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love how the trailer keeps up the tradition of making dante look cool and keeps the fact that he's a fucking loser with the personality of a teenage mutant ninja turtle a surprise
#OHHH god wow i am excited.#MUTUALS PLEASE GET INTO DEVIL MAY CRY#it's PERFECT for people who like trigun#oh you like stories about non-human identical twin brothers as reluctant enemies#you want another one#devil may cry#dmc#mine
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this interview is fantastic but specifically some incredible brennan moments:
Susana, every day I awaken and am hurled Wallace and Gromit-style out of my bed into another day of making content and telling stories and doing the stuff we get to do at Dropout.
Asking me what our strategy was is sort of like â Susana, youâve pulled up alongside a man sprinting from a bear, and are like, What was the thought process behind going left at that tree back there? And Iâm like [unintelligible gasps]. Thatâs the headspace that I operate from.
Yeah, âno gods no mastersâ is a pretty exciting place to have found that [success]. And to Samâs point too, yeah, every time that I go, Woof, we make a lot of this show, I turn around and see the ghost of my absolutely starving 25-year-old self being like, [sarcastically] Oh, you got big problems, huh? Ohhh, big guy got big problems! Wow! [villainously] Iâll kill you. And then I go, Ah, yes, back to it.
Do I have a favorite Easter egg? All Iâm gonna say is this: The bag of chips I eat in the video was a real bag of chips, and I really ate the whole bag by myself. So when you see me finish the bag on camera, I housed that whole bag of chips. And I donât want anyone to say thatâs movie magic. I donât want anyone to say that that was fake. That was an entire bag of Cool Ranch Doritos hidden in a Chompskyâs bag that the art department made, and I put that whole thing to bed. I donât ask for much, but Iâm gonna good and goddamn get my credit: I ate the whole bag of chips, OK?
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s5 episode 17 thoughts
omg!! after complaining of lack a of scully last time, this episodeâs description specifically mentions her by name- and with a priest, too! is it time for scully catholic lore?! i am so excited! i fear i should lower my expectations, but it sounds promising!
itâs been a solid week since iâve watched an episode, so iâm ready to dive in.Â
post episode thoughts: idk, this one didn't really do it for me. and i don't know exactly what "it" is. despite checking many of the boxes that i think personally make a great episode (solo scully time and catholic guilt to name a few) this one felt just... too dark and convoluted for me. i literally had no idea what was going on, and then when i started to pick up on it, we circled back to the emily story, which still makes me feel very frustrated and i feel they could have handled it so much better. it also, once again, denies scully any autonomy, which is very frustrating.
surprisingly, in this scully-centric episode, the MVP for me was... mulder? yes, i'm genuinely shocked. he was so protective and caring even while being very grumpy. the way he leaned in to grab her shoulder... calling her back in the rain... gently teasing her and then realizing it wasn't a teasing sort of situation... wow.
and also, as i mentioned before, he looked really good. arguably at his best here.
(this might be my longest post so far LMAO)
very dramatic music is playing as this priest arrives at a house to baptize a young girl. i actually know very little about the whole baptismal process, so maybe this is accurate and maybe itâs not.
this girl, dara, has been baptized, and now the thunder is going wild, which seems spooky.Â
also, she either has 6 toes or i cannot count.
did she get out of bed on her own despite not being able to walk before??? and now sheâs walking towards a scary man while hearing evil voices.Â
sheâs on her knees praying to this guy who her father cannot seeâŠ. and HER EYEBALLS ARE BURNT OUT OF HER HEAD????????
huh. hey. a lot of things just happened very quickly.Â
did the holy water burn her eyes? is she supposed to be a demon? i thought they were going to go with the âholy water healed herâ route, which has its own problematic implications, but whatever these implications are, iâm lost.Â
(author's note: and i was going to stay lost <3)
shortened intro, i clock you each and every time
scully is entering a church!!! she has on a blouse and not a suit, which feels strange. OHHH, SHE PULLS OUT THE BABY PICTURE OF MELISSA :(
god. she keeps it on her. i'm emotional.
itâs confession time. sheâs talking to the confessor about her FBI work coming in conflict with her beliefs. it was father mccue who we saw before baptizing dara, and he said this family needed scully's help. hmm... what for?
scully is crying. OH MY GOD âfather, i had a daughter who diedâ <- WHAT?? ARE THEY ACTUALLY GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS?????
i'm shook. i thought we were simply never going to speak of emily again.
so father mccue thought that helping this family would help scully process her griefâŠÂ
SHEâS SAYING SHE DOESNâT KNOW IF HE CAN OFFER FORGIVENESS? SHE LET A GIRL DIE??
woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, letâs go back a few stepsâŠâŠ. oh my god. did scully need more grief to wear like an iron backpack? NO. WHAT HAPPENED HERE???
let a girl die. what. i just cannot imagine scully "letting" this happen??
a week earlier she had gone to easter mass. and she looks so beautiful in white and cream :,)
father mccue wants to speak to her in private. this church seems like itâs hopping, so it must be pretty important.
sheâs been coming more often!!! :,) aww i'm happy for her. don't tease her too much father mccue, i'm watching...
but he needs her help. the kernofs lost their daughter dara in a very strange situation. and he thinks that her words might help them.
she looks so pained at this moment. but she goes anyway. god. god. scully. feeling obligated to help despite visibly not wanting to. knowing it will tear her open again. and doing it anyway.
frankly, it seems a bit cruel of father mccue to send her on this mission, but maybe he sees things with a lens i, a mere layperson, cannot
sheïżœïżœïżœs chatting with the couple and theyâre explaining how they adopted dara. lance (the father) is angry at god.Â
theyâre saying she might have been struck by lightning??? she was wheelchair bound and somehow got up, walked out, and was praying. struck by lighting... that would be so weird
the mother says something about god letting this happen to an innocent girl and god. emily. i am still mad at your plot line for feminist reasons, but grief. new grief and old grief and inexplicable screaming at the sky.
back in the confessional booth, scully says she felt drawn to the couple. they were angry at god, and so was she, although she refuses to say that.
âas much as i have my faith, father, i am a scientist. trained to weight evidence. but science only teaches us how⊠not whyâ <- OHHHHHHH toss that in the bucket of quotes i will use to psychoanalyze dana scully forever and ever
now sheâs chatting with the doctor, who also says that maybe dara was struck by lightning. she asks if scully is religious, and scully replies with âwhy do you ask?â, which i think is very interesting as a character choice for her to put that space between directly answering. especially since they're in a lab setting. it's less of a pause of making a purposeful separation between faith and science, imo, and more of a cautiousness that comes from thinking her faith will somehow be taken advantage of. but itâs also funny because her cross necklace is very visible. so. you can guess the answer to that question.
dara was found genuflecting??? even in death. and thereâs a scar on her hand from where an extra finger was removed. but i def saw an extra toe earlier.
no other signs of trauma⊠âitâs as if god himself struck her downâ ohâŠ
this is going to be a very un-fun time for scully.
who is this man with an upside down cross in his car, entering a psychiatric hospital?
thereâs another girl in the hospital, who also has extra fingers. it seems this new father gregory character has come to adopt this paula! but there was a mix-up. there was no approval from the social worker, and he cannot take her home until the paperwork is in order.
but social worker seems like he is lying⊠based on that zoom in shotâŠ. i know this show and its narrative tricks...
scully is at home looking at the photos of dara, then pulling out the photo of melissa :( oh god :( she really has lost so much :(
sheâs biting back tears as she answers the phone. she must be really out of it, because she answered with âhelloâ and not âscullyâ like always :(
itâs mulder, somewhere in a phone booth in the pouring rain! oh god bless that man, finding a phone booth to call her back from even while out and about.Â
heâs tailing a potential suspect but still makes time for the call, even though he's in a hurry⊠then he runs into an x rated film showing. now, what is going on with that? hope you catch the guy, buddy.
he wants to know more, but she cannot tell him anything until he gets the birth records on dara :(
back to paula at the hospital. someone is approachingâŠ. and when he approaches, she also hears the scary voices and genuflects like the other girl did!!! and there is a huge flash!!!
what is going on.
scully is at the scene, and finds the cross in her room hung upside down. is satan afoot.....?
MULDER ENTERS!!! âarenât you the secret squirrelâ <- LMAOOOO WHAT A WEIRD THING TO SAY!!! let the record show that this man is my baby girl.
ohhhh, she quietly explains sheâs doing this as a favor :( i think he gets the idea not to press or make any other rodent comparisons
but he starts nerding out over the implications of the flipped cross. maybe the guy he was tailing last night is the same guy who did this?
(author's note: there was actually no relation whatsoever, and i think the writers just meant him watching the scandalous film as a weird gag, but for a brief moment there, i thought the narrative stars were going to align. alas!)
anyway, paula and dara were sisters!! they were quadruplets!! so there must be 2 more out there, and they must be in danger!!
(mulder has this five o clock shadow thing going on, and itâs kinda intoxicating)
âlook scully, i know you donât really want my help on this, but can i offer you my professional opinion?â (she nods, almost smiling) âyou got a bona fide, super-crazy religious wacko on your handsâ
average mulder sentence. he points out the prevalence of eye imagery in the bible, of gouging and smiting and other such cases. and in walks the social worker, who is sure there was not a cross on the wall there before!!
iâm overcome by something pulling at my heart strings while looking at mulder and scully standing together.
paula was about to be adopted, so they journey to church of st. peter the sinner, which has the upside down cross iconography outside and a sign that reads âthe darkness is upon usâ oh boy! i feel very welcomed /s
mulder is coming too because he is a nice guy in his leather jacket and jeans :)
he really has no life, huhâŠ. god bless him
(i feel like he is in some sort of league basketball every other weekend, and probably goes to the library very often, but this is likely the extent of his social life. aside from sleepovers with the gunmen, of course. and that can be so beautiful)
they find a book of st. peter the sinner, and he immediately identifies it as full of apocrypha!!! which is hot. while someone seems to be watching them from a corner. less hot.
âiâm surprised thereâs nothing here from jesus christ superstarâ <- A MAN OF CULTURE???????
(i know this man is singing showtunes in his car. oh, i just KNOW it. and i bet he WOULD love jcs. and he was at oxford when some big west end shows were playing: phantom, les mis, evita, cats. a 2 hour bus ride from oxford to london is nothing for a massachusetts boy. just keep these facts in mind while making headcanons)
((and i do feel like he grew up watching musicals, too. just seems like something that happened in that household. they had the money to go see live theatre, but he also grew up in a golden age of movie musicals. idk, just try and tell me he didn't hear songs from west side story and the music man in his house growing up. i bet he thought it was annoying as a kid that his mother was always playing them, but now he looks back at it with fondness. whatever))
they break the news to father gregory that paula has died, which he didnât know, and he seems to be overcome with emotion as he says he was trying to adopt her. yeah. this is unfortunate.
mulder asks why he wanted to adopt her and he is NOT messing around
âwhy adopt her?â, he asks. âwhat, you think i was interested in harming her?â âwhy. adopt. herâ <- OHHH he is NOT going to be going easy on this case when scullyâs heartâs on the line!!! everyone say thank you to protective mulder!!
father gregory says he knew the girlâs mother and was trying to protect her, but when they ask who the mother is, he says she died. hmm. yeah. i think having 4 babies at once is pretty unsafe. i can imagine this happening.
but still... he said he knows where she is⊠and then says she died. which is suspicious. like, why not just say sheâs dead? i feel like he's lying.
father gregory says that he used to be in the roman catholic church and he was her confessor before he started his own church, and divulging her name would violate his code of faith. okay, that is great and all. but her kids are being murdered, so maybe pray on it and ask god if you can make a special exception.
this dude is very strange.Â
âand yours, i seeâ he says, glancing at scullyâs necklace
ohhâŠ. allow mulder to stride in angrily. âyou said you wanted to protect paula. from what?â yeah that is right. you don't let him mess with her.
