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probadbatch · 11 days

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Time for some more Phee love

I have to admit that I was not a Phee fan at first. Wanda Sykes is one of those people who just gets on my nerves for absolutely no reason so when I saw she was going to be in TBB, I was less than thrilled. And her first introduction didn't really have me changing my mind. But I enjoyed the Indiana Jones episode (Entombed? I think?) with her and started to like her just a bit more then. She was kinda fun.

And then I saw Pabu.

The way she melted into the squad like she had always been there was huge for me. She gets these guys. They like her. They work well together. And the way she cared about Omega? Wanting her to get normal childhood experiences like friends her own age who aren't related to her? She wasn't just trying to get a backup team from the boys. She genuinely cared about them.

And then she offered the squad her home. They needed a place to belong and she gave it to them without even hesitating. And when we get there, we learn that she's not just a pirate making a quick buck for herself. Oh sure, she'll do that too but she does have values and she cares about a lot more than what she can get for herself.

There is a depth to Phee that takes a few episodes to find but once you see it, it's clear that she is a good and decent person. She's brash and blunt and courageous and loyal. She's adventurous and fun and she's never met a challenge she wasn't up for. She's guarded and cautious with her heart and she is so open and loving and generous when she finds someone worth trusting.

For heck's sake, she bickers with her droid endlessly but how many times has she rebuilt Mel? More than once, we know for sure. Phee loves fiercely and wholly and she will go to the ends of the galaxy for those she cares about.

And oh goodness I do love that she's still there for the squad this season. It would have been so easy to walk away after losing her primary link to them but she stayed. She's there so fully and so unflinchingly that it's obvious she never even thought twice about it. Phee shows up when they need her most and they tell her they want to do something that is frankly suicidal and doesn't even blink - sounds like fun, sign her up, let's do it! They didn't even have to ask her to tag along. All they really asked for was a ride off Pabu. But there was never a question that she would be there with them, for them, with whatever they needed.

She's the kind of character that makes me like the actress who plays her, despite my previous opinions. I don't know about you guys but for me, that is a short list with scarce company.

Phee is one of the best.

#tbb #the bad batch #star wars #phee genoa #saw some more bullshit so it's time for more love!#phee is awesome and i hope she gets a whole damn spinoff series of her adventures bopping around the galaxy and checking in on the boys #i would watch the hell out of that #it would be great

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incredipuppy · 1 month

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Happy anniversary to Tangled the Series(And happy birthday to Varian!!)

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moonpaw · 9 months

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Fighting DEMONS rn trying not to get invested in one piece to figure out wtf you're posting about!!!!

come here cyber.... we have this thang

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#mp answers #i've been trying so hard not to be annoying to my bnha friends but if you will allow me to push this for this ask let me say 🙏#if you're afraid of the episode count for one piece the manga is a lot quicker read while being just as enjoyable because the art style is #an actual delight. its great its fantastic im absolutely in love with it #the series is soooo good and i know luffy can seem unappealing to people before they start but he's just SUCH a great character & continues #to be even now. the story is SO GOOD the characters are SO GOOD... theres so much lore and world building that its insane #if you read the manga we get 'cover stories' on what's going on with previous characters to see what theyre up to even though we moved on #from where we left them. a lot of these cover stories blend into the main story so well its just seamless #there's one where we get introduced to a character we dont see hundreds of episodes into the anime and they show up like; during the second #saga. the series is about traveling to other islands and every single arc has been tied to another in some way or form that shows up later #even if its sagas and sagas later- it still becomes relevant again!! it's a huge ongoing story and there isnt a single arc that feels like #it has no purpose (sans filler in the anime-but even then!! some filler arcs are really entertaining!)#it's emotional! its sad! its downright stupid and silly but GOD... you can feel the love that oda put into this series and his characters #and the emotions in the expressions and the messages the story gives off it just makes me UEUHGHHAHGHH!!!#it's all about the adventure and the romance of it all! its about the freedom it brings and bringing freedom to others!#its a series where treasure should be a focus given its pirates and the its a giant treasure hunt for the one piece and yet! and yet so man #of the characters treasures are things that are not coins and gems but people and promises and family and and #im going to EXPLODE i love one piece

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punster-2319 · 4 months

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Noteworthy shows and movies turning 30 this year:

- The Lion King

- Gargoyles

- Friends

- The Return of Jafar

- Aladdin tv series

- The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure

- Forrest Gump

- ReBoot

- Spider-Man: The Animated Series

- Space Ghost Coast to Coast

- The Magic School Bus

#1994 #2024 #30th anniversary #the lion king #gargoyles #friends #the return of jafar #aladdin the animated series #the land before time ii: the great valley adventure #forrest gump #reboot #spider man the animated series #space ghost coast to coast #the magic school bus

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officialrapunzelfitzherbert · 2 years

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hello i did the 6 fanarts but w assigned kins from my mutuals here they are !!

