#Seeing the puppy therapy in Charlotte's interlude is the only reason I'm not still a mess

[cairavende]

Fiiiiiine, I guess I might have one or two other thoughts:

I didn't expect 4 chapters inside a prison cell/interrogation room, but of the things I didn't expect in this arc that's one of the lesser

Quinn Calle (sorry - Quinn Calle, Esquire) is a perfect cinnamon roll who is too good for this world. I would die for him.

And he is also a very good lawyer!

I love Dinah just full blown taking control of her situation, and that her parents support her!

Tagg is being a fucking giant asshole to her and she and her parents present a united "Fuck off!"

Like - "You want answers, Director? Fine. Twenty two point eight one three percent chance you die painfully, over long, slow minutes or hours. Maybe soon, maybe in twenty years, but it’ll bring you to tears, and you’ll wail in pain. That’s a freebie. Want more details?" GOD FUCKING DAMN! DINAH DON'T TAKE NO SHIT!

(Also like, by the end of the arc this prediction is a lot more meaningful)

And the scene when they realize Skitter (shush, she's still Skitter at that point) can hear them? Absolutely amazing. Just the entire building of bugs saying "Yes" all at once in response to Tagg saying "So, you can hear me." So fucking cool.

Danny gets a chance to redeem himself and he starts our quite rough, not really giving his daughter the support he should be. But after a bit he starts to stand up for her to Tagg, so I guess I can give him partial credit on this.

Sure you are just learning some of the things your daughter has done, but you shouldn't be trusting what the cops are saying so easily!

And as for Alexandria . . . well I could spend a lot of bullet points talking about how terrible she was being and how it doesn't matter how noble her end goals might be, her actions were evil, and so on.

Or I could just say GUESS WHAT ALEXANDRIA? CAN'T BREATH SPIDERS!

YOU WERE FUCKED THE MOMENT SKITTER THOUGHT YOU HAD KILLED RACHEL! DON'T FUCK WITH WOLFSPIDER!

There is very little more dangerous then the power of gay wrath.

Is it good that Skitter killed Alexandria? I dunno. Is it badass? Yes.

Also get fucked Tagg, you were one of the worst people I've met in this book and the world is probably a better place without you in it.

I personally wasn't worried about Brian or Rachel being dead, the fact that we specifically didn't "see" the body (cause it was in a body bag the entire time) made it pretty clear that it probably wasn't them.

"Stop trying things!" has got to be one of the best lines in the book.

I'm not sure which is more upsetting in the end, that my daughter is going to be a cop or that "Definitely Not Armsmaster" is probably going to end up being her fucking mentor!

God I hate that man so much and he's making it harder to justify my hate because he's becoming a better person and WOULD YOU KINDLY JUST KEEP BEING A DICK SO I CAN BE JUSTIFIED IN HATING YOU?? FUCK!

I do love the shit out of the fact that my Robot Daughter is basically filling the mother role for my Bug Daughter. They both needed someone.

I wouldn't be happy that Alexandria is getting her actions excused with "Simmy did it", except that just means they are talking up Simmy and I can't be mad about someone talking up the sexiest character in the book!

Anyway, I love my bug daughter very much. She can obviously use whatever name she wants, Weaver is fine. I just wish she wasn't working for the cops.

THE DOGS HOWLING DURING HER SPEECH! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

SAD GAY NOISES 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Charlotte interlude thoughts:

Burly Henchman Number 1 (Forrest) is ready to switch to Burly Sidekick Number 1 in a heartbeat. That man trusts Taylor, no matter what name or costume she is wearing.

Danny shows up and is just . . . Danny. But Charlotte had my back! Every single time he said something that made me want to rip my hair out she was right there to call him out!

Danny coming in with "Kids are hard" and Charlotte correcting him with "People are hard to deal with" was perfection. Best possible response! It acknowledges that kids are just people and need to be treated as such, and it adds "to deal with" which changes the tone to be saying negative things about the situation, not the child.

Forrest learned who Danny was and within a few seconds was out-dadding the SHIT out of him.

"You are having trouble with your one child? That sucks, excuse me while I take care of this pile of children right here and do it in a positive way."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PUPPY THERAPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Look at Rachel's growth! SHE IS SO SAD AND YET SHE IS STILL HELPING OTHER PEOPLE BY LETTING THEM PLAY WITH PUPPIES!!!!!!!

Well hopefully Charlotte is correct that the kid doesn't have super powers, cause I don't want to know what kind of super powers a 5 year old who triggered during a night terror would be.

I'm sure there isn't anything else to worry about!

Lung interlude thoughts:

I'm so happy I finally get to see Contessa fight! It pretty much looked exactly how I expected it to look and I love it!! She works for the bad guys, but I still love her.

Lung's whole ... thing sure gives new meaning to "chasing the dragon".

Sure would suck to be anything that isn't an Endbringer and having to fight 30 foot tall dragon Lung.

I learned more about the C.U.I. and yet still know nothing

Holy FUCK! Teacher is doing some fae ass shit. "I give people a boon that allows them to think better or create better, but at a cost of some of their soul" is basically what he said. That's a fae. That's just a fae trap.

And motherfucking Saint the piece of shit! I hate that man so much. HE FUCKED WITH ROBOT DAUGHTER! The fact that Teacher is working with him only makes everything worse.

ALSO WHAT WAS AMY SAYING??? AHHHHHH I WANNA KNOW!

Like sure I think I've got a decent prediction of a good chunk of things, including a lot of the stuff Amy knows, but not everything Amy knows! And everyone was just talking around it without actually saying it all chapter and AAAAAAAA!!!!!!

Worm Arc 22 thoughts:

. . . . . WELL OKAY THEN