#war of faith episode 16

[accio-victuuri]

wei ruolai’s threat promise 💀💀💀💀

[stargirl-writes]

[navigation] the secret history of anakin skywalker

pairing : assassin! reader x general anakin skywalker

status : ongoing

tags : enemies-to-lovers, SLOW burn, angst, hurt/comfort, mystery, espionage.

warnings: !mature content! (violence, mentions of abuse, mental corruption, mentions of suicide ideation) scheming, more mind games obvs, eventual smut(?) i'll be specifying on each blog !

read on ao3!

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sypnosis

you have only known one truth about this war, the republic and the seperatists are two sides of the same coin. but now, your master count dooku has disposed of you after your consequent failures. his betrayal fueled your thirst for revenge. and in the cruel twist of fate, you have found yourself with an arrangement with the enemy. general anakin skywalker is willing to do what it takes for the republic to win, even if it meant dealing with you, his nemesis.

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chapter summary / navigation

↝one

captured

chapter summary

your mission to secure umbara has failed. your master, count dooku would not have asked of anyone but you to deliver success. but as you stand amongst the pile of bodies of umbaran soldiers, the horror of your failure washes over you.

and in the hopelessness of events, a jedi appears amidst the ashes of your city. one that did not hesitate to kill the jedi general krell despite his jedi order's honor.

warnings : mentions of ptsd, mentions of abuse, war, mentions of a panic attack.

notes : centered around the same time as the clone wars season 4 episode 15.

↝two

the arrangement

chapter summary

after your old master has betrayed you, you were captured by the jedi general skywalker. stricken by the grief, you resigned to your faith.

on the way back to coruscant to face republic jurisdiction, a sniper has fired in open space. taking general obi-wan kenobi down.

in a fit of anger, anakin skywalker accuses you. but you have already made up your mind in taking revenge on your old master. and even though you are terrified, you struck up an arrangement to aid anakin's mission to find obi-wan kenobi's true killer.

warnings: violence, imprisonment, betrayal, mentions of ptsd.

notes : centered around the same time as the clone wars season 4 episode 15.

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common ground

chapter summary

a clue tipped by the jedi council leads anakin skywalker back to your cell. now his anger has passed, he wants to clarify the terms of your new alliance.

on the way to nal hutta, anakin skywalker steers the conversation to his fascination over your beliefs— which legitimizes the doubts he's been having about the republic.

warnings : none so far.

notes : centers around the same time as the clone wars season 4 episodes 16-17

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the attempt

chapter summary

rako hardeen escapes with two known bounty hunters on orandia. anakin skywalker claims obi wan kenobi remains alive. and a revelation by cad bane made you head down a bar and drink the night away.

warnings : drinking.

notes : involves spoilers for the clone wars season 4 episodes 16-17

coming soon...

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notes

hello my lovely people! thank u for taking interest in this story :)

i've always been in love with the enemies-to-lovers trope and this series would be canon compliant (at first) because i think it'd be more fitting to build on what filoni already established.

the timeline would be around season 4-7 of the clone wars.

and this series will be dark and angsty and contains mature content that i want to clarify is meant to serve the plot. and my depictions/interpretations is no way of endorsing or 'romanticizing' these situations.

anyway, i hope that i can fill your imaginations with this little thing i have in the works.

please don't post my works anywhere else. though likes, reblogs, comments are highly appreciated ! (and fuels me hehe)

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FIONNA AND CAKE SPOILERS: Thoughts on Marceline being "The Star"

I rewatched The Stakes Miniseries after last week's Fionna and Cake episodes, and maybe to some of you who have thought about Adventure Time more than I have, this is old news, but they had always telegraphed Marceline being "The Star".

In the last episode of the miniseries, The Dark Cloud, when Marceline activates her full demon soul-sucking powers, she glows pink and becomes kind of like a starry nebula.

The whole plot of the stakes miniseries is about Marceline coming to terms with the trauma in her past, growing up, and feeling more sure of herself. This is in fact all themes that align with the Upright tarot card The Star.

[image ID: The Star/Meaning When the Star card appears, you are likely to find yourself feeling inspired. It brings renewed hope and faith and a sense that you are truly blessed by the universe at this time. The Star represents: New hopes and splendid revelations of the future, insight, inspiration, courage and enlightenment of the spiritual self. Body and mind and converging towards the light at the end of a dark time(s).]

The Star is number 17, following The Tower number 16. It's supposed to represent the light at the end of the tunnel, the glimmer of hope. It's positivity and aspirations after many trials and tribulations. This tarot card perfectly encapsulates the character arc of Main Universe Marceline.

Now what about the other universe? This brings me to what The Star means when it's drawn Reversed:

[image ID: Hopelessness The Star Tarot Card Meaning. Key Meanings (Upright): Hope, inspiration, creativity, calm, contentment, renewal, serenity, spirituality, healing, positivity. Key Meanings (Reversed): Hopelessness, despair, focusing on the negative, lack of faith, lack of inspiration, lack of creativity, boredom, monotony.]

In the universe where the vampires have taken over the post-mushroom wars Earth, they were so effective at killing humans, and all manner of living creatures that life on Earth is on the brink of collapse. The Vampire King has used the Ice Crown to cover the sky in perpetual clouds, which must have also sped up ecosystem collapse for life that doesn't have blood for the vampires to drink. The Princess Bubblegum of that world even spells it out that their world is pretty much nearing its end. In that sense, the Marceline of that world represents hopelessness and despair. However, not for herself, but for the three protagonists of Fionna and Cake.

Fionna is beginning to realize that no matter how much she tries to help, nothing is working out. Adventuring wasn't how she thought it was, and she just wants to go home.

Simon is already deep in his pit of despair from the very beginning of the series, because he is depressed and sees no place for himself in the land of Ooo, and no way to contact Betty after she ascended to godhood. And Fionna is realizing that if Simon becomes Ice King again, he will have to give up his mind, and pretty much annihilate himself in order to give magic back to her world.

Cake doesn't seem to be in despair at first, but we learn by the end of the episode that Cake absolutely does not want to go back to being a normal cat. She would do anything to stay the way she is, but this is at odds with what Fionna is realizing that she wants.

And if all of that hopelessness isn't enough, after the vampire universe, the trio are teleported to an even worse universe where the Lich had already succeeded in wiping out all life! Not to mention when BMO tried to help them fix their universe-hopping remote, he also destroyed himself in the process ):

So yeah, the writers were very smart to insert both meanings of the Star (both upright and reversed) into the wider narrative of Adventure Time!!!

[zhansww]

War of Faith — episode 16

[brasiliangp]

'drive to survive' season 6: a cheat sheet for people like me, who only care about like 3 ppl of the grid <3

Episode 1: Money Talks

Team: Aston Martin

0 - 2:00; shows some of the drivers (Lando, Lance, George, Max, Alex, Esteban) and Gunther on their winter breaks

2:41; Lawrence going all 007 villain mood

6:30; Aston Martin car launch

10:32; Lance gets injured

12:30 - 19:30; drivers in Bahrain (photoshoot, talk about Mercedes and Ferrari)

20:15; Lance is back

23: 20 - race (Bahrain GP) (does focus on Mercedes/Lewis/Toto a bit)

30:20 - Fred and Ferrari

33 - onwards; Aston Martin's podium, reactions from Mercedes and Ferrari, moments between Lawrence and Lance

Episode 2: Fall from Grace

Team: Alpha Tauri / Red Bull

Christian Horner TW throughout!!!!!

