#episode 124 review

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In today's episode of Shut Up Robin, Nobody Cares:

I finished Maison Ikkoku back in February, and I had a lot of feelings about the series. (It's good, do yourself a favor and go read it if you haven't.) As I read through it, I couldn't shake the thought: this is the caliber of romantic development Rumiko Takahashi can bring to the table?? We could've had this kind of relationship development in InuYasha??? 😭😭

The other thought I couldn't shake: InuYasha fans who still question the sincerity and depth of InuYasha's feelings for Kagome might benefit from reading Maison Ikkoku all the way to the end. They should read the final chapters of Maison Ikkoku, think for awhile about the blatant parallel themes found in InuYasha, and then try reevaluating InuKag's dynamic.

Now, I should clarify: I think the InuYasha series already makes it abundantly self-evident that the Inu/Kag/Kik "triangle" (🙄) is a complex situation that puts InuYasha in an extremely difficult position. (Well, it puts all of them in a difficult position, but you get the idea.) You just have to read the series with your brain on to see that. To review: teenage boy is tricked and terrorized by a demonic murderer; that demon successfully murders the boy's ex while masquerading as him; later his ex is revived from the dead against her will, wanders the earth as a vengeful spirit for awhile (who wouldn't be pissed about being brought back into that bullshit?), and is actively stalked by the demon who already murdered her once; teenage boy is falling in love with someone else when this happens, but he still wants to save his ex from being re-victimized by the demon who already brutally murdered her once. Anyone who sees that situation and describes it with a straight face as "InuYasha needs to make up his mind already" is probably never going to reconsider their assessment of InuYasha's character. They've already formed an opinion in defiance of the evidence. That ship done sailed.

But for some folks, I think experiencing the way Maison Ikkoku explores the same relationship themes—and particularly how it resolves those themes in the final chapters—could help them re-evaluate the emotional nuances in InuKag's relationship, and maybe help to re-contextualize the Inu/Kag/Kik conflict.

The parallels between Godai/Kyoko and InuYasha/Kagome are pretty obvious—Rumiko Takahashi consistently revisits this relationship dynamic in her work (it's present in Mao to a lesser extent). But I think Maison Ikkoku more directly confronts the emotional complexity of that dynamic. You can feel the difference in how RT more directly explores the messiness, complications, and pain of a) grieving a former relationship even while falling in love with someone else, and b) loving someone who is still tangled up in grieving their past. The InuYasha series obviously deals with those themes too, but Maison Ikkoku brings more focus and resolution to its exploration.

This may be for two reasons: 1) Maison Ikkoku had an older audience, as it was published in a seinen magazine geared for adult men between 18 - 40 years old, and 2) the relationship tension between Godai/Kyoko pretty much constitutes the main story of Maison Ikkoku; in InuYasha, the plot (such as it is) revolves around a vengeance quest and the monster of the week, and the relationship tensions between InuKag are second to that. Maybe that's why RT was more willing to get into the weeds with Godai/Kyoko and to more directly resolve the tension.

InuYasha does have some standout chapters where it explicitly deals with the tension of InuKag's situation (e.g., chapter 78, chapter 124, chapter 176, chapter 286, chapter 458, etc.), but there's this distinct hesitance in the narrative to resolve that tension in a substantive way. That's one of my beefs with the InuYasha series: it gives us moments of standout, concrete relationship development which then doesn't impact the future narrative all that much. The same relationship conflicts play out over and over again, well past their narrative expiration dates. See: Miroku flirting with women right in front of Sango after they've acknowledged feelings for each other; also the entire Kaō arc, which just... I do not understand the narrative purpose of that arc when it just exacerbates tensions that already existed and resolves none of them. Anyway. I digress.

