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audliminal · 4 months

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It's barely the end of the first day of school, and three faculty members are dead. Nobody knows much yet, but supposedly the six freshman who all managed to get detention on the very first day of school were involved and, if the rumors are to be believed, two of them actually died. In a dumb fight in the cafeteria against some animated corn. Kipperlily rolls her eyes when she hears it. They're clearly a bunch of losers who are going to either drop out or get someone killed before the year is out, but that's not really her problem, is it?

Still, just to be on the safe side, maybe their party should spend some time in the woods behind the school, and get some practice in with rats and things before they find themselves involved in a fight like those dumb detention kids did.

It's a month into the school year, and Kipperlily's starting to get the hang of things. She's feeling comfortable in a fight now, they've been killing rats and twig gremlins in the Far Haven Woods as often as they can manage, and they're getting really good at it. They even have a name now, the High 5 Heroes, chosen by Kipperlily herself, of course.

Meanwhile, Kipperlily's pretty sure the kids from detention actually killed someone, though nobody seems to be talking about it. Kipperlily doesn't care what anyone says, she's heard multiple people say they saw members of their group talking to Penelope Sam and Johnny spells, and then the day after Johnny Spells gets killed in a fucking car chase, the rich kid, who's literally the son of a pirate, has a mysterious new motorcycle? It's all far too suspicious.

It's the week after winter break, and Kipperlily is stuck in the stupid guidance councilor's office, talking about her dumb feelings. Unlike the Bad Kids (and what kind of stupid name is that), who apparently had an adventure dropped in their lap within minutes of the first school day ending, Kipperlily has been waiting months and still nothing has popped up. Plus Oisin and Ivy keep joking about changing their party name to the Rat Grinders.

It's dumb. Who would want a party name that's based on some joke? Besides, she already chose the name. So why on earth would they change it now? At least Lucy seems to agree with her about it.

It's just days after prom, and Kipperlily is sick of everything. The stupid Bad Kids apparently crashed prom and literally defeated Kalvaxus, Emperor of the Red Waste. It's honestly bullshit. A dumb group of kids that couldn't even make it through one day of school without getting one third of their party killed, and they're being credited with saving the entire continent? Kipperlily's been digging into the Bad Kids' history with every moment of her free time, trying to figure out how a bunch of dumb untrained kids managed something so huge. And she thinks she might have cracked it.

Kristen Applebees is literally Helio's Chosen One, and apparently Adaine Abernant is the new Oracle of the Elves. Kipperlily doesn't know what Fig, Fabian, or Gorgug's deals are yet, but if rumors are to be believed, then Riz Gukgak's dad was eaten by the very same Kalvaxus. Clearly the entire reason the Bad Kids are succeeding is because of their personal histories.

And to make matters worse, Oisin and Ivy managed to get the rest of the party to go along with the stupid Rat Grinders name. and Mary Ann didn't even have a reason for it! The only one who voted with her was Lucy. So now they've got a dumb name and no real adventuring prospects, and all the while, a bunch of kids who skip classes and get arrested are somehow getting perfect grades with no effort.

It's sophomore year and everything is terrible. The Rat Grinders meet every day to kill rats in the woods and it's dumb and boring, and not even a little bit difficult anymore, and she has to go to weekly councilor sessions with Jawbone, who's an ally of her rival adventuring party, which. Aguefort already clearly likes them, and even before he was resurrected they had managed to get two of their allies positions in the school. Which has to be an unfair advantage. And now Fig's dad is the vice principal rather than the lunch lad. It's really no wonder they never seem to get in trouble for skipping classes or any of their other bullshit.

At least she can use their connection with Jawbone to her advantage. Every meeting with him, she mines him for new information on the Bad Kids, who have been doing absolutely nothing so far this year.

It's sophomore year and The Rat Grinders are going to finally get their chance! Porter and Jace have approached her with the opportunity of a lifetime! Porter even said she shows a lot of promise! He doesn't even seem to take issue with his anger, and he says that he's going to help her become an amazing adventurer. All she has to do is accept this weird little rage star thing and start worshipping some dead god of rage. Kipperlily honestly isn't that much into religion, but this is the first interesting thing to happen to her all day. She's already working to convince Lucy to change her god.

