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It's time for memes I drew while working on season 3!

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s3 doodles bc the brainworms are getting to me

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Shuffle of Love Card Analysis & Theories

So idk about anyone else but I'm currently getting re-sucked into my Descendants obsession lololol

Anywho, recently I've been learning more about gambling and playing cards and that has made listening to Shuffle of Love interesting.

Imma be honest a LOT of these theories are reaches. But where's the fun if they aren't?

First up: breakdown

"Got more aces up my sleeve I got tricks you've never seen" ok so this part is pretty self explanatory. I think most people know what "I have an ace up my sleeve" means. The WHY however might not be as well known. Within gambling aces are pretty powerful. Within Blackjack they can mean the number 1 or 11 which is a very good card to have as in Blackjack the goal is to get a number as close to 21 without going over. Having a card that can go from 11 to a 1 can keep you from loosing. In general aces are usually the highest ranking card in the game. Bonus if it's an ace of spades as in many games the person who holds the highest spade gets half the pot (the money) and there is no spade that's of higher rank than an ace. Now what really caught my eye about this lyric was that Bridget is saying she has MULTIPLE aces up her sleeve. Usually the phrase is "I have AN ace up my sleeve" one ace not multiple. So this is saying that she has multiple tricks left. Having an ace up your sleeve is good in gambling if your good with quick hand changes as you can switch out a bad card you were dealt with a good card. However you do risk getting caught. And I'd imagine that while having multiple aces up your sleeve will give you a major advantage it also becomes that much more likely that you will be caught. A single deck of cards only has 4 aces. If the dealer gets back the cards every time and your not able to make that switch back in time, they're going to figure out that your cheating just from the amount of aces that are in the deck. Does this mean anything in regards to Bridget? No idea.

"Pick a card, any card What it is, don't say Is it the queen of hearts My favorite all day 'Cause I'm all about love (about love) And I got it in spades (in spades) Makes you wanna move Watch me levitate" So this stanza is interesting. So there's the obvious part of "Queen of hearts my favorite all day." because she IS the princess of hearts and future queen. But I'm more curious about the fact that she says "I got it in spades" now this is probably just the song writers using as many card phrases as they can. Having something in spades has been a way of saying you have lots of something for a long time. But card wise the ace is the most powerful suit in the deck. So it's interesting that the most powerful suit in the deck in the exact same stanza as her future title. Furthermore in the stanza just before the chorus it had her talking about the aces. The ace of spades has been nicknamed the death card due to how powerful it is. And I just find it interesting that she's kind of tied her future title with the death card in this song. Especially since her catchphrase will be "off with their head!"

"Jack of diamonds, night is shining Got me flying, let me show you how it's done (ooh)" This one also stands out a lot to me cuz WHY jack of diamonds? I assume they chose diamonds for lyric flow due to it having the most syllables out of the four options: heart, spade, diamond, club. But why the jack? It doesn't seem to have to with rhyming, so why not king, queen, ace or any of the numbers? Why Jack? Jack of diamonds isn't even one of the important jacks as the one eyed jacks are the jack of spades and the jack of hearts.

Furthermore the jack of diamonds might actually have some significance as it's one of the few named card guards (the jack of diamonds was the Captain of the guards that Red said 'off with his hat' to) and in one of the promos for the movie where Red was using her mother's cards to read her future when she asked "will I at least make any friends?" she pulled a jack of diamonds. Now this is shown to not be that important in that same promo as Red explained that black means no and red means yes. However her next question "will all my problems magically disappear? Uh oh, Queen of Hearts, my mom. That can't be good." Now according to what Red said the fact that it was her mom's card shouldn't have mattered just the fact that it was red, which means yes. Now we know in the movie that this prediction came true as she and Chloe went back in time and magically fixed all of Red's problems. But her reaction tells us that the card might still have had some meaning. So what is the significance of the jack of diamonds? They could have used literally any red card. So that's 13 diamond cards and 12 heart cards (minus the queen for obvious reasons) that they could have used, making for a total of 25 options. So why the jack of diamonds? I just find it interesting that this one specific card has been used 3 times.

