. I would like to see, while we're on the topic of cat jobs. I would love to see some cat dancers. I would like to see movement art from the cats. I think they would be well suited to it.

LIZ: Cat actors would be really nice, just like little stage. Just having a good time, introducing the concept of fiction to the other cats.

PAZ: These cats don't seem to know about the concept of lying, so that might be-- that might be a big leap for them.

JULIAN: I think it could be really good for them. They might recognize when Tigerclaw tells some real fucking whoppers.

LIZ: Instructional.

PAZ: Yeah, these cats need a translation of Hamlet available, stat.

LIZ: Cat Hamlet would just be about Ravenpaw, except he is nice. So not Hamlet, I guess. He fakes his death.

PAZ: Yeah, God.

JULIAN: I know we said that Graypaw was Horatio, but what if Ravenpaw was Horatio? I don't have any textual evidence for this, but just that he's sad, and I like him.

LIZ: Who's Hamlet, then?

PAZ: Um...

JULIAN: Oh. Firepaw?

PAZ: I don't know, Firepaw?

LIZ: Ugh.

JULIAN: I know.

LIZ: The concept of that is so good.

PAZ: Hold on. Hold on. I'm gonna do a quick Google, hold on.

LIZ: This doesn't fit at all. Just it's very good. Like the concept of Hamlet for any of these cats is not good. I know I introduced it. But it's very funny.

JULIAN: Hamlet doesn't really map on to this story very well at all, but I do like to imagine them in little pants.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: Someone has written a Warrior Cats/Hamlet crossover on Wattpad.

LIZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: God.

PAZ: But it seems to be with OCs as far as I can tell.

JULIAN: Boo. I mean, not boo. That's very creative.

PAZ: Warriors first arc as Hamlet characters, Warrior Cats Reddit. Okay, here's someone with some thoughts on Reddit. "I've been reading Hamlet in my English class, and I could not stop thinking about this."

LIZ: Aw.

PAZ: "Hamlet: Firestar. Ophelia: Spottedleaf. King Hamlet: Redtail. Claudius: Tigerstar. Gertrude: Bluestar." Uh, Laer-- Laertes? Is that that fucking French bitch?

JULIAN: Yeah.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: I don't know. I don't remember.

JULIAN: Laertes is the one who gets stabbed through the curtain.

PAZ: Oh, is that like that weird--

LIZ: No, that's--

JULIAN: Oh no, fuck, that's Polonius.

LIZ: That's his son.

PAZ: Yeah, that French bitch.

JULIAN: They're all Danish.

PAZ: No, he was like going to school in France or something.

LIZ: Yeah.

JULIAN: Oh, yeah.

LIZ: That's true.

JULIAN: No, you're right.

PAZ: Okay. "Laertes: Thistleclaw." We haven't met them yet. "Marcellus: Ravenpaw." Who the fuck is Marcellus?

JULIAN: Who the fuck is Marcellus?

LIZ: Marcellus?

JULIAN: This is such a deep pull.

PAZ: Who is Marcellus? I don't remember this guy.

LIZ: Marcellus is just a random friend who sees the ghost.

PAZ: Hey, now, Ravenpaw-- this is like-- this book could easily be from Ravenpaw's perspective because it kind of centers completely around him, frankly.

LIZ: Ravenpaw should at least be Horatio.

PAZ: No, this person says Horatio is indeed Graypaw. "Polonius: Dustpelt." Okay, that's funny. "Guildenstern: Darkstripe, Rosencrantz: Longtail." I don't...

JULIAN: Yeah.

PAZ: They aren't like antagonistic, though. They're just guys.

JULIAN: They're the guards. They're like Tigerclaw's lackeys.

PAZ: But aren't they just like Hamlet's like school friends in the play?

JULIAN: Well, they're his school friends, but then Claudius like, orders them to kill him. Or to kill Hamlet on the like, um...

LIZ: Pirate ship.

JULIAN: Yeah. The whole pirate ship thing.

PAZ: Oh, yeah, I remember this now.

JULIAN: I only remember this because I have watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Otherwise, I would not.

PAZ: Welcome to our Hamlet reread podcast.

LIZ: Where's Graypaw?

JULIAN: He's Horatio.

PAZ: He's Horatio.

LIZ: All right. All right.

PAZ: Well, at least other people have considered this.

JULIAN: Yeah, I'm glad other people have thought about it.

PAZ: I don't know. Anything else? Anything else about these set of chapters? We kind of just bounced all over the place.

JULIAN: I think we hit everything, though.

LIZ: Just the Shakespeare cats are a good concept to me.

JULIAN: It is.

LIZ: Just aesthetically. I want to see them in the little pantaloons.

JULIAN: Little pants, little hats.

LIZ: Ruffs.

JULIAN: Oh.

LIZ: Little sabers. How are they holding them? Don't ask me.

JULIAN: Well, you can--

PAZ: Their mouths.

JULIAN: --look at our cover art. That's how they hold them.

LIZ: Yeah. Attached vaguely to to a little round paw that's not gripping it in any way whatsoever.

PAZ: It's magic. It's StarClan's magic.

LIZ: It's like in Dragon Age when your weapon just clips to your back or something.

PAZ: Yes. Well, okay, that was a set of chapters. Big sadface for Ravenpaw, but I think we can move on now.

[meow sound effect]

Okay, so I did some digging around in the Wayback Machine trying to find some Warriors Cats content from the oughts. Quite difficult to find cause a lot of websites just aren't archived well. But today I bring you a special find, I think, from the website Wands and Worlds, which is fantasy and science fiction for childrens and teens, apparently.

This is a beautiful post from 2008, which is Sparrowheart's Guide to Warrior Names. Sparrowheart, the author, has created a very detailed set of instructions for us about what is a proper Warriors name. They also say, "you may disagree with me, and if so, please don't yell at me. I'm not saying my way for Warriors names, and the way of a few other people, is the only way to do this. There are two ways to create Warrior names, the imaginative, out of the cat world way, and the simple literal way. I'll try to cover both in this, but since I'm more for the literal names, I may not."

