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#i am extremely unfunny as you can see—#i switch up my greetings with ‘happy new year’ and ‘happy birthday’ as well. it. uh. may have caught on with my coworkers too… i think#like during cny the boss even went ‘hey you can finally say ‘happy new year’ now’ and i was like 👁👄👁️#i’m sorry for being terribly unfunny o coworkers of mine. it will happen again </3#inedible blubbering
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✦ RING, RING, RING!
"i think i can really fall in love with him."
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warnings : fluff, fem!reader, gwen is mentioned to be readers best friend, harry is mentioned as well, cutesy first dates, peter being just so madly in love & so are you. not proofread!
a/n : inspired by that one scene from 'before sunrise' where celine and jesse pretend to call their friends and tell them about each other :)) also i know i'm late to valentines but it's still february sooooo
if you told yourself a few days ago that you'd be spending valentines day with peter parker, you would laugh at the thought of it.
but right now you couldn't laugh at anything but peter's stupidly unfunny jokes and his cheesy, dry, pickup lines.
you couldn't imagine what valentines would be like with peter parker, but you don't have to. you're experiencing it right now.
he had asked you in a way you've only seen in rom-coms from the 90s. he knocked on your door with a ridiculously large bouquet of flowers, a heart shaped box full of chocolate, and a nervous nerdy smile.
and you accepted it obviously. peter's nice. really nice. out of all the boys in your class, he's a gentleman compared to them.
he's got those big brown doe eyes that make you blush if you make eye contact. that weirdly fluffy hair, that makes you wonder what his hair care routine is like sometimes. the sweetest smile you could ever imagine. and a heart bigger than a size of a lake.
and my gosh, you love him.
he made a reservation at this restaurant. one that you've passed by many times but never seem to stop by. you've always thought it was too fancy for a normal hangout with friends or family, it was always crowded with couples too. it always had a jazz band playing, roses on each table, and you could smell the scent of love from outside.
it was everything you've ever dreamed of. you didn't want it to end but unfortunately, the day got darker and the sun began to set.
"i really enjoyed today, peter." you smile.
"yeah of course. i really enjoyed today too." he replied, there was still a splotch of spaghetti sauce near his mouth.
"unfortunate that the hours went by so quickly, i think i have to go home soon." you pout, peter was still smiling, that spaghetti splotch is not going anywhere.
"or maybe we could still talk, for a bit." he paused for a second before making a hand gesture resembling a phone.
"ring, ring, ring!" he mimicked. you furrow your brows.
"pick it up." he stays smiley.
"okay, beep." you laugh, following his gestures.
peter mouths a 'thank you' before continuing, "oh yeah uh, harry? harry are you there?" he asks.
you knew harry, he's peter's closest friend. they're like two peas in a pod and you could never separate them, not even when harry moved away for years.
you join in his little joke. "uh yeah dude, this is harry. dude." you try to mimic his voice.
"yeah, hey harry! do you remember that girl i was gonna ask out for valentines? the really pretty girl from bio class?" his face became pink.
"oh yeah! the really pretty girl. i know her."
"yeah so, she's with me right now and i am just so happy."
"really? how happy?"
"extremely. she's so fun to talk to. she's so incredibly wonderful and i cannot put it into words how beautiful she is. really harry, you were right. she's an angel."
you smile. "really what else? how did the date go?" your voice rasps, clearly you couldn't really perfect the accent harry has. but peter seemed to like it.
"amazing. the food was great, this restaurant is good, i uh- got the reservation in time so everything has been going perfectly.
she's such a ray of sunshine. i can't stop stealing a glance every time, harry. i dunno what's about it, she's just so- perfect."
peter continues. he's doing it on purpose. well, not really, he was going to call harry and say all of those things. but he thinks it's better to tell you face to face. besides, he loves seeing you smile.
you try your best to blurt out a reply without stuttering. "that's um, that's amazing, dude. i bet she feels the same way about you." you could feel the butterflies in your stomach.
"you really think so?" peter tilts his head.
"i'm sure."
"well, thanks harry. i'll see you later, bye bye." he hangs up, mimicking a beep on the table.
you laugh.
"okay now it's your turn."
"my turn? oh, okay." you gesture your hand.
"dring, dring, dring!" you say, "ugh she's probably studying right now." you explain.
peter picks up, in a voice that will haunt you for years. "hey, girl! what is up!" peter laughs.
it took every cell in your body to not burst out laughing in front of everyone in that restaurant. "hi, gwen. is uh- is your voice okay?" you ask.
"better than ever!" — "oh, okay." you hold your laughter. "um, you know peter? peter parker from biology. the one with fluffy hair and pretty eyes?"
peter smiles, he blushes from his nose.
"yeah so, i'm on a date with him right now. and it feels like a dream. he's prettier up close. he styled his hair, yeah, it's pretty. and he's got spaghetti sauce smeared near his lips." you smile.
peter immediately fixes the splotch, finally.
"he's kind of tall. and he's kinda nerdy too. just my type." you cover your smile, "i like to feel his eyes on me when i look away." you continued.
peter smiles, "what a nice guy."
"he really is. as the date goes on i start to like him even more. i feel like i can really open up to him."
"really?"
"mhm. he got me flowers and some chocolate too. he's funny too, he's got a voice i can listen to for hours. he's like a shot of espresso, you know?"
peter couldn't hide his blush anymore. "a shot of espresso?"
"he makes me feel energized in a way, and he also makes my heart beat really fast." you laugh, "i think i can really fall in love with him."
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October Sunsets (2) - nanami kento
𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧Summary: You accidentally stole Nanami’s phone, unaware about the dire situation he is occupied with in Shibuya.
Contents: Anime-only safe. Angst + mentions of extreme bodily injury & death.
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11:36 pm. Way to go. Nanami must think I’m an obsessed freak. One that forces situations to happen, so he’d think about me. You thought to yourself if he didn’t think you were clumsy before, he should now. For the past twenty-two minutes you’ve been goggling at his phone, that had already lost power. Yours, however, could be a saving grace right now. Taking it out of your tote bag you texted Shoko, the only colleague at Jujutsu Tech you were acquainted with. The message was split into multiple inane short texts: Hello. I know you guys are busy right now, but please let Nanami know I’m sorry I took his phone! I promise I only realized, like, right now and-
Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping.
Your mother’s contact appeared on your screen, previewing messages that contained videos. She called right before departing to wish you safe travels and the promise of funny videos to help you stay entertained, so you swipe away her texts assuming they were just unfunny skits from somewhere.
Continuing your imploring to Shoko: Please just say that first. That I’m sorry. Also, he can meet me on Monday, November 5th. I’ll return it then fly back to Denmark. Tell him he’ll get lots of pastries and souvenirs! After hitting send, it did register that the last bit of the message was unnecessary, but the nerves of the situation got to you. Going into your mother’s chats, you see an influx of exclamations. “Shibuya is being destroyed!”, “Are you still in the plane?”, “Answer me!!”, “Your uncle sent me this one”, “Please be safe out there, love you”. You watch a low-quality video, hearing your family member’s voice in the background crying out in fear. A plane was being set ablaze mid-air, hurling a loud roar as it dropped from the sky into Shibuya. The tragedy was clear as day, even though the video is taken at night. Highlighting the combusted object. Your hands tremble. Were you safe? Unable to hold the phone upright, you felt like this was wrong to watch. He’s on call, but where? No. stop thinking like that, he’s obviously saving civilians right now. Nanami’s far too competent to be a victim to that destruction. Thumping tortured your head as you catastrophized.
“Miss. Are you feeling ill?” The flight attendant sounded like she was under a body of water. “Hold my hand and follow my breathing.”
The video continued playing, showing a city turning into hell. The lens turned to reveal the shocked faces of people witnessing the horror. It never stopped playing until a pair of hands whisked your device away from a weak grip, then lightly turned your head so you could meet a women’s calm face.
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8:00 am, November 5th, Monday, Tokyo. You hug Nanami’s blazer tighter against your layered outfit, when then the breeze enters the cafe. A cold gust sings alongside the crackling sounds of an old espresso machine. Elevating the emptiness and lack of conversation in the room. How could anyone start a conversation? It feels like the moment anyone utters a word; we all expect the events of Shibuya to pour out. No one wants to talk about. At least for a little while. Not while the wound is still fresh. In your peripheral you see the screen of a phone turn on, next to you on the leather couch. The red dusk of the sunset on your friends lock screen includes a notification, telling you its fully charged. You unplug and bring it to your face to have a closer at the photo, but the phone unlocks from facial recognition. Taken aback you immediately turn it off, shutting your eyes. You hold a tighter grip on it, because it’s a reminder of how you aren’t ready.
Not yet.
You decide to lean into the couch, to stay longer at the establishment. The jetlag is kicking in and it doesn’t help that you ran into an unwanted conversation with a coworker when you walked in. The one-sided chat consisting of the only depressing topic everyone is taking part in. It left your coffee cold, and now you needed to rest for a bit. If not, you could walk out of the café without a clear mind. Looking either drunk or sleep deprived. Most likely the latter. The insurance company was next door and the possibility of running into more people is a headache. To call your flight back to the city a miracle, would be an understatement. From October 31st, flights coming in and out of Japan were prohibited, just when you desperately needed to come back home. Only five days have passed since the incident.
For four days, you found yourself alternating between locking yourself up in a Denmark-airport hotel, then running around pleading with the airport’s many front desk’s about when you could leave. Not caring if you’d get fired for abandoning your work trip. Your mothers’ yells across the phone would be a comforting reoccurrence, in which she is begging you to stay in Denmark, since the situation was getting worse back home. For four days, only your mother would call, while you unfortunately entertained the thought of your loved one’s death once you came back. Even as you arrive back, the chaos resumes. No warm hugs from a worried family greeted you.
You colleagues were radio silent, dealing with their own grief. Your mother and uncle were evacuated to a different city. Leaving you with one more fear. No sign of Nanami. Shoko didn’t answer your calls from Wednesday to the early mornings of today, until the dreadful call. The call you had with her just one hour ago, which somehow led you to instinctively catch a taxi to this very café.
