#pushes domino

[lovinggreeniehours]

chiori birthday stuff 🥺 wough..hi girlie

[anxiousapplepie]

No cap, Full Siffrin Party. Og Sif in the middle of timeloops wakes up and finds the roleswaps of himself where his party was and becones more and more deranged as everyone looks like him (and then turns oit to actually BE him).

And then Loop is like: "Stardust.... what the F***?" And then gets unknowningly hit on by Fighter Sif while also learning he and Isa are already bonded while Resercher Sif anyalizes them like some Cryptid. Meanwhile, Sif is currently having another breakdown and is comforted by Cook Sif while Housemaiden Sif is already fast asleep and already over the shock.

Also, every other Sif calls Housemaiden Sif the worst housemaiden in history.

OG Sif waking up in the middle of their loops to find their whole team got switched with weird versions of themself sounds like the start of a comedy skit and I am HERE for that energy! with the added bonus of confusing them so much it almost snaps them out of their timeloop funk GRIEF Loop is gonna have a stroke and a half- one stardust is bad enough! FIVE OF THEM AT ONCE is a recipe for disaster and shenanigans. Loop is going to find new depths to their loathing and also discover new things about themself. in more ways than one. It'd be a complete and utter trainwreck but boy howdy we want to watch the crash in slow motion and maybe blow up the bridge to make the firework show better

[phantom-of-the-501st]

Citadel Arc Strikes Again

Sooooo... I got to the bit of my Clone Wars rewatch that I've been procrastinating for weeks. And obviously, because the Domino Twins are involved, I have thoughts

Of course you all get dragged along as well 😙

Including you @saturn-sends-hugs @inkstainedhandswithrings and @the-bi-space-ace

Straight off the bat, look at our boys!!! I get so proud of them when I see them in their ARC armour. And I wanna know how much of a say Cody and Rex got in who came along on the mission because I like the idea of them just being like "our sons are coming and we will accept no objections"

Also, why does Echo look like he's ready to deck someone? Chill, dude. It's literally still the briefing.

But something I wanna talk about is how nervous Fives seems about this entire thing. While Echo seemed to be on board with the whole reprogrammed battle droid plan, Fives was less than enthused. And he was clearly unsure about the carbon freezing thing as well. It makes me wonder if he's been on edge about the mission from when they first found out about it and whether Echo had been comforting him and telling him that it was all going to be fine.

Because nothing makes this episode more gut-wrenching than the idea of a stressed out Fives feeling like something is going to go wrong and Echo telling him that everything is going to be okay. 😃

I don't know what happened to these guys during ARC training but Fives has become the one that's all "are we sure this is a good idea?" and Echo's in the briefing room like

And then we have "They're not about to let one of their own be tortured in the handing over of information that will help The Separatists win the war"

Oh the irony

OH THE FUCKING IRONY

How does this show get more depressing with every rewatch? You think you're prepared but haha NOPE

Of course I have to mention Fives handling carbon sickness like an absolute champ 🤜

This pic is also an accurate representation of my mental state after watching this arc

And I'm not sure why this following pic makes my heart melt so much but it just does.

I think it's because we never got much of these three in action together and just seeing them all in a shot like this just makes me think about how far the Domino Twins have come. Rex found these two when they were shinies and now they're all working together with Echo and fives as ARC troopers. They grow up so fast (literally). 🥲

Edit: Looking back at that pic for a second... are there two Echos? That's not Fives in the back. That's Echo's helmet design. And I'm not convinced that the pouches on the chest plates are on the opposite sides like they should be. Rex is talking to two Echos???

Next episode! Oh boy...

Every other clone death aside for a moment, this show really just glossed over the whole "a clone getting cut in half by a door" thing.

The idea of these three being stuck between two sealed doors with half of their brother is horrifying. And the show just moves on like this didn't happen. THEY JUST WATCHED ONE OF THEIR OWN BROTHERS BE CUT IN HALF BY A DOOR WTF

What a happy kids show 😀

And unfortunately it doesn't get much happier.

But I do want to talk about design for a moment because I feel like we don't talk about the clone helmets enough, especially when it comes to things like this shot.

Animating emotion well is hard. Animating emotion well when you can't see your character's face is harder. But what I love is that because of the fact that the top of the visor is just a straight line, you can change the emotion being shown by simply having the character tilt their head.

The first shot clearly shows Echo realising what he needs to do and the next is this very strong look of determination. Just a split second apart, with no change but the tilt of the head, and the emotion changes. It's so cool and I feel like it doesn't get praised enough.

A three-part tragedy:

I think what makes this so heartbreaking is not just the fact that Fives has now lost his closest brother, and the last remaining member of his squad besides himself, but also the fact that it's so sudden. It so quickly went from Echo and Fives to just Fives.

