#obviously all of this is lighthearted

[lunarrolls]

straight up i need to say right now, if anything happens to ghost dog i will never be okay again. it will be a category six peppermint preston moment. i will lose my mind. brennan will see me and my eight thousand shadow clones in the denny’s parking lot and he will know exactly why we have come before any of us say a word. ghost dog makes it out of this campaign unharmed or we riot

[strawberryicemoon]

I'm still thinking about Pokemon Horizons 89. I mean. Pokemon's anime just did something for the first time. Something it could never done before because it never could have been allowed to do that. Pokemon Horizons is allowed to be traumatizing.

Not that nothing traumatizing never happened to any Pokemon characters including ash before, or that death was a huge taboo bc the ghost type literally exists, but there is a BIG difference between an episode about grief due to losing a loved one to age or illness vs. a tragic accident in front of the protagonists eyes. Or vaguely alluded to neglect/trauma played for laughs. It's not about what happened so much as the impact of the event on the story going forward.

And before you say Ash has died, or that Lucario died, or Friede isn't dead, there's a big difference between the death of a character we just met, or that dies in backstory, or is brought to life right after (and also the movies just get a bit darker in general) than a character who has appeared in a majority of episodes so far and is close to the main cast. Pokemon just killed off a main supporting character. A member of the main cast. And not from something like old age, but a young healthy man. Now I don't think Friede is actually dead ofc. They would never.

But the characters do.

For a year. At least.

They're letting the characters marinate in that devastating loss.

And even if we the audience find out Friede is alive in a couple weeks, they still let his fate hang in the air for several weeks. And even if we the audience find out his fate, it will likely will still be some time yet before the characters do and their characters going forward are going to be informed by this trauma in a way that Ash never could be. Because Ash couldn't change. So anything bad that happened to him had to be something that couldn't directly, tangibly affect him going forward. Things that could be pushed into the background and ignored by the writers. The writers can't ignore Friede's death, he's too central to the plot, the kids growth up until this point and the seasons iconography. The plot is going to have to completely pivot around this event.

Like yes we are getting a Time Skip, and that is HUGE for Pokemon. But that Time Skip deeply tied to Friede's fate. The time skip is a whole year where the characters have been pulled away from the plot because of the loss of Friede, the 6 heroes, and the framing of the Rising Volt Tacklers as the villains by Spinel.

So it's kind of a big deal to me is that they just functionally killed 3 people (and a Charizard) in one episode. Two of these are definitely permanently dead. One of whom was a member of the main supporting cast. Again, its not that people (villains mostly) haven't occasionally died. The point isn't that they're dead per se, but that their absence has radically changed the direction of the story. They've traumatized those kids and there's no going back. "Roy forced to grow up", "Liko is depressed".

The kids post time skip will not be the same as before, and them witnessing their mentors supposed death is going to be the reason why. Like I don't think the show is suddenly going to be depressing either, that's where the year timeskip comes, in so the loss is less raw. But still.

Friede isn't quite a main character but still they "killed" A MAIN CHARACTER OFF.

The irony of people stopping paying attention to the anime because Ash left, but Ash's departure opening the doors for the Pokemon anime to go wild is not lost on me.

[autisticzoeheriots]

everyone knows the best way to cope with chronic illness and disability is to just assign your conditions to fictional characters

[onesidedradiostatic]

(based on all the talk about vox and bi flags)

representation of my feelings every time I see bi colours in relation to vox in the show

if you don't know what the vox colours are a reference to:

[antennatoheaven]

i don't care that there's a murderbot tv show in the works. it should have been animated instead

[mumbeau]

