#like. they LITERALLY call the episode the gatekeeper

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

i genuinely don't think any episode of a kids show can compare to how political the banned moon girl and devil dinosaur episode is, especially not one that has as much reach as like, a MARVEL project. this episode has a trans girl explicitly say that she is being targeted BECAUSE she's trans & that she will likely be in the future because of people like the villain of the week who will always see her existence as breaking a set of unwritten rules. it tells kids that sometimes following the rules will get you nowhere if they're written by someone who hates you, and that the best thing you can do is break the system that creates those rules & support the transfems in your community so they don't have to fight alone, because THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!

it also shows the villain as someone who tries her best to seem reasonable, good natured, and even feminist until the topic of trans girls comes up. it says that even though someone might be nice to you, they can be an absolute MONSTER around people they think don't belong, and has a character explicitly call her behavior discrimination. it was absolutely an episode written with a lot of heart & had a lot of thought put into it as well as being fun to watch. i hope it gets watched by a lot of people despite the ban because i think it must have taken a lot of fighting just for it to have made it as far as it did

[lillypad-monopoly]

Wild Life Episode 5 Thoughts

(Except I'm insane about Martyn's ep)

LIFE SERIES TRIVIA is DIABOLICAL! The watchers literally being like "how well do you guys know your pain and suffering?" (also sorry only winners remember theory truthers)

The way Grian and Scar are such bitter ex-soulmates that Mumbo has to point it out is hilarious. (also them getting even and saying "Just like Third Life" hurt my heart)

Grian not remembering iconic moments from his own series is so funny. What do you mean he only knows Martyn beheaded Ren with an axe from fanart? Grian gaining possession of the Red Winter Axe was a whole plot point.

MUMBO FIRST OUT! IN SESSION 5! The canary curse is broken for real now guys but at what cost.

Grian standing on the ruins of the tower by himself going through the five stages of grief over Mumbo's death as the sun rises in the background is a gorgeous piece of fanart waiting to happen

Martyn you didn't need to start the episode by talking about how Ren is providing for you, you're asking for the shipping at this point 🤣

MARTYN YOU DO THE LORE OFC JIMMY AND TANGO WERE OUT FIRST. Also REN YOU WERE LITERALLY IN DOUBLE LIFE. RIP Ren/BigB we know where his true loyalties lie

THE TWO NICKLES MEME BREAKING CONTAINMENT I CAN'T

Ren inviting BigB to join the RenWood Mound alliance WITHOUT REMEMBERING DOUBLE LIFE is so insane I don't even know what to say.

OF COURSE SCAR REMEMBERS THE DESERT DUO FLOWERS I'M GOING TO BE SICK

Martyn and Ren saying they're going to be boat bros. This has been coming since last session but I NEED Joel and Etho to call them out on it

"We're boat boys," MARTYN INTHELITTLEWOOD WHEN I CATCH YOU-

Etho yelling for Bdubs to hit him so they could test if the wildcard affected damage and then Tango going "smack me harder~" in the background was diabolical. Suuuure you guys are all PG.

Etho sitting in a boat for Joel to jump over him feels like some boat boys relationship symbolism I'm not smart enough to explain

So Etho is currently living with team BET, but allied with the Four Gs, and in the family with Gem and Joel. Wildcard Etho is so back!

Of course Impulse immediately remembered the clock question.

Joel boasting about how he immediately knows all the questions is peak Joel form and I would expect nothing less. It is kind of warranted though because everybody else is waffling on the simple ones.

Joel is now two for two on unquestioningly trusting Etho only to have something bad happen to him and not even being mad about it what is wrong with this man 😭

Does Joel have the censor bleep on his keyboard or did he just straight up start swearing at Tango and know they would both have to censor it in post to get the effect that he was also making the noise?

Scott's gone from a creaking fanboy to a body horror situation and I'm living for it (also considering he's agreed to "go wild" this session--am I sensing a Scott corruption arc?)

Scott cutting directly from saying he and Jimmy were never married even though they called each other husbands to a scene WITH Jimmy was kind of an insane choice

Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss Girldad has been confirmed by Scott as the actual reason for the 4Gs. I still think Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss ImpulseSV is funnier but good to have an official ruling

Scott giving up his life for Pearl and them being good natured about it and calling it therapy! I love them so much!

Lizzie being the only person who's not exicted when a trivia bot spawns is so funny. Even the other players who weren't in all the seasons don't seem to be as miffed by them as she is.

Lizzie's flaming snail arising out of that hole while smiling is potentially the funniest thing I've seen all day. Why did it look like that 🤣

[yallemagne]

Hear me out. Bobby and Morph

They will either be a dynamic duo. Or somehow the lesser of evils when it comes to Norman romantic X-Men couples.

Either way both of them would make Scott's life a living hell. What with their humor or non complicated romance.

Not to be contrarian, but I think it would be funny if like they didn't immediately get along. I have literally no good reasoning for this. I just think of how, in the animated series, in the episode Bobby is introduced, Bobby is being a little shit to Scott and Logan is like "them's fighting words" in a very "only I can make fun of Slim" way. Which is funny because Bobby was here first, Logan.

I just imagine Morph being like "oh hell yeah another queer member of the team to bully Scott with!" but then they actually meet Bobby and they're like "...this poser is stealing my gimmick."

And Bobby's like "what the fuck? I was on the team before you? You can't just gatekeep being gay and giving Cyclops a hard time. You know what? YOU don't get to make fun of Scott, okay? Only I get to make fun of Scott."

And Scott's holding his head like "somehow, this is worse?? I wish you two would just bully me, not whatever this is??"

Scott: "You and Logan bonded over beer, chips, and calling me boring, and now you're practically attached at the hip! So why can't you and Bobby get along? I think you would be good friends."

Morph: "He's just not cool."

Bobby: "I CAN LITERALLY TURN INTO ICE."

Morph: "Boohoo, anyone can do that."

Like maybe eventually they learn to get along, but I think it'd be funny if they refuse to cooperate on giving Scott shit and it results in more stress for him than if they teamed up.

[eye-may]

NEW MISTOFFELEES HEADCANONS ?? :000

I love your cat universe, It's so entertaining

yes. :' ) I've been going back and forth for weeks weighing different scenarios for the cats' parentages, along with explanations for why Mistoffelees has magic and I THOUGHT I settled on something. but then I listened to Ed Kingsley Wade's (Tugger UK tour 2022) episode of wcd and it got me rethinking a lot of things. partly it validated an earlier idea I had about Mistoffelees not exactly having """PARENTS""" per se. and also I've just been hearing so much about the de facto canonical interpretation of Munkustrap and Tugger being the biological sons of Deutoronomy, that I started entertaining that notion too because it began to feel blasphemous to believe otherwise. 😂 and yes that doesn't technically preclude the possibility of Mistoffelees also being Deutoronomy's son but I can't have Tugger and Mistoffelees being brothers for obvious reasons lmao. and I couldn't go the Son Of Macavity route for...the exact same reason.

So you see, these are the mental gymnastics that have been plaguing my grey matter lately. I'll include a slightly more comprehensive explanation of my latest hcs in answer to the question Why Does Mistoffelees Have Magic? under the cut lol

basically. all cats used to be magical --- further validating the propensity for older civilizations to idolize them.