what the fuck? this dude is so off putting. âwhatever your intentions, your secular prejudices blind you from seeing whatâs really happening here. two girls are dead- not by the hand of man. unless you accept the truth of godâs teachings that there is a struggle between good and evil for all souls, and that we are losing that struggle, youâre but fools rushing in. you put your own lives in danger. as well as the lives of the messengersâ
(deeply pensive scully as father gregory walks away and someone continues to pant from the corner of his church)
wow. so i guess he thinks god just kills poor kids sometime for fun. sounds like a great god. i sure do want to join your church and worship him now. /s
(i'm still so baffled after watching the episode. so he thought the demons were killing the kids? it wasn't god doing the killing? but god lets demons kill kids sometimes unless people like him intervene? but actually it was the seraphim killing the kids and bringing them home to good? which would be a good thing, right? i just don't know what this episode was trying to sayyyyyy)
back to scully in confession. she brought mulder on the case âto help temper my feelings⊠to keep them from clouding my judgement. i wouldnât admit it to him, but⊠as well stood there, i felt as if father gregory were speaking directly to me. in a language only i could understandâ
well. i donât understand it either, so i canât analyze it. i'm sorry, queen, because i love to analyze you. but i'm glad she brought him along for the ride.
mulder holds the door open for her as they leave, and remarks on how gregory seems deeply suspicious (âhe thinks heâs doing godâs laundryâ is an exquisite line)
heâs definitely hiding something.Â
âbut, basically, youâre ruling out any element of the supernatural?â (careful mulder pause) âwhat do you mean?âÂ
ohhh, are they going to have this fight again? he seems to be holding something back. like he's trying to carefully measure his words despite being pissed off.
she points out that dara was baptized before she died
âand why would god allow this to happen, and why do bad things happen to good people? religion has masqueraded as the paranormal since the dawn of time to justify some of the most horrible acts in historyâ (heavy massachusetts accent when he says "horrible", btw, just noting that)
âi was raised to believe that god has his reasons, however mysteriousâÂ
âhe may well have his reasons, but he seems to use a lot of psychotics to carry out his job ordersâ
wow. thereâs so much to analyze there.
well, it's not outright denial of her beliefs, which is an improvement from before. he can clearly pick up on how much this case is impacting her, which i commend, especially for a guy whose ahab tendencies in the past have caused him to be oblivious to all things emotional. i will never be over that time he was like "i'm sorry your dog died :( btw i think we are dealing with the loch ness monster who somehow made his way to america. here are a bunch of dinosaur facts-"
mulder says she should autopsy paula before whoever it is has a chance to find her sisters. i think this is a fair judgement.
he is cranky. but he was trying to hold back. and i do appreciate that. cranky man who needs to shave. has he ever looked better??
i get the sense that this is one of those episodes iâll have to rewatch to analyze more stuff in later. if i can bring myself around to it.
autopsy time. she finds something on both of paula's shoulders.
OH MY GOD, SHE LOOKS OVER AND SEES EMILY ON THE TABLE??!!
SHE STARTS CRYING??? AND SHE HEARS EMILY SAY âMOMMY PLEASEâ???
BUT SHE TURNS BACK AND THE BODY WAS JUST PAULA??!!
hey. what. hey. emily jumpscare. what does this mean? she knew that alien child for like 2 weeks. please do not spiritually torment her.
back in the confessional booth, she says she wrote off what she saw as a hallucination based on her emotional connection to the case, but she clarified that is not what it was
damn. little did this confessor know he was in for a WILD story time when she sat down.
she says she was meant to see emily for a purpose. so she could save them. taking on the need to save others... this is such a scully thing to do.
mulder on da phone. he has a lead on the third sister!!Â
(dramatic sunglasses removal as they stake out the area)
why does he look so good?? itâs making it hard to focus on the tragic plot at hand.Â
he says the third sister wandered into a teen crisis center, which is odd because the other two could not walk at all. and scully points out that thereâs some sort of degenerative bone disease in paula.
âand uh, i know youâre going to think that iâm crazy⊠but i swear i found evidence of something winglikeâ
DOES SHE THINK THESE GIRLS ARE ANGELS BEING BROUGHT BEFORE GOD FOR CRIMES?? THE REBELLIOUS ONES LIKE LUCIFER?
âwell then, maybe she flew here, scullyâ <- lmao. not totally appropriate for him to say, but lmao.
uh oh⊠he finds another upside down cross outside the joint. she has more to say, but he has to go.
someone is chasing another girl⊠LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!
mulder approaches...
and this girl, too, hears more of those horrible overlapping voices, thereâs a dude with the face of an alien (angel? devil?) and the blinding light?? and sheâs doing the same pose as the others!! the genuflection!!
MULDER HAS HIS GUNâŠ. who is here?! itâs father gregory!!! he says itâs too late!!! and that the girl is dead!!!!
and sure enough, her eyes are burned out as well, as a dove flies to the light. i see what you did there, souls ascending and all that.
(but i thought she was taken by the devil, so the soul going to the light seems contradictory... you know what? never mind â€ïž)
now they have father gregory brought in for questioning, and mulder has a casual shirt on, which looks strange. âyou know, they say when you talk to god itâs prayer, but when god talks to you, itâs, uh, schizophreniaâ (he smiles at his own joke)
âyouâre not interested in the truthâ âi am ONLY interested in the truth!!â <- do not get between this man and his Truth. rest assured, that is his God
all jokes and jests have been forgotten at this point. heâs screaming at father gregory, asking what could possess him to burn those poor girlsâ eyes out, with scully watching in the back.Â
father gregory makes scully explain the upside down cross⊠st. peter would only be crucified upside down. out of reverence for christ. sure. okay. seems weird he makes her explain it. feels manipulative somehow.
(very interesting how the upside down cross represents both st. peter and the devil... makes following the plot of this episode even harder)
he says he has risked his life to protect their souls because the devil wants them. well, idk if youâre doing a very good job, tbh. you're 0/3.Â
(mulder glares at him before leaving the room)Â
but father gregory taunts scully, saying she knows what they are, and if the devil finds her, his victory will be complete.Â
man, idk what theyâre talking about :(
they think they found the fourth girl, and father gregory asks to be let go or else no one can save her. scully explains in confession that she knew she was meant to save her.
she says the devil didnât take their souls, but the threat was real, and he gave his life to protect them.
anyone wanna tell me whatâs going on?
back to the case. mulder's talking to her and then he asks whatâs wrong. ohhh, he bends down to look in her eyes. âscully? scully. donât let this guy get in your head. thatâs the last thing you wantâ <- oh my god, heâs worried :((((
"youâre not going to find her. i think youâre being misled", she says
âby who?" (heavy pause) "scully, i think youâre the one whoâs being misled. and not just willingly, but willfully. iâve never seen you more vulnerable or susceptible or more easily manipulated. and it scares me because i donât know whyâ
he is at once doing his very best and still manages to be a bit condescending, but he is also doing a very good job, at least for him, of saying what he means. so iâm proud
âi saw emilyâ OHHH she says it. i thought she would keep it to herself âshe came to me in a visionâ
he grabs her shoulder and pulls her in close: âi think you should step awayâ ohhh :( ohhh no :(
she tells him to go find the girl and let her finish up with father gregory, and he takes the case file from her hand, lingering over it, holding onto the image of the last girlÂ
the case worker made his way into father gregoryâs room!! asking where she is!! âthe others were taken from meâ hey, who are you?Â
oh my god, he starts burning father gregory????? âtell me father. save yourselfâ is he the devil?? a demon??
scully goes to talk to him again and the door is locked. father gregory is dead on the floor!! all burnt up!!!
mulder is arriving at the house of the fourth girl.  he is NOT playing around. her father says sheâs at school, and he points out she hasnât been at school for a week. he wonât unlock the basement door, so mulder is going to kick it open.Â
her father is saying a priest would take her off his hands!! father gregory said he would take her and let him keep the disability checks!!
huh.......
scully is getting to her car, but she gets a call. âyeah, hi scully, itâs meâ aww
(she drops her keys and hears the horrible demon voices as mulder yells at her on the phone to answer him)
before her is a bird alien lion thing???????? the CGI goes crazy!!!
poor mulder is yelling to her while she is witnessing the plot of revelations irl. he's gotta be so worried.
back to talking to father mccue. she says she has seen things. visions. a man with four faces.Â
this is troubling to father mccue, who fetches his bible. heâs showing her a page. it has an angel with four faces, which he calls a seraphim. the seraphim fathers four children with a mortal woman, whose babies are the nephelim, the fallen ones. souls of angels, but werenât meant to be, theyâre deformed and tormented. so the seraphim smites them with his glory and they go back to god?
i do not remember this story from sunday school.
âyou think thatâs what i saw?â ânoâ <- oh, i didnât think he would say that⊠i thought he would be supportive. actually pretty gagged here.
âno. i think what you saw is a figment of your imagination, a half-remembered story from your childhood that surfaced because of this caseâ <- is he trying to be helpful here?? reassuring?? dismissive???Â
she insists that she saw it. and i cannot get a read on father mccue.
âthe text in which it appears isnât even recognized by the churchâ <- okaaay, that makes me feel better for not knowing the story.
he is certain god has his reasons. it is how he rewards our fate. which is a nice thing to think about.
the case worker is here, claiming mulder has been trying to reach her. there is latin chanting as they go to father gregoryâs church. everything is quiet and the footsteps are clear.Â
ohhhh she sees devil horns in his reflection⊠and he says he knows the last girl here.Â
and she finds the girl!!! she was who was watching them earlier!! heâs yelling out to herâŠ.Â
she says she wonât hurt the girl, that sheâll get her out of there, take her someplace safe.
sheâs trying to guide her out and the demon is saying to bring her the girl. but sheâs trying to go forward to him!!Â
emily is here?? âmommy, let me goâ HUH?? let her go to the DEVIL??? she lets emily go and she walks into the light???
scully is crying. the demon is gone, leaving behind only the dead girl.Â
(author's note: i'm pretty sure i actually misunderstood this scene, and the seraphim came and intercepted the girl from the devil- at least, that is what wikipedia says happened. but this was not very clear, and you can imagine my shock at the thought of scully releasing her dead child to the devil. which will make my confusion in the following paragraphs make more sense)
back to the confession⊠she was sure she was releasing the last girl's soul to heaven. but she cannot reconcile this with the physical fact of her death.
âhas it occurred to you that maybe this, too,  is part of what you were meant to understand?â
âyou mean, accepting my loss
âcan you accept it?â
âmaybe thatâs what faith isâ, she says, cryingÂ
the end.
hmm. hmm.
so scully couldnât reconcile bringing that girl to heaven with her actual death.Â
but i was so confused, i swear the caseworker had horns, like he was the devil!! but then i guess the seraphim swooped in?
so she can only understand the loss of emily through faith, which makes sense, but the emily plot line still makes me frustrated, so idk how i feel.Â
you ever get so confused you go to wikipedia?
so the devil took their souls? the devil being the social worker? but then at the last minute the seraphim took the last girl and brought her to heaven even though she died.
so the devil actually got the first three girls? but the bird went up to the light, and scully said she was confident they went to a better place? so must be the bright light guy was the seraphim and he saved them from the caseworker?
listen. listen. iâm going to throw my hands up in the air and admit defeat on this one. i donât know what the hell went on. but i do believe it was important to scully.
i also believe it was an attempt to wrap up the emily plot line and that it probably wonât ever be addressed again in a meaningful manner because woohoo! we did it! we wrapped it up! /s
hmm. hmm. mulder did endear me today. he was cranky, but he genuinely wanted what was best for her. i think. even if he was lying about tailing a suspect to go watch some illicit films. and i donât want to think about that. itâs far funnier to imagine him actually tailing someone and having to watch that as a result.Â
after watching this episode, i feel very strange. i mentioned before it just didn't do "it" for me, and again, whatever "it" is, i couldn't tell you. but i can tell you this: i am desperate for scully to reclaim agency in her life. and i find that subjecting her to divine will is not agency. maybe you could interpret what happened here as god testing her, or offering her a way to understand her pain, or perhaps even taking god out of the equation, because of the unconfirmed nature of all supernatural elements of this show, she is imagining all of this as a way to deal with her pain. but it doesn't really allow her any freedom or autonomy.
i don't think i can fully articulate my qualms with this episode without diving into the murky waters of if god allows for free will, which is above my pay grade. but i will say this: it felt like scully was thrust into this situation, and her own free will was once again denied, whether you think it is due to father mccue getting her involved or god using her to save these girls and wrestle with the nature of faith versus reality.
and i want to see scully make her own choices. this is a critique of the writers, and not of the fictional character of scully. why is she consistently denied her ability to make choices about her own life? why is she put into these situations that deny her the ability to make choices? why does this happen to the woman in the show and not the man? why does it focus heavily on her ability to bear children? you see what i'm saying? why is the plot happening TO scully but being driven forward BY mulder?
i feel like it is hard for me to analyze what happened in this episode because so little of it involved scully making her own choices. she did choose to get involved with father mccue's request, and she chose to find meaning in her experiences, and even chose to communicate the distress she was in with mulder, but plot wise it was "god is torturing scully again. does he have no one else to torture?"
the emily thing is still always going to rub me the wrong way. it was always clear from the start of the abduction arc that the plot was going in this direction, but that doesn't make me like it any better.
in conclusion: i didn't like this one because i feel it, once again, relied on removing scully's agency and autonomy, and after 5 seasons this is growing old. also, i didn't know the seraphim lore, so i had no idea what was going on.
what did you think? specifically my scully fans: do you agree with my critiques? am i being a hater? did you know what was going on? did you like this episode? i'm always down to listen to someone try and convince me to like an episode! i need to know everything in brutal detail.
