I'm screaming and wailing. The Endbringers in Worm are legit my FAVORITE depiction of unfathomably eldritch but also a physical force of nature beyond proper comprehension. I like them so much and the superhero premise makes it even better because you have these super powerful beings and even they're not enough! They can slow it down, beat it back, but even working together isn't enough to kill them. And when you think you've figured it out. Think you've learned their moves and their goals and their strategy. HA. Jokes on you, they've been holding back.
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ive seen ppl saying smth in the wider plagiarism discussion to the tune of "don't worry anxious people, it's impossible to accidentally plagiarize!" and i feel like that lacks a lot of nuance that anxious brains like mine latch on to to just dismiss the possibility outright, as well as a lack of life experiences fueling it.
it is possible to "accidentally plagiarize" in that you can read something, forget about it, then a while later have your brain spit the ideas back out without telling where it got them. so of course you just assume they're yours and share them as such, because That's Where Most Of The Thoughts In Your Head Come From! and it both is and isn't plagiarism, you weren't /intending/ to pass someone's else's work off as your own, i'd even say in a way you were just as much a victim of misinformation as your audience. but you very much so did still resuse the work of someone else, even if you don't remember it.
but in my experience, this kind of thing also happens to a lot of people. you tell a friend a joke then wake up in a cold sweat two days later realizing the reason they didnt laugh was because they'd told you that joke a month ago. you reply to a friend's text and after sending you realized you ended it with the same exact phrase as theirs. you're writing edgy poetry and write a line you really like only to see it in a text post two days later saying youve already liked the post. like, it happens. so if it DOES happens and you're just honest and explain, people will understand. something like "oh shit im sorry, i totally have read that, i mustve forgotten and only remembered bits and pieces and just thought they were mine. thank you for letting me know and for the source" works wonders.
people know you can forget things. people won't automatically doubt your apology just because all true plagiarists say it was accidental. HOPEFULLY people can understand the nuance between a genuine remorseful explanation, and a thief who hoped no one would find out scrambling for excuses for why they did it. and those who can't, that's a them problem, not a you problem, you've taken responsibility for your actions as much as you can. they think the answer is simple, that the only thing stopping you from saying "yes i did it on purpose, i knew the whole time and deliberately copied them" is shame/inability to admit to your actions. but sometimes things AREN'T that simple, so imo ppl who are shitty to you for not following the script they made up for you in their head should be ignored
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thinking about the underwater date again and about how after 13th almost joke-ish "not a bad date am i?" yaz doesn't joke back or brush the answer off but honestly answers with her quiet "no".
she's so much more brave that i've thought about her before (not that i've ever thought that yaz is not brave; she is, she very much is but this moment...). imagine you're standing in front of a 2000+ years old alien creature that's "seen more, loved more, lost more". the creature that is so like... infinite, so much more than just a friend someone you'll put on a pedestal and still STILL after this "not a bad date am i :D" you don't hesitate you don't go silent but you're honest and you admit something (that you didn't even want to admit to yourself a couple of hours/days ago). it's not "did dan tell you to say that" or "no you certainly is a bad date, we could've drowned!!!" or "where's the ship tho?" no it's an HONEST answer.
it makes me respect chibnall's writing more with each rewatch bc yaz IS special but in ordinary/everyday things you wouldn't think as special before moments like this. bc like admitting your feelings is huge but normal but admitting them to the doctor?
i wonder about how/will this lead to something in potd? in a way of yaz being brave one last time.
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The Magnificence of TCF Foreshadowing
As I recently mentioned in this post, its amazing subtlety surprises me again and again. I just re-read chapter 608, and look what I found.
This is exactly what was said by Cale, word for word, during the fight against the Electric Eel in the Sealed God's Test:
“If the hunter is weaker than the prey…”
Numerous hunters were waking up.
“You just need to make the hunters grow stronger.”
[…]
“By the time morning arrives…”
[…]
“The hunters’ counterattack will start.”
This... this is practically a prophecy! Cale, you dumb potato! That Bishop from the Church of the God of Death was right about you!!! 😂😂😂
If you don't know what I'm getting at – spoiler warning for TCF Part 2 (chapters 1-40):
In chapter 38 of Part 2, Cale calls himself "the Hunter who hunts the Hunters". In other words, he is the Hunter in question, while the Hunters are his prey. (And it's not just Cale, either – notice that there are other "Hunters waking up". Cale is directly inspiring a movement against the Hunters.)
However, they are stronger than Cale when he says that line: because they're an organization that has taken over multiple dimensions.
“You just need to make the hunters grow stronger.”
Cale becomes stronger by using the Dagger of the Word Tree on his heart.
“By the time morning arrives…”
By the time he defeats the White Star and the Sealed God...
“The hunters’ counterattack will start.”
This line fits in two ways: one, the Hunters' counter attack did start at that exact moment. The very same day, if I'm not mistaken.
The second meaning is getting obvious in chapter 40: Cale intends to smack the Hunters in the back the same way they did the Roan Kingdom. They blew up their Royal Palace? He shall blow up the Fayence Residence. They kidnapped Zed and the last remaining Orsena? He kidnaps their Princess and their Blood Martial Arts specialist.
And the "morning" which has "arrived" in Xiaolen? The title of chapters 28-37 itself says it all: "The Sun Has Risen"!
I am not making this up! This is a legit connection!!! 🤩
...As you can imagine, now I'm sitting here and trying to find any more foreshadowing hidden right in front of my face to figure out the incoming plot. Honestly, I'm having the time of my life 😂
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Concerning Quintessons, I'm convinced that they did conquer Cybertron sometime after the Space Bridge was destroyed and currently ruling over what's left of Cybertron and any Transformer out there is either under their control, or a part of a rogue faction trying to wrest control from them. In past incarnations, the Quints did conquer and enslave Cybertron or were a considerable adversary to the Transformers, so I wouldn't be surprised if the Quintessons are in fact not just the main villains of season 2, but are also in control over Cybertron.
Oooo that would make pretty significant sense considering what I've seen!
It'd be an interesting parallel if it was s3 like it was in g1 but I don't think they'd logistically have a whole season in the middle planned out JUST to keep a pattern
I do wholeheartedly believe that if/when the mecha contact Cybertron again that they'll encounter the Quintessons, but I've been giving serious thought to the idea of the Quintessons realizing earth and Cybertron are connected and trying to conquer earth too (... I've thought a lot about that.) and that's how the mecha find out that Cybertron has been taken over. I just need humans to see a full on Quintesson judge is all. I need it. It would also be an interesting way to integrate the Terrans into it.
We're right though that the Quintessons are involved somehow, there's just too deep of a connection to the Emberstone and Quintus and there's the dweller and someone suggested that Mandroid's final form was somewhat like a Quintesson and there was the Sharkitrons detail which last I checked in g1 those guys were under Quintesson control (didn't Mandroid say he won their loyalty by springing their homeworld from enslavement in that wackadoo time dimension mess???)
What you're suggesting makes perfect sense, the Quintessons are coming up as major antagonists at some point and the Malto kids are going to be heavily connected to toppling their reign.
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