incorrect pit babe 2/? no more fruit throwing at babe is that clear!
this one came to me in a dream, what if north hit babe with the apple and not missed like he did. hahahah
this also is dedicated to @bunnakit because they are not feeling well and are just a really cool person that deserves cool things <3
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Remembering how when I first watched the movie it was the theatrical cut and it cuts straight to Dally on the street corner. Pony never walked home from the movies, never got jumped.
So I just thought he had a weird ass mole on his neck the whole time… it was a scab… from where they cut him… you know that we don’t get to see in that version.
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Out of all of Wei Wuxian's traits, one of the ones that fascinates me the most is how incredibly casual and chummy he is with corpses. All the other cultivators are a bit desensitized to the dead by nature of their profession, yes, but Wei Wuxian in particular treats the dead very much the same as he treats living people, and I think it's simultaneously one of his best and most concerning attributes.
On the good side, the way Wei Wuxian treats the dead is absolutely an extension of his overall goodness and empathy. He stands on the side of those that are looked down on, and nobody faces more discrimination that the dead. He treats the dead like people because they are people, and they deserve to have their voices heard. That's what Empathy's for, and that's why he revives Wen Ning to stand as witness to his own murder. Wen Ning is not a thing! And even when Wei Wuxian is raising armies of dead Wens to fight on his behalf, we get illustrations of him giving a helping hand to a weak old corpse that can't stand on its own.
Wei Wuxian is painted in very deliberate contrast to Xue Yang, who treats the dead as tools and deprives them of agency. His closeness with them is a symbol of his kindness.
However, beyond treating the dead decently and like people, there is a point where his chumminess with them starts to get unsettling, and that's the point where it becomes a reflection of his loneliness and trauma. In particular, I'm thinking of his cuddliness with the ghosts he uses to torture Wen Chao and the corpse girls he's hanging out with when he invites Lan Zhan to drink with him. Because treating the dead with respect is a very different thing from having a corpse lay in your lap as you stroke its hair. And fierce corpses by definition do not have personalities (with Wen Ning as the exception that proves the rule), so treating them as companions to socialize with is rather concerning behavior.
So why is he like this? Isolation and trauma!
It's easy to understate the trauma of Wei Wuxian's three months in the Burial Mound, especially given that we don't see them play out but do get details about so many other horrible moments. But those three months? They Fucked Him Up. In particular, beyond the trauma of the near death experience (or presumably many many near death experiences in a row), he spent the better part of three months without seeing a single other living human. People are not meant to do that.
So what is a person gonna do when he spends three months in Worse Solitary Confinement? And when that solitude is spent on Fierce Corpse Mountain? He's gonna get really weird about corpses. He's gonna turn into the kind of man that would let a murderous ghost he's controlling lay in his lap as he strokes her hair, because for an extended period of time, that is the closest thing to human contact he's had access to.
And later, post-sunshot-campaign, Wei Wuxian does regain access to living humans and society, but he's still incredibly isolated. Just about everyone besides his siblings and Lan Zhan hates and/or is scared of him by the time we hit the scene of him and the fierce corpse girls throwing flowers, so it's no wonder he's hanging out with dead people. He already picked up the habit of replacing company with corpses once, so of course he doesn't see anything wrong with it. Maybe they're there as bodyguards, maybe he's just extremely lonely and doesn't have any human companions to drink with him, or maybe (probably) it's a mix of both. But in any case, it's a pretty clear expression of a horrifying degree of both past and present isolation.
That's why, though he doesn't lose his respect for the dead or his desensitization to touching corpses, we never see him just Hanging Out With Mindless Ghosts in his second life. It's a substitute for real companionship, not a healthy behavior, but lack of company is no longer an issue he has after being resurrected.
He doesn't need an entourage of corpse girls, because this time, when he wants company, he's always got Lan Zhan.
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Can you guys help me find an episode of Tangled? I think it may have been taken down after it aired and I can’t find it anywhere.
It was somewhere in season 3 and started off with Varian, Rapunzel, Lance, the girls, and Eugene walking downtown. They met a charlatan who was pretending to be able to talk to ghosts, so Eugene and Varian fucked with them a little bit. I vaguely remember Varian asking them to speak with his Aunt Lily and after spewing some nonsense Varian fake cried and then was like “that’s so weird considering I don’t have an Aunt Lily” and after fist-bumping Eugene, Rapunzel had to steer the group away before someone’s feelings got hurt.
The rest of the episode I don’t remember as well but I think Kiera, Catalina, and Varian realized they could make a ton of money pretending to talk to ghosts and essentially started becoming the Long Island Mediums of Corona. They were purposefully saying stupid stuff but people were buying into it. They were getting huge just by essentially shitposting and profiting off of peoples grief and idiocy. And also I think they hired Shorty to make ghost noises but I genuinely don’t remember.
I think the conflict of the episode was about Eugene and Lance being really proud and amused by their antics but Rapunzel being upset that they were scamming people.
It was a really funny episode and I loved the sibling vibes between Varian and the girls and Eugene and Lance were being awesome and ofc Rapunzel was kinda girlbossing too. I really loved the episode. It was really funny and Varian was peak shitty, but it was also super heartwarming. The scene where Rapunzel Freudian slipped up and called Varian her baby brother admittedly, made me tear up.
Anyway if you guys could find this episode for me that’d be great. I’m pretty sure Disney tried to hide it since for some reason Jeremy Jordan was allowed to drop numerous f-bombs. I’m assuming there was some complaint after it aired and so now they’re trying to pretend it never happened. That’s Disney for you 🤷🏻♀️
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