#Also Snak is adorable

[amalia-uwu]

❤️Snak💙

A fanart for Muskka @muskka

Reference :)

I hope you like it!!

Notes: The flowers symbolize Blueberry, Horror and Snak

Please let me know what you think!

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Undertale belongs to Toby Fox

Underswap belongs to P0pc0rnPr1nce / AU Community

Horrortale belongs to Sour Apple Studios

Snak belongs to Muskka

[tgammsideblog]

Tgamm S1 Ep 19-B ¨All Night Plight¨ Episode analysis

Molly, Scratch and Libby decide to stay all night late to watch a comet that passes every 50 years, the problem is that staying awake all night for the three of them is more easy said than done...

¨All Night Plight¨ episode is a bit hard to talk about since it has some pretty interesting things going on for the main characters as well as the theme of the story. It is an episode that give quite a lot to talk about in the fandom when it first aired.

The story starts with a quickly explanation in Molly's class about how there is a comet that passes every 50 years for people to being able to see it at night. The teacher explains that one has to stay up very late (4:00 AM) to be able to see it pass. She ends the class and the students leave school.

Molly, Scratch and Libby talk about the comet on their way back home. Scratch has a hilarious moment he talks about how he made a man cry once because he kept moving his keys (with Dana Synder's comedic timing great as always). Then Libby comments how this could be their only opportunity to see the comet together with ¨who knows how our life is going to be in fifty year¨, followed by a funny scenario of seeing herself as some sort of fantasy knight from her fantasy novels.

This makes Molly become very anxious for a few moments, as she thinks about how ¨everything could change¨ and suddenly decides that she wants to stay up night to see the comet, with Libby and Scratch joining her idea. It's clear that Molly fears the idea of losing her friendship with Scratch and Libby over the course of the years or how it could change. So, she decides she wants to make the ¨perfect memory¨ with Libby and Scratch.

It's worth of noting that the song sequence that plays while the Mcgee family are making the preparations for the night is very adorable. It presents the characters as your typical live action comedy sitcom, with their names showing up on the screen. There is also the detail of different moments being potrayed as it was a photo album, which itself has little notes and drawings made by Molly that are both funny and cute.

Once the night comes and Libby arrives to the Mcgees' home, she comments to Molly how there is too much light pollution. After a funny exchange between Sharon and Pete about how drives the trio, Sharon takes them to the country to be able to see the night sky better. (In the buffalo field from Episode 4-A, out of all things).

Most of the rest of the episode involves Molly desperately trying to keep Libby and Scratch to stay still in one place while Scratch protest not having eaten anything for all the night and Libby switching between falling sleeping and pretending to be a knight fighting dragons because of her trying to stay up late.

It becomes so ridiculous to the point Libby starts charging up against the buffalos thinking they are dragons and Scratch using Molly's phone to order a pizza while being in the middle of the country.

In all this, the night get worse and worse as Molly realizes that they didn't brought the snaks with them and Libby becomes more lost in her sleepy knight fantasy. Molly keeps pushing Libby and Scratch to stay to watch the comet together despite they both are tired and hungry. She is so determined to have this ¨perfect memory¨ that she doesn't consider how her friends are making at the moment.

When the sky happens to get covered by clouds, Molly tries to ¨blow¨ the clouds away. Getting tired of the situation, Scratch asks to Molly why she is so desperate to see the comet. That's when Molly explains that she is afraid of what is going to happen to the three of them over the course of the years and she is afraid of losing them as friends or their relationship changing. This shows that even after months have passed since they moved in to Brighton, Molly still has these abandonment issues of having to leave his friends behind for moving from house to house a lot before the events of the show. She is afraid that growing up she is going to lose Libby and Scratch as friends, which is probably the closest she has had to an actual long stable friendship.

I think the context of this episode is important as well since it takes place after the events of ¨Home is Where the Haunt is¨: The Mcgees almost lost their ¨forever home¨ in Brighton and Molly knows the curse that bonded her with Scratch was broken during the course of that problem. I think these two things brought these personal issues to Molly back, making her realize that not all things are permanent.

Noticing how important seeing the comet is to Molly, Scratch ¨eats¨ both Molly and Libby, shapeshifts into a hot air balloon and takes them above the clouds to see the night sky better. This moment is one of the most beautiful scenes from the series, both visually and emotionally. The animation of the comet passing by is amazing and the score is wonderful. It's worth of mentioning that Scratch cries tears of joy when he watches the comet pass by. It's a great example of how much the character has evolved since the start of the season.

