#plot things

[kaztrophy]

Polyamorous relationship but its you dating your bf and the person possessing him

[xiaq]

eli was on scholarship right?

what happens to it if he can't compete anymore?

Ok I actually have a headcanon for this I just didn't find a way to include it in the book.

So he finds out he's going to lose his scholarship in the same conversation in which his very baffled academic counselor informs him that his tuition for the semester has, nonetheless, already been paid by an anonymous donor.

And he goes home to have an argument with Alex about it because he just assumes it was Alex. But Alex is like, no?? I didn't even think about that. Why didn't I think about it? Who did?

But it remains a mystery and Eli starts saving his Youtube Money and is like, if that doesn't cover it maybe I'll let Alex help, we'll see. Except next semester rolls around and his tuition is paid for again. And again it wasn't Alex.

Anyway, it's several years later that Jeff accidentally slips up on one of the rare occasions that he gets drunk and admits that he and his wife were the first time but Kuzy was the second semester and Rushy was the third and he lost the plot after that but basically, the Hell Hounds roster paid for Eli's tuition and they were all in cahoots with Eli's mother who helped them with his account info and stuff because, unlike her son, she had no qualms about letting overpaid athletes take care of her kid's tuition.

[itachi86]

it figures that everything i've been waiting for since SEASON 4 wouldn't happen until the last few eps of SEASON 6

[pixiemage]

Just finished Doc's first episode of Season 8 and I'm - what??? What????? The book, the glitched hopper, the restart, the spawners. I'm - holy wHAT is happening? I followed the QR code on the Magical Appearing Spawner at the end and it brought me to a Hermatrix website (which, I do vaguely know of the Hermatrix in general, kinda hard to completely avoid spoilers when you're a season behind...oop) but first of all - so it needs a password. Cool. Probably gonna get that later, I"m guessing. But then if you click "Terminal" it's - it's Grumbot??? In a non-Grian and non-Mumbo plotline, we get Grumbot. What the hell is happening and why oh why didn't I start watching this sooner so I could freak out with everyone else online in real time????

[rin-the-shadow]

So I’ve been thinking about the song “To Be a Princess” quite a bit lately. Something I definitely didn’t appreciate as much when I was younger is just the sheer amount of stuff going on in that number. Like, yes, there’s Julian teaching Erika how to imitate Anneliese and giving Alessandro Juliani a chance to show off his pipes but the song also communicates Julian’s attraction to Annalise, particularly in that moment where he is briefly distracted waxing lyrical about the way her presence makes him feel. On top of that, by pairing the “easy” parts about being a princess with strict rules about how you are allowed to present and behave, the song effectively communicates Annalise’s position of immense privilege, but also the exceedingly narrow guidelines in which she must exist. 

It’s especially interesting to go back and listen to Anneliese’s lines in “Free” after this, since it adds a new understanding to just what it is she would like to be free from, since not only is she not able to choose her own spouse, but she is also regulated in her presentation right down to the emotions she is allowed to express and, in some cases, which ones she is allowed to feel, since “to be a princess is to never be confused.” It’s pretty telling that while Erika explicitly wants to be free from her debt and the endless work hours, and she wants to be free to sing, and to travel the world to do so, (“People will gather around the world to hear my song”) Anneliese is only able to sing about what she wants to do in abstract terms, “Free to try crazy things” and “Free to fly.” She’s effectively so regulated she doesn’t necessarily know what, beyond choosing her own spouse, she would do if those guidelines were relaxed. It’s just a nebulous concept to her. Which, now that I think about it, is also quite fitting to the arc she has in the film, since we see her learning to do things about the situations she’s in (the bedsheet ghost, having Serafina deliver the ring and tag, flooding the mine and floating up in a barrel, etc.) instead of simply dreaming about what she might like to do.

The song also becomes an example of how the characters’ arcs tie into each other’s. We have Julian and Erika’s arcs being tied together as people who came from outside the palace and courts and having to learn more or less how to fit. It’s not really stated in Julian’s case, but we know he didn’t grow up in the courts because of an earlier conversation with Anneliese in which we learn that his family could only afford a room in the village, and so we can assume that at some point, he also had to learn to adapt. His arc is also being tied to Anneliese’s, since his song is used to communicate things about her and also about his feelings for her. And of course, it further ties Erika’s arc to Anneliese’s, showcasing their differences despite their similar appearances, and showing Erika learning to adapt as Anneliese will later do in Madame Carp’s Dress Emporium, as well as the situations where she has to act as a bit of a trickster to escape, since we had already seen Erika disguise herself to sneak out and sing in the square. And in “Free,” her line, “She can never stop my schemes” as well as Madame Carp’s exclamation of “Here again?” when she spots her singing implies this isn’t the first time she’s done something like this. And of course, that’s only the examples that directly connect with “To be a Princess,” since outside of that, there are also ways in which Julian’s character is tied to Preminger’s, with their effectively being opponents in the Princess Anneliese situation, as well as being foils due to having both grown up in poor families and working their way up, but where Julian is perfectly happy being the tutor, Preminger’s ambition leads him to desire kingship, something which Julian, based on his reaction when he learns of Preminger’s ambitions, cannot understand. 

And now of course I’m thinking of the other ways in which characters are tied together in this movie, but I feel like that’s probably best left as a second post.

[superbeans89]

[solvikare]

@lugoboi​​

Jim had trekked through Siberia once. A month long mission in the middle of frigid wastes where the cold seeped through every thermal layer to chill and chill and chill. But it was nothing compared to the ice that clawed at his veins at Lugo’s words, eyes downcast as Jim swallowed this information with difficulty. 

Walker.

He’d been Jim’s hero once, the inspiration for his signing up to serve. Jim had gone down a different track with the Navy but the implication had been the same. He’s still not meeting Lugo’s gaze and he wonders if he even realises Jim knew him. A different time by all accounts because this isn’t the Walker Jim remembers.

Whatever else is going on between him and his resident sniper is put on hold and Jim’s next words are low and precise. “Are you sure?”