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This has been reiterated several times and they still won’t get their shit together. I hate it here

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) // Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020)

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best friend squad in she-ra’s new transformation sequence /OG she-ra homage

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Oh Billy, you look so small right there…

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flustered.

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Neo in s02e01 :)))))

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The bad guys

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It’s true and I have every right to say it LOL. 

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It really is mind boggling if you think about it. It especially puts MT whole journey through a diferrent lens. After all, maybe the train did create a defect reflection like her on purpose, to make sure Prime Tulip could be told all the terrible things about herself.

But if you really wanna get into conspiracy theories, perhaps even the fact that Tulip found a way for MT to escape was all part of the plan for Jesse to get off the train. MT whole thing is that she self conscience about how she doesnt even think she's a real person. Hence why she felt the need to completely redesign herself in the first episode. If we wanna believe that the train does control things in such a way to help passengers, then perhaps MT whole doubting of herself was to help Jesse off the train.

Its only after Jesse bonds with MT, only after he learns of her insecurities, that he's faced with a similar dilemma his brother was in. After the Apex claims that Nulls don't feel and tries to destroy MT does he have to make a choice. Unlike with his brother however, he decides to stand up to his "bullies".

So if we do wanna believe in the predestined train theory: then MT self doubt at being a real person, Amelia creating a cult that believes Nulls dont have any feelings at all, and even Alan Dracula bringing these two together! It was all an elaborate setup conducted by the train so that Jesse could finally choose the correct decision and learn to stand up for not only himself, but the people he cares about.

Really, that whole speech by Mace is so horrifically existential, because…

It really brings up the question of how much is intended by the Infinity Train? Is there more to it? How much does it do and control? Is it secretly manufacturing fate itself by making passengers and inhabitants meet up and so forth?

That whole suggestion that MT only got her freedom because that was her role in Tulip’s story to become a better person is terrifying… And likewise, with the invisible force dragging her and Dracula back to the train, it makes you wonder if it’s the will of the train itself for MT to be sanded by the Mirror Police.

People like Marcel the Map dude, Perry the Parasite, or that one Concessions Booth that eats people… They’re BAD people, yeah, but are they only bad because the Train intended it that way? Were they made with the purpose of having passengers ‘overcome’ them? Was Perry made as a remorseless parasite who takes over other peoples’ bodies, all so Jesse could learn from dealing with him? Did the train make him specifically with Jesse in mind, giving him memories of an entire life beforehand (or more scarily, did it create Perry and his car years before Jesse’s actual arrival, because the Train might be able to see into the future)? Did it make Perry with people like Jesse’s issues in mind as a whole? Or did it… just MAKE Perry and a bunch of other inhabitants, with the idea that somebody is going to learn from dealing with him? Did it just create him and a bunch of other beings and set them up so that if it needed a specific situation to teach someone a lesson, the Train would just scoop them up and carry their car to the passenger?

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Infinity Train Book 1: The self-contained story of a girl who, while coping poorly with her parents’ divorce, gets on a vaguely eldritch therapy train and befriends a robot and a corgi. There’s a dash of horror and existentialism then and again but it’s mostly about change, denial, and healing.

Infinity Train Book 2: Unpacking damn near every imaginable consequence of the story told in Book 1, from the shift between conductors to the free will of the beings generated by the train. Alluding to the framing of the story itself and how we view the characters and their interactions — as a foil character to Jesse, does that mean MT is still a reflection of a sort? A person whose identity only exists to contrast with the personality traits of the passengers and inspire change in them? Should we, the viewers, feel guilty for seeing MT as a foil character to Jesse in all our theories and character analysis and whatnot, therefore validating Special Agent Mace’s argument?

A protagonist disintegrates in the hands of his best friend, whisked back to his home against his wishes. A villain gets crushed under a train wheel and the molten metal that once made up his body sprays upon the face of his killer. A deer does all kinds of fucked up shit that would take too long to list. Pure existential horror.

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This is the Dog of Protection.

Reblog and you’ll never be forced to reblog anything you don’t want to ever again!

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Finn was an elite Stormtrooper, not a Janitor

Almost all enlisted soldiers are responsible for sanitation at least once in their careers unless given certain privileges that are not standard. It doesn’t matter if it’s fiction or in reality, most of the people serving in the military, will work sanitation at least once in their military career.

As a Stormtrooper, Finn was so damn good, both Hux and Phasma considered him the best in the entire Order. Phasma claimed he was Officer material. Hux wanted to make him a Captain one day! Finn carried the FN corps and his squad as the best soldier to the point where he could complete simulated missions on his own.

Fun fact, Finn might have “moped the floors” of The supremacy after the day was over, but what was his actual job on the ship?

