#I’m on episode 194

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Teaholding is such a good fucking ship name for Jon and Martin. For a while I assumed lonely eyes was their ship name- Jmart is fine but Teaholding is just so much better.

They’re everything to me.

I sure do hope nothing bad happens to them.

[wharfspider]

Dammit, I think I’m cursed to read every issue relating to this Bugle v. Globe side plot out of order. Cool to see that they kept the bit about Peter being put off by Bushkin’s overly-friendly attitude after all this time, though.

Can’t wait for it to eventually drive him back to the Bugle, just like the first time

[nightwasfound08]

never in my life would i have ever thought that i would think the sentence;

“This man just gave birth out of his shoulder.”

what a lovely day listening to TMA

[shedk1d]

update 😦

Spoilers for MAG 194/195

Guys I’m so scared, I can’t do it

i should’ve stopped listening in season 1 😔 then they could’ve been happy office workers forever

THEY TOOK MY BOY MARTIN 😭😭😭 I was literally so scared to listen to the MAG195 after that, I put off listening to it for so long, but then it was a relatively calm episode NOW IM TERRIFIED

ALSO the Mr spider tape playing in the background AHRRASHNKJEFABUKDSAK I’m so scared I’m so scared

part of me wants to not listen to the rest of TMA so that it won’t be over, but i also want to finish it soon so that I can listen to TMAGP

I’ve seen people saying they cried during MAG 200, and I keep telling myself maybe it’ll all be fine, but then I remember it’s a horror 😔

anyways I’ve been working on more fanart :p, and I’ve recently finished an animated trailer for TMA S1, so lmk if you wanna see it

[im-out-of-it]

part 17 of season 2, episode 18 continued “awake, arise, and be forever fallen” INNOCENT

194. shit, I think I left off here. can we talk about Alec making sure that Magnus is okay????? it’s their first time as well as Alec’s first time with anyone and his first concern is Magnus

195. Alec teasing Magnus that he has to go. Magnus’s expression kills me everytime because he’s like you have to go?????? oh I thought we could spend the day in bed, have breakfast, cuddle, I’m not ready for you to leave

196. Magnus: no, I mean yes of course I want to have sex with you, how could I not??????

197. some of my favorite Alec moments how he and Magnus are just so content with each other

198. my favorite thing about this scene is how Alec can’t keep his hands off Magnus. and you notice how Alec is always taking the lead usually. their first kiss, the first time I love you, etc. it’s as if Magnus doesn’t want to push alec too hard if he’s not ready for certain things so he lets Alec take control first. Magnus can’t even wait to take his jacket off 👀

199. Alec kissing Magnus first in the past

200. man I already did this part of the scene but whatever, I’ll probably go and edit this section out tomorrow as well (or maybe the other one because I like this gif more)

201. Alec taking his whole world in his hands

202. since their date, I have been waiting to post this. Alec being viewed as innocent but Magnus knows

✨ Alec thinking: just you wait ✨

203. I love the way Alec looks at Magnus at first when he says “I lose control”. Alec is genuinely surprised at first for a second and then he goes oh this? I got another bonus feature of my boyfriend ✨ I think we want to see more of Magnus “losing control” I also think Alec looks perfect here

stopping at 204 and going to continue this scene in the next one 💓

[merf-steve-cinematic-analysis]

The Steve Saga

NOTE: Episodes 194 and 195 are out of order, find episode numbers before reading.

Episodes:

188 - Destroying Infinity Steve!

189 - Rainbow Steve is Back and Better than ever! [🌈]

190 - The Rainbow Town Aftermath.

191 - Giving Rainbow Steve a Username!

192 - Building the Server-Hopper Machine! [🌈]

193 - The Land of the Lost Steves.

194 - I’m the Last Living Steve. [🌈]

195 - Plague Steve Spoke to Rainbow Steve!

Close Ups:

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[microclown]

I’m relistening to the Hilltop Rd episodes before I move on to 195 because I need a refresher, and I have to say I’m not liking the implications of these parallels…

The “anger” From MAG 8

and MAG 162

The feeling of there being no other choice…

In MAG 8

MAG 20

And MAG 194

…👀

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 194 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: mowing the lawn.

YouTube must be so happy now. It tried to recommend this episode to me for weeks now and finally I'm going to click it...

MARTIN: "Alright. Alright, we’ll, we’ll go back to the tunnels, regroup, figure out what our next move is. See what other options there are." JON: "… Yeah… Yeah." MARTIN: "Jon? … [Warning] Jon?" Martin is so scared already... He knows something is up...

