#neverafter liveblogging

[carelesscuriosity]

“What’s the point of magic if you can’t rewrite destiny” - Turquina

[andi-o-geyser]

fuck the fate of the very fabric of the universe, the scariest moment in the neverafter finale was brennan calling in the vice principal

[impulsivesuperrobin]

you said i didn’t have any friends, but my wife is my friend now!

this is the new “toxic masculinity is dead! i dance now!”

[underwaterbanshee]

Moms are complicated Pinocchio says. She is the only mother figure I have.

Why does my mother always have to die? Cinderella asks as she chafes under a cruel Step-Mother who is the only mother figure she has during the most formative years of her life. I live so many versions of the same but different story with the same but different people.

Snow is a great mage. Just like her Step-Mother, the Evil Queen.

My mother was very kind and very beautiful Rosamond, the Sleeping Beauty says wistfully, and she doesn’t see the kind and beautiful woman devoured while she’s hidden away in a closet.

I always think about my Grandmother says Red. She is never far from me. 

Mothers are complicated. She asks a lot of me but gives me a lot in return Pinocchio says right before he cuts himself free from all the Step-Mothers in all the realms in all the worlds before leaving the Neverafter through a Golden Door.

[magicisrealandsoismyally]

gotta say, we have come a long way from “are you my dad?” to “we like daddy? we hate daddy?”

[pieofdeath]

OH SHIT THE SPIDER DESCENDING FROM THE CEILING....

[seeyouinthesoup]

For weeks, I’ve been telling you I don’t trust Lou, and now I’m wondering if Siobhan is in on Lou’s shenanigans. Is there a reason why Rosamund has to be protected from the Stepmother? Was it all to lead the Stepmother to her? Idk man, this photo is making me even more conspiratorial!!

[commander-minkowski]

I will say, "the more power you gain within an unjust system, the less likely you are to take radical action against the system as a whole" is a actually a pretty horrifying message. I'm not sure if it's intentional, but either way, it's kind of compelling

[am-i-my-own-dad]

there's something about mira that's so depressing to me cuz like. imagine. ur life sucks so bad that you go to a sea witch and offer up your voice so that you can fall in love with a man. you grow legs and everytime you move you're in excruciating pain and you can't talk and the love of your life falls in love with someone else. you're offered your voice and tail back if you kill him, but you know you could never do that because even if he barely knows you exist, you love him so much. so then you're stuck on an island of boats and all you can do is dance(despite the excruciating pain) while your father(who you hate) tears apart the world to come find you and control you again. the first people you can communicate with in years come save you, and the sea witch gives you your voice back before leaving again. you have a good two days with these new friends, and then introduce you to even more friends. and then those new friends chase away your first friends as they leave you behind. you don't even fight. all you have is a voice that hurts and a body still stabbing you whenever you walk. you just want to die. and then your friends come back and save you and tell you that you don't have to die and that you can live. you don't want to die.

[karinyosa]

btw brennan's line in neverafter about turning your pain into a puzzle. if you even care

[carelesscuriosity]

sudden military vet bird is honestly peak Brennan improv

[andi-o-geyser]

That was a VISCERAL physical reaction. go to horny jail

[impulsivesuperrobin]

lord bandlebridge canonically committed vehicular manslaughter against henry hubbard

[englishmagic]

Honestly, Mother Goose is such a Character. Traditionally a teacher in the way that the collected fairytales were supposed to dole out morality, but now with a more modern sense of both ethics and childcare he takes on a completely different role that sort of comes in opposition to the old model. An old Mother Goose model is supposed to teach boys like Pinocchio to behave. The new Timothy Goose wants to make Pinocchio a healthy and well adjusted child. And that contrast is exactly what the whole campaign seems to be about. Other characters might Do more or act more like Main Characters or even interact more directly with the themes of the season, but Tim seems to BE the theme of the season. Anyway Ally and Brennan are amazing for this character and his role in the game and I love them.

[annebrontesrequiem]

Brennan Lee Mulligan you cannot have me feeling empathy for every villain in this story. You cannot have me feeling emotional over a being trying to consume the world wanting to erase their own story and the love they obviously felt for their once children. You cannot have me understand the desperate fear of powerful beings afraid of those even more powerful. You gotta stop man, I'm experiencing too many emotions

[pieofdeath]

HEY THE ENDING OF TROUBLE IN TUFFETON???? WHAT THE FUCK????