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Local cynic in the south sees legitimate snowfall for first time in over decade: is struck by uncharacteristic Childlike Whimsy and Holiday Spirit as result. More at 11.

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Meanwhile nowadays I’m Normal-Water

I was gonna make a joke about that being an absurdly common type, but then I looked it up to double check

Turns out it’s actually one of the few entirely unique type combos in the series

Meaning I’m technically this guy:

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Okay, but have you considered if the ship doesn’t WANT to be the ship of Theseus anymore? If maybe it CHOSE to have all its parts replaced? Maybe it did that SO it could be a different vessel. You ever think about that?

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Arthur Aguefort has fucked, in no particular order, an eccentric small business owner from a future planet themed after Texas, a chocolate rabbit chancellor who pretends to worship a light bulb but is actually a warlock of a fairy, an elderly Baba Yaga who is accurate to original stories of her and also pisses in her mortar, and a Phoenix.

You think Fanfics have crack ships? In the Time Quangle, we have canon ships you can’t even fucking imagine. A mall goth with an impossible trisword just married a weird skeleton puppet man who’s also the universe’s most pathetic criminal. Sleeping Beauty is about to hook up with a nonbinary chef who is also a royal alien. Over in the aged up universe, a milk bottle Princess just ran off with a discontinued pleasure droid, whose power suit boss had to turn down a cheese pirate lesbian for being a nepobaby. Aelwyn Abernant is bisexual and evil again! Little Red Riding Hood is now playfriends with the candy land Batman, and they both have pink-eye. And through it all, Fig Faeth and Ayda Aguefort are still a power couple, and Ricky Matsui refuses to abandon his wife and child.

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You think Fanfics have crack ships? In the Time Quangle, we have canon ships you can’t even fucking imagine. A mall goth with an impossible trisword just married a weird skeleton puppet man who’s also the universe’s most pathetic criminal. Sleeping Beauty is about to hook up with a nonbinary chef who is also a royal alien. Over in the aged up universe, a milk bottle Princess just ran off with a discontinued pleasure droid, whose power suit boss had to turn down a cheese pirate lesbian for being a nepobaby. Aelwyn Abernant is bisexual and evil again! Little Red Riding Hood is now playfriends with the candy land Batman, and they both have pink-eye. And through it all, Fig Faeth and Ayda Aguefort are still a power couple, and Ricky Matsui refuses to abandon his wife and child.

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In about 5-6 days (depending on time zones) Sega is gonna drop an insane reveal, and I would like it on record that I attempted to call it.

Oh shit, it’s Maria’s sister

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Oh shit, it’s Maria’s sister

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Sonic Movie 3 Spoilers below the cut, because I have thoughts.

I love how, in the argument about using the Master Emerald again, when it seems like it’s going to turn into a full on fight, it’s KNUCKLES who backs down first. KNUCKLES! The Echidna who, infamously, will stop at nothing, is willing to attack anyone, even his allies, and ESPECIALLY Sonic, if it means defending the Master Emerald. The one who, in the last movie, was fully willing to kill Sonic if it meant protecting the Emerald. And when Sonic tells him, to his face, that he’s going to use the Master Emerald…he backs down, and he trusts Sonic. My heart!

Like many, I was disappointed they were doing the SA2 style story without Amy (at least until mid-credits), but I think the way they handled Shadow being talked down was actually handled beautifully. In the games, Shadow realizes he’s been wrong this whole time because he sees something of Maria in Amy, and remembers what really mattered to her. In the film, it’s him seeing HIMSELF in Sonic, and realizing that there’s still a way to move on. It’s great.

The way they handled Shadow in general was amazing. I think Keanu did an excellent job, of course, but I really appreciate the nuance the writers gave him. He clearly realizes very early on that he doesn’t actually want to destroy the world, he doesn’t even seem to want to hurt anyone until Sonic really starts yapping. But he feels like, with the whole world against him and the loss of Maria, he has no choice but to go through with the Eclipse Cannon plan. It’s heartbreaking, and makes his (relatively) hopeful ending all the more deserved.

Oh my God, the flashbacks to Maria and Shadow. This kid had less screen time than “Ambiguously Evil GUN Lady”, and it still managed to tug at my heartstrings.

I noticed, in the sequence where Gerald, Maria, and Shadow are trying to escape, Walters tells the soldier “Those are kids” not “She’s a kid” or “There’s a kid”. It sort of just hammers home that, yeah, for as much as he is a potentially dangerous Alien, Shadow is still basically a child at this point. Possibly less than a year old, even. And I guess that’s always true for Shadow during the raid, huh? He’s just a kid struggling with things he can’t control. And then the military kill his only real friend.