1:40 - start talking about Daniel

4: 35 - Red Bull car launch

also Daniel shows up for the first time

6:37 - Nyck is introduced

8:05 - some Red Bull tory nonsense with a charity shooting thing

10:33 - Jeddah

12:49 - introduction to the change in leadership at AT

14:34 - 17:51; race footage

18 - Nyck showing his Monaco apartment

backstory into Nyck and him chatting with a friend till 20:20

22:10 - Monaco GP

23:50 - they bring out the traumatized by rbr support group (Gasly and Albon) to talk about Nyck

25:00 - Daniel and Horner discuss plans for the future

27:30 - 32:30; race footage

32:55 - Horner calls Daniel

33 - Silverstone test

38:40 - Daniel back in F1

39:30 - Back to Nyck

Episode 3: Under Pressure

Team: McLaren

2:18 - McLaren car launch

4:24 - Oscar introduction

7:30 - 9:17; race footage (Bahrain)

11:40 - talks about Lando possibly switching teams (lasts literally the whole episode)

11:56 - 12:27; Horner TW

12:30 - Miami GP

16:49 - 19:16; Zac and Lando go golfing

20:40 - 23:58; race footage (Miami)

25:00 - 26:25; Lando and George flying together

26:25 - 27:30; Lando's life story

35:20 - Silverstone footage

Episode 4: The Last Chapter

Teams: Haas / Williams

0 - 4:00; Gunther

4:00 - Introduction to Nico/Kevin

5:13 - addressing the drama between then

7:08 - Williams

7:33 - James introduction

13:26 - 16:30; race footage (Jeddah)

17:57 - 19:50; Gunther

19:50 - 20:30; James

20:30 - 21:20; Alex working out

21:30 - Alex and James talking

24:30 - 29:50; race footage (Montreal)

29:57 - Lily!

39:40 - 41; race footage (Mexico)

43:10 - 45; Mattia Binotto TW

Episode 5: Civil War

Team: Alpine

2:10 - 5:40; Pierre in Cannes

8:20; Pierre and Esteban at the Alpine HQ

11:50 - 14:10; Pierre and Esteban story (where the drama started)

14:20 - 15:40; Pierre and Esteban go karting

17:30 - 23; race footage (Australia)

25:05 - 26:20; Esteban family house/working out

27: TP drama

28:30 - 37; Monaco GP

Episode 6: Lead of Faith

Team: Mercedes

0:15 - 3:40; George and Lewis shooting the road test video

8:25 - 9:05; Lewis talks about issues with the car

9:20 - 14:30; very sweet moment with the Wolffs where Jack goes karting

17 - 19; Lewis contract talks

19:00 - 19:12; "Lewis and I agreed to be open and honest with each other" Toto

19:25 - 19:35; "if Lewis were to leave it would almost look like he lost faith in the team" George

20:45 - 25; race footage (Barcelona)

26:30 - 27; Barcelona podium

28:30 - 30; Toto and Lewis talk

31:40 - Lewis' extension with Mercedes is announced

32:10 - "There just never feels like a time where I won't be a Mercedes driver" Lewis

Episode 7: C'est La Vie

Team: Alpine

0:30 - 0:40; Ocon and Ryan Reynolds

3:15 - 5; Pierre at a basketball game

5 - 6; Ocon in St. Tropez

7:50 - Horner TW but this one was funny lmfao

8:10 - 13:10; race footage (Silverstone)

15:40 - 17:00; race footage (Hungary)

20:40 - Omar is fired

22:56 - 23; Horner TW

26: Bruno sits Pierre and Esteban down for a chat

29:35 - 34:37; race footage (Zandvoort)

34:40 - 35:50; Pierre's podium

Episode 8: Forza Ferrari

Team: guess?

0 - 5:00; introduction to Fred and Ferrari

10:10 - 10:50; Carlos and his mom

15:40 - 22:30; race footage (Monza)

23:59 - 25:33; Fred, Carlos and Charles having lunch at Maranello

31:30 - 40; race footage (Singapore)

Episode 9: Three's a Crowd

Team: Alpha Tauri

0 - 2:40; Daniel

2:49 - 3:26; Alex and Logan talk about Daniel coming back

8:10 - 10:10 - Zandvoort (Daniel crashes)

12 - 14:25; Liam is introduced

17:45 - 20:40; quali in Singapore

25:33 - 30; race footage (Singapore)

31:50 - 32:56; Daniel working out

34:20 - 37; race footage (Suzuka)

37:50 - 38; Horner tells Liam Yuki and Daniel will be driving for AT next season

42:35 - 45:30; race footage (Mexico)

Episode 10: Red or Black

Teams: Mercedes x Ferrari; Aston Martin x McLaren

0 - 1:10; Charles in the Alps

1:10 - 1:30; Carlos working out

2:24 - 2:57; Red Bull and AT playing in the desert

4:40 - 5; Horner TW

5:30 - 7:30; Vegas opening ceremony

8 - 28 (pretty much); Vegas footage

29:05 - 29:33; Lando and Oscar

32 - 33; McLaren x Aston Martin

36:45 - 41:40; race footage (Abu Dhabi)4

44:32 - 44:34; Fred!

46:29 - 47:29; Red Bull and Horner TW

[eldritch-araneae]

So, it time to put my thought about Earthspark new episodes. I have a lot of insight on Bumblebee, and more thoughts regarding the story. I absolutely love this show, that's the single-handedly the best show I watched in years, no joke!

So yeah, spoilers for new episodes and it's a long post! Things I'm gonna talk about is the War, Agent Croft and Scholder, a bit of Mandroid, the Triplets and of course, Bumblebee <3

Grab your drink, sit comfy and welcome under the cut!~

The War

Episode 16 was good, showing that war is horrible and tragic and nothing good comes out of it, and Megatron putting his faith into Terrnans for them to not repeat the mistakes cybertronians did. So many lives lost, from all sides of conflict.

(Sidenote: and look like AllSpark was just sent home ( or possible destroyed) that why it was never mentioned. Bee seemed fine in the battle, only to be tackled by Skullcruncher. So I think Optimus just made up a story that Bee died to get him off radar. He's a spy after all~ Still, Bee dying and being revived by the AllSpark look like a fun AU, so feel free to play with it :D)

But also this episode gives a huge insight why Megatron's cause went wrong, and I believe this is huge! Megatron had good intentions, but I think the main reason why failed and why the war turned to be so devastating - he surrounded himself worth wrong people!

People like him!

You can see what type of person Shockwave is, the very same as Mandroid and Agent Croft. The rich people how will sacrifice everything and everyone (esp those they believe are beneath them) to get all the power they want.

So even if Megatron wanted to help his people, Shockwave and likes of him ( bc I'm sure his presence attracted more ppl like him into deception ranks) doomed this from the very start. You cannot help the sheep, if your organization is filled with wolfs.

Sure, 'cons call Megatron a traitor, but I believe he is not a traitor. Megatron was surrounded by traitors.

Which makes me wonder, why Megs kept ppl like Shockwave around?

Did Megatron had the same bigoted believes as Shockwave? Tho this one maybe seem unlikely in this continuity. Megatron would need a lot more convincing than just a human showing compassion to his people.

Or Megatron was really attached to him, bc he's a friend and he was in denial that his friend is the same type of person he tries to fight against? And this was okay as long as Shockwave used this language against Autobots only ( bc this Shockwave looks like based on Marvel one if I'm not wrong) so he let it slide?