JON: "That place, the centre of The Eye, i-it’s… It wasn’t made for him. That’s why he’s like that, it’s too much, it’s overwhelmed him, his whole being, just destroyed." MARTIN: "Oh yeah? But let me guess, it was made for you?" JON: "Yes." MARTIN: [Petulantly] "Of course it is. Of course it is! Because how could this journey possibly end with anything less than the final, supreme destiny of the Archivist, plugged into the great fear machine for all eternity and, and abandoning humanity." That's what I meant last episode when I said Martin will summarize this perfectly. It's such an understandable reaction.

MARTIN: "Breaking his promise." JON: "That’s not fair!" MARTIN: "Isn’t it?" Nah, Martin's right on this one. They took one look at the Panopticon, they haven't even looked for another solution yet and Jon already wants to become the Pupil of the Eye. But it is also so Jon of him. He always rashly jumped to conclusions and decisions when he was under a lot of stress. That plus his martyr complex...

MARTIN: "And what? Replace them with new avatars from the people who don’t want to?" JON: "I mean, that has to be better than those that chose it right?" Riiiight, just like Jon chose to become the Archivist, or Oliver chose to become an Avatar of the End, or Agnes chose to be the Messiah of the Desolation. There are probably a lot of watchers out there who didn't want this either. Sure, there was always something there, which attracted on of the entities. But being nosy and curious is not the same as watching over a hellscape where people suffer for eternity.

JON: "Sure I can’t make it “go away”, but I could at least make it fairer. The Eye doesn’t care, as long as it gets its fear, it’s happy either way." [MARTIN SCOFFS AT THIS JUSTIFICATION] MARTIN: [Incredulous] "Christ, can you hear yourself? “Make it fairer!” It’s not enough that you’re the ‘all-powerful Archivist’, you also have to appoint yourself the literal judge of everyone as well?" Yeah, that's problematic. I always have to think back to MAG 155, I fucking love that statement. The dilemma of deciding about people's fate and by what criteria you would go.

JON: "Don’t." MARTIN: "I know what it’s like to be powerless. A-And I know you do too. And I also know what it’s like when you get a taste of– wh-when you’re finally able to–" JON: "That’s not what this is!" That gets Martin to reel back a bit. He's been so panicked and angry that he didn't get through to Jon. Now he did, in a way. And yeah, what Martin says absolutely makes sense.

MARTIN: "I’ve been out there with you. I saw the kick you got out of making them scream for once." JON: "What happened to “Kill Bill”?" MARTIN: "You weren’t meant to enjoy it this much!" Ohhh, Martin shooting himself in the foot with this one. Jon's right, Martin pushed him to do it. And it was Jon, who ultimately put an end to their vendetta.

JON: "Why won’t you believe me when I say that this isn’t something I want to do?" MARTIN: "Because I saw your face when we walked into that room! [Despondent] That wasn’t fear, it, it wasn’t even anger. It was envy. And it scared me more than anything else I’ve seen." JON: "… Martin…" Jon's not denying it... He saw how scared and hurt Martin is and doesn't know what to say anymore.

JON: "What other choice do we have?" MARTIN: "I-I don’t know, alright! I do– But there is one. Because there has to be." JON: "But what if there isn’t? How long are we going to wander around hopelessly searching before we end up back here anyway?" Longer than 5 minutes would be a good start. It is ridiculous, they're been up there for not even an hour, that's not enough. That's not trying.

JON: "We can’t just dismiss this. It might be our only option." MARTIN: "… No." JON: "No?" MARTIN: "No. I forbid it." JON: [Incredulous] "You forbid it?" MARTIN: "Don’t laugh at me." JON: "Why not? You’re being ridiculous." I'd be crying so hard by now, but I'm an angry-crier, so hm... It still is so extremely hurtful.

MARTIN: "I refuse to accept that this –" JON: "Tough! The world doesn’t care what you accept. It just… is! It just is." Ahh, there it is! Out of the two I totally wouldn't have suspected Jon to be the angry-crier. I think that actually is their worst fight by a long shot even. And it is so well written, it feels so real! Bouncing around from being scared, not getting through, not being taken seriously...

MARTIN: "Stupid… Stupid, arrogant…" I mean, Martin should have known that Jon can be stupid and arrogant xD

MARTIN: "[Calling] Jon? J– … Shit." Hmm, what was that about? Martin processing what just happened on high speed and already coming to the conclusion that splitting up right now is a bad idea?

JON: " You don’t even have a mind, not really." ¬‿¬ Not really!

There's a dating site in that statement and we already know from What The Ghost that dating sites are the Eye, but I cannot help but find it funny that elderly persons are also the Eye XD That stereotype of old people sitting in their rocking chair out on the front porch to judge everyone in their sight xD (That's a very american picture, but we have those people in Europe as well. Here they sit on the front balcony for example.)

"Gingerly, he unbuttoned his shirt, sliding the rough fabric down his torso, and examined the shining protrusion. Some sort of callous? A tumour? Malcolm’s mind began running frantically through all the worst-case possibilities. And then… [FLESHY SOUND OF OPENING] it opened. The iris was dull grey, surrounded by yellowed, bloodshot tissue, and the pupil was dull, almost cloudy, but the eye staring out from his shoulder seemed to focus well enough." Oh god, the body horror of this statement is so fucked up...