And one more thing I should mention before I get into crazy theories. So cards have gone through a couple changes over the decades. Originating in China CE1000. Then they went to Egypt and blah blah blah. Not important for this. (Though I will say it's very fascinating) Point is due to how old playing cards are and how they moved through different cultures it went through a lot of changes. So before we had the face cards we know today of King, Queen, and Jack they were King, Knight, and Knave. A knave far as I can tell seemed to be interchangeably used as a title of a servant within the castle or just a word used for commoners. It also has the definition of a person who is dishonest or untrustworthy.

Ok I think that's all the analysis and backstory stuff. ONTO THE FUN AND INSANE.

What if them using jack of diamonds so many times is because he does have some significance? Maybe he's Red's father? Maybe he just used to be a good friend of Bridget's and that's why he's the captain of the crimson army rather than the jack of hearts.

Now let's get a lil crazier with our theories

The song goes "Jack of diamonds, night is shining Got me flying, let me show you how it's done (ooh)" what if this is them actually foreshadowing the prank? (assuming they'll ever tell us what it was) See if we think of it as the knave of diamonds rather than the jack of diamonds suddenly it becomes a lil more curious.

As we've already established a knave is someone who is dishonest or untrustworthy, a villain. Or a VK perhaps? If we try to assign it to someone it very well it could go to any of one within Uliana's gang. So lets think of it as BOTH the definition of rank and dishonest.

Uliana: Is a commoner and dishonest - check

Hook: Is a commoner and dishonest - check

Maleficent: I'm not entirely sure what her status is considered but we know from the og animated movie that she has her own castle and it was considered a great insult when the King and Queen did not invite her to Aurora's birthday especially when all the commoners were. So it can be inferred that she is some kind of royal or at least of high status. She is dishonest. - no

Hades: God King of the underworld and dishonest - no

Morgie: Here's where it gets curious. We don't know anything about him. Morgana le Fay does not exist in the Disney movie about King Arthur, The Sword in the Stone. They replaced her with an original character Madame Mim. So we don't know what Morgie would be considered. All we really know is that since he was so proud to introduce himself as her son is that she is likely a powerful sorceress and likely evil and he's proud to walk in her footsteps. But we don't know if they're just changing the name back and having her be the exact same as Madame Mim or if they're following one of the myths for her. Furthermore there are so many different versions of the myth we don't know which Morgana is in reference to Descendants. In some myths she's Arthurs older sister, in some younger sister, in some they're not related at all. And in some of the myths she's not even evil and is instead a healer and wise woman. But for the fun of insane theories lets say that they go with her being Arthur's sister. So that would make Morgie the nephew of the king. Now it's possible this comes with a title but I don't think it does and even if it did as Audrey mentioned in the first movie to Evie that all villains were stripped of royal status when they were sentenced to the Isle I think it's safe to say that Arthur would have done the same to Morgana (stripped her of royal status not send her to the Isle, that doesn't exist yet). But he may have wanted to keep his nephew close and attempt to keep him away from his mother's influence. So perhaps he grew up in the castle. And you can't have a non-royal child running around a castle, so perhaps he was raised as servant to the royal family and then as he and his powers grew was sent to Merlin Academy to be under the watchful eye of Merlin. Meaning he would be a knave in every sense of the word. A commoner, a servant, and someone who is dishonest and untrustworthy. - check check checkity check

Furthermore we know that Descendants is using the serpent imagery that is often associated with Morgana le Fay as Morgie says "Son of Morgana, serpentine" And as any artist would tell you, diamond shapes do look an awful lot like snake scales.

So the more you think about it, the more it sounds like Morgie is the literal picture of the knave of diamonds. Or rather the jack of diamonds.

And as we know from the deleted scene, he's the one who got the sorcerer's cookbook.

"Jack of diamonds, night is shining Got me flying, let me show you how it's done (ooh)"

"Night is shining" could very easily mean Castlecoming.

"Got me flying" might be a reference to the prank. We know that Uliana doesn't just want ANY revenge, if she did she would have gone with make her walk the plank, prick her with a thousand thorns, or burn her to a crisp, no she wants to get EVEN. Uliana blames Bridget for essentially turning her into a bird. So maybe this lyric is more literal than we all originally thought and it's actually hinting that Morgie managed to use the cookbook and get a bird themed revenge on Bridget. Maybe the flying is very literal as birds are known for their flight.

