#done with the fucking pickle saga

[dreamweaversfavsandthoughs]

Rick and Morty S7 Ep. 3: Air Force Wong

(We’ve come a long way since Pickle Rick)

Spoiler Alert. Can’t say I didn’t warn you.

My Favs

Unity!

Really wasn’t expecting to ever see them again so it was a pleasant surprise! Bringing back Unity could have crossed the line into being too fan service-y but I think they were incorporated into the ongoing story of the Rick/Rick Prime saga nicely.

“Don’t be a Space Mormon!”:

But immediately being apologetic about making fun of the SS agent’s religion.

“I volunteer to do acid to prove I’m not a cop!”:

Me too. Me too

President’s cellphone wallpaper:

Rick and the President posing with a recently caught Nessie cracked me up more than it should have.

“Call in a chopper. I’m being cockblocked!���

Rick almost died trying to defeat Rick Prime?!:

I need the details! I NEED THEM!

Summer and Rick’s interaction:

We haven’t gotten a lot of Summer this season so it’s nice to see her trying to reach out to her grandfather. Summer is probably the second smartest member of the Smith/Sanchez and made the connection pretty quickly that Unity was back and that Rick would be deep in his feels. I love seeing Summer’s empathetic side but it was also sad to see Rick shut her out in the guise of creating “boundaries.” He still has a long way to go.

The President becoming a hive mind in order to achieve an 100% approval rating:

Honestly, a politician enslaving the minds of his constituents in order to get unanimous approval is something that would happen in real life if they could. Absolutely realistic.

*traumatic flashback of the last 7-8 years*

David Miscavage voicemail:

Unless you are familiar with the history of Scientology, you’re probably not going to get that joke. That was written for nerds like me. (Real talk though, I believe Scientology is a dangerous cult. The actress, Leah Remini has done some great work exposing this cult for what it is and some of their abusive practices.)

My Not Favs

Has anyone seen Morty? He’s gone missing and we’re so worried about him:

I have it on good authority that he’s going to be more prominent in the season going forward. Hope my sources are correct…

Mr. Stabby:

The bit didn’t really do it for me.

The romantic arc between the President and Dr. Wong:

Fortunately it was ditched as quickly as it started.

My Thoughts:

A couple of things come to mind:

First, I want to discuss my biggest problem with Auto Erotic Assimilation as an episode. The episode ends with a pretty moving scene of Rick attempting suicide after Unity breaks up with him. Iconic scene no doubt, but a scene I felt had poor justification. The reasoning being is that the only thing we ever really learn during that episode is that Rick and Unity like to fuck…a lot. And abuse substance…a lot. Frankly, the relationship struck me as being awfully shallow. This most recent episode, however, added some much needed substance that was previously lacking. We find out that Rick has confided in them about Rick Prime and possibly Diane and Beth. They were around for the disastrous aftermath of his previous attempt to hunt Rick Prime and when they find out Rick is going to attempt to go after him again goes to extreme lengths to get Rick’s attention and dissuade him from going through with it.

Now, I don’t really want to see Unity and Rick get back together and I do see this episode as a sort of resolution to this relationship. Two people may not be able to make a romantic relationship work but sometimes that can pave the way to something better. Maybe a friendship can form from this that is much more meaningful than a romance, when they’re ready. They both still care about each other that’s for sure, but Rick still has some work.

Secondly, I’ve seen some conversation that Dr. Wong was in the wrong to side with Unity and tell Rick he was squarely in the wrong. Rewatching the episode, in the scene before Dr. Wong and Rick confront Unity the two of them discuss how they are going to convince Unity to take over the President’s hivemind in order to restore everyone. In this discussion they say,

Rick: “So you need to convince [Unity] I’m worth it.”

Dr. Wong: “You aren’t”.

Rick: “So lie”.

A possible interpretation is that Dr. Wong took his advice and said what she thought would be necessary to bring order back to earth which meant placing the blame on Rick. It’s a thought. I don’t know if if clears anything up but that’s kinda how I see it.

Overall, I enjoyed this episode. It wasn’t nearly the fun romp we had with the second episode, but I appreciate a fresh insight into Rick and Unity’s relationship and I like to see Rick gradually warming up to therapy to the point that he values his relationship with Dr. Wong. She’s one of the few people not intimidated by him or afraid to call him out on his BS. Sometimes, finding a therapist that really clicks with you can be a monumental task so Rick got pretty lucky finding the perfect therapist on the first try.

[the-acid-pear]

Not going to complain about this saga anymore I'm living 🥴

Chapter 137

Aksgssgksgs YUJIRO? TAKING A REGULAR NON EVIL WALK?

He's literally just. Just taking a walk

I think it's his huge tits

Yujiro confirmed cringe

AH. IM. DOPPO!? BRO.

DID YUJIRO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING MILDLY HEROIC?

Obsessed with Doppo's reaction

I have never seen Yujiro be so chill wtf

Chapter 138

Maybe I'm a bit sensible but there's something about these two just hanging out that makes me feel so 🥴🥺💞 it might be bc they are both dilfs(dilves if you will)

alwgslwgakSISGLAGW

😭😭 YUJIRO PLEASE

Obsessed how Itagaki didn't give even give Doppo a neck

I have no idea what they are saying btw I'm just enjoying the interaction

I love how good he is with numbers ngl, he could teach me math 😍

Everyone is throwing shit at Baki for saying Pickle is stronger than Yujiro lmao

Chapter 139

OHOHO that title <333

OBSESSED WITH HOW HE WENT DOWN THE STAIRS HE'S SO WEIRD I LOVE HIM 😭

Baki goes insane

LSHSKSGSKSG POOR RETSU

Retsu is right and it hurts

Jack! La puta madre

Obsessed with the use of the world "disassemble" in the context of these fighters losing limbs

Cannot wait for the others that went to that place (Kosho, Gaia, Gouki, Jyaku) to try fight Pickle too lmao (/j i know they won't)

Chapter 140

I unironically love Jack's fashion

ÑSHQLSGSLSGAKSG BITEY BOY VS BITEY BOY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR JACK TO BITE AGAIN FOR SO DAMN LONG

Are they gonna bite each other's jaws at the same time? 😳

I love how Jack really is just gay i love that of him, he is straight up homosexual

Chapter 141

Oh shit they might actually kiss

JACK I WAS JOKING FFS

LSHWKWGLAGS LOVE WINS!