#this post ended up LONG even for me oh my goodness i'm kind of shocked#but yeah. not a fan. let scully make choices and be her own person and not a plot point.#again. i want to emphasize this is a critique of the writers not understanding that women are people and not scully herself as a character#and to answer my rhetorical question of why is the plot happening TO scully but being driven forward BY mulder?#the answer is: writers aren't very good at writing women#shocking but true#yeah. i've said enough already and idk if it even made any sense so i suppose it's best to stop now LMAO#the x files#txf#5x17#juni's x files liveblog
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Episode 5 we have lost the glorious intro song again. Yes I am very invested in the into sue me.
The title card reminds me of the episode where Timmy wishes to not feel any emotions. I wonder if this will be similar to that or ever brought up. I noticed Timmy hasnât come up since episode one but with the comments about how he haunts the narrative I expect him to be referenced again just an interesting note.
Okay itâs pretty cute how excited Hazel is that excited Jasmine is coming over. First new friend excitement is such a real thing. I have to wonder though how Cosmo and Wanda know Hazel calls them. If Fairies can hear their god kids call them from anywhere how did all the fairies lose their kids in the episode where everyone looks the same?
What kind of parent lets their ten year old watch horror movies? Maybe this is more common than I realize and my shock comes from how sheltered my parents raised me itâs just weird to me. Cute again how excited Hazel is to share them but uh, I am shocked a ten year olds parent isnât monitoring what their kids are watching.
I couldnât help but laugh about Jasmine talking about how bad a horror movie about dolls would be. My best friend cannot handle horror around dolls because he has a doll collection so I can feel that in my soul. Iâm starting to see the flags for what Hazel wishes for and why and I appreciate the setup.
Also I appreciate Jasmine setting up firm boundaries about what she is and is not okay with. Good job kiddo, itâs important to establish firmly what is and is not okay and itâs nice to see her so comfortable with that. I wonder if Jasmine has tryophobia given her hatred of Swiss cheese specifically for the holes?
Hazel I get not wanting to watch a scary movie alone. I get certain things arenât as fun by yourself I get it. But forcing Jasmine to be that companion is not it. And why donât Cosmo and Wanda like question this choice at all? Did they ever with Timmy? This is another one of those have to go back and check isnât it?
Why does removing Jasmines fear make another Jasmine? When Timmy lost his emotions they manifested very differently and this Jasmine looks evil instead of being terrified like fear was in the OG. Weâll see if this gets addressed lolz. Iâm glad Hazel does ask about it, even if somehow Cosmo and Wanda donât know the answer.
Oh monster oh fuck spider. I hate spiders. I am terrified. Wait theirs a new Jasmine for each of her fears? Iâm very confused.
Wait how did Cosmo and Wanda not think of this they did this before? Wouldnât removing all emotions and a specific one do the same thing? Or is their wordplay Iâm not catching any caused the difference?
Why didnât the wish not work? Ohhh they answered that fast but why would the fears reveal how they could be defeated? Why not laugh and leave and let Hazel work it out by bouncing ideas off of Cosmo and Wanda? Thats how I personally would have rolled with it. Villains revealing their weaknesses never makes sense to me.
Lolz wait did the wish make Jasmine pass out or is class that boring? I need to know this lolz. Also adults apparently also fail to notice anything ever because no one questions why Hazel looks like a puppet. Great note taking fake Hazel. 10/10.
Wait this specific thing is in Da Rules? Like how to defeat them? I thought Da Rules justâŠlisted wishes that couldnât be made?
Not sure how I feel about how Hazel is going about this but I suppose desperate times desperate measures? Though Hazel is right in that Jasmine has different skill sets than a lot of kids and itâs all true. A lot of people struggle when dealing with public situations involving people and Jasmine isnât and itâs a good strength of hers. Jasmines family sucks though for teasing her so much.
Donât kill me internet but uh Iâve never watched or read Charlottes Web lolz.
Wait where has fear itself been this entire time? I have questions. WOW good job Cosmo little late. I didnât think their crowns could be knocked off?
Ohhh so fear can see Hazels fears. Oh that makes sense. I do like Hazel realizing what she was doing and acknowledging it wasnât good and deciding to pick something with Jasmine to do. Not quite how I expected it to go I think an acknowledgment about boundaries would have been good but at least Hazel realizes she shouldnât force people to be who theyâre not.
âŠam I forgetting an episode of FOP or is the puppet going rogue thing ever going to come up when that happened?
After sleeping on it, I realized Iâm glad the writers decided to do their own thing with their variations of losing an emotion. This show shouldnât be just Hazels versions of Timmyâs wishes, this show should be able to be its own thing. And I think the twist of the fears each manifesting as something physical to face was a fun twist.
Episode 5 I found better than 4 and 2 but not sure it beats episode 3. I think itâs a pretty close tie currently. During the work week I think these reviews will be coming out a little slower just cuz I donât have as much time sorry about that! Onto episode 6!
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Live Blog of Interstitial Infinity #18 - Above the Cars:
aaa ok so I've really wanted to listen to these last few eps, but I also wanted to do it when it felt right and when I had enough time to really enjoy and react, and life has unfortunately just been too busy for awhile, but rn it's a little less busy and I'm feeling like this is the time, so let's go!!!
GO PISS JINKUS
hello i'm electricjinkus
aw man I've missed the crew, the energy is very good right from the start
riley forcing marn to list all her characters/marn stalling for time akshakja
"we introduced you as that pisser right there" "nooo"
excited for hinted at future Trish and Carrie things đ
last chance for interactions aaa
trish trying to reassure carrie "...so you shouldn't go splat đđ"
ohhh the mix of outfits for this endgame, beautiful
the bugs!!!!
a mess of a group chat, wow
omg I forgot shoka and jason both weren't part of the 9/11 talk aaa
I love you downtime, I love you intense conversation time
oh and audrey was there the whole time!!!
thinking about whether Al knows about when Ed got stuck through with that pipe and alchemied his life away to heal himself (I think that's what happened, I haven't done a rewatch in a while though)
DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY JOKES
we're all obsessed with shoka, it's true
omg Jason and Audrey aaaaa amazing
I haven't seen Carrie, I didn't know she dies in the end hhhh
two year birth...
THIS IS OUR KID
~Normal Girl Behavior~
oh the roach sound design is good in that it's bad to hear đ
oh no al, buddy (he did a bad bite)
the team!!!
little bit of mob slapstick, as a treat
remembering the shoka learning a little bit of alchemy fanfic, good stuff
carrie buddy aaaa
oh my god stephen king watch the fuck out
thinking about if stephen king has consumed any of the media that the people on the train are from
texts from Emma!!!!
different part of ending song??? am I imagining this???
aaa I'd missed this show!! it's good y'all!!! đđđ
#interstitial infinity#interstitial ap#interstitial infinity spoilers#interstitialap#interstitial spoilers#last train home arc#last train home arc spoilers#electricgaunt's interstitial infinity live blog
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The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology first listen đ§đȘ»âš
More than 15 years later wow it still feels so magical to listen to a brand new album. The joy, the excitement, the nervousness. I mark chapters of my life with her albums, they always seem to arrive with perfect timing. Is it fate or delusion? Probably the later, obviously she has no idea who I am. Idk it feels nice to delude myself now and again that weâre all journeying through this time together in some connectedness (is that a word?). It feels sort of nostalgic in some ways, from being just a child to now an adult, itâs like Sesame Street that grows up with you. Not a great analogy but what I mean to say is it holds a special place to me.
This album, this anthology feels much like weâve been handed her diary, filled with sticky notes bound together, itâs so raw but so expertly crafted, messy feelings but the penmanship is exquisite. From her debut album, itâs always been poetry. She transports you to her world. What a journey, what a joy, what a gift.
I like to capture my first thoughts of each song in my silly chicken scratching written notes. Most of it makes no sense. It feels like a nice silly tradition and itâs fun to look back on. So here goes:
Fortnight
- Itâs giving moody 1989??? Excuse me miss?!!! Ohhh she knows. Preach bye time to cry
The tortured poets department
- Ooooh weâre in an 80s dreamscape. Yes yes yes. Whoâs gonna love you but me? A fluffy dreamland Patty smith? Insert wait I understood the reference meme. Ooooh itâs lovely. I am sad
My boy only breaks his favourite toys
- excuse me?? Iâm shattered byyyyyeee. Iâll tell you that he runs because he loves me?? You shouldâve see him when he first saw me? Once I fix me heâs gonna miss me??? Ladies and gents welcome to afternoon tea on the menu SCALDING hot queenâs special. Maybe Iâm a crumpled up paper on the floor. Maybe I am no more.
Down Bad
- well damn sheâs said the quiet parts out loud again. Oh smokes time to dissapear into this galaxy smoky cloud of night. One of us. One of us. One of us.
So long London
- literally standing by the river in the rain. May as well cry my damn eyes out . Darn it blondie. Poetic destruction. Crying my eyes out by the water like Iâm in made in Chelsea. Darn.
But daddy I love him
- a folklore ode? Little house on the prairie Princess revolution. Serve it up serve it up Iâm ready to be stuffed like a winter pig. A grown up love story. Itâs ridiculous and maybe wise eyes know too well itâs chockablock of red flags but darn Iâm a cheesinâ this is so cute.
Fresh out the slammer
- oh itâs like August but dark. August dark afternoon blistering hot and the storm is about to come.
Florida!!! Ft Florence and the machine
-ExXUSE MEEEEEEEeE?????!?!!?teee heee heee heeee. Your homeâs really only a town youâre a guest in??? Sorry canât speak my jaw has shattered. Pls pls. Palm tree pls.
Guilty as sin?
- A false God dreamy haze confessional? With sprinkle of Gold Rush??? I am a melted.
Whoâs afraid of little old me?
- The whoâs who of whoâs that is poised for the attack? But my bare hands paved their path, you donât get to tell me whatâs sad? - I AM CHOKED. Silenced mute. Ohhhh miss blondie is on BUSINESS. TELL THEM SWEETIE. Oh my heart đ
I can fix him (No really I can).
- Oooh moody blues preaching with generous dash of delusion? Ah yes my routine favourite beverage. I am drinking this up like air. Drunk on false hope? One of us. One of us. One of us.