Which brings a cool parallel with Robby in the next episode, where this kid is willing to cut his friend off for shitty behavior directed at his family.

"If that's how Stevie gonna behave? He doesn't get me as a friend. That's his loss."

Which we can officially proclaim that his human kid as more guts than Megatron hah.

(Sidenote: I do appreciate that Stevie seem to had a change of heart or least he understood the gravity of situation and changed the graffiti after the confrontation. All changes matter, even small ones, which does serve remind for all us in real life. Even if it feel like it doesn't work.)

Also yeah, love the fact writers showing all sides diverse. There are terrible people everywhere, and people how will happily harness this fear and hate. But also there are good people, and people willing to change for the greater good, and it worth fighting for.

(Sidenote: tbh this makes me excited, because it is close how I'm writing the conflict in Sparkpulse! I wanna know who am I sharing the brain cell with? :D)

Agent Croft

Wow, those first character bios we saw before the show release didn't lie how evil she is. She's a rich military person, so it checks out. And I wanna point out, that she doesn't give a fuck about life as a whole. Not about cybertronians, not about humans, not about nature or even her home planet. Again, perfectly check out.

Episode 15 demonstrates it loud and clear. There things.

They look like a blend of organic and energon. And they can infect organic being to turn them into eldritch abominations like this!

(Sidenote: this is right my alley! Again, which writer shares the braincell with me??? XD Can't help it, I drawn to body horror)

And it doesn't look it was just a "careless waste disposal". Croft testing her biowepon in wild and mark my words: that's what gonna happen in the season 1 finale! I think the entire town will get infected, yes humans too. And we saw that afflicted can be saved, but even one bear was a struggle. Now imagine the entire army of infected humans.

I'm excited for this, can't wait to see if this a case or not~

Agent Schloder

He's a such a goof, but learning he's a brother of Croft was a whiplash for sure ahaha. Such drastic difference omg.

Despite all this, he seem to be a decent person? He doesn't look like seeking power like Croft and he actually cares about protecting people? But he also deeply brainwashed, and Croft making sure he doesn't see her dirty work.

So he's heart seems like in the right place, but misdirected. So I wonder what will happen if he ever finds out what his sister is doing behind his back? Because it appears that even half of GHOST isn't aware what really going on, huh.

Sure, it will be hard to convince him that not all freeroaming cybs are dangerous ( this shit really got internalized into him, attacking Bee even tho the yellow bot saved his life), but he cares about humans. And I think a lot of humans will be in danger in the finalle bc of Croft actions I mentioned above.

So, something tells me what the shit will do down, GHOST will split up. Can't wait to see this true aha.

Mandroid

Or specifically the WHOLE IRONY of his situation. He tells Hashtag that she can't control him, but at the same time, Croft has full power over Mandroid. Also yeah, he's is techorganic, or something, called it even back then~

The Terran Triplets

I love how this batch of common theme: the struggle with belonging. Jawbreaker, Nightshade and Hashtag share the same struggle, but it manifested in different way and required a different solution.

Jawbreaker thinking he's broken, because no vehicle alt-mode appeals to him. He wants to take the perfect pick, but he doesn't know what if it. And Hasgtag already picked hers!

Elita reassuring him, and even says she struggled with this too. He will know when he'll see his alt-mode. It's something you should never force it. Very sweet! And also seem a foreshadowing, I will mention later.

Nightshade struggles to find ppl with same interests as them, then finding this connection with Tarantulas! I love how Tarantulas explains the alt-mode. It's not a something completes you. Alt-mode is something that expresses who you already are. An extension of yourself. Which again, I smell foreshadowing I'll tell you later.

I hope we'll see Tarantulas later, I like liked him, even tho he's not like his IDW counterpart. But I have say, it so relieving to see a spider character that isn't inherently evil. I just love spiders)

Also, I just love Nightshade is like a Terran version of Wheeljack but with a different flavor ahaha. They both should hang out too, see how many explosions will happen. And poor Tarantulas in the middle xD

Hashtag was terrified by the anti-transformer rhetoric she experienced in Philadeplia and then got furious after seeing Bumblebee weak and hurt, which Mandroid exploited. She needed her family like never before and only reaching out and comforting her saved her.

"Home isn't a place. It's the people who love you."

Love and care is the main focus of this show after all, which I absolutely love!

Also, they all can channel the power from Emberstone! And seems like it can be powered by emotions, like the green lantern ring! I'm excited to see more!

Bumblebee

Oh yeah, we finally got to the last and my favorite part! Let's unpack this boy even further, shall we?)

His view on Decepticons

I like how in first batch it looked like Bee is against every decepticon out there, but the second batch shows more depth to this.

Bumbleblee has close relationship with Breakdown, and he still cares about him even despite being of different sides and willing risk his cover, and even picking up the racing car alt-mode he doesn't seem like to much... just to save him.

And, despite Bee being aligned with 'bots is a sore spot for Breakdown (looks like it was a choice between Bee and Stunticons, and he choose the latter. Yet, Bee still cares about him), he still cared for Bee to sacrifice himself. Bee has a family to look after and I'm sure he understood this as well ( maybe even saw a parallel with Stunticons?)

(And sadly, we see Breakdown's arm in the last episodes tho I wonder if they in stasis bc of energon loss, but idk. It's better to assume death, and but surprised later, than the other way around. Good thing Bee didn't see him, but something tell me he will find out eventually.)

Bumblebee also willing to give second chances, especially if his family ask for this. I love how quickly his expression changes. It goes from this, listening to Nightshade explaining the situation, while still not trusting Tarantulas.

To this is in a second! He's smiling, looking at Tarantulas.

Bumblebee could argue them, saying that he's still a con and all the cons do is to deceive, but no. He accepts their words as the truth and looks relieved that Tarantulas changed for better! Which i think that what Bee wants. He doesn't want deceptions to die, he wants them to be better.

And his reaction to the dead Brawl. He doesn't look happy, or bragging about it and finding this funny. No, instead he's grieving and probably feels guilty because he had no idea happened to those who lose in the ring, and he won against Brawl earlier.

So, I think we can safely call back to ep7 and conclude that "cassette exploding in SW's chest" was just about the cassette unwinding and all this tape flying everywhere, and not cassette dying.

Plus we know that Bee was born before war now. So this could happen even back then.

His feelings about his alt-modes

Episdoes 11 and 12 showed really good insight into Bumblebee's complicated feeling about his alt-mode. So Nova Storm calling him having" a mid-life crisis alt-mode" wasn't just a random insult.

In ep11 kids fins out how Bee looked, and absolutely being slayed by his cuteness. And I agree, he's perfect here!

And Bee's reaction? You would think he might get defensive, bc this form isn't as cool as his current one? But no! Look at his face!

He looks neutral, but with hint of nostalgia? Like maybe he's holding back to not appear sad in front of kids ( bc we know, he's scared to show vulnerability to others) and when asked why did he switch, he simply answers his disguise was revealed and needed the new one.

Which makes sense, as we will see later how bad this can be, and he's a spy, but wonder there is more to it?

Because when Jawbreaker asks Bee how did he choose his alt-mode, Bee deflects, saying he doesn't understand how his answer will help Jawbreaker. Which to me it looks like Bumblebee doesn't want to talk about it.

