#cause I wanted to liveblog but I got distracted

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Omg he’s trying so hard

He’s just wants his friend back I’m gonna cry!!!!!

[lurking-latinist]

The fascinating thing about mediocre Victorian three-volume novel The Pit Town Coronet, which evidently I am liveblogging now?, is (what I know to be a characteristic of the era and the genre, but this one's taking it to extremes) its propensity for jumping between characters. As soon as we've gotten invested in one little scene, we drift away to some other vignette with completely different people, often brand-new people with little obvious relevance. We just spent an entire chapter getting to know a burglar before learning that he intends to burgle Georgina's husband's cousin (whom we barely know). None of the events seem to have any consequences for the characters, because the plot just goes somewhere else. Lucy did get blackmailed for a bit by a servant who had found out she was Lucius' mother, but all he wanted was to get his old job back, and then we got distracted by the new High Church curate and what the vicar's wife thought of him. (To be fair to the author, the new curate did go on to propose to Lucy and she turned him down, and while she was turning him down she seemed to be motivated by guilt over her secret baby, but she had already made up her mind to turn him down anyway because she just doesn't want to be married, so there's no actual cause-effect relationship going on there.)

You know what it almost feels like to me? It feels like a science fiction novel that's more interested in worldbuilding than anything else, and that will give you a chapter randomly from the perspective of the sentient android toaster just because the author wants you to know about sentient android toasters in their world. But this is set in the real world, about twenty years before its publication (I think--it wasn't indicated as set in the past at any point, but there was an offhand reference to the battle of Waterloo being forty-something years ago), and I'm not used to that kind of book being so dedicated to just wandering through its world.

I'm wondering if maybe the author isn't very comfortable with letting his characters experience consequences, develop, and change. He seems to enjoy drawing little character sketches of various types and classes of people (many of them very stereotype-driven, but some--I suspect those from his own class and background--with a certain amount of insight). Maybe letting his characters outgrow those caricatured roles wasn't what he wanted to do. But it's affecting the course of the plot, because he's not writing a series of character sketches; he's setting up events which they ought to change in response to, and don't.

I wonder whether he's planning to set up a huge denouement where everything everybody's done throughout the novel will come back to bite them. I think Georgina's husband might inherit this earldom, in which case Lucius' real parentage will become extremely important, but the thing is it doesn't seem likely anyone will do anything about it! Georgina was massively conscience-stricken when she first agreed to pass off the child as her own, and she was described to us as someone who loved truth but who felt completely bound by a promise she had rashly made to Lucy; but we haven't seen Georgina for chapters and chapters, or her husband, to be honest. Also Lucius and George ought to be old enough to be interesting by now, but they seem to have vanished, and I'm not sure the author is keeping track of the passage of time.

[iguessitsjustme]

I Saw You in My Dream Ep 9 Thoughts

Would you guys like a physical representation of how I’m feeling after work today? Of course you would:

Anyway. I got a glass of pickle juice and am debating heating up my pizza but eating is currently hard for…reasons. Should be better tomorrow though. ANYWAY. Liveblog under the cut:

I gotta not get distracted and focus this episode cause my mom needs my account to watch I Hear the Sunspot. Will I be done at the agreed upon time? Who knows! It’s a mystery! Let’s find out together.

IMMEDIATELY a noisy neighbor. Amazing.

OH so we’re picking up RIGHT where we left off. Steamy.

Oh the lights turned out. And our boy is scared of the dark. Kind of puts a damper on the sexy times if he’s too afraid to continue.

Yu comforting Ai was very sweet. I love them a whole lot.

I cannot eat those shrimp but I desperately want to peel those shrimp. I feel like peeling the shrimp would be very satisfying. And those shrimp look very peelable.

Noisy sidewalk people go aWHAY

I still maintain that the levitating means it’s a dream that isn’t gonna happen. It’s just a regular Ai dream and not a prophetic one. It reflects his fears not the future.

Ai calling himself Yu’s boyfriend might have just ended me. They are so cute. I am so normal about them I SWEAR.

Ai telling Ing to just ask Yo and communicate is great. Ai is actually a genuinely good communicator. 

I swear to god if we still have a weird non-love triangle with Waan, I’m gonna lose it. We been there done that. New plot please.

Thank god Ing is there too. Bless Ing.

Okay actually Waan is a good person. Give him his own boyfriend.

The real question: will Ai also fall asleep? I think it would be funny if he did.

LOL IT WAS A SEX DREAM. Ai keeps having sex dreams with Yu. Boy wants it soo bad.

Somehow I KNEW that Ai would drunkenly tell his parents. I love it.

What a sweet family.

Careful in that art cafe…I’m pretty sure that’s where Sun and Lin fucked against the wall. Hopefully they’ve cleaned the place since but hard to tell with all the paint on the wall.

See what communication gets you, Ing? Isn’t it nice?

Gaga literally just gave me a network error in the middle of Ai and Yu’s sex scene and the timing could not have been funnier. God bless. But I lost my place damn it.

Literally 30 seconds before the end of the episode. Truly amazing.

Oh next episode looks intense. Well not the jealousy stuff. But the man in the house? Oh I can’t wait.

Anyway what lesson did we learn today kids?

[antimony-medusa]

As a tubbling, sorry for the extra neg thrown towards your streamer’s cubito. In case you weren’t aware, long story short, while the permadeath was out of nowhere for the streamers and their viewers, it’s been a long time coming for the tubblings and egg admins. Like we couldn’t make it angstier even if we tried kkkkkkkkk. And when we saw our cubito’s issues be overlooked and joked about again (obvious to tubbo viewers but not to anyone else because god forbid qtubbo communicates), even after his own death, we got so frustrated and lashed out at whoever was loudest and it happened to be phil. Which one makes sense for him to do since they’re literally close irl friends and two is also unfair to him because when he did realize the seriousness of it, he immediately went to help. So yeah honestly sorry again for that, hope what I said sorta makes sense and while it’s more likely to happen to qphil, it can and will happen to every character, tubbo included lmao. Can’t speak for everyone but I’ll try to chill out a bit 🤏 Who knew that the rarest thing on the qsmp would be emotional intelligence wow im so shocked 😮 (<-has watched phil and tubbo for years i am not shocked) KKKKKKK have a good day lol :D

Thank you for the message! :D

And yeah, I follow enough tubblings either here or on Ao3 that I was aware of what the tubbling perspective is in terms of Tubbo's issues being overlooked, once I thought about it. And like, that's part of the tragedy of tubbo isn't it, that he's has been setting up this angst where other streamers don't see it, but even when he does it where they CAN see it, they take it as bits, because that's how they view Tubbo and because at a certain point of sarcasm, saying "i'm having a terrible day and I kind of want to die" still gets read as a joke because you said it yesterday as a joke. (Ran into that issue in my real life, actually.) He's having a painful time, but everybody goes "oh tubbo" about it.

Thank you for the understanding of my perspective too, cause I was sitting through that stream like "oh man, Phil keeps bringing up to the eggs that it's gonna be okay, we're gonna get him back, hehe the create wrench I wonder if Tubbo will let that bring him back to life, oh that's quite sweet, he does care about Tubbo so much" and then I stepped onto the dash and saw the reaction and went OH NO THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE I FORGOT THAT NOT EVERYBODY PROCESSES EVERYTHING THROUGH JOKES and scrolled in dismay. It's obvious to me that cc!Phil cares a lot about Tubbo and I think q!phil cares a lot too, he just— thought it was a joke at first. Distracted by having many eggs around (you know that man is at max paranoia and minimum emotional processing with three+ eggs in his care).

The good news is we got FASCINATING Creation lore out of it, (picture me showing up in multiple liveblogging channels like "who's this herobrine motherfucker and no he can't have the eggs what the fuck"). Here's to more fascinating lore and qTubbo coming back to life (PLEASE man I don't want this to be your exit from the server, I like qTubbo), and all of us appreciating other perspectives. Emotional intelligence truly rarer than cucurucho cookies in my OWN life, I know, it's so hard. 😭😭

[junipernight]

I stopped liveblogging Hurricane Milton somewhere around the eye, because there was too much going on, but I do want to write it down for my own sake, so here we go:

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So the eye had come and gone. My wind chimes began to chime again, heralding the return of the wind, and soon the storm was as strong as it had been before, shrieking through the trees and making deep bass noises as it pushed against our apartment building.

We'd been spared the worst of the noise during the first part of the storm, because the wind had been buffeting the opposite side of the building, blowing from SE. The wind had been so strong then that it blew the rain into my neighbors' apartments in a steady stream around the edges of their tightly closed windows and doors. Now, the wind had shifted to come from the NW, and was forcing its way around our doors.

There was an ominous scraping noise. It was completely dark outside the window — no moon, no stars, no streetlights, only the sporadic green flare of exploding transformers. Inside the apartment wasn't much brighter. We couldn't see what was causing the sound, but Little Sister thought maybe the patio screen had been ripped off, staple by staple. The wind got louder and louder. A frantic knocking sounded at the door — it was our upstairs neighbor Bea and her eight-week-old puppy.

We ushered her in. She was apologetic about coming, but said she had wanted to get downstairs because "the wind was starting to sound tornado-y." I was glad she'd come, because I'd offered our downstairs apartment as a tornado shelter before, and also because the conversation was a welcome distraction from the wind. Sister was glad she'd come because she likes puppies. We talked and watched the transformers blow up for a while. There were so many of them... it was a little like that scene in Lilo and Stitch, when Stitch crash lands and the sky pulses with green light and Lilo thinks it's a shooting star. It was like a hundred experiment 626's crash-landed on Earth that night.

Something went Boom! and shook the building.

