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the umbrella academy, babey | incest shippers if you're seeing this block me right now

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just in case my stance on incest shipping wasn’t clear :)

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happy early pride month tua fandom

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THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY MASS REWATCH EXTRAVAGANZA

is returning for 2025!!

that’s right folks, tuamre25 is upon us!! starting on the sixth of july, we will be using the tag #tuamre to blog our thoughts about the episode for that day!!

^the schedule can be seen above, color coded for your convenience

thanks to @c0ffeeb1ack for pioneering the event in 2023 and @siph-by-induction for running it last year!!

now some tags for some tua posters and past tuamre participants

(in the wake of s4, it is understandable that some might choose not to participate as it was at the very least extremely divisive and controversial. it killed the spark that a lot of people felt for the show. however, even if you aren’t a fan of the later seasons, it would be lovely for the community to celebrate the incredible parts of the show from the earlier seasons!)

@charcoalowl

@nirby-wirby

@siph-by-induction

@autie-hobbit

@voteforevilthoughts

@bluesyjean

@someominousecho

@tua-five

@brellafaun

@giant-ball-of-twine

although s4 absolutely killed the fandom, i hope we can still enjoy the parts of the show that we do like! if that means ignoring s4 and even s3, have at it!!!

if you’re part of the current tua fandom or know anyone else who is, reblog this or @ them!! we’d love to have you be part of this event

stay tuned for updates!!

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happy early pride month tua fandom

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pov: you're five hargreeves during seasons 1 and 2 of the umbrella academy

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hmmmmmm not sure i like the direction this montage is going

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hmmm not sure I like the direction this cottagecore strawberry picking is going

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okay it's been 2 months maybe I'm ready to start posting about the hargreeveses again...

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anyone else exit the anger stage of grief over tua s4 and now deeply depressed about it?

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hey i like your username. i dont know what it's referrencing but it's very pleasing to look at for some reason

thank you <3 it's a reference to a line from the tv show the umbrella academy. the full line is usually in my bio and the character who said it is usually in my pfp but he was character assassinated so hard in the last season that just dropped that i can't bear to look at him rn 💀

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hi!! I saw you answer an ask about if someone should watch the 4th season of TUA or not and was wondering if it would be worth it to watch the first three seasons of the show? Ive been wanting to watch it for a while but with all the bad things I've heard about the 4th season idk if I should or not :/

seasons 1 and 2 are genuinely good! season 1 has the best balance between serious drama and goofiness and is just a tighter storyline overall, and season 2 swings more into goofiness but is still very fun! the first two seasons are absolutely worth watching

season 3.... ymmv. i thought the plot overall was very sloppy but there are still fun moments that feel like the first two seasons

pretend s4 doesn't exist 👍

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Hi hi! I've followed you for a while, cause we both love Umbrella Academy!

I just have a question - I haven't seen seaosn 4. Is it worth it?

I've not seen many spoilers (apart from the Five and *cough*that person*cough*) but I've seen the reaction from people. And I honestly don't know whether I should watch or not.

I loved the first 2 seasons, and liked parts of s3. Idk if I should watch s4 and risk potentially ruining the whole show for myself if it's bad and makes me hate the characters, or if I should not watch it which might drive me insane what with having no ending and not knowing what people are on about.

Sorry for the long ask but you've always posted awesome tua content and I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place! Much love!❤️

hey, thanks for all the nice things you said about my blog :)

personally, i kind of wish i hadn't watched the 4th season. i have the same opinions on the other seasons that you do, where i loved 1 and 2 and thought s3 was worse but had its moments.

season 4 is not like that. there's only one scene in the whole six episodes that made me think "oh this is classic tua." genuinely the writers are unable to give ANY of their characters a satisfying arc, they forget or ignore their lore and motivations from earlier seasons, and they add in wildly stupid or downright disgusting elements... just because? i guess? and the ending... don't even get me started. it's the world's shittiest cherry on top of a season that so deeply misunderstood the characters and the reasons people watch this show in the first place.

if you do decide to watch it i recommend going up through episode 4 and then stopping. it's actively mediocre up to that point but it becomes unforgivable in the last two episodes.

i really really wish it wasn't like this. like haha very funny steve blackman, now where's the REAL season 4. but here we are :/

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i know tua has generally completely dropped the ball on lore continuity by the end of s4 but one of the inconsistencies that pisses me off most is the technology. season 1 committed hard to an analog 2019, and s2 was in the 60s so it continued it. but in s3 luther mentions the concept of emails in conjuction with a nigerian prince joke and in s4 cryptocurrency exists??? which you could write off as a product of reginald's universe reset EXCEPT they use goddamn rotary phones the whole season sooooooo in conclusion: ?????

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people in the notes pointing out the existence of allison's flat-screen TV, also her brand new BMW (which i noticed at the time bc I was like uhhhhh how is she affording that? but didn't think about the technology implication), also the stupid x-men jet from the flashback. literally soooo embarrassing for the writers

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i was too busy focusing on the disgusting flesh kaiju at the time to pay too much attention to abagail and reginald's convo on that bench and i don't feel like putting myself through it again so i might be slightly misremembering. but. did she really just say i was dead as punishment for obliterating our home planet and i didn't want you to bring me back to life, therefore, it is ethical to destroy the earth ??????

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i know tua has generally completely dropped the ball on lore continuity by the end of s4 but one of the inconsistencies that pisses me off most is the technology. season 1 committed hard to an analog 2019, and s2 was in the 60s so it continued it. but in s3 luther mentions the concept of emails in conjuction with a nigerian prince joke and in s4 cryptocurrency exists??? which you could write off as a product of reginald's universe reset EXCEPT they use goddamn rotary phones the whole season sooooooo in conclusion: ?????

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people in the notes pointing out a lot of sci-fi mixes technology eras. okay fine. i still think it's stupid as fuck to concurrently have cryptocurrency and ROTARY PHONES

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S1 had a brief mention of eBay that seemed improv'd, but it's easily missable and made it seem like if there is an internet, it was early early internet and computers were not the norm. But then they completely dropped that by s4. What was a writing convenience that added interesting worldbuilding was ignored for lazy modern jokes.

(for context this is in regard to my prev post) dang i don't remember that s1 line! i'll have to go find it sometime. but yeah, hard agree with you on everything

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i know tua has generally completely dropped the ball on lore continuity by the end of s4 but one of the inconsistencies that pisses me off most is the technology. season 1 committed hard to an analog 2019, and s2 was in the 60s so it continued it. but in s3 luther mentions the concept of emails in conjuction with a nigerian prince joke and in s4 cryptocurrency exists??? which you could write off as a product of reginald's universe reset EXCEPT they use goddamn rotary phones the whole season sooooooo in conclusion: ?????

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Is it weird that I kinda find Luther hotter with his gorilla body than his regular body?

i'm not the sexual attraction police so i say live your truth, anon 🙏