And when Jawbreaker says that he wants to get this right first time without making a wrong choice like Bee did, Bumblebee gets angry! JB accidentally hit the very sore spot for Bee!

And if you remember how both Elita-1 and Tarantulas talked about alt-modes? How you know when this right, and how it's a reflection of who you are, this creates a lot of possibilities. So far I think he picked the racing alt-mode only because he wanted to save Breakdown.

And he def loves his WV Beetle mode, and I wonder if this has a connection to Spike? We saw him in animated flashback, so I wonder if Spike is in the show and might show up later? Bee remember this mode fondly and get really upset when JB calls it "wrong choice" because of connection to Spike?

Or this can be a metaphor or simpler time Bee was having back then. Not dealing with terrible ppl among humans additionally to terrible ppl among cons?

I do hope Spike is out there. Maybe Spike thought that Bee was dead and they haven't see each other for 15 years? Imagine their reunion, and the fact Bee realized that Spike is older and maybe we will finally exploration of human mortality in canon! I though this can be the case in ep13 when Nightshade went to cemetery to meet their fav author, but nope.

Anyways, regardless what it is, I feel this is a big deal and we will see more of this! I hope he will change his alt-mode to something he likes!

His place in Malto family

We know how quickly Bee accepted Maltos as his family and in this batch I was so happy to see the other way, when Maltos caring about him! They love him, you have no idea how this relieving to me, after all those comics where Bee is consonantly alone!

Nightshade saying Bee is the best trainer they know and making their training device sounding like him.. even tho Bee is def mortified after breaking the thing that sounds like him, poor guy.

(Tho I wonder if this implies anything hmmm?)

Also Nightshade's "Woopsy-do~ It's malfunctioning!" just kills me xDD

And Dot, while scolding Bee for being reckless, she understands why Bee was doing this and is willing to help him. And Bee also realized he accidentally endangered his new family. Also Dot looks amazing in this outfit ahah.

And when Bumblebee doesn't come home everyone is upset, and Twitch is devastated bc her fears coming true. She doesn't want to lose anyone, even if it just means the person she cares about is alive, but can't return home anymore.

And they refuse to leave him in ep 18 even tho he's telling them to find Optimus and Megatron. I love this part of of the two-parter episode because Bee cannot fight anymore, but he puts his faith and trust into Terrans. He loves them, but he also knows what they are capable of and all this training weren't wasted.

This little touch, when Twitch hesitating to leave Bumblebee to help others with Hashtag. Her sister needs help, but her mentor is weak and wounded and it's hard to choose. Thankfully Bee's words were enough her to go to help her siblings. Still, her touch lingers as she leaves.

My heart of was absolutely melted! I'm so happy to see this, I hope Bee will get a big hug from all Maltobots!

I'm so glad Bee passed out because he was going to leave again! I guess he still think he puts Maltos in danger bc GHOST now know about him. Or maybe he even feel guilty he still got kinds into this mess, even tho he trust them to do the job?

At least kids just took him home omg. And it just so funny how they put Bee on Hashtag like this xDD

I can't wait to see the rest of the season 1 when they drop! This show is so, so good! There is probably more I could say, but I'm very tired, so that all for now. If you managed to get to this point, thank you for reading!

Have a nice time of the day and see you next time! <3

[yibo-best]

After watching episodes 13 and 14, I am, of course, in shock.

This was to be expected, Chinese cdramas are not complete without drama. But plot-wise it's justified. What could change a young naive youth and turn him into a man? He has to go through torture in prison and other horrors. For some reason these episodes were the hardest for me to watch. Stalemate. I couldn't resist and watched the preview of episodes 15 and 16. At ep16, he is already sitting in Tunan’s house, clean. I breathed a sigh of relief. But in episode 15 he is still beaten and bullied. Strength to us all, brothers and sisters

Terrible things happen in this life, I just found out about the use of barbiturates to remove control over person's emotions and I am shocked. But let's take care of our nervous system, treat the film as a film and as a game.

maybe this apology will make you feel a little better>

[sunnykeysmash]

my thoughts on the first two episodes of s16

I don't even know where to begin, so let's start with just opinions: I loved it. Honestly, I've wanted sunny to delve into the characters for years, so this is all I've ever dreamed of. The differences in direction are also stunning and very visually interesting. idk it's great

If you've read my meta post on s14 and s15, you know what I think about the direction of the show, and season 16 is following exactly what I had expected in that regard imo.

It's not just how it revolves around nostalgia and "legacy/history" though. It also manages to do so in the direction and editing style of these two episodes.

Many choices surprised me here: we all know the zooming in during the pulse scene, but also the tendency to move the camera to reveal a previously unseen part of the environment (which has happened... three times! in inflates), the camera following the characters through the environment (dennis going from kitchen to living room, charlie moving from the new room to the entrance) which reminds me of the camera work in charlie work, roller rink and jumper (when they battle for the casaba specifically), all moments that have been praised for being "different" regarding to usual MO for sunny, and many close ups which usually aren't something that's used a lot.

Many times the usual sunny music came on and it felt almost jarring (POSITIVELY!!! intentionally wrong) because of how serious the moment had been. Like old lady house, you know?

So, to me, this is the first season without a structure. Nothing is sacred, especially not the past (dennis and mac get rid of the couch they've rented for 15 years [don't have to explain why 15 is important right], mrs mac wipes her butt with the "legacy of war" [aaah we'll come back to this], frank gives up the gun which is called his legacy and history, etc).

It may seem like s16 is being episodic and "back to past form" but I think that couldn't be further from the truth!! This is a new sunny, and the characters have continuity.

I have a feeling that by the end of the season those new room and bathroom will be used, because there is no "return to status quo", and to pretend there is would just be denial. Frank knows about the rooms now. But ehh anyway.

Something else that really surprised me these new episodes was Mac.

If you know me you know that I think Mac is pretty much the structure. He's the man who carries.

In a season with no structure, Mac is off.

He's unable to see any subtext no matter how obvious (buys literal nuts, doesn't see what Donald means), he's once again in complete denial about everything, he often guesses the complete opposite of what's actually intended ("consider it an offering" "of war?" "of peace- what is going on with you dude?" / "frank just shot us" "AWESOME!"), hyperfocused on the past, on legacy and history, (on winning a prize in risk e. rat?), he honestly seems to embody everything that Big Mo was fighting against.

This isn't entirely new for mac, he's displayed these traits before, but it seems much louder right now and intentional.

Especially if you consider, for example:

"I think it's time that I started sucking down the words of the Bible. And instead of looking for pieces of ass, I'd just look for peace."

Now, here's what I think happened.

He did get unraveled in s15. Not in the sense that he wasn't him anymore, but in the sense that he lost faith in the church, and is now trying to find something else that can "fill him up".

In a continuation of the identity themes in s15, I think Mac doesn't know who he is anymore, and is looking for any sense of meaning. Especially clinging to the past, even if the past was worse.

"This place has a dark past. Murder, betrayal, beheadings."

"Well, you know, it's a castle, Dee. You know, people were going crazy in castles all the time. And beheading people... well, that was just their way of solving problems back then, you know."

Even the letters Mac is so fixated on, written during world war II.

So if the past is war, and the future is peace, Mac is stuck in the past. So he still embodies the structure, it's just... we're not doing things that way anymore.

We may be redefining what legacy is. The gang thinks it's your past, when really, it's your future. It's what YOU pass down. (god stop me from quoting hamilton but... it's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see. cmon it's perfect. anyway)

And when you're so focused on the past, you miss what's happening right in front of you, you don't realize you have everything you've ever wanted right in front of you (like Mac with Donald...).

