There’s an appeal for me if Cassandra quietly marries Kynan after ten years of knowing him in secret. Just drops it into conversation to Percy and Vex that she and Kynan are married. They’d be confused that they didn’t say anything but they would be just like Percy and Vex, sooooo deal with it
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Cass & Babs
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood / Les Misérables, Victor Hugo / You've Always Been More of a Dog Person, Trina Das / When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen / Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt / Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami / Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka / Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys / Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson / In the name of Love, Katie Maria
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thinking about this post on how Ed’s impossible bird alludes to the albatross and now all I can think about is how these past 3 episodes feel like a play on the Rime of the Ancient Mariner…he’s crashing weddings to make sure everyone knows that he’s the mariner who shot the albatross, who cursed his luck and life; but what’s interesting is he also seems to be his own albatross. it’s his own weight hanging around his neck. and the act curses his crew—he kills the part of himself that guides sailors safely—and they are now forced to turn on him, their souls sucked away by his curse. and he’s ready to reconcile the guilt of it all via his own death, he wants to do so, but he just cannot seem to die:
“Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide wide sea! / And never a saint took pity on / My soul in agony.
The many men, so beautiful! / And they all dead did lie: / And a thousand thousand slimy things / Lived on; and so did I.”
but then finally, in the darkest night of the greatest carnage, he’s suddenly reminded that he’s not alone like he thought—there’s life in the sea, and it’s beautiful and fiery-warm. and it’s the moment he feels love again that the albatross finally frees itself from his neck and falls into the water. it’s the feeling of love that breaks the curse.
…is this something? can’t tell if this is a thing or if i’m charlie day meme-ing myself this show has broken me
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the only thought on the episode i will say tonight is this: i’m really disappointed that i’m supposed to be rooting for a set of bullies.
say what you will about the bad kids, they’ve been nasty this season, with a few standouts here and there—notably fabian, who has gone out of his way to make amends and friendships with people outside of the bad kids. but hearing the way they talk about other characters? the way adaine and kristen and gorgug were straight up bullying the rat grinders in a lot of situations? not saying the rat grinders weren’t being antagonistic in their own right, and i fully understand this is a comedy show of people sitting around a table making jokes and rolling dice. but compared to how much connection i had with the bad kids in say, season one or two, when they were going out of their way to be nice to people more often than they were being straight up rude and egging people on…
idk man. something about the bad kids this season isn’t sitting right with me anymore. and i’m sad.
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If you take requests, for a capsei moment
could we have Ralsei comforting Cap'n after like, a nightmare or sm? bc it would be adorable and I LOVE how you draw Ralsei (and everyone else gh)
THANK YOU !!! i enjoy drawing them all so much <3
in case it isn't clear (because I'm bad at dialogue), Ralsei is implying that he’s had to talk himself out of panic attacks since he’s been alone his entire life until now. i’m so very normal about him ! but anywho moving on
i imagined that cap’n had a nightmare at his shop and instead of waking his brothers (maybe bc the nightmare involved them) he just. grabbed his hoodie and ran to the castle bc he knew ralsei would be awake.
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NO YOU DONT GET IT S2 OF JUNO STEEL IS ALL ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE ALWAYS AND PEOPLE DO BAD THINGS WITH GOOD INTENTIONS AND THAT DOESNT MAKE IT OKAY BUT IT DOESNT MAKE THEM MONSTERS AND YOU DONT EVER HAVE TO FORGIVE THEM FOR IT BUT YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY DIDNT DO IT JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE EVIL TO AVOID MAKING THOSE SAME MISTAKES AND AHHHHHHH SKDJEJSKSKFNRNRISKCB RJCOKCNDJFIDJSNNFJCIFJDODODKWNALSPCJJRNRJDJDNDBEKSODN
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Dean is such a paradox for me because on the one hand, I have been actively triggered by him in the show, there are moments where, intentionally or not, the writers managed to create a portrayal of manipulation and abuse and control issues that it sets off actual alarms for me. And on the other hand, I would not have him any other way. There is something — not comforting, that’s too soft a word — about knowing where Dean’s actions stem from, having seen and learned all that we do about his childhood neglect and parentification and the trauma he goes through repeatedly in the show, and that he doesn’t come out clean. He comes out a goddamn mess who ends up hurting the people around him in reaction to his own pain!
There’s a reality there that’s. Almost nice, actually. Distressing to watch, but it is a fucking mess, it’s a good mess! He’s got zero healthy coping skills and a healthy relationship with say, his brother, is terrifying because it leaves him open to abandonment!
I’m not sure I’m wording this correctly. There is a way to be a good abuse victim. Take the pain, martyr yourself on it, and then, even if you have no support or idea how to, then you have to become a Good Person who never hurts anyone the way you have been learning to your entire life. Simply toss everything that shaped you out the door and emerge a saint with a tragic backstory. And Dean is not that. And that’s so fucking good. Everything that he has gone through continues to effect the way he treats the people around him, and he can’t fight the behaviors he might recognize as harmful because he also sees them as protecting him (or protecting Sam by keeping Sam with him.)
And sometimes, idk. It feels good to see a guy who didn’t heal the “right way.” Who mostly didn’t heal at all, just keeps the wound open because it’s easier that way.
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Raymond being nice to Darrell in “You’re in Control” leading to the death of everyone in the entire plaza in the series finale is my favorite unintentional butterfly effect in the show
He praises Darrell which ends up motivating Darrell to kick Boxman out of Boxmore (in a roundabout way)
Boxman has nowhere else to go so he stays with Venomous which ends with Venomous buying back Boxmore and joining the family
Then Ven is in close enough proximity with KO that Shadowy can finally establish a real connection with TKO and everyone Dies
Raymond being nice to Darrell is the only act that’s unmotivated by any prior interaction. He kickstarted the entire chain of events. He’s responsible for the deaths of millions
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