losing my whole mind over this fantasy high: extra credit episode from late 2019 where they take a dive out of nowhere into the characters they'd wanna see in a "haunted fairytale" setting
what if neverafter but pinocchio was actually rip van winkle who was actually rumpelstiltskin (and sleeping beauty was mother goose's son)?? i have many thoughts
i don't personally agree with the perspective that "miguel NEEDS to partially correct about canon events, otherwise he's a villain" because like. setting aside the issue of possibly naturalising the irl choices writers made (e.g. fridging gwen) through the concept of 'canon events', to me defining miguel's morality comes down to two questions:
What is Miguel's intent when pursuing his goal? <- it's unambigiously heroic. he desires to save people. and -
Can I plausibly understand how he has come to the belief system (and therefore goal) he has? Yes. I can understand why, when viewing the things he did (universal patterns of suffering between spidermen & the trauma of that dimension collapse), he came to the conclusion he did.
Keep in mind the other bits of information we and the characters are working with are:
Anomalies seem to affect the world they're in (Vulture appears to affect the Guggenheim's structure w glitches)
They're also in danger of dying if they don't have a stabaliser like the watch
But say for the sake of argument Miguel is completely wrong about breaking canon and doing so would not endanger anyone and the alt dimension collapsed for reasons utterly out of Miguel's knowledge or control. That still doesn't negate the heroic intent he operated by nor his desire to save people.
What "How much or little is Miguel correct?" affects is how tragic it makes Miguel's guilt and the moral concessions he feels that guilt about. Whether you would argue for it being needlessly tragic or bleak is another conversation entirely but how correct he is about what damage canon events cause doesn't actually change the fact he operated on sincerely good and heroic intentions.. And I think atsv already sets up that last point in an understandable manner.
We now have confirmation in Asmodeus that at least one betrayer god is open to allying with mortals and the primes against the greater threat of predathos, and we know from exu that Lolth is actively meddling with mortals.
In light of this, say, Matthew, what's The Inevitable End up to?
Everyone's on about Miguel beefing with a 15 yo, which sure it's funny, but y'all are letting the Spot, "I now declare this child that MY INVENTION inflicted this anomalous occurrence on, my lifelong nemesis", the ULTIMATE beef haver, to go unchecked.
i’m gonna do lifeguarding next summer 👀 what should i expect
the heat ☹️☹️ yr coworkers are probably gonna be chill you honestly wont have to save anyone. the test to get certified is easy its literally a 300 + a brick dive (mine was 12ft with a 15 lb brick but the red cross test was just extra and i had to redo it at my agency with 8 ft and 10 lbs) but cpr is decently hard just remember to like. tilt the head back
you will get bored on stand make tier lists in yr mind. or learn how to sing if no one is really around im really good at love from the other side and rose colored boy now. polarized sunglasses are the best and you can save the money for those by bringing a lunch to yr shift and not doing doordash. srs people at one place used to spend over 100 a week on doordash
leaving his successful academic life to chase a dream, and failing. for perhaps the first time in his life. and suddenly he's under more debt than can be paid off in 5 lifetimes. his body is completely changed, and he's abandoned.
instead of going home, gunnie keeps going. he spends years learning how to work through failure, how to run, how to cobble together tacyon drive equations on a crumbling ship. nights spent doing kids homework for pennies, laying on his cot, metal heated by the too-close reactor.
and he never calls home. he was a golden child. a savant, wunderkind. and his body, his debts, all of it stacks in irrefutable evidence for his failures.
gunnie is a gambler. and he would rather keep digging then let anyone see him in the hole.
Might have to scrap a fic idea because I thought the panic that came with time moving too slowly or too quickly was a universal thing, but now I'm realizing I probably have chronophobia and the fic might not feel the same to other people. Don't want it to drag on or feel rushed if readers won't get the same kind of anxiety the character's getting.
now that it’s looking incredibly likely that the next season will be the one the intrepid heroes were filming over the summer it’s time to start asking the important questions… primarily, will this be the first season that siobhan and lou aren’t sitting beside each other? 🧐