Edit: I had a whole paragraph here that got deleted somehow but all you need to know is, along comes a particularly powerful magical cat who does the Isildur/Anakin thing and attempts to basically usurp the Cat Diety of Magic, who lives in the moon, that I call Moon Cat until I can think of a better name. He amasses a cultlike following.

the Isildur Cat's attempt to wrest godlike magical power (with a following that he has amassed over time...convincing a bunch of people that his ascension was prophetic...yk cult shit) essentially results in a war and the totality of magic was becoming volatile and corrupted. There's a big battle something something and at the end of the day, Moon Cat sees no other option to save the sacrality of Uncorrupted Cat Magic by gatekeeping what is left of it, so she siphons her own essence into three stones (I call them Moon Stones but I intend to come up with a cooler name) and assigns three different trusted Keepers (Old Deuteronomy is one of them...so yeah he's from Ancient Times) to protect the Stones, and then sends them off to vastly different parts of the world. possession of a Stone bestows immortality to the Keeper so that they can guard it ad infinitum. In the meantime, as a result of this development, a magical cat will never again be born and magic will never exist among cats as it had before.

fast forward centuries, along comes Macavity, one of the many sons of Deuteronomy. he shows sensitivity towards, and a propensity for, magic --- not in its most literal sense a la Mistoffelees, but more in a sense that he's keen to its potency and gravitates towards spiritual avenues in a way not dissimilar to Coricopat and Tantomile. he'd have mystical talents, like prescience/precognition, minor manipulations of extant fire, attuneness to weather, etc. but he couldn't conjur, or summon, or materialize matter or anything like that. Deuteronomy was aware of his son's Uniqueness and chalked it up to inheritance---a little bit of Deuteronomy's magicalness getting passed down. young Macavity, though, wasn't keen to take his heightened senses lightly, and became more frustrated and quixotic the more he attempted to make sense of it. seeing how the pressure was building in Macavity, Deuteronomy sat him down and explained to him the legend about the Moon Cat and the Isildur Cat and the Stones and all that, in an attempt to elucidate on why cats can't be truly magical anymore. he was hoping this knowledge would put Macavity at ease but instead it horribly backfired :D

okay so long story short! Macavity attempts to wrest Deuteronomy's Moon Stone, fails, and then flees to quest for one of the other three Keepers. it's a whole thing but all you have to know is he does find one, and basically...extorts the Stone from him. (it had to do with exploiting the Keeper's romantic feelings for a mortal yadda yadda yadda. master of manipulation, the napoleon of crime! Macavity knows how to get what he wants!)

EDIT: Forgot to mention. this is from where Macavity gets HIS power...but since he's not a truly Magical Cat and because he's Evil and Shouldn't Have The Stone, he's basically destroying himself by using it to wield magic. and he's also corrupting the Stone itself. but obviously he doesn't care or even fully understand what he's doing to himself.

Deuteronomy, beyond deeply troubled by all this shit, sacrifices a sizeable chunk of his magic to send a prayer up to Everlasting via priority mail. basically he's like STOP I fucked up STOP Send Help STOP

his prayer reaches, and Moon Cat and the other Cat Deities senses a Disturbance In The Force. they're like shit. fuck. it's happening again. initially Moon Cat's plan was to amass the dregs of her remaining power to create a sentinel that could potentially stop Macavity, but that would officially kill her off, and then Jellicle Moon would cease to exist and the essence of the entire cat race would be fucked, so...that would be counterproductive. Moon Cat's little brother, a benevolent Demon Cat (I need to work on names 😩) whose job it is to guard the Heaviside Layer, volunteers to do the job instead. he's warned that if he gives up his essence/magic to incarnate into a corporeal form, he won't remember his previous life and won't be able to return to the Heaviside Layer. although obviously this is saddening, he accepts the consequences and heroically allows Everlasting to corporealize his essence into a bona fide...Original Conjuring Cat.

enter the boi! Mistoffelees wasn't 'born' per se, he more kind of...landed? spawned? lmfaooo and so he has no memories of parents or littermates and spends the greater chunk of his life just thinking he was abandoned because he was the runt of the litter.

Mistoffelees is imbued with the fruits of Demon Cat's sacrifice, which is where his magic comes from. he's his own person tho, a truly material Jellicle Cat, so as foretold he retains none of Demon Cat's memories or personality or feelings and so on and so forth. he just has a deep seated instinct that he's...Different™ and has a unique (nonetheless tragic) insight/connection to the Heaviside Layer, where he knows he can never go. he also develops a unique father/son-esque bond with Deuteronomy, because Mistoffelees is, after all, the literal answer to Deut's prayers, and because Deut hasn't felt the special warmth and spiritual connection inherent between Magical Cats in centuries. neither Deut nor Mistoffelees realize this for a while tho...it's during the events of the actual musical that Deut realizes what Mistoffelees is.

Moon Cat keeps her eye on him, hoping he can fulfill his destiny of stopping Macavity from fucking up everything for everybody. no pressure!

okay I think that's...kind of enough for now XD or at least it scratches the surface. ty anon for being interested in my crazy diatribes lol I'm glad they entertain you! hopefully this especially wacky take was no exception. 🥴

[primeval-texture]

back by unpopular demand:

the "arthesia loses her shit over gacha mini movie titles" series!!!!!!!!!!!!

now under the cut instead of reblogs! let's go!!!!!! no harassing btw!!!!!! or whatever idk

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1. "my boyfriend is my brother"

this is the title that prompted me to bring back this series to begin with because what the fuck

2. "m4fi4's bloody past"

ooooooo so so spooky edgy oughhhhhhhhhhh uwagghhhhhhhhhhh

3. "my daughter pregnant with enemy's son"

idk why but i find this title super funny for whatever reason 😭😭😭😭😭😭

4. "pretending to be mute?!"

WHY. would you pretend to be mute.

5. "my step brother got me pregnant"

i'm pointing a gun to my head right now.

6. "only i can bully the softie"

#gatekeeping ‼️

7. "admit it! you're an alpha!"

good god what is up with the gacha community and fucking. omegaverse??????

8. "our maid is my girlfriend"

you said our and then you said my. so is she you and some other guy's girlfriend or jusr yours????? hu?h????

9. "i'm a better boyfriend than him"

Shut The Fuck Up.

10. "you're mine, forever"

god forbid.

11. "my ex is my therapist"

damn. 😔

12. "you are my prey"

????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

13. "papa is obsessed with mama?!"

they're married with kids cut him some slack

14. "the big baby"

the thumbnail scares me...

15. "nerds like you are my type~"

the thumbnail makes it look like the guy is committing sexual harassment on the girl and i don't like that fact

16. "sold to my ex boyfriend"

SOLD????????????????????

17. "mr. popular's little pet"

yo why are you calling him a pet?? 🤨

18. "forbidden love when vampires vs. lucky girl"

What.

19. "to love my school's intruder"

wait what the hell is a school intruder. like is it just some guy who isn't even a student coming into said school and literally nobody decides to give a fuck or something???????

20. "shortie is our maid!"

yeah and what's so special about that

also shortie isn't a word apparently. shorty is a word though. uh.

that's all for this episode. see you all in the next one. (i say as i lazily get off the stage before a loud ear piercing scream comes from backstage)

[manwiththemagic]

spn s1 ep3 "Dead in the water"

more rewatch notes/commentary I have while watching!! :9

Ew Wisconsin okay...

“guys don't like buff girls.” WHO ASKED?? dumbahh person of the week. I don't even REMEMBER this episode and honestly, I blame you pal. I. Blame. You.

“be careful.” Okay so she's going to die then.

I wish I lived on a lake :(((

HELP THE SLOWMO... uhhh rip girl?? Ig..

Why does Dean look actually insane. He has like 100 newspapers, and his scribbling out faces and circling others 😭😭 i'd call the cops tbh..

Episode three, and second chick we see hitting on dean. It's just bc of his long eyelashes I bet.

LMAO “can I... get you anything else? 😏” “just the check please ☺️” LOVE YOU SAM.

The way dean immediately gives up trying to convince Sam about hookups bc lil bro is still distraught about jess. Like yeah... no way is a hookup gonna seem "fun" to a grieving man

The side eye Sam gives dean when he's telling him about how the people had a funeral for a missing person.

“a funeral?” “yeah for closure or whatever” “closure? What closure. People don't just disappear Dean, others just stop looking for them.” WOAH NELLY... I get it. Bro wants to find dad, dad to find monster, monster to be KKKKKKKKKILLED‼️

vaild.

Okay so Sam is tweaking because he wants to find John, and Dean is— NO WAY HE JUST SAID THAT. “im sick of the attitude.” DAD DEAN CHAT!! also no way he pulled the "I've been with him everyday for the past two years while you were off at school—" BRO.