You could argue this hesitance to permanently resolve relationship conflict comes from the episodic nature of InuYasha's storytelling. There's some truth to that, but that's not a satisfying explanation for why the main couple's relational status quo remains inert for the latter half of the series. Maison Ikkoku also does this to an extent—the "will they, won't they?" tension is strung along for as long as possible—but in general Maison Ikkoku does a better job of allowing relationship development to actually affect the narrative. Moments of emotional revelation and growth do change the relational status quo between Godai and Kyoko. They don't stay in quite the same relationship limbo that InuYasha and Kagome get stuck in for the latter half of the series. (It probably also helps that Maison Ikkoku is significantly shorter than InuYasha.)

All that to say: I think Godai/Kyoko is actually a useful mirror for examining InuKag, because they share the same themes and relationship dynamics without sharing the same narrative failings.

Okay, so: big time major spoilers ahead for Maison Ikkoku. Stop here if you don't want to see the conclusion of that series.

I want to look at how Maison Ikkoku's conclusion simultaneously revisits and resolves the main conflict between Godai/Kyoko.

Ahhhhhh my feelings!!! Man I love this series.

Okay, let's review the major takeaways from this scene:

• Notice how the tension between Godai and Kyoko—Godai's struggle with insecurity and Kyoko's feelings for her deceased husband—mirrors the tension between InuKag. And notice that the reader is encouraged to sympathize with both Godai and Kyoko. Godai is not "at fault" for struggling with insecurity and feelings of jealousy. That's a natural human feeling to have, especially in a relationship that hasn't been anywhere near secure until very recently. And despite whatever jealousy or inadequacy he may be feeling, Godai tries to see things from Kyoko's perspective. Part of Godai's struggle—the heartache of it—is his understanding that Kyoko is also not at fault. It's not her fault that she married before she ever met Godai, it's not her fault her husband died, and it's not her fault that she's struggling with the grief of that tragedy. She's trying to reorient herself to her new life after loss; she's falling in love with Godai, but she's also scared of betraying her husband's memory. (Let's hold that mirror up to InuYasha now, shall we? SHALL WE?) Moving on from Soichiro emotionally represents to Kyoko a breach of duty to a loved one.

• To reiterate: neither Godai nor Kyoko are "at fault" in this situation. That's precisely why it's a tragedy. They both have to process painful, messy feelings; both their feelings are valid and understandable. (Hold that mirror up to InuKag, girl. HOLD IT UP.)

• Notice how Godai explicitly acknowledges that loving Kyoko means loving the Kyoko who once loved Soichiro. "On the day I met Kyoko, you were already within her. That's the Kyoko I fell in love with." It's impossible to divorce Kyoko from her feelings for her former husband: that part of her life significantly shaped her into who she is. And I just love that Godai is hashing out his feelings at Soichiro's grave: it shows a sort of respect for Soichiro's memory, but more importantly it also shows that Godai knows his negative feelings can't ultimately be "fixed" by Kyoko. If she could fix them, he'd be having this conversation with her. (And by this point in the series they have had this conversation.) But Godai knows he's the only one who can truly work through/resolve his insecurity—especially now, when Kyoko has already assured him that she loves him—and I love how the scene's setting subtly demonstrates that. Soichiro's ghost is haunting Godai's feelings, not Kyoko's, and Godai is trying to work through that with Soichiro himself. There's no love triangle to resolve here: what needs resolving is Godai's own feelings of inadequacy which no amount of assurance from Kyoko can ultimately "fix." This is his ghost to fight. (We get an echo of this kind of inner conflict in chapter 458 of InuYasha: Kagome directly wrestles with the "ghost" of Kikyo and struggles toward some resolution of her own insecurities.... Only for the Kaō arc to come along later and materially damage that resolution and character growth for no clear reason, BUT I DIGRESS.) And this scene shows that Godai wins that fight: he comes to understand that loving Kyoko has to include accepting her past. Kagome reaches a very similar understanding in chapters 175 and 176 of InuYasha.

