#SHE FUCKED UP REEEEAL BAD RECENTLY

[crowleplays]

How about fuchsia potion and violet potion for my fav gal Decary?

Fuchsia Potion: …the worst injury they’ve ever had, mental or physical.

“...Beyond initially dyin’, uh, I think officially breakin’ up with Eeleth is goin’ t’haunt me for the rest of my days.”

Violet Potion: …the obsession that’s going to lead to their downfall.

“Tryin’ t’fix past mistakes.”

[familyagrestefanblog]

Stormy weather 2

I've just been watching Stormy weather 2 and now I really have to get my opinion out, I'm genuinely angry. This. THIS is what you all are so pissy about? Are you all kidding me??

That was a more than solid recap episode, summarizing all the changes of the past seasons, wrapping it up and forshadow and set up the new ones. I literally can't with this Fandom anymore JESUS GIVE ME STRENGTH yall are blinder as you pretend Adrien is! Playing high and mighty and complain about the writing when, it's seems like, 90% of this Fandom wouldn't recognize appropriate writing FOR A SHOW WITH A STRUCTURE LIKE THIS when it would hit you in the face! I really didn't wanted to be like this and thought about just saying nothing but then I watch the actual episode and you all are so obliviously and aggressively HATEFUL against this show rn I freaking CAN'T anymore!

"we did see the fight with stormy weather!" We didn't NEED to see the fight because this wasn't a normal akuma-fighting-episode. You wanna see them fighting against her? Watch the first SW episode, that episode was about her and dealing with her. THIS episode rightfully kept its priorities somewhere else, the characters and their recaps! (PLUS the reason they chose Stormy weather is because the first one was the pilot for the entire show, it's only fitting to use her for the recap) Besides in the last part of the fight we were in the pov of the citizens, we were supposed to see the fights for once with their eyes! They were scared, confused and glued on their tvs and phones to follow the news to at least understand a little bit what's going on! You complain about not seeing the fight? Oh well my dearies THAT WAS THE POINT! The citizens never get to see what we see and in an episode where the fight is literally just an afterthought, it was the perfect opportunity to show us that side of reality.

"the episode was mostly scene from other episodes?" And how is that a problem with A RECAP EPISODE? Just because old scenes were reused doesn't it automatically make the episode bad. Just the fact that some of you think that way makes me rip my hair out in frustration! Yes alot of old scenes were used again, but it was done so the characters could give us their thoughts and opinions on them WHILE giving the happening and purpose of the scenes in the first place a conclusion and wrapping them up for what's to come. "the scenes went on too long!" well I personally disagree that it got too much, but here at least I can understand possible complaints. There certainly were scenes (like the CN and LB glaciator scene) that could have been cut down a little (but really not too much) but once again, I didn't mind. Because I figured that these scenes were chosen for a reason, so casual viewers and kids need all the informations given in them, so yeah I DIDN'T MIND

"they undid all of Chloes character development!" No they didn't, because the show never pretended like Chloe suddenly turned into a better person after being a jerk and bully for so long. Everything the show did up to this point was showing us that Chloe IS capable of changing and that she'll eventually grow into her better self and a hero in time, with patience and the right motivation. We are in season 3 of 6, why are you all expecting the show to unrealistically rush this redemption? We. Have. TIME! "This only proves that Chloe shouldn't have gotten the miraculous!" not right but not exactly wrong either. It proves that Chloe rn shouldn't be giving the miraculous for good or in normal fights that don't involve her parents because she isn't worthy of it yet. That is why the episode makes a point by showing us LB and CN not reacting to Chloes "queen bee signal" while at the same time showing us that Chloe might think she deserves to be a part of this already but everything she has done in recent past and even THIS EPISODE tells us the complete opposite. Still I understand complaints that Chloe shouldn't be the bee miraculous holder in general but I understand the two times she was Queen Bee (one was against her father so yeah makes sense and the other time was in the heros day finale where Hawkmoth literally was on the loose alongside 10.000 other akuma villains with no end in sight. I can understand the logic of giving it to her again since a fight like that certainly doesn't need a totally inexperienced hero in there and Chloe at least knows how the powers work so yeah 2.0) and the overall idea of what her character is supposed to represent in the end. Chloes character is there to show that even a rotten bully child is eventually capable of redemption and becoming a good person and hero. That is a valid and important topic in a kids/family show. I think alot of people often forget that this show is not only there to tell a "lovey dopey everything gone bad can be resolved and learned in 20 minutes go lucky story" this show and its characters are literally there to help and guide children/the viewers (I'm 20 and Adrien helps me ALOT to deal with my family issues honestly). Believe it or not children/people like Chloe exist and so do the people who have to deal with them. And it helps them NOTHING when they make Chloe a "look at what a horrible person she has been for YEARS but oh would you look at that! Now she did a couple of good things, obviously that means that she left most of her horrible ways in the past and we don't have to worry about her relapseing again, she's only getting better now" character. Honestly that helps nobody because real life people don't behave and change like that. The way they are doing it rn is very good, because this way we can see the transition between villain/bully Chloe to good/redeemed hero and friend Chloe in alot of varieties and steps to make her character more fleshed out and relatable to the audience so they actually understand the complexity of a person/situation like that and that she IS indeed worthy of redemption after everything she has done (keep in mind, she's 14! She may have done horrible horrible stuff but a 14 year old CHILD should ALWAYS be allowed to change and redeem herself).