So what we're doing right now I think, is actually pivoting.

But... a pivot is also "the most important thing that everything else is based on or arranged around".

I don't know, maybe it's not farfetched to say that it's Mac and Dennis. Being codependent, they revolve around each other, they're each other's pivot.

Dennis is changing, which throws Mac off balance.

What else... uhh the lamp thing, definitely lampshading. And Charlie insisting on the return of the status quo and saying his investment was only "ten dollars a unit", to me that's again the seasons we used to get.

The teeth thing is a lot like the soup... they're being used incorrectly. He should keep them in his mouth... obviously.

I think that is to say that they're probably gonna find their way back to the structure, like, that it was simply used incorrectly. Like if Mac and Dennis got together for example, that wouldn't be something scandalous and against the structure at all, because it was already built in. Nothing changes. It's like the circle of life, like... it's all a circle (or a hole!), and they're just going round, ending up exactly where they started. Maybe. (!!)

Also ep2 calls back to tends bar:

"You figured out the one thing I wanted more than anything else in the entire world and you got it for me."

And this dialogue

"should we just attack him and take it?" "no he'll mow us down like Scarface, we can't come at him like that, we'll spook him." "you give that dog the best day of his life, and then you turn off the lights when he least expects it..."

Reminds me of season 14. One last classic season before you "turn the lights off" (but dee and dennis never meant to kill frank! just like big mo wasn't the finale). It also reminds me of season 12 now that I think about it, I mean... "turning off the lights", DDL... yeah.

Also reminds me of chop

"He came back! My dog came back!" "How the hell is that dog still alive?" "Yeah, Mac, why don't you just put that poor thing out of its misery?" "Put him down? What, are you crazy? This is my dog, Dee. I love him."

And!!!!

Wait, speaking of "history".

-"I'm the one who stayed, I'm the one who takes care of you, how could you do that?"

[...] -"it's okay, I'm not mad at you. it's fine."

"I love you."

"I love you too. I love you too, you know that."

"I made a mistake."

"you did make a mistake. I didn't mean to upset you"

This dialogue resonates to me as very applicable to Mac and Dennis (so much dialogue tends to 😭), because you know who else "gave away their history"? Dennis, when he went away. Mac stayed, Mac takes care of Dennis... (well, now I'm just hoping we'll finally get a north dakota mention)

Aaaand idk what else. It's never wise to try to read meta when so little of the season is out yet... also I'm tired and rambly and I know a lot of this will be wrong but uh. There's a lot of macdennis in the air. And I also think both Mac and Dennis are at their very lowest points, and they need each other, or things may go south.

[postbadbadassqueen]

Memories of Geass 2 : The Mystery of the missing Kallen Gum Line " If you say "I Love you" I will never forgive you"

This Geass information is about a scene which had to be changed after being fully planned, so planned that there were actual leak of promotional material mentionning this very scene and others (which happened in the show !)

The Gumlines were the source of endless speculations, fears and hope till the end, because it was official stuff for once, not some unsure spoilers, or theories. It's the Gum Line drama !

Back in 2008, we are like less than 2 months away from the Code Geass Finale, everyone is into debates, speculations and theories when a leak of a merchandising pictures of future Geass stuff come out, including some characters card which will come out as a bonus when you buy chewing gum (Hence the Gum Line name); Till then, nothing important, just basic merchandising.

BUT on Each of those character card is printed a line, those lines are supposed to be each of the character's most important lines in the final part of the anime; Of course those are HUGE spoiler, but this merchanding isn't supposed to come out before the ending of the show, it's a Leak, and A BIG ONE at that. (Oh how we were glad lmao, innocent fools, really)

In less than a day, all of the lines had been translated, and theories and fight were newly starting over those till the end of the anime (gum lines really were the driving force of 6 last episode of geass when it comes into theories, they were taken very seriously, as they should since ALL OF THEM WERE EVENTUALLY SAID, faithful to the translation; All of them but…One.)

Here are the Gum lines and the episode they were said to : Anya : "people's memories are vague" :Here, in Turn 16

Nunnally : "I will put an end to Oniisama's sins" Here in Turn 23

C.C. : "Hurry up and Go, then come back, you said you'd make me smile" : Here in Turn 24

Kallen : "If you say "I love you" I'll never forgive you "** Never said.

**For Kallen's line, since there are no pronoums in japanese, it's more like "If (someone) say (someone) love (someone), (someone) will never forgive (someone) To Be clear you understand the subject when you have the context, but given the gumline were all about each character's most important thing (Anya and her memories, Nunnaly and her brothe, C.C. and her smile) everyone knew it had to be about Lelouch's feelings for her but….Kallen's line was never said while all of the gum line appeared.

Everyone waited till Turn 25 and when it was clear the gumline had been cut it was pretty clear either some Kallen scene had been cut or else, her face off with Lelouch in Turn 22 had been changed (for her to say her gumline, they'd have to have a talk, but Lelouch kept his mouth shut in the version we got.)

It's also important to notice the "I love you" is Aishiteru, once again it's a very intense word, it's a love for which we barely have any equivalent in english, so for Kallen to use that word, she had to be pretty confident. (Another flame war happened in 2ch because of that, cause you don't use Aishiteru easily, in japan, Love is mostly shown through actions rather than words, it's really rare so to use it, for a girl like Kallen, it was either she knew something or she was full delusional (quite OOC of her to be this confident about feelings when that's exactly because she isn't that Lelouch managed to push her away.)

And that's when things got even funnier;

Her gumline reappeared, in a modified version in her poem; It was exactly the same base but it went from "If you say I love you'll never forgive you" to "If you had said I love you i'd even follow you to hell, you knew that didn't you"

We went from something in a current conversation to something she said in the past sense, because he was dead.

To this day it's still the biggest mystery because all of the other gumline were in the show, and because they finally used a different version of this line in her poem, they really wanted us to know she thought he was going to say "Aishiteru" didn't they ?

(The chewing gum and the cards finally came out after the show. But the lines one the card were gone, replaced by character's name.)

Once again I'm pretty sure they intended to make things clear between Lelouch and Kallen but had to backtrack because of the popularity of LuluC, and Taniguchi was known to react very strongly at leaks (he almost chose to redo the beginning of the first episode of R2 because of a leak) so some also suggested it was him being pissed and removing it (I'm more on the ambiguous side, ambiguous end means more sales, that's Sunrise)

In the end they robbed Kallen of her most important line. (And because they are schizophrenic anyway, they kept releasing positive side stuff for Kallen and Lelouch. But since it wasn't within the show, it could be easily missed. (Even though honestly the show was already pretty telling). Alas, marketing always prevail.

Now, it's always funny to think about what Lelouch might have replied to that since we know it was planned; As a friend named Tokkan said, a line like "I don't want forgiveness" would have been very Lelouch like, wouldn't it have been ?

(Instead we got that. Mouth shut and sort of bitten lips shot lol)

It was so important during the airing days that I wanted to share this story, for all those Kallen fans who think her pairing wasn't popular (it was one of the two biggest pairing in the show, (Three if we count Suzalulu) her fandom moved on because their story was over, they had their conclusion and Lelouch was dead, that's it, they were never unpopular) and who missed so many of stuff about her and Lelouch. Cheers !

