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#i'm waiting for the redemption arc
boyrobott · 9 months
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Astro Boy + first steps
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bonebabbles · 5 months
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God the new ultimate guide sucks
It's not JUST the awful art, either. The art's just worth mentioning because even if the book's info had been terrible or contained nothing new, really cute art can make it still worth having.
But, no, it's even full of recycled lines we've been hearing for years like "Bramblestar Can Match Squirrelflight's Fire Not Contain It," and that's when it DOES get everything right. These entries leave out major, important details (making them bad summaries) and are sometimes even straight-up incorrect.
SUMMARY THOUGHTS
Leafpool is said to have watched Brambleclaw kill Hawkfrost to save Firestar-- but for one, no, she was not there because Ashfur was still leading her and Squilf towards the scene. For two, no, Brambleclaw did not kill Hawkfrost just to save Firestar, it was self-defense. Hawkfrost had him pinned and was going to kill him.
They're REAL cute about Leafpool's death, too, neglecting to mention WHY the Sisters needed to be saved at all and just saying Leafpool's "generosity" lead to her death in that cave-in.
I'm not even going to get into everything on Bramble's entry jesus christ.
Sagewhisker's entry is ESPECIALLY fucken' dandy, framing Yellowfang's Secret like she was simply waiting patiently for Yellow to realize her 'destiny' and not actively shoving it on her at every opportunity.
Leopardstar's entry states that romantic interest in Tigerstar was part of her motivation. "Perhaps she'd hoped he would be her mate" please speak to a woman irl for once in your life.
Gray Wing's entry forgot that the reason he "blamed himself" for Bright Stream's death is because he was literally staring at his big strong brother too much and tripped on a root in front of him. It IS his fault she died.
Clear Sky/Skystar's entry is just obscene. "He regretted abandoning his son and after a fire, he encouraged him to live with him" instead of "saw his teenage child was useful now and bullied and belittled the kid and his uncle into letting Thunder come with him." "Retaining his fierceness towards his cats and outsiders which caused his son to leave" instead of "murdering, brutalizing, and abusing everyone around him caused Thunder to leave." I'll just say this tho; "Fierce" is an interesting way to spell "Cruel."
It's interesting that they don't point out that a major part of Jagged Peak's arc was proving he was "Just As Good" as every other cat in spite of his disability, thanks to his introduced-and-pregnant-in-the-same-book wife becoming his life coach, only earning Clear Sky's respect after being allowed to physically lead a patrol in Blazing Star. Instead they frame him finding his place through taking care of kits, which... was something he seemed to resent in the actual series, considering how the books suddenly treat Gray Wing's protective treatment of him as a terrible thing in Blazing Star because he "didn't give him a chance". But at the same time I actually strongly dislike Jagged Peak and his messy, frustrating character arc so I'm not really UPSET with it. Just... noting it. I suppose this is the official direction they're taking away from it?
Shadowstar's entry is barely even 3 paragraphs yikes.
SHORT STORY THOUGHTS
And if you're wondering if the 4 brand new stories they smooshed into the end in a desperate attempt to make the rush job worth buying are good? No. Of course not. They're all slop.
Story 1: Firestar and Graystripe
First one's a marginally cute story about Graystripe and Firestar which is setting up the framing device linking the mini-tales together. They both remember this situation where Firestar fell into a ditch wrong. The punchline is that Thunderstar remembers it perfectly and they're both like, "WOW! Too bad Thunderstar's memory sucks!"
It's not terrible, but it does feel a bit pointless. But, hey, if you want more Firestar and Graystripe in the series that tosses them fanservice at every turn, who am I to judge?
Story 2: Dovewing and Ivypool
The next one is the Dovewing/Ivypool reconciliation passage everyone's talking about. It's... fine, but immensely dissatisfying to me.
Dovewing is apparently having problems adjusting to her Clan, grapples a little bit with the fact she has no friends but is going to be finding meaning in helping tigerHeartstar "bring the new ShadowClan into existence." She ultimately decides that she needs to talk to her sister, and begs for reassurance that Ivypool believes in her, feeling that her support can help her get through this difficult time in her life.
I think its biggest problem is that Dovewing was not the right choice for the POV here.
Dove was never the one responsible for the rift in their relationship. Ivypool is. Ivypool is the one who was jealous, willing to sabotage anything that would put Dovewing closer to Tigerheart, and continues to be generally aggressive towards her. So when Dovewing is reaching out to Ivypool in hopes of them reconciling, it feels wrong because Ivypool is the one that should be reaching out to Dovewing. SHE is the one who has some things to apologize for, and to show how much she loves and misses her.
It's even kind of frustrating, because Dovewing can never catch a break. She has to have these problems to force her to reach out, Ivypool even ends up suggesting that she leave and come home and take her kids with her, but in the end even a LITTLE bit of assurance from her aggressive sister helps.
