#but on the other hand you already know the creators would feel like they're robbing us of Kagami

[its-your-girl-geekerella]

THE NEW TRAILER IS OUT

As per usual, I have my thoughts:

I hated Alya's overall hair design at first, but I've grown into it.

Chat literally just ROASTING LB about her costume lives in my head rent-free. (Also I know I've said this in a previous post, but I love the lip syncing in English; you can easily read their lips in this part)

This library scene is already giving me so much life!

Adrien calls Marinette strange, but not in a condescending way, so that was cute.

The angle as Marinette is reaching under the furniture to grab the earrings was perfect.

What the heck is Luka doing there? Will Kagami make an appearance, too?

Chat holding on to Ladybug as she swings 😍

Sabrina and Chloe on the ferris wheel?

So that one piece of concept art with LB and CN finally came to fruition? (You know the one)

Can't wait for the piano scene!

Marinette explode. Anyway~

I like how the creators are messing with the actual "superhero cliche" of seeing your parents while heroing, and having to get home before they do. I think they tried this before in earlier seasons, but never kept it.

So the carnival scene has more than just LB and CN, now?

THE BALL SCENE. I CAN'T. That will, no doubt, be my favorite scene. (Maybe along with that scene that is practically destined to be cringe, with Adrienette on the barge)

Personally--and I know I can't be the only one-- I'm not a fan of Hawkmoth's outfit. I know that it's just a copy of the original, but I don't think it works that well in this animation. That being said...

The animation is GORGEOUS and the special effects (such as lightning, explosions, and electricity) are well done! I can't wait for July 5th! Tell me your thoughts in the comments and tags~

[iviarellereads]

The Eye of the World, Chapter 12 - Across the Taren

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(Flame icon) In which several things are awfully suspicious.

They make their way to the ferry crossing and wait, hardly even talking among themselves. Moiraine tells Lan he has to handle the crossing, because if she stands out in the ferrymen's thoughts, the group will be that much easier to track down.(2) Rand finds himself a little jealous of Egwene, who's in the flush of finding a sought-out adventure, while he's had adventure thrust upon him and he just feels damp, cold, and sore from the night's hard ride.

Lan moves Perrin's cloak to expose his war axe, and Rand moves his own cloak to show his sword, and tries to mimic Lan's confident pose with his hand on it. The ferry haulers get in position and they start the crossing.

Quietly, Lan and Rand discuss how the ferryman is untrustworthy. Lan says those who would harm a stranger are often the quickest to accuse a stranger of wanting to harm them, since the ferryman noted loudly that the gold he was already given is in a safe place, he can't be robbed. Rand is just surprised the people of Taren Ferry are every bit as strange as he always heard.

Once they're across, the ferryman and the haulers follow them down onto the bank to get the rest of their pay. Moiraine looks out over the river. Rand shivers and pulls his cloak closer around him, and suddenly the ferry gets caught up in a whirlpool, though the ferryman notes that this river never gets whirlpools.(3)

The ferrymen go off to deal with getting back across the river, and Lan leads the group to a cave hidden in a tangle of fallen trees, well defended against curious eyes. Moiraine takes Egwene aside while the men take care of the horses and set up camp. Perrin remarks that the horses don't look tired at all, but Lan says they just don't feel it, they'd run themselves to death if you let them. It was a necessary risk, for Moiraine to do that.

When they're done with the horses outside, they go in the cave, where Moiraine is giving Egwene a lesson.

“The One Power,” Moiraine was saying, “comes from the True Source, the driving force of Creation, the force the Creator made to turn the Wheel of Time.” She put her hands together in front of her and pushed them against each other. “Saidin, the male half of the True Source, and saidar, the female half, work against each other and at the same time together to provide that force.(4) Saidin”—she lifted one hand, then let it drop—“is fouled by the touch of the Dark One, like water with a thin slick of rancid oil floating on top. The water is still pure, but it cannot be touched without touching the foulness. Only saidar is still safe to be used.” Egwene's back was to Rand. He could not see her face, but she was leaning forward eagerly.

Rand misses some of the conversation, but hears Egwene ask if Moiraine thinks she can really learn to use saidar, to be an Aes Sedai. Moiraine says she has no need to learn to use it, but without training, she may not survive the process of using it.(5) When she mentions that men who can channel are gentled by the Red Ajah, Thom growls next to Rand, and even Perrin and Mat look uncomfortable.(6) Rand doesn't know much about the other Ajahs, but he does know the Red take as their mission the prevention of another Breaking, and work to do that by gentling or killing every potential male channeler they learn of.

