#Spoiler: Caleb dies lol

[captainmera]

The death of Caleb..! :)

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

cw: death and blood!

Aaannd look at the time! it's late'o'clock, lol. I'm ending it there.

You know what happens anyway:

zapity zap.

Admittedly the last panel I used a toh storyboard as a help reference for the pose, I couldn't get it right. T-T I got lazy. Sorry... ;-;

Hey have you read my fanfics?

[The golden brother] and [The tales of Caleb Wittebane]

[orcelito]

Tfw critical role campaign 2 episode 55 (with the minotaur) shit looks bad enough that I fearfully check the wiki to see how the fight goes and

😰😰😰😰😰😰😰

[waywardsunlight]

Spoilers

Caleb’s house becoming the portal between worlds. Sweet ending for Caleb even if we didn’t get to say bye to him and Evelyn. Also... like... I think the ending matched what he would’ve wanted. I think in the ideal world, in the one he tried to create, everyone would’ve found forgiveness. But the thing is... Caleb did try for that ideal world and failed. Because not everyone deserves to be forgiven. Whatever guilt Caleb felt, whatever he did to make Belos worse, ultimately it was Belos’s choices that got him there. He killed hundreds of people, he killed witches brutally. He killed Darius’s friend, and Flapjack, and he killed Hunter and Luz (they’re fine now lol but. he really killed them. they died). He abused Hunter and the Collector, gaslight Luz, and he almost destroyed the Isles and any hope of Caleb’s dream because he wanted to be the hero. So yeah. Very awesome that Caleb gets the final fuck you by his and Evelyn’s dream becoming reality, and their descendants stomping Belos to death. Fucking awesome.

[elsa-fogen]

More RW & TOH crossovers

Iterators, leeeet’s gooooooo

Lore explanation and some othe thoughts (RW spoilers):

For those who don’t know. Iterators are huge computers with AI,they work on living matter aka microbes and use huge amounts of water to cool their systems (they are the reason why it’s rain in Rain World lol). They were made to solve the Great Problem, aka to to find a way to commit a permanent suic*ide for the Ancients. But the Ancients didn’t wait for the solution and used Void Fluid to erase themselves from the existance. And iterators were left alone, trying to solve unsolvable problem. And they couldn’t just use the Void Fluid to erase themselves too, cuz Ancints wrote Taboo for this in their gemome. They had a special signal if they find a solution - Tripple affirmative: affirmative that a solution has been found, affirmative that the solution is portable, and affirmative that a technical implementation is possible and generally applicable.

And one day one of the iterators -  Sliver of Straw (Evelyn or Glance of the Ocean in the crossover) sent this affirmative. Everybody was very exited, but turned out than SoS is dead. Absolutely. And nobody knows what happen. Some decided that the solution was dangerous and killed her, sone thought that she didn’t find it and just died, and her dying system sent the signal by mistake. And some thought that death was the solution, that she has found a way to break the Taboo and kill herself. One of thothe who thought like that was Five Pebbles (Lilith or Five Lilies in the Crossover) and (probably) Seven Red Suns (Belos or Sever Sun Eclipses in the crossover). Pebbles decided to re-write part of his genome with the Taboo. He used many parallel processes and while it he used much more water than usual. And it could be not a broblem, but he had a neighbour - Looks to the Moon (Eda or Flying in the Night in the crossover), and they both used same water reservoir. So when Pebbles started using more water than usual, Moon didn’t have enough. And long story short, she collapsed. She tried to reach out to Pebbles and stop him, but she only ruined his work. Living matter of his systems was corrapted and turned into rot.

When Moon disappeared from local chats, other iterator, No Significant her (Caleb or Walking on the Edge in the crossover) decided to help Moon somehow, and sent Hunter (Hunter in crossover LOL) to LttM with a neuron, that could bring her back to live. 

Phew. It’s much longer than I expected... 

also I think Caleb and Philip can be Moon and Pebbles, and Eda and Lilith as NSH and 7RS. Or Caleb as SoS, since he’s dead, and SoS is dead too lol

Or Belos as NSH since he made Hunter (LOL) but his character? No way. Other way, Hunter can be Spearmaster (from DLC) or Wanderer (from RW Drought mod) (they created by 7RS). Well. When DLC will come out, I’ll see. Hehehe. Wanderer has jumps and Hunter has his dashes... it makes sence! But as I already know, Spermaster will suffer. Just what I like. So, Hunter as the Spearmaster? Maybe, maybe... and then it could be an AU with Huntlow since I already see Wilow as the Goumand, and I ship Spearmaster and Gourmand JSDOASKJKSDJKSSKS but eh

BUT HUNTER AS HUNTER STILL IS THE BEST THING FIGHT ME.

[bubblesparty]

thoughts on tiny pretty things

I started watching this show and I really have a lot of thoughts. MAJOR SPOILERS!! (for a show who came out in 2020 lol)

the way they frame caleb's islamophobia as being totally rational with no pushback from anyone is so weird. I get that they're supposed to be 17 or something, but can no one just say- "hey, it's actually not this french guy's fault that your dad was killed, and maybe you should go to therapy instead of fucking the headmaster" THE SHOW NEVER ADDRESSES THIS OR LETS NABIL STAND UP FOR HIMSELF

and I know that not just because something is portrayed means that it's endorsed by the show. but. caleb acting like his relationship with the madame is somehow less morally reprehensible than the typical old men-young girls dynamic is sad. (also I haven't finished the show so I'm sure this relationship will be exposed and be shown clearly as bad) because it's definitely not the job of the younger person to break out of a toxic grooming relationship (again, aren't they supposed to be UNDERAGE)

ALSO please, why do people get so upset at everything!! if my friend had an eating disorder and was clearly lashing out because of that, I feel like I'd be able to be a little more sympathetic... not saying that oren and shane are a perfect relationship, but damn why is everyone so confrontational (again, it's impossible to remember that they're high schoolers who are poor decision makers)

^this happened all the time in the earlier episodes too. everyone's just out for blood and they will twist everything into a confrontation!! my least favorite trope is miscommunication-- JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER

I have to say that they're supposed to be underage after every point because it's one of those shows where not a single person acts their age (why can't they just set these shows in college where it makes at least a tiniest bit more sense)

oh my god, I forgot about the INCREDIBLY unprofessional cop (she disappeared in episode 4). I'm really sorry that her wife died, really I am. but her whole show at the gala seemed so out of line

THE VOICE OVERS are sooo melodramatic. and they really don't add anything to the story, other than to give the audience a totally unnecessary ballet metaphor telling us what we should've been watching

what job would hire a 17 year old who needs to dance 6 hours a day (or something)

why do all of the dancers act like friends when it's needed for the plot, but when it's not, they immediately start hating each other again

WAIT so you're telling me Neveah is mad at her mom for protecting her brother from his abusive partner??! I can't begin to imagine what it's actually like to have a parent in jail, but being mad at her mom just seems backwards. (also I heard that the show changed it, which makes sense because it would be weird for a black author to write such a clear racist stereotype)

[haleigh-sloth]

What did Caleb do?? Was it something to do with the chapter?