[azurecanary]

While i respect the idea that Ahsoka is not a perfectly written character that has many flaws in recent writing; due to my undying love for her character, I'd like to share some of my viewpoints.

Disclaimer: Yes, i am probably biased. And yes, there's a good chance I'm projecting here.

My main idea of Ahsoka as a character stems from her being a traumatised child soldier. During TCW, she was 14-16/17. To me, this has clearly left an impact on how she views herself and the Jedi.

She also had to experience, at the hands of her best friend, having essentially had her faith wrenched away from her by someone she held dearly (yeah this is also from my experience).

And because she spent her most formative years in war (and her entire adult life), she basically grew a dependency on it. Which informs her actions in SoM (Siege of Mandalore). Wherein she desperately fights to insert herself into this conflict that she has no part in, all to feel like herself again. A Jedi Commander. She even willingly uses Obi-Wan's own feelings and morality against him. All because she is a 17 year old who feels useless and thus purposeless.

Even in the Ahsoka novel, she can't shake her strategic thinking and military mindset, amplified more by her idea that she can't be a Jedi anymore. But her journey throughout the book leads her closer and closer to the Order. Even Bail and Kaeden call her out on it. Where Bail sees Ahsoka as a remnant of the Jedi way and calls her on it, and Ahsoka ends up fulfilling Kaeden's fantasy of what the Jedi is. And by Mandalorian, she's referred to as a Jedi both in and out of universe; called a Jedi by Bo and Din, referred to as one by the episode in which she returns, and by the trailer for her show.

All in all, i don't think Ahsoka was at all thinking rationally in TCW S7, or that she is against the Jedi. Her story as always been about returning to her roots, just on her own terms. And tbh, i really hope her show gives us flashbacks on what drew her back. Maybe it had something to do with Huyang, or the Jedi ship she recovered prior to the Rebels epilogue. Maybe it was seeing Ezra or Luke restore her confidence in the Order that Barriss had shaken all those years ago. It's clear in Rebels that Ahsoka still doesn't see herself as a Jedi, given her words to Ezra, so something or someone got through to her between then and Mando (and I'll bet my paycheck it was her nephew).

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, March 20

BUFFY: I need your help. SPIKE: Great. I need your cash. BUFFY: I'm serious. You have to look after them. SPIKE: Well, that's a boatload of manly responsibility to come flying out of nowhere.

~~BtVS 5x12 “Checkpoint”~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Too Much (Buffy, PG) by badly_knitted

Secret Slayers (Buffy/Spike, E) by bewildered

[Chaptered Fiction]

[Russian language] Благие намерения, Chapters 1-5/5 COMPLETE! (Buffy/Angel, T) by B_E_S

Breaking the Code, Chapter 1/? (Dawn, Star Wars xover, G) by Buffyworldbuilder

[French language] Recommencer, Chapter 1/? (Buffy/Faith, M) by FridayQueen

Never Give Up, Chapters 58-64/64 COMPLETE! (Buffy/Angel, T) by melodys_muse

[Ukrainian language] Forward to Time Past//Вперед у час минулий, Chapter 33/67 (Buffy/Spike, E) translation by Uraniya

hit rewind, Chapter 43/? (Buffy/Spike, M) by untiljanuary

Early One Morning, Chapter 25 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by all choseny

A Little Poet in Her Monster, Chapter 11 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Desicat

Forgiveness Doesn't Come Easy, Chapter 27 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Slaymesoftly

Love Lives Here, Chapter 37 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Passion4Spike

A Breath is But a Soundless Whisper, Chapters 30-31 (Buffy/Spike, 18+) by Blackoberst

Left on Read, Chapter 19 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by ashcrashed

Bizarre Double Life, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by violettathepiratequeen

Embrace, Chapters 19-20 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Harlow Turner

Out of the Wasteland, Chapters 19-20 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Harlow Turner

Truth or Dare, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Chelle

I love you., Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Lilacsandorangeblossoms

Tag, You're It!, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by VeroNyxK84

How Could I Not?, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, R) by simmony

Glimpses of the Cellar Dwellers, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by Maldorana

We’re Having a Baby!, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only) by Maxine Eden

30 Ways to Say I Love You, Chapters 19-20 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxine Eden

Bad Idea, Right?, Chapter 14 (Buffy/Spike, R) by scratchmeout

Dead End, Chapter 19 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by all choseny

The Dawnster Drabbles, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, PG) by Passion4Spike

The Dreaded Lurgi, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) by SomeKindOfADeviant

Forever and Always?, Chapter 20 (Buffy/Spike, R) by scratchmeout

Bang, Chapter 16 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by scratchmeout

[Images, Audio & Video]

Artwork: buffy-spike bodyswap AU [...] spike!buffy in spike’s clothes / alt clothes (worksafe) by genericaces, requested by thepunkmuppet

Artwork: Ace-6 of Swords (tarots, ensemble, worksafe) by isevery0nehereverystoned

Artwork: 7-10 of Swords (tarots, ensemble, worksafe) by isevery0nehereverystoned

Artwork: Page - King of Swords (tarots, ensemble, worksafe) by isevery0nehereverystoned

Artwork: [Queen of Swords] (tarot, Cordelia, worksafe) by isevery0nehereverystoned

Artwork: the gang catch up the potentials on their spike lore :) (worksafe) by angelthemanspanker

Artwork: Miss Wil!!! (Willow, worksafe) by forrestfaedom

Artwork: just two best friends except they’re in love (Buffy/Willow, worksafe) by pzyii

Artwork: hate and love (Buffy/Spike, worksafe) by Nervous-Bird6052

Artwork: ChiBangel: I Will Remember You #3 (Buffy/Angel, G) by MamaBewear

[Reviews & Recaps]

RESTLESS. The absolute most Analysable episode of a heavily Analysable series by bloomfish

PODCAST: HELLMOUTH HOMOS: Beer Bad by Fear Queers

PODCAST: Episode 51: The Prom (w/ The Buffy Gays!) by Gym Was Cancelled

[Recs & In Search Of]

ISO: Spuffy fic [...] post Buffy but set in Angel right after Spike gets his body back but he didn’t get his soul [...] requested by skyegraves21

[Community Announcements]

I run a discord server dedicated to rarepairs in the Buffyverse! We also welcome fans of any and all Buffyverse ships by reallyreal-madeingold

[Fandom Discussions]

I know season 6 of Buffy is widely hated but tbh after season 5 it’s probably my favourite by bloomfish

[How Riley and Angel are presented vs how Spike is presented] by thefoolsprincess

Okay so I did crack the Spike Buffyvampire nut by breezybeej

The URGE to just delete every comment on my fics that bash Buffy for no reason is becoming seriously tempting by violettathepiratequeen

[anon ask] Any news on buffy comics? answered by buffythecomicslayer

Looking at a lot of Loustat shippers and how they view/talk about Louis, is making me think of the BtVS fandom by lynnenne, aquaristintern

i think giles believes during their angelus related split that jenny knows he loves her by jennycalendar

What If: What if Angel never returned in S3? by nightshade, multiple posters

Would you say Wesley was chivalrous? by Objective-Grape4382

Once more with feeling soundtrack by Slayerette444

I’m genuinely loving my rewatch of season 2 [AtS] by ukcountrylover

favorite moments that happened at Sunnydale High? by PristineSituation498

Which TV theme intro did you like better? BTVS or Angel? by SpikedIntuition

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[accio-victuuri]

sir, this has always been my wish. the people who gave birth to me are my parents. the person who teaches me is my mentor. mentor shen, let me bow to you three times. { war of faith episode 16 }

