#6/52

[labelleizzy]

Free Advice (in a tiny tin! )

Hang out somewhere quiet...

[zoe-oneesama]

She’s winning while she’s losing, never bet with Lila.

Episode 52 Part 6 First < Previous > Next Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5 Ep 41, Ep 42, Ep 43, Ep 44 Ep 45, Ep 46, Ep 47, Ep 48, Intermission, Ep 49, Ep 50, Ep 51

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[molinaesque]

"Hey... you did good." "Thank you! ... H-how good? You know what... never mind."

[marshmallowgoop]

No matter how special it is, a kid's lunch is still just a kid's lunch.

I dunno, I liked "The Genius Restaurant" (Episode 1,089).

Happy (belated) birthday, Jimjam.

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[goldenpinof]

go on, Phil..

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I disagree with your take that Rachel is out of character in the last few books. I think her experiences in 48 show her just how much the team needs her to be that girl, and so as things get more serious she starts leaning into that more and more so they can ALL do what they need to do.

And yes, she really needed one more book

So, my frustration is with how Rachel's written in #52, and how she's not written in #49, #50, and #51.

Rachel can be violent, and even brutal. She often refuses to stop when Jake calls a retreat, which in #41 and #7 puts the whole team in danger. HOWEVER. She stops fighting as soon as she's neutralized her enemies in #17 and #24. She cares a lot about protecting the helpless — Melissa, Tobias, random hosts in #17, the kid in the crocodile pit — to the point where she looks for a way not to hurt unhosted yeerks in #6 and MM3. Taylor is a foil for Rachel because Taylor only hurts those who are weaker than her and runs from a fair fight; Rachel only hurts those who are stronger than her and doesn't back down when outnumbered. Rachel's devastated to have even an indirect role in a civilian death in #37: that guy couldn't have hurt her.

But in #52, Rachel tries to kill a group of civilians because they're in her way. And she only stops because "an order from Jake" is the thing that controls her. She kills a controller who had already surrendered. Ax describes her as "a monster." This could all be a bad day or her not coping with the loss of her dad, but #49 and #50 and #51 all feature mini-teams she's not on, so it's impossible to say. One book later, when she's expressing sympathy for Tom even as she's threatening to "crack open his skull" to get to her real enemy (#53) — that feels more like the Rachel we know.

Throw in Tobias's weird apathy toward Rachel (seriously, he barely mentions her #49 - #53) and Rachel's weird apathy toward Jake hurting Cassie, and she feels forgotten except as an object lesson. I think even #52 could work if we got a book from Rachel's POV that explains her going off the rails the way #53 does for Jake, but that's not what we have.

[alexhasalotofthoughts]

This was a big month for lil 11 year old Alex...

I'm pretty sure I'd been watching them for a while at this point but this is when I subscribed.

[tomcriuse]

[every-sakura]

[notkitten]

i don't even mind waking up this early if it's to the sweet cadence of her breathing, to the gentle readjustment of our limbs -- the scent of our sex clings to the bedsheets, a chilly breeze presses me closer into her side

[dailydccomics]

Dana & Terry in Batman Beyond vol 6 #4

[themyscirah]

Suffering more than Jesus atm (being a fan of 80s/90s Suicide squad in 2024)

[molinaesque]

"Ugh, I'm gonna miss that butt." - The Unicorn (2019)

[sweet-as-kiwis]

I PASSED ACCOUNTING LETS GO!!!!!

[nangua]

i wanna do that card deck thing 4 my boyfriend but also like there is no occasion

[jewishcissiekj]

world's worst haircut haver (I have another drawings of them I just don't like it)