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But before we get lost with all the juicy things that happened this ep I want us all to focus on the nicknames they gave Boudicca Philtrum:
Boudy-Boots B2 B-squared
#her death was amazing#I am obsessed#I always thought of#boudicca philtrum#as a character that was meant to sort of represent#the Terf author of Harry Potter#the insidiousness of Philtrum#just rewatching and blogging#spoilers#misfits and magic#misfits and magic season 2#mismag#misfits and magic spoilers#mismag 2#dimension 20
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It's so funny that Cass worked past her suicidal ideation by actually dying, allowing herself to be murdered, and then being brought back, so she could be like "Hmm. Disappointing" and move on with her life satisfied. All for the sake of being the most badass she could possibly be. Like. On one hand, she achieved her goal and did indeed get more badass afterward. But on the other hand. Therapy exists. She probably didn't need to do that.
#'i can train under the batfamily and become one of the best martial artists and superheroes on earth#and with any luck live a long happy life surrounded by my loved ones#OR#i can train under lady shiva and become The Best martial artist on earth and have the chance to wreck her shit#but if i lose i will die at nineteen without any of my loved ones even there.#found family or death match?#...#DEATH MATCH'#cass please you're amazing and i respect your commitment but have you tried antidepressants?#perhaps the death match will seem less agreeable after some cbt and ssris#but still. nobody is doing it like her#cassandra cain#batgirl#batgirl 2000#batgirl ii
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"Kuina's death is ridiculous" yes! That's the point! You do realize that falling down the stairs is a way of showing Zoro how fragile human lives are, right? You are aware that the point of Kuina's character is the unfairness of the world towards women in comparison to the privileges men have, like living in itself and fulfilling their dreams, right? You know that Kuina's death is "ridiculous and dumb" because it's meant to show that even the strongest person Zoro knew could die from something so little, right? You understand that the value Zoro gives to life is fucking immense, right? Right?? You realize Zoro can't seek revenge because nobody took her away from him and now the only thing he can do is become the world's greatest swordsman to avenge her death, right? You get that Zoro's character is an atheist because he doesn't believe in anyone and he can only rely on himself when it comes to Kuina's sudden death, right? You are aware that sometimes people die in the simplest of ways and that doesn't make them weak because death doesn't discriminate, right? You know that all of these things are what make Zoro's character so interesting and important, right? Right??? You know, right?
Well, of course you fucking don't because if you knew you wouldn't be saying her death is ridiculous <3
#if i see somebody else complaining about this i am going to throw hands i swear to god#sorry i just saw a bad take in here and i couldn't stay quiet#it's the most basic thing about zoro's character why are people complaining#'his backstory is boring' well i think YOU are boring and also don't have good taste#i am a zoro defender for life and his backstory with kuina is amazing shutupshutup#stop trying to find a weird dark theory abt her death. you won't find anything. that's just it. she died.#she fell down the stairs and died and it's a great story let kuina rest in peace#one piece#roronoa zoro#shimotsuki kuina
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i think it's hilarious that no matter how important the situation is. annabeth will stop everything to greet an animal. stuck in the underworld and trying to save your friend's mom's soul while simultaneously trying to prevent a war between the gods? pet the three-headed guard dog. trapped in the deepest pit of hell and on the brink of death while trying to prevent the rise of a goddess determined to harm everyone and everything you care about? cuddle the half-dead cat. trying to help your boyfriend get his second college recommendation letter so the two of you can begin living the safe and happy life you had always wanted together? adopt and share custody of a hellhound with a goddess.
