#cornplating

[annamatix]

i never realized she was holding a sunlight sisters vinyl in this scene

[achingliver]

Ok I’m absolutely cornplating again but i noticed that a majority of the Jon reveal sprites don’t have Scandalabra’s lipstick

The left has lipstick and the right doesn’t, something consistently absent in the majority of the Jon sprites. I assume this is because the Jon Wick realization sprites were made first and then were used for the Scandalabra sprites.

I’m running out of shit to talk about but whatevea that won’t stop me

[jayvikpregnancy]

Something about viktor facing away when jayce is looking and jayce looking forward when viktor looks at him

Reading into it too much but jayce knowing viktor is looking at him and taking it for granted but viktor doesnt even know how much jayce looks at him

[romike]

They swapped the hands they wear their watches on... Get whoever made that shoe theory on the line

[televangelistics]

Excuse the quality I just took a picture of my laptop but. Guys. Lovers lake is behind Will now

[mistysyringe]

so if in the original script van was meant to have committed suicide, can it be assumed that it's *tai" in the pilot standing over the pit, wearing her shirt?

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

The Hypocrisy of Vex'ahlia

Before you all come for me, I am a Vex stan and I will defend her until I die - she is my favorite Critical Role character and I'm so glad we're getting a deeper dive into her psyche.

The complexities of her character cannot be overstated. She has a lot going on under the surface, and the breadcrumbs of her deep-seated insecurities have been there the whole time.

I'm really excited we get to explore those in season 3 through her relationship with Percy, in a way different than what we've seen in the actual play streams. I want to commend the writers for being able to convey so much in so little time.

We are introduced to Vex as a sexy, confident woman who uses her looks and charisma to her advantage. She takes charge most of the time, being the unofficial "leader" of Vox Machina. She presents herself as someone who doesn't really need anyone else and does not care about anyone outside of her brother. Keyleth even comments on this in the first episode, "Vex and Vax only care about themselves".

This, of course, is a complete fabrication, a mask she wears to hide her insecurities. A mask, she wants no one to see through. The irony here is that she can so easily see behind Percy's mask - "Darling, take off the mask". It takes one to know one, after all.

She so badly wants to get underneath Percy's mask, for him to show himself to her fully. There's something inside of her that sees the guilt and shame inside of him and that resonates with her belief that she is deeply broken. Vex truly believes that something must truly be wrong with her. And why wouldn't she? Saundor, who said he knew everything about her, saw this, too, after all.

Saundor says plainly, "you will never be enough."

So it must be true, right?

Why wouldn't something be so wrong with her? It would make sense. Her father carries no love for her, her mother died, and Vax had to sacrifice his life for hers. She knows Vax loves her, and she believes he is the only one who does. Even Kamaljiori, an ancient and all-knowing Sphinx, fed into this during their test when Vax fell: "you have no family left who cares for you".

Her hypocrisy lies in the facade she built as a woman who does not need anyone or anything. She presents herself as someone who does not need the love of others, when in reality, she desperately wants to be loved.

Saundor saw this as well.

Vex longs to love and be loved. And yet, she cannot allow herself to give up her facade and let Percy love her and admit her love for him.

The last person to see through her walls was Saundor, and we know how that went.

What he said really cut her deep, as we see after the Kevdak fight when she brushes off Pike's inquiries about her experience in the fey realm.

As we see her relationship with Percy move from harmless flirting to physical intimacy at the beginning of season 3, we see her embrace the physical closeness to Percy but starts to block him out the moment he wants to cement their relationship. But she can't let herself tell him how she feels because that would mean admitting her heart is his - and that would be doomed to end in tragedy, as Vex admits later in the cave.

Putting up this emotional wall between her and Percy will not give Vex what she wants: love.

Love is that emotional intimacy. Vex loves to point out the importance of love between other people- in season 2, pushing Keyleth to tell Vax how she feels ("it always matters"), assuring Allura that Kima's love for her will help her endure after Vorugal's attack, and putting faith in the rest of Vox Machina.

Vex understands what makes love so special, and how important truth and intimacy are to real, lasting love.