Just as you settle into drifting asleep, a ring awakens you. It’s coming from your phone. “Shoko”, displayed on the lock screen, and hesitantly you pick up.
“I can see you from here. I’m crossing the light pole to the café entrance.” Shoko says, as you see her tall figure approach, dressed in a lab coat. She stops outside the door to throw her cigarette into a bin. Chimes can be heard as she walks in. You stiffen. Staying seated on the coach, you can’t help but feel nauseous as she walks up to you. She stops above you, striving her best smile. “So quiet in here. Wish it were like this outside.” She gets comfortable next you on the couch. Making sure to observe the blazer as she continues, “You must have been in disarray; your luggage is here.”
You face her in silence, nodding your head in acknowledgement. The two of you stare at each other, competing to see who will address the matter. Inhaling deeply, you try, “Thanks for meeting me here. Why’d- ‘’
You clear your throat to not get choked up. “No.” You straighten your back to speak clearer, “What were you doing when you called me?”
“Sorry?” Shoko inquires, and you stay silent, reading her eyes. “I was…sitting at the park.” She says pointing in the direction behind her, confused.
“So, you weren’t occupied with something urgent or intense?”
“Not really.”
“You didn’t think to wait for my arrival or ask us to meet somewhere. You were just going to causally call me and tell me that “I’m sorry. Nanami didn’t make it”, hang up on me, then leave me to go with the rest of my day!” You shakily burst out.
Shoko looks at you with widened eyes and observes around the room self-consciously. You two were the only customers in the café, now filling the silence. She places her palm on your shoulder, to ease the tension, but you non-aggressively remove it.
“I admit, you didn’t have to hear it that way. I just didn’t know who to call. Everyone was pestering me. They still are and I couldn’t handle it. I only saw your messages yesterday and the burden of telling you the news was too much. I didn’t mean to hurt you. It’s just…a lot.” Shoko was now tearing up. The pressures of her position were breaking her, as each day passed by, with more wounding alerts of her dying colleagues.
You stand up from your spot. “Let’s talk outside, I’m getting dizzy in here.” You respond half-heartedly.
Shoko follows you into the chill winds hoping for a smoother flowing discussion.
“Please, Shoko. Where is he? I know I’m a non-sorcerer so I can’t even enter your facility, but at least tell me-“
“Even if I could. I can’t let you see that- him I mean.”
“That? Shoko help me out here, please! It’s the least you could do. God, this is so unfair.” You lament to her.
“There’s nothing I can do. He’s- its bad. His lower body is the only remaining part we can recover from Shibuya.” Shoko winces and covers her mouth, shocked by her own blunt words.
You bit your lip as tears marked your face. His lower body. Her mechanical way of describing things made sense in her occupational context, but this was too harsh. With staggered breaths you ask, “Where is he?” You ache as you reiterate. You now know the answer. He was still in there. That hell. It was never a possibility in your mind. Nanami not making it back home. While the world just begun to know about sorcery after the massacre, it wasn’t unfamiliar to you. In detail, he’d go over his workday like it were any other mundane job. The stories of the students he so greatly cared for, the loss of his dearest friend in high school, and all the dangers of the mystique of this world he was in. Never, did you imagine you’d have to worry about his potential death. In his eyes, he is someone who simply strives to do the best he can. You wish he could see himself in your eyes.
Jujutsu Sorcerers are shit. He’d boldly reaffirm that to you with sunken eyebags, every time you two would talk about your workday in the café. Yet, he never left sorcery. Everyday you’d be reassured of how hard-working he really is. That same attitude that you admire in him, is one of the many traits that made you want to be a permanent part of his life. Whether he accepted your affections or not, wasn’t the point, everyone deserves to have such a dependable force in their life. Now, you cannot accept that this is happening.
“I understand him now.”
“What do you mean?”
“I hate how the higher-ups do things. What’s happening right now is showing their true colors.”
“You can do unimaginable things compared to most doctors. The ability to reserve techniques, right? That’s what Nanami told me.” You ask her, not expecting a response. Maybe this was a way for you to cope with the fact that even people as powerful as her can’t fix everything.
“Yes. I know there’s nothing I can do to make you feel better. I can’t even begin to tell you why we can’t save the rest of his body right now. I don’t want to hurt you more. I know how much you mean to him, it’s only right that I informed you.”
You chuckle at her words, “The damage has already been done. No?”
She looks to the ground in defeat. Agreeing that nothing was going to assist the emotional affliction.
“You want to know what hurts more? Is that I’ll never know why. You could try to explain it to me, though I doubt you would. Still, I’m too far removed from it all. I don’t want to know who did it, or what.” Wiping your face, you make your back the door, “I’m sorry for raising my voice at you. Take care.” Not looking back, you head straight for the bathroom. Hiding yourself in one of the stalls, you drop down to your knees. One hand on the stall wall, as the other opens the toilet seat while you begin to hurl. His lower body is still there. It’s an unsettling scene. You hurl and cry simultaneously. The chronic exhaustion was making a physical appearance, yet the object of your sorrow was thinking about how tired he must have been. Meeting his end, without getting to grow old, but by the pressures of his sorcery.
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7:00 pm, November 12th, 2018, Kuantan, Malaysia. The ocean sends shimmering beams of light into your bedroom. You sit on your bed in a daze, taking in your flat’s perfect view of the ocean’s peaking sunset across the horizon. Now it’s been twelve days since the Shibuya massacre and the beginning of a new era of havoc. Other than frequent check-ins with family, you haven’t spoken to anyone else since your last conversation with Shoko. Most of all, you won’t bother yourself with the current events taking place in Shibuya. This isn’t a retreat. You were abandoning your duties to escape, with the illusion of closure. It made you worse. Your way of grieving is running away to the place Nanami raved on about. Where is the closure?
“Jujutsu Sorcerers are shit.”
His words echo when you think about home, but not in a negative way. You just can’t help but recollect these words because they represent your overall memory of him. Nanami always had this weird way of saying bold and sometimes controversial statements but in a well-mannered way. You miss his politeness. How much of a gentleman he was to you and all women around him. You miss the safety. You loved knowing that your coworkers thought he was boring and uptight, because with you the formalities would drop, and you’d be left breathless from his jokes. You would give anything to hear his dry jokes again. You loved knowing that you saw that side of him. When he was not burnt out by work and had the energy to send you two out and about in town to shop, try food, or take aimless walks in the city. You love him, and he will never know.
I think I’m ready.
You grab Nanami’s cream-white blazer from next to you, to take out his phone. He trusted you enough to be another recognizable face on his device. Claiming he had nothing to hide and whatever he had on it most likely was cleaner than yours. You only used this privilege to take pictures of yourself and make it his wallpaper. Every now and then, those same pictures of you would remain on this lock screen. You think back to when you asked him if he wasn’t worried his sorcerer friends would ask who you are, then he’d reply that they wouldn’t ask, because they already know you. Such memories now cross your mind. That comfortability is now missing.
You used to doubt your importance to him. Having each other’s extra apartment keys and phone passwords was not enough for you. When his reason for these two instances was to ensure you both have someone to depend on in case of emergencies, your mind was clouded with romance. You face the front camera to unlock the phone, revealing a typical home screen. Organized and easy to navigate. Since you’ve been in possession of it you never opened it. Where would you even begin. What was the point. Would you forget him that quickly without his phone? His camera roll consisted of you, screenshots of songs, meals and a substantial number of sunsets. Chime. A reminder displays on his screen. It has two exclamation marks indicating it is high priority. Deciding you didn’t want to go into his apps anyway, you read the reminder:
Send the birthday message on notes tomorrow!!
Tomorrow is your birthday. Without thinking you navigate to the notes. You scroll down completed grocery lists and to-do lists to reach one note titled, “Her birthday plans”. In bullet points he writes: Returns from work trip November 12th. Haneda Airport. Plan A, surprise flowers? Cook dinner for her at my place (might seem pushy if she doesn’t feel that way)?
If Plan A fails, aquarium. Obsessed with stingrays. Early Christmas presents! Christmas plans?
Weeps escape your mouth as you read the notes. These notes started to make you feel less insignificant to him than you thought you before. You didn’t just lose Nanami. You lost a potential future of longer city walks, Christmas dinners, and more nonsense-bred conversations. His relatives probably don’t know what has happened. You may have felt unimportant in the midst of his complex and action-filled life, but this circumstance would force you to introduce yourself to his family in the worst way. You aren’t merely an ex-coworker. You are his dependable companion and friend during an emergency. Those emergencies may be mundane compared to the danger he faced daily, but he still trusted you to follow through.
How would you introduce him to your mother? If he was also merely the ex-coworker her daughter hangs out with. Can she understand this profound grief?
You hang around the note app, noticing one more titled, “For her.”
There is no one else more deserving of delighting in this day than you. You tell me you do not care much for today, which I understand the reasons, but I am grateful for another year of you. Every time you feel like abandoning it all because you’re so tired I want you to remember your birthday. Yes, a reminder of the gift of time. When it all becomes too exhausting for you, there is my door. Waiting for its only other owner to arrive when she’s ready.
We are becoming so much more. I sometimes wonder if I carry this desire of wanting to become more with you, a bit more than you. With the gift of time, I will try to express my feelings better.
You bring ease to those of us around you. You are lovelier and more perfect than tranquil seas. A calming force which the drifting autumn leaves cannot try to compete with.
I love you. Wholeheartedly.
You hug at the blazer on your lap. Staining it with tears. Picking up your cellphone to walk to your bedroom balcony, opening the camera app, you hope. As you take an image of the rosy horizon, you hope. You hope that these memories won’t become such a painful occurrence in the future. With every passing day, signs of a day turning into evening would make it difficult for you to forget him.
The end! I'm sorry like really sorry. I wanted to see a realistic story depicting the aftermath of his death but I couldn’t find any. So I wrote it??
I have a happy story in mind if anyone is up to read it<3
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Hello Charwhit fans, I am here to make you sad.
Okay, so plenty of people have brought up the concept of Culprit Whit, and I do enjoy that concept, I do.
However, I'd now like to bring up the idea of Victim Charles (mainly for Chapter 3).