#nothing is stop this girl from petting animal#and this is why we love you#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo text post#pjo#annabeth chase#annabeth is a legend#annabeth is incredible#annabeth is amazing#“oh no i'm trapped in the underworld but i have 30-foot three-headed canine and a tennis ball so it's fine”#“oh no i'm trapped in hell with my boyfriend and we're both on the brink of the death and—oh look a kitten 😙”#“oh no a goddess might murder me and my friends for losing her pets and my boyfriend's future is on the line but im an adopted mom of one🥰”
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Buttercup begins to wail as well. No matter what I do, he won’t go. He circles me, just out of reach, as wave after wave of sobs racks my body, until eventually I fall unconscious. But he must understand. He must know that the unthinkable has happened and to survive will require previously unthinkable acts. Because hours later, when I come to in my bed, he’s there in the moonlight. Crouched beside me, yellow eyes alert, guarding me from the night. In the morning, he sits stoically as I clean the cuts, but digging the thorn from his paw brings on a round of those kitten mews. We both end up crying again, only this time we comfort each other.
#this chapter is too difficult to read#i personally feel prim's death and katniss' immediate reaction wasn't well done#but the scene with buttercup was amazing#but just wish they showed how much this meant to katniss#because buttercup being there gave her the strength to come back to life#it was the beginning of her healing process#anyway im crying#katniss everdeen#buttercup#primrose everdeen#mockingjay#thg#mine*#gifs*#mockingjayedit#thgedit#dailyflicks#nessa007#userbbelcher#cinemapix#cinematv#userstream
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Get fridged, idiots. (affectionate)
Don’t mind me, just thinking of character parallels.
#papa mig really went and got his ass uncle ben’d#inside of you are two wolves one of them is spiderman and the other one is dead#the web that necksnapped 616-gwen caught her leg but I decided to ref The Amazing Spider-man 2 so that the placement could be similar#gwen stacy#spider verse#atsv#into the spider verse#miguel o'hara#atsv miguel#miguel spiderverse#character death#gwen stacy 616#ghost spider#spider man 2099#across the spiderverse#my art#spider man: across the spider verse#atsv spoilers#spoilers#horror? halloween shit? not sure
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Penny's dress has me rolling on the floor <3
#fanart#villains are destined to die#death is the only ending for a villainess#penelope eckhart#digital art#my art#I didn't want to draw the lower half rip#but ahhhh she looks so amazing and beautiful in her dress!!#I've waited for this for AGES#I can't do it justice but I always love drawing Penelope ^v^
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Do not forget.
#tw murder#tw death#tw violence#tw dismemberment#pauly likens#child death#child murder#hate crime#may her memory be a blessing#hate crimes tw#hate crime cw#transphobia#tw transphobes#trans lives matter#justice for trans lives#trans women are beautiful#trans women are amazing#trans women are valid#transgender
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Wei Wuxian and Narrative Agency – Part One
For Xiantober Day One: Genius… albeit stretching the prompt so it refers to MXTX and MDZS itself, but at the end of the day it’s still about WWX – so no harm done!
(Part Two | Part Three | Full version on AO3)
The narrative is a very active player in MDZS’ story. How it presents information, what it chooses to show and omit, often reflects important facets of its themes and characters – Nie Huaisang, for instance, is so good at hiding behind his mask that not even the narrative can hold him accountable; the present day’s storyline as a murder mystery and the slow reveal of information about the past both prompt the reader to think critically about the truth of events, when the importance of thinking critically is an important theme; and the dangers not thinking critically (and instead basing conclusions on rumours without much evidence) are shown by tricking unquestioning readers into the very same trap the cultivation world falls into, as the information given by the title, summary and in-universe rumours – which contradicts how we see actually Wei Wuxian act – turns out to be false.
But nowhere do I love this trait more than in its treatment of Wei Wuxian – and, more specifically, in its way of emphasising his agency. We’re not just told how much his active choices define his character, and we’re not just shown this in-universe through his personality, worldview and the events he causes. I’d argue that this aspect goes a step further, and shapes the structure of the out-of-universe narrative as well.
There are two main ways this happens: one, in how the aspects of Wei Wuxian’s life that are shown and hidden directly tell us what’s important about his character (which is good writing but isn’t necessarily tied to this shaping of the narrative), which is what we’ll explore today; and two, how what’s shown and hidden reflects what Wei Wuxian himself prefers to dwell on, resulting in the narrative respecting his own thoughts and feelings on matters (which very much is tied to it). We’ll explore this at a later date.
But as for now – let’s explore my favourite aspect of MDZS.