I don’t even really know how to answer this. I’m gonna retract me blaming Caleb for THIS instance, just this one though lol.

I’ll explain why further down. This is gonna be…a post. Buckle up.

There’s confusion with the translation on this panel:

The question is whether it’s actually Endeavor’s father or not.

The official says, well, that ⬆️. It says Endeavor watched his own father jump in to save a girl from someone.

The spoilers and fan scans said it was something Endeavor happened to see out in public when he was a kid, a father trying to save his kid from a villain:

And then there are other people with pretty good Japanese skills saying it could be either/or. Because the word he used for “father” can and is used differently at times. I’ve seen two people whose translations have proven trustworthy so far, back this up and say it’s honestly unclear.

Arguably, spoilers and fan scans can’t always be trusted! Nope, they cannot. But—Caleb has also made pretty bold mistakes too that other people have thoroughly looked into and caught. Neither source is perfect. Caleb is usually pretty reliable, but I have several reasons for just straight up not believing this until the story gives me more context to support the notion that Endeavor watched his dad die. And on top of that, I don’t think Caleb is at fault for this if it isn’t meant to be taken that way.

Just in preparation for me to be utterly disappointed, I’m gonna list my reasons for being a denier of this until I’m forced to accept it if it’s true, and then list my grievances under the cut. Because let’s say that is his dad, oh boy. I have issues.

First

Reasons I do not think it’s the paternal grandparent of the Todoroki kids:

This horrible death has never, ever, ever been hinted at, mentioned, alluded to, or anything. Ever. So if Endeavor’s origin, his reason for becoming a hero is because he watched his dad try to be a hero for someone and die in the process—why the FUCK did he need All Might to tell him that being a hero is about protecting the future and the kids? Why. He lost his father. Why did he need someone, who has no kids of his own, to tell him that he needs to fucking think of his own kids—if THIS was his origin. It literally makes absolutely no sense. Like that’s not even me hating Endeavor. That simply makes NO. SENSE. It being a random incident he saw where he was horrified makes more sense. It’s easier to forget your origin and become a piece of shit to your family when it isn’t your own parent dying horribly in front of you. If there was more build up to this, more clear cut evidence prior, I’d buy it. But there is none.

Everybody saying that this “makes sense because it parallels Kotaro whose hero mom died and led to him abusing his family!!”—NO IT DOESN’T. Kotaro’s mom abandoned him. Put him in foster care. Left. Disappeared. THEN died. But her deciding to never ever see her son again was while she was alive and well. Emotionally damaging him beyond repair. Endeavor has not once reflected on loss of family. He is not portrayed as a victim of loss, of any kind. Actually that’s a lie—he reflected 250 chapters later when Touya was mentioned and shown for the first time. And even then, before the Kamino arc when Endeavor’s arc started curving toward atonement, there was nothing. Loss of his own father? Nothing there? This whole time? You know who DID do that? Kotaro. You know how you portray someone mourning a family member? You portray it. Period. Point blank. Which, up until now for Endeavor—that has not happened. There’s no resentment from “his dad” dying for someone else’s kid either. Which is like, a big thing with this whole “hero vs family” debacle in BNHA. So I’m having a hard time believing that the start of his career is based off of his own dad doing this.

Context. Context surrounding this scene does not say it’s his dad. He’s wearing a backpack and standing behind a barricade. As if he’s on his way to or from school and saw this. He looks like a bystander. He looks shocked. But he doesn’t look like someone who just watched his own dad get pulverized in the street trying to save someone else’s kid. If it’s his dad then where’s his mom? Why haven’t we seen her? If Endeavor’s parents were such an influence in his life (like idk, Shigaraki and Touya) we should have seen them both, by now. There’s also nothing in this chapter that is telling us to feel bad for Enji. He looks like a pathetic, sorry mess that is finally overcoming HIS OWN WEAKNESSES. His dad dying is not a weakness. That’s traumatic event that would wreck anybody. It was literally stated IN THE CHAPTER that Endeavor’s enemy is his OWN WEAKNESSES. So me feeling sympathy for him after he supposedly watched his father die traumatically does not work for that message.

Moving on.

Now, let’s say I end up being a clown and god forbid, that’s his fucking dad.

Okay, it’s his dad. Sad right? Well. Kind of. Was he sad? He didn’t show it. Or maybe, “him abusing his family is because of his grief.”

Do you see the problem? Y’all thought the hospital chapters were a retcon? Oh boy. Get ready. Because if that’s his own dad—it’s about to get way fucking worse. Here’s why:

We already had to wait 190 chapters to find out that there was a tragic and horrible death in the family. Up until then Enji was this abusive and greedy POS who had absolutely no good fucking reason for doing what he was doing. No sign of remorse, no regret, nothing. Nothing at all. But then Touya is mentioned. And we learn that one of the siblings blames Enji for the death of Touya, and that Enji feels the same. Okay—so now we have a slightly more complete picture. Is Enji remorseful? Well it surely didn’t fucking look like it (and tbh this is either an actual retcon or just Hori not handling Enji well overall), but it’s believable that Enji would shift his focus to Shouto to make sure Touya didn’t “die in vein” or whatever. It’s believable, wasn’t handled the greatest, but it worked for what we had. But this whole “Oh it turns out that Endeavor took his grief out on his family the KOTARO DID” thing Does. Not. Work.

It does not work for what we know about Endeavor. First we had “Oh he’s obsessed with being the strongest, so obsessed he’ll step on people to get to where he’s going, including his own family.” Then the hospital chapters came and we had “Oh, he threw himself into Shouto’s training to avoid the emotional mess he created with Touya, and then escalated after Touya died to avoid thinking about it.” The narrative changed once, changing it a second time to a third scenario is…it’s just a dog shit writing choice.

At this point in the game, after painting Endeavor as someone who HAS to take responsibility, who NEEDS to step up as a father because there are no more excuses, it’s too late to suddenly throw sympathy into his character. It’s too late to make us go “aw….poor man…he lost his father and it traumatized him 🥺”. Endeavor as a controversial character shouldn’t be given more lax than he already has in the story. Like honestly the story does brush over his bullshit a lot as it is. I was looking past it because it looks (and still does) like he will be taking responsibility finally. But this whole garnering sympathy for his character at the last minute does not work for me. And I’m so bothered by the comparisons to Kotaro because the situations were different from the start. Kotaro and Enji are not the same. Nana and Enji are the ones to compare. But here we are, I see people already equating the two and oof it fucking bothers me.