GOD JACK PLEASE I KNOW YOU SAID YOU WERE GONNA MAKE PICKLE FEEL WHAT YOU FELT JUST LIKE LOVERS BUT YOU TWO ARE A LIL TOO PASSIONAL

Viêt Long... Maybe you aren't so bad after all. KAGSSGANAGA

Chapter 142

Don't @ me but i love this skinless look

THE HANMA BLOOD IS KICKING IN?!

Jack went psycho mode

Chapter 143

Obsessed with the fact Retsu can run with a peg leg

Baki don't be so damn selfish, you want everything for yourself! You already have Yujiro, let Jack have something to play too!

Chapter 144

YEAH NO SHIT JACK I KNOW YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN WOMEN

Jack pulled a Mike Tyson lmao

Chapter 145

This must be so, weird for Pickle. Like, Jack bit him but didn't eat him?

Pelado

FUCK JACK YOU WERE DO DAMN CLOSE 😔

Chapter 146

Okay yeah it's true

Disappointed honestly

Hope the gods hear Jack 🥺

Chapter 147

Jack has become catholic 🙏

Se lo re cogieron a mi pollo

AUGH NOOO HIS TEETH!!!

Chapter 148

I love how stressed Tokugawa has been getting this saga, mf is too old he's gonna get a heart disease or something

He was so happy now he's just crying <:/

OH NO JACK GET UP

I found a lemon seed on my foot

AUGH YOUNG PICKLE 🥺

Also i love that Baki went save his brother 😔🥺

OH MFS SAYING ITS CUZ THE DRUGS MAKES SENSE

Chapter 149

I love how Tokugawa went straight to grab a tit, old man a pervert /hj

I thought he hit Tokugawa for a sec

MF GOT SAVED FOR BEING SO TINY

THE GREATEST FUCK YOU OF ALL TIME

God i adore Jack

Chapter 150

I THINK I RECOGNIZE THAT DOCTOR 😏

Mf almost knocks the chair down

I love Kureha bangs

Jack your doctor friend is GNC af

Second guy being executed super up my alley

THE KINGGG HMU IF YOU EVER NEED THAT DICK SUCKED JACK!!

Chapter 151

He's literally one of my favs thanks to this alone

PICKLE FLEEING?!

IGDURASURITS POOR PICKLE

I love that this translator used Ms paint

Chapter 152

I love the witnesses' pov

Beyblade

SEVERE COMA? JACK?!

Chapter 153

JACK PLEASE

Thank god Baki, like i don't think anyone else could stop this fucking beast

Okay so nice and gentle of Pickle

I love the idea that Jack hadn't accepted he lost against Baki and Yujiro akhsjsgsjs

Chapter 154

God Yujiro is insufferable all the way around isn't he? FIKTSDGKYD

"breast" don't you mean breed? 😭

Also it's bc he's half white? Or bc you made him without love? :/

Chapter 155

Pickle must be fr starving

AW HE'S SHARING IT 🥺🥺😭💞

Chapter 156

Baki your dad is looking GNC af in the cover

Oh hey Hana boy 😍

These fucking sex comparisons ffs

Baki what did you just do?!

Chapter 157

Oh okay makes sense i was worried

Third time i see the f word (trolo is the Spanish equivalent)

I know this is Baki but how is a tiny slap to the cheek gayer than tenderly holding another's man face with looking deeply into his eyes?!

Chapter 158

Every release is a low quality release, translators

I think it's because Pickle doesn't care about fighting that this is annoying me so much. You felt bad about the Yasha ape thing now you do this, Baki!?

BAKI PLEASE HE DOESN'T WANT TO FIGHT 😐

SHOUT-OUT TO THE COMMENT SAYING "he's gonna do the Toba??" IM LITERALLY KISSIKG YOU IN THE LIPS RN

Chapter 159

I love how everyone is like 😨

Bro you don't even know Tokugawa's name? 😭

Oh right yeah Toba literally did the same and ON TOP OF A VAN i nearly forgot

Chapter 160

They going for the kiss now?

DONT SWALLOW IT BACK IDIOT

AW HE GOT SAD OVER NEARLY KILLING BAKI GOD HE'S SUCH A GOOD CHARACTER 😭

Baki character development sucks so much he's just a tiny yujiro UGH literally cringe

Chapter 161

FUCK YOU BAKI I LOVE HIM THIS IS CUTE HE DOESNT WANT TO HARM YOU HE'S JUST HAVING A GOOD TIME OUGH 😭💞

Baki kills himself

Ffs leave this caveman alone, go back to fighting one another, he clearly doesn't care for the thing y'all do 😭

Chapter 162

I HAVE NO IDEA EITHER, PICKLE

Chapter 163

I think this is the first time i see Hanayama refer to other person using honorifics like that

I'm. Getting pissed off by this manga again. I really go from WOW BEST SAGA to AGH HATE!!!

Chapter 164

Okay I'm close to finishing this CRINGE ASS SAGA at least

FOR FUCKS SAKE I KNEW HE WAS DOING THE WHIP TECHNIQUE HE DID ON YANAGI

Omfg everyone calling it a woman's technique, if you wanna lick Yujiro's boots so much go somewhere else 😭

Chapter 165

I LOVE seeing Retsu and Hana have a normal chat but fuck aside from that i hate everything going on rn

Okay nvm Tokugawa saying "who-pish" felt like an oasis to this hell called boring ass fight

Chapter 166

Baki's literally just flexing now

Btw i remember these from a documentary i watched a while back skdhskgsjstw

Chapter 167

Misread Rock as Cock 😭

I love how Hanayama keeps asking Retsu who somehow knows it but like sksgsldgsksg LIKE YOU THINK THIS IS CHINESE KENPO OR SOMETHING? BAKI INVENTED THIS RN ON THE SPOT

WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS THO?! HE'S JUST SCARING PICKLE, THE GUY IS NOT GONNA FIGHT IS HE BOUT TO SHIT HIS PANTS

YEAH THERE HE'S TRAUMATIZED LOOK WHAT YOU DID BAKI ARE YOU FUCKING PROUD?!

Chapter 168

I'm so lost

Chapter 169 (Nice?)

Retsu with dark sunglasses ffs 😭

Who tf takes off his glasses like that?