I feel super bad for Dovewing, man. She deserves better than this cheap writing. What was the point of such an unsatisfying, rushed reconciliation, shoved into a crummy field guide, when we KNOW from the newest book that they're just going to use tension between them as part of the drama anyway?
shouldn't have even been written, imo. Even ends off with, "They'll always have each other :)" which is so... cliche. It's TIRED. Are any of you really happy with just getting a retconned platitude in a good-for-nothing field guide, instead of seeing complicated, INTERESTING feelings in a main book?
Story 3: Alderheart and Twigbranch
A tale of Cherryfall getting sick during TBC and Alderheart sneaks back into the territory to treat her. Also Crowfeather has a scene where he yells at him. Charming.
Twigbranch comes up with a diversion while Alderheart does his work, which is cute. It's a fine story.
Story 4: Clear Sky
Trash. Three dogs spawn in the middle of a gathering so that Skystar can have an uwu big boy sendoff saving his grandkit. Then he goes to StarClan and throws a fit because they can't give him ANOTHER life, becoming so upset that he attacks the nearest woman. Naturally, Shadowstar brushes it off because it's not the first time Clear Sky has pummeled her in the midst of an adult tantrum and this book series thinks violence is fine if their favorite sadboy does it.
Then Gray Wing brings him to the magic mirror pool where you can see the living, to confirm that Star Flower is ok and that makes him feel better.
Then it launches into Firestar saying "ouuuugh yum I LOVE the taste of his butthole. Clear Sky is so misunderstood, He Just Loved Too Much."
to which Graystripe responds, "Yes, he was a good and amazing person and his farts smells SO good, and can you believe that some people think StarClan punished his Clan for his arrogance? As if he ever did anything wrong, ever?"
Firestar, indignant, refutes it with, "Ugh!! StarClan would NEVER be interesting, we don't punish living cats we just float around and make vague, frustrating prophecies that do nothing but pad the word count. Why cant ppl understand that, gosh."
who wrote this? Gray Wing??
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imminent-danger-came · 9 months
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IVE ONLY SEEN ONE PERSON POINT THIS OUT BUT MK TRIES TO PUNCH MACAQUE DISGUISED AS WUKONG BEFORE HE EVEN REALIZES ITS WUKONG. I CAN FEEL THE MK AND SWK FIGHT IN MY BONES. Also can you imagine with like that one art post Mei asks MK who HE wants to be, not a reflection of somebody, not the Monkie Kid, not the Harbringer of Chaos and HE REPLIES WITH HIS REAL NAME I WOULD GO INSANE
I'm like. 85% sure that person was me afasdfafsd. I know I've mentioned it before somewhere!
Because it's like, MK feels extremely abandoned and hurt by Wukong during s2. MK's line of "Fine! Then just leave! At least my friends will never abandon me!" in 2x01 Sleep Bug is VERY telling, and it also makes me sob when put together with 3x10 The Samadhi Fire:
MK: "NO! Mei is my best friend—I'd never abandon her when she needs me! We're heroes! It's what we do!"
And 4x02 New Adventures:
MK: “You don’t know! We’d risk it for sure! I won’t abandon them when they need us.”
MK's own low self-worth combined with Wukong's tendency to leave in the worst way possible, which was only further exacerbated by the Lady Bone Demon's manipulation.
And I think MK's experiences and feelings throughout s2 made him resolve to never make his friends feel abandoned.
But of course, since this is Lego Monkie Kid, it's more interesting than just that—because MK leaves at the end of s4. It was out of fear, sure, but so was Wukong leaving in s2 and at the end of s3. MK does exactly what he set out not to do, making the same mistakes his mentor has, literally going to isolate himself on Flower Fruit Mountain for an undetermined amount of time.
It's things like this that make the question of "Who is MK" so intriguing, because that's who MK want's to be. He want's to be himself. But who is that person?
Is MK just like Wukong? Is he a harbinger of chaos? Is he just a noodle delivery boy? Is he Monkie Kid? What if you remove all those labels? What's left? What is he?
(Plus the whole "I just want to be me—to be MK!" "Yeah well...we all know where that leads." interaction between MK and the curse in 4x07)
And now that we've thrown MK's mysterious past and ominous future into the mix, we are in for a FULL on identity crisis spiral next season.
And well, when it comes down to it, MK was willing and ready to fight Wukong in s2. The lmk writers are fantastic at paying off several arcs all at the same time (see all of 3x10, which literally had the culmination of Mei's, MK's, Wukong's, and Macaque's arcs all in one. It's fucking phenomenal), and this is partly due to the time constraints of the show as a whole, but it's also just damn good writing. MK's past, his identity, the hurt he's experienced across every season—that's all going to come to a head. I also imagine it's going to happen right along side Mei, Wukong, and Macaque's arcs once again, because that's just how this show do. It do insane shit.
I also happen to be a believer in "Samadhi Fire Part 3", in which we get another 3x10 and 4x08 parallel to round it all up, and I am waiting, WAITING, for Mei to repeat MK's words back at him:
“Mei! You have to stop. I know you’re upset, and that’s okay! I know what it’s like to have a power you don’t know how to control—to feel like the fate of the world is in your hands and you have no idea what to do! But you always have my back, and help me through it. We, will figure this out! Together!” (3x10 The Samadhi Fire)
((Which, MK himself is repeating Mei's words back at her, with "But we're going to figure this out." I NEED A POSITIVE FEEDBACK FRIEND LOOP BABY))
But yeah. I'M WAITING MAN. WE HAVE THE SAME BONE FEELINGS.