I’m SO glad they didn’t just give GUN the full hero makeover, I was SO scared they were going to. Not only did they kill the little girl (by “accident”, sure, but they were still aiming a gun at her to begin with), but they explicitly agreed to the building of the Eclipse Cannon, and even had Gerald build it WHILE IMPRISONED in exchange for his freedom, when prior to this we see no evidence he actually did ANYTHING WRONG. Yes, Commander Walters is mostly a good guy, but the organization as a whole is still very clearly NOT to be trusted, to the point where his successor is framed as a direct antagonist. And they don’t even know about the Black Arms!

You know, I was kinda expecting them to do SOME explaining for how Gerald is alive in the modern day, like maybe he was in stasis all this time, or Maria was his child instead of his grandchild, but nope. They just went with “Yeah, this dude’s over a hundred years old, and he’s still able to run around being a genocidal nihilist.”

I love how, even though the ARK and the nose laser aren’t in this, they still have Gerald putting his mustache on the side of the Cannon. It’s just a nice touch.

Stone is always one of the highlights for the movies, but I especially liked how he was portrayed here. Especially with the theme for Eggman that he’s never really had anyone, I’m glad they acknowledged that Stone was the only person who ever cared about or loved him. And with Sonic 2, while it was pretty explicit that Stone was in love with him, here they make it clear that, while Robotnik might not be fully capable of that kind of love, he did still appreciate Stone in the end and, at least from how I read that final broadcast, reciprocated as much as he could. Sometimes, even bad guys have a heart.

So, they were definitely setting up for a Shadow spin-off with this film, right? Like, either a spin-off movie or TV show, because there are just so many loose ends with him arriving via Black Comet, showing up fully formed with no explanation, the confirmation that he survived WITH consciousness in the post-credits stinger. Also, he might still fully have the Chaos Emeralds after the battle. You just KNOW they’re going to be doing something with him between now and Sonic 5.

I know there’s definitely room for survival, given Shadow was up there with him and him surviving against all odds before, but with Jim Carrey having already tried to retire before this, and the man not getting any younger, I think there’s a very good chance Robotnik is actually dead in the Movie continuity now. Wouldn’t be the first time a Sonic spin-off canonically killed off Robotnik (looking at you, Ken), and the way he went out feels very fitting for the character. Of course, there’s every chance he shows up in the next movie as Mr. Tinker, but I think he might actually be toast.

I have no idea what they’re going to do for Sonic 4 (although hopefully it’s better than the game), but I cannot wait to see Amy on the big screen. My girl looks GREAT. No idea who they’ll get to voice her, since the studio clearly learned their lesson with Colleen’s cameo in the first mid-credits (though Colleen is still one of the best VAs in the films), but I’m excited to see her kick ass and maybe flirt with Sonic. Fingers crossed!

LIVE AND LEARN! Hanging on the edge of tomorrow!

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…okay, yeah, the Sonic movies are peak.

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It’s been over a week since I last saw Wicked Part 1, but I can’t stop thinking about how blatantly and sinisterly the film portrayed Madame Morrible’s grooming of Elphaba.

Like, from the first time they meet, she does something as an authority figure that immediately makes Elphaba indebted to her, than takes her off - entirely alone, separated from literally everyone else - and offers her these incredible opportunities, everything she ever wanted, if she just abandons her current life and agrees to work with Morrible for an indeterminate amount of time and “do as you should”.

And is constantly giving this girl who has clearly been hated, mocked, and feared her entire life positive reinforcement, specifically when she does exactly what Morrible wants. Openly manipulating Elphaba’s emotions in order to, in the film, unlock her power.

And, like, it’s obvious what she’s doing, right? Making Elphaba entirely reliant on Morrible, not only for her chance to meet the Wizard, but also for the only positive relationship she’s had in her whole life up until that point. So that when the time comes, and Morrible asks her to do something deeply immoral and wrong, Elphaba has no choice but to agree.

And if it wasn’t for Dr. Dillamond, Galinda, and Fiyero, it probably would have worked.

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So, we all agree the main metaphor is the Plastic mask being an allegory for new anti-depression medication, and it VERY MUCH not going well for Gangle, right? That’s a thing we all understand? Alright, cool.

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the edit itself

this edit is getting taken down from tiktok every time someone reuploads it, its straight up censorship at this point

Im not even american but im having a great time with this

DONT LET THIS DIE

credit to miraculousgastropod for the original

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You know, I’d heard stories of this London Time Quangle Live Show.

Nothing could have prepared me.

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Living out my dream of being a teenage girl by blasting Defying Gravity at full volume.

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Going through the Gravity Falls tag and seeing a ton of cool Relativity AU stuff, but I just find it so funny, because the original show is so focused on the Kids’ generation and problems, so the fast majority of important characters are either contemporaries of Dipper and Mabel or somewhere between them and the Grunkles, so like

In Relativity Falls, half the cast is fighting over who gets to be Dipper’s tragic scientific partner, and meanwhile the Stans have exactly 1 (one) friend.

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Feeling like that one guy from Stephen King’s IT who doesn’t make it back to Derry.