#and still heartbroken over that ending

[ihearasound]

Firmly believe Kromer lcb is Demians foil and both are foils to Sinclair (obvious, kinda). But looking at Kromer like that makes her REALLY interesting but Demian too. Both want Sinclair to become himself and grow into the person he wants to be. Demian encourages Sinclair to find the way himself with some help here and there, while Kromer violently shoves him to the Sinclair he denies. But essentially both are going for the same goal. Sinclair is just torn between two worlds.

Another thing I find interesting is looking at lcb Sinclair through the knowledge of his source book. Emil has a reoccurring dream he's obsessed with which he calls his lover and his nemesis, his destiny and his undoing, visually represented both as Demian but also as a maternal figure, and ultimately being the summation of Emils being. Lcb Kromer is connected to a lot of maternity symbolism (looking at her monster form, but also the lyrics to her theme whose maternal references make me go hogwild into another different direction re: that other maternal projmoon character). Obviously the book is a lot about Emil trying to understand how both light and dark worlds cannot exist separately from each other. While in lcb Sinclair only ever talks to Demian or Kromer separately, he never interacts with both at the same time. Demian and Kromer are two different sides to the coin that is Sinclair

[faceofpoe]

Ya know, a dimension to consider-

Omega saved Wrecker certainly by sacrificing herself to be captured, he had no way out no way to fight no way to hide and troopers searching door to door. And probably Crosshair who would have gone down defending her, and maybe Hunter if he'd caught up in time.

She Plan 99'd for them and all of Pabu.

[smtx-736]

WHY TF AM I SO MAD THAT JULES BROKE UP WITH SHAWN BECAUSE OF THE PSYCHIC THING!? LIKE HO PLS WE BOTH KNOW THAT'S REALLY IMPOSSIBLE AND AFJFJFJEKDJKDKFKFLSLFJSLSK HOW DID IT EVEN AFFECT THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THAT DEGREE? YES I KNOW HE LIED THAT'S BAD BUT DANG WHAT HAPPENED TO LOVE? AT THIS POINT LOVE MEANS NOTHING RIGHT? I DON'T EVEN THINK THE LIE WAS THAT BAD CUZ BE BFFR OR AM I JUST A HATER? SORRY THIS WAS NOT SO GIRLBOSS OR GIRL'S GIRL FOR ME TO SAY BUT I DO NOT THINK IT WAS THAT DEEP. SHE THREW AWAY A MAN SHE CLEARLY VERY MUCH LOVED BECAUSE SHAWN WAS DISHONEST ABOUT ONE THING WHEN HER LYING FATHER HAD LEFT HER AS A CHILD AND NOW SHE PROJECTS HER TRAUMA IN HER RELATIONSHIPS AND omg was the daddy issues that bad? ANYWAYS I WOULD'VE TOTALLY UNDERSTOOD HER IF SHE BROKE UP WITH HIM IF HE ACTED EMOTIONALLY IMMATURE OR EMOTIONALLY DISTANT BUT NO SHE BROKE UP BECAUSE HE LIED ABOUT BEING FRICKIN PSYCHIC BUT HONESTLY WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS OBVIOUS AND EVERYONE KNEW-

I will shut up now before I get cancelled and yeah thank you guys for reading this rant.

[disastersteps]

have i mentioned my first run was also my blind run? yeah <3

[reel-fear]

Looking at my old bendy posts is so sad. I used to post dissections of the story and fun things in it, I'd still like to do that but Mike sucks out so much of my energy but I also constantly feel the need to post about whatever dumb shit he says so I can explain to people why it's bad and shouldn't be supportive. On his youtube post a ton of people are being so kind to him and I'm just baffled. This rude asshole who has been nothing but bigoted towards his fans who want to see more diversity gets to be seen as some massive victim because HE said some dumb shit and people didn't like it? What about the young queers who were devastated to find out they'd never be represented in Bendy? What about the people of color who had to witness the graphic novel be filled with almost nothing but white people, with the only canonical person of color now being a book-exclusive [aka Non-Canon] character? Why do they matter so little to so many people? Why do the feelings of Mike, who has literally earned every bit of hate he's ever gotten, matter more than those of the people he's hurt? Why do I have to be the one who constantly updates tumblr on the new stupid shit he's saying no matter how tired and upset it makes me to have to constantly talk about the awful things he constantly says and then gets away with.

I miss being able to talk positively about Bendy, when most of my posts were just talking about cool things I thought about from the franchise. But being honest, I don't think I can ever go back to that time either. With stuff like the bendy books being no longer canon when they contain the best writing in the entire franchise and the way Mike shits himself at any critique he gets... I just can't speak positively of Bendy without some sort of "But..." Anymore, this franchise just fucking sucks currently.