It's sophomore year and even as Kipperlily is finally making progress, the Bad Kids are still showing her up. Somehow, they ended up fighting the Nightmare King himself, defeating him and somehow in the process, Kristen Applebees managed to ressurect a dead god of her own. It's bullshit and literally the only reason they manage to get back in time for the end of spring break is the direct intervention of the principal again. Plus now Fig has somehow managed to become an Archdevil and start dating Principal Aguefort's daughter. As if she wasn't already a rockstar.

It's sophomore year and Kipperlily's going to make the Rat Grinders the best adventuring party at Aguefort, even if it kills her.

It's junior year and the Bad Kids seemed determined to ruin her life. It's bullshit. They literally didn't even know who she was before this year, and they seem determined to ruin everything she's working towards. On the first day of school, they all collectively decided that Kristen was going to run for school president, seemingly as a bit, the exact second that they find out she's running. And immediately on meeting her they made fun of her fucking name for literally no reason.

It's junior year and everything's going to plan. Kristen's been expelled, and the Bad Kids are taking The Last Stand, and they've got the perfect opportunity to get rid of all the Bad Kids for good. And yet somehow Kristen fucking Applebees manages to ruin their fucking plans perfectly, spotting her out before she can succeed in killing the proctor and Buddy. Instead she has to kill Buddy and let Oisin take her away before the Bad Kids can do anything. So of course the Bad Kids get a literal perfect score on The Last Stand, and now they've all aced their classes for the whole year.

It's junior year and they're summoning a dead god. It's junior year and they find out as they're casting the spell, that the name they'd gotten was fucking wrong. It's junior year and despite all their preparations the Bad Kids have managed to get to the gymnasium with all their stupid fucking votes. It's junior year and Kipperlily is at least going to kill Riz. It's junior year and Riz literally dives into lava.

It's junior year and Kipperlily's going to kill Riz. He thinks he's hiding, but she can see him, and she's going to have to close with him, but this is her opportunity, and then she's in the air, and he's got her in a hold person spell, and she's falling, and she's in the lava, and it's so hot, and it burns, and then it's all gone.

It's junior year and Kipperlily is dead. It's junior year and she's in a world of crystal spines and lava, and in the reflections of the crystals, Kipperlily can see everything. She sees herself in those wretched meetings with jawbone, kicking at the leg of the chair, and she can see Jawbone asking her every fucking time, what can she do to become a better adventurer. As if it was ever in her control. As if she ever could have done anything. As if it wasn't all about her backstory the whole time. As if she weren't the boring daughter of two boring people. As if she had ever had a chance.

"Did you ever try?" She hears a voice ask. And then Ankarna is there. The god that she tried so hard to kill. "Did you ever really try to become a better adventurer, or did you just wait for it to happen to you?"

"I did everything I could!" Kipperlily insists. "It's unfair, why should they get all the advantages?"

"Were they really ever advantages? Or did you just decide they were?"

"You think those idiots deserved their success? All they ever do is screw around!"

"That is not what I have seen of them. Nor have I seen any better of you. Of course, you did your schoolwork and you did it to the letter, but when did you ever challenge yourself? When did you ever take a risk? When did you ever seek out a task that was more than what you felt certain you would succeed at? Would you have even have the courage to take part in Porter's plan if he had not personally trained you, ensured that you were all as powerful as possible? You insist that the Bad Kids are only successful because of their tragic history, but what of Gorgug? There is not one thing in his past that drives him and yet he has succeeded at doing things no one else has ever managed." Ankarna stares long and hard at her, and then she is gone and Kipperlily is alone again. With nothing in her death but her own thoughts to keep her company.

#fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #kipperlily copperkettle #have a klck think piece bc i find her deeply fascinating as a character #its specifically written to be open ended bc i dont think she is willing to change as of the end of episode 20 #but aliveness and deadness get real weird when gods are provable entities #and seeing as ankarna was technically the god she worshipped before dying i like the idea that ankarna could try to redeem her #this very rough so please excuse any typos or whatever lol i wrote in like an hour #also i just really like the idea that kipperlily heard they got detention on day one and immediately decided they were delinquents #like i feel like that gives even more weight to the way she attributes the bad kids success to like their personal backstory or whatever #plus one of my fav things about fantasy high as a series is how it explores the way bad student doesnt mean shit #so ye