I was sure a tree had fallen on something or someone. We ran into the hall to see if everyone was okay. Almost everyone else was in the hall too, trying to figure out what caused the boom. One neighbor wasn't answering her door. She's an older lady, and she's starting to have some memory problems. She seemed the most nervous about the storm. We knocked on her door multiple times. I was afraid that maybe she'd had a medical emergency in there, but I couldn't just break into my neighbor's apartment to see if she'd had a heart attack or been squished by an oak tree or something. Another neighbor, Tea thought maybe Elder Neighbor was asleep and decided to text her.

Bea was worried because when she'd grabbed the puppy and ran, she’d been in such a hurry that she'd forgotten to blow out her candles, and she didn't want to leave live fire unattended with cats. I asked if she wanted to bring the cats down too, but she said they were hiding and we probably wouldn't be able to get them out. She also apparently had a fish tank she'd left on her balcony, tucked behind a wall, that she no longer thought was safe.

Was I incredulous that Bea had left anything, let alone living creatures, outside during a hurricane? Yes. Do I think this was irresponsible? Yes. But Bea had just driven home from Georgia the day before and was taking care of a new 8-week-old, so I’m trying not to judge.

So me, Bea, Little Sister and Baby Puppy all climb the stairs to Bea's apartment, carrying flashlights and solar lanterns, and then Bea does the unthinkable. She does the thing you're not supposed to do.

She opens a door during a hurricane.

She slides open the sliding glass door to her balcony in the middle of the eyewall, and goes outside to grab her fishtank.

Earlier that day, I had learned about a different neighbor, in a different building, during a different hurricane, who once opened a door into the storm; the wind ripped the door off it's hinges and put it in a tree.

Bea goes out into the hurricane, picks up her fish tank, and carries it in, while my sister and I stand ready to slide the door shut the moment she's back inside. And we do shut it, but this stupid balcony curtain is in the way, and it's blocking the latch. We have to crack open the door again and again, and try to push the curtain back out, but the wind is a sustained 80mph, and even with both of us we cannot force the curtain to stay outside, so we get it away from the latch and slam the door shut with half the curtain poking through. But it latches, so that's that.

That’s about when the gutter finally snapped free of it's moorings, and started flapping around outside Bea's balcony like a 40 foot metal kite. I took a picture, Bea blew out her candles, and we went back down to my unit.

The partially-ripped-off gutter was long enough to be seen from my floor, so we sat in the living room and watched the gutter flap and the transformers blow for a while, all the while hoping the gutter wouldn’t punch a hole in either someone’s windshield or my patio door. Eventually, Bea decided that the wind had gone down enough, and she went home.

I kept watching the window from the couch, and Little Sister did the same from the floor, where she was soothing her pets: Cat did not like being in the carrier one bit. Rabbit was eating hay like it was just another Wednesday. The gutter broke away and disappeared.

More transformers lit up the horizon, mostly green, some purple. One transformer was very very close when it blew out, somewhere behind us; it didn’t just light the sky, it temporarily illuminated all the other buildings in the apartment. The gutter blew back towards us, dragging along the sidewalk. It went back and forth several times before being caught underneath some cars in the parking lot.

Another transformer blew, and this one was different. This one was orange. This one didn’t go out after a few seconds, or half a minute tops. This orange glow on the horizon flickered.

Something was on fire. Something close. Across the street, maybe.

We were in the south side of the storm at this point, which for Hurricane Milton happened to be the dry side. So it was very windy and relatively dry and something was on fire.

We couldn’t go outside to see, and even if we called someone, no emergency departments would be responding to anything for several hours, so we just watched to see if it would spread.

Whatever was on fire stopped being on fire. Hallelujah.

The wind was still fucken wimdy, but I was dead tired at this point. It was sometime past midnight. Little Sister was staying up with the animals until she felt safe to let them out of their carriers, so we agreed that she would keep watch, and when she was ready to sleep, if things still seemed dangerous she would wake me up.

That’s more or less it. The winds died down. The sun rose.

Me, my sister, and all our neighbors all went outside at about the same time, dawn, to look at the damage. By 7:30, we’d cleared all the branches from the entry road, in time for the first evacuee to return home.

(Eldest neighbor was fine; she was sleeping. I still don’t know how she slept through all that.)

[rachiecrown]

I'M BACK IVE RETURNED TO CONTINUE MY HGCZ LIVEBLOGGING

TOTAL ECLIPSE COMIC SUPER EXCITED THE COVER ART LOOKS AMAZING ALREADY

Loving the lighting and details and the water posters and HOT GUY'S SHADOWWW

Omg CG's anger omg omgBIRDIE MENTION

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING THEYRE FIGHTING

THE POPPIES AND LILACS STOP

The GLASS BREAKING IS SO COOL

WHATTT HG FOLLOWED HIM!?! THE CATCH IS EVERYTHING

THIS FIGHT SCENE IS INCREDIBLE it's so well drawn and so tasty HOT GUY'S GRIN THE SHARP TEETH

Oh my god he's feral

THE MASK WAS TAKEN OFF!?!?! TO BE CONTINUED!?!?! STOPPP STOP IT OH MY GOSH NO WAIT NO IM NOT

AaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA Oh yay another comic :3

Istg the thing I've said out loud the most reading this has got to be "oh my god" cause this is insane

NEXT COMIC IS OF THE HEART IM SO EXCITED ALL THE TIME

omg

THE IDENTITY REVEAL IS CRAZY HG DOESN'T EVEN KNOW WHATS HAPPENING unless he does and I'm stupid BUT HUHH

THE HUGGG STOPP IK GRIAN'S JUST TRYING TO GET THE MIND CONTROL BUG OFF BUT LIKE. GUG

The way he's talking to HG to distract him :(((

WAIT WHATTT HE KNOWSSS HE KNOWS HE KNOWS

WHAT IS HAPPENING OMG my heart can't take this is he okay

THEY'RE HUGGING!!!! BIRDIE MENTION!!!! OHHHH MY GODDD

THEM WALKING TODGETHER "I wouldn't have it any other way" IM CRYINGGGG

AWW THE EPILOGUE IS ADORABLE SCAR'S TRYING SO HARD GRIAN MY BOY YOU'RE DENSE /aff AUGHH

The lil scene on the couch?? That's so cute <3

I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY KNOW NOW IM SHAKING IM GONNA HAVE A HEART ATTACK /vpos

Augh I'm so excited to read HG Legacy

I wish I would've found this project while signups were still happening, I would've participated in a heartbeat but Tumblr just did not want to show it to me

[dreadnoughtus]

Liveblogging after taking an edible and watching

game awards

I don't know what these games are

Oh wait assassins creed VR??

Got distracted my friend texted me.

The dress is kinda flapper ish you know not in a bad way it's fine

What did Forza just win

Oh that's cool good for them I don't drive cars

The height differences......

This would freak me out being on live TV I would hate it ohmygod

Wait huh hometlstuck

This is such strange vibes

Sign language is so sick tho

Why isn't there a general neutral version of mommy and daddy

Oh here come the names I don't know

I'm playing Sandrock while I watch this

Would it be weird if your kid immediately called you by your name like would that fuck them up or

Was told to use beepbo

Alright I'm back

Jk gusher break

BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY

I'm fucking clappiny

Ok but this game fucks

This is about persona 3 btw

I'm absolutely freaking out over her writing

Wait is it a bit

Who

Oh

She's in a silly goofy mood

Omg

Oh never mind I wanted more burning things in a fireplace game

Cool if you're into goo.

I'm a googetter myself

?????????

Omg remember this

Ok but I'm hype

HORNS

I'm gay

Hell yea hell yea

Remember when Rocco was sitting all by himself on camera

Guys I really don't hope someone says some dumb shit on stage again

Geoffs walking out music is cracking me up

Get you a mans who sends you two chairs and a table through the mail

Omg remember his speech last year lmao

Oh it's a bit

Damn

What is this lol

Is this a roast

My fucking boyfriendddd

Idris where you at

Idris you're missing the fanciest night in gaming

Our boyfriend won!!!

.....what is he wearing lmaoooo

Security BEEFY this year

Aww omg

He wore his armor I'm dead

I need to replay baldurs gate NOW

That's right baldurs gate!!!! You can fuck a bear!!!!

Geoff relax

Huh lol

Immediate fanservice

...I'm dying

Turned him on??????

Is he gonna fuck us????

Interstellar?????

This isn't interstellar

Damn bro

Wet Chair :/

Daddy's back

Oh free dayum ok

Geoff has the air of a man who presents this as if he himself made these games

Goose guy 2

Wait this is great

This is my kind of game

I love this

Fuck gta6 I got Big Walk

HUH

Is this fornite Lego????

What the huh

Took a break for ice cream

I just got the news Wonka will be presenting

They give them less speech time than on the Oscars

Oh wait this is the cool lady

FINALLY GONZO

Gonzo has good taste

Cocoon was good

Ok Sega ok!!!!!

Hold up anime game I'm awake

Oh nice ok I'm into it

Alan Wake sweep

Apparently the site you have to login into to get a steam deck for whatever is crashing crazy lol whoopsie

I liked venba!!

Wtf

His boy

I'm scared that's just a video

Not the fog machine

His broach is wild

I'm so glad kojima is finally making the movie he wanted to make

Is this wrestling

Huh

This is a WILD collaboration

They have my support

Movies and games!!!!

Ohhh dinosaurs?? I'm too scared to play this

Everything is fortnite now we are all assimilating into fortnite

Monkey 👍👍👍

I cannot escape suicide squad

Nooooot a fan of the remix

NICE CLAWS

Where do I aquire claws

What is Warframe sorry

Acab

Good games!! I loved tchia

This looks sick, ori vibes

So many cool looking games

Man with ponytail?????

THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME

I want to play rebirth so bad

SHUT UP STOP lol huh?????

