naturally i like him in punk hazard and dressrosa best (save for at
the very end) because that’s where all of his salient story happens. my
views on dressrosa’s catastrophic failure to follow through on
its own narrative imperative i‘ve written about a numberof
times, but as ever the tl;dr is (a) if you‘re writing kill bill you do, actually, have to kill bill; and (b) i wish that whole arc had been directed by guy ritchie instead, because guy ritchie knows how to COMMIT
(periodically i fantasize about rewriting dressrosa on that exact theme, because it’s so close
to actually being good writing. just—cut the ensemble cast down to
quarter size, gut all the extraneous nonsense and the unrelenting
misogyny, and add in a proper torture scene like god damn well intended)
as to sabaody and marineford: a terrific lead-in, certainly. if
ever there was a character introduction tailored specifically to my
interests “TRUST ME, I’M A DOCTOR” mid-war zone is it, i love that, i
love that he didn’t even have a good reason, there should be a word for
the things we do / not because we want to / but because we want to be
the kind of person who wants to
everything after dressrosa, well. i think oda’s lost his admin
privileges when it comes to writing this character, because with how
soundly he dropped the ball on dressrosa’s ending i’m unconvinced it can
ever be picked up again. and i haven’t actually read wano or any
of the rest of it for years but my recent flipping through chapters has
been sufficient to establish that it bores me interminably, so really
oda can ring me when they get to raftel or toei decides to pay their
animators a living wage
look: once again: you just don’t pour thirteen years of your life and all of yourself down the drain for the sake of one single goal and then let it go. with all-consuming obsession you succeed or you die, because to expend everything, every last resource, every last part of your being, and fail—and be left, for your trouble, with the emptied shell of your life—is nothing short of unthinkable
so this is about law, and total personal annihilation, and being left alone after zou. certainly he walks aboard his ship and staggers into his cabin and spends the next n weeks utterly and intractably catatonic, right up until luffy needs him again (and really: “get up, your ally is doing something insane” is the most appropriate motivation)
If my kids were magic, I would want the school to have Eliot Spencer teaching DADA not Snape.
Also because Eliot is like the best mom-type in the whole wide world.
Eliot would either not let you get away with anything or make that disgruntled sigh and help you with what ever it was you were up to while bitching about how your performing your mischief wrong the whole time
Eliot would totally be that teacher that also showed the kids how to deal with dark wizards with a knife, books and whatever else you could get your hands on before they even cast a spell.
Now I’m thinking he’s not DADA but something like herbology, just to surprise people.
I expanded on the idea over on my twitter, the basic plot being “the Leverage Crew has to unravel a conspiracy at Hogwars by pretending to be teachers, despite none of them actually having any magic” and yeah, yeah it’s basically all of this.
Like, the big plot twist would be Eliot ACTUALLY IS A WIZARD but he still thinks teaching his students martial arts in DADA is more effective than memorizing countercurses.
Other highlighs:
Hardison invents assistive devices for squibs & starts writing his own custom spells by dissecting spell linguistics and breaking them down like programming.
Parker gains a reputation in transfiguration – “She can make ANYTHING disappear!!”
Nate looks over all the low-magic classes he could pose as the teacher for, throws that list aside, and decides he’s gonna teach Charms despite having 0 magic.
Sophie is actually a squib from a pureblood family that’s why nobody can fucking figure out her origin story
and now I’m wondering how in the hell Lilo came to the conclusion that there’s a peanut butter loving fish god who demands tribute or else he’ll murder your family.
When massive trauma hits, some people try to find any way to make sense of what seems senseless. Find any semblance of control, of responsibility.
Lilo may be blaming herself (unfairly) for her parents’ death. This was the only connection she could make, the only thing she could have had any control over, so to her it must have been her fault. If only she was a good girl. If only she did the right thing. Then maybe…
It’s very very hard to lose a mindset like that even when it’s the most irrational thing, even when it hurts you, because then you’re left with nothing.
And when you’re six your pattern recognition skills are a work in progress. Lilo sees that type of fish one day and as it swims away it starts to rain; connection made.
“Lilo may be blaming herself (unfairly) for her parents’ death. This was the only connection she could make, the only thing she could have had any control over, so to her it must have been her fault. If only she was a good girl. If only she did the right thing. Then maybe… “
This movie had some of the best scenes cut out of it.
This is one of my favourite movies yet somehow I never saw this deleted scene…. Excuse me a second…
*The distant sound of full on ugly crying*
i love this movie, im actually in tears right now T.T
Cheloneuniverse 