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orchid-n-petals · 1 year

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So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #ketheric thorm #and I also have a lot of thoughts of how Aylin foils him #I fully believe that he was in the right in the capacity that he switched around his gods when he was literally ignored despite his life's #work. despite all that he has given. I think it's reasonable to expect in the world of gods who actively meddle in mortal affairs on their #whims and make shit worse that in just one single case they would. idk. NOT expect one of their devotees to remain blindly loyal to them #after their prayers go unanswered. like yes; go and try your luck elsewhere because this devotion of yours is clearly being taken for #granted. you get NOTHING out of your worship. you can't even sleep well because your loved ones are dead and you are expected to just what?#deal with it on your own? and remain loyal? why?#some sense of 'honour'?#I really like this depiction of faith actually. I really like when clerics and paladins are given agency and critical thought that hey!#this is actually giving me nothing despite me dedicating my entire life to it! and I have only one of it so why not take it somewhere where #it's actually valued. you know. as a treat.#I *personally* much more prefer this depiction of a crisis of faith than what we got with Shadowheart or Lae'zel; their stories are very #interesting on their own but I think throwing yourself from one end to the other not because you actually have a goal that it could serve #but because you are desperate for a purpose #is a slightly less potent character narrative than having an actual goal yourself. not by much but by a little.#again #PERSONALLY

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zukkaoru · 4 days

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"create the art you want to see in the world" and "i wish more people would write fics/draw art of my favorite characters/ships/etc." are two statements that can coexist. btw.

#yeah alright i'll release this from the drafts now #like.... do you know how many rarepairs i have? how many minor characters i love? how many platonic dynamics i wish were explored more?#i cannot write 1000 fics for all of them. there is literally not enough time i would be dead before that happened even if i lived to 100 #and spent 40 hours a week doing nothing but writing #yes im creating for my beloved rarepairs/side characters/platonic dynamics/etc. take one look at my ao3 and you'll see that #but i am only one person!!!!! and i want to see fics and art from other people too!!!!! that is the joy of fandom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#hello grace here

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acediscowlng · 1 month

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do you ever think about the absolute culture shock of edwin "book nerd" payne missing the most of modernism and post-modernism. cause i do. i think about that a lot.

just. think about edwin encountering The Waste Land for the first time and finding it very moving and reflects his own experiences very well, but also finding that very weird because like??? yes, the nihilism is great and all, he's never felt more Seen in his life, but he's also been to hell and what do you mean an entire generation of writers apparently just get what that feels like????

#ara rambles #dead boy detectives #edwin payne #like. modernism was already a thing before edwin was born but the major influence of it was still world war 1 #which edwin died right in the middle of #so the primary audience of modernism was also too busy dying in a trench while he was alive #edwin's primary education i imagine would still be primarily the classics and the romantics #and even if he did have relatives who would have read modernist or even its precursors #i don't think they would have handed a ten-year-old who was studying virgil like. fucking james joyce or god forbid ezra pound #and i think modernist writing in general tends to circulate best in university circles so i think edwin would have been too young for it #so like. it existed in his time. but i doubt he's that aware of it. but after he gets back tho. the influence of modernism is inescapable.#writing literally does not look the same anymore. like. it visually does not look the same from the books he read.#like. even just in his favorite genre.#he read penny dreadfuls he's definitely at least touched on the earliest versions of comics #guy picks up watchmen one day and goes what the actual fuck happened to comic books charles the fuck am i reading #he picks up a book with detective comics one day thinking he's in for a fun lighthearted read #and is met with like. dark knight returns or something #(yes i know they're dc characters but work with my vision here for a minute)

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xchronicles · 1 month

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Brett my beloved, you deserve the world... but everything else ... help

Listen, we all know Janeway's not going anywhere since she's alive in Picard S3, but I always had this dread that the reason why no one mentioned Chakotay is because he's.................... And I am very much going to NOPE that. There is a reason people weren't big fans of Picard and it's because it was heavily leaning on tragedy in a franchise that's supposed to be about a bettter future.

Brett deserves S3 and beyond. Kate deserves to take time off from giving (outdated) ideas.

Read the full interview here.