Sea of stars was meh sorry I said it

Omg I forgot about hades 2

Cutting to ads from ads is so funny

Holy shit he almost killed the camera guy with one kick

Anthony Mackey doing crowd work lmao

Fortnight

He's zooted

Thank you for the meme s

Thanks for the memeorys

Steve Martin looks different

There's 3 genshins now

Hell yeah democrazy

Are these guys a big deal I just don't know

I feel like I need to have played Alan Wake I guess

BOOGIE DOWN WHITE BOY

Ok but they are shredding

Ok I'm ready for bed how much longer

Stop flirting on stage

Gamer snax

We get it you're a voice actor 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Ok wait the armor??? Ok nice

It's funny tho cause the last thing I liveblogged was last of us, good show

BAGGU REPRESENT

The PR glowup for no man's sky was impressive no doubt

No mans sky 2!

We're always talking about mountains

Dragons so I'm in

Can I be a wolf man

Badass title

Stretching this is what I'm always saying unironically to everyone

I love tonberry king

Omgggg monhun!!! Chocobo

Huh what modded controller???

He flutin

Gotyyyy let's goo lol

Bg3 🫡🫡🫡

I sleep 😴

I'm not reading this back

[sparkbugs]

Been thinking bout jrwi all day it’s finally time to watch ep 104. liveblog under the cut!!

So I actually watched the intro (well Bizly’s song of the intro) at 5 am and it’s been stuck in my head ever since! Good song, really wish it was on other platforms to listen to :(

(I can’t believe I’ve “caught up” so fast) ((I’ve been binge watching episodes instead of sleeping so oops!))

Ooo Grizz got white/silver hair :o it looks so nice!!

Haha! Corruption! That sounds so good haha!! Land is going to be worse I feel but ok guys

FUCK THE FUCKING COMPASS. Chip please get rid of it please mannnnn

CORRUPTION SCORE?!? Fuck. Haha that’s a great mechanic! Terrified to see how it works out. Haha how the fuck do you get rid of your corruption points. Grizzly what the fuck /pos this is terrifying and for good reason

(I love getting ads for one piece during this campaign (I haven’t watched one piece))

God they’re all gonna die man I’m so worried godddddd

Ayo Chip calm down man jeez- QUEEN LMAOOOOO

Jay don’t fucking DRINK THE BLACK SEA.

Broken heart island :o OOOO THE TREE :o save the treeeeeee. This is the tree May Ferin draws her power from no?? Save it guys you got this- Oh shit this island is HUGE huge. Ok then

Oh I feel like burning (the tree branches in the way) will go so poorly oh god oh no. Oh… never mind then??

Alphonse ship :) hope they make him a new body that’s not a ship so he can do the things he wants too-

Yeah I think it’s an illusion maybe?? Oh it’s. Not wtf is it the hell. “We should pull up?- we should pull up” yea gillion pull up

LMAO CONTESTED DEX ROLLS AND GILLION WON??? Rip chip

Aw village :( god it would suck if they go by Gryffon (Gryffin? Gryffen??)’s home town :(

“Chip! while the tree is distracted!!” Gillion never change <3

God damn it. “Our specialty: subtle” please. You’re not being subtle and you knew that but god y’all gonna die.

Fyck here they come- “hostile mobs inbound” they’re not gonna be friendly. There’s no way there’s anyone in sane mind around here man. LMAO THEY THREW A ROCK AT HIM AHDJDHSK

Minor illusion to make sounds behind them as they go by that would be kinda smart methinks maybe but! They’re also. Out of magic almost so maybe not hm-

Yeah it’s not safer on land at fucking all man Jesus- Gillion don’t fucking go on land alone I swear to god

They need to rest so fucking badly man shitttt this is so fuckeddddd this is not gonna go welllll aaaaaaaaaa

Nightmare nightmare nightmare nightmare /ref

Man I wonder what this place looked like before the Black Sea :( it must’ve been so pretty

Ichor webs! Haha!! Not dangerous or foreboding at all

(In the tone of “the claw from Toy Story”) The Treeeee…

Aw Gryffon :( mannnn i love weeping willows I love pink cherry trees this is such a good tree I agree gillion go save it

The thumbnail is sick btw I don’t think I mentioned that, amazing colors.. I wanna eat the art /pos

God please do Not Split Up for the love of god… STOP FIGHTING YOURE GONNA ATTRACT THE BADDIES OH MH GODDD..:. Aaaaaaaaa DONT SPLIT UPPPP FUCKKK EVERYONE GO TOGETHERRRR the old men on the ship are gonna die :(

“Leave no tres” that’s amazinf holy shit “leave no cinco” is also good

“Do you guys think the tree has chicken??” ????? Chip??????

YEA JAYS THINKING ABOUT THE NOISE THING YEAAAAA the noise attracts them?? I hope. I fuckin hope. Zombie game in the pirate campaign

Hahaaa uh ohhhh… uhh ohhhhh (the uh ohs from tattletail when they get low battery) uhhh. Oooohhhhh…

CONSTRUCT??? A GOOD LIVING THING?? SOMETHING GOOD. OMG IRON GOLEM LIKE MINECRAF.

Just realizing this episode is filmed after Genloss cause of the painting in the back of Charlie’s room. Damn- IS THAG A PRETZEL PLUSHIE IN CONDIS ROOM??

MINECRAF GOLEM YEAAAA HEHEHE… oh chip wtf man :( he didn’t ask for his home to be corrupted :( thisbis a friend I’ve decided I want to keep him

Oh. A rose :D he’s such minecraf moment he’s asking to be friends- aw :( rose died. MARBLE!!! THATS A FRIEND I LOVE THEMMMM

I’ve decided I would die for Marble <3

Oh shit. The black rose!! AAAA GUYS STOP OVER THE FUCKIN TREE. Oh. Black rose pirates. Black Sea. Uhmmmm. Uhmmmmmmmmmmm there’s a connection here I’m missing besides the tragedy of The Hole in the Sea but. Somethings wrongggg mannnn

Mhm totally different gillion totally not the same.

Chip :( aw nooooo :( the memory aaggagshhaaaaa OHHHH HE WAS THERE AS A KID IM SO NORMALLL

Midroll baybeeeee honey time lesgo (Bizly stop ripping your pants)

ISNT IT THE SAME TREE? Was I wrong. WHAT. Ohh it’s in all port isn’t it . Shit

STOPPP RUNNING THROUGH THE PLACE PLEASE

marble :D

STOP RUNNINGGG… bean shape… creechur

KENKU SAVE THEMMMM OHHHG THATS A FRIEND. I too got the impression they were ignoring the party but if it does notice them. I’ll cry

Kenku friend :( save themmmm YEAAA SAVE BIRD

NOOOO WTF A TURTLE FRIEND NEEDS TO SAVE FHEM NOW TOO FUCKKK

Uh oh. Beetle guy uh oh. OH IT HAS A CUTE VOICE. Oh nos

“That’s mine.” “… Nuh uh-“ *gets flattened by hammer*

NOT A DEX SAVE FUCK- oh thank god good job gillion

Man them yawning makes me yawn wtf.

GILLIONNNNNN DONT SAY THATTTT SHHHH

Hollow knight boss lookin ass mf /pos

Kenku friend :D also grizz lookin majestic while beating the shit outta the team

Oh. My god. “You win! Im sorry” im. This is going bad

“Im on team you can just walk out, you can leave” I love jay so much

“Queen, play despacido” i hate it here- Bruno mars canon in mana??

Tortle friend and Kenku friend :D

… oh fuck. OH FUCK WHY DOES IT MOVE SO FAST

80 POINTS ?!?!!! Oh thank god. Fuck man that would’ve been insane

JAY NOO DONT CAGE THE BIRD >:( GET HER OUT THE NET

Jay is so me “I don’t wanna be dealing with this guy right now” yea me too man

Of course he gets two natural 1s in a row rip Charlie slimecicle

“EYE POWER ACTIVATE” CONDI LMAOOOOO AHSHDIDHS

THE FUCKING MIRROR HELPPPPPPPPPP HAHAHAAAA JAY NOOO

Put the big bug guy in the mirror :) catch like a Pokémon NOOOO JAYYYY . Well. Chip please get her she’s in the mirror helpp

Gillion is the Lorax moment.

GILLION NOOOOO FUCKK AWHWHDISBA FISH BOY. A FAIL ON A DEATBSAVE TOO FAURKSHAAHA this is so fine. This is soooo fine haha. This is so fineeee. Grizz realizing how bad this is,, is me right now it’s so fine thoughhhh

GILLON. Fuck that tree mannnn. CHIP GRAB THE FUCKING MIRROR. CHIP. YOU FUCKINGGNGGHDJDHSIHA HOWWWW THIS IS SO FUCKED UPOPP AAAAA IM SO SCAREDDD

GRYFFON GOOOOOOOOOO GET THEY ASS COME ONNNNNNNNN GET THEMM.

In. Frared? Infrawered?? GRIZZLY you good?

Gryffon beat they ass mannn aahdjdhdoaua

CHIP. Thank god. “YOU ALL SMELL LIKE GOOD VESSELS” ?!?!??!? HELLOOOOOO

Gillionnnnnaaaaa my boy :( my fish mannnn also GET JAY PLEASE? Didn’t chip grab the fucking mirror why hasn’t he freed her

…. Treeeeeeeeeeeeeee ….