(Here, narrative agency will be considered the ability of a character to meaningfully influence their events and the story they’re in.)
Tragedy, Circumstance, Choice
If we simply look at Wei Wuxian’s backstory in a vacuum, it seems almost typically tragic. His parents died in circumstances beyond his control, he was left alone as a child with nobody to care for him, he was forced to grow up fending for himself on the streets, he was faced with abuse when he finally was taken in… as with all typical woobies, everything simply happened to him, and none of it was good. It’s just another example of the lack of agency being used for sympathy points, right?
…Except there’s one problem with that idea. We don’t actually see any of this.
It would’ve been easy to start the flashbacks during these times. We’re telling the story of Wei Wuxian in (largely) chronological order, and these are likely important experiences for him! But instead of starting in his street days, or evenat the moment Jiang Fengmian took him in*, we start at the lectures in the Cloud Recesses. That’s not even something mentioned in, and therefore something that’s able to disprove, the rumours at the start of the novel. So why is this the case?
Well, there are multiple reasons – the main one being that MDZS is also Lan Wangji’s (and Wangxian’s) story, and having the flashbacks open with their first meeting is very satisfying. But I want to focus on something else.
This period doesn’t have to be shown, because what happens to Wei Wuxian, especially out of his control, isn’t what’s important about his character.
We’re not even at Lotus Pier here, where Wei Wuxian certainly has more agency than he would’ve had as a young child, but where the harm caused by Madame Yu is still completely out of his control. Here, he has agency! Though there are consequences, he is free to act, and what happens to him is a result of those actions and not of circumstance. Yes, he gets punished more than others who also take those same actions (due to classism); yes, it’s not his choice to be picked on by Lan Qiren in class (yet look how he responds, twisting the situation to his advantage and ending up tricking Lan Qiren into letting him leave, which is what he wanted to do. He is not at all helpless here!); yes, these choices have been influenced by his learned mindset from Madame Yu that punishment is arbitrary and will happen anyway, so you may as well do what you want regardless. But there is cause-and-effect here. It’s not circumstantial tragedy.
Therefore, instead of our first impression of past!Wei Wuxian being that of an unfortunate woobie, it’s of someone who has the freedom, ability and will to choose and act (and that’s after these initial tragic events have taken place). This is compounded by the fact that before we see any of his backstory, we get a similar impression of him in the present day.
If the purpose of his tragic past was to earn him sympathy points, to make us pity him due to how much he was influenced by events out of his control, this would’ve been a terrible way of going about it… and it’s this that betrays the true reason for its existence. Because now, the flashbacks instead show us how little these tragedies define who he is! From the very start, Wei Wuxian isn’t someone defined by circumstances out of his control, but rather by who he is as a person and by what choices he makes in the present day (which is both a mindset in-universe, and a nice little out-of-universe detail that lines up! Because out-of-universe, this means he’s not defined by sympathy points from a backstory, but rather by his great character writing… aka, by who he is as a person and what choices he makes). And this refusal to be defined by tragedy is a conscious choice on his part, too – but we’ll explore that more later.
The important thing is that this idea of Wei Wuxian isn’t because of what exists in his past, it’s because of what parts of his past are shown to us (as well as what he chooses to do, with agency, in the present).
Now, if this relationship between what’s displayed and what’s omitted was just a one-time thing, I might’ve considered it a cool detail or a nice way to establish a character, but not something the narrative is actively focusing on. But it’s a pattern that continues throughout the flashbacks. What, arguably, are the two other most important times in Wei Wuxian’s life where he doesn’t have enough agency to meaningfully influence his circumstances? His three months in the Burial Mounds (before escaping – he managed to assume some control of the circumstances but not enough to substantially reduce his suffering in his time there), and his loss and death during the First Siege. And we’re not shown either of them! We skip to when Wei Wuxian has emerged from the Burial Mounds and is torturing the Wens, or we skip to the present day – both times he has agency once more, because, again, what he’s like without it doesn’t matter enough to be shown.