#they are all so me....i love them #art #6 fanarts #rapunzel #rapunzles tangled adventure #tangled #tangled the series #greg #over the garden wall #sonya rostova #natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812 #orpheus #hadestown #mabel pines #gravity falls #joy #inside out

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hammerings · 7 months

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watched f&c

#my way of announcing i watched this series btw #IT WAS GREAT #i liked a lot of the characters idk who to draw tbh. if i ever do real fanart #denev’s art #fionna and cake #fionna mertens #prison #adventure time #fanart #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #meme #funny

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youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal · 1 month

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Happy Rapunzel and the Great Tree Day to all who celebrate!

#tangled #tangled the series #tts #rapunzel’s tangled adventure #rta #rapunzel and the great tree #personal

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rhmis-user-2020 · 7 months

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People are like "Varian's eyes are like his mother" like HAVEN'T YOU SEEN QUIRIN'S AT ALL WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER?

VARIAN'S EYES ARE SIMILAR TO QUIRIN'S, except his freckles are from his mother but either way. HE DOES HAVE FEATURES THAT RELATE TO HIS FATHER!

#tangled the series #tangled #rapunzel's tangled adventure #rapunzel #varian and the 7 kingdoms #tts varian #varian and the seven kingdoms #tangled varian #varian vat7k #tts quirin #tangled quirin #rta quirin #quirin tangled #ulla vat7k #rapunzel and the great tree

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meiloorunsmoothie · 2 months

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hey everyone! thought i'd make a jeremy jordan masterpost for those who want to watch more of the things he's been in (this is PART 1)

this is a compilation of the shows/movies/tv he's done, along with links/information on where to watch them. there is surprisingly a lot of jeremy jordan content you can watch for free on youtube!

a note: if the show is blue, it means i have a version (either audio or video) that is different from the one i linked below. if you would like access to that, dm me! i am willing to gift each person up to two videos/audios.

without further ado, enjoy!!!

Broadway/Off-Broadway/Shows “in Concert”:

Rock of Ages:

High Enough @ Bryant Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbiGphTT_4

RoA closing night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmHSup_s8Vo

High Enough w/ Ashley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dloI6N8yts

His like 10 seconds in this 💀: https://youtu.be/30ul84hDL-Q?si=ZSv7HO3Y-RSJPeUV

West Side Story (Hollywood Bowl 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVpgnB0OQE4

Heathers: The Musical (Workshop @ Joe’s Pub): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXB6-WaU6y4

Bonnie & Clyde Broadway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOaMt_cSl1M

Newsies Broadway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7sLuH5Ngdk

Hit List in Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzqfOXY-BtM

Parade in Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a3MhuDpwGc

Finding Neverland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDMVu85pnFU

Bombshell in Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws5XQiIFGhg

Newsies Pro-Shot: https://vimeo.com/424881155

American Son: Pro-Shot on Netflix

Waitress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a3MhuDpwGc

A Killer Party:

Erm…here’s a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6daiX53wwo

Also his song (which is a banger for literally no reason): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RPI8ggYNss

Little Shop of Horrors (both 2021 and 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0qvTi4FtFU (2023, AUDIO ONLY)

This channel has a lot of clips from his two runs: https://www.youtube.com/@lexfox21

Bonnie & Clyde West End Concert:

Raise a Little Hell (audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2eBfOjJLpo

The Great Gatsby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CchzuyXcCds&t=1s (AUDIO ONLY)

Here’s a different one as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBw_vUOrjE

Movies (these are only the ones I could find with publicly available links):

The Last Five Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3ftS0LcZ8

Mix up in the Mediterranean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkai2uV1nO8

TV (there are others, I know, but these are the most popular ones):

Smash (yes, almost the whole season 2 is on youtube): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoizneF6zldhG0iDEkFfcho9e1QJpvHHF&si=lqH9_eV0KQeanxC_

Tangled the Series (season 1 only): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiv1IUQDVSNIqxjX4rzvIMw7EjwGspqGt&si=zFj-82vVaGfjhVIS

Supergirl: on Netflix

Hazbin Hotel: on Amazon Prime

part 2 (his concerts!!!) is out now and linked here!