#like Hagemans I see you talking about hope and all the things Star Trek is about so please don't fall into the same trap as Picard did #I am now of opinion Kate wants to kill off a character so she can put a stop to JC once and for all #cause can't talk JC if one of the two is dead and we all know it's not gonna be Janeway #how funny would it be if they FINALLY got together and then BOOM #Chakotay dies #And they can even say they referenced Beyer's books lmao #why am I giving ideas #help #yes there is more to Prodigy than JC #which is exactly why I'm now advocating for them to leave JC alone and focus on the kids only cause I genuinely want more Prodigy kids #but not JC after reading all of the interviews that came out since S2 aired #Kate can have her asexual no romance Janeway in the form of holo Janeway #leave admiral Janeway to the fans #I already read better fics than how they handled them in S2 #janeway x chakotay #brett gray #gwyndala #star trek prodigy #gwyndal #dal r'el #kate mulgrew

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herefortheships · 6 months

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The lack of confirmation of Nobara's status leads me to believe Gege has something planned for her as the end of the Everyone vs Sukuna battle Aka the "Decisive Battle" draws to an end. This situation totally reminds me of the "Enchain" plot thread. It felt for a long stretch of the manga like Gege had even forgotten about the Enchain binding vow.

Except he hadn't.

The hush-hush around Nobara might be due to a similar situation. It might mean that she will be a key player to defeat Sukuna. OR she might be part of the conclusion of the story in a different way like bringing a ray of sunshine and hope to the fandom with just the confirmation of her survival, after Gege breaks our hearts one last time before the manga's end lol.

#personally as a writer it just doesn't make sense to bring in Arata Nitta to heal her and then puff #we don't even see Arata ever again?? I think we might have seen him before the Sukuna fight but I might be remembering wrong lol #But yes his purpose was just to heal Nobara and Yuji and give Yuji hope by saying he'll heal Nobara #but then we don't ever hear about Nobara again #Megumi's answer to Yuji was vage af #I will be happy if her comeback is just at the end of the story even if she doesn't fight #I just want her to be confirmed alive or dead so that the character can be buried by the fandom as well #tbh nothing will make me happier than her returning after the conflict is over #maybe she will marry Yuji and they'll be happy (as if Gege would let Yuji have anything nice lmao)#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #nobara #nobara kugisaki #kugisaki nobara #jjk spec #jjk theory #itakugi #jjk season 2 spoiler #jujutsu kaisen season 2 spoiler #spoiler

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alxastrx · 1 month

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When you're one of the most selfish mc who only saves people because it's part of a job you never wanted and did not get to chose or you would've died, who took your co-workers' morals and ideals because you didn't have any and desperately wanted to fit in somewhere, be it with the heroes or the villains, who's activelly haunted by one the most tragic past to have been created and suffer from a psychosis so bad (dare I say schizophrenia) that even your enemies acknowledged that you are mentally ill and objectively flawed in your judgement, never hesitated to try to kill anyone and has the most egoistic reason to be a good person but the fandom still thinks you're just a kind crybaby "I don't know what a gun is" homosexual twink.

#him being refered as an angel by Shibuzawa is FUCKING IRONIC !!#ASAGIRI IS ALWAYS IRONIC WHEN IT COMES TO LIGHT NOVELS CENTERED AROUND ATSUSHI #Ex : The plot of 55min being parallele to the Decay of Angels arc #He's also called the Man-eating tiger and yes I do think that Dazai lied to him when he said he never ate anyone to preserve his psyche #and was also called “the man who can see the future” and has time travelled with Akutagawa like why aren't we talking about that #his relationship with Mori is also actually good #Mori is one if not the only character who saved and helped Atsushi during their first meeting and kept good contacts with him #because yes Atsushi has seen Mori knowing that he was the pm boss off-screen and they had a normal exchange #I also think that Shibuzawa Atsushi and Fyodor are connected to a form of Holy Trinity #Believer/God/Angel or Messenger #Joseph/Jesus/Mary #or Fyodor and Atsushi as Jesus and Judas #but the instance of trinity in bsd are dare I say extreme #Oda/Ango/Dazai #Sigma/Fyodor/Nikolai #Atsushi/Akutagawa/Kyoka #and so on #and the whole situation around his ability which is unlike any other #It turns him into Byakko (her own being) (similar to Natsume) and nullify his wounds no matter how lethal (similar to Dazai and Yosano)#and enhance him even with his ability off making him constantly stronger than other characters and dare I say equal to the hunting dogs #yk the MODIFIED humans #and the plot of both 55mins and Dead Apple being around abilities and giving us Atsushi lore make me think that Atsushi and Byakko are 1/2 #probably a sort of higher being since some abilities are very religious centered (how Fyodor sees abilities and Shibuzawa) 2/2 #but I think it would lend toward a “sinner” position which would be crazy because that Atsushi would then probably be the reason why Fyodor #hates abilities so much if Atsushi and Byakko are somehow be connected to the “sin” of abilities #and so you guys know Atsushi's orphanage was a church so yes he's related to christianity #and the Decay of Angels is LITTERALY full of religious people to different degrees #and it would be ironic (once again) if the antagonists were the “Angels” and the protagonist a demon #I just realized that I did a lot of typos sorry I got too excited #but yeah keep calling bsd bad written (we're on barely chap.115 no good manga was finished by chap.115 guys just wait for the rest to drop)