JULIAN: "If you're a judge for a naming contest, there are three main ways to judge in my opinion. Number one, by how pretty, beautiful, or just plain nice-sounding the name is to you. This isn't really a good way to judge a name in a contest, as prettiness isn't a good factor. You can add a couple of points for prettiness if you're a judge, but don't look at all of the names you're judging and give the prettiest one an absolute 10, unless you have other reasons to give it a 10. Not everyone in the world will think the name you think is pretty is also pretty.

Number two, by how imaginative or creative the name is. Well, I personally am not one to judge for creativeness, even though yes, being creative is fun, and for most people an enjoyable thing to do. And then number three, by how simple and to the point it is. I would recommend doing the third option. After looking at the simplicity of the name, try the other check points listed below.

When you're judging Warrior names for a contest, you might want to check if the name contains things that most cats, no matter what their location in the world, probably wouldn't have the actual English names for, like hammer, ghost, and violent.

LIZ: They have ghosts.

JULIAN: They do have ghosts.

PAZ: They have the ghost residence.

JULIAN: I don't know if they had ghosts in 2008 though.

PAZ: Yeah, maybe not.

JULIAN: "The name puts a prefix and a suffix together that make no sense whatsoever. For example, Redsong, even though Red is a good prefix, and Song, while often overused by the imaginative thinker name people, can have some good results. They do not go together. To put it simply, a song can't go with Red, because a song can't be read. But if you don't want to go with ultra common sense of your warrior names, then you might as well press the back button and leave this page." Alright.

LIZ: I think there's a little judgment going on.

JULIAN: Yeah.

PAZ: They said I won't be judging, but, um, I'm getting some vibes.

LIZ: Cats have like different concepts of color, probably. Why wouldn't a song be red to a cat?

JULIAN: Maybe the cats have synesthesia. We don't know.

LIZ: Yeah. Very judgy. I don't like that. Oh, should I read now?

JULIAN: Go for it.

LIZ: All right.

JULIAN: I was just trying to figure out how to how to edit down this next paragraph.

LIZ: Oh I just saw it, okay. "The name that states that the cat has had a history of being dark hearted or is dark hearted is, quote unquote, 'emo.' After all, the cat may be a rather kind cat. But we don't truly know that unless we look at the history of said cat. And if the name was for a Warrior name contest entry, the person might not want to put a history behind the cat and its name. And for a contest, it would make no sense for a cat to have such a reason behind its name that was made up for just a contest that only judges on the name." That's really long.

PAZ: I don't know what this person is saying.

LIZ: What is--

JULIAN: So I think they're saying--

LIZ: What--

JULIAN: I think they're saying that like a couple sentences later, they get to their point, which is that even if the cat is evil, it doesn't make sense for them to have an evil name because, like first off, that would give it away to everyone that they were evil, and they wouldn't want to do that. And second off, why would a leader name a cat like an evil name? Unfortunately, I think this person has forgotten that like Brokenstar and Raggedstar and like all of the other busted names exist.

PAZ: Right? Tigerclaw is so evil also. That's like such like, a mean cat name.

JULIAN: Darkstripe.

LIZ: Also ShadowClan is just called ShadowClan.

PAZ: Right? There's also cats that I guess they're not Warrior Cats names, but we'll meet later the series that are extremely funny and extremely, quote unquote, "emo." So I think canon supports this, frankly. But I guess we can move on to the next point if you want.

LIZ: Yeah, I think this paragraph also has some spoilers so.

PAZ: Look away.

JULIAN: Oh, yeah, I can read it. Um, and edit out the spoilers. "The name that makes the character sound like a Mary Sue or Gary Sue."

LIZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: And then they explain what a Mary Sue or Gary Sue is.

LIZ: Like Firepaw.

JULIAN: "These characters can be annoying in books and are major annoyances in role plays. For example, Gentleheart. This name makes no sense whatsoever, because a queen would have to be stupid to name their kit Gentlekit." I don't think so.

PAZ: I don't know.

LIZ: That's kind of nice.

PAZ: That's like naming your child after like a virtue you want them to have.

LIZ: That's fine.

JULIAN: Yeah, they're also mad about the heart suffix. Because it gives an impression of a kind and sweet cat. It's like well, maybe the cat is kind or sweet. This is fine. "Gentleheart is an example of how the heart suffix is often misused." Okay!

LIZ: You know what? The fucking wartorn society of cats who can't share could use a little more of this.

PAZ: Truly.

JULIAN: Okay, rule number whatever. The name has astronomy-related items in names or use prefixes like dream, angel, or spirit.

PAZ: Once again, they do have the concept of spirit, I think.

JULIAN: They super do. Okay, this is a good rule. The name has a first name that could be used as a real person's name, i.e. Susanclaw.

LIZ: Disagree. Why wouldn't you wanna be Susanclaw?

PAZ: Henryclaw.

LIZ: That's his backstory. He used to be a warrior, but he retired.

JULIAN: Oh, here's an important note though. "Please note I believe that you can do names like Monkeytail as long as the cat named is in a habitat that has monkeys. If the cats know what monkeys are, and monkeys are prominent in said area, the name Monkeytail makes sense. It also goes with the common sense rule, as a monkey's tail is one of the most prominent parts of the monkey. And Monkey is a name that isn't too dark sounding or like a Mary Sue/Gary Sue sound or anything we can consider babyish. But Bananaear makes no sense."

PAZ: I love Bananaear.

LIZ: Yes it does.

JULIAN: "Why? Even if the cats know what a banana is, what use would a banana have to them? It would serve practically no use for the medicine cats as something to heal with. Have the cats ever fretted about vitamin C and minerals in the books?"

PAZ: Maybe they should.

LIZ: Can cats eat bananas? Yes.

JULIAN: "And if the cats eat mostly freshkill, why would they resort to eating fruits, even if the clan/clans live in a jungle?" My cat loves pumpkin. Um, so I think this is, you know. "Still, avoid using names like Monkeytail in a Warriors naming contest as it can cause confusion among the judges."

PAZ: They end this paragraph of, frankly, brutal takedowns with a little smiley face.

LIZ: Cats can have banana as a treat, apparently.

JULIAN: And then the end of the post is that they want you to submit your names so that they can rate them.

PAZ: And they have some ratings.

LIZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: They do. They only have two, though.