Loml
- You Holy Ghost you told me Iâm the love of your life. Oh no Iâm crying again. Back to crumpled paper rocking back and forth on the floor in a ball it is. Itâs so pretty yet, shattering. Devastating. I wish I could unrecall how we almost had it all. Dancing phantoms on the terrace, are they second hand embarrassed that I canât get out of bed âcause something counterfit is dead? Yep thatâll do it.
I can do it with a broken heart?
- Oh damn. Honey nooooo. Oh myyyy. Oh Iâm in this picture and I donât like it. Itâs so artfully done, so upbeat and Poppy yet so hauntingly sad. Yes thatâs the point but itâs sooo well done. Oh sweetie. I canât stop laughing itâs not funny, itâs just you too pumpkin. I wanna hug her and tell her itâll be fine. Ok ok.
The smallest man who ever lived
- Oh Iâm speechless. And I donât even want you back, I just want to know, if rusting my sparkling summer was the goal. The bridge? Excuse me while I sink to the bottom of the darkest ocean.
The alchemy
- Oooh itâs so cute and dreamy. Iâm beaming you can hear her smile when she sings.
Clara bow
- Oooh itâs the lucky one grown up. The bridge is a masterpiece. Itâs hell on earth to be heavenly, thems the breaks it donât come gently. She knows sheâs a star, The never ending cyclical wheel of stardom, even the shiniest, ends with a new star born in its shadow.
The black dog
- Oh No no no I Am 1 billion percent destroyed. Byeeeee
Imgonnagetyouback
- Oooh blondie is on the prowl and what can I do but bop like the well stuffed clown I am. Insert meme of cat bopping their head.
The albatross
- Banjo? Haunting country cautionary tale? - scathing review of oneâs reputation, worst traits but underneath it all is just vulnerability. Caged for âmonstrosityâ but being so vulnerable and just wanting to be freed loved. The âmonsterâ trying to protect the one they love from the things that will come for them too? Do they even realise it? Do they care? Wow itâs poetically beautiful.
Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
- Oh itâs sad. If you wanna break my cold cold heart, just say I loved you the way that you were? Oh myyy. Replaying old moments, looking for clues wondering if it can all have a new ending? Wow.
How did it end?
- Wow the invasiveness of empathy of the innate curiosity of wanting to know, so you can something comforting, learn from it but you forget how it can be the worst part, having to offer up a âpost mortemâ to all when youâve barely even processed its ended yourself. The cyclical nature of it happening every time like itâs just a formal process weâve come to accept even though it haunts us all. Ironically as we listen to this. Wow so beautifully done.
So high school
- I wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you, and in a blink of a crinkling eye, Iâm sinking, our fingers entertwined. Awww the sort of bubblegum silly feels you roll your eyes but you have the biggest smile on your face. Itâs soo cute. You know how to call, I know Aristotle.
I hate it here
- Oooooh tell me something awful like youâre a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy. One of us. One of us.
ThanK you aIMee
- Oh my goodness itâs grown up mean but she made it out. Itâs so sad but Iâm beaming. I say thatâs my baby and Iâm proud. Andrea? Oh thank you next. Not the kid. Iâm cackling.
I look in peopleâs windows
- Oh itâs haunted death by a thousand cuts glimmering of desperate false hope. Itâs lovely.
The prophecy
- Oh. Damn yep thatâll do it. Right in the ticker. Damn. It feels very much like am I doomed to always be the one before the one? Wow. Just yeah.
Cassandra
- I donât know why but this makes think of safe and sound. Like the woman that was there when everything burned around them. Sheâs telling her side. Everyoneâs there to watch you burn, screaming your guilt but silent when theyâre wrong? If that ainât the truth miss. Oh wow. Shes beautifully captured such a dark chapter.
Peter
- Oh wow itâs beautiful. Itâs like post cardigan and sheâs all grown up. 'Cause love's never lost when perspective is earned. But the woman who sits by the window has turned out the light. Oh wow itâs wow.
The Bolter
- Oh we must stop meeting like this but it always ends with a town car speeding. Wowowow. It feels like the time she fell through the ice, then came out alive. Oh my a BEAUTY.
Robin
- Oh itâs so pretty. Itâs like never grow up, safe and sound and seven swirled together. Wow. Itâs like sheâs talking to her child but then also herself in the past and present, like from an older perspective? Ohhh itâs beautiful. Why does this make me think of coralineâs real mother watching her sleep? I wanna cry.
The manuscript
- Wow god itâs beautiful. Another time travel song. You keep revisiting past in your mind and you gain perspective and then you realise you arenât that version of you that lived it anymore. You can feel it still, not as deeply perhaps but youâre disconnected from thinking the way you did at that time or after. Is sobering and haunting. The healing. Wow wow wow.
@taylorswift thank you my love đ
#taylor swift#the tortured poets department#ts ttpd#the tortured poets department the anthology#first listen#musings#hope you guys are doing well
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ANARCIA FANGIRL AU, CHAPTER 3
SATURDAY, 11:46 PM
marciax3nyc: BITCH
marciax3nyc: EMERGENCY
marciax3nyc: THE QUEEN FROM THE BAR SHOW
marciax3nyc: COME OVER TMR !!!!
SUNDAY, 10:12 AM
looseyladuca: wtf? đ
looseyladuca: Fineee omw lol
looseyladuca: Getting a latte first though
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âShut up! Youâre lying!â
âBitch!â Marcia playfully snaps. âYou think I wouldâve called you here if I was?â
âI mean, thereâs just no way you had it in you! The last time you even wore lipstick in an actual saturated color was for Halloweenâtwo years ago."
"What can I say?" Marcia throws her arms out beside her and sinks into the couch. "Love can make you do crazy thingsâŠ"
Loosey, sitting opposite Marcia, swallows a sip of latte and sets her cup down. "And then you're telling me that Anetra chick kissed you?"
"Hah! Oh my god, please." Marcia rolls her eyes with a smile, certainly not opposed to the thought. "No, what happened was⊠okay, so like, I said I kissed the dollar, right?"
"Whatever you say," Loosey jokes.
"No, but for real! Because I just wanted to put a cute little kiss mark on it for her to see." Marcia explains, sitting back up. "I wanted her to think that it was special, y'know?"
"I'd argue that the 20 dollars was special enough on its own."
"Well then, I made it super special!"
"Whatever you say, Miss Casanova." Loosey chuckles, but not at her friend's expense. In fact, she's becoming entertained by Marcia's little love story.
"Oh, you wanna talk casanovas?" Marcia's eyes light upâshe's been eager to recount the magical moment since she got home last night. "Because then Anetra stops to pick up the tips, and she walks up to the front and picks up mineâŠ"
"And she thought, 'Oh, that's hot as fuck', and you guys made out."
Marcia wants to be mad about the interruption, yet she can't help but burst into laughter. "A-ha-HAâ! Hah⊠ohhh, my god, stop that!"
"Alriiight, I'm sorryyy," Loosey says, with a lighthearted lilt in her voice.
"OkayâŠokay, so"âMarcia catches her breathâ"So she picks up my $20 and I can tell she's like: 'Oh.' And I'm like: 'Fuck. Fuck, what am I doing?' And then she looks at ME and now I'm REALLY likeâŠ" She puts her hands on her head in mock anguish. "'FUCK!'"
"And then�!" Believe it or not, Loosey is now genuinely invested.
There's a pause. Marcia leans in. She looks Loosey dead in the eye.
"And then she fucking kisses it."
Loosey gasps. "No!"
"Right where I! Fucking! Kissed it!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"OH MY GOD?!"
"AHHHH!!!"
The exchange quickly devolves into a mess of giggles and squeals, with Marcia and Loosey joining hands and jumping around like teenage girls at a slumber party.
"So she did kiss you! Kind of!" Loosey says, as the excitement wears down.
"IâŠoh my god! You're actually so right!" Marcia beams.
"Marcia, she's, like, totally into you! What are you gonna do?!"
"Iâ!"
Even in the silence, it's almost like you can hear the screeching halt.
A knot ties in Marcia's stomach. "...Shit, I actually don't even know."
"What do you mean?" Loosey tilts her head.
"I justâŠ" Marcia flops back down onto the couch. "God, I'm nervous to even go back next week! What am I supposed to do? Is it still too soon to even do anything?"
"I meanâŠhmmâŠ"
Loosey racks her brain, hoping to formulate her friend's next move, but she can't seem to think of an immediate solution either.
WellâŠif not an immediate solution, then perhapsâŠ
Suddenly, she has an epiphany, pronounced by a clap of her hands. "Alright, I got it."
Marcia looks up at Loosey, a glint of hope in her eyes.
"...I don't know yet."
And then Marcia deflates. "Wow, thanks, genius."
"But!"
"But�"
"The keyword here is yet. Let's justâŠgo back on Saturday and see what happens, okay? Assess the situation and stuff."
"Go backâŠlike, you and me?"
"Yeah?"
"Looseyyy!"
Marcia shoots back up to her feet, throwing her arms around her friend.
"AwwâŠ" Loosey returns the hug with one arm, and lightly ruffles her hair with the other.
"Thank youuu," Marcia purrs, relieved that she doesn't have to be alone in her predicament.
"Of course," says Loosey.
"And mark my words, I'll be the best fuckin' moral support!"
Marcia chuckles. "I'll take your word for it, then."
(A/N: one could argue that this chapter is mostly a comical retelling of chapter 2...and you'd be right OOP </3 but hey! if Frozen II can do it, then so can I lol)
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GOOD MORNING. I need u to know I have FINISHED the nhw wibby/david dynamic essay and I am feeling so fucking crazy about it i need to send it to you so bad. I am so fuckinf excited for u to get the context of grey!!!! god!!!! you're gonna go nuts over this. was sending it to myself in bits and pieces over discord messages and it is. 6 full character limit messages long. ohhhh i have so many thoughts about the nhw bell brothers (<< wow that feels awful to say)
OHHH I'M SO EXCITED DUDE...... IM GONNA GO NUTS OVER IT!!!! I KNOW I AM!!!!!! i can't wait for gray to fucking eviscerate me & i know thinking about nhw bell brothers is only gonna make it worse!!!!!!!!! it's gonna be so bad!!!!! yayayayayyy wahooo....
#dude today it is BLACK out & thundering & windy & cool...... universe has conspired in my favor for ideal gray watching conditions!!!!!!!!!#goddddd. head in hands preemptively.#mac tag!#IM GONNA. MAKE MY GAY LITTLE PREDICTIONS ON WHAT I THINK HAPPENS THIS EP NOW. U CAN POINT& LAUGH#pd lb
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The Star Beast
Am I excited for the 60th? Eh... I'm just glad to have Doctor Who to watch after a year of nothing.
Why in the world were my Disney+ subtitles set to Chinese?
Donna my girl. You are the only reason for me to be excited. This whole post has a lot of salt throughout.