Furthermore, I’d argue this does actually contrast the other tragic events we see in Wei Wuxian’s later life. Things do go horribly wrong, but it’s either due to choices he knows the consequences of (see: rescuing the Wen Remnants in the first place), or instances where he still has some ability to act in the situation and influence it within the limitations. If he’d had no ability to influence circumstances at Qiongqi path, he would have died in the ambush; if he’d been unable to do that at Nightless City, he would’ve died then, too (of course Lan Wangji helped him escape as well). The attention drawn to him losing control of his actions in both instances is very interesting, but intentional or not, it’s still his actions influencing the plot. And that influence happens to be detrimental. The very ability to act and influence, at a base level, is not taken away (though, of course, that doesn’t make these events any less tragic).
So, so far, the narrative seems to be telling us that the ability to act and choose is key to Wei Wuxian’s character. And it’s doing it through omitting his moments without agency in favour of instead showing us his moments with it.
Let’s see if this is echoed in the text itself before we go further – because even with this pattern, nothing would end up mattering if Wei Wuxian’s agency wasn’t actually that important to the story itself. But thankfully it is, and that first impression we get of Wei Wuxian in the Cloud Recesses turns out to very much be accurate! Though there are defining circumstances out of his control that occur, such as the massacre of Lotus Pier, the majority of the important events of his life are due to his own choices. He didn’t happen to be forced to cease traditional cultivation and solely use guidao, didn’t happen to lose his Golden Core in a fight with Wen Zhuliu or due to some force in the Burial Mounds, it was his own choice to give it and his spiritual powers away. He didn’t tragically happen to get targeted by the cultivation world, it was a result of him acting on his morals and protecting the Wen remnants (a choice which he was fully aware of the implications of). He isn’t a protagonist to whom things simply occur, and that activeness and agency is my favourite thing about him.
That’s not to say that the times Wei Wuxian doesn’t have agency, or feels like he doesn’t have any, don’t exist at all, either – but they are rare enough to have attention directly drawn to them in his internal narration:
Or else what could he do? He could do nothing. He was powerless. Lotus Pier had been destroyed, both Jiang FengMian and Madam Yu were gone, and Jiang Cheng had disappeared as well. He was the only one left, alone, with not even a sword in his hands. He didn’t know anything, he couldn’t do anything! For the first time, he discovered how little his power was. In front of something as large as the QishanWen Sect, it was the same as a mantis trying to stop a chariot. - Chapter 59, EXR translation
(And even in this circumstance, note that he still does force himself to act – to carry on searching for Jiang Cheng, to place his faith in Wen Ning – and does accomplish his goal (albeit with the help of others)! So even in dire situations, he isn’t simply passive. This is actually also the case with his time in the Burial Mounds, almost certainly the First Siege, and even his days on the streets as well (Chapter 20: he did actively fight with dogs to get food despite their danger and his growing fear of them, rather than just waiting and hoping to somehow receive some more). He can’t influence or immediately influence his circumstances, but that doesn’t stop him from trying.)
Overall, although they do influence him, Wei Wuxian is very much who he is in spite of his circumstances, not because of them. We’re shown the importance of his agency both in-universe by the major impacts his choices have on himself and the plot, as well as by narrative presentation – important periods where he lacks the ability to meaningfully influence anything are often mentioned but not directly shown, which suggests that such moments and circumstances aren’t as important to understanding Wei Wuxian’s character as moments where he does have this agency are. And I’d argue this works very well. Depending on the version of the story you consume, you may end up having different interpretations as to how much circumstances were at play nearer the end of his life – but nobody comes out of MDZS thinking about Wei Wuxian, the poor bearer of yet another generically tragic backstory.
(Part Two | Part Three | Full version on AO3)
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*We are shown this moment in more detail in Chapter 23… but even then, it’s through the framing of Wei Wuxian remembering Jiang Yanli’s narration, not through a flashback proper or even him remembering the experience itself!