JON: "Not exactly subtle. But then you never were, were you? Not really." Not really, yaaaaaaaaay!

JON: "If that’s the most compelling argument you have… [Smiles] I’m going to go apologise to my boyfriend." Can someone pls again explain to me, if this statement can somehow be read as something similar to their situation (because of the "not subtle" and "if that's the most compelling argument you have") and if yes, what it is? Is it about Jon wanting to get rid of Jonah, but it wouldn't do anything? Also that tone of "I’m going to go apologise to my boyfriend." and that little breathy chuckle at the end. Already said it in MAG 187, I think he likes the sound of that.

JON: [Very quietly] "Where are you, Martin… Don’t try and do this to me. Not now." I love their relationship so much...

MELANIE: "Not yet. But then she needs to actually go places to look at them. She can’t just pop up top and check ‘the big picture’." JON: "Melanie, please, not now." MELANIE: "… Sorry." Ahhh, at least she immediately gets that this is serious and Jon is actually really, really scared and can't put up with Melanie-humor right now...

JON: "This is my fault." MELANIE: "What?" JON: "We… We had an argument. I said some things I shouldn’t have. If, if I hadn’t we would have come back here together, and I-I’d have been there to stop her taking him." Aaaaand the old guilt machine is running again...

JON: "I mean, he wouldn’t have gone willingly! Would he?" Martin, who desperately wants another option, one which saves Jon, suddenly gets a visit by Annabelle, an Avatar of the Web and Jon thinks Annabelle would have had to resort to violence to drag Martin with her?

MELANIE: "Right. Fine. So… we do this the old fashioned way." JON: [QUIETLY] "What?" MELANIE: "Why would she take him? Uh, do they have any history?" MVP Melanie here, we have to give her that! Keeping a clear head, working through it one by one.

MELANIE: "For god’s sake! Pull your head out of your arse, stop trying to use it as a bloody antenna, and actually try thinking!" JON: "Just listen, Melanie. I – argh!" [THE ARCHIVIST IS STRUCK, NOT WITH A REVELATION BUT MELANIE’S CANE] MELANIE: "Think!" JON: "Ow… I don’t know! Somewhere she’d be strong! A, a place of power, a, a Web domain…" First of all, that fan transcript xD Second, anyone else got that scene from The Lion King in their head, when Rafiki strikes Simba with his staff when he's trying to get him to work something out?

JON: [Realising] "Oh god…" MELANIE: "What?" JON: "They’re going to Hill Top Road." Every episode ending with a cliff hanger now^^

@a-mag-a-day

[breakerwhiskey]

194 - ONE HUNDRED NINETY FOUR

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[click, static]

I had the thought—Harry’s contact, whoever they were, whoever she had worked things out with at the…well, whoever it was she was working with, I didn’t ask, I was still so fucking—

[click, static]

They have to be here, right? And it’s not like I’m some great friend of Johnny Law, but surely whoever it was, if they are here, they’d still care about stuff like someone getting murdered. Maybe…maybe I could get them to help me find Harry, or figure out what the fuck to do about Junior.

If that person is out there, they’d be in New York, right? They’d have to be. And so would Pete and Don and Richie—hell, maybe even Sylvie, though just like Francis, she was already in her golden years so I’m not sure—

Well, regardless, I’m halfway to New York. I don’t think it matters if I tell you I’m headed there, because if there’s one place that’s good to disappear, it’s New York. Even without all the people, there’s hundreds of streets and thousands of buildings and millions of rooms to hide away in. Even if you got on the highway right now and raced there, I still don’t think you’d be able to find me.

Which…maybe doesn’t bode well for the likelihood of me finding any of my old crew—or whoever Harry was conspiring with—but at least I have an idea of where to look—apartments, old hangouts, penthouses we’d robbed that I’m sure any of us would take advantage of living in now…I’m not going in totally blind.

God, it would be nice to have someone else with me. I mean, that’s always been true, after the first few weeks of getting some fucking real alone time for the first time in six years, after I’d come down from the righteous fury that was still—

Well, it was nice, for half a second. To be on my own, to be totally unfettered. But for most of this extended roadtrip, it would’ve been nice to have someone by my side. Navigating, scanning the radio channels for anything, playing road games or whatever. Driving so that I could sleep in the passenger seat.

So there’s rarely been a moment where I didn’t want someone with me. But right now…there’s a reason I started running with a crew when Pete invited me, instead of carrying on on my own. I’d been doing fine, pulling in decent hauls by myself, but even though you’ve got more people who have noisy fucking footsteps or who might make a stupid mistake that might cost you, it always feels…safer with someone else around.