Also, I don't know how I feel about the exposition to the camera thing. Twelve did it better. Interesting opening sequence. And I think I have said I like the retro logo. Ok Rachel Talalay directed. That's promising. Those robots in the background felt cyberman-esque. Ughhhhh I have so many thoughts about the choice to have Donna name her daughter Rose. Ugh. I like that the running gag of Donna not seeing the chaos for random mundane reasons continues. Glad she's still roasting him. Ok if this is supposed to be a NEW Doctor, I don't like him saying Allons-y. Please. New catchphrase. The same face doesn't have to mean the same personality. Plus I don't know French but isn't saying "Let's - Allons-y!" redundant? Ok shoutout to Nerys that's fun. Shaun's a good man. I'm very glad we get to see more of him now since he was a bit of a non-character in End of Time. OH GOOD UNIT IS REALLY BACK PROPERLY. Wait do I remember seeing pictures of Kate in promos... I was about to ask why the ship was right side up if it crashed. Ok. It landed. God I've forgotten Donna's mom's name but I'm really glad to see she listened to the Doctor and shows Donna appreciation now. I was just about to ask how long it'd been. Because End of Time aired in 2009/10 but the whole timeline of the RTD era was messed up. So does that mean that Journey's End was technically 2008? God let me not try to make sense of this right now. God I hate this Meep thing with a passion. I hate its eyes. So much. Ah. Nightmare fuel. I don't like the sonic reverting back to be so similar to Nine/Ten's either. It would have been funner if he was using Thirteen's. Plus he should have been in Thirteen's outfit but I've already complained about that for a year. Cowards. "Off you pop" I wonder if that's a reference to Clara in the 50th. What is that the Time Vortex or something? Does Rose crochet these toys? Love that. (For the record I got nothing against Rose at all I'm just mad she was named Rose for pure fan pandering purposes.) Ok now I see why it was hiding in toys in the promo. Sylvia you are totally right to be angry at the Doctor this time around. "Oh wow he's so cute" no, it's nightmare fuel. GOOD JOB SYLVIA. He deserves that slap. Oh poor Shaun. He's such a good man though. Sees the chaos, sees a literal monster, and decides to compliment his mother-in-law's cooking. Good job. "I loved that man." Aw. Me too. "He's not dead." "You idiot." Love it. Kate came in to help take care of Wilf? Oh. Ohhh. My heart. "You've got two hearts? So do I." "You've got what." Oh Donna. Hmm so the hypnotized soldiers are not on the same side as the Wrath... I don't know how I feel about this sonic force field thing but ok. Resonating concrete. I'll accept that reference because it's about Nine. "Or we've got things very, very wrong." Yep I agree that Meep is probably evil and as nightmarish as the Meep looks. A living sun. I'll accept that reference because it's about Martha. Please RTD, reference something OTHER than your era though for this 60th anniversary of the whole show. SEE I TOLD YOU IT WAS A NIGHTMARE CREATURE. "With your weird child." Ah so Beep the Meep is a transphobe too. SEE. SEEEEEE. I WAS RIGHT TO HATE THIS THING. "I'm just passing by" Ok I always liked that line. God I hate this thing. SHE SAID THE DOCTOR. Ok these random Winter Soldier trigger words would have meant more had they actually be put into the show at some point prior to this. Because I have absolutely no memory of any of this besides the repeated "binary binary binary." Donna Noble is descending. Fixing up all the burning caverns like that is nonsense. OK ROSE. OK.
Ok no wait now I'm mad again. At first when the show was in promotions the assumption was that Donna named Rose subconsciously. Because we weren't sure if Yasmin was playing a trans character or not. Then when this episode started I was like "Ok so Rose picked the name Rose by random when she transitioned and it's a coincidence. Fine I'll accept that." but didn't actually put it in the post. And now NO. SHE HAS SOME OF THE METACRISIS IN HER. SO SHE NAMED HERSELF AFTER ROSE. I'm mad all over again. Just let it go RTD2!
Ok the Keep Out on the shed might be a reference to Twelve's sign on his Tardis. Fine. Fine. I'll take that. Glad they didn't zoom in on the Adipose before that. that would have been too obvious. Because the toy is just straight up an Adipose. Also happy 10th birthday to Owen the Adipose plushie I crocheted around this same time. "We're binary." "She's not." "Because the Doctor's male" "And female" "And neither. And more." Ok ok confirmation of the Doctor being non-binary ok. This has been a rollercoaster of me being angry and me being happy. "My father would be impressed, I have no higher compliment" That is VERY true there is not a higher compliment than that. Oh is the episode going to be dedicated to Bernard... Oh and we're getting that Toymaker dude later right? And Rose makes toys. Ok I see why this random Old Who villain is relevant to this story. "Shame you're not a woman anymore, cause she would have understood." True. So they can just... let the time lord energy go... sure I guess? OK THE SIGN BY THE ROBOT THINGS SAYS CYBERDOG. I DIDN'T SEE THAT BEFORE. THEY WERE MEANT TO LOOK LIKE CYBERMEN. I do like Ten being insulted by Shaun saying "But not him." since I do somewhat headcanon Ten as being a bit in love with Donna.
Ok at this point I realized that Tumblr had stopped autosaving this draft around when we saw the Adipose. So let's see if I can even post this last half.
I don't mind this Tardis design. Kind of like One's mixed with Eleven's. Ok the set itself is actually impressive. I like it. Oh Donna. Ew I do not like the breathy Doctor Who theme nope.
No dedication to Bernard at the end. Did we already get something dedicated to him? Or maybe they'll just dedicate the episode he's actually in.
As an episode, it was cute and fun. I think RTD2 needs to take some of his own advice and let it go, specifically the Rose thing.
As a 60th anniversary special... Ok I was glad this episode wasn't just purely RTD era callbacks every other moment. But still, it's an anniversary special. Give me more about all 60 years. Or at least the very least more about the Moffat and Chibnall eras. I guess we'll have to see since all 3 episodes are supposed to be anniversary specials. But for the episode airing closest to the anniversary, I'm disappointed that it didn't feel like an anniversary episode.
Edit: I went to check the cast and at the time it had a 9.2 on IMDB and was above Blink as highest rated episode. It's now down to 8.2 which is more reasonable. But god I'm annoyed at the way some fans have just eaten up all this pandering.
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SNW 2x06 Lost in Translation thought-stream
Is Kirk in this episode? Exciiite!! :D
Uhura!!!!
"My eyes are technically open, Captain." I love this new confidence, it suits her!
The TOS earpiece :O Yisss
He's fleet captain?! That's quite big, no?
THE SPINNING THINGS!!!! Nacelles? Idk the orange glowy things you always see on the TOS intro are in action and I love it?
Ohhhh, the recording of Hemmer :'(
"I'm sorry. I just said that because he's dead." Pelia I ADORE you
"Which is why they could really use your version of managerial fervour." Hah! That is Very Una.
JEEEZ THAT APPARITION'S TERRIFYING ... WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO HEMMER, SNW?
"Starfleet officers aren't supposed to randomly hallucinate." "You didn't do anything wrong, and there was nothing random about it." M'Benga is so gentle!, I love his bedside manner <3
I feel like Uhura has been in sickbay a lot this season?
"I empathize. But I also know a stubborn patient when I see one. You aren't going back on duty till I'm satisfied you've slept." She look so shocked XD You really shouldn't be that surprised that the doctor is gonna doctor, Uhura!
OH IT'S THE FARRAGUT! THAT'S KIRK'S SHIP!
Am excited to see more of Pelia too!!!!!
Actually, this is the first time we've ever seen Sam and Jim alive together (apart from that AOS deleted scene). Time to make Operation Annihilate more heartbreaking!
"Literally everything in xenoanthropology is new and exciting."
Jim's eye on Spock's chess game makes me so happy, I cannot express how much
"I appreciate the sentiment, but I am not in the market for friends right now." Oh, Nyota
I am so here for Uhura and Kirk on the case together
Pike's little breath and "Lieutenant Kirk". He's so well-adjusted tho
I'm so excited for La'an to run into Kirk again too
Can you find someone else to evaluate if it's real? Oh you did! Yes, Nyota!
No, you're supposed to wait for backup!
The way Jim catches her :o :3 <3 And her panicked "wait!". Oh, my heart. Okay, I love this Jim too, this is our Kirk
Well that's not disturbing at all, Ramon's space disintegration
Pike is so dadly and I love him for it. "The way I see it, that's good news. You're not crazy. Something is affecting you, the same way it affected him. And we're gonna figure out what."
"It won't come to that, I promise you." How can you promise that, Chirs? Take her advice! Let her be safe
Oh La'an â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž Just stumbling in on Kirk like that. You poor thing.
"And you have crumbs on your uniform! You're like a space hippie!" Wow, Una XD
"I don't need a cookie." "Okay, now you sound crazy." Kirk's trying to offer food as comfort... I wonder how Tarsus fits into this Jim
"The truth is I've never been able to face death." Oh, Uhura.
I've just realised she was watching that video of Hemmer, even though she must know how to do the thing by now.
"What's the play?" God, Pike's trust in her. That must be such a hard decision, on only that information he's been given.
"You gave me a C!" XD
Ohhh. But it's not really about that. Good. Una's too good o be petty.
I really love being able to see this beginning of Kirk and Uhura's friendship <3
Jim, clearly he'd like you to return with a compliment of your own. 'Xenoanthropology saved the day after all' or something? It's not hard.
Sam! What the heck? I was on your side for a second but I really don't think your brother has anything he needs to apologise for. Are you this much of an ass to anyone else?! (I really can't remember what he did in s1).
SPOCK
A HANDSHAKE!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHH
HER KNOWING SMILE
AHHHH
Oh and as the camera pans away we can see that Jim is constantly looking across to Spock I cannot I cannot I cannot
Oh I ADORED that episode. And not just the ending! Jim fit in seamlessly throughout, it was really nice seeing that in the real timeline, he is our Kirk.
And Uhura is, of course, everything. I love her so much.
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I think everyone deserves to have that oc that makes you get excited when you remember that they're yours. For me, it's Dallas Reed. I look at him like
"You're telling me I own that thing? Like he's mine? Like his lore is up to me and I am his creator? AMAZING!!"
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s3 episode 11 thoughts
dare i say it⊠new favorite episode?
whatever expectations i had, they were blown away. usually the episode after a two episode arc feels weird and stiff, but this? this hit every box on a checklist i didnât even know i had.
iâm bouncing off the walls right now. i'm pacing my room and mumbling to myself while gesticulating wildly. i am filled with an energy that caffeine has not ONCE given me. and it's called "your character, that is so near and dear to you, got an episode dedicated just to exploring their inner life and workings and belief system and faith in God and the world". try it if you get a chance.
so let us begin. let me give you my verbatim notes, so you can watch the excitement grow.
oh boy! oh boy oh boy! i am excited! and i know by now to not expect any real continuation from the last episode, but iâm still excited because the last two were so good! and this one is like⊠good omens? with a kid that can start the end of the world?
wow. never have i thought to myself, how would mulder and scully handle biblical revelations? but here i am. wondering it.
hope the kid is chill. hope he has good vibes. mulder will like him anyway because heâs actually a huge softie but still better if heâs got good vibes.
we open on a sermon. the priest or pastor- depending on the denomination- whatever his title is, he is talking about faith. saying that miracles are real. and now heâs shaking and moaning. is this one of those churches?
OH HEâS BLEEDING from between his knuckles like some sort of blood wolverine. people are looking at him, thinking, what is going on? and this is something i am also wondering. maybe it was fake thoughâŠ. little capsules in his hands, maybe???
heâs dabbing off his makeup now. as a man enters his dressing room. saying that some people really do believe. but heâs being weird.
and then this guy escalates to murder. and when he touches this pastor heâs burning up??? huh??? a firebender?? in pennsylvania??
THE INTRO WAS DIFFERENT AGAIN THIS TIME. WHY DOES IT CHANGE. i have come to know these beats VERY well!! they are like a heartbeat to me. you cannot simply alter them as you see fit!
scully looking at the body of the dead pastor/priest, talking about how it looks like rope burns around his neck. mulder crouching VERY close by.