And while she comforts others and pushes them to be vulnerable and embrace love, her own fears prevent her from fully doing the same. It's ironic and sad, how one of the only people who can see through her mask is the one she's pushing away.

Trauma makes hypocrites of us all.

Image credits @blorbologist @aq2003

[ryez-loveyz]

otto's step off to the side is making me LOSE IT 😭😭😭😭 not his fuckin problem lol

[jm-chrome]

Ekko, standing on the same hill overlooking the battle with Zoe that Jinx fought in 🧎🏻‍♀️

They haven’t met yet in this universe aughhhh

[mushroom-drogone]

Fernsfield

snifferish is the ultimate minecraft role player i am crazy for those videos now, especially Fernsfield

i watched the directors commentary video and i don't know if sniff realized but the asthma joke at the start of the movie kind of foreshadows sniff's out-of-breathness getting worse after getting knocked out in the cave,,, like the sprint limit is the worsening of the asthma condition... maybe i'm cornplating idk but such a good video literally started making heart hands at the screen randomly after halfway through

[snoopeie]

I noticed this last night but the fact that Patrick’s racket here has the same head color as Tashi’s and the same handle color as Art’s…. the implications….

[brainwormnation]

i firmly believe that pre-canon there was an incident where randy did talk about chris to hardy and it got chris in trouble or something. my evidence is how randy looks at the door (looking slightly worried) when hardy says “these pricks here they don’t give two shits about what we do” + chris saying “wasn’t talking about me was he?” after randy leaves hardy’s office.

[cuddytism]

More 2x03 Humpty Dumpty thoughts: The first and last scenes.

We start the episode out with Cuddy attempting to get her handyman, Alfredo, to continue working despite his sickness. I think that the excuse Cuddy uses to try to convince Alfredo is very interesting; it’s something that, in the beginning of the episode, we have no idea is a lie. Because we do not know Cuddy. This is our first time seeing her outside of the hospital, this is our first time seeing her home.

She’s hosting a dinner, she says, if the roof isn’t fixed she’ll have to put buckets on the dining room table. She says he's to blame if there ends up being rain pouring into her guests wine glasses. She uses this imagery; a lively gathering ruined, as a means to get him to continue.

This idea doesn’t feel unrealistic; a high achieving professional woman such as herself must have some connections, right? A dinner party hardly seems uncommon to be held by an upper-middle-class woman in her late thirties. This is what we (and he) are supposed to believe, that she had a good reason to keep Alfredo there.

Until Cuddy tells House and his team (and by extension, us, the viewers) that it was a lie. That she made it up to get him to finish up her roof quicker. There is no dinner party, never was.

The scene in the beginning is contrasted very well with the one at the end of the episode, where we see the true version of events, what really happens; Cuddy, alone, putting a bucket on her dining table to catch the rain pouring in from her unfinished roof. This is the first time that we see Cuddy truly alone in her home.

The final shot is zoomed out, taken from her living room. We get a good view of her home; empty and dark. The lack of any life other than herself. Just a zoomed out view of her, tending to the wound that is the water coming in through her roof, putting a bandage on it. Once Cuddy leaves the room, going down the hall, the shot lingers; the stark emptiness of her home, which was once bursting with life -- when House and the boys were investigating it -- or at least the idea of it -- Cuddy’s made up dinner party from the opening scene -- now bleak and bare.

It is now empty, just as empty as it typically is, when we don’t see it. There’s this somber air, this unspoken theme in this silent scene; that this is how Cuddy lives. The imagery she conjures in the first scene is not indicative of her own life. Her lack of connections put on display for us, plain and clear, finally.

There is no dinner party, and there are no guests. Just her, and her guilt.

[hazeltumbleberr]

so apparently on rewatch of franks episode franks sword seems to make an early appearance and doesn’t actually show up last minute in the final episode and somebody told me in a now deleted comment because I had no idea what they meant at the time that franks sword is sentient and is likely representing his resisting urges to do certain things which may explain why it slashes back at franks specifically

[televangelistics]

Was editing and I can’t tell is this an old bird cage in mikes basement?? DID HE HAVE A BIRD.

[mistysyringe]

“Shauna’s faster, Lottie’s got better footwork by a mile."

and who in the lineup does jackie not compliment?