i hope your QUARTERS 🪙 go to LAUNDRY 🧺 🧼 i hope your PROBLEMS 😩 🙏🏻 GO AWAY 🏃🏻 💨 either BURIED 🕳️🧹⛏️underground 🪨or DRIFTING off 🍃into SPACE 💫✨☄️ 🌌
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Jim Jimenez and Mel Spriggs
You should fear what you already know
And hope that you never find out about the things you don't know yet
Just because something burns bright
Doesn't mean it's gonna burn forever
So, all these people around you saying
"You got so much further to go"
"It's gonna get worse before it gets better"
I don't know, I don't know if that's true
'Cause we are all, eventually
Either the victims, or the victims' family
-Cold War Kids, First
"I don't ever want to be the reason Lucius gets hurt," Mel says. "And it seems like lately, that's all I seem to be doing. He's on edge, and he's pretending not to be, and I can't help but think that me being back here is just bringing back bad things into his life."
The problem with Mel is that unlike Blackbeard, whose apologies meant nothing to Jim even when they were sincere because Blackbeard had actively hurt them over and over, on purpose, Mel has made these hurts on accident. In certain ways, they're not even her fault; it's two people with their own bad histories bashing their own responses to stress up against each other in ways guaranteed to leave cracks.
Jim thinks about their friendships with Pete and Izzy, about how steady they feel, about how opening up to Pete about their gender has made them feel connected and sharing under the stars with Izzy has made them feel grounded. Mel is still adrift, dragging her chains behind her.
They take a deep breath. They can do this. They can try to trust an outsider.
For Lucius, Jim thinks. For their friends, they would do anything.
-aletterinthenameofsanity, on the back of a hurricane that started turning (when you were young)
So, I'm a big fan of watching Jim's journey of trust in Season 3, especially as it relates to Mel. To steal a line from this excerpt, Jim and Mel both have trauma reactions that don't always coincide nicely, and it's a real treat to get to see them slowly work things out until things explode with the bounty poster reveal (no spoilers, sorry, y'all will have to read it!), but then eventually Jim and Mel resolve their problems and end up with one of the tighter bonds in the show. I love a good mistrust-of-strangers-due-trauma-evolves-into-found-family-bonds arc, and these two really sell it well.
(Also, the Front Bottoms really fit these two's combined vibe.)
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5 November 2023 | Northwest Prairie Lutheran Church Cemetery, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Arrived at this cemetery the day after the lawn mower. Hoping they intend to clean this up, but it’s more likely to get worked into the soil of the neighboring crop land.
Illegalize plastic flowers.
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it doesn’t get worse, it doesn’t get better. You just get old, it lasts forever
-everyone but you, the front bottoms
so, all these people around you saying “you’ve got so much further to go. it’s gotta get worse before it gets better” i don’t know. i don’t know if that’s true.
-plastic flowers, the front bottoms
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OKAY, EVERYBODY, SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR A MINUTE. I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.
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Plastic Flowers
Destroy and rebuilt until all the graves are filled
Mary does not come easy
Destroy and rebuilt until all resources are spilled
Mary bows her head in pain
God
Why are they so insane
Roses made of plastic and sprayed with chemical perfume
Can bloom
In winter and coming soon
And there is more
Order now and get two for one
Keep one and give to someone
Paved in asphalt are fields of flowers
Just to make plastic flowers for others
This is great
They bloom all year and need no water
The bees don’t need to bother
As they sell the air we breath to each other
War is waged for food
To feed one another
But there’s more
Don’t bother
By: Minister Peacefulpoet (word witch) 2/22/23
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