HEHEHEHEHE mulder is like âhe was bleeding from his hands like the crucifixionâ and scully goes âstigmata?â heheheheheeeee iâm blushing
(talking about belief systems is apparently a way to my heart? like c'mon, tell me how you understand the universe and which elements you surrender to knowing that you will never comprehend. you look cute while doing it)
no wounds on the hands, though⊠so mulder licks the blood. and i froze JUST as scully makes this horrified face... iâm CRYING. yes, it is fake blood, and yes, he has some on his lips and teeth, and yes, its adorable. but what a risky move!
ohhh he was wearing a sugar pump sort of thing! yum yum. couldn't be me, i'd be slurping that.
so mulder has been tracking religious murders related to stigmatics (excellent word!)
scullyâs talking about how certain people believe at any given time there are 12 stigmatics in the world. and they represent the 12 apostles. and iâm blushing terribly.
nods solemnly. i am learning a lot about myself through this show.
scully you are so preeeeetty.Â
okay, cut to elementary school in ohio. kevin is blowing spitballs. his teacher is bullying him into doing math on the board. when all of a sudden, his hands start bleeding!! and we see that he has the holes!!!
heâs in the nurseâs office still when mulder and scully show up. damn how did they get to ohio that fast⊠OHHH they had put out an FBI alert and maybe this happened more than once. yes, this is exactly what is explained mere moments after i made the initial comment.
so it happened BEFORE, and they assumed it was an incident of abuse, but it wasnât proven. still, his dad was institutionalized after saying Kevin was chosen by God. okay! things escalated.Â
scully is talking to the boy. she feels his forehead and says he feels feverish. okay doctor!! and she says he is very brave. queen. smart and kind.
mulder is meeting kevinâs mom. explaining that he might be in danger from a religious fanatic.
oh! the thermometer in his mouth broke. straight up exploded. hope that was fake mercury in there.
theyâre going to put kevin back âinto the shelterâ which i feel like would make him an easier target for a serial killer?? but on the off chance it WAS his mom, it would make him safer. so mixed feelings here.
mom yells at the teacher, teacher says she loves her job, and mulder has this excellent smile. then waves scully out to leave. it was kinda funny to me for some reason, the waving her out. quite domestic.Â
mulder thinks the kid did the cuts to himself to get his father back. hmm. not buying it. so they go to talk to kevin's dad.Â
dad claims the forces of darkness have been watching kevin. in the great war between good and evil. heâs really talking to scully and he says they just âcome full circle to find the truthâ. she says dude idk what that means?? and he says âyou willâ okay... iâm creeped out a bit!!!
kevin is back at the childrenâs home. telling a bunch of other kids scary stories. and he seems to be explaining a scary guy who is walking into the building as the storytelling goes on. just as the scary guy enters, all the kids leave. scary guy is looking at the wounds on kevinâs hands!
soon after, mulder is with the group of children who saw the guy. we learn here that mulder is 6 foot 1. which is very funny.Â
kevin was abducted by the fellow it seems he was describing before his arrival!!! and his mom seems to blame scully. she looks really upset.
they see the drawing that they think does not look like a real person, and kevinâs mom is like itâs owen, who did the yard work.Â
so itâs owen time. heâs carved noahâs ark and he has kevin. but he says he canât let him go home. because it isnât safe. he refers to himself as kevinâs guardian angel. hmm. that makes me suspicious.
owen grabs a shotgun when a car pulls up. but the agents get him to put it down and scully is on a quest to find the little dude. and he was there⊠but now he isnât?
so owen says God asked him to protect kevin.Â
OH ANGRY MULDER IS GONNA QUOTE SCRIPTURE AT YOU!!!!! now give him some DAMN ANSWERS!
owen is like, well YOU believe, donât you scully, because you have that necklace on. heâs calling her a BAD CHRISTIAN??? the audacityâŠ.
then owen gets up and JUMPS OUT THE WINDOW??? and runs away??? somehow??
(mulder jumped down from the porch to chase owen, and his big coat floated around him like a cape... i giggled)
now where did this dude go...?
kevin made it home!!! heâs yelling for his mom. she doesnât seem to be there, but someone rang the doorbell. and we only see a quick glance but it LOOKS like the killer!!!Â
who burns off the doorknob with his firebending!!! so yes, it is the og killer from the start of the episode! he comes in and asks for kevin. saying he knows heâs here.
mom, now would be a good time to roll up with a gun.Â
he picks up a family photo and sees kevin in a picture then checks the closet to see if heâs in there but kevin is in the hamper. and the hamper is bleeding!!! dead giveaway.Â
but owen rolls up just as the firebender guy opens the hamper, and starts fighting for him!! so kevin is making a break for it!!!
he runs and runs and RUNS INTO MULDER!!!! scully is telling him that he will be okay.
they only find dead owen. no firebender.
and kevin asks scully if she was sent to protect him⊠she does not seem to know what to say because. do you mean like by the government... or jesus?
autopsy time!!!! sheâs talking into the voice recorder like always. it always gives vlog energy. anyway, his body looks very much alive. despite the very much dead thing.Â
mulder interrupts this. and scully asks him to SMELL the dude. he obliges. with only a smirk!
scully says he smells a bit⊠floral.
OMG!! OMG I RECOGNIZE WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. they talk about it in the brothers karamazov, how a holy body is said to stay intact and even smell good when it ought to be decomposing. so the real question is: is she imagining it?
i mean, she is the body expert. so iâd want to say no. but also, this dude was playing with her head. so itâs hard to say. i'd think she would identify the body correctly no matter what, but a little smell hallucination thanks to the power of suggestion cannot be ruled out in any situation.
AND SHE TALKS ABOUT IT!! apparently it is something you learn in catechism. okay, well i just picked it up from that summer i got through that book, but we all learn somewhere. mulder is like âyouâre serious?â and i feel he should be encouraging this open discussion rather than ridiculing it. AND SHE STARTS NAMING SAINTS IT HAPPENED TO!
mulder is saying that those things didnât really happen, and iâm not taking this from alien man.
mulder has transitioned into listening mode now. OH! SCULLY! she says:
âisnât a saint or a holy person just another term for someone whoâs abnormal?â
âdo you really believe that?â
âi⊠believe in the idea that Godâs hand can be witnessed. i believe he can create miracles, yesâ
âeven if science canât explain them?â
âmaybe thatâs just what faith isâ
YES! YES I AM CHEERING AND JUMPING UP AND DOWN. we were owed a scully-centric episode, and never did i even THINK we would get something so aligned with my interests that weâd start exploring her religious beliefs and how that intertwines with her faith in science and her work. that sounds like something iâd write a fic for because itâs hyper specific to my interests. but no. this is CANON!
mulder is saying that she shouldnât get swept up in these things (and how ironic that the roles are reversed! itâs exquisite. weâve found his weak point, heâll believe in anything but a Christian God)
scully is lost in thought. taking a deep breath. steeling herself.
pause. itâs a scene change. but mulder has a pencil in his teeth. itâs adorable, really. he takes it out to write something.
they pulled prints from owenâs neck!! burned right onto the skin. and they found who did it!! the man i was previously calling the firebender, his real name is simon gates, one of the southâs wealthiest men, arrested 3 years ago on a DUI.Â
so then he went to israel, and this is how i learned of something called âjerusalem syndromeâ, where people come back from the holy land with religious delusions. i have not heard of this before. but it could be a motive. except for the whole burning fingerprints into necks thing. i'm unfamiliar with any sort of place turning you into prince zuko.
okay, so someone saw kevin with his mom the same time he was seen with a social worker??? doubles?? twins??? ghosts??
kevin and his mom are on the side of the road with a broken down car, when who pulls up but SIMON!!
she asks what he wants and he says âi think you knowâ, then kevin makes a break for it.
now. can an old man outrun a child? children have small legs, but boundless energy.
BUT HEâS RUNNING?? AND ANOTHER KEVIN GETS OUT OF THE CAR??? to talk to his injured mom. then running kevin DISAPPEARED!!! AND MOM HITS THE DUDE WITH A CAR!!!
sadly, it wasnât out of excellent aim that she hit him, but rather because she had her face smacked into the ground by simon and was concussed or something similar. she drove into a ditch.Â
NO!!! KEVIN IS SAYING SHE DIED BECAUSE OF HIM. DEATH??? I JUST THOUGHT WE WERE DEALING WITH CONCUSSION HERE?
i guess it can be a quick trip from one to the next. but i'm sad for poor kevin.
scully is near him, telling him she promises she wonât let simon hurt kevin. OH LORD, YOU GOT HER PROMISING THINGS, SMALL CHILD.
he doesnât want to go back to the shelter. and she says he doesnât have to. are they going to take this small child for a bitâŠ.?
she avoids mulderâs gaze when telling him she wants kevin to come with them, saying she is not getting personally involved, but like mulder is gonna complain having a kid around.Â
(he actually didn't seem to have his typical instincts kick in today. how curious...)
and turns out simon rented the car under the name of one of the devilâs disciples. yikes!
so creepy simon is watching this go down despite being hit by a car.Â
back to the motel. scully is running kevin a bath and sees he has a big scratch on his side. from the crash⊠or?
mulder is fake pouting. âyou never draw my bathâ JCHDJSBJSND
sheâs freaked out because she knows that cut was NOT there before. OH? is it the jesus spear thing??
she is busting out her theological training- he could be in two places at once, like st. ignatius! and mulder is talking about how it was all a metaphor, that bible. mulder, if you are dismissive ONE more time...
OH, I GASPED AT THIS NEXT PART. HOLD ON I NEED TO WRITE THIS DOWN:
âhow is it that youâre able to go out on a limb whenever you see a light in the sky, but youâre unwilling to accept the possibility of a miracle, even when itâs right in front of you?â
âi wait for a miracle every day, but what iâve seen here has only tested my patience, not my faithâ
âwell, what about what iâve seen?âÂ
UGH. how PERFECT is that dialogue!!! how brilliant is that exchange!!! why is what she has seen less believable than his x files and aliens and beasts? he spends so long looking to his own stars that heâs forgotten others can form constellations as well. and how often does the narrative favor him, his thoughts running like a prey animal, chasing and chasing any sort of lead. why canât she have something that cuts her to the quick just as deeply?
sure, science is great, science is the building block of her reality. but you canât change the way you grew up, either, the pattern recognition, the fear of the divine. and sheâs never had trouble balancing the two, we just havenât had a reason to see them interact before, because she generally compartmentalizes the day to day world and the spiritual- and how many of us can say we do the same? probably most, if we believe in anything at all. but then it comes straight to a head- and after she has been through so much as well, losing her dad, her kidnapping, her coma, losing mulder and her job (which luckily came back), losing her sister forever- is it selfish to want there to be a caring force out in the universe?
but on the flip side, that means that there is real and genuine evil, forces of the devil and hell- unless you think itâs poetry, like mulder does. but wouldnât that explain all the suffering sheâs been through? the horrific things this job has showed her? and wouldnât it be worth it in the end to go through that all if you know it was to be defeated?
okay i just spend so long typing that up the screen went dark. SORRY SORRY IâM COMING BACK I PROMISE!!! I JUST GET EMOTIONAL.
NOOO! a weird noise was heard, so mulder kicks down the now locked door where kevin was supposed to be taking a bath. AND THE WINDOW WAS MELTED OPEN!! so scully basically comes face to face with the evil that must be real if miracles are as well. oh! iâm eating this up.
but she promised him he would be safe! so this is not looking good!
she wants to go talk to his father again. and mulder doesnât want to, but she is NOT taking no for an answer.Â
kevinâs father is not coming up with an answer. the doctors have increased his meds and heâs very foggy.Â
she asks again about the full circle to find the truth thing. and she runs out, in a daze.
mulder gets a call that there has been a simon spotting, but she doesnât hear; sheâs pointing at a recycling bin, saying that itâs arrows that form a circle. she thinks heâs at a recycling plant; he thinks heâs at the airport.
mulder asks if she thinks sheâs the one that was chosen to protect him. and she says she doesnât know; her voice cracks as she says that if sheâs wrong, sheâll meet him at the airport. OH! religious burdens, the divine pressure of fate. he watches her leave, looking troubled.
at the recycling plant- and simon IS there, saying kevin has to die, for everyone, so the new age will come. and his hands are bleeding again. all the others were false.
SCULLY AMBUSH!!! but simon is taking him into a recycling chopper. AND HE DROPS HIM IN!!! we see chopping occur!!! but it was SIMON AND NOT KEVIN THAT WAS CHOPPED!!! kevin caught himself on the ledge!!!! she pulls him up.
he says he knew sheâd come, and they hug so so so tight, and she places a kiss on his head when sheâs holding him, and iâm gonna cry like a baby
when theyâre getting him around to leave, she says that maybe sheâll see him again sometime, and he says that she will.
and scully looks like sheâs crying- i donât think she is, but she puts her head in her hand- mulder comes in and asks if sheâs okay. she says she thinks so, and he holds out her jacket to put on. it might have been the most tender thing i have ever seen. he says they need to go make a statement; she asks him to do it alone, she has to go run an errand.
again, she mostly avoids his eyes. but he agrees, and goes to make the statement alone. he doesn't press.
