#i will explain more in an essay

[i-like-anything-water]

just so you know 'Rock N Roll' by Avril Lavigne is Emonette and Chloé and I will not be swayed into believing otherwise.

#chloe bourgeois #marinette dupain cheng #but she's emo #or goth #can someone explain the difference though #just listen #they're they're just perfect for each other to hurt and to love #i will explain more in an essay #in thi essay -

[thresholdbb]

I'm a Kai Winn apologist but not because I think she's a good person. She's a compelling tragic character

#Winn is a pawn of the prophets #they purposefully did not talk to her #even quark has an orb experience #but the Kai doesn't get one word #she is holding onto her faith by a string and the wormhole aliens put her in that position for their own gain #the prophets are like lol snip snip bitch #they put her through hell because they needed her to bring the reckoning with the pah wraiths #she's ambitious and calculating yeah but she also lived through the worst of the occupation #plenty of people come out of trauma with negative attributes #it doesn't excuse her behavior but maybe it explains some of it #she really does just want what's best for Bajor #through the worst of it she still believes #the prophets are more ambitious cold and calculating than Kai Winn is #her crisis of faith happens because she finally gets word from her gods that she has been loyal to all this time #and it ends up being the pah wraiths and she still struggles to turn to their side #she was written as a grating character and they write her so well #star trek deep space nine #before ds9 goes off my radar for 3 months #Kai Winn #meta #I could have written that as a cohesive post and not a tag essay...

[m0e-ru]

draw souyo. please

yeas boss 🫡

#p4 #persona 4 #souyo #souji seta #yosuke hanamura #arttag #tappous #art req tag #// SORYR LMAO I GOT THE WRONG ORANGE AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY FUCKING ATE CHEETOS AND DIDN'T CLEAN UP imsososry #// I should also explain my relationship with syou like. I don't think it's bad I just think I got desensitized with all the oversaturation #// in the tag like yknow love who you love but it gets a bit boring unless I see a minimum 3k word essay about them with citations to #// official media HAHAHA anywuay I think soujis got more important things on his mind <- obssesed with one sided syou because it's funny

[little-mari-on-a-roof]

ladrien is sunrise and adrinette is daytime and ladynoir is sunset and marichat is nighttime I hope this helps 👍

#just had this epiphany #i could explain more but I'd probably end up writing a full essay on it and no one wants that #or do you?

[lilliesthings]

Spencer Reid + Love

2x13 - No Way Out | 14x01 - 300 | (12x20 - Unforgettable)

#criminal minds #criminal minds fanart #spencer reid #spencer reid fanart #man Reid in 300 had no more will to live #in this essay I will explain why this moment was really about moreid #nvm I already wrote some gibberish about that a year ago #also another thing #Talks of love + the bones #something something #this is very deep

[genericpuff]

I've come to the stunning realization-

-that Lore Olympus is basically to the webtoons industry what Youtube Kids is to Youtube.

And I'm not talking about the general "Youtube Kids" label, I'm talking about those videos - Elsagate, Johny Johny, Cocomelon, Mickey Mouse tattooing Spongebob or whatever other weird example you can think of - which are explicitly designed to game the algorithm, turn views into money, and most of all, gain and keep the attention of the one demographic that won't question what they're consuming - children.

!!!!THIS POST HAS FAST PASS SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

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I mean, this is undoubtedly just a tinfoil hat theory, but think about it:

Bright oversaturated colors that are attention-grabbing.

Meme faces and 'lol rAnDoM' humor even when it doesn't suit the situation at all.

Art that's all around ugly and cheap on a technical level but still stands out due to its color design and prioritized advertising.

Vapid surface level scene-to-scene writing that doesn't connect or have any meaning in any coherent way.

One-dimensional projection characters who are easy to manipulate and sway for audience sympathy or anger even if those opinions change on a dime based on actions in the moment.

Cliffhangers that are less like true cliffhangers and more like clickbait. Episodes nowadays tend to be filled with drawn out plotlines, vague hints that can be applied to just about any school of thought, and non-sequitur memes to fill the time until they can hook the reader with another cliffhanger to keep them coming back next week.

Coin prices have gone up but episode length, substance, and quality have noticeably gone down. Even if they reach the same panel count they usually have, dialogue is minimal and pacing is brutally inconsistent to the point that plot progression is often non-existent.

