#still reeling tbh

[cockroachesunite]

Look how they cannibalized my boy

[beardedjoel]

joel miller i missed you so much

[xoshepard]

man. there's cute ppl outside. and they'll laugh at your jokes. isn't that shit wild.

[knives-and-lint]

Apparently I share a name (same spelling different pronunciation) and instrument (bass) with a Slovenian rock star.

[naughtydogg]

soooooo besties how we feeling about barry last night???

[marleysfinest]

CONGRATS ON THE NEW JOB!!!!!! 🎉 🎉🎉🎉🎉

THANK U MY ANGEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[duoduotian]

feel like shit just want time to stop

[mielplante]

oh oh

[beautifulterriblequeen]

it gets better worse

Runaan spared Rayla and chose to die himself

Aaravos let Leola die without him and chose to avenge her

oh.... oh dear

[actual-lea]

Obsessed with the implication that this is the first time in his life Gale has ever felt nervous.

[cucurbitapuella]

I think I loved El Higgins so much bc she really digs deep into a core character trait I find so powerful and fascinating and that's selfishness as fuel for selflessness. The ones who look around and tell the world, don't you dare touch that one, They're Mine, and pour all of that and all of themselves into protecting what's Theirs, and also btw fuck off that one is Also Theirs, in fact, Everyone Is.

(See also: Tiffany Aching, Beka Cooper).

The Last Graduate is most obviously about this (El has her alliance who are Hers and then despite her best efforts she has her pack of freshmen who are, ugh, Hers, and eventually must grudgingly open up to realizing that now absolutely everyone is Hers and she's getting all of them out there, fuck you very much), but then. Then! The Golden Enclaves shows the struggle of that kind of selfishness, of saying these ones are mine and fuck the cost, I will pay it (off of the backs of those ones). Because the modern enclaves ARE paying it, because their children are Theirs and what wouldn't you do? (A lot, actually, it turns out, if you had to do it with your own hands, eyes open and ears unblocked)

The way that most of the contributors to an Enclave need the wool pulled over their eyes (literally!!) so they cannot even register that the gift horse HAS teeth, because then they might see what horrible gore is stuck in them. They just want to save their children, and the cost is so high - but it's so removed, so, is it really even real? And El's the cosmic foil to that, the one who looks at it and goes "no, that's real. You have to pay it yourselves you can't defer the cost." Even before she works out that the price is higher than the first sacrifice (which is. Horrifying enough on its own), she's desperately trying to get to one of Hers and she can't pay the cost to save Liu on her own, she needs them all to buy in, and she taps into everyone's collective selfishnes and gives them an out and they have to work for it but they take it and they do the work! They pay up front! They try to make some fucked up reparations!

And that selfishness, of El's audacity to even dare question the system, but also most people's basic selfishness (wanting to keep yourself and your children safe and to do it without all the blood on your hands) - that's what's going to see them all through, together.

[tryingtostaysilly]

Pluto and Annabel beef this episode call that British class-warfare.

[saudariel]

uhhhh how are we feeling adar nation?

[the-uninspired-artist-account]

Dani, of the Per Aspera (and Plug)

[largishcat]

COUSCOUS IS NOT A GRAIN?!?!?!

IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT A GRAIN

ITS KIND OF A PASTA SORTA

[mystybird]

comfort character meme