#like the concept seems cunty

[fearbehere]

there’s a lot to criticise about taylor swift but tonight she is like the christian god to me

[kuyaoya]

Oh no they've done it again. Nu carnival dropped more absolutely amazing art

Oh god they all look so good.

Something is for sure happening rn between these two. This will feed me for months. AHhhh precious Quinya food.

Kuya looks so fucking good omg look at him. What a perfect expression. What a perfect everything. The scissor hand is like claw! I love when he has claws! Also, sccissors hands? Edward scissor hands?? Autism, queer, disability metaphor Edward scissor hands????

The way kuya keeps his little neck piece. That is the same gem attachment.

Got a whole new cunty goth leather fit, but kept the collar. The BELT COLLAR. Ok, I'm normal about all of this don't worry.

I can think about parts of this image that aren't kuya! Really I promise I can you have to believe me. I've looked at the rest of it! Here's proof!

1) Quincy in a straight jacket is a delightful concept. I love when they muzzle him. Always fun. Seems like it's fun for kuya too, he looks like he's enjoying it. Oops sorry I'm talking about kuya again.

2) Father plague doctor mask is an inspired idea.

3) Reis eye bags actually slay on him. I propose Chimes of Darkness Sorcerer's trials school reboot event with sleep deprived student Rei.

Uhhh

4) Dante sure has tits! And gorgeous eyelashes! Blood splatters is a good look on him. On Rei too. Isn't it really cool that Rei and Dante both have blood stains on them but Kuya doesn't. Sure the claw scissor hand does but he himself is immaculate- SORRY SORRY IM BACK TO KUYA AGAIN

5) topper

Anyways the art is gorgeous, everyone looks so good, and kuya should move slightly so I can see if that belt thing he has mimics his normal SR belt with the cute bow on the back. Because it kinda looks like his cunty leather fit has a fucking bow on-

[curewimdy]

i think Sailor Moon's monsters tend to be more iconic than, for example, Precure monsters because you really can't go wrong with the hot lady+object/concept formula. like "cunty jigsaw puzzle catgirl" is just guaranteed to be a banger no matter what. but Precure monsters generally have to be large-scale and not humanoid because it's just better for the show's emphasis on physical combat and powerful punches and kicks -- you want to see those girls knock a modestly sized kaiju across a football field and you don't want the second graders in the audience to have to grapple with the implication of the Cures killing what seem to be sentient people, unless they're finishing off a midseason miniboss who is probably getting "purified" instead of killed anyway

[ynnova]

───── 🌸 𓂃 ⋆* Y/N'S HAIR TIMELINE

a look into the different hair styles you've had throughout the years! starting from treasure ep. 1 and going all the way till birthday. you have become well - known for your hair over the years along with your hime style cut that has become a staple to your idol image.

✶ TREASURE ERA ───

TREASURE EP.1 ─── you would sport brown hair with bright pink highlights. a lot of fans would really adore this look on 19 - year - old you and it really helped you stand out amongst the boys. you would also have bangs that would eventually become a part of your image.

TREASURE EP.2 ─── probably had what atiny would say is one of your more " safer " hairstyles. not to say it was bad, but atiny thought that kq could have done a little more. you dyed your hair a slightly dark brown, got rid of the highlights, and cut it a little bit. however, while a lot of atiny said that it was a little boring, there was also a lot of fans who said that this hairstyle this comeback gave you a more mature look and fit with the darker concept of ' say my name ' and ' hala hala. '

TREASURE EP.3 ─── you would dye your hair orange and during this era you notice how your popularity would begin to rise. overall, atiny really loved how much you glowed during this era and seemed to have fun during every performance. a lot of your fans would say that you did really well with the more bright and fun concepts.

TREASURE EP.FIN ─── this is where k-pop would first be introduced to the oreo hairstyle. you would also be the one to start the oreo line in ateez. a lot of fans thought you pulled this hair off really well especially since you were nervous about doing a hairstyle like this. during promotions for fever pt. 3, wooyoung would mention how you had inspired him to want to try the hairstyle himself.

TREASURE EPILOGUE ─── a lot of atiny consider this a favorite hair style. introducing the first time you would have the hime-cut, which is another iconic style that you will have along with your bangs. you have said that this is personally one of your favorite hairstyles you've done because you've always wanted to try the hime-cut and no matter how it was styled, you always felt confident with it. you also had this hair for TREASURE EP. MAP TO ANSWER japanese mini album.

✶ FEVER ERA ───

FEVER PART 1 ─── hello ms. blue hair! you were so excited to have this hair color, you also kept the hime-cut but left it a little longer than last comeback. the members and atiny also really liked your hair as well. near the end of promotions, you would dye your hair a light brown color.

FEVER PART 2 ─── CUNTY BOB!YN! hello, she was iconic, she was the moment. atiny loved how much you pulled this off. however, the fandom was devastated when they found out that the cunty bob was in fact a wig. the reason why you didn't cut it was because you were filming for your drama ' gothel ' at the time and needed to keep it long and dark brown. you also couldn't fully commit to cutting it that short yet. underneath the wig, it was longer and a dark brown as seen during some stages and videos. you also had this hair for INTO THE A TO Z japanese repackage album.

FEVER PART 3 ─── you went through a sort of vintage aesthetic during fever part 3 with your personal style and so your stylists and kq kind of went along with that when they dyed your hair blonde and for the most part styled it in curls giving it a sort of retro feel to it.

FEVER EPILOGUE ─── this comeback introduced a DIVA to atiny. this was such whiplash from fever ep. 3 that atiny were like " who is this DIVA " because you had went from a summer blonde with curtain bangs and curls to a dark brown, hime-cut, and no bangs. this was the first time atiny had seen your forehead and they didn't know what to do. iconic.

✶ THE WORLD ERA ───

THE WORLD EP.1 ─── atiny had been begging and waiting for pink!yn for YEARS, and they finally got it. no one was disappointed by this and you even trended on several platforms when fansites had posted your pictures all over twitter. atiny also like to say that this era in general was a great one for you because of how confident and excited you always looked when performing or during interviews.

SPIN-OFF FROM THE WITNESS ─── MICRO! BANGS! this was also the first time you dyed your hair black for a comeback and atiny ate. it. up. wooyoung had joked that your bangs looked a lot like san's did during deja vu and fans couldn't unsee it. regardless of being compared to deja vu san, you still really liked the hair style and bangs in general and was glad you tried it out. you also had this hair for THE WORLD EP. PARADIGM japanese mini album.

THE WORLD EP.2 ─── the return of blonde!yn that a lot of yn-inators had been waiting for. however, unlike the first time you had blonde hair, this blonde was definitely a more colder type of blonde with also hints of silver in it as well. along with dying it, you also cut it a little shorter than what you have done in the past. you would however wear hair extensions for some stages and during one of music shows, the boys would tease you about hair loss because your extensions had come loose during rehearsal.