CHIP YOURE FONNA LEAVE YOUR CREW??? . Gillion. God. Damn it gillion. Aw Kenku :( Kenku friend trying to help Gill :( that’s a friend

Gillion. Pleaseeeeeeeeee fucking hell man. He’s dead AGAINNNNNNN

AWWWW BIRD BIRD TRYINF TO PROTECT GILLION NOOOOOOO BIRD BIRD :( THATS A FRIENDDDD PROTECT HER

“Do we really wanna risk our lives over this random bird?!?” “YES!!!” YEA GILLIONNNNN GET HER >:( JAYGET HER OR ILL FUCKIFN YELL >:(

NIOOOOO BIRD BIRDDDFD LET HER GO YOU BASTARD

PLEASEEEEEEE BIRD BIRD :( I’m so sad

GILLIONNNN AAAGSJDHDSHDJSHS IM SO SCAREDDDD IM SO FUCKIFNHFDISHSKA

Let her out >:( Charlie is so distraught over bird bird me too mannnn

GILLION. Grow big and make bird bird big :D BREAK BIRD BIRD OUR THE CAGE LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO that’s a friend :D

Uh. Ohhggg… uh ohhhhh (tattletail uh ohs again)

Uh oh he’s not sleepy anymore. Uh oh. Im so fucking scared

Bird bird better not fuckinf die I love her so much

Corruption. Point. Uh oh.

noc? Knock? Kenku friend :D

NOOOOOOOOOOO BIRD BIRD IM GONNA CRY LET HER BE OKAY

Size coin… come on it better go well. LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

This is some power ranger like mecha battle shit power up thing idk how to explain it. (Gillion growing giant and fighting this bitch)

(It’s almost 1 am I’ve been awake too long but I need to finish this episode)

Murder bug guy :D riptide pirates the crew that gets into everyone else’s shit

Uh oh. Gillion goes down again I’m gonna. Lose my mind. Oh my god they’re gonna attract so much trouble with the noise when they fall fucking hell

I totally missed jay leaving the mirror btw she’s 60 ft away but like where??? How???

YEAAA JAY AND GRYFFON SHOOT TO KILL. MURDERRRRR

INFAWRARD LAZER BEAM CANON!!!!!!

You. Tortle. MURDERRR HDJXHSJS HAHAHA GOOD JOB CHIP. NOOOO I KNEW ITTTT THEY WERE ATTRACTING ATTENTION FUCK

“Im gonna start drinking” me fucking too gillion damn.

Good episode, fishman is still down im worried, he went down three times Jesus fuck, also! I knew they were gonna attract attention from zombie ichor guys… debating on watching ep 105 as well before sleeping but we’ll see :)

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Liveblogging Dracula Daily - May 7

Brought to you on May 8 and the sore throat I woke up with this morning. Today is our final tech rehearsal and we open tomorrow, running until Saturday. So I'll finally get some sleep on Sunday! Sad half of that is my boyfriend can only come to opening night this week cause he's leaving for a trip on Friday (he was originally coming to Friday so he cold tag along with the post-show diner trip)

But yeah yours truly woke up with a sore throat so I'm basically popping cough drops to try and deal with it. My guess is all the pollen finally got to me. Other guess is that I'm sick, but I'm actually not letting that one be right

Anyway enough of my personal life, let's get back to what you're all here for: vampire silly times featuring everyone's favorite solicitor!

Man I would love to sleep for hours and wake up of my own accord. I haven't really done that without something coming later in the day since... two saturdays ago? Too long

Ok so I know dinner is what they used to call lunch, and I'm guessing he means 5-6 pm. But that's still pretty darn late for a lunch. Also this poor guy really needed that nap, huh

Sidenote, the wolves and the lack of people is making me think of Beauty and the Beast and I know that's obviously a very different story but it'd be really funny if all the furniture just randomly came to life and started singing at Jonathan.

And a huge library too!

So he called Jonathan all the way here so he could have an English tutor? I feel like first of all there are better people for that and second he probably could've disclosed that information. Like that's not gonna give anything away I don't think

Huh. Blue flame treasure. Is that an actual superstition or is that just something he's saying to distract Jonathan? It's a cool explanation either way I guess

Mmmmmm. sharp teeth. Suspicious... (i say with a heart's fire full of dramatic irony)

Oh Jonathan's sleep schedule has gotta be so busted at this point (relatable)

I kinda want to build this house in Minecraft now. It sounds cool

Ok so he marked his house in the atlas, as well as... Jonathan's house, I'd guess? Don't know who/what the third marking might be though

Hmmm obedience trance. Buddy. Johnny. Go to sleep. Please.

Well that was fun. Expect the actual May 8 post in a few hours, probably around 10:30 (will write during my 3rd period class)

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Bipolar Essay Extra #4

A solid a$$ explanation of BD from Ian:

So, to add in some of my own experience here, I'll put in some of my journal entries, and then go a little in-depth:

[Friday, June 3rd 2022]

(20:54 — 8:54 PM) 

Oh, great. The insanity is back. 

Now, this type of insanity is hard to describe. Just…wired energy. Like anxious energy spazzing through me like I just took 9 shots of caffeine.” 

(End of entry.)

My thoughts:

Okay--so I still vividly remember the energy. Ian said there's so much energy, so much ideas, and that it gets to a point where you start losing sanity, and that's the point I was at. I just had all this energy inside of me, my mind was going 200 miles a minute but with 3 different voices, my hands were trembling, and I couldn't do anything because the energy was too my mortal coil to handle 🤪.

...

[September 15th 2022 — Thursday, 2:24 AM. ]

Currently fvcking tripping right now. I don’t think my mood stabilizers are doing the thing that they should be doing. Like I am out of my mind right now. I feel inSANE. Not bad-insane yet, but I know I’m going to have trouble sleeping. I….want to write and draw and watch Donbrothers but all this energy doesn’t want to do any of this. Like for some reason I want to go out running and screaming maybe, like I could jog five miles— but? This energy does not want to write or draw or watch sh*t or liveblog. It’s frustrating, but I can’t even be frustrated? Because my mood is just elevated lol. I feel fvcking crazy right now. 

The Moodswings movie (part 1) for this album [DPR Ian’s] is…something I greatly relate to. I see myself in that video. That’s me. Dude, it’s like looking through a mirror. Damn, it just reminded me of how shaky I was like a month ago when my thoughts wouldn’t stop racing and I felt like I was spiraling out of control at work. Dude that sh*t was hard. Right now I feel good, but I know this high isn’t….normal lol. These last few days have been somewhat like this, but this is the most energized and elated  I feel. To the point that I can’t even get upset. Like, yoINks. 

[End of entry]

Bro I hit that euphoric mania and got lost in the sauce And --warning ahead, the next entry I'm putting under this one was when I was deep into that euphoric mania. You can tell too cause my thoughts are all over the place.

[October 3rd, 2022]

Monday, 5:35 PM 

Too Much, Too Much, All at Once, ah FvCK

Everything is glowing. Like all the light sources are especially bright and so it’s hard to focus on any one thing because all this light is shining at me and my eyes are going in and out of focus. Right now I can’t stare at the computer screen. I can’t focus on it, it’s like my eyes start seeing everything in this room at once, and it’s all so bright, and I can’t think when it’s like this. Tomorrow is trash pick up day, so I finally got the garbage out of my room and …now there is a lot more space— fvck. I feel like I’m trembling but it’s not my body—maybe just my eyes. 

Man trying to gesture draw like this is going to be real sh*tty I can already tell. 

Uh, I hope this entry is coherent, I don’t feel very coherent right now. Just zazzed.  

I got a tab up, “Guide to Mental Health Acronyms,” because I want to finally know and remember what the fvckin acronym for “bipolar disorder” is. BitJazz borderline personality making everything all complicated. (Damn, mfer I am TRIPPING.) 

[6:12 PM]  WhOOPS—sorry, y���all. Got distracted texting J (and then this other acquaintance). Though all I’m inclined to text rn is just nonsense gibberish, occasionally in a nonsense rhyme scheme, and featuring a few thrown in completely-made-up words that just feel right. Man, on tumblr today — I was on the manic depression tag — I saw a post talking about grandeur delusions, but their delusions were “the belief that I could finally change for the better, start eating healthy everyday, working out everyday, cooking and cleaning everyday” and I was like—

Damn, holmes! I guess I was more fvcked outta my mind then I thought. (I remember, idk how many weekends ago, having that same exact thought process and feeling because DAMN was I capable in that moment—ah. )

[6:28 PM] 

Sorry—was texting an acquaintance again. Wanted to share the above meme, and so I sent it once, and then a few texts later I sent it again. (Because it makes me laugh, LOL!!!!) Anyways, when I read tha— I need to get myself some more multivitamins lest I evaporate and die. 

FVCK

[6:40 PM] 

Damn I wish I could read. Right, right—that tab with the Mental Health Acronyms thing. Riiiiight. The Mental Health Acronyms tab ,,, the tab involving mental Health Acro— 

(lol) 

[8:28 PM] 

I’ve done some gesture drawing. Decided to move the 30 second timer (since I’ve done 70 drawings with it) to 2 minutes. My mind is fireworks. AAhhHHHHLHH;hhHH. Just read a tumblr post that said, “Being manic is feeling stuck in a perpetual loop of vertigo” and yah. I’ll drink to that bro. (LOL). 

I just found the perfect description. (Found, in my own thoughts, that is.) Right now, what I’m experiencing is like if I put on those red+blue 3-D glasses at the movie theater, except it's not red or blue, just light and so now I’m tripping tf outta my mind. 

(Unrelated) But a solid description of how I’ve been with my money these last like 5 months, literally the equivalent of: “Wow! I spent $50 on buttons in a variety of colors because I saw them and thought, ‘aw those are such cute little fkin buttons! I can place them all over my house and every time I see one I’ll be filled with immense joy because they’re just so fkin cuteeeeeeeeeee.’ And then when the buttons arrive being like, “What the fvck???/ What tHE FVCK?????” But then buying $50 more like 2 weeks later. 

Absolutely, 3 billion percent embarrassing behavior.

[End of entry excerpt ....it goes on for much longer LOL]

Anyways, I think these do a good job of showing what the mind of someone going through a manic episode is like--constantly switching thoughts, getting distracted, not all coherent, yada yada yada.

PPT Essay: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]

PPT Essay Extras: (1), (2), (3), (4)

Visuals of a Depressive Episode: (1), (2)

Journal Entries: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

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Liveblogging notes for ep 14.

What an absolutely fucking WILD ride that was.

It will be nice to have my brain back. Extra-long episode, twice as many notes as usual.