Great more depressed. old. MEN.

does the loch ness monster exist?

Oh shoot broke dam!! More like... Dam I'm BROKE!!

Dean being good with kids part 1!! Also this is why I have a hard time believing he's so bad with Jack like... LOOK ST THIS.

Dean and his 3 woman in three episodes.

“must be hard with your sense of direction.. trying to find your way to a decent pickup line.” HEYOOOOO!! she ate that.

“‘i love kids’?? You don't even like kids.” “yes I do!” “name 3 kids that you even know.” LMAO NOT SAM GATEKEEPING KIDS LIKE ITS AN INDIE BAND!!! also yes he likes kids, he literally raised you Sam wtfdym?

Wait so late monsters do exist?? THE LOCH NESS IS CANON?? just not here..? Damn I thought since bigfoot was fake that would be too.

I'm pretty sure it's some ghost chick.

Yikes more dead...

“no wonder that kid was so freaked out, watching one of your parents die isn't something you just get over..” DEAN :((( I always forget he watched Mary die, cause like Sam too, he just doesn't remember it.

Dean is so good with kids :(((

STOP THEY'RE SO CUTE.

“when I was your age I saw something... anyways..” FUCK.

DWAHHH LUCAS TAKING THE PICTURE DEAN DREW ☹️

AWH HE GAVE DEAN A PICTURE!! they made a connection.

Oh shoot.. that man is so dead. “im gonna make some dinner”

OH SHIT ITS IN THE PIPES

your dead kid. D E A D. IDC tho you ain't Lucas

Ew don't dig in the dirty water. HOLY SHIT HE DROWBING. HE DROWBNIN

Damn.. and in dirty water. I could never.

Bill Carlton is cooked. Literally everyone he knows is dead now.. like damn. Wtf did he DO.

“my children are gone..its worse than dying..” MORE SAD OLD MEN OMFG.

Lucas drawing is important!!

Why don't these people ever be like “yea.. serial killer man..” LIKE A BELIEVABLE BUT STILL CRAZY LIE. "Why the FBI here?" "Serial killer." ITS THAT EASY.

Dean getting help from a kid AHHHHHHHH!!

“your... scared..? I understand.. you see when I was your age, I saw something real bad happen to my mom, and I was scared too.. I didn't feel like talking, just like you. But see my mom.. I know she wanted me to be brave. I think about that every day.” FUCK. JUST TEAR AT MY HEART STRINGS THEN DEAN. “and I do my best to be brave.. and maybe your dad wants you to be brave too.”

LUCAS YOU THE GOAT!!!

so now they are looking for the house Lucas drew and Dean like "man where tf is it?" And Sam's like "uh.. maybe let's look for the church?"

“ohhh collage boy thinks he's so smart!!” Dean the goat of this episode

Sam twitching because he doesn't know if or how he should bring up deans speech. Honestly now that I think about it Sam digs into deans personal stuff alot, mostly because Dean is jaded and hides stuff but IDK it's interesting.

“oh God we're not gonna have to hug or anything are we?” like you wouldn't enjoy that..

The churchhhhh

OMG THE BIKE. IT WAS BIG IN A DIFF DRAWING AND HERE IT IS AGAIN. omg wait it is important.

He's missing.. the kid with the bike.

HOLY COW. all the parents talking about how losing a kid is worse than death, and hey I know what canonically happens in death and uhh, idk if your right about that. Hell? eck.. ghost life?? yikes.. heaven? good but.. mehh...

Rip lil kid. Rip

HE KNEW BILLY. holy cow. Dead kid knew billy. Billy Carlton knows something is going on?? WAIT WHATS HAPOENING.

So wait is the dead kid the ghost..?

HOLY COW THAT BOAT FLEWWWW!!

Lucas having another vision??.. OH SHIT YEA THE GHOST GIES AFTER HIS MOM OR SMTH RIGHT??

THIRD TIME GETTING CAUGHT LMAOOO. “and your not really wildlife service..” HELP.

this cop made sus. Why you so mad these guys are investigating a murder?? They weird but like..

LUCAS KNOWSSSS..

This is kinda like a call forward or uhh foreshadowing to Sam's visions, which is kinda dope

LADY DON'T TAKE THAT BATH. NOT JUST CAUSE I DONT WANNA SEE YOU NAKED..

deans going back to town even after being threaten because lil kid was scared. GOAT. the goat I tell you.

“who are you and what have you done with my brother??” it's really not out of character for him Sam😭

DON'T TAKE THAT BATH LADY. YOUR DEAD. DOOMED.

oh whatever. I give up. EW MURKY WATER. CAN'T YOU FEEL IT LADY.

poor lucas.. lil bro bouta become an orphan.

LMAO DEAN THREW LUCAS OUTTA THE WAY. and Sam actually saved her 🤷

So wtf is after them. I DON'T REMEMBER.

Oh shoot puppy dog eyes Sam is back. “tell me what happened. Everything. 🥺”

More Lucas visions..

THEY FOUND THE BODY. or no? THE BIKE.

THE SHERIFF DID WHAT NOW.

No dead ghost Peter LEAVE LUCAS ALONEE!!

oh shit he did kill someone.

OH SHIT.

YOU WERE A BULLY?? EE. I HATE YOU. YOU KULLED HOM?? WTF.

dude no your daughter should stay away from you you freak.

LUCAS IS DROWNING.

Mermaid Dean 🧜

Sacrifice yourself for Lucas? Valid sheriff. Valid.

WOOO ITS OVERRRR!! MYSTERY SSSSOLVED!!

AW LUCAS IS TALKING AGAINNN!!

Dean teaching random kid his morals and tastes in music LMAO.

dean pulls yet NAOTHER woman. Are you fr?

One of my least favorite episodes tbh..

[gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat]

Group C, Round 1, Poll 3:

Propaganda under the cut

Sergeant Breaker Night

I don't know what it says about me that he's the first character I thought of besides "this show might have too much of a hold on my brain." Sgt. Night is a veteran from the Hard Age, a war that took place in recent history where robots fought for their rights as citizens. Supposedly "nobody lost" and "everybody won" the war because robots did get rights, but things still aren't really... equal. Tensions still exist, and Sgt. Night plays on this throughout the entire show. As the war veteran, he claims that humans built robots and therefore are superior to them, but in his disguise as Lord Obsidian - who by all accounts seems to be a robot - he urges robots to prove that ROBOTS are superior and that following him will let them take back what is theirs (in some capacity). In reality, he's doing all of this to get at a device Dr. Light has that allows for complete control over a robot and the ability to do things like wipe their memory. Night lies to his followers and is only revealed to the heroes as being Obsidian in the last episode. "I lied to all of you, to put you back in your place!" There's also "More, More, More!" in which he literally gatekeeps the city, creating a barrier to divide humans and robots and moving them around as necessary to create this division. He doesn't play all his cards at once, either, not showing his followers the "Lord Obsidian" armor/persona until challenged into doing so and proving that he's not just sitting around. He regularly calls Mega Man a "traitor to his kind" as Obsidian but never elaborates, which plays its part in drawing the hero in and trying to learn more which is perfect for staging an attack. We as the audience don't even know what all information he has, and he's not planning on sharing it, either. The sergeant might not be a girl, but he does girlboss. He has an evil lair and gets his followers through charisma or promises of helping them out in some fashion, and will do whatever it takes to succeed. He'll get his own hands dirty as Lord Obsidian, no questions asked. He's more than willing to sow problems as Sgt. Night, too, whether that's convincing others robots are dangerous and shouldn't be equal to humans, or that time he purposefully interfered with a robot's thermoregulator in order to make him more unstable and was only able to do so by claiming there was a "mad robot on the loose" to get rid of as many witnesses as possible. Ice Man didn't even do anything to him. My guy was just existing and trying to get better and Night wanted to make his life worse (possibly in an attempt to get Ice to join the evil team, but it's never made super clear and it fails anyway). There was an entire episode where the plot was "back Mega Man into a corner and get him to use all his powers together and fail so I can try and recruit him", which only failed because Mega Man got backup.

