okay, english major!

now, we've already seen toby make use of this in the past. he discovered that since it pulls in air from about eighteen inches higher than his nose can reach and expels it at his height, he can use it to get more smell data on current kitchen happenings. when I start cooking, he goes over to it and starts sniffing. but he's now advanced even further in his use of this particular tool.

lately, I've noticed that after drinking water, toby goes over to the vent and stands near it for 10-15 seconds or so before continuing on his merry way. I couldn't figure out why; usually, nothing that would produce interesting smells was happening. but when he did it today, I watched him more closely, and I saw he was gently swiveling his head from side to side. really weird, right? why would that help him sniff it better?

i meant 2 years

Well, there's always more room for another horse in here! Please, come in and enjoy some of this delicious timothy <3

[now aware that this is a vampire but i assume they have something going on probably related back to their childhood so i'll let them pretend to be a horse until they're ready]

And this is going to make a lot of people very angry to hear.

But a lot of y'all on this website are truly deeply genuinely never going to be capable of any kind of real narrative analysis--and I don't mean 'being right all the time' I mean 'meaningfully engaging with the text in any way'--

The match cuts were meticulously designed and put there to communicate something.

The VA's delivery of a line was being directed. Inflection and tone change the meaning of dialogue. This is intentional. There are entire teams of people shaping those choices and deciding which take to use based on what works best for the story.

Information is being revealed in a specific order, on purpose, to craft an emotional arc and guide the audience's understanding.

A character's romantic preferences are only, and SHOULD only be, their primary motivation if the genre is romance. That is why there is a genre called that. Most stories are other genres.

Creators who dislike a character generally give them LESS attention, MORE boring storylines, and LESS screentime.

Sometimes curtains are just blue. But if the shot composition or written narration takes time to HIGHLIGHT, especially more than once, that the curtains are blue, then the blueness of the curtains is by definition narratively important.

"Cite your sources" is not a witch's curse that banishes People With Different Opinions to the shadowrealm of Being Wrong. Someone making points that challenge your perceptions, while including screenshots and explicit examples, cannot be dismissed with "cite your sources" because they are literally doing that. Don't @ me on this one I've seen shit in the wars, y'all.

Failing to understand these things WILL bar you from ever really engaging with or understanding any narrative more complicated than Paw Patrol for the rest of your life.

Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."

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