#guest analysis

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

The way Kate and Anthony were really just canoodling by the drinks table for most of the Ball

[gayofthefae]

"our Eddie"

BECAUSE SHE'S ALIGNING HERSELF WITH HIM AS EDDIE'S FAMILY I GET IT.

Also "washing your dishes", there's something about it that's so...permanent? By positioning herself as a guest in Eddie and Buck's house, she positions Buck as a fixture in it.

From "this is Eddie's house, I'm not really a guest" to "Buck, I'm the guest in your and Eddie's house".

[winter-wise]

So the permeability of the soul is how Harrow knew about Frontline Tiddies of the Fifth, and how she also knew it wasn't a real publication.

[tawney]

PLEASE pile up on me your favorite Teacher Izuku fics. Ones with some depth and personalities to the students rather than just a one-shot, I'd love to see slice of life fics with Deku dadzawa-ing his students and his students being Deku's personal problem children and all the sweet casual fluff crap 😭 all these tropes and ideas I'm seeing on twitter and tumblr are making me long and I'm close to just starting an ao3 account and writing them myself.

[nav-ix]

ianthe is very careful not to compromise her advantages and most of all she's careful not to compromise her Self. she loooves to play with her food but to actually choke it down means it might become a part of her. btw this is why she flirted w harrow the whole way thru but steered clear when it came to actually giving harrow any meaningful vulnerability or comfort

[24foxstories]

it's 1.10 am and i havent done media analysis since i graduated a few months back but the aviary and barnaby symbols. oh lord. i am in love. the safety but imprisonment of the aviary representing the women in this level of society. barnaby as a symbol for michaela and/or simone i'm still cooking that one give me time.

[antennas-to-heaven]

a ramble on daisy and guest 1337's relationship

i think being married And being childhood friends they stuck together through thick and thin, they were there for each other during their worst moments and found each other in what was essentially the worst time of their life, when they were freshly orphans. though i do headcanon that daisy didn't have the best relationship with her parents; i headcanon that, like guest, she was bullied frequently (ranging from teasing to trying to cut her hair short) since she was the Weird Autistic Girl™️ who went to special ed classes.

her parents disregarded her emotions as being "overdramatic" and stuff and because of that she was actually not that sad over losing them. but it was hard acclimating in the orphanage at first, and she was still bullied a lot, with guest and matt being her only friends.

daisy and 1337 related to each other a lot since they were both bullied (1337 for being a guest, daisy for being autistic) and being essentially outcasts. daisy was the one who helped guest find his place in the world, one of the few people who loved him unconditionally. 1337 genuinely felt safe around daisy and vice versa. they both spent their life being marginalized by most people around them and together, even in their lowest points, were able to pick the pieces back up bit by bit. they and matt always snuck out of the orphanage, going on what is essentially long hiking trips and exploring the world around them.

1337 learned a lot about botany and birdwatching thanks to daisy, and daisy learned a lot about fish and marine life thanks to 1337. they'd always sneak out together and sometimes wander so far away the caretakers in the orphanage had to set up entire search parties because they ended up in a far away part of the town. 1337 also started reading a lot more thanks to daisy; she always liked people reading to her, it made her feel safe, and 1337 always volunteered to read to her, even purposefully picking her favourite books out. 1337 knew daisy enjoyed listening to people, and he was always a bit of a talker, so he'd spend hours talking his head off about whateverwhat while daisy nodded along. for once, 1337 felt heard and seen.

daisy didn't take care of her hair much, and guest immediately volunteered to brush it for her; this became a small, 10 minute activity they'd always do together, simply to stay close to each other. when they got married, daisy's hair was actually a lot longer and fluffier than it was when she was at the orphanage. in fact, the marriage was the happiest moment for both daisy and 1337, so much so that they both ended up ugly crying during the wedding from how happy they were.

after so much time going on hiking trips, shyly holding hands, sharing soft kisses and laughs and discussing their plans for the future, they finally had their own proper place to live in, together. they loved each other unconditionally and were so incredibly happy.

though, i also feel like things weren't all sunshine and rainbows either. with their traumas and rough upbringings, they both had issues that snowballed pretty hard during their time together. guest 1337 never fully let himself be vulnerable while daisy was never honest to herself about her feelings, letting herself roll with the punches.

with the threat of war and the bacon army looming, they both desperately tried to keep each other safe, but ended up smothering each other, to the point where they were utterly codependent on each other. but they weren't able to fully admit their faults yet. 1337 and daisy would start fighting because of this lack of communication and admissions, and while things did get pretty harsh (things being broken, screaming matches, emotional breakdowns), it wasn't all doom and gloom.