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r0achezz · 2 months
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oh wow I should not be awake right now.
Anyways guys how do you feel about dark link redemption arc
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Kill code to be completely honest I agree when they say your a himbo but you are also a
DILF
Or milf whatever you prefer
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(no one but mungod shall know my sins)
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Kill Code: A...dilf? Is this another term that I should search?
//Mun-God panics and urges Kill Code not to search it!//
//Kill Code: Then what does it mean?//
//...Dad in [a] loving family.//
//Kill Code: ...I am unsure if I am truly considered a father by all those I consider children, but I would agree. I am a dilf.//
//Mun-God is dead. There is no Mun-God. Only abject horror and embarrassment.//
Kill Code: If you would excuse me, I have some important matters to attend to.
//Kill Code copies and pastes another line of code, saves it, then starts to rifle through a box of papers.//
@im-tired-and-depressed
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danylives · 2 years
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Chozen Toguchi + having absolute no chill when it comes to Daniel Larusso
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dixidin · 8 months
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[Slight(?)GENSHIN IMPACT SPOILERS]
....IS ARLECCHINO FROM FONTAINE..??
(Also, am I the only one who doesn't trust Arlecchino and the Tsritsa's words of stopping the prophecy in Fontaine???)
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insecateur · 1 year
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diantha being like "i can't believe he has the power to destroy a whole city now🙄" to which augustine immediately replies "OH YEAH HAHA TRUE BUT GUESS WHAT ELSE WE FOUND OUT" as if this is a silly little joke and lysandre wasn't literally going "no i won't do anything... but what if i did tho 🫦" like 30min prior
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throughtrialbyfire · 8 months
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like ok . augh . i have very complicated feelings on the thalmor. because i don't like the idea of reducing characters down to sympathetic sadboys, especially when they're, y'know, thalmor. but i do believe in complex characters and complicating the narrative and giving characters reasons to be who they are, because the best monsters are human. or, in this case, elven. 
the stock evil villains that we got in skyrim could be so much more horrific and terrifying - and frankly, monstrous - if we met thalmor agents who weren't just the justiciars we get on the road and the named NPCs with barely any real personality outside of stock evil bad guy. the consequences of their actions, and that they repeat these actions time and time again, can be an intense driving force to actually see how something like the dominion warps someones mind. augh
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doyunhos · 2 years
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i’m all for a season two as long as we get youngwoo and junho back together next episode and no more break ups
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gotta love being 37k into a leverage au and just now realizing that aside from the team format, Job format, and episode title = chapter title format, you have not used any of your favorite Leverageisms ("let's go steal a", "it's a very distinctive")... yet
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transingthoseformers · 10 months
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Is it sad that I'm actually slightly rooting for there to be more Predacons just because Slapper, Darkscream, and Skunkgas consistently get their afts whooped? Like damn, I feel bad for those three
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calla-lilly · 2 years
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meet my love island: the game s5 oc!
Dahlia "Lia" Hong | 24 she/her | Concert Pianist
hometown: bristol
ethnicity: chinese, italian
love interest: currently mad at but will end up with Suresh
sexuality: pansexual
still thinks about pickles the cat
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certainwill · 1 year
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Satoko doesn’t know this woman - and that, more than anything else, intrigues her.
In Hinamizawa, it’s not often that she gets to experience something new. After all, after a hundred years of watching the tragedies of the village play out... it gets repetitive. Tired. That’s only inevitable, isn’t it?
Causing her own tragedies was fun, but that time is over now. And don’t get her wrong - Satoko adores her friends. More than anything, she wants them to be happy, but... with Rika at St. Lucia’s, it sometimes feels like she’s been left without anyone who truly understands. That feeling is like an impenetrable glass wall - she can see her friends on the other side; can smile and laugh with them, and they bring her joy, but... she can’t truly touch them. Not in the same way she could before.
She doesn’t want to abandon her friends, though. She doesn’t want to look down on them, or forget how amazing they really are... like Rika did. For that reason, she’s trying her hardest to enjoy every day she spends with them, and appreciate every moment to the fullest. But even she can’t deny that having someone new show up is refreshing, no matter how hard she might try to love the life she lives now.
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“Ohohoho! Are you new to Hinamizawa?” With a haughty laugh, the young Satoko stands before Lydia with her hands on her hips, smiling. “I’ve never seen you before, but I would be most happy to show you around, if you’d like!”
@steavia​ ( starter! )
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ettelwenailinon · 2 years
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finally managed to watch the last episodes of woo young woo and godddddd I wish there were at least two more episodes, it really would have benefited from that
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namchyoon · 2 years
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TAEYANG AND JUNGHWAN BESTIES CONTENT FINALLYYYYY
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