Fascinating scene between Porsche and Vegas about what's going to happen next. Vegas predicting action on the part of the minor family and promising not to let anything happen to Pete.

Porsche having more memories, now of his mother. Freedom, strength, immortality. Good gifts.

Deliberately trying to trigger a flashback now, to remember what happened?

Rewind to the aftermath of the bombshell with Korn and Porsche (and Kinn).

How could you do this is the same reaction Porsche had to the revelation of Vegas' plotting. For all the constant main/minor family mentions, he is literally the only character who actually elevates familial relationships.

(Which is why, fun as it would no doubt have been to have more scenes among the siblings, it would have been thematically inappropriate. In order to ensure control, Korn destroyed his own family.)

So this is Korn's version of the story: Korn asked Porsche's father to let Nampheung come back to the main house to protect her, he refused, and Gun shot him. Enter Nampheung, who fainted and later committed suicide. While this validates my "Nampheung is his king piece" theory, it is also obviously fake. (I think it says a lot about Korn that he thinks this is believable.)

Soft, soft, soft. Korn admits to having sent Thee to look after the newly orphaned brothers, not knowing about his gambling problem (?), apologizes.

Collapses.

So now we get the waiting scene; see above, the only time we see the three kids together. I have been intrigued by gifsets of this, not least because Kinn is fidgeting, presumably dying for a drink or a cigarette. Kim putting it out there; he can't be distracted, gotta focus on the family now. Interesting positioning, the older and younger close together, Kinn off a bit from both of them, expression communicating almost nothing.

Bad news. Khun upset. Kinn visibly shaken for two whole seconds, although whether it's about Korn or himself we'll never know. Kim doesn't seem to have any reaction at all, but looks at Kinn, comforts Khun. Just in case we missed that note of isolation, Kinn walks out of frame alone. (I can't help but think of him asking Porsche a couple of episodes ago if Porsche really thought that he liked this life.)

Gun enjoying a cigar. So much for the minor house treating its people better. Word is that Korn was poisoned. Now is the time to strike.

Kinn alone, polishing that gun. I love how they blend his shirt with the colors of the city behind him. Chan reports cause of death: poison. Also someone's loyalty is wavering toward the minor family. (Chan is in on this, then? He's almost the only piece Korn has left on the board now -- almost. Pushing Kinn toward the war.)

Porsche at home with his gun and his shirt blending into the background. I love you, camera people. Phone call from... Vegas? Time to make your choice, and we're square now.

Gun is happier than he has ever been. Kinn is not happy, but he's prepared.

First meeting with Kinn at the head of the table. I hate this so much for him. Getting pushback from all the branch heads, who think he should hand control over to Gun, maybe just for a little while.... Apparently none of them watched episode 1; my only question was how many of them he was going to shoot.

Minor family gathering the troops. Gun and Vegas pull up to the main house with their whole bunch, Chan prepared to go out honorably. Lots of shooting, Chan demonstrating why he is in charge of this place by taking out like twelve guys. Gun hands Vegas a machine gun and lets him go in first. (I don't think he's really got your welfare in mind with that move, dude.)

Gun stays behind and shoots Chan some more. Chan gets off one last phone call to warn Kinn (as if all of the GUNFIRE IN THE LOBBY was not a clue) and having been shot like six times wants a cigarette before he dies.

In case of intra-family assault, do not use the elevators. God damn there are going to be a lot of openings in personnel.

Finally, a few people (including Kinn) who understand the concept of cover in a gunfight. Pol has been shot. The weapons desk lady dual-wielding like a BAMF. Porsche to the rescue?! Taking time to chat with Kinn about who poisoned who and who killed whose parents. Kinn needs to know, whose side is Porsche on? Main or minor?

THIRD OPTION BABY! Nobody else in this matters to Porsche (no wonder Kinn's so horny right now I mean fuck, as declarations go that's pretty damn hot and also he looks amazing and just saved Kinn's life again).

Vegas has a lock on the person he thinks he hates most in the world. (Actually a tie between himself and his dad but whatever.)

Battle couple is one of the only tropes I have any time for, so you'd better believe I'm enjoying this. Kinn's suit still looks immaculate, although his hair is tragically mussed. Unfortunately they are outnumbered and that will eventually tell.

Ooh, ouch. Porsche down. Vegas about get everything he wants in the world (well, excluding a tied-up Pete). Porsche prepared to die. Arm and Khun with a vital moment of distraction and a bomb. And then some more bombs. They really leveled everybody up for this finale, I'm loving it.

MEANWHILE Chay is still hanging out at Yok's where Porsche left him to keep him out of the way when everything went down, re-dying his hair and playing video games and completely unaware that Kim has posted himself as guard at the bar. I'm feeling very validated in my chess piece parallels right now. Chay remains oblivious while Kim destroys these guys. And then Kim just... leaves? OMG kid what even are you?

[Kim says he doesn't have to ask who sent them -- but the answer is not given on screen, suggesting that if it were spoken it would have given something away. We have seen a couple of hints that Kim understands Korn better than the other two do. Is Kim the only piece who has any idea what game he's playing in?]

You killed Erika?! Gun you bastard. Kinn trying to negotiate so Porsche doesn't shot, not even a hint of pride or saving face. Gun just wants to keep Porsche safe and straighten up the story.

Same memory from Porsche's childhood, Gun version: His and Korn's father killed Nampheung's family and took her to raise (as what a hostage? very Arthurian). And now they're hunting down dad's family as well. Korn shot dad. The dialog changes places. Enter Nampheung, faint. Korn giving orders, Gun distraught, has to be dragged away from her.

This, I suspect, is also fake, but it's interesting. More thoughts later no doubt, but most immediately obvious is that we have never seen Korn use direct violence, ever. Also interests me that in Korn's version no one touches, while in this one people do. (Korn never touches any of his kids.) Gun's is much more detailed - is that just because he thinks that makes it more convincing...?

Even though I was spoiled for all of this, I am fucking cackling with glee because "and the princess turned out to have been royalty all along" is the absolute hoariest of ancient tropes, and I can't believe the writers did this for Porsche.

Gun then says that Korn killed Nampheung.

One of Khun and Arm's robots breaks the standoff; Gun runs.

Vegas and Pete faceoff; Vegas lowers his gun and gets shot a few times by the other guards who are amazingly still alive at this point. Pete with some punching. Vegas isn't really trying, would prefer if Pete is the one to kill him.

Pete/Vegas, everybody: at least one of them badly injured, covered with blood, and kissing in a room full of corpses. Accept no substitutes.

Exit Vegas. Exit Pete. Honestly this is Shakespeare levels of "everybody fucking dies".

Enter Korn (not dead) accessing a secret room. Enter Gun, Porsche and Kinn still following him. Korn and Nampheung (also not dead!).

Porsche is stunned, and I think Kinn has suffered catastrophic hard drive failure, just WHAT THE HELL DAD?

She's hiding behind Korn. (Admittedly if my son turned up covered and blood and weapons I might be a little alarmed.)

Gun with that same question, how could you do this? Mind, we know Gun has zero family feeling that is not composed of rage and disappointment (at least that's a feeling? Where Korn has none...?). Ooh, Korn has a gun. Says he was protecting her, blames Gun -- says Gun killed Pat and raped Nampheung, that she tried to kill herself and Korn saved her.

Gotta keep escalating the story, huh? Korn if any of that was true you would have just killed him already. Bzzt. And now you have killed him, so that is within the realm of your options, fascinating -- what was he about to say that you were that desperate no one hear? Korn promising to take care of Vegas and Macau ummmm yeah how about you not do that.

Nampheung faints again. She has a talent for that. Porsche trying to figure out where the truth is, can't blame him. Korn still insisting that he was protecting Porsche and Chay. Kinn (still) not about to allow Porsche to shoot his father.

Korn trying to take control of the conversation again, again with that soft lead, takes the blame, admits to lying. Everything I did, I did for you ooh the manipulation classics never go out of style. Korn's only chance to keep the game going now is for Porsche to continue not to realize what the game is.

How Kinn keeps half-reaching out for Porsche until he puts down the gun. :(

And here's Vegas like the bad penny he surely is (guess that clairvoyance works both ways), Pete a few steps behind him, the others a few steps behind him.

Sorry Vegas, you should have been the one to kill him. Korn even managed to take that. (Pete's father is dead, too, right? So he might be understanding a lot here.) Vegas with his gun on Korn, everybody ready to shoot Vegas until Korn orders them out. Oh, he's confident that he's got this one. Tells Vegas that he'll take of him and Macau.

Which it looks like he does. Exit Vegas without a word; Pete quits on the spot.

Take care of him how many times has that been said, about which characters? Hm.

Exit Pete. Vegas has found his way to the pool (there's the water again) to have a breakdown about his father being dead and well, everything. (Seriously Wichipas, how are you making me feel sorry for him?!) Pete interrupts before he can kill himself. I'm here Pete says, just like Kinn said to Porsche. I've got nothing left - echo of the scene in the safe house.

This dialog is wild. Wait who just shot Vegas?! Hope it was nobody we like, because Pete just killed him.

Back to Korn et al. Nampheung conveniently has brain damage/memory loss from "the pills she took." Korn with the absolutely last-ditch desperation play of putting Porsche in charge of the minor family. Ooh, nice touch, having Kinn give him the ring.

Chay finally turns around and finds all of the bodies LOL. Kim you loser, I adore you. Oh, he did not leave after all, he's just moved his standing guard to upstairs so he can smoke.

One month passes - three months then since ep 1. Porsche on the job, in minor green now which is weird after seeing him in black and white for the whole season. We need for him to get his ears pierced or something, he's not wearing nearly enough jewelry. And I hate to say but I am not a fan of what they did with his hair for this scene.

So symmetrical though. So married.

Vegas is recuperating somewhere from having been shot so much; Pete is keeping an eye on him.

