#I would be over the moon excited

[mando-abs]

I’m just disappointed. Rant below. Also, fair warning of Din Djarin biases below as he is my favorite Star Wats character and this most likely hinders my view on the show

I really don’t want to be disappointed! I swear I want Bo Katan to have a redemption arc, to see her thriving. I want her mistakes and her sister Satine’s mistakes to be turned anew and prosperous. I want her to be in a position to lead.

But we haven’t been given a valid reason that she should yet, same as Din when he was forced to accept the Darksaber despite not being able to wield it. Like Din, she doesn’t feel confident about leading people, and this should (bc we can’t guarantee anything in this stupid fandom) hinder her ability to wield it. Not to mention that we’ve hardly gotten much callbacks and grief to what caused this hesitancy. Just a vague, “oh yeah, I ruled, and then I didn’t, and then my people were destroyed and scattered.” Like that doesn’t affect every Mandalorian? Also, I have a feeling that many viewers are unaware of her backstory! I know why she wants this. Show us why she wants this. Make this meaningful.

However, I feel like everything we watched Din go through was for nothing. I mean, we already had to go through the quick reuniting of Din and Grogu, which only cheapened the impactful goodbye in the season 2 finale. However, we had to get over it because the Mandalorian could not continue without the pair as the whole story is build on them. (More on this in a minute). We had a whole episode dedicated (misplaced, yes, in TBOBF when it should’ve been about Boba) to his struggle with the blade and even going so far as standing up for his right to have it in front of Paz. Forgive me for being foolish as to think this was setting up his struggle yet eventual triumph and acceptance of the Darksaber, if not at least leadership of some kind. He is the titular character after all, and dammit, I’m rooting for him!!!!!

The main thing I’m disappointed about is Din and Grogu being side swept in their own show in favor of Bo Katan. Sure, this is probably karma for doing the same to Boba Fett’s show of which I will begrudgingly accept. I want to watch Din and Grogu build their relationship after being torn apart and reunited. And I know that’s exactly what causal audience members do too. I don’t want a whole season dedicated to a long, drawn out reason for them to get back to their familiar grind. Make it happen! Get creative! Use what you have already established! Bo Katan’s redemption should be secondary. In fact, I think it would have been a lot more impactful if it stayed that way, or better yet - give her her own spin off story like a Boba Fett. Fans would eat it up! But making her center stage in a story where there isn’t room to do so??? That’s just bad writing and planning. I’m sorry.

[saturngalore]

introducing…the fates 🕊️

[swagglessmoth]

Badly made comic of And So The Moon Wept bc it just finished and I’m devastated

‼️CHAPTER 15 SPOILERS‼️

I wanted to make one more page between the second and third bc pacing, but I didn’t wanna rethink all three of those pages’ compositions. It’s pretty ass bc it’s all sketches, but the last ones came out pretty decent I think👍

(Don’t look at the house too closely, I really didn’t wanna look at a reference so I just freestyled it)

Scrapped versions bc idk

Now that that’s out the way, I’ll start with the ranting, you can leave now this is for me

THE ENDING⁉️ DAMN⁉️⁉️⁉️

I would start rereading immediately to see all the details and analyze the psychology of the ‘tsukuyomi world’ characters BUT I unfortunately have my global exams next week 🥲

Warning for -1000 media literacy‼️ while writing all this I remembered that my memory is bad an my analytical skills are even worse! So be warned :p

BUT ANYWAY!! This was a top tear fanfic, seriously at no point did I consider the infinite tsukuyomi as a possibility. And I think this has to do with the fact that the psychology and individual lives of the characters in this dream were so well developed. There’s so many POVs! And they’re so complex and detailed!! Really makes you wonder if this was really the tsukuyomi or if Kakashi’s consciousness was sent to a different world all together. Which is what makes it so terribly tragic. Kakashi lived so many years in this perfect world just to regain all his memories and find out that it really was all fake, a world made up entirely of his own fantasies.