Scratch moves back to the ground, releasing Molly and Libby. Molly thanks Scratch and Libby for staying all the night with her. They decide to go back to Mcgees home until they realize that they forgot about the angry buffalos, making the episode end.

In conclusion: ¨All Night Plight¨ is a great episode that shows how far the friendship between Molly, Scratch and Libby has grew over the course of the season. It acts as a celebration of their relationship so far, letting all them have both funny and emotional moments in the episode. It's also a good exploration of a side of Molly that hasn't been brought up for quite a while, which is her abandonment issues and hear fear of losing her freinds again. It is hearbreaking to see her breaking down while explaining to Scratch why she wants to make a ¨forever memory¨. In all, it is a beautiful episode and it isn't hard to see why it is considered one of the best from this season.

[talking-about-bug-snacks]

CHEDDABOARDLE REX

Cheddaboardle Rex is a Big Deal! The biggest, baddest Bugsnak of all! A boss snak, AND a bigsnak, and so big, it doesn’t just have little baby minions- it uses entire full-sized Cheddorbs as weapons! To top it all off, it has a strong, glassy lid of crystallized Snakmatter to protect it from Shrink Spice, making it probably the most formidable Bugsnak there is. Do you have what it takes? What it takes to read a Tumblr post about it? I think you do!

Upon being summoned, Cheddaboardle does not mess around. It goes right after your Little Buddy, throwing the now big Buggy Ball so high into the stratosphere, that it will not come down until the end of the battle! This leads, however, to a rather fun and amusing battle, where instead of using your easily-guided Buggy Ball, you must weaponize the panicked influx of Cheddorbs! Bait Cheddaboardle into throwing them toward the funny wall-mounted cannons, and launch them at its shell!

Initially, I was rather confused about what bug Cheddaboardle was, assuming it to be an antlion larva, since it emerges from the ground, throws things, and has a head shape kind of resembling pincers that can be held close together, not to mention its overall shape. However, as mentioned in Cheddorb’s post, it is based on a dung beetle! No matter how huge, strong, and intimidating Cheddorb is, it’s still metaphorically hurling its poop. Maybe that makes it MORE intimidating. It’s not ashamed! Does it have ANY weakness? (yeah it does)

Cheddaboardle takes a while to defeat, and a few steps, but once the deed is done, it becomes adorably small and pathetic. This thing still has six knives for legs, and still feels pathetic! In a lovable way. I love it.

With all those knives, Cheddaboardle is hands down the SCARIEST Bugsnak to think about eating! I know they’re not really the same texture as real knives, but still! Yeesh and a half!

Cheddaboardle is also one of the most lore-important Bugsnax, and I am honestly not sure how to handle that part here. I have been sort of trying to avoid any actual spoilers on the blog! So I won’t say anything. This will make the next and final post rather difficult... we will see how I handle it! See you soon for the second anniversary of Bugsnax!

[lazuli-bloom]

Only fair you get an ask after I reblogged the prompt from you.

You're fun to talk to, and your stuff is super creative and inspired me to make a tiny guy version of Peeply that I adore so thank you~

Also your Grump is very fun and I need to doodle them sometime

Thank you so much!! I've been having fun talking with you too, and your art is amazing!! 😭💕

I'm so happy I could inspire you, your little snak monster is so cute! I kinda hit a creative wall with the pumpkin moon au and shelved it. But seeing that even in the brief time of its existence could inspire you to take a concept from it and run with it to make some beautiful artwork, it's absolutely amazing and wonderful

And I would love to see that!! 🥺💝💖💕

[metoright]

Obey me with a Camilo-Like Mc? part 1!

summary : A madrigal in the house of lametation how could this occur truly the brothers now have a " gift " in the house.

authors note: im going to make this platonic instead of romance y know 'cause hes 15? so ill make this like parental teen stuff

pronouns: gender neutral if i make a mistake please tell me so i fix it!😅

music : playlist jamming and dancing with Camilo madrigal

characters : obey me brothers, undateables in the next part!

