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This is just my reading of this scene but I genuinely don't think Ragatha meant this in reference to Jax's abstracted friend.

I think this implies that Jax used to get on with the rest of the cast.

He probably was a pain in the ass and annoyed everyone, but on a more tolerable level, maybe as comedic relief, and not as openly and directly agonistic and mean. I think having his froggy friend helped him balance out.

After losing that friend he got nihilistic about their situation and just decided to be rude and hurtful because nothing mattered to him anymore.

And I think that Pomni is what will level him out again and keep him real. We saw it in this episode a lot. With Pomni he is more open and breaks his persona to share his actual thoughts and even feelings.

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I could be mean... I could be...

Frog. For the angst ofc

I just wanted to doodle Jax chasing Pomni.. what animal do you think Pomni would've been

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You know what I’d argue Jax is the one who has the problem with toxic positivity. He’s the one with his Cheshire Cat grin who’s always acting like everything is just fine, that it’s all in good fun, that it’s just a game where nothing really matters! Relax. Why are you being so emotional? I’m just kidding, right? Aren’t we still friends? You like when I mistreat you! It’s all about his own enjoyment and everyone else is a debbie downer ruining the fun.

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Was Pomni in the wrong to tell Ragatha to calm down? Yes but I don’t think that was intentional. She does want Ragatha to express herself but I think she was also worried that Ragatha would say something hurtful that she would regret later.

Pomni does want to help people, but she isn’t a therapist. She can listen to the struggles that her friends are going through but all that can’t be placed on her alone. It’s why she let Gummi Goo come to his own conclusion, let’s Gangle go home early so she can close. She does help, but she lets the rest be up to them.

And that’s what Ragatha needed, not to explode but figure out a way to express herself negative emotions in a healthy way. (Dear god don’t let me get jumped for this.)

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NEVER GIVE UP

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“if you’re sensitive to sounds when sleeping, just use earplugs!” i cannot stress enough that the sensory feeling of having my ears fully blocked AND now being able to hear my own heartbeat and breathing and every other sound that’s happening inside my own body is a million times worse than whatever ambient noise may be keeping me awake

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My first thought when Ragatha said "not anymore..." was that she was talking about herself, and accidentally brought up something more sensitive that she didn't mean to. I dunno, it seems like they used to be closer at one point but Ragatha's disingenuous positivity and concern and Jax's meanspirited coping mechinisms drove them apart... just a thought

Anyways I loved this episode. I love eps focused on character interactions and situations, and this one was jam-packed full of them!

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Imagine collecting 100 nicely smooth and evenly sized rocks, picking up paint that sticks to them, writing "unblock me you insolent shrimp" on all of them, and dropping them into random mailboxes in a town you're only visiting and will never return to.

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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Inspired by this post i would agree that there is a chance that milsiril would probably take care of thistle after the dungeon events

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Some dream bug plush concepts

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Some dream bug plush concepts

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You know what I've never really seen realistically depicted in fiction? The way that people in places that get a huge amount of snow deal with said snow. Specifically in the cities. I get that it's probably not exactly an intuitive thing to think about if you've never lived in a place that gets a lot of snow, and even if you do, you probably figure that they must have some really sophisticated infrastructure systems specifically for this purpose. It's not like they'll just scoop the snow off the streets and gather it into huge piles, and then just climb over the progressively larger and larger snow piles every single year for months while waiting for the piles to melt in the spring.

We do. There's no point in planning more sophisticated systems to get rid of something that'll eventually just go away on its own. So they just pile the snow into randomly designated spaces that cars or people aren't supposed to go through, and let it pile up. There's significantly less street parking available in the winter because some spots where you could otherwise park a car are currently the parking spot of a snow pile three times taller than a car.

You get used to it. And if you grow up around here, it never even occurs to you to think of it as something strange in the first place.

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Another fantasy trope story:

A story where a prominent prophesy very clearly states that this specific important thing Must Be Done by the firstborn of one specific guy. So three young heroes head out to fix this: This Guy's official firstborn heir, his bastard he didn't even know about before getting married, and his unofficially adopted orphan kid who just started living with him at some point, who is the oldest of the three so technically speaking is still the one who was born first. And all three must go because while the meaning of the prophesy itself is very clear, it's an utter mystery to everyone which one of them counts as their father's firstborn.