Oh and what a fantasy it was, getting hit by that boulder and fucking dying! The only reason he got to live was bc of ‘Hound’ (which could be interpreted as his consciousness telling him to wake tf up). Everything felt so wrong to Kakashi not because he noticed this things weren’t right, but bc he was never meant to live in this world. This was the prefect reality for everyone around him, his dream, a world without him (FUCK BRO💔💔💔💔). Which is the reason why I think the characters are so three dimensional in this dream, maybe, idk bro I just made this up.

But even then, things don’t exactly add up (if you think about it they do BUT SHHHHHH LET ME DREAM). Why did some characters suffer so much if this was meant to be a better world for everyone else? Why did Rin’s parent’s die? Why did Sakumo try suicide so many times?

We know Rin’s and Obito’s relationship started declining when Rin didn’t believe Obito when he swore up and down that Kakashi was somehow alive (which IS Hound’s fault in a way, he saved Kakashi and that’s why Obito saw Kakashi sinking into the ground, making him believe that Kakashi didn’t die), but it goes farther than that. Rin’s real problem with Obito was that he was so stuck on his dead teammate that he neglected the rest of his living team, Kakashi was literally everything he thought about to the point it started negatively affecting others (which, yeah him being obsessed is pretty normal considering that Kakashi was part of the reason he activated his sharingan and THE reason he activated the Mangekyo). So what did he do? Go hang out with the one other person who would ALSO only think of Kakashi all day, Sakumo. Obito eventually accepted that Kakashi was dead, but he and Rin never reconnected.

Was this really the perfect ending for them? Come on tsukuyomi, you’re more creative than that.

For some reason I think that the tsukuyomi was freestyling all this. Bc (by my interpretation) the point of Kakashi’s dream was that he died at Kannabi Bridge instead of Obito, period. The rest is extra stuff bc their lives have to go on ig? Or maybe the infinite tsukuyomi is really big brained and depicted a realistic depiction of 🖐️🖐️🖐️HOLD THE FUCK UP I’M DUMB I JUST FIGURED SMTH OUT

Bro this is why I need to reread this instead of talking to myself when I don’t remember half the details in the fic.

OK SO HOUND DID FUCK SHIT UP🔥🔥🔥

I was trying to think why Sakumo would be alive (if my shit theory above was true, which it isn’t but I’m not deleting all that) AND IT WAS BC SAKUMO NOT KILLING HIMSELF IS HIS PERFECT WORLD 😭😭😭😭. The one thing I’m not so sure ab is Kannabi (I bet if I keep writing this I’ll find the answer) bc Obito WAS gonna get hit by that rock, but hey, he entered the dream after the Obito reveal so maybe his consciousness already knew he would survive, so maybe he’d just appear later in the dream idk. BUT BRO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 WAS HE ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO COME BACK HOME TO HIS DAD??? AND THEN HIS CONSCIOUSNESS KICKED IN AND HE SAVED OBITO INSTEAD??!!,.. oh I’m sick, this is so evil

That would literally make everything make sense. He derailed the dream so bad that it fucked everything up, making it no longer a perfect world but more similar to reality. If he really was supposed to die, then why did his death have such negative repercussions on everyone he loves? It that was his dream, wouldn’t it be a better world with everybody happy? He wasn’t supposed to die at Kannabi but Hound appeared and saved Obito from a rock, causing a massive butterfly effect.

Pretty romantic if you asked me, “I would leave behind my perfect world just to save you form getting hurt” like damn, it’s not like he remembered that Obito survived at this point in time, but still STOPP I’M DOING IT AGAIN I’M FOCUSING ON THE DETAILS AND NOT THE BIGGER PICTURE AAAA

El cazador de elefantes by Def Con Dos is a pretty good song, hm

Where was I going with this? Don’t remember tbh

This is kinda long, I’m stopping here. Bye internet void ✌️

[miniagula]

movie sonadow would be so l umity-coded…and i say this bc their dynamic is similar to the games but with a different and tender perspective: they both empathize deeply with each other now, and this shadow is not as reticent or closed off bc of that. that being said: movie!sonic would ABSOLUTELY 'YOU'RE the sweet potato!' the hell out of shadow

[ratatatastic]

naturally ofc our big kids need to have fun too

[kaeyacollection]

Hey so uh

Are we being normal about this?