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strawberry-carpcake · 2 months

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I hate that the atla remake toned down Sokkas sexism for the sake of not being offensive bc honestly I think it’s MORE offensive that it’s not included bc they are basically saying that it’s not important enough to teach those lessons and it’s negative to prevent toxic masculinity 🫶 As a girl I loved seeing the sexism in atla, I loved the lesson that it taught and I loved that all the girls were capable and strong but some of them were STILL FEMININE (cough cough Katara. The new show ruined that too)

While I’m talking about Katara, they ruined her too, not just Sokka. Where’s her rage? Her hurt? Her anger? Let her be angry. She’s 14 fighting in a war, she’s supposed to be mad. I loved her anger it was real and gave her flaws and depth. And also she’s supposed to be motherly. What’s bad about that? There’s nothing sexist about that? Some girls DO want to be that way? Also, it’s supposed to show how she was forced to take the role of her mother as a CHILD bc of the fire nation. It shows the negative effects of war and the loss of innocence, it was so important why is that gone???

#Also I get that they were trying to show how how sokka was impacted by the war too but It felt so out of place in s1 #It was rushed #sokka is supposed to become more and more insecure throughout the series after continuous failure #So why was that insecurity just plopped in there in s1?#He’s supposed to be goofy #This isn’t necessarily canon but it’s pretty accepted in the fandom that it’s a coping mechanism or him trying to help katara #In the only ways he can #Sokka is SUPPOSED to be aloof and not as strong in the first season it’s part of his character arc.#Give sokka his insecurities in s2/s3 not s1 #Give sokka his character arc back 😭😭😭 katara too #AND AANG BTW?#He’s supposed to be funny and adventurous and a KID #you want him to be serious? Great! That’s what s3 is for #Good job Netflix you ruined everything great about atla #It’s so good bc the storytelling is flawless and the characters grow and progress and have FLAWS and FEARS an EMOTIONS #They tried to add emotions that aren’t supposed to be there yet and it takes away from the growth and natural progression #I’m honestly scared to see how they handle Azula

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lordelmelloi2 · 4 months

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On Hephaestion in Fate

Iskandar’s closest friend…though he didn’t think so himself. While his sister spread such information around, Hephaestion was aware that was simply counter-intelligence. Hephaestion was inserted at Iskandar’s side so as, even if only a little, to reduce the chance of him being attacked. [...] If alive today, he would no doubt be accused of having a siscon streak in him. In a way, one could say that fear became accurate after his death.

From Hephaestion (person)'s entry in the materials of Lord El-Melloi II Case Files. Very frustrating to read.

I hate what Fate series is trying to do with Hephaestion and Iskandar's relationship, I Know explicitly they're trying to make room for fujo shipbrainrot here by saying essentially that they don't have to worry about it; but there's problems.

Urobuchi and Nasu and etc. have all stated Iskandar is bisexual, there is no way they could've made that judgment unless they explicitly acknowledged the nature of Iskandar and Hephaestion's relationship. The fact is also that the parallels between Iskandar and Gilgamesh and their respective "closest friends" are very blatantly apparent through F/Z and other incarnations that like to put them together and Case Files as a novel itself also hasn't really made any attempt to discredit Hephaestion's importance to Iskandar, either.

It's weird also that they even use the word 'siscon' here because it almost implies that Hephaestion didn't feel anything for Iskandar as much -- which is so fucking bizarre, because Iskandar's love of Achilles and the Iliad has been present during the entirety of F/Z and through FGO and other incarnations, who do you think was Patroclus? Like there is no actual fucking way they could strip that Hephaestion was the Patroclus out. Of course though they have basically all-but erased Patroclus from Achilles' story as well.

The thing though is that this does also imply a lot more Olympias machinations. Because we know Faker was also something that was Olympias' doing, taking Hephaestion's twin sister and molding her into a nameless body-double for curses to be redirected towards in order to protect Iskandar. If that setting is true then yes of course Hephaestion is going to be fiercely protective of her because he's acutely aware that his sister is being used for something so dehumanizing on purpose and she doesn't even care about it; she's also thoroughly stripped of her own mental self-agency in that she's truly devoted to Iskandar and her brother and that's it.