#there are three parts to this#part two dwelling on how wwx not dwelling on tragedy is a conscious choice#part three about how that choice and wwx’s preferences are ALSO behind what’s shown and what’s not#i originally wanted to post them all at once but life was very busy and they haven’t been finished yet#and i wanted to release SOMETHING on this day (it is after midnight but i haven’t slept yet and in a lot of timezones it’s not yet)#judging by the current length of it it’s probably better to be posting individual parts anyway…#so here we go#a complete version will br put on ao3 when done#also because i’m not sure where to put it in the meta – i’m aware external circumstances did impact this too#eg mxtx not wanting to write power-up/transformation sequences influencing her not to write wwx’s time in the burial mounds#i’m also aware a lot of this could be writing efficiency and not the deeper meanings i’ll (mostly later) assign to it#ultimately there’s not enough evidence either way to say if this was intentional or not#(i don’t doubt mxtx is an amazing writer but *i* feel i’m overanalysing while writing this which i do tend to do)#but even if it wasn’t it’s still a part of the story#and it still remains one of the things i love it the most#so i WILL explore it (taking the approach of death of the author here – i do believe context is important but i just love this throughline-#-so much)#xiantober#xiantober day 1#mdzs meta#my meta#wei wuxian#wwx#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#魔道祖师#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#gdc
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actually so sick how they made steph into a martyr for everything wrong with gotham when she lived her whole life trying to prove that she was everything right
#im forever thinking about how her autopsy was leaked on live tv. and how babs used her photos to dissuade misfit from picking up a costume#stephanie brown#robin#batgirl#im so conflicted over how her death and rebirth were handled actually. like on one hand i find it so amazing and cool how she came back and#jumped right back into crime fighting no doubts or fear. on the other hearing that my ravaged and tortured body was paraded around as a#symbol for what was wrong with the world and what not to do about it would make me snap. like the babs-misfit thing makes me unreasonably#angry HAHAH they had no right!!!! no right to use her like that when they wouldnt even accept her in life!!!!!!#people are gonna be like 'oh she didnt actually die and it wasnt /her/ body' that's not the point!!!! it's the idea of it!!!!!#even in death! she's just used to say 'it (she) wasn't enough'!!#it drives me insane. insane!!! war crimes is objectively a HORRIBLE story but the concept of this in particular will never leave my brain#i would kill for her to have responded to babs saying that she showed misfit her autopsy photos with 'oh? did you tell her about the teen#pregnancy too?'#freya talks comics
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🌊🎊CONGRATULATIONS BUTTONS !!🎊🌊
#ofmd s2 spoilers#ofmd s2#our flag means death season 2 spoilers#good for her#our flag means death#alexa this is amazing play free bird#post where i'm truly just goofing around
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does Clem have eyes?
#friends at the table#palisade#palisade spoilers#clementine kesh#my art#i will say#i have not always been our most special princess's biggest fan#bc at times it felt like she was also the narrative's most special princess#i guess im just that much of an antimonarchist - i just wish death upon the royal failchild#however now we are asking if she has eyes? tremendous#and yet Ambition: Rule Stel Kesh? amazing#i KNOW Art will do great things with her#i thought thisll be a quick one i don't need to stretch my paper and then proceeded to do maybe the wettest thing i have ever done
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“Now every move that I make is a bid to survive, keep me alive- when you woke up today you didn't think you could die- neither did I.“
“Now every move that I make is a bid to survive, keep me alive, when you woke up today you didn't think you could die- but you don't decide.”
Other than the fact that these two verses have me in a choke hold right now. I finally noticed that not only does Fox say this, but so does the Captain.
And while my shock and admiration lasted for a second when I found out. I find it ironic that he's the scared one after he goaded the girls for a fight, and not only that, instead of just trying to arrest them at the park like a normal cop would, he cat calls them like a creep, which pisses off Ajax. Most likely, it was a ruse to be a creep and also justify his arrest of her. (Maybe)
TLDR: Reunion Square is a straight banger and it made Fox my favorite character, yes Im still mourning her death, damn you Lin, you did it again.
