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[nonsensegnomes]

What Gordon Smith said about Mike being pissed off with Saul because he knows Jimmy’s just trying to prove his brother right about him, kills me completely

wow yeah i knowwwwww, that scene in s4 when jimmy calls him up about the hummel scheme & mike just cuts completely through his bullshit and goes no but i'm sorry about your brother.... absolutely Deranged!! bc you know it means he was not taken in by the saul persona for one second, even in brba & even when he's threatening to break his legs – he's still seeing the pathetic little lawyer who used argue with him about stickers!!!!

also always so wild to me when i remember that mike and chuck actually met, like what is mike's TAKE on that whole clusterfuck!!! soooooo fascinating to me that they basically have opposite approaches to their family members dying: mike defines himself by matty's death & getting revenge (perhaps even moreso because he blames himself for it), whereas jimmy immediately starts eliminating every reaction and emotion he could possibly have to what chuck did bc he's experiencing similar amounts of anger & guilt but there's no one he can take it out on but himself – and chuck, who's gone

like imo jimmy is so so transparent about how he's (not) dealing with chuck's death but mike is one of the ONLY ones to call him on it! he even tells him that the scam shouldn't be jimmy's type of job any more than it's his – and then of course hard cut to s5 & the next time they work together is when jimmy's gotten himself in soooo far over his head w/ lalo 🙃

kinda an interesting parallel to his relationship with nacho; mike warns hin every time he tries to solve his salamanca problem that he's only going to make it worse + then lalo escalates the stakes so much mike can't help him any more 💀 but like as more clever people have pointed out, mike admires nacho for working so hard to ensure his dad doesn't have to take the bribe that mike feels so guilty for forcing matty to take

whereas with JIMMY what's so so fun is that mike actually sees him at his best in the first scheme they ever pull together (the kettlemans) – and then watches him deteriorate into the worst version of himself over the course of the show. like, he had a million dollars in cash right there in front of him! no one would know he took it!! but he makes the most moral choice he'll make for the entire show (apart from saul gone, i suppose) and gives it back to fix the kettlemans' mess – not to make chuck proud of him or to help kim (well it does a little but that's not Why he's doing it per se) or to assuage his guilt but just cause it's the right thing to do!!! he even returns the bribe, just like mike so desperately wishes he could've done! if you were mike & this guy you watched undo the same mistake you're most ashamed of came up to you like a week later talking about how he regrets not making that mistake, OF COURSE you'd do your best to stop him from pursuing this life & go a little insane when you couldn't!!!!!

anyway. uh. what was the question? oh yeah i think mike sees this version of his younger self who COULD have chosen better but ALLOWS himself not to, bc he's Doomed By The Narrative (chuck's voice in his head) to never be anything better than slippin' jimmy + i think it undermines the story he's been telling himself about that one defining moment that doomed him (because the reality is you CAN choose better! at any time you can make the right choice & face up to the consequences!! maybe you can't escape the past but you can walk off of the bad choice road! if it sucks hit da bricks!!!) + i think by brba all he sees when he looks at saul is a cloud of Contempt & Pity, so no fucking wonder he ended up trying to break his legs 🙃

[my-whumpy-little-heart]

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🍪- cookie dough or cookies?

Ooooh this is such a hard choice. As much as I love cookie dough, I think I’m gonna have to go with cookies here. Nothing cookie dough has to offer could ever beat that taste of a homemade chocolate cookie fresh out of the oven. Not even just that taste, but that feeling. 

If anyone reading this has never baked chocolate chip cookies for themself I absolutely urge you to because picking up a nice warm cookie, having it nearly fall apart in your hands and get them a little greasy as you take a bite, everything sweet and doughy and falling apart in your mouth, and the chocolate chips are still melted and viscous, coating your mouth in chocolatey goodness, and just... aaaaagh I cannot describe just how much I love that. Goodness and if anyone really wants it I could post the recipe that my family and I use. I just. I’m passionate about our chocolate chip cookies. But yeah, cookies all the way.

✨ - which fictional character (book, show, or movie) do you relate to most?

Oh okay oh man this one is difficult. I think there’s a variety of whump characters I see parts of myself in... *coughs in ‘those authors don’t need to know how much i’m projecting and wow don’t expose yourself like that to others or yourself boa’*

but hm, that being said. uh. i thought about @whump-it‘s Rory in relation to this question and. I kept thinking about him and drawing parallels. soooo very stupid dumb projecting boa ahead you’re completely free to skip the rest of this answer i don’t blame you.

