#so many good things about this ep

[imaslowlearner-butilearn]

One of the many things I love about “Abominations” is the moment where Jax tells the one slaveholder that they have to work together if they’re going to survive and for a moment you think they’re going to have the ‘big movie moment’ with forgiveness and compromise or whatever but then the guy says no and gets fucking eaten alive lmfao

[luck-of-the-drawings]

so REVENGE, HUH? or justice, if that makes you feel better. it tastes the same when cooked just right. 'I REALLY WANTED A BROTHER.' such a shame to burn a bridge you so desperately wanted to keep, especially when it wasnt even you who started the fire. especially when you hope that not a single fragment of that bridge ever washes ashore.[MAY IT ROT FAR FROM MY SIGHTS] an unfortunate loss! atleast he has his friends.

[dandelion-roots]

[ID: a digital drawing of Riz Gukgak from D20 fantasy high from the waist up. He looks like he's holding onto sanity by a thread and is covered in blood as he attempts to sew a finger back onto Biz's hand and says, ha ha, oopsie! End ID]

Damn man being 14 sure is tough... It's all just pimples this, brutally shooting off a classmate's fingers before figuring out he wasn't the mastermind and then immediately regretting it that...

[vagun1ka]

i have finished watching g-witch and Belmeria is person I relate the most to.

[ying-doodles]

// webtoon spoilers (ep 159)

what's the opposite of a banger? cause that's what this episode is.. OTL

fair warning: I had to include some of the ugly faces for context's sake so I apologize for any discomfort in advance aha, you guys know I hate them as much as you do,, m(_ _;m)

the way they made everyone look crazy to javier is such bullshxt honestly.. cause it was supposed to be this sweet moment of the people willingly wanting to help their lord and trusting in him and yet they go and turn it into another haha they're such a cult joke?? ugh-

anddd there's verkis calling lloyd ugly.. 😑 couldn't just call him his beneficiary, could you?

wow verkis just straight up threatens to destroy everything if lloyd doesn't massage him huh.

god the faces he makes doing this are awful,,

ain't no fcking way he got 'absolute ugly man' as a skill?? I hate it here,, 😭😭😭

although the system admitting he was handsome as suho is certainly something- 👀

ah the actual reason for him summoning lloyd-

anddd there he goes calling him ugly again.. 😑

pfft lloyd still wanting to make verkis scream as he's released from his duty tho-

oh boy swordmaster syndrome time!!

ahdjdjsk the look on lloyd's face and verkis's voice literally piercing his ears are so good,,

'wow, congrats. that's nice.' he says as he rolls back over.. never change, verkis, never change.

not javier lighting up when he realizes lloyd has swordmaster syndrome?? the way he goes 'yes!' to himself and just laughs at him?? he's such a little shxt I swear,, XD

why is he doing the fckboy face I'm crying,, 😭

wow, they gave us exactly one panel of lloyd meditating/training with javier and then bam, straight into construction,, :/

no javier calling lloyd a good boy huh.. they just won't let us have any good moments between them sigh.. 😔💔

the embodiment of :D and it's because he can "rightfully" torture him under the guise of training www-

god they made raphael such a stuck-up nerd.. anyways plot twist, the build must come down!

[lookingforcactus]

Maybe this is a stretch driven by my hope for siuaraine, but I wonder if the final scene between Suian and Moiraine went the way it did because Suian thinks Moiraine might have turned to the dark

"You lied to me about being stilled."

My eyebrows shot up when I heard that line, bc that's a big deal accusation for an Aes Sedai. And parallels nicely with Alanna and co. accusing Lan of being a darkfriend last episode

Which I know some people hated, but the thing is, Lan and Moiraine have kind of been acting super sketchy, if you don't know the things we know

Like, from Siuan's pov: Lan shows up and tells her Moiraine has been stilled, which in MONTHS of letters, Moiraine never mentioned. Siuan is horrified that happened, has got to be terrified that Moiraine is going to kill herself, and is also lost and hurt and baffled that Moiraine would hide this from her

Like, that omission was a HUGE DEAL, relationship wise. Not a good move keeping something that important from your wife, especially when they were plotting together and it would be 100% reasonable and probably also a good move for Moiraine to turn to Siuan for help

And going back to Siuan's pov, she's dealing with ALL THAT, plus the Dragon, which is another thing she and Moiraine (seem to be?) at odds about

There's darkfriends in the Tower

Moiraine has been hiding something from her

Moiraine has been stilled

The town they're in is assaulted and set on fire

Someone has broken the Dragon out of the White Tower's custody

And when Siuan goes to try to, presumably, get him back, what happens?

She turns the corner and finds Moiraine, Lan, and Rand standing there, alone, in front of a waygate that MOIRAINE JUST OPENED

And I'm sure that normally, this wouldn't make Siuan worry about Moiraine's loyalties, but...she just found out the love of her life was stilled and then spent six months completely failing to tell her about it

Who wouldn't be shaken? Who wouldn't already be asking "If she hid something as big as THIS from me, what else could she be hiding?"