THE WORLD EP.FIN ─── this era would say goodbye to the bangs for this comeback and fans were blessed with seeing your forehead after two years. this comeback also allowed for a lot of fun hairstyles during music show performances which all got really popular on different platforms. you also wore fake bangs during some stages, but by the end of promotions you would cut your hair and bring the bangs back. you also had this hair for NOT OKAY japanese single.

✶ GOLDEN HOUR ERA ───

GOLDEN HOUR PART 1 ─── debuting this hair originally at coachella, this was a fan favorite as many claimed the highlights were a fun addition to the hair. originally, you didn't want to dye your hair just black and had to beg for them to add some more " fun " and the decision they came up with was to add some highlights. you didn't complain, you thought the colors were cute and you loved how they stood out against your coachella outfits. a lot of atiny compared you to a monster high doll because of your hair and some of your stage outfits.

BIRTHDAY ─── when you dyed your hair red during the will to power tour, many atiny rejoiced because this was the closest they were getting to having bob!yn back, but without the bob cut. you admitted to have worn a wig during the photoshoots for ' birthday ' along with the mv shoot, but then you liked the red color so much you asked kq if you could actually dye it and they let you.

[ineed-to-sleep]

hii! so i saw you played touchstarved and i was wondering what you thought of all the people in the demo? thanks!!

Ohh I loved the characters tbh!! I think they all have great potential and I'm really excited to see where their storylines go. Especially Leander, I'm sure that man is secretly a freak kfkdkdkfk he's my second favorite and I really wanna play his route when the game comes out. Mostly out of curiosity though, bc my actual favorite is Kuras <3 I was just full heart eyes for him after the first interactions you have with him in the game and no other character got the same reaction from me djdjkckckf spent the whole rest of the game wondering when he was going to come back 💔 I just think his personality is very charming and the whole "repentant angel" concept has so much potential for angst. I love me a tragic boy 🫠 also the way he smiles............ his cunty little golden tears makeup..... his drip............ he has bewitched me body & soul

I think the one I liked the least was Vere, mostly bc I didn't like how he got all up on my character's personal space right off the bat. I was like wow get this man AWAY from me <3 haha PLEASE. The whole interaction just made me kind of uncomfortable and I get that this is a type of character that's right up some people's alley or plays right into their kinks, but for me personally it was all just a big nope. I disliked Ais a little bit too bc he seemed very arrogant and aloof. Not very mindful not very demure 🤨 he did grow on me a bit after seeing him at the bar + playing through his ending in the demo, but honestly I think he's just not my type jdjfncmcm still super interested in seeing where his story goes tho, and I really like the fact he has a pet souless 🥺 watch me steal princess & run fjjckcmf

I honestly don't have much of an opinion on Mhin. I feel like we spend very little time with them in the demo so there's not much to go on. I don't see a problem with them being cagey and not trusting you right off the bat etc. Like, to each their own yk, it's not like they owe the mc any answers, or even friendship. I feel like I'm gonna like them eventually but just based on the fact my mc is a self insert I might end up barely getting to know them at all jdjfkskkxkf I get the impression you have to be a bit pushy with them to get them to talk and tbh like, I'd say at least 99% of the time, if you tell me to fuck off, I just straight up will. No discussion. Goodbye Mhin!! Have a good life!! See you never 👍���👍🏻 njdjfkckf that would NOT work out 🥲 so I think in order to do their romance route I'd probably have to play a different character, but I think I eventually will just bc I do find them interesting. From what I've seen from the devs, they might have a lot in common with the mc in regards to being cursed, so that sounds like it'll make for an interesting route.

This is all just my personal taste tho bc overall I think they're all interesting in different ways and I'm really curious to see where each of their routes go :]

[holymaccaronii]

uh so I forgot which post this was now but you know the one where you were talking about developing the lore and you attached that one eggman meme where he says ,"I miss my wife tails, I miss her a lot" or something like that, and it was said in reference to how AM is in your AU

Is it in reference about AM towards BE or Ellen, Benny, Gorrister, Nimdok and (somewhat because dude got slugged) Ted? I can see it being both because I swear you've joked(?) in some posts about them being spouses, but I can also see it being about those five if he were to see BE's five and miss his.

My pea brain cannot understand which or neither it may be, too much Madcom hyperfixating slaughtered my brain and then IHNMAIMS came along and finished it off

(p.s - is it agreed that Ellison made - or at least had some involvement since he voiced AM - AM so cunty in the game, like the way AM calls Ted sweetheart and baby screams cunty)

Oah an ask I receive about this au :,], I'll gladly answer what I understood was asked! This au is still a wip, thus why I keep mentioning everything as a 'concept' , so thing's may change later.

First off, this AU is based off the ending where both all the original survivors (except Ted as he gets slugged) and the two other allied mastercomputers die. It's basically a continuation of what will happen with the Luna colony and AM in his considerable solitude, BUT with the addition of my Ocs.

The eggman post made reference to a route where AM slowly gets convinced by BE's survivors to reconcile with her, as the story itself is divided into a prologue (that explains the background of the moon colony, how BE escaped to Earth, met AM and eventually kinda had a relationship going on with him before their eventual separation), and the main story (where the humans arrive, this route OR the others happen, each leading to a different ending).

[More yapping below]

AM feels jealous towards BE's survivors because of two reasons: they resemble his just like you said, and they are being treated just like he once was by BE. So AM basically has a mindset of: "oh these humans that look just like the survivors I spent 109 years torturing are living in paradise AND being treated nicely by my ex (that a part of me still loves), how can this hell possibly get worse".

I'm not sure if this explanation was clear enough, as there's SO MANY details I didn't mention for this to make complete sense, but that's the idea the au follows so far.

In conclusion: evil computer fumbles his only possibility of a romantic interest ever, gets replaced by 5 young humans (ALL WITH MOM/DAD ISSUES) that help their new mom get thru grief + are given the chance to live their biggest dreams and be free in return. After a few years the evil computer reaches out to them, n they are given the chance to either help him with his evil plan, help him get his 'wife' back or act against him.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk and thank you for asking :3c. If something still doesn't make sense feel free to ask!!

(Also YEA AM IS DEFO CUNTY AAHHH!!! I know that it may seem like my AM is mischaracterizing the original, but since his program gets corrupted in the au to the point of letting him express love a bit easier, I envisioned him as a cunty, stressed and sassy villain that still holds all his original hate inside ofc. Harlan was so real bc of those lines 😩)

[moldybonessmell]

The Umbrella Academy season 3 review post

I finally finished season 3 of tua even tho I've watched first two seasons first day they came out and oh boy do I have things to talk about-

To begin with, the things I like about new season:

- The way we finally dug into Allison's trauma and how she starts going psychotic is actually a good plot line especially the accent on how she just like any other Umbrella Academy people indulges in self-distructive behavior, she's really just like them

- Diego getting a kid as someone with the biggest daddy issues out there is a realistic plotline because having a kid (even if Stanley's not actually his) heals him in this regard tho he and Lila would get a kid anyway eventually but they really should've been more sad about Stanley thanosing out of the existence you know

- Five being the founder of The Temps Commission makes so much sense as he's the one with the power to travel time of course he's more powerful than it seemed

- Good music scenes. Music is what season 1 was incredible for and what I love about the show. In season 2 there weren't many scenes that caught my attention but in s3 it's definetely better. We got Klaus's death montage with "Crystallised" by The xx and celebration scene with "Another one bites the dust" by Queen + Luther on moon and "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure these were really nice.

