Spoiler i love her and i am fascinated by what her rationalization for doing such shitty things are & i love that she is better at pretending to be a good person than the other si5 guys (possibly because she really believes she is) but also JUST FUCKING LEAVE HERA ALONE JESUS CHRIST (i say as i continue noodling on a fic about maxwell brainwashing hera lmao)
I apparently took a break to catch up to other podcasts about halfway through the last episode i have now finished the latest episode also what the fuckenoodle fuckedy christopher now i'm going back to the beginning of this thread to read all the spoilers
@kmoss i seeee you liking my posts about my preposterous number of AUs, please talk to me about them if you have thoughts >:)
@blue i was a part of the heavy AU crew for a time in the jaegermonster subsection of the GirlGenius fandom so let me get my feet under me and we can do some horrifying things still a hundred percent on board for a d&d game in the everyone'salive!au
come play with meeee (i need a better avatar, but i don't want to just gank somebody's fanart without asking)
omg. the ars paradoxica cast did a genderbent remix of the first episode and it's a trip. it's here on the extras page. ... it's very predictable that i love horrible gremlin woman dana eiffel but care significantly less about dude minkowski and dude hera :P
posted a new fic, based on an old prompt from Sarah Shachat: Nothing Explosive. (she said in her prompt that if anyone wrote fic from it, she'd read it. i tagged her. hoping she sees it. i'll either die of holding my breath or i'll die of happiness. i hope she likes it. what if she shows the rest of them. oh geez. what if they like it (i am just frantically fluttering my fan over here please just smile knowingly and with amusement)) (also i really want to finish editing the recording I did of the last full ep I wrote. hear my hilarious attempts at finding different voices for MInkowski and Eiffel.)
ah! I love it!! (if you need voices, i have a computer and a voicebox, though i cannot speak for the ability of either one)
Guys guy guyyyyyyyys this song from the Groundhog Day musical is the most Wolf 359 thing I've ever encountered Spoiler: Lyrics On and on and on you stumble Towards the evening sun She waits for you with open arms You stare right through her On and on you fall towards her Cold embracing shadow doorway Offers nothing still she draws you ever to her On and on and on you stumble towards the sinking sun Turn a blind eye fight or run Rest assured the night will come On and on you grasp and guess And search for patterns in the mess Of what has been and what is left To yet endure The jester shrugs and plays his part The fever fall see only dark The pious with their hope filled hearts sing hallelujah On and on and on you stumble towards the cooling sun Turn a blind eye fight or run Rest assured the night will come All the love and all the gold All you've built and all you've sold All the power you may hold You won't evade her All the steel and all the bricks All the math and magic tricks All the carrots all the sticks Will not dissuade her On and on and on you stumble towards the fading sun Turn a blind eye fight or run Rest assured the night will come Rest assured the night will come As for that the rest is just a test of your endurance You've gotta love life You've gotta live life You've gotta love life
Spoiler: you thought i was done but ok so first of all i love that people are calling eiffel on doing things that cause harm! and it feels Not Forced which honestly seems really rare in most fiction out there, and i also love that eiffel seems to be responding very honestly to these things, which is where people kind of just jump to guilt and "i am baaaaaaad", and his crew was able to go "no, ok, don't make us feel bad, but you can keep doing this because it's an ongoing process" related, it's like a micro scenario for this entire show! where people change and develop and evolve, because EXISTING is an ONGOING PROCESS weirdly, on the second rewatch, i find that i'm, if not sympathizing with maxwell more, i feel like i get what she's doing better, even if i'm still super pissed about it. and also, the closed episode of 52 was just REALLY good, with jacobi's "unfortunately" and Keppler's obnoxious ability to play the question game, which, oh my god why am i not surprised. i'm finding myself really enjoying everything jacobi is, and i'm not sure why. some of it is i think, the sarcasm, but i think it's also that he's a really raw personality. i hesitate to say he's honest, per se, but he's very blunt force trauma about who he is as a person. which brings me to episode 53, which was, like fuck minkowski is so good and i love her and it was really interesting to see her and jacobi square off, because if we're also talking about communication here (we are), they're both so solidly on the same wavelength, and i love that. and also i did tear up a little over the idea that music is what saves us as humanity, because i feel it anyway, i guess i'm starting episode 55 now
mm ok so first of all what the fuck second of all how dare you third of all what the how fucking dare fuck -post 55
About a year or two too late, I have finally started listening to this podcast. Just finished Boléro and the next ep is two hours long, too long to start this late at night, so I must post thoughts instead Spoiler Favorite characters at this point: Hilbert and Maxwell (so the past two episodes have been a bit rough -_-) They’re two of my favorite types of villain. Hilbert knows he’s what most people would call a monster, and he’s decided to try to do some good for humanity regardless, to absolutely horrifying effect for everyone around him. Short as it was I loved Eiffel’s speech for him at the funeral, he fucking nailed everything I love about Hilbert. And Maxwell is even better - she cared. She genuinely cared for Hera, as a friend and a patient. She wanted the best for her. She went to enormous lengths to relieve her pain and keep her from getting hurt or killed. But when it came to really important decisions... that caring just wasn’t a priority. She was willing to hurt herself as she hurt Hera, because other things were just. more important to her. Kepler is also very interesting to me, because he’s almost Mr. Cutter. Whatever happened to Mr. Cutter to make him Mr. Cutter, and for that matter what seems to have happened to every member of top management at Goddard Futuristics, it’s almost finished happening to him. I’m honestly not certain at this point if it’s something paranormal or if this company just naturally finds and fosters sociopaths. Kepler still holds on to things to pretend to be human - the jokes that he thinks are actually funny, the now-empty scotch bottle - but he said himself that he knows he’s pretty much gone. I love all the heroes in this show, but the villains are fucking compelling. I also love how every newly introduced antagonist eventually ends up getting folded into the team when the next bad guy arrives. We started out with just Team Eiffel in a box full of people who couldn’t stand him (plus Hera), then it was him and Minkowski against Hilbert, then all of them against Lovelace, then everyone versus Kepler, and now there are aliens so who knows what will happen next! Things keep getting more and more awful but Team Handcuffs is going strong! They still antagonize the hell out of each other but fuck those other guys even more!