Whit made a funny little comment about Charles dying at 3 for being fatally unfunny. DRDT likes to foreshadow stuff. Take Teruko's Prosopagnosia for example, which was foreshadowed in the prologue, with her not recognizing Charles by his appearance. I'm not saying it will happen, I'm just saying consider.
As discussed in my way to long analysis, Whit tends to keep a calm persona. He's never given much reaction to the deaths of the others.
He wasn't close to any of them though.
If Charles were to die, then Whit would be forced to face it. Whit can't just pretend it never happened like he does with his mom. He and Charles stand next to each other in the trial room, so he has to acknowledge it, whether he likes it or not.
But also imagine how bad that would mess up his mental state. Charles is Whit's only real friend in the killing game. He's social with everyone else, but not extremely close to them. If Charles were to die, then that leaves Whit completely alone. His mom is dead, his father isn't active at all in his life, and his only friend is dead.
He could try and think positive, but there only so far you can push something like that before there is no positivity left to hold on to (trust me).
This all goes without me mentioning that they'll (probably) continue to grow closer during Chapter 3 (if neither is the culprit of the 2nd case).
Idk, I just find the idea interesting.
(I'd like to bring up Teruko, someone that both Charles and Whit are (semi-)close to. How she'd act is dependable on how she develops. Maybe she'll show sympathy, maybe she'll be like, "Now you see how terrible trusting others is because they all leave you" or something like that. I bring her up since she's close-ish to Charles and Whit has lots of interactions with her. Plus how she reacts could lead to some interesting reactions from Whit)
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I'll reorganize my thoughts in the morning. Take this more messy version for now.
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ok, now that i've watched all of tos (none of the movies yet...) i am going to do the top ten worst and best episodes, according to Me. they are as follows:
WORST EPISODES
10. the savage curtain - idk who thought putting abe lincoln in a cage match with the vulcan version of ghandi against like, ghengis khan and space hitler would be a good idea. but it wasn't. i did like seeing the vulcan father of logic though like "im gonna go sacrifice myself for peace" ok king
9. i, mudd - all of the mudd episodes are bad. he's not charming at all whatsoever. however, this one is better than the other one because uhura gets to pretend to sell out kirk and they're SOOO cute about it. her little giggle when he PICKS HER UP BY HER SHOULDERS and tells her how proud he is. PLEEEEASE
8. charlie x - the entire premise of this episode is that the bad guy is just autistic. and then they make him live on a planet without people because he can't adjust to normal life ???
7. shore leave - obvious racism of this episode aside, the faux-irish jig that played while kirk was being menaced by his extremely unfunny old bully nearly drove me over the edge. we DO love a good mccoy death fakeout tho
6. a piece of the action - if i had any interest in gangster films before this it's all gone now. that being said. i loved when kirk drove the little car. he was so bad at it. he was so happy.
5. mudd's women - like he's literally just selling women?? and the plot twist is that secretly they're ugly?????
4. who mourns for adonias - this is just "what if ALIENS build the pyramids bro" except for the 1960s. nail in the coffin for this one was kirk proudly declaring they didn't needs gods - because they already had the One God, thank you very much!
3. the paradise syndrome - WHY WOULD YOU HAVE NATIVE AMERICANS MISTAKE KIRK FOR GOD. WHY. like i know why but Why. i think the very worst part of this episode was that it had an amnesia plot that would have FUCKED if you had simply removed the people. if there hadn't been people in this it would've been in my top 10 episodes. i think this broke me.
2. the omega glory - this is the same as the last episode except there's no amnesia, and also the "native americans" are white cosplayers who worship the american flag and mistake kirk for god because he can recite the pledge of allegiance yes really. if i had a nickel for every time this happened i'd only have two nickels etc etc at least kirk didn't knock anybody up in this one ig
1. patterns of force - why would you make your two jewish leads wear swastikas and then literally be whipped by nazis. i know he's such a bad person but not even william shatner deserves that. number one worst episode everyone says it's omega glory but it's this one
BEST EPISODES
10. plato's stepchildren - this episode is hard to rank because like it's both good and bad. the torture scenes were genuinely upsetting, especially the ones at the end w/ spock & nurse chapel, because they weren't just violence being inflicted on tied up guys, but they were SUPPOSED to be upsetting, like it was literally the point. and also this episode bears the distinction of THEEE kirk & uhura kiss. literally historic.
9. the trouble with tribbles - i feel like everyone's heard of this but it really is as good as everyone says. sometimes 1960s humor doesn't translate to 2020s humor but it was genuinely hysterical start to finish. also, the distinct trilling sound was so imprinted in my brain i recognized it in the 2009 movie where i had never registered it before.
8. the naked time - aside from the KING SHIT george takei pulled with the fencing this episode also contains the "i am in control of my emotions [sobbing]" moment and kirk & spock LITERALLY having a slapfight. this episode has everything. an absolute masterpiece
7. the empath - i feel like this paired with "the world is hollow and i have touched the sky" really made me a Bones Understander. i feel a little bad about that bc everyone says the characterizations in s3, or actually that the season as a whole, is kinda shaky? but i watched without knowing that and i feel like i Get It now. also, this was the only score i went and relistened to on spotify
6. tholian web - the spock & mccoy episode ever. there's so many things to say about this from the death fakeout to kirk's little space suit but what TRULY got me was the instant and totally nonverbal agreement to lie straight to kirk's face to both preserve personal dignity and troll the shit out of him (while chekov and sulu are like also silently laughing as they listen in no less). what this episode made me realize was that it's a good thing they argue all the time and make kirk play referee because if they were on the same side kirk wouldn't stand a chance. like he'd be finished.
5. the city on the edge of forever - ok, so, this episode made me feel like i was having a mental break. the time travel. spock's little hat. when he watches kirk kiss edith and then goes back into their room to pretend he didn't see anything. mccoy and kirk basically hugging at the end when edith bites it.
4. requiem for methuselah - the first time i watched this i was kinda like :/ because how does kirk fall in love with a woman in FOUR HOURS? that aside the ending scene blew my tits clean off. i paced around my house for like 30 minutes going "what the FUCK was that" because i couldn't simply lie down and sleep after seeing it. rewatching the episode with uh. new context made me like it a little better. but even if it had been garbage the last scene shook me so thoroughly it would still need to be on this list. i'm getting wound up just thinking about it. number one most shocking tos moment.
3. the dagger of the mind - look, i understand that this episode was technically just run-of-the-mill stuff as far as everybody else is concerned but they put james t kirk in a little brainwashing machine. and the machine was shaped like a chair. and it gives people amnesia sometimes. i don't know how i'm expected to behave normally
2. this side of paradise - this is the episode where a flower jizzes on spock and gives him feelings. and look: it's really funny, and there's a lot to love about it. but the ending where kirk hurls verbal abuse at spock for a solid 92 seconds WITHOUT STOPPING followed by: spock beating the shit out of him until he gets his logic back. i have rewatched this perhaps 1,000 times at minimum. what the fuck were they doing
1. conscience of the king - this episode got me into this mess. i don't think i can elaborate further without significant self-incrimination. let's just say what happened was i thought "oh i'll just watch this one tos episode for context for the fanfiction" and one month later i'm writing fic about [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT
ok, that's my list. i thought about doing honorable mentions for episodes that had scenes i liked even though the overall episode didn't make it into my top 10. but then i realized that would mean recapping basically the entire series and this post is already too long. i do have to give the pon farr episode a shoutout though because even though so much of it was offputting there was literally a titty window in kirk's shirt. like, it's the pon farr episode. ok NOW i'm done
#personal#star trek blogging#i feel like if i hadn't wanted people to dox that fic i could've been blogging about this all along#in some ways it was more fun to keep a lid on it but i will miss having a record of my live first impressions that i can relive later......#hence a list. and also a spreadsheet but i just made it for me and cathy it would be incomprehensible to the general public#if anyone wants an ACTUAL skip/watch list for tos hit me up#i'll clean up the one i have to match the spn one lol#tos lb#liz's star trek stuff#liz's meta#kinda.
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I've come to vent about my relationship with Rozin of all things. I must warn that this is NOT anti Rozin confession! There's literally nothing wrong with this ship, but...
For a long time I thought it was the only genuinely good and interesting ship out of all ATLA and LOK ships. Despite having little to no screen time, I was nevertheless hooked by Roku's and Sozin's dynamic. And how could I not? Childhood friends turned into bitter enemies with all the angst and heartbreak it entails? *chief kiss* Rozin just had that kick that other ships didn't have to me. I mean it in the nicest way possible, but everything just felt bland and boring in comparison. Most likely because I'm a drama queen who loves screwed up stuff. In my head and private notes, I would make Rozin WORSE, I would add things that didn't happen in canon, that would NEVER happen in canon, that would plunge those two into a new dark abyss I made just for them. In my head and private notes, I would make Rozin BETTER, I would give Roku and Sozin a chance to reconcile, to learn from one another, to finally have a relationship they couldn't have in canon. I would come up with crazy AUs, one of them even became a baseline for my main crossover story.
I mean it genuinely that this ship was IT for me. And it was like that for 5 years...
Until it just... Wasn't anymore.
The overall ATLA fandom, unfortunately, doesn't share my sentiment. The arts and fics and hell even meta posts that would examine Roku and Sozin's relationship was extremely rare. All those things I did with Rozin privately ? That was basically all that I had. I kid you not, Rozin felt more like a fandom joke, than an actual ship. The ship tag was clogged with the same repetitive "haha, Roku and Sozin were exes" "haha, Roku and Sozin were gay" shit. A joke that was repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. With no changes, no new punchline. It was funny the first couple of times, then it lost the punch, then it became annoying and then... those jokes became enraging. I was becoming SICK of them.
I would much rather have there be no new Rozin posts, than the ship tag being cluttered with. the. same. shitty. unfunny. repetitive. joke. At least the lack of content would motivate me to actually share the AUs and hcs I made in private. It would be a challenge, a drive. But, the fandom is dead set on seeing them as "just angsty exes, lol".