So it can almost be inferred that in the Fateverse that Olympias essentially set up Hephaestion and Iskandar to be best friends rather than it being their choice in Aristotle's classroom -- or perhaps that Hephaestion fit the bill for what Olympias was looking for and so she began manipulating the situation accordingly. Hephaestion has always historically been remarked upon as being the smarter one so I don't doubt he would see Olympias' nonsense with his sister and be upset about it right away. Though, I mean, it's hard NOT to be upset with what Olympias was doing through Alexander's childhood; she poisoned all his siblings, including one that he did care for, she pushed him constantly into the spotlight for the sake of power, she even at one point bought a prostitute for him and begged him to have sex with her because his disinterest in women and sex at that age was something she felt personally concerned with (again, powergrabs, but also, definitely covert incest shit in noble families). The last anecdote I've listed is one that's not stated in Fate series but is something that happened historically.

The question then is whether or not Fate wants to legitimize Hephaestion's feelings towards Iskandar as mutual. It's possible that the phrasing here would imply that Hephaestion merely believed he could not be as close to Iskandar's heart as he truly was; something that, given the amount of personal relationships Iskandar had, isn't a hard thought of self-doubt to keep. Iskandar had many relationships and all were very important to him for many reasons (Ionioi Hetairoi existing makes this obvious). It's just that truly, his relationship with Hephaestion was the Most important, and for Hephaestion to even be relevant in this manner or even discussable in this manner also adds to that.

If Hephaestion was (presumably) opposed to Olympias and protective of his sister, why would he follow Iskandar in the Fate verse, then? The benefit of course being power, which isn't something one would scoff at in this setting, but I truly doubt that Hephaestion would simply go for powergrabs if the whole point is that the people who followed Iskandar did so because they admired him and loved him. But that brings up another point.

Hephaestion has been absent from Ionioi Hetairoi and from character designs or materials despite his significance until the Case Files manga. There has been no depiction of Hephaestion himself in any material featuring Ionioi Hetairoi, the 10,000 strong army of Iskandar, of which features his most important relationships. Faker was also absent. What does this imply?

Faker's absence was due to protest. We know this from information from Case Files. Faker also has the ability as we know from Lady Reines' Case Files to be able to summon Ionioi Hetairoi herself, featuring Iskandar within it. One would presume Hephaestion also has this ability. But why is Hephaestion not there at all?

A few options -

Hephaestion IS there, Waver just doesn't want to talk about him because he's insane in the head or whatever

Hephaestion is there, but in the back or something -- his role being not forefront is the reason why he's in the shadows; something that is remarked upon in historical analysis as to why we know so little about Hephaestion even now. Hephaestion's role traditionally was to do a lot of the "dirty work", and so his position was less favorable to put the spotlight on in comparison to the sun-shining glory of Iskandar.

Hephaestion is not there because of protest, much like his sister.

Hephaestion is not there because he is not that important of a relationship to Iskandar...

Hephaestion is not there because he doesn't truly exist.

I generally feel like I trust Makoto Sanda to not go this route, but there has been (somewhat baseless) speculation that Hephaestion was actually Iskandar's split personality. I Highly Doubt That This Was The Case in Fate series given the way it has treated Hephaestion thus far as a figure, but it would explain why Hephaestion has been a complete phantom in the series and in Iskandar's recollection.

Though I think personally it's more likely that it's 2 or 3, I don't think that it's out of the question for it to be the simply negligent option 1 or the outright ahistorical option 4.

The other question is: why is Fate series so negligent of Hephaestion?

That's easy to answer from certain standpoints -- one is because it gives them more room to make money off of fans that are there from the sheer yaoi market that Isuwei as a pairing as brought in. Like from a marketing standpoint it is blatantly obviously advantageous to simply ignore Hephaestion until the end of time.

The other reason adding on to that is because in terms of representing gay content, Fate series really considers itself to have no liability to do so, especially when there's such a massive fan following for a male/male pairing. The fans make the majority of the content, so TM's work is done, and they can hand off crumbs to people hungry for them and keep fans of the actual historical figures begging for scraps with little things while rewriting it to suit their needs. It's the reason why Achilles doesn't have Patroclus despite the significance. It's also why the genderbends are so predominant; it's what's keeping the money going. In the recent GudaGuda event Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin's historical homoerotic relationship is explored but the weight of it lessened as Uesugi is not just a genderbend but also one of Takeuchi's designs. So the risk of straight male fan complaints about yucky gay stuff is lessened because Uesugi isn't "really a guy" in Fate here.

