one could argue that spiderbit works so well because of the trust, the devotion, the communication etc etc, but i truly think it's due to their ability to commit to the bit together. that post that's like "my ideal partener is someone who will 'yes and' me no matter what"? yes that is about q!roier and q!cellbit and that's really what love is all about
i know the hc that meta knight is super overprotective and doesn't really trust the kumazaki trio + marx, but like. what if it was bandana dee instead. bandee is the one that hisses like a cat whenever magolor is in vicinity and shoots death glares at susie when kirby's not looking. and they are terrified of him.
i know this is from episode two-ish but i am still so so genuinely furiously upset that gilear left on this cruise and DIDNT TELL FIG?!?!?! she had to find out that her dad was gone for the year because of an offhand remark from her friend???? and HE’S MARRIED and she wasn’t involved at all?!?!?! that’s literally not true. like wrong. absolutely no way in hell.
in sophomore year (which was like hypothetically less than 5 months ago) he was promising to be a better father and DONNING CURSED ARMOUR to protect her and now he’s leaving on a cruse without so much as a goodbye text??? idk that’s so fishy to me.
bleem you better have some really insane plot reasons for this bc i will sob.
Please please listen to Nate Lawrence and Chris talking about Daniel on their podcast.
They talk about a little moment they had with Daniel and F1 journalist Dan Knutson who unfortunately had to have his leg amputated, and how Daniel came up to him to ask how he was and genuinely being concerned about his health and would have stayed there talking to him if someone hadn't had to come and take him away.
They talk about how a touching moment it was, how Daniel has that kind of empathy that no one else in the paddock has and how Daniel said i shouldn't really complain about my injury now.
Nate then goes on to talk about how affected Daniel was by Romain's crash and how he later came up to Nate to ask what he thought about what Daniel had said about f1's handling of the broadcast afterwards and Nate being surprised at how Daniel genuinely wanted to know his opinion because drivers usually never asked journalists questions . Nate talks about "the happy go-lucky guy you see on Netflix, there's actually a pretty big heart there."
Lawrence describes how genuine a person he is, how he "wants to know about you, wants to genuinely be around you, if he hears you're unwell or something's happened, he'll seek you out."
The part in The Hatchetfield Ape-Man where Konk freaks out over water falling from the sky is such a good moment because, if you stop to think about it, it would make no sense if Konk was actually real. The Hatchetfield Ape Man is an outdoor creature from Michigan of all places, he wouldn't be scared or confused by a bit of rain. At first it feels like a mistake on the Langs' part, a character oversight that just slipped through the cracks. But then the full story snaps into focus and you realize that it wasn't the Langs who messed up, but Ted. Lucy was just too blinded by her own hopes and fantasies to notice.
Also who am I kidding, I wanna hear about your fae Etho!!
now ETHO. this is one I like to ponder
etho is one of those fae that really.... isn't even sure what he is. it's pretty evident that she's fae, I mean she's the most faeish arguably out of maybe All of the hermits. but it's hard to tell exactly what's going on with him
the one thing that's pretty clear is her court, very obviously winter. he does very much connect to the autumnal love of games, but this easily passes into the winter area, especially where winter court generally surrounds the mind's ability to manipulate the heart. etho is highly calculating, but it's all with emotion and laughter and well-used fear in mind. he is the perfect player of games, but she also taps into the spring love of art in how he thinks so deeply about color and contrast and all these things in his builds, she really loves getting deep into thought about the less concrete, the emotional
the thing that's less clear is his exact typing of fae. there's been an idea floated around that he could be a spriggan, (along with false, wels, and perhaps gem and hypno,) a kind of protector fae associated with great strength. however, this role is one that's... elusive to her. he certainly possesses a strange and complicated relationship with the desire to protect, and has the enhanced senses and physical prowess/awareness notable of spriggans, but it is rare for spriggans to be so mystical in their power. they're often grounded, forceful, and straight-forward, and etho is simply too shifty and mischevious, especially in his magics, to not have at least a bit of dissonance with the idea. he uses illusory magic typical of winter fae with extreme proficiency, and it's known that her masking is often magical instead of physical. many fae have supernatural connections to word and lies, and etho seems to have one of the most convoluted relationships, spinning strange tales in one moment and seeming unable to lie about the tiniest of things in the next. she's just confusing, honestly. and so it's far more likely to hear etho simply referred to as "trickster," opposed to any more specific type of fae. it's really pretty futile to try to pin her down, and definitely not all that helpful if you want to understand him
but weirdly enough, if you're another of those fae that isn't sure what you might be, you're likely to get pointed in etho's direction. he was the one who was able to spot gem as a spriggan, after she'd spent a long time wondering what her combination of features were for. she seems to know just about every species and designation under the sun and moon, and has yet to really be surprised yet. makes you wonder how long she's been around, really
i wish steven universe went more into the watermelon stevens (said no one ever, but hear me out!) i wish they went more into how steven made a whole society and abandoned them, just like the diamonds do, just like rose did. and how it demonstrates that having such immense powers very easily leads to a disregard for life.
Sakura gets a second point for being the first to complete the tree climbing at being better at chakra control, but at the same time it just feels like she was made good at it so no extra training segment time would have to be put into her getting good at it and it can be all about Sauce and Nart. Idk that feels too pessimistic but also could totally be true.
remembering that Caleb originally designed the Vault of Amber to carry corpses--specifically, he envisioned killing Astrid and Wulf, using their remains as stand-ins for his parents' dead bodies, and that's...a lot. But--
It was supposed to be for carrying corpses. For making them conveniently disappear. When the Nein talk about bringing Molly back to the Blooming Grove to give him a proper burial, Caleb starts ritually casting Vault of Amber. "To take him with us," he says. Because that's exactly what this spell is built for, to carry bodies. And while Molly's lying there lifeless, Caleb is right beside him, still concentrating on his spell.
I don't know. Something about how he built this portable coffin to carry his former lovers who betrayed him. Something about how he was going to keep Molly in there. Caleb still wanting to hold onto his Circus Man in some way. His magic wasn't enough to save him, but. For just a moment, he still wants to keep him close.
And then, before the spell can take hold, when he's still looking down at Mollymauk and truly believes him to be gone--miraculously, his eyes open--
Let's also take a second to appreciate how well First Kanaphan emotes. First is truly one of the best actors when it comes to showing emotions with just his eyes. He can be wearing a full ninja style mask, and he'd probably still be able to make me feel the exact emotions he's portraying just by looking at his eyes. It's incredibly impressive how he does it.
Also, HIS SMILE??? I'm sorry but I'm never ever shutting up about his smile, because it's always so big and bright and soft and happy and just gives me a huge boost of seratonin because his smile just RADIATES genuine happiness. I don't think I can ever meet him/an equivalent of him irl bcs I'd straight up commit murder if he asked me with that smile.
ngl i know it happened cause like, “lol im gonna fuck your mom” jokes are common and funney (and im not on a pedestal i make those jokes a lot LOL) and on a surface level if you havent read the books (which by the amount of love for how deep and nuanced dotc is, i can tell a lot of people havent actually read it) its a weird and bizarre thing and people likely just ran with that and made a joke out of it, but i really never liked the jokes about star flower and clear sky because like… the way star flower is treated is really gross and unsettling and its not a spiteful or petty thing shes doing, he likes her bc shes his sons age and will obey his every whim because “shes bad and needs to earn decent treatment” and she wants to atone or whatever and shes literally treated like a prize he gets for being suuuch a good boy now (now he ONLY abuses women, instead of abusing AND murdering them)