#not that he has a major role but yknow. its neat

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one of my favorite things to do when replaying pmd sky is try to pay more attention to the Treasure Town residents throughout the story. there is ALWAYS new stuff after every little story beat even in places u never think to look and i find something new every playthrough. like i had no idea u could meet Sneasel as early as the start of the Dusknoir chapter!! thats so cool!!

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more ds9 time bc heat make brain jelly. s2e7

fascinating that dax is down her playing dabo with quark. tongo. whatever.

ah. ferengi misogyny. i do enjoy that dax is very... unthreatened? shes basically just using it as an opportunity for banter. thats kinda fun.

ah, plot. lets go baby.

i feel like every time the nagus shows up im going to have to re-remember hes the one guy from the princess bride. in my defence have not SEEN that movie still but by reputation i am aware of the man.

okay so i have, for lack of word, clocked that that specific ferengi is being played by a female actress, so thats. hm. whats going on here. ah i see thats a plot point, i promise i noticed that before the scene where she returned to her room.

okay so dax genuinely is just like 'yea theyre shitheads but theyre funny' incredible? incredible.

we love a lady knight scenario, dont we folks. love a good ol' fashioned uhhhhhh alanna situation. yknow i always use alanna as my go to reference for a 'woman pretends to be a man' fiction and ive literally never read it or known anyone who has. niche, i guess.

so this is all the start of the ongoing ferengi women plotline, iirc. i know quarks mother (mothers?) shows up in later plots about ferengi politics, but i didnt realise we were gonna jump in with it. neat!

is dax's job now just advising other women on their romantic situations. its what she was doing in melora. like thats two eps in a row her primary role seems to be 'provide advice to a woman in love' whats the go.

i dont like the nagus but at least in universe i think thats the position of the majority of the people around him

make! out! like i dont really give a shit but like just go for it folks

thank you for your contribution to the plot, mr odo sir, very excellent work inciting a crime

now my thing is i dont actually like 'pretends to be a man' plots bc, yknow, ~transgender~, its a vibes based situation. anyway i skipped the scene but ive got the transcript, ive got the gist. im good. it seems fun. that said the way quark physically reacted to being kissed, and how hes reacting in every dialogue line afterwards, is uh. very dramatic? not sure where this is gonna go bc the signs point to Poorly for the both of them

but also "dont you want to know why i kissed you?" is the sort of shit i would say if i was trying to come out worse than i actually had. like "dont you want to know why i started shortening my name" level shit.

oh that was an excellent in the background there

this romance is doing Nothing for me lads

that said like, quark is still quite compelling as part of it. and the fact he defends Pel is sweet. but i also find it so difficult to take ferengi drama seriously because like, the nagus is RIGHT THERE, and he's a pure comic character. its pure comic. and that just sorta sucks drama out of it for me. whereas i think quark has the right balance of comedic greed and genuine pathos that he can carry dramatic story lines. pel isnt quiiite working for me in that respect but i already flagged my lack of interest in this specific kind of plotline earlier so its not her fault.

dax just vibing in the background of most of this episode was kinda fun though. i do like that.

okay so my verdict - ? two romance episodes back to back kinda sucks for me since i didnt really feel invested in either romance as a thing in itself, though maybe part of that is the foreknowledge that neither go anywhere, right. as an episode on its own i think its alright, but will probably be better as part of the overarching Ferengi plotlines later, i guess? idk. its not quite my thing. i did enjoy dax here though so she's starting to win me over after a rocky start

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🔥for mlp g4 villains

ough my general opinion on like gjkgd all the major mlp villians huh?

nightmare moon? iconic love her fun good horsee pun name and she looked very good. i love luna but sometimes i wish she looked more like nightmare moons design tbh. but i lOVE that luna can make herself look like nightmare moon which is also funny because im like, god she is making the choice to look like that and is right 

the dazzlings, while im not the biggest equestria girls fan that movie was the best one. also their very cute, and their inclusion in the main series is very fun. their simple but im a sucker for music lol

coZY glow?? literally one of my fav villians like forr REAL. she is literally 7 years old and got closer to destorying everything i think than any other villian even her paired with two other villians in the finale?? shes so fucking funny and i loVE her. shes baby and she wants POWer. alSO she is 3 years old and they sent her to super hell jail which while it is fucked up, is also very fucking funny

king sombra is like, sexy voice. but thats sdgjkgh thats kinda it! hes very boring and really did do much. but again veRY funny of him to  die both times he has appeared. also why did twilight learn to do his spooky dark magic stuff, do it twice then never again? what was up with that tho

Tireks like.. fine?  like story and power and being a point to prove where discords loyalty lay with equestria is good. its there, but he’s just not a villian i care about as much i guess. kinda meh yknow? also his design looks bad, its like just to the left of being a pretty ok design but it just looks really bad

the storm king? from the movie? dfjhg really bad man. the movie was very cute but like, man what even was the storm king?? he felt like a fucking henchman who said ‘im no longer baby i want power’ more than the leader of an army?? he just didnt feel important?  tempest shadow felt more important? which she was, but then like. why not just make her the main leader of the army or the only villian in the movie. the storm king only seemed to play a role of furthering tempest’s story?

queen chrysalis? I LOVE HER VERY MUCH LIKE OUIGH i might actually like her more than cozy glow, she is iconic, good ass songs in her episode? also i love changlings i think their neat. 

then with the changlings like? i dont really like how their story went? that chrysalis just ended up not having her peoples best in mind? idk it felt weird, just felt like another plot to make the ponies right instead of doing something to make the changlings wildly misunderstood? alSO chrysalis was right to stay evil and nOT change with the rest of her colony because they look ugly as hell

grogar? like hh literally a huge disappointment. LIKE on one hand i lOVE the reveal of it being discord, i didnt see it coming and i thought it was THE funniest shit in the world. but also! i wish we had gotten real grogar because i love a goat and i wanted to see him actually as a villian doin stuff,,,