Oh, but that's not why I decided to write here. You know what I'm about to say. The upcoming Roku centric book, that, of course has scenes that are almost hand-crafted to pander to Rozin shippers.
I know I should be excited. I should be happy. My ship is finally getting attention! Getting official interaction since, what? Over a decade of NOTHING?
But, I felt nothing.
At first.
Then, when I realized that I felt nothing I felt... rage? Sadness? Despair?
I used to LOVE Rozin. What happened? I should be excited. Why am I not?
It has been 5 years of that. Of Rozin being worse than nothing. Not even a ship, but an inside joke among ATLA fans. I would've been fine if the book interactions contradicted my hcs, I would just make new ones or change the old ones a little. But, I got tired. At this point, I feel nothing for the ship. Maybe annoyance. I definitely think I don't like it now. And it's sad. It's almost tragic.
I love Roku and Sozin as characters. And I used to love shipping them, as another way to explore and study them as characters. But now, I think, I will just block Rozin tag and dismiss any ship context if I do happen to start posting my ATLA fan art again and people would ask of I shipped them or not. I don't. Not anymore. If you really want a ship content with them, well, I suppose I have my OC x Roku ship, but, I'm certain no one would be interested in that, so I'll just keep it to myself.
Sorry for the long rant. Sorry that it sounds so dramatic or pathetic. But, I feel better after writing everything here. Maybe I can finally leave this all behind.
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Destined With You Final Thoughts
THE GOOD
Rowoon - Every new role I see him in (Extraordinary You and Tomorrow), I feel like he's grown leaps and bounds as an actor. Here he got to be literally be EVERYTHING. He was an arrogant emotionless jerk, a lovesick puppy who says the cutest most ridiculously things, a serious no-nonsense professional who's great at his job, a man struggling with his feelings and choices, a devoted protective lover, gutted and sobbing over life or death circumstances, respectful patient attentive boyfriend, an impulsive and passionate lover. I know we say ALL THE EMOTIONS sometimes but he literally when through them all.
Jo Bo Ah - Hongjo was a hard character for me because she was so passive and let everyone walk all over her again and again. Her saving grace is she always stood up to Shinyu and eventually learned to stand up to those around her. I could easily be annoyed with this character if it was played by a less competent actress.
Ha Joon - I enjoyed his turn as a suave lawyer who's actually a total dork in his personal life so much so that I started watching his new 50-episode family drama, Live Your Own Life, where he's finally the male lead with his own romance. Jaekyung came as Hongjo's sage guide when she needed him and happily exited when she was settled. Honestly, not a bad arc for a SML.
Shinyu's mom, Shinyu's lawyer friend, Hongjo's Landlady, Uram and his grandfather, and Shinyu's assistant - These characters were alot of fun and added to the depth of the story. I wish we had actually gotten more development from them which would have filled out this story a bit better.
Symbolism & Magic - This show is rife with well thought out symbolism. Love all the flower/plant stuff around Hongjo (Bloom) and Shinyu (Groot) equating to a blossoming and thriving relationship. The magic is actually pretty well explained and is there if you're interested in it.
THE BAD
Dropping the Magic Halfway Through - I am EXTREMELY disappointed in a show billed as a FANTASY ROMANCE that went to painstaking care to introduce the spells and curses to be like oops! don't care if the spells worked or not but we kinda care if the big curse is real cause we want to keep Shinyu in perpetual danger. Like I have ZERO respect that the FANTASTY aspect was dropped (and no the reincarnation plotline doesn't count). I feel hoodwinked and things make even less sense now. It's basically a JJ Abrams Mystery Box level of non-sensical bulls*t which is one of the main reasons I stopped watching most Western shows. It also leaves MASSIVE holes about how and why the Gardener and Nayeon started working together as well how did they learn about and come to believe the curses would even work. It was just she's a backstabbing two-faced bully and he's an insane murderer but zilch on their motivations. I really wanted a mini-montage of the black magic curses that were so well foreshadowed. I'm unsure if this was a writing call or directing call because in Korea the directors have final edit rights, not the writers. What got left on the cutting room floor?
Hongjo's coworkers - Why were they so terrible and unfunny the entire time? They were also irrelevant to the plot. The only good thing was her boss stopping the others from bullying Hongjo. It wasted time that could have been given to the side characters l liked (see above).
Noble Idiocracy & Repetitive Danger - I'm not sure which is worse that they repeatedly put themselves in danger time after time (even when bad things kept happening to them) or they broke up or stayed apart for the other person's 'benefit'. *face palm* If it was a great story, I can forgive some of this but...
The Pacing/Editing - If they had done a big reveal of the magic and other stuff at the end that really brought things to a climax, I would be like yeah it was slow at points but look at the payoff! Instead, I'm looking back at this going, if this is the story you wanted to tell, it could use a serious overhaul in HOW it was told. Even though there was stuff I liked about this drama, I wasn't that emotionally invested.
VERDICT
I would only recommend watching this to see Rowoon act his heart out and be in a ridiculously cute and sexy romance. That's it.
I'm sad because I really loved deep diving into this show. It could have been so much more like Goblin, Doom At Your Service, or Alchemy of Souls.
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I love RyuTeru since I was a child (11 years old) I'm glad to find another artist who likes it, Could you give me your Headcanons? I'd like to see what you think about them.
Pardon my language but holy fuck I thought I'd never find anyone else that likes it as much as me 😭. had to do a double take when I read the ask I legit thought I was hallucinating - anyway! I rmbr having posted some hcs about them before but I'm too lazy to dig it up so I'll dump it here
(bonus tobio and tetsuya crumbs i like to think the 4 of them as a happy friend group):
They are both early birds, but sometimes they sleep in on weekends.
Teru drinks coffee and Ryutaro drinks tea. Ryutaro dislikes the strong, bitter taste of coffee even when there's a shitload of creamer in it (once Ryutaro made Tobio drink tea and he added soda in it).
Teru enjoys spoiling his loved ones.. Ryutaro often tells him to not spoil him too much. I like to think when they form a family in the future Teru is the parent that drags the entire (reluctant) family out for shopping.
Whenever Teru falls sick, Ryutaro would use aromatherapy to ail his symptoms such as fragrant incense and essential oils.
Whenever Ryutaro falls sick Teru makes him soup. Granted it's canned soup but it's the thought that counts (i hc teru being an awful cook more lr8)
Teru is absolutely the one that gives really cheesy nicknames and it makes Ryutaro cringe to high heaven. But he tolerates it because he likes seeing Teru smile :)
Teru is extremely soft (literally). He takes damn good care of himself I just know his hair is soft. Bedtime cuddles are also soft. I can imagine his sleeping robes are super comfy.. Ryutaro has to compete with everyone else for hugs :(
Teru has a sweet tooth and enjoys cafe hopping. Fluffy pancakes with LOTS of maple syrup, ice cream waffles, sundaes etc. The things he orders are enough to give Ryutaro a heart attack, so he just sticks to drinks. Give him a break, his entire diet is just rice and grilled fish.
Among the dss trio I'd feel like Ryutaro is the least petty but he can be extremely petty when it comes down to it. Whenever he's mad at Tobio and Tetsuya he'd let Teru be in charge of dinner. No one has the heart to say no when they see Teru's eyes light up in joy as he brainstorms recipes to try out.
Both of them are really good at makeup and self care. They do each other's makeup and hair. They also spend an ungodly amount of time in the bathroom. You want to hang out with these two? Waiting time is 2 hours.
Teru is the one to initiate dates and plans them. Their first couple of dates are the usual restaurant/mall/movie dates. But when Teru learns of Ryutaro's dislike of crowds they move their dates to more outdoorsy locations, like parks.
Ryutaro can be dense. He doesn't pick up on flirting or pick up lines. I feel like the same goes with jokes they fly by over his head and you need to explain the joke to him, which instantly makes it unfunny and awkward.
Tobio and Tetsuya are the perpetual unfortunate third wheelers. They get it, they're single. Can Ryuteru stop holding hands and looking at each other?? They didn't sign up for this.
I can imagine Ryuteru travelling together after battle bladers for a while before bumping into Tobio and Tetsuya randomly. Tobio thinks they're just besties,, until he sees them holding hands and his brain explodes. Mostly from the fact that he can't believe this fortune telling weirdo got on with someone. Someone so pretty in fact??
Tetsuya is usually in his world most of the time and at first he doesn't realise he's third wheeling. But after he catches on he'd be sick of their bs after a while.
Teru would be super sweet to the two,, he'd be very patient with tetsuya and listen to him rambling about his crab friends.. The crabs like Teru as well :)
I am so deep into delulu that I gave them a fankid. he doesn't have a name actually I just call him blue baby because he's just a mini ryutaro. absolutely nothing goes on in that pea sized brain but his parents still love him anyway <3 if you want I can make a separate post about adult ryuteru and their spawn because this one is rly long alr.
#asks#thanks anon for the opportunity to infodump i hope you enjoyed it#ryuteru the light of my life my oxygen my everything#im too embarrassed to post abt fankids i need to just stfu and do it anyway
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hawktrap, and if someone got there before me, beejhawk
(◕ᴗ◕✿) TrapHawk ✨
Ship It
1. What made you ship it?
Waugh, the first MASH episode I remember seeing was Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde, and the funny-turns-touching caretaking instantly set off the little shippy bulb in my brain. I love best friend ships, I love the love and affection between them, I love that they're a paired set and the support they show, and I feel like there's a really special quality to their friendship that makes them feel Very Important to each other. Plus they have great chemistry.
2. What are your favorite things about the ship?
Kfksjsj low key got ahead of myself there. But the thing that keeps me hooked is how flexible they ss characters and their dynamic is. I feel like there's lots of angles you can take and lots of scenarios to explore while still keeping the characters in line with what we see in the show. I love that they're in sync 95% of the time, but those little gaps leave just enough room for drama or angst. I love that they're inveterate kinksters AND softboys who care for each other. They're just great.
