Phantom, the new addition to Young Justice, just accidentally made Impulse cry.
Whoops.
Impulse had been talking about a candy that had been in the future, that he missed a lot, that had no equivalent in modern times.
So the next time Danny was in the Zone, he asked Clockwork if he could reach into the future and grab a bar. Clockwork just told him that the timeline he was talking about was dead, but that the people from it were occupying the Zone if he skipped forward in time a bit; maybe one of them knows how to do a homemade version?
So he does that, with the help of Clockwork, and manages to find someone from that doomed and dead timeline that knows how to make a homemade equivalent.
He returns to the world of the living and recreates it, and Impulse is beyond ecstatic for both the food and the recipe.
Then he asks where Danny found this.
Danny, mostly human but having been something other for so long that the concept of 'Death' doesn't hit him the same way, cheerfully says he sought the dead souls of the future that had been dissolved and asked.
Now everyone is glaring at him and Impulse can't stop crying.
I sit in solitude with eyes darker than anyone remembers
Purple veins outlining my body
And the toxic wasteland of my mind
I'm shouting these past years have been filled with pain
That has not been spoken about
I won't talk about it
Nobody likes a rocked boat
Instead, the tension will climb it's way up my vertebrae
Making a home in my bones
Reminding me
I am the reason for its existence
And promising
It will never leave me
It knows I don't want to be alone
Or face the unexpected with a lack of preparedness
I'll smile and talk about
Something else
Like the weather or my job
Or the time we were in high school
After hours in your room
Where he said he loved you
for the first time
I gave him advice
He's a great fiancé
I'm glad it worked out
I'm quieter than anyone remembers
Carefully choosing every single word
I utter
I want to say
I've been devastated and torn apart
Everyday for longer than I could've imagined
That living in solitude is a humbling experience
That has brought me to tears
More times than I have been truly happy
And every single day and moment feels exhausting
In a new and profound way
I actually thought I was dying yesterday
It was just my throat tightening
Swollen with words I should have spoken
Or screamed or yelled
Anything to get it out of me
Because I've felt trapped in one moment for years
And I don't know that I'll find my way out of it
But I'll smile and talk about
Something else instead
Like the weather or my job
Or where he said he loved you
for the first time
That feels easier and less complicated to explain
Less awkward for everyone
gale's reaction to the protag offering to sacrifice themselves by becoming a mindflayer
i wanted to share this scene because it's something that not everyone may have seen and because it's a truly wonderfully acted, animated and written scene, showing gale's empathy and selflessness. despite being scared, despite wanting to live, he makes the offer to reconsider using the orb so the protag needn't sacrifice their own life and soul.
you can get the scene by having the protag ask the emperor if by becoming an illithid, they would be able to control the netherstones and absorb orpheus's power.
gale will interrupt the conversation with:
Gale: This is not the kind of decision to make based solely on your own wisdom. We must discuss it - privately.
he will then have an exclamation mark over his head to initiate the full conversation.
Were none of you gonna warn me on the fact that Fox and Thorn’s paint jobs are just opposites of each other. When one’s drenched with red, the other leaves it white. When blank plastoid is exposed, the other will cover it with red. They're half of each other's souls, Scoob.
my love, my life. the man who brought me joy and the man who has planted the seed of life in me as i was slowly dying. you saved me and im dancing on the colossal towers. im not afraid of falling because i know you will catch me in your arms. the same ones that carried me away from the danger and that sway with me with the music we've created.
interesting how dev patel created a movie referencing the Hindu legend of Lord Hanuman, a monkey so hungry he ate the sun, and released it right before the solar eclipse
Y’all ever like “I wanna smooch them so bad” but in a completely platonic friendship way, like you wanna kiss them with all your heart and soul but in a non-romantic way
The racism my beloved Simon had to face….my baby. 🥺💔
Although painful to watch, it felt incredibly validating. It was so annoying watching some people say this show was “only about class” while dismissing the BS that Simon had to go through. The abuse was ten fold because he’s POC and S3 finally exposed that.
That being said, and on a more positive note, it was so incredibly sexy when Simon sang happy birthday to Wille in Spanish (he feels safe with him!) and when Wille admitted to fantasizing about stroking those beautiful curlssss (and then actually did it). 🥹❤️🩹
i can't stop thinking about the first episode of season 6, when sam tries to convince dean to come with him, to come back to hunting. he says "it's just better with you around, that's all." it's an interesting line because sam is soulless, obviously. and even though he doesn't understand the details yet, he knows something's wrong with him.
"it's better with you around" he says, citing dean's compassion and care for others as the reason why. and how interesting is that? sam's working with plenty of other hunters who still have their souls—they're all more than capable of caring about the people they save. but sam needs dean specifically. he knows he's missing something, and he sees dean and recognizes that something in him. even cold and calculating and unrelentingly logical, sam recognizes that dean, alone, can "complete" him, give something back to him that he's supposed to have.
in episode 8 he tells dean he "needs his help." he doesn't elaborate; he never explains what he means by that. he has a whole family of hunters who'd be willing and able to help him, but still he needs dean. even without his soul, his hyperrational mind knows he needs him.
soulless sam isn't capable of caring about dean. but he doesn't need to care to know they need to be together, no matter what—to know dean is good for him, dean completes him, dean needs to be there for him.
it's like a sick reversal of season 1. sam drags dean back into this life because he can't keep going without him. because he needs him. because when you think about it logically, and sam has no other choice, there was never any other option for them.