#rambling about stuff

[alligatorpie1945]

Some Thoughts/Reasons why the “Final” Season doesn't worry me. 

Many animated shows lately have been canceled prematurely due to corporate interference, budget cuts, or higher up dealings. Which at least for me, has left me feeling frustrated and discouraged when it comes to consuming entertainment. And at first, hearing that The Bad Batch was already in its final season after just two seasons, immediately reignited a lot of those feelings. 

But I want to remind everyone that it is not being canceled. Its ending, but it's by the choice of the creative team. I feel like too often shows will either fall into two categories. Either they are canceled way too soon, or they are kept alive well after their expiration date. And both scenarios are not ideal. 

While its fun to have your favorite show go on indefinitely, it will one way or another get to a point where it feels directionless, unmotivated, or stale. Typically writing goes down the toilet, actors leave, and characters aren't interesting anymore. (*ahem* The Mandalorian) 

If the creators of this show feel like they can tell the rest of the Batch’s story in one season, then I trust them. I want a good ending for these characters, I want one that is not rushed or slapped together. Its okay for things to end. I just want it to be given the time and effort they deserve.

And lets be real, this is Star Wars we are talking about. Characters (especially beloved characters) are hardly ever gone permanently. Pretty much every “main” character has come back in another show. So even with the end of this series on the horizon, I highly doubt it will be the end of these characters. So keep that in mind if you find yourself spiraling. 

Side Note: 

I think most of us have seen the leaked teaser, but remember! Star Wars is pretty crafty with their trailers. For season 2 the majority of the trailer was made up from the first 6ish episodes! I’m predicting they save Cross and Omega within the first couple episodes, Tech will probably come back either early - mid season and then who knows what we will be getting at the very end. I remember hearing, I think Dee Bradly Cooper say that the show is about The Batch at its core. And given we didn't really get to see everyone in action together during season 2. I'm assuming we are building up to have ALL SIX of them together fighting a big ol battle at the end of the show. Whatever I'm sure they do, it will be great!

[not-poignant]

Woof, that Constellations reveal!! How come Gwyn knows which psychologist Ef saw at Hillview but not what happened with Henton?

Oooo this is an awesome question.

So there's a few layers to this, thank you for enabling my rambling, this won't be a short answer.

The main reason is simply that Efnisien didn't want him to know. And given that Efnisien's privacy had been violated unconscionably repeatedly at Hillview, Dr Gary wasn't in a rush to tell Gwyn ap Nudd, especially because (in this particular world I'm writing lol) he had no legal obligation to. Efnisien was a legal adult at the time the recorded assaults took place, and his choices actually matter.

Like, it wasn't like Gwyn was getting regular progress reports or anything once Efnisien was in Hillview, and he certainly got a lot less as soon as Efnisien became a legal adult. Gwyn was notified of some bare bones stuff in the hospital because Efnisien's life was in danger and frankly doctors and psychologists tend to be a bit more open while someone's life is in danger in a hospital (and Efnisien wasn't formally enrolled at Hillview yet or living there).

But after that, most of what Gwyn knew about Hillview he learned directly from Efnisien. Efnisien would have told him that he was seeing Dr Henton while he was still verbal / talking.

Once the sexual abuse and assault started, Efnisien went fully nonverbal for some months afterwards. Not just with Dr Gary, but also with Gwyn. All Gwyn knows is that, all of a sudden, Efnisien has gone nonverbal and changed psychologists.

Gwyn assumed this was because Efnisien relapsed and started hurting other people, and his attitude actually changed around Efnisien after that, and Efnisien never corrected him because he never saw the point.

Not only that, but it's in Efnisien's records that Gwyn has been abusive to Efnisien. They allow his visitations, but Efnisien has also disclosed that Gwyn has broken bones in his face, beaten him, and been violent towards him, and while Efnisien didn't know this was being written in his general file - the staff certainly knew of Gwyn in context of 'actual abuser visiting Efnisien on occasion.'

