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Dudes. Jerks. Wine Moms.

Stop hiding the gay books.

This has been happening all year, btw. I haven't noticed a marked increase of this kind of behavior since Pride started. It's been going on for months.

But y'all. You're wasting your time. You might think you're wasting mine, but I reshelve books all day long, whether they got moved accidentally or on purpose. Who do you think will get bored faster?

Oh, also: when you have to reshelve things, you also scan them, which flags them in the system as "in library use," meaning the computer goes, "Hey, people read this a lot! Let's keep it FOREVER!"

So: I will find them. And every time I do, I will move them to the DISPLAY shelf. You came in with an agenda and an hour of bigotry to perform during your lunch break.

I'm here every day for eight hours in a row. You won't win this.

As you were.

I made one. Behold!

Every Single DVD On Ash's DVD Shelf (Not Including TV Shows)

I low-key resent having to make an account to make it exist. I hate logging into things. And I may or may not regret making this public, and I may or may not delete it later. BUT it's Sunday, we love ticky boxes, I've sure enjoyed playing with these, please let me know how many you've seen if you want.

Also, this is NOT (obviously) every movie I've ever seen, or (less obviously) my favorite movies ever, or even every movie I plan to acquire for my collection in the future. Just the current state of the shelf.

Enjoy! <3

Hello! Welcome to the conclusion of this project. It got a bit long and unwieldy, but I did my best. The Path of the Blood Saber ends here.

"But didn't Rey rebuild it in Rise of--"

No. The rebuilding of the Blood Saber is rejected from my head canon, and I will tell you why in a bit, but first let's recap where we are. The Force Awakens ends with Rey climbing the island of the first Jedi Temple, and meets Luke Skywalker, with the Blood Saber in hand.

At the beginning of The Last Jedi, she holds out the lightsaber to him, and he does this:

GIF: Grumpy Old Man Luke tossing the lightsaber over his shoulder.

Here lies the tonal shift of Rian Johnson's take on Star Wars, and the rending of garments began. Now, regardless of your opinion on whether this Luke Skywalker is a fair or believable depiction of the character we've known and loved over the decades—there are a lot of angry think pieces out there, some of which I agree with—Mark Hamill chewing the scenery every single time he's onscreen is just so damn fun to watch. I can't hate it. He is too funny, and too good at his job.

This is far and away my favorite of the sequel trilogy. More than any other Star Wars story I've seen, The Last Jedi really leans into the idea of the Gray Jedi. Not the Dark, or the Light, but the Balance. Even more importantly, it shows why Rey is the center of that Balance.

( Just Breathe. )

Current Music: The Moody Blues, "The Balance"

Hello again! Welcome to the next entry in my Star Wars : Blood Saber retrospective. We are up to The Force Awakens, where the Blood Saber finally appears again. I don't know what the new canon says about how it got from the depths of Bespin to Maz Kanata's storage basement, and I haven't looked. However, I finished reading the Thrawn trilogy this month, and in the old canon, it was taken by a Dark Jedi named C'baoth, along with Luke's hand, which he used to clone him.

Yes, the old EU had (briefly) an Evil Clone Luke Skywalker. It was awesome. See, I miss that unhinged sci-fi nonsense. These books are so much fun. Luke ultimately gives the Blood Saber to Mara Jade, by the way, but this isn't about that.

In this version of events, Maz Kanata gets hold of the Blood Saber (somehow), and Rey, slowly waking up to her own Force sensitivity, hears it calling to her. Which is when this happens:

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By the way, sorry for the video quality in these clips. For some reason, embedding is disabled for most of the footage of this movie in particular. I had to dig deep into the bowels of YooToob to find these. It's making this recap frustrating.

( These are your first steps. )

Another long one, this time because we're on my favorite Star War. Strap in!

With the OG trilogy, I normally have to take a minute and decide whether I'm going to watch the theatrical cuts, or the Lucas edits. However, this one's easy. For one thing, it's the least fucked around with. Most changes are either cosmetic (more lens flare on the Millennium Falcon when it takes off, tweaking the appearance of the probe droid, crap like that), or replacing the original Emperor (Clive Revill) with Ian McDiarmid. The biggest change is Luke's encounter with the Wampa ice creature, which is much longer and grislier. Also, because it's an extended scene they actually shot on set, it's all still practical effects. Love that!

