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she doesn't go out of her way to do it but every now and then she gets the urge and blasts all over her big evangelines and then takes a 92 minute ice cold shower with the lights off
Rapunzelās treatment of Varian in āThe Alchemist Returnsā will always bother me.
A fourteen year old boy lost his father.
Let that sink in.
And how does the protagonist respond when she meets him for the first time since throwing him out into a snowstorm? Not with apologies, or attempts to make amends, but with confusion that Varian is more concerned about saving his fatherās life then saving Corona. Then wanting what she wants.
Now, we could spend all day going over the reasons why she is unable to feel empathy for such a tragic loss: she was isolated from society for most of her life, has never had a loving parent, has never experienced loss, etc.., yes, she saw Gothel die. But that was her abuser. And Eugene was dead for only a few brief minutes before being resurrected. So Rapunzel has never truly experienced what itās like to live without someone.
While this might be understandable given her upbringing, it still is not excusable. Especially given the fact that this is not addressed as a flaw of hers within the narrative. And why isnāt this addressed as a flaw within the narrative? Because the executive producer of TTS is an egotistical narcissist who likely also doesnāt understand empathy, and as such, does not have the self awareness to see Rapunzelās lack of empathy as a flaw that needs to be corrected. One cannot write an empathetic protagonist if they are an unempathetic person themselves.
i really think this is a flaw of the writing because rapunzel IS meant to be an empathetic person, i feel like its very out of her character to not have empathy for varianās situation. i think it was more so that she was being given an impossible task of trying to protect the kingdom and was trying to deal with it the best she could. however, the writing is really doing her dirty after the storm because its not until like 3 episodes later that king frederic mentions they sent people to check on varian and assures rapunzel hes fine, even though hes straight up lying. i think king frederic is really the culprit in abandoning varian and the series DEFINITELY doesnāt do enough to hold him accountable
Exactly. That is precisely why itās so frustrating to watch! The problem is, even if we understand that the storm was difficult and that Rapunzel was under a lot of stress that day, the moment Varian reappears in āThe Alchemist Returnsā, she still is reluctant to help him. Thereās a difference between wanting to help someone and not being able to due to unforeseen circumstances, and not wanting to. Rapunzelās behavior in āThe Alchemist Returnsā gives the impression of the latter. While Fredric was definitely responsible for a large part, if not most, of what happened, Rapunzel knew that Varian needed help during the events of āQueen for a Dayā, and never visited him in Old Corona after her parents returned, and never showed any willingness to help even after finding out about the guards and Quirinās encasement. And that is on her.
As I mentioned above, I think Rapunzel being written as unempathetic is in large part due to Chris Sonnenburg being a narcissist. You canāt write an empathetic character if you are unable to feel empathy yourself.
Here's the problem: Rapunzel was just put through an episode titled "The Quest For Varian" where Varian, while never showing up in person himself, sent Rapunzel, Eugene, and Cassandra on this secret mission that led them back to the old tower and exposed things that the king, Rapunzel's own father, had been keeping secret from her. After that while Rapunzel still had her concerns about the rocks and the fate of Corona, she was very understandably sore at Frederic and not sure how she could trust him again now that she knows what he'd been concealing and what he'd been doing behind everyone's back. So while Varian was the one who led them to that truth, when Rapunzel is in such a shaken, distrustful, almost paranoid state of mind, can she really be sure he was doing that just for that, out of the goodness of his heart? Or was he only using them to get one over on Frederic just as much as Frederic was using them and keeping the situation with Varian a secret from them? Rapunzel did not know who to trust at this point, it was not anything personal against Varian or reflective of her lacking empathy. And sure enough, it turns out he was using her! I'd say Varian and Rapunzel were both blocked from fully understanding and empathizing with the crap that each other was dealing with at the time until circumstances changed in Season 3 and they were in that prison cell together. But back then Rapunzel's hesitance and reluctance to help someone she thought might be (and was) using her for something personal just as her father had been doing was not unfathomable.
Also, the point about Chris Sonnenburg as a narcissist is true, but we can't really lay this at his feet with "you canāt write an empathetic character if you are unable to feel empathy yourself" because Chris never actually wrote these characters. He was the executive producer, not the head writer (Jase Ricci) or even a writer.
@ultraericthered Here we go again....it really is amazing just how many logistical gymnastics Rapunzel fans are willing to go through to justify her behavior.
First off, Rapunzel had no reason not to trust Varian pre Alchemist Returns. She had just found out that Varian's entire village had been destroyed by the rocks and that Quirin had somehow been encased in them. And yes, Fredrick lied to her about it. But by placing the focus on Rapunzel's hurt feelings, you are missing the big picture. Fredrick lying to Rapunzel wasn't the problem. It was the fact that he had covered up a kingdom wide crisis by silencing a minor and chasing him out of his home. As far as Rapunzel knows, Varian is homeless, orphaned, and has been persecuted by her father. Helping him should be her priority, not an afterthought. Varian's persecution is far more serious then Fredrick lying to Rapunzel, and the fact that she didn't see it that way is extremely disturbing.