3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
I mean there are certain common takes on both characters, especially Trapper, that make me cuckoo bananas rageful. The whole Trapper Abandoned Hawkeye and Broke His Heart thing 🔪🔪🔪 I will also die on the hill that Trapper Is Much Softer Than People Give Him Credit For and Hawkeye Is Much Stronger. Trying to think of how to phrase my gripes and opinions such that I don't come off as unnecessarily bitchy lol. But like, it is SO HARD to find stuff for these two that Works for me. I think they're more interesting and complex than they're given credit for.
Annnnd BeejHawk 🍵
Don't Ship It
1. Why don’t you ship it?
I feel like you articulated this at a deep level beautifully in your meta a few days ago lol. I mean fundamentally I am a Trapper Girl TM and TrapHawk is my One True Pairing, so this was always doomed to at best second tier "I like it fine" ship status tbh. But there's just too much friction in the relationship on screen, there's some genuine meanness and anger, they misunderstand each other at key points, and I don't see the chemistry between them. Being extremely petty and subjective for a second, I just don't like BJ as a character very much, I find him frequently mean and petty and annoying and unfunny. Hawkeye can do better.
2. What would have made you like it?
Augh. Okay, I think in a lot of BJHawk interactions that others read as shippy, I see an edgy clinginess that makes me Uncomfy. So BJ being less "repressed neurotic" and a little more ease in their relationship. Also the fundamental biggest barrier to BJHawk is BJ Loves His Wife and Child, and I don't want to like. Get rid of that aspect of his character because it's vital to him, y'know? But maybe more of Hawkeye corresponding with Peg and building up a friendship with her- it could even be comedic, where he's planning a surprise for BJ who's getting increasingly suspicious then is amused/embarrassed/fond when he figures it out, but just like a sense Hawkeye could be included in the family dynamic without being wildly unfair to Peg, or even just BJ being a little more liberated sexually such that it's easier to imagine them conducting an affair that doesn't IMMEDIATELY implode his marriage. I mean, BJ is the deuteragonist for 2/3 of the show, obviously I have thoughts on their dynamic and how it would change with a romantic or sexual element to it, but I frankly don't see Gay BJ at all, I don't see Bi BJ at all, he's sooooo heterosexual to me, so a more sexually ambiguous or chill BJ is necessary lol. Also more BJ taking care of Hawkeye, more buddy vibes and funny coziness! And like this is probably me ragging too much on BJ... IDK it's hard to say how Hawkeye would need to change, he's already trying to be a good friend given the circumstances... I mean, for my subjective ship tastes 90% of my personal turn offs come from BJ, so Hawkeye is not really the problem in this ship for me. I guess something that really bugs me about the BJHawk fic I've tried that turns me off the ship is Sad Sack Hawkeye, so maybe more content with spunky prankster Hawkeye and co-conspirator BJ, or a proactive seductive Hawkeye pursuing BJ, romancing him, making it more of a "I want this because I want you" than a "I'm clinging to this because I need you" thing, which isn't sexy to me.
3. Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?
Jfkdndkdn. Yeah, I guess. It's not like. A bad ship. I get it. They were The Pair for 8 seasons, they have many many moments to build a ship on, it's not without merit or something. They're friends who've been brought together in horrible circumstances, they go through a lot, they're close, there's some great scenes for them. I think you can get some interesting scenarios out of their dynamic, though my brain runs a little darker and angstier than shippy. But it is just so very much Not My Cup of Tea in either the show or in the fan works I've tried. Even fics that were otherwise interesting and well-written and in character, the BJHawk elements were pure 😬 to me. Truly truly "Your ship is not my ship and that's okay" situation.
#thank you for the ask 🦔#i think i got dangerously honest on my opinions here lol#me: (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ🏏*.✧ oh boy a shiny new bat! i can't wait to swing it at hornets nests kgkfkfkf
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My sister doesnt like me, she’s extremely mean and she adds to my insecurities AND SHE KNOWS
She makes multiple unfunny cringe jokes about me having no boobs and having a little boys body, to which one day I told her “I am very much comfortable in my body” AND SHE GOT SO DEFENSIVE AND MAD and she said “I was joking geez” and went to the other room all mad and pissed as if I was at fault
To always calling me stupid and dumb for not understanding some simple stuff or EVEN WHEN IM RIGHT she still calls me stupid
I have told her multiple times how much it hurts me, and she knows she’s a bad person and she says “OH but I can’t help it blah blah blah”
Why can I help it? Why don’t you see me get angry at you? Is it that hard not to make me want to have no self respect and want me to end up dead?
She is also never grateful for the stuff I buy her and how much I spend on her
I love my sister because we are blood related, but you cannot make me like you anymore, not after how many attempts I’ve tried to make you realize how much you’re hurting me, you’re not stupid, you just don’t care about me
To you I’m probably the sandiest and the person you pity the most, you look down on me, and that’s probably you can sense I’m autistic
I can’t wait to go to college and make friends and completely lose touch with her, I want you to become memory
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HELLO CERES!! I hope you're doing well!! I have come to rant about the Skip Button Ending <3
Tis I, your local overthinker, who takes everything seriously <33
distant, confused cheering
ANYWHOO SO
Did you know? If you listen closely, you can take notice of The Narrator going through the stages of grief as he and Stanley progress through the Steam Pressured Gas reviews:
Denial: "Surely, these reviews were glowing as well; weren't they?"
Anger: "UNFUNNY!?"
Bargaining: "Preachy? Stanley, I'm not preachy, am I? You could tell me if I'm preachy, honestly, you can–! ..Oh goodness.. Honestly, this is quite shocking for me.. I– I always–..
Depression: [continuation] ..well, to be honest, I had always thought of the game's dialogue as being rather terse to begin with. You can't know how much fluff I cut from the game to make it feel as light and airy as it– well... I always thought it did.. but maybe it wasn't.." || "I feel.. like a failure. Like I had let these people down.
and Acceptance: [continuation] ..perhaps The Stanley Parable isn't quite as sterling as I always remembered." || "...A Skip Button?.. ..Well.. Well, yes! Yes, I think we can do that! If I'm truly too preachy, then.. then maybe letting you skip ahead for just a moment surely, it couldn't hurt.." [can also be seen as bargaining]
Take this information however you want lol, this is just a little thing I noticed as I listened to The Skip Button Ending like a podcast while falling asleep last night (may or may not have gotten a Stanley Parable-themed dream shshshhdhd)
— 🅰️non || 05/01/2023 [I decided to add this just because lol. once again, hope ur doing okay, bud!! rest well <3 /p]
Mans really do be mourning the death of The Stanley Parable 2013, poor guy.
It always hurts to see him fall into accepting the game wasn't good enough just because of those handful of bad reviews. I don't know much about how the original did on Steam overall back then, but while obviously the game couldn't have been perfect for everyone, it still found its way to the people who did care, who did think it was perfect, who took it and thought to themselves "it's almost like this game was made for me".
Because that's the truth isn't it? The game was never made to be for everyone, it was made for the people who would love it and cherish it for what it is and what it will grow into being. I think that's where the Narrator really went wrong, as much as it hurts to say. He got so wrapped up in the positive feedback he fell into this delusion that the game was perfect and it was that way for everyone, when that is quite an impossibility. Then when he found the bad reviews instead of shifting his view to the reality that "while it was never perfect, it touched the hearts and connected with those who are important. Its good to take advice from the negativity, but you shouldnt dwell on it." He instead fell into another delusion of negativity where the bad reviews were right and the game could never have held up to any sort of praise. One extreme to another.
The truth is, while the Narrator always talks about catering to the player and capturing the hearts of the people, he fails to realize he already did that by just being himself. That you can never perfectly replicate a feeling from so long ago since people change and grow. He failed to understand that its okay that things change. It's okay for the game to do a little worse. It's okay for him to keep going and keep trying to make something new. Because we are here for the wid-eyed wonderment that comes with exploring a new story and a new path. Meeting new characters and greeting old ones. We loved the 2013 Stanley Parable yes, but we are old and wise enough to understand that it cannot feasibly be remade to perfection, and that new and different isn't always a bad thing. It's okay to keep growing. Better to grow and change than to stay where you are to be left behind and forgotten.
I think the Narrator needs a hug. For someone to tell him it's okay that what he made isn't perfect. It's okay it wasn't perfect because it was good. And that's the best anyone can hope to do.
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my cousin got me tickets to see spitting image live for christmas. I have no idea why, I've never watched the show, but hey, free theatre is free theatre
i've literally never walked out of a show before. i have nothing else to do today, i enjoy the experience of being in the theatre, and i have a pretty high tolerance for shit productions. I did local am-dram panto for years, willingly.
anyway i'm going to be a good citizen of the internet and leave my unhinged ranting below a cut, but if you're interesting in learning all the possible ways to fuck up a comedy show, read on
we left during the interval, and if we hadn't been in the middle of a row, I would have walked out about fifteen minutes in. not because it's 'edgy' (they literally started the show with a warning about how it might trigger the snowflakes, always a sign that what follows is going to be great comedy) because despite their best efforts it really wasn't. the closest they got to being edgy was a very bad kanye west joke that was clearly written in at the last minute because he went full neo-nazi after they'd finished the script. it was just... baaad.
i didn't find any of the jokes funny, but humour is subjective. but there was just a lot of really lazy stuff, like the lyrics in their parody songs didn't scan. they made tom cruise a main character, but were clearly afraid of getting sued by scientology, so the only joke they could make was about him being short, which is not a joke you can sustain for a 2 hour show. It's barely funny the first time. obviously the plot was extremely lose and just there to justify the impressions, but even so there was weird shit about it that just didn't make sense, like the villains were boris johnson and a cabal of evil, but also putin was there and a villain but not part of the cabal they kept just kind of cutting away to him in a way that felt very weird. also they missed so many good opportunities for jokes, like an extended bit about johnson trying to give carrie johnson a nepotism job and then cutting to trump for a reaction, but the trump joke was just 'he's a mysogynist' with zero reference to all the nepotism he did? which feels like a much more natural joke?
also elon musk is there and has a tesla car that transforms into a mech, genuinely an impressive puppet and probably the closest to an actual joke they got, but then the puppet was too big and clunky so he just leaves and doesn't come back with no explanation and no other jokes. also zuckerberg is there and they just straight up forgot to make any jokes about him? he's literally just standing there, and if I thought it was deliberate that might have been a funny joke, but i genuinely think they just forgot.