Chay playing his guitar. Kim wrote him a song. Chay crying just kills me.

Back to the wedding. Reversal of episode 1 positions, nice. Callback to ep 7, nice.

Korn looking at the photo Khun sent him of his son and son-in-law, smiling, saying that history is only written by the victor. Nampheung is painting when Porsche brings Chay to see her - birds in reversed black and white, echoing the phoenix picture from Porsche's memory (which he brought!) and the chessboard. This is a very unsettling family hug.

Post-credit Pete/Vegas in the hospital.

Aw, Vegas did finally learn the "if you love something" bit. And again with nothing left. I'll have to think a little bit about that dialog and the undoing of (some of) what was said by the pool? Guys Macau is right there ahem? Wedding #2 is appropriately weird.

[cheswirls]

a:tla la thoughts 1.1

admittedly i'm not super excited to fly thru this anymore so i'm not going to sit and binge all 8 episodes tonight but i do want to liveblog as i go thru them as smth to look back on eventually.

(not gonna tag these w the usual tag bc i don't want them showing up in tag results or search results if i can help if and pushing more relevant content down further ((and i already know the tags gonna be filled w la stuff which will be annoying to anyone looking for content from the original show coughcough)) but eventually i'll go back when time has passed and add smth to index them on my blog. for now i think these will be sparse and short enough that a blacklist tag shouldn't be necessary but i can change that too if needed!)

anyway. more under the cut

i don't hate the decision to start it chronologically tho it does make me wonder how much will be shown chronologically. the scene i paused on is katara trying to waterbend so maybe this opener is the only thing out of order, but if so that does make me wonder how they're going to deal with the sequence of events in the storm episode that showed zuko and aang's pasts concurrently to parallel them. i wondered before i reached the scene and paused if it would show hakoda leaving, kaya dying, or anything to do with zuko's family. i guess i could be proven wrong but it seems like this scene is gonna lead to the iceberg scene and might continue into present further instead of doing (what would be at this point) a flashback.

one thing i noticed that i quickly didn't like is the changes to the (yet unnamed) comet and its importance. atla has a wide berth of extended universe content to draw on, and from what i remember, when bryke do worldbuilding they tend to not waste or discard anything. i'm not wording this right maybe. but like, when they mention something, or create something, it's because there's significance behind it or they add to it to make it significant.

this is a third of the way thru the first episode, so i hope i'm proven wrong and it gets addressed again, but there's a lot about (sozin's) comet in these opening scenes that they've added to and have done zero to explain. it's like they needed a buzzword. like, why is there a grand festival for this comet that the airbenders travel from all over the world to attend? even if it is (and i'm considering it more likely) just a way to have them all in the same place to address that they all got wiped out with little explanation, it's still conflicting to the viewer by what's been presented. this comet is a cause for celebration, but it powers up firebenders? they why is there a festival being held for it? if it's important to non-firebenders, wouldn't it be worth mentioning as another distraction to fool the earth kingdom with? it's heavily implied by sozin that the comet increases firebending prowess, like as a first-time viewer i get that you're supposed to take that. but also, if that's the case, then why not explain why the comet is important in further detail? why do the airbenders care so much? you see what i'm getting at? the fact that they added a comet festival isn't bad by itself, but they way they shoehorned it in without any meaningful explanation and even made it contradictory by placing significance on it from a culture it (thus far) doesn't seem to affect is??? like why. this is what i meant by "wasteful" earlier. if you're going to add to the worldbuilding of an already incredibly rich universe, then it needs to serve some purpose.

another thing i hope i am proven wrong on (by showing more examples in scenes that don't take place during the comet's passing) is the way firebending and airbending are shown opposing each other. there's one scene where an air nomad is in the middle of a twister, and without applying any excessive force to punch through it, sozin just adds a little fire and it burns the nomad into smithereens. there are more examples but this is the most significant. it's been shown in the cartoon multiple times that a flame can be extinguished with a strong burst of wind. with some of the power these nomads were portrayed with, it made zero sense to me that the fire, even if powered by the comet, would so effortlessly counter it without going out.

what gyatso did in his final scene was along the lines of what i expected to see all the air nomads doing. flames instantly vanquished by a strong gust of air. i really wanted to see some more creative tactics during the siege, like an airbender drawing the air away from a space so the fire dies on its own from lack of oxygen. not even like a dark twist of rendering the soldiers unable to breathe in the space, but just a quick 'pull all the air to me' technique as a way to temporarily disarm your enemy. with that, aside from the twister, there really wasn't any depiction of making an enclosed space using airbending. none of the kids made airballs, no one made a dome of air (that i remember, or with any significance) as a form of protection, nothing like that. even being taken by surprise, there wasn't enough due credit being given to the air nomads for it to be impactful that the firebenders were seemingly coasting by in the siege. i get the point in showing sozin having zero trouble was to depict him as powerful, but imo it really just showed more than anything that none of the air nomads were being used to their full extent.

which, okay, circling back to the 'gathering everyone in one place' deal. that really was a cop-out to me. it's established in extended lore that sozin ordered simultaneous attacks on all four temples, but even then, airbenders are nomadic. not all of them were at a temple. many stayed in hiding for years and years after the genocide. sozin spent his entire lifetime hunting down and eliminating airbenders. they didn't have to add that to the show, but like, do you see the difference in how the two things are handled?? netflix's approach has been very 'tie up any loose ends immediately' super straightforward, which is concerning this early on because atla is such a roundabout show sometimes - in a good way. things aren't black and white, lots of things go wrong and some go right accidentally and sometimes people with good intentions end up making a situation worse and vice versa. it's a very human show about a handful of kids who make mistakes but still try their best. so, while it's not a super important nitpick, i did notice bc i have context from seeing the original show 2479322 times that having all the air nomads at one temple was a very calculated way of reducing what needs to be explained.

last thing, and this is kinda so-so in the grand scheme but it's a change i didn't like so i'm throwing it out there. they way they went about doing the scenes w monk gyatso and aang. not just that, but that entire sequence as a whole, like all the little changes. aang can fly i guess alright. that grates on me as someone who knows the significance to flight and that in-verse (like canon!!!!!! canon) it's been established that the avatar can never achieve such a thing because earthly attachments are something an avatar can never discard. but like to make it look cool, fine i guess. i think him using his glider would have been equally as cool. that's the only scene we get of him "showing off" (and even then there's not much impact bc it's gyatso observing this instead of the other kids) to mark him as advanced, and then gyatso saying himself that aang shouldn't skip classes even tho he's advanced for his age. in the original show, aang doesn't alienate himself - it's done for him. since he has his tattoos, the other kids won't let him play games with them bc it'd be seen as unfair. it's such an immediate contrast to the live action. why would aang skip lessons and distance himself? the whole point of his character is that he wants to be a kid first, and has to grow and learn how to be an avatar properly.

gyatso not fighting the other elders in the meeting about aang was also a noticeable choice. i'm confused why they didn't just do the toy-picking scene especially because they could've name-dropped the past avatars doing it that way as well. that's another example of (thus far) tossing aside a piece of lore and worldbuilding in the name of what? run time?? being concise??? why not just show the toys.

okay but going back to the point - gyatso shows no resistance to the other elders when they put their collective foot down. he says nothing to aang about taking him away so aang has a chance to be a kid while he's young. it's such a push away from gyatso's character that it was almost startling to watch expecting him to do something and not have him act at all. it also really makes me wonder what their plan for aang's character is overall. i can already. siiiiiigh. i can already see why bryke left. it's fine if it's not the same story. it's fine if it's more to-the-point and cuts things out. but the changes already that i've seen aren't particularly good changes, and imo, aren't necessary either.

i hope there's more time devoted to showing aang's life 100 years prior when the trio are at the southern air temple. atla is such a story-driven and lore-heavy show, and in this first twenty minutes, all i really took was netflix wanting to show off how well (which is not very, right now) they can do fight scenes and action sequences instead of using that time to establish character dynamics more. the genocide wasn't shown in the original show bc it didn't need to be - the consequences and severity were shown when aang travels to the southern air temple. it's not a bad addition on netflix's part, but showing something only implied in the original bc you can in your higher-rated show is only a good thing if it doesn't detract from the story. this is twenty minutes of run time in an eight hour series. i'm nervous to see what they sacrificed or put to the side so they could show the genocide in full.

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OH she practices in the ship. that's interesting. on one hand, i get that that's perfect cover for waterbending in secret. on the other hand, this implies that the ship isn't booby-trapped to release a flare, or if it still is, that it's not something that's as cause for alarm to keep others at bay. hm.

ian ousley is killing it

not sure if it's fault of the script but sometimes sokka and katara's back and forth sounds very much like they're reading lines. like it breaks immersion for me.

two or three older men in the same scene kana is introduced. why. holding off judgement til zuko lands to see if they help sokka fight. but like. why. what purpose are they serving. why add them.

dallas liu really sounds like dante basco omg. idk if he's pitching his voice to imitate dante or if he jus sounds uncannily similar but i am not complaining.

bison whistle right off the bat but no glider. no glider??? is it with appa?? no glider period???? the hovering-in-air-using-air is not as cool as the showrunners think to keep using it like this. hmmmmmmm

ok they did mention hakoda leaving sokka in charge but even as a form of like comfort to give his son a goal and a purpose, what does this mean when there are other men in the village???? i didnt say elders earlier bc they don't look decrepit or anything, they look abled, their hair isn't white or turning, not a ton of wrinkles. if they wanted old men in the southern water tribe then why not make them look old af?????? i am. so confused

they didnt even end up fighting or being seen again so!!!!!!! if they were in the bg then i missed any of them. again again again. what is the point in adding things unnecessarily.

the glider scenes were cool on the boat, the temple scene was rly short and i don't dislike that gyatso technically calmed aang down but having it not be katara is kinda uuuuuuuuh. hm.

the landscapes were all really pretty. when they're canoeing, and especially after aang is freed, all the lighting in the scenes katara and sokka are in is outstanding. i like the ship's set design :) wish they would've shown how clever aang is a bit more. like it's not a bad first episode, but once again, i feel like the twenty minutes for the opener could've been used better elsewhere. i don't think there was a single otter penguin even with being mentioned twice :( aang got to be carefree a bit but at the same time, it seems they're getting rid of the bucket list of things to do around the world that he had in mind thru s1.

i definitely don't hate it but i'm not jumping into the next ep either.

