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they need to be friends i think

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Slightly Unfinished Lorelai comic

That I've been sitting on for several months forgetting to work on it so I'm just releasing it now. I say slightly unfinished cuz I didn't get around to coloring and shading everything

Wet cat UPON THEE

Something tells me this isn't about cake....

Anyway, so fun to make Lorelai have a breakdown over cake ...representing.. things. She's sobbing over cake my poor little meow meow ❤️❤️ she's trying

How Lorelai looks if giovanni or rick saw her rn:

she's doing so well since molly left 100%

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A Father's Purpose

Someone asks Martin if he actually cares about his daughters. He laughs at the joke he thinks they made.

Alternative version and thoughts under the Read More (please read the content warnings in the tags before clicking through!)

Epithet: ☆Dumb☆

Martin Blyndeff is a carefree man.

Despite his uncomplicated character, I have plenty of thoughts on Worst Dad and his impact on his daughters -- particularly Lorelai, but she isn't the focus on this piece and I'll talk about her another day.

I think what gets me about Martin and Molly is how efficient he is at shutting her down. Whether or not he's aware of what he's doing (it doesn't matter), it's really telling how smoothly he's able to do it. In the Museum Arc, he unloads another night shift onto her, rapid-fires excuses for why she has to take the night shift, takes credit for the school worksheet which she filled out, then changes subjects so she'll drop it. And he does it often enough that Lorelai has caught on to it, to the point that the first thing she does in the book is use his name to shut Molly down too. No matter what, if it's up to Martin, then Molly will have to shut up and deal.

I wonder how much of this DARVO-adjacent behaviour is a result of losing Calliope, if at all. I mean, I really, REALLY can't see how someone like Calliope would've fallen for Martin as he is today; we know he's always been the personification of the word "carefree" and Callie was an anxious workaholic mess, but honestly the Martin we see would probably just constantly stress her out even more (which he did sometimes). He was already rather senseless back then, but I can't help but think having Calliope to take on every burden for him for over 15 years and then losing her so suddenly must have exarcebated the learned helplessness. And since Molly was the one who took over, he just went "well I guess it's her job now", dusted off and went right back to his little world of toys and blissful obliviousness.

And speaking of Molly. She was suffering so much in that house, and yes, there have been plenty of walls of text about the verbal and emotional abuse she suffered from Lorelai, but I feel like we don't talk enough about Martin's complete dismissal of her feelings, thoughts and protests, and how deeply that affected her. He was the one who taught her no one would listen to her. He was he reference point Lorelai used to take advantage of her. He parentified Molly and made her bear the brunt of their financial troubles. And he did it all with a genuine smile across his face.

Martin Blyndeff sucks and I think we should talk about him more.

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BEARTRAP VILLIAN COSTUME!!

Yes it was made by Giovanni and yes her hoodie becomes a cape because COME ON

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I like to think Giovanni is so good at helping people with their problems because his epithet is soup and you use that to help when you're sick

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Y'know, I hate the "if you kill me you'll be just a bad" thing as anyone else, but to its credit I think a lot of people are just misinterpreting it and/or using it wrong Like, yeah, killing one guy doesn't make the hero just as bad as the villain, but it takes away a fundamental bit of separation. The killing isn't what makes the hero bad, it's the willingness. Because if the hero kills the villain, it makes them a person willing to kill for their cause, just like the villain is.

Of course the hero's cause isn't selfish or evil and unless they've also killed A LOT of the villain's minions they've shown significantly more restraint and responsibility, so it's still a bad trope, but still

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They r making soup :3

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I have no clue which books are out yet so I'm just gonna start tagging all of these as spoilers

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You know when you post your super cool theory in a fan forum or something but it turns out the creator already explicitly denied it and you didn't know but now it's to late to delete it and you just feel like such a dumbass you want to kill yourself because everyone is gonna see your stupid ass forgetting to check until the end of time

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Thinking 'bout him

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To be fair to Nigel, at least 25% of his victims are told what he's going to do and agree it's a good idea

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all of his family co-workers were gone. what could it mean?

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chill... chill...

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Someone: oh, so you're bilingual

Siffrin:

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sans has emotional flashbacks i mean what who said that

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Anyway. Slightly disappointed that Legends Z-A won't be taking place in the ancient past like Legends Arceus, but then I remembered the whole theme of Gen 9 and SV is Past VS Future, and I was like okay. Yeah. You get a pass this time that's actually neat