FUCK HANAYAMA GLAD WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE

Chapter 170

I'm gonna break something this translation is so bad

BAKI YOU ARE RUINING THIS GUY'S LIFE

PICKLE IS SO CONFUSED OMFG 😭

Okay Hanayama's smile is beautiful at least

Oh yeah i just realized he got his cheeks back i had totally forgotten 😭

Chapter 171

GET HIS ASS PICKLE JUST KILL HIM AT THIS POINT I LOST ALL SYMPATHY FOR BAKI

Baki really feels like the fucking villain

Itagaki knew what the fans wanted lmao

I would die to see Pickle fight anyone else 😐

Chapter 172

Everything is boring, full of pain and suffering

Chapter 173

Que te pasó Baki, antes eras chévere

Chapter 174

I miss my grandpa a lot, can we go see him again? I want to see Gouki for a while. Or Motobe! Motobe would be lovely too...

They are gonna leave this caveman sterile

IM GONNA HAVE A STROKE 😭

TOKUGAWA TF YOU SO SURPRISED ABOUT YOU GOT BALLS DON'T YOU?!

This is why more of you should do what Doppo does of just. Holding his balls in his abdomen somehow.

Chapter 175

No i do not understand Retsu

THIS MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL

Look at that booty

Chapter 176

I love how upset Retsu is getting over this dumb shit

I love characters losing their pupils out of rage lol

Chapter 177

Eh was a nice chapter idk, i miss other characters and shit

Chapter 178

Bruh his back

I love these bits of Retsu just talking ngl

I'm just ignoring shit now

Chapter 179

Yeah there really isn't much to say

Chapter 180

FINALE? YES PLEASE 🙏

Why does this caveman understand body language better than me?

These three men really carried this entire thing, luv em

Baki's dead

Chapter 181

Like 20 chapters, and Baki lost.

TOKUGAWA HE IS

Heartwarming scene bro must say

Chapter 182

Oh, the president?

BARACK OBAMA?! :Y

My good mood is back, Yujiro is just chilling with Obama

Damn already 2009?

Yujiro sweety I'm sorry but you wrong

Chapter 183

Yujiro boxing feels bizarre

Why is Oliva suddenly so big he's 10 cm shorter than Yuji :|

Oh so this was just a reminder of how buff Yuji is, aight

Chapter 184

BAKI NOOO

Oh it's just a checkup aight

Gaia would beat him up if he saw how he has been treating his body

This is so dumb fjdyahdhe 😭

I agree with the comments in the belief Jack got the "demon ballsack"

Chapter 185

Oh hey Strydum, nice seeing a familiar face around

Man i didn't remember this happening :/

Goodbye, Pickle-chan, you brought a lot of pain to many lives but i loved you a lot anyway.

HE SPEAKS NOW?! 🥺

Chapter 186

KOZUE!! THE BUS CAME BACK

She's such a freak but i love her

Eyyy idk what the fuck happened there but glad to see they still dating

Tengo los huevos al plato con Pickle y Baki y la puta que me parió, me voy a dormir, ya no me banco más está mierda

I did my homework and i did my chores, time to tackle on the third book of this series, Son of Ogre

Chapter 1

Okay but the fuck is Baki planning to do if he stops fighting? That's literally all he has, he's not smart

WOOH THATS A BIT REALISTIC

PREHISTORIC ELEPHANT?!

King just went to have a snack. Also FUCK does that meat look tasty FUCKKK

This baby so cute 🥺

I'm so glad Yuji is doing stupid hilarious shit again it had been a while

Congrats on Baki for that mantis

Chapter 2

Who tf is this kid?

Poor kid lmao, i assume he will meet Baki

Look at my boyyy

HSTSRFAYDF DON'T CALL HIM A MANLET

Imagine Baki actually kills this kid HSJDYSSHCBT

Third comment with a ton of likes is "we do not condone child violence. We do, however, find it hilarious"

Chapter 3

AH SHUT UPPP KIDDO

But i like Baki memeing a round a lil

Chapter 4

🥺🥺 that's so sweet...

HELLOOOO STRYDUM MY GOD YOUR TITS GOT FATTER SIR 😳😳

Yujiro is such a fucking threat to society lmao

I love seeing Baki with his eyes open, he's looking more like his old self

Oh, shadow boxing incoming, alright

Chapter 5

Yuri? 🥺 /j

THE RETURN OF IRON MICHAEL?!

Chapter 6

I love how there's our silly little mains after every cover LUV em <33

Baki just dissociating his ass out and using it on his favor, the king

Why is Baki eating sour prunes aren't those meant to be sweet?

We all salivating

Chapter 7

Love to see there are even more swears there now

I can put my face next to my foot too tho

FAGDRJSEHARD YUJIRO CAN BEAT THE CANCER HOW ICONIC 😍

Also i would LOVE to see Yuji fight an Orca

WHAT?!

I love how everyone in the comments is calling out Rumina for not seeing issue going down to a dark hidden basement with a shirtless man older than him

Chapter 8

"piggy back me" USHSYFLFUDSY

This fight is going to be good

Chapter 9

Imagine Baki dies right here right know against an imaginary mantis lmao

Okay Baki getting damaged makes sense but the WALL?

Baki's dead (GOD IT HAS BEEN SO LONG SINCE I HAVE SAID THAT)

Ffs it's true Baki COULD create himself a stand 😰

Chapter 10

OH FUCK IT'S TRUE

Chapter 11

This fight is so boring i had to take a 6 hour break

Baki just can't win against nature eh

This reminds me of Garland pulling a suplex on that Anaconda

Chapter 12

I can't wait for the main cast to ACTUALLY appear, instead of just, you know, them in the covers

This fight is slow but cool but slow

To fight a mantis you must think like a mantis 😎

Though it's true in this manga you will most likely win if you steal your opponent techniques so

Chapter 13

I MISS IGARI FUCKKK

This is so dumb i luv it

That mantis be swearing lmao

Love it when Baki goes full Yujiro

Chapter 14

TOBA...

Holy fuck do mantis fly?

Secret Chapter?

Is this how Yujiro got born?

Idk girl i would have killed him if i was you

WHAT.

I KNOW THOSE FROGS THEY ARE FROM PUERTO RICO I THINK

I might just be sleepy but this is so confusing

AKSHSKGSKSGSJSG JUST KILL THE BABY IT AINT THAT HARD

Chapter 15

GAIA...