Just. When I think about how he worked as an AP for so long and only kinda realized the genuine harm the system could be and was actually causing for some when it was nearly too late for Callum. I feel that. I would be that person who didn’t think hard enough into it until I was literally shown evidence that something was horribly wrong. That was a lot of words just to call myself dense and gullible buuuuut-

Thinking also with how he struggled during Callum’s recovery. He really wanted to help but he really didn’t know how to. Sort of a sympathy versus empathy debate, if you’ll indulge me in saying he could sympathize with Callum’s struggle but really couldn’t empathize since he’d never been though anything even comparable too that before. and. That’s not an inherently bad trait, I don’t think, because sympathy is still very important, and it’s a far cry from just being pitying. But not being able to empathize with someone definitely makes it harder to help. And I’ve felt that a lot before as I’ve grown. That feeling of ‘I think I’ve had a pretty good go at life, and I’m so infinitely grateful for that, but that also means I can’t be as useful in this situation as I’d like to be and for that I’m very sorry.’ You know? 

And yeah maybe that’s me projecting and not interpreting characterization quite right but that’s what came to mind and punched me in the gut a few times (love realizing things about yourself and a character that somehow shock and make you feel so much that you literally disrupt your breathing pattern for no reason). I could probably ramble further on that and sit here yearning but I think I’ve spent over an hour thinking about this ask already and should shut up before it gets even longer (I waited on this question until last and wow yeah these questions are really making me think a lot huh)

🍯- describe your favorite smell

Hmmmm there are a Lot of things I could say for this because I really don’t have a ‘favorite’ scent but I think I’ll go ahead and describe my body soap because it’s got this really nice smell I like.The briefest synopsis I can give you is ‘musky flowers’ but I’m gonna go smell it and come back.

Alright, well first of all I should mention it’s called “Amari” and it’s from Avon. And basically it’s got a lot of elements of the generic ‘men’s cologne’ smell. Which I’ll admit doesn’t make it sound that great (is that weird? i was talking to a friend once a while ago and complaining about that scent and she said it was really nice. and i just assumed she was ‘boy crazy’ because at the time i was a bit of a judgemental prick who hadn’t realized i wasn’t straight yet, but idk do a lot of people actually like those scents?). 

But yeah anyways that doesn’t make it sound that great, but imagine the base being kinda that musky scent you get from cologne, but someone left a window open by a garden with flowering plants and a few fruits and veggies. Then inside right next to you is something sweet that you can’t quite identify, but it smells homely. That’s what the scent is to me and it’s just very calming. 

OH and forgot to mention but hi pepperony, thanks so much for the ask you’re lovely and great thank you

[katsuragitakumi]

Thoughts on New World Cross-Z

I don’t really know what to say. I expected this movie to be a disaster (because of the reviews I read when it was screened in Japan) and, while I don’t like every writing choice and some scenes felt a tad too clumsy, all in all it was fairly enjoyable. It certainly could have been better, but it also could have been worse. Much worse.

Banjou! I’m glad he was allowed to be his silly self throughout the movie. He’s such a lovable character! I didn’t like that one scene from Yui’s flashback that much, but I guess it had to be done like that to highlight Banjou’s growth. Then again, I’m not a big fan of movies repeating what we’ve already seen in the show (Sento’s identity crisis in Be The One or Banjou’s growth here), but I like the characters well enough to shrug it off and enjoy the movie anyway.

Sento! Oh. He was so, so sad in this movie. And… that’s normal, really. In the first scene Banjou brings up the fact that their fiends can’t remember them, then Killbas shows up and steals his driver, then he has to experiment on Banjou and put his life in danger, and then he worries about Banjou while he’s fighting Killbas (I guess Sento now understands how Misora feels like, huh?). At least, in the end, and thanks to Misora, he understood that this world still needs him. I’m still a bit “eh…” about the scene where he hands Yui Banjou’s power-up. As I said in this post, I understand the reasoning both in-universe (he wants Yui to see how much of a hero Banjou really is) and out-universe (Sento is meant to be a secondary character and can’t steal the new characters’ spotlight. If Sento were in the battlefield with Yui instead of chilling at home, Evolt would have probably attacked him instead of Yui), but I think it was a clumsy scene all the same. But not bad enough for me to wonder why it was like that, so… once again, it could have been worse.

