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@bloodgulchblog lovingly kicking down my door in the middle of the workday to let me know someone made a 10 hour SpOps video

I have not watched this (it's the middle of the workday) but I appreciate a "it's so bad it wraps around to being good" take because through constant blogging and terribly influencing friends i will make this a cult classic. for dozens of people who may care or at least breathe slightly harder out their nose when they see us posting.

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just layers and layers to this thing, huh.

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Day 46

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Day 47

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Guess That Rec Season 2: Round 3, Poll 6

Rec #108

Do you like explosions? Do you like blowing up THE MOON? Well, have I got the media for you. It’s a rollicking adventure featuring singing robot-like soldiers with no will of their own, mustachioed head honchos of enemy armies, and some best friends taking on the ultimate evil with the Power of Friendship(tm), spite, and big huge guns. We’ve got cannibalism and heat rays and incidental immortality, fantastic representations of grief and the dehumanization of war, not to mention that ALL of the characters are canonically queer! I guarantee that if you like all those things, then this media is for you.

Rec #109

Do you like girls? No, I mean, do you LIKE girls? Young girls, older women? Sisters, mothers, daughters, in-laws, besties, rivals, enemies. Girls crushing, girls transitioning, girls committing violence, girls doing crime, girls murdering? Pretty girls, cute girls, handsome girls, tomboy girls, freaky girls? Girls that'll treat you right, girls that'll ruin your life? Princesses, goddesses, monsters, demons, ghosts, animal girls, magical girls, science girls, all the girls! Girls from mythology, girls from HERstory. Girlbosses, gaslighters, gatekeepers, girlfailures. Dresses, skirts, pants, oh my! Girls who break the law, girls who are the law! Capitalists, revolutionaries, mob bosses, and high schoolers, too! And the best part for girl-lovers? NO BOYS ALLOWED (except for that one guy and the turtle)!

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S16 Round 1

These Boots are Made for Walkin’

cw: spoilers

Ocean is an investigative journalist, and views Forest, a former miner who now spends his life travelling, as a valuable source for a big story. As someone more acquainted with long-distance travel, Ocean enthusiastically offers her help to Forest, and the two have fun while waiting for their flights… at least, until Forest, less of a “clueless tourist” than Ocean had assumed he would be, realizes Ocean views him as more of a "valuable source for her next big story" than as a friend. He decides he can’t trust her before departing on his flight. Still, despite Forest eventually finding a new job and a partner who he actually can trust, he does remain in touch with Ocean. The two chat about the places they each visit… and sometimes, call for help. Forest and Ocean are both magnets for trouble and regularly need to free each other from disastrous situations.

This pattern continues for years. They begin to rely on each other, but also can't stand each other. They regard each other with a mixture of respect and utter disappointment. They've never dated, but they're also somehow exes.

One day, Forest gets into trouble yet again, making a difficult choice-- one that Ocean finds unconscionable, and one that will send Forest alone down a dark path. Still, Ocean walks Forest towards his "end", reassuring him in his moment of crisis even though she knows she'll be cursing his name later. Forest knows this too, giving Ocean a souvenir from where they first met in the hopes that it will be a reminder of who he used to be. They part ways, confident that this decision will be what ultimately tears them apart… though fate ensures that this meeting will be far from their last.

partners in solving crimes (& committing fraud)

A and B are childhood best friends who are on the surface complete polar opposites. A is an ADHD-having chaotic troublemaker who lies when it’s to his advantage (or just for fun) while B is a chronic worrier who claims to just want to live by the straight and narrow and not get into trouble. However, B cannot keep himself from getting tangled up in A’s antics, and they care about each other to a somewhat worryingly codependent degree. Both of them share a level of immaturity (that B tries to hide) that allows them to bond. The most major of A’s escapades leads to him convincing the local police department that he’s psychic so he can use his remarkable observation skills to solve cases. B is dragged into this like all of A’s other hijinks and ends up finding, despite his qualms with committing fraud, the ridiculous nicknames A makes up for him 24/7, and the semi-regular life-threatening situations, that he enjoys solving cases. B’s variety of incredibly random interests (spelling, safecracking, ferroequinology, area codes…) often contribute to helping A solve whatever murder they’re working on. Never once behaving professionally, they continually outdo the police in crime solving all while bickering like a married couple 24/7.

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adulthood is just telling yourself “and after i’ve done THAT i can finally relax” with increasing desperation

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Day 45

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I love how Caine is starting to lose it on the humans, like they’re the ones going to drive HIM to an existential crisis.

Judging by the cellar, it seems like tons of humans have abstracted before this group.

What if this group, now finally complete with the addition of Pomni, is the group that can finally, but unintentionally, terrorize Caine back? Like all the other humans couldn’t handle it, they went insane under the existential wejght of being trapped there forever, but this group is just soooo sooo sooooo full of stupid that they just end up being immune and completely turning the tables on Caine.

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I think it's pretty clear by now that, even though Ragatha and Jax are initially different, their way of dealing with the circus is exactly the same: trying to pretend they're okay when they clearly aren't.

While they both deal with their situation in the circus using toxic positivity, their way of pretending everything is okay is different:

Ragatha always tries to see the bright side of everything, but she also goes out of her way to maintain harmony and ensure everyone gets along at the expense of her own emotional well-being.

Jax always tries to make the most of his time in the circus, amidst the chaos, regardless of who he hurts in the process, which makes everyone hate him.

But, both mask their true feelings:

Ragatha is kind, but her kindness and patience have limits, but she doesn't know how to vent in a healthy way.

Jax is clearly grieving for the loss of his friend, but he doesn't deal with it and instead chooses to hurt others to distract himself from his pain, which leads him to be isolated and have no one to express his grief.

Ragatha never demands anything, nor is she honest with herself or others because she's afraid of being rude and selfish (i.e., she's afraid of becoming like her mother). Jax never tries to empathize or even be less harsh with others because he's afraid of being weak and getting hurt.

However, Ragatha and Jax cannot continue with their toxic positivity because that will only lead to self-destruction and the destruction of everything around them. Even in episode 4 we were shown how destructive toxic positivity is: Gangle applied it and ended up treating her colleagues badly, and bottled up her emotions, stressed herself too much and almost became abstracted if it weren't for the fact that Pomni and Zooble supported Gangle and because Gangle decided to receive the Pomni and Zooble's support.

Ragatha has to learn that wanting things for herself and being honest doesn't make her selfish or evil, but that she is worthy of being loved, that she deserves to want things and has the right to express herself in a healthy way like anyone else and that she will always find people who will be willing to support her and accept her as she is.

Jax has to learn to trust others and realize that being vulnerable can lead to others hurting him, but that it's still worth continuing to trust because it's necessary to be vulnerable to create bonds with other people and not suffer alone, because trust is a risk, but it's a risk worth taking in order to grow.

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wanted to talk ab this little detail in this scene that i find Sad

ragatha’s first instinct here was to panic and brace herself for some kind of verbal backlash because of the outburst earlier. pomni didn’t even sound mad or irritated in her delivery, but ragatha’s expression still 100% reads “she must be upset with me for yelling”

whoever said that her feigned optimism is a fawn response instead of toxic positivity hit the nail Right on the head i think.

her mom must have been pretty awful

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GUYS IT'S HAPPENING

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them