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explaining things nobody gaf about

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okay now that we’ve a had couple lesbian blockbusters and milfs are having a romance moment, we need to bring back the manic pixie dream girl. she was never fuckin suited to fixing all the problems of some boring twenty year old everyman, but you know who could actually benefit from a quirky free-spirited blue haired girl with pronouns (she/they)? a newly divorced forty-something mom who’s trying to learn how to be herself for the first time in her life

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kidnapper, on the phone: we have niko.

crystal: DON’T HURT HER!

kidnapper: I would never hurt her. she made me believe in myself.

kidnapper: i’m going to be a painter.

niko, in the background: you can do it!!

kidnapper, tearfully: where can I bring her to?

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thinking about how Niko's mom received her letter, probably about how she has made new friends and is trying to be a little braver, and shortly after got the news of her death

like. shit dude. she probably thought that Niko would be ok and away from the sadness after all. but the sadness got her too and now she lost more of her family

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happy pride to edwin 'other gay people don't exist, this cute boy is just a ghost fetishist' payne, nobody is doing queer repression like him

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Since I've talked about Edwin's death scene and how much I like it, I thought oh yeah why not do one for charles. This is a post about me thinking too hard about things.

I actually had a little difficulty with this. Some of the best qualities of Edwin's death were how they used the medium of a show to present us with an older, bleak version of reality. Charles' death scene doesn't really have that. Why? Well, after Edwin's death, he was sent to hell, he didn't really "live" until he met Charles. This is why the scene doesn't seem as old - it is a beginning rather than an end.

Also, colour-coding. This is where we have to differentiate between two parts of the scene: the one before Edwin comes in (the lake, running from the lake...) and the one after (Edwin and Charles get to know each other). In the first part, they use cold colours like green, blue and black. This is not only to make it look unwelcoming and cold, and the colours are also reminiscient of the colours of hell. More specifically, Edwin's hell. And that makes sense: this is Charles' hell. He is alone, dying, afraid, betrayed. No one is caring for him.

This is where that damn lantern comes in. The light of the lantern is the first warm things we get to see. And what, gentle readers, does it illuminate first? Edwin. Of course it's Edwin, because that is the crucial difference between their deaths; Edwin died alone, but Charles doesn't have to. That is the very nature of their relationship in one lantern. I'm not even talking about the parallels with the scenes in hell. I would also like it noted that Edwin is wearing neutral colours in this scene. He is not the light, but he brings it. In opposition to that, Charles wears warm colours in hell, because he is Edwin's light (its a bit hard to see but i'm assuming that he didn't change his outfit before going to hell and i would argue that its red).

Since I went a little crazy about the music in Edwin's death scene, I'd just like to touch on it (featuring me doing mental gymnastics) The song is "Under the Milky Way" by The Church, which is already fun because that song was released in 1988 which means that Charles could have listened to it (or that it is possibly diegetic and actually playing in the background). Now, one particular line stood out to me especially "And it's something quite peculiar/Something shimmering and white/Leads you here, despite your destination" This is a bit of a stretch, but based on comic lore, Edwin's bones are on the attic at St Hilarions. Bones are famously shimmering and white. This could be what brought him there. And his destination? Well, I'm not sure coming back to your place of death/potential bone storage is super great at not alerting forces in the afterlife. Specifically hell.

In conclusion: Charles death is much more light-hearted and warm than Edwin's death. This is achieved through colour-coding with warm and cool colours representing different things, extensive lantern symbolism and a much calmer, less foreboding background music. I am slowly going insane but I always write straight A's when I have to interpret stuff.

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*cools ur dashboard down*

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It's end of May, yall know what that means

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let us take a second to appreciate how well done the edwin-getting-sacrificed-to-a-demon-flashback is. it's insane

First of all: switching the picture to have the borders on the side is an amazing use of medium. it's creative and shows that a) we're in a completely different context than before and b) that context is from a long time ago. the black and white not only helps that but also shows a sort of bleak atmosphere, the dark is very pronounced and this is how edwin seems to see his world at that time.

Second of all, the music? having that unsettling, "knocking" sound is already very cool (traditionally i would interpret that knocking as the devil like in the opera "der freischütz". don't ask about it i'll yap for hours) but something about the instruments makes it sound like the music for a very old movie; it's sort of distorted because of the audio quality of these old recordings. it reminds me of those silent movies that are creepy because everything is - in lack of a better word - wrong. The picture is grainy, the audio is tinny. something about it is unsettling.

In conclusion: it's cold, dark, sort of claustrophobic. And that interestingly makes it very, very, different than Charles' death scene. I love this show.

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the more i hear abt that lilo n stitch remake the more im like oh this isn’t just like. a bad remake it’s actually deeply deeply evil in a way that i hope reaps some sort of cosmic punishment

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i completely understand & agree with the backlash against students using chatgpt to get degrees but some of you are out here saying "getting a degree in xyz means pulling multiple consecutive all-nighters and writing essays through debilitating migraines and having severe back pain from constantly studying at your desk and chugging energy drinks until you get a kidney stone and waking up wishing you were dead every day, and that's just part of the natural process of learning!!!" and like. umm. i don't think that any of us should have had to endure that either. like maybe the solution for stopping students from using anti-learning software depends on college institutions making the process of learning actually sustainable on the human body & mind rather than a grueling health-destroying soul-crushing endeavor

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“to be a woman is to experience pain”“to be a woman is to perform”“to be a woman is to-” SHUT UP SHUT UP 💥💥💥💥

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Hey! I'm a part of the Sinners charity zine and drew up more Smoke and Annie! 🤗

Link for email updates for when the pre-order phase launches!

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they should invent an apartment that has huge windows but is never too hot and is near everything i like and all my friends but is also quiet when i want it to be and costs zero dollars or perhaps they pay me to live in. and they save it just for me so i dont have to look for it :)

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oh ok