I wish I had someone to watch my back. I wish I had someone to help me find Harry.

[click, static]

[thoughtportal]

“What if you were writing a profile on someone named Janet and I was your editor, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, for balance, find someone who wants to kill Janet’?” This week, Tuck Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal, takes us on a journey through the New York Times’ coverage of trans issues—and in the end, he points the way to a better future. You can find Tuck / Gender Reveal online here.

You can find an episode transcript along with citations here.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball Super 047

Fuck! 

It’s the Zamasu Saga. 

Son of a... !

*groan*

This arc is the drizzling shits.  It’s easily the worst part of Dragon Ball Super, and it’s far, far worse than anything in Dragon Ball and DBZ.  Is it worse than Dragon Ball GT? 

You know, it might be.  I would say it’s definitely as bad as GT, which makes it pretty vile.  Part of the reason I’m rewatching this is to figure out the answer to that question, but... you know, life’s too short for this.  I’m sitting here trying to compare the worst of the worst, trying to decide which turd sandwich is least appealing, and I feel like this isn’t a good use of my time. 

I’m not gonna do the “Roaming Lake” bit like I did before.  For a time, I considered comparing each episode of this arc to the best episode of GT, except I really can’t decide which one that is.  I keep thinking back to that one where Goku said General Rildo was stronger than Majin Buu.  That one seemed a little better than the others, but it was still an awful episode.  I’m not sure I can compare these things properly. 

I’m just gonna go through this thing, and point out similarities to GT as I find them, and we’ll see if we can figure out an answer when I get to the end.  Okay?  Okay.

So we’re in the Future Trunks Alternate Timeline, which hasn’t been seen since Dragon Ball Z Episode 194.  I think several years have passed since Trunks defeated the Imperfect Cell of that world, but I’m not sure how long it’s been. 

What is certain is that things have gotten much, much worse.  This episode opens on Trunks sneaking through a ruined city while some shadowy villain keeps blowing it up.  Then he makes it to some dingy secret laboratory, where Bulma is preparing just enough Time Machine Fuel for a one-way trip to the past. 

Then their mysterious enemy barges in, destroys Bulma’s equipment, and then kills her.  Trunks flees, knowing that he cannot save his mother, and the trip to the past is the only hope the world has left. 

So that’s our first GT comparison: Killing off underutilized characters as a substitution for genuine drama.  GT set up elaborate death scenes for Majin Buu, Piccolo, Krillin, and Android 17, which all fell flat because those characters barely got to do anything in GT anyway.  Future Bulma is a really cool character who didn’t get a lot of screentime in the Androids/Cell saga of DBZ, so this whole arc could have been an opportunity to do more with her.  Instead, they just kill her off five minutes into the first chapter of the story.  And for what?  To motivate Trunks? 

I mean, let’s seriously think about this.  If this was such a great idea, then why didn’t Toriyama have the Androids kill Future Bulma in the original Androids/Cell saga?  Well, for one thing, that would be too fucking dark.  Trunks had already lost his father and all the other Z-Warriors, and then finally Gohan.  Killing off his mother would literally be overkill.  More importantly, it mattered that there was someone waiting for him back home.  Someone who believed in Goku and the others, and knew they could make things right. 

We’ve barely gotten started, and I’m already pissed off.  I know this is an easy thing to look past.  So many characters in this world have already died, but it’s a big deal.  One of the Zamasu Saga’s many, many sins is the way it tries to just repeat the Androids/Cell Saga, just as Dragon Ball GT tried to repeat story beats from past Dragon Ball stories.  This arc is basically determined to hit the reset button on the whole dystopian future concept.  All the rebuilding we saw in DBZ Episode 194 is erased.  Trunks victory over the Androids and Cell is made irrelevant because of this new menace, and the only solution is another desperate time trip to get help from the past.  At best, this arc can only be a warmed over retread of what we’ve seen before.  But they already fell short of that pathetic goal when they made the mistake of killing off Future Bulma. 

Back in the present day of the main timeline, Goku’s crops are ready for harvest, and he invites Piccolo to help him, since this is the sort of training he used to do with Krillin as a child. 

Then Krillin shows up and mentions how Vegeta has gone back to Beerus’ planet to train, so Goku teleports after him so he won’t get left behind. 

Then the boys all eat jumbo cups of instant ramen!  This shot looks like the one of Goku, Toriko, and Luffy from that crossover special, and it turns my stomach.  Just three goofy pals, eating a wacky snack together!  Must be Dragon Ball Super!

This is probably meant to contrast the bubbly peacetime of Goku’s world with the living nightmare of Future Trunks’ world.  They did this a lot in the Androids Saga too, except the contrast wasn’t quite so sharp. It worked in DBZ because things were kind of grim in the present day, but the characters still had hope because they could still fight and train.  Trunks’ warning from the future was that they would be doomed to lose their next battle, and the conflicting themes of the arc were Goku’s defiant optimism versus the seeming inevitability of fate.

