SAGAL: Why did you move from England, reputedly cold and dreary, to the upper Midwest? Was England not cold and dreary enough?
GAIMAN: Nobody had really explained the whole cold thing to me.
SAGAL: Really?
GAIMAN: Yeah.
SAGAL: It was a surprise?
GAIMAN: Well, no. I was arrogant. I was foolish. The English thing where you think you know it all, I thought I understood cold. I thought, okay.
SAGAL: Oh yes.
GAIMAN: Water gets white and fluffy and it falls from the sky. Puddles go hard and slippery. That’s cold.
SAGAL: No problem.
GAIMAN: I did not understand the acres, the depth.
SAGAL: Right.
GAIMAN: How much colder it can be. I didn’t understand what it means to walk out of doors and take a deep breath, the hairs in your nose freeze and you go, “Oh, it’s a little below zero.”
SAGAL: Right.
GAIMAN: And then that thing that you do when you walk out and you take a deep breath and you cough because it hurt and you go, “Oh, 25 below.”
yeah as a lifelong wisconsinite, i had never really seen my state truly represented in media until that scene the first night in wisconsin when shadow tries to walk somewhere at night and nearly freezes to death
there is a not insubstantial scene in the book where shadow winterizes his windows and i absolutely loved it
neil was definitely traumatized by moving to minnesota
ngl it’s pretty annoying to me when the response to any female character existing in proximity to a mlm ship (canon or not) is either “boo she sucks I don’t want her to be a love interest and get in the way” or “don’t worry she’s their mean lesbian bestie” like have you tried being normal about women for once
And it got me thinking. What are all of the obvious group dynamics present with Sashannarcy?
1. Moral, Immoral, Amoral
This is obviously one of two dynamics referenced in the above photo. Anne has a standard, acceptable moral compass, Sasha has a socially unacceptable moral compass, and Marcy lacks any clear moral compass at all.
2. C student, B student, A student
The second dynamic from the writers’ board- Anne is an underachiever, Sasha is apparently an average student, and Marcy is an overachiever with nearly perfect grades.
3. Red, Blue, Green
I think that the girls’ gem colors represent what they could be, not necessarily what they are.
Anne’s color is blue, the color of loyalty, friendship, depth, and freedom. She displays this the best in both season finales and during her temple, where she sticks up for her loved ones and displays great generosity. She didn’t start out the series seeming much like this at all… in fact, her skirt color was always purple, a combination of blue and red, possibly indicating that Sasha influenced her away from her color and delayed her progress. Even though she’s naturally empathic, she took on Sasha’s mannerisms after so many years of friendship, and needed time away from her to skew back to her natural instincts.
For Sasha herself, red is the color of strength, leadership, anger, and violence. But her actual color is pink. Pink is typically associated with love and kindness, but Sasha definitely acts (and wears) more red, which is essentially a darker version of her gem color. It could represent that it’s more of an act that she makes it seem, but I think that it means she’ll grow into her color as well, to be red without so much baggage and anger.
Marcy’s color is green, the color of nature, intelligence, progress/growth, and… rebirth. It’s obvious that she represents intelligence already- but she resists change so desperately, as evidenced by her decision to trap herself, Anne and Sasha in an entire alternate dimension because she was going to have to move. As for rebirth, she’s definitely grown into something different. Just not by choice. When she’s free, she can start her real process of growth. With effort.
4. Heart, Strength, Intelligence
The show has already explored this and will continue to. Their three temple challenges are a great example of how these traits shine through in their personalities, as well as the underlying lessons they each need to learn in order to advance their understanding of them.
5. The Two Who Are Closer
Although I do think that these three were pretty much equally close friends before Amphibia, there are definitely times where Anne and Marcy just tend to get along better. And judging by Sasha’s line “I am not gonna fail! Not while Anne and Marcy are getting by without me!” she is definitely sensitive about it. This is also basically the entire plot of season 2, episode 19.
6. The Follower, The Leader, and The Mediator
Anne, as also seen above, is a follower. She nearly lets Sasha kill all of her new friends, and ends up needing Sprig to step in, because she’s so used to taking orders. Sasha is the leader who doles them out, literally stating that she needs to be in control and that it’s “actually kind of exhausting.” And Marcy tries to step in multiple times during Sasha and Anne’s fights, calm things down when they get emotional, and at times is even dismissive of others’ feelings in an effort to get them to just play nice. Marcy is kind of a follower, in that she listens to Sasha’s direction too, but also kind of a silent leader in that she directs a lot of the background, making choices for the greater good of the group (as she sees it) without consultation or consent from the others. She wants everything to work out (“guys, guys, stop fighting! This is crazy. We’re supposed to be friends for life. We don’t split up.”). She’s referring not just to physically being apart, but also to disagreements and tension, which she sees as inherently threatening to the group dynamic.
Aphrodisiacs should exist and it’s lame that they don’t. I want to become so sensitive that a single breath on my dick brings me to the edge and a flick of my nipples makes me leak
People really be reblogging this like “Just do meth or cocaine” and “OMG wine is an aphrodisiac”
I literally feel the same. Going through the diifferent relationships on the show, I realised that most of them are to do with Dean. Yet they are equally main characters. There also should be more people who Sam has a connection with a person moresothan Dean, e.g Eileen, but she’s one of the only ones.