All this to say—if that’s his dad? I’m not saying Hori is a bad writer, he’s not. But that? Would be a fucking disaster bullshit choice, in my opinion. Because it’s already leading to dumb assumptions, that Kotaro and Enji are the same. They are not. And I will die on that hill.

If that’s his dad—it’ll be a hard pill to swallow, but I’ll do it! But god bless, my opinion of this story as a whole will fall. Because I guess for some reason Hori is bound to just stumble with Endeavor until the very end.

This is my opinion on it. Whether it’s his dad or not, this is how I feel. If y’all disagree, cool. That’s your right. But don’t come tell me about it, I really don’t care. I’ll block anybody trying to start shit about it. This is an upsetting choice in my opinion and it really killed the entire chapter for me. The chapter was confusing as hell to begin, but this just ruined it entirely. I’m sure this coming week will be better, but this is annoying.

[miss-bluerose]

TDI23 Season 2 ep 7 and 8 thoughts and theories. Spoilers ahead.

Ep 7: Put in teams by Chris, gather ingredients from a barge floating on the lake, choose a remote that could help you and/or hinder your opponents and bake a cake for the judges that looks like Chris. Fun episode and I enjoyed most of the references to movies and TV shows throughout the episode. Owen as the guest judge was great. That chicken cracking its eyes was hilarious.

- Cornucopia Bloodbath from The Hunger Games

- This is Sparta! from 300

- That escalated quickly from Anchorman

- Paint me like one of your French girls from Titanic

- Seductively shaping clay from Ghost

Ep 8: Carry a giant coin up a mountain, put it in a slot, enter the play area and gather the most points to win. The fish delivery lady was funny. This ep had its issues but I liked most of the references.

- Immitating the twins from The Shining

- Courtney

- Duncan

- Scary Girl and her jackhammer

- The Canadian Goose from last season

- Izzy

Owen:

He looks the exact same and thought that Cake Chef was the real Chef and had died 😂. Still goofy, friendly and obsessed with food but even he thought MK's cake tasted bad. I laughed when he ran away with Cake Chef.

Chris:

Sounds like he's still mad at MK about the hairdryer when he called her team greasy lol. I laughed at him talking about physical money as if it's extremely old, like prehistoric times old. I want to know which secret he stopped Zee from saying. Him pelting Priya with marshmallows was mean.

Chef:

It's sad that no one in universe thinks he can cook after all these years. Got calf implants for some reason and it looks kinda gross tbh.

Eliminated contestants:

16th: Lauren/Scary Girl - she's "shown up" in ep 4 and ep 8 so my theory that she's going to appear in ep 12 (fear challenge) is looking extremely likely at the moment.

15th: Chase

14th: Millie

13th: Emma

12th: Nichelle

11th: Bowie

10th/9th: Axel/Ripper - Both of their development came to a halt after they got together and it was annoying to watch them constantly make out so I'm not really sad to see them go. I did feel bad for him being upset about her leaving but I didn't expect him to just grab onto her like that. And Chris just decided to count it as a double elimination, wtf?

8th: Zee - Didn't do much in ep 7 tbh. I didn't enjoy watching him put his shorts in his mouth/being in his underwear for most of ep 8 but the squirrel was funny. He should have told Priya the truth when she talked to him before the challenge, that would have been the perfect opportunity. Spilled the beans about Caleb after he kissed Priya which was bad enough but then he kept talking and exposed a few secrets about the others. There is no way he should have been voted off over Caleb who is clearly the bigger threat in every way but because he still has a plot to be resolved he gets to stay. One of the most forced eliminations in the history of the entire show I swear to god. It should have been a tie in which Caleb would probably still win but at least he would have had to fight to stay in the game instead of just getting lucky with the voting. At the very least I hope the friendship between Zee and Priya isn't ruined for good, I liked seeing them talk to each other and stuff.

Merge

Priya:

She shouldn't have tried to use natural yeast, just let the cakes be flat. I'm not ok with 99% of PDA so I didn't enjoy watching her and Caleb try to kiss while people were around. They finally kiss and then she runs off crying after hearing what Zee said and doesn't talk for the rest of the episode. I don't want her to get back with Caleb even after the misunderstanding gets cleared up but I don't think that'll happen.

Caleb:

I don't like him and he should have been voted off instead of Zee no question about it. It's going to be annoying to watch him stick around.

Damien:

It's awesome to see that his confidence has grown and that he has found his footing in the game. The squirrel doing the finger guns back at him was cute. I can't believe he found the immunity idol by accident while the others were actually looking for it and he did the Family Guy knee gag 🤣. I hope it doesn't get stolen from him. It looks like he's still terrified of Scary Girl. Change your undies my guy. He'll probably comfort Priya in the next episode.

Raj:

It's lame that he and Wayne decided to work with Julia in the cooking challenge instead of against her. Hopefully that changes soon. Also seems to have lost some IQ points but not as bad as Wayne I think. I don't even want to bring up his secret 😨.

Wayne:

He seems to have gotten dumber at some point? It took forever for him to get to the pinball challenge and then he was knocked out of it right away. I don't know what to think of him.

Julia:

I laughed at her getting chest bumped by the hockey bros and the two of them slowing her down unintentionally. Of course she knows how to bake and mill raw ingredients, why am I not surprised? 🙄 She sicked Owen on MK and sounded upset about it enough that she's avoiding her at the start of the next ep. I didn't like her trying to pry the secret out of Zee. I'm not surprised that she stole from her own grandma. Her plot armor is ridiculous jfc.

MK:

I enjoyed her suffering in the cake challenge. I'm disappointed that her monstrous cake didn't come to life, could've been a funny reference to some SNL sketches. Isn't mad that Julia betrayed her in the cooking challenge apparently. Struggled to carry her coin up the mountain and then got crushed by it lol. She's a gamer and was able to figure out how to get more points quicker than the others. Bit Caleb's leg which was funny to me. Sleeps with a stuffed unicorn, awwww.

Five episodes left and I really hope Julia doesn't win. I procrastinated typing this because of the holidays and Zee's totally BS elimination but still got it done before 2024, woohoo!

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

Rambling About Hunter (The Owl House)

Warnings: discussions of neglect/abuse & dehumanization. Kinda sad and angsty in general.

Basically I just binged The Owl House and I think I deserve to be a little autistic about it. Especially about my favourite character Hunter because he’s my special little meow meow or whatever. This all probably won’t hold up after the finale (I’m writing this on 24/05/22) but eh I have my speculations about his character and I want to ramble about them. Mostly about What he is and how badly he is dealing with it lol.

Canon-inspired fanon, angst, and spoilers (duh) under the cut

Ok so. Hunter. The Golden Guard. Caleb? Uh, whatever you wanna call the guy. He’s a grimwalker (that reveal got me in the heart) and he is messed up and I have a lot to say about him ok. Let’s go.