- The Oblivion Hotel is such a cool location and concept (a place for everyone) I like the change of place of action a lot, but the way it's a portal is kinda overused imo

- Lila and Five are still the best characters and carried the season

- Fei is such a cool chara with a distict character design (which most of Sparrow Academy lack tbh)

Now things I don't like:

- Ben being just a placeholder character is such a bummer because instead of getting angst and drama we got a mostly one-dimentional anti-hero who has a completely different personality from Ben. We got a tiny bit of his character when he admitted he just wants to be involved with everyone but it's really minimal.

I can't believe Klaus says "He's an asshole and he's dead to me" like WHAT DO YOU MEAN fuck no Klaus would not say that shit and he would not just give up on him. Yeah Luther says stuff like "I'm glad to see you even if you're different" or whatever but it's Klaus who've spent the most time with Ben.

The way literally any other actor could have played Sparrow Ben and nothing would change is lame af I hope in next season we will see more changes

- Same goes to my dear Grace who's just a placeholder for black hole worshipper like what do you mean we just got one phrase from Diego and that's it??? This whole bit with fake god and stuff really threw me off it didn't go anywhere

- The Sparrow Academy being one-dimentional characters in general like I get producers probably didn't have enough episodes to actually develop characters but holy shit are they boring.

Even if you want to make them just antagonists we had such cool villains in two previous seasons they were original and interesting (aka The powerless podcast-fan male manipulator Peabody and The Cunty Handler)

Also the way the fisrt Sparrows who died were the most annoying and cliche assholes makes them just filler charas

- How show tried to make us feel compassion to Reginald Hargreeves holy shit do I hate this guy- After Klaus realised his father was basically killing him over and over in his childhood instead of Klaus getting mad or upset and having a breakdown we got nothing.

He even came back to new timeline Reginald who's "nicer" for this asshole just to hurt him AGAIN

- Klaus mostly being a comic relief in this season is so fucked I love this character and in previous seasons we had a great look at his life and experiences but now he's just kinda there being high and that's it

"mm I guess he died a few times it's probably enough" - plot writers

no character development whatsoever is just upsetting.

And the amount of unnecessary traumatising aka Reginald training him was really not it, even if it's supposed to be a joke.

- Reginald being a two-faced ass like holy shit is this terrifying. Pogo was the one who gave Sparrows pills and now Klaus helped him to stop taking them and this asshole is taking advantage of naive and vulnerable Klaus.

It is in fact a good plot twist but bro I really did prefer Reginald being a cartoonish villian instead of actual pure evil like how does he have shitty motivation but still does just so much shit.

- The Umbrella Academy family having no improvement in their relationship. They still don't care Klaus relapsed, they still don't care about Viktor. All they care about is their own misery which is really in character but with three seasons out of the way and only one more left I would expect at least something you know.

- Viktor is still left out. Like bro the only compassion he had is only when he transitioned but this is it?? Bro's still waiting till someone comes and cares about him but not only this doesn't happen, he even gets rediculed by Sparrow Ben for that and called emo are you actually kidding me what's with all the hurt with no comfort???

It feels a lot like when you're mentally ill and your family kinda "walks on eggshells" to not trigger you but it's in quotes because they don't actually care. They act nice just because they think you're psycho and you would make less problems if they pretend. And this is very sad, Viktor is such a tragic character.

Okay that's it for now. If you have any thoughts please share in comments!

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

yippie!!

ok so one day i was hangin out and thinking about how jinx and murie are both my favourite little sad wet guys in my two fave medias of all ever *And* at the same time SO far apart on the spectrum personalitywise

and it took me listening to this to flip the switch on the Autism Blender and want to just fucking mash them together like a coked up toddler making Slime out of fish guts and hayao miyazakis mothers ashes because thats what i do thats my job💅👌so theeeen it comes out pretty reminiscent of my first muriel au that also sprung up from a song i like, just- a bit to the left? like, moving along on the scale from The OG not liking violence and being involved in it whatsoever, to AU 1 where i pictured him going "yeah ok fuck it this is what i do i guess" and revengy motives to his whole thing that i now connected with him more thru the song lmao it just made me realize the vision of like. jinxies "murderingmurderinmurdering 💕fun✨" aspect + his potential desire to still do good things despite being doomed to be a machine made for destruction (ignore the fact of that desire being nonexistent in his canon form because of how he perceives himself as a thing unable to achieve performing any good ever under any circumstance) (but still refusing to actively cause harm as he isolates himself to prevent any situations arising that would lead him to do so) (ignore all that) (were yassifying him a little were allowed its fine ive already lost the plot here anyway were wildin) so a vigilanty type beat and also ~my axe is my buddy🥰 we both cry with the trees😔✊ /me & my axe will bring the devil to his knees (✿◕‿◕ )~ goes hard as phUCK

so then all that led to This new V.3 mutation where hed be actually having fun with it........ so I kinda start turning him over in my brain some more, forgetting about jink by now and at first I go Huh this is kinda. him but lucioey a lil bit. and THEN i go hm. Well this ground is awful soft n ready to dig

so with all that out of the way i can now present!: Brand New Vague Shadow of a Concept of an Idea that ill Never Do Anything with

and I really don’t know how to verbalize this very well at all mmjfdh but like. Ok bulletpoints activate

Muriel:

From a badass warrior tribe

Didn’t get booted out cuz theyre fine this time oopsie no genocide

Hes in there way chillin way awesome way good at fighting everybody loves him

Hes like. Way himboey in this one. SO jock. Smiles a lot <3 <3 <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3

Like okay if i was actually serious about writing this I think id need a fucking lucio consultant because I really know zilch about that bitch but like okay you know how lucios kinda all scary n cunty and cunning and fancy and seems like hes got shit figured out. Until he *starts talking*? Muriel here is like that but hes just really fucking scary until he starts talking BUT not like normally where hes adorable just has resting bitch face, its just like. that part of him that came thru in the reversed ending at the very end, yknow. but make it less depressing ihjhsrfbjs hes like full letterman jacket highschool bully core total kurt & ram vibe, like ok youd see him on a battlefield ABsolutely WRECKIng some fools into a pulp with his bare bear hands and immediately after that he turns around like WOOOOOOO THAT’S what im TALKIN ABOUT LETS GO GUYS WHO WANTS A BEER *cut to him chugging an entire keg over his head with da boys around losing their minds* like think college frat but they raid villages for fun and profit. Pretty orc coded. Kinda thor coded. Actually exactly thorcoded wow that really is what I was going for. I was wondering why I couldn’t help imagining him with a australian accent, I guess that’s a mystery solved. anyway