LIZ: I wonder why no one wanted to submit to them.

JULIAN: They have really ambitious-- or really hopefully put little categories for each of their-- 0 through 0.9 out of 10, 1 through 1.9 out of 10, etc, etc. And then they have two names. Do you want to read the names?

PAZ: Yes, the first name submitted is Cloudleg. It gets a rating of 3.2 out of 10. "Reason for rating: in a way, it goes against the common sense rule. After all, clouds don't have legs. It's sort of pretty but still not the prettiest name in the world. The name sort of gives the impression that Cloudleg has a problem walking properly. OP. I think this is a fine name. I'm gonna give this name--

JULIAN: I think Cloudleg's a great--

PAZ: I'll give it 9 out of 10.

LIZ: This is Kip's name.

PAZ: Oh true.

LIZ: Fluffy legs.

PAZ: Yeah.

LIZ: Cats have a little bit of abstract thought probably.

PAZ: They definitely do. They have cat heaven. I'm sure they think about clouds. The other name is Gingertail. The OP gives this a 7.7 out of 10 for this. "Reason for rating: it's rather simple and nice sounding, but the prefix can have two possibilities, ginger as in the spice, and ginger as in the color. While this name probably is pointing to the color, it's easy for some people to get mixed up. In general, good name. Smiley face." I did not even consider ginger the spice before this person decided that it--

JULIAN: Wait, so cats don't care about bananas but they do care about ginger?

LIZ: Wait, hold on.

PAZ: No.

LIZ: Can cats have ginger? Yeah. I mean, no.

JULIAN: Oh, they can't? Damn.

LIZ: No, they can't. It's--

PAZ: That makes sense.

LIZ: They're allergic to it.

JULIAN: I do appreciate that in the interest of like positive discourse on the Wands and Worlds forum, the first reply is someone going, "I don't agree at all. I'm totally on the other side of the spectrum. I'm not going to start an argument though. Smiley face. I can see you worked hard on the list, and although I can't agree with it, I can appreciate that you worked hard on it. Another smiley face."

LIZ: That's real passive-aggressive.

JULIAN: Which is really sweet.

PAZ: Sorry, can we please point out this person's signature? It's beautiful.

LIZ: Yes.

JULIAN: Which part of it?

PAZ: I don't even know where to start. That's that evil like lion lady from the Lion King II, I think. There's some text-- it's probably-- the text is very hard to read. It looks like it's probably song lyrics over top in transparent red and white.

JULIAN: Oh, it's from Rise Against. Yes. Don't worry.

LIZ: Oh my god.

PAZ: Oh, okay, good. But that's not all. There's two more parts to the signature. Some lyrics from the Postal Service.

LIZ: It's from "Such Great Heights."

PAZ: Uh-huh.

JULIAN: It's the lyric that you're thinking from "Such Great Heights."

PAZ: And the last part of this signature is a quote from King Lear.

LIZ: Full circle.

PAZ: "Tis the times' plague when madmen lead the blind."

JULIAN: Thank god.

LIZ: Who is Firepaw in King Lear?

[laughter]

JULIAN: Oh, no.

PAZ: This signature was a journey.

LIZ: Oh, it was so good.

JULIAN: I miss forum signatures so much.

PAZ: Me too.

JULIAN: What if I start adding a signature to all my tweets?

PAZ: Please.

LIZ: I will also do that if you do that. Let's do it. Wait, we should make a signature for our Twitter. Just-- just for like, just to have.

PAZ: Oh yeah, there has to be a signature maker. We can do that off mic.

LIZ: Yeah, it's called anyone with Photoshop.

PAZ: Um, the next comment is, "*remember Ebonycrow's Guides to Naming Warriors forum*" in roleplay like, asterisks. Then they say, "great guide. But there was a big fight." And then another roleplay asterisk, "*guilty.*"

LIZ: Aw.

JULIAN: Here's the part where I have to make a confession, which is that as a child I was absolutely a Sparrowheart. I had very strict like feelings about what names I thought were appropriate to name a cat. And when people did not choose those, I got really antsy and mean about it.

PAZ: Oh my god.

JULIAN: And now as an adult, I'm like the world is too large. Life is short, and you should name your cat Susanclaw if you want to.

PAZ: Yeah, I don't--

LIZ: Susanclaw is amazing.

PAZ: I don't remember being particularly like uptight over names, partially because I was always like role playing in the Neopets boards, and those just moved so fast, and you just stopped in whenever. You would always just make a name up in like a minute and then go in. It was kind of free for all, so it didn't matter. I do remember-- this wasn't a Warrior Cats RP, but I do remember being very very hurt when I joined another RP and I just did like some name like Ash or something, and they would they were like, wow, stupid name. You didn't put much effort into it.

JULIAN: Aw.

LIZ: No, Ash is great.

PAZ: That deeply hurt me. Kids are so mean.

LIZ: Kids are so mean. That's why I'm sure the person who wrote this is like 12.

JULIAN: Oh, yeah.

PAZ: Oh, absolutely.

JULIAN: All right, do we want to rate Kip Jazzman's, his name?

PAZ: Yes.

LIZ: Well, we've already got some dings against it, I'm afraid.

PAZ: Oh no.

LIZ: One, do cats have a concept of jazz? Two, man is a Twoleg concept as well. I don't know about Kip.

JULIAN: I am going to give it some points for sounding nice to me, though.

PAZ: Thank you.

JULIAN: I also think it should get points for being imaginative and creative.

PAZ: What's your score? What's your final score?

LIZ: 10 out of 10? Because I love Kip.

JULIAN: Yeah, I say 9.5 out of 10.

PAZ: Wow.

JULIAN: He loses 0.5 points for interrupting recording, but the rest of the points are for his pants.

PAZ: Yeah, I agree.

LIZ: Do we want to do Chickpea?

JULIAN: Sure.

PAZ: So if we want to take it as a Warriors name, would it be the two parts would be Chick and then pea?

JULIAN: I think they would, yeah. I mean, pea is a plant.

PAZ: I feel like cats would have a concept of chicks because those are animals. They know about that. Peas, I don't know. I don't know.

LIZ: They're beans. Cats probably know about bean pods.

