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if im ever found mysteriously stone dead you can assume it was because i laughed too hard at this

#me and my sister dissolved into peels of laughter the second he put the mask on #my sense of humour is refined as you can see #ryan bergara #shane and ryan #ryan and shane #watcher entertainment #mystery files #we are watcher #all hail the watcher #ghoul boys #shane-anigans #<—— using this tag from now on whenever shane does/causes somethin silly #which happens #a lot #the geek rambles

Richie as Director Avatar and Taylor Swift

I was talking with @thoughtfulchaos773 earlier today and something occurred to me about Richie singing Love Story in Forks. There has been a lot of really wonderful meta lately touching on Richie's role in the show. There's @currymanganese's excellent point that Richie is Storer's avatar as well as all of @thoughtfulchaos773's posts about Filmmaking and Season 3/Richie as Director (Part 1 / Part 2).

Anyway, previously I hadn't thought much about Love Story being the Taylor Swift song that they had Richie sing. It's well known, it's a song that would make sense that his young daughter would gravitate towards and would have exposed him to. There's a purity and joy to it that fits with the earnestness he gains in his journey throughout the action of Forks. However, with the context of all of the other great meta out there, it occurred to me that if we think of Richie as Director and Observer of Carmy's Love Life (as thoughtfulchaos773 called him in Filmmaking Meta Part 1), the choice of Love Story as the song is a LOT more significant. Richie is telling viewers what the story of The Bear is...it's a love story. And it's a love story with Sydney as opposed to the horror/haunting story that's being laid out with Claire (here and here and probably others I'm not finding right now).

I've also been trying to make sense of the use of Long Live, which plays in the background of the conversation that Richie has with Frank in Violet. I was expecting to get another Taylor Swift song in Season 3, but all of the guesses I had made were more directly tied to Richie's plot and story (This is Me Trying was my main prediction). So I was very surprised that the song they picked was Long Live. But in considering Richie as Director Surrogate, this choice starts to make a lot of sense.

I don't think the choice of song is trying to say anything about Richie and Tiff's relationship, or Richie getting over her, or his maturity in handling the conversation with Frank. Long Live is a song that Taylor Swift wrote for her band, in celebration of her first headlining tour (for Fearless). In our chat, @thoughtfulchaos773 suggested that Long Live is a reference to Richie's looking back and reflecting at The Beef (and contrasting the experience of working at The Beef with the experience of working at The Bear) and hoping that sense of comradery and joy is able to be found at The Bear eventually -- and I think that makes a lot of sense.

I said remember this feeling I passed the pictures around Of all the years that we stood there on the sidelines Wishing for right now We are the kings and the queens You traded your baseball cap for a crown When they gave us our trophies And we held them up for our town And the cynics were outraged Screaming, "This is absurd" 'Cause for a moment, a band of thieves In ripped up jeans got to rule the world

There are a couple of other things that stand out to me in the song:

I was screaming, "Long live all the magic we made" And bring on all the pretenders, I'm not afraid

Magic and sleight-of-hand are themes that come up in Season 3, and it may be because I have Unreasonable Hospitality on the brain, but it is important to Richie, who lists the dream weave as one of his non-negotiables. Will Guidara writes in UH that for a while at Eleven Madison Park, they used a literal magic trick to reveal dessert to guests during one of their courses. And EMP also employed an entire team of Dreamweavers whose sole responsibility was to make hospitality personal and special for their guests (seen in Season 3 in the scene with the Surprise with the cake and Richie singing happy birthday in Spanish). I don't necessarily think they picked the song to make this reference but there is a through line there, even if unintended -- and I do think that, dropped fork notwithstanding, Richie's journey towards Unreasonable Hospitality genuinely has become his purpose.

The second thing that stands out to me, which might well be more of an intentional reference, comes from the last verse (which plays as Richie asks Frank about how he got his house):

Will you take a moment? Promise me this That you'll stand by me forever But if, God forbid, fate should step in And force us into a goodbye If you have children someday When they point to the pictures Please tell them my name Tell them how the crowds went wild Tell them how I hope they shine

I am reminded of this very excellent meta of @currymanganese's which posits the name of the restaurant Fairest Creatures alludes to one of Shakespeare's procreation sonnets. I think this verse alludes to (or directs our attention towards):

Season 3's theme of legacy

The hope of reconciliation between Richie and Carmy

An allusion to Carmy's future children and sharing the legacy of The Beef/The Bear with them

#sydcarmy #the bear season 3 #richie #richie as director surrogate #music in the bear #the bear music #taylor swift in the bear #richie is a swiftie #this may just be my ND brain making all sorts of weird connections #which happens #cue me trying to puzzle out what TS song will come in season 4 at Richie's behest