Type Moon hasn't really been one to look up to in terms of whether or not they will give realistic male/male representation in pairings; either one side of the pairing or both have to be in a female body, thus leaving what would normally be a m/m pairing as a "safer" yuri f/f pairing (which then benefits their marketing as well as the majoritively male fanbase is easier to sell to).

The problem though is whether or not it is going to mesh with the rest of the story.

As I said from a marketing standpoint it is obvious that ignoring Hephaestion is beneficial. But from a narrative standpoint -- and this is Sanda's challenge -- ignoring Hephaestion forever just doesn't make sense.

There is no Iskandar without Hephaestion. It is impossible to write a story about Iskandar that involves ANY aspect of the historical portion of him without mentioning Hephaestion. And the fact that Hephaestion was mentioned at all was Fate series' first mistake.

Iskandar's materials have him listed as Dhul Qarnayn, aka the Great King mentioned in the Quran as one of the ideal ways a King should exist. The reason for THIS is because of the Persian Alexander Romance. The Alexander Romance is basically a legend-version of Alexander the Great's story in which Hephaestion's presence is very little or just outright absent. It is a fantastical version of Alexander the Great's kinghood in which he performs many great deeds. There are Greek, Persian, Syrian, Hebrew, Ethiopian, Nigerian, Indian, Malaysian, Byzantine and even more chrono-regional versions of this story, and each one features that mysticism that made Alexander the Great into such a worldwide figure today.

It is pretty apparent that a lot of Iskandar's characterization comes also from the version presented in the Alexander Romance. His being Dhul Qarnayn solidifies this. It would have been easy to continue to ignore Hephaestion if they simply continued to go down this route -- the Alexander Romance features little stories featuring him, and glorifies Iskandar into this God-chosen figure, and in some versions, even as a prophet of God.

But in Case Files Faker is introduced and so is Hephaestion as a figure that did exist. Hephaestion is given some material, but never appears, except as a version spoken of by his newly-conceptualized twin sister. (Hephaestion did not have a twin sister in history, but that much should be common knowledge).

Hephaestion's absence then becomes this bleeding, gaping wound in the story, where the writing fails to stick to just one version of Iskandar -- and chooses to also associate with Alexander the Great the Historical version. Hephaestion's absence leaves this hole at the core of a lot of Iskandar's lacking characterization, where we see this vibrant, energetic character full of appreciation and care and love for those around him, except the man he was told to have loved and been close to the most.

And again. Hephaestion's importance to Alexander within history itself cannot be understated. I've mentioned before the sheer amount of money that went into Hephaestion's funeral, the fact that Alexander started executing people who had beefed with Hephaestion before (Eumenes was one such person who narrowly escaped the threat of execution because of his poor relationship with Hephaestion), Alexander executed the doctor who was in charge of Hephaestion and otherwise went on a complete megalomaniacal spree in the 8 months between Hephaestion's death and his own. There was no Alexander without Hephaestion. For Fate to come in and say that Hephaestion did not think he was the closest person to Alexander is to understate the megalomaniacism of the later Alexander's historical life, which strips from the character we are also inferred of through Faker's recollections in Case Files.

Faker often warns about getting too close to Iskandar, stating to Gray "The King is like the sun. Its heat burns away anything that gets too close." For the man who was considered equal to this sun, his absence is like that of a black hole where the rest of Iskandar's character is held. I also accept scraps of Iskandar's characterization here and there from various authors and depictions; I'm not saying I'm better than anyone on that note. But the frustration as an Iskandar fan I have at the sheer lack of consistency is what compels me to write on my own.

I generally have been very trusting of Makoto Sanda as an author to wrap up fine details, and he's generally been very consistent -- the inclusion of Ergo as Alexander IV's repo'd body in Adventures is still messy but the conclusion of Case Files was overall pretty decent. But it would still behoove him to write more on Hephaestion as a character or for the developers to genuinely consider adding in Hephaestion and fleshing him out; otherwise we miss so much of Iskandar and so much of what we think is going on in the Fate version of the Hellenic Empire history because that one piece is missing.

#hephaestion (fate)#iskandar (fate)#character analysis #fate grand order #fate series #fate zero #faker (fate)#alexander the great (fate)#alexander the great #lord el-melloi ii case files #lord el melloi ii case files #adventures of lord el melloi ii #adventures of lord el-melloi ii #Wrote this this afternoon in a fit of needign to write Something #narrative analysis

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