YOOOOOO

everyone thank my dear friend (again) who listens to me ramble on and on about riptide and who made this just for me

(specifically back when ep 110 came out... dark times)

albatross shenanigans (i am recovering from the latest episodes)

two schemers a-scheming, gillion breaks jay's project again

Oh Jay Ferin how I have missed you so

[VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Chip: Are we not gonna wish for Gillion to come back to life?!

Jay: No, no, no, no, no! No, 'cause number one on the list, right? Like this is highest priority, and if this can be granted, I want it to be true, I want Gillion to come back to life–

Chip: Objectively having a back-up is fucked up.

Jay: –but, BUT! BUT!

Chip: Objectively having a back-up is fucked up!

Jay: BUT! If Gillion CANNOT come back to life, I still want what I wanted in the very beginning of the episode, okay?

Chip: Brother, brother–

Jay: I want a really cool yo-yo.

(laughter)

Chip: I think SAYING the back-up makes it less possible! That's like–

Jay: Shut the– Shut the fuck up, Chip! LET ME HAVE THIS!

Bizly (gasping for air): I can't– I can't, dude! The thought of us like, fading to white and then like, everything's gonna be okay, and then cutting back to the ship with us and NO Gillion and you with a YO-YO is SO fucked up!

(laughter)

Grizzly (as Condi and Bizly continue laughing in the backround): Gillion, now– now that I have their answers–

END TRANSCRIPT.]

JUST ROLL WITH IIUTTTTTT

do NOT think abt gillion tidestrider while listening to starlight by muse

happy appreciate a dragon day!

happy appreciate a dragon day!

Dear deities, I just CAN'T get over Charlie's performance in episode 79. I could ramble on and on about how the trials and how emotionally devastating it is... But nothing, NOTHING beats Gillion's monologue.

It's the way it starts off being quiet and Gillion's voice slowly creeps up in volume. The way it builds until the first "I hate you" and then EVERYTHING comes out, like the floodgates were just opened and he physically can't stop. It's painful for him to recall his memories as a child, failing over and over again. It's so agonising for him to describe his banishment, which must be so loaded with conflicting emotions. When he asks to be failed as Gillion Tidestrider, it's DESPERATE. And the fucking closing line...

"I'm sorry I couldn't be the chosen one you wanted. I'm not even the chosen one I wanted."

It's so cathartic yet it's not triumphant. Because Gillion has finally given himself some more room to express his own emotions after episode upon episode upon EPISODE of repressing it, making this a very satisfying moment!!! But uh, yeah, when you examine everything about the scenario and Gillion's own wording it's far from being happy. And I just think that's very neat because not every story takes that kind of care with their characters - they'll just expect characters to get over their trauma in one big hurdle and that's very much not how trauma works...

So anyhow just another messy tangent about the trials because I'm a Gillion fan so of course I'm gonna obsess over the segment that's just Gillion Tidestrider mental breakdown. Love this campaign. :)) My tormented blorbo. :))))

the parallels between jay and gillion's backstories are so important to me. being told your whole life how youre going to grow into something you dont have any control over and constantly training for it. being oppressed by a title, a name, something that determines your every action. having no choice over your future, your autonomy.

and yet when they leave, when theyre exposed to the rest of the world, they see how the environment they grew up in was flawed. what they learned was from such a severe perspective, and having the space to grow and change let them see the true beauty of the world.

anyways listen to the song fish in a birdcage

hello world I don’t know how tumblr works but I use it exclusively to look at jrwi content so I thought I’d share mine here’s a gilly