• To reiterate: Maison Ikkoku's conclusion is not the resolution of a "love triangle." It's the resolution of a series-long conflict, which is completely different. In order for love triangles to work—to actually function as love triangles—two competing love interests have to be viable options. This is quite evidently not the case in Maison Ikkoku: Soichiro is dead at the start of the series. It's literally impossible for Kyoko to choose him in any meaningful way. RT blatantly acknowledges this early in the series when Kyoko's father-in-law tells her she has to live her life. I cannot stress enough how self-consciously the series is not about a love triangle between Godai/Kyoko/Soichiro. (Mitaka is another matter entirely, for a different post.) Rather, the series is about the damaging power of grief in our lives, the rocky and painfully non-linear journey to healing from that grief, and how messy, fraught, and ultimately profoundly beautiful it is to love another person for exactly who they are — past pain/trauma and all. (Please for the love of heaven hold that mirror up to InuKag.)

• No, you know what? I'm not leaving that at a parenthetical. I'm just gonna say it: exactly as Maison Ikkoku is not about a love triangle, InuYasha isn't either. For the same reasons as stated above, the Inu/Kag/Kik dynamic is not ultimately a love triangle because Kikyo is dead at the start of the series. And while her spirit is magically revived—in an altered/diminished form—she is still not truly alive. The story conspicuously communicates this: her body is literally created from decomposing bones and cannot sustain itself (she needs to consume souls—other deceased spirits—to remain animated), symbolically suggesting she is of the dead even as she walks among the living. This is a facsimile of life. RT is not subtle about this. Kikyo is a tragic and complex character whose arc can be interpreted in many ways, but I think it's fair to say that the series self-consciously represents her as a past which can't be recovered. The damage has been done. She is dead, time continues to move forward, and there's no reversing that. (That's, again, why it's a tragedy.) Even her resurrected body symbolically represents this reality via death imagery. Ergo, from the very start of the series—just as we see in Maison Ikkoku—Kikyo is not a truly viable option for InuYasha. He can't choose her in any meaningful way. To "choose" her would be to essentially choose death—abandonment of life—just as Kyoko choosing Soichiro would make her "a wife who hadn't died yet." Kikyo represents an irrecoverable past just as Soichiro does. And the main thematic trajectory of each series does not suggest that Kyoko/InuYasha should give up on life by choosing death — it suggests they should choose life. Godai and Kagome conspicuously represent life, the possibility of living into the future. (Kagome is literally from the future, that's how unsubtle RT is about this.)

(A quick aside while we're here: no, Kikyo's not being a viable option does nothing to diminish the sincerity of InuYasha's feelings for Kagome. Kagome is not a "second choice," for the love of God the series blatantly addresses that very thing many, many times—like it's right there y'all—and I have already written a long ass post about why Kagome's insecurity over InuYasha's feelings for her shouldn't be taken as gospel truth.)

So, rather than being an actual love triangle, I think the Inu/Kag/Kik dynamic is a complicated emotional landscape that explores the same themes Maison Ikkoku does: how grief and trauma affect our lives, how painful and messy it can be to heal from that grief, and that loving someone—choosing to take that mutual risk with them—means trusting that they mean it when they tell/show us they love us, and choosing to trust them more than our own insecurities.

It's just that Maison Ikkoku explores those themes a little better. 😅 Which is why I think it makes a good mirror for re-examining InuKag: all the same themes without all the narrative failings and missed opportunities. ✌🏼

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When Red eventually started working together with his team… the character shift of the enderman, the skeleton, and spider reminded me specifically of this meme. This is canon now…. I will not take criticism

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It’s a time for just relaxing and not stressing out…

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[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, July 22 - Tuesday, July 23

BUFFY: Thanks for side-kicking. I didn't want to trouble Willow. Figure she's got enough to do. First day back and all. XANDER: Are you kidding? We're doing vent work at the site. Anything's better than breathing freon for eight hours. (beat) So, did she say what this thing is? BUFFY: Some sort of spider demony thingy. She had to go pretty quickly. I think she had to sign up for classes or something. XANDER: Ah, yes, there is little that can distract the Willow when she's on the hunt for the mighty syllabi. BUFFY: I don't know. I guess she was a little more nervous than she was letting on.

