ellorgast
replied to your photoset “Just to be clear. You gave me the mission of restoring the prince’s…”

Every female character who’s been written out of the story by writers who wanted her there only for the romance plot

IT’S TRUE, YOU SHOULD SAY IT

see also: “trauma and violence against women is there for the realism”

ellorgast
replied to your photoset “Time for another round of “gay or somehow related”

My mind went to When Marnie Was There RIGHT before I read your tags. I will never be over it.

I was SO prepared for the time-displaced lesbian soulmates narrative I’ve waited my whole life for, and it was ripped from my hands

ellorgast
replied to your photoset “this is the funniest line of dialogue I’ve ever read. it firmly…”

The town doesn’t even look that big I bet he lives like three blocks away

it’s really awkward when you have to walk past the sword shop to get groceries and a voice always yells “PLEASE COME HOME, SON” 

ellorgast
replied to your photoset “Serenity, look at all these wonderful lives you’re destroying….”

And that’s why Neph was checking his pocket cash! He couldn’t go back to the dark kingdom until he could afford to buy those dumb giant horns for Ami! He put off his triumphant return to the cave to awkwardly do something nice and missed the apocalypse.

CLASSIC NEPHRITE: every time he tries his best, something goes horrifically wrong

ellorgast
replied to your photoset “WE MUST FIGHT USAGI IT’S WHAT USAGI WOULD DO”

Hey isn’t it cool that it’s Ami Mizuno who takes the lead on taking down an Usagi possessed by a malevolent power as a parallel to Usagi choosing to take down possessed Mamoru because I think that’s really neat in a horrible kind of way

Wow yeah that’s pretty swell 

I like they way you all find new creative ways to break me apart

I have been waiting with baited breath for you to get to this part. I don’t want to say thank you for your heartbreak, because that sounds wrong, but thanks for letting us relive this heartwrenching episode with you.

I’m more than happy to drag you all through this hellish rabbit hole with me! I feel like I’ve gone through the emotional equivalent of the twelve labors of Hercules, and now that I have endured all that I can handle, I am a part of something bigger. 

ellorgast
replied to your photoset “hey Jyoji Shibue, can you come into the studio today so we can film 4…”

To be fair, it’s the Dark Kingdom. His alternatives are listening to Zoisite’s mystical piano playing, eating stuffed animals with Mio, or sitting around in Nephrite’s depression cave.

worst…. roommates……… ever

ellorgast
replied to your photo “Okay so it looks like a few of my bullet points as purported by this…”

Okay but there is lavender right there on her bow I’m sorry buddy

DAMMIT YOU’RE RIGHT

You’re going to have to work harder than that if you want to be Usagi’s best dating friend

ellorgast
replied to your post “airyairyquitecontrary
replied to your photoset “It’s only been 15…”

Plz tell us the story of how you found out that Beth died.

OKAY HERE IS THE STORY

In middle school, we had to read 4 books per marking period for a grade. We also had to take online quizzes about these books to prove that we had read them. If we read a book that wasn’t on the list, we could do an alternate project, but I was much too lazy for that and the deadline was coming up, so in sixth or seventh grade I looked for a book that was reasonably short that was also on the reading list. I found a copy of Little Women somewhere and said “Okay this looks like a doable length that I can finish quite quickly.

Little did I realize, it was an abridged version of only the first half.

Later, when I took the quiz, there were lots of things I didn’t recognize. “Whose proposal did Amy reject?” I didn’t know anyone proposed to her! “Where does Jo move to?” Doesn’t she just stay at home?? I failed the quiz. I chalked this up to me being a poor reader (I loved to read, but I was very bad at it), figuring I must have skimmed and missed some key details.

UNTIL

Later that year, our Girl Scout troop went to go see the Little Women musical, playing locally at a small theatre. The first act passed in much the fashion I expected. At intermission, I thought the play was basically over. I chatted with my friends about our favorite characters. Mine was Beth. I loved Beth. She was the best.

The curtain came up for act 2, and so many things I didn’t expect went down. Jo moved to New York! Amy married Laurie! And, most importantly, Beth died of the affliction of being a passive young woman in the mid-1800s! I didn’t believe it at first, because she died offstage, but all the other characters started crying and I was like “HOW DARE YOU, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, FROM CENTURIES HENCE STILL COME TO TORMENT ME……”

When Beth’s actress came out for curtain call, my friends joked how “Oh, hey, she isn’t dead after all!” I cried. 

THE END