First I wanna talk about how Hunter doesn’t want Willow and Gus to know he’s a grimwalker. Like, we the audience know they wouldn’t care, but it seems like Hunter thinks they would. Like they would see him differently somehow knowing that he’s a grimwalker. Which leads me to believe he thinks he’s somehow less/different now because of what he is. He doesn’t even KNOW what he is, really, aside from that he’s a copy.

And copy is a really interesting word to me. I think Hunter uses it himself. It implies something unoriginal, replaceable, and perhaps even less valuable than the ‘original’. Although Belos calls him a ‘better version’ of the original, he also says that Hunter was the most accurate to the original, which has gotta mess with your sense of self, right? Individuality must be really confusing for him, like, who is he, what is he, and is he truly his own person if he is a copy of someone else. Of course he is, but does Hunter believe that? God, it makes me too sad let’s move on to sadder things.

He’s lived his whole life trying to impress Belos so that he won’t be replaced, because that’s his biggest fear (likely because being replaced means being Dead) and now he finds out there were potentially HUNDREDS of copies before him? (Belos has been alive for hundreds of years so, I would say he’s probably had quite a few Golden Guards). The shot of all the masks strewn across Belos’ mindscape with Hunter just looking at them, horrified, was honestly haunting to me. Being so innately replaceable must just have messed with Hunter, and Luz barely acknowledges it (fair enough, she had her own shit going on) so I’m not surprised that Hunter ran away after that and decided to start living out of the trash. He was already a mess before then. What kind of teenager fears his boss so much that he legitimately starts digging his own grave in defeat? Hey that’s some real PTSD type shit don’t think I forgot about that.

Hunter is also 16, by the way, which I kept being reminded of by the show itself. Thanks show. And that makes it way more horrific to me. Like, the other Golden Guards are implied to have not lasted very long either, so I doubt any of them made it to their 20s or 30s. Which is some legacy to live up to, right? As someone who never quite thought they would reach 20 (and it is getting closer every day oof) I understand what it feels like to look in the mirror and still see a child who doesn’t know how to handle all of this. And I think Hunter, being so young and put into such an important position, might also be feeling that way even before he found out he was a grimwalker. It’s sort of a live fast die young kinda job.

Also, this is pure speculation, but because Hunter was Created, and the grimwalker info in the book doesnt seem to imply a timeline, just illustrations, we have no way of knowing how old Hunter ACTUALLY is. Like, maybe grimwalkers are born and then mature in a matter of days/weeks. Because how would Belos have the foresight to make a new one 16 years or so before the current one dies? Hunter knows nothing about the previous grimwalker, and only really seems to mention his trials before entering the emperors coven, as part of his ‘childhood’. But what if he’s only been alive for a few years and his memories are fake, placed into his mind to make him believe he’s a generally normal witch? That is something I would be freaking out about if I was Hunter. It’s a lot to take in. Very Blade Runner.

Back to Willow and Gus. Is Hunter upset that Luz found out about the grimwalker thing at the same time as him? It doesn’t seem like he wants anyone to know about it, maybe because he’s worried they will also see him as replaceable (like Belos did) or that he will have to start proving his worth so they see him as an equal. God. I don’t think Hunter fully trusts all of our protagonists, he still has his guard up at all times (cough cough PTSD) and he’s visibly more nervous than when he was the Golden Guard. It’s just smthn to think about.

Also the fact Hunter has scars? When there’s a healing coven that can clearly heal wounds leaving no scars (we have seen this!). Like, yes there have been other characters with scars, but they seem to be characters who have been way more severely hurt (eg Eda’s dad) and more deeply scarred. I think there are three possibilities as to why Hunter has scars:

Belos didn’t let the healers help him after he got hurt, so the scars healed naturally

The scars were super severe but they look less bad now because of healing magic

Belos made Hunter wait a while before summoning healers, giving the wounds more time to become permanent before being healed and therefore leaving scars

The last option is the most “fun” (not really) to me because what I mean by it is, maybe Belos hurt Hunter (as is implied throughout the show) and didn’t want the healers coven to know he was the one who did the damage, so he made Hunter wait (because he couldn’t risk the healers noticing the pattern of Hunter visiting Belos and coming back with wounds) for a while then claimed he was hurt on a mission of some kind, to cover his tracks. OR it was pure neglect, Belos forgetting/being too busy to call the healers coven and leaving Hunter to deal with it by himself. Both options are fucked up but also lead on to my next point:

Hunter finally realising why Belos was careless with him, why he hurt him, why he sent him on dangerous missions despite Hunter being unable to perform competent magic. It was because he’s literally a replaceable clone. I don’t think Belos wants Hunter to die on a mission, purely because making a grimwalker seems difficult and this Hunter especially was apparently most like the original. But I think Belos doesn’t care that much- doesn’t care enough to make Hunter’s life particularly safe. That realisation must be fucking crushing for Hunter- the person he has looked up to all this time never cared about him, always saw him as a weapon/tool, and really just hurt him for the hell of it. Fuuuuuck.

And now Hunter is seeing all the love and appreciation and determination coming from his new friends, and he cares enough to help them like they help him and I think what he’s scared of is all of it being a lie. Like Belos. Who he is now terrified of (and perhaps always was). He doesn’t want them to see him in the same way Belos sees him. Ugh he has so many issues he needs so much therapy. God.

Anyway seeing all the love around him must fuckin. Be difficult. Like, Luz and Amity, obviously, but just like all of his friends. They care about each other and I don’t think he entirely trusts that yet? But he is getting there and I would die for him and... cries.

anyway puts him on the shelf of characters i will never shut up about. the end

P.S. the fucking palisman. flapjack my sweet boy. cries again.

[poeticandors]

Hi it's not a request but just checking in on ya. Are you ok? Like seriously ,Eddie's dies , max can't see now and byler, gOd byler. It's not canon . I feel likethey duild mike and wills chemistry just to add a bunch of chemistry and *POOF* you thought bitch. I am sad and i know many more are so justkeeping check and would love to know your opinions.

I am actually not ok lolol

🚨SPOILERS BELOW 🚨

Like when I tell you that I have never been so emotionally and mentally drained from a show. For those 4 hours (I rounded idc) I sat there shaking and sobbing and just filled with dread bc it hit me that hard.

Eddie’s death was so tragic. I knew it was going to happen but was in denial before volume 2 came out. But that one scene where he was play fighting with Dustin was reminiscent of boromir and the hobbits and I just KNEW it was set in stone. He was such a hero and honestly it made me so sad to watch him suffer like that. His death wasn’t quick. I really don’t think he should’ve died because his character brought so much to this group. My poor boy deserved to stay alive and graduate.

Max’s entire demise hit me the hardest. My poor bby suffered as well and I just stood there in shock. The first moment her bones snapped I was devastated. And her being absolutely terrified at dying- I can’t: Like I knew she was at risk but I was also in denial. Not only that, but Lucas-

I can’t even begin to talk about Caleb’s performance. It was PHENOMENAL. Gut wrenching. I think he did so well this entire series. The scream he let out chilled me to my core. When he was begging Erica to help it made me sob even more. Caleb deserves so much praise for his acting this season.

