#im probably just confused again

[vanlegion]

Oh no, It's Again

Hey guys! I'm having another "Did this happen in the show?" moment. This time though I'm wonder if there are different versions between what's on the DVD/BluRays vs what's on (or was on) the RT website/YouTube/ThirdParty sites. An example of this is like, during season 5 when Kai is introduced and Grif goes to give her back to Blue Team, Simmon's comes up and is talking with Grif about the 'Prisoner Exchange' - Now the first time I saw this and for what I assume is the same for DVD/BlueRay and the rest - Grif kinda of plays it off and starts walking away while Simmon's in confused like 'Where's your sister?' However apparently there's an alternate scene to this - someone on TY animated it using 'Chupathingy' creatures (it was a very neat and fun animation, they've done a few of them) and they used that scene, but they used an alternate version(?) of it because Grif starts saying she captured someone and it was a hostage situation Simmon's starts talking about some maneuver she used - which is obviously meant to be a kinky thing. I do not remember this scene on the DVDS or my rewatch before Restoration? However, I swore there WAS a DVD scene in the later season 7 when Grif was going to help Caboose... or maybe slightly earlier when Simmon's was becoming disillusioned with Sarge, and he'd gone off to sulk - and we end up with Grif trying to talk to him in the underground Hologram Chamber while Simmons was shooting Holo-Grifs. . . but they sorta just get into a fight before Grif leaves... I had been reading a fic that included this, and like, I was reading it and as I did I could see the scene in my head... it felt like I was recalling seeing that, except I had just rewatched all of RVB a week prior and was like, wait - did I miss seeing that this time? Does anyone know if this was a deleted scene, or an alternate take, or if I'm just doing that 'This moment in a Fic felt canon' again thing? I know sometimes in shows and movies you can see a scene and then in another iteration of it, it's not there. A PRIME example I have of this is when I watched Jurassic Park for the first time when it first aired in theaters. There's a moment after the main characters first arrive on the island, the groups are split up into two cars. As they are going along, Ellie got smacked in the face by a big plant, and the leaf that smacked into her got ripped off. THAT is why in the scene when they stop before seeing the Brachiosaurus, she's suddenly holding this big fucking leaf. But in the VHS and early DVDs, that scene was cut for time, so it's like.. if I hadn't seen that in the movie ages before, I'd be like. . . Where the fuck did that leaf come from? ANYWHO, that is to say, if anyone has any recollection of the scene I'm describing or if anyone knows of any scenes like this, feel free to comment and let me know.

[dasiesanddarkness]

i need to speak my truth/get something off my chest so confession time (aka hot take time?): i never read Kaz and Jesper's relationship as Jesper having a crush on Kaz (please for the love of god don't hate me for this okay. im open to conversation but if you yell at me for this istg)

do i see why other people read it like that? yeah of course i do. it makes total sense, it's just never what i got from it. i always thought that what others interpreted as pining was just him longing for some kind of emotional connection with someone. Kaz and Inej trusted each other and communicated with each other in a way that they never did with Jesper. he was always on the outside, and it had to have been incredibly difficult. he saw that Kaz could trust someone, and he could have a close relationship with someone, just that that someone couldn't be him. Jesper's intense longing for Kaz to like him and trust him is something i have personally felt when watching two people that are clearly good friends interact. also, the desperate need to please and be approved of by him seemed (to me) very similar to the way i wanted my older sister to approve of me. it seemed (to me) like jesper wanted to be acknowledged as tolerable in a way that people dont usually want from partners. idk i just never read it as "Jesper likes Kaz"

[korolation]

amber redesign woooo

[jasperandhenryslovechild]

dude i gen can't stop thinking about how shit everything went for ray throughout henry danger / danger force because JESUS CHRIST IS THAT MAN A WRECK. i love it so much it makes him such a good character but GOD....