[amtrak12]

Lucifer Rewatch Liveblog: 1.03

OMG if I don’t liveblog an episode tonight I’m going to be so distracted and upset so ep 3 it is! I have no idea what episode it is! And neither the title nor the description is enlightening me lol S1 really went in one ear and out the other, didn’t it?

And because I haven't said it yet, I do enjoy that the episode titles are lines of dialogue. It does nothing to help me remember what title matches what plot but it does provide me with an easy-to-replicate formula for fanfic chapter and story titles which I am always grateful for *tips my hat in thanks to the writers*

Playing!

Ah right, recap. Cause we definitely need a TWO episode recap before moving on to the third episode ever of a show. *skips*

I can't decide if I hate fake out cold opens or if I'm neutral towards them. But I'm pretty sure I don't love them. Because I’m well trained on them so I always know they’re fake -- but is that the point? Is wondering what the real explanation behind the scene the real hook?

Meta things to ponder later.

A four-leaf clover and a unicorn had a baby --- but would the baby come out more unicorn or clover? Would they still have four leaves? This scene is boring so I'm utterly distracted by this image now. Is it a unicorn decorated in clovers???

Oh the scene got interesting again when this woman accused Lucifer of stealing his own identity ROTFL I have no memory of this subplot

'debunking hypnotism' -- Dude, you are obsessed with Lucifer. Like OBSESSED. You’re even answering unknown numbers in case it's him!?

Sorry, that's horrifying. There's no saving you.

The look on Trixie's face is that childishly fiendish grin of delight that says ‘Maybe I gave him your number when he asked. Maybe he found it on his own. Either way I’m thrilled by this development.’

(Though, not because she has designs on making Lucifer her stepdad because she was definitely trying to get Chloe and Dan together again two seconds before this. I’m pretty sure she thinks she and Lucifer are already besties and just likes the idea of her bestie hanging out with her mom so they can all be besties.)

I mean, really it would be 249 suspects wouldn't it? Cause one of the suspects is in fact the murder victim? So that’s one less person for you to question, Chloe! #helpful

'detectiving'

Did I mention that I'm too ace for S1?

Boy you sure jumped to arrest pretty quickly there, Chloe. He got peeved about being filmed but didn't even rage or punch anyone before you stopped watching. Why are you pulling out the handcuffs already then?

(Obviously, she’s displacing some frustration too this episode. Sorry, Ty. :/)

ROTFL I love how much Maze is enjoying this identify thief problem.

'is it possible you might be overreacting a bit?' -- 'No!!' -- Yeah... he’s a bit of a slow learner, Linda. Like r e a l l y slow, but he’ll get there! I promise!

Mr Joe Agent, sir, it is always best to not say anything without your attorney present.

I'm pretty sure the killer is the agent, but I still don't remember the plot at all. Specifically about this allegedly crazy ex--

HOLY FUCKBALLS THE CAR JUST EXPLODED :O

DEFINITELY DID NOT REMEMBER THAT!!! Holy fuck. The only exploding car I remember is during the stupid Sinnerman storyline.

Well, they certainly scared ME with the bomb and I wasn’t even up close and personal with it like Ali was.

'As good as he is at football, that's how good I am at being his girlfriend!' -- She scares me too, actually :S

Since it's just case stuff, this seems like a good time to say -- I really like Dan and Chloe as exes. Their romance was utterly obliterated by Dan’s pre-series betrayal but their friendship remained and I adore that. And not just as co-parents either! They stayed genuine friends with each other!

I maintain that Lux can stay high end if it wants, but it needs to be about 1000 times gayer. He's the fucking Devil for pete's sake. This whole show should be 1000 times gayer.

The singer for whatever song is playing in the background of this fixer scene sounds exactly like the singer of the credits song for Ghostbusters 2016.... I can't decide if I care enough to go investigate if it is the same singer, though.

Lucifer, I would like to know how this dude got your credit card number. Though I guess even the Devil isn't immune to data theft once you're living in our lovely capitalist hellscape.

Oooo.... the punishing yourself phrasing was triggering for Lucifer O_O Definitely not foreshadowing for S4 there.

... Does California still have the death penalty??? Cause Chloe definitely implied California still has the death penalty. I didn't think they did. I thought the death penalty was only left in a few states, but I guess I haven’t researched that lately.

Oh god hang on, I just spotted Chloe's back shirttail was fully untucked and hanging out of her jacket and I swooned a little. Just give me a second, I'll be okay.

OH SHIT WAIT Lucifer throws the AGENT out the window???? This is the window throwing scene from the fanvids??!!

I should've realized that from Chloe's coat but I was too distracted by her shirt tails in the previous scene lol

First, 'I squeezed too hard' should never be a problem because you should never have your hands around someone's neck. That should never be one of your anger responses. There’s no excuse there.

Second, 'I'm out of here'? After admitting to murder in front of a cop??? That agent was a bit delusional too there, wasn't he?

Oo, very much enjoying Chloe keying into Lucifer feeling guilty for Ali's death even though Lucifer still isn't self-aware enough to acknowledge that.

And the therapy session after with Linda, too. See? This is the kind of character growth that I wouldn't care about if I was starting from the pilot because I don't care about Lucifer yet. But watching it AFTER watching the later seasons and very much caring about Lucifer? Yeah, it's brilliant. It's meaty stuff! I love it!

It's six seasons of baby steps that build on each other so much that the S1 characters wouldn't recognize themselves in S6. They wouldn't even recognize themselves in S2! And yet those character differences are never a flaw in the show. It's all natural character growth instead. Amazing.

I can't relate to their day-to-day lives (especially Lucifer's) but damn do I have a lot to learn about writing from this show.

And now I can fall asleep happy tonight because I saw my blorbos :) Specifically, I saw them in their natural environment and not the captivity of fanvideos because apparently there's a difference when it comes to my happiness vs depression levels? I never registered that before this show. (Though, I've also never struggled with embarrassment over rewatching full episodes of my favorite show before Lucifer. Obsessively rewatching a show was a normal hyperfixation response. I still don't know why I've been fighting myself on it lately.)

Be back with ep 4 at some indeterminate time later! :)

[iguessitsjustme]

Deep Night Ep 5 Thoughts

Oops. Got distracted by Stardew Valley and also the return of my headache. Here’s hoping the meds kick in soon. But also I got the Stray Kids merch I ordered! Now I’m living in my new hoodie. Anyway it’s time for Deep Night 5: Rae Blogs Live. Wait no that one is too easy. Deep Night 5: Jealousy Dive. Yeah that one sounds right:

Who is hiring these unfluencers to talk shit when the police come? That’s a typo but I’m keeping it. Cause there’s no way they’re not in on it

I don’t know what Freya pays Dai but it is not enough. 

I don’t think I talked about the opening vocals when I liveblogged episode 4. So here’s me gushing about how absolutely fucking amazing they are. I do not think this would be an easy song to sing. It sounds easy but that’s because of the sheer talent and skill its being performed with. Like, I’m a passably decent singer. I can carry a tune. I am not the most impressive vocalist in the world but I have had multiple people ask me if I sing professionally or as a hobby somewhere. I would not be able to perform this song without HOURS of practice. Vocals are also an instrument that requires practice and technique and I am just so damn impressed with these vocals. I think the song itself is okay, but the singer does so much. The singer is actively carrying the melody and I cannot. I’ll stop talking about this now but if you want my thoughts on how the opening fits the show, let me know. Cause I do have some thoughts there but I think I should probably actually continue watching now

Freya and unnamed gorgeous woman are so cute. What is her name? I need to know for reasons. 

Unrelated to anything but I am having an excellent hair day and I am annoyed that only I will see it. 

Seiji. You can love both of them. I promise. It’s okay. They’re gonna fall in love with each other too. I don’t know if they actually do in the show but don’t worry about that. Semantics. You’ll all be in love.

Ken can be the one that tucks them both into bed at night. 

I need Khem to apologize to Wela so bad. He very clearly actually feels bad and wants to apologize.

Honestly, I don’t think I could say no to Khem’s face. I mean just look at how cute he is

Awww he apologized. Now make it a good one.

I love them????

Now boys. You’re on the roof. Not even gonna lay down a towel or nothing?

Ooohhhh here comes his mother. Oh she got distracted. Seems Wela knows his mother well. But still. The roof? Boys. 

Khem is very good at apologizing. It’s because he thinks about how his words and actions have hurt the people he loves. And he cares more about not hurting them than he does about being right. And I think he will not make the same mistakes twice. 

Obsessed with this. More please. 

Khem and his mom are so cute. 

I’m sure someone else has talked about Khem giving Wela his watch and how that was so good for both of them. Khem can lay a small inconspicuous claim on Wela and when Wela is working he can use it to show Khem that he’s thinking of him so no need to get jealous. Its beautiful and brilliant. 

My man don’t do drugs in the bathroom. This isn’t the club for that.

Of course the cops showed up. Good for Khem knowing someone hired that man to do drugs. 

Honestly are the cops not bored?

I know what pink milk is. But what is red soda?

Is Ken gonna rat them out? Trying to make Seiji number 1? Got bad news about who Khem is and how his mom already knows. But I still see how that could be an issue. 

I mean, Seiji makes a good point. These issues did start when Khem started. It’s not his fault and it’s obvious who it is but he has no way to know that. 