PAZ: Do they?

LIZ: Like seeds.

PAZ: Well, I guess they can. Um, so if we're gonna say that, both concepts the cats would know about. So logical. Um.

LIZ: I think it also sounds great.

JULIAN: I think it probably does have to lose some points because that would imply that her kitten and apprentice names were Chickkit and Chickpaw, which don't really roll off the tongue. Unlike Jazzkit and Jazzpaw, which are excellent.

PAZ: Those are. Those are pretty good.

LIZ: I still want to give it 10 out of 10.

PAZ: Well, yeah, it's all 10 out of 10 because all these cats are 10 out of 10.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: Um, and honestly, Sparrowclaw doesn't make the rules. Or sorry, Sparrowheart.

LIZ: Wherever you are. Probably around our age.

JULIAN: I hope they're doing good out there. Yeah. Sparrowheart, if you're listening to this podcast, thank you for your guide.

PAZ: They do start arguing in the comments between Sparrowheart and the user of the beautiful three-punch signature.

JULIAN: Well.

PAZ: so that's some Warriors history for us. And I look forward to finding more because it's all extremely good.

LIZ: I'm just looking at these comments. They're very, very good.

JULIAN: Oh, I'm really loving this art of someone's Warrior Cat OCS. Which is very sweet.

PAZ: That's very good.

LIZ: Is it Ashtail and Abby?

JULIAN: I think so. Yes.

LIZ: It is very cute.

JULIAN: It seems Abby is whoever they're dating at the time.

PAZ: Aw.

LIZ: Aw.

PAZ: Ah.

JULIAN: Again, signatures are good.

PAZ: Signatures are very good. And I'm really sad we've lost that.

LIZ: Are you guys seeing this one that's like, almost pitch black, but there's some like teal water effects over it, and there's just like a wolf face, and it has a little tilde, and it says wolf in cursive at the bottom?

JULIAN: Yeah. Well, that's because this person's username is Wolf.

LIZ: You can tell because their icon also says Wolf.

PAZ: Yeah.

LIZ: We've lost so much.

JULIAN: God. Well, is that it for us?

LIZ: I think it is.

PAZ: Yeah, I think that's, that's gonna be there for today. We went through a lot of topics. I think, maybe got a little lost in the weeds, but that's okay. Um, so for next week, we will be finishing Into the Wild, exciting, which will be chapter 22 through 25. And that will wrap up the first book.

JULIAN: Hell yeah.

PAZ: And then we'll be on to Ice and Fire, I guess, which is very exciting. So looking forward to that next week. And reminder that you can find this show @staircast on Twitter. And if you have any questions or anything, you can email us at [email protected]

JULIAN: We've had a couple people like @ us when they're listening to the show and like live tweet, and that's very fun for me to read.

PAZ: Yes, I love--

JULIAN: I love those.

PAZ: I love reading those. It's very good. And I love hearing other people's thoughts on the books like looking back.

LIZ: Yeah.

PAZ: But yeah, I guess that's gonna do it for us this week. Um, thank you everyone for joining us once again in our journey into the wild. Haha.

[laughter]

See you next week. May StarClan. Light your path. Bye.

LIZ: Bye.

[outro music]

PAZ: I think I have to go like lock Kip up somewhere. Hold on. Okay, hello.

LIZ: Hey.

JULIAN: Hello.

PAZ: Kip, I love you very much, but you only want to bother me when I'm doing something.

JULIAN: He has thoughts and opinions to share.

LIZ: What's his favorite warrior cat?

PAZ: I don't know.

LIZ: What would his warrior cat name be?

JULIAN: Oh, that is a good question.

PAZ: Is Jazzman not a valid Warrior Cats name?

LIZ: We've gone over this. Possibly.

JULIAN: We should run our cats' names or various cats' names through the Warrior Cat rules.

LIZ: Yes. We should.

PAZ: Yeah, we should when we get to that. Okay, where were we?

JULIAN: Bluestar kind of giving Yellowfang the benefit of the doubt.

#into the wild ep #transcript #ep 05 #tigerclaw's callout post

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What to watch with: Innokenty Smoktunovsky

Heyo peepers it is this time again, me cherry picking actors from Russian Holmes adaptations and acting like you’re interested in checking out their other works. If you somewhat appreciated Yank the last time then prepare to strain your memory big time as today it is the time of That Prime Minister Dud From The First XX Century Approaches Episode Remember The Missing Letter Plot Yeah That One The Second Guy Yes - Innokenty Smoktunovsky.

Welcom, babes, this man is the most legendary actor of the Soviet cinema. Well, let’s tone it down a bit just out of basic modesty and say “one of the most legendary” but you know how things really are, this is the Alpha Slav of Soviet acting. Incidentally, one of the newest additions to my “Actors Welcome To Raw Me” list, because telling you now, ma dudes, that legendary status? no fucking lie. The man is a Legend. And boy oh boy his acting must be seen. So without further ado:

1. Hamlet (1964)

Oh mi fuking gud Draco!1111" (c) My Immortal

Smoktun’s involvement: Hamlet, main role

2 episodes, ~1h11mins each | Youtube, English subtitles | Both eps in one

What and why: hohoho. So, you know that Shakespearean Delivery(tm) and actors overhamming the text that sounds like trying to understand English while having a stroke, and your antagonistic relationship with the classics and boring ass adaptations your English teacher showed to you and you questioning your tastes and wondering who teh fuck actually enjoys all this? Well, this movie demonstrates that you were not wrong for a second, it’s just all these Shakespereans who are up their own asses to realise the scale of bullshit. THIS MOVIE is a fucking masterpiece, and became one of my faves pretty much instantly. All of the actors truly LIVE on screen, just like the good ol’ Stanislavsky wanted, the drama is real, the emotions are raw, it feels ALIVE and ENGAGING. The actual use of the scenery and black and white is even more spectacular, the views and the scale of production will hit your ass almost in every shot, the movie is very stylish and makes its b&w palette a whole important feature. And, obviously, Smoktun himself - that goes without saying. He is emo, he is angery, he is sexey, he is draco everything. I recommend this with all my heart.