Will deserved so much better. I hate that they used his character to bring up el and mike’s relationship. I do agree that they built up Will and mike’s chemistry to, for some fucking reason, just to throw it in everyone’s faces.

The entire car scene with Will and Mike I can’t. Noah’s acting was amazing and tbh this was where I first started crying I think. It made me sad that he went on that whole thing saying how Mike was the heart when in reality it is Will who is the heart of their group.

One other thing I am upset that they didn’t show was the Hawkins group mourning eddie. You’re telling me they didn’t film a scene showing the group going back and being shook at seeing Dustin crying over Eddie’s lifeless body? You’re telling me that Steve didn’t go straight to Dustin and comfort him like the good dad he is and try to pry him away as he is trying to hold back his own tears at the fact he lost a friend AND that his kid is so distraught and traumatized over this? Or Robin crying while nancy comforts her? Why didn’t they try taking his body back? I hate it.

Anyways yeah that’s my thoughts lol. I am so glad Steve made it through. And that Joyce and hopper are finally together and that hopper reunited with El. Very interested in seeing what s5 brings.

[grimhunts]

f.or the future spoilers under the cut, my thoughts, including icons:

so holy shit, we might actually have canon ghost!caleb, and may I just say that I was NOT expecting my ghost AU to actually have THAT much weight to it. I called it, but you gotta believe me, I called it on complete accident.

I’m gonna be updating my caleb verse tags soon to accommodate for some of this new canon, but until then, LOOK WHAT I MADE

moving onto hunter, I acknowledge that his role in this special was more reduced than the last one, but it makes a lotta sense. I think that he hit a climax with his character development in the last special, so moving forward, it’ll kind of be all about tying up the loose ends, and hopefully, seeing him check off every single thing from that list of things he told belos he wants to do (i.e. study wild magic, play flyer derby with his friends, etc.)

hunter does spend most of the episode being angry and trying to focus on tracking down belos, but I like how clearly they acknowledge that it’s his way of coping with everything from ‘thanks to them.’ he literally died less than 24 hours ago, and lost flapjack on top of it, and he doesn’t ever stop to think about if he’s okay until his friends finally ask him themselves, and he doesn’t know the answer.

he’s only able to process some of those feelings when he sees what ignoring them has done to willow, and he sees how badly she’s been coping too. it’s actually a pretty solid moment that allows the two of them to actually be emotionally vulnerable together, and romantic or not, i’m happy it’s confirmed that the two of them know they mean a lot to each other

with hunter’s magic... i mean, come on, we all kinda called it lol. there’s a couple of different ways to look at it, and i know not everyone is happy about it, but while I would’ve loved to have seen hunter attempt to rebuild an artificial staff, i think it’s sweet that hunter gets to carry a piece of flapjack with him always. 

buuuut those are my thoughts! next up will be the finale, and fortunately, we’ve got a while before the time comes to say goodbye to the show for good

[mollymauktealeef]

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#5

things i am excited about in no particular order or a complete list:

old opening theme

new opening??!!

new art!

hot boi sighting!

kingsley extended time!

caleb voice

veth voice

POP POP

caduceus voice

aeor dates (either explicit or hinted at)

yussa trapped somewhere (bets are the moon but he is the nein's blorbo so maybe multiple places at once, that man finds trouble)

polymorph shenanigans return

murder hoboing returns (listen the hell's are great and love the care but also i miss the unrestrained feral murder sprees okay)

marius still hasn't killed someone/marius has killed someone/the resulting teasing is the same

return of the ultimate husband YEZA

ludinus fuckwad gets his ass handed to him

Uk'otoa, Uk'otoa

feel free to add onto this list, i still am lol

180 notes - Posted October 18, 2022

#4

ashton, who has been basically the only one fixated on the living furniture in just about every session, during the start of that ep:

188 notes - Posted January 21, 2022

#3

for wip wednesday, a wee peek of that shadowgast fake marriage au i talked about on the weekend, tell me what you think

And Essek is without an escape plan. 

Trapped masterfully in an endgame he’s failed to see occurring in the shadows around him. He let his old arrogance ruin him, he should have seen the knife coming long before he felt it in his back. 

“A welcome union between our Den’s, long overdue,” The world screeches back into focus as Deirta offers the usual platitudes and Ulric Tasithar nods along, barely containing his smirk, a plan well executed and just a moment away from being finalised. The clock ticks ominously in the back of the room and Essek feels every second like a vice around his chest. 

So Essek does something he’s rarely done before. He panics. 

“I’m afraid that won’t be possible,” he says, a touch too loudly. The only visible sign he’s not in full control of himself. 

His mother sniff’s haughtily, fully aware he has no way out and not in the mood to indulge his silver tongue’s attempt to earn his freedom. Or at least a moment’s reprieve to think. “My boy you -”

“I’m already married,” Essek states as calmly as he can, trying not to show the cold panic that has settled into every inch of him. His mother blinks at the outburst, momentarily stunned. A good thing, with Deirta on the back foot he could wrangle a way out of this horrible situation. After all, the Umavi of Den Thelyss had been expecting cool, calculated arguments from him. 

Not this. 

And in all honesty neither had he. 

Outwardly he is calm, relaxed in his seat and presenting an aura of control as he lets the statement settle like dust on the furniture. Internally Essek desperately tries to fumble together something to cover for his outlandish declaration. 

It’s not unusual to bypass the pomp and circumstance of a public wedding for a quieter affair but he can tell from the faces around the table that they can see it for what it is. A desperate attempt to maintain his freedom. 

“It was a lovely ceremony,” Uraya pipes up and Essek exhales slowly to avoid doubling over in gasping relief. He could kiss his dear friend. A witness, a respected one at that, adds more weight to Essek’s words and he looks less like a child clamouring for any exit and more like a man in control of the situation.  

“To who?” Deirta asks stonily. 

Fuck, Essek thinks sharply. 

229 notes - Posted January 19, 2022

#2

UNLEASH THE CRABS!!!!

