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midst as reductress headlines

#WHEEZING #midst podcast #midst #midst spoilers #phineas thatch #moc weepe #lark midst #jonas spahr #imelda goldfinch #saskia del norma #tzila guthrie

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Hieronymous Loxlee in Machinations | MIDST 3x13

#love a handsome man in despair #<-prev #hieronymous loxlee #midst #midst podcast

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Happy Pride month :D

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAY PEOPLE

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#oooooo great work op!! #midst #midst podcast #phineas thatch

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I only realized with them all put together in this post that this is essentially the arc of the scene

#LMFAOOOO #phineas thatch #jonas spahr #midst #midst podcast #midst spoilers

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Saskia Del Norma in Machinations | MIDST 3x13

#she was so expressive this episode i loved it #midst #midst podcast #saskia del norma

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royal trio vs shujin trio

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#persona 5 #ann takamaki #p5r #persona 5 royal

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in a technicolour dream, i found myself walking with the dead. they lent me their old coats to keep me warm.

#splatoon

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eagerly awaiting the next installment in the Fast and the Furious franchise, Hi-Li Drift

#MY GOAT #lark midst #midst podcast #midst spoilers #midst #lark midst the ace pilot witch justified murderer you are #<-prev

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Trustfall | MIDST 3x16

#midst #midst podcast #jonas spahr #phineas thatch #lark #hieronymous loxlee #damn this episode was gorgeous #midst spoilers

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The thing about Phineas/Jonas is that like, it's actually a great illustration of why it's so stupid to try to shut down a ship with "well, I get more of a familial vibe," and, inversely, to complain any time someone does suggest that a dynamic feels very familial in nature, in the same way that it's patently stupid to try to ascribe nuclear family roles to a found family. These aren't antithetical dynamics! They're not rigidly bounded, not least when you don't have any real blood ties! Honestly I really wouldn't consider myself a "shipper" for this show because the vast majority of the character dynamics can fall any number of ways, and I'm interested to see where they go.

This dynamic is interesting because it has been previously a very defined circumstance of mentorship and has also been, in many ways—which Jonas essentially states in this conversation—patronly, to the point of patronizing. But that's also a dynamic that was rigidly upheld by the Trust! It no longer applies, because, as stated, they're both at zero. When the Trust falls, all that's left are people, who now have to renegotiate how they relate to each other outside of those structures. Whatever specifics existed in this relationship prior to this point are irrelevant, because the thing that mattered enough to outlive the Trust is the fact that they actually cared for each other regardless of the roles they were forced to play, and they now get to—and, in lieu of anything else making their decisions for them, must—choose for themselves where they go from here.

#VERY THIS #definitely an all of the above sort of relationship with these two #midst spoilers #jonas spahr #phineas thatch #midst podcast

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I feel that Phineas and Spahr are one of those relationships where you REALLY need to examine it with shipping goggles off. There's so much there that, if distilled solely to a romantic aspect, I think gets lost in translation. There are so many layers to their relationship - the pseudo-parental dimension, the mentor/mentee situation, Phineas' idolatry of Spahr as a moral paragon, Spahr's guilt towards his failings of Phineas, generational trauma, all and then the devotion and romantic dimension on top of that? To condense it to just the romantic component feels reductive in a way that does it a disservice. Regardless of the lens you choose to view it, these two are - and have been - the most important person in the other's life. And after an extremely high-stress, near-death situation that has them both reevaluating their entire worldview? i don't necessarily find it unrealistic that in this absolute mess of emotions, that attachment gets manifested into a kiss, but I hardly see that as the be-all and end-all. There's so much more. It's complicated and ridiculously messy but that's what I love about it.

#midst #midst podcast #jonas spahr #phineas thatch #midst spoilers #obviously i'm not gonna clown on you if you ship them! shipping is fun! #or conversely i won't clown on you if the ship makes you uncomfortable given one of the many fucked-up complexes they have going on #but holy SHIT these two are A Lot

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I do think it's incredible just how messy all of the relationships are in this show. Lark is categorically incapable of having a healthy rapport with anyone. Weepe is extraordinarily abnormal about Saskia to the point that it's going to doom him. Phineas has the most convoluted possible relationship to/with Jonas. Midst is a show about connections and relationships and how necessary they are for not only survival but having any chance of living well, and it discusses them via the most buckwild, fucked-up people in the cosmos who cannot speak to another person without falling into the most intense interpersonal vibes imaginable. Trust fall indeed.

#they are all a MESS it's delightful #i had talked in the discord about phin and jonas now needing to navigate six or seven different complexes simultaneously #like it's so ridiculously layered #it's like watching the most beautiful car crash. there will be no survivors. #no seriously i'm like 90% sure they're all about to die #anyway you should be listening to midst #midst spoilers #midst podcast

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✨ This scene ✨

#stunning op!! #midst #midst podcast #midst spoilers #jonas spahr #phineas thatch #midst fanart

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controversial opinion, but characters are so much more interesting when you are able to forget about shipping them for a moment and actually appreciate their unrelated personal plot/arc. if the most interesting thing you can think of about a character is the ship you like them with, then I don't think you actually like that character very much

#THIS THIS THIS