It is because Rapunzel had found out about Fredrick's lies that makes her unwillingness to help Varian and Quirin in "The Alchemist Returns" so problematic. If Rapunzel had TRULY cared about the kingdom of Corona and the victims of the black rocks, then she would have been on board with helping Varian steal the flower and save Quirin. For somebody who feels so "betrayed" by Fredrick as you claim, she is more upset that she defied a direct order from him then helping Varian gain access to a powerful, magical resource that could have helped them save Quirin and Corona from the rocks (and neither of them knew that she is the sundrop at that point). Did Varian use her? Yes. But again, she should have been willing to help him from the very beginning. Not just after finding out about Fredrick's lies, but the moment the snowstorm had ended. If she had, then they likely would have been able to reach an understanding before things got out of hand in the season 1 finale. At the end of the day, Rapunzel is only willing to help when she is the benefactor. That's not empathetic, sorry. As for Varian, it's not his job to empathize with Rapunzel and her daddy issues while he's being persecuted by the monarch of his kingdom all while grieving his own father and trying to find a way to free him.
Who do you think the head writers were working for? The way that the characters and storylines in the show are written all come from Chris.
Fredrick's abusive parenting and Rapunzel's forgiveness of him simply because he's a father? Chris.
The Gothel twist and Cassandra's horribly written villian arc? Chris.
Every writing decision that affects the personalities of the characters in the show comes from Chris Sonnenburg's direction. To place the blame on the people working under the creator rather than the creator himself is absurd.
The only members of the "fandumb" are Rapunzel fans such as yourself. You were all utterly DUPED by the show without questioning what you were watching because you hate the idea of critiquing media and having flawed protagonists. All you need to do is admit that your princess protagonist did a bad thing. It isn't so hard. Really.
"no reason not to trust Varian" - again, what she just learned about what her father had been doing and keeping secret from her for all that time made her feel like it was difficult to trust anyone who wasn't in her always close friend group (Pascal, Max, Eugene, and Cass) and Varian was very much a part of that whole conflict. Yes, his part in it was as a victim and on the defensive whereas Frerderic was the aggressor, but Rapunzel wasn't there for it, so she only knew any of this secondhand. Varian also never actually fully explained the Quirin situation to Rapunzel at any point in the episode. She'd seen what his current status was in the prior episode and correctly figured that was the situation with him that Varian had been trying to get her to come help out with before, but for all she knew she had a lot of context missing and Varian refused to give her anything other than "You just gotta help me get that flower and it'll save Corona and my dad, trust me bruh!" On top of that, are we forgetting the part where she'd been having visions and nightmares of Varian being angry at her for having broken her promise to him during the blizzard, to the point where he might want to do her harm? So yeah, Rapunzel finding it difficult to know who to trust at that time and what their concealed ulterior motives might be makes sense. I never said it was right of her, only that it has enough context to not be chalked up to "she lacks empathy." It's justified as a matter of story but not justifiable or morally alright behavior by the character.
Rapunzel was willing to defy her father to help Varian get the flower because she put her trust in him also wanting to save everyone, including his father, and undo the mess that her father created. Maybe this is just me, but I'm not gonna be too hard on her for feeling upset that it was for nothing and that Varian betrayed her, not any more than I am on Varian for feeling like Rapunzel betrayed him and let him down (cuz she did. Not during the blizzard, but definitely afterwards when she seemingly decided he didn't matter to her)
The way that the characters and storylines in the show are written all come from Chris.
Not exactly. The show was co-developed by another man named Shane Prigmore who's not as narcissistic and credit hoggy as Chris, and on the latter two seasons there was another executive producer named Benjamin Balistreri. Chris was one of the heads of the creative process but he was not the sole story developer or the be-all end-all final say giver regardless of what he'd like people to think.
Fredrick's abusive parenting and Rapunzel's forgiveness of him simply because he's a father?
"Forgiveness of him simply because he's a father" Yeah, I do not recall the Season 1 climax between those two going like that. Rapunzel forgave her father because he was a well-meaning idiot just like she had recently had lots of experience with being and more importantly he was willing to own up to his mistakes as being mistakes, regret them, and try to do better in ways that could make amends for them to the people hurt by them, which includes all of his subjects, his family members, and Varian himself. It's the same reason why Rapunzel would forgive Varian and Cassandra in Season 3 (though the "make amends" options were very limited for the latter, which is why she had to leave Corona behind.)
The Gothel twist and Cassandra's horribly written villian arc? Chris.
Nope. Again, that was decided upon by Chris and Shane with other writers in the room during the story pitch well before it was even put to writing.
Crediting the creator and only the creator for the writing of the show, even if for all the bad stuff, is playing into his hands. We don't need to be doing that.