like. he's always been a narcissistic, irresponsible, self absorbed man child and he has blatantly ADMITTED IT by the end of hd. but at first? at first it wasn't as bad. like we see in episodes like the indestructible henry 2 parter that ray did have some sense of that this was too dangerous for henry (ie: "youre just a kid! what right do I have to take you around with me and put you in all kinds of dangerous situations?"). we see him be genuinely concerned for his safety and well-being but, at the same time, episodes like tears of a jolly beetle (where ray sends henry to fight crime alone for days after being hired less than like what, 2 weeks ago? maybe a month??) show his negligence and lack of awareness about how this could be affecting henry

as henry grows older and matures more, so do the class of crimes he has to get through— as would be expected, but at the same time, that fact is putting more stress on him and therefore he can't really pursue an education because of being constantly at the man cave right? and ray doesn't see it at all. he doesn't notice a decrease in school stories from henry, etc, because he himself never had to worry about school. he didn't even go and he turned out fine, why wouldn't henry? and as henry grows and matures, ray feels less responsible to take the upper hand and protect the kid because he can protect himself— his responsibility for him dwindles and he finds himself "putting henry through all kinds of dangerous (and irresponsible/lwk stupid) situations" anyway (ex s4 ep 2 henry's birthday, when ray mentions he took like a week off to go ride every rollercoaster in texas but did not let henry take his birthday off, or s5 ep 33 rumblr when ray falls into a sort of depressive episode over not having any new criminals to fight and letting henry & team danger take on the responsibility of pulling him out of it). almost constantly throughout both shows, the kids take care of him rather him take care of them.

and sure, it's genuinely all because of his upbringing. like s1 ep 17, caved in, shows us how neglected ray was as a child. he had a lack of knowledge in things kids did because he never got to be a kid himself due to his forced crime fighting career. he's too into his head to realize that's genuinely the exact same thing he's doing to henry— at a young, fundamental age in his life, he too is pulling a kid out of basic education and fun teen stuff to get him to instead fight crime for him. because of this, he loses the chance at a life beyond it. what seperates him and ray in a way that i don't think ray would ever truly grasp is that, unlike him, henry actually cares about what he's lost. he knows its weight and wants it back. ray never has. ray has never seen a reason to change the way he is because he refuses to pick up any answer dropped in front of him.

when henry ends up quitting (and everyone goes with him) ray loses a support system. he's too fucking fragile to have adult friends beyond schwoz for whatever reason, so the one place he had for people to actually care about him or listen to him was team danger. and now, that duty's passed onto danger force because they're the ones who are gonna have to stick with him now.

and then, at the end of danger force, ray hits his midlife crisis a bit early, marries his ex sidekicks wife that he met like 9 episodes ago, buys a boat, retires, and never comes back. like. WHAT?? without even giving df any proper warning before like what, the 2nd to last episode? are they even trained to handle all this on their own? will they be fine? and like, did you think about anybody outside of yourself before making this choice.

NO!

no, because that's the entire point of him as a character— he is aware, but he is still in denial. he still refuses to change because everything has worked out just fine for him thus far. he's never had a normal life— he's never owned his own house, he's never had a normal job, he's never had anything outside of what his father and the government have molded up for him so he believes that is all he is and can be. retiring is a realization that he can finally sever those ropes and become something like normal, but not quite. retiring is ray manchester's form of closure from all the things his capitan man alter ego have kept him from in the past.

ray, inherently, is not a good or bad character. he does good things, but he is irresponsible with how he goes about it. he cares about people, but above that cares about himself. i think that makes for SUCH a GOOD FUCKING CHARACTER. he is supposed to be this hero character archetype— loving, kind, strong— and while he is all those things, he's also got fundamental flaws that he cannot see or change that set him apart from that. he wrecked the lives of his sidekicks because he didn't have a concept of what should and shouldn't take priority when it came down to training them. when he had to take responsibility for how they turned out because of it, either they fled or he did. he always ran or found a way out of having to think about the affects of his actions— and that's probably most likely kept him up at night.

like jesus christ his character evolution is less of an evolution and more of a devolution/j

but that's what i LOVE about him. ray is not normal and never will be! #! #!

thank you for coming to that unexpectedly long rant i only expected to write like 2 paragraphs and then i just kept going

[sncinder]

I am genuinely done with chronically online book fans please kindly throw yourselves into the ocean

[ridragon]

You guys should read 17776. It's best to go in blind. It's about how football will look in the future.

(Warning that there is a very fast moving part specifically in the beginning in case you have photosensitivity, and the story includes gifs and videos. If you are sensitive to unreality some parts may bother you.)