Why is he like this?

Is "he" with us right now?

...gotta admit that IS true...

I love Strydum sksgwhwg

Yujiro really went XD

I don't think my man Arun in the comments is aware how gay what he said is, though maybe I'm wrong

Chapter 16

GOD THESE FUCKING COVERS MAKING ME SO NOSTALGIC, LOOK AT SPEC!

ANIME KENNEDY?!

I can't believe Bush is dead

AN ASIAN BOY HAS JUST KIDNAPPED THE PRESIDENT...

8 of January? My god he's a Capricorn

I'm sorry, what?

LAHQIGWKQFWKSFWIWG 😭😭

I love Baki so much, THIS IS THE KID THAT I MISSED SO MUCH

This explains why Baki was in prison clothes in the anime teaser

Chapter 17

BIG NUMBER

That one mf like 😐

Glad Baki is 18 now at least 😌

Love to see Oliva back

Chapter 18

This page not even bothering to charge the pages anymore

I'm sure there were better ways to go to jail, well, actually, no, but still

Toba used to just chew that off

Baki did that mantis hit you in the head too hard?

I. I watched way too many prison movies and shows. I don't like seeing someone as young and pretty as Baki in such a place. I rlly don't.

Chapter 19

Yanagi baby i miss you...

IRON MICHAEL?!

Mfkhsjsys 😳🥴

Eh got my hopes too high

CHE BAKI PIBE... LA PUTA MADRE NI ACA ME ESCAPO DE MIS COMPATRIOTAS

I hope he swears too i want to see a boludo o pelotudo PLEASE

I mean para pelotudos lo veo a Yujiro todo el tiempo pero igual JSGWKEGWG me pone bien argento ver al Che carajo

Chapter 20

HE SAID BOLUDO SUAHWKWGAKSGSKSGSKGD

I can't take this omfg new fav I'm sorry Doppo but he just said boludo 😭

Pendejo is more used as pibe here but i will let it pass bc idk the lingo in Cuba and he spent some time there so

Why don't i speak like this too ffs? All i do is say eh and call it a day

He's cocky enough to call anybody any age pibe so I'll let that pass too

Por favor no lo hagas che sksgwj

Chapter 21

Che, pibe, it's a good day to die...

Chapter 22

GSHAGSTSG he should have said "no boludo"

I'm falling in love with this boludo myself

That's talented and brutal

OH RIGHT YOU LOSE YOUR BALANCE WHEN YOU DONT HAVE THAT

Chapter 23

Hm that's, cringe

YESSS HE SAID PELOTUDO

OAHWLGWKQFSKSGSJS SIII ROMPELO TODO CHE, ROMPELO TODO POR DECIRTE YANKEE KSGSSJGS

Honestly i too get pissed off when called American or European, though i won't throw shit to Baki, he's some random 18 yo japanese boy, no way he would recognize latinoamerican lingo lmao

King shit Baki boy

Chapter 24

Oh that's why he's called Jun Guevara, that's fair

I like how they are mixing a bit of truth and a bit of lie it's fun at least

Chapter 25

I like how they are drawing nipples now, occasionally

I can't wait for Viêt to complain about propaganda in the comments

OH SHIT

😳 :Y

He's sooo nice 😍

Chapter 26

Only three? You mean the third is... 👁️👁️

HAHA YEAH YUJI-CHAN <3

I can't believe he works for the USA I'm crying and shaking rn

What a progressive manga, the three strongest and most dangerous men and none of them are white 😍

GET HIS ASS BAKI

Chapter 27

Why is this guy sweating sm?

LDYDYSUGFUDT BAKI PLS

I like how the only time Baki was willing to kill a person was when he thought Sikorsky had hurt his girl

Chapter 28

I feel like Ian will die

Man i love how Baki is drawn in this book

Ffs i called it, i have watched way too many prison things to know how shit goes down

I have seen these three before in fanart but I'm curious to see what they can do

Chapter 29

Their faces remind me of Doyle

OH I CANT WAIT TO SEE EM IN THE ANIME

ASSHOLE DON'T CALL ME STUPID 😢💔

I'm gonna struggle to tell em apart but i think I'll manage

Okay I'm not the only one who thinks they look like Doyle, fair

Chapter 30

The mouth vs Yujiro when?

Someone mentioned the have the same vibe as the dudes that worked with Gaia and like 👁️👁️

Chapter 31

Lmao someone in the comments recommended the same thing

These three must be great at sex (sorry)

KSHALDHDKD NEW FAV COMMENT: "go to Japan and look for the word "defeat". That way you won't feel cocky anymore"

Chapter 32

Hehe hello Junnn~

KSHAKDHKWGS

La luna

Chapter 33

LOS TRES...

Okay that's funny, hocico instead of mouth (hocico is used for animal mouths)

I'm so glad i know Spanish

The two things that drive me insane and make me ramble are Doppo's beauty and this stupid argentinian

OSHSKWGSKSG

Chapter 34

Imagine he's doing that illusion thing Dorian did

With his own blood, that's so cool...

Hoho...!

I did that once when i had a terrible nose bleed, didn't go well

Chapter 35

This book is fucking boring NGL

"now that you got no more urine left in you"

AH.

GAHDYR LMAO

Chapter 36

HO THAT TITLE, PLEEEASE I NEED SOMETHING, ANYTHING, TO HAPPEN

HHH he kinda cute...

Oww :(

JDJSJFRGAJ

God piantao is an old word i had never heard it before

AND he took a piss.

