I Think About This At Least Once A Week

My siblings and I shouldn’t watch movies...

Officer: *points at lineup* Who did it?

Me: It was the bear.

Officer: CUFF HIM!

Other Officer: *sobbing* The cuffs won’t fit!  They keep sliding off!

Not only are there stupid questions, but they will cost you.

This chart is for disaster individuals and disaster individuals alone, if you do your laundry in a timely manner and can easily talk to waiters don’t interact

I don’t promote violence but I think if an art teacher writes or draws on your piece or tears it up you should be allowed to shoot them in cold blood.

You brought a cheese knife to the knife fight, which isn’t technically wrong, but is definitely an odd choice

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

May: hey guys have you seen Fiona?

Joanna: She’s in the other room crying but just give her some space for now

May: why is she crying?

Robyn: she‘s sad because snakes don’t have any arms

Fiona in the other room crying louder: WHYYY!!!

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.