~~Buffy Season 7 Episode #127: "Selfless"~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

I Trusted You (Buffy/Giles, E) by The_Crazy_Knight

Awakening the angel of death (Angel, unrated, Bones xover) by Fidelio_cascadilio

La réserve des monstres. (Cordelia, Xander, Willow, T, French) by AngelicaR2

Bedtime Story (Xander/Angel/Spike, M) by witchway

Grilled cheese and kisses (Buffy/Spike, G) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms

Number one fan (Buffy/Spike, T) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms

He brought flowers (Buffy/Spike, T) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms

Cherish the day (Buffy/Spike, T) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms

[Chaptered Fiction]

Prison of Misery Ch. 1/2 (Buffy, unrated, Harry Potter xover) by Buffyworldbuilder

The Call Ch. 4 (Giles, unrated) by pbjellius

Families Ch. 2/15 (Ensemble, unrated) by 19BBY

Shenanigans Ch. 1/5 (Buffy/Spike, T) by flootzavut

The Right Swipe Ch. 1 (Buffy/Giles, E) by DancingAngel0013

Aegis Ch. 11 (Xander, T, multiple xovers) by dogbertcarroll, Narsil

Dead Man's Afterparty Ch. 2 (COMPLETE) (Ensemble, G) by Greensword101

In the Company of Witches and Slayers: Ch. 109 (Willow/Tara, E) by VladimirHarkonnen (TheLightdancer)

Task Mistress, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, E) by HappyWhenItRains

Life with Buffy, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Joan963z

Stygian Nights, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, T) by JamesMFan

East of Nevada, Chapter 5 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Blissymbolics

Stab in the back, Chapter 23 (Buffy/Spike, E) by MelG_2005

The Degradation of Duality [Series Part 2], Chapter 34 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Ragini

Buffy Summers and the Major Case of the Wiggins, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Soulburnt

I’ll Get You, My Pretty!, Chapter 4 (Buffy/Spike, M) by CheekyKitten

A Second Chance- Their Story, Chapter 13 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Loup Noir

Birds of a Feather, Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, E) by Maxine Eden

The Watcher, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, E) by In Mortal

Something Borrowed, Chapter 1-3 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Geliot99

Unicorn , Chapter 8-10 (Buffy/Spike, M) by Desicat

Over the Hills and Far Away, Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, T) by Rea

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[Reviews & Recaps]

PODCAST: Bonus Episode - Season 2 Recap by The Sunnydale Diaries

PODCAST: Episode 124: Wrecked by Mythtaken

PODCAST: BTVS 520 - Spiral by Another Buffy Podcast

[Community Announcements]

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[Fandom Discussions]

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Becoming a puppet in “Smile Time” by lindseymcdonaldseyelashes

Wait, if Sahjhan was hoping Holtz would kill Angel and/or Darla before Connor could be born... by nicnacsnonsense

one of the things that bothers me most about late seasons btvs by greensaplinggrace

Most Shocking Moments of BTVS/AtS by hoponlilmama

SoS: A Darker Giles by Multiple Authors

What are things characters don't get enough credit for? by The Whirlwind

What's your favorite season? by The Whirlwind

Which episode do you prefer and why? by Priceless

Did they bring Angel back too soon? by Stoney

NOTHING hit like Buffy season 2,3 and 5 by Cailly_Brard7

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Lullaby/Connor’s birth by Circus1701

Mixed Feelings On Season 5 by BigBoss2203

Giles in Band Candy by Omfgjustpickaname

Pangs v Hush: Angel and the vision about Buffy by penderies

What if Buffy was transported to an alternate universe during 'The Gift' by MattanzaMafiaFedora

I appreciate these two more as an adult than I did as a teen. by illegallysmolkate

Evil Willow by thedemonglitch

Why do the writers hurt me so?! by ElephantWorldly5010

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Anyone else disappointed by Faith’s arc on Buffy? by ElephantWorldly5010

Once More with Feeling by ElephantWorldly5010

Is the Angel series any good? by DragonfruitHot9889

Buffyverse watch Order by Mat1711

Doyle Appreciation by ElephantWorldly5010

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How many schools did Buffy burn down? by MonsterTournament