I could make the posts I wanted to about stuff like how much I love Norman but I don't like Game Norman cause he lacks the interesting bits the books added and Book Norman has an awful design now thanks to these assholes! I could make all the posts I had wanted to about BATDR and its story, but I don't like to speak positively of the games anymore cause I don't want people to support them! I could make more posts on the books but then I'll be reminded that all this great writing Kress did, the bendy devs are completely ungrateful for! I literally can't speak purely nice of this franchise anymore cause at every turn I'm faced now with just how much it's been ruined and how much of that happened recently. I miss being able to make a causal nice post about Bendy but now I feel I can't do so without it being misleading or not the full story, Mike has tainted this fucking franchise with his presence and the fact Meatly lets him speak for both of them without stopping him or challenging him makes me assume he thinks the same way Mike does. Ughhhhhhhhhh

[winterstaryu]

I miss Izzy so much 😭 stupid wet cat bastard man

[milogoestogreendale]

im devastated our flag means death got cancelled just as i was getting into it ToT

i can’t take getting invested in actual gay romances only to have them cancelled halfway through this is why i stick to early 2000s queerbait couples

[kingdomoftyto]

Unconditional trust for Armor RESCINDED ❌

BOOKWORM is my new most trustworthy friend 🤝

[daysiewish]

09.09.23

MAD Lions have been eliminated from the LEC Season Lower Finals by FNATIC and are EU’s third seed for Worlds 2023

[nerdynikki94]

Honestly? Did I want more from DTAMHD? Yes, I did. I wanted something signifying actual progression for Dennis' character (even just a crumb of genuine growth) , and I sincerely don't think we got that. However... we did get a fascinating insight into the process of his mind. Dennis' level of self-denial is so ironic and profound. He can't acknowledge the inevitability that he's middle-aged.

(I swear this episode honestly has given me an alt hc, that the show is based in his mind; because logistically, a man of his lifestyle and malnourishment could not commit the feats he is constantly sailing through. TGGB & DTAMHD... back-to-back? What happened to his hand? Did he even sprain it? Or is he just the most dramatic brat in the gang - clearly the latter.)

It is important to note that he didn’t fix the actual problem. He momentarily masked the symptoms, but ignore long-term help with blood pressure medicine is not going to fix the issue, nor is it going to protect him from fucking keeling over in a stressful situation (when he's not in a contained and quiet Doctor's exam room) and his blood pressure spikes.

I'm honestly a little jaded at this point (16 Fucking Seasons of crumbs, y'all), but if one were to continue 'trusting the structure' this episode conveyed a lot.

The B Plot: The pressure cooker. The metaphor parallels the building pressure Dennis quick-tempered bouts of rage. So, to toss out a little 'cat-in-the-wall' conjecture here: The pressure cooker is Dennis, but we all saw him eat that bloody diamond in the end and we all heard Mac's speech about coal turning into diamonds under massive pressure. Dennis' experience is a theory of pressure, he daydreams it all in the span of a minute or so. He's roleplaying with hypothetical obstacles. There's no risk. Maybe Dennis, isn't the pressure cooker, but the coal.

If I were to try and take anything hopeful out of this episode, it would be the way the narrative is showing us that this episode acknowledged that Dennis isn't ready yet. It's not his turn to break. It's going to take real, substantial pressure to get that diamond.

It was a hell of a misdirect (and honestly a little bit of a slap in the face), but if these characters live in the real world, where people are bound by the laws of mortality, then Dennis should have his time.

Genuinely, who fucking knows?

I'm not hating on the episode. We all know this is the trashy dick joke sitcom. I just thought that if Mac & Charlie could have moments of genuine heartbreak, culminating in deep catharsis, that maybe Dennis could have that too.... but no.

Can't wait to see the sunny dudebros miss the point & proclaim Dennis Reynolds - SA victim, traumatized individual with an emotionally tumultuous personality disorder - the new Andrew Tate.

I'm sorry, but yeah. I'm a little miffed. It was all a dream, and everything goes Dennis' way. Y'all I'm fucking tired. This was a great episode for Glenn, but a fucking frustrating episode for Dennis. I may have wanted a little macden, but all I cared about was seeing Dennis face the limitations of his mortality, to see that he's failing his body and his brain. He didn't have to actually take the medicine (I wouldn't expect him to), but Goddammit, everything seems to work out in his delusional favor. So, of course he's going to continue being delusional, and probably only change for the worse.

I'll say it: I wanted a broken Dennis, and we did not get that. He didn't even crack, the unbearble and apparently now canonical Golden God. That episode's title was intended to tease sunnyblr.

Excuse the plethora of tags. I just kept getting more irritated.

[silverysongs]

i feel like people (on my dash) aren't talking about so long, london and it's the song that means the most to me. like I full-on wept in my car today listening to it

[jestercoven]

it's not fully setting in that the show is actually over and i'm probably never gonna see belos animated in any official way ever again and i'm not ready for it all to hit me like a bag of bricks. :(

[thebirdandhersong]

I was thinking, "One day I shall find my writer's voice and then things will be a LOT more clear--pertaining to what I want to write and how I want to write it" but the truth is that everything that I'm writing technically IS IN my writer's voice.... I might not like my own voice or understand it all that well, or know how to convey what I'm trying to convey in the way I want to make it come across, but my voice IS there and it IS mine, even when I'm frustrated with it and its limitations (it also helps to think about Whisper of the Heart and how Seiji's grandfather tells Shizuku after reading her manuscript that her writing is a diamond in the rough that needs to be polished and refined and honed).... it's just a matter of practice and of listening!

[awesomefringey]

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[springybreak]

izzy’s death was for shock value after a pretty mundane season…. sorry

[akkivee]

ichikuu haul 🤭