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (16-22 Jul 2023)

legit obsessed with this show right now

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture (Matt Baume, author & narrator) - interesting look at queer rep on sitcoms starting with Bewitched - focused on shows with substantial content so it was very white (which does reflect the TV landscape) but doesn't really address that -- I would have liked at least some mention of the lack of intersectionality tbh - but still an interesting and entertaining overview

🥰 Hurts that Time Alone Cannot Heal (E_Greer) - 44K, post WS recovery wingfic

🥰 come hell or high water (helix_stomper) - 66K, pt 3 of boots & budweiser’s miraculous misadventures - steddie D/s - after weeks of falling for each other thru anonymous glory hole sex, they finally meet and really get started

💖💖 +194K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Ill With Want (thedoubteriswise) - MCU: pre-war stucky, 27K - incredibly well written delicious angst from Bucky's POV [reread]

the slow death of Steve Rogers [at the hands of the stupid, sexy, considerate stripper] (MaddieWritesStucky (Madeleine_Ward)) - MCU: modern no powers stucky, 5K - very hot stripper!bucky AU [reread]

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

D20: Dungeons and Drag Queens - "In The Heart Of Death" (s18, e4)

D20: Adventuring Party - "The Gaming Super Bowl" (s13, e4)

Um, Actually - s8, e9

D20: A Crown of Candy - s5, e5-14

D20: Adventuring Party - s1, e5-14

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Jenna Wortham

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! - Patti LuPone

Re: Dracula - July 18: Trouble Ahead

Into It - The Enduring Appeal of Barbie

⭐ How To! Plus - How To Make Aging Easier for Everyone

The Sporkful - Why Ice Is This Summer's Hottest Trend

What Next: TBD Plus - America’s Killer Car Problem

⭐ Vibe Check - All I Have Faith in Is Art, Orgasms, and Friendships

Re: Dracula - July 19: Present Craving

Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News - Episode 5: Taken for a Ride

Stuff The British Stole - Zero Marks The Spot

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Coffee Palace

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - A house move like no other

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Darién Gap

Outward Plus - The Pleasures and Politics of Cruising

Re: Dracula - July 20: Most Difficult and Vital Aspect

Pop Culture Happy Hour - A Barbie v. Oppenheimer Game

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Face to Face

50 MPH - 6 MPH / A Workhorse Takes the Reins

�� 99% Invisible #545 - Shade Redux

Dear Prudence Plus - How Do I Disclose to My Kids That I've Had an Abortion–Twice? Help!

Into It - Culture Is Back: Why We Love 'The Golden Bachelor' and Those Weird TikTok Livestreams

What Next: TBD Plus - America’s $5 Trillion Grid Problem

Hit Parade Plus - Lenny on Mars Edition

Re: Dracula - July 22: Rough Weather

ICYMI Plus - The Day AO3 Went Down

⭐ The Sporkful - Why Barbie’s First Dreamhouse Didn’t Have A Kitchen

Switched on Pop - How Louis Armstrong invented the modern pop star

50 Years of Hip-Hop - 1986: "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" by The Beastie Boys

50 Years of Hip-Hop - 1987: "Paid in Full" by Eric B. and Rakim

⭐ Decoder Ring Plus - What's Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Best Of '81 To '85 [Y&T] {1990}

Pop Radio • 1970s

That! Feels Good! [Jessie Ware] {2023}

Jessie Ware

Get Pumped: Rock Anthems

[skye-huntress]

The Witch from Mercury Season 2 Reaction

Episode 16: “Cycle of Sin”

So, Prospera apparently transferred Eri into the Lfrith in order to save her. This actually makes a lot more sense to me than what I saw most people assume. And her goal is to achieve a Permit Score of 8 to grant Eri “freedom”. By the sounds of it, she wants to turn Eri into some kind of machine god using Quiet Zero. I’ve had a growing suspicion that Eri may be the final boss of this series, but it’s hardly definitive yet.

Belmeria really tried to pull the ethics card and Prospera responded with an UNO reverse

The cat’s out of the bag. Easy to cover up what happens at a restricted facility, but not at a school during in an Open Campus period.

And now the Benerit Group’s under pressure after trying to take matters into their own hands. Now they’re such a mess that they need a new President to weather the shitstorm they are currently in

Suletta really did email Miorine three times a day, even though they went unread

Looks like a lot of students are either leaving or getting pulled out of school. I did notice one of the text on Secelia’s notebook say something about not being able to sit in a cockpit again after the incident. I couldn’t help thinking, what did they think they were learning to pilot for? After all that target practice, what did they think they were learning to shoot?

Of course, Earth House is copping all the suspicion and harassment. Never mind the fact that if there was evidence they were actually found guilty of something they’d probably be thrown in a cell immediately and indefinitely, that’s not enough for their prejudiced classmates.

Yes, their friend died and that is a tragedy, but let’s not pretend that he didn’t die while piloting a machine of war, designed to kill. Well, war finally found you and if that upsets you all so much, you should probably stay as far away from a mobile suit as possible.

She’s finally back!

Earlier Chuchu was ready to go on a rampage to find Nika but when Miorine comes with some info and says to wait for more, Chuchu agrees. The girl who wakes up everyday and chooses violence is now listening to her Spacian friend/boss and taking the wait and see approach.

Everyone trying to get Miorine’s attention while Suletta kind of shrinks in the background, so leave it to the quietest person in the room to get Miorine’s attention on her behalf

The way Miorine’s mood changed when Prospera showed up is so relatable.

Guel returns and causes his brother to faint on the spot. Does this count as yet another L? He really can’t catch a break, and now it seems he’s about to do something dramatic, again.

When No. 5 was tasked with stealing Aerial, I already knew exactly how this was going to go and I couldn’t wait to see it. I was not disappointed. Suck it, 5!

Is Eri more powerful now, or did she just not see No. 4 as a threat?

Belmeria, it’s a bit late in the game to have a crisis of conscience, especially in the presence of one of your Enhanced Persons.

We have a number of different factions and schemes at play, but I’m not sure how big a role Peil will play. They are after Aerial, but now it’s clear they can’t just steal it, and No. 5 hasn’t done too well at trying to win over Suletta. After hitting another dead end, what new approach will they take?

So now we’re having that conversation. It started out well, but… It is unfortunate that that was necessary in order to save Miorine, however the problem is that it is not framed as a tragedy in Suletta’s mind but as yet another instance where her mother was right.

Suletta’s complete faith in her mother’s judgment is truly unnerving. She’d give up her dreams if her mother told her, too, and we already know she’d kill if she was told to. That’s not to say there isn’t a line, but Prospera is probably clever enough not to cross it.

I will say though, this might actually contradict the mantra that Suletta has been living by. Run and you gain one, move forward and you gain two. Allowing someone else to make the decisions for you instead standing by your own judgments is just another form of running away. Suletta will only ever truly be able to move forward if she learns to stand on her own and live true to her own principles

I expected the confrontation, but I never expected that Prospera would flat out tell Miorine she wants revenge against her father for the mass murder of her husband and colleagues. Of course, Miorine’s priority is protecting Suletta, if their parents want to kill each other they should leave their children out of it.