LOCO NO SEAS HOMOFÓBICO NINGUNA MINA ACA ES MEJOR QUE ESTE PIBITO TE LO ASEGURO SKSGSKGSJAAGS

Se me cayó un ídolo y yo que le quería dar 😔

ÑSHWQLSGOSGDKW

Let's see if he lied to Baki about just liking eh /j

Chapter 37

I luv Oliva lol

AJSGSKSLAGHS BAKI SNAPPED

I too wonder where the fuck Kozue is

Chapter 38

LSHSLDGSLSGSIEG

He is jealous of what you two have, it's normal, el Che just rejected his love after all ;/

Oliva is a king

OH A HANKERCHIEF I THOUGHT THAT WAS UNDERWEAR SHSGS-

Oh shit Oliva is like 45?! He looked so young

Te fuiste a la mierda, Che, el chabón estaba siendo re bueno con vos

Baki is just dead

Chapter 39

I love how realistic Che's fear is, he's rather smart, though not this time

POOR GUY AJSGSWJW

I didn't realize Che said "what more, it may be a woman!" but to be fair they ARE in jail so

Chapter 40

I'm feeling kinda bad for him ngl

I feel happy for him tho 🥺

Bruh they added one page after the ending of some naked anime girl tf 😐

Chapter 41

These prisoners having fun is kinda sweet

YO INSANE

Bitches be complaining about Maria's looks are just jealous 🥰

Chapter 42

Damn she lorge

He loves fighting naked eh

Only valid person is the one saying Oliva deserves better treatment which tbh true

Chapter 43

Fun fact i wear my jacket like El Che too, unless it's too cold

El che with the hair lose is so cute bro,,,

Something something fingering joke

Sikorski could fold a coin too

I bet the bandana will break

Chapter 44

I would have just fallen on top of him, how is he gonna counter that, eh?

Oh that super fun to know!

Oh the good ol dirty technique, i have seen this one before!

Chapter 45

NOOO MARIA DON'T DO THIS TO HIM

This fight is super cool tho i love these two characters

Chapter 46

They just keep changing the rules i think Itagaki is just flexing at this point

LAAOSFKAGSKAGSKAF???

Baki wants his protagonism back

I'm getting pissed off they keep putting semi naked underaged girls at the end of every chapter 😐

Chapter 47

Bruh just realized, the mouth got so hyped as this new cool villain and they died in their first appearance 😭

His damn bandana...

[frienderbender]

What are some of your Some Guys AU plot lines!

OH BOY well i’m still working on the big long list of plotlines that i said i would do and. it’s very long. because i’m doing Actual descriptions and not bullet points. i’m not done yet BUT i will happily share some of them. though pretty much all of them i have mentioned on here in some way…but i’ll share my faves! they’re separated by family because that just makes the most sense, so i’ll do my fave for each.

john and melmord: the rikki comes to visit plotline of course??? and by association the college AU about melm, rikki, and nikki. the AU within the AU. i love them so fucking much. honorable mention to the ongoing tension between melm and charles. good stuff. i mean not for them but. yknow how it is.

toki and will: the toki stripper saga honestly? i like the actual drama in that one, compared to their other plotlines which are a lot more silly. and i like them bothering their neighbors with their problems lol

abigail, skwisgaar, helena, and sebastian: sort of still related to a toki and will plotline, but i love the scenario of them being forced to have a night out so toki and will can use their TV. got their wonderful romantic date night + murdertooth babysitting misadventures. what more could you want. also just the whole plotline of new baby seb because it’s cute.

nathan, charles, and lucy: this one is bit of a slowburn because it takes place over a long period of time, but the whole nathan and charles slowly falling for each other while caring for lucy. like it started out strictly professional, but as time went on they both realized they loved spending time with each other, and charles really wanted to protect lucy and make sure she grew up alright. going off of this, lucy tries to set them up on an “official” date since they haven’t actually had one. very silly and sweet.

magnus, pickles, and jules: circling back to some more dramatic plotlines, i’m very invested in the one where seth comes to visit. because i live for fictional family drama. just like, him showing up unannounced, pickles having no fucking clue how seth found out where he was, seth there just to ask for money and make vague threats. i don’t think he actually follows through on the threats to tell their parents what’s going on, but he definitely brings it up in exchange for some more cash. when he’s finally leaving though, magnus pulls him aside and gives him a threat of his own. except he has a knife.

and there’s plenty more i haven’t mentioned on here but. these are some of my personal faves. my favorite episodes of my favorite totally real sitcom.

[egirlrejects]

a list of chaotic things minx has done just this year that don’t even sound real (in no particular order):

- get haunted by a demon she bought from on fivver

- get stuck in america for 3 months

- stare into the camera for an entire 2 hours at the end of the cabin steam, remaining mostly silent the entire time (she denies this ever happened now)

- leaves her stream alone for 20 minutes and comes back to chat worshipping an innocent lamp from the room and an asmr pickle boy (also during the cabin stream)

-voice over the entirety of a late night in club penguin

-the ongoing kevin saga (rip in peace)

- pretend (????) to eat a cigarette

- the infamous White Claw Moment

- made friends with chandler riggs

- double her viewer count by gaslighting her audience (with the help of chat) that she got a boyfriend, and then doubling viewers again later the SAME STREAM by lying that she was pregnant

- several not planned 24 hour streams within the span of 2 months

- leg shaving stream

- a 24 hour stream in which she breaks her foot and then??? continues streaming???

- bert (the lump, not the dog)

- 69 hour stream (nice)

-won 3 love or hosts (not including her own which she won 2 of 3)

- drunk buy 2 kittens

- almost get Minecraft married (Sadge)

- start an entire war on her first day of the eboys smp

- spent half a stream dressed as black widow crying about how she will be quitting streaming to become a gd prison officer (and then announces that she’s NOT quitting streaming the immediate next stream)

-invite kiara to live with her for almost a month after they had only spoken to each other twice

-buy a haunted renovated morgue (with a ghost that potentially followed kiara??)

- go from a 20 viewer andy to a 3k viewer andy (with a stable sub count of around 6k!!!)

- judge a talent show with tpain

- the milk bath

- the rat video (and the shorter lived fox song o7)

- get reported twice for very obvious drunk bits

- make friends with an irl stream sniper

- very drunkenly force tricky to start a dono goal so she can come to Ireland after the pandemic (it got filled in about 2 hours lol)

- get banned from a gta rp server until 2300

- whatever the fuck she was doing with those monkey puppets

- every single moment that comes after minx leaving her desk and coming back with clown lipstick on

- set off her fire alarm with a fog machine twice in one stream

- get offered cocaine on stream???

- chose love on sykkuno AND George’s love or hosts as a joke and then fucking won both of them

- turn her entire chat into gamblers

[eyesaremosaics]

Ugh having a mild panic attack. I feel super emotional, confused, sad, frightened, empty, weakness in my limbs, numbness around my face and in my fingertips. Shallow breathing. I feel like I’m going to burst into tears any second. My heart just hurts and hurts.

