#put some RESPECT!!!! ON HER NAME!!!

[etrosgate]

i finally went through ds re:coded (i didn't actually play it bc platforming brings me to tears, i just watched a playthrough) and this game really doesn't deserve the terrible reputation it has...

it's especially a shame that ppl only have the cutscene movie cause it's actually really mechanically wacky and creative. like it's an action platformer. then suddenly it's a turnbased rpg? in the final hour it's a adv visual novel?? it's constantly throwing something new at you.

and like, yeah it doesn't have much in the way of major plot progression or lore, but i still find its story fairly interesting and charming. in some ways it feels most like a glimpse at the post-kh3 trajectory of the narrative?

anyways, it's actually something of a sora character study, through the lens of a sora that never went through the interpersonal betrayals the real sora has (primarily kh1). we see a sora that's never been told to repress his sadness, a sora that's never had donald and goofy leave him behind cause he lost the keyblade, a sora that's never had riku become so cruel to him.

and because data-sora didn't experience these things+had good support network throughout the narrative, he's like. a lot psychologically healthier. most noticeable in contrast to the real sora.

and in the final act of the game, data-sora learns how to do something the real sora still hasn't: face his own pain, and accept it.

i would not be surprised if in the future sora's arc involves actually learning how to deal with the shit he's been through and talk to his friends about it

additionally...

kingdom hearts has always had a strong throughline of how people/things being "fake" does not mean they don't matter. from replicas to nobodies and sora's memories of namine.

like data-sora isn't real, he's just a piece of programming. but he develops a real heart, and a real keyblade, through the emotional connections formed between him and data riku and the real mickey donald and goofy.

in this way, i find coded in particular to really feel metatextual, and reminiscent of the relationship you have with a narrative (though specifically video games here). like sora from kingdom hearts isn't real, but does he not inspire real emotion from us? do we not find ourselves invested in his story, even though it's fake?

i really think it's likely that the quadratum unreality stuff will continue to follow that line of thought.

kingdom hearts is just video games, but it's also real. because we love it ❤️

wtf i intended to just write a little bit but i rambled a lot... oh well, anywayyys if you haven't played ds coded, i recommend it 👍

[thelilylav]

Aziraphale is the most character ever. He ran out of ideas so he declared war on hell. He canonically says fuck. His favourite colour is yellow. He’s literally an angel and can speak every language on earth but still isn’t fluent in french. He told his boyfriend to shoot him for his magic act and made him go through with it when their miracles weren’t working. He gave away his flaming sword and then lied about it for the next 6000 years. He has a bookshop that never sells books. No one’s doing it like him.

[sturnioloho]

THE queen. the literal reason why any of us are on here rn

[rey-jake-therapist]

People say they want more flawed female characters but they can't even handle TROP Galadriel.

If it had been a male character who had behaved like Galadriel did in season 1, rude and bossy, people would call him "broody" and "tormented". He would be everyone's favorite "baby girl".

But Galadriel gets to be called a b*tch.

[mxtxfanatic]

I will say that y’all gotta lay off my girl Jiang Yanli 😭 She may have done a few small questionable things in life *cough*the wedding dress*cough* but saving Wei Wuxian was not one of them. She only died because she intentionally gave her life to save Wei Wuxian. She used up the last of her strength to shove him, a fully grown man, out the path of a sword trying to backstab him. She saw it coming when nobody else did and chose to save him. It was her choice. Don’t take that away from her by calling her impulsive or acting like “if only she had time to think,” she would have chosen differently. If one Jiang was gonna give themself to Wei Wuxian wholeheartedly, it was gonna be the one who publicly claimed him as her brother. Cause that’s what real family does.

[sapphic-agent]

"Katara was an old lady! You can't expect her to fight!!"

😐

Do people not understand what Katara being completely non-combative in LOK says about her? Zuko became active again to protect his daughter from the Red Lotus. Toph became active again to save her daughter, son-in-law, and grandsons from Kuvira.

How many times were Katara's children and grandchildren in danger? And she was nowhere to be found, not once. Genuinely, how the fuck do you think that makes her look compared to Zuko and Toph (one of which is older than she is)? Are you going to look me in the eye and tell me there's nothing wrong with that? Are you going to try and tell me that this is Master Katara of the Southern Water Tribe?

Nope. Not buying it. That is not the Katara I grew up with. That is not the Katara I looked up to my whole life.