also he canonically abused a (robot) child who acts as his second-in-command. said child was also kidnapped and calls Obsidian "father" which makes the fact that the kid is terrified of him so much worse. Daini gets hit with a power that makes him see his fears because it messes with the mind and he's already in a dream fighting Mega Man (don't question it too much), and he sees Sgt. Night AKA Lord Obsidian. He falls to his knees and his hands go to cover his head. He’s scared. He’s whimpering and he’s terrified, almost trying to block him out. He's NEVER acted like this before. Daini was confidently standing by Obsidian's side and talked back just a few episodes ago, and now he's terrified. Once he gets booted out, he's confident again facing Sgt. Night, but the moment the Obsidian armor goes on Daini flinches. He pulls back and shrinks away slightly, and his hands rise to protect himself. He sounds scared. He wasn’t afraid of Night normally, confronting him on the plan being a failure, but then was called a failure himself and was intimidated into backing down by Obsidian. Obsidian didn’t have to say anything.

this is still by all accounts a kids show and this is even before the comic continuation added on "oh btw this incarnation of mega man was made specifically to kill his own kind in the war for robot civil rights and had his memories wiped and then had them wiped again after his twin brother was kidnapped" because why the hell not. i love it. this is also propaganda for mmfc as a whole, it's honestly really fun and the fact that there's a precedent for humans and robots not always getting along makes things even more interesting. some episodes (Guts Man episodes) are weird but others are genuinely really really good ("Enter the Wood Man", "Watt's Happening?!", "Big Bad Dreams", and "Hide and Secrets" are personal reccomendations!)

Dahlia Hawthorne

she lived. faked her own kidnapping and killed multiple people in unrelated situations. was executed. got her spirit channelled. tried to kill even more people as revenge

Girlypop has done a shit ton of manipulation, committed at least four murders (even one from the grave!) A man’s eaten glass for her, another’s knowingly drank poison. She also puts on the “Weak little girl” act to get away with it all

she is literally THE gaslight gatekeep girlbosser ever. don't wanna spoil anything but like. she is the definition of the words,

"At 14, Dahlia arranged a staged kidnapping (in order to attain a Very High ransom from her wealthy father) with a guy she'd seduced, her stepsister Valerie, and her twin sister Iris (who chickened out) that purposefully landed the guy in jail for her supposed murder. Five years later, the guy broke out of jail and Dahlia framed him for the murder of Valerie (which she committed) and when this truth was exposed in court, the guy killed himself rather than break the promise they'd made to believe in each other no matter what. A few months later, she poisoned one of the attorneys involved in that case (putting him into a years-long coma instead of killing him) and got away with it by planting the evidence on a guy she just met by convincing him she'd fallen in love with him at first sight. She then guilted Iris into pretending to be her while dating the guy for the next several months, which culminated in her attempting to murder him, only to then try to frame him for the murder of one of her exes instead (which she also committed). She didn't get away with this one because superior girlboss (her cousin Mia) exposed her plot and Dahlia was executed for it a few years later, but she continued to GGG from beyond the grave. While she was still alive, Dahlia and her also-incarcerated but not on death row mother planned to murder the head of their clan (Maya, the younger sister of Mia) so that Dahlia's younger half sister (Pearl) could take Maya's place as head of their clan; Dahlia was also doing this because in the interim, Mia had been murdered by someone else, and Dahlia decided the best way to get revenge on her after her death was to kill the person she loved most. The mother and daughter schemed to write to Pearl (who was only about 9 at the time) and convinced her to channel Dahlia after her execution without telling her why (their family has the ability to channel the spirits of the dead, and they cannot remember what their bodies do during the time they're possessed) so that Dahlia could use her little sister's body to kill the head of the family, who Pearl loved very much. They also guilted Iris into working with them on this. The attempt failed because she girlbossed too close to the sun (a combination of her still-living ex, Maya, the channeled Mia, and the now-awake guy she'd poisoned) but she still GGG-ed all her life and even into her death (she also managed to get Mia & Maya's mom killed in the process and the coma guy (who Mia was in love with) convicted for it, but Maya lived so ultimately a failure). Throughout all this, she gives off an air of innocence and kindness and naivete, wearing white, high femme clothes, convincing the men inside and outside of the legal courts that she couldn't possibly do anything because she's just a sweet little girl. I fucking hate her <3 the vibes are both rancid and terrifying"

[miimo96]

Thoughts on Re:Zero S3 episode 5

C.R.E.E.P.Y ✨CREEPY!✨ This dude is so effing creepy I swear everytime this dude's on screen, I just get the strong urge to wanna punch him as Hard as possible because of how deeply I HATE him, and the fact that this man has not only 184 wives, but probably MORE, makes him even more Hate-able (Greedy bastard)

Ouuuu I have so many mixed feelings about this but Julius is right, you can handle your own selfish desires AFTER you rescue the city, in other words: we'll get em next time 😖

My boi Subaru doing WORK with that whip, he could give Indiana Jones a run for his money ^^

Oh, well that's Not creepy at all 😅

Yep nope Don't get me wrong I Love Subaru, but HOW THE F*CK is he supposed to beat someone who can do shit like THIS!? Like bruh at this point, I would've just Reset by now because there's No way I can beat someone like this without prep time

Ngl, this scene was ABSOLUTELY Incredible, I legit felt nothing but Chills watching this, like WOW, the animators effing COOKED ^^

Wait so you're telling me, all the flies including that Dragon over there are the People she Held HOSTAGE!?🤯 Omg she legit basically killed them, yeah at this point it's Time for a Reset Subaru, like there's No way this could get any worse right?

Ya know at this point, I'm entirely convinced that the entire Witches cult specifically consists of Crashouts, because WTF IS SHE TALKING ABOUT!? 😟

Nah she Was DIRTY for this ^^;

Oh well now he HAS to Die, because there's No way he can move around let alone Fight with a Missing effing leg. ya know I just find it crazy that most of these fights would've been over by now if Reinhard was here but because his bitch ass of father is Gatekeeping him, we have to be left with this Suffering (btw that's TWICE now Subaru has lost his leg, my dude is completely unlucky)

You gotta be effing kidding me, annd just when I THOUGHT things couldn't get any worse

The homie OTTO!! Omg I'm so happy he's alright, ok 1st 2 things: 1, How the hell did he escape Gluttony and 2, once again the homie comes in clutch because Now we got Reinhard back! >_<

Oh well that answers my question Lol 😅

God I love their relationship ^w^ I was very hesitant about Reinhard and felt but after the 1st episode of this season, they won me over, now I just WANT to see them together ^^ I wonder how Subaru and the gang are doing

My boi Subaru still doing shit with a missing leg!? Nah this man has NO LIMITS, This Dude is Literally the Ethan winters of anime

Man what a STELLAR episode, Ngl, this show is probably one of my favorite Drama isekais, I just love how much Subaru has actually grown as a character, and capella is such a SICK BITCH Omg I was not expecting that, also the fact they actually flooded the city is Insane,like the witches cult are not playing this season huh, I just hope it doesn't end empire strikes back style with them actually winning and Subaru failing to rescue Emilia no matter how many times he resets, that would be absolutely terrible, anyway yeah totally can't wait for the next one

BONUS:

Oh look, Carnage😅 ok in all seriousnes tho I actually have a Question regarding this scene, capella asks for the city to give her something on her list of demands aside from typhons remains, that being the so called "artificial spirit that has been chillin in this city" could she be talking about Beatrice? Because remember Beatrice is technically not a human, she's a spirit that is basically echidna's daughter, why would she want Beatrice, is it because Beatrice is too powerful even for her therefore she wants to take her off the playing field, or is it for something else entirely? Hmmmm🤔

[ren-rambles-often]

Do you have top favorite character (or characters, if you feel like listing multiple) of all time from any media (animanga, tv series/cartoon/movies, books, etc)? Why love them?

Late reply cuz I kinda forgot abt this one hahah (٥↼_↼)

But oh do I have a LOT of them.