they also massively underestimated how many people in the uk watch drag race, rue paul was a main character in the show and got a lot of awkward silence. which admittedly might have been because they also didn't give him any jokes, they just had him say his catchphrases from drag race, but i honestly thing they thought the concept of drag queens was so inherently funny it would carry the character, and instead most of the audience just straight up didn't know who he was
also idris elba was in it and the joke was that he's boring? which i really feel like isn't the first thing most people think of when they think of action-movie actor and sex symbol idris elba, ngl
oh, and this i assume is a problem from the tv show that they got stuck with, but their suella braverman joke is that she's an evil haunted doll, which is like... it's not completely unfunny, and it's at least not racist, but also, this woman quote hitler in front of holocaust survivors and when called out doubled down, and the only joke you can think of is that she's annabelle? really?
i will give them one thing though, their half-lettuce half-liz truss puppet was pretty good.
anyway, don't go see this show, it's shit. my only regret about walking out is that i have blue hair and pronouns and i'm worried me walking out will have made people the show actually succeeded in being edgy and 'triggering the libs'
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Comparison is the thief of joy
Sometimes I feel like I'm standing still in the middle of a highway. Everyone else is moving so fast and it seems impossible to catch up. When I was in middle school all I ever did was compare myself to others and it made me so wildly jealous and depressed. I have since learned to let go of the jealousy but not so much the depression. I'm no longer plagued with animosity for those who have what I lack. However, I've yet to learn how to truly be happy with what I have and who I am. I really only have my best friend and my long-term boyfriend, both of which I love so much. But seeing others have large groups of friends and go out every night, I can't help but feel inadequate.
I suppose learning to accept yourself for who you are is a long journey but it's starting to feel like an endless one. I'm stuck between learning to love myself or changing who I am. Maybe the solution is a mix of both. I have to remind myself that I'm still 19 and there's so much more growing I have left to do. I like that I'm not everyone's taste, I like being a little weird, and I like being true to myself. But every time I spend time with people I can't help but feel awkward. I'm crushed by this fear that I'm off-putting or unfunny. I have such a hard time making deep connections with people but I also acknowledge that I can be extremely closed off. My boyfriend and my best friend tell me it's all in my head, but I also know that I've never been the kind of girl to be popular let alone have a lot of friends.
Maybe I'm limiting myself to my childhood experience but it's hard to shake the memory of the lonely little girl I once was and still am. My school semester started last week and I've really pushed myself to talk to people. I'm praying to meet people that I might actually talk to outside of class and not just forget once the semester is over. High school was so easy, you saw the same people every year, but in college, it just feels like people forget you once you leave their eyesight. Despite it all, I do have hope to make more friends and push myself out of my comfort zone. I'm promising myself to do more not because others are but because I think it'll make me happy.
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[Transcript] Season 3, Episode 6. 2023 Holiday Special, Part 2
When you see so many holiday movies, you've got to make a second podcast episode. That's what the Stereo Geeks had to do when we got a little too into the holiday spirit in 2023.
Listen to the episode on Spotify.
Hello, and welcome back to Stereo Geeks.
We've got a new episode, and this is the second part of our Holiday Special.
I'm Mon.
And I'm Ron.
We watch so many holiday films this year, we have a lot of thoughts.
We've broken it down per platform, which hopefully makes it easier for you to find.
Anyway, let's start with the first movie that we watched this year, holiday movie that is, Dashing Through the Snow.
You and I had very different reactions to this movie.
I thought it was kind of sweet.
And I have to admit, it's nice to see a movie where an adult finds the magic of Christmas.
This was a truly terrible film.
Okay, wow.
There was no redeeming it.
It was so unfunny.
The graphics were terrible.
The performances, honestly, I don't know what happened.
The actors deserve better, but also they could have put in better.
Yeah, I just, I think the issue was that the first scene that we have set in the present, it set up this very real emotional problem that so many people are facing, especially during the holiday season.
It's such a core story.
And I just thought, oh wow, this, you know, it really got me.
And then we went into Christmas magic in Santa Claus.
So one of the things that we've realized this year while we've been watching holiday films is that you don't like Santa Claus being in the movies.
I do not.
This whole Christmas magic solving all our problems situation is ridiculous.
Who are they making these movies for?
There is no Christmas magic solving all our problems.
Such a cynic.
I am undoubtedly the wrong person to be watching Christmas movies, that's for sure.
But let's move on to another platform, Amazon.
I know that you started off with Genie.
So my streak of watching Christmas movies that I disliked intensely continued with Genie.
This was terrible.
I couldn't get into it.
It stars Melissa McCarthy as the titular Genie.
Listen, she's great, but she's doing what she usually does.
You're watching Melissa McCarthy be the best Melissa McCarthy.
It's nothing new.
And the story was, I don't know if I missed something.
I feel like there were some rules that may have been explained that either I missed, fell asleep, I don't know.
But yeah, this was just very underwhelming.
It also felt like it was trying to be Aladdin, the Disney movie.
I just don't know what happened here.
All I can say is, yeah, no.
Well, we then moved to Merry Little Batman, which is an animated film for younger audiences.
And unfortunately, it was cringy and annoying.
I really, really struggled with this one.
Who was this film for?
If you look at the artistic style, which is very specific in particular, it's not appealing to younger audiences.
It's not appealing to any audiences.
It's true.
And the story itself, who is it talking to?
I've always struggled with Damian Wayne.
I don't like him.
I don't like him in the comics.
I don't like him when I met him in other TV shows.
I just don't like him.
And in this movie, he is extremely unlikable, very frustrating to watch, and he destroys everything.
And the film tries to address the fact that he's basically being a bad guy at Christmas, but then it just kind of brushes it off.
This movie was very obviously made so that they could sucker in Batman fans.
And in the end, we realized that we were the suckers.
Because there are a lot of references to Batman properties that have come before, but some of those references just seem like plain old plagiarism.
It's true.
So shall we move on to some more interesting films?
Let's talk about Candy Cane Lane.
I'm in two minds about this film.
The first act is very real.
They deal with these real problems that the essential family is facing.
Kids are growing up.
They have their own minds.
They're making their own decisions, which don't really align with what their parents want for them or think they want for them.
The parents themselves are dealing with workplace pressures, workplace problems.
Honestly, I was just quite thrilled by what I was seeing.
And then they have this very beautiful parade of lights.
There's a scene where they're basically going down Candy Cane Lane to view all the lights in the houses.
Oh, I love that scene.
It's magical.
And then it gets weird, because this movie is about Christmas magic.
And yeah, it was weird.
It was really weird.
It lost me after that.
Maybe other people will enjoy it, but it was not for me.
Maybe I'll take a look, and we can discuss it later.
But here's a film we really did enjoy, and that was called Xmas.
I didn't think we'd like it, but oh my God, it was really funny.
This was surprisingly funny, but I have to say, a lot of the laughs came from Robbie Amell's character.
I don't know if it was because he was given the better dialogues or if it was his dialogue delivery.
We were hooting with laughter.
It was really, really funny.
I mean, the film is a rom-com.
It's set around Christmas.
Of course, it has some tropes and silliness and in general, contrivances that are completely unbelievable.
But yeah, I just enjoyed laughing so hard with this film.
It does take a surprisingly dark turn near the end.
And one of the things that we kind of keep bumping into with some of these films is that they're so white.
And this movie was very much like that.
They have one token black character, but it's really weirdly funny.
We were literally laughing out loud.
Yeah, they kind of seem to be setting up a sequel, which is weird.
I don't know how I feel about it, but maybe I'm into it.
Who knows?
Let's move on to Netflix.
So you watched The Bad Guys, A Very Bad Holiday.
I was never going to watch this.
Please tell me.
Yeah, so this is an animated spin-off of The Bad Guys film.
It's a bunch of animals who are villains, criminals.
It's a short film, and another one that seems to suggest that it'll be an annual affair.
You know what?
It wasn't bad.
It was fun.
It's a really quick 25 minutes.
I was initially worried that the sensual gimmick wouldn't work.
We are talking about villains in an animated film for kids.
How are they going to either commit crimes and make it look good, or not commit crimes and not be preachy?
But they make it work.
Kind of fun.
I'm surprised to hear that because I forgot this movie even existed.
But we did watch one of the most stressful films of the holiday season, Christmas as Usual.
Now, the funny thing about this movie is it's based on real people.
It's a real story, which actually makes me worry about them a little bit.
This was overly fraught and chaotic and hectic.
I actually didn't like this film at all.
I did like the locale.
We go to this place in Norway, you know, these beautiful landscapes, et cetera.
But I didn't like this movie.
I thought the characters were very annoying, especially with regards to food.
I actually really liked this movie.
I think maybe because it was just so different from all the other Christmas movies that you've seen.
It's about an Indian gentleman who goes to his fiance's home in Norway, except she's very resistant to telling her family that she is marrying him.
And it's very much about culture clashes.
So he makes this Indian food and they're choking and dying on it.
And he despises their pork belly.
He thinks it's bland.
So yeah, very weird stuff about food.
But I really like the specificity of the experiences in that film.
And it makes sense once you realize that it's actually based on a real couple.
But that family was hella racist.
Even that dog was racist.
As much as you want to couch it in the fact that it's based on real life, which is, you know, complicated, to say the least, I just couldn't get into this.
They were so annoying, all these people.
And when I realized that they were real, yes, you have to heighten things for story purposes.
I get it.
I'm sure people want that dramatic in real life, but I don't know.
I just didn't like these characters.
Let's move on then.
So you watched a movie called Best Christmas Ever, to segue into another film where I didn't like some of the characters.
It's not intentional.
Listen, this film, Best Christmas Ever, it's kind of sweet.
And it does deal with very human emotions and dynamics, like success, the feeling of success, lack of success, judging people, wishing to be like other people, you know?
All very real emotions.
It really fell away in the third act because Christmas magic.
It was so real before that, you know?
It just feels like they ran out of ideas and they wanted to tie it up with a nice little neat bow.