Yui! Wow, I read back in the day so, so, soooo many complaints about her that I expected the worst (a tsundere,,,,,,,). Glad to be wrong, of course; she was pretty decent and it was easy to see why she behaved the way she did at first. Her suddenly falling for Banjou felt a bit… weird and rushed, but as I’ve said several times by now: it could have been worse. I dislike the notion of a female character existing just to be a love interest (and a man’s ~reward~, at that), but Yui at least was given a background and a personality, not to mention I find it hard to believe the ship is canon when the last scene is like that. This doesn’t mean they won’t end up dating in the next movie (although I don’t think they’re hiring Nagao -Yui’s actress- for a cameo, and making BanYui canon offscreen would be a bit anticlimatic) or in the novel, even. To be honest, I didn’t really mind the hug+kiss scene, and Kazumin’s reaction to it was amusing. The “best match” joke was what I liked the least (and a comment Akaso made makes me believe he didn’t like it either). I agree with people who think the movie tried, at least to some extent, to replace Sento with Yui. The “normal” thing would have been to draw parallels, if anything, between Yui and Kasumi, not between Yui and Sento. If you’re trying to give Banjou a love interest and no-homo his bond with Sento, it’s not a very bright idea to suggest “best match” may have a romantic meaning too or draw Sento-Yui parallels.

Anyway, yeah, the “romance” could have been better, and the last scene makes me believe they’re better off as friends, but it also could have been much worse. And the fact that their relationship is ambiguous at best is a very conscious decision by Muto or Toei; it would have been extremely easy to make them go on a cute date (like black-haired Banjou and Kasumi do in the finale), or have a romantic scene where they hold hands instead of an awkward hug+kiss combo, after which Banjou gets spanked by Kazumin and Yui is being hit on by Gentoku.

Do you know what I hated? Killbas. What an annoying guy.

Nascita gang! YEAH!!! It was great to see them again! I wish we got more heartwarming/cute moments with them, but I can understand why it didn’t happen (it’s Banjou’s movie). Even so, there were some funny and cute bits that made me smile. Misora was especially adorable. I love her. Gentoku and Kazumin were very hilarious and surprisingly cool. Sawa didn’t get to do much, but it was nice to see her reckless driving once again (as much as I disliked the aftermath). Utsumin just talked about sticks and yet he managed to be one of the best parts of the movie imo

Evolt! I have mixed feelings about him. On the one hand, it was delightful to see him again. He’s just that great of a character. On the other hand, I feel a bit ://// at the concept of the big bad not being really dead; what’s more, he flies into space and promises to come back. Uh. I wished they explored his having human feelings or something. I should accept it’ll never happen, shouldn’t I? Anyway, he was fun. I guess that’s what matters in the end.

Other things:

I love the movie started with a recap. That’s so Build.

Evolt’s voice actor!

If Banjou has the Sclash Driver and the Build Driver, he could have lent his Build Driver to Sento, even if it were just for a brief scene. I’m sad Sento didn’t get to transform with everyone else (Emu, Takeru and Shinnosuke did in other people’s v-cinemas!), but at least I got to see Rabbittank again anyway. And, well, this is Banjou’s time to shine anyway.

Sento’s been poisoned for the third time. Poor guy.

The movie is a bit edgy sometimes, even though Killbas’ plan is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard since…….. Heigen Final. Not that Evolt’s plan in the main show was superb either, mind you. That said, it could have been much edgier or grittier, so I’m glad the tone didn’t differ from the show that much (in other words, it’s no ROGUE)

As I mentioned in other post, though, I’m upset at the gratuitous violence aimed at women. Evolt hits Yui for no reason, then strangles her to raise Banjou’s Hazard Level (although, in all fairness, he did that to Sento in the show too) and Yui was BURNT ALIVE IN HER HUMAN FORM. And poor Sawa got knocked out Just Because and there was a joke about her being forgotten while she was still bleeding :( I think there are other ways to make Yui be in the spotlight without getting Sawa out of commission.

No, but really, where did Kazumin and Gentoku get their Sclash Drivers from? I guess that’s where I’m supposed to switch off my brain and enjoy the movie. It was great to see those two fighting again, so I shouldn’t complain.

Banjou’s power-up is very cool!

So yeah, all in all I found it entertaining and it had some very good scenes here and there. While other moments weren’t so stellar, they could have been much worse.

(It could have been ROGUE)