Moiraine guides Egwene through channelling in a focused way, and when Egg makes a stone light up, Moiraine says most who go to Tar Valon study for months before they can do what she just did by instinct. Egwene has a natural talent, might even be strong enough to become the Amyrlin Seat herself someday. The chapter ends with Egg's delight at her new future.

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(1) Funny how, if you put this up against the Dragon's Fang, it would look like the symbol Lews Therin wore and drew attention to. It's once again going to be hard to tag this without giving it away, so, this is the Flame of Tar Valon, henceforth just the flame, a symbol of Tar Valon, the modern Aes Sedai, and female magic, saidar. Which adds some dimensions to the complementary Dragon's Fang piece, doesn't it? (2) So, does something have some sort of telepathy, or do they assume they'll just be interrogated? (3) Definitely Moiraine's intervention. I guess she had enough left in the tank for that, even with the fog. (4) I know that's an awful lot of Capital Word Jumble. And, if we're being honest? This is 2024, so it's been almost 15 whole years I've been in this fandom, and I still mix up the words for saidar and saidin at least 30% of the time. (5) So, some people will channel, probably under some sort of stressful circumstances, and many of them die because they're not prepared. We already know it's possible to channel more than a body can hold, maybe that's an extra danger when you're not prepared for it. Since official training would, as we see in this chapter, involve starting very small, that seems likely. (6) Thom's reaction definitely seems like something personal, and close. He doesn't seem in any way gentled, so what happened?

[earth-to-dude]

Tripp *canonically* has autistic traits and behaviors (it's actually mentioned by one of the Flypaper creators in the disc's interviews!!), meaning he's most likely on the spectrum. At the bare minimum, he's for sure had at least a doctor or two at some point in his life diagnose him with it, as he "has seen hundreds of doctors and [been given] hundreds of different diagnoses" and has cycled through medications like crazy. In most shots of the film, you can actually see Tripp stimming and using self-soothing behaviors on top of them. Tripp is always shifting from foot to foot, rocking, and counting under his breath. In one scene, he rolls his coins between his fingers repeatedly. One of my favorites, his self-soothing behavior, is locking his fingers together with his palms placed together and facing the opposite way and holding them close to his chest and body, which he does at various times throughout the movie, particularly when he has a gun pointed to his head and when he's being talked to by the bank robbers. When he's manic and overstimulated, rambling incoherently, a girl kisses him in an attempt to calm him down. This causes him to have a full blown meltdown where he ends up wailing on the ground about his brain feeling like it's going to explode. Afterwards he can be seen doing starfish, or carpet snow angels, on the floor and slowly touching, petting and grabbing the textures on the floor to ground himself. I also have reason to think he's extra sensitive to sounds in comparison to others (ex. when everyone else just screamed in alarm at a singular gunshot, he not only covers his ears in reaction when he flinches, but continues to plug his fingers in his ears on top of it while cringing afterwards as the camera lingers). He also fails social skill checks quite often without knowing the right cues. Like, he forcibly shook Kaitlin's hand in an attempt to be over friendly, he misunderstood her "your persistence is touching but at 5AM, I go home to Max," as "at 5AM if you havent convinced me, we part ways," and he asks a lot of curious, pressing and inappropriate questions. Most notably, it's when he's telling all the scared and freaked out hostages he's been taken with that the bank robbers are not only totally going to kill them, but that if HE was the ome robbing the bank that he would FOR SURE murder every single one of them because it just made logical sense, and he's talking about how confusing it was that he hadn't killed them yet. Tripp is aware he's not very good with people, and it's even worse when his mania hits on top of his already loud brain. He's known to rapid fire quick questions, make assumptions. OH, and the most obvious, he has a very, very special interest in coins. He stims a LOT with coins, they're his favorite texture and aesthetic. The quote is, "I just have this thing for coins. I like their weight, I like their size, I like the way they j i n g l e in my pocket." and asks the teller to break his $100 in cash into thousands of coins for him. He straight up went into a bank with the intentions of leaving with over a thousand coins totalling up to over 5lbs of dimes, quarters and nickels b/c he just thinks they're neat.