2. Beware of the Automobile (1966)

when will the gay feelings end

Smoktun’s involvement: Yuri Detochkin, main role

~1h28mins | Youtube, English subtitles (with an annoying delay) | 1080p babe

What and why: an extremely noice comedy about a CRIMINAL, who STEALS CARS, in order to SELL THEM, and sends the money to ORPHANAG- wait wat. This horrible CRIMINAL is very PROFESSIONAL and demonstrates his evident ability NOT TO SHIT HIMSELF CONSTANTLY, and he is also NOT A LOSER, and this film is actually a VERY serious DETECTIVE STORY that is NOT GAY. Honestly? An extremely blessed movie that is totally worth a watch. Also: the meta gag of Smoktun playing Hamlet. Again.

3. Moscow-Cassiopeia (1973) and Teens in the Universe (1974)

I.O.O allowed me to post this

Smoktun’s involvement: I.O.O, mysterious secondary character

2 films, ~1h19mins each | sovietmoviesonline, English subtitles | 1 | 2 (annoying nag to register still applies)

What and why: they’re really should’ve been just two episodes but it looks like the producers decided to be original, two “”movies”” a year apart instead. KIDS SCI-FI YALL. God, I enjoyed these way too much. A mission is set up to send a bunch of boys and girls on a long ass journey to Cassiopeia, so by the time they reach it they will be all grown up respectful pals and gals. The first movie is all about making it happen, the second one is a straight up space adventure. I personally just enjoyed all of it, the kids were actually pretty nice actors, the sicc effects and props were charming, teh ADVENTURE!! was a joy to watch, and, of course, the mysterious I.O.O - who is he? What are his powers? Is he from this planet at all? We will never know. I personally liked these, what can I say, and I.O.O is a mysterious binch.

4. They Fought For Their Country (1975)

fuck yo boots, protag

Smoktun’s involvement: a surgeon, very minor role

2 episodes, ~1h15mins each | Youtube, English subtitles | EP1 | EP2

What and why: Smoktun is honestly is just an excuse, the movie itself is one holy hell material. Sergey Bondarchuk, after all. The plot is as simple as ass: a bunch of soldiers retreating, engaging into battles, living their lives. What is an absolutely breathtaking part of it is the BATTLES. HOLY SHIT THE BATTLES. Bond is Bond, y’all, he just fucking rolled actual tanks and planes on the set, and blew up actual villages (built specifically for the movie ofc), and this is the most intense, terrifying, and fuckin AWESOME thing of all. No cool cgi slowmo bullshit, all you need is to see how things really were back then, and that’s all it takes to realise the true horror of war. This is an incredible film, that’s all I can say, it is very powerful in a very simplistic manner, no gore or pathos, just simple realities. Cannot recommend it enough.

5. Nine Days In One Year (1962)

radiates science

Smoktun’s involvement: the secondary third-wheeling science ass

~1h45mins | sovietmoviesonline, English subtitles and dub | rad

What and why: a nuclear movie without a conclusive ending about scientists, radiation, and the prices paid for discovery. Has very rad thoughts in it that are still very relevant, lots of bombing mansplaining and science nerds. Smoktun there is as great as always, totally radiant. The actual main hero and the themes will also get a reaction out of you. Again, has its flaws, but overall it is a very good movie, although nothing gets physical. Rad.

Honourable mentions:

1. The Star of Captivating Happiness (1975)

some evil-ish dud | wrote about it before | the movie’s still a pain in the ass

2. Crime and Punishment (1969)

that important dud who makes the protag confess | 2 episodes, ~1h42mins each | sovietmoviesonline, English subs | boink

Imo this movie was a fucking chore did not enjoy at all 0/10 but Smoktun is as great as always so here’s that

3. The Legend of Thyl (1976)

King Charles V | 5 episodes, ~1h20mins each | Youtube, no subtitles | playlist

Nothing matters in this movie as the first episode or two where he’s engaged in softcore porn of smooching tit on screen and then just does a gr8 job of being a magnificent dud with a big charming smile, death threats and weird sounds

4. The Princess and the Pea (1976)

King | ~1h24mins | Youtube, no subtitles | boink

Apparently the movie is meh but Smoktun and his Queen were gr8 to watch, he’s a bit problematic, has a questionable fashion sense, skeptical, charming, does a wheeze for no reason and falls on his face, everyone just rolls their eyes.

5. Cherry Orchard (1976)

Protag’s brother | ~2h48mins | filmed stage play | Youtube, no subtitles | boink

Literal stage play that was filmed for TV, pretty typical. Contains chaotic evil Solomin who grabs tits and does faces and bullies poor Smoktun. Smoktun himself is extremely noice as always, as well as the entire cast, actually, and his chemistry with his sister is rather alarming.

Final comment: Smoktunovsky is one of the truly greatest actors who have ever ascended on this pitiful planet. His skill is incredible, his works are amazing, I could’ve easily added like 5 more of whatever movies/filmed plays here. Here’s a thing: when an actor, singer or any other great person had their coffin taken outside in front of the public to get transported during a public funeral service, nobody ever clapped in Russia, ever. When Smoktunovsky’s coffin was taken outside in 1994, suddenly, the crowd exploded into an ovation. The reaction was mixed no doubt, but one fact stays: since 1994, every single funeral ends with the public sending their beloved entertainer on their final journey with applauding for everything they have done, and have been. And it all started with Innokenty Smoktunovsky.

#innokenty smoktunovsky #what to watch #hoooo boi #that was big #he is my fave so yeah no surprise

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Ep. 4: “Oh the classic dilemma of Survivor.” - Leanne

Ryan

I'm going to be honest, I'm not really gonna miss Tyler. I feel less bad about kicking him out now that I know he's played before. He was kinda cocky and reclusive- that's not the vibe we need in our tribe.

Najwah

I'm actually upset and really annoyed that no one else is willing to move their times so I can play too? And no one even acknowledged my message lol I started this game under the impression that people from all over the world would participate but instead I'm in a group with a bunch of Americans and I have to adjust my times EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. It is a lot. I feel like quitting. I mean what's the point? I've been struggling with depression for such a long time, it's been amplified by this Lockdown and being part of something, this whole make believe game brought me some kind of joy. Some light. However, being blatantly over looked and left out because its convenient for everyone else kinda sucks. I'm overlooked and left out of everything in real life too. I don't think this game is good for my mental health actually. I feel worthless and like shit and the person I thought had my back the most, Leanne, seems to be the most annoyed with me. She isnt even replying to me in our one on one chat. Guess she got everything she wanted out of me hey? I don't know whether any of this extra stress coupled with sleepless nights and zero concentration when doing my work is worth it?