Anyways, the really crucial, story-and-character stuff--Han and Leia getting together, meeting Yoda and hearing his expansion of how the Force works, meeting Lando, Luke's revelation about his father, etc.--remains unchanged. And I keep saying I want to talk about ALL THE THINGS every time I revisit Star Wars, but I'm focusing on the Blood Saber, so let's do that.

Here's a question I have been trying to answer for thirty years: What exactly is in that cave?

( Only what you take with you. )

I am obliged to open with sad news this time: James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, and Mufasa in The Lion King, as well as Mr. Mertle in The Sandlot, and Terence Mann in Field of Dreams, passed away this week.

He was 93 years old, and my childhood would have some gaping holes in it without him. I know that technically Darth Vader / Anakin Skywalker is a composite of several actors: one to walk around in the costume, another to be the face under the mask, Hayden Christensen of course, but he became a legend because of that voice. Jones gave us that. He is one with the Force now.

On to the retrospective: this movie is basically perfect.

I say that will no small amount of bias (not to mention irony, considering how much Lucas decided to change), but I mean it sincerely. This wasn't just a shiny new blockbuster. This was lightning-in-a-bottle they somehow managed to catch twice. No single moment, in any piece of media, before or since, has EVER made me feel the way I felt when Han Solo came back and shot Darth Vader's TIE fighter out of the sky. Something in me and went, "Oh, THIS is what movies are supposed to be like." Again, I want to talk about ALL THE THINGS, but I'm doing lightsaber lore for this retrospective.

At this point in the story, it's not an epic, sweeping saga about a war that spans generations, or about the Force, or even about the growing Rebellion to fight an evil Empire. It's about a kid who misses his father.

( I wish I'd known him. )

This is the movie that justifies the existence of the prequel trilogy. This is what we were waiting for, to see Anakin Skywalker become Darth Vader. I don't think I appreciated the tragedy of it until now. Also, this one ended up REALLY long. Every time I do another Star Wars binge watch, I want to unpack EVERYTHING, from the symbolism, to the heavy handed political messaging (that I mostly agree with, for the record), to the confusing way the Light and Dark Sides of the Force seem to operate; but there just isn't time. Those are separate retrospectives. Maybe. Someday.

Let's talk lightsabers.

If you don't count the Clone Wars television series (which I don't; please see my first recap for my parameters of Star Wars canon), this is the first in-universe appearance of Anakin Skywalker's handmade lightsaber, the Blood Saber I've been talking about this whole time. And the first person he attacks with it, the first one whose life he takes, is Count Dooku:

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Two things I want to point out here: 1) Dooku is surprised. He thought he was Palpatine's second in command, and was not informed of his impending demotion. 2) Anakin hesitates. He says, "I shouldn't," before he deals the final blow, and repeats, "I shouldn't have," after it's done. I knew this scene was coming, and I was pretty sure it was the first bloodshed I was looking for. What I did not expect was Anakin hesitates to kill not just here, but Every. Single. Time. he takes a life in this movie. EVERY time.

CONTENT WARNING: I compare one of the scenes to a school shooting here, because that's how it felt on the rewatch. Obviously I didn't know there was going to be another one of those in real life when I wrote this, but, yeah, keep that in mind if you need to.

( Duel of the Fates )

Current Music: Stabbing Westward, "On Your Way Down"

Before I get started, a word about my approach to Star Wars "canon:" everything outside of the original trilogy is optional. No, everything. If it's not onscreen in the theatrical cuts of those three movies, NOT the deleted scenes, or prior scripts, or novelizations, you can take or leave it as you choose. I'm not saying the OG trilogy is the only part of Star Wars I care about, but it's the only thing that is incontrovertibly canon. Everything else is expanded canon.

Which parts of the expanded canon do I personally invest in? Don't worry about it. You'll find out. There will be SPOILERS.

So!

What is the Blood Saber?

To summarize, it is the lightsaber originally built by Anakin Skywalker, passed on to Luke Skywalker, and eventually destroyed by Rey and Kylo Ren. If you didn't see my farcical recap of how often the Skywalkers lose lightsabers, that is here. (My rewatch of Attack of the Clones confirmed that it's even worse than I realized, because there's a stretch where Anakin loses three of them in a single day.)

