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A certain first encounter

let's kill hilbert is a great hera and minkowski episode in how well it displays some of the best and worst of their dynamic (and highlights the source of their ongoing miscommunication.)

"i'm doing the best i can here, so just, please, try to sound a little less patronizing?" / "i'm not being patronizing, i'm being critical." sums up the disconnect: that what minkowski sees as professional criticism and an attempt to combat future problems, hera takes as a personal attack. ultimately, minkowski's suggestions to lighten her burden are well-meaning and closer to what hera needs than any faith in her ability to do her job (there are things she can't do, and things she shouldn't have to), but she's been made to believe her worth as a person - and her continued survival - hangs in the balance. and so, the scene that leads to that one, where minkowski takes the navigation controls from hera: "no, it's fine! i can -" / "i don't care what you can, give me the controls right now." stands out for the wording used, the different things that are meant by it, and what it reinforces for hera: i can't do this. i'm not good enough.

it makes sense that the resolution, where minkowski tells hera, "you are the smartest person i've ever met, hera; focus that intelligence [...]" is one of the moments she thinks of at the end of memoria. because it's a turning point for their relationship, because it's a show of trust ("i trust you" coming very shortly after "i need to know that i can trust you."), because it's a show of respect and the only moment in the entire show where someone refers to hera by rank, but also...

i think there's something to be said for how minkowski's voice at the end of memoria is a direct expression of belief in hera's abilities, while eiffel's "use the force, luke" shows that what hera values about eiffel is... well, eiffel, but i think it's also true that both of these things show something about communication. they show hera's understanding of eiffel and minkowski's unique communication styles, what they say and what they mean by it, and that shows what they mean to her.

"you are the smartest person i know, hera" (a slight alteration from the original line that has a ton of implications re: context and memory) isn't really about her intelligence, or even her ability. contextually, it's a direct counterstatement to "i don't care what you can" and, by association, and through their connection - minkowski's voice becomes, quite literally, like eiffel's, another voice in her head counteracting what pryce has made hera believe about herself.

staying on this app if for nothing else but spite

Theodorus: Sit down.

Mozart: Nobody tells me what to do!

MC: Please sit down.

Mozart: *immediately sits down*

controversial statement but nanami kento would not lecture you after you play a prank on him

ok u know what maybe if the world isn't ready for sunrazer post that means that the world IS ready for Amoveous siblings post. This is Milo and Enho and theyre my DARLINGS and i love them SO MUCH. i have. SOOOOOOOO many thoughts abt them but after the previous post massacre i do not really feel like typing all of that xoxo love <3

vat of acid episode is one of the most perfectest episodes as a whole but i think my favorite part on this rewatch was rick and morty just being silently stuck in the acid for two minutes. like they animated such good characterization there. rick showing again that he can think extremely quickly but still makes mistakes and winces when he does, rick and morty fumbling over the rat until rick’s about to shoot it and morty pulls it out of rick’s hands and gives it his oxygen instead. it’s so good!! put those two in more situations where they have to silently communicate and improvise and fight!!

[TUVOKTOBER: Day 6] Based on this line of dialogue:

i am definitely biased by my personal dislike for 'tumblr teen musicals' but one of my biggest bmc pet peeves is christine being characterized as a musical theatre kid who likes idfk. heathers or mean girls or whatever. she's a shakespeare girlie. that is quite literally canon. fine i guess she could like musicals too but she likes stuff like into the woods or whatever not hamilton okay

*eyes shooting awake like a sleeper agent* ebb and nico were actually identical twins and ebb was transfem

🐩Poodle Sanji

Piff trying to convince the emperor she’s not up to anything like “no no I don’t even care what’s in the house of hope. I just want to rob Raphael”

in order to like john the beloved you have to hate him first and then love him for who he is which is the world's most annoying freak

honestly tho. ive gotta say that my absolute favorite grease phase is def them sophomore/junior year of hs. close second is them raising lily II probably