He served as one of the executioners.

There are many things about Finn that he hasn’t divulged yet, mostly because he is ashamed of his time in the First Order and Lucasfilms refuses to give him a novel or comic series detailing his past.

The only reason Finn wasn’t already a ranking soldier by the time TFA rolled around was because of his compasion. During an earlier mission on a mining colony, Finn and his squad were ordered to gun down a large group of protesters. Finn was the only one that refused. The worst part is? Phasma had lied to Finn, telling him the mission was against the New Republic soldiers, not civilians.

That’s right! Jakku wasn’t his first mission! And this isn’t a continuity error, that story was told in the Before the Awakening novel. While everyone was celebrating a successful mission, Finn was back in the simulator alone, training and slowly coming to the rea that he could never be like the other Troopers. Both JJ and John were aware of this story.

Finn told Rey he made the choice not to kill for the First Order during his first mission, he never said that his first mission was on Jakku.

Finn tried to bury that mission down, but Slip’s death, accompanied with all of the innocent slaughter, brought him right back there in a fit of PTSD.

Why do so many assume Finn is some helpless cinnamon roll that needs rescuing? Finn is one of the best soldiers on both sides of the war.

Look back on both TFA and TLJ and pay attention:

Finn is an expert marksman and almost never misses a shot with any blaster or range weapon.

Finn is familiar with all of the weapons counting Starkiller base, the mini Death Star canon, and all Range and Melee weapons.

Finn memorized the layouts of both Starkiller base and Snoke’s ship the supremacy, to the point that he was able to re-create a map of them for the resistance. That, or he managed to make duplicates, which is equally as impressive since he was never caught for it.

Finn defeated Captain Phasma, the literal best soldier in the First Order.

Finn didn’t just hold Kylo off, he fought Kylo on even ground, impressed him with his lightsaber skills enough that forced Kylo to use even more of the dark side to beat him. Mind you this was Finn’s first fight against Kylo. How did Poe and Rey fair against Kylo their first time? Got caught without landing a hit.

Finn isn’t a coward

I’m not really sure how not wanting to murder innocent civilians = coward, and I don’t think I want to know.

I’m also not sure how wanting to not fight with a Volunteer militia after already saving the galaxy and getting your spine almost severed = coward.

Finn did not join the First Order. He was abducted from his family and forcibly indoctrinated into the FO.

Finn never joined the Resistance, but he damn sure helped them more than any other soldier.

Finn saved Poe from more torture and execution.

Finn saved Rey from the First Order Stormtroopers that were looking for BB8, then immediately after saved her from an air strike that only he recognized.

Finn, after rightly wanting to just live a life away from war, returned and warned Han Solo and the others about the attack on the New Republic, before he even knew Rey was gone.

Fin fought outnumbered alongside side Chewie and Han with a freaking lightsaber.

Finn planned out the mission to destroy Starkiller base with the Resistance and led it.

Finn prioritized the mission over saving Rey, and only decided to look for her when his portion of the mission was done.

Finn dueled Kylo Ren, grandson of Darth Extra.

Then right after that he planned to go find LUKE SKYWALKER on his own and warn Rey and Him About the attack on the fleet.

He then volunteered to save the fleet from death, because only he knows how to sneak in to the First Order’s ships.

Let’s not even talk about how the plan almost worked.

Or how Finn beat the helm out of other trained Stormtroopers and Phasma.

Or even how Finn motivated the resistance to take a final stand against the First Order.

And his suicide run to destroy the mini Death Star canon.

Let’s not forgot how everyone overlooks the fact that unless the Reysky theory is true, Finn had a closer and longer relationship with Han Solo than Rey did!

We have Han praising Finn, because he notices he’s clearly still going through something internally.

Han literally giving Finn fatherly advice, because he knows Finn’s already fallen hard for this independent, violent woman Rey, and Han has plenty of experience thanks to Leia with dealing with that stuff.

Finn fighting alongside Chewie and Han against a platoon of Stormtroopers and each of them protecting the other with their life.

Han encouraging Finn and giving him confidence when he was around people that would have shot him on sight if he was in his Stormtrooper armor.

Then there was the time Finn, Han and Chewie went on a suicide mission behind enemy lines together to destroy Starkiller base and save Rey.

Then of course there’s Han being Finn’s mood killer, and probably the only time I’ve seen Rey roll her eyes at Han.

And finally Finn did indeed react to Han’s death by choking out “Solo” and his fight with Kylo was more than just protecting Rey, but avenging his friend and comrade Han.

Let’s not forgot how Leia instantly hit it off with Finn, thanked him for saving Poe, and praised his bravery for leaving the First Order. In hindsight, Leia probably wished Kylo was more like Finn.