Came to be with my sister, because I’m so vulnerable right now. Just trying to breathe through it. It’s going to hurt for a while, I have to get used to it, have to settle into the loneliness and become accustomed to it as a constant companion. My abandonment issues are all lit up. Feeling like no one will ever be able to love me for the rest of my life. That maybe I’m not equipped to be in a successful relationship. Most of my experiences were so bad. My best friend has had no luck either, I always saw her experiences as pretty bad, but she told me a while back: “you’ve had it worse.”

“You think so?”

“Yeah. Definitely.”

—-

It’s all a blur to me now, I try to hold on to what I learned from each person, searching for the gift in this big ball of pain. I do find those gifts. My first love, showed me that I am worry of simply being around others. I always felt like such an outcast, having been bullied as mercilessly as I was. He pushed through dozens of girls standing around him, and came to say hello to me. It made me feel special. I remember that day. The rest of the relationship was long, complicated and painful, after that initial phase, I had to compete with other women all the time for his affection. The seed of not being special was planted then. He never officially became my boyfriend, and I always felt like I was never good enough because of that. It totally crushed my self esteem, and set me up for romantic failure in the future.

I had boyfriends in between, who were simply there. My first real one was a cheater, I punched him in the face the first time he did it, and have been violent towards men ever since.

The next person of significance was someone I grew up with, who had pined for me and loved me from afar for six years. When I was finally in a place to receive his love and love him back, of course he didn’t want me then. He put me on a pedestal as this perfect woman. Writing poetry for me... stalking me on the internet. He was terrified of me, he couldn’t accept my love, and he was hurt because I rejected him in our youth. I did this because I was being sexually abused by an older boy at the time, and I was so traumatized from the assault that I developed sexual aversion disorder. I found out he harbored desires for me, and I threw up in a trash can. The very thought of sexual interaction with ANYONE made me want to cry and vomit at the same time. Left me shaking all over.

I think of my thirteen year old self, and I just feel so sad for her. My long time step father and my mother were fighting horribly, and on the verge of divorce—so home life was a drag. I was being abused, and had my virginity forcibly taken from me. I began drinking at twelve to cope with the ptsd. My parents avoided the house, so I had to babysit everyday, and being forced into a position of responsibility so young—alienated me from my peers. Not that it mattered really because they all hated me anyway. I never fit in anywhere. I had no friends at school, a few outside of school, but I was considered a social pariah on campus.

I felt suicidal nearly everyday, but I tried to hold my head high and ignore the constant taunts, and humiliations on a daily basis. It was a sad, lonely existence in those days. He loved me through all that, and thought I was strong. I guess I am strong, but I didn’t feel that way inside. I escaped through books, movies, imagination. I wrote short stories, ran multiple websites, learned html, had pen pals. My only friends were in the computer. People told me how ugly I was every day. That my nose was crooked, that I had overlarge front teeth. They called me underfed vulture, satan (because I wore all black), Bucky beaver. One day they poured pickle juice on my head and told me I was the ugliest thing they had ever seen. One boy cut my hair in class.

That was hell. Once high school came around, I was considered “pretty”, and the same boys who threw me in garbage cans, asked for my number. The fucking nerve, I swear.

Anyway, that stalker boy painted a picture of being the perfect mate for me. Grew his hair out long like mine to “feel closer to (me)”. I was 18, and fell madly in love with him. I soon came to discover however, that something wasn’t right. He had a personality disorder, and three months after we started dating, he crushed me like an insect, with seemingly no remorse. He was convinced I didn’t love him, and took great pleasure in hurting me because I had hurt him in the past (Unconsciously).

It was a long 7 year back and fourth saga with him, and only at the end did I realize he was a narcissist/sociopath. Literally incapable of returning my feelings. I really did love him... I don’t know if I’ll ever feel quite like that again, about anyone, but there was nowhere for that situation to go. He was never going to change, and I deserved better than to be treated like garbage. I went through so much grief, had an identity crisis... realizing I had been tricked and manipulated for years. I felt stupid for falling into the trap because I was blinded by love. It still hurts sometimes, but I forgave him. Not because he deserves it, he was horribly abusive and cruel to me, but because I deserve peace. I had to just accept that that is who he is, and it’s not my fault. Any wrong that I may have done was a result of childhood abuse, and I more than paid my debt back. He pined for me for six years, then I pined for him for 7. That’s 13 years, nearly half my life of being connected to this person. A part of me died with that relationship. The idealistic, romantic, carefree spirit I had, died.

I became an alcoholic and a drug addict to escape the pain of surviving narcissistic abuse. Then I met the man I thought I was going to marry. He swooped in, and it was all fire and passion between us. He told me he loved me, and wanted to build a life with me. He used to think I was the one. However, we were both so damaged by our past relationships that we tore each other to shreds emotionally. It still breaks my heart, we were mismatched. I knew it, so did he, but I loved him anyway. It wasn’t something I could help, I just loved him. He reminded me so much of my father, all the wounds he left in me... were lit up so strongly by this person. He said I was the most special to him, but he had so many options available all the time, and deep in my gut I never felt like he was really mine, or that I could trust him. He was so angry inside, even when he was speaking softly and being nice, I could feel that rage burning inside him. Not towards me... necessarily... though it often manifested that way. I failed so much in that relationship, but I tried my best. I really did. I think he did too.

When he left after three and a half years, I was brutally broken hearted. He seems to think I never really loved him either, and that is so not true. I just wanted to be the most precious thing in his life, but I never felt that I was. I try to make peace with it now. He no longer loves me, not that way, and I just have to accept that and move on. As much as it hurts. I have no other choice.

Then my last boyfriend, who made me feel incredibly special, and shared many similar interests. We had a lot of fun, but there was a lot of problems too. The age gap was a problem, communication styles were very different. We were both damaged people, who unconsciously were damaging each other after a certain point. I really tried my best to get better and be the best person I could be, but I always walked away feeling like a bad person. I always felt like I was constantly hurting him, or being inconsiderate, sometimes people grow apart I guess... it happened with all of them.

I just feel so sad, and tired. Every time I had a crush on a guy, who was good looking, and seemed to have a lot going for them—I would make my feelings to them known, and they would reject me. So I don’t feel comfortable pursuing men as a result. If I think a guy is attractive, my immediate thought is: I’m not pretty enough, he will never like me.”

All my life people told me I was this great beauty. As a child people would always tell my dad: “oooh! What a beautiful little girl!”

To which my dad would reply, with a hint of dread in his voice: “yeah... I’m going to have to keep a bat by the door when she gets older to keep the boys away.”