Banner ads that run constantly, often in the first or second (or both) slots, with push notifications and pop-up ads also becoming more frequent whether you're subscribed to the comic or not.

And underneath ALL of that, we've got blatant objectifying and sexualization of female characters regardless of context, misogyny that claims to be progressive, racist undertones, borderline fetish content that constantly toes the Terms of Services line, normalization of problematic/toxic relationship dynamics, a creator who's more interested in 'getting back' at critics than writing an actual story, and underlying messaging both from the characters' and the creator's behavior that encourage witch-hunting, rejection of accountability, and blind devotion.

All this is essentially why I've given up consuming LO entirely, beyond just on a critical level as of late. There was a time long ago when I stuck around in the hopes it was going to get better, that maybe it was just going through a "rough patch" as some stories do. After that I stuck around because I wanted to see how it could possibly pull off its ending. And then after that, I simply stuck around for the laughs and community banter. But now I don't even find it funny anymore, the punchline of how bad it is has gotten incredibly old. And at this rate, as much as we'd like to believe it's going to end in its third season as it's been mentioned in the past, we also were told it was going to end between 100-200 episodes prior to that - the way it's going, I can't even stick around "for the ending" because LO is going to be around for as long as WT tries to milk it, despite it no longer having a heartbeat.

As much as I've loved talking shit about this comic and it's undoubtedly the main reason so many of you followed me here in the first place, I'm not going to lock myself in some kind of purgatory hell just to be proven what I already know is going to happen - either the comic continues on forever, doomed to be a lifeless mascot for the zombie corporation that is WT, or RS eats shit while trying to stick the landing with a plane that has no functional parts.

There's a quote from Caddicarus that I couldn't help but think of as I typed this up, from his nearly-decade-old review of Dalmations 3 (oh god, it's nearly been a decade since that video came out what the actual fuck-)

"And this is where I officially lost all fucking care. I realized it wasn't going to end anytime soon. It's one of those rare instances where the novelty of how awful everything is actually gets really tiresome and unfunny." - Caddicarus

#this isn't me saying i'm not gonna talk about LO ever again #i'm just explaining why i haven't engaged with it directly for weeks now and why my LO essays are less often nowadays #i'm even slowly phasing out of the critical community for it #it's just exhausting #and bad for my mental health #i'd rather put my efforts into something positive like rekindled than continue to give this propaganda on a stick more attention #i still love all the pals in the community but it's more to do with the content itself that's being discussed than the people discussing it #lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus #antiloreolympus #lo critical

[moeblob]

I have fallen down the anime sports hole and landed on Eyeshield 21 and I'm so sorry I'm adopting all these kids.

(I was actually going to like. Hold off posting my silly sports anime doodles until after commissions but no I wanna share them now. It's hard out here being me who thrives off interactions and this show is like "hey what if we gave you lots of interactions and also a secret identity for MORE interactions".)

#eyeshield 21 #seijuro shin #sena kobayakawa #haruto sakuraba #ichiro takami #you might look at this and go Salmon please explain why you're drawing fanart for a football anime #and i cannot actually explain #not pictured is my undying love and adoration for the Ha-Ha brothers because they're great #im only on ep28 but please i care for them so much #me watching one say that a girl is his type: OH NICE I LOVE THIS I WILL SUPPORT YOU #me watching one suffer a fear of airplanes while on an airplane: SON YOU ARE DYING PLEASE NO KEEP LIVING #i have typed so many essays on discord to two people about the emotions this anime has given me #and its such a silly anime with funky moves with funny animations for the moves #but i actually really like it ??? like yes its about hs people playing football #but the fact the main character is an underdog #joining a team of two people thus making the entire team of now three an underdog #who then continue to grow with MORE underdogs being recruited #its actually very impressive to watch the characters grow alongside sena #like they do actively show the kids interacting in various ways and its a delight #the anime is just a bunch of good boys playing a game and having a good time bettering themselves #and i say this like im an expert when im still just ep28

[averlym]

" just...come here. just sit here with me" (...that one scene from princess momonoke, click for better resolution)

