#could've been 3-6

[f1-birb]

[littlespoonevan]

it's Sickening that we find out in season 4 that buck was literally born to be a donor and that it didn't work, unknowingly spurring him into a cycle or hurting and/or sacrificing himself in order to make himself Worthy of others' affections. and when he finds out about this as an adult he feels he doesn't have the right to 'make it about me for a sec' even though this is an incredibly traumatic thing to learn about his past. and then in season 6 they have a story about him becoming a sperm donor which could've tied together all of his identity issues and how, even outside of his relationships and his job, he's still giving away pieces of himself in order to feel worthy or like he has a purpose. and then they just..........................did absolutely NOTHING with it???????????????????? @ fox how do you sleep at night knowing you wasted that much potential?????????????????

[triple1st]

forever thinking about how this is romana's last conversation with the doctor

[hauntdoesthetwist]

note: Mick=my yuu

Mick: *has a crisis over going home or staying in TW*

Mick: *gets KOed via Malleus overblot*

Mick: Well, how much worse could it get honestly?

Me: *just decided Mick needs the true Disney Protag Experience™(dead dad)*

[sysig]

I also made a card for him (Patreon)

[destinywillowleaf]

how to go from a one-shot/conversation spawned from thinking too much about an unseen father to more than a dozen fic ideas and an overarching narrative about family heritage (and the generational trauma that comes with it), the importance of communication, and how all lives touch other lives to create something anew and alive in one easy step

[markantonys]

me starting picnic at hanging rock: oooh, madeleine madden wearing pretty clothes and looking beautiful in a period drama? sign me up!

me finishing picnic at hanging rock:

[outlawssweetheart]

I swear, Ethan Bailkirschdry could look this Hellfandom dead in the eye, knife to their throats, happy as a camper to kill them, then tell them sincerely and with his whole chest: “I love and miss my brother; I want to avenge him, and I’m more than happy to kill you!” And these bitches would start foaming at the mouth, like: “No you don’t, Angel Baby Pie, it’s all your father!!” 🙄

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me

[thematicparallel]

looks like i'll need to work on the weekend. big yikes!

[lexyscross]

When I say that a Scream character had a lot of potential but they were wasted, I mean they should’ve been a serial killer, but they weren’t.

[kraken17]

No joke, I've re-watched every Friday The 13th movie over the last twelve days, I need a warm chocolate at the very least least…

[stepmom]

season 9 review

[fruitsyrups]

ok so like i just recently remembered that I used to be REALLY into the nancy drew books. every time we would go to the library (which was pretty often, probably not every week but at least once a month I think ?) i would go straight to the section with the nancy drew books and there was always at one that I hadn't read yet because there was SO MANY OF THOSE BOOKS. however. if you asked me now to name a single thing that happened in any of the nancy drew books I Could Not Tell You.

[c0nes]

[leothelilpotato]

Finished Mouthwashing.

The cast was better than I expected, the game itself was ass.

The overarching theme of responsibility and the layers of it (Curly having to keep the whole crew together VS The Anya And Jimmy Shitshow, plus Swansea's little monologue) was pretty well executed.

A shame it felt like it didn't need to be a game 80% of the time.