#now i gotta watch season 3!

[the-lisechen]

idky people are saying s2 of the bear is bad, i'm on e9 and this rules. i mean, i can see why people would be annoyed, but just a few off the cuff observations

-fuck carmy tho. bro needs to get his shit together

- i do not know what they're trying to do with claire. obviously it's good that someone loves carmen, but why do they have this set up as a binary choice between that and the restaurant? are we supposed to like her? not like her? think she's good for carmy? think she's terrible?

-(i am reflexively not a fan of claire, being a sidcarmy person forever, but i'm not sure how it reads to an outside observer)

-marcus! his journey to europe! THE DESSERTS. wonderful side quest, wonderful idea to give him a whole episode. excellent worked

-richie. richie! RICHIEEEEE. i love him. i adore this perpetual fuckup. i love that he found his spot. i knew at least twenty guys exactly like him.

-chicago. i miss it every day, i miss it in my blood. i think i knew exactly where everything was for each shot, and it killed me. excellent work, guys.

-loved loved LOVED carmy getting stuck in the walk in and everyone immediately stepping up to run the restaurant. absolutely stellar. loved richie throwing 'i love you' in the middle of his rant. that felt very real to me.

syd! suffered more than jesus, exceedingly patient about it. the omelette! that was everything.

not even going into carmen's mom. awful. awful.

on the whole, really enjoyed it. i loved, so much, that people were open and honest about their feelings. i love that on some level this is a show about love, and how it saves us and how it really, really doesn't.

[peanutbutterex]

listened to "This Woman's Work" for the first time in months and I am crying remembering that scene. God why the fuck did they cancel this show????????????????

[klingerfashionarchive]

season 3 episode 23

[cescalr]

wait hello?? please elaborate on the green haired lalna, i never watched soi

oh sure!

In... hmmmmm one episode, The Hand? maybe? where Honeydew and Xephos head into an ancient technological ruin (implied to be a giant death robot of some ilk), they find a whole bunch of "evil" honeydew clones that have degraded to mindless violence (implied they're non-sapient, lacking the mental capacity to go beyond base instinct because of how long they've been down there multiplying ad nauseam, each clone generation worsening with nobody to maintain the mechanisms), and tonnes of broken vats. However, one single cloning vat is still working - and there's a guy inside! That guy is fully buttoned up labcoat LividCoffee, with, for some reason, green hair. It's neat :D and fascinating. Lore wise. Extremely fascinating.

I went looking for proof - it's not The Hand (that's the "finale" lol); it's Doppelgängers - for some reason those episodes merged together in my head.

I also appear to be remembering him being alive completely wrong - for a uh, given value of 'alive'. given he's a zombie! and there's two of him. Whoops? I can't actually see good TM (hi, blind here) but people kept saying their hair was green back in the day and i absorbed that information. if it's wrong, I refuse to agree with reality! green haired lalna my beloved.

Also, again, my brain clearly likes to lie flagrantly to me, because while the honeydew clones are made by broken old machinery, that's because honeydew and xephos were fucking around again <3 idiots. I wonder what happens when you stand in the goddamn cloning vat and flick the lever.... buddies..... c'mon.

Anyway - there's two zombie (green haired! I'm not delusional!) Lalna's, which is even more fascinating than my shoddy memory allowed the situation to be, because that implies YogLabs devolved to making clones of clones at some point - along with giant death robots, but they were already doing that - after the Honeydew clone had to replace his original body because Testificate Betrayal Incident, even though Xephos knows with certainty that that's been worsening the quality of the cloning process due to.... well, all the failed Honeydew clones. and the Honeydew graveyard. That he makes Honeydew clones dig up. No he's not gone mental with grief what are you talking about.