So they don't exactly have incentive to say 'heyyyyy...abuser of Efnisien that we allow him to see because his mental health dives without you, we're just going to share that he was abused by another guy in case you want to like...abuse him over that too.' It's not like Gwyn is 'just a concerned cousin' - he's not an immediate family member, he's a point of contact, but he's a point of contact with caveats, like 'we know Efnisien has stated clearly he needs to see Gwyn, but we don't like him' caveats. They're not going to rush to give Gwyn tools to harm Efnisien.

And he would have.

And Efnisien knew he would have.

This is really vital. All along, Efnisien has always assumed Gwyn would say 'well that's what you deserve' re: Henton's actions (or 'now you know what it's like I guess') and we know Gwyn would have said something like that, based on how he reacts to Efnisien being harmed during Falling Falling Stars.

Like, Gwyn's attitude changes over time, but Efnisien and the staff are right to think that Gwyn would hurt Efnisien with the knowledge that he'd been abused by staff at Hillview.

So yeah, and also like... Dr Gary tried to get Efnisien to press charges, he even brought lawyers in, and Efnisien just...didn't talk. Refused to talk to anyone. While he couldn't verbally consent to literally anything, they erred on the side of caution. Probably the only thing he insisted on was staying at Hillview, because he knew Gwyn would only keep seeing him if he went to Hillview.

And that is why Efnisien stayed at Hillview, after Henton assaulted him. :(

Because Gwyn blackmailed him into staying there.

Idk if Gwyn would ever find that out, because it'll break his heart in Constellations if he realises. But like, Efnisien didn't want to go stay at a place where he was regularly abused and assaulted, but he did, because he was so desperate to keep the one lifeline he had.

Anyway yeah, there's a few reasons basically why Gwyn knew the name of the psychologist only, and then nothing else!

And a lot of it was purely that Efnisien never wanted him to know, and the folks around him respected that.

[immamapletreekid]

instead of grinding for finals i lost hours to a one piece wiki spiral

[chirpsythismorning]

Something I’ve been thinking about, is that they can’t drag on milkvan for much longer, in terms of promotion to trick the audience I mean.

Bc if they want to convince the ga to like byler and let go of milkvan, and to accept that ending, then they need to be be smart about how they are approaching this.

It would be weird to act like milkvan is going back in a romantic direction if that’s not how things are going to end up. Especially if they’re taking a more familial turn in s5, it would be downright weird to keep up the act in a substantial way.

I’m just imagining giving milkvans hope, where there is none in s5 and how confusing that would be for the audience to be ripped from, especially right at the start.

That doesn’t mean I don’t think they’ll still give those fans hope of the possibility in the mean time, on top of the fact that they probably don’t want every byler to have full confidence either.

Even still, if byler is endgame and so the show is going to end up having immense rewatch value in the aspect of byler, with A LOT of fans not even realizing it, then it wouldn’t make sense to play along with this act of milkvan for much longer.

I have some doubts, but that’s also the reason I think byler (or more specifically Mike’s feelings for Will), could be hinted at fairly early s5, with them not getting together officially until the end though. Bc if I’m rewatching the show from the beginning, it wouldnt be satisfying for Mike to come to terms with that at the last second. We need to see his feelings on his end in a major way, at least for one whole season, the same way we’ve gotten it blatantly from Will for the last two seasons. Bc if I’m rewatching the show, I’m gonna need that for it to feel satisfying and fulfilling all around as a full story.

They need the audience to also be more open to byler at least vs. being convinced it’s not happening. And the best thing to do would honestly be to either keep promoting both equally or avoid promoting both equally.

I think the former is most likely. So don’t get upset when they keep promoting milkvan subltly, bc there’s a good chance they will equally promote byler… otherwise they are jeopardizing the enjoyment for their endgame and it would be too confusing for their overall audience to accept byler if they’ve been having milkvan shoved in their face.

[egonspenglershusband]

So in October of last year this current hyperfixation on Ghostbusters started (I was already hyperfixated on the series once like years ago but it came back and stronger than before) but something I didn't expect to get with this round of hyperfixating on Ghostbusters was also hyperfixating on Harold Ramis which I rarely get hyperfixated on people actually I can't even think of another time I have been so that's something

[spicygambles]

Thinking about fandom "Watchers"

It theory, its also a thing in whatever universe I'm writing for.. Just not as all-knowing or all-encompassing as the general consensus is. Like.. a bunch of stuck up researchers in lab coats kinda vibes.