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My #1 post of 2022

that's a two-way fucking honeypot in action and neither of these idiots realise they both the bee

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[alternautxyz]

so thems owl house huh

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

so that happened and i feel like talking about random stuff again

also spoilers

damn dude just like true colours

ok but seriously

in general this episode was really great, but i can’t help but feel like it was rushed and that multiple sections were supposed to be whole eps. its not a bad thing in the ep and i don’t even think i really hurts the viewing experience, but there were multiple parts that were kinda glossed over like the big fight and what happened between the king concussion. i can’t blame any of this on the crew but disney for making a dumb mistake, and seeing the potential for a season 3 at the end, i can only feel bad for what disney missed out on. and even then dana and the crew did a great job for what they had.

ok back to random stuff that last goodbye between the adult squad is very (crying noises)

also why did eda’s sigil thing not apear until raine touched it

illusion guy who really cares about appearance shows up to one of the most important moments of his life like he just got out of bed. hilarious

yknow for something that happened within a plot of a kids show, the whole eda gambit worked out surprisingly well for the first few minutes until eda’s arm is very visibly cursed

note to self: the collector is very naive when it comes to trusting people. like even after being betrayed by belos he still took kings words seriously one he pinky swore

also belos likes screwing people over. yes we already know this. like i get why he didn’t want to let out a destructive god of chaos, but like still mean you just lied and with a smile on your face

so luz just straight up almost died with the petrification thing. good thing she noticed the glove in the corner and went specifically for that as she was being petrified. smart move kill the guy

or was it before idk

ok so the draining happened and since the only two drivers have sigils, the ship just straight up crashed and presumable cracked king’s head and now they had to leave alador behind to keep of the abomatons hope he’s fine

then they showed up at the altar thing and have to look at everyone dying. guess they really know their plan failed

and now they’re going to luz how did king sleep through all that lol

also how is hunter more fine than everyone else with sigils

ok so after that illusion spell gus might just actually know all of belos’ backstory good for him i guess we’ll need that later

belos was being nice to hunter and idk if that was an act or not. either way he went insane the second he saw flapjack so i guess it was caleb’s palisman

belos specifically put all the golden guards into one specific hole. damn dude just like hollow knight

also the collectors in the hole of failures massive L for him

also kiki knows about all of this

and the titan locked the collector away so thats cool

and king’s collar hides him from the collector so thats cool too. since it was on all of the walls where he was born those symbols were probably to protect him from the danger of the collector

also what was the collector doing at the end if they didn’t even know how to play owl house were you just destroying the place to be dramatic

damn raine just ripped off eda’s arm just like amp

ok so the whole arm chopping thing protected her from the draining spell, but that was going to be fixed anyways. it could have also helped from the curse if that wouldn’t have been stopped by the spell stopping. and it means she can still do wild magic if she ever can again so thats cool too

where did luz get the eyebrow scar tho we just never see it happen

and yeah the collector’s cool and the luz possession theories and now deemed outdated and funny

they just turn the tone of the scene from intense to “wtf is happening is this actually happening did they just do that” and its honestly great

“i play it every day” “i play it every hour” (pain noises)

(everyone dying) “boop”

i really like the type of villain that is just not fazed by anything and treats everything like its no big deal. like the collector treats everything like a game and just casually destroys the big bad of the series in like a second with no fanfare. then they just. move the moon. like with an ipad. no fanfare. it’s great

also belos probably isn’t gone forever so

he then proceeded to destroy the whole world for an owl house

and now they’re going to the human realm that would have made a great few seasons huh disney

they put a lot of emphasis on the belos blobs dripping onto hunter so that might be something or they may just be dramatic

also luz is just very down with sacrificing herself so i guess the protagonist role is really getting to her

so king pushes them into the portal and now the main trio is separated and one of them with their magical friends ins stuck in the human realm

just like amphibia 

truly is the true colours of the owl house

also speaking of amphibia ANNE BOONCHUY ANNE BOONCHUY IT’S ANNE BOONCHUY SHE’S ANNE BOONCHUY THIS IS HOW THE CROSSOVER CAN STILL HAPPEN

ok so like theres a headline about anne being in a frog land and it being a hoax. so like amphibia happened in the same universe as this and probably happened a while ago and people are already questioning the legitimacy of it damn. now i’m already questioning when in the amphibia timeline this happens like is it during 3A, after frogvasion, a few years after that. must be wild to hear this happening while your daughter’s also claiming to be stuck in another world

anyways that last scene was really good and captured the right emotions for me but my brain still reeling from amphibia just made me think of that.

so yeah now we wait for the specials and im curious as to how the story will continue. idk how they’ll follow up on the collector, how they’ll get back, what they’ll focus on, and how this story will end, but i’m sure that whatever happens will be a fun ride. or a painful one. that works too

[strafethesesinners]

Westworld season 4 spoilers:

I was honestly pretty disappointed with the ending. The quality was still great as far as dialogue, pacing everything else (which is honestly refreshing these days) but I really don’t like how the story went. Like….Maeve just died just like that? No ceremony? Nothing else? No I don’t believe it. She’s like the most powerful player in the series or at least equal to Dolores. There’s gotta be a Season 5 because there’s no way they just kill her off like that (the Man in Black?? Seriously??) and Bernard too? No. Also literally what was the point of the Caleb storyline with his daughter? It had zero effect on the ending at all so why include it? Caleb worked out ok in Season 3 but I don’t think they needed to bring him back. Or if they did he should have actually like, mattered lol. Anyway, I was pretty disappointed overall and really hoping they’ll come back for at least one more season. (Also like….kill off all three major characters of color?? Are you serious?)

[shinypieceofdice]

A non-exhaustive list of random things in the Caleb Origins comic I haven't really seen people talk about

Spoilers under the break

Young, beardless Bren looks exactly like his mom and now I’m wondering if Caleb still sees her face every time he looks into a mirror

Astrid wears purple whenever we see her in civilian clothing, continuing the trend of purple-themed magical love interests for Liam’s characters

When we first see Eadwulf he has a large dog with him, and the thought of Caleb “I’ll gladly rearrange my entire extra-dimensional magic tower so two of my friends can have a date, but temporarily turning my fey cat servants into dogs is almost crossing a line” Widogast falling for a dog person is more hilarious than it should be

Apparently Astrid’s last name is spelled “Becke”, but that’s stupid and I refuse to acknowledge this new information (if we stick by “Zemnian” = “fantasy German” it doesn’t make sense since “Beck” and “Becke” would be pronounced very differently in German and the former is how both Matt and Liam said it on stream)

Matt plays Trent with a German/Zemnian accent, but he never actually speaks Zemnian in the comic (even though the Blumentrio do when they’re among themselves) and I feel like that has to be an intentional decision, but I can’t put my finger on the significance

The fact that Ikithon makes his students cut their hair while his is long and flowy is just urgggh. He strips them of their individuality and identity while at the same time flaunting his own and I HATE HIM SO MUCH UGH

(also the fact that they suddenly look ~5 years older with their short hair just hurts)

The insertion of the Residuum crystals is a lot less surgical and a lot more brutal than I imagined it, holy shit

Bren and Wulf (and presumably Astrid too) went to regular classes at Soltryce with the bandages on their arms visible and you’re telling me nobody ever questioned that? Wtf? Were the teachers all in on the whole Volstrucker training thing (to a certain extent, at least)? Or did they just not give a fuck about their students’ wellbeing?