Lucifer

your giving him a migraine mc 🤭

honestly at first he thought that you might be some type of curse sent from god..

butt

were you really human-

as far as he knows in his history books houses dont give magic-

your as mischievous as mammon and Satan combined truly..

you once transformed into Diavolo as a prank and started flirtin-

WHAT-

ohhh ho ho

mc you were stringed up well after that incident

he wouldve left you up there for a decade if you didnt have school and a short life span- ( and need food ) 😮‍💨

your gift didnt trick him due to the fact that demons could scent humans

buttt

solomon is currently working on a potion to help with that due to satans courtsey)

overall your a nuisance, stubborn mischievous child-

that he loves 😒

hes super overprotective of you due to the fact that you can✋ suddenly transform into a smaller human-

my god-

if you ever start sleep walking with him around-

ooo dear mc your going to be in trouble..

overall he always remembers you as mc he dosent mistake you with your scent..

but mc for diavolo's sake stop turning into different people!

Mammon

best friends 🤝

no cap this man-

is a huge baby for you🥺

like when his brothers insult and degrade him you come up to him

and bam whamm shabam his day is all happy again

like honestly you making him laugh is the purest thing since luke

(ignoring the fact that hes a demon)

he adores the fact that he can use you in his money making schemes

honestly he sometimes gets confused on who you are if you come in looking like someone else

butt your in a ride if you think hes not going to baby you

like- no cap your like a human so your small and " weak "

(imagine if you turn into a bigger human )

ooo

and if you ever get a s/o

hoho

that demon must be ready for a test from mammon🙃

but in all honesty your like the younger sibling he wishes he had-

no not his siblings-

if you ever talk about your siblings-

oh my he wants photosss

Leviathan

ew children- 👁

his first thought like-

i mean-

you were COOL-

like you could transform into other people-

buttt you were a teen 😶

and like straight outa a anime protanigist-

too cool for him-

also too normie for him-

so hes been having mixed feelings about you

he slowly warms up to you but still thinks your too cool for him-

and if you ever call him big brother-

go call lucifer levi passed out.

but like no joke this man-

is huge baby no 2 🥺

you ask for snak-

snack on your way

if you transform into ruri chan to cheer him up -

are you a angel???

younger brothers next coming soon!

(oh right ill try to make the other madrigals next!)

[bi-and-bewildered]

Here I come with another Spencer Reid "head-canon" :

Spencer never really had the concept of having a night with friends/ being invited to parties/ hanging out together simply because he was always younger than the people he attended classes with.

So when he joins the BAU and the others include him he gets all excited and feels like he is finally a part of it and brags to Morgan the whole way over to Hotch how this is his first night like this. And that he never watched a game. He is all excited when he arrives, happy stimming, helping Hotch with the snaks.

He ends up more liking it because of the idea of being invited then the watching football itself so eventually he starts every time they go over to Hotch's to merely talk to Haley all night and when they are at Morgan's to play with Clooney.

He still goes every time, not declining invites simply because he never had that before.

So eventually they make up a lie that a traditional evening with guy friends, like the stereotype, that Spencer all the years wished for, because it means he fits in, is not only watching sports or drinking together but it's also going to museums, art galleries and libraries. So occasionally Hotch and Morgan will be lead through museums by a rambling Spencer.

It comes out when Matt and Luke invite him to their ""guys night"" years later and he asks them about what they will do. And they are just like "watching sports??it's game night??" And Spencer asks them that evening if next time they can go to a museum and they tell him politely that its not their traditional night off but that they would go with him if he really wants to.

He then starts to prefer the ""girls nights"" until he eventually goes back to not joining either one of them.

When Morgan finds out he is like "pretty boy you gotta socialize" so now Spencer spends his evenings with Derek and Savannah from time to time and occasionally with Hotch and Jack and comes to the conclusion that he probably didn't miss much good in his teens.

Wow this was very long.

-🦖

ahhhhh I love this!!

The first time Derek and Hotch invite him to hang out he’s just like “😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁”

He’s really excited the first time and basically talks his way through the whole game which limits any sort of negative experience. The next few times however, Derek and Hotch are deep engaged in the game and they’re yelling and shouting which isn’t very fun. He ends up sitting on the floor and chilling with Clooney.

So Derek and Hotch start interspersing little outings into their “guy nights” and Spencer absolutely adores it.

