The Gems try to help Steven how to successfully use fusion powers but is having some trouble staying focused when learning this technique, and when Connie tries to cheer him up and Steven helping her how to dance in public leads to a surprising result. “Alone Together” premiered on this day, 8 Years Ago.
Yesterday's White and Black Chocolate Beans were figs from Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu's first encounter in Episode 1, and today's figs leapfrog all the way to the epilogue in Episode 37.
Since we're all familiar with the epilogue for these figs, I'll give you a little bit of a different clip:
This puts a big smile on my face - my favorite is how it holds on them looking and smiling at each other at the end for a long time. Ah I love these two so much.
This particular art style of figs, if you recall, is called 胖胖, pangpang, chubby or chonk style. They are very cute and continue to be all the rage among fig makers!
These are pretty solid figs, but you never know what the shaking around on their long ocean travels will do to them. Luckily, these two immortals were as tough as their namesakes.
These arrived with no assembly required except for A-Xu's hairpin, which thankfully also arrived unscathed.
The hairpin was an easy enough - just slid it in and it was fine. No sticking or wobbling like some other hairpins on figs.
What cuties! I don't live in a snowy climate, but if I did, these two would fit right in.
The snowman on top of Lao Wen's head is just too funny!
Their little arms are so cute and short, and their heads are so big, that I can't get their wrists to cross like in the show. But that's ok, it works just fine to have their hands touch.
You can see how the hairpin fits in perfectly here. I'm so happy it arrived safely, I had a run of broken hairpins in this fig batch.
Their hair is so cute! Lots of gentle movement molded into the hair here - I like how they designed it. A little more style in their hair than just hanging straight.
I will say that I have always wondered what happened to Lao Wen's original hairpin. Did it break off in the door? Did they recover it later? I really wish I knew!
Their little hands are adorable. All blushy and cute!
The hands are more like little paws, really. Too cute.
Have the chonks won you over yet? I hope so, since there's lots more figs of this style coming.
These two, as you can tell, stand just fine on their own. The wider feet help, but these are also just well balanced overall.
I've always liked Lao Wen's big sideways swoop of bangs with his white hair.
I won't bother saying how we were absolutely needed more screentime with Lao Wen and his white hair, since we all know that. I didn't realize I was missing out on was Lao Wen with a snowman, which is ridiculous, given the number of times snowmen actually figure in the show, whether it's Zishu with Qin Huizhang or Gu Xiang and her childhood snowmen.
The Sheriff's Secret Police are holding their annual auction of contraband and seized property to benefit their purchase of balloons, birthday candles, yellow cake and a piñata. They hope to raise seven point three million dollars and they say the piñata is armored and will be used to crush rebellions.