It worked in Dragon Ball Z because Dragon Ball Z was all about the world teetering on the brink of disaster, and the only thing holding the line was a bunch of guys shooting hand lasers in their pajamas.  The only way to raise the stakes after Frieza was for a guy to come from the future and tell Goku he had already lost and the world was already doomed, so Goku could look him in the eye and say “I’m still going to try.” 

It worked then because Z stands for the end, but not yet.  Super stands for “let’s bring back some old IP and see if we can cobble together a sequel.”  Super is Goku being a total goofball and Vegeta having a rod up his ass at all times, and nothing ever really matters because Beerus and Whis are always the strongest characters in the room, and they won’t let anything too serious happen because they enjoy eating Earth food too much.

While they eat, Goku talks up how much fun the Tournament of Power will be whenever it finally happens.  This is the thing that makes the Zamasu Saga really stand out from GT, because at least GT never taunted me with the idea that something good would actually happen later.  This whole Zamasu Arc just keeps gloating about the fact that the Tournament of Power can’t start until we get through this crap first. 

“Tee hee!  Fifty more episodes until something cool happens!”

Back in the future, Trunks makes his way to a bombed out apartment building, where he meets Mai, who is now an adult in this timeline.  They share a can of meat, and talk about how Bulma died for this one-way trip to the past.  Before she got killed, Bulma said there would be a chance for Trunks to return, but he doesn’t know what she meant. 

Trunks has a cool flashback to some cool shit in Dragon Ball Z.  The coolest shit, actually, since it’s mostly footage from the Cell Games.  I miss Cell so much.  He was the best.

So Trunks and Mai head to West City, where they plan to use the Time Machine in the wreckage of the Capsule Corp. building.   Trunks believes that their enemy, “Black”, can track Trunks’ ki, so he has to suppress his powers and travel as discretely as possible. 

And yet Black still tracks him down, just like how he followed Trunks to Bulma’s lab at the start of the episode.  He puts up a fight, but if that were going to work, things wouldn’t have gotten this bad.

Mai tries to distract Black with a shotgun, and that... doesn’t work. 

Trunks rushes to her side and declares that Black has killed her.   So for those of you keeping score, Mai has “died” 1 time in this arc.  This is stupid for a couple of reasons. 

First, they just got done killing off Bulma.  Killing Mai in the same episode is just redundant.  I mean, they shouldn’t have killed either of them, but both is a step too far, and they killed them both in the same episode.

Second, Mai survives this, because they’re going to tease killing her again later in the arc.  That’s how creatively bankrupt this shit is. 

One of the defenses I see of Dragon Ball GT has to do with whether Akira Toriyama contributed to, or approved of the series.  The logic is that you have to like it because his name is on it, and he provided some character designs and other art assets to the project.  If it was bad, then he would have repudiated the whole thing from the start.  Conversely, some GT critics use the lack of Toriyama’s involvement to justify hating the series.  It sucks because Toriyama didn’t write it, end of discussion.  Both of these arguments are stupid.

Because Toriyama did plot this Zamasu arc. I don’t know how detailed his notes were, but I’m pretty sure most of the shitty ideas in this thing were his.  And even if they weren’t his, he didn’t do nearly enough to correct course.  I respect Akira Toriyama a great deal, but this Zamasu arc makes him look like a hack. 

The episode ends with a clear view of the main villain, and it’s an evil Goku wearing a black costume and a Potara earring.  This probably would have been more of a shock if they hadn’t given away this character’s design in the opening credits. 

This was a big deal in 2016, as the fandom was genuinely intrigued by the mystery of this new villain.  Could it really be an evil Goku?  How could it be, when the Goku of this world died of a heart virus decades ago?  Maybe it’s a Saiyan lookalike, like Turles.  Maybe a bad guy switched bodies with Goku, like Captain Ginyu. Maybe it’s an android designed to imitate Goku.  Maybe it’s an evil future version of Goten!  Wouldn’t that be wild? 

I think there was some fringe theory that the heart virus that killed Goku somehow gained sentience and reanimated his corpse.  Maybe I came up with that one.  I can’t remember.

And the potara earring just raised further questions.  Where’s the other earring?  Where did he get that one from?  The design of Goku Black was certainly good for making the audience ask questions.  Everything about this guy’s look is a mystery. 

Also, fans just liked the idea of an evil Goku, whether it was a corrupted Goku or just an impostor.  One of the most popular legacies of this arc is the fan character “Chi-Chi Black”.  I’m not sure where it originated, and I’m not sure there was ever a single concept to Chi-Chi Black.  Sometimes she was the real Chi-Chi seduced to the dark side by Goku Black, and sometimes she was just an impostor using her likeness.  I think the only consensus was that it would be cool to have a girl version. 