Would Kate get the same Hate as Justine? by Potter1612

a hot take by brwitch

The Wish questions by Tsole96

I actually totally understand Buffy now by lokeyvigilante

Did anyone else just realize this is Pedro Pascal in S4?! by ElephantWorldly5010

For those of us who walk in worlds the others cannot begin to imagine by Stracharys

Dead Man’s Party Episode by user294859382

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Tucker's brother didn't need the trio (part 3 of the trio going solo) by drawandpaintbyfire

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Rewatching for the 100th time by ConsiderationEasy967

Angel's greatest acting performances by Cailly_Brard7

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Looking for a rewatch podcast, any recommendations? by ThisPaige

Which moments best capture how the show manages to balance drama and comedy by InfiniteMehdiLove

Angel was 9th. Agree? Disagree? Fight about it in the comments… by DanTrueCrimeFan87

Totally Underrated Pair. I wish we got to see more of them together. by GoblinQueenForever

I just started watching buffy and OMG okay by Substantial_Tax5577

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[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 17, 2023

Oversampled and undersolved: Depressive rumination from an active inference perspective. Berg, M., Feldmann, M., Kirchner, L., & Kube, T. (2022). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104873.

Orbitofrontal cortex populations are differentially recruited to support actions. Cazares, C., Schreiner, D. C., Valencia, M. L., & Gremel, C. M. (2022). Current Biology, 32(21), 4675-4687.e5.

Causality modulates perception of apparent motion stimuli. Deeb, A.-R., Silva, A. E., & Liu, Z. (2022). Vision Research, 201, 108120.

Energy-efficient network activity from disparate circuit parameters. Deistler, M., Macke, J. H., & Gonçalves, P. J. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2207632119.

A direct test of competitive versus cooperative episodic–procedural network dynamics in human memory. Freedberg, M. V, Reeves, J. A., Fioriti, C. M., Murillo, J., Voss, J. L., & Wassermann, E. M. (2022). Cerebral Cortex, 32(21), 4715–4732.

Perceived speed at low luminance: Lights out for the Bayesian observer? Freeman, T. C. A., & Powell, G. (2022). Vision Research, 201, 108124.

Neuronal signature of spatial decision-making during navigation by freely moving rats by using calcium imaging. Gobbo, F., Mitchell-Heggs, R., Tse, D., Al Omrani, M., Spooner, P. A., Schultz, S. R., & Morris, R. G. M. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44), e2212152119.

Cross-modal generalization of value-based attentional priority. Grégoire, L., Mrkonja, L., & Anderson, B. A. (2022). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(8), 2423–2431.

Development of information integration in the visual working memory of preschoolers. Guo, D., Wang, Y., Liao, Y., Li, J., Zhang, X., Gao, Z., … He, J. (2022). Child Development, 93(6), 1793–1803.

Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex. Hansen, J. Y., Shafiei, G., Markello, R. D., Smart, K., Cox, S. M. L., Nørgaard, M., … Misic, B. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(11), 1569–1581.

Information‐seeking when information doesn’t matter. Hilchey, M. D., Rondina, R., & Soman, D. (2022). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 35(5), e2280.

Dual-polarity voltage imaging of the concurrent dynamics of multiple neuron types. Kannan, M., Vasan, G., Haziza, S., Huang, C., Chrapkiewicz, R., Luo, J., … Pieribone, V. A. (2022). Science, 378(6619).

Recursive sequence generation in crows. Liao, D. A., Brecht, K. F., Johnston, M., & Nieder, A. (2022). Science Advances, 8(44).

Flexible neural control of motor units. Marshall, N. J., Glaser, J. I., Trautmann, E. M., Amematsro, E. A., Perkins, S. M., Shadlen, M. N., … Churchland, M. M. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(11), 1492–1504.

Adult-born dentate granule cells promote hippocampal population sparsity. McHugh, S. B., Lopes-dos-Santos, V., Gava, G. P., Hartwich, K., Tam, S. K. E., Bannerman, D. M., & Dupret, D. (2022). Nature Neuroscience, 25(11), 1481–1491.