Starting off...

Bakugou Katsuki and Izuku Midoriya (MHA): they're amazing as a ship in their own right but as characters their both so deep and interesting with many layers and nuances interlaced between them.

Mikage Reo (Blue Lock): aside from easily getting attached to characters the fandom hates for no legit reason *coughs in Bakugou and Takemichi* he's literally the most perfect, precious cutie patootie. Not only that he's WIFE MATERIAL which is something instantly found attractive about him, the things I think about OMG (๑♡⌓♡๑)

Dante (Devil May Cry): I was fifteen and he was the coolest video game character I ever saw. Couldn't tell you which of the games tho, only watched and commented while my brother played. I did watch a few episodes of the anime but it's been so long I don't remember if I liked or hated it.

Ryomen Sukuna (Jujutsu Kaisen): We love a chaotic king, like yasss bitch, kill those innocent civilians yayyy!!!

Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter): Blond and bitchy just the way I like em.

Sano Manjiro (Tokyo Revengers): How are you the best fighter but oozing such bratty bottoms energy I love him!!!

Tyki Mikk (D.gray Man): He's a keeper when he can literally reach into your chest to stop your heart, sorry I don't make the rules (^^)

Kuroko Tetsuya (Kuroko no Basket): I'm rewatching the anime and why is he low-key so funny??? Aside from that drama just follows him constantly and I'm so down that.

Sung Jinwoo (Solo Leveling): Daddy and babygirl. The ultimate combo.

Ash Lynx (Banana Fish): *bursts into tears*

Yato and Yukine (Noragami): They're the only reason I considered picking up the manga when I realized there was probably no third season coming. Like I need to know how they're doing but I'm so lazy. They bounce off each other so well and I don't think I can like one without the other.

Lu Guang (Link Click): he came back in time for his boyfriend?!??! Season 3 where are you?!?!! (〒﹏〒)

Benimaru (Reincarnated as a Slime): Red haired, ogre Daddy.

Chloe Decker (Lucifer): I have a problem liking female characters cuz many of them rarely stick with me but I love her, she's cool, and in my honest opinion very well written.

Kaburagl T. Kotetsu aka Tiger (Tiger and Bunny): We stan single fathers with washed up energy. All he needs is a tall, blond brat to push his buttons.

Natsusa Yuzuki (Number 24): He's so sassy and dramatic I need him as my bestie ASAP. All that while having the whole cast wrapped around his fingers, truly the embodiment of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. I don't care if you disagree.

Lloyd Frontera (Greatest Estate Developer): The only taskmaster I'd willingly serve, they call him ugly I call him 'Sir'. Maniac???where?? All I see is a man trying to get his bag and be happy.

But that's all from me babes, those are all the characters I can think of off the top of my head. Mainly got to this cuz I don't think I'll make any real fan or shipping post this cuz I've got art and deadlines to attend to. Hoped anon likes my answers and I'll get to answer more questions like this.

[savagebisand]

I saw it be said a few times that Boeing is mature and whilst that man is a lot of things that have me questioning if I'm like... Mentally okay to have such a carnal desire for them. Mature is not one of the traits I'd assign. This is a man who is literally playing games with not just one now but two of his exes. He's spent what months? years maybe? being Tops go to call when he doesn't want a lonely night, the second he feels threatened of his security in Tops fucked up life, he makes a move on the so called threat aka Mew. He's master manipulating. Everything he says is double edged and eery and unsettling. Just how much does he pull strings on Top? You see it in how he talks to him, how he touches him.

Boeing doesn't care for Tops boundaries, he may have even been the start of Tops issues with fighting for his own boundaries being respected. Boeing does this thing where he keeps Top coming back to him for more, and he lords it over him. How long has it been, are you still sticking to the three month rule? He knows exactly the power he has and by god does he wield it. Sabotaging Tops other relationships so he can keep number one spot. Deceiving Mew so easily into believing it's a revenge that won't bite him in the ass, that he's a friend and not a wolf in sheep's clothing.

And as if that's not enough, he then next episode targets Sand again, purely because he hears about how Sand has moved on. Kinda like how he doubles down on his position in Tops life because he thinks Top can finally move on with Mew. Like he's terrified of someone replacing his legacy as The Best Option. Boeing likes pulling puppet strings, he likes keeping people stagnant in a place he can leave them and come back to peck at what's left later like a vulture. And the worst part is he does it because he needs attention.

There he is simpering to Mew and Sand about how he thinks he can be a better boyfriend than their current partners. Using Mews history against him, spinning this tale where Top is selfish and Boeing is "The Good Guy", then using his own history with Sand to delude Sand into this vision where he's blameless and just wants him back bad enough he's willing to be "The Bad Guy".

Funny how Boeing only starts caring if he still stands a chance when he thinks his position is threatened as Sands most important ex. He's still got his little revenge plot with Mew in the works but he wants Sand on his belt too. Also, all this man does is talk about his exes. He tells stories of the past where he and Sand played quiz nights at the bar, where Top took him wakeboarding and made him a pro. Constantly trying to undermine what his exes newest partners may see as special time for them because oh hey btw I did that first. The sheer audacity to bring up dates Sand and him used to do whilst at the same time he was prioritising Top over Sand? As if they're like fond memories?

Boeing presents himself as this true friends stab you in the front archetype but he's just a lost, lonely man desperate for even a shred of someone's attention and value. And that's kind of sad actually. Like babes move the fuck on? Get a life outside of these men's business and stop bothering them?

We love Boeing because he steps on the scene and emits this mean girl Regina George energy where you're like oh this vindictive little bitch is truly a supreme conniving pussy slaying cow. But when you peel back his layers it's like you are the most pathetic man to ever breathe sir. How hard is it to just move forward in life?

Boeing is that smart and that pretty and that good at pulling strings to get to high places and he wastes his time circling the flakey little meal that is this group of men. He literally invented gaslight, gatekeep and girlboss specifically for his exes and even Boston would shake in his leather studded cunt serving boots at the sight of Boeing. And yet, he's insignificant. He means nothing to anyone. He's indisposable at any time and he Knows it. He knows one day Top will say he no longer needs Boeing to play ghost of his past still haunting. That Sand will eventually see why Boeing was never the right one. So he claws for control by removing options. Because he'd never be a first choice all on his own.

I'm obsessed with him, I crave him carnally and viciously. I'd do truly wicked things to that maleficent poisonous man. But he better leave Sand tf alone. It's about time someone tells Boeing they want someone whose actually willing to change for them, to see past what is so say "not enough" within them to make Boeing truly loyal or commited, to choose someone who genuinely tries rather than someone who clings to falsified memories of a past with a significance that didn't and doesn't exist.

And yes I do want Sand to be the one to say it because my biggest fear is that Ray will go in all guns blazing when he overhears Boeing making a move on his man, take over the situation and then Sand will lose his chance to get closure and put autonomy back on Boeing for his part in the downfall of their relationship. If ray interferes, it's a loss of a chance for sand to make a point that he chooses ray no matter what in a way Ray can witness and feel the significance of. Because Ray knows but he's still learning that Sand will choose him over everything and he needs to hear Sand of his own volition, let go of such an important part of his past because Ray is the future he picks.

Top got the chance to clearly tell Boeing he picks Mew and now I need to see Sand do the same for Ray without Ray "forcing his hand" to use Rays expression from the ep when it came to making Sand make a big choice the first time around.