Maybe his parents got killed in some other battle im not sure how to weave around that in detail yet BUT- ok so check this I thought ill have to give him some motive to wanna reach the devil somehow for,,.,,… something right. to make him fill an antagonist role So this might be stupid a lil I just thought of this and it needs to cook for sure but what if he just rolled up into vesuvia as the magic capital or something whtver, to figure out how to get to talk to the devil, cuz he just like, really wants his parents back cuz they got valhallad in some glorious combat, and they were cool and he misses them and they could fight some more cool fights together and pillage n chill jhbsfvjgzdc beCAUsE hear me out im rolling with the swap inversions opposites motive here right, so the thing that popped up in my head was- Lucio had the “I wanna kill my parents bcause I hate them and so I can rule and get what I want” thing goin at the start right, like that is basically what started it off he got his dad he didnt get morgha SO what IF I gave murie a “i wanna conquer this place and use it to get my parents back. cuz I missem :(” like fully turned it around idk IDK IT SEEMS MESSY IDK IS IT CUTE IS IT DUMB IT MAKES ME FEEL DUMB BUT IN THAT WAY THAT MIGHT MEAN THAT ITS ACTUALLY WORKING BUT I DONT KNOW *screaming with no air*

But overall yeah hes khal drogo but more noticeably himboey but not in a likeable way cuz were switching them so I cant make him likeable for myself hnjdgfgb leaning into popular dumb jock trope

UnLESSSS i DID combo it with murdermuriel au 1.0 some more and made their tribe like. Not murdery somehow like what would be the opposite of the og scourge roaming around ruining shit. well that was the og kokhuri but now I gotta do some fucking triple axels here to make it make sense so how the fuck do I make this version of kokhuri more warriory in culture than the original but still nice like robinhoody style jhbfsvhjbs this is falling tf apart might need to scrap it bc on lucios end itd be even harder wouldn’t it. Spartan cunts but they don’t kill people that’s a nono lmao

now im thinking some more about the aspect of lucio being, you know. a pretty shitty leader right, and how to incorporate that here, because i have no idea if im following an actual set rule here regarding whats swapped and how even, theres barely a theme im straight up just

but yeah so now i figure it could be murie tryna get his folks back because they were the actual defacto leaders of their tribe, he was just kinda still following along and doin his chores in being the uhh the face, the charisma, the one to kinda like. get the people on board easier with whatever decision they made for them and hyping it up as the best possible choice anyone could ever make and maybe even actually believing it too cuz theyre actually that tightknit and he trusts them with anything aw. is this too onedimensional or can i give my boy some good nice facking family relations at least in an alternate life ghhkjkfdh hes their pride n joy and can do no wrong but yeah the point is he himself hasnt actually made any decisions without them before, isnt very good at actually leading and strategizing and planning and knowing how everything complicated works and he knows it, so he sees his only solution in bringing them back to not let everything fall apart

SEE I BROUGHT IT AROUND I CLEANED UP NICE WITH OG LUCIO SETTING OFF FROM THE POINT OF FEELING LIKE HES THE BEST AT EVERYTHING AND SHOULD B RECOGNIZED AS SUCH AND TRYING TO GET RID OF HIS PARENTS TO GET IT AND MY BOY HERE ENDING UP EXACTLY OPPOSITE. GO SHAWTY GO SHAWTY IM SO SMART am i fucking up lulus backstory i feel like i am cuz im like wait what the fuck did he kill his dad for again. demonheart. deal. thing. whatd he wish. like he wasnt already running for count n shit yet he did want to climb up the ladder in his own tribe right i have no idea yell at me in comments thank you

I also don’t know if the first (last) scourge battle wouldve happened or nah

Lucio/Montag

Oh my fucking god what if I figured out an alternative L moniker for murie so theyd get to switch letters in their namesssssssss like lucio is a made up name he made it up so like UAGHASHG L.,,,...,, Lion ofthe,... south NO he HAS to be bEAR CODED AAFYFFHG BUT LUCIO HAD LEOPARD IMAGERY N SHIT RAAHAHHGH IM FITIN FOR MY LIFE HERE

Anyway he lives in a forest somewhere cuz his tribe threw him out fully voluntarily bc he sucks ass (or at least for their standards cuz I guess he would be way younger than 18 here for this) (Like a spartan type deal ur too weak we don’t want you *drops you off a cliff*  *but theres 4 feet of snow under it so he survives*  *that’s so fucking goofy hjbsfbj kinda suits him*) so uhhhhhh i don’t know where hed be currently chilling for an mc to meet him ever but yeah hes kinda Floki Vikings™ type of vibe at least visually that’s what came to mind first to picture him lol

look at this little blond rat bastard. adorable. becoming increasingly obsessed. picturing lucio with this exact hairline. moving on

and his thing is hes still insecure as fuck but worse at ignoring it and hiding it and hes a lil nervous bundle of sticks and always talking bc of it, kinda Bruno Madrigalesque type vibe julian but a pitch more pathetic who knew it could be done yknow? opposite of The OG The Mountain The Stone Cold Silent The Muriel The Scourge The Kokhuri The Third and also me when writing and not stopped in time

oh oh what if he was totes in denial that his tribe kicked him out and in his view hes on some super intense convoluted secret mission (lasting from. age 7 to now apparently) and as soon as hes done they’ll totally come back for him kdfsgjffd I thought it could either be his own copium or he took it from some last interaction with someone who took pity on him as a kid and wanted to give him some comfort, or something he misunderstood entirely

hm. They both have canid familiars idk what to do with that. muriel with two wolves tho. thats hot shit righ there if i do say so myself

oh now im toying with the idea of taking away muriels SUPPOSED YET UNCONFIRMED AS MY VERY CONTROLLED ACADEMIC STUDY HAS SHOWN COUGHCOUGHJHBSRGJBHF talking to animals buff, i dont wanna just take it and give it to lucio tho, but like. what the fuck else do i give him. astral projecting to tie into his ghost era? sounds dope actually alright lets do that lmao

ok its 1 30 am i hope this is comprehensible to anybody anywhere im zonking out now khbsfhbfk love u

@tetsuooooooooooo I've missed your essays, this was such a treat to log in to!!!

And WOW, thorcoded Muriel is not something I ever would have thought of on my own but oddly enough I feel like the AU you're coming up with could really work, goodness me. And the way you've inverted Lucio's character too!! I'd love to see how their interaction dynamics invert as well!

Always good to hear from you friend, hope you're doing well!