Okay last one now since it's already half past fuck in the morning.

"Adrien is a stupid idiot for dismissing/not realizing it was Marinettes poem and they are only unnecessarily stretching the love confession out" okay first of all, Adrien DID figure out it was Marinettes poem. He no shit acknowledged that and I have no idea how yall missed that. Second of all, Marinettes love confession/feelings for him are a BIG part of the structure and overall plot of the show and it will continue to be that way (same for CN and LB), so yeah of course they are stretching it what are you expecting here? Besides, SW2 is an episode that is written to watchable everywhere in season 3, so if you actually expected from the end scene to end any other way than the writing is not the problem here. It's more than logical and obvious at this point that they cant/wouldn't do the actual step of Marinettes actually and REALLY confessing her love to him(that's a move for like the season 4 finale). But still they got us further in the plot. Adrien acknowledged the possibility but dismissed it for obvious reasons I'm getting to in a bit. Still, the step of him connecting the dots was there, stop pretending like it wasn't. Yes its stretches the whole confession thing and I KNOW that's not what yall impatient shippers wanna see, but that doesn't change the fact that the "dismissing" step is a valid and by God more than enough forshadowed step for this show to take (plus do you all actually think it's an appropriate way for the show to let Adrien find out about Marinettes love for him FOR GOOD in Form of a letter and an old poem? Gosh people Marinette deserves better than that. I'm proud of her for how far she has come but this plot arc of hers deserves a better solution than THIS). And last but not least, third of all. Adrien had solid reasons to dismiss the idea of Marinettes being in love with him, yall just pretend like literally 95% all the shows plot doesn't exists because it doesn't play out the way you want or isn't BAM IN YOUR FACE. The whole "and there is Luka" thing is not coming out of nowhere yknow? Adrien saw that Marinette showed interest in Luka and Luka in her in "frozer" plus the episode gave us a flashback of "troublemaker" where Marinette literally SAYS TO HIM no I'm not into you, I'm into fashion. I like you/I'm interested in you BUT NOT LIKE THAT! Honestly, if a friend of mine said that to me and showed interest in someone else I also would tend to dismiss the option of them being in love with me. PLUS, same as with Chloe Adriens character is actually supposed to HELP children/the viewer in simular situations as them. And the way some of you react to Adrien it tells me that you have a better home situation as him (which im REALLY glad about believe me) still you all gotta accept that children with bad parent/s like Adrien exists and they NEED to see themselves represented and dealt with. Gabriel is a horribly neglectful and distant parent and THIS can fuck up a child self worth and self esteem REEEEAL GOOD believe me. Chances are not low that Adrien couldn't believe That anybody could actually be in love with him, and even if, they would totally only be in love with the "perfect Adrien" he has to be in public. The show certainly showed us enough of Adriens insecurities, self esteem issues and inferior complex to make this an possible option. Never forget that these characters are made the way they are to help and tell/teach something to the audience even if sometimes the character or the lesson provided and learned or helped with IS NOT FOR YOU. Adriens whole character helps me personally IMMENSELY but I still see him being dismissed left and right in the Fandom. Same way with Alya for example for me, she and her arc are not made for me, still I respect her presence and importants in the show.

Okay, I'm gonna make a cut here now cuz its REALLY late now but this was worth it.

[halcyotic]

“ ’cause if i did, that would be reeeeal bad for you, wouldn’t it? i may be dead, but i guarantee you ain’t heard the last of me. “ 

 THE DEEP STONE CRYPT. 

   there’s a fact that EXOs all have the shared collective memory, a dream, that they remember something so specific, a tower, killing faces they have never seen, but they never truly remember. cayde, however... he started thinking, putting the pieces together. in his early guardian days, he searched. he needed answers. and one day, he found them. 

    deep within a hidden moon of saturn, he found what he was looking for. where he traded flesh and bone for metal and time. he found — 

                 where was he? what is this place? 

     sundance didn’t dare speak a word    ;    as he traveled outside, holding his head, did EXOs really get headaches? he looked around and recalled her. “      where are we, sun? this... that’s saturn...     ” she hovered, before she disappeared     ;     dumbfounded, he stayed there for some time. sat atop a hill of ice, and stared out to the rings of saturn, the layers of rock and dust and light. he contemplated there, stayed there, for weeks upon months upon a year      —      and he read his diary. he knew where he was, he recalled through flashes in time, cuts in the fabric of this physical plane and could’ve sworn he astrally projected at some point.