idk. i dont have specific examples on hand so bear with me but like. mumbos tendency to enforce a very specific idea of masculinity that he holds himself to. his mustache his suits his joking "manly man" attitude about some things. and something about grian "when i think of men i think of mumbo" minecraft. i think its pretty easy to read mumbo as transmasc w all of this maybe im just crazy. its such a performed and specific idea of who he is that he puts on. mumbo is exactly grians type (thats been made very obvious by now) and i think egg tfem grian sees this man and sees that shes attracted to him and hes been living all this time as the best version of himself and that he's still happy and surrounded by friends and a server that cares about him and it kind of finally waters the seed of that idea in her head that "oh. i can be whoever i want? if i dont like being a man i don't.. have to be one?" especially after the nightmare yhs era and/or whatever watcher stuff u decide she went through. grians transition is 100% part of her process of recovering and kind of in a way reclaiming herself from that trauma in her mind and it goes hand in hand with her friendship with mumbo and her growing as a person and joining hermitcraft to me. like compare her attitude about being called feminine or gay or whatever in YHS era versus HC as time goes on- YHS era is riddled with homophobia and transphobia and shes generally hesitant to stand up for herself sometimes, compared to HC 7 she's way more outgoing in the more accepting environment and shes comfortable calling herself things like "mother" or "girlfriend". Grabs you by the shoulders and shakes you around does any of this make any sense. tldr mumbo helped crack her egg and its important and idk they deserve to feel trans joy together

[yourmajestybee]

I saw Wicked the movie (I had already seen the musical!) and now I got wizard of oz on the brain so here’s my pitch for a rise of the brave tangled dragons au

Are y’all seeing the vision??

[mandms-blog-of-silly]

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☆ I WON'T STAND FOR TWINK BILL CIPHER SLANDER! I HATE IT AND IT'S AWFUL BUT HE'S SO IMPORTANT TO ME! HE'S A STAPLE OF THE SEXYMAN SPHERE EVEN IF WE SHOULD BURN HIM IN FAVOR OF OTHER BILLS!

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[foursidecity]

LOTTYYYYY final eps of win or lose how are we feeling what r your thoughts. <just finished watching

HIII OTTTOOO I loved them so much they were so fun!!!!!!!

I was so excited to see kais story play out too... ofc I'm sad it wasn't the trans storyline they had first drafted but a pressure based storyline with gender-queer elements is rhe next best thing! I loved the aha- mind the pun- scene transitions when she goes from being the new kid with a baggy hoodie and cropped hair, to being very brightly colored, longer hair in a ponytail, wearing silly outfits and having fun... it was so good... and her animation motif of flying/sinking... and the baseball/softball transition metaphor. SO GOOD also loved her family dynamic etc etc

I REALLLLYY liked how they stitched everything in the end all together too... coach Dan's #1 fan he's so silly he just wants the kids to have a good time playing softball ok...I liked the ballooning out of control visual motif also AGHH the animation in this show was brilliant...cheers and claps

[patheticwhimsy]

now i’m imagining stede twirling around in the cursed suit some more after doing his punch and his eye catching on the box. he opens it thinking it’ll be jewelry but sees it’s lube and is like you know what, i think i’ll need this anyway with how hot i look in this fit and steals it

[overly-verbose]

Al-👏 freaking 👏-right, I am finally done with writing Part 8 itself aside from Quality Checks (just rereading stuff and editing what's needed lol)

so now just that, tagging, Notes (which uhhhhhhh definitely will not fit in the character limit 😂) and boom it's out ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

(Idk if I'll be able to dedicate more time to do it all Right Now, but it shouldn't take more than a few hours either way 🤔)

According to the Ao3 counter it's almost exactly 17k words after all the additions and edits as of rn lol, which is kinda funny because every single word counter I've used counts it differently 😂

Idk where the differences comes from 'cause that's almost 150 words less than according to one of them, and 40~ according to another?

It's mostly just an odd of programming in my case but probably frustrating if someone were to try doing exact wordcount challenges, huh 🤔

Also, poor SIkuna lmfao - I can't wait for the reactions to the Hijinks™ I'm putting bro through in this Part, rip in pepperonis my guy

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[cat-with-a-keyboard]

eho is voting for jon. hes only mist likely to die in childbirth in that hes the most likely to GET KNOCKED UP

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Good god I love how everything in the world is so fucking blatantly inverse to whatever the shit is happening on this hellsite. I will talk with irl people, see irl news, see a consensus of opinion regarding some media or subject, read some research articles about something, anything, and then say to all that 'excuse me, I must away to the upside down world' and hop into here only to get smashed by the toxic train that is every opposite opinion and perceived reality to anything I've experienced thus far with my five physical senses on earth

[callmeend]

you guys don’t want hate anons

uhhh.. ranting in tags

[timothylawrence]

abt halfway through the third case of the trials and tribulations and im living in fear of what's to come.........

[taamlok]

seeing posts that are like "i can't wait to see 2022 kat!" don't hold your breath beloved