We might literally have a who, where, and what right there in the song.

Plus with that being the last stanza before the final chorus and then they show us Bridget looking into the Looking Glass to see her future as the evil Queen of Hearts? They could have put anything as the final stanza for that song. Why have it be talking about the jack of diamonds and not the queen of hearts?

…or maybe they just pulled a Carrie and dumped a bucket of blood on her. Who knows. (well probs not that cuz kids movie) I'm definitely overanalyzing this. Like I said earlier "insane theory" but I'm having fun. 

(sorry if this looks weird Tumblr isn't working on my computer for some reason so I'm posting from my phone)

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Yasammy from today's stream! My favorite Texas wildflowers are wild verbenas, and I thought it would be cute if Yaz picked Sammy some.

(Also yes Yaz's pose is that one pose from Tarzan lol)

Thanks to everyone who came!

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Here it is! The trailer for Season 2 of Jurassic World: ChaosTheory! I had the pleasure of writing the explosive season premiere, and another one of my favorite episodes. I promise y’all are in for QUITE a ride! October 17 on Netflix!

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I’m so normal I’m so normal I’m so normal I’m so

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The crew has been back together for like two days and Kenji and Yaz have already reverted to their Isla Nublar dynamic: her being tired of his ass😭

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still a menace

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DEAR FANFICTION WRITERS

Thanks for existing

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OKAY AN EXTREMELY SELF-INDULGENT SENSELESS RAMBLE ABOUT JWCT REGARDING GRIEF AND EMOTIONS AND FOUND FAMILY AND COMPLEX CHARACTERS COMING UP AHEAD WOOP WOOP !!!

i cannot stress to you enough. how much i love the way they write processing trauma. like yeah trauma is all silly and angst and whatever but it's a real thing like genuinely and it's exhausting to see shows just dismiss it over and over again but THIS SHOW I SWEAR IT'S JUST. EVERYTHING IS DONE SO SO WELL AND I AM ETERNALLY GRATEFUL LIKE

and not to mention that the animation SERIOUSLY DOES IT JUSTICE like the expressions are SO GOOD OH MY GOSH LIKE IT'S I'M THEY'RE YEAH THE EXPRESSIONS. ARE INCREDIBLE. that looks darius got in his eyes when he KNEW the password to brooklyn's phone and kenji didn't??? so good SO GOOD and just the way their eyes all shine before they start crying is actually done so well that if you listen carefully you can feel my heart breaking

also i love how like emotional processing is also written so much. all of them aren't afraid to cry and i feel like that's just. yeah it's beautiful. they cry soft they cry loud whatever it is they're comfortable enough to do so and if they're not they at least know they won't be judged for it ARE YOU KIDDING ME I'M GOING TO BITE A TABLE?????

the characters have flaws. i love that so much. the characters are not perfect but they're still likable and it's executed so well. darius' grief is PALPABLE and kenji's anger, albeit sometimes annoying, is so understandable that you can't actually be angry or annoyed with him because the story writing makes you understand. that's incredible. yasmina struggles with anxiety and ptsd and she gets frustrated and that is !! okay !! sammy ignores her emotions and struggles with toxic positivity but we understand *why* she talks to yasmina that way (because she's worried and scared and concerned for her girlfriend, but she's also just as worried of truly addressing what she's been through) so it's so hard to get mad at her. ben is THANJ GOODNESS not mischaracterized as a cinnamon roll and is actually a complex character with complex emotions and i can't get enough of it. he's like a pain he's so annoying sometimes but it's endearing because he reminds you of that one classmate from elementary that makes you go ohhh yeah no it's him that's fine

okay paragraph was getting long but I do have more to say about kenji. the relationships in this show are executed SO WELL and I'm beyond relieved that Kenji and Daniel's relationship was written INCREDIBLY WELL

like. okay first off the asian rep YEAHGHH IT EAS GOOD !!! WOOP WOOP YRAHAHDH HONK HONK the part about kenji saying he should get his violin after daniel was like telling his sob story was SO FUNNY OH MH GOSH

and just. kenji and daniel kon. im. like his dad was never perfect. far from it and yet kenji just he loves him so much and wants to make him proud and it makes me sick because the writing helps you UNDERSTAND why

daniel keeps giving kenji ultimatums and kenji standing up to him for once just. yeah. that was done incredibly well. and then not even ten minutes after daniel started to change and gave his son something without expecting anything in return other than his presence daniel gets eaten alive in front of him.