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moiraineswife · 1 year

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Lan and Moiraine: "Door"

1x06 / 2x01 / 2x01

#wheel of time spoilers #wheel of time #moiraine damodred #moiraine sedai #lan mandragoran #molan #the SADNESS #the ANGST #the P A I N #why yes of course i did decide to do my first character study of the decline of moiraine and lan's bond via that AGE OLD TROPE #the door #really tho. she's very particular abt her door. even bayle closes it for her after she just screwed him over #and got him hunted/followed by fades/possibly dead. man knows what he's about.#lan deliberately leaving it wide open feels very...well deliberate #are they being passive aggressive children about this whole thing in many ways?#yes. yes they are. is that HURTING ME TO ME VERY CORE!?#yes. yes it is.#the difference tho between them both going to a meeting together - Mo glancing at the door #and knowing; instinctively; that Lan will close it for her. which he does. before they BOTH take this meeting #vs her having to give him that order “door” in a deliberately cold and dismissive way #and him closing said door but now on the wrong side of it #vs him finally just having enough and telling her to go fuck herself (politely)#and just leaving it wide open while she stares out after him - oddly exposed #well that did done just GOT TO ME OKAY!?#anyway. i hope u understand this gifset. and i hope it causes u the pain it caused me #thank u and have a good night #molan gifset #wot s2 #wot spoilers #wot show spoilers

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emarie-stone · 11 months

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Glass Onion is such a fun movie but it doesn't pull its punches, either. The way it sets up Andi as the cold, stand-offish character and Miles as the benevolent, rich hippie. Then the twist happens and the perspective changes. We know Andi is actually Helen and we learn that Helen is angry and grieving and scared. We learn that Miles is not benevolent but manipulative - and his friends very much believe they will lose that friendship/money if they don't go along with his ideas. (They saw him kick Andi from their company, even when they don't know she's dead.)

And I love Peg. I love that she's the only thing keeping Birdie Jay in line, but she can't even DO that. Birdie is dumb, but she's smart enough to have a secret phone for years and Peg doesn't know. When she lists her resume, it's "Birdie, Birdie, a brief stint with retail and Birdie again." So there was a moment when Peg knew Birdie was trouble and left, but still went back (presumably for money or status or just because retail sucks.) But that decision to go back, to humor the rich and stupid is going to ruin Peg in the end. And it's just so delicious.

And the scientist! Lionel! He's smart, he takes the pandemic seriously, he knows Klear is dangerous. But he still chooses Miles' money and he's still going to be ruined because of it. He was a school teacher! Of course he chose Miles' basically unlimited bank account.

It's great. The two characters I sympathize with the most are both shown to have at least some notion that they shouldn't be doing what they're doing. Which is why I like them! And they are not spared when Miles' empire comes crashing down. They threw their lot in with him and so will fall when he falls.

#Glass Onion #Glass Onion Spoilers #Yes it's been out for a year but I rewatched it and it's still great #There's probably something to be said about none of the characters being spared in the end but I don't have time to get into that #Andi walked away and lost her life #Helen lost her sister and made enemies of powerful people #even if she doesn't have an empire to lose she won't be the same after this #All the assistants like Peg are going to lose their jobs at minimum or even be forced to take the fall with them #Like this is not a ride into the sunset happy ending #duke is still dead but maybe that's for the best lol

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