Maybe my Grian was also a watcher once upon a time. But it was a case of "Neo was drawn into taking the whatever pill because the people recruiting him had mystical powers and always wore swanky suits and shades but what they didn't tell him was that when he was outside he had nothing but rags and only had oatmeal to eat". While I'm talking about more surface level stuff, I'm sure there's some deeper stuff in there than can be talked about but I haven't really dug too deep on the whole thing.

Him kidnapping meeting Mumbo was the push he needed to leave.

[expederest]

As the days get shorter, and the nights get colder, it can only mean one thing - It's time for Great British Bake Off! And Bake Off always gets me in the mood to, well, bake. So I decided it'd be fun to follow along, and make something related to every week. This week was cake week, so I made a marbled orange and chocolate cake.

[dalefc2000]

I believe the Tim burton shared universe theory about 3 movies the corpse bride nightmare before Christmas and frankenweenie but I don’t believe that the three protagonists of the movie are the same person it goes as follows victor stays with emily gives birth to jack then jack then in memory of his father jack names his kid after him kinda like a heirloom but wait i hear you fools typing victor has human parents well jack on one Christmas night left his son in someones door and behold it was a couple who couldn’t bare a child. This are you guess it victor’s parents

[aamleh]

i don't know if it's my ADHD or something but i have like, so much theories and ideas about Byler in my head or answer for other people analysis and as soon as i want to respond or write something i just freeze and my thoughts are all jumbled lmao i want to interact with you too guys im just brain dead

[flowerwithdepression]

Bitches will stay up until 4:30am and wake up at 7am like they are perfectly fine and ready for the day

It's me, I'm bitches.

[wisdomisadumpstat]

My character in Baldur's Gate 3, Selakiir Arkentlar, Early Access vs Full Release. (I have used Customizor's Compedium in both screenshots for the faces, sorry Larian, but I still don't vibe with the masc elf faces.)

Selakiir's old tattoo (which can barely be seen in the first screenshot, it was a dragon holding a sword) didn't make it into the full release, but the new tattoo I used for him vibes way better as his pact mark anyway (while Hexblades are not in full release, lore-wise Selakiir is a Hexblade warlock). Scars and tattoos were added in the full release as well, and while Selakiir does not have his scar until later on, it's nice to portray it (even if it was originally on the other side of his face) and it's nice to portray him with the silver earrings he's littered his ears with. Finally, the ponytail is a new addition in full release, and a new addition for Selakiir. His old hairstyle is still good, but I couldn't resist the allure of the ponytail.

[alligatorpie1945]

Just visited the National WWII museum down in New Orleans earlier this week. And it rekindled my love for history! Anyway, here are some plane doodles during the trip back.

Joe Liebgott from Band of Brothers and Louise Zamperini from Unbroken.

The trip made me also want to revisit my old college thesis film. So who knows, guess I gotta find something to do until TBB season 3.

[adventuretolkienlover]

Have you ever thought you had a great idea and you write it down and then it doesn't work so you're all sad but then you come up with what you think is a better idea so you write that one down instead but instead of fixing it you make things worse and then you're just sitting there in your puddle of disappointment and writer failure? Because I have. 🥲🤣

[immamapletreekid]

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[monkeyparasite]

HORRIBLE NEWS ONE OF THE PORN BOTS HAVE uwu IN THEIR USERNAME, THEYRE BECOMING BRAINFUL AS MUCH AS THEY CAN.

A hollow shell with malicious intent, pretending to be a person. Does it know? Does it care? I do not know, I believe that robots only know what their purpose and has no empathy, sympathy, feelings, anything of the sort. Might they know that their purpose is harmful yet they do not care, despite understanding. Its not their fault

[lorettaroxiesycamore]

Here I come 💀 starting with my BATIM hype again, I gotta draw new Inky/Ink Demon AJSKAKndkzjz