Rapid encoding of task regularities in the human hippocampus guides sensorimotor timing. Polti, I., Nau, M., Kaplan, R., van Wassenhove, V., & Doeller, C. F. (2022). eLife, 11, e79027.

Task-specific employment of sensory signals underlies rapid task switching. Sasaki, R., Kumano, H., Mitani, A., Suda, Y., & Uka, T. (2022). Cerebral Cortex, 32(21), 4657–4670.

Differential coding of absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila brain. Villar, M. E., Pavão-Delgado, M., Amigo, M., Jacob, P. F., Merabet, N., Pinot, A., … Perisse, E. (2022). Current Biology, 32(21), 4576-4592.e5.

Behavioural and dopaminergic signatures of resilience. Willmore, L., Cameron, C., Yang, J., Witten, I. B., & Falkner, A. L. (2022). Nature, 611(7934), 124–132.

How much I moved: Robust biases in self-rotation perception. Zanchi, S., Cuturi, L. F., Sandini, G., & Gori, M. (2022). Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(8), 2670–2683.

[bellshazes]

I promised so here it is: my favorite bdubs mindcrack episodes. was gonna do etho too but this list is already humongous so I will simply have to make a separate post.

s1 ep 21 - in which bdubs tells his audience we are NOT going to bother etho for help with his spawner situation and etho chats him in the middle of saying so to ask if bdubs wants help. continued in 22 and 23 where bdubs invites etho to move in with him and we learn what sports etho played.

s1 ep 59 - bdubs promises to kill someone on the server in exchange for etho providing him the means to stay alive. etho showers him with meat (not clickbait) in ep

s1 ep 86 - appraising beef's castle. it's a whole thing

s1 ep 96 - b-team mafia threatens etho. rub jobs.

s1 ep 100 - all-time fave. just before the Trial, etho and bdubs hang out, explode a common area, bicker about filling in holes, and lie to each other about wanting each other dead.

s1 ep 107 - b-team redstone shop.

s1 ep 121 and 124 - etho gets blamed for the latest e-pranker actvity. etho decides to show bdubs what a real quality etho prank looks like.

s2 ep 6 - redstone with bdubs!

s2 ep 10 - the most iconic horse bdubs has ever owned and the beginning of etho and bdubs' joint horse projects.

s2 ep 28 - bdubs building co begins.

s2 ep 33 - beginning of the nether hub, but also doc's perimeter project, witch farm edition.

s2 ep 34 - bdubs tries so hard to kill etho in the nether. it ends spectacularly (poorly). also, TWO BAJS intro, and subcontractor beef gets a lesson in using inferior materials for the broadcast station.

s2 ep 35 - includes a bit etho cut from his episode in which bdubs gives him a hard time for being sick. etho teaches bdubs how to do a fishing rod kill and gets upset that bdubs doesn't look at him when giving him the best gift of his life.

s2 ep 38 - the only noises you're gonna hear from me and etho is [perfect ghast noises]

s2 ep 43 - etho tries to kill bdubs and it goes spectacularly (poorly). dinnerbone pranks bdubs. maybe do not watch the intro in public due to the um well bdubs used to get really out of breath when doing combat. so.

s2 ep 50 - the explosive return of the e-pranker.

s2 ep 52 - bdubs builds a two-car garage for beyonc?. ymmv here i just love beyonc and i love his stupid little garage on his goofy little house with his silly little manicured lit lawn.

s2 ep 57 - we learn the identity of the e-pranker

s2 ep 81 - the beginning of yet another season-ending collaboration. continues notably in 82, 85, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 102, 105, 110.

s2 ep 84 - the b-team become french pastry chefs.

s2 ep 101 - a review of all the builds he'd done so far - not much jungle stuff in this list so you can see it here too. talks about trying to build perfect adventure maps for others on the server!

s3 ep 2 - the beginning of bdubs' hatred of nighttime dangers. he suffers a lot in his forest base.