Zack M

here i come again, carrying the tribe on my back like i always do. (dolly parton reference to "here you come again" ... available on spotify for those who don't know) this is the second time in a row that i stepped up for the team while everyone else was silent. like it's cool. i don't mind doing it for them as long as we win. it's not fair for me to be labeled as a threat because i do my best .... and that best happens to be sometimes better. idk. i'm just here to play. i don't feel the same drive from my teammates. yes. that's it. i'm here to play to win. they just want to win. nothing is going to change for me. i'm going to do every challenge. i'm going to come with the big moves. i'm going to hurt some feelings along the way. but i need to stay in the game to be able to do that. i'm truly scared i'm going to be blindsided if we don't win. COUGH COUGH IM SCARED IM GOING TO BE BLINDSIDED IF WE DONT WIN AND I DONT HAVE AN IMMUNITY IDOL FROM THE WISHING TREE COUGH COUGH ..... i could really use a wish right now (wish right now).

James Hayden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovDd3CLqYos

Leanne

Have ya heard the news? Our tribe finally won a challenge! This is great news, and not just for the obvious, game/numbers related reasons. The night results were announced my Skype didn’t go off all night. All, night. I think there was a block of at least 12 hours straight I wasn’t looking at it. There was that gaming voice in my head that now and then would urge, you know, you really ought to check in with Aimee and see what she’s up to. You know, you had a conversation with James the other day, you better try building that up. But honestly, these last few days have been so peaceful I just didn’t want to. It was too nice being off line LOL. Of course, there still remains the difficulty that I still don’t know where the target is going to land. I had a check in with the “trio”... Ben and Zach. It was “I don’t know” all around. One of them said that the first person who threw out a name would probably be made a target themselves. So no one will talk about that, seemingly, until we lose. Of course, my individual preferences haven’t changed. I’d still like to see either Cody or Sarah go. Leaning toward Sarah at the moment because she seems more feasible. She wasn’t at our last tribal, she hadn’t checked in for a little while, and when we were getting ready to do the challenge last night most of us thought she wouldn’t be around. I was really hoping she wouldn’t show so that I could make a stronger case for that. Precedent shows that lack of presence is the go-to way to get yourself voted out. And I really don’t know who she’s with, if anyone. I haven’t really talked to her. Maybe I’ll float that idea to people today. Instinct tells me that I should get in before the challenge results are announced, because afterward, if we lose, people will be scrambling, and it could land most anywhere. But if I’m too aggressive with this I could be the one throwing names out there and it could backfire. Oh the classic dilemma of Survivor. In other news, Najwah and I have been working together on the idol hunt. She’s been talking to Cody, I’ve been talking to Zach, and so the question we are pondering is whether they’re giving us trustworthy information, both about the search and the game at large. I actually do believe that we’ve been completely upfront with each other and at this point I trust her as completely as anyone can trust in this game. She continues to be my very best ally and I hope we can keep working closely together as this goes on. It’s only hitting me now how hard it is to form impressions of the other tribe based on the info we have. I’ve been reviewing some of the tribal’s, there’s from yesterday and our last one, and the answers are canned enough and United enough that nothing is really said. Everyone in this cast knows we are here to play a social game, and that means not saying stupid things and trying not to make enemies, especially in these early stages. They look strong and unified. They had an easy vote and seem to like each other, which is very much to be expected. I can’t really gleam any subtext from what I saw. Odds are we are just as hard to read for them. We’ll just have to wait and see come merge time, or possibly swap time? At their tribal the question said there was “talk” of that as well. Here’s hoping I’m not the Johnny come lately to that discourse. But even if it is looming, not much to do about it till you get there. I don’t think that’s something you can necessarily pregame for. So there you have it. It’s been a refreshingly peaceful several days and let’s hope it continues. These results could go either way, and if it doesn’t go the way we want, well, then the game switches into the next gear. That would make me very worried for our numbers down the line, but more immediately we are probably all worried about our place at that point. I have no idea what will happen.

Ryan

I am not very happy by the fact that I will have no control in the fate of our tribe.I'm happy we voted Tyler out unanimously, he was someone we all, especially Pedro and I, agreed on very early. it's gonna be tough now moving forward, but I know who I don't want to vote out

Pedro A

So Today we have the challenge....Im scared if we go to tribal idk who will go

Alan B

Yes! I'm so glad we won - the next vote for our tribe is gonna be a tough one, i really hope making the only mistakes during this challenge doesnt come back to bite me! we won right how bad could it be...

Pedro A

WEEEE WONNNN....stream CLC, RED VELVET AND BLACKPINK...you know why?....cause we have the night offffff.....

Amy A

Another night off 🎉🎉🎉. I’m so ecstatic because there’s no name coming up for vote 2 yet so it could literally be anyone even though I think my alliances with people will carry me through. My alliance with Ryan and Pedro is still strong and I have secret alliances w Maddison, John, and Grae even though Grae’s is more shaky. Im going to go sleep with no worry in my mind at all. Maybe except for a tribe swap. Maola ROCKS and seeing us divided will break me 😭😭

Kalle N

I recently found out that John has been telling almost everyone that he trusts them 100% and not just me so I'm working on making a big move to get him out next time we go to tribal (even though I love him and he has been one of my closest allies this entire game). He's just too charming and close with everyone

Maddison

Hi confessional. Really hoping I didn’t just brand myself a threat during that challenge but I’m glad I could redeem myself from the telephone game. I’ve had new people want to work with me within the thirty minutes following, and I can’t tell yet how legitimate their inquiries are. But hey, that’s Survivor.

