taylor, my beloved, how in hell are you making this setlist? i’m trying to make my ultimate version right now and one i think is more realistic but it hurts every time i have to not put a song on the hypothetical setlist 💔
idk if anyones ever spoken about this before, but when I watch community I’m kind of under the assumption that Abed, while much more in touch with the narrative than the average character, isn’t actually capable of seeing the show as it happens or truly breaking the 4th wall. While that’s super interesting as a perspective to use while watching, I do think that he is doing the on screen equivalent of someone irl “looking into the camera”. As in, he loves television and uses it as his major method of interacting with the world, and acting like he’s in a tv show is something he does because it helps him, not because he knows he’s in a tv show. In fact, when we see Abed’s version of “community” it’s a multi camera sitcom with a laugh track, not an accurate representation of the real thing. In contemporary American poultry, Abed asks Jeff not to do a “special episode” about him, apparently not aware that he’s already the focus of the episode. It always felt to me that Abed acts like he’s in a television show because he wants to and it just happens to line up with the show sometimes (eg when he “lays low for an episode”). Obviously there’s nuance here, and he obviously has as much if not more influence over the show’s actual presentation as Jeff, but I think it might be diminishing to say that he’s truly aware of the narrative he’s in.
If you look closely at the beginning of the text it reads e209, meaning this is footage pulled from episode 9 of season 2.
Looking at the shot this episode is paused on, we can see that Ekko’s still donning the same look he had by the end of season 1—no man bun and he still has his orange scarf. He’s standing on what could be Jinx’s lair but it’s difficult to tell at the resolution and without further rendering.
So if this footage is from episode 9 and Ekko still looks like his S1 counterpart, then there’s a few possibilities to explain why this is the case—
Ekko’s man-bun/crop top appearance is an alternate universe version of himself. The Ekko we know never changes into man-bun Ekko.
Ekko’s appearance changes earlier in the season only to change back later.
This is just a flashback.
This footage is from the beginning of the episode and Ekko changes outfits halfway through.
whatever you do don’t think about cregan stark losing his father, brother, and wife/childhood best friend, becoming a single father himself, AND his own uncle/cousins usurping the seat of winterfell from him, forcing him to imprison the last bit of family he had left - all before the age of 21
alright I’m gonna say it I can excuse a lot in fanfiction but people who write straight abo fics and make the man the alpha and the woman the omega are literally just wrong like you didn’t need abo to write that fic that way please appropriate a different kink genre for that shit
i have ofc known about the same [anime] va thing for a little while because i like reading wiki pages but i have at last decided to do something with this information. so. half-ghoul taka