okay do y’all remember in 2019 when the mandalorian season one dropped and the fics were also dropping like immediately?? and we all knew that mando’s real name was Din Djarin but for some reason we didn’t know how to spell it so for a long time all fics about him were with the name “Dyn Djarin” until like episode 7 came out or something and it was revealed it was spelled “Din” and everyone scrambled to change the spelling??
or did I just make all this up??
having a lot of thoughts as usual about sdmi and its portrayal of the cycle of abuse, and how pericles, cassidy, and ricky's foils and parallels to each other there are all both fascinating and deeply tragic.
in particular today i'm thinking about how ricky is an abusive mentor toward marcie, and tries to be abusive toward velma and fails because she has a support system and hasn't been worn down yet, and velma being an example and continuing to extend marcie support and a hand out of her situation is what gives marcie the courage to leave even when it's dangerous to do so, and how pericles spends the series--present day and past--systematically isolating ricky and dismantling his support system one by one, and how everything cassidy stood for was refusing to continue the cycle with everything she had, and how she felt so so guilty and violated and betrayed when ricky manipulated her into it anyway, and how she was willing to die to make it right, and how marcie standing up to him to great effect with her new support system leaves him utterly stunned, and how after that he starts trying to stand up for himself against his abusive mentor and break the cycle, and how he tries to take up cassidy's convictions as his weapon to do it with because cassidy was crushed under the wheels of the cycle but marcie proved it was possible to break,
and how he couldn't do that with his own abuser because pericles has spent his life building a steel cage around him, and tightening and tightening and tightening it without him even realizing it until it was too late, and how fucking devastated he is when it's finally demonstrated him that the door to the cage is closed for good,
and how when he is made complicit in his abuser reaching through the generations to make sure cassidy died for nothing, and that this little girl who gave him hope by defeating his attempt to continue the cycle couldn't escape him after all, it breaks him.
móvil en mano, la mirada felina pudiendo entrever poco de lo que en realidad anhelaba. nadie le había dicho nada bonito esa noche. los rumores de lo que ocurría no podían ser menos presentes en su mente, estaba calma que ryota había sido liberado y que lo demás no era más que un recuerdo. girando anillo de corona en su índice exhala con hastío. dobla una esquina, intranquila. "oye, oye" exclama a sombra que se dibuja entre los cristales acuíferos "espera, no te vayas" expresa a pesar de desconocer anatomía foránea. quizás ese vástago podría darle una ayuda para conseguir una bebida esa noche.
wdym its almost a month since tua season 4 has been released??? wdym we will not getting any new season from them??? wdym they became marigolds and not living happily ever after, the life that they fucking deserve??? wdym they cease to exist??? wdym the umbrella academy is gone.