[fraternum-momentum]

ofc it's the collar that bugs u (sorry am just joking)

WHAHUH whats that supposed to mean ??????????

[danielnelsen]

so if you romance and ascend astarion you can kick him in the balls when he tries to turn you and it’s just very funny, he’s so pissy about it. so much for the most powerful vampire of all time or whatever, he stamps around like a toddler and then leaves forever

[viridianv0id]

Any mind readers in chat I need to know if I'm as mentally ill as I think I am

[05velvet]

whenever i work a lot i get so excited for my day off but then once i get it i start to spiral and i cant enjoy it bc apparently working and being busy is not a cure for whatever is going on for u mentally and only serves as a distraction from the horrors

[lovelyisadora]

why is my dad buying saxophone reeds hello

[callabosgeis]

RIP callabosgeis (2024-2024)

Hi i deleted all my posts lmao i kept some normal reblogs and the ones that i still found funny but i deleted most of them too sad face emoji

Tbh I lost my lotf fixation a while ago and ive also been strugling with artblock since march I think euehghuguuheuhg not good not good...😿​😿​😿​

Its been a while since i posted but my account didnt bother me much till now idk what happened but i dont like it anymore ew

Anyways even though i deleted my posts tumblr doesnt delete reblogs so you can still probably find most of my art on here i doubt anyone will look for it tho LMAO

Sigh...bye twinks...

[skrunksthatwunk]

nothing like having an inconsistent regional accent to make you feel like a faker. yeah i have a southern accent kinda technically but it sneaks in through the screen door in the back. it couch surfs. and basically only appears when im talking with people with strong accents. or about accents. or about the south. in a way that makes me seem more suggestible than anything. like i swear im not making fun of you this just happens for like three words and then goes away 💀💀💀

[calamarispiderart]

on the topic of dreams like. do your dreams ever give you fake memories? like going somewhere completely impossible that doesnt exist and thinking "oh yeah, i remember going here in kindergarten". like, nothing in my dreams ever seem strange because in the dream thats how its always been

this ask is most certainly years old by now, but i suddenly want to answer it because i initially misread it to be talking about fake dream memories that carry over into real life. this is something i get ALL THE TIME. its been a thing on some level in the past but its been happening a lot more lately and its infuriating, especially when the false memories involve other people.

i frequently dream about people saying certain things and dont realise that wasnt actually said until a while later (eg ive dreamt of someone saying they were planning on doing something which i then expected irl to happen for a month, i dreamt someone asked me to do something for them, someone told me something about themselves etc etc), and i dream about having certain obligations or doing certain tasks... sometimes i make an art piece in a dream or make a call that ive been planning to do, in the dream, and then get confused hours or even days later when it turns out those things didnt actually happen... its SO ANNOYING!!!!!

does anyone else get this im wondering? certainly they do, or else i wouldnt be experiencing it myself (no experience is truely unique) but does anyone whos specifically read this post have these pseudo-memories from dreams that carry over into real life so vividly and cleanly? and if so whats it like for you?

also yes to your original ask anon; in my dreams i am basically always thoroughly convinced of all details and premise in the dreams. i believe this is common for most people who dream! i do occasionally and with frequency have thoughts and acknowledgements within the dream that it is a dream, and this is typically the thing that would pull one into lucidity, but ive actually been banned from lucid dreaming so it never gets further than that and i remain convinced that the impossible false details of the situation are pure honest reality

thank u for the ask!

[thrileikur]

fuuuuuuuck i guess i have to start making shokogum propaganda on top of my usual fubblefare now

its not that i dont hate the specific ship or think its inessential to anyone involved, i like the vault as an episode a lot but its hard for me to really formulate shoko as an individualized character because… thats literally finn. shes had her own plotline but the whole thing with her boils down to finn having to close the case on a centuries-old matter since its telling that its spiritually etched onto bonnie on how finn will always come back to her in any way that greatly merits her (and somehow im crazy for caring that much). the issue is that i learned i just cant really do with characters that dont consistently move the plot forward in shows with a narrative like at’s.

dont take this as hate if you find it, i greatly sympathize with shoko and find it distressing how she could never really solve any of her problems, especially hers with bonnies during the last minutes of her life. maybe thats what influenced bubbline