Zack M

jesus christ. there is so much going on right now. we lost again. whomp whomp. but again, i like losing. it let's me know where everyone's head is at. i'll face the consequences later. i want to flush the idol out but no one seems to be with me. i think either aimee or leanne has it. i want to say aimee to leanne and najwah and leanne to aimee because i know they will tell each other, one of them will use it, and then cody sarah ben james and i vote najwah. bye idol. bye to one of their numbers. 2 against 5, there's nothing they can do. BUT NO. so then najwah reaches out to me and calls me the tribe leader. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. clap clap. she sees right though me BUT she is letting me stay? it really is such a bad game move for her. i feel so bad. so najwah started the "hunt alliance" with me cody and leanne. leanne threw out sarah's name so we are going to pretend to go with that. but now the target is leanne in hopes that we just flush the idol out by vote. i think this is dumb and is going to fuck us over but like maybe people are legit. i really have no idea. and now there's a group with everyone besides sarah. i feel so bad. sarah, you're not going anywhere so don't you even worry! i think my plan is the safest but like no one listens to the TRIBE LEADER.

Cody A

Full disclosure y’all, Im just going to preface this confession with the simple fact that I am UNWELL! I just ask that y’all bare with this confession!! It could be as bad as Nick Cannons (very brief) rap career.. on Sunday one of my close friends took her own life.. and It has been difficult to separate this game from real life. In the real game of survivor I’d be stuck in Fiji with no information from the outside world.. so i am trying to navigate this game and real life at the same time. That being said: this vote could be very simple or VERRRRRY complicated. The plan is for our group of 6 “JESS” to tell aimee, Leanne, and naj, that everyone is voting Sarah.

THATS NOT HAPPENING!!! SARAH (NOT LACINA) IS MY NUMBER 1 & I WILL PROTECT HER AT ALL COSTS!!! Initially it seemed Zack was adamant about voting Naj our and not Leanne???? but I think I did a really great job of convincing him she is a huge threat! (Gotta save my girl Naj!) The real plan is for JESS to put all of our votes on Leanne, who still has yet to have a conversation with me. I feel like I am in a great position but I do not want to get comfortable!

James Hayden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oz7uKVXHzI&feature=youtu.be

James Hayden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH8nJmP6vhE&feature=youtu.be

Leanne

So we lost, again... just great. First there was nothing. Then the trio chat with Ben and Zach got together to exchange obligatory commiserations and giant shrugs. Then Najwah got in touch. Neither of us heard anything. She actually said because of this she just assumed it was her; I’ll get more into this in a bit. As of now she’s the one I trust The most, so I asked her how close she was to Sarah. Turns out, not very. She wanted to start a group chat with Zach and Cody, for the dual purpose of getting that plan together and for comparing info about the idol hunt. So we do that. After a few more rounds of circling the question of what do you think I said to the group that Sarah doesn’t seem to be available a lot or connecting with people. We agreed, and Zach suggested we get the rest of the tribe together, sans Sarah, in another chat to lock it in. This is after Zach and I said Ben would be in, and Cody said James would be in, and I don’t remember how but somehow Aimee was accounted for. The only other person left was James. My thinking, which both Zach and Cody seemed to share, was that it was better to risk James being close to Sarah than to get him upset by leaving him out.

Throughout the whole thing, Najwah seemed to have an abnormally high degree of caution and concern. She really wants to feel people out first before she does anything, which I don’t think is possible all the time. What if James is talking to Sarah? What if Sarah has an idol? What if the other four have an alliance? Not sure if it’s just me but she seemed to be doing a lot of what if’s, all valid ones but just a lot. She raised some other concern to me in a private chat and I answered her something along the lines of, it’s good to look before you leap but nothing is a sure thing and we have to take a few risks and be ok with not being certain. Well anyway, the larger group chat gets made. But as I’m making the conversation, the talk in the idol hunt chat, that is, the foursome that was just planning the Sarah vote, switches to what people are finding in the idol search. Now, this is a good thing. We did want to compare notes on that so we at least know where not to go. But not at that moment. Because when I started the larger group chat with James, Ben and Aimee, they of course wanted to know what the plan was. This left me all alone to ask them how they felt about Sarah as a target. I really could’ve used backup from Najwah, Zach and Cody in that moment, but instead they were talking about coins and advantages. Again, that’s a good thing, but in that moment, to the other three it almost looked like I unilaterally decided that. It looks like I got everybody together completely on my own and said, hey everybody, here’s what I decided we’re going to do.

Now, from my perspective Sarah was completely my idea, but that’s only my side of the story and I don’t know what other people were saying, and I have no wish to appear to be a dictator. Fortunately for me no one seemed to talk to Sarah at all. The consensus was her contact was brief and spotty and she was away too often to have built any meaningful connections anywhere. So it looks like it will work out and be easy again. Well, at least that’s what it looks like to me. We’ll see. The other good news is that we do have an idol task force. I found out the jacket is a 10% advantage in a challenge; good to know. Also the jewelry box was taken. No word on who took it, but that costs 20 coins. A theory I saw discussed was that someone shared coins or else Amy bequeathed at least five of them upon her exit. I don’t see that as being likely.

There’s got to be at least one more source of coins besides the two known to the group. Seems like we’ve been looking and coming up empty an awful lot. Not sure how candid the group members are being but at least we have an open line of communication about this. I was very annoyed because I felt abandoned by them to deal with the other three but that wasn’t done on purpose, and having this search party is a very good thing. At the very least we can help each other avoid disadvantages. Also, after we talked about Sarah, Aimee messaged me privately, saying she was leaning that way too, and we talked for a little bit. She seems to be talking in these little bursts to most everyone but at least it’s a relationship with potential to be built up further. So to me it looks like we’ve got an agreement and it’s Sarah and it was fairly easy. Of course, they could flip on me, and there’s an off a lot of time before tribal tomorrow, but like I just told Najwah, nothing is certain and we won’t always have every bit of the facts when we make a decision. All I can do is talk to folks, make a plan, and see what happens.

