“it’s interesting to watch someone go from wanting to survive to wanting to live” what the fuck aabria we’re like barely half an hour in and i’m weeping

💙Dimension 20: Burrow's End 💙

It was such a joy to be able to work on this show, I'm so excited for everyone to be able to watch it for the first time! It's such a sweet and heartfelt story, but also jam packed with action and amazingly detailed minis 👀

I think my fav burrows end NPC is Lukas. He's just a little binty boy. He'd love the wintergreen Lifesavers I just know it

I love that the tension between Teedles/Oliver and Viola/Ava has resolved into 'Yeah these people are very mean and very scary, but!!! They are pointed at our enemies so we're actually doing really great 👍🏿'

Real 'But they're OUR terrifying family of death dealers' thing going on

Teedles is my new fav everyone else go home

as a cult survivor, i have immense respect for how @quiddie handled the lukura in burrow's end. specifically in episode 1, the moment that it was revealed that thorn was a cult leader, i was ready to bail, but i decided to stick through the first episode at least just to see if it was something i could handle. and... man. i was genuinely sobbing with relief by the end of the episode.

the problem with so much cult-driven media, i find, is that it dehumanises the members/victims of the cult. they're just there to be vaguely creepy, or to sacrifice themselves for their leader(s), or to die outright to cult doctrine, usually for shock value. they're not actually people.

so you can imagine my fear when the stoats were escaping the poison, that we were going to get some scene where a member has to sacrifice themselves for thorn/viola, or it would be revealed that they all died waiting for orders etc. but we didn't... instead, in their last moments, aabria gave them what cult victims in media very rarely get — agency. viola's anger being met with teedles' "but they have families too," yes... yes!!! thank you! and then "if they ran, it was because they hoped to save them, and i can't begrudge them for that" i just... i don't think i can actually put into words how much that exchange meant to me. it was such a departure from what we're used to. even though most of them still died(?), it was not in service to thorn, or because of their lukura's beliefs. they were mothers and fathers and daughters and sons; they were no different to any of the pcs. they were trying to save themselves. aabria... the woman that you are. thank you.

Teedles: how did you guys get in this much trouble immediately?

Thorn Lila.

Teedles: yea

Thorn: and like I was saying --

Teedles: and she's so mean

Thorn: yeah. Yeah. Truly. She gets it from her grandmother. She's a nightmare.

Teedles: she's so mean!

Thorn: I thought we were really getting along and then she just turned round and was like ka-ka cut me down.

Teedles: yea, crazy

Thorn: I've never felt so undermined.

love that aabria made two side characters refer to each other as “partners” and then smash cut to them fucking in episode SIX. and they’re STRAIGHT.

Just waiting for Oliver and Teedles to realise that now they’re in Last Bast, maybe they don’t necessarily need to follow what Thorn says anymore.

I mean, Thorn has understandably been preoccupied with the family, so they HAVE kind of been shunted down his list of priorities…

Burrow’s End Episode 3 is back at it with the major creepy/cozy vibes. I am in love with it.

Also just. The family dynamics are so good. There is love and complicated internal relationships.

I loved getting to see Jasper’s character Thorn repair his relationship with Oliver and Teedles (at least most of it. Some more consequences might come up later, and honestly? That would be some very real family dynamics shit (and they are totally family) where what you’ve said might be forgiven or overlooked because it’s more important to a person to maintain a relationship but it isn’t necessarily forgotten. I hope Jasper and Aabria get to explore that a bit in future episodes).

teedles and viola finally bonding over how they’re both scary and powerful and mean and hot as it should be

aabria's gonna force me to become hopelessly obsessed with an underling who has a silly name again. i can feel it

🔷️Dimension 20: Burrow's End🔷️

Some weird stoats and also humans?

She’s the only one in the family with a southern accent

STOATS STOATS STOATS