AND SHE GOES TO CONFESSION???? FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 6 YEARS??? she starts talking about not being able to discuss something with mulder. she asks about miracles; if she was seeing things when it comes to saving kevin, or if she was imagining them.Â
she doubts herself because mulder didnât believe them!!!!!!!!!!! and usually he believes without question!!!
maybe they werenât meant for him, maybe they were meant for YOU, he says. and she asks if this was to bring her back; he says âsometimes we must come full circle to find the truthâ
and it makes her afraid!!!! that god is speaking but no one is listening!!!!
WHO THE HELL WROTE THIS EPISODE. NO. NO, HOLD ON IâM GONNA LOOK THIS UP.Â
KIM NEWTON. KIM. YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO GETS ME ON THIS PLANET. NO ONE ELSE DOES.
wow okay. iâm going to be pacing my room about this for 100 years. there are going to be think pieces about this, from me, for the foreseeable future. iâm losing my MIND.
i donât think i could have cooked up a more perfect episode if i had tried. something centered on scully entirely (mulder has had his fair share of attention), something about faith, something where she questions what she holds close and why she holds it close and what it means that she does so at all. what it means for there to be human good and human evil and divine good and divine evil. how god speaks to people and how we listen. or hear things that he didnât say, like simon did.Â
holy FUCK i literally could not think of anything better. and i have SO much to say. i already SAID SO MUCH, too. like iâm seriously bouncing off the walls right now. whatever love i had for scully before just quadrupled- and who knew this was even possible??
for things to be reversed, for mulder to try and talk her out of a belief, how bizarre that must have felt to him, and how cold it felt. how he just couldnât see it, how his not being able to see it drove her to doubt herself, how she must doubt herself already, but that sprung everything to the surface. how she doubts that god would use her. and use her for good.Â
but still, despite his lack of understanding, despite his trying to get her to think rationally- he is there for her, even if he doesn't get it, even if he could have done better. the way he held her jacket while she processed everything, the way he didn't question her needing time for herself. somethings are best left unspoken.
lord, iâm gonna have to stop there because if i donât. i just might never shut up ever ever ever. and i still need to proofread all my raw notes, and iâm sure iâll think of something else to say.
i started this episode AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO LMAOOOO i just had SO much to pause and observe and say which is NOT a complaint in the slightest.Â
wow. new fave episode i think. iâll have to add it to the list.Â
please let me know what you thought- are there any other scully truthers out there who lost their minds over this? did you like the episode? is it disliked and i'm strange for going on such a ramble? did you have trouble reconciling faith scully and science scully? personally i don't, but i could see how some people might. did you find mulder too dismissive? or did you think he was trying his best? some combination of both? did scully protecting that kid make you emotional? please, spill EVERYTHING. i always want you to spill everything, but now so even more than usual.
#so here we are a full two hours since i started the episode and i still have a million things to say#but my laptop is gonna die soon so maybe that's a sign#ugh mulder was so puzzling to me in this episode. he pushed back on her but i think he realized he had overstepped when she said#âwhat about the things i've seenâ i think that put things into perspective for him#i think he realized that this is a two way street when it comes to convictions#and honestly he probably hadn't given any thought into her beliefs before beyond the necklace and the science and the#sort of âit's best not to askâ mentality. he doesn't seem like he chats about personal philosophy. philosophy yes but not personal#i do think he learned a lesson here. not to invalidate her emotions and experiences and upbringing#at least i hope so. it seems like he was trying at the end even if he was confused#and you don't HAVE to get it. you never have to get it. you just have to see that something is important to someone you love#and that is enough to know something is worth respecting#man. i tired myself out with this one but i'm sure i'll think of a million other things to add when i fall asleep#ah well. i can make many posts on one subject!#my day was otherwise pretty unremarkable so good to have something to stand out about it#juni's x files liveblog#3x11#the x files#txf
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so i finally listened to rebecca london! the highlights for me were lauren, kara, and the orchestra for sure. the acting and singing in general was very good. the things i didn't like as much was how much was cut or changed. obviously i expected some changes to occur, but a lot of it just felt so different and many of the changes felt unnecessary (although idk what's going on behind the scenes so i'm sure they have their reasons). some of the translations and wording felt a bit awkward too. overall though i enjoyed it a lot and i really wish i could go see it live. my scene-by-scene reactions are under the cut :)
act 1
laurenâs voice is so pretty!! the orchestra is already slaying and weâre only on the first song.
mrs van hopper continues to slay lmao i laughed out loud
omg the transition from you will never be a lady to the zeit in einer flasche melody threw me offfff like where was petit dejeuner?? i hope the ensemble gets some good moments throughout the musical bc they were one of the most impressive parts when i saw it in vienna.
i hope someone will type up a full script of this bc i canât understand what they are saying/singing sometimes (no fault to the recorder, i think i have an auditory issue or something)
ohhh lauren sounds absolutely gorgeous in the zeit in einer flasche bits!! why did they give maxim a part in that song though lmao. iâll be interested to see how they split this up into an official cast recording (assuming they do one, idk how musicals operate) because there are a lot of singing then speaking then singing then speaking in this section.
sometimes a certain syllable is stressed and it sounds strange to me, but they are also british so idk. the orchestra continues to slay.
idk what this song is post-proposal but ok. tbh iâm glad they cut zauberhaft natĂŒrlich bc i strongly dislike that song but i donât love the replacement song either (og production got it right with no song there at all imo)
ok cutting die neue mrs de winter is CRIMINALLLLLLL!!!! WHERE IS MRS DANVERSâ ICONIC ENTRANCE????? god i was so excited to hear kara sing that part. also the ensemble is really getting the short end of the stick so far :(Â
i love the translation of sie ergibt sich nicht to âsheâs invincible, sheâs unsinkableâ so much actually. kara sounds soo good. âno man had anything to offer herâ sounded kind of weird syllable-wise but oh well, kara navigated it pretty well imo.
THEY CUT DIE LIEBEN VERWANDTEN NOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT, AM I A JOKE TO YOU??? lauren and the orchestra are very much my favorite parts so far, they sound soooo good.
i kind of miss the little musical transition between bist du böse and hilf mir durch die nacht. itâs also super interesting that they had maxim sing his part first in hilf mir durch die nacht instead of ich (obviously i already knew about this but itâs still an interesting choice). the tempo seems to be slightly faster (esp during the verses) but i could be imagining it. itâs also interesting that they translated it to âhelp me face the nightâ at some points when âhelp me through the nightâ wouldâve worked perfectly fine.
oh wow it seems like they completely rearranged the songs after, bc now we get merkwĂŒrdig. and the ensemble sounds GREAT i have to say. iâm so glad they finally got a proper song.
ooh kara sounds great during sie war gewohnt. boris remains to be my favorite favell by far but this one is good too. and iâve said it many times but this orchestra is amazing. naur now why is there an eine hand wĂ€scht die andre hand melody inserted here lol
ohh karaÂŽs breathy tone during the dialog right before rebecca⊠good shit. oh god kara sounds so good during rebecca. i still hate how itâs âcome back, rebeccaâ instead of âcome home, rebeccaâ and yes i know thatâs how it was in the og demo but why would they change it to come back when come home works just as well and sounds better imo? the orchestra continues to slay. lmaoooo at the person who screeched at the end of the song bc thatâs such a big mood.
the tempo to gott warum (the beginning at least) sounds a lot faster, i donât love it but richard sounds really good!! (i generally donât care abt maxim but i do enjoy this song sometimes). the tempo seems to have slowed a bit later in the song but idk.
oh wow i love this frank crawley!! he sounds so good, i need to put him in my pocket
THEY CUT DER BALL VON MANDERLEY đ although iâm glad petit dejeuner made an appearance (i love that song) and that the ensemble got a part here, i very much miss the og song. also, i wish i could see the costumes and choreo for this scene.
NO MRS VAN HOPPER REAPPEARANCE AND NO âIM AN AMERICAN WOMANâ OH I LOST </3 that whole scene is such a slay and i personally love big silly dance numbers so this was a blow :( i love the ich and clarice duet though!! they sound great together.
act 2
âsheâs here, sheâs there, sheâs everywhereâ iâm so sorry but i giggled at this part bc all i could think about was the roy kent chant from ted lasso đ
i actually love the âif you trespass you will bring down her curseâ like it sounds so good. although âcome back, rebeccaâ will never not sound jarring i fear. also the bridge of rebecca reprise is homoerotic as FUCK like ok i see you đ
the ensemble (shadow) part of nur ein schritt did not have the same oomph which was a bit disappointing, but oh they sound great in strandgut. omg why do they keep inserting favellâs eine hand melody into other songs omg itâs so startling and i am not a fan. that being said, the ending of strandgut was very good.
richard sounded great during kein lÀcheln omg
some of the wording in mrs de winter bin ich still sounds kind of awkward (even after listening to the recording they released) but kara and lauren did a great job navigating it and they sound great together
i am still not entirely sure why they switched around the order of the songs again but im sure they have their reasons.
moving was ist nur lost mit ihm to act 2 is such a choice
iâd love to see the lyrics to eine hand bc this translation is so interesting. this favell has a great voiceÂ
ahhhh the ensemble sounds so goodÂ
they kept the âi thought i was her closest friendâ ⊠đ the translation of rebecca reprise 2 is a bit rough but kara does a nice job handling it all. great job.
i didnât love the ending of finale 2 (iâm a whore for the big flourishing ending in the german productions) but it was beautiful nonetheless
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it does fit him kinda but i also just can't imagine him just teaching someone maybe i just don't know awsten enoughđ«ĄWAIT HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD ABOUT THAT???? but this is my new fav fact about them wowđ„č wahhh tommy does deserve everything he is a savior for realđ«Ą my minecraft addiction is unhealthy istg i don't think i will ever be able to get out of the phase at this point it's a lifestyle ngl đ€Łđ„Čbut i'm glad to hear that u also had a minecraft phase it's just such a fun game!! ohhh i never really got into sideman but they seem very funny that's for sure!!! tbh the first time i ever heard of alex will and memeulous was through probs wilbur but i listend to their podcast in quarantine and they were very funny tbh so i understand the chokehold!!!
I DID SEE SO MANY CLIPS FROM IT IM AO EXCITED FOR THE ALBUM I CANT WAIT!!! NINGNINGS SOLO WAS SO GOOD SHE IS JUST SO AMAZING EVERYTHING WISE ITS CRAZYYY and i'm going to be very upset if the solo songs do not make it to the album they will hear from my lawyers for sure!
take ur time with it u have the all the time in the world to listen to her! my fav song from her is definitely you're here that's the thing, it's like the cutest song ever but i also really love apple cider those two would probably be my favs and also sunny day as well!!!
WE LITERALLY ARE đ«ą it has never really happened to me before as well so i'm very surprised! I LOVE THE DIRVER ERA DUDEEEđ„č SO SAME LOVE THE MAN SO MUCH i will always be thankful for austin and ally for introducing me to the amazing man ross lynch isđ«Ą i listened to wallows and they are pretty good definitely will listen to them more however nothing dethroned scrawny for me so i'm staying with my basic as hell fav songđ«Ą BAEKHYUN HOWEVER I FOUND ONE OF MY NEW FAV ARISTS I THINK!!! amusement park is just so me core i love it so much!! claiming it as my song hihi! but the whole ep wasđ€đ€đ€(i still believe in u beating him one day!!!)