[kerubimcrepin]

Episode 31 - The Break

It will be so refreshing to liveblog an episode that isn't heavy on characterization or analysis, oh god, I am tired of typing words.

He is so sad and for no reason... I just want to wrap him in a heated blanket.

World's most serious case of Sads, finished off with an evil little glare.

I can imagine adult Joris doing the same thing to Kerubim even by Wakfu times. Just a cunty, unamused little gaze. I can see it so clearly. This will happen in season 4, mark my words.

Also, inside me are two wolves. One of them wants to say "perhaps it's unusual for Joris to not go hook line and sinker for whatever ideas Keke proposes", and the other wants to say "Joris and Kerubim having psychic vibe battles moment #5"

He is so unserious.

Joris loses this round in the game of mutual psychological manipulations.

(Guy who notices landmarks in this show voice) (Also, guy who, for some reason, has developed a parasocial relationship with this setpiece in a kids show voice) THE TOWER. THE FUCKING TOWER

I've already spoken on this topic, but Kerubim already being known to sell stuff and have strong opinions on the ethics of museums makes me so unwell. Especially with implications of the Crepin family being salespeople.

I am not going to elaborate. You've read my other posts. Just... yeah.

Can I get some love for non-Cra archers in this universe? The degree of unemployment must be hellish.

Also Lou has two swords, and Nella has two quivers. They are so normal.

Some may think that Kerubim is out of shape, but I will argue that this is his Farm Boy shape. His "not constantly on the road and fighting monsters while worrying about travelling supplies" shape.

He's still muscular, because Herding Animals is Serious Business, but he's got a bit of a gut going on, because there's no food insecurity, and the food he has is mostly meat and milk.

Considering old Kerubim also has the gut, — and is, notably, still very agile, — I think that this is just, like, Kerubim's natural shape when he's eating well and living like a normal person.

Sorry for overanalysing his body. I just wanted to talk about my "adventuring should be deconstructed as a concept and examined more closely, considering the multiple characters who had been ready to die "to become legends" about it. Like is all the trauma, food insecurity, and violence worth it, when the only way for people to truly respect you in this career, is to die in a cool way?" agenda.

The resemblance between young Keke in this episode and his older self is actually scary.

Say NO to alcohol, say YES to being a calcium-based lifeform.

I've never mentioned this before on this blog, but it's very likely that Kerubim is kind-of-sort-of accidentally implied to have an underbite.

It varies, whether he has his teeth in a normal bite, or an underbite, — and it is an art style choice, it happens to some other characters, albeit nowhere near as often as it does to Kerubim, — but, once you see it, and know what I'm talking about, you can't unsee it. Hell, it's on half the screenshots in this episode already!

Underbites are something that goes in families, which fits really well.

Because, like... yeah. That sure does seem like a family thing.

Together with the "pale-ish brown pigmentation around an eye or both eyes" thing, and the triangle-ish shape of their heads and snouts, Keke and Atch are the Bouba and Kiki of siblinghood.

Anyway, for transparency's sake, despite the underbite being one of Atcham's very notable character features, he is also sometimes drawn with a normal bite. Which might point towards Kerubim's underbite also being a genuine part of his character design, — instead of it being a case of animators liking the look of it a lot.

Personally, I like to think that both of them had been trying to fix his underbite his whole life by simply willing it away, and it's Not working.

If they actually realized they care about one another, and could be chill about it instead of immediately starting a Doomed Toxic Cottagecore Farm, Pangaea would reform.

Oh? You like Kerubim and Lou? Well, then, do you think Lou and Kerubim efficiently utilized girl power when they, Bontarians, went to their oh-so-hated Sidimote Moors and Brakmar, to conduct what they call a "slaughter-safari"?

This is not a Divorce Theory I usually subscribe to, but my funny crack theory is that she left him to go adventure around the world because he wanted to settle down and adopt a kid or whatever.

Truly, the possibilities of kerulou divorce theories are endless.

If they formed a polycule, Pangaea would explode.

I like to think that whatever Julith has going on is a cloak with a similar, but more complex enchantment.

This item is real, but I can't really find the sword mentioned by Lou moments prior.

I need to inject this image inside, intravenously.

...Anyway, you will never guess what my newest addition to the desktop wallpaper rotation is.

[stargirlsuicide]

From your explanation of a girls girl it seems like you’ve really just explained girls being cunty.

A girls girl is just being supportive of other girls, not “Oh i’m an insecure bitch, block my boyfriend please” or doing something silly like “gatekeeping”. like you being secretive about a product actually means that much to you?? that you have to be cunty and not share those things ? I get if it’s your favourite t-shirt and you don’t want every bitch you know to have the same one but you have bigger fish to fry if you are that anal about not sharing with or supporting other people. Thats some deep rooted self esteem issues right there.

A girls girl is if you need a tampon or if a guy is harassing you at the bar and you go in and save them. Not what ever weird ass behaviour you are describing.

u went onto this entire rant and u dont know shit abt me maybe wake up shits goofy

yea i shouldnt be called a bitch cause i dont disclose tp you every single product i use and where i shop. i think thats weird and annoying

ik what the concept of a girls girl is i just dont think people use it correctly and that was my point. if u think its that special that u have less than bare minimum human decency so much that u need a title to prove how much u support girls i think thats weird. all the shit yall say make u a girls girl is less than bare minimum common sense and decency. i was talking abt the way people started weaponizing it on tiktok to make other girls feel bad for not dealing with other peoples shit. maybe wake up and hop off my dick and do something productive with your time because your opinion about me or my ideas doesnt impact me i dont care if you think im a cunt or not for anything i do

[loveregrown]

SHU FS2 CAME OUT. He looks balder than ever. I am not surprised nor entirely disappointed at his outfit being nothing to me, though it is a little saddening he’s following the same exact clothing trend he’s had in all his last cards. I like the unbloomed when it’s moving more but I like his little finger on head and his croissants naturally. Ugh, everytime I look at it, I strangely like it more. Why does this happen to me with cards! But also, why do the unbloomeds often eat up the bloomeds…?

The rose concept was already used on Hiyori you silly goose. Alas, they can share. But neither will be happy about it; he considered burning his shirt simply because Wataru said theirs matched.

I definitely like the fit more in 3DMV than in live2d, but it seems to often be the case with me so it’s only natural. But it doesn’t Always happen. Perhaps I was simply hating before. Or I am simply conditioning myself to it. The blue accents is very cute I love that shade so much. I like the coloured button-up a loooottttt & the red in the scr is so nice & I just I really like this outfit I do! & I like light colours so despite it being the same as his wedding tour 3⭐️ and his 4⭐️ in the wet Sena scout, it is pleasant nonetheless! It really is not awful, despite thinking he could have something far more unique, it was to be expected from how this round of feature scouts was going, where there seemed to be at most two categories of fashion, if not 3.