Aimee

Najwah just messaged me saying “So what do you guys want to do?” Except she just sent that message to me. Individually. “Guys,” plural, with an “s.” 👀👀👀👀

Zack M

im going to feel like an asshole tomorrow if i'm not blindsided and the plan goes the way we want it to. i've had a beautiful conversation with najwah tonight and i hope she doesn't think it was all for the game tomorrow when we vote her number 1 (leanne) out. najwah if you're reading this, i'm so sorry. this is a cruel game. i've loved every minute of getting to know you and our conversations! you're an awesome person and i hope you don't hold anything i may do to you against me. i would absolutely love to stay friends with her outside of this game. i just needed to put this in writing before i possibly hurt feelings tomorrow. again, she did call me the leader of the tribe. i would get rid of me if i was them so like anything is possible.

Pedro A

today im going to talk with alan, kalle and olivia

Sarah

Well, the general consensus is to vote me out tonight at tribal because I haven’t been as available this week which is TRUE since I haven’t had service much on my vacation. Leanne threw my name out and everyone “agreed” I was an easy vote. I am trusting my alliance of 5 in Jess (Zack, Ben, Cody, James) and we are voting Leanne. I do have an idol BUT I definitely do not want to play it tonight. Right now, I trust my alliance but if things get suspicious or Cody tells me that Zack or Ben have flipped I will play my idol tonight. To be continued....

Ryan

That stupid idol hunt and the disadvantage is gonna get me kicked out I just know it. F#*k me.

Olivia A

The first vote went smoothly! Except for the fact that Tyler voted for me. My only worry is that he might’ve discussed/decided that vote with someone else. I’m not too worried though because I still feel really solid with the people I’m aligned with.

James Hayden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJd1QSw04ak&feature=youtu.be

John B

Thanks to Maddison we won another challenge and honestly bless because I really don’t know who would have gone next. I found out Ryan got a disadvantage for the tribe while idol hunting and I know, Olivia knows, and I’m probably gonna mention it to Grae and Kalle that Olivia told me. Right now I think if we had to go to tribal it might be Alan or Ryan but I honestly have no clue. Alan has the idol which is a good reason to boot them, and if I can get rid of Ryan that will break up the outsiders alliance. The challenge had me scream laughing because I think Kalle and I share a brain. Literally all of our clues were vines and we shared them at the exact same time. I would love to get an alliance going with Kalle Madison Grae and Olivia, I’m just worried Maddison and Grae will get weirded out to have an alliance outside of the core four without Pedro. If it happens I will have Kalle start it up so I don’t look sus. I am v curious to see what the other tribe does for the next vote seeing as the last one was unanimous. Honestly they kind of scare me.

James Hayden

It's two hours before tribal and neither Leanne or Naj have messaged the group to confirm that Sarah's going home. Either they are over confident in their plan and feel no need to confirm or they are planning something else. I'm praying to the Survivor ORG gods it's the first one!!

Cody A

I have bonded with Naj so much these last couple of days. I feel like a horrible person for leaving her out of the Leanne vote, but perhaps I’m the one being left out of a different plan 🤷🏼‍♂️ This game is exhausting 😂

Ben Kessler

Here's my worry: Survivor is not a numbers game, it is a people game. And the people on my tribe are crazy, but I like crazy. I work with crazy. Leanne, Naj, and Aimee are hopefully on the outs. Leanne will hopefully be eliminated tonight. I fear an expansion at 15 and if this happens I will need to throw my tribe under the bus in order to fit in...slowly, subtly, and methodically. The other tribe is not battle tested and neither are we, so my new objective is to ensure that I am under the radar while speaking enough to have my voice in any group. Leanne is most likely of those 3 have an idol, but I would not be surprised if somebody in my alliance had the idol as well. Either way, as long as I survive I am happy. Najwah The last time I wrote a confession, I was having a really horrible day. I was ready to quit but I think after some rest and a good venting session, my head is back in the game.

Leanne, Cody, Zack and I have solidified our alliance. I hope. I thought people would want to vote me out because I haven't been participating and I wouldn't be offended or surprised if they do. Tribal tonight is going to be interesting. Someone has an idol. Or SOMETHING. The jewelery box is missing. I love Cody but I don't know why I suspect he has something to do with it. I have a feeling in my gut. Don't know whether he is double crossing us. Also, Zack said he'd stay on the mountain and then he told us he bought a jacket in the market place. Is my alliance actually working to get me out and blindside me? Lmao I wouldn't be surprised AT ALL. we are all survivor superfans. We all know how the game works. Convincing everyone to vote Sarah was WAY too easy last night. Sarah also seems wayyyyy too comfortable. She doesn't bother talking to people much or she's playing a really excellent low key game. Either way, I commend her and whatever she's up to. I don't know what I think of Ben and James yet They're way too chilled and seem to go with the flow but I know they have their own flow. And they are working together on something. I hope tonight's vote is as easy as people think, even though my gut is screaming that we are in for some huge surprise.

Sarah

Maddison

Fell out of a tree idol hunting this morning. Big win out here in Tierra del Fuego for Maddison!

james hayden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npTEWU0Hv5s

Zack M

we are about to go into another tribal to vote someone out and i'm so irritated right now. the plan is to vote out leanne because she may have an idol but she hasn't done anything all day long. najwah is literally messaging EVERYONE but is too scared to throw out a name. she wants to make big moves but can't and needs someone to do it for her. this scares me more than leanne because i'm close with her. ben and i have a trio chat with her. we could easily swoop in and say omg i'm so sorry after and make things ok if there is a tribe swap. leaving najwah gives cody the upper hand. i need the control. speaking of cody. cody and sarah have already early voted. i'm sorry but this just should not be allowed. this game is taking up a lot of time but welcome to survivor. we're all tired and don't want to be doing this on a saturday but here i am. i swear my team keeps losing because none of them are giving 100% like i am. tyler should have been on this tribe and i should have been on the other.

the only person i feel safe with right now is ben. james is a close second.

fingers crossed i don't get blindsided.

Grae G

Hello ok!! So I’m currently on good ground w everyone in the game but I want to solidify bonds w kalle Olivia and Maddison. I feel these people really trust me so I want to make sure they trust me. It’s become clear to me that every person in the game feels closest to John. He’s telling everyone different info and I’ve caught him in several lies- I’m not sure what I want to do about it yet. But as soon as I see an opportunity I’m gunning for him. But if I can’t swing it then maybe Ryan as an easy next vote bc he admitted to me he got us the disadvantage lol.

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