#dndads s2 ep 53

[babacontainsmultitudes]

ALSO LINCOLN USING AN ANGEL WING AS A FUCKING SHIELD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER BTW ON MY KNEES BEGGING FOR FANART OF THAT LINCOLN LI WILSON YOU ARE THE COOLEST PERSON WHO EVER LIVED

[iris-echos]

Holy fuck...

[anonymouscryptid]

That finale sure was something

[babacontainsmultitudes]

I'm not thinking about the broken birthday gift anime sword... I'm not thinking about how Anthony's plan for the love anchor was for Taylor and Nicky to have a moment... I'm not thinking about Taylor crying when he thought his dad was dead and being so adamant on saving him from the ISS vs calling him a loser and not wanting him in his life at all... I'm not thinking about the betrayal... I'm not thinking about how it affected Nicky's views on trust and friends... I'm not thinking about Nicky saying he doesn't have any friends... I'm not thinking about him coming around on trust but being too late... I'm not thinking about "This is as good as it's gonna get"... I'm not thinking about "I don't know my grandson" and "Would you like to?"... I'm not thinking about Glenn not being around when Taylor was born... I'm not thinking about Jodie being disappointed in Nicky... I'm not thinking about Nicholas' loyalty to Jodie and how their relationship surely would have changed when Jodie mixed with Zhao. I'm not thinking about Glenn realizing way too late that Nick just wants a dad... I'm not thinking about Nick losing his mom... I'm not thinking about Nick spending the Christmas season alone.

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Is this a safe space to say that simultaneously I wholeheartedly support Taylor's decision and it makes perfect sense all things considered and I'm happy for him and it was a bold move on Freddie's end and I really do think it was a phenomenal decision and super satisfying narratively speaking but also I'm crying in the club actually tearing up a bit thinking about Nicky and for some reason I feel really embarrassed to say it but I really really do feel bad for him even if he made mistakes that brought him to this point and seeing a character who started as a kid that was alone end alone makes me sad? It makes me sad.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

We can resolve the implications of Jerry's (/Gerry's) age by deciding that Lincoln and Scary adopted him as an older kid or a teenager btw. This is my headcanon thank you ✌️.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Heh... Foster what? A relationship with your son? Heh heh... Close to who? Anyone in your life at all? Heh heh heh... A Freeman? A free man but a lonely one in any life you live? Heh- [dies] [explodes] [dies again] [falls down the stairs] [dies]

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Also

Taylor having both a hot anime girl and a hot anime guy on his part of the coat of arms? BISEXUAL TAYLOR CONFIRMED TO ME.

Anthony most likely accidentally using they pronouns for Marco when describing them covering Grant and Lincoln's eyes? He/they Marco CONFIRMED TO ME.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

JUST FINISHED. ON CLOUD 9. FEELING VERY EMOTIONAL AND NEED SOME TIME TO PROCESS THINGS. GONNA BE A BIT EMO ABOUT THE NICKY AND TAYLOR THING FOR A BIT. OBVIOUSLY ELATED ABOUT GOTHCLEATS BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT NOT EVERYONE WILL BE SO IMMA TRY TO KEEP THAT TO MYSELF FOR NOW.

AND ON BEHALF OF LOVE WOLF SPARROW.

AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ❤️‍🔥

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Honestly still not ready to post anything too substantial yet but- I'm kind of beating myself over the head for not making a post about this prior cause I *wanted to* lmao but I had one very particular wish for Lincoln and Grant in the finale and that was for this to come full circle (this scene being from episode 23):

I wanted them to have one final GOOD HUG and they DID and I'm SO EMOTIONAL OVER THIS. FUCK.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

OH MY GOD btw idk if you saw my tags in my second rb of that post but im SO SORRY that it looked like i was telling you to "chill" for a second i would never say that, that's so dismissive 😭😭😭

tumblr hates me and hates when i talk in the tags of my mutuals' posts apparently

i thought ur post was very good & i was TRYING to express agreement and talk about my thoughts in the tags. so sorry if it seemed like i was trying to shut u down at first. godspeed o7

[In reference to this post]

LMAO Clay I shit you not I was in the middle of writing an ask to *you* saying, first of all, no worries at all about the fucky tumblr tags haha this is the hellsite and I read that tag as sarcasm anyways so dw dw lol I know you're not like that haha 🫂.

And second of all, that I was nodding very emphatically reading your tags yeah I'm also quite conflicted- increasingly so frankly, and I can relate to your description of being *so* sad from it that it kind of falls flat? As for like, whether I find it satisfying from a narrative standpoint or not, *honestly* as more time passes the more I can feel my own opinions going from positive to... Mixed? I agree that the Swifts deserved more time, period (absolutely) and that there was so much left unexplored... And that it would have felt more satisfying if we got more with them...

Hm. With the interaction as it was, I honestly think I would have liked it much more if it happened like, midway through the season? Giving Nicky enough time to step up and really prove himself to Taylor? Though of course we return then to the issue of that family not having enough time in general!

Conversely... I think I could have been happier with Taylor's decision happening at the end here and simultaneously been *less* uh absolutely heartbroken if it had been delivered differently like, tonally? I suppose I feel like... Combining all of their previous interactions prior over the course of the season, the complications surrounding Nicky's abandoment to begin with (listen could my man have sent a letter now and again abso-fucking-lutely but bro also had all his friends turn against him and was tortured by the FBI who he didn't want hurting his family like it's not so black and white at all), and maybe most of all the fact that Nicky genuinely *was* trying to be there for Taylor post-reuiniting in Hell... Combining all those things, it's not that I think Taylor is wrong to decide still that his dad wasn't there for him before so he doesn't want him now, as sad as that is I think it's still very understandable and certainly *interesting*, but the *cruelty* in how he delivered that blow is what came as a bit of a shocker to me and just doesn't feel good to me with. Well with all those other things I mentioned. Again, that's if we're keeping this interaction at the very end here, having Taylor chew out his dad the way he did way earlier could have been great.

IS. Is where I'm currently at with that I think? Yeah lol. Like there's more thoughts for sure but I would surely go on several tangents haha.