OH MY UR REVIEW JUST MADE MY WHOLE DAY MY GOD!!!đ„č IM VERY GLAD THAT U DIDNT REALLY DISLIKE ANY OF THEM AND THE FACT THAT SOME OF THEM MADE IT TO UR PLAYLIST IS JUSTđ„čđ„čIM VERY GLAD THAT U ENDED UP LIKING SOME OF THEMđ„čđ„čđ„č
lovely neighbor!!! hi!!đ€i think i knew that u were slovak but i kinda forgot:( HOWEVER I MIGHT ACTUALLY VISIT SLOVAKIA IN LIKE 2 WEEKS OR SO!! VERY EXCITED TO SEE THE COUNTRY!đ„ł(or more like the one city we will be visiting)
IM GLAD U ENJOYED!! I ENJOYED TALKING ABOUT MUSIC VERY MUCH AS WELL AND THANK U FOR LISTENING TO THE HUNGARIAN SONGS U ARE VERY LOVELY FOR IT!!! and also if u have any slovak song recommendation tell it to me pls as well!
LMAO NO PROBLEM FOR WRITING HER AS A CHEATER I KNEW THERE WAS PROBABLY NOT LIKE "ANY GOOD REASON" THAT U WROTE HER AS THAT BUUUT HAVING A CRUSH ON MY GFđđHOW COULD U /j
LMAO probably most likely it would be similar but i actually want to see them and like properly throw jisung up in the air like i still think about that every time i see jisung!! u portrayed it so well my lord!!!! oh my the renjun bathtub pics inspiring it just makes it even more perfect my god!!! THE LAST SCENE IS JUST SO SUPER GREAT IM VERY GLAD UR INNER JOHN GREEN PULLED THROUGH XD I LOVE IT WHEN MEN ARE SIMPS ITS SO RARE BUT I LOVE IIITđ«Ą i wrote it right after i read it and my emotions were all over the place it showed very much i think xd AND THAT IS CRAZY WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THAT PLAYINGGGG (liebestraum anonđđ)
no thats so valid i couldnt imagine him being a guitar teacher either LMAO. and tommy deserves the world for that song alone AHAH also i understand the minecraft lifestyle the other day i wanted to download it too but it didnt work and i am not paying for that game so i just gave up after a while lmaoo. sidemen are funny sometimes but sometimes they also miss w their humor so take it as you will AHAHA. i didnt listen to the eboys podcast if u mean that one!! i am not a podcast girlie tbh i dont enjoy listening to people talk jfkdals but their videos were honestly my favs. also i sometimes still watch george memelous drinking vids where they watch terrible movies because i just think that is peak comedy
MY GIRLFRIEND NINGNING DID SO WELL the solo is stuck in my brain i NEED A STUDIO VERSION ASAP. i honestly never really stanned any girlgroups but aespa have such a chokehold on me istg- my friend said its only bc theyre the girl version of nct sound-wise and i was like :D ok then.
I STILL HAVENT LISTENED TO BEABADOBEE BUT I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU A REVIEW OF THESE IN YOUR NEXT ASK
no bc when austin and ally aired i was fundamentaly changed as a human. everything about ross lynch was just- DFJKA i even watched the teen beach movie like three times because i had such a crush on him LMAO. i wasnt really ever big on r5 (however i still have some of their songs in my playlist) but the driver era are sososo good. scrawny is so good!!! i think my fav from wallows (at least atm) is definitely wish me luck. it has such a good sound and the lyrics are honestly sososo good ugh. YES CLAIM AMUSEMENT PARK!!! ITS ONE OF MY FAV SONGS EVER AHHH i personally claim bambi because it's my nickname irl and when he came out w the song i lost my shit so hard i made it my whole entire personality. (thank u for believing in me. rather than beating hyuck i now fantasize about us going to a baekhyun concert together in my dreams<3)
THANK U TO INTRODUCING ME TO HUNGARIAN MUSIC!! i really have nothing against trying songs in diff languages if thats what you were afraid of!! i really enjoyed all of the songs they were so vibey<33 your music taste>>> AHAHA ITS OKAY IF U FORGOT IM SLOVAK i mean i dont really talk abt it here as much?? on my main tho,,, i dont shut up about the fact i even shitpost in slovak sometimes bc i just can. slovak music recs are hard for me to give bc i dont listen to slovak music much?? and the ones i do listen to i would get clowned for in slovakia bc they are just objectively not good songs but theyre my guilty pleasure AHAHA but if you really do wanna listen to some i recommend my by yael (it was in my top 10 on spotify wrapped last year LMAO), vÄaka ti by yael and puerto (which is a badbunny cover lmao but listen to the ver on youtube and not spotify bc the spotify one sucks ass), valeriya by samey (THIS is a guilty pleasure for sure. the rap is weird but the lyrics are beautiful), starĂ© Äasy by medial banana, kĂĄva by medial banana, zĂĄvereÄnĂĄ by inĂ© kafe, nad prahou by zoÄi voÄi and vÄera som miloval by fishing strip (for some good slovak punk rock<3) ALSO WHICH CITY ARE U VISITING (if u wanna tell me ofc)
the renjun bathtub pics....altered my brain chemistry so much iykwim. like i knew my man was hot but i didnt know he could get THIS hot. AHAHA MEN BEING SIMPS IS RARE BUT SO FUCKING GOOD thats why i even started my series in the first place the original title was the simp diaries bc its all about men being simps AHAHAHA
#đask#liebestraum anon#i think the whole dash is gonna hate us for the lengthy interactions but i honestly do not care block the tag if youre pressed mwah
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I revised the sex scene in this NSFW Gumroad Commission for Fake. Hopefully, it's to her liking this time.
(Fake ASMR Script) [NSFW Gumroad Commission] Sex With Your Crush While Camping {F4M}
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*play the same nighttime ambience you used for the 2nd half of the original audio. the one without the campfire. just use that for this entire audio. this commission picks up right where the original audio left off.*
"So lemme get this straight. If we both had a crush on each other then that means we're official now, right? You know... A couple? Boyfriend & girlfriend?"
...
"Oh My God, it makes me so happy to hear that! Haha! Come here, you. Gimme your warmth."
"Mmmmm... You're so soft. I'm holding the man of my dreams in my arms while nuzzling into him. This is the best night of my life."
...
"I'm not even bothered by the outdoors at this point. As long as I'm with you, I feel invincible."
"Maybe I won't kick Jackson's ass after all. He's the reason we're together now. I bet he had this all planned out. I should thank him in the morning instead."
...
"Of course you can kiss me! God, the thought of feeling your lips against mine... *Mmmph* *Lip Smack*"
"Hahhh... That was too short. I need another one. One that'll last longer."
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"A french kiss. So you wanna sword fight me with your tongue, eh? I accept your duel. En Garde!"
*several seconds of french kissing sounds*
*deep inhale to catch breath*
"Whew... That was awesome! God, I've always wanted to do that with you. That felt incredible."
"Hm? Ohhh... I knew I felt something poking me. All that kissing got you riled up, didn't it?"
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"Oh, come on. Don't feel ashamed. Your body is having a completely normal reaction to the situation. You just made out with your girlfriend. I'd be surprised if you didn't have a boner right now."
"And I'll be honest with you. That make-out session made me rather... Wet."
...
"Hehehe~ I suppose it's fitting that nature is calling considering we're out in the wilderness right now."
"Are we really gonna do this though? I mean... Don't get me wrong. I am VERY horny for you right now, but... Jackson is sleeping in the tent next to us. What if our lewd noises wake him up?"
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"It's more exciting that way. Well, I guess the possibility of getting caught does make it more thrilling."
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"Right. He did set us up. I doubt he'd actually get upset about it. Maybe he's expecting this to happen. He might even be pretending to sleep just waiting for us to go at it."
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"Yeah, let's not dwell on it too much. Let's just... Enjoy ourselves~ Whatever happens... Happens~"
*more kissing sounds*
"You know what they say about sex while camping. It's fucking in tents."
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"Ahaha~ I hope that joke didn't kill the mood."
"Woah!" *cushiony thud*
"Okay, you're definitely still eager."
*sound of clothes removal*
"And there goes my top. AAHH~! Hahhh~ Oh God... Going straight for my boobs, huh? Mmmmmph~ You're so hungry for my soft feminine flesh. Aaahhh~ I didn't think you'd be lusting for my body this much."
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"You think I'm hot & sexy. Hahhh~ Well, now I feel silly for not assuming that earlier. Mmmph~ You really like what you see, huh?"
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"You wanna see more. Heh~ Help yourself then. These pants aren't gonna take themselves off. Here, I'll help you strip to."
*more clothes sounds*
"Wow... That's quite the piece of meat you got there. Stiff as a rod & eager to go inside me. I'm flattered."
"So... What position do you wanna try?"
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"Prone Bone. I think I've heard of that before. Isn't that the position where the girl lays flat on her belly & the guy penetrates her from behind?"
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"I thought so. That sounds like a great idea. A nice comfortable position that doesn't require much effort."
*fabric shuffling sounds*
"Well~ I'm all yours~ Let's drown in pleasure together~"
*slap sound*
"AAAHHH~! Oh fuck. Haha. Woah. I wasn't expecting you to spank my ass like that."
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"It's round & perky. Of course you'd say that. Just hurry up & dick me down already. I can't wait any longer.
*okay, so like... I remember when Max commissioned NSFW audios, he requested squishing sounds for the sex scenes & you didn't add them. I would also like squishing sounds, but I won't say that they're required. just encouraged. if you add them... great. if not... well whatever I guess.*
"Ah~ There you go. Nice &... Aahh~ Easy. Hahhh..."
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"Don't worry. I'm fine. It's a good thing I'm well lubricated down there. Just start slow, okay?"
*moaning sounds*
"Oh, fuck~ This is intense~"
*moaning sounds*
"I could get used to this~ It's so strange, but it feels so wonderful~"
*moaning sounds*
"Just knowing it's you~ My one true love~ You really are the best~"
*moaning sounds*
"Oh God, this is heaven~ Fuck~ Yes~"
*moaning sounds*
"I like all the delicious sounds you're making~ It's so erotic~"
*moaning sounds*
"Aha~ Jeez, all this moaning & groaning is sure to wake Jackson up~ But whatever~ I feel too fucking good to care~"
*louder moaning sounds now*
"You're pumping even faster~ Keep going~ The pleasure is almost too great~"
*moaning sounds*
"I can only imagine how good this feels for you as well, hun~ Although~ I don't really need to imagine it when I'm already feeling it myself~"
*moaning sounds*
"Your moans tell me everything~ You want nothing more than to fill up your cute girlfriend, don't you~?"
*moaning sounds*
"Don't hold back~ Cum inside me~ Please~ We both deserve to feel the height of ecstasy~"
*moaning sounds*
"Hold me close~ Keep me pinned down & don't let go~ My body is all yours~"
*moaning sounds*
"I love you~! I love you~! I love you so much~!"
*moaning sounds*
"I'm about to cum~"
*moaning sounds*
"I'M CUMMING~!"
*loudest moaning sounds*
"Hahhh... Hahhh... Hahhh... Hahhh..."
"Hahhhhhh... So warm... It feels so warm~."
"Hahhhhh... That was amazing. That was the greatest experience of my entire life. I think I've peaked. I doubt anything will ever top that."
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"No, wait. Don't pull out yet. Stay inside me a while longer. Let's just bask in the afterglow together."
*footsteps heard outside the tent*
"Oh, shit! Never mind. Jackson's awake. Pull out & get under the covers quick. Damnit, we're totally busted."
*tent zipper sound*
"Uh... Hey... Jackson."
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"Yeah, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. We had sex while you were asleep."
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"You were never asleep?! You mean you were listening to us the entire time?!"
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"I knew it! I knew you weren't really sleeping. My hunch was correct."
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"Well, I suppose I should thank you. Embarrassing as this is, we had a lot of intimate fun thanks to you."
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"All according to plan. Yeah... I know. Anyway, can we actually get some sleep now? I'm extra tired after all that."
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"Only a few hours. In that case, me & my boyfriend are definitely gonna sleep in tomorrow morning."
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"Don't push your luck, Jackson. Whether we bang again the next night or not isn't any of your business. Now go back to your tent."
*tent zipper sound*
"Sigh... That guy... I swear."
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"Make no mistake, babe. We are definitely going to smash again by next nightfall. That was so much fun."
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"I love you to, darling."
*kiss sound*
"Goodnight. Sweet dreams."
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