#That's all I've got

[snarky-enigma]

I made a comment that Nigel Bruce's Watson has big Pooh Bear energy, and that created either the greatest or dumbest thing I've ever drawn.

[petit-papillion]

Anyone need another good cry?

Canal+ using Charles's music for their victory video...

🎥 leclercgasIy

[arthur-lesters-left-arm]

do you have any predictions for part 43? genuine or joke ones

these will be more entertaining now that everyone but me has listened to the episode:

john will have to give arthur mouth-to-mouth to save him (don't question it)

the witch is homophobic and will literally explode as a result of seeing two "men" "kiss"

oscar's letter will finally get opened, and the scene where john reads it to arthur will somehow be EVEN GAYER than the mouth-to-mouth scene

yorrick will get worse. i will love him more.

maybe we'll get a musical episode!!! i just KNOW it's a musical episode :)

[mcmuppet]

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[itsclydebitches]

Let's tally things up, folks!

Ruby's entire depression arc is "resolved" by a one sentence exchange wherein she just... decides she's better now? 'Is this the message?' Ruby asks, on her knees in front of a not at all subtle broken piece of glass. 'That I'm just supposed to give up?' and then literally the next moment she sees Crescent Rose, the weapon she's been flinching from because it represents all the failures she hasn't actually grappled with this season, and decides that depression and suicidal ideation are for losers. Let's go fight a randomly evolved cat!

The group still doesn't care about Ruby's Volume-long struggle. What are you talking about, evil kitty? Ruby's never been confused, or weak, or feeling like she's broken. We're oblivious to all that. That's why we follow her, because we can easily ignore everything that's going on in her life and instead just focus on ourselves. Didn't she have a breakdown a couple of hours ago about having to lead all the time? Should we really be announcing the moment she steps out of the tree that we expect her to be in charge again? ... nah, it's fine!

I guess the overall message is that any and every horrific act is excusable because you're just being yourself? Sorry we doomed a Kingdom and have actively helped Salem in trying to take over the world. The horrors we've enacted are good things though because it means we're being ourselves.

Ruby is conveniently the only Ascended who retains all her memories. Can't have the protagonist undergoing any kind of actual change, after all.

Neo throws herself into the tree despite that going against every iota of her characterization. Will we ever see her again? Who knows.

Is the blacksmith lady Alyx? I still have no idea.

Jaune is made young again, because of course he is. Love that they act like this is some curse he's suffered from - "It's been so long..." - and not an actual life lived across several decades. If I got stuck somewhere for twenty-ish years and then someone tried to magic me back to my 18 year old self I'd be like wtf? No? I'm not a teenager??? Will the show ever acknowledge that Jaune is actually an old man in a de-aged body now? I doubt it, considering this plot-line had no impact on his personality, skill, or outlook.

Also love that the brothers' story is treated like this wonderful tale of growth and exploration. The blacksmith is going on about how amazing it is that you don't know what you'll get when you create something, tone all fond for the demi-gods that have left her world to toy with new ones, and I just wanted one of the characters to start screaming about all the horrors they've caused. They killed an entire population in one fell swoop and have cursed two individuals for funsies, with the entirety of Remanent permanently under threat of annihilation if they don't meet the Gods' ambiguous standards of unity. Oscar didn't fall into the void because if Ozpin had been there he would have gone feral and attacked the blacksmith with his bare hands.

We're heading back to Remnant and Ruby still doesn't know that Jaune killed Penny! Ruby didn't even get her sword back. Or consider her in the tree therapy session. Why was killing her off necessary again? Oh yeah, Jaune angst🙃

We got a "when you're needed" from the blacksmith, so expect that time-skip in Volume 10. Can't wait to see how much important stuff the story skips over...

Also, this is so minor in the grand scheme of everything else, but I YELLED when Summer admitted that she'd lied about the mission. For nine Volumes these characters have been dragging Ozpin for every problem under the sun including, in Volume 7, for the mysterious disappearance of Summer, only for it to turn out that she LIED about where she was going and on whose orders, setting him up to take the fall when she doesn't come back. Who's going to have Qrow apologize to Ozpin for blaming him for years? Who's going to have Ruby unpack that her whole family is made up of liars and she was foolish to think that anyone, including Ozpin, could survive this war with a completely clean record? Hell, who's going to have Ruby simply tell anyone - including her sister - what she now knows about her mother's death? Not the RT writers, I'd wager.

Especially when they gave us a scene of Summer leaving on what she recognizes may be a suicide mission and leaves a token of affection for one daughter but not the other. Summer is Yang's mom too! Yeeeeeaaah the story is really bad about actually writing that.

Overall this Volume just feels like a colossal waste to me. The story ignored most of what was set up in Volume 8, introduced a world it didn't have time to flesh out, threw in an unnecessarily shocking story line about the hero trying to kill herself, 100% dismissed the ramifications of that, reset everyone so that none of the characters have to actually grow or change, and has now implied that all the plot important stuff - the Atlesians' survival in the desert, trying to ally with Theodore, Salem's next attack on Remnant, the development of most of our B Team, etc. - has occurred off screen.

The only thing this Volume accomplished was getting the bees together, which was something we should have had years ago. That admission hasn't changed their dynamic in any way, or introduced new conflicts (remember, no one cares about Ruby's breakdown, including her correct accusation that Yang has cared more about her girlfriend than her struggling little sister). It's just... there, not queerbaiting anymore, thankfully, but that feels like a very low bar to meet.

2+ months later and all I'm feeling is

[chaikachi]

Ruby and Oscar should kiss.

[undying-lilies]

trying real hard to ignore the new story concept that just popped into my head but man am I failing

[thesoftboiledegg]

I've started watching Gravity Falls (I'm on episode ten), and my main takeaway so far is that, holy shit, Robbie is PATHETIC. He's a teenager who's jealous of a 12-year-old!

[createserenity]

Reasons why "where would I get my coffee?" is a very obvious diversion tactic from the things Aziraphale really cares about.

Six shots of espresso?

"That sounds fun. Does it calm you down?" That angel knows nothing about coffee. I rest my case.

[willow-p012]

Making an EPIC au for Milgram, and I can't decide if Kotoko should be Poseidon or Scylla so uh

[onlygenxhere]

It's Willex Wednesday people!

Get excited!

[lavenderhazes]

the planets and the fates and all the stars aligned

we were cleaning incense off your vinyl shelf

from sprinkler splashes

[thisismyobsessionnow]

💀

[sweaterkittensahoy]

One thing I will say on the Ned shit because I think it's important.

Ned's apology included stating it was a "consensual workplace relationship." That phrasing is protective language because he was Alex's direct supervisor, and you're never supposed to fuck your subordinate.

As Alex hasn't said anything on the matter, I have no opinion on what the relationship was except that they both were cheating on their SOs. But given the now coming statements that Ned was a womanizing creep at Buzzfeed and also while meeting fans, this could get complicated quickly.

I'll leave it at that for now, as I do NOT want to speculate at all. This is just me wanting to remind everyone NOW that imperfect victims (if one exists in this situation) still deserve justice and sympathy.

[queen0funova]

I had an interesting thought come to mind about El Goonish Shive:

So we know Mist and Co. are using projections to disguse themselves. But we also know Tedd can see through projections; however, Mist doesn't seem to know about this. Mist only thinks technology royalty may have can see through it, and that it's not that big of a worry.

But this leads me to the thought: what are the odds of Tedd happening to run into one or more of them and seeing through their projections?

[gardenianoire]

reasons I won't be killing myself

12 new episodes of the bear coming in 2024

still somewhat excited for the fanfiction I'm totally going to write