Basically, this lightsaber has the longest and most interesting history in the Star Wars universe. Following its path is what I'm interested in, starting with how it first came into being, its first kill, who carried it between movies, and why its story ended the way it did. My goal here is to explore how a spiritual weapon could, through misuse, violence, and trauma, become a cursed object, without actually being "corrupted."

First, we have to talk about Kyber crystals.

Young woman in scrappy clothing looking at necklace with clear, rough cut crystal.

( The strongest stars have hearts of Kyber )

Do you ever find yourself in a binge watch, not because you think the thing is good, but because you see the protagonist making alarmingly bad decisions and can't wait for it to either bite them in the ass, or see the narrative warp around them to make them seem smart? I am watching Wayward Pines. I forgot I'd checked it out from the library a few weeks ago until I was taking inventory on what needed to be returned next. (Stuff I also watched recently that doesn't suck: The Marvels and all three seasons of Broadchurch. All I'll say about those two right now is A) Now I know why people are suddenly dropping kudos and comments on that Carol Danvers/Valkyrie fic I wrote like three years ago, and B) This is like a Doctor Who domestic noir AU, I am not even a little bit kidding.)

Anyway!

Inverted image of man in suit laying in the middle of a street, "Wayward Pines" text overlaid.

This show (an adaptation of the book trilogy by Blake Crouch, which I have not read) starts out with Special Agent Man Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) waking up a bloody mess in a location he does not recognize. He has vague memories of getting into a car accident, and after a brief attempt to speak to someone in town, collapses unconscious and wakes up again, this time in a hospital bed.

Except, his wallet, ID, and phone have vanished. Calls he attempts to make from landlines don't reach the people they're supposed to. Everyone there acts Really Weird. Authority figures like the local sheriff, the one and only nurse who seems to work in the hospital, etc., are gleefully sadistic in ways that don't fully reveal themselves for a couple of episodes.

So far, this is an intriguing setup for a mystery show. The place feels half-abandoned and cut off from the rest of the world in a way that reminded me of Silent Hill, without the monsters. I've seen others compare it to Twin Peaks, but I don't agree, and I'll explain why in a little bit.

The biggest sticking point (so far) is that Ethan Burke is very bad at his job. See, he's supposed to be looking for a couple of missing coworkers, and while admittedly I don't know much about how the Secret Service actually works, I'm pretty sure it doesn't involve blabbing ALL of the information you've found out to EVERYONE, even if they seem super-shady, ALL of the time.

FYI: SPOILERS are on, but I'm only three episodes in.
( Whooa, Special Agent Man! Special Agent Man! (dun da dunnn dunnn da dun dunnn) )

In case you wondered if I was done yelling about Van Halen. (Nope!) But I have exhausted my library's collection of their albums. At least the ones I can physically get on CD and therefore play in my car. I've also cleaned out the collection at the used bookstore where I've been getting the rest. There are more if I decide to go the streaming route, which I'd prefer not to do, for a number of reasons. And most unfortunately, my other library is no longer an option for CDs.

**RANTY TANGENT**

The library I'm geographically closer to, as opposed to the one where I work, has decided to get rid of their ENTIRE physical music collection, and is redirecting patrons to streaming options instead. For many reasons (archivability, accessibility, the general preservation of physical media, discoverability by browsing as opposed to by algorithm), I am Against This. What I was hoping, because this neighborhood library had a more extensive collection, at least in some categories, was that anything I couldn't find at my work library I could get there. But it's all gone.

I keep fantasizing about grabbing someone by the lapels and yelling, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE MUSIC!?" But I know how this works: some twit in admin decided it would be more cost effective to downsize, possibly to make room for someone's pet project that they've already spent the budget on, and all the customer-facing employees had no say in it but got tasked with the un-fun job of moving everything either to the Friends of the Library sale or the garbage, depending on the condition. So I stopped by the FOL sale, instead of yelling at anyone, because I'm not actually an asshole. They didn't have any Van Halen (I imagine those went pretty fast), but I did rescue a copy of DNA by the Backstreet Boys for 25 cents.

TL;DR, hang onto your physical media!

(Rant over.)

THAT SAID: today I'm doing a comprehensive deep dive on Women & Children First, the one that I couldn't get my head around and decided to spend more time with. This is the title track, or at least the song the title comes from:

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And I figured it out. I know what it is about this album that threw me for a loop, and it's a distillation of something I've started to realize about Van Halen as a whole: they don't have a consistent genre.