Ken’s a bitch. I actually don’t like him. There was no reason for him to do that.

Yeah somehow I knew Seiji wouldn’t like that.

Get him Seiji. Get im.

I am so surprised that that woman showed up with the cops. Shocked I tell ya. Picking my jaw up off the floor. 

Time to watch episode 6 I guess. I don’t really care about this plotline but I’ll watch it anyway. But only after this commercial break (I caved and subscribed to dropout so i can watch game changer so that is what i will be doing for a minute between these episodes)

[lediz-watches]

Reflections

So it turns out John's anger issues and his father are less justifiably connected than expected, and I am basically about ready to give up on you, boy.

I’m liveblogging The Winchesters as a Supernatural!virgin. Please keep my lack of knowledge in mind if you continue...

Ooh. Opening with Dean today. No monster of the week today, I’m guessing?

You know, something I appreciate but which isn’t done often is daylight horror. This doesn’t feel like a horror yet, but I just felt it was worth mentioning.

I thought Ada was working on the box? Why – oh, she’s back. Having had an adventure with Tony that might have been very interesting. Or very nerdy. One of the two.

…I like this demon more than I’m probably supposed to.

Roxy is less interesting, despite her incredible hair.

Ah, yes, Millie returns! I like Millie, she’s sensible.

‘Trying to save mankind’ is not an explanation, John boy. She wants a bit more context, please. She’s obviously gonna take it, but yeah. More context would be preferred.

Okay, Roxy with her minions wasn’t that interesting, but I like Roxy with her enemies. I like the arrogant respect.

Yessss Millie and Ada chatting. This is the fanfic I wanted!

I have to say, Ada doesn’t feel dodgy this episode. I wonder if that was a choice or just a coincidence.

Oh yay. More daddy issues from John. I knew it was coming but like… dude, I’m sorry, I just don’t care about it. You. It. I don’t know yet.

Hahahaha the spell being proven ineffective by wind! Ahahaha that makes me so happy! I mean, sure, the spell didn’t work because of John’s anger issues, but still. ‘it’s just a draft’ hahahaha

Oh. The spell wasn’t thwarted? How’d… I mean, that was dramatic and all, but uh… what? Explain the magic here please?

Oh, thank you Mary. Honesty! A man being honest with his feelings has caused success. A surprisingly healthy message from this character. I am impressed.

Also… Henry seems… not a jerk? Probably just a guy raised in the 50s with an all-consuming job. Which makes John’s anger… even more of a choice than Lata’s pacificism. An interesting artistic choice.

Heeeey Mary being an awesome pragmatic monster hunter! I missed that! Always happy to see her being good at her job, even if she hates it.

…Have I mentioned I like Millie?

…Okay, John and Mary’s almost kiss wasn’t a horrible scene, but it felt… oddly out of place, I gotta say. Like… timing, Mary? Really, you’re letting him do that now?

Also, not gonna lie, I legit thought that was Dean pulling a Big Damn Time Travelling Hero for a second. I know he’s gonna show up eventually, so, you know… figured.

But oh. So Roxy wasn’t an important character, it was just weird framing back in the day. What an odd artistic choice. And it also reframes many things that I think are playing to an audience that isn’t me and are instead maybe just more odd artistic choices.

Being a very plot-heavy episode, I wasn’t as invested. I think I’ve made it clear that I’m in this for the character pieces and the monsters of the week, but the overarching akrida plot hasn’t actually impressed me overmuch. So, you know, it was just… an episode. It was fine, but I was distracted because when I’m not invested in the character pieces, I start looking at the construction, and the Discourse, and John and his anger issues, which are not because of anything but a distant-but-caring father figure, are such… odd choices in this found family of people who are all defining themselves by the choices they make. It’s almost enough that there’s got to be some… there has to be a Reason for John’s behaviour. I just – I don’t see it yet, and it’s so frustrating.

This show frustrates me and yet I want to keep watching…! ARGH. Next chapter, then. (or back to chapter one if you care.)

[captainsspnanon]

C2E28 - Within the Nest - rewatch/liveblog

Pre-show… Live from San Diego ComicCon – Liam says if Molly were to rise out of the grave and become the big bad of the campaign….OH DEAR

Something I was wrong about – Taliesin confirmed that Molly WOULD have been cool to have come back.  It was the Lingering Soul that Molly would not have wanted, and either I misunderstood from the beginning, or I just remembered how they discussed how the Soul would be Molly’s worst nightmare and I crossed wires in my brain and overrode the fact that Molly would have come back.  That makes it very interesting why they didn’t push harder to try and get him back after they rescue the trio….my personal guess is that by that point they had Caduceus for a few episodes and realized OOC that the group NEEDED a bit of calmness and stillness that Caduceus brought, as well as his mechanics.  I don’t think they ever actually discuss if they talked behind the scenes about Cad vs Molly long term, I kinda wish we could get a sneak peek into their brains for that.   It makes sense in Vox Machina that they were so resistant to having someone die, considering how close they all were, maybe the Mighty Nein was still distant enough that they mourned the loss but didn’t feel it absolutely necessary to bring him back?  It’s very hard to say, especially now, years later.  LOL who knows, maybe they were going to and Matt hinted that it wouldn’t work...but then I feel like he’d let it play out, so maybe not.

(maybe they just didn’t want to hear Taliesin work on an Irish accent anymore :P :P :P)

LOLOLOL I completely forgot Marisha laughing at Liam for suggesting infiltration with a spider.  IT WORKS OUT!!  (it’s also super entertaining whenever one person is speaking OOC and the other person speaks IC, leading to this disjointed ‘is this a canon conversation or no’?  I love it so much)

I feel like they had to know Taliesin was the cleric.  They did take the time to discuss hiring a Tasker, but ended up going for the cleric.  It’s hard to tell, honestly.  I’m leaning more towards a meta-knowledge.

Ah, D&D. Debating for ages how to cross over a thorny wall until someone loses patience and just climbs over without issue.  What is D&D if not overcomplicating things?

And Caduceus starts with his tea, such a thematic aspect of his character, and all because Taliesin was trying to think of how to introduce him XD

You know, the only three tea cups is a funny bit, but Cad has a big family, I feel like there should totally be enough cups?

OH FUCK.  I knew he was alone, and I knew he was alone for a while, but TWENTY YEARS.  I forgot it was THAT LONG.  oh poor bb……….YOU HAVE A NEW FAMILY NOW.

*happy sigh*  I missed this.  Like, I know I haven’t been commenting much, this’ll probably be a shorter rewatch, especially cause it’s going to be a battle towards the end, but part of it is because I’m just happily watching.  The ENERGY that Caduceus brings is just calming and soothing, and it truly genuinely was needed in the Nein, not only for the party, but as a viewer for the show.  Fjord was pretty much the only one with that lower energy, and he only has it sometimes.  Yasha unfortunately just wasn’t present enough to add that flavor to the mix, plus her energy also comes with the intentional discomfort.

Oh interesting, Liam thinks he’s a druid?  Or is he just saying that the flavor of the armor is druid-esque?  ‘Cause they were told he was a cleric, but Cad hasn’t specified himself yet.

Nott shooting Beau *heart*  I’ve watched an animatic of this scene so many times :) :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWXyAGuxY1Q

...wow I got distracted and zoned out when I was watching.  It’s the next day now, and I think I’m going to go back to around the shooting scene and rewatch from there.  Doing this rewatch is making me actively watch, and I was heckin’ passively watching yetersday.

Oh yeah, they forget that Firbolgs don’t have darkvision.  I feel like this actually goes on for a while, and they don’t realize it for a good number of episodes.

Cad talking to the trees!!!! my heaaaarttt!!!  I love that it started so early.  It’s so fascinating to me how Cad managed to come in and seem so fully fleshed out even though he was created over the span of just a few days.  Maybe it’s because he’s the only new one coming in while the others have already been developed, or maybe it’s because there’s a meta aspect of Taliesin having to make sure his PC has a reason to not only go with the group but also have the group willing to keep him around, so made a PC that’s much more open than how the group was in the first few episodes.

Nothing is as entertaining to me as Liam asking Matt the time, Matt gives an estimate, and then Caleb gives it to the exact minute.  Except maybe the face that Matt gives him when he does that.

And Frumpkin is now a spider!!!  I note this now, because apparently Liam forgets and has him fly around either this or next episode. XD

UGH I just checked crstats to see if they had the list of Frumpkin forms (they do) to confirm this is the only time he’s a spider, and they have his last two appearances listed as ‘white cat’ and I just got fucking EMOTIONAL.  I 100% headcanon that released!Frumpkin totally checks in on Caleb periodically.  Maybe even comes in and out as a stray that Caleb is unable to fully adopt but sees so much.  LOOK FRUMPKIN LOVES CALEB AND I WILL NOT BE DENIED.

And there it is! Spider!Frumpkin is now flying :)

I guess I just don’t have much to say this episode.  It’s a good episode!  I’m enjoying it.  They’re doing relatively good strategy considering how it usually turns out, there’s good humor, all in all good episode!

MARISHA’S FACE after Caleb says “Part of me really likes the way that fire feels” HER FAAACE

Still nothing to say, I’m just enjoying the ride! :)

There’s another wisdom save for Caleb.  Too bad I’ve forgotten what the hell the count was. XD  Liam says it’s the first time he didn’t fail it, I’ll take his word for it.  Once was the manticore priests, once was …. I don’t remember!  Something else!  OH the troll!  And then this is the third, I guess?  Unless I’ve forgotten another one.  If so, then yes, this is the first success.

Yup, Liam definitely affected by the child scene.  Marisha providing physical comfort to him as well.  I suspect this is why this type of scene really isn’t included in their games.

And the fandom forever remembers that Nila went to take care of the Blooming Grove and the actual narrative forgets about it completely. XD

I always love it when there’s the little after discussion that we get to see.  Wish we could see it more frequently. :)

@suicidallyreckless