s3 ep 23 - the beginning of the horse racetrack western town. it's NOT an arena, doc jokes, because he doesn't want the server to reset. little does he know that etho + bdubs horse courses are even more cursed. continued through the majority of the rest of the season. which ends before it's done, of course.

s3 ep 28 - tnt & redstone. what could go wrong

s3 ep 31 - etho and bdubs horsin' around. bdubs cuts out him being ill but we all know how that went down.

s3 ep 39 - redstoooooone with bdubs! generik quizzes bdubs' redstone knowledge.

bonus: bdubs irl insane cutaway moments in UHC 9 and UHC 11 make me cry laughing every time. the way he crosses his legs and tries to make the outcome seem ok instead of complete disasters... you just have to experience them for yourself.

[binaryeclipse]

I posted 7,971 times in 2022

That's 4,097 more posts than 2021!

244 posts created (3%)

7,727 posts reblogged (97%)

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Only 44% of my posts had no tags

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#obikin - 796 posts

#kenobi spoilers - 539 posts

#fic rec - 165 posts

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#5

It is kind of amazing that The Clone Wars, a show for children, has an episode card literally dealing with the concept of attachment and yet grown adults on this platform and others still think attachment means love and the Jedi are evil and wrong for forbidding it.

[Photo id: a picture of a television in a dark room. The screen is black with big blue text that says "Attachment is not compassion." In the corner of the screen in smaller text it says "S2:E8 Brain Invaders" and in even smaller print beneath that "Star Wars: The Clone Wars."]

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#4

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#3

Not sure if anyone has talked about this yet but the scene where Obi-Wan rescues Leia in the dark interrogation room and how his lightsaber is the brightest thing... This mirrors perfectly his explanation to her of what the Force is in episode three.

The Dark Side is consistently represented by black and red. We use red lighting in photography and also in star gazing because as the lowest colour on the spectrum of light it doesn't affect the darkness too much (which means we can develop pictures/it doesn't disrupt our night vision). So it makes sense that red is so heavily associated because it doesn't disrupt the darkness. But blue is on the near opposite end of the spectrum. When it turns on, Obi-Wan's lightsaber is so bright in that shot amongst the red and black, and when he turns it off he's invisible again.

But the point is that when it turns on, he is the brightest thing in the room and the brightest object in the Force that Leia can sense.

Obi-Wan is the light turning back on, that makes you feel safe from the dark.

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#2

Hayden understood the assignment

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My #1 post of 2022

"Not all men—" you’re so right, Anakin Skywalker would never. He’d do so much worse.

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I posted 812 times in 2022

355 posts created (44%)

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#thunderbirds are go - 312 posts

#scott tracy - 158 posts

#virgil tracy - 114 posts

#fic - 54 posts

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#5

Do u wanna play a game?

We can totally get to 100 fun things we wish we'd got to see in Thunderbirds Are Go (fun things, not ur shitlist) Reblog til we get to 100 😄😄😄

1. Virgil exercising in the gym in the roundhouse. In the name of science and stuff, and for the good of all mankind, we deserved to see that boy's exercise routine at least once. Preferably shirtless. For science.

2. Thunderbird One carrying Thunderbird Four like a lil baby duck

3. Virgil piloting Thunderbird One whilst Scott pilots Thunderbird Two. They'd hate it 😆

4. TRACY INDUSTRIES - like how did Papa Jeff get all that $$$$$$$ for IR?

5. Papa Jeff's infamous flamingo shirt

6. Those cute lil beach huts below the villa on Tracy Island

7. That mysterious tunnel above TB4's lil fishie tank. Where does it goooo?

8. Exactly how TB4 gets from her fish tank and into her module ready for launch

9. A bottle episode where such a bad storm hits the island, they're all grounded idek. Give me Scott trapped with his lil brothers and give me those lil brothers with no escape from their big bro God help them

10. Scott's walk in wardrobe. Give me beautifully tailored suits and shiny shoes or give me death

🙌 🙌 🙌  your turn 🙌 🙌 🙌  hit me 🙌 🙌 🙌

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#2

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My #1 post of 2022

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