However once Derek leaves that all kind of stops and he starts feeling lonely. So naturally, he jumps at the chance to hang out with Matt and Luke. But usually they prefer doing something like working out or watching a game and it confuses him. (The first couple of times he ends up helping Kristy with the kids and enjoys himself much more that way because he gets to practice his magic tricks)

Eventually he starts spending his “guy nights” at Derek’s house with Hank and Savannah and enjoys that a lot more.

The team make it a point to do one-on-one outings with him instead, since grip settings aren’t really his thing.

[elefseija]

In regards of love: .eros.

A/N: and here I am with the second short story 8D I am afraid this time I went a bit beyond the suggestive so please, if you feel uncomfortable feel free to skip this! On a merrier and funnier note: I’ll mention Barnaby and long hair because YES in my aislingverse Barnaby lets his hair grow and he basically ends up looking like Ubbe (I mean. yes.). Just to let you know, eheh. Also, important disclaimer: CHARACTERS ARE OF AGE. TW: suggestive, not suitable for minors?

In regards of love: .agape. (first short story) .eros. (second short story)

. . ☘️ ☘️ ☘️ . . 

Eros: romantic, sensual love (BarnAis)

Barnaby’s own deep sigh stirred him awake from his slumber – the velvety skin under his fingertips slipped away as Aisling crawled out of their safe refuge, the warm blankets. Her head was still an adorable mess, a mixture of dizziness and blissfulness that made her movements uncertain. Aisling slowly stretched out her arms, muffling a yawn as she blinked a few times – her back arched in the effort and the blanket slipped off of her right shoulder, revealing her bare skin Barnaby had already mapped with his delicate touch, inch by inch. She ran a hand through her hair, messy and wavy locks falling on her shoulders and back – silvery light would paint her skin, moonlight filtering through the window. Her hair had gotten longer, Barnaby mumbled – as if he had not already touched it and pulled it with utmost kindness. And her scars were barely noticeable, as if nothing bad or dangerous had grazed the sanctuary of her body.   Barnaby felt it – that wave of healthy possessiveness that wanted him to pull her back to him, shield her from everything. His own hands would move towards her on its own accord. He silently pawed at the now empty spot near him (already cold), fingers clutched at the blanket and threw it away from Barnaby’s path. The mattress softly creaked as Aisling carefully pushed and steadied herself on her feet, hands pushing against the bed – as Barnaby shifted swiftly and pushed on his knees to reach for her. So she tried to turn at the sound -failing in the attempt-: with such strength he pulled her back on the bed before she could see him, air pushing out of her lungs almost forcefully. A gasp that held no fear, a squeal that hid a laugh and made his heart race faster, that sleepy growl that warmed her chest. She was right where she belonged. In his arms. «Are you already leaving?» Barnaby smirked, chin resting on the crook of her neck, and Aisling could not fight that grin spreading on her lips. «No, mo sholas,» a much needed deep breathe she had to take, «I just could not sleep.» (Out of that sheer excitement and happiness she would feel in her beating heart and in her needy hands.) She felt the mattress dipping once again behind her – another shift of weight that had her lose her balance. And his warm touch claimed her skin once again. She was still breathing deeply, so light the shivers that ran through her spine. He was pleased. She was pleased as well. First, his fingers combed through her untamed corvine locks: just some pulls at the knots, then let them fall back on her left shoulder. «Barnaby,» a chuckle that filled her voice and made it tremble, «what are you d-»«Hush,» he kissed the triskell tattoo on her nape with worshipping tenderness, as his hands were slowly caressing her shoulders. And Aisling could just shiver again under his hands, tense pleasantly under his caring and tender touch, bite that sigh that oh so desperately wanted to escape. Just a little further down, his hands rested on her hips – her muscles would tense again. His lips caressed reverently the vegvisir resting between her shoulder blades. (And his breathe was so warm against her now colder skin.) Aisling had to close her emerald eyes, lean back against his touch (just give herself) – breathe deeply. Just a squeal as Barnaby’s fingertips traced the long vertical line of runes tattooed on her spine – she arched her back, and his left arm snaked around her waist, keeping her still. Barnaby could not help but relish and indulge in those little, soft, pleased gasps that shook her amused chuckle, or the way the clenched her jaw and bite on her lower lips – just a soft groan muffled against her skin he could not control, as she grabbed his knee with her left hand, nails digging into his skin - and her breathe was stuck in her throat. Her soft stroking movements had Barnaby’s grip around her waist tightened just a tad. And his own left hand now grabbed hers all of a sudden, on a primordial urge – he brought it to his lips, kissed each knuckle tenderly. Aisling would pull his hand towards her, a reverent and adoring kiss on his palm. A playful bite on his wrist that forced him to let go of her – fight back as he bit on her shoulder, near the ivies coloring her skin. Another pleasant gasp she could (would) not hide as her chest heaved with warm air. And her hand sneaked through his hair, pulled his loosened braid - as she rested her head against his shoulder. «You let your hair grow,» she laughed, and short was her breath, «I’m sorry I pulled at it so many times. I was a bit rough tonight.» (Wasn’t it ironic - both of them relishing in the soft, silky sensation.) So she said, the one whose skin had soft hidden bruises blooming in darker shades of pink – every inch of it was now caressed lovingly by Barnaby. «I think I can forgive you,» his murmur hid a mischievous laugh, a dangerous growl that made Aisling’s senses tingle.   Claiming arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her back against his chest. He felt warm. He felt wonderful. «I missed you,» a soft whisper, and the petrichor scent of her hair filled his nose once again, and the wild strawberries sweetened the taste of her skin as he gently bit her neck. «I missed you too.» And after months of separation, right then and there and with Barnaby so close, Aisling could think of nothing else.