[silverasks]

earthspark season 2 episode 7 thoughts spoilers ahead

Aftermath is learning the importance of a dramatic entrance

I don’t like the messy mind merge part of bodyswaps

twitch surrender to the chaos! gaslight! Gatekeep! Girlboss!

spitfire your a chaos Terran you have to be better at lying then that!

nova storm and Skywarp arm wrestling!

the bad lying is so cringe I might actually get stuff done because I can’t stand watching this

novastorm and Skywarp looking at each outher like that is making me think there going to adopt spitfire which would become a gut punch when everyone returns to their rightful bodies

nooo ravages food

spitfire half the suspicion would be gone if you gaslit more

and you can’t be unsure when you do it confidence is what sells it

I have no need for any Terrans right now DUDE DOESNT WANT TO SEND CHILDREN ON MISSIONS AS HE SHOULD

srsly wondering why dot even let’s Optimus do that

dude you were literally watching from the window they weren’t whispering you should have been able to hear the end of that and known something was up

SKULLCRUNCHER AND SHOCKWAVE WERE CALMLY TALKING TO EACH OUTHER ARE THEY FRIENDS

DID DID STARSCREAM JUST CALL SPITFIRE CHILD OH MY GODS HES LOOKING TO ADOPT ANOTHER ONE THIS TIME A FLIER

yes starting to blend in twitch! meanwhile spitfires disguise is just getting worse and worse

OOOH WHEELJACK GOTCHA

OH! NO!

Wheeljack nooooo! Don’t make this go on longer than it has to!

oh nvm they figured it out thank the gods

ooh twitch has complementary colours to the staff (gotta draw that sometime)

”I’ll buy that” mood he’s so me sometimes

oh gods one more episode until the two parter with no ending yet

[3l1s-rh4ps0dy]

My new little blog series ?

'Ve got nothing better to do then make a blog seeing as how I front so often and I have virtually no hobbies (I watch TV all day and think a bunch, my job is to take care of the body and I've taken on the task of helping ease our host, Charlie, into realising and understanding he's apart of a system) so I've decided to blog about the shows I watch.

Currently I'm on episode three of 'The Night Agent' which I thoroughly enjoy. Essentially the series follows a government program called 'Night Agents.' Night Agents are FBI intel operatives and such who answer the phone which is a direct communication line between intel operatives and POTUS. I find this idea incredibly interesting because that isn't the only usage, it also can help intel operatives (and spies) if they or their families are compromised. I love that idea, I think that it's extremely helpful as an idea because it can literally save lives of people who save lives.

One day, in 'The Night Agent' universe, a woman's house is broken into and her aunt and uncle (who are spies) and they discuss what to do with the documents and classified intel that's in the house. Eventually, the main character (that woman, who is named Rose), is given a number and a code to say by her uncle. When she calls the line, our other protagonist answers and saves her life. Eventually he comes to "collect" her from police and then they go from safe house to safe house, trying to uncover who killed her aunt and uncle, and why they did it.

My personal takees:

I have always enjoyed crime shows and our gatekeeper has always given me memories of those shows (more than others because I enjoy them), so this show had that and thriller aspects, meaning it was high energy and higher stakes. I loved the dynamics between the characters and the plot was truly compelling. I can confidently say I would rewatch this show just for enjoyment alone.

I only have had one major gripe with the show and that's the dialogue. The dialogue is super hit or miss because there is a lot of vulgar language. I personally swear (and so does our host, Charlie), but it was even too much for me. Sometimes it felt like every other word was "fuck" or "dick" and that got incredibly tiring. Other than that, the dialogue sometimes felt incredibly flat or didn't make a whole lot of sense. It feels more like it was written by some very good fanfiction writers at some points, not screenwriters.

The show is TV-MA for violence and language, but I watched it on my own time and found that the violence wasn't terrible, only the language was heavy.

Takeaways:

In all, I found the show SUPER good, I loved the premise and I think this would've made an incredible movie, or book, though it is a good show on it's own. I think if you enjoy suspenseful crime shows that this show is ideal for you, especially if you enjoyed the season finales of crime shows like NCIS or MacGyver even.

-Eli.

[licncourt]

As far as engagement with your fics dwindling, I think it’s mainly a result of the ao3 tag naturally being flooded with show verse content and book writers disappearing. There’s also the increasing rhetoric among popular show writers/bloggers that continued art and fic for book Louis and Armand is inherently racist so my guess is no one wants to out themselves as someone who enjoys book fic for fear of being shunned. Which is disappointing but with a large fandom that is mainly centered around a popular show, not surprising (not that there wasn’t gatekeeping preshow but the fandom was significantly smaller). I think most fans of the show think with these new (and improved) incarnations of the characters, there’s no need for their book counterparts. And the belief that people who do still enjoy book Louis and Armand are ignorant and fundamentally don’t understand the vc characters. It sucks because it would’ve been sweet if it could all be enjoyed for the multiverse it’s become since there are fans (like myself) who enjoy both the books and the show but there does seem to be an unspoken rule that you shouldn’t still be interested in producing content for the books. However, I’ve always been a huge fan of your works (and meta/thoughts!!) and the quality of your writing and grasp on the characters is still just as compelling as ever so I selfishly hope you continue writing 🫶 I promise I’ll make an effort to drop comments! lol

Well first of all thank you!! I just want to reiterate that the point of my original post was never to fish for comments or anything, I was just curious about why the engagement was happening on here suddenly vs ao3, but I always appreciate comments, kudos, reblogs, etc, it makes me so happy to know people like my writing because I really love doing it. I have plenty more stuff planned just because I love writing fic and I love the characters, so no worries there!

That also makes a lot of sense actually as far as people wanting to send me anons instead of comment. That's a crazy take though, like the books are forty years old you can't expect them to suddenly not have fans because of a new adaptation...? And I think it's a wild take to say that the original books/fans of them don't understand the characters?? Tumblr discourse is on another level always.

Liking the show better is absolutely fine, everyone can have their own preferences in media, but I don't believe for one second that the show is "less problematic" than the books. They just found a different way to be insensitive and offensive 😭 I think Anne Rice IP is just destined to be a morally bankrupt trainwreck and we all have to accept that. No one has moral high ground here really. And in a way it really feels like people coming into OUR house and saying we suck and aren't welcome.

This might be a selfish way of looking at it too, but I didn't get called literal slurs for months because I was defending the show and diverse casting for people to act like I have a problem with black Louis or brown Armand. Myself and friends of mine were harassed (including racially and sexually) for speaking positively about the casting decisions from day one, before most of these people knew the show or IWTV existed. My issues with it only started after episode 5 and that will always be my reason for jumping ship on the show.

I really wish things could have been different too, I was hoping the show would bring new people into the fold and just generally expand the VC multiverse like the movie did except with a new take on the story, but of course everything has to degenerate into a slap fight on the internet.

**There are absolutely people who don't like the show because they're racist shitheads and that is absolutely not a valid opinion to have btw. Just a blog reminder that I will absolutely never support or tolerate racism surrounding the show/the casting/the actors. It could have been a really great thing, unfortunately I just deeply disagree with how it was handled.**

[complete-idiot-in-love]

Once Upon a Witchlight: Episode 50 (SPOILERS AHEAD)

I'm so sad that I have to wait now for the next episode, how will I survive without my goofy bitches found family???

Sorry that this one's extra long, I added in some pre and post episode comments uwu

Final episode before I have to wait :(

OOOOOO FANART INTRO!!!!!

THE GANG AS POKEMON OMG YES!!!!

Are they gonna be streaming on Youtube now or was this a one time thing? (I hope they stream on youtube)

I want to join the Discord so badly but my social anxiety won’t let me :(

Derek is back! Frost must’ve got over his IBS!

Soundboard noises (Of course Derek does the best one lmao)

I love all the funny noises and voices they do, I wish I was as vocally talented as them

YOOOOOO, THEY’RE GUESTS AT PAX!!! SO PROUD OF THEM, WISH I COULD GO

Mikey’s sweater looks so soft, I wonder where he got it (I fuckin LOVE sweaters fr fr)

The ring of chaos one-shot was so good, I love Joetetee and wish he could come back

Mikey gaslighting people with a FNAF reference is so damn funny, he truly is a gaslight girlboss while Torbek is a girlfailure

I WOULD TOTALLY WATCH A MUPPET MOVIE WITH THEM, I FUCKIN LOVE THE MUPPETS

Mikey says “Here we go” when Rich mentions the muppet movies like my friends when I gush over my hyperfixations lmao, Rich definitely has talked about this before ALSO FUCK U DISNEY FOR STOPPING THE MUPPETS FROM MAKING MORE MOVIES, THOSE ARE COMEDY GOLD

I’m glad they all switch positions and don’t make one person a perma-DM :)

I actually have a bugbear character from waaay back in 2018 so if Torbek makes the race popular I’d be VERY appreciative. They’re one of my favorite races along with satyrs fr fr

 “Torbek’s bringing sexy back” HAHA

DEREK IS FULL-TIME AVANTRIS, DOES THIS MEAN ALL 6 OF EM WORK FOR AVANTRIS AND WON’T MISS A SESSION ANYMORE?? FROST CAN FINALLY HAVE A GUYS NIGHT!!!