And let’s also remember how not only did Finn know exactly who Luke Skywalker was in TFA, but he was literally only person in the entire Resistance who stepped forward and wanted to fight Kylo with Luke. BARE FUCKING HANDED I MIGHT ADD!

My favorite thing to hear is how people like Kylo because he’s a victim of child abuse and he’s suffering with the thought of hurting others.

Kylo is NOT a victim of child abuse. Y’all can keep editing his wookipedia page to say he is, but all forms of canon disagree. Ben Solo had a happy and loving family, and he loved them. Kylo’s life went down hill when he sided with Space Hugh Hefner.

Wanna see a real abuse victim who’s dealing with the pain of watching innocents die?

Finn, the enslaved soldier who was stolen away from his family to fight for a fascist organization in a conflict he didn’t start, is having a PTSD panic attack because the closet thing he had to a friend just died in his arms and he had to watch as a group of innocent civilians, men, woman, and children, were slaughtered in front of him. Mind you, this is the second time according to canon he’s seen this happen.

I’m tired of Finn being erased in this franchise, because of some bull excuses to cover up their racial preference. Finn is the co-protagonist of the sequel movies, and that’s not changing, especially since JJ Abrams and John Boyega are back together for IX.

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So I am loving the Mandalorian so far but…

I was really uncomfortable when the lady tried to take his helmet off?? No one else I’ve seen seems to be bothered by this, I’ve actually seen plenty of people saying how they can’t wait to see him without his helmet (because it’s bound to happen now), but this was presented as something very important in Mandalorian culture. Important to him. He’s not wearing it out of, like, shame. He didn’t decide one day he had to hide his face, or mask emotion, or something like that. He’s not hiding behind it. Not as far as we know. It’s an important part of his culture. I didn’t like how casually disrespectful they were about that. 

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This has to be the worst example of subtitle spoilering something I have ever seen.

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Reflections on the Big reveal

Spoilers: You've been warned. And be prepared to read

I had heard that volume 7 ep 1 was actually suppose to be vol 6 finale. And I can see that, but that doesn’t prevent me from feeling disappointed by how the reveal of Penny went down. I dont think It’s a big surprise to a lot of people that if CRWBY was gonna bring someone back, it would be Penny. After all she was a robot and robots can be rebuilt. There have been a lot of theories about how she would be rebuilt and how she would be afterwards. The two most prevailing theories I saw was that she’d be like Chase from Gen:Lock. A clone of the original, or that they would design a whole new Penny with no memories. It seemed like they went with just building her a new body. But Im not disappointed by that. No, what I’m disappointed in comes down to two things: 1. Build up and 2. Tone.

1. Build Up

When I say buildup, I don’t mean buildup to the actual reveal to Penny. I think that it was handle really well done, with everyone being surprised and shock at her. It reminded me of Volume 1 when she first revealed her skills. No I mean build up in the sense that, this literally came out of nowhere. We, the audience, didn’t have any clues at all that this would happen, and I think thats a bad. I mentioned the theories, but those were all head cannon. We had no idea if it was even possible to bring her back, or if her “death” meant she no longer had a soul.

When I say there was no buildup, Im talking about clues to inform us that this was a possibility. A scene showing Atlas delivering precious cargo back to Ironwood. The gang hearing about the “new protector of Atlas” Or literally anything at all. Weiss was in Atlas all Vol 4 and you’re telling me with the time spent near Ironwood, nothing at all was discussed about Penny? The fact is: Penny is revealed with literally nothing at all to even hint at her existence beforehand and that to me is just poor storytelling.

2. Tone 

Ignoring the fact that we’ve barely had any emotion impact with her death throughout the show, I hated how carefree everyone acted. I thought everything was ok: Their shocked expressions, how happy everyone looked, and even when Ruby questioned Penny. But it was when Penny basically handwaved her death away, that I disliked how carefree everyone started acting towards her. They acted like Penny went away on a trip or something, and not like she just died. I mean everyone, but Ruby, thought she was a real girl up until her death. But no one comments how weird thats shes alive again. Heck the last time Jaune saw her, was when Pyrrha accidentally killed her. Yet instead of having any reaction to that, he just like “Well this is wacky”. What kills me most is how WBY react to her. Instead of being joyous or anything that shes alive, when she does her salute, they’re like “Classic Penny” and shake their head like this was a sitcom. They acting like her death didn’t mean anything at all. It felt like CRWBY brushed aside not only her death, but her being alive as well. Like this was the new norm and we had to accept it.

So yeah, I felt the reveal of Penny was ruined for me because of the lack of build up and the Tone throughout the scene. But, I am really happy she’s back and looking forward to some Nut’s and Dolts content.