after a fight, they'd try their best to patch things up and at least take some responsibility for it. though, with their desperate attempts to keep each other safe (daisy keeping 1337 safe from the bacon army, 1337 knowing daisy doesn't like people very much and wanting to keep her away from any stressors) they were essentially smothering themselves so hard that things became just about incredibly suffocating.

however, with the advent of daisy's pregnancy, the two realized that things couldn't go on like this anymore, especially once a kid would be added to the equation. 1337, wanting to follow the example of his late parents, and daisy, not wanting to repeat the mistakes of her late parents, started going to couples therapy and finally opening up to each other about their more deep seated issues, starting with 1337's stubbornness and daisy's doormat tendencies.

things were finally looking up for them, especially with charlotte's birth and getting to see her grow up, till the great war broke out. with 1337 and matt enlisting in the war and having to leave and fight, daisy was once again alone, the only difference being that charlotte was there too. she tried to stay strong for her daughter, but some days, daisy could barely get out of bed and take care of herself. charlotte quickly caught onto this and wanted to help her mom, which she denied because she didn't wanna bring her young daughter into her emotional messes.

when she gets the news that 1337 has "died", her entire world crumbles atop of her and when matt comes back to the town due to his injuries, he also has to sort of watch over her due to the grief taking a toll so big on her she could barely take care of herselfor even her daughter, who was also traumatized from the loss. matt had to take care of them both, essentially.

this is where the story splits based on canon: in the last guest, 1337 is revealed to be alive and reunites with daisy and charlotte, with things becoming better for the three of them as time passes.

however, in forsaken, 1337 is dead. full stop. while daisy and charlotte do recover, albeit slowly, matt and molly have to essentially watch over them for a while alongside their own daughter because of the toll the grief takes on them while guest is stuck in what is basically purgatory, desperate to go back to his loved ones, but as more and more time passes, he just wishes they've found a way to move on without him. in forsaken, as more and more time passes, daisy finds herself alone. 1337 is dead, matt and molly are taking care of their own family and charlotte has pursued academic goals out of town. daisy is alone, the only thing tethering her to reality being the backyard where she, 1337 and charlotte always used to garden in. it's sad, really. she has essentially nobody.

bonus: in the milestones 1-4 guest 1337 canon, 1337 has to spend less time with daisy and charlotte to the point his only way of communicating with them is through letters. 1337 sends letters sparingly, though very long and detailed, while daisy sends him poems, pressed flowers, charlotte's drawings, sentimental things like that. they're pretty heavily separated, but they at least have a way to communicate. it gets suffocatingly silent sometimes, but things are at the very least okay.

[lilacs-stash]

Hey can we stop acting like Nickel is the cause of all of Suitcase's problems. Like not even in a defending him way this is just a disservice to her character.

It's implied she had anxiety since before the show, considering how she acted when Paintbrush called her selfish in Marsh on mars. Yeah ep2. Long before Nickel did anything besides be kind of rude.

In rain on your charade Suitcase said she'd never been under pressure like that before. The hallucinating really seems like a pre existing issue that was just never triggered until now, or they happened more rarely and Suitcase didn't realize what was happening until the show.

She has anxiety from the start she has a hard time standing up for herself the hallucinations are most likely a pre existing issue in some way.

And yes her relationship with Nickel being toxic made all these worse but Idk just. Let Suitcase have problems outside of him ig. She's more then just someone Nickel hurt.

[vagueeyes]

Finished reading MULBERRY CLOSE and rewatched/read along afterwards. (Am I doing this for all of s9? Maybe.)

A main reason this is my favourite episode of s9 is its homage to REAR WINDOW, and how it goes a step further and inverts it. Hitchcock's film is done from James Stewart's character's/his apartment's POV and we mostly see what he chooses to focus on (and it cuts/the camera moves accordingly) - but this episode's camera is static, so we, as the audience, have to choose where to look. Staring at the spider crawling into view? You're going to miss hearing the off-screen argument.

Script-wise, this was another episode that had more scenes cut out than I was expecting, such as removing the more overt references to Damon's alcoholism. It's there in the episode, but we get it from Reece & Vinette Robinson, rather than have it spelled out for us. This thread in the sub has some lovely comments about their performances:

Further thoughts & observations:

Finally I find out the car brand mentioned by Kenny - definitely feeling the cultural gap there. As an aside, I will always laugh at how Val & Damon's car is at the edge of the frame - it's clearly so Reece can seamlessly switch places with his stunt driver.