"In those days, a crimson moon shone down upon the subterranean realm, and not the dark sun of latter days." (Perinheri book)

And like the wiki says Kaeya's passive was changed from "Heart of the Abyss" because it unintentionally conflated with the Abyss in game and not the metaphor of "walking on thin ice over an abyss."

But I mean

For an unintentional connection it sure does come up a lot

But even if we do disregard that and go based on the intended meaning (via the wiki)

"The Book of Songs·Xiaoya·Xiaomin": "It's like standing on the edge of a deep abyss, like walking on thin ice."

I mean on one hand, yes we already knew about Khaenri'ahs connection to the abyss long before the Abyss Order was founded and before Khaenri'ah got nerfed for crimes against Celestia (fuckin Gold had rift hounds like this isn't new)

BUT this is the first solid confirmation that the Abyss wasn't a side note some (lookin at you 5 sinners) dipped their toes into but a defining part of the dynasty if it was named after the damn thing, right?

From the book of The Little Witch and the Undying Fire:

You see, we also call a will that comes down from the heavens an "archon." They are normally planets that have sentient life on them, and they number seven, and therefore they are called the "seven archons." As for the virtuals, their number varies between one, two, and four. The planet the little witch was on may well have been one. And in the case of such a world, the "virtual" would be the "dark sun."

"The planet the little witch was on may well have been one." Has become such an important line in connecting the abyss as a guiding force, that was not just used by khaenri'ah, but influencing them even if the people didn't realize it

Walking on thin ice over the abyss, believing they could balance that danger, but the ice cracked and Celestia responded

King Irmin was indisposed, we saw the kind of madness that overcame Chlothar, who only got the second hand abyssal experience from Mr. Crystal himself (Vedrfolnir), Gold went Mold for a second if her chapter in The Little Witch has any accuracies to herself (also one of her companions becoming a pirate - I see you Kaeya's Grandpa)

For the Sinners to be seeking perfection when the Abyss Order talks about their guiding force being something of chaos

Idk it's just neat that one line can solidify and make sense of previous tales within the game that we didn't technically have the context for previously and I'm excited to see what the rare disease mentioned at the end is going to be

Also just as a bonus note

Celebration: Fruit of Wisdom

What knowledge might the fruit of wisdom bring, were it to descend upon the land? Either way, it'll taste good as a drink if left in Diona's hands.

I wasn't part of the event, but if they straight up saw fruits of wisdom and the first thought was to consume it then I just wonder if fruits of the abyss looked just as appetizing

[liquidchocolatecake]

currently captive audience to a knock down drag out fight in my brain between desire to respect the wishes of the creator and not look for anyone redistributing the comic and god i fucking miss wonderlab i miss wonderlab so much you have no idea i want wonderlab back so bad

[kingofattolia]

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The thing is, I desperately want to feel something about real life. At this point it's becoming a little bit absurd. I've been to concerts and to funerals. I've seen the Alaskan mountains and the Dead Sea. I've been thrown into scary situations and wildly cool ones. Why does my entire emotional range, no matter what I'm confronted with, fall somewhere between "mild interest" and "deep irritation"? Why can't I feel anything from looking at a beautiful sunset, or decorating my new apartment? Why doesn't coming home feel joyful, and leaving again feel sad? When I get promoted into a crazy position that I wanted so badly and is super exciting, why can't I feel proud and exhilarated? All I've got is varying levels of anxiety.

The strongest highs and lows I think I've ever felt in my life have been from reading or writing about pretend things happening to pretend people. Why can't I seem to eke even a drop of that investment out of something happening in MY OWN LIFE? I work out. I try to eat right. I do yoga. I try to invest in the people who live around me, and create connections. I spend time doing real-world things, even when I don't feel like it. I genuinely don't know what else I'm supposed to be doing at this juncture. And yet I suspect that Anne of Green Gables experienced a greater emotional range in any given 24 hours of her life than I have in decades.