Ahem. Judging by the state of SOI!Honeydew's clones, i think it's a mix of SOI!Honeydew being a pretty late-on clone-of-a-clone himself (remember, in Yogs canon all respawns are because of YogLabs, so in SOI for them to respawn - since they can respawn, I should say - they have to be clones.... though the time loop makes me question the metaphysics of it all; do they need vats in the present if the future is the past? Existential. Too existential for me. I like to think they do have vats in the present, in the bowels of what remains of YogLabs, deep in the heart of the desert (imo, it's the source of the desert, given that one YogLabs episode where, surprise surprise, Xephos had his team invent a thing that did the sand-ening process you see in SOI; in SOI, sand is like this organism that eats everything it touches, turning it into more sand, which works with YL lore because, hey, that's what the thing they made did! Tangent. Sorry).) and the machines being super borked. Amnesiac 1st gen clone Xephos* (original Xephos is currently running around as Israphel, imo - protag Xephos is a clone of an earlier, more stable version of the man who did a lil' rebellion <3 because orig!Xeph went. Um. Megalomaniacal) obviously wouldn't know any better than to flick the lever, lol. Just noting all that as I think it corroborates the ideas about YogLabs and cloning the canon gave me. (though i clearly need to rewatch the canon, given all my minor inaccuracies add up pretty heavily towards bad meta, and I hate making bad meta :( I love meta! I have an creative writing degree!!! I don't wanna make bad meta!!!!!!!)

Anyway: Green Haired Lalna! The reason it's so fascinating to see our zombie boy duo is that this is his first and only appearance(s) in SOI; we never meet an alive Lalnable Hector or Lalna LividCoffee. This implies a lot; there's no Lal alive because all his anchor clones are dead, perhaps. Or his clones are the characters Duncan Jones portrayed, made unrecognisable by time, the time-loop amnesia, and mechanical mishaps with the cloning process so they look a lil' different - it could explain why everyone in SOI is.... Like That. (Everyone in SOI acts like a faulty clone(-of-a-clone-of-a-clone-etc); a little not all there, in some respects, and extreme caricatures of themselves besides). There's a bunch of options! All of them pretty valid, 'cause of how fast and loose YogsMC plays with its own continuity, as an improv semi-scripted series with.... plenty of unfinished storylines. More for me to mess with! As a writer i appreciate the sandbox. As an audience member I shake my fist at the sky in great torment! /joke. Am a bit miffed still, though. Over a decade later (jeez. youch. augh. I was 11, holy shit....).

I think I'll have to change what I said in the tags of the Lalnable post, though, because i was working off of bad memory for that opinion.

I still think FB!Lalnable Hector is a direct clone of anchor lalna, but i'm no longer certain either of the lalnas we see in SOI are original lalna - rather, also direct clones of anchor lalna used to created manpower for the operation of the giant death robot; why hire a 12 man crew when you can clone one from the same man at 2x speed? And as we can see in YL 2nd gen (clone-of-clone) clones aren't unstable enough for this to be a bad idea; Honeydew post-replacement may have less.... wherewithal... but he's not entirely incapacitated by clone degeneration - current YL!Honeydew may be a poor imitation friend for Xephos, but he could still pilot a death robot! So I think I'm going with: whatever war YogLabs was fighting in to warrant the death robots (we know Xephos is spending a lot of YL prepping for war with various foreign nations, so this isn't an unlikely event - in some ways he appears to be actively seeking that outcome, because he's speedrunning self-fulfilling time-loop shenanigans i guess.) got desperate enough they used cloning to bulk up manpower numbers, and in typical YL fashion they borked it by cutting corners on the mechanisms of this fact, by using sub-par machinery and clones-of-clones-of-clones, who can definitely pilot death robots but may not have the sheer brilliance of their original (lalnable hector, in this instance, being a certifiable genius, and his clones are smart, but less-and-less so due to the way YL cloning works) so they fuck up more often and thus the systems in place start failing, and lo and behold you have two zombie Lalnas in cloning vats, how did they zombify?????? How??????? What was in the genetic material sludge they were floating in for [time loop confusing the timeline; no actual idea how long it takes for All That to go down] to do that.

Anyway; now i have thoughts!!! So many of them. Thank you for the ask or I'd have gone on with my goldfish sieve memory assumptions about SOI/YL/Lalna and been worse off for it. Also, I just like canon accuracy. Being able to fuck with canon and take it to its logical extremes is what i find fun, personally. Canon complicit, i heard it called - I like that one. Not compliant. That implies bowing under pressure. No no. I'm in on the evil scheme entirely willingly. Enthusiastically, even!

Anyway: Yeah. Green Haired Lalnable Hectors / LividCoffee(s) my beloveds. I do wish one of them had been alive, because I love SOI's silly little grandfather paradox (Xephos = Israphel, and all it's horrible no good brain melting implications) interpretation, and if one of them had been alive then you could infer a second grandfather paradox - lalnable hector's clone is his original existance; wait, what? - because fucking with whatever 'original' timeline absolutely screwed and destabilized this one. And it didn't even work! Xephos, you never cease to amaze me in the many ways you can fail spectacularly at things. Pathetic main character that never wins long-term <3 Doomed by the very narrative he created! Glorious.