[freerangeeventing]

tfw

my feral kitty sneaks up to be next to me and starts kneading the ground after flopping on her side

[maximeloonatic]

Top 10 of Who I want to appear in Scooby Doo and Guess Who

This new show of Scooby Doo it’s getting pretty good, and I love the guest stars at the moment. From celebrities (Pen and Tell) to fictional characters(Sherlock Holmes), ths makes this show amazing. It’s most positive to get a new season, so why not discuss who we would like to have in this show?

(You’re welcome yo add your Top 10 of star guess for this show)

10. The Golden Girls

Altho we know the original and wonderfull actresses won’t be able to share their voices, returning as their roles in the tv show, I do feel it would be hilarious to have this gang of old ladies joining the mystery gang. Blanche would be very flirsty with Fred while Dorothy points out that he could be his grandson. Rose, naive and innocent would be the compleatly clueless and dog lover. And I’ll die to have Sophia say her famous quote “Picture it: Sicily 19538ish)”

9. The Mask/Stanley Ipkiss

We are having the 90s comedi icon Steve Urkel back so why not another icon of black comedy. The Mask was one of my favorites for being so crazy, bonkers and unpredictable (the comic it’s way different tho). And I think the Mask himself could the main antagonist of the episode, and in the reveal could be Stanley (or not). I think it would be a great move to have this character back and redeem his image after what some movie producers has done to him (watch The Mask 2 to stand my point)

8.Anthony Anderson/Andre Dre Johnson from Blackish

I’m getting grow with this man and his character of the show. I’ts strong, confident, he knows what he wants, but when he reacts of goes crazy mad it’s just... WOW!! His screams fits greatly with Scooby and Shaggy.

7. Gordon Ramsey

Now this is a guest that Shaggy and Scooby would be delighted! One of the greatest cook, host of MasterChef and excellent food critict, but with the temper and the bittersweet personality that you don’t know if to hate him or to love him. If he DO appear, I’m begging to have him doing the sanwich talk to the antagonist; IT’S A MUST!!!

6.The Marx Brothers

Wasn’t born in the years of the black and white movies but I do enjoy them specially the comedies: that’s were I loved the Marx Brothers. Groucho, Harpo and Chico coud be involved to a time machime mystery or a hollywood thingy; any way I want to the two gang meet. Groucho’s sassy and flirty comedy (toward Daphne and Velma), Chico’s idiotic but sweet fun personality, and Harpo’s unpredictable way to crack us up it’s this kind of comedy that we need the new generation acknowleges this golden comedy.

5.Fran Drescher

Remember the Nanny? Have you seen Happily Divorced? This woman nailed both shows with her charm and comedic style. I love specially her voice, it’s just perfect for a cartoon character!! (And her cartoon character of The Nanny intro doesn’t count)

4.Dick Dastardly and Muttey

We already had The Funky Phantom introduced in the second episode, an Hanna Barbera tv series that was perfectly mixxed up with the Scooby Gang, so why not more characters from the same studios? Dick Dastardly and Muttey are a pair of malicious troublemakers that already starred three tv cartoon series as main antagonist. Remember the Wacky Races and The Flying Machines) I do want the gang meet this villian pair; maybe because they were framed of they are the main ghost or monster. I do think it would be interested to see Scooby with Muttey; Scoob would go to anything for a scooby snak, why the sneaky mutt for a medal.

