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vivziepop homestuck animated series

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Very annoying genre of post where Mei in 03*10 is treated as evil or possessed by the Samadhi Fire (?) in some way. She was literally on fire.

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Do you have a favorite lmk episode? :)

I'm willing to go out on a limb and say I like 01*05 (Calabash), despite how most people seem to dislike it; I think it's the thematic culmination of everything first season aims to be, and, as such, embodies everything that made me like lmk to begin with. I also like 03*10 (The Samadhi Fire) and, for much the same reasons I like 01*05, 04*07 (Pitiful Creatures).

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With Deltarune and Undertale analogizing the Dreemurrs' to demons (Kris's red devil horns, Asgore's red pitchfork, etc), Asriel's apparent 'good christian boy' characterization in Deltarune— as per: his excessive apologizing for 'sinning' — sort of makes me wonder whether he's being posed as an antithesis to Kris's issues re: their humanity?

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Noelle Strider is real

zero idea what possesed me here. noelle strider

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You know, it's always been my working assumption that the reason the previous fallen humans in Undertale died, despite presumably having the same power over the in-game SAVE/LOAD system as Frisk, is because they were just following the most commonly given advice for when you get stuck in a video game— to stop playing it.

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Just realized that the interaction in Deltarune where you can make Kris play the hospital piano (at which they feel frustrated at being unable to play*) is probably meant to be in reference to the Homestuck flash where you can make Jade play the flute (which she gets so frustrated at being unable to play that she contemplates throwing the flute in disgust).

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Rewatched 04*07 in light of my previous post, and just realized that Mei mistakes the Ink Scroll Curse's voice for MK's. You can see it in their exchange:

"Hey, nice of you to join us, bud. You know, none of this would have happened without you, right?" "Yeah. And us too! Without us, you wouldn't be able to stop this thing. That's what you were saying, right?"

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Is MK being admonished for suggesting he 'fake it 'till he makes it' (01*01) -- whilst Mei saying "Yeah, well, we're pretty good at faking it 'till we're making it, so you better start taking it!" (04*07) is depicted triumphantly -- meant to be an extension of MK being portrayed as 'real' and Mei as 'fictional' (referenced in this post)? Because in order to fake something, you have to be 'fake' yourself (which MK isn't, and Mei is).

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Do you think if Spider Queen and LBD were men they'd be seen as more redeemable and interesting by the wider fandom

Yes, I do, at least in regards to the 'interesting' part*, and I think both LBD and Spider Queen would collectively be more popular and liked than they are currently, with how popular male tertiary characters are.

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What do you think of the conclusion to Mei’s s3 arc? I’ve seen a lot of people say it was a bit anticlimactic but I disagree tbh (btw I love your posts! You’re great at wording out your thoughts)

What the conclusion to Mei's s3 arc specifies is a little ambiguous, but I'm going to assume you either mean the season 3 - season 4 transitional period (e.g the Samadhi Fire appearing to be majorly absent from the season 4 plot) or Claim to Flame.

If you're referring to the former, I would say that it's gesturally anticlimactic compared to season 3, but not in a way that truly affects my enjoyment of Mei as a character or season 4 holistically. In my opinion, it's ultimately a hallmark of the 10 minute episode format and every LMK character only being afforded so much screen time and not amateurish writing or a disinterest in Mei as a character. I never really assumed that Mei "lost" the Samadhi Fire when season 4 released, either, primarily because of how the Monkie Kid plot is based upon what would produce the most thematically resonant conclusion (as opposed to tight, defined narrative rules), and that it would be brought up in a season 5 episode, which I ended up being right about.

If you're referring to the latter, then I would definitely disagree with the assertion that it's anticlimactic. I think it's a fantastic episode that engages in the show's central themes in a great depth, and serves as a satisfying conclusion to the ambiguity of the Samadhi Fire in season 4. Easily one of the best episodes in season 5 and maybe even the entire show. It definitely scans as an idea that was originally meant to be in Season 4, though.

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Ahh~ I totally forgot about Aradia~~~ Well, her hair’s pretty long already anyway.

this pic gets reblogged by itself so much that I’m gonna link back to the other pics now.

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I never saw people say Mei was MKs mom but I do remember her getting called his little sister when the eng version hadn't been released

Interesting! I don't think I've ever seen that before (although i could potentially have had anyone who said that blocked lol)... Most takes I saw at the time were that Mei a) related to MK in some way, and b) was either older than him or ambiguously his sibling.

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Airing out a bit of an esoteric fandom complaint, but I've always thought it was weird how people take periods of metadiegesis in LMK (e.g. when Tang tells MK the story of Sun Wukong defeating the Demon Bull King in AHIB, or the recollection of the Samadhi Fire ritual in season 3) as wholly truthful in a very uncomplicated sense, just because... these characters are capable of misremembering things, or lying, or having their internal bias affect their recollection of something. Memory is a sieve!

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I really dislike the current online reception of Utena as a deeply absurd piece of art, not necessarily because I think it's a wholly wrong take on Utena - there are frequently episodes or scenes that border on surrealist - but because I feel this enables new viewers to anticipate genuine moments of the show as being apart of some kind of Surrealist Mindfuck twist that's just waiting to happen (as opposed to just taking the show seriously in its own right), which I think is particuarly damaging to Utena's perception in:re: Utena's more metamodernist narrative innovations and Ikuhara's worry that Utena would be perceived as satire. There's obviously more to say here especially about how the social reception of art can impact someone's experience with it (obviously), but I'm comparatively not really interested in talking about that right now.