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I feel like it was kind of a missed opportunity not to have an ending in 60 seconds where you just survive for a comically long time and everyone just does of radiation sickness or old age or something

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I like how Cursed Princess Club subverted the trope of the female lead getting in fucked up consensual with 50 asterisks situations and everyone just being fine with it in romance webtoons by making the male lead the one in the fucked up situation

And everyone was just fine with it

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I feel like pre-redemption Blaine is an underhated character. Like I get that he's a complex character and stuff, but he's also an asshole. And I'm not talking a "he's mean about it but he's right" asshole, he's the kind of asshole that sees you crying and says "could you not?"

Y'know, like this

And Frederick was having a legitimate panic attack here like-

My good sir that is you BROTHER

Idk every time I stop making edits and don't reread any of the series for a while I think that like, that was just his upbringing and he was conditioned into thinking Frederick was his enemy, but no he's just an asshole.

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A platypus pill?

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Kid Fred would love Reading Rainbow

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I feel like Frederick would be the type of guy to just drop the most traumatic lore at random times.

Like they'll be eating dinner and Frederick will just be like "oh yeah that reminds me of that one time I thought my dad would bash my head in with a clothing iron if I didn't get good enough grades and locked myself in a closet because I got an F on a test. That was a fun week." And then he'll just move on with the conversation

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Just realized they speak the Ka Bue language I couldn't find the spelling for too fuck

Someone: oh, so you're bilingual

Siffrin:

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You ever have a silly story about silly guys and then realize it's profoundly tragic?

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I'M NOT ALONE

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We need more representation for people that are obnoxious but not actually bad people in media

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Went to Lagoon yesterday and rode the Cannibal for the first time. I just couldn't help myself

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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