#unbelievable series

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live reaction

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i don't care what anyone says

we weren't ready so we decided to keep him alive

he's alive!!!!!!!!!!! he's alive!!!!!!!!

[stiffyck]

if my brain would focus on something actually normal thatd be appreciated

[bubbipond]

The necklace scene with Percy and Annabeth; this scene is so much more than Percabeth. I am sorry, it just is. It's not about two kids falling in love just yet, it's about two kids who never had a friendship quite like this. Annabeth had Luke and Thalia but those were people she idolized. Neither she, Percy, nor Grover ever had a true friendship like the one they found on the original quest. This is two kids who started out barely tolerating each other and ended in the sense that they were all each other had. They weren't back in the human world thinking they were these dumb kids relating to no one. That look from Percy was the gravity of what he found. What he had been looking for his whole life. Two people who were choosing him despite all the reasons he may think they shouldn't. At 12, that feeling of belonging is everything.

[anpanman95]

why is this clip ten hours long

[vladaustria]

Talk shit, get bit hit

[rainyinautumn]

there's a parallel in last life that I don't see talked about as much as it deserves and so I'm going to dissect the ever-living hell out of it. remember the ghast farm incident? everyone remembers the ghast farm incident. Grian turns red, he starts knocking blocks of a bridge out from under Mumbo, "there's a way we can still be friends," etc etc etc. it's fantastic. WELL. two sessions earlier, there's a similar confrontation between Scar and Joel after Joel turns red, except the roles are reversed. Joel approaches and it's Scar who starts breaking blocks of the bridge, trying to put distance between the two of them. HOWEVER, the interesting difference here is that Scar is doing it not because he doesn't want to be Joel's friend anymore, but because he still wants to be. lets take a look at a transcript of part of that scene, shall we?

[Scar breaks several blocks of the bridge.] Joel: Scar, what are you doing? I know you're not my friend anymore, but come on, Scar. Not the bridge. Scar: I wanted to make an arrangement. Are- are we not friends? Joel: We can't be friends, Scar. We can't be friends.

Scar knows that Joel is a red life and that he might hurt him, but he still wants to be friends, so he's providing a way that they can be near each other while he isn't in any danger by putting a gap in the bridge. he even breaks it again when he comes by to chat later. during that chat, Joel reminds him of how dangerous he is, Scar says he "gets it," and then proceeds to let him continue living under magical mountain. Scar doesn't "get" that he needs to be cautious of Joel—what he "gets" is that he's taking a risk by letting him stay and that he's already accepted something might happen. and he's OKAY with that. Joel is red. he gets it.

now compare that to this excerpt from the ghast farm incident:

Grian: Y'know, Mumbo, there's a way we can still be friends. Mumbo: Yeah? Grian: Yeah. [he starts breaking blocks at of Mumbo's feet] You could join me.

with Joel and Scar, it's a red life choosing to step away from his friend in order to protect him, while said friend tries to find a way that they can still be near each other without placing himself in danger. with Grian and Mumbo, it's a red life choosing to try to take his friend down with him so that they can be near each other because he can't accept not being his friend. the fact that in BOTH scenarios the friendship is symbolized by a bridge being broken is a perfect illustration of one of Grian's lines from the ghast farm incident: "it was a bad idea for the wrong reasons." those friendships should have been a good idea, those bridges should have been a good idea, but now they provide a connection that isn't safe, and they all know that.

and I'm not done talking about this. no no no no no. this offers a FASCINATING insight into why desert duo is Like That. Scar would sooner let Grian kill him than have to stop being his friend. Grian would sooner kill Scar than have to stop being his friend. which is all kinds of perfectly fucked up and explains exactly why 3rd life ended the way that it did. it also makes the cactus scene from double life very interesting to think about. remember the cactus scene? it's a doozy.

Grian starts session by dropping a stalactite on Scar's head as a prank and (unintentionally) taking them down to two and a half hearts. Scar then retaliates by leaning against a cactus until Grian breaks it. he then leans against Yet Another Cactus until Grian breaks that one too, at which point they are at only one heart. a question I've been asking since that day is this: if Grian hadn't broken the cactus, would Scar have stepped away before it was too late?

using bridge theory, we can find an answer to this.

the answer is no.

this isn't necessarily because Scar is actively trying to get them killed—it's more because he knows with absolute certainty that Grian will break the cactus. he's not prepared to step away because he isn't worried he needs to. see, the difference between Grian and Scar is that Grian is willing to throw around the lives of other people to get what he wants, and Scar is willing to throw around his own life to get what he wants (the fact that what they really want out of all this is often the other's trust is an issue I will dissect another day). once again, last life is the perfect example of this. Grian steals a life from Scar right off the bat and gets another one out of him by force a few episodes later. meanwhile, Scar makes a business out of selling his soul and threatens Team BEST that he'll kill himself in order to go red life crazy on them. and they don't doubt him! and they SHOULDN'T doubt him, because Scar is the kind of guy that would do that! the same way that Grian is the kind of guy who will drop a stalactite on his soulmate's head but break the cactus he's leaning against.

Grian is willing to risk Scar's life, but he's not okay with Scar risking his own life, because he knows that he's completely willing to stand against a cactus until he dies if it makes a point. so Grian breaks it.

but Scar knows Grian as well as Grian knows him. Scar knows that this is hardly a risk at all. so he leans against the cactus a third second time.

[yumedoca]

It's been a hot minute since I've drawn InuKag!!

(Ignore the fact that 'hot minute' = 2-3 years)

[suntails]

🐺⚔️

[laurenkmyers]

[strawberri-draws]

Sleeping in a van

[silvermoon424]

16 year old me: I love Sailor Moon and Mermaid Melody, but I don't think I'm really into the magical girl genre in general. Maybe I'll give it a chance one of these days.

29 year old me:

[aleksanderscult]

Leigh Bardugo should become universally criticized just for the fact that she presented a victim of persecution and his actions as worse and more important to deal with than the genocide that takes place in that world.

She really said: "It's not the genocide we should worry about. It's that man and his efforts to stop it".

And people applaud her for it instead. Wow. You're all seriously fucked up.

[cronxl]

i love when ppl talk about their fav characters in the life series. like hell yeah man go crazy over their questionable decisions (blankly stares at bigb), their crazy lines that they randomly drop at times, their wording that totally isnt something different entirely when taken out of context (cough scar's "we can bang him." cough pearl's "can i get a taste of gem?" cough)

i love when ppl point out things ive otherwise wouldnt notice at all. i love reading ppl read into things the characs do. these things make me also crazy abt the characs they r talking abt. like

^ me also going insane abt them. its like youve infected me with an incurable deadly disease. ive never watched this persons pov ever but im also as affected as ppl who do watch that persons pov. like what. did u cast a spell on me unknowingly

[nero-neptune]

🎃diary of a wimpy kid (2010)🎃

costume design by monique prudhomme

[happygirl2oo2]

[pyrolizard413]

"The curse feels so good!!" Okay, maybe I just love unhinged women, but Gem's ep. 7 was fucking AMAZING. Had to do my own take on the terrifying GeminiSlay.