One thing I've been hating is the STUPID RANDOM STRIP OF FABRIC THEY KEEP GIVING THE 3DMV OUTFITS WHICH LIKE I GET BECAUSE IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DRAW THE EYES TO THE MOVEMENT OF IT A LOT OF THE OUTFITS SEEM DESIGNED WITH THIS PURPOSE BUT IT JUST LOOKS FUCKING STUPID SOMETIMES. LIKE. TOILET PAPER ROLL TUCKED INTO THEIR CLOTHES OR LIKE A STRANGE CURTAIN FOR THEIR ASS. OR SOMETHING. IT'S NOT RIGHT. But... well I suppose it works here. Especially since the cut of his suit is not at all a novelty but it's okay. But I was reminded of it seeing it in action in his spp... it is just nothing to me. The stupid piece of fabric I mean. it could be removed and I would not miss it. But I Understand It's Purpose therefore I do not despise it I just get find it silly.

What was the meaning of this. What’s wrong with you? Was there a need for roses on your flat arse. Embroidery on your behind. Though this sort of thing is awesome and cunty when done on like, jeans. And such.

He has a nice SCR… I like it a lot actually. SCRS aren’t always good & I never Purposefully get SCRS but it’s such a win to me when they are good because then I look at them & I smile. ☺️

Bwuh… I’m pretty sure Nito’s hair ribbon changes colour in scr to red too… maybe they both do… not okay. They look so, so good next to each other I should just die. I should just die.

It will never have the brilliance his FS1 holds, with it’s interesting silhouette which almost looks like a dress, and really fun boots, and the classic, stupid, gay, yet ever so fun Itsuki Shuu trademark hat on his head! But I am growing fonder of it the more I look at it. At least, everything ASIDE FROM THE BLOOMED. Which I don’t like. On the lower end of FS2s for me regarding bloomed illustration but points for everything else. You win this time despite objectively not being that good. I like the side of Shu it shows too. Even if his face looks stupid.

I don’t like his FS1 bloomed much specifically when it comes to his silly face & pose, but the outfit makes up for it. Do you notice how this is a pattern. But, either way, many parts of it are so dope, such as the spiral staircase, the dramatic element of the back of his outfit flaring up like that, the paintings on the wall and the chandelier. It’s all very grand. & if anyone deserves and should be expected to be grand, it is him. There’s a lot one can say about it really.

However, I like the lightness of his FS2. The romantic elements such as the shades used, the red roses, his ring. There’s a lot to be enjoyed here.

I haven’t looked at the full illustration for his FS2 yet but I am excited to witness it since often they coax me into liking the card more than when it is cropped/in actual card form. But his face in the bloomed, is stupid and gay. That is all. Otherwise, it’s Perce approved, all things considered. :-) but to be honest. It really does look like something you’d find at a mall. The outfit, I mean.

[gregoftom]

I JUST.

WHAT was normal about 4x01 AT ALL

(Also I'm holding the ambiguity of the disgusting brothers in my heart for as long as I can because <333)

Do they have NO CONCEPT of personal space?? (<3)

Can Tom be normal for five fucking minutes over Greg 'dating women' (he didn't know her surname >:3) AND ALSO he didn't know for sure that Logan has CCTVs like he could've played it off as a joke about the cameras but it just turned to "hey Greg, how did you two fuck? I need to know, you could be in trouble, don't leave anything out" and I just love that it seems like they're on a much more even playing field to the extent that Tom feels that to exert power over Greg he has to just lie about shit and say he can protect Greg from potentially imaginary dangers

And also

QGH I CANT FUCKING STAND THEM THEYRE ALWAYS SO CLOSE TOGETHER IALCJDDHDJDJDJDJDJFJ

HELP ITS LIKE LOOKING INTO A MIRROR JASJKASJAKSJ this was ME literally me when i first watched like holy fuck, i haaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhssssssssssssssssssssssnswhsnhwsnws. wsnwshwbsjwnskwnswkns. everything you just said is. yeah. agreed they are inSANE. what i love is like. how they are best friends. i will never shut up about how they like each other. they like each other's company. "i love you but i can't fucking stomach you" is a line that i think works for most relationships on this show like, loving somebody is shown as like. something that you just do. yknow? something that, although it's difficult and makes their choices harder, they can do it, right? but they find it impossible to like each other. i think greg and tom are the only people who actually like one another, save for willa and connor but like. lmfao the conwilla/tg paras are lelling since early season 1, so like. that just makes sense.

and tom is just so funny. and so is greg. greg is trying not to laugh at tom's cuntiness and tom is right out there showing how pleased he is when he's right about greg's date. they're ridiculous. just say you wanna go to bone town together! alone! good grief!!!!!!

AND YEAH GOD THAT SHOT IS. they. are so close it's actually gross like i'm SO. GRAGH!

here's some more shots that make me want to chew on exposed electrical wires:

[itchyeye]

Now I feel like I overpromised it a little since those are headcanons from a while ago, but I'll try my best! But before that, yes, that is the fic I meant! And I liked how they had Jon use an Artifact for the eye removal, since presumably, a regular one wouldn't have done the trick. Basically, and with the caveat that these headcanons are primarily built on the first 3.5 seasons and that they still didn't quite manage to capture every avatar experience, I had the impression that most avatars had to undergo a moment of death/rebirth to truly become avatars. Jon is basically the best example for it: He has the aptitude, and he's introduced to his position as an avatar for the Eye. Slowly, he develops powers, but he's still human enough, and it's only after the explosion, after explicitly choosing the Eye and coming back from the dead, that he truly became the Archivist. Sure, in the end, the rebirth element he shared with many other avatars was more thematic than an actual requirement (iirc Jonny also mentioned that at one point), but I also saw it as this life then basically being "borrowed" from the power they serve. We saw that with Daisy for example, who started wasting away in season 4.

Back then, I also assumed that the reason Gertrude died was because she chose death instead of the Eye, because I thought Elias's plan involved marking her as a "complete" Archivist for the Watcher's Crown (RIP to the Watcher's Crown as a concept, I thought it was a really cool name and I wish season 4 had delved more into it as a semi-red herring instead of having the characters assume it was off the table because Elias was in jail (I can't remember, did they assume that? I just felt like it only really came up once or twice, in Smirke's letter and maybe the finale where it's skipped over entirely as "yeah I tried that, it gave me near-omniscience, let's move on")). But I do love that the marking part was something specifically for Jon, that's very sexy.