Rapunzel is young and flawed, she did a bad thing and there were consequences for it, that's easy to admit. Where I took issue is the idea that Rapunzel did the bad thing out of a general "lack of empathy" or narcissism rather than her royal life having had increasingly become hell for her ever since "Queen For A Day" influencing her to be super guarded and protective of herself and the ones she holds most dear even if it comes at the expense of others she'd normally care about. I'm a Varian fan too, so I think I know a lot about how circumstances can bring out the worst of someone's nature that they'd normally never intentionally let out and do things they'd normally never want to do.
Crediting the creator and only the creator for the writing of the show, even if for all the bad stuff, is playing into his hands. We don't need to be doing that.
OP is also playing into his hands when he generalized Varian fans as only watching the show for one character and getting tunnel vision around that one character to the point of ignoring and not attempting to understand any of the others. That they're attacking "Rapunzel fans", as if that's a bad thing to be for the Rapunzel show....yeah, gotta say, not a good look. -_-
Any story which refers to Haiti as an impoverished nation, which is all of them, should also mention that when Haitians won their independence from France, French gunships showed up and demanded they pay something like 22 billion dollars in today's money to compensate France for the stolen land and enslaved people they could no longer exploit
It took Haiti over a hundred years to pay that ransom and it's difficult to explain just how badly that fucked up their entire development, especially since France also demanded a 50% discount on everything they bought from Haiti just to make it harder. Like! No wonder they're impoverished!
Anyway if France would like to assist Haiti in its current difficulties they could always pay back the fucking money they extorted
my number one advice for parents is to listen to your children tbh. and i dont just mean listening to their problems i mean like. when your kid recites the plot of a movie youve already seen or your tells you about what they did at school today or wants to show you their roblox gameplay. youve gotta be invested in knowing your kid as a person or why are you even doing the whole parenting thing.
This! You want to have a good relationship with your kid? You need to show interest in what makes them excited. They need to feel like you're someone they can share things with without fear of being rejected.
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this is going to be a silly reblog but i have kind of a fixation on animal qualia and the idea of an animal's umwelt, so i ended up wondering whether pudding was actually "enjoying" this.
which meant i went and read about snail brains.
here's the bad news, at least by human standards:
snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.
pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.
snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."
so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.
and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.
snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."
if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.
pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.
i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.
snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?
so maybe the point isn't "this is sad because he can't enjoy it," but "this is a reminder that minds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be real."
āminds come in radically different shapes, and value doesn't have to be rich to be realā
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top 10 jobs for serial killers:
cop
member of any branch of the military (often combined with some of these other jobs)
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truck driver
nurse (gerontology and neonatal specialties especially)
construction/contracting
doctor (gerontology and surgical specialties especially)
anything in the animal agriculture field (particularly pig farming)
preacher (Protestant evangelical especially)
account
serial killer career path gaining momentum: YouTuber
serial killer career path loosing popularity: butcher
I donāt know why butchers arenāt chasing people around with their butcher knives in bloody aprons anymore but that isnāt a major concern in 2026. Maybe modern hairnets have a soothing effect.
Hey, wow, is this just like a funny fictional observation or is it real data?
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised either way
You don't see a ton of demon barbers either š the economy is is shambles
Straight razors falling out of popularity and being replaced with safety razors and electric clippers really ruined the serial killer barber industry. There are still pointed styling shears but I guess they do not have the homicidal appeal of the straight razor.
*guy who has never heard of Hamilton* I donāt know why you guys are all shipping random founding fathers with each other and not Lewis and Clark who were definitely fucking in a tent every chance they got on that trip Brokeback Mountain style
*guy who just found out about Hamilton* haha no I totally knew you were talking about the musical, I was just joking. no, I donāt think about Lewis and Clarkās relationship as doomed yaoi. thatād be weird.
it wasn't doomed they were fine
William Clark named his firstborn son after Meriwether Lewis and Lewis committed suicide 10 months laterā¦
Johnny: Reed!
We just got another e-mail from Africa!
This one is from a Nigerian Prince who says he has five million dollars to put in our bank account!
Reed: Well what are you waiting for Johnny?
Send him our details immediately!
Black Panther: -_-
I WOULD ADVISE CAUTION HERE
saw someone say that the odyssey having no greek actors is like doing an adaptation of journey to the west with only white guys from the us east coast and i dont really care if that comparison makes sense or not not because now just imagining that
ey sun wukong its me tripitaka badabing. we gotta do the oregon freakin trail
Buddy, you think youse escaped the buddha's palm? F'ogget about it!
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now that demily has beaten deltarune chapter 5 i can reveal that the original was this, but was altered to avoid spoilers
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Always funny to me when indie devs who already sell games for dirt cheap participate in steam sales with like 90 percent off. Like. "Yeah this game is three dollars but you can have it for one right now." Like your game costs as much as a pack of m&ms and youre selling it for the cost of a pack of m&ms in the 1950s now? Okay
Kingdom Hearts Missing Link x Yu Gi Oh crossover