okay now this show holy moly i was NOT expecting daniel to just. get ripped apart but um YEAH THAT HAPPENED and the grief was written so well I cannot stress this enough. I loathe in movies and shows when they skim past traumatic deaths and just act like the grief is just non existent and this show does an incredible job at showing that it is VERY MUCH STILL THERE and it makes people out there who are struggling feel a little less crazy and that's so beautiful

i've been a benrius enthusiast since day one and honestly at this point i just hope everything goes well for them moving on. brooklyn's death and Darius coping with her grief was done SO SO WELL and honestly okay as much as i love sibling-type dinostar i think rewatching scenes with the lens that he was in love with her just makes it hurt so much and it's just. yeah. it's written well.

I will say that I think the story could have gone on without Darius confessing his love to Brooklyn, and the scene where Kenji asked Darius about the voicemails could have been used solely as a chance to highlight grief. another way the scene could have gone was if kenji sifted through the voicemails and just heard Darius's voice shatter in a way he's never quite heard it or listened to darius blame himself and that could have been a moment for kenji to realize that grief isn't something people should deal with alone, that *he* shouldn't deal with grief alone

regardless i really do think the idea that Darius was in love with Brooklyn was done really well. I don't know a better way for kenji to have figured out the truth, and for that I am grateful :D!! I hope the hardcore shippers don't get too mad though 😭

also I absolutely loved the lady with the whistle. she's cool. her character design is terrifying and the way she treats the dinosaurs reminds me a of a queen that is very fond of her workers like 😭 she's cool but also i would never want her within a 100 mile radius of me

the found family in this show is actually. yeah. it makes me cry because it's just done so well because it doesn't idealize perfect relationships. there are awkward moments, there are sad moments, characters still feel broken and alone despite having people who've actively said that they'd go to the moon and back for them. it's realistic and it's written beautifully

I think Darius might actually be the character with The Writing ever. his grief and his nostalgia, his awkwardness and fascination with learning and his kindness are all things that exist together and I am so so grateful for that. he's allowed to laugh and make jokes while feeling constant, looming guilt. he is fascinated with learning while also struggling to feel like he deserves to be happy, he enjoys learning about dinosaurs while also being terrified of them on the worst days. he feels guilty and feels like a bad person. but he's loved and he's cared for. can you tell he's my favorite now because

enamored with yasmina and sammy as always. they are just the girlfriends ever and i love so much how openly they communicate with each other. sammy apologizes when she makes mistakes, yasmina doesn't hold it against her. they're always at each other's sides and their love isn't conditional. i love them SO MUCH

okay sorry im making this about darius again but this guy actually is The character ever. I don't think I've ever felt so seen in a character and i just yeah the writers are incredible because all of the characters are written to feel relatable, and if not that, to feel real. it was just a huge comfort to me to know that okay im not crazy for feeling this way because of a character, who was written and animated by dozens and dozens of creators was allowed to be written this way, i'm not messed up in the head, im just processing emotions and it's okay that I need help for that

THIS SOUNDS SO CRINGE I AM SO SORRY

but yeah i. i love this show.

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Sometimes a family is six kids and an ankylosaurus and I think that’s beautiful

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Alternate title: Whoops, All Leo! I know the angst is usually distributed evenly amongst the Rise fellas, I just wanted to make a fun comic and practice a new style. Hope ya’ll don’t mind!

The door, as always, is open for new members…

Like Father Like Son Leo belongs to @eternalglitch

The Prince of Day and Light Leo belongs to @tiramisu-art in collaboration with a slew of talented artists and writers!

Big Mama AU Leo belongs to @simplyfornardo  

Avatar The Last Airbender Leo AU Leo belongs to @eternalglitch and @dovelydraws  

Magician’s Assistant Leo belongs to @tutant  

Horizon Zero Dawn Leo belongs to @eternalglitch  and @dovelydraws  

Blind Leo belongs to @grase111  

Sweet cheese, I hope I did this right. Welp! We’ll find out together. Onwards! (Hopefully I can some how link the last panel…somehow!)