Overall, I will admit that I fell a bit into the trappings of extrapolating things a little too narrowly, so that when canon followed up with specifics, my headcanons fell apart (for example, I was also pretty interested in how Orsinov's partner, whose granddaughter gave a statement about the Calliope, managed to escape the Stranger and thought there'd be a big reveal, but that never came. Which is fine, because apparently it's possible to escape your avatarhood and we don't need a specific statement for that), but I guess my general assumption still remains that before passing a certain Threshold, you can still escape that power, but once someone becomes an Avatar, there's no turning back and their existence will forever be bound to the power they chose to serve. It just feels less impactful to me if you can just "change your mind", even if "technically" you'd have to pay a high price.

yesss i also liked that jon had to use an artifact for eye removal. and i like that it still didn't work 🥰 also this fic isn't normally a flavor i go for in the sliding scale of dub/noncon but i love the concept sm, i love annabelle being cunty in the front row, and i love love love love love jon seeing the adoration in elias' face when he gets his eyes back. it's a good fic!! i enjoyed it nwn

i thought you were right about rebirth not being necessary because it jogged my memory for the s4 q+a so i went digging to find the word of god on the matter and:

ALEX You’ve mentioned that previously that in order to assume their full powers as an avatar, a death seems to be required. Does it make a difference that the death used to the fuel The Archivist’s transformation? Was that of another avatar? JONNY I don’t feel that a death is necessarily required to become an avatar? What is required to become an avatar is always active choice. ALEX Yes. JONNY You need to make an active decision to finally cross that threshold. ALEX (whispers) Because drama. JONNY And death is a very good motivator for that sort of decision. You know, that prospect of death is very scary and it’s such a… powerful categorical thing that… in the many cases, it is going to be the catalyst.

MAG 160.02 - Season 4 Q&A Part II

but i agree with you actually i think jonny contradicts his own lore?? death and rebirth is pretty obviously a necessary factor in becoming an avatar of fear. i think you're right on the money, i just posted a little collection of the "feed what feeds you" theme and it is made very clear in canon across all the entities that if you serve a fear, you need to feed it, or else it feeds on you instead of feeding you. daisy is a great example of this! jon is as well. so yes, i totally agree with your interpretation of their life being "borrowed" from their patron. that's exactly how i've always understood it to work as well.

re: the watcher's crown. it is mentioned in smirke's letter, but none of the details are mentioned. only the resulting sky that can look back:

I have been dreaming again, Jonah. The same every night for months, now. I imagine myself a boy again at Aspley. I awake, cold and alone in the dormitory. The sky outside is dark, and I see no stars. I light a candle, to better see my way, and step down the silent corridor. The master’s rooms are empty, the fire in the kitchen is dead. Eventually my steps lead out into the courtyard. It is so quiet that the sound of my feet upon the grass is painful to my ears. I stop, and look up at the sky, that empty black nothing, and I see the edges of the horizon becoming a dull white. I cannot understand what I am looking at. And then the sky blinks. And I awake. I am not a fool. I know well enough what this dream is likely to mean, and I warn you again, that if you have any remaining ambitions to use our work, to try and wear the Watcher’s Crown, you must abandon them! Not simply for the sake of your own soul, but for that of the world! I have always had the utmost respect for you as a man of dignity and learning. Do not allow yourself to fall to this madness.

MAG 138 The Architecture of Fear

from how this is phrased, it sounds to me like smirke knows the mechanics of the ritual. "to wear the watcher's crown" sounds to me like marking yourself with all of the fears. but what i don't think smirke knows is that it must be The Archivist who does this, because of their function as an avatar. they are already a catalog of fear. i see a lot of talk about how elias was a coward for not marking himself but he is not The Archivist. he is a servant of beholding (arguably its most powerful) but he is not The Archivist and he could never be. that is not his role to fill. he needed his Archivist to fulfill the watcher's crown, he couldn't do it himself.

sorry that's irrelevant to your point i just have strong opinions on elias-related things.

back to the red herring tho, i personally think that keeping all the details of the ritual a secret until 160 was perfect. 160 is my favorite episode and i think the reveal could not have been better. personally on my first list i figured out about halfway through s3 that jon was being marked by every single fear but i had no idea it was a ritual. it never crossed my mind. so i'm a huge fan of the fact that the watcher's crown was lowkey and under the radar for all of s4, i think the payoff was incredible. YMMV ofc!

but yes i agree it's extremely sexy that the marking was especially for jon 🥰 elias couldn't do it himself. he needed jon to do it. he needed to craft him into a god and he did. he honed him as a tool to bring the ceaseless watcher forth into the world and rip apart its weft. that's so 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

overall tho i agree with your assessment of there being a threshold/point of no return. i think that there are basically five (5) categories of alignmet/association with the fears:

Witness

this is ofc the most common category for people in general who have ever interacted with the fears but specifically for statement givers. lots of statement givers had something terrible happen to a loved one or a coworker or a friend and they come to tell the institute about it. their lives are touched by the entities of fear but they are not directly eaten by them. witnessing these events could lead them to being marked and they can become victims eventually after their initial escape.

Victim

self explanatory i think! you have a run in with an entity of fear and it gobbles you right up.

Monster

this is where the tier system breaks down a bit but basically there are things like the distortion, the creature that lives in the ming vase, the man upon the stair, who are all more than victims but less than avatars. leitner describes them really beautifully in MAG 80:

The books are, I think, their essences in a purer form. The other things that stalk us, from what I know of them, they have varying wills of their own. All in service of the thing they’re a part of, but not directly controlled by the mind beneath them. At least, inasmuch as these entities have something we could recognise as a mind.

Avatars

these are fully realized avatars that have consciously chosen their alignment with their patrons! simon, peter, elias, jude, arthur, etc.

Entity-Aligned

this is the loosest category and one that includes many of my favorite characters. mary, gerry, basira, gertrude. they're all marked by the fears, their lives are really quite controlled by them, but they have not made the conscious decision to become avatars. gertrude sort of straddles the Avatar and Aligned category because she was, of course, the archivist.... but she wasn't really. she had the formal position and she got the powers that come with it but she didn't serve the eye the way that the position really warranted. tumblr user sm0kebreaks has a great post talking about how gertrude was a crap archivist.

so i think that if you are entity-aligned but have not yet passed the point of no return and decided to become an avatar, you can break your alignment

melanie, for example, had her alignment with the slaughter broken when jon removed her cursed bullet and she broke her alignment with beholding when she gouged out her eyes. personally i think that cutting the bullet out of her shouldn't have worked tho, since she was making the conscious choice to keep it inside of her and she wanted the slaughter to continue to give her its power so like. to me that makes her an avatar, not aligned.

but maybe she was saved by her beholding alignment! maybe because she had a contract with the institute, another power couldn't fully claim her. wow. that would be like the tenth way jon saved her stupid life.