Val & Damon are so cute 😭. They were working things out and just wanted to live their lives!!

This is one bit I wish they left in...

Something I've come to appreciate about this ep is the amount of improvisation that was done. The parts where Val & Damon argue off-screen are written into the script, but what they are arguing about is not. Imagine the footage of this! Also, the little back-and-forth between Sheila and Kenny as they come up to Val/Damon's house for the first time is not scripted at all - that was definitely ad-libbed.

It's so funny r&s envisioned Sheila's legs dangling from the top of the screen, during the scene where she breaks into the house. Watching back this time I caught the sound of the window closing, at the bit where Kenny tries to distract Damon from turning round/looking up!

This is my favourite bit of the script (and it occurs on Day 9, heh). Watching the scene back, it's not obvious, but there is a second where Damon seems to look straight into the doorbell camera - and I love that this is specifically written in, as if to say to us, "See? We know Damon being a murderer is obvious. Wait till you see what happens next 😉..." On first watch, I was wondering whether Damon was playing this up for the doorbell camera, knowing the footage is recorded - thankfully, I was wrong. It's been a while since I've seen REAR WINDOW, but looking at some vids I think this scene achieves a similar effect of showing something to the audience that the characters don't know about:

It's also heartbreaking to think that this phone message is likely the last thing Val hears from Damon, and her phone message/murder is the last thing he hears from her...

But! A huge smile on my face when I got to this page and found that "You're never gonna get your Tupperware back now, are ya, SHEILA??" wasn't scripted!!

And finally - it's not the same thing, but this was a Mulberry Close I spotted the last time we were in the UK hehe. I think there's also a building in Hampstead Heath called Mulberry Close, but at the time it seemed weird to stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk to snap a pic, so I moved on...

[raccoonnutella13]

its so weird to me personally that some people think that it doesnt make sense for craig to be nice to wildernessa but still hate jason (up until scout guest), but to me the worst thing wildernessa has done is say that craig doesnt know shit about nature vs jason whos basically like "ok tony now hit the second tower" for the majority of his screentime, and people wonder why craig doesnt trust him most of the time huh

[tebbydear-movedblogs]

I DID IT !!

You guys might have seen the original draft where there were a couple mistakes and missing info - here is my updated Nomai ‘family’ tree!! I don’t know what you call it if it’s more than one family. But it’s here !! Now with groupings for their main roles and jobs (of course a lot of people shuffled around - I couldn’t sensibly include, for example, the few that worked on the Attlerock locator etc). I THINK that’s all the main info though!! Pye was really a force, it seems like. There may well also be more out of the older generation who died before the crash.

For Keek: we know Plume lost Keek in the crash, and we know Plume lost a brother in the crash, so it might be logical to assume that these were the same person, but it isn’t 100% confirmed.

This is the intended videogame experience, yes?

EDIT: edited Melorae’s colour because I realised Coleus talks about her in past-tense when discussing the proto-Hearthians.

[thatlittledandere]

I love the twins and Yumoto arguing about what being an idol is about and what is important. They have SUCH different motivations for doing things that they fundamentally cannot see eye to eye. Yumoto lives in the moment and is guided by emotions and ideals, while Beppus are pragmatic and goal-oriented in a way Yumoto just isn't.

They're also right that being an idol is business. I know Yumoto has some experience too thanks to Kurotama but theirs is a small, intimate family business, a shop, a service tied to one place manned by two people. Thy're not particularly trying to expand or really compete with anyone. He doesn't know or understand the brutality of massive-scale show business and how it impacts those whose life has been entirely dictated by it since they were likely less than ten years old, who started not out of a childish desire to "just have fun", but because it seemed like a viable means to a specific goal.

also they were manipulated into it by a scummy adult exploiting their young age, loneliness and feelings of literal alienation,homesickness and hero worship to make them his little pawns but this isn't about him

I love how I now seem to agree with the Beppus. Yeah Yumoto is being dismissive and condescending fuck that guy (jokes)

[localwhiskeyuncle]

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[mashbrainrot]

MASH checklist for whether a character is a Good Person whom we as an audience should like:

how competent they are at their job

(related to point above but not always) how they treat the patients

how they treat children

[sleeptokenpuppy]

I am 👌 thiiiiis close to going out and buying a notebook specifically to copy out the entire Sleep Token catalogue of lyrics so I can go through and take notes on repeating themes

[justmossyaps]

ok, i-

i need to talk to someone about mr samuel’s teatime stories

i cannot form coherent thoughts