Random thought, but I love that the comic replaced the dance hall with a beergarden

Lol at Wulf immediately getting chatted up by a cute tiefling the second Bren and Astrid leave him alone to dance

It’s interesting how both Astrid and Trent himself explicitly state that Caleb/Bren was Trent’s favourite, however in the comic Trent never really shows any sort of favouritism towards him (or maybe I just didn’t pick up on it?)

Bren wears bracers at home to hide his scars. Part of him knows that what Trent is doing to them is not what Bren’s parents would want for him (despite what Trent claims) and that they would never allow him to go back if they found out

There is a raven next to Trent when the three students return from visiting their parents and that has to be an omen of impending death, right?

Speaking of ravens, there is no indication of Wulf being religious whatsoever, so I guess that supports the theory that he turned to the Raven Queen as a coping mechanism after killing his parents

So, Trent is shown holding a key ring with three keys that match the respective hair colours of his three students lol right before the Modify Memory sequence. Does this imply they locked their bedroom doors at night but Trent took advantage of his position as master of the house to gain access to their private chambers without their consent and mess with their minds while they were asleep? Yeah? Okay. Did I mention I despise this man?

And then the next morning at breakfast he has the audacity to call them out and shame them for not immediately confessing to having “witnessed” their parents’ treasonous talk aaaarggghhh this piece of human garbage

I’m like 95% sure Liam mentioned on Talks that OG Frumpkin died of old age while Bren was at the Academy and they retconned that to make this fucking comic even more heartbreaking by burning the poor innocent cat (as if that was necessary)

I wonder if Wulf was trying to kill Bren in the end. I realize he was protecting Astrid, but I’m sure someone as physically strong and magically capable as Wulf would’ve had better means of knocking someone unconscious than hitting them over the head with a huge-ass rock

That sanatorium looks very different (read: worse) than I expected. I imagined something sterile and clinical, not a dirty, unfurnished, literal jail cell

Caleb and Nott, face to face, holding each other’s bandaged hands was an amazing way to end this story <3

[alirhi]

10 Sebastian roles as boyfriends

Because... I'm bored and I feel like it. 😂 Probably some spoilers for, like... everything? So yeah... That.

Putting it under here for easy scrolling:

10: Chase Collins

Who doesn't love a goofball? In the first half of the movie, Chase is basically perfect. He's sweet, funny, not all caught up in his ego, and actually pays attention to what the girls around him are saying, not just to what he wants to hear. If not for the whole... it was all an act to get close to Caleb and try to steal his magic thing, Chase would actually be a damn good high school boyfriend. He's adorable and would be a fun date, but he's also only 18 so best not to start making long-term plans lol. Also, y'know... the whole psycho revenge/power grab thing.

9 Jack Benjamin

Y'all. Y'all. Words cannot describe how much I love Jack. Pretty sure I've made this clear. As a person/character in general, he's absolutely in my Top 3 - not just of Sebastian's characters, but any character ever. ❤ But as a boyfriend? Boy's got baggage. It's what makes me so protective of him, but seeing as how he's trapped in the closet thanks to his overbearing homophobic family and the insane expectations heaped on him, as the show left him, he can't handle an honest relationship. He's too easily influenced by all the wrong people, poor babe.

8 Chris (Destroyer)

On paper, undercover cop sounds cool and exciting, but even if you ignore the fact that he, y'know, dies... Chris got in too deep and kinda lost the mission, so to speak. Best case scenario, you're his sexy partner and in on it all with him and end up on the lam for the rest of your lives. Worst case, this man lies for a living, so can you even trust him? And... yeah. The whole dead thing. Chris is hot af but getting involved with him is a recipe for disaster.

7 Ben

Min and Hathor have mercy, I love Ben! He's smart, he's snarky, he's caring and loyal... he's an absolute disaster. He's another one who seems allergic to honesty, until his lying and avoiding nearly kill his girlfriend. Not exactly relationship goals lol. Everything before totally was, though! Ben's adorable, and I love how he stayed up all night to protect his girlfriend (from a ghost/demon thing... with a baseball bat. I said he was smart, not perfect, okay? XD points for effort lol)

6 Mickey Henry

I. LOVE. MICKEY. Oml I love Mickey. He's a spazz and - even more so than Ben - an absolute disaster of a human being, but I love him. Pros for dating Mickey Henry: he's fun, he's carefree, he'll cook for you even though he's kinda bad at it lol, he loves his son and wants to be a good dad, he wants his partner to be happy and to love life as much as he does. Cons, and the reason he's not higher on the list: He's a pushover; easily influenced by the toxic people in his life, and it gets him into a lot of trouble. Being easily influenced by toxic dumpster fire of a human being Chloe almost lost him the partial custody of his son that he barely even had. He's an absolute sweetheart, but he's a complete man-child, and dating him would often feel more like raising him.

5 Frank "Suffer Buddy"

Come on! You know he and Mickey had to be back-to-back - they're practically the same character! 😂 Frank is Mickey... slightly more grown up. He's still a disaster, but he's respectful of boundaries, he's caring, he's funny in a dry, witty way that I just adore, and hoo lordy that man is a giver! 🥴🥵 Honestly, if he didn't smoke and didn't ditch Daphne in the middle of a party hours away from everything familiar to her surrounded by strangers to go do drugs, I'd call Frank perfect. He listened, he respected her wishes, he tried to keep some distance between them when he found out she'd gone on a date with his best friend (it failed utterly and brought us to the "damn that man's good with his mouth" portion of the movie lmao but still)... I don't have a whole lot of experience with men who actually give a shit, okay? So Frank is like a goddamn unicorn to me lmao. But that drug thing... That keeps him at the bottom of the Top 5 for me. Sorry, bb

4 Bucky

I can already hear everyone on here raging at me for placing Bucky so low on this list, but hear me out: I love this man. I love all four iterations of this man. Flirty 40s Bucky was a doll (fun date, not commitment material). Post-POW camp 40s Bucky had a fire to him that set me on fire. The Winter Soldier can choke me any damn day. Unf. And TFATWS Bucky... Oh, lady above, 2023 Bucky is a gem! He's sweet, snarky, and broken. He feels utterly, wretchedly alone in the world, and everyone around him, including his only friend, is telling him to "man up" and "make amends" for shit that was never his fault to begin with, rather than helping him come to terms with all that he's suffered and all that he's survived. Bucky needs and deserves love. A relationship with him would be so solid, if he found the right person... But it would take a fuck ton of work. He needs someone strong, patient, and more stubborn than he is to prod him until he finds a better therapist and actually opens up, and to keep him on track because even good therapy comes with homework. He does have to "do the work," Sam was right about that much, but he was way off base with what that "work" is. Bucky needs help and understanding, and he would be an amazing boyfriend... if he found someone with the strength to help him weather his nightmares and flashbacks, and help pull him out of this PTSD pit he's been in since 1943.