And then she shows up and Moiraine has just used the One Power to open a waygate

Earlier in the episode, when she finds out Moiraine has been stilled (well, close enough), what she says is something like "Six months of letters, and not a single word about that." The very common Aes Sedai route of lying by omission

When she shows up at the Waygate, she says "You lied to me about being stilled."

Siuan thinks Moiraine was able to break one of the oaths. Which Moiraine could only do if she'd sworn herself to the Dark.

And as Lan establishes, the idea of tying off a weave and leaving it in place is so not a thing anymore, it's barely even the stuff of legends. Why would Siuan think that's on the list of possibilities? Especially in such an overwhelming and emotionally fraught and literally things are on fire moment?

And all Moiraine says in response (in her defense there are a lot of things going on) is "I can't"

Which, yeah, Siuan knows that is (supposed to be) the case

And THEN, fucking Lanfear shows up, gets pretty easily talked into not killing Moiraine by Rand, and then Moiraine and Lan follow Lanfear and Rand through the waygate without a word

I think it would be 100% reasonable, actually, for Siuan to suspect that Moiraine is a darkfriend after all of that, and given what she knows

So much of Moiraine's life has been out of Siuan's view, for like 20 years now. So much could've happened

And now Moiraine is using the One Power even after she told everyone that she was stilled

Kind of a guilty look actually!!!

(If this is what they're doing though they definitely should've been more clear/explicit/developed with the setup, tho. But otherwise I think it's really interesting as a potential plot point!)

[chimerafeathers]

there's an essay jumbled up in my brain about dunmeshi's beginning and how clever and deceptive it is as a sleight-of-hand trick that distracts the audience from the depth and scope of the worldbuilding and foreshadowing that's being set up the entire time by dangling zany characters and wacky dishes and biology fun facts in front of us, and how that serves to catch invested viewers off guard when those elements come to the forefront, but also how it works against it with other viewers wanting "more" and not seeing it because the plot bait isn't laid out up front

how people getting frustrated with the characters "not taking things seriously" is mirrored and refuted in the confrontation between Laios and Shuro. how the characters' attitudes aren't just a result of shallow low-stakes "comedy rules" where nothing matters, but are an extension of their personalities (Laios's nonstandard expression of emotions being offputting even to people he knows) and the world and social environment (adventurers being desensitized to death and injury because resurrection magic is commonplace). the way the party refers to "saving Falin" instead of "retrieving Falin's corpse," indicating that they still see her with full personhood, and how that phrasing leads to some readers/viewers believing that Falin is alive in the dragon's stomach, conscious of being slowly digested while the party carelessly fucks around "wasting time." how the weird tonal dissonance makes sense in-universe and yet is deliberately challenged more and more the deeper the party goes

all the character building and pieces of lore slowly weaving together the shape of the larger world, laying the groundwork for the major themes that will surface later. so much is right there in the "low-stakes" early episodes if you know what you're looking for (or pass the perception checks).

it can be so satisfying to see new viewers/readers pick up on the clues even in the earliest "simple" episodes, or notice new things and make connections yourself....and it can also be frustrating to see people dismiss oddities and dissonance as shallow or bad writing because they don't expect a "cooking anime" to have depth like that. why try to question and understand and peel back the layers when you don't expect there to be any layers?

why can't laios take things seriously for once?

[roots-symphony]

why did agatha tell lilia the truth about her only being able to steal powers if she’s blasted first if her entire plan was to get them to blast her so she could steal their powers??

[insectduck]

My niche Keith Kogane headcanon is that "Thief" by Imagine Dragons from the Smoke + Mirrors (Deluxe) album is HIS song, no if ands or buts, it just screams mullet emo 'delinquent' in the desert bonus with space motifs. If you told me it was written by the angsty fuck himself I'd totally believe you lmao

[robot-singularity]

If I had a nickel for every piece of media from the '00s with a British policeman named Sam suddenly time travelling 30ish years into the past, I would have two nickels. Which is weirdly specific, but I'll take it.

[sojourner-between-worlds]

Continuity errors really are the bane of any long-running tv series huh

[simptasia]

maybe the reason jack has such an issue with blind faith (or behaviour he misinterprets as blind faith) is because the person he grew up believing in the most turned out to be a emotionally abusive cheater who gets drunk during surgery and tries to dodge responsibility for it. damn it, christian, you robbed ya boy of his faith

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

I'm a few pages in and this is the best storyline literally ever why have I not seen any mention of this.

[coconut530]

Here’s two doodles (late night edition)

[khaopybara]

Don't judge a book by its cover. An essay by Mew Pt. 1

RIP Mew's glasses. You were good, you were amazing, you never did a thing wrong in your life, my love. You're dearly missed.

BOOK KASIDET as MEW WITSARUT ( ONLY FRIENDS EPS. 1-6 )

[biblicalhorror]