Twin dads with man buns /j

Mikey keeps using his Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss actions to get more people to watch the ring of chaos one shot, very funny :)

Derek is a #gamer fr fr

“Derek is bussing fr fr”

Grinko Gladfrown, Mourning Font, Krepe Lacroix, Thorbek and Giddyon Charcoal /j

Andy doing his dancy dance in the background is so gender fr fr

I love these goofy bitches, they’ve spent hour doing NOTHING but I don’t mind cause they’re hilarious

I would love a studio tour, their cables probably look like spaghetti but their knick knacks are probably so poggers looking

I CAN WATCH THEM AT PAX ON TWITCH ON THE 1ST??? YOOOOOOOOOO I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!

Rich SHOULD DM someday, I bet he’d do a great job

Finally we’re getting bean footage after an hour of jokes but I honestly wouldn’t care if they made a 4 hour video of just them fuckin around

We finally met Will and he’s got a knife! “What do you have?” “A KNIFE!” “NOOO”

OH SHIT, HE CALLED KREMY A CROC

Favorite comment: “​forgot how much I love torbek, he's like a wet cat that has alcohol poisoning”

All the little “Friend on the other side” References Kremy does just strengthens my belief that he’s based off the movie

Emergency broadcast: Five fully grown men are arguing with a literal child

Carnival Lecroux need a swear jar fr fr /j

“We could totally murder a horde of kids” FROSTY WTF???

Frost “flossing” and Kremy + Gricko talking about VBucks is so damn funny, more interactions for my Actor AU fr fr /j

MIKEY ACTUALLY GOT A HAT FOR WHEN GRICKO DOES THE 45 DEGREE BODY TILT OMFG

“You can call me Morning Floss!” “I wish I was dead!” SAME KREMY, SAME

“All of you are so damn embarrassing, you’re lucky I love y’all” - My S/I with their head in their hands

KREMY NO, DON’T OFFER KIDS ALCOHOL!!!!

Kremy and Gideon spiking their Sierra Mountain Mist is so canon. My S/I would totally try to drink with them but be absolutely disgusted at the mixture

Kremy and Gideon are drunk lmao

“FR FR, THIS DRINK BE SKIBIDI PHANTOM TAX ON GOD!” WHAT???? I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR SKIBIDI AND PHANTOM TAX, IS GRICKO DRUNK TOO???? “This ain’t no Ohio drink. You a straight rizzler fr fr, giving me this skibidi drink” GRICKO PLEASE, STOP!!!

“We don’t know what children like, we ran a carnival” HAHA, GOOD ONE FROSTY

These dudes should never interact with children /j

“Y’all’re so weak lmao, straight up unpogger girlfailures. You definitely let people diss your fly girls” - My S/I messing with them because they’re a gremlin

“We’re both trying to protect our found family” HE SAID THE THING OMFG, KREMY SAID THE THING!!!!! MY S/I WOULD BE SO FUCKIN HAPPY TO KNOW THAT THEIR DAD ACTUALLY SEES THEM AS FAMILY!!!

IS MORNING MIST POISON??? ARE WE GONNA DIE????

These fuckers got a whole side campaign of quests to do /j

Wouldn’t Bavlorna’s place be better than Yon? She’s the one that likes children after all

“What is gyatt? What is amogus?” Hootsie and I are very much in the cringe zone as the only two party members young enough to understand the slang Gricko is using

TORBEK IS CURSED TO BE A(R/U)TISTIC!! (We would draw pictures together fr fr uwu)

Gideon is a coward, he’s turned into Torbek! /j

Kremy is a kleptomaniac (So basically the same lmao)

Rich with the 80’s rad hat is so funny for some reason??

Frost is forced to confess to doing bad things even if he has to lie about em (He’s a masochist lmao)

Gricko is magnetic and got stuck to Torbek’s back HAHA

Gideon’s a cowardly vampire LMAO

“DON’T CUT GRICKO’S THROAT, TORBEK’S NOT DONE DRAWING HIM YET” HAHAHAHAHA

Why are they always trying to kill Gricko??? It’s funny but weird

WERE-GATOR KREMY RETURNS!!!!!

New favorite comments: “Werewolf thief and a cowardly vampire, what a pair” and “Avantris News: Four adult men sacrifice a green child to appease child gods”

NAT 20 TO ATTACK TORBEK FROM KREMY BUT NIKKIE DREADED IT

My S/I would be so confused at this chaos, I’d probably over with Hootsie and Juniper knitting because they don’t drink soda or alcohol (Based off myself irl)

“These fucking dumbasses, they’re lucky I’m sane in these moments” - My S/I

So excited to see Torbek’s masterpiece

Carnivale lecroux is spelled the fancy way, makes sense for someone like Kremy to spell his business like that (I’ll probably forget and still spell it carnival tho)

I love just listening to them talk about movies with each other, it's really nice :)

Nikkie hoarding mementos from witchlight behind the DM screen is so sweet!

UNICORN OUTFIT FOR KREMY?????

HAHA KREMY GOT THROWN OUT OF LITTLE OAK

GRICKO, STOP DRINKING THE POOP WATER!!!!

When TORBEK is disgusted by you, you know you fucked up!!

Oh thank the gods, it was a prank by will

CANDY??? TORBEK AND I WANT CANDY!!!!!

Besties who share a sweet tooth and trauma/abandonment issues stay besties forever

“The water in the pool does more than just quench your thirst!” “NOT ANYMORE” Gideon/Torbek unison joke!!!

I love Nikkie and her horde of dolls :)

“I also agree with Torbek, we need to kill that bitch of a hag!” - My S/I

TELL US THE STORY ABOUT THE WENDY’S BATHROOM WHEN Y'ALL WENT TO GENCON

Gricko got the diarrhea this episode lmao

“Fill up squirt” sounds so suggestive

Empty capri sun Gricko is so funny

DISPLACER BEAST KITTY!!!!! YES!!!!!

How many days/nights have these guys been in Prismeer? 4? 5? 6? (The only times I remember them sleeping is: Night at the inn, Frog palace, Mushroom forest high, Pixie camp sleepover, Jabberwock death and now here at little oak)

If Torbek was gone for an hour and that was five years, most of these kid’s parents probably don’t even realize they’ve been kidnapped and are missing

It’s canon to me that my S/I and Torbek sleep on a pile on the floor like Gricko does with Hootsie (Besties with abandonment issues and a love of physical affection uwu)

Who the hell names their kids Bongo and Flute???

My S/I Canonically knows Goblin but I feel like they wouldn’t tell Gricko or Torbek cause they like to eavesdrop in those two’s dumbass conversations lmao

BONGOLLOMEW??????

“Skibidi on god” “fr fr no cap” “BUSSIN!!” I’ve changed my mind, I hate these people /j

DO I ACTUALLY GET TO LISTEN TO AVANTRIS AND CHILL??? POGGGGERS!!!

Gricko turns into a milkshake via Frosty’s mage hand /j

THEY ORDERED $400 WORTH OF PIZZA FOR THE RING OF CHAOS ONE SHOT???? THATS SO FUCKIN MUCH, MACE!