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Battle Medic Kix!!

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As we should.

Absolutely hilarious that we got Crosshair, Hera, Chopper, AND Hera’s parents all in one episode but who do we hyperfixate on?

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Welcome to day 6 of random Star Wars shitposty headcanons!

I’m so sorry btw, some of these ended up kinda angst 😬

-Mandalorians have Flannel shirt energy. Like they just wear flannels in their down time. Always. Their pyjamas? Flannel. First date? Flannel. If they’re not on the battle field, they’re wearing flannel. Jango Fett wore flannel boxers for good luck. The one day he didn’t wear them Windu cut his head off. Boba now wears flannel boxers for good luck.

-Obi-Wan Kenobi gets more and more Scottish the more emotional he gets. Sometimes in council meetings they legitimately cannot understand him so they just smile and nod. It did however lead to a 13 year old Anakin learning some creative insults over the years. Everyone remembers the time Yoda caught the kids arm with a practice saber and the teen yelled “yer da sells Avon ya wrinkly green bawbag”.

-The clones drink an insane amount of caf. The problem is they all have very specific orders. The space starbucks employees hate them. One will come in and suddenly they have to make like 50 drinks. Some are fine - like Wolffe and Cody just take it black, and Echo will just get a tea. Tup just gets a hot chocolate. But then someone (looking at Fives because mans is DRaMATIC) will turn up in sunglasses and order a Venti Iced Skinny Hazlenut Macchiato, Sugar-Free syrup, extra shot, lite ice, no whip or some shit and hold everything up. That’s not even getting into Kix and the other medics (and probably Rex too tbf, my guy is tired) who order drinks with more espresso shots than should be legally allowed. Fox is banned for life or has a lifelong loyalty card and there’s no in between.

-Clones like camping. Just vibing under the stars together with crappy food and cheap tents. It’s good for team building, but also counts as training so they don’t feel guilty for it.

-After leaving the empire, Kallus really doesn’t like wearing a helmet because it reminds him of who he used to be, and he’s trying very hard to move past that point of his life. The ghost crew are super reluctant to let him on the frontline in case he gets hurt. Eventually Rex just makes him wear Gregor’s old chest plate and vambraces because his brother didn’t wear them and died, and he wouldn’t let that happen to another member of his family, regardless of who they used to be.

-Thrawn does yoga in the mornings and evenings so he can maintain his fight training schedule without pulling a muscle. He’s mad flexible. It’s very stressful on the ship cos officers will go to deliver messages and just find him in weird positions thinking. One new transfer once had to tell him about a rebel insurrection whilst the grand admiral was in the crab position. It was awkward.

-On a definitely unrelated note, Eli Vanto sucks at yoga and finds Thrawn being good at it infuriating.

-Dooku does all of his own gardening because a droid stepped on his carnations and he was not having that. (He also did not approve of Ventress’s snide “what in carnation?!” Comment when he informed her). Dooku is actually where Qui-Gon got his love for plants. He likes the way they feel in the force.

-Fenn Rau and Bo-Katan were actually pretty good friends. They’d fly around and chat shit about once a week just to relax when they were younger.

-Pre-Grogu Din Djarin always wanted a pet, but never had a way to look after them properly. So every time he was on a planet he’d go to shelters and play with the animals there to make sure they had fun at least once in their lives.

-At any given moment at least one room on a 501st ship is blasting cheese room music so that the troopers can unwind together for a bit before their next mission. It’s surprisingly effective given that they’re just dancing together.

-As a way to understand other cultures and find harmony with the force all of the Jedi learn an instrument. Yoda played the piccolo, Dooku played the flute. Qui-Gon played the bongos, Obi-Wan plays the violin. Anakin learnt the guitar, and one of the reasons he wears the glove over his prosthetic is so he can still play. But little Ahsoka? She got a wholeass drumset. She’s pretty good too, but she likes 3am to be her practice time. Quinlan is super proud that she took his advice. Anakin and Obi want to kill the kiffar on principle.

As usual, hope you enjoy my shitpost. Any thought, criticism or idea is welcome. Have a goodun lads!