( Let me explain. . . )

Current Music: Van Halen, "Take Your Whiskey Home"

Not books published in 2023, just my favorite books read in 2023. Not ranked, just listed in random order based on when I went, "Oh yeah, this one too!" as I was writing this.

Cover Collage!

Collage of book covers including: The Infinite by Ada Hoffmann; A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers; Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen; Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth; Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher; The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling; and These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch. Teal background.

My various tracking widgets tell me I did not meet my reading goal for the year, which was 60 books. Gee, I wonder what about 2023 has been keeping me distracted and taking up my time?

(LOTS.)

Anyway, let's focus on the positive, because I did read a lot of great new-to-me books.

( Read more. . . )

Current Music: Van Halen, "The Dream Is Over"

Greetings! My speed run through the entirety of Van Halen's back catalog continues. I am *checks notes* almost halfway through. Thank you all for being patient with me while I am in my Dad Rock Gremlin phase.

Going chronologically:

Van Halen (1978)

Self-titled debut. Packed with classic bangers, including "Jamie's Cryin'," "Ain't Talkin 'Bout Love," and "Runnin' With the Devil." Yes, the apostrophe abuse WILL continue. Also includes the first version of "Eruption" and their cover of "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks. So far, the best of the David Lee Roth years. There's a lot of rockabilly in the early songs, and a bit of early punk. If I had to narrow down their influences at this point, I'd say Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and The Kinks, plus some early 1950s jazz and blues, because that's what their dad played. But like, crunchier. My favorite song: "Atomic Punk." I found exactly one live recording of it. The quality is what you'd expect from a 1978 camcorder that a fan/bootlegger illegally snuck into the balcony somehow, and my hat is off to them. Those things were bulky, and HEAVY, but without that effort, we'd have zero proof they ever performed this song live.

Watch on YouTube

( MOAR!! )

Current Music: Van Halen, "Best of Both Worlds"

More gushing about EVH happening NOW! I've been listening to a loooot of Van Halen, obviously. I am more a fan of the Sam Hagar era than David Lee Roth, mostly because Hagar is the better vocalist, but also because he could shred reasonably well in his own right. Which led to one of my favorite things: DUELING GUITARS!

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Please notice that, while one of them is doing a solo bit, the other is seamlessly picking up the rhythm guitar without missing a beat. I love dueling guitars. ♥ It's why I love Iron Maiden, it's why I love the Black Veil Brides, and it's why I'm really digging what I've seen so far of the of the so-called Van Hagar era. I'm also digging that "Where's Waldo?" shirt Eddie's wearing. (Long live the '80s!) This clip, by the way, is the opening song from their appearance at the Tokyo Dome in 1989, and the full concert is available here. It is phenomenal from start to finish.

( MORE! )

Current Music: Van Halen & Sammy Hagar, "One Way to Rock"

So, after my last reading experience didn't go so well, I decided to give myself a break from scary books and picked up Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen, written by Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill, which came out roughly a year after his death.

Eruption book cover featuring black and white photo of 80s era Eddie Van Halen playing guitar onstage.

I was expecting the usual "humble beginnings" followed by "meteoric rise to fame" and then "drugs are bad fyi" and finally "redemption tour" pattern you usually get in rock biographies. And it's not not that, but it reads like the life and times of a mad scientist who worked exclusively in music and had no idea how gifted he actually was.

There are multiple anecdotes like this (paraphrasing):

EDDIE: *marching out of recording studio grumbling to himself*

PRODUCER: What's wrong?

EDDIE: *digging through tools that are not meant for use on instruments* Can I borrow this hacksaw?

PRODUCER: . . . Why?

EDDIE: Don't worry about it.

[SPARKS AND SAWING NOISES COMING FROM STUDIO]

PRODUCER: *seeing the Gibson SG Eddie mercilessly disfigured to give himself more reach on the fretboard* Y-you cut the horns off! 0_0

EDDIE: I fixed it.

PRODUCER: But they're iconic!

EDDIE: They were in my way.

( This is why his most famous guitar is called Frankenstein. )

HAPPY OCTOBER!!

And Welcome to the Final "Ash Watches The Vampire Diaries" Recap Post!

