#how did I feel about the new episode?

[cptnghoulowl]

Hi guys I'm back!

That new episode was adorable and DEFINITELY not the calm before the storm huh?!

ANYWAY POLL TIME

Yes, I finally decided to add Miri's mom after thinking about it for WAY TOO LONG.

Kazuki will hopefully get more votes this time (rip) because he has proven that he's just. Malewife.

Last times poll, as of the time of posting, has still not ended, but Rei is pulling FAR FAR ahead with no signs of stopping. Y'all really like this man huh. I respect it, but like seriously. He's so. So.

Idk I wanna throw him, he's funny and traumatised and I laugh when he makes fun of Kazuki and I feel no attraction to him whatsoever. I just think he needs a warm hug.

(...maybe it's the ace in me talking idk)

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[revvethasmythh]

it's so funny to me that caleb and veth really did just trade off the job of intensely pining for the other at like the halfway point of the campaign. like, imo, nott in the early days did not behave in any real romantic or even romance-adjacent ways toward him--I imagine it would be very hard to even think in that way when you hate what you look like so much, have such low self-esteem, and are actively lying about your entire past, including a secret husband. caleb, on the other hand, is kind of diving directly back into the sort of relationship he had with astrid and eadwulf. very close, very intimate, we-huddled-for-warmth-together-and-oops-it-led-to-something-else sort of thing. he is the one who expresses that he's fine with it if people think he and nott are romantically together when they're talking to keg. nott is the one who pushes back on that. he calls her his life partner. unknowingly, he compares his feelings for nott to nott's feelings for yeza. his behavior only really starts to change after he finds out about veth's husband because suddenly all of that other stuff is rendered inappropriate in retrospect. but even then he compliments her to yeza over dinner in the most awkward of ways, he admits to being jealous, he calls yeza "a lucky man" to have her, he stares at veth and yeza closed bedroom door for far too long, he creates an entire arcane tower with room for her family just so she'll stay with him. in general, his behavior is not, um, totally and completely platonic about it, you know?

like, veth's feelings for caleb are canonical and therefore indisputable in their existence, but caleb in the early days was not that dissimilar to how veth was acting near the end of the campaign. it really paints a picture of "right person, wrong time" in the way things just didn't line up for them. or, as veth would say: "in another world, maybe"

[dazais-guardian-angel]

this torture we're going through with the anime must be divine karma for slandering Bones all this time...... they said "oh, you don't like how we adapt things? you say the manga does it better?? okay then, well now there is no more manga. it's Bones or bust, bitches."

[princyvish]

ouggghh Sabo one piece save me 🧎

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[tindove]

Man, Simon. That seasonal depression must suck for you. That’s rough buddy. No more Holly Jolly Secrets for you.

[buckboi]

source x

[colinfeatherington]

I have very mixed feelings!! I think it’s hard for me to say how I actually feel because the hype was so intense and my intial feelings are probably skewed but I’m kinda disappointed right now. would love to hear others thoughts and have my opinion swayed!

[astralhope]

Me at 3 AM, thinking about how my obsession from 2012-2014 has taken over my life once again.

[fujobritta]

weird storytime and an abed analysis (abednalysis ?)

in s1e17, physical education, abed says that he didnt mind changing for other people because hes comfortable with who he is . a season later, in s2e19, critical film studies, he says instead that he doesnt like change . and now i realize what he really meant when he said that he didnt mind changing .

when i was younger, around 11-12, i would pretend to be other people online . more than five different separate identities in one discord server . because i wanted people to like me more . i made these alt accounts and assigned each one a personality, a different typing style, a reason for joining, a region, and a timezone . and for the most part, they were people who were nicer and just generally likeable . because im not someone who is any of those things . i am not a nice person . i dont even think im a good person . and god i am not likeable . at all .

so i played these characters . most of them only being active for short periods . i would have full back and forth conversations with these alt accounts to sell it . i had these weird insane elaborate plans . a 16 year old former drug user, lives in manitoba, somewhat parental . 13, california, liked minecraft and drawing -- completely different artstyle (and different software) too . etc .

i would let these accounts bake (make them and then not use them) so that it didnt seem suspicious with a brand new account joining the server . then i would spend a week making the account and forming a character to go with it, sometimes asking people to help me out . it was so fucking crazy . i was insane . might still be .

…yeah i probably still am .

i was such a better person on those different accounts . because i didnt know how to change on the inside, i just started over and over again . different account, new me . like i was experimenting with who i really wanted to be like . formulating the perfect person to act like when i finally decided that i wanted to become a better person .

i gave up eventually obviously . im not a tween anymore . i was a really weird tween . obviously . but i think about it a lot .

honestly i only went back to being myself because it was comfortable . i felt better being a fucking douche . and i still am a douche . im not a good person . i dont think ill ever be a "good person" . what the hell is a good person, anyways . all i know is that im fine with myself like this . even as much as i not-so-secretly hate myself, and deny it out of fear of seeming like an "edgy attention seeking loser" .

its not that abed doesnt mind change, he just doesnt mind changing the persona . he doesnt mind changing the person showing on the outside . a separate identity . but ultimately, he wouldnt ever fundamentally change as a person . because hes fine with who he is, even if other people might not like him for that . and i want to be like him . i want to be someone who is fine with who they are, even if that someone is a socially inept ass who learned tenth grade math at age ten but cant figure out when their own face is making a smile or not .

[angelsdean]

seeing a post that gets some things right (interesting complex john thoughts) but other parts dead wrong (bad dean takes) has me like *eye twitch*

[cj-kenobi]

tfw when your extremely stubborn commander takes his helmet off in front of you for the first time 5 months into the war (absolutely not to win a bet) and you have a load of 100% platonic feelings about it

[deanpinterester]

i was going to make a post telling yall to stop calling godzilla minus one a low-budget film (because it isn't) but then i remembered disney regularly drops 12 million for ONE EPISODE of their shows without nearly the same cultural impact so. yeah godzilla is low-budget as far as i'm concerned idc

[unnamed-atlas]

Finally finished sweet tooth s3. Having incredibly mixed feelings

[katisbadatnames]

we got level one hfjone brain worms

[vaugarde]

pokemon horizons filler feels very…. off, to me. like that’s not to say all of it is bad, (i really enjoyed the palafin episode, plus the one with the krookodile) but this season’s filler feels very. nothing. like it feels like they’re already retreading ground with some very played out ideas (like fuecoco getting lost in the new episode)

and yknow im sort of a pokemon filler defender, some of them can be really charming and get me to like a pokemon i hadnt thought of before. but horizons just sorta feels like its going through the motions with some of these plots and that sorta worries me. like eve and i watched the newest episode all excited for fuecoco to finally get some development (because hes definitely the starter with the least going on out of the three and quaxwell just got a REALLY good episode beforehand) but then it was kinda just… more of the same. which is worrying, because we’re 60 episodes into this show now and we are lacking some substance here (that episode also especially worries me bc like… it literally comes across like they werent sure how to end the episode and just cut things short. im not really sure what the resolution is intended to be? like at least in previous filler, most of them would be cohesive plots)