#freeman.best

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I will tolerate any treatment. Like I’m the One Free Man, and I’ll put up with anything. I’ll work at a garbage research facility— You know, I don't wanna name an actual facility so let’s just make one up; let’s call it “Black Mesa.” So I’ll go to work at Black Mesa and I'll show up at the testing chamber and I’ll go, “Can I go to the lab, please?” And they go, “No. Push the crystal into the laser.” And I go, “Okaaay!” And then I push the crystal into the laser and black out. And then I come to and I go, “Any updates?” And they go “Yeah, the fucking thing exploded and opened a portal to an alien world and now you have to deal with it. Because we hate you. Now take this crowbar that does 3 damage, go fetch!” And I go, “Okaaay!” And they tell me to kill a space god and I go, “Can I maybe not please?” and they go “NO!” And I go, “Okaaay!” And they go, “You’re a little gayboy, aren’t you?” And I go, “Nooo,” and they go, “SAY IT!” and I go, “I’m a little gayboy!” And then I end up in a void with a guy with creepy glowing eyes and a briefcase and suit pants that are too big for him and I go, “Can I at least see if my boyfriend is alive and okay?” and he goes “No! In fact, we’re gonna keep you in the void, and you’re gonna be in stasis for twenty years!” And I go, “Why are you doing this to me?!” And he goes, “Because we’re Black Mesa, and life is a fucking nightmare!”

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now i may not have been in the rvb fandom for very long but i’ve picked up on a few things and i got something i gotta say

i don’t know how people can hate on the shisno paradox arc

yes i understand it may deviate from what the previous few seasons were all about, they were more serious while this concept is just. kinda silly. but in the end you have to remember, rvb is a comedy. it’s not going to be serious all the time and that statement isn’t just confined to the jokes. it’s gonna have funny scenarios that are wacky and seemingly out-of-place. bc that’s how comedy works.

also it really gives us some very good insight into the characters. why they are the way that they are, what drives them toward their goals, how they view themselves and those around them. s17 episodes 11 and 12 are just. *chef’s kiss*. they make me stim so hard because you really get to see what they’re all afraid of, and how they go about comforting one another really tells a lot. the interaction between grif and kai specifically hits the specific part of my brain that makes me lose my shit /pos. ALSO ARE WE LITERALLY JUST GOING TO IGNORE DONUT GETTING MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT??? LIKE????????

and from a storyline standpoint, at least another season after 15 was necessary. 15 ended on a cliffhanger, we were never given a resolution knowing that everyone was going to be okay because we never saw that wash would be. the ending of singularity/s17 is one of the reasons why i refuse to watch rvb zero: it wraps the entire story up so nicely. everyone’s alive and well, the world isn’t in any imminent danger, and the villains are taken care of. the reds and blues can finally rest.

so yeah, s16/17 are good if you ask me. i do understand why people might not like them, and they’re entitled to their own opinions. but like... you can’t ignore the fact that we were really given some very good things in those seasons.

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what’s the plot of frankenstein pray tell :))

okay so basically it starts with this guy whose name escapes me. he wants to travel north, into like. icy territory for reasons. the entire book consists of letters he sends to his sister in england. he's up north when he comes across this emaciated motherfucker just. kinda there on the ice. the boat crew takes him in and once he's recovered, he tells his story, which is helpfully transcribed and also sent to the captain's sister. as you can probably guess, the guy on the ice is victor frankenstein, and he starts telling his entire life story which i am not going to tell because it's not important.

so victor is in college and he decides he wants to create life. by taking a bunch of corpse parts and sewing them together and then bringing them to life through something to do with electricity, which is actually not described. he spends days on end doing this, and when the final result opens its eyes, he freaks the fuck out because the color is wrong and runs out of his apartment, where he finds his childhood friend clerval (who is very good and i love him very much). together, they go back and find that the monster is gone. clerval then spends a good amount of time nursing victor back to health because he neglected to take care of himself while working on his project. of course.

everything's going pretty good, but then some things happen that i don't remember and victor goes home. more things happen, and someone is convicted of the murder of victor's brother. now, victor has a very good feeling that it's the monster. he knows it's the monster. he does not say that it was the monster. and the housemaid is executed.

eventually his dad says "hey why don't you marry your adopted sister?" and he's like "okay". OH WAIT SHIT. YEAH BEFORE THAT victor finds the monster and talks to him. it turns out that, after he was abandoned, he found an old house where some siblings lived with their blind father. he learns language from some books they dumped out, one of which was paradise lost, and he ends up relating to satan in that book because of course (paradise lost is. pretty good, i watched a summary of it). some time passes and eventually the monster starts getting lonely, and decides to visit the blind father when the kids aren't home. he ends up having a conversation with him but gets a little too clingy and the kids come home and kick him out. he burns the house down when they move out the next day. so the monster wanders into a town and comes across a bratty little kid who's like "how dare you talk to me like that i'm victor frankenstein's little brother". and the monster kills him out of rage.

so cut back to the present and victor is like "okay so what do you want". the monster wants him to make him a wife, someone just like him that understands him. and he says that if he doesn't do it he'll kill everyone victor ever loved. so vic gets to work on that, but realizes "wait i can't have two of these running around. what if they procreate???" and instead of just. not giving her ovaries, he dumps the whole project. and the monster is understandably pissed.

so on the night of victor's wedding, the monster kidnaps vic's wife. vic ends up chasing the monster all the way to the fucking north pole before just kinda. collapsing. and when he's done telling the story, victor dies of like 17 different kinds of exposure. and then the monster appears, says some words for the death of his creator, and then jumps out the boat window. and that's the end :]