Stop defending her treatment in LOK. There's no excuse for what Bryke did to her. They completely assassinated everything that made Katara who she was. If you think differently, you never understood her character

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Does it ever hit you that Martha sat down in New New York and told the Doctor that she needed his honesty more than she needed to go home and that religious music played in the background at that scene and it was almost framed as a confession, in the most religious sense, and go a little bit feral? That as early as her third episode, she was framed as his equal, equally divine, equally a doctor, able to confront him, able to make him honest, able to sympathize with him, able to abide with him? That so few companions have ever spent so much time in one time period with the Doctor (1969/1913, for example), being with him/her, not running, just staying? That for every fucking thing Ten did wrong as John Smith/after coming back to himself in Human Nature/Family of Blood, he trusted her enough to leave himself vulnerable and human in her care, because he trusted her as a Doctor, because she was just as much a Doctor as he was? That Martha was, more than any other companion of the Tenth Doctor's, his equal, that her final speech about not being second was not just talking about her not being second best to Rose but about being second best to him? That she finally understood what had been true from the moment that they met and she closed Stoker's eyes and the Doctor realized that she had not just bravery and cleverness but a kindness that he had forgotten, that Martha Jones, more than anything else, has been and always will be The Doctor?

[mattyalwayssmokesweed]

You’re telling me people think Violet is straight? Violet “​look at all these beautiful and tall women who could easily snap me in half with their defined muscles… give me a paragraph so I can describe in detail how pretty they all are” Sorrengail? Violet “I have just met you but I think you’re a beautiful woman so here take my boot even though it puts me in a huge disadvantage haha no I’m not flirting just take the boot” Sorrengail? Violet “I’m very enthusiastic about training because this gorgeous woman with gorgeous hair is bossing me around” Sorrengail? Violet “this woman is my boyfriend’s ex and she’s a bitch but she is so pretty I kinda see why he’d be into her” Sorrengail? That same Violet??? Puh-leeze

[burekstation]

Honestly "Mina is just doing secretary work" my foot, she went in and OWNED the joint. She said hey show me where your cylinders are. Take me to your office. No, no time for all this cageyness, you can thank me later. Prepare a room with double bed. I'm making tea, where's your kitchen. I'll say hi to the housekeeper.

[melanie-ohara]

I wish everyone would stop saying that Wake doesn't care about Gideon or is a bad mother. We only have Wake's own word - to her greatest enemy, no less! - that she never cared about the baby in the first place, and everything she does after her death runs totally contrary to that anyway.

To start with, she's a soul cut loose from a body by apopneumatism. Revenants tend not to last very long - Harrow didn't believe Palamedes would be able to hang on without a corpus for anything like as long as he did, for instance - but Wake is in that sword for 18 entire years. Yeah, you could argue her hatred sustained her, it seems to be the case that ghosts are fueled by their emotions, but does anyone really believe that hate is enough? In this series? Was it hate that drove Donald Sex to take control of a maintenance skeleton and crawl across the surface of Mercury to break into his study? No.

We get most of our direct understanding of Wake in the sword from Harrow - she's a necromancer, and even if she's not a spirit magician she can still feel Wake's soul. Specifically, she feels her hate. Wake has seen Harrow bully and belittle Gideon her entire life. In Canaan House, Harrow is able to handle the Wake sword well enough to bring it to Gideon without puking her guts up, it's only after Gideon dies for her that the hatred becomes so intense that Harrow can't touch it any more. I don't think it could be more clear that Wake is reacting to how Harrow treats Gideon.

And then there's Gideon herself - she's not a necromancer, but I think she still feels some of Wake's presence. Her longsword is comforting, she associates it with safety and strength, and yes that's because she's trained in its use, but I do not think its a coincidence that at her lowest point, when Isaac is dead and she has Jeannemary screaming in her arms, she wants Harrow, and her mother - the two people she loves most in the universe.

[joanofexys]

Billy Kaplan out here collecting moms like they're pokemon

[midnight-faye]

Imelda Reyes didn't become Captain of the Slytherin team, the favorite of both professor Kogawa and the broomsticks seller Weekes just to not be in Quidditch champions.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

listen listen it’s okay if you like the new songs in the little mermaid or any other disney reboot really you do you but it’s soooo funny when i see people like “finally [x character] has a song” or “finally there’s a song for [x scene]” and meanwhile the 15+yo broadway musicals were just over there like “am i joke to you”

[shutupineedtothink]

Lilia is so real for grabbing Rio’s arm before she left the campfire sharing circle to go after Agatha and being like, don’t think for a second I forgot what you said in the sound booth. And then Rio literally snarls at her and she doesn’t even flinch. Like ma’am. That is stone cold and I respect you for it.

[sadlittlecountess]

stop comparing rebecca and wanda. both are billy’s mothers. in the comics, wanda loves and appreciates rebecca, and rebecca loves and appreciates wanda in return. both accepts and respect that they share a son. wanda is accepted into the family, and has been to family gatherings. they are literally close friends. stop invalidating rebecca as a mother, because wanda created and gave birth to the boys first, and stop invalidating wanda because rebecca shares blood with billy, and raised him longer. wanda loves rebecca, and doesn’t compete with her —- so why should you?

[dollypopup]

some of y'all out here so mean about Luke 'on Nicola's behalf' as if that man ain't her boo! her pookie! her sugarbear! her snugglepuff! she adores that man on main and y'all really gonna be out here badmouthing her sweet delicate crumbly croissant? her snookums? as if miss ma'am won't throw hands!