#and it'll all be okay

[canongf]

Hi this is the anon from earlier who wrote the ask about the breakup with f/o ending, and first I’d like to claim myself as 🌑 anon, and secondly if possible I’d like for some advice, cause I was trying to let myself accept that the ending doesn’t need to be canon or need to exist but it’s so weird to do so cause I’m new to selfshipping n the whole canon is dead thing so i was wondering if you have any tips on how to remind myself that it’s ok to just let myself be happy?

🌑 anon!!! hi!!!!!

yeah, it feels weird!!! it feels weird to change canon, it feels weird to ignore canon, it makes you think "am i allowed to do this?" and the answer is yes, even if it feels weird sometimes.

because, like... why not?

i've been self shipping for a while. sometimes it's weird for me too, sometimes i want to change canon or i want to ignore canon, i want to add something in, and i feel like i'm doing something wrong.

but then you do it, and maybe it feels weird and wrong for a little while, and then you realize that the world has not ended. you realize that you're just playing around with stories and characters like humans have done since the beginning of time. the original canon is still there for whoever wants it. you haven't lost anything or made anyone else lose anything. you haven't done anything bad. you're having fun!!! you're happy!!!

what's wrong with that? nothin'. nothin' at all.

you're allowed to self ship how you want, you're allowed to play with stories and characters, you're allowed to be happy!!! and if your mind tries to tell you that you can't, ask it, "well, why the hell not?"

usually it doesn't have very convincing answers for you.

[aropride]

FUCK MY STUPID BAKA LIFE

[umberandmochaagate]

"Just move out of Florida" goddammit bro can we have a home???

They took my blood out of West Africa and threw us into the Caribbean, enslaved and trapped. We made Haiti our home and accepted that we can't go back.

Then they trashed Haiti. Underhanded help left us for dead. We moved to Florida. Everyone's saying we can't go back, it's too dangerous. [Not] Fine.

They go and further fuck up any progress in Florida. So we're supposed to run again? And not go back? At what point does this bullshit stop bro

[sciderman]

How did your meeting go with the surgeons?

it was memorable

[egophiliac]

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY, THE NEXT BOOK 7 UPDATE FOR THE JP SERVER IS SET FOR MARCH 1ST.

HOW WE FEELIN LADS!?!?!

AHHHHHHHH NOOO I'M NOT READY, I thought we'd be getting the fourth anniversary first and then Sebek's birthday and then maybe some more episode 7, I didn't -- I didn't think it'd be Friday --

oh god and they're rerunning the story cards, they didn't say this was the final part but it feels like...maybe the penultimate chapter? could the end of episode 7 finally be looming in the distance?! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO

[gummi-ships]

[saltpepperbeard]

is this anything

[galactaknightyaoi]

I absolutely adore the HC that these two are family...

[nymphaforesta]

i grabbed the wrong size for my razor and now this 🥲 rip it's fine *screams*

[queermentaldisaster]

Ghost cuddling with Soap when his anxiety gets really bad, so bad that he's genuinely crying and dead silent. He knows Soap is horribly overstimulated, and Ghost's room has always and will always be sensory safe for both of them.

So they cuddle on those rare nights, when Soap's hit his limit and just needs to cry in someone's arms, because Ghost's the only one who understands.

[meowyoi]

sometimes you just add tumblr buzzwords like cannibalism and gore and so your post does numbers

[iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight]

dnkinktober day 1: feminization | day 14: biting

[basketobread]

i just had to reupload an attack like 3 times. my first year of art fight is going really well

[sherrymagic]

Our future isn't fixed. It's just like our choices don't have answers.

Kim So-hee as PARK JI-YU FRAGILE | EPISODE 1

[faunandfloraas]

skz merch designed by the members, in age order.

[eriexplosion]

So the main reason I think that TBB will have a reasonably happy ending is multifaceted but I think the biggest one is that a lot of the series it's compared to have entirely different focuses but only one requires minimum the majority of the characters to be alive.

It comes down to the central question of the work. Let's look at TCW - this one is super broad because it's essentially an anthology rather than an overarching narrative. It's literally just "what happens between attack of the clones and revenge of the sith." The only thing needed to bring it to a satisfactory close is to go up to the end of the clone wars and segue into ROTS. Which, as a tragic film, does necessitate a bit of a downer ending. But, the ending feels fulfilling even with the tragedy because it satisfies the central question.

Rogue One is much more narrow, how did the rebellion get the death star plans? The reason you can do a total cast annihilation in this one is because the central question isn't character focused at all, it's mission focused. As long as they move the mission forward, the characters dying doesn't make the ending less satisfying. The central question is answered.

So what's been TBB's central question? It hasn't been mission focused, it's not "how do we fight the Empire" and its not as broad as TCW's filling in a multi year gap between movies. It's asking "who are these clones if they're not soldiers" it's asking "how do you heal this family that's been broken by tragedy."

And killing off most of the main cast answers these questions as "nothing" and "You don't." It's like answering "what happened between these two movies" with 'nothing' or 'how did they get the death star plans with 'they didn't.' It negates the central question that we're introduced to, it would render the entire endeavor pointless. Why would we need three seasons to get Omega from 'alone' to 'still alone' why would we build up the desire for the family to heal just to say they never will? Why would we watch them go from broken to more broken to absolutely shattered in a trauma mill? It doesn't answer anything, it just trails off.

I don't even think that the question of how to heal the family can be satisfied if Tech is actually dead. MAYBE if we had more time we could soothe away the trauma of that and still resolve everything. Maybe if his loss was the only one that needed to be wrapped up and processed we could resolve that in the time we have left.

But needing to bring Crosshair home, bring Omega home, AND heal everyone from Tech's death in fifteen episodes that also require enough action to keep ten year old boys interested? Yeah, I don't think that's happening. I think the only way that this gets wrapped up in a way that actually holds to the themes of the show is an ending that has the family together, an ending that actually answers the questions we started with, one that said *they're not soldiers, they're family* and that the family is in fact capable of being healed.