3 Chris Beck

Big brains turn me on, okay? 😂This man is an astronaut and a surgeon! Yes, please! Come here, you sexy genius! He's smart, he's funny - pretty sure Sebastian is incapable of playing anyone who's not delightfully snarky lol. He's pragmatic when he needs to be but there's also nothing he wouldn't do or risk for the ones he loves. This man is husband material and I cannot be convinced otherwise! So why isn't he #1? Cuz of the whole... spending years in space, thing. Super cool job and I'd be his biggest fan on the ground, but god damn, I would miss him while he's away!

2 TJ Hammond

Look, I'm gender fluid and he's a little bit bi 😂😂😂 Let me have my fantasy, okay? TJ's definitely got a lot of shit to work through, but love brings out the best in him. Before that fucking closeted shitbag broke his heart and stomped on it for good measure, TJ was clean and sober for months, he was happy, he was playing piano again, he was pulling himself together. Not only would he be an amazing boyfriend, but his partner would get the extra joy of getting to watch their love and devotion to him be the thing that saves this beautiful man's life. It's not healthy overall to tie your self worth and will to live to a relationship, but if he found the right person who would be there for him through all of life's shit and stick it out, I think he'd be okay. Even after his lowest point and without the support of his family, TJ still had a dream and he still chased it. He's not just the sweetest person to ever grace our screens, but he's ambitious and business-savvy, too. Keep him off drugs and watch this man take over the world, I'm telling you!

So why is TJ only #2? Well, besides the fact that he's like 99% gay and I have no bits he'd be interested in lmao, there's also the fact that this guy owns my heart:

1 Will Franklyn

And not just because we get to see him wet and mostly naked lol. Will is fucking perfect. I would die for this man... because he's already shown that he would die for his love. He almost fucking did, and they weren't even together yet! He's smart and very aware, he's a writer so we'd get to bond/geek out over books together, he's not all full of himself (self-deprecating humor ftw!) and he's willing to help a total stranger despite actual mortal peril, just because it's the right thing to do. Fierce, intelligent, sassy, strong-willed, and a flawless moral compass? YESYESYESYESYES! Forget boyfriend - let me MARRY this man! 😍🥰

[readbythestarlight]

c2e131

How we feeling everyone? Are we ready for the possibility of everything going absolutely and horribly wrong? I know I’m not!

Sam

Sam

SAM

NO

This man

SAAAAAM

OH MY GOD

"I have a mirror where is it?!" Sam

I hope he was planning on a haircut anyway

The things this man will do to horrify his friends

"That was despicable" he says of his friends (mostly) doing his best to keep him from destroying his hair

[[MORE]]

"Do we still do years!?" mood

Matt did you just call them Vox Machina

Yeeeeesssss Yasha time to prove yourself baby!!

Oh dang Matt that’s a cool way to make sure the rest of them get to be involved

I have a feeling that (if) she loses the lesson will be that her strength comes from her friends and that she doesn’t have to do things alone? Something along those lines

Damn Liam don’t hold back xD

They’re gonna kill her in the first round omg

I love how they’re still so proud whenever she remembers to rage

Thank Kord for that tho

Travis’s just literal YELLS of delight when she goes reckless lol

S: "what’s my backstory"

M: ":) here’s ur backstory u little shit"

Travis just SHOUTING is literally the best part of this

He’s having SO much fun and is so happy for Ashley it’s adorable

RIP storm Laura

I thought for sure she said 66 and I died

Sam is truly the most chaotic man I’ve ever seen

Oh my GODDD YES GIRL

Sam’s antics are so funny

Go Yasha go Yasha go Yasha come on girl

YES it’s about time

I’m having some emotions

Oh thank gods Wentsforth is okay at least

I’m still worried as fuck about Yussah though

Something tells me he’s not on Darktow?

JESTER

he asked you NOT to

I’m gonna be emo about Fjord and Vandrin now

"No spoilers please" oh I love him instantly

Hot springs before they gk to a nice frozen wasteland of doom, good call

Oh I hope he’s not upset

Okay good

I’m glad that went over well

Yeah y’all should definitely warn Essek? And you should definitely like? Call him? Now?

"Do you think you could work alongside your abuser?" THANK you Beau for straight up calling it like it is

I really really really don’t want them fighting alongside Trent

And also they should kinda consult Essek about this? He’s not gonna want to fight alongside them

Also yeah listen Beau’s right the concern isn’t about you killing him it’s about him preying on and distracting you through your trauma

"You may be under scrutiny. Ikythong could know about our involvement with you. He could be coming. Maybe we could help though. Where are you now?"

Oh boy poor Essek

"This is challenging tidings. Um. Then I cannot stay here long. I am at the outpost. If you still need my help we should leave soon. Soon."

Oh babe.

CALLIOPE ARE YOU UP

ARE YOU UP

CALLIOPE ARE YOU UP

god he’s the best little brother

Okay okay they made it to Eiselcross at least

Now just get to my boy

Oh NO that’s too far

I was hoping we’d get into a fight this episode just to save my stress levels but at this point it’s looking like that will be next week

Literally my only consolation rn is that Matt won’t send them into another huge battle with no spells if he can help it

Aw Fjord! He seems upset :(

HOT BOI

“Friends, please, enter.”

Y’all listen to Essek in this

Trent isn’t to be trusted here

Caleb apologizing for putting Essek in danger like Caleb babe </3

He was already in danger

Oh SHIT I’ve been waiting for Essek to find out about the eyes on Caleb (and Beau but obviously mostly Caleb)

I should write fic about that actually

Seriously though guys please listen to Essek on this one

E: “I am jealous... of the bravery and confidence you have in such things. I am still a coward.”

C: “Coward? You’ve dared much.” (Okayokayokayokayokay)

E: “I have done everything for myself, and when any of it came to bear I have done everything I can to hide and flee. I am more than happy to go and put my life on the line for this cause, but there is something about that man and what he could bring upon me and those he—he may very well be coming anyway, but if you want to work with him I may have to work independently, maybe follow. I feel I would make this messier than it needs to work. I’m not saying I’d leave you alone, but... you’d have to work separately.”

Thank god Fjord thanks for seeing reason

“Would you mind terribly taking off your shirt?”

Caduceus that’s Caleb’s line

For real tho guys plz listen to Essek and don’t ask Trent for help

“One person that we can trust—“ they trust Essek again and I’m CRYING about it

OmG I can’t breathe

Hot boiiiiio finally going on a trip with the gang! Sure hope nobody does horrifically!

“We are going to stick with you. We feel we can trust you more.”

Like a small hit to the heart and also making him feel warm and fuzzy on the inside y’all I’m crying

“I am thankful for the trust you put in me and I hope to... make this up to you. ...Anyway I’m bad at such discussions. Shall we?”

My BOY

Dagen makes nine

Prayer circle for next week guys I can’t lose a second purple fave in this campaign