Don't worry, this is not the last time you can expect to see me run my mouth (er, keyboard) off about this ridiculous show. I've still got that one-shot to post somewhere for October-ween after all. (Still taking calls for beta readers, by the way!)

This time, as mentioned, I had a wishlist for what I wanted to happen, not necessarily in the final-final episode, but somewhere in the final season. One wish I did not get was zombies. I wanted at least one episode with zombies. Because then you get to answer fun questions like: Do vampires "count" as a viable food source for zombies since they're technically also undead? What about werewolves? Would the vampires and humans have to band together to stop the zombie invasion? If you die by zombie infection with vampire blood in your system, do you come back as a zombie or a vampire? Those are ideas I would've loved to see this chaotic writing team grapple with. But no, we got sexy Sirens and a Magical Mystical Super Bell (their words, not mine) instead. More's the pity.

Also a pity: no Bon Jovi cameo.

Jon Bon Jovi in black tank top against beige brick background, crooning into microphone, hair flowing sexily. From "Always" music video. (Source)

I still don't know why not. Dude's done guest spots on Sex and the City, Ally McBeal,, AND starred in the mid-tier horror movie Cry_Wolf that was filmed at my university while I was enrolled there. My point being A) I will never miss an opportunity to tell that story, and B) he's not above vampire trash. Honestly, no one is above vampire trash, whatever they tell themselves, and we'd all be better off if we could admit it.

Anyway, no one involved in TVD could either convince him to come hang out for a few weeks, or they didn't bother to ask, and that is a shame. (I am now brainstorming yet another fanfic, this time a Supernatural crossover, where both the Winchesters and the Salvatores crash a Bon Jovi concert to stop some other supernatural threat. Early stages, it might not happen, but stay tuned.)

BUT enough about the stuff that didn't happen in the series finale. This is the gushy half of my Season 8 recap, so let's gush. Obviously this will include SPOILERS, mostly unmarked, so proceed at your own risk.

Starting with: Katherine is BACK.

( It's good to be the Queen. )

Current Music: Bon Jovi, "Always"

I DID IT! I WATCHED ALL EIGHT SEASONS OF THE VAMPIRE DIARIES!!!

*victory lap*

And it only took me the Summer.

Season 8 is shorter than the other ones, so short in fact that I double-checked to make sure my box set had the same number of discs as the copy at my library, even with the "Oh wait, there's a 'next' button?" situation I went over last time. I'm still breaking it up into sections, and even though I'm DONE NOW, I'm also breaking up my final-final recap into two posts. This one is Stuff I Found Annoying Or At Least Questionable. The second one will be Cool Stuff That Made Up For It.

Which is to say this post is a bit ranty, but I'm still enjoying it overall, and the ending was pretty awesome. Oh, and obviously, since we're getting into the final season now, there will be SPOILERS here.

I'm also seeking a beta reader for a fanfic I'm planning to upload in October. Around ~5000 words, first person POV of an original female character, set during the Murder House frat party from Season 4. Not "smutty" exactly but there is erotic blood-drinking because: vampires. DM me if interested!

( Read more. . . )

So I thought I was on the last disc of my marathon, but apparently some of the menu screens have a "Next" button. Remember when I was midway through Season 7 and asking if there were crossover episodes on The Originals that I should also be watching to keep up? I think I missed a whole menu screen. With three or four whole episodes on it. On account of not seeing the "Next" button. Depending on how often this happened, I may have missed a dozen or so episodes altogether.

I feel smart. (:

SO while I finish this last season properly, and then go back to see what the hell I missed in New Orleans, here are my thoughts on The Books.

First, let me clarify which books specifically I'm talking about, because there are LOTS. At the time The Vampire Diaries was greenlit for television, there were only four (4) books out, all written by L. J. Smith, all originally published in the early 90s. And boy, do the original covers look like early 90s teen horror / paranormal romance books. BEHOLD:

Book covers of "The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening" and "The Struggle" side-by-side, both depicting paintings of young, blond girl's face partially obscured by shadows, with spooky bare trees, moonlight, and distant figure in silhouette. The one on the right also has a crow silhouetted against the moon.

I love them. ❤️ I think these editions are around on Thrift Books still, and I definitely prefer them to the moody closeups of faces style I've seen around more often.