#a second laurens adjacent death has hit the second musical mr. miranda#the warriors musical#warriors musical#warriors#musicals#musical theatre#warriors concept album#lin manuel appreciation post#lin manuel miranda#phillipa soo#shes amazing as fox love her#the warriors 1979#the warriors movie#the warriors
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q!Phil sees Tallulah’s new look, sees the black hair and the purple outfit. “You remind me of someone,” he says. There’s a faraway look in his eyes, memories from long ago but never forgotten. A beautiful woman in a purple dress and purple hat, and long beautiful black hair.
It’s a particularly bad day, Tallulah had too many close calls, and the voices were getting far too loud.
The first time she sees her is in the void. It’s quiet, deathly quiet, for the first time in days Tallulah experiences silence. A woman approaches, she’s tall, hidden behind her purple hat and a black veil. Here in the cold expanse of the void she can’t help but feel warm, comforted. Tallulah wants to cry, she wants to fall to the floor and let all the pain and suffering she’s been feeling flood the void.
The woman kneels to the floor and takes off her hat. She’s beautiful, just like her papa said. She has the brightest smile, the kindest eyes. Her hair is long and black and a purple dress that imitates the starry night sky. She’s everything, she’s the universe and more.
“I like your hair,” she says. Tallulah’s cheeks heat up at the compliment, and the purple hat and black veil the woman was wearing get placed on her head. “There, I think it looks good on you.” The hat is too big on her, it falls and covers her eyes, the goddess giggles and lifts it up, “it’ll fit one day.”
Tallulah’s hands find themselves on top of the hat, steadying it above her head. Two hands open the veil, they wipe the tear off her cheek.
“Hi gorgeous, do you wanna go on a walk?” She smiles.
Hand in hand they walked across the void. Laughing and talking as stars sparkled in their every step. The universe enveloped them both, the universe smiled and laughed.
#guys I’m gonna cry#she looks like Mumza and q!Missa#I can’t stop thinking about it#imagine hearing stories of#a beautiful and powerful goddess#someone so divine and amazing#meeting her and realizing you look#alike?? that you share the same hair#the same hat and color#qsmp tallulah#tallulah#qsmp#mumza#mumza goddess of death#marv writes
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Ishmael death stranding au stuff I was cooking. Also a faust kromer and Before team Ishmael doodle.
#bart#ishmael limbus company#ishmael lcb#limbus company#faust limbus company#faust lcb#i love the death stranding au already it itches my brain#im just trying to decide to give ishmael a bridge baby or not because i feel like she wouldn't really need it even though its recommended#i think she can see the beached stuff just fine#so no bridge baby mayhaps?#death stranding au ishmael is fucking amazing at traversing all the deteriorating shit shes a god at that#but the second you get Ishmael on solid flat ground that dosent move and she goes too fast shes going flat on her face#shes a lone courier who just runs around n shit#she also has a high lebel of dooms and has been GRAPPLED by bts so she just kinda looks fucked up#but shes damn good at delivering and taking corpses to the incinerators#might make a small makeshift comic about it actually#because i yearn to make ishmael speak i yearn for it#you ishmael likers i hope you trust me w this mission#do i have to tag project moon?#nah i dont bc i dont have the ability to stare at a wall for that long to type it out#just kidding i do!#project moon#im gonna makie this old woman say skibidi unironically(LIE)
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“And I did not reprogram this world to let YOU, and that HALITOSIS-RIDDLED WARHOG, TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME!”
The exact moment King Candy shows his true colors, the hate and venom oozing from his voice, he doesn’t even care if he exposed himself or not (whether or not he realized it), probably thinking he could just go back and erase everyone’s memories again, his voice is cracking from yelling, demanding and hissing out of pure hate and desperate lust for control—
Ugh, it’s so good.
#I love this scene so much#Alan tudyk does an amazing job#the whiplash of his introduction scene to his true identity reveal#he’s almost bloodthirsty for her literal DEATH (though she could probably just respawn?)#and he wasn’t even a half cybug at this point#he’s so unhinged I fucking love him#king candy#wreck it ralph#turbo time#I love him so much#The way he nearly loses his own voice yelling is so ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥#simp rambles
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