[synesindri]

Bestie I want to hear your thoughts today about adamnick

hehehehe yey <3 i'm about to talk too much

What made you ship it?

i just really fucking like the concept of vessels. i think it's so neat. i want to know so much about everybody who ever said yes and why they did that and what kind of experience they had and how they feel about it afterwards if they survived. i think they should be weird, i think they should feel barely human and have a hard time relating to people except each other anymore. nick is such a cornerstone for my understanding of vessels and angel-vessel dynamics and adam is such an interesting guy who has had so many things happen to him, and i was rotating them in my mind separately for a long time before eventually going "what if i rotated them in my mind together?" and now here we are.

i think i landed on them instead of nick/jimmy or whatever other options for a few reasons, one being that lucifer and michael are weird about each other so their temp vessels might as well also be weird about each other (albeit differently), another being that neither of them has living ties to the world anymore whereas jimmy does, and another being that the hints of their personalities seem compatible to me? like obviously we don't know a ton about either of them from canon (esp only s5 canon) but nick uses his two seconds of screen time to be DEEPLY sincere but also kind of an even-tempered sarcastic bitch, and adam uses his to be skeptical and cunty but also strongly motivated by a desire to be with the people who deserve his love and to do Right. those are similar enough that it made me feel like there could be some chemistry there that would manifest in, well, the dynamic i ended up giving them lol

as usual i'm on the fence about whether i ship them or if i don't ship them and just write about them fucking sometimes lol but i think what got me started on feeling like it is legitimately a ship to me (and not just two shells of guys who need to reconnect with their own bodies somehow) is that adam is dead but not anymore, and sarah is dead, and that's complicated. the mental image of adam lying in bed next to nick having a quiet flashback to being killed bloody in a way that is in some ways similar to how nick's wife was killed bloody did something to me. there is a lot of tension for adam about whether nick has room in his head to care about adam anymore after having loved and lost so spectacularly at least twice, and inevitably that becomes a question about "am i wife stand-in" — and my answer to that is generally, no, but kind of. and that's a bit ugly, but it's also hard not to think of it as shippy, when i consider it that way. What are your favorite things about the ship?

(this hinges on the fact that they are an extreme rarepair made up of characters i like a lot who have very little screen time who never met each other in canon so i can kind of do whatever i want 😂) i have an inexhaustible need to play with situations that are simultaneously grim, mundane, and gentle, and holy shit are they the perfect set of dudes to enact that. they're SO not the main characters; they get to make it up as they go or they can decide to just sit down on the ground and rot; it's all up to them; there's no pressure and they have no real reason to care about anything anymore, and yet.

(i also just. personally get a lot out of writing them. idk it's like...it's good for me to think about them as two facets of one being, not really understanding each other in a way that can always be put in words but that coordinate well, who hold each other up and help each other find little nice things to hold onto in a life that might feel aimless. good for my relationship with age as well, how people are different and the same at different ages) Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

i think my most unpopular opinion about them is that they are shippable 😂

[besidesitstoowarm]

"Doomsday" thoughts

i'm realizing i forgot to mention my WIFE freema agyeman in last episode. i'm so sorry baby. i can't wait for s3

anyway this episode fucks severely and kind of reminds me that a lot of diehard ten/rose shippers don't like. GET what makes them work, bc they don't get what makes rose work. i think i've said it before that not only do moffat haters not understand his era, but davies lovers often don't even really like it for the right reasons. or like, reasons that are based on the text instead of the tumblr interpretation of the text. this isn't to disparage davies likers or ten/rose shippers or whatever, just make sure you're remembering the episodes as they happened and not as 1080p gifsets you reblogged 8y ago

anyway! this was a great finale to s2 and to the rose era in general (i'll make a season retrospective w more detail). it's just some goddamn great doctor who, davies is masterful at weaving deep and impactful character work into the classic balls-to-the-wall insane doctor who shenanigans. let's explore, shall we

i love the idea behind the "genesis ark" like tell me that doesn't sound like something that already exists in dw canon. calling back to needing rose's touch bc humanity– the human ability/desire/habit of crossing boundaries, inherently filling every space, colonizing to be less generous– has a power to it. the bit as well about "cybermen will remove sex and class and race and creed" is a critique of centrism bc our differences make us human! they're beautiful! the great equalizer is horrific, imposed violence

i'm sorry if this seems homophobic but i don't think a straight person could have possibly written the dalek-cybermen interactions in this episode. "the daleks have no concept of elegance" "this is obvious" sorry it's just pure cuntiness on a level i have never seen a cishet achieve. i'm not stereotyping davies as just "sassy" or whatever he's deeply talented in all facets but bitchiness is indeed one of those facets

continuing the anti-establishment theme, yvonne walking into the cybermen hell saying "oh god, i did my duty" is deeply telling. the cyberman she becomes crying an oil-slick tear and fighting back saying "i did it for queen and country" is kind of sad and kind of horrifying. it's about the layers

rose gets to flex w the daleks by telling them what she did as bad wolf. "i met the emperor....and turned him into dust" yes!! yes!! get their asses baby!! "both sides had secrets" all the time war seeding is so tasteful and delicious. it works as both bread-crumbing info that will be revealed eventually and as background worldbuilding should they decide to never get into the nitty-gritty. they obviously do in "the end of time" for one and then eventually the 50th but davies plays it just subtle enough that if they never did get deeper into it, i don't think it would have felt like a cocktease

i love the pete-jackie stuff sorry. i love stories about people finding/refinding/etc love in their 40s. they're not the version of each other that they each know but they're close enough and they do love each other. their big hug made me emotional

and of course. the ending. what is there to say about the ending that hasn't been said a hundred million times already. murray gold is a fantastic composer and he CRUSHES it. the fact that ten was ready to sacrifice rose without her consent (which he will later do to donna! themes!), the fact that she fought the narrative and refused until tragedy took over, as it inevitably must. bad wolf bay. "i love you" "rose tyler, –" as tears drip down his face. oh i am just so sick. they were codependent and unhealthy but you really can't deny how much they cared for each other, and even tho i KNOW they meet up again and get their "happy" endings i just. oh it hit. phenomenal acting on both parts, incredible score, oh it just destroys me. a beautiful end for the season and for rose

side note, i did not recall that "runaway bride" was the next story. i totally forgot that we get the season-long gap before seeing donna again. i can't wait to get back to donna, she brings out the best in ten (being divorced and a pathetic wet beast)

season retrospective up soon!

[margle]

the bp girls have so much potential i dont understand why their solo music has been so mediocre so far. maybe it's a lack of concepts? i dont follow them any more than any other big kpop soloists so i dont know all their songs. but so far it seems like the concepts have just been "cool girl". which is kinda eh.

like new woman was catchy but then the mediocrity of mantra and rockstar kinda take away from it because they are all the same concept. idk. mantra especially had nothing novel or interesting about it. which doesnt always have to be a bad thing if the song is executed well but the lyrics and delivery are not good imo. some of the lines dont scan well ("it'll be depending on the day" is the worst culprit) and so the delivery stumbles. and the contents of the lyrics are so weak. songs don't have to be about how every woman is intelligent and has a rich inner life independent of her beauty. like "hot girl" songs can be cunty and fun. but when it falls flat you cant even say that the artist took a big swing or tried a new concept. there are just so many songs like this. i think she can make good stuff if she tries something new