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Psych – 8.05 COG Blocked

Do you know the number of manga authors who have died in the last decade? Do you know the number of physical illnesses a mangaka can develop due to his work? Muscle and posture problems, kidney problems, circulation problems. Not to mention that in recent years it is also common to say “being sick” to have depression, something that many manga artists suffer from due to the media exposure of their works to hundreds of thousands of ungrateful people who constantly insult and harass them.

Some of y'all are disgusting.

I hope I don't see any of you posting ANYTHING about the importance of mental health on your shitty profiles after everything you're doing with Gege Akutami. You're so self-fucking-centered and ungrateful.

Gus, trying to drop hints: MAYBE this character ALREADY KNOWS the other guy is a clone!!

Hunter, king of missed social cues: NO SPOILERS!!

btw ive been writing up this toh au that, basically, without spoilers its an au where belos is the new teacher at luz's school. he's human and everything and taking care of hunter (who is ofc a new student) and ive been having so many thoughts abt it that i would NOT shut up abt scenarios that entered my mind when i was vcing with a friend.

and one of those scenarios included this scene, like maybe a year after belos and hunter settle into town, where the hexsquad is sitting in belos' office afterschool, just talking about Things and Stuff (and trying so hard to figure out who is going to dm for their dnd campaign) and in passing someone mentions the label 'nonbinary man' because yknow these kids would all be trans and stuff so like ofc theyd discuss gender a lot.

but it catches belos' attention and he looks up from his work (grading tests or sum) and goes like "what?" and the whole squad goes silent; because you never know how people from different generations react to this sort of stuff so the anxiety is always There. and luz, being the unspoken leader, speaks up first: "yeah?" "what does.. 'nonbinary man' mean?" "oh, um- its like when someone is nonbinary but they're also a man? like, uh- they identify with male things and are okay being called a man, or they lean towards male more, but they're still nonbinary? it's um- different for everyone?"

and he just sort of.. stares at the bunch, processing the information.

"hm. i see" "why do you ask?"

Guys these characters are way too fun to draw

Gus as a character deserved so much more

Could've been gay -nope

Learn more about his dad and home life -nope

Could've seem more of his insecurities -nope

Could've been a healthy black teenager and not stereotypical-nope

Could've seen his powers grow like willows if not more -NOPE

Me @ Disney

i love you azura books i love you luz's nerdiness given prominence throughout the show i love you "luzura" i love you amity and luz bonding over a "cringe" book series i love you lumity azura/hecate cosplay i love you young queer couple cosplaying as a queer couple that really inspired them as kids and helped bring them together i love you beautiful tribute to the power of representation in media as shown via a latina girl adoring and being heavily influenced by a book series starring a latina witch who she can see herself in i love you varied and beautiful discussions of representation in a show with heaps and heaps of just that :')

in the same vein, i love you cosmic frontier i love you chief engineer o'bailey-hunter parallels i love you gus captain avery cosplay i love you gus helping hunter confront his identity as a grimwalker by introducing him to a series with a character he can see himself in i love you star trek deep space nine reference i love you black boy cosplaying as a black space captain i love you camila connecting with luz using her own nerdy childhood obsession i love you power of stories and, again, representation in media i love you the owl house's constant message that representation matters i love you i love you💙💙💙💙

i love gus in both shows but i think his story “matches” a lot better with the others in bcs than in brba because although both shows are about people who justify increasingly harmful things to themselves, in brba the fatal flaw is more like ego, specifically with our main character (ego as in a projection of the self rather than just vanity, ego as an inflated idea of oneself in terms of an investment in the self as father/husband/provider/archetypical good man, an investment in legacy, in pride), whereas bcs is for the most part, about a bunch of people that do bad things for someone they love in some way, however twisted the logic. and i guess the ego thing applies to walter more than anyone else in brba, he is kind of contrasted with most people in the show, and while you could argue much of the cartel is also driven by some form of ego, that’s not really explored and they are kind of just a conglomerate of baddies in brba, and i guess you could also argue that gus’ ego is in his ambition, that his pride is apparent in his massive fast food empire and his immaculate reputation. HOWEVER. i think that the core, the soft underbelly of gus’ story being firmly rooted in max pairs a LOT better with bcs’ way of writing about relationships and changes the meaning of some of those things. the meth lab was THEIR plan, not just his. doing it successfully means the success of max’s ambitions in ADDITION to his. he remains in search of a cook for YEARS, because that was max’s job. the cook has to be a chemist and totally up to par because MAX was a chemist. los pollos HERMANOS. dedicado a MAX. and of course the revenge itself. more than his own ego, everything he does is a monument to max. he dedicates himself to this entirely, revoking his own emotions and needs, just kind of coldly functioning for this one purpose. and of course you could say that that is also still ego-serving because it’s still holding yourself up this false ideal. but at the very least it’s a very different show of ego than walter’s. compare that with jimmy and ice station zebra, jimmy and the time machine, jimmy getting into law AT ALL, jimmy confessing. the transformation from the name of the child gus once was to gustavo fring, and the transformation from jimmy mcgill to saul goodman. guys. guys. i know it’s been said but guys

hmmm I'm thinking about wash's stance on the training accident and I think it would be so funny if he gave maine a lecture about it afterwards

You ever think about Shaun and Danse interacting and cry a lil bit

hot take (lol) but I think Gus, Matt, and even Darius being seen as gay/mlm and even asexual or aromantic (or both! aroace rights!) makes more sense than Hunter being seen that way

A Sherlock tv adaptation, but it’s impossible to know who’s Sherlock and who’s Watson because they’re both such dumbasses

oh and since i rewatched LR , i noticed how quickly and easily willow identified what was going on with gus and the others when they broke into the gym , you know like she's seen him like this before , like she's helped him through it before

i'm emotionally damaged actually

When you play sims and your self insert dies of starvation (in the kitchen no less), one of their dads is asleep in the bathtub, the other dad is just casually cooking something, and meanwhile the grim reaper is just standing in the way. And the only one who grieves or reacts in any way is the dog, who is afraid of the grim reaper, and the goddamn repairman, who just happened to be here and is crying uncontrollably and not doing any repair work.

I feel Deuteronomy was a group favourite when it came to kittensitting duty in his prime - he had that good blend of loving, gentle presence ala Munkustrap and mischief maker/stirrer and "Yeah, I absolutely think we can make that happen" ala Tugger. He'd be scheming in one conversation while regulating another kitten at the same time. He just liked hanging out with them, and sometimes he'd even trade shifts with another cat when it came to volunteering for nursery duty.

He could also carry a good handful of them all at once, so days usually just devolved into Deuteronomy with the lot of them balanced on his back and shoulders and clutched in his arms because they were "tired" and depositing them to their parents one by one.