I was really disappointed in how it ended.
That being said, the movie stars Heather Graham, who I haven't seen in a long time, so that was nice.
And it also stars Brandy, who has a few songs in there.
So it's really nice because I've forgotten how beautiful her voice is.
Honestly, the magical part is listening to her voice.
I don't know why they didn't just stick to that.
Oh, fascinating.
I might actually check it out.
So I got a movie called Holiday in the Vineyards.
It was kind of amusing at first.
The main actor, his name is Josh Swickard.
I've never seen him before, but he was really funny initially.
It's basically about this rich guy who's trying to buy up this vineyard for his mother.
He goes undercover and ends up falling in love with the widow he's staying with.
And she's played by Sol Rodriguez, who was Teresa on Picard season 2.
It's very weird how similar her character is to Teresa.
Did they just make the story about Teresa?
For the most part, it was okay, but I hate to say this, but once the romance started, it just became kind of dull.
In all honesty, the romance is based on a lie.
I don't see how that's going to pan out well in the future.
Well, that's how every Disney movie turns out, so it's okay.
I'm being sarcastic in case anybody's wondering.
The one and only holiday film that we caught on own was The Christmas Detective.
I thought this film was delightful.
I agree with you, it was delightful.
I think that it has a lot to do with the fact that the detective story was the central focus and not the romance.
I also think it helps that Javicia Leslie is the protagonist of this film.
She is so charming, so normal and real.
She has this easygoing persona that really worked with this film.
Because the film is not really very high stakes, a little bit, but not too much.
Most of the pressure that the characters are feeling is really like internal, personal pressure that they're putting on themselves.
I really like that.
She works so well, has this sort of quirky, interesting, nosy sort of character.
It was really good fun.
Yeah, you've got these Christmas aesthetics, but it's basically a mystery.
So what's not to love?
But the majority of our holiday watching was, of course, on Hallmark.
Now, I started off with a film called Christmas in Notting Hill.
Very, very low stakes.
It's about this footballer and this teacher who meet in England, and he's apparently an English footballer, but she's a teacher from America.
She doesn't know anything about football, so she doesn't know that he's this, you know, famous guy.
And it's funny because it kind of reminded me of the story of how Glenn McGrath met his wife, and they were in some other country, and people just kept coming up and saying hi to him, and she was like, oh, he's like a really popular guy here. And later on, she found out that he's actually an Australian cricketer.
So I like that.
But the meet-cute in this film is that he bumps into her and breaks a sentimental ornament.
I'm sorry, but I don't care what the person looks like.
That's a complete no-no.
But because he looks like William Moseley, the lady completely loses her mind and decides that she's in love with him.
Anyway, it was okay to have on in the background a good starting point for the Christmas season of 2023.
But there was one bit in the film that was a little bit different.
There was this part where the two main characters are trying to do a Secret Santa, and it's like it was completely from a different film.
It was directed so well, and it was so exciting.
I wish the rest of the film had been like that.
The rest of it was just a Hallmark movie.
I've never seen a Secret Santa in a film.
I'd love to watch that.
So another film that we kind of just ended up watching was Christmas with a Kiss.
This is a very traditional love triangle story.
I find those very difficult to watch.
Yeah, this was a bit cringey.
I like that this is a very hallmark film with all the hallmarks of a Hallmark film.
But the central characters are mostly a Black family and their community.
But I don't know, it was just so tropey and so quintessentially Hallmark.
I was like, please, at least we are away from something.
So the protagonist is this influencer based in the big city.
And of course, her story needs to be that she's not happy there and she's lonely.
So she needs to come back to her hometown and take over the family business because that's the only way that she'll find love and happiness.
I don't know why Hallmark movies insist on doing this because it's so unrealistic.
Not all big cities are bad and they're not all bad for all the people.
It's just so trying to keep watching it.
I guess it was a novelty when it first started, but now we've only watched these hallmark movies for like three years running, and I'm already tired of this trope.
I think one of the reasons why we ended up watching Christmas with a Kiss was because of Ronnie Rowe, who we used to watch in Star Trek Discovery.
He was very good in it, but his character is kind of weird.
It was hot and cold with that guy.
One minute he's like the sweetest person ever, and then he makes some judgmental comment, and you're like, go away.
I don't think that helped, because you have to have consistency of characterization, not saying people aren't complicated, etc.
Are they doing something which is completely irredeemable?
Is that a character trait, or is that something that just was, you know, something out of character?
You have to think about that.
Maybe we're thinking too much.
It is a Hallmark film.
We're thinking too much into it.
It's not that deep.
The next film did have Santa Claus in it.
Catch Me If You Claus.
What did you think?
That was a no from me.
I'm sorry.
Santa is hot and he's part of the romance.
This movie was somehow overly convoluted and boring.
That was my problem with this movie.
Why was it so dull?
It had a good premise.
Santa Claus' son is now taking over and he's doing a very bad job.
He's also played by Luke McFarlane, who is basically a staple of Christmas movies.
We know that now.
And they have this big mystery of how they're supposed to stop these bad guys and deliver all these Christmas presents.
And somehow it is so slow, so dull, so badly paced.
I couldn't wait for this movie to finish.
Which is a shame because I felt like it was better acted than the usual Hallmark film.
But unfortunately, I just could not, with the second act dragging as long as it did, with all these random things thrown in.
And also, we kind of figured out the reveal a long time before the characters did.
So when it happens in film, you're like, okay.
And Italia Ritchie and Luke McFarlane have so much chemistry, but it seems like they had a very small budget because there were like three sets perhaps, seven for the most part, and they didn't have anything to play with.
I don't know why they made this film like that.
Fun fact, Italia Ritchie, who is the star of Catch Me If You Claus, is the wife of Robbie Amell, who was the star of Ex-Mas.
And their movies premiered on the same day.
Oh, that's funny.
So here's a movie that was slightly different.
It's called Round and Round.
Not a Christmas film, but a Hanukkah film.
I thought that was a really good idea because I have not been able to catch a Hanukkah film before.
So this movie uses the time loop as a central gimmick.
I love time travel.
Obviously, I was going to watch this movie.
The bits that I liked in this film were all the traditions that are observed during Hanukkah.
Those are very interesting.
I really liked being able to see those.
I feel like I would have liked a bit more.
But there's this weird throughline about women not being into geeky stuff, which felt so 90s.
In 2023, it does not make sense.
I'm pretty sure half the audience for Marvel movies and video games are women and queer people.
And let's not forget, women are the reason why Star Trek still exists.
If you look through our entire episode list, you'll see that Ron and Mon definitely like their geeky stuff.
So I just couldn't get past that bit.
It just bothered me a lot.
And also, this is something that I just struggle with = time loop stories which have romances in them.
There's something so unbalanced.
One person knows everything about their love interest.
The love interest doesn't even know this person exists.
How can that be a love story?
It's what bothered me about Groundhog Day.
It's what bothered me when I was watching About Time.
And Round and Round does the same thing.
It does try and question that, but it's literally the last scene and it's just brushed off.
Oh, that's disappointing.
Now, this year, I tried something different.
I watched two horror movies set during Christmas time.
The first one I watched, It's a Wonderful Knife.
Now, from the title, you can tell that it's somewhat related to It's a Wonderful Life.
In this film, a young woman manages to stop a serial killer, but she's not particularly happy after the whole thing goes down.
She's lost her best friend.
She's the only one who seems to be pining for everything that went down.
Everybody else has moved on, and she's like, there was a serial killer.
How is everybody okay with just living life?
Also, she's kind of obviously not the favorite child in her household.
So she wishes to the stars about not being born, and that's exactly what happens.
So she ends up in this alternate universe, where, because she wasn't there, the slasher continued slashing.
So many people are dead, including her beloved brother.
It's up to her to save the town and stop the killer, which is not very easy because she doesn't exist.
I love this movie.
I am so surprised because I don't really like horror movies and slasher films especially, but this was an amazing concept.
It was really sweet at times because there was this slow burn queer romance.
It was just thoroughly enjoyable.
I'm highly recommending it.
Well, that's different.
I would love to watch it, but slashers and horrors, they keep me up at night, but I'm so tempted now.
I will say that there isn't as much gore in this film.
There are a few moments, obviously, where there's some blood, but it's not as bad as you would expect.
Maybe give it a watch?
Close your eyes.
But another horror movie that I just couldn't get through was called The Sacrifice Game.
I watched this because Mena Massoud was in it.
He was excellent.
He was really, really terrifying.
But it was just too gory for me.
There are certain kinds of gore that after a while I just can't, and then it kind of goes into this satanic ritual thing, which, I'm sorry, I just found it so cringe.
They were trying so hard.
The actors are doing such an amazing job, and I was just like, I can't, it's so cringe.
So, I'm sorry, actors involved in this movie.
Y'all did a good job, but I just couldn't.
Okay, well, now we can come back to something normal.
We watched two other Hallmark movies, and these are two queer movies, which, as we said, Hallmark only started doing these recently.
So, the first one that we watched was Christmas on Cherry Lane.
It's three different stories centering different families, and we find out along the way how these three families are connected.
I think this was my favorite Christmas film of this year.
I loved the concept, I loved the families in it.
I felt like the stakes weren't very high, but they were so personal, and I really liked how they kept dropping these little Easter eggs, and then you'd see the connection later on.
It was really surprisingly complex for a Hallmark movie, and I think that's how it worked, because we went in there with pretty low expectations, and it turned out to be extremely good.
Yeah, it was really sweet and charming, I will say.
I think it's time for Jonathan Bennett's Christmas characters to move away from the whole adoption storyline.
He's had three in a row now.
We can do something different.
But in general, it was really charming, quite emotional from time to time.
But what I liked most about this film was that it had a lot of singing interludes, and they were singing these Christmas songs that we know and love.
It really brought that Christmas feeling.
A lot of these films, they just…
I don't know if they don't have the rights or what.
They don't actually use Christmas songs, Christmas carols, etc. even in the background.
So this one, which really hopped on about this is Christmas, the importance of Christmas, this is the feeling of Christmas.
I just really, really loved that.