Ha, yeah no that never happened. Boys are afraid of me, they feel intimidated by me because I am highly intelligent and very outspoken. I have a lot of male energy to me, and that threatens most men I have experienced. Makes them feel like less of a man or something. That explains why many of my exes picked smaller, meek, and more easily controlled women (or seemingly so anyway). It’s kind of lonely, being a strong woman. Feeling like men run from me because I’m “too much” as many of them have said.

The men who do approach me usually are losers or playboys. My dad is a playboy so it makes sense, it’s what is familiar to me. It’s almost like... I don’t think I deserve to be happy or loved, so I attract people that won’t or can’t love me, or people who love me so much but are not a match for me. It’s just fucked. I want to be a whole person, and attract another whole person who has their shit together and inspires me to be the best version of myself. I’m tired of small mindedness, of limiting constraints, limiting beliefs, I want to grow and expand. I want a wider world to live in.

Working for the wealthy family that I do, they have shown me the heights to which one can go in life. The dad came from nothing, and built himself up to where he was because he believed that he could. He believed in himself, and made this beautiful life for him and his family. Of course we all have problems, but they are constructive in dealing with them. Not toxic. Seeing a relationship of mutual live and respect, of comfort and stability. Of abundance... I want that. I have been poor and depressed all my fucking life, doubting myself, struggling with mental illness and trying to die.

I don’t want to die anymore, I am tired of dying. I want to be happy. I don’t want to struggle so hard, scraping for food and for money, I want to generate a beautiful life with love, friendship, creativity, travel, art and giving back to others, to the world. That’s what I want. There has to be a way to achieve it.

I know it starts with me, and these negative beliefs that I have about myself. I’ve been seriously working on my self esteem, on recognizing my value, of taking care of my vessel... I am getting much better, despite my occasional relapse, they are getting farther apart. However, days like this, where I feel so empty and sad... frighten me.

I have been to the darkest places of the human heart. I have got rock bottom and nearly died many times in my life. I have experienced the dark night of the soul, been utterly alone, broken, abandoned, abused—and I’m still here. I survived it somehow, even though I am full of holes, and they still bleed occasionally—I’m still standing.

Romance, seems like a thing I will never be able to have on a reciprocal level, not until I can learn to really love myself. It’s been my life’s work to undo the trauma of my childhood, but sometimes I wonder... will I be alone forever? Will I ever know how it feels to be as madly in love with someone as they are with me. My lifestyle is so unconventional, and I have so many quirks and issues... everyone gives up and leaves. I try my best to be better, and I think I finally am in the healthiest emotional place I’ve ever been, but today I face my fear of crippling loneliness... and it weighs heavily on my heart.

I don’t want to be with anyone for a long time. It hurts too much to be connected to someone. It’s so much stress and pain, and I don’t know if I can go through it or put someone else through it again. Right now I’m feeling pretty hopeless about ever getting married, or having children. I want it so bad, but the conditions have never been right. I also, if I’m being honest with myself... truly don’t believe anyone can love me. I think I’m too much, and too fucked up to be cared about. I don’t think I’m educated enough, pretty enough, or good enough to be loved. That’s my main problem. I just wish I knew how to fix it.

It’s a process, and it doesn’t happen overnight, but how long will it take to feel comfortable in my own skin? I just want to breathe easy and feel confident for once in my life. I want to be valued, seen, heard, and truly known... but I keep hearing that Pink Floyd song in my head..

“Is there anybody....out there?”

[redscullyrevival]

I finally saw The Last Jedi and I liked it - what I wasn’t entirely anticipating is that I also really enjoyed it! I will now commence bullet point blabbering about the film below the cut and it shall not be spoiler free. 

I now understand all the raging nerd-hate this movie has been getting - this film aimed to straight up burn this motherfucker down, huh? 

Loved it. 

Personally I was very… underwhelmed with The Force Awakens. It was a fun romp and I loved the new characters and the nostalgic twinge of the familiar but oh boy the entire thing felt far too beholden to the pedestal of A STAR WARS FILM! in slow steady blinking lights. 

The Force Awakens has that octane Abrams pacing but it is also just so damn stiff. So ridged. And obviously deeply afraid to wander off the path. 

I understand that the first re-introduction to such a beloved franchise playing it (excruciatingly) safe made sense; but I was still upset with the final product, with the final choice to deliberately aim to be nothing more than what I’ve seen and felt before.

The Last Jedi on the other hand turns out to be a long, cozy, chat about how A STAR WARS FILM! should be struck down so something new can grow. 

Hallelujah!

The visceral attack this film must feel like to a particular kind of Star Wars fan is no doubt very intense and in all honestly I do have some pity for folks who found this new film to be dismissing the legacy they feel connected to in deeply personal ways. 

*clappy hands*

But oh, I loved it so much!

Every twist and turn, every aspect of this film pushes the anticipated rhythm of A STAR WARS FILM! away; all the momentum the film gains is for the final purpose of rejecting everything easy and expected, for pushing past, well, the past. 

Hot damn, the nerds are kind of justified for once.

The Last Jedi came for them! It went so hard! The more someone had dug themselves into the belief that STAR WARS was a solid thing they knew and understood on a fundamental core level then the deeper the cut would go as the film raged on. 

The anger, the hate from certain fandom circles makes total sense. 

Because this film done changed the Star Wars. 

And it was about fuckin’ time. 

So prepared was I to sit through The Empire Strikes Back: The Remix that the intense gut fans-hate-it reaction the film got opening friggin’ day got me all kinds of delighted, how I saw it such a reaction signaled that this new film would be something actually new. 

And the fresh air of The Last Jedi comes from some pretty drastic subversion of A STAR WARS FILM! It is down right beautiful.

Ultimately, if the choice to change Star Wars was just to grim dark and edge it up then it’d be pretty terrible I agree, but The Last Jedi managed to alter and course correct massive change without breaking the frame of the how and the why and to whom these STAR WARS stories are told. 

I mean, in my opinion anyway. 

I felt the film put a lot of care and love into explaining to the audience what was right and natural about change, explaining that strength could be found in letting go of our nostalgia and expectations and opening up to new experiences in old sandboxes. I felt The Last Jedi was an oddly gentle film that knew it was going to frighten some while igniting others and did it’s best to show it’s good will towards signaling hope and legend and legacy into a shared experience. 