#tw death mentioned for the tag rambles!! (sorry) #meme redraw gone wrong (high effort). don't ask me how i did this- i don't know either. consider this perhaps an AU of the pyre scene? #or more accurately just my internal wonderings visualised. sometimes the vibes from the implications don't pan out the same way #i also lost the original sketch somewhere in my papers. alas. i vaguely recall thinking this would be haha funny and then somewhere down #the line it turned to angst. other quotes that inspired this from the show were 'ily. i'm sorry' and 'i will always be so proud of you'. #smth smth they met on the roof!! vincent stops quincy from jumping off and then. vincent tries to die + eventually quincy kills him on the #very same roof. anyway the quincent death scene was spinning around for a bit in my head and out of the miscellaneous sketches this won out #wanted to play w the strong blue lighting + bg + silhouette things that you get w stage lighting // replaced the knife w vincent's scalpel #quincy is kneeling bc poses + idk why it's fun staging for him ;-; // also the proximity + intimacy.. // the pyre is also in the bg #but it's silhouetted behind quincy. i think the last quincy post made me associate symbolism (help??) bc as i was painting i was thinking o #angel wings ksdjfh // not to mention the halos. halos are always fun to paint.. shiny stuff... #and from the last vincent art. i guess the star and eye imagery carried over. hm. tried to get the quincy halo to match so its like a #rounder less spiky star? which hehe aligns w the sun vibes (that i??can't explain??) but more importantly here i was thinking about #binary stars for the glowy parts. two in orbit in pull to one another.. tension.. ue. also the glow for vincent goes to stabby eye so like #behind the face shown to viewer. meanwhile for quincy it goes in front of the face #and of course u have the downward linking implied line from quincy's tears +scalpel + glowy eye. #this is supposed to be rotatable.. in landscape form u can have either quincy or vincent upright (pov) + it should work both ways #//bonus stuff is vincent holding the skask w bloody hands + shadow looks like blood spatters. like it would if quincy did the stabby. #hhhh this is the most. confused i have been making a piece lately.. just toss in a lot of fun visual stuff and mix.. #if the rambling analysis here seems pointless and confused i think that's why. this is why u should plan out your essays o.O.. #oh. stuff i just remembered: the whole impetus for vincent planning his own death was so quincy would be happy / it's already #mentioned before quincy kills vincent that he's severely injured- vincent says it's fine- ig u could intepret it as a finishing blow? #hastened over the phaethon announcement- when they make the second announcement quincy looks up smiling until the admin gives it to #beatrix-he didn't know.. // <- so for this it's possible to infer that vincent wasn't very attached to living anymore.. hence why they look #more accepting above. while quincy is looking very angsty and conflicted. yeah.. // tldr! don't look into it too deeply it's a meme redraw #adamandi #quincy cynthius martin #vincent aurelius lin #tw knife

[dinitride-art]

Oh fucking- Mike’s been looking for Will this entire time. He didn’t find him in season one. He found El. Brb gotta write an essay.

#I’ve connected the dots- you didn’t connect shit- I’ve connected them #I think I’ve figured out what I’ve been trying to write for months #trying to figure out a way to write this without rewatching all of stranger things #but… things aren’t looking great for me #it’s probably good to revisit the source material at this point #even if I have a concerning amount of it memorized #okay. #I’ve got something here #well- I knew I had the evidence I just didn’t know why yet #I write essays backwards fun fact about me #gather all the evidence and figure it out later #I’m just running through my mental archives of the story lol #okay. alright. okay. #this essay’s probably gonna take me a good while #but that’s not a bad thing. #also I know this sounds kinda obvious but there’s more to it than I can explain- without and essay #I’m missing other pieces to this #I know I am #but 2/3 is a pretty good start #beginning- Will goes missing middle- mike looks in the wrong direction end- mike finds Will #that’s the story? #maybe? #I’m in the brainstorming phase #wait no- that’s it. those three things. that’s why I’m missing the third piece! #I haven’t seen it yet. #I don’t want to have an entire section of it be speculation though. #that’s for the conclusion #but… I’ll figure something out

[sadtrashking]