But a mystery is only as good as its solution, and I’ve spent this whole post telling you how awful this saga is.  That should tell you how impressed I am with the big reveal.  The shot of Goku Black looking down at Trunks is probably the high water mark of this whole saga.  One episode in and it’s all downhill from here.

[jonquilyst]

194. Chapter 7, Episode 6

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Transcript:

(Pink text = Megyn)

(Blue text = Jayden)

Megyn (thinking): I’ve worked so hard to get to this moment.

Megyn (thinking): I hope I don’t blow it...

Jayden: I bought your favorite cereal yesterday!

Megyn: I... see that.

Jayden: There’s a smile!

Megyn: Thank you for the cereal, but I’m really not okay right now. I’m so afraid that I’m not gonna pass... What if I get suck on a question and run out of time?

Jayden: Aw, quit it with the what-if’s, Megyn. Everything will be fine! We’re gonna have a party for you no matter what.

Megyn: You really don’t have to do anything for my birthday.

Jayden: Nope. That’s where you’re wrong. As long as you’re living here, we’re gonna celebrate your birthday. No if’s, and’s, or but’s. And if you pass, which you will, we’ll celebrate that too...

Megyn: Well, alright then... I guess you make a fair point there.

[afaimsarrowverse]

250(ish) Favorite Arrowverse Episodes: Part 3: 200-176

Picked from „Arrow“, „Black Lightning“, „Supergirl“, „Legends of Tomorrow“, „The Flash“, „Barwoman“ Season 1+2 and „Superman & Lois“ Season 1+2. I did consider kicking „Superman & Lois“ of this list, but since it pretended to be part of the Arrowverse for its first two seasons I left it on here.

 200. White Knights (Legends of Tomorrow 1x4)

4, Written by: Sarah Nicole Jones, Phil Klemmer, Directed by: Antonio Negret

 "Don't trouble yourself. I'm not a damsel in distress." "Good, because I'm not a white knight."

 199. The Sound and the Fury (The Flash 1x11)

11, Written by: Alison Shapker, Brooke Eikmeier, Directed by: John Showalter

 "Smart enough to figure out who Harrison Wells really is, you see I know his secret."

 198. The Chicago Way (Legends of Tomorrow 2x8)

24, Written by: Sarah Nicole Jones, Ray Utarnachitt, Directed by: Ralph Hemecker

 "Why am I not surprised? Wherever Darhk is, you're not too far away."

 197. City of Heroes (Arrow 2x1)

24, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, Directed by: John Behring

 "The city still needs saving. But not by The Hood. Or some vigilante who's just crossing names off a list. It needs something... more." "It needs a hero, Oliver."

 196. Kara (Supergirl 6x20)

126, Written by: Jessica Queller, Robert Rovner, Rob Wright, Derek Simon, Directed by: Jesse Warn

 "Oh, Kira, I always have a point. Now, let's take a look at everything that Supergirl and Kara Danvers have accomplished separately. And then let's imagine what you could do if you became one integrated, authentic being."

 195. The One with the Nineties (The Flash 7x6)

139, Written by: Kelly Wheeler, Emily Palizzi, Directed by: Jeff Byrd

 "I think we just time traveled."

"For real? So we gonna party like it's 1998?"

 194. Menagerie (Supergirl 4x12)

77, Written by: Robert Rovner, Daniel Beaty, Greg Baldwin, Directed by: Stefan Pleszczynski

 „We protected the humans of this city by killing a monster. Not even Supergirl could do that."

 193. Grinning from Ear to Ear (Batwoman 1x14)

14, Written by: Denise Harkavy, Directed by: Michael Blundell

 "You're right. As long as I am with the woman who wears a mask, I'll always be wearing one myself."

 192. The Flash is born (The Flash 1x6)

6, Written by: Jaime Paglia, Chris Rafferty, Directed by: Millicent Shelton

 "Looks like you were born to take a beating."

 191. The Legion of Doom (Legends of Tomorrow 2x10)

26, Written by: Phil Klemmer, Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: Eric Laneuville

 "I mean, fair question. Why does a time-traveling speedster need to rely on anyone? Thawne's hiding something. Wouldn't you like to know what it is?"

 190. Don’t Run (The Flash 4x9)

78, Written by: Sam Chalsen, Judalina Neira, Directed by: Stefan Pleszczynski

 "The lesson I have prepped for today is much more simple. Life 101: there are no happy endings."

 189. Land of the Lost (Legends of Tomorrow 2x13)

29. Written by: Keto Shimizu, Ray Utanarchitt, Directed by: Ralph Hemecker

 "Rip? That really you?" "I don't know who I am anymore, Mr. Jackson."

