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If you ever wonder what “love drunk” looks like! 😆👌🏻🩵

I think he's very comfortable...

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Definitely still in their grip! 😆🍓☕️🚆🩵

Tomorrow marks three months. The hype has faded, and so has the hate (well, mostly). But I think I'm still heavily addicted to them. Who's still in it too? Hand up! 👋🏻

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Umbrella academy subway code

So the way my brain works, I love a puzzle. ADORE a puzzle. So seeing that encrypted language all over the subway in season 4? It gave me an itch in my brain that needed to be solved. Playing around with it, it looked like a substition cipher, simple switch for letters and symbols. But with any TV show and props, there is a chance that someone in the prop department just threw together something random.

However. When I started looking, excluding the subway station names, there were 26 unique symbols. Which couldn't be a coincidence.

And it wasn't.

I started off by giving each symbol a letter, and then looking at frequency analysis. This got me some of the way there, (managed to get THE as a consistent correct pattern) but for less common letters the system fell apart. I was shown an image from the propstore auction (thanks @hansodax) so decided to focus on just this.

By doing the conversion to letters and then running again through a frequency analysis it was looking consistent with english. A couple of runs through a substition cipher decrypter and the word time line popped out. Just some manual clean up then needed.

Here are my translations for some of the graphics we see in the season

Prop images are from the umbrella academy auction items on prop store.

SYSTEM MAP

ATTENTION

The timeline is important for your sanity. But there is no way to game the system. All will be revealed. When the answer is obvious the solution will be achieved. Until then the timeline must be respected.

Some of the station names appear to be random, unless anyone has a meaning for this one:

ALENOSTU

and the lettering on the subway car itself is also random, as using the same encryption just gives nonsense. I did suspect that might be the case given that the same symbols are repeated over and over on diferrent signs. Just in case I did invert, but upside down it doesn't match the alphabet.

Other signs used appear to be multiple letters and some new symbols mashed together:

I suspect a proper language was created for the initial prop of the map, and then the symbols used to decorate other surfaces without meaning behind them. Another consideration is that there are numbers in the mixed together symbols, but these are often harder to crack.

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old married vampire couple save me

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They’re gorgeous in the first image! And even though they’re probably scoping a mark, they’re also giving off a “you can’t sit with us” vibe! 😆

And the comic strip is adorable! Love a thunderstruck Five! 🩵

Jerome and Nancy

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Oo, it’s beautiful! 😍

Thank you @esvvel for this wonderful fan art with my absolute favourite couple. 😍🥰

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This turned out amazing! 😍

I really wanted to try painting. It's not something I've ever done successfully before no matter how much I tried. I saw a video recently and it said try using a solid colour for your background first. I thought Five at Hotel Obsidian would be a good candidate.

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This is super cute!

My first fanart 🫢.

Tried my best.

I don't know when you got in my head

But I'm not going to let you fade

Give me your eyes

Give me your heart too

Give me your attention now

Give me all of you

I'll be thinking about you all my days

I'll be thinking about you all the way

And I'm not sure how, but you're in me now

And I know that you're there to stay

And your loving makes me lose my place

I can not get enough of your face

The way you come to me in the night

I just want to hold you tight

I'll be thinking about you all my days....

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I'm gonna eat you, you're my desire I'm gonna sharpen all my teeth and build a fire I'm gonna eat you, cook and defeat you I'm gonna breathe you in my lungs and make you mine

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Fivela Appreciation Week 🍓 Day 7 - Nancy & Jerome (dealers choice)

let's pretend I'm not one day late again

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This is lovely. And a beautiful song too. 🩵

Last Day of FIVELAWEEK24

Prompt - Dealers choice 🍓.

Soulmates

That smile he despised all the while.

Became the first thing he wanted to see,

In the morning, drawn to her style,

Longing to taste her lips and just to be.

When they first kissed, his world stood still;

strawberries on his tongue had never tasted sweeter.

He felt like a lost soul, adrift at will,

Wrapped in her warmth, drawing her nearer.

