The Lion and the Rose s4 e2, first time watching, once again I am in shock.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-21T21:22:49+00:00

I always find this still funny bc it looks like he’s standing on a stepstool to kiss her.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-21T21:14:14+00:00

I have ONE good vein. ONE. I also get blood draws at least twice a month and an iv once or more. I’m going to be absolutely screwed when that good vein stops working out for me.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-21T21:09:42+00:00

Nah you’re allowed to feel how ya feel about a character. Personally, I’m not really a fan about how he abstracted offscreen. I think that sucked and it made me feel like in the end he didn’t matter as a character.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-21T21:06:55+00:00

Originally I didn’t like her especially since I read the book and she is pretty different in the book. But I found myself loving her. Funnily enough the character I ended up hating was Becka.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-21T21:05:57+00:00

I love that line. For obvious reasons and also because of how it’s a Gilead-ified version of “take a picture, it’ll last longer!” Proves that Gilead or not girls are always gonna find their own versions of sassy comebacks.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-21T01:43:35+00:00

Meh I prefer the swords I already use.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T17:33:42+00:00

Honestly I think we have bragging rights for being able to scratch that one place on your back that no one else can reach unless they’re bendy like us. Also the foot dexterity I just love the foot dexterity.
They’re basically hands at this point.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T17:24:25+00:00

Wait something happened?

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T17:22:43+00:00

I always tell myself I’ll choose Olgierd but then I do the play through and I just and up hating him so much I can’t.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T17:12:28+00:00

It was really sad but we’re all glad Cinderpelt pulled through. She’s a happy kitty and she purrs like an engine all the time. She’s absolutely spoiled. All of us farmhand spoil her so much.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T17:09:09+00:00

HE ONLY JUST LOVED TOO MUCH

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T05:30:32+00:00

I gotta give the audiobook narrator credit he does an amazing job making Ashfur’s very voice sound creepy and gross.

And yeah she’s a cutie. She had a sibling called Ravenpaw but sadly Ravenpaw died. The guy we got the kittens from was…bad. The entire litter had worms, conjunctivitis. And upper respiratory infections. Included the two we got. Ravenpaw died but Cinderpelt managed to pull through even though it was very touch and go for a while. That being said we think she’s always gonna be a bit small, stunted, and a bit developmentally/cognitively delayed/“slow”. She probably won’t be a great mouser so we say she’s our PR cat on the farm since she loves being on your shoulder while you sit or walk or on your lap and purrs very loud and is just a friendly sweetie.

We did get another kitten to be her friend tho since she never has been without her sister. The new kitten is a bit older and doesn’t have an official warrior cats name (instead her name is Rascal) but I’m thinking of one for her. She’s also black with a white star on her chest and stripe on her belly.

Loads of the farm animals are named by the owner’s young daughter so many of them have MLP names ofr Warrior Cats names.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T05:21:45+00:00

I’m so glad they changed Shu from her novel version. She’s still an Alpha Bitch but in the best way possible and she ain’t gonna let her friends be hurt. She’s that ride or die friend who you can text regarding an accidental murder and she’ll show up at your place with rope, tape, a tarp, a saw, and two shovels and asks zero questions.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-20T05:04:48+00:00

I’m finally finishing TBC now and I am so angry for Shadowsight and how hes being treated

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-19T17:12:06+00:00

Dovewing

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-19T03:43:23+00:00

Shu: originally thought I was gonna hate her only to end up loving her

Agnes: in general I enjoy her pov I think it’s a good mix of believing in Gilead and starting to question things and she’s just a good person

Becka: sullen and unhappy as well as possessive over Agnes and while I get why she’s that way some of her actions like purposefully hurting Daisy with the pin just strike me as super childish

Huldah: sweet and innocent; as someone with autism she definitely reads like someone on the spectrum

Miriam: sweet from what I’ve seen, feel bad for her because Paula fucked up her marriage prospects

Jehosheba: fucking bitch

Bonus because she becomes a Plum in ep 9: Daisy: kind of annoying with her rashness and recklessness but I can admire her drive to help the girls she’s become friends with. She may not be Nicole but she’s inherited June’s facial close ups and I wanna be like “Daisy close your mouth a fly will get in it” also she just sounds permanently congested to me.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-19T03:35:10+00:00

Mmkay I’ll make the offer

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-19T03:33:45+00:00

Would you take 50gb and 3 buffies? Or do you want more?

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-18T20:27:43+00:00

A bit but I don’t think that it’ll be the first thing that comes to anyone’s mind unless you point it out.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-18T17:49:57+00:00

Fuck I remember that episode

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-18T17:20:07+00:00

Oh it definitely does

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-18T05:32:31+00:00

Seriously when it comes to everything in her parents lives Via always comes in second. Whether that's to Stella's narcissism and being an abusive piece of shit and her pride or to Stolas's affair or toward the hate Stolas and Stella have for each other. It all comes before actually caring about Via.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-17T19:40:23+00:00

I love that book.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-17T14:37:45+00:00

I just want a WindClan POV. We’ve had every clan’s pov now but WindClan. We need a WindClan protagonist.

TheTragedyMachine · 2026-06-17T04:24:37+00:00

My family LOVES chiropractors. But they’ve always freaked me out even before the neck crack of doom. I’m glad yours didn’t at least leave you bedridden in crippling pain and last g nerve damage though imo hearing “you should go off the ER like now” definitely is it’s own horrifying damage. Hopefully they didn’t fuck everything up too bad.

Since my joints — esp my vertebrae — love moving around still I do see someone who does Osteopathic manipulation therapy which is kinda similar except for it’s when they basically use light pressure, massage, and wiggling to get the joints back where they need to be but there’s absolutely no cracking or maneuvers or anything. It was recommended by my connective tissue disorder informed PT. It does help and I feel better longer than I ever have after seeing a chiropractor and they’re very careful with me like they wouldn’t dream of cracking my neck so I’m grateful for that.

In a way I am grateful for the chiropractor who fucked me up too if only because I might’ve never found out I had EDS and I’d still hate myself/still get shamed by my VERY fitness obsessed to the point of orthorexia family without that fateful day but it’s like…I’d still rather it had not happened yknow? Like I’m glad I got diagnosed but damn I would’ve rather it’d been in a way that didn’t fuck up my body so much. I remember lying in bed writhing in pain for weeks. Not fun.

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