[m0e-ru]

kirijo group in shambles. together we can make the economy fall. please vote the attendant @gayest-persona-character

[captainshiloh]

AAAAAAAAA ITS HERE ITS HERE ITS HERE!!!!!!!! i’ve been hyped about this story since i was 13 and it’s HERE!!!!! i’m so so so excited, i’ll be back with my thoughts once i’m done!!

[age-of-moonknight]

Variant cover for Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #30 by Tyler Kirkham.

[alagaisia]

Okay so I never got around to replacing the not-very-good-anyway astronaut shaped cookie cutter that I melted in the dishwasher with a better and unmelted one. And my cookie-decorating skills are none. So tonight, in preparation for Lunar Landing Day tomorrow, I made moon (circle) shaped shortbread cookies with just a regular old smear of frosting on them. But! They are pretty tasty :)

I (more or less) used this recipe for apricot basil shortbread:

It’s pretty savory on its own, which isn’t a bad thing at all, just not what I was looking for. But luckily, I was already planning to also use this recipe for apricot cream cheese frosting:

I halved it and had pretty much exactly the right amount. (…I also barely followed this recipe because I had dried apricots, not apricot jam, and because I’ve made cream cheese frosting before, and it’s very easy. The important takeaway here is that half of a block of cream cheese is the amount of cream cheese to start with for this recipe in this instance)

[lecliss]

I will never be able to take Obito seriously in the Tobi outfit. I just can't. That's not Madara, that's not a guy stuck in Hell, that's not a villain capable of horrors beyond our comprehension. That will always be the mask of a school girl in love with his senpai to me and nothing else. Well, okay maybe except Guruguru and whatever the fuck he kept talking about literal shit for. But Kishi fucked up thinking anyone is supposed to take the Tobi disguise seriously at this point.

[all-thestories-aretrue]

Ok but the way i was STRESSING during that fight with the acamoth. I was sitting on the floor building furniture and just started sweating. I wasn't even doing anything strenuous. Just putting screws in.

You would not believe how many times I said fuck when Astrada showed up. I was fully prepared to say goodbye to him. Nothing good ever lasts etc etc.

Dan and all the silver bullets omg. I was waiting for those to come back around but fully thought it would be cult related.

Lola getting shot in the gut repeatedly 😭😭😭 and her panic at the end about Dan. I just want to hug her. And also tell her that not everything is her responsibility. I'm also lowkey terrified of the other shoe dropping with her and the gentry and Mother. Like one episode left. Shit's going to hit the fan and she's going back to the hedge. Lola!!!!!!

John nearly drowning again 😬😬😬 that cannot have been fun for him. AND THE WAY HE JUST KEPT TAKING MORE DAMAGE. I am shit at the health levels but he had to be getting like really really close to death. He took so much damage 😭😭 AND SOME OF IT WAS SELF INFLICTED. But also omg his magic is so cool 😍😍. Also John just being like Aviva thinks she's so much better than everyone else as the meanest thing he could think 😭. He's right Aviva is so much better than many people but i am biased. And like I may be reading too much into it but I lowkey think it kinda revealed his own insecurity about her.

It was when Aviva went "unconscious" that I truly started losing it a bit. That's when I started getting really nervous. SHE WAS ALONE IN THE TWILIGHT WITH THE ACAMOTH. It was horrible. But I also love that she got to kick its ass with John by her side. So fucking fitting and satisfying. 10/10. I also just really really love her anger and rage. And the image of both of them sitting there hugging all bloody is v nice.

Horribly saddened by everyone else who died tho. Gary!!!! And Amber!!! Ugh. So much needless death. They didn't deserve that. Poor Gary and Amber.

[medtech-mara]

I do not have the brain space for stream, so please send me a TL;DL of the highlights tysm.

[azurajay]

i havent finished any episodes yet nor have i poked the tags (but ik everyone else will have already said this) but 10000% thats the watcher symbol hidden in the cobblestone. losing my MIND