And this is going to be gutting for Rex and Cody as well. They found the Domino Twins as shinies, they would have watched them settle into the 501st, they watched them grow up, were the ones to promote them ARC troopers and were just so freaking proud of these two.

And they not only lost one of them, but they watched this pair of clones, who have been stuck together like glue from the beginning, be torn apart. They didn't just see Echo go, they saw Fives lose Echo as well and that's heartbreaking.

None of them have time to process it either. They have to get out of there and leave Echo behind.

This scene where Fives warns them about the hounds approaching hurt as well because he just sounds so... hollow. He sounds like a man whose lost all hope, and I don't blame him. There's an emptiness now.

Rant Incoming

THESE POOR CLONES. THESE POOR FUCKING CLONES WHO HAVE JUST WATCHED THEIR BROTHERS DIE AND COULD DO NOTHING BUT LEAVE THEM BEHIND ARE NOW HAVING TO PARTICIPATE IN A JEDI FUNERAL DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY HAD NO OPPORTUNITY TO HONOUR THEIR FALLEN BROTHERS!!!

I'm not saying that Piell doesn't deserve to be honoured and have his body burned (side note: it's really convenient that there was lava everywhere for the whole burning the body thing) but this feels like such a kick in the teeth for the clones.

Also I just want Five's internal monologue here because he literally just watched his closest brother die trying to protect a Jedi who is now also dead. The important info still got back to the Jedi council but Echo gave his life to protect a man who didn't even make it off the planet.

ALSO THEY WATCHED ONE OF THEIR BROTHERS BE CUT IN HALF EARLIER WHY ARE WE IGNORING THE FACT THAT THAT WAS A THING???

Ngl I think I would rather just die than crawl across a wire like this

Despite being depressing as all hell, I do really like these episodes. I love something with actual tangible stakes and having points where they feel comfortable killing off important or well-loved characters is something I appreciate and respect (even if it just leads to endless despair about the Domino Twins).

It's a shame that Echo never gets mentioned between here and the final season because I would love to have explored Fives' response to his loss more. I do like how they handle it in these episodes though. It feels like there is at least some recognition of how Fives would be struggling with all this and it doesn't just have him trotting around like nothing happened.

Fives seemed so nervous for this mission and it's devastating to know how tragic it would be for him and Echo. They didn't go into this knowing that it would be the last time they ever saw each other, but it all got ripped away in an instant and there was nothing they could do about it.

And I think I'm just going to end it on this screenshot because I feel like it just sums it all up.

[virsancte]

quick pattern recognition test 🤫

[fromtheseventhhell]

New "TWOW announcement is coming soon" rumor to be delusional about just launched, I'm up

[just-someone-online]

Had this idea for a fic where Ageha picks up on Coco's rancid vibes and tries to convince Nozomi to put some distance between them. Just, like, some gentle nudging and a little advice so as not to come off as condescending or overbearing or anything like that to Nozomi, especially since they don't really know each other that well. I doubt it would cause Nozomi to drop him all at once, but it would be the catalyst for Nozomi to start reexamining their relationship, at least a little.

[qoldenskies]

your fics have fundamentally reshaped my understanding of rise characters. this is helping me make them much more fucked up thank you-

i love writing happy endings and gratuitous hurt/comfort but im not planning on ever tackling therapy in cc for a reason.... beyond the whole poverty thing i am just entranced by the idea of them making each other a little worse and having to really brute force and stumble their way through it. it's very narratively interesting. grins

[ynbabe]

How James looks at George when he tries using Alex to get George to get Toto to invest in Williams:

[aspharah]

what, and i CANNOT stress this enough, the FUCK is happening in america right now.

[aparticularbandit]

The world calls it the Tragedy because they can only see what happened.

Junko calls it the Tragedy because it would have happened anyway.

[award42]

*coughs* hi. been a bit. lots of reasons for inactivity but they don't matter. what DOES matter is i'm thinking about those damn birds again-

[codename-adler]

when you conjure up this perfect yet unforeseen imagery while writing a fic that it’s all-powerfulness fundamentally changes you and The Character @ your core and you suddenly see all the stars aligned, unlocking boss levels to the secret of life and revolutionizing the world as you see it……....

[sastielsfandom]

Supernatural is just a dominoes effect of disasters that fall in front of Sam Winchester's feet and even though he didn't knock the pieces down he's the one picking them up and getting blamed for everything falling apart.

[titsthedamnseason]

once again thinking of how perfect the cobalt empire series would be if it was multi pov per book including them all or at least overlapping timelines like addicted / calloway

[fellhellion]

‘Gabriel & Miguel’core to ME!!!!

[colourofoctober]

Heya just want to say be kind to yourself if you can’t do everything you strived to do today.