3.Casper the Friendly Ghost

With the Funky Phantom prooving that it’s possible to have REAL ghosts in this series, Casper it’s a must to be in! I loved this friendly ghost since the movie, and the tv show after this I ADORE IT! Don’t get me wrong, the first cartoon was adorable too, but the Spooktacular adventures were more comedic and more involve with Casper going far to be a goodie two shoes ghost. I do see the gang freaking out by this small ghost A LOT, but I can see clearly Velma don’t beliveing that Casper was actually a ghost, so they would help each other to solve the mystery. Seriously, I think Casper needs to get back in the 90s spirit way; never l liked his last tv show.

2.Will Smith/The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

I confess, I love Will Smith because of this show. And who doesn’t? This Will it’s all comedy and being bold and creative; this is material of Scooby and Shaggy’s classic scenes to fool them to get away. Of course flirting the girls it’s a must, and yes I also include Velma... (She’s still cute and valid, try to change my mind) But I think the best part it’s his scream. Seriously, when he screams it’s all strong and comedic; I specially love the MAMA NOOOO! I heard that’s not possible to have the show returning, so we can at least have this Will Smith cartoonized.

1.The Ghostbusters

I loved the cartoons, the movies (including the new one)... I just think this would be great to add in the Scooby Doo show!! It’s a MUST!! Of course the main characters should to look like in the cartoons for sure. Of course, we’ll have Velma insisting that ghosts aren’t real and maybe she’ll point out the Ghostbusters to being a fraud, which Peter Venkman would pick on her with his charm. Egon would be genious contrast of Velma too. Winston would be more relaxed, I think... And Ray Stanz it’s like a magnet of weir events and accidents, can you imagine him with Scoob and Shaggy?! Hilarious!

Of course the villian get unmasked... But what if there was another thing involved and the Ghost busters take care of it at the end of the episode??+wink wink*

P.S.: Bill Murray voicing Peter, it’s also a must to happen!

[krisiverse]

i’ve been playing bugsnax lately, so what’s your favorite snak if you have one? mine’s sherbie :)

My fav is Cinnasnail!! I also love Hunnabee but I wish the transformation looked better. My favorite transformation-wise is probably Wee Mewon, I love the little claw paws it gives, and they're also SO adorable by themselves

[geekade]

Legion of Spoilers - Chapter 2

“Well, we know where we’re going, but we don’t know where we’ve been….”

“We find your powers, we see your triggers. But what matters most: We make you whole.”

Accompanied by a voiceover that suggests this may already be a memory, David and his rescue team arrive at the impossibly lovely institute Dr. Bird runs to teach people like him and Syd to understand and master their powers. Noah Hawley has hinted that Legion takes place in an alternate universe, and Summerland appears to be this world’s School for Gifted Children, with Dr. Bird as its Professor X. By way of introduction she explains to David that humanity has begun to evolve, and that the government maintains “divisions” dedicated to tracking and studying people with superhuman abilities. Her people rescued him from Division Three. Bird goes on to explain that David’s “symptoms” are evidence not of mental illness but of telepathy and possibly telekinesis. She teaches him how to “turn down the volume” on the thoughts he’s been hearing all his life and promises that tomorrow the “memory work” will begin.

“Memory work” turns out to consist of revisiting actual memories in a plexiglass shed equipped with a kind of analog telepathic LAN table. David is accompanied by Dr. Bird and Ptonomy as the latter shepherds them through a series of memories that can’t seem to go long before turning odd, sinister, or outright frightening. The series continues to tease out the events that preceded David’s institutionalization and begins to expand on his childhood. David and Amy (and an adorably dumpy beagle) shared what appears to have been a happy rural youth, and his memories of her and their mother seem untainted. But a strangeness permeates recollections of his father, whose face is hidden in shadow. And whether he is reading a bedtime story about a matricidal boy or driving them out for some late-night stargazing, young David seems to regard his father with rather more awe – or fear – than anything resembling the ease he shows with Amy or his mother.

