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My reaction:

A Very Anubis Christmas Eve!

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Anyone outside the US reporting similar bad luck?

Me after learning ALL of House of Anubis was removed from Paramount+ in the US, RIGHT AFTER planning to do an edit for the Sibuna Secret Santa:

At least season 1 is still on Netflix, but I would have to buy the other seasons. Speaking of, seasons 2 and 3 are broken up into 4 seasons each, meaning at $20 per "season", I would have to cough up $160 to gain access to the rest of the show!! So, uhh...

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That's nothing. I'm turning 30 next year, and back when House of Anubis was still airing for the first time, I can count on 1 hand the number of people I knew at school (high school, mind you) who watched and liked the show.

no bc looking back on the show as an adult makes rufus a way worse fucking villain than he already seemed when I watched this show at the crisp ages of 10-12 years old

Like when I first watched it he of course seems like this Really Bad Guy because he kidnapped one of the main characters (which was absolutely shocking for me as someone who wasn't even allowed to watch spongebob. but could somehow watch this)

but then I look back on it as an adult and like. first of all. I know how young these characters are. when I watched it as a kid they seemed like Cool Mature Teenagers but as an adult it's like. these are babies.

and it hits me that he saw a very vulnerable teenage girl being dismissed and dissuaded by every single adult that she turned to in order to find her missing best friend and poised himself to look like the only adult who took her seriously and wanted to help her. patricia didn't feel like she could trust any of the adults around her because she couldn't. because every adult she turned to at her school prioritized their search for immortality over their responsibilities to keep their students safe (and even the police didn't help her because why would they). because she was surrounded by adults that she realized were "in on" something and she didn't know what it was - she just knew she couldn't trust them to help her. she was angry and desperate and confused and vulnerable and she was a teenage girl being failed by every adult around her.

and the way she was failed by every adult responsible for looking after her made it incredibly easy for a man with the worst intentions possible to. first of all. appear to stalk her. and then make himself seem like someone she can trust by claiming to be a private investigator who is. at this point. the only adult who seems willing to listen and help her try to find her missing best friend. and then when she finally felt like she had someone she could trust and that she was getting close to the answers about her friend. he kidnapped her and held her in an old warehouse for days. and even after her rescue she continued to have nightmares about it

and like. idk. I've said before that if it were rebooted/made with a higher audience then rufus would have been explicitly a groomer a way worse villain but like. as an adult now i'm kind of smacked with the realization of how awful he was to begin with

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HOUSE OF HALLOWEEN

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*Sibuna using an Ouija board* Nina: Tell us… Is there a spirit in this house? Senkhara, through the board: YES. Patricia: Great! Rent is due on the first of the month. Alfie: Oh, and movie night is on Friday if you want to hang out. Senkhara: WAIT, WHAT—

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RANDOM FAVOURITE MOMENTS 32/?

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You're missing one:

Ok. Here is a random thought about the sinners. If Mara was the missed opportunity option. Which person would be shocking. Like seriously, who would be most unexpected.

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Nina: What if I refuse?

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I always thought it was added by the Frobisher-Smythes after they brought it back from Egypt.

thinking about how a cup from ancient egypt and a time pre-dating modern english has the word “END” written on it

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I actually believe there is another way to revive sinners without bringing Ammut into the world. There was an actual recording by Robert Frobisher-Smythe detailing how it could be done. Unfortunately, that recording was destroyed by sinner!Patricia, and later replaced by Ms. Denby with, in Robert's words, "a more appropriate one". So, canonically speaking, there has to be a way to stop Robert before using the Staff of Osiris. Just because of how the story was written, there's no way to know what that would entail.