Dashi, watching his girlfriend, brother-figure, and successor all turn to the Heylin side:

#xiaolin showdown #xiaolin chronicles #grand master dashi #chase young #raimundo pedrosa #xs wuya #Guan doesnt count #hes just an asshole xiaolin #which happens

i don't believe in moral high grounds or being the better person i will stoop to your level nd drown you in the mud we're slinging

#unless ofc the only way to win is to pretend to have the moral high ground #which happens

my god i cannot explain how badly i want to be kept inside a marble never thought i'd say that but here we are

ok I said I’m going to sleep pt2 but I had a Thought™️ and I couldn’t stop thinking and now I’m like 200 words in. speaking it into existence that I’ll finish it and post it, so I can finallt get back into the Groove of things. I have no idea where I’m going with it but all I can say is your wish may be fulfilled... (´～｀ヾ)

There’s so much to deal with before the end of Killjoys

Dutch’s mother told her to kill Aneela if necessary and then went back to sleep in her pod to wait for Khlyen

We need some resolution on this

At least I do

It’s one of the plot lines I was looking forward to most in this season

I need that family to see each other again

#aff watches killjoys #it feels like there's a lot of weird plot avoidance going on #which happens #it's the biggest flaw in doctor who a lot of times too #trying to balance episode of the week with plot arc episodes works when the plot isn't too big #but at some point the plot is all coming together and the audience is like 'get to the point!'#and when there are only 3 episodes left #i get nervous that we wasted a ton of this season on an annoying rift between dutch and johnny that didn't even need to exist #because it turns out there wasn't really even anything there to rift about #i'm still mad about that #because i lost my favorite relationship to a pointless arc and it really makes me sad #i didn't need them to be romantic #but i needed them to be a team #i'm honestly just sad about that #and there's so much stuff i'd like to take the time to explore #and these last 3 episodes need to do it #and the whole political stuff of the early series must have been totally dropped #if you watch seasons 1 and 2 it seems like the endgame will be correcting the polical system #but that died with pawter and alvis I think #we took on delle seyah and dropped the guys trying to make it a better place #i like delle seyah but #aneela and delle seyah want to give themselves an empire - they aren't exactly looking for political reform #that plot is gone #which isn't entirely a bad thing because the save the universe plots were really good osometimes #but also...

the thing that irks me most about the Hisu pregnancy scenario is that she literally had a line about not wanting to be made into a "god" by her father, and now she's essentially doing (being forced to?) do the same thing to her unborn child.. even moreso that the child will receive a titan other than the founding, as well as possibly the founding in the future (if things really go shit-end up). in addition to that royal blood, this poor kid's gonna be getting all the shit that its mother refused

Historia is always game to sacrifice herself on impulse.

Character development has given her the tools to bring that impulse to a screeching halt before a brick wall, but that leash is fairly long.

Forcing someone else to make the same sacrifices she’s willing to has never been part of the deal. She fights for the people no one else sees or hears. Her most remarkable act as Queen is finding and protecting children.

This whole plot revolves around Historia condemning a child to the same life her arc culminates in her refusing. A life that promises eating someone alive one day. The only mercy that might be allowed is to have a middleman instead of the child being forced to eat its own mother at thirteen.

Historia is often shortsighted in her drive to prove that her life is worth something. She gets that syringe in her arm in the Reiss cavern before she fights back.

But the idea that she would consent to putting a child through this goes against everything her character is. That she has yet to be one of the characters who voices what an abomination that is, when it’s linked to her entire family history and her entire life–

It’s ridiculous.

My assumption has to be that the story knows that, because Isayama has never betrayed his characters this way.

#attack on asks #Historia Reiss #shingeki no no #and with that I think I'm going to say that I'm done going over this #for this round at least #this is still not a friendly topic for my brain #if I get more asks on it in the near future I'll probably go with deleting them instead of answering #unless my self control fails #which happens #a lot #but the intent of this tag spam is to politely say I think my head can't keep going over this right now #ALSO THAT LAST LINE HAS A GIANT ASTERISK WITH ALL MY YMIR TINHATTING #I just felt like I needed a break from reminding everyone that my investment in the manga #is currently based on things 99% of the fandom thinks is nonsense

i just realised you fucking posted that i feel like i creep holy dhisrt

DONT WORRY ABOUT IT I DONT THINK YOURE A CREEP 😭😭

#dont be scared to respond quickly lmfao #i respond even quicker #sometimes.#or ill forget to answer for a few days..#which happens #most times #but dont worry about it #☆ . asks !!