Legion’s characteristic quick cuts also give us glimpses of David’s life shortly before Clockworks, which in this episode alternated between counterproductive sessions with the ill-fated Dr. Poole and attempts to self-medicate. With Poole, as with Kissinger and Bird, David is uneasy and evasive, ducking questions with halting, clumsy deflections which may or may not include actual time jumps. He’s much more at ease with Lenny, whose friendship predated their concurrent hospitalizations. In this episode’s flashback she greets David after one of his appointments astride a stolen stove. They wheel it to The Greek (Eddie Jemison), and Lenny convinces him to accept the stove in exchange for a vial of blue liquid. A creepy amphibian humidifier transforms this liquid into the Vapor. As Lenny settles into her high, muttering “Red leather, yellow leather,” David looks over and sees her briefly replaced (possessed? transformed?) by the Devil with Yellow Eyes.

This time viewers move through David’s memories with Ptonomy and Dr. Bird, whose experience of them is as disjointed and disorienting as ours. Flummoxed by the tangle of his past, Dr. Bird arranges for David to undergo a neural scan to map his memories. The scan – an alt-universe MRI apparently assembled with spare parts from the Fallout universe – instead reveals a large amygdala and a pattern of neural activity that doesn’t correlate with typical memory recall. This activity culminates in a spike that sends Cary Loudermilk scurrying from the control room, leaving David trapped in the machine while the Devil with Yellow Eyes comes close enough to touch him. In his panic David teleports the entire machine out into the yard.

The neural activity spike Cary witnessed was David non-corporeally projecting himself to the source of the voice he’d heard calling him. It belonged to Amy, who was spelling his name for a recalcitrant administrator doggedly denying he’d ever been a patient at Clockworks. Amy seems to hear David call her name, but he’s powerless to intervene as The Eye finds her. Syd talks David out of his intended one-man rescue mission, promising that they’ll be better equipped to help once David has a grasp of his powers. That’s no comfort to Amy, who ends this episode in a grimy, decrepit room facing The Eye and an aquarium-like box filled with inky, eel-like slitherers.

Legion’s second chapter is preoccupied with wholeness. It’s a core tenet of Summerland, where Dr. Bird promises to make David whole by reconnecting him with the power everyone else wrote off as a dangerous delusion. By assimilating the events and emotions that accompanied its appearance, Bird believes all her charges can master their powers. (It remains to be seen, however, whether this mastery itself is Summerland’s ultimate goal; Ptonomy alludes to David’s possible value in the war but does not elaborate.) Ptonomy is trying to assemble David’s memories into something recognizably linear and coherent. Amy is tracking him down to make their family whole again. And Syd and David continue to build a romance out of the few intimacies possible when physical contact is out of the question.

David resists the call to wholeness, constrained by fear and circumstance. He lacks the resources and ability to confront The Eye and save Amy, and his power is just as likely to accidentally injure her as it is to take out Division Three. He has bifurcated his consciousness to avoid the Devil with Yellow Eyes: No matter how many times Ptonomy replays David’s time-jump memory glitches, there’s a greater-than-zero chance no single timeline exists to be reassembled. And however positive and well-intentioned it may be, Dr. Bird’s insistence that David has experienced no delusions, only unacknowledged manifestations of his powers, contains a terrifying implication: If Dr. Bird is right, the Devil with Yellow Eyes is real. David can no longer write off the apparition as a mere hallucination, and even Syd finds it difficult to speak of the creature she glimpsed while her consciousness was in David’s body. Fortunately, this does nothing to impede their nascent romance, whose incompleteness may be its security. Pieces are manageable, but anything still in one piece is just moments away from being shattered.

QUOTES

·       “The human race is beginning to evolve.”

·       “Why is it blue?” “It’s always blue.”

·       “How do I know they won’t kill her?” “Because she’s bait.”

ODDS & ENDS

·       David is munching on a Twizzler when he emerges from Dr. Poole’s office, the same candy he stole from Lenny last episode to flirt with Syd. In spite of this possible evidence to the contrary, I refuse to believe Lenny is just in his head.

·       Lenny proposes a heist on Dr. Poole’s office, perhaps foreshadowing the unfortunate event referenced by Dr. Kissinger?

·       When David and Lenny do the Vapor, there’s a birdcage in the living room. In later scenes the bird and the cage are missing.

