Nothing Witty to Say Here

The same person committing the same offence the same way shouldn’t have two drastically different experiences and results being arrested because the way a cop upholds the law shouldn’t be left to the digression of an individual who can *choose* to be an asshole or a reasonable guy

A person who has zero social skills should be able to walk into a homeless shelter and receive the same kindness and attention and resources as the person who’s friendly with the staff

A small-town youth centre in a shit part of town being revamped by a wealthy philanthropist is a sweet fluff piece in the news, but I’d prefer if the wealthiest residents of a given area giving back to the community they profit off of wasn’t an optional thing they could choose not to do, and I’m not sure why “taxes pay for better rec centre” isn’t far more reassuring than “if this nice rich dude’s son inherits his wealth and isn’t as generous then our grandkids are fucked”

People CHOOSING to do good for others is always the ideal, but why do we leave it up to chance? Why don’t we bake it in to the infrastructure?

If your landlord gives you blankets to stay warm in the winter, that’s all well and good, but there’s still legislation in place that says he can’t just leave a huge fucking hole in your wall for you to freeze to death by if he’s a dickhead

”most cops aren’t bad” “charities exist for that issue” “a lot of politicians want to do good” “what about the donations billionaires are making” are all fucking stupid because those are CHOICES. And CHOICES can include “no” and “get fucked” just as easily as “yes” and “what else can I do to help”.

Is this a horrible thing with legs or...a horrible thing with fingers? Or just a horrible thing?

🤌 flow

There’s a gorgeous rhythm to:

This maniform, bursiform, digital deep-dweller drifts through the darkest demersal domains, A five-footed fingerling phantasm floating full fathoms afloor from the foam-freckled main!

It hunts with its quick hyponychial cnidocytes fully envenomed and ready to kill! If nocuous toxicants don't cause cessation its rostriform mandibles certainly will!

By ripping and rending, it ruptures its rations with razorlike radulae housed in its jaw; Its great glabrous grub-grippers gather the gobbets to go in its ventropharyngeal maw!

The Cephalobrachial Pentapodactylus seldom comes skyward while it's still alive, But sometimes some singular specimen surfaces, stalking the shore like a deadly high-five,

Not the whole time. Obviously she goes into labor right before the climactic battle, then fights it with the newborn infant in one arm. Maybe hands it to Galavant for a moment so they have to trade off who's wielding one- vs two-handed.

Her pregnancy is partly played for laughs, because no self-respecting comedy writer is going to skip jokes about cravings, mood swings, the infinite struggles of back pain...

But moreover, Izzy has a compelling character arc about her current and incipient struggle to maintain her sense of self as a (retired) warrior princess versus a mother. She literally can't fight as well while pregnant, and it's arguably irresponsible to throw herself into battle the same way - and that's going to be her whole future? The rest of her life, no longer a svelte young romantic lead but a doting mother or, at best, nagging wife?

Galavant is also having his own anxious pre-parenthood arc, mostly about "oh god I don't want to be a shitty absent father like my dad. he's my only role model! yeah, he turned out okay later, but not when he was raising me!"

These issues collide in Galavant trying really hard to care for Isabella, protect her, help her on and off horses, etc - partly because he's correcting to overprotective and treating her like spun glass (she accuses), but also because he, y'know, loves her and their unborn child, and wants them to be protected, comfortable, and loved…

They are both being dramatic about this all season. It's a driving source of conflict and development...

Valencia (Isabella's parents retired to a beachside cottage next door to her and Galavant, to be full-time grandparents)

The kingdom of those sister-princesses who were cruel to Madelena (mass peasant revolt -> Reign of Terror-esque bloodbath -> Richard & Bobby conquered it for everyone's own good really)

Hortensia (it's technically a Protectorate, or maybe a Regency, because of course they had an 11yo king and 0 army.)

Princess Jubilee's kingdom (sold it to Richard for three crates of beer and a ticket to fantasy!Paris, where she's now kicking ass and partying bisexually)

2 other realms that no one really cares about, they're just, like, peasants and fields, and maybe a castle or two.

HOWEVER in the week that Richard was dead, Valencia, Hortensia, and Jubilee's kingdom all rebelled! Bobby, with Tad Cooper and maybe the obligatory heir & spare she and Richard probably had, are in the former-Reign of Terror kingdom, cut off from the rest of the party!

So, as they travel the kingdoms to get the McGuffin pieces, they're also re-persuading people to accept Richard's rule...while Bobby trails like an episode behind, picking up the pieces of whatever that leaves behind, and dealing with all hte practicalities of rule. She's narratively cast as Competent Wife to Hapless Husband, but she keeps insisting that she's so overworked in this because usually Richard does half the work. To Richard's credit, he is genuinely effective - with other characters' help - at convincing people to re-join his mega-kingdom.

The reason Hortensia rebelled is that little Prince Harry has actually grown into a totally fit & handsome young man who has roused the people to retake their own kingdom. We're going to have to let them be, ultimately, only re-joining in alliance. Jubilee's kingdom has rebelled because she came home and was like was like, "Yo, still mine." Richard gets thrown out of her kingdom; Isabella stays behind and she and Bobby convince Jubilee to join the alliance, too (while Isabella gets help going with her warrior princess/motherhood issue.)

The culmination of all of this of course, is Richard returning at last to the one holdout: his birth kingdom. He will have to participate in a democratic election and be CHOSEN as king...with limited executive power even in emergencies like the obviously ongoing one right now, with all the zombies and monsters. What sort of idiots would give unlimited emergency power to a sole executive on the grounds of said executive declaring an undefined emergency?

Btw Bobby has a Tad Cooper on a leash the whole time, which goes off screen so the mighty dragon is never seen. Sometimes there's a burst of fire from that direction. When she FINALLY catches up with everyone for the season finale, Tad Cooper has a dramatic entrance where he scours a battlefield of monsters with a blast of fire and we finally see him, a grand shot from below, he's haloed by the sun...

He's an iguana on a tall rock, about 5ft up. Cut to everyone standing around and looking down at the iguana. Galavant says, "That's...a full-grown dragon?"

"Yes!" Richard says indignantly. "Yes," Bobby says tiredly.

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

Everyone in this movie is autistic and not being great at connecting to people is a Neutral Trait (i am feelings about this often)

Ryland Grace isn't looking for a partner or kids (or a pet) and his life is just as valuable as anyone else's and the removal of his ability to choose what to do with it was a horrific tragedy (you are not worth less if you don't adhere to society's expectations for you)(i am having realizations abt myself as we speak)