The smile he despised all the while

Became his favorite reflection.

He knew he shouldn’t cross that line,

But she was pure perfection.

She led him to a garden of fire,

Letting him fall for her completely.

The train had reached its last desire,

And he knew he’d been foolish—deeply.

But that smile he’d once loathed and denied

Became the food for his soul.

He thought she’d be his perfect guide,

But in the end, he felt like a fool.

@fivelaappreciationblog thanks for idea of one week dedicated to our soulmates 🍓.

I wish you all good night 🍓.

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Love and agree with all of this! 👆🏻👏🏻🩵

Fivelaweek24: Day 7) thank you!

Thank you @fivelaappreciationblog for the organization and this idea!

And I'd also like to thank all the shippers who create such beautiful arts, write amazing stories or even their own analysis of the series. Anything you do to show support for this unique couple is beautiful.

But thanks also to the readers and commenters who take a moment to appreciate someone else's work. Because support and love will always outweigh the stupidity and shallow opinions of those who feel the need to spend their time hating. 🙏🏻

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Hello all, if you enjoyed ep 5 "Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days", please rate it on IMDB, thank you. 🥹

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This is so bittersweet but so gorgeous too! 💔🩵

day 7 - the end (dealers choice)

"Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being."

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I love this because I actually kind of thought of the Graduate in regards to Five, Lila, and actually the Handler too. The scene where she is shaving very much reminds me of the graduate scene for all the reasons you mentioned. With the camera angle and set up they did, it’s impossible not to think of that movie, in my opinion.

But I was also kind of vaguely reminded of the film during the season 2 scene where the handler gives Five the location of the board meeting. I don’t remember any specific parallels, (I haven’t seen the movie in over ten years during my high school film class) but just a general feeling in retrospect of the Five and Lila bath scene. And lastly, the thing I think that makes a connection between Five & Lila and the movie was that Mrs. Robinson ended up being the mother of the girl he ends up with at the end of the film.

Now whether Five and the Handler were ever romantic/ intimate- and if so, whether that was something consensual or coerced/ forced- is up for viewer interpretation. But I think it’s fair to say there was an underlying vibe of something going on with the Handler and Five. And whether the daughter ended up being a forever love or not in the film’s universe is also left open-ended. Which of course, is another interesting potential parallel for Five and Lila, though admittedly I don’t think the unresolved status of Fivela’s relationship was done well, like it was in the movie.

Also agree that while their story certainly needed more screen time and development, it wasn’t completely out of nowhere either. There’s plenty of pieces to Five and Lila’s story that maybe didn’t register as romantic build up on first watch, but fit perfectly upon reflection.

Fivela didn't come out of the blue

Just one interesting tidbit for film enthusiasts / TUA lovers / Five x Lila shippers out there: a while ago, this particular frame caught my attention. It bore echoes of something I had already seen in the past, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

Then it came to me: of course, the poster for the movie The Graduate!

Notice how both Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock and Five are sporting the same tan shade of clothes, how both are positioned in the door frame, with the leg of their seductress / love interest / nemesis hovering starkly in the foreground.

Both female protagonists are caught as they are performing a gesture of an intimate nature: Mrs Robinson is rolling on her stockings in The Graduate, post encounter with Benjamin, while Lila is shaving her legs, pre run-in with Five.

And, of course, there’s the much debated “age-gap relationship” in common, hanging in the air – explicitly stated, in the case of Benjamin / Mrs Robinson, and subtly hinted at as far as Five / Lila are concerned (and yes, time travel factors in all this and is - as Lila so aptly put it - "a massive head trip").

I find this homage to be such an interesting, cheeky, apt visual foreshadowing of what is to come between the killer duo (pun intended) in the following season.

This is one of the many reasons why I respectfully disagree with TUA fans saying that the relationship was "unexpected" or "sprung upon" the viewers. Was it rushed and wanting proper development? Yes. Were there signs of where things were heading, well before the subway storyline, even prior to season 4? Hell yeah.

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Fivelaweek24 Day 6 - Dancing

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