burrows end is the spiritual sequel to a crown of candy
Evidence:
Party is primarily family
Barbarian Parent
Twins who include a rogue
The rogue twin's first spell is Fog Cloud
There is a moment where the younger twin (played by Siobhan) almost Dies
The first to actually die is the oldest party member, who's body cannot be retrieved
The pope is there
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the number of people who like taylor’s music but strongly dislike her as a person is so wild to me
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a thing about rtd's era that i really really love seeing again is how he will usually wrap up the plot 10 or even 20 minutes before the episode ends and then the rest of that time is just dedicated to the characters talking to each other and dealing with their emotions and situations. like instead of a last minute win and a two minute goodbye they always get these massive spans of time to really get into everything emotionally and it always makes the episodes hit even harder
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the more I think about it and rewatch his scenes, the more I cannot help but realize that Colin is coded as a neurodivergent character. At least, I can very clearly see how Luke Newton, a neurodivergent actor, is playing Colin as a neurodivergent character
a special interest in Greek mythology? in traveling? neurodivergent
taking people's word at face value without 'reading between the lines'? neurodivergent
not being able to read Penelope's feelings regardless of how 'obvious' they are? neurodivergent
brain constantly bouncing around from one idea to the next (as in the books)? neurodivergent
not saying the 'right thing' and admitting to having to rehearse important conversations? neurodivergent
all that rejection sensitivity and regret he had well over a year after his engagement blew up? neurodivergent
masking in public? the whole 'charming facade'? neurodivergent
the man straight up STIMS, I mean how often do we see him fidgeting or playing with something? he has an oral fixation like no one's business, always eating, rubbing his mouth, licking his lips
I just can't unsee it
and, one day, i hope our fandom is going to be ready to recognize how many of the things we've unjustly called him an 'idiot' or 'stupid' for is actually just him existing with a neurodivergent brain and how hurtful that can come across to us neurodivergent peeps who identify with him
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Mistystar with 100 extra lives because of all the people who want to back her
Mistyfoot: "I killed my leader... I saw no other choice, it was the only way to prevent the downfall of my beloved Clan, I did it not out of ire but out of love for my Clanmates, for self-preservation... the blood will never wash out of my claws, no one shall ever know what happened on that fateful day besides the Stars above, and I can only hope that the cold glimmer of the night sky is a blink of love, and not of rage"
700000 dead cats: "We know this, and we love you,"
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I literally just saw this in someone's tags but. People who de-claw shen jiu in their fics. It's on sight istg. What a vile thing to do. Smh smh smh
What's even the POINT of restoring a villain, of giving him the soft redemption he deserves, if you leave him weak and whimpering at the *slightest* sign of love and caring. Especially for shen jiu of all people ffs. The character's whose whole point is that he would've been a lot less tragic if he was just a bit less cruel, a bit less distrustful, a bit less vengeful. That's his whole point!!!!! Unfortunate circumstances of a cruel world that shape an even crueller boy, left unable and unwilling to build a truly good life for himself. Beyond the status he carves out for himself, he is still miserable, right until his death! And not because he couldn't find love in the people around him, but because he wouldn't trade the power he struggled so hard to achieve just so he could get in others' good graces.
And tbh i don't mind when he's softened and flattened in fics when he's a background character. It makes it easier for everyone to deal with him, which means that his presence won't distract from the main purpose of the fic. That's totally fine!! But if he's your main character and he only gets 2 insults in before finding serenity and happiness, what are you doing? Genuinely?????
It's so incredibly important to me to let shen jiu be mean and fucked up T-T like im also a sucker for happy endings and mean-guy-is-shown-affection-and-turns-soft redemptions but like. You *have* to do it properly. You *have* to let him bite and scratch and scream for a while before anything changes. Because if a smidge of respect and friendliness was all it took for shen jiu to grow soft, he would have done it in pidw already. And none of it would've happened.
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FTWDs final season could have been so much better if it was revealed that Troy was running padre and controlling madison (as revenge) this whole time. He knew enough about nick and Alicia to make madison think padre knew who and where they were this whole time. And here are some other reasons how this storyline would make sense and be more interesting:
- Troy has a military background so him taking over and running a military base makes more sense than two teenagers building it up by themselves because all the adults died.
- taking and training up children to be solidiers also would make a little sense because of his own fucked up upbringing and the idea he has of the type of people who were made for this world. He would have probably had the same idea as shrike, that the kids stood a better chance at padre than with their “weak” parents. The mother of his child dying for being a good person and not getting to raise their daughter (who would not be named after his abuser) could have also played into this idea of the kids being separated from their good parents.
- shrikes radiation cure experiments: Troy ran walker bite experiments before, just to see how people would turn. So it would also make sense if the work we see shrike doing was something he approved of or an idea he himself came up with. As for shrike, it would make sense that she turned out this way if she’d spent years being mentored by someone like troy otto instead of becoming evil and stealing children just because her dad died.
- the scene where madison smashes the glass to expose “padre” would have been such a good and shocking reveal if it was Troy. Imagine Madison finding out that Troy is not only alive but had been the one running this the whole time!
There’s also a lot of other things I would have done differently for the other characters too and I would have liked Madison to have a little villain era and do some really fucked up shit as she tries to take down Troy and padre. How dark would Madison go? Would she survive with her humanity still intact?
I know I’m just talking into the void here because no one care about this shitshow but I just hate it when shows have a plot that could have been good, maybe even great but then completely miss the mark and fans come with better theories and ideas with minimal effort and thought.
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