For a moment, I’d forgotten that Prospera was actually trying to recruit Miorine for her cause, to take over Quiet Zero. It makes a certain sense that the best way to ensure the Suletta survives what is to come is for Miorine to take over that project. It’s not like she can trust any of the other power players to leave Suletta alone, especially if they discover Prospera’s true identity and intent.

It seems we’ll be focusing on the election for the next President and Miorine has to win for Suletta’s sake

[victimized-martyr]

If you've answered this before then ignore this ask, but do you have a favorite episode, or several? (and as an optional bonus, favorite season/s?)

I have many. In no particular order:

Kenny Dies, Cartmanland, Krazy Kripples, awesome-o, trapped in the closet, follow that egg!, Cartoon Wars 1+2, Tsst!, miss teacher bangs a boy, lice capades, night of the living homeless, imagionationland trilogy, the list, tonsil troubles, the ungroundable, margaritaville, w.t.f., whale whores, 200 + 201, crippled summer, fatbeard, it’s a jersey thing, crack baby athletic association, you’re getting old, the last of the meheecans, 1%, a history channel thanksgiving, faith hilling, I should have never gone zip lining, cartman finds love, a scause for applause, black friday trilogy, go fund yourself, the cissy, safe space, a boy and a priest, the big fix, help my teenager hates me!, cupid ye, deep learning

as for favorite season, hm…I can’t decide, but I’ve noticed 10, 14, 16 are the seasons I find my self revisiting most 🫢

[history-time-out]

“Logos Rising” | E Michael Jones

The notes come from a podcast episode of “Culture Wars” when he was a guest on the “Joe and Joe from The Frontline” back in January of 2022.

​​​​2:25 - Atheism: 10 years ago 4(horseman) atheists based their argument on logical fantasy. Darwinism is the operating system of atheism. Prime philosophical ideology of today.

​​3:39 - Parmenides “that which is can’t come from that which isn’t”

​​​​4:14 - St. John’s gospel “in the beginning there was logos and logos was God”

​​​​4:41 - The atheists banned meta physics as an attack on God

​​​​4:54 - Darwinism says something can come from nothing. Every little step is the same as the step before it. This was their way to sell it and make it make sense.

​​​​6:31 - Atheism isn’t a philosophical problem, it’s a psychological problem.

​​6:40 - psychologist Paul Vince from NYU wrote a book on the relationship between atheism and father deprivation

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​​8:26 - Q: Why has modern philosophy taken this route? A: Logos makes a rebound due to researches of Thomism (official philosophy of Catholic Church) Notre Dame adopts as official philosophy as well until ND hires 2 physicists to run philosophy department (Irish men hessburg and McMillan) Late 1960’s.

​​11:20 - Talk about how God revealed logos to the Greeks. Q: How did the Greeks accept logos after throwing around different philosophical ideas which led them to the discovery of logos. A: listen to audio below for EMJs reply.

13:40 “Your thinking in physical terms with something that isn’t physical”

​​​​14:45 - God did not abandon people

​​15:16 - John wrote his gospel based on reason. (Greek) because he could not preach to the Jews anymore since he was kicked out. He said we needed a sound philosophical foundation.

​​17:30 - philosophy today, is based on science now. Physical science has become so powerful that everything has to model physics. Economics has become physics.

​​17:58 - Aristotle talks meta-physics (he calls it first philosophy) which he calls theology. “You can’t talk about the beginning and not talk about God.

​​18:02 - EMJ had this experience in India. 16 year old Hindu boy asks can you prove the existence of God? India you have hundreds of Gods and it doesn’t make sense to the boys.

​​​​21:09 - In India you have over a billion and half people in a confused state because there is no logos.

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​​21:34 - India cosmology is that earth is a semi-circle sitting on 4 elephants that is standing on a turtle.

​​20:33 - It is mandatory for every rational creature to believe in God. You don’t have to believe Jesus rose from dead, you accept that by faith.

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​​23:22 - “conform your desires to the truth or conform the truth to your desires”

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​​Read Degenerate Moderates

23:47 - fulfilling desires by questioning the order of the universe so you can do what you wanna do.

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​​23:54 - Polytheism exists bc you want to do something against Gods will (ex: sexual desires) Another example is you want to sleep with your neighbors wife. You can’t pray to God about that so you pray to another god. You are praying to demons. This stuff leads to demon cultures. Wilhelm Schmidt said “all primitive cultures are monotheistic and polytheistic cultures are a sign of decadence”

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24:59 - Are you willing to conform your life to logos?

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​​25:35 - Host: One problem in America is everyone is looking for political solutions instead of moral solutions…. Looking in wrong places for solutions…. In particular political parties.

​​​​EMJ - Reason “pure and practical reason”

​​-Pure allows you to know the truth

​​-Practical allows you to achieve the good AKA morality. Conform life to practical reason.

EMJ says Founding Fathers understood this:

​​John Adams “we have no constitution that functions in the absence of a moral people”

​​If you can’t have people do this to their lives you won’t have a government that can do it.

​​Freedom became defined as doing what you want to do as opposed to doing what you ought to do.

​​Host: “Perverted concept of freedoms”

​​License became the substitute for freedom.

31:00 - Co-Host: “Science as Opposed to Religion (modern dialogue) which is a fallacy.

​​​​“What is the Trinity? How does this concept of God lead to science itself?”

​​​EMJ: It goes back to the gospel of St. John. It begins with logos and logos was with God. Logos is God. This is the trinity.

A meditation on that phrase and the word Son. 300 years of meditation on that phrase to come up with an understanding of God. The Trinity is God revealing himself to us.

​​Pythagorus: was preparation for the Trinity. Believed number was order of the universe.

​​1 + 2 = 3

​​1 is unity

​​2 is diversity

​​3 is the Trinity (unity and diversity at the same time)

Beauty

​​​​EMJ: Another characteristic of God “The true, the good, the beautiful”

​​Because of 20th century beauty gets lost as a result of the decline of art. Beauty is a manifestation of God. There is evidence of this Trinity throughout creation.

​​​​Relationship between Jesus Christ and God the Father

​​“The father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen”

​​Aryas said “if the son comes after the father then there was a time when the son was not. If there was a time when the son was not, then the son was not God. Therefore Jesus Christ is not God” This is False

​​You can’t take the term son and applying it to an analogous way to God and it does not apply because all of 3 of those principals were co eternal and always existed in relationship to each other.

​​Muslims did not get this. Did not believe Jesus Christ was God. This is the main reason science did not develop in the Islamic world.

​​The universe is a manifestation of God.

​​Openness of Heart to Accepting Linear Truth

​​EMJ: Fundamental problem is basing life on satisfying irrational passions.

​​Aquinas “lust darkens the mind”

​​Dealing with people sunken in sin and have made a living with one of these ideologies.

​​​Racism is an irrational ideology.

​​Lutheran church evaporated in Scandinavia and Iceland.

​​EMJ: Main problem in Middle Ages was collapse of Thomism and replaced with nominalism.

William of Ockham ended in Munich and died of Black Death. “no universals. Universals are all categories of the mind” (ex: Islam taking over catholic philosophy)

Martin Luther

​​Luther couldn’t control his passions. Violent guy, a drunk and didn’t pray. Finally broke from church and subjected to sexual temptation.

​​During this time the Lutherans were breaking into convents and raping nuns or pimping them out to priests to get them to join Luther.

EMJ on pornography

​“Pornography is a form of social control”

​​He once said this to a group of zoomers and they knew exactly what he meant because they were all enslaved to their passions.