Nikkie loves Fortnite and that makes me happy bc I like Fortnite

Thank you Derek for teaching me waterdrop and breaking nose sound effect :)

[kaidanalenko]

Bdubs Etho has no loyalty to you he's just immediately teamed up with the next guy that's come along Yeah hes a survivor man thats what he does ... He loves me If he loves you why didnt he give you a life He cares. He does

we put ourselves to the ultimate test. the first thing i wanted to do was, team up with me. that's right! we're the best. aha! the south lands, made some towers. we're here in the fairy fort collecting flowers! gatekeep, gaslight, and girlboss here. magical mountain's the BEST idea. please watch out, how shall i say, something called a boogie man can be here today. we have to be on full guard for this episode. careful of your valuables they may explode.

and boom! we're back. (oh dear) red names have to attack. I NEED BLOOD. another episode of chaos in a box. how bout this, i trade you magic blocks? and boom! It's time! burn it to the ground! (this is fine) (bleh) that's a wither. how did we survive? right that's it, i'm on my last life.

i'm so sorry... i knew i could never have trust you. aw. you could have trusted me! there's a way we can still be friends. yeah? you can join me.

absolute carnage in the shadow lands. so many red names. this is intense. i could get making some TNT. do me a favor, die for me. wha-ha-ha, it was an accident! get back here! no, my friend! i have loyalty and a taste for blood. we're outnumbered, this is the end! so i left this world just as i had entered it, confused. you could have gone for me and you chose not to. i would lose! dude everybody's dying, i need some good news! bubblevate initiate. i'm gonna die! they all betrayed me, and it made me cry. i killed big b! (that was pretty much my goal.) not like this! grian! joel! no... they got me...

and boom! we're back. (oh dear) red names have to attack. I NEED BLOOD. another episode of chaos in a box. how bout this, i trade you magic blocks? and boom! It's time! burn it to the ground! (this is fine) (bleh) that's a wither. how did we survive? right that's it, i'm on my last life.

well it was a good show.

what's gonna happen now? there's literally four people left on the server. i don't want to kill anybody. i have spent all season being honorable. that's not going to stop now. everybody ready?

3. 2. 1.

[harrowharkwife]

"redeeming the Buckley parents" dude im sorry but like. speaking as someone with emotionally neglectful parents? if you missed the incredibly unsubtle implication that buck is still viewing his interaction with his parents as part of the "other life" (all the flowers in the kitchen at his loft, his dad wanting to watch the game on the couch, his mom decorating the place as she sees fit, his parents staying longer... it looked exactly like his coma dream!) then like... idk what to tell you? this plotline is written from such aggressively personal and specific lived experience that not to sound like a gatekeeping exclusionary cunt or anything, but i genuinely believe it's just one of those things where either you get it or you don't.

of course buck was going to let himself bask in his parents' attention for a spell. tolerate it, let himself enjoy the bits and pieces of it that aren't half bad, while still seeing it for what it is- a fantasy. i called THAT unpleasant little twist halfway through the episode, and was pissed about it for all of five seconds before going "yeah, god. that tracks."

i was half expecting him to cut his parents off this episode, going into tonight, is the thing? because this is TV, and that's how TV writing usually works. but after taking literally just a second to think about it? of course this was how it went. this was how it was always going to go, there was no other option. that is exactly what it is like to have that kind of parents. you always think that you're past it, that you don't want their attention, that you're above it, you've learned your lesson not to let them in, but your parents are always going to be your blind spot. you never stop getting your hopes up and your feelings hurt, no matter how careful you think you're being with your heart. and this is 911, the show that has made its entire modus operandi brutally, excruciatingly lifelike *emotional* realism, at any cost.

narratively speaking? buck was never going to give up on his birth family entirely until he'd accepted the 118 wholeheartedly as his true family of choice, the family that matters. we all know buck- he couldn't survive a single minute in a world where he feels truly alone, i'm talking no family at all, not even a fever-dream play-pretend make-believe pipe-dream one. he was always going to have to embrace his found family before he could begin cutting off his birth family. he needs their support in order to do so- and he's always had the 118's support, but he's never truly let himself trust in it, or believe in it, or feel it, or feel that he deserves it, until now.

another post on here said it better, but- the new couch and the area rug and the game watched on TV, and most of all, the staying?

that's just the grown-up version of new bikes and chocolate cereal and bandaids on his skinned knees.

buck knows that.

the buckley parents haven't changed at all.

the show is not trying to trick you into believing that they have. i promise.

the entire point of this episode was that it was a look inside buck's headspace. the episode flat out stated, verbatim, that what we were witnessing was just different facets of buck's conscience playing tug of war with each other. bobby straight up said, out loud, with his human mouth, that everyone in the coma dream only knows what buck knows, feels how he feels, realizes what he realizes.

like. i'm sorry, i get it, i am unfortunately coming from a perspective of firsthand experience with a large majority of the rather niche set of lived experiences that this episode and this family dynamic are centered around. not everyone is! that's not a dig, just a fact. not everyone grew up with this exact, precise, hyperspecific kind of parents.

(meanwhile, the first time margaret buckley ever walked across the screen all the way back in buck begins, my wife leaned over and whispered in absolute horror "oh my god, it's your mother," and like, she was right. anyway!)

i fully understand that it is a fucking baffling and beyond frustrating and incredibly nonsensical dynamic when viewed from the outside looking in. but please, please believe me when i tell you that for the story they are trying to tell, and the dynamic they are trying to represent? this episode fired on every single emotional cylinder.

no, the buckley parents are not being redeemed.

yes, buck is letting himself linger under their spell for just a little while longer. letting them fawn over him, playing nice until they leave, daydreaming about what could have been, in another life, while knowing that it's just not meant to be in this one.

yes, he knows what he's doing- this is evan "bizarre and extremely effective forms of self-inflicted emotional injury" buckley we're talking about, here. the man hurts his own feelings like it's a sport and he's trying to take home the gold medal.

yes, this is fucking frustrating. no, it's not the healthiest option he could have chosen.

it's also the single most relatable and poignant and true to life thing this show has ever done, from where i'm standing.

however: no, i have a feeling it won't last for very long. this episode was relentless in positioning bobby as buck's true father figure- the dad to philip buckley's donor, if you will. we're just not quite there yet.

idk, this is getting long, just...if you watched the scene at the end of the coma dream- buck telling his parents that he will always love them, (like? no. respect? hell no. but there is always going to be a tiny, broken piece of you that can't help loving your emotionally neglectful parents, regardless of whether or not they deserve it), but that he knows he doesn't belong there anymore, that there's a real family out there who need him, and that no matter how much they apologize, or what they do to try and make it up to him, it won't change anything, he still needs to leave them behind- and genuinely walked away thinking it was a buckley parents redemption arc?

i truly do not know what to tell you.

that was buck cutting off his parents. not externally, verbally, theatrically, to their faces, sure. but that's the part that TV always, always gets wrong. it doesn't matter what you tell an emotionally neglectful narcissist, they'll find a way to spin it to their advantage and strip it of all meaning. it's what they do best.

what matters here, what matters in real life, and what has always mattered most on this show, is the internal dialogue. the things we admit to ourselves. so as satisfying as it can be to watch cathartic, dramatic scenes where a character tells their shitty parents in no uncertain terms to fuck off and stay gone- in my experience, at least, it never feels as good as you want it to? in fact, it often just makes you feel worse? because it introduces a whole new can of worms to fight over.

the strongest, best, and most important thing buck could have done for himself right now at this juncture of time to protect his peace and guard his heart and move forward with his life, was to simply privately come to terms with the knowledge that his birth parents have never, and will never, be there for him in the way he needs them to. and make his peace with that, secure in the knowledge that he has a family, the family he chose.

going no-contact is great in the movies. it's even great in real life sometimes! don't get me wrong, for some kinds of toxic family dynamics? it's deeply, deeply necessary, and life saving, and the key to healing. and it's always an option, if that's what you want to do.

but toxic, dysfunctional, and/or abusive families are not all created equal. they are not a monolith.

so, like, speaking from experience?

sometimes closing the door on your birth family looks exactly like this: accepting that although you still love them, no matter how much you wish you didn't. being honest with yourself that you don't belong.

turning around, and striking out to find the kind of family you deserve.

lucky for buck, he's already found his.