So the first four books, in order, are:

1) The Awakening
2) The Struggle
3) The Fury
4) Dark Reunion

They are the only books in the official series actually written by Smith, because she got a bad deal from the publisher and did not own the rights to the characters, despite being their creator. From what I understand, the books released after this initial quadrilogy were designed to better match the tone of the television series. Y'all know I love the television series, but the books are very much their own thing, and pretty rad in their own right.

Let us count the ways!

CONTENT WARNING: Mention of racism, including brief mention of lynching. Some spoilers but nothing crucial to the overall plot.

( I Will Make You My Queen of Shadows )

Finished Season 7! I'm not binging slower or finding it less interesting--quite the opposite, actually. But as many of you know, there's a lot going on at House Nightingale right now that's cutting into my free time. But also, there's so much I wanna talk about in Season 7 I had a hard time cutting this down to just three talking points. Also-also possibly I'm dragging my feet a little because the end of my marathon is in sight, and I want to savor this as long as I can.

Oh--check out my box set!

DVD box set of "The Vampire Diaries Complete Series," artwork is black background with photos of actors' faces with cracked porcelain effect on their faces.

I have really been enjoying this, and was truly relieved that this still has all the deleted scenes, gag reels, and Comic Con panels on it. Sometimes the box sets don't keep the extras, so I was worried about that, but only a little.

Anyways: Home stretch, y'all. Only one more season to go. SPOILERS, again, if anyone needs the reminder!

( The First Rule of Vampire Fight Club Is You Do Not Talk About Vampire Fight Club )

Current Music: Metallica, "The Four Horsemen"

Yeah. It's time. Let's go there.

*rolls up sleeves* *pours shot*

I've been wondering for awhile how to address some of the messy, problematic decisions made in the transfer from book to small screen with this series, one of which was to significantly alter the Salvatores' background. In the show, Damon is a Confederate soldier for some time during the end of his human life. We don't get much information about his actions during the war, only a couple brief flashbacks of him in his uniform when he's back home. I've been keeping this in the back of my head, but couldn't quite figure out how to work it into my larger recaps. And then, Season 7 did a whole time loop flashback episode, framed as an unending nightmare replaying the worst day of Damon's life. Which happens to be from his time in the Confederacy. So now I have a perfect opportunity to dig in and try to unpack some of my feelings about it.

Man in Confederate gray uniform, clutching at bloody wound in stomach. Background of forest shrouded in smoke, overturned wagon wheel at the right.

In the books, Damon was never in the Confederacy. He and Stefan didn't grow up in Antebellum Virginia, they grew up in Renaissance Italy. This whole Confederate!Damon storyline was written in, by the showrunners, on purpose. Put a pin in that though, because I have a lot of ground to cover here.

SPOILERS again, plus discussion of America's racist history and modern media's tendency to romanticize and/or gloss over it.

( I'll get it right this time. )

So, what do you do with your sexy vampire show when the protagonist at the center of your love triangle is asleep in a box? You switch gears to Family Drama. Season 7 so far is an up close look at the Salvatores' horribly dysfunctional family. And it is A Lot. Turns out Stefan and Damon were the well-adjusted ones. It's intense, overly dramatic, and upsetting, but really well done. It also confirms what I suspected pretty much the second Lily was introduced: Damon was the load-bearing sibling in this domestic nightmare. This was like a bomb exploding in slow motion, with every scene recontextualizing the actions of both brothers and making me go, "Oooh, this is why y'all are like this."

SPOILERS as usual, but also a strong CONTENT WARNING for: domestic abuse, including abuse towards children and spouses, childhood trauma, gaslighting, suicidal ideation, and parentification.

There is a lot to unpack here. This recap is going to be less "fun" than the others, and it's going to get a bit personal a places. I'm also not breaking it into sections, because today I'm here to talk about just one thing.

( Read more. . . )

Current Music: The Offspring, "The Kids Aren't All Right"

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Path of the Blood Saber | A New Hope
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Collected Thoughts On Van Halen Albums I Have Listened To Thus Far. . .
Van Halen: Immigrant Songs
Eddie Van Halen Was a Level 20 Artificer
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Ash Watches "The Vampire Diaries:" The Sirens Made Me Do It
Ash *Reads* "The Vampire Diaries:" We're Not In Mystic Falls Anymore
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