Honestly, this was a surprise, but I just enjoyed it so much.
Highly recommend this film.
And one of the reasons why I think we enjoyed it was because this film had relationships that were already established.
One of the things that we struggled with Hallmark films is that there's a lot of messiness involved in the whole falling in love for the first time with somebody aspect.
And this movie just does away with that because these are all relationships that have existed for a while.
And we're coming into the middle of the story.
I think Hallmark needs to do more of that.
Yeah, and the last film that we watched was Friends and Family Christmas.
This is a little bit more regular Hallmark.
Two people brought together, find a connection, something gets in the way of that connection, and then how does it all end?
Very sweet, very charming.
I kind of believe these two people coming together and kind of rooting for their romance, because even though they didn't have the greatest chemistry, I think it really worked as a story.
Yeah, this was a lot of fun, actually.
I thought this was a really, really cute queer film.
It's not super white, thank goodness.
There was some amount of chemistry between the actors, and in all honesty, the whole fake dating trope, people love it.
It's a huge thing in fan fiction, and in a queer romance, oh my God, I'm surprised more people aren't talking about this film.
And you know what, I think the other reason why this film kind of worked was because you got to see a little bit about their lives beyond the romance, and their families, and their work.
There's a lot of that in it.
It's kind of like a sticking point for the queer couple, but it just ended up being really cute and very warm and fuzzy.
And that's a nice way for us to end this episode.
Thank you for joining us for our two-part Christmas special.
See you next time.
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Squidbillies #30: “The Appalachian Mud Squid: Darwin's Dilemma” | March 24, 2008 - 12:00AM | S03E10
This episode begins with a nature documentary about the squids, giving THIS viewer some impression that maybe this would be the entire episode. A gimmick episode, if you will, which Adult Swim has a penchant for. I also thought that maybe it would feel like some kind of unnecessary introduction to the characters and the show. When this act is premeditated and includes a significant promotional push they call that “re-piloting”. Luckily, that’s not really the case here, because the nature documentary part is brief, and what we do see of it seems sorta pointless. It turns out to have exactly one point: to establish the species of squid the Cuylers are (Appalachian Mud Squids, like the title says), and that they are endangered.
Cheers! To Squidbillies, for dispensing with the fake documentary format after it proves to operate at a laugh-deficit! But, Jeers! to Squidbillies, for ending this segment on yet another unfunny gag where the squids have murdered a human and are eating that human, as though it’s acceptable to just have your unsavory characters be psycho killers for comedic effect. I don’t think it’s offensive, it’s just like, really obvious and staid territory, especially on Adult Swim. I think I said this story once, but I once wrote on a failed TV show where the least-creative person involved in the production would constantly use the gag of “man eating another man’s corpse for no reason” as though it was the pinnacle of comedy and not just an idea that is extremely easy to think of.
Anyway: The episode is mostly about Sheriff’s attempts to protect the squids, due to their endangered status. He puts himself in front of a Jaguar attack (more like an f-slurguar, says Early… RUDE!), and then tags the squids and invades their space to put safety locks on various cabinets whose contents may harm them. Sheriff also replaces Early bitchin’ monster truck with a safety sedan. Early immediately wraps his lips around the exhaust pipe. He’d rather be dead than drive a sensible vehicle.
The ending of the episode involves Dan Halen hosting an endangered species hunt with some Japanese tourists. I assumed this was influenced by “Whale Wars”, the Animal Planet docuseries about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and their attempts to thwart Japanese whaling boats. After some light googling I discovered that the show didn’t actually debut until later in 2008. But, I’m guessing that the Sea Shepherds were getting some form of publicity and that it played some role in the writing of this episode.
Squidbillies is continuing this season’s streak of being not particularly lovable, but respectably consistent and fairly amusing. Good for them.
EPHEMERA CORNER:
Frisky Dingo - Season One DVD (March 25, 2008)
My God! I nearly forgot to cover this. Lucky for me, I don’t have to say anything about it, really. There’s literally no extras on this at all. I guess the added value is that you have all the episodes of season one in one place, and can watch them in their proper order. That was still sorta valuable in 2008. These days, it’s only valuable in theory, provided HBOMax yanks the show offline, you can’t get a cable login for Adult Swim’s app, or you don’t know how to torrent shows.
The only true extra you could claim this has is that they were originally packaged with the prerequisite Adult Swim promo leaflet, with a listing of their other DVD releases on one side and a replica of the “Welcome to you’re ‘doom’” postcard from the series on the other. That’s fun, if you’re a Frisky Dingo megafan. I, however, am a dipshit who bought every non Robot Chicken Adult Swim show on DVD for completest reasons.
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You know that one scene in game where valrius spills his drink on MC on purpose? How do you think the other courtiers and Nadia would react if MC got up without saying a word and proceeded to pour their own drink right on valirius head and leaned in real close and said “oops”? I saw a scene like this in a show and thought it was the most badass thing ever xx
(Sorry for the misspelling, I’m god awful with their names)
Oh, yes, I saw that scene. :)
Well, it's going to be fun!
Countess Nadia
As a well-bred ruler of the state, she is extremely amazed. Even more: she's in shock. Moreover, it is unclear why exactly she is more in shock – from Valerius' antics or because of the way the MC answered him.
The surprised Countess runs up to MC and Valerius, wondering what happened, who first started this whole nightmare and for what purpose it was set up. Of course, the question is: "who started it first?" rhetorical. She squints irritably at the blushing Valerius, who clearly did not expect that this act would be noticed.
Nadia reprimands the culprit first: "Consul, I did not expect this from you, your behavior is unacceptable and from this day on I forbid you to appear in rooms where others gather with a glass of wine" – even such a harmless remark can hurt Valerius' self-confidence.
After talking to the adviser, she slowly turns to the MC and already addresses them, with the same stern expression on her face. Yes, the Countess is strict, but very fair and wants everyone to get what they deserve. "MC, I understand that you are angry at Valerius because of this terrible act, but try not to do it again. This is not worthy of any reaction. Now let me deal with your stain on your clothes."
As a result, Valerius, hurt by pride, goes to wash his hair and grumbles, and Nadia leaves MC next to her to discuss what happened. She intends to have this conversation with both MC and Valerius when he gets himself in order.
"MC, I am very ashamed of my adviser, I apologize for his antics. I'll talk to him and try to make sure he doesn't try to embarrass you anymore."
Nadia will definitely make Valerius apologize to MC. And the MC will also be obliged to apologize for what he did: she doesn't want people around her to conflict or hate each other.
Quaestor Valdemar
They are not doing anything to stop what is happening. Seriously, they absolutely don't care about this brawl, they just act as a silent observer who came to watch an unfunny cheap performance.
Not a single emotion flashes on their face, but their eyes are closely watching both MC and Valerius. But at the same time Valdemar is not on anyone's side.
When the MC takes and pours wine on Valerius' head, the reaction still appears: they laugh softly, hissing into their fists, squinting their eyes. It's almost impossible to see or hear.
Since their face is hidden by a medical mask, it is difficult to determine: is Valdemar funny or are they just snorting contemptuously? Oh, no, it's really something like a laugh. They haven't had this much fun in a long time.
At the end of this meeting, they will not say anything to MC or Valerius, but they will remember this case for a long time.
Valdemar could not resist and nevertheless inserted their remark: "Valerius, you should not have taken this fatal step. Your pride is wounded," and then spreads into a wide toothy smile that can be seen even through the mask.
In their opinion, this is a good way to put the arrogant Valerius in his place, so they have nothing against it.
Pontifex Vulgora
Get ready. Their laughter will shake the whole room, and Valerius' rage will become uncontrollable, because "no one dares to laugh at the supreme consul!". But Vulgora clearly doesn't care.
"FUCK, VALERIUS, NOW YOUR HEAD LOOKS LIKE YOU'VE ALREADY HAD YOUR SKULL CRUSHED!"
They catch judgmental glances at themselves, but they don't care at all. They laugh uncontrollably, flavoring their laughter with prickly and witty comments. Finally, this reception has become less boring.
Vulgora does not care about the condemnatory views and comments of everyone present. In a fit of emotion, they can hit something in a hurry and it will definitely suffer.
For example, it can be a vase. And it will be noisy until the Pontifex releases them and they come to their senses, or until the Countess calms them down.
But even after that, they will remember this situation for a long time and make rude jokes on this topic.
Vulgora are even proud that they did not miss this reception and saw the spectacle while being at the forefront.
Preator Vlastomil
Looks at the spectacle with a bit of surprise. Not that what was happening was important to him, because all this time he was busy looking at the worms that he carried in the folds of his clothes and woke up only when he heard Valerius's indignant scream.
"What's going on here?! You are scaring my children!" – he is outraged, for the most part, not by what the MC did, but by the fact that because of Valerius, who began to resent loudly, his worms hid back in the folds of his clothes and now refuse to come out again.
When he sees Valerius doused with wine, he is not thrilled. Now there is a smell of this drink around, because of which his worms will definitely not crawl out now.
However, he is still watching this scene. After all, what else does Vlastomil like besides worms? That's right, gossip. Fresh gossip. Therefore, he discards indignation and collects material for gossip related to Valerius. This is a great reason to put him in front of everyone in an unfavorable light.
Do not be surprised if in a few days the whole palace will be talking about it. Vlastomil, of course, if he is suspected, will say that he has nothing to do with it, but since he is the only most avid gossip here, you should not believe him.
Valerius' reputation has suffered because of him.
Procurator Volta
Like Vlastomil, she wasn't particularly interested in this meeting. She was fascinated by the food she had secretly brought into the room and was just eating all the time.
Exactly until the room was filled with the smell of poured wine on Valerius' hair. She giggles softly, unable to contain her laughter. Valerius is always so proud and arrogant, and now he's so awkward and funny.
"Now Valerius smells so nice of the drink!" – she squeaks.
If Vlastomil is the main gossip of the palace, then Volta deservedly takes second place. Together with him, she, occasionally laughing, and discussing with him all the awkwardness of the incident.
When the performance is interrupted by Nadia's remarks, Volta quickly loses interest in this small scandal and returns to eating again.
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