PLEASE EXPAND ON THE TUBBORUCHO

HERE WE GO! Basically, tubbo grew up in the fed (whether that is as an experiment or worker is up to you I like to go with a mix of the two) and he grew up with cucurucho specifically smile not osito. Seeing as they spent at least their teen years together they were close and as my previous post said they ended up dating. Tubbo is by now fully working for the fed and cucurucho is starting to take his place as the census bureau but tubbo is mostly tasked with busy work not much substantial. So cucurucho starts pulling what he can to get tubbo higher spots in the fed which includeslanding tubbo the more disturbing and cruel jobs. Tubbo is disturbed and haunted by what he has to do but cucurucho assures him it's all for a purpose and everything they do is to help tubbo. cucurucho doesn't quite grasp the toll that this is taking on tubbo and genuinely believes this is all to better tubbo they love tubbo but they don't see him as an equal or really empathize with him. This all cumulates into tubbo finally begging cucurucho to stop giving him these jobs, cucurucho laments that tubbo is smart and by doing this it will make things better for both tubbo and the feds. Tubbo starts to realize cucurucho would choose the federation and his job before he would ever choose tubbo, so tubbo rebels and cucurucho tightens the reins and gives tubbo a big ass job (maybe something to do with dragon eggs cough cough). This is the final push and tubbo tries to escape having to fight his way out but is caught. Cucurucho is disappointed and tubbo is sent to the ice prison and inevitably has his memories wiped clean. But before they send him away cucurucho is given a gift for his loyalty, tubbo's wings.

#i have a version of this that goes into the eggs origins that is a good bit darker #also explains some design choices in my pre ice dragon tubbo #also cucurucho totally wants tubbo back and is insanely jealous of Fred #sorry that this is and essay i have a lot of thoughts I can post more if you wanna hear #tubborucho #toxic tubborucho my beloved #oakley tag #rory shut up #shut up rory #im also open to explaining the darker version of this #there's also the lighter rout wit less manipulation and power imbalance #also yes this makes the underwear debate 1000% funnier

[suntails]

i drew myself some silvil food bc im dying in ‘lack of content.’ i am Begging someone else to care abt this ship with me. silvil nation has so much potential i Swear i Promise

#there is One single fic on ao3. go read it. if u ask ill write a small essay explaining why it works. i believe in them #i am their ceo i drew them multiple times. i love them so fcugkn deeply they work SO WELL just TRUST ME im SPINNING in CIRCLES #also high pony vil is my fav look for him <3 #i wanna draw at least One more thing for them. i want them to practice fight #itd be so fckgn peak #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #vil schoenheit #silvil #sobbign on the floor #im BEGGING #suntails

[dustteller]

Yknow, I think this passage really captures how Ouyang views Esen, especially in contrast with how Baoxiang views Esen. Ouyang geuinely believes the best of Esen, he genuinely belives that Esen is good and pure and kind and that it's himslef that is taining him into being otherwise. And while Ouyang is right in that he's technically responsible for Esen’s current emotional state (he did very much kill Esen’s dad and frame his brother for it, that is very much a thing he just did), for once it isn't his fault for the everything else going on with Esen?

I do think Esen is generally good-natured, and tries to be kind and generous to those he loves, but it's very clear that Ouyang has reduced him to JUST that in his head. He only sees Esen’s best qualities as inherent to him, and all the bad ones are Ouyang's fault somehow. He blames himself for Esen not understanding him (because there's something wrong with him, and even when he's mad at Esen for not caring enough to notice certain things he justifies it in his head by making it about his own unmanliness or whatever and Esen is just to perfect for that), for any failure in battle (yeah you're the general but Esen also approved this hes your boss dude), and generally for any moment where Esen exhibits less than stellar behaviour/capacity/etc. When in reality, we have a lot of moments where Esen is just sort of a dick, many of which are pre-ouyang (courtesy of HWDtW wbx flashbacks, which, granted, are also biased but my point still stands). We see Esen's constant and usually unjustified frustration with wbx and sometimes Ouyang, we see him be dismissive of the things they tell him, in the pre-order reward its pretty much stated that he makes a habit of dumping Ouyang outside brothels for hours while he goes inside to get laid, in one of his first scenes we see how much he enjoys it when Ouyang spends the whole morning tormenting Altan (altho tbf he kinda deserved it, altan suuuccckkss), and in general Esen just kinda treats people like crap sometimes. He's snapish and short-tempered and stubborn and imperious, loves whining about stuff, and is a shitty brother and best friend. He's got a lot of good qualities too, like how he's one of the few people that treats Ouyang with respect and tries to treat him as an equal, how his first reaction when wbx is insulted is to come to his defense (even if wbx usually foils his attempts by immediately clapping back and storming off), how we see him recognize he gets frustrated witj wbx too easily and tries to hold his temper back, how he immediately self-sacrifices to save Ouyang from his dad, how even after thinking wbx killed their dad he does really want to forgive him.

