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saw the movie.

god, what a beautiful, heartfelt ending. jax's death and conclusion of his self-destructive spiral was GORGEOUS, and the heartache of her destroying her closest relationships out of fear of vulnerability was breathtaking. the scene with him and ribbit alone. i have so so so many thoughts about it that i need to organize and do a proper rewatch once it comes out, but god. she was lovely. she was wonderful.

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part 57. i love this freaking podcast so much. I love that it trusts its audience, i love being able to examine it's parallels and themes (lilith / faroe and arthur / kayne) and this being the EXPECTATION. of course kayne trapped his daughter. of course the manager loved his. and this love being so foreign and fundamentally alien to lilith breaks my heart. OUGHH

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Something something Proto becoming more n more worried and nervous with how catatonic she is he uses "Ollie" voice just to see if she in any way teacts imagine how he would feel if that didnt work would the gravity of it all finally hit him in the face?

You can fix her body Oliver But not everything else

Just

✨ Consequences✨

oh it ABSOLUTELY would, like a shot in the back.

they arrive at proto's home, at their home, and poppy, who's run out of tears, says nothing. he whisks her away past his tools, his collection of Playtime-brand Poppy Doll parts, his blood-soaked personal experiment table, and she says nothing. even when Preston pads his way to her and nudges her softly, she says nothing.

and proto, for the most part, expects this. poppy has always been stubborn, and those he killed were a thorn in his side precisely because she loved them, but she was ALWAYS going to lose them: she'll rage, she'll grieve, she'll move on. he's a constant in her life that could never leave her, wouldn't ever leave her, and he's patient enough to wait for her to understand this.

but she doesn't.

he's peering down at her cracks and examining what he needs to fix when she asks, just once, small, tremulous, final: "I'm never leaving this place, am I?"

and proto is SO surprised at hearing her voice, so unprepared for the rush of longing he feels, because he missed her, that he slips into the voice of who she'd grown to love without a second thought.

tenderly, wiry fingers stroke her hair. tenderly, oliver says, "No. Never."

and poppy, leader-of-the rebellion poppy, guardian-of-safe-haven poppy, closes her eyes and nods and accepts and does not fight him. she doesn't agree with him, she doesn't want any of his changes—i like to think this will ALWAYS hold, even in the midst of her grief—but she does not protest this, and THAT is what kickstarts the alarm bells, that is what tells him that something is horribly, awfully wrong.

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great thing about malevolent is how Arthur is a man SO afraid of intimacy and connection. He married Bella out of obligation without truly loving her, neglected Faroe, pushed away Daniel, kept Parker at arm's length. He only maintained a partnership with Parker at all because Parker never pushed and only skirted around addressing any of Arthurs obvious Issues™. King of avoidant attachment!

and then John gets stuck in his head. 24/7 non-stop inescapable companionship with an entity with zero emotional maturity initially. and John PUSHES. He challenges Arthur's decisions, asks about things Arthur doesn't talk about, explicitly states how he feels and what he wants, tells Arthur exactly what he thinks. There's no room for Arthur's usual bullshit, no possibility of running away or isolating himself and when Arthur falls back on being an absolute asshole to keep everyone away, John gives as good as he gets until Arthur has to give it up and be vulnerable with him. They literally have no alternative but to work out their conflicts. Forced intimacy forced intimacy forced intimacy!

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How many hug pics do we need? Yes.

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John Doe (Malevolent)

Simon Petrikov (Adventure Time & Fionna and Cake)

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the tears in lilith's eyes during kayne and jarthur's talk. the full rip of the mask and display of kayne's cruelty being entirely in parallel to arthur's past. the willful murder vs negligent death of your darling. i am SICKKKKK

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Arthur Lester (Malevolent)

Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs)

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listeningggggg to the season 5 discussion and i really do feel like we get a more holistic john. you see it particularly in his relationship with arthur. like YEAH his development as an entity desiring to be human will always be something he works on, but s5 john is an ENTIRELY different picture from s1. it's almost startling, and i love it. s1 john would fight arthur at nearly every decision. s5 john mother-hen frets over him in the witch's den and encourages him up onto the saddle of that horse.

he's not human but that's the Point, i feel. he chose to invent himself and he WILL keep choosing himself even if it's difficult. his ep with the witch wasn't rlly to cement that he's Done Growing but rather it was like. the very last test. (you know that scene in the barbie movie, where ruth goes, i can't in good conscience let you choose this without knowing everything, where she essentially asks, are you sure?)

is john what he chooses? tkiy is the safety net he can fall back on, what he DID fall back on to try to intimidate the witch but failed big time. but at the same time, it's what he's known for years and years and years. so the question becomes, will he choose to go back to what's safe and known even if he's grown to hate / be ashamed of it? or will he choose himself, knowing the path is incredibly unknown and most DEFINITELY painful? and john says yes!

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PARKER???? WE HEAR PARKER FOR THE FIRST TIME????

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"Timpanis—little loud." when the visceration of arthur is what drowned out his voice lmfao. did kayne include that in practice for the orthurstra or what. imagine working your ass off to get that beat and then the entity planning to kill god, covered in blood, YOUR blood, said it's a Bit Much

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an insanely all-risk little-reward botched effort plan that will likely have devastating consequences for everyone in an attempt to have a happily ever after? WHERE have I SEEN YOU before

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i forget they're called the Dies Irae this season lol. which is an INSANE title. it's probably due to them enacting the tail end of wherever this tragedy is going (kayne? lilith?) but i like to think that jarthur's just so horrifically codependent that splitting them up for good would bring about the end times or whatever

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nuts that proto managed to fool the audience into thinking poppy is entirely incredibly irrational for her plan when he's the one with the insane goal. naive? underhanded? clumsy? sure, but wanting to nix the factory in an attempt to stop him is NOWHERE NEAR as unhinged or impractical to achieve as killing all of your enemies and hoping beyond hope the lack of other allies will FINALLY push the object of your great love / obsession into your arms to you can rule a fractured fallacy of a kingdom unimpeded. how is this the more reasonable option. does he hear himself

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arthur can never sound fond without The Horrors coming for him huh. don't you hate when you and your entity / best friend / closest friend / only friend you have right now that's sharing your body get high in like a thirteenth century forest in england that's actually the nesting place of ANOTHER fucking god