makes me absolutely insane that fans lack media literacy about usopp’s character during water 7 when i feel like it’s spelled out so clearly why he got upset about merry and decided to leave the crew. it’s always been about usopp’s self esteem and feeling useless. he clearly projected on merry thinking that if merry stopped being useful because she was broken, then usopp (in his mind) was up next on the chopping block, not because he liked a girl more than his own crew
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love, even when it hurts, doesn't mean ends
Look, if this moment of supreme angst lives rent free in my brain, it can in yours now too.
This is my COTW moment. The my ship, has been absent for this run of the series, but she was never gone. That look of devastation! That Ray choose to run in front of the bullet this time. Again. That Sarah Mclachlan’s Full of Grace plays over the hospital scene and the lyrics “I know I can love you much better than this” hits in full sound with the exact beat Fraser looks at Ray, and then he tells ghost Dad, ya you went on a revenge hunt to kill the man who killed my mom, your wife, I understand, “I would have done the same”. And then leaves to go get this same guy, you know, who just shot Ray. Yeah he’s still talking to himself alright. I CANT HANDLE THIS.
I don’t care that canon went the way it did really because I take this. This moment says everything I needed in my soul to sit here 30 years since start later still going that, that was love okay. And just because it was their last scene together, that hospital one, or just cause Fraser walked out that door and into partnership with Ray K and back to Canada… They still have and had me with the unclosed question and my own answer of the subtext of why. The age old full-circle of Fraser. “I know I can love you much better than this”.
Proof, separation never means ending for my F/V love.
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OOC
*psychic glitchy mobile rp blog*
The profile picture:
Should I change it?
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shoutout to stairway to heaven for being THE song my brain latches onto for thinking about writing. i remember the vague melody and suddenly i get slapped with seven vision simultaneously of blorbo staring off during a meaningful conversation, crying on the bathroom floor, or looking someone in the eye and realizing the love there was fake.
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this is ridiculously niche but anyone who knows me should have known this was inevitable.
CHARACTER: LARRY
POWER COLOR: OCEAN
STRENGTHS: A powerful gym leader and elite four trainer of the Paldea League
WEAKNESSES: ...Unfortunately for him.
Larry:
This businessman has his own plans. Unfortunately those plans were interrupted when he arrived at the Jetblack, so he kinda doesn't know what he's doing but he's not just gonna give up either, huh. This Paldean Gym Leader and Elite Four member just wants a break really. This whole tournament seems like a huge hassle. He just wants to go home now.
Sources:
-Any music made for the Pokemon franchise, including fansongs.
(Vs. Cynthia, Pokemon Villain Rap Cypher, Perish Song)
-Sources relating to office work, adulthood, and mundanity
(Career Boy, The Office theme, Business man, Everyday normal guy)
-Music relating to keeping false or multiple personas and identities.
(Two Face, Dear Evan Hansen OST, Persona OST,)
-Sources related to cooking and food.
(Cupcake song, It's Raining Tacos, Bacon pancakes)
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I really liked one of the central storyline/ideas/themes, that sometimes trauma makes people put up these huge mountains and take on a lot of responsibility to be ‘miracles’ and put it on their kids, because all they can see is everyone who didn’t make it. That’s an experience not uncommon to Jewish communities, Cambodian communities, etc, in America. I thought it was a really humanizing element of abuela being kind of objectively a bitch. Loved it.
I liked the momentary nod to the idea that the power of community is stronger and better than any one individual gift.
I like Mirabel’s character design a lot! She’s very cute.
The intro song is either one of the better songs, or it just reminds me so much of how Midgie likes to dance to it that it becomes good in my mind, hard to say which. Also loved Dos Oruguitas, great bit.
My greatest criticism would be that the movie is holy shit too busy. There are like, 6 different storylines and ideas happening at once, and while I love that for something that is longer, and allowed to have more complex plotting,* it does not work here. And you might say “dooooocccc you’re comparing this to aduuuult stuff” no I’m not! Nor am I comparing it to the Disney movies of my youth. I’m comparing it to like, Frozen and Moana, both of which I thought moved the ball nicely for the direction of children’s film while still being very palatable and easy, and didn’t take on too much. Encanto takes on a little bit too much, and so we have a lot of really lovely and emotionally complex ideas that are never really given any time for even a young audience to really engage in that particular storyline. It was too busy. And for me, distractingly so. Again, I am NOT asking it to be an adult film. I am comparing it to its peers.
This isn’t a criticism, REALLY, but the whole time I was sitting there I was like, ‘Okay so please explain to me how this gift helps the community, I am dying to know’ ahaha. I mean Julieta’s is obvious, and so is Luisa’s, but if we buy into what the movie is selling about Isabela’s power, that she can make flowers bloom and her tragedy is she hasn’t been allowed to do anything else** how does that help the town? I assume crops are off the menu? Camilo and the power to shapeshift? They have him, in a song, rocking a baby for a moment for a tired mother, but I mean....really? It’s like saying “Isabela decorates for all the weddings” and that’s her great contribution. I am WELL AWARE I am thinking too much about this and that’s why I’m like “this is not a real criticism”
In all, it was fine! I would have liked it a lot better if it were either a really well produced series OR the storyline was streamlined. As it was, it was the poor juggling of really good balls.
*I am well aware this is a kid’s movie! I’m not asking it to have more complex plotting. I’m saying that it should have stuck to a single idea.
**I LOVED her 30 seconds of side story, but this is what I’m talking about with the business. Isabela being kind of a cunt was a note, then understood and fixed in moments. Isabela’s song about being fixed was longer than any of her other dialogue ahah.
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