 188. Attack on Central City (The Flash 3x14)

60, Written by: Benjamin Raab, Deric A. Hughes, Todd Helbing, Directed by: Dermott Downs

 "No matter what I do to stop Grodd, he just keeps finding new ways to attack, new ways to destroy, and I... Iris doesn't think I should, but the only way this ends is if I kill him."

 187. Love is a Battlefield (The Flash 6x11)

125, Written by: Kelly Wheeler, Jeff Hersh, Directed by: Sudz Sutherland

 "Neither one of you are ever gonna stop growing. I mean, marriage is like a tree. I mean, bear with me. Look, the branches, they grow from the center. They grow farther and farther away from the center, but what you have to remember is underneath, the roots? They're mirroring the branches. They're growing just as much. So you're growing your foundation. Now of course, you gotta tend to the soil, communicate with each other, take care of each other, look out for each other, but as the branches grow, so does your foundation. So you grow together."

 186. Livewire (Supergirl 1x4)

4, Written by: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Caitlin Parrish, Directed by: Kevin Tancharoen

 "No. Leslie Willis is dead. D-E-A-D. Dead. She died in that CatCopter of yours. This is Leslie 2.0. Livewire. And you and I... we're gonna have words."

 185. Fadeout (Arrow 8x10)

170, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Beth Schwartz, Directed by: James Bamford

 "Of course, life will go on. It always does. But how? What twists and turns it will take, I can't say. I don't know what the future holds...except to say expect the unexpected. Oliver may be gone, but his mission endures. That mission lives on, Oliver lives on, in the people he inspired. Some will take that mission to the rest of the world...maybe even beyond that. Because if the past eight years has shown us anything...it's that this universe is far bigger than any of us could have dared imagine. Even if it is a little less bright without him in it."

 184. Beyond Redemption (Arrow 4x4)

73, Written by: Beth Schwartz, Ben Sokolowski, Directed by: Lexi Alexander

 "Living in this city, dealing with what we're dealing with right now? We're all desperate. We've all been made to do desperate things. Terrible things. But I got to believe that we are not beyond redemption. And I got to believe that this city can still be saved, 'cause once we stop believing that, that's when this city really dies. And us, us, right along with it. Maybe, just maybe, we start saving our home by saving ourselves first.“

 183. Pilot (Arrow 1x1)

1, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, Directed by: David Nutter

 "The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for 'purgatory'. I've been stranded here for five years. I've dreamt of my rescue every cold black night since then. For five years, I have had only one thought, one goal: survive. Survive and one day return home. The island held many dangers. To live, I had to make myself more than what I was, to forge myself into a weapon. I am returning not the boy who was shipwrecked but the man who will bring justice to those who have poisoned my city. My name is Oliver Queen."

 182. The Good, the Bad and the Cuddley (Legends of Tomorrow 3x18)

51, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Directed by: Dermott Downs

 "All right. We're facing an army of Romans, Vikings, and pirates. But you know what today is? Today is the day that we prove that Rip did not sacrifice his life in vain! And today is the day that we prove that we are not losers! And today is the day that we earn the name 'Legends'!“

 181. Draw back your Bow (Arrow 3x7)

53, Written by: Wendy Mericle, Beth Schwartz, Directed by: Rob Hardy

 "I understand that you're hurting... and I know what it's like to want someone... but not be able to be with them. How you wish things could be different, but they can't. I can't be with you. I can't be with anyone. I have to be alone."

 180. Suicide Squad (Arrow 2x16)

39, Written by: Keto Shimizu, Bryan Q Miller, Directed by: Larry Teng

 "Give me a break, this ain't no task force. Let's call it like it is. Welcome to the Suicide Squad."

 179. Uprising (Arrow 3x12)

58, Written by: Beth Schwartz, Brian Ford Sullivan, Directed by: Jesse Warn

 "I've been gone and I'm sorry, sorry for what the city has had to endure in my absence. But you did endure it and the evidence of that struggle is lying at my feet. You did not fail this city and I promise I will not fail you by leaving it again."

 178. Year’s End (Arrow 1x9)

9, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, Directed by: John Dahl

 "What do you want with me?" "What any archer wants. To see who's better. First Hunt, then Ravich, and now you. I know about the List, and the man who authored it wants you dead. They call you 'the Hood'. Let's see what you look like without it."

 177. Armageddon Part 1 (The Flash 8x1)

152, Written by: Eric Wallace, Directed by: Eric Dean Seaton

 „Like a superhero team-up with the Atom?“

 176. Last Sons of Krypton (Superman & Lois 1x15)

15, Written by: Kristi Korzec, Michael Naducci, Brent Fletcher, Todd Helbing, Directed by: Tom Cavanagh

 „All I wanted was a family, Kal.