... this was a Lalna ask. Lol. Sorry! I never get to talk about yogsmc. I have so many thoughts.

Anyway: that's basically it, I think? Lalnas in vats; do with this what you will! Fascinating stuff, truly.

(That was not particularly well constructed, lol, but i hope it was interesting anyway!)

[thesylverlining]

Maybe it's just an emotional shark week night, but realizing where the Loki Finale was Going, with the Extremely Norse Imagery and yes, mythic vibes which SO WELL interpret Their true nature aside from popular perception (which marvel is SO largely responsible for) ...

... I'm just a (weepy Lokean Pagan) mess lmao. There are tears. It was so good. Not to praise marvel on main but. This show is really good in many ways.

HE WOVE TOGETHER THE TREE OF LIFE

HE MADE YGGDRASIL

LOKI. *LOKI* MADE YGGDRASIL HE MADE THE UNIVERSE ANEW

WORLD ENDER

WORLD ENDER TO RAISE SOMETHING BETTER. DESTROYER IN THE BEST POSSIBLE MOST LOVING WAY. PHOENIX.

THAT'S THEM. THATS MY LOKE. YES.

So yeah there's no way the writers aren't Super familiar with the source material (Norse material?), because that was the most beautiful and loving subversions of popular perception while being the most TRUE AND ACCURATE original interpretation of Loki as they've always really BEEN

and this is by far the first marvel and really big major FICTIONAL THING I've seen GET THAT.

It's really very refreshing and touching and. Unexpected.

[genekies]

I'm autistic and off-putting, but the hoes love it

[mysimsyuri]

FINALLY got to watch the musical episode !! im now more in love with my partners than i was before . you will always be famous to me jamaican inspector man o7

[comradecowplant]

*sniffle* well, that's that then. voyager has made it back to the alpha quadrant (albeit i'm not the biggest fan of the "timey whimey antics save the day" means utilized but i've seen similar plots play out far worse so i'll accept it with minimal brow furrowing), my mind & heart are full with a new sci-fi obsession, and while i know i said i'm diving into TNG asap, i do think my little ticker needs a minute to process & say goodbye to the star fleet captain who-- no matter how good picard/other captains i can't wait to meet are-- will now forever be My Captain(tm), and her intrepid crew (i'll even miss the doctor!) of the U.S.S. Voyager o7

[keeps-ache]

and we go right back at it !!

[spyxfamily-yapper]

SPYxFAMILY SEASON 3 OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED!!! RAAH!!

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The lights forming a star shape with Anya at the center??? Love that 10/10

SO excited you don't even KNOW!!! I'm seeing people getting excited for so many arcs to be animated and GAH I just know when this season comes out it's going to make me fall in love with Spy x Family all over again.

[kitsune-kaos]

Finally finished Attack on Titan. My God. Just. Wow.

[hawkeyeslaughter]

if ur taking edit requests and you're quickly approaching my favorite episode of MASH ever (welcome to korea) i gotta ask for smth with BJ!!

godspeed on abyssinia henry 🫡

for you anon , i will ! <3 i actually have a masterlist mash of edit ideas ( i will forget if i don’t write it down as SOON as i get the idea ) and i’m pretty sure i have more than one on there for bj ;] !!

also , if you’re a hunnihawk shipper i have an idea that admittedly i’ve been pretty excited about so :] yay !!

and thank you 😭😭 i’m about to start it in a min

[akc-g]

weird weekend

[violentdevotion]

ok omg hi i saw your tags on the wtchmn meme post and PLS READ/FINISH IT!!!! knowing my moots r into it gives me mad motivation to revisit & post my fanart for it omg

I got like 70% of the way through and then just stopped for whatever reason. and then when i tried to finish it i had no clue ehat was going on BUT THEN i tried to reread it but got bored and frustrated because i already knew all this so i chose to give myself enough time to completely forget the plot and then start from the beginning. which i think is now.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

shadow the hedgehog my favoritest little guy ever

[book-tease]

wait the series finale of riverdale was last night??? might watch it with no context because like. that show started this blog. there’s such a soft spot in my heart for it