·       In rather disappointing news, The World's Angriest Boy in the World is not a real book. Thepassage we hear is a great (if chilling) riff on how warped and violent children's stories can be.

·       “Snik-snak” is equal parts Wolverine and Vorpal Sword and my new favorite onomatopoeia.

·       Both Cary Loudermilk’s computer and daughter share the name Kerry. (Paging Indiana Jones.)

·       Thanks to his astronomer dad, David can casually name-check Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Boötes, Canis Major, Lupus, and Telescopia, and they talk to him.

·       I’ll start calling them mutants when the show does.

·       The lyrics sung over the opening scene are from The Talking Heads’ “Road to Nowhere,” whose video shares a certain aesthetic sensibility with Legion. Surreal animations, nested images, and time jumps play over a man who never stops running. David Byrne described the song as “a resigned, even joyful look at doom.”

FAN THEORIES, or WHAT THE HELL I THINK IS GOING ON

·       I was wrong about Syd being unreal and I may be wrong about Lenny being real. Whoops.

·       I’m much less confident this week about the significance of colors, although I continue to believe they indicate something, even if that turns out to be nothing more than Hawley adopting the comic book convention of a single outfit and/or signature shades.

·       Nevertheless, this week’s Colorwatch: That weird bird in David's vapor flashback was colored almost identically to the Clockworks orderlies’ uniforms. In both past and present tense Amy is wearing pastels, suggesting a childlike innocence or vulnerability. Summerland is dominated by fresh green, white light, and pale wood, with the exception of the sleeping quarters and lab. Dr. Bird dresses in neutral tones of cream, ivory, and beige. David's father's pickup is red and white, the same vivid red that recurred throughout the previous episode. As David ages through childhood, his clothes progress from primary colors to mostly yellow, perhaps alluding to the Devil’s imminent appearance. The stove Lenny steals is orange, a shade similar to the scarf Syd always wears. Lenny wears olive green, red, and black, and settles into her Vapor high muttering “Red leather, yellow leather.” Finally, while Chapter 1 dealt primarily in solids and the occasional stripe, Chapter 2 has introduced more complex patterns and textures, as the plot thickens and David begins to grapple with the complexity of his situation.

[talking-about-bug-snacks]

PINKLE

I love Pinkle! It is so silly. This is one where the bug basis is a bit unclear and more conceptual than anything, because it is hermit crab! In the case of Pinkle, the glass jar “shell” is a part of its body, and in fact is where its eyes are found normally!

You may notice that there isn’t actually anything IN the jar. Pinkle’s pickle legs are not directly attached to the jar and can move in wacky ways while walking! Truly, Pinkle greatly enhances in charm and intrigue the more you see of it.

That jar is not always empty, though! When scared, which is often, Pinkle will retract its legs into the jar, protecting itself from danger! Its eyes remain exposed, but that is of no concern to it. And now, get ready for Pinkle’s most impressive trick! When its jar is removed...

Pinkle’s anatomy changes entirely! Its eyes immediately transfer to one pickle that acts as the central body, and the remaining three legs now walk in a tripod shape! What the HECK! Despite how it may have seemed, Pinkle’s true form was not the jar, but I’m not entirely convinced it’s the pickles, either. Pinkle is like a poltergeist, a central consciousness commanding pickles and jar to move as its body!

Pinkle gets a lot of love in-game, and it truly deserves it. Here we see Snakwater, a possibly-alcoholic beverage drank by Grumpuses at the various parties Filbo hosts! It is described as “bug-infused water”, leading me to believe this is simply a Pinkle in a pitcher of water. Ancient statues of Pinkle are also seen alongside ones of Strabby, and Pinkles and Strabbies are also seen planted (unsuccessfully) in Wambus’s farm! Hmm... could Pinkle have been planned as a secondary mascot to some extent before a certain Snak emerged as the breakout star...?

Pinkle’s name may be a simple alteration of “Pickle”, but there may be more to it, too! It brings to mind “winkle”, a word used to refer to various shore-dwelling snails, the kind whose shells a hermit crab would have easy access to! If I didn’t know better, I would wonder if this implied pickle jar snails, that cucumber “crabs” inhabit the briny shells of, pickling themselves!

I am glad I got to write about Pinkle again. It makes me realize how much I adore it!