      reading each page over and over again, he squinted      ;      discovered he had written hidden messages to himself, and he cracked it       —      sundance buzzing nervously in the back of his head, she warned him      ;     she told him not to go in there       —        

                            where was he again? what is this place?

      it’s on enceladus. 

        he read the pages over and over again, once, twice, thrice       ;     before he noticed something, remembered something        —      a flash cutting across his mind that instilled genuine fear into him. and he recalled sundance through her obvious guilt, she set up transmat and they fled the small moon. 

        there was something eerie about this place, something horribly off. and he was nowhere near prepared to fight his way inside. cayde-6... he learned the six was a number of how many times he had been reset. but he didn’t like it, there was a sinking feeling where his stomach would be, deep in the pit of his abdomen, and if he could, he’d shake. “    i don’t like that number, sundance.       ” she rolled her optic to his paranoia, and went about her business       ;       but he was serious. there was something that screamed in him to not let it reach past six, never think past six, never think past six, six, six six      ———

       he had a lot of moments of anguished screams into oblivion, when the whispers had gotten to be too MUCH. he heard it somewhere, he fucking swore he heard it, six, he felt like he was on the verge of remembering, six, if he could just keep his mind tethered to the ground long enough —- six. if he could NOT WAVER —— SIX. and he cried out into the storm, let the rain pound against his metal plating, let the feeling of it rolling down cheeks imitate the feeling of crying.

        never think past six. and he found the awoken. he found the reef, he was on edge       ;      he was weary, yet he fought, he was her dirty worker. it was like she owned him, told him to clean up her enemies, and he didn’t know what he was doing, where he was going,and he deviated        ——       he found pieces to the puzzle he faintly knew existed, and soon, they began to fill a picture he could just begin to make out. never think past six. and he left. he called off his deal, traveled back home. he had what he needed. he had his lead. 

          cayde-six. his diary became heavier. he realized he would need another one. one could only rip out so many pages and stuff more in for so long. he put it away in a hidden cache, picked up more paper, and began to fit the puzzle pieces into place. “     sundance... tell me about the traveler.      ” and so she did. 

 ————        clovis bray. that name haunted him, reopened something that felt like a scar, like someone had twisted a knife deeper and deeper into the crevices of his mind. and he felt fear. anger. he didn’t know why. and all sun could do was tell him he experienced a harsh anxiety attack. it was like it was conditioned. A part of him screaming, something felt so terribly WRONG. 

           there were some times where cayde pushed himself too hard. and certain parts of him began to short circuit ;     memory was ever so elusive and hazy as it ever was. he had sun heal him whenever one arm completely went limp, ceased working       ;      and only then did he feel his fans overworking, and he was overheating. she told him to stop, to calm down, and for a while it was useless. but eventually he learned to have better control over emotions, as he came to learn that he didn’t need to have an explanation for everything just yet. it got a lot easier since then.

         never count past six. it was a drawn out voice in his head, low, whispered and hushed.and a century of hearing it echo throughout his head did he become completely conditioned, worn down, manipulated.“     i’m never going to be reset past six, sun. never.        ” and it was then, after traveling back to the moon did he realize why.and he went into shock. 

         he was out of commission for some two days, three? he found the tattered paper, hidden away just perfectly so only he could ever find it. and written away on it was something he didn’t want to know, didn’t want to believe.

         so the flashes were true. the memories he never knew were memories, they were true.he had been a criminal in his days before living as a guardian. 

         it changed how he saw himself. something in him changed then, sun noticed, though she couldn’t do anything about it. she knew there was good in him. she knew his heart had been broken, but through the cracks there was gold, streaks of it, holding it together and revealing itself deep enough. she knew he was a good man, deep down.

         “       sun... i think i know why i get anxious with seven.     ”

                “       what d’you mean?      ” 

         “       i know. you were terrified because you couldn’t help me.    ”

                “        cayde...     ” 

         “       i’m not really cayde-6, am i ?        ”

                  “       ...     i’m sorry, i did everything i could, i      —     “ 

         “        s’not your fault, darlin’. i think i knew for a while     ;     with that fucking whisper i keep hearing. 

                                              “        i’m cayde-9, aren’t i ?       ”   

      it had been a century later. things had violently settled, he had come to terms with his resets, though they were recent, and that scared him. he spent these years honing his skills, bettering himself, clearing his mind time and time again in meditation, trying to bring mind and body together, to tether himself back to this plane.

     he listened to the whisper in his head still, listened to the way he grew frantic at the thought of 7, or anything above seven. he stayed cayde-6. when was the time he was actually cayde-6? he didn’t know. but he would find out.

      he knew somewhere, someone, some thing, had been pulling the strings of his mind. and so he worked from the shadows, never once getting too close. and sun volunteered multiple times for recon when they became obsessed with enceladus. there they resided often, and he began to fit more pieces in place, more and more, left clues for his future self to find, like a treasure map, because only he could find it. only he possessed the will and strength to keep going through the cycles, never letting his will and determination falter. he wanted answers. he would find his answers.