#this is so fucking insane i feel insane. YLFA WAS MADE FOR ME.

[canonicallyanxious]

[neverafter episode 9 spoilers]

everything about ylfa's flashback scene made me feel fucking insane. the wolf is death and the ending of stories. the wolf ate ylfa's grandmother because it was time for her story to end. but for whatever reason it's not time for ylfa's end. for whatever reason the wolf wanted ylfa to live. the wolf ate the grandmother so that she could die, and ylfa ate the wolf so that she could live. the wolf wanted ylfa to live, and at the deepest core of herself she wants to live too. i'm scratching at the WALLS. LIKE "i met death and death wants me to live" EMILY SAID IT SO CASUALLY BUT LOWKEY THAT'S THE RAWEST SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE!

also though you need to eat to live and the consumption of stories to stay alive beyond the end of your own story... i am Thinking...

#sarah.txt #dimension 20 #neverafter #neverafter spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 #idk why eating/consumption as a theme has been making me feel so unhinged lately but they really got me with this one #god there was so much shit that happened in this episode that was METAL AS HELL #if i let myself talk about it i just won't go to bed tonight and like i'm sleepy skfnskdjfnsd but holy shit. #but also like... this consensual consumption in ylfa's story #like. the wolf let ylfa eat him. the wolf WANTED ylfa to eat him. #versus the stepmother erasing 'or perhaps consuming' her own story and everything inside of her trying to claw its way out. phew. #consumption gave them both power but in such different ways! godDAMN! #d20 meta #story meta

[thespoonisvictory]

Neverafter finale thoughts since I didn’t liveblog out of fear of spoilers

The combination of Beaky and the ploy to get the orange hat were truly some of the most batshit insanely funny dimension 20 bits to ever exist. My stomach HURT, zac going catatonic was fantastic and brennan saying “you’ve been struck by a smooth criminal” was genuinely insane. 

The combat as a whole was very fun. Brennan was very generous with shenanigans but the fight still felt difficult, even if I am more of a rules lawyer now than I was in my youth (watching all of d20 in the summer of 2022 and learning alongside the cast). The crits I do think ultimately made the fight a tiny bit less interesting to me tbh.

I started crying when Ylfa picked up Gerard to take him away, and doubled down on it when Rosamund approached the little girl. The mutual love re-confession between Gerard and Elody on the wolf’s back got to me real bad as well. Ough. That being said, Pib stealing everything back from the Baba Yaga was my favorite vignette. The idea that they never really change, and she respects him for that, feels very true and real. Ultimately I think the season mostly landed its emotional beats from a messy, uneven road getting there.

There would be a few things I’d change if I was the one in the seat, but that’s down to personal preference more than anything (I am a romantic first second and last lmao)

EDIT bc I was writing this as I was finishing and holy fucking shit Beautiful execution with the pinocchio-ylfa bit. 10/10 no notes I love them so very much and I love how the cast lost it

#neverafter #d20 #neverafter spoilers #ALSO pib and minerva is so very good #tom waking up at 8 am in a perfect world is so real