What if Willow and Mara became sinners?

ok unless im forgetting something major, the only way to "revive" the sinners would be to bring ammut into the world and then get rid of her with the staff just as they did in canon, right? otherwise their souls would just be stuck in a sarcophagus forever? so, the end result would be the same – the only difference would be how they get there and how smoothly the plan goes. (which, in canon, it happens very randomly, so you can only go up from there!)

anyway, if willow and mara became sinners, it would probably have happened right when they discovered jerome's cheating – before patricia got taken. and given that willow's personality change specifically would be very obvious, i think the others would be clued-in by the dodgeball game – even without knowing exactly what was happening, they would be on the look out for Team Evil being Evil.

which means, once they read that book and learn what's happening, patricia would immediately figure out that denby's trying to manipulate her, and she wouldn't believe the messages when denby gives them to her.

so, all this to say that patricia would probably stay safe. which puts sibuna at an excellent position going forward! not only would she ensure none of the boys do stupid things to get themselves taken, but she's also still (somehwat) besties with joy. and remember, joy's probably freaking out about mara/willow acting weird too, and given that sibuna themselves are sneaking out of bed etc (hello, eclipse fiasco was like 2 days before this!), she'd probably ask to be clued-in.

(side note: yeah she doesn't want to be involved, but, like, when lives are on the line, i think she'd insist on it anyway. tor be damned.)

anyway. with joy there (and, probably, jerome in tow, given he'll also demand to know what's going on once he realizes it's not all an elaborate prank and his exes genuinely seem to be lacking consciences), there's no way in hell anyone from anubis is walking around without a buddy to keep them out of harms way (and diffuse any high-emotional situation before it becomes Team Evil fodder). so the remaining sinners would be victor, sweet, and some random kid from another house as it should have been anyway.

tldr; joy and jerome would provide some much needed level-headedness (or, at least, comparative level-headedness) to prevent any loss of Sibuna members.

so then the next order of business would be to stop team evil!! which, fabian would probably come to the same conclusion that I did – they would have to let them "win" in order to get the souls out of the sarcophagus.

but I feel like their ancestors would also be a bit quicker and point them towards the nursery rhymes straight away somehow so they get the staff assembled well in advance, get the intel from harriet so they know to keep the keys with eddie and kt when things happen, and basically while the others do become Sinners for half a minute w the rest of the school, they're certainly not guarding the gatehouse/etc so it's a lot smoother now than it was in the show. and no one's getting abandoned in chimneys or believing gross old men for literally no reason or sneaking keys into people's pockets without permission.

as for willow/mara sinner shenanigans i have no idea lskdfj i feel like mara would constantly try to set up elaborate traps (like legit physical traps) and rfs would just be sitting there facepalming. meanwhile willow would be utterly useless given how opposite her natural self is to any sinnerhood tendancies. like i think her brain would just be at war with herself the whole time. we know she's a descendant-ish and probably(?) has some kind of prophetic eye, and idk how Sinnerhood affects that but poor girl was probably being driven mad :(( luckily she wont remember any of it, though.

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What's more, re-watching the episode where the Collector's true identity is revealed, it appears that when Jerome tells Jasper he might know The Collector as "Renee Zeldman", his response seems to imply that Jasper has at least heard of him before, and is aware of how dangerous "Renee" can be. That means that Rufus's oh-so-clever alias has to be known to antique collectors and/or Egyptology enthusiasts as someone to be avoided at all costs. I wouldn't even be surprised if Rufus Zeno faked his death and started going by Renee Zeldman immediately after being kicked out of Victor's Secret Society.

So Rufus can pull a whole new identity complete with a flawless latex skin mask, a new voice, and a unique wardrobe out of his ass, but he couldn’t come up w an undercover name better than Renee Zeldman?

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This is actually so cute I might die

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It's time to step up, fans! You know what to do...

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Denby, creating a fake party to keep children in the house: Do you even know who Lady Gaga is? Victor, trying to understand why the cups have to be red and plastic: Presumably, the wife of Lord Gaga.

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Louisa: We need to stop digging tunnels when we’re drunk.

Robert, slurring: Where am I?

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Joy: After last year’s unfortunate incident, I have decided I will be playing hard to get rid of.