Google Siting Ao3 As A Source Is So Unhinged

of course you have blood all over you. and pronouns

I’ll throw in another $5 for Ruby and Weiss talking in Volume 7.

*slides $5 to crwby writers*

Give me the forbidden winter-whitley interactions plz

if you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my

irregular cycles of crippling anxiety and depression

what are you doing if I break into your house and wake you up in the dead of night and i pull out a shot glass and flask of NyQuil and say to your health and down one (1) shot of it and then pass tf out on the end of your bed like some demented cat

what then huh?

mood

my hot take

at the end of each ep of queer eye when the dude shows off his new look to his family and friends

May: Shotgun for eternity!

Fiona: You can’t call shotgun for eternity!

May: I just called it.

Joanna: You can’t just call things!

May: I call that I can call things!

Robyn: If you all don’t stop arguing we’re not going to the beach!

Finding a Conscience

So Volume 7 definitely introduced a whole lot of symbolic elements of Penny’s Pinocchio story.

We’ve gotten a Geppetto (Pietro),

a Blue Fairy (Fria),

a symbolic ‘become a real boy’ transformation, or in this case; an affirmation beyond all doubt that Penny was a real girl all along

And the end of the volume even introduced a Montro.

However, even with all this, I recently realized that there was still a major character from Pinocchio that we still seemed to be lacking.

Jiminy Cricket. Which the more I thought about it seemed pretty odd given that Penny doesn’t seem to NEED someone to be her conscience, after all, she seems to be by far the most moral and empathetic of all the Atlas characters.

But now I’m pretty sure that was exactly the point. Because Penny is the Jiminy Cricket of this story. Rather than having a different character act as her conscience, Penny herself acts as the conscience to others. Namely, Ironwood, Winter and the rest of Atlas.

All of Penny’s scenes with Winter from Episode 7 on can pretty much be summed up as Penny playing the role of Jiminy Cricket.

Finally, this adds another layer of symbolism to Winter, and by extension Ironwood, forcing Penny to flee Atlas.

Atlas has now effectively rejected their conscience.