My point is, Esen is trying, but he's a very flawed human being, and Ouyang just can't seem to grasp that. He looks at him with rose-colored glasses. And it's so interesting that amongst all the shitty things Ouyang has done (and this duology really just is Ouyang and WBX fuck up yuan dynasty china to truly Epic proportions), the one he feels worst about is the one that isn't actually his fault (sorta). He may have killed Chaghan and been the catalyst for Esen's emotional blow up, but he isn't responsible for Esen having the capacity to burn WBX's books. That was Esen's decision. He hasn't somehow manipulated Esen into an eviler, crueler version of himself by virtue of existing evil-y and eunuch-y and revengefully im his vicinity. Esen was always capable of this, even if we take out Ouyang's actual manipulations, and I think this whole I-tainted-hin mentality really encapsulates how fucked up their relationship and Ouyang's mental state are in general. After all, Ouyang doesn't feel bad about the murder, or the framing, and he feels guilt about causing Esen pain, but most of all, he feels absolutely terrible that he's shattered what he sees as Esen’s purity, which in reality is mostly just the pedestal he himslef put him on. Man, what a fucked up little guy.

#she who became the sun #man i need to stop being like heyy ill just post smt quick just a few sentences and then I'll sleep #it always ends up as a shitty 3am essay #also i need to re-emphazise how much he did not feel bad about the murder portion of this. #and how he felt even less bad about having wbx take the blame. #in his mind they deserved it! chaghan for killing his fam and also being a dick #and wbx for being annoying and understanding him too much. #which btw is another great example of how ouyang views himself bc somebody else being like him at all is an execulate offense in his mind. #he wants both wbx and zhu dead the moment he realizes they're like him in some manner bc that's what he would want for himself. #even the crime of understanding him is sacrilege and means the person is irredeemably tainted in some manner. #which is why paradoxically he can be angry at esen for not understanding him but also have it be his fault. #bc Esen cannot understand him bc if he did then that would mean Esen is also tainted #and as we have established Esen is NOT tainted. he is immaculate. practically the virgin mary (but with more wives) #and if he IS tainted its Ouyang's fault too bc clearly he did not come that way these are ouyang-cooties #so its a GOOD thing esen can't understand him actually you guys #man. what a guy. someone should put him in a cetrifuge and distill some extra virgin self hate oil or whatevef #(only in main canon tho in the preorder reward it'd be eau de self hate or something i suppose) #also if u wanna laugh imagine a crossfaded ouyang explaining this train of thought to an equally xfaded (and very confused/worried) xu da #general ouyang #esen temur

[ambipotentsbestie]

im back after ditching the internet to avoid atsv spoilers after finally seeing the movie and guys 😭why was that an out of body experience for me, like I feel changed as a person, enlightened you could say, it could’ve been as a result of the spectacular animation and score and storyline and devastating cliffhanger, or it might’ve just been Hobie brown

#I genuinely couldn’t tell you #I loved the movie and objectively it was amazing #but how much of that love is because my eyes and ears were blessed with spiderpunk?? #I don’t know I really dont #and pavitr??? my favorite character?? #he also made the only joke that my immigrant father laughed at the entire movie #“chai tea?!? Chai means tea! You’re just saying tea tea!!” #also prowler miles was genuinely more scary than any other villain to me can someone explain why that is #I could write essays about this movie you guys #across the spiderverse #hobie brown #miles morales #pavitr prabhakar #spider gwen #miguel o'hara #prowler miles #original post #larn's things

[aropride]

i really dont understand studying at all like genuinely i don't know what it is . i know about "taking notes" and "reading the textbook" and that's it . quizlet doesn't do shit for me because i don't know what to. do. with the cards. look at them ? am i supposed to just look at them . No one bothered teaching me actual skills bc i got good grades when i was 8 and now i am so hopelessly lost . why did no one think to teach me this for when stuff got harder than four plus three