„You had it. We were brothers.“

[im-out-of-it]

part 25, season 2, episode 18 continued “awake, arise, and be forever fallen” WELL HERE IS THE REMAINING FROM THE LAST FLASHBACK (I knew in my heart there were three but added the last one with the second flashback why am I like this)

188. I JUST REALIZED THAT I HAVE SPENT THE LAST TEN FUCKING PARTS ON TWO FLASHBACKS WHEN I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY ONE AND YALL LET ME GET AWAY WITH IT NOT ONE OF YOU SAID HEY THIS IS ACTUALLY TWO FLASHBACKS BITCH BUT ANYWAYS ALWAYS:

189. I was wondering why it was taking about ten bloody parts to do lmaooo BUT HEY I ACTUALLY DID FORGET THIS

190. PICKING UP WITH THIS SCENE AND JUMPING OVER THE WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF ACID JEANS NO MAGNUS BE FOR REAL OKAY FINE LOSING YOU ALEC SCENE

Magnus trying to comfort Alec and it’s too much for both of them STOP HURTING ME

191. y’all know the saddest part? besides the actual Malec scenes but I was finishing some of my sections and I was literally watching it and thought nothing of it until I landed to the hand holding and was like what the fuck, is Hulu fucking me over by changing the scene?????? I WAS LIKE WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED

192. I also love this edit:

193. I guess it’s fine that I combined them but I can’t believe I JUST FUCKING NOTICED LMAO I HATE IT HERE WITH MY BRAIN 😭

izzy being like okay I definitely have to go

194. what kills me is that Alec leaves Magnus here and then Magnus leaves Alec when they break up. the way Magnus is caressing Alec’s hand breaks everything in me

195. Magnus staying around to make sure he isn’t needed with max anymore

196. Alec letting go kills me but we do have to remember his little brother max may die and having Magnus try to comfort Alec may hurt too much

197. there’s a correlation with Magnus unable to move his hands as Alec let’s go and Alec unable to move his hands when Magnus breaks up with him. so I’m going to bring it up when the time comes

198. “there has to be something” Alec is used to Magnus being able to help that he turns to Magnus and is almost begging Magnus to do something

199. and each time Magnus looks heartbroken that he can’t fix it for Alec. it’s like Magnus is ✨all out of answers✨

I actually can’t believe I was able to get a post in. this is for real for real the last one today (probably) but I will start on the 26th part later!!!!!! no wonder I had around 200 gifs used for the last couple parts because my dumbass combined the two flashbacks lmaooo

we are one step closer to having our hearts shattered but at least they will be shattered together 🥹

[howaboutcastiel-personal]

Jan 26, 2025. 12:43 p.m. Sunday

I am getting through the episode but I want to die a lot today. And I haven’t eaten and don’t want to eat and Pico won’t stop barking but I can’t let him outside and I’m too tired to walk him again.

The scale said 191 but then it said 194 and honestly I don’t know how much I weigh anymore but I’m so sick and tired of feeling fat. And I haven’t wanted food but then that’s a lie I always want food because I’m a fat fuck. I want to go to bed and be asleep but I don’t want to dream.

I’m just angry. At Jeanna and Pat and Keith Huss and mom and dad and Ethan and Mimi and papaw. And Trump. And Vance. I just can’t stop being mad and my chest hurts and I accidentally started a stupid fucking fire and I know it’s my fault even though it was an accident and I’m just so ready to die. Like what if the fire was the thing that made me decide to die you know.

Mom and dad are so damn frustrated and of course they are. I can’t blame them. So am I and I’m the lazy one. I don’t even have to do anything hard. I don’t want to do ANYTHING. I don’t want to eat or sleep or be awake or shower. Why would I want to work or cook or clean or drive I don’t even want to write or draw or watch TV or play stupid little games. And I’m so goddamn tired I can’t stand it. I can’t stay awake and I feel guilty but why would I be awake I’m so useless anyway.

I know I need to eat right now. I always feel bad because I’m hungry but. I don’t want food. I don’t want to be awake. I don’t want to deal with the dog even though I love him and I know he’s upset. I just don’t know how to help him except drive him home but then Mimi doesn’t want to see us anyway.

I screwed everyone and I fuck d up everything with that stupid house fire. I didn’t do anything I wouldn’t normally do but this time I set the kitchen on fire and now I fucked it all up and mom and dad don’t know how to be adults either and mom is too busy and I’m useless and lazy and I hate it.

And I hated my new therapist and I want to just die but what’s the point of even dying? What’s the point of giving them something else to grieve and letting them all win because I’ll be immortalized as the crazy useless one who killed itself. The failure forever and I’ll never be able to fix it. Nothing makes sense and nothing sparks joy and I don’t know what to do anymore. It’s all so stupid and I’m taking up space and I don’t want to anymore. I need to get out of everyone’s way and I guess find someone else who will actually love Pico because they say he’s taking up space too. I’m not the owner he deserves but then neither are they and everyone is broke.