*shrug shrug shrug* YA FEELIN’ ME?!

I know I already have a spoiler warning above the cut but now I am going to really get up in this film and push my eyeball up against it’s eyeball and hey if you wanna see all particulars feel free, but this is now specific spoiler territory, thanks and happy holidays:

I was so enthralled with Finn and Rose’s quest and I was ecstatic when it didn’t work out.

The two went on a space goose chase for a daring rescue mission and got into ruffian escapades and thought on the fly and were brave and funny and were livin’ that STAR WARS life - and they failed spectacularly.

Their mission, their rip’roarin’ escapade, was in fact a brash and ill thought out plan that almost got absolutely everyone killed. 

Precious, lovely, daring, and confident Poe Dameron was a horrible leader. 

His belief in a desperate gamble; his total confidence that he was in the right and the stuffy Vice Admiral didn’t know when to take a risk; the audience knowing his qualities as sure fire STAR WARS leadership was all for nothing and people died for it. 

I said HOT DAMN!

This film made General Organa and Vice Admiral Holdo, two older women who don’t run around with blasters in hand but who have no less twinkle in their eyes the true leaders of the resistance. The true bearers of the spark of rebellion. It was their matured tried and true mentorship that ended up saving them all - not the cocky charisma of a younger good looking man.

Also Leia is confirmed Force Sensitive™ bringing to an end decades long old guard fans bickering and moaning over if she has pretend magical powers or not and why if she did that’d be “not right”. 

(Seeing Carrie Fisher bathed in moonlight was emotional)

And then, oh man, Rey’s parents? Wonderful, soulful, bright and strong Rey? Because she is in a STAR WARS film and can use the force everyone including people who’ve never seen The Force Awakens assumed her parents were a part of the legacy, a part of the grand scheme.

NOPE.

In fact, to really drive it home just so fans can’t possibly be confused, Kylo Ren tells her “You’re nobody. You don’t belong in this story.”

He said that with his mouth words!

But there she is all the same, good old Rey. And she’ll remain. Without being so and so from extended universe’s kid or a character only in some comic book or Luke’s secret child or whatever. 

Rey is just a character made to be there and to use the force because, hey, it’s a STAR WARS MOVIE! We needed someone to be the Luke this time around so why not Rey? 

PS we shattered Luke’s lightsaber and made Rey indebted to jack squat of this franchise. She searched for her purpose and her parents and only found the strength of herself and her own choices. Peace out!

That tickled me senseless, having the cultural institution of STAR WARS being full on assaulted for two and a half hours.

That tickled my pickle. 

The Last Jedi is hyper self aware media, but it was still fun. It was still a good time but it laid down hard and fast with changing the lifeblood of STAR WARS that even I, who is nowhere near as big a fan as someone you could probably hit with a stone’s throw, admit to feeling some uncomfortable chafing at times while watching.

STAR WARS is a legit cultural institution by the way, I didn’t just say that for the fun of it - that’s absolutely 100% true. 

Star Wars as a media, as a franchise, has an ebb and flow of patterns, style, symbols, and motifs that dictate a tonal cohesiveness which designates something as recognizable as STAR WARS.  

What I’m doing when I all caps “Star Wars” is I’m trying to defer attention to the known concepts and ideas of Star Wars media as a whole cultural institution and experience rather than just invoking a cluster of films, only I’m trying to do all that just through the written word.

Star Wars is a film and STAR WARS is all that which defines the franchise as well as our shared cultural understanding of said franchise, ya fell me? That’s how I approach talking about this kinda stuff online anyways. I feel most will understand what I’m doing with the capitalization and all that but hey, now ya know ‘fo sure. 

Anyway

Shit y’all! Luke Skywalker is a funky sore spot huh? Loved that too. 

Lets get to that Kylo Ren:

Kylo Ren’s entire set up is that he ain’t Vader and fuck, ain’t that the truth. But in a good way. Duh Kylo Ren is not Vader, he is a different character. And, now, he isn’t even remotely similar to Vader as a STAR WARS character. 

Everything about Kylo Ren is opposed to Darth Vader; while he gain’s definition with this new film Kylo Ren didn’t even remotely start out as a mysterious villain like Vader originally did. 

We all knew, in that STAR WARS fashion, that Kylo Ren had to be tied to the legacy. We all knew that he had to be tied to the lifeblood of the franchise. And Ben Solo absolutely is. 

We knew this before Han ever revealed it through dialogue and that’s why it wasn’t a big reveal in The Force Awakens. Of course Ben Solo turned to the dark side and is Kylo Ren. Of course. Of course he has some weird Vader obsession, the character needed to emulate Vader so as to take up his mantel in the narrative and in the franchise. We needed a baddie in a helmet, stat!

But oh, look what has happened though, oh man:

Luke Skywalker in a moment of fear almost murdered his own nephew  -because he is in STAR WARS. 

We all know if there are Jedi then there is a light and a dark side of the force; we all know that if you are a master of and a teacher in the ways of the force you open yourself and your students up to a choice; and we all know that fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. 

Kylo Ren being a direct response to Luke friggin’ Skywalker is as far from Vader as you can get but fits just so right within the cleansing fire that is The Last Jedi. 

The hero of the first saga ignited the villain of the next. 

That ain’t very STAR WARS and something tells me that is the biggest kick to the crotch for a lot of folks. 

I, of course, dug the hell outta that choice.

Kylo Ren is actually interesting now. Mischief managed.

The very not subtle social commentary the film was dishing out was a pretty pie to boot. Bit on the nose but hey, ain’t that STAR WARS at least? Didn’t even have to dig this time around, gems sitting right on the surface.  

… Damn, I’m tired. I still have plenty to talk about though. Hmm, well, lets close this out on a different note (and that’s a pun):

The music of STAR WARS is bonkers recognizable. Like, I keep saying Star Wars is a cultural institution that uses motifs and symbols as devices for defining itself, right? Yeah, the use of music in this film is a pitch perfect example of that. 

The Last Jedi seamlessly flows from theme to theme, with specific well known scores highlighting emotional call backs and in-story referenced characters - the use of music is the most traditionalist aspect of this new film (they even shook up the editing this time around - shock and awe). 

Smart though, if they fucked with how STAR WARS did music then even an impassive twerp like me would be pretty upset. 

For my money, the musical score is still the best thing about a good old Star War.