#text #ive never understood flashcards . like what to do with them. how is that any more different or helpful than just like... writing a list on #paper of vocab terms or whatever #and like conceptually i know 'learning' is like. not only committing things to memory but also being able to engage with it which #is why teachers loveeeee group discussions and essays. but like. you read the text and then you go to class and Discuss but how do you #Learn what the text is saying like how do you . put it in your brain and udnerstand and remember it . #i think im missing something very simple because everyone else in the world seems to understand this fine #like where does the part where you go oh! i understand this and can explain it in my own words. Happen #how do u force it to happen if its not something ur autistic about #Like the only example i can think of rn of this is when i hyperfixated on hpa axis dysregulation + trauma a couple weeks ago #so i was learning stuff about it for Fun and not for school so no comprehension tests or notes or anything #and basically i'd just put on a webinar while i sorted seaglass or worked on sewing or whaever #and i can explain the concept fine. ur brain controls ur body so if it gets too scared ur body loses its shit basically. #but i dont remember most of the words. i still can barely define neurotransmitter #i can apply this to my own life but i confuse the hippocampus and the frontal lobe and the amygdala etc #and i couldnt point out any of them on a diagram #i dont get it . like i know a lot and simultaneously nothing at all abt it #how am i supposedto be remembering words and numbers AND understanding the concepts AND im supposed to do that between #reading the book and engaging in thoughtful conversation with my peers i dont understand

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

the way i rewatch any part of rottmnt and once again come away from canon leo wondering where the actual heck are people getting this “oohhhh he only thinks he’s good for self sacrifice or as a tool, he has absolutely zero self worth whatsoever” instead of the canon version who’s kind of a manipulative lil stinker and KNOWS he has stuff to bring to the table but isn’t sure how to be Seen

it’s not that he thinks he’s worthless or not wanted. i fuckin promise you that about rise leo. he does not seriously think he is unloved or unwanted or ~one mistake away from being dropped by his own family~ or whatever

what he IS is rejection-sensitive in the way that makes any time he fails feel like the end of the world to HIM (setting aside that time he messed up and it did literally trigger the near-apocalypse and near deaths of him and his family lol), so he’d rather not try than risk messing up

#rottmnt #if i woobified raph the way ppl do leo itd be like 3k word essay on how #idk #the ms cuddles prank was actually extremely cruel and insensitive and CLEARLY why raph had so many trust issues #esp w his dad laughing at him etc etc etc etc like #i dont get it i really dont!!!! #like even as far as the movie goes raph kinda. suffered.... more. yk. #im not big on suffering olympics but like. #raph also self sacrificed and got physically beat up in the big alien fight #AND tortured AND mutated AND mind probed AND controlled into hurting his own family #raph literally starts the movie trying to explain to leo how it is HIS JOB to keep their whole family safe and ready for the next struggle #his entire finale arc is about how tied into the identity of protector and carrying them all he really is and how bad that is on him #fandom makes me so mad when the canon material itself i always enjoy and want to pick apart even for leo #(who frankly im burnt out on! bc of the overwhelming attention he always gets!)

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

fav golden girl 👁️👁️

You do realize this is like asking me to choose my favourite hand, right? Or my favourite leg? It's like choosing my favourite eye, my favourite strand of hair, my favourite organ, my favourite --

Blanche. It's-it's Blanche.

#it's painful because i really do love them all so much ;-; and i *especially* love their interactions!!! i adore them when they're together! #but if i *had* to choose one then it's blanche. #and this is not (just) because of my big big crush on rue mcclanahan i swear lmao #(especially since i also adore both bea arthur and betty white) #i think she's just the one that surprised me the most! #i *immediately* loved dorothy as soon as she appeared on scene in the pilot. *immediately*. and i only loved her more as i watched #i thought sophia was *hilarious* from the moment she walked in as well #(and she had some *great* interactions with dorothy that endeared her to me even more very early on) #and it took me a bit more to fall in love with rose but i found her very funny and charming from the start too (possibly bc of betty white) #but blanche? i *liked* blanche at the start. but i didn't *love* her #i found her funny! i found her pretty! and i loved her interactions with the girls as a whole #but it took me a while to really grasp her character bc she's so different from me #but man. once i started to figure her out... hit me like a train #idk how to explain at some point i was watching and it just hit me that 'oh wow. i really *really* love her.' you know? #now i go back to the pilot and the first episodes and i *see* all those subtleties i missed the first time around and i *adore* her #but she did catch me by surprise and i think that's why she's my favourite! #i could write a whole essay on all the things i love about her lmao but there's already enough tags on this post #(if you'd like to tell me which girl is *your* favourite i'd love to know!!!) #the golden girls