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can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.
(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#lost in the book with nightmare before christmas#hajimari no halloween#unique magic posters#this was so unforseeable!#i hope malleus gets pumpkinified immediately and sebek has to carry him around on a little velvet cushion#i hope jade puts his plant knowledge to good use by being extremely judgy about the firmness of everyone's rind#i hope that everyone is still wearing their silly little hats as pumpkins#(i know they won't. but if we don't have hope we have nothing.)#and i'm still feeling like oogie's gotta show up later and menace jamil just by existing#perhaps we'll have to team up against him with the scullsman or something 👀#also just to get it out before being proven entirely wrong#my theory is still that he's from the past and we gotta teach him about the True Meaning of Halloween (aka candy and funtimes)#so he can go back to his own time and become the founder of modern-day candy and funtimes halloween or something#bootstrap paradox be damned#i could be entirely off-base but that's what i'm thinking right now#idk he just has the vibe of an old-timey boy to me#he's had the great misfortune of being born before there were hot topics where he could meet other jack skellington fanatics#too late for the black plague too early for the black parade 😔
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of five people, three must pay a price
#honkai star rail#hsr#dan heng#jing liu#jing yuan#bailu#blade hsr#high cloud quintet#hoyoverse#artists on tumblr#digital#“this update already passed though” time isn't real to me!!#perpetually slow artist syndrome strikes again!!!#anyway! jing liu's story quest genuinely had me shaking by the end of it i cannot believe the theories were right#also love that it released at the same time belobog's update did#march and stelle off doing sillies while dan heng over here having the worst afternoon imaginable
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um uh uh um. so. did anyone else used to follow Nate Stevenson's D&D campaign drawings back in the day or-


#fantasy high#fhjy#dimension 20#nd stevenson#brennan lee mulligan#like. uh. god.#in november 2022 i went insane and watched a ton of avdenturing academy#and found out brennan used to play w molly ostertag (nd's wife)#and was like. wait a fucking minute. i was obsessed w jericho rose#so i refound that pic just to be like hmm i winder if any of these were brennan's characters that'd be crazy#and then further episodes in he mentioned playing a lawful good rogue and i was like HOLY SHIT#bc lets be real. kipperlilly copperkettle is SUCH a brennan name#but i thought my theory could only ever be that! right! my haha silly red string board in my friend's dms!#WRONG#IM SO FUCKING SMART#anyways. thank you for coming to my ted talk.
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We don't talk enough about the fact that Amelia Pond, s5 Amelia Pond, before the timeline is reset, isn't just a normal orphan. Her parents didn't die, didn't abandon her, and didn't send her away. They never existed in the first place.
And if her parents never existed, then Amelia cannot exist. She is a causal impossibility.
"People fall out of the world sometimes, but they always leave traces." A photograph. A face carved into an apple. Yes. Sure.
A child.
Now that's too big, surely.
But that's what she is. She is exactly the same as these things. A trace. An echo of something that could never be, never was, never could have been.
And the universe should never allow it. A whole person, that's just too much. She could not have continued to exist indefinitely, in normal circumstances, after her parents never existed.
In normal circumstances.
Because the Doctor didn't just save her from things coming out of the crack in her wall. He saved her from going into it. And he didn't just save her from the threat of going into it simply because of its vicinity.
No, by arriving when he did, he interrupted a process that was probably already in motion. And then by arriving again only moments later on a cosmic relative timestream (too quickly for the process to complete) and yet in the local relative timestream, years later --- years of a potential future caught midway through the process of rewriting -- he solidified that existence. Amy is a creature from another timeline, caught in amber. The Doctor prevented her from never existing, but only after she could already never exist.
And so, no one around Amelia thinks about it. Neither does she. There's some kind of consciousness block, because if you thought about it, really thought about it, for two seconds you'd realize she cannot exist. And the human mind can't deal with that. So, to protect itself, everyone's brain simply slides off it before ever noticing. They just assume that her existence makes sense, and don't question it, and don't notice what they don't question, that is staring them in the face.
But of course, to some extent they do notice. They can't think it, but they notice subconsciously that there's something they can't think. They notice there's something wrong with her, something uncanny. And they don't like it, and they alienate her even more because of it.
"Does it ever bother you Pond that your life existence doesn't make any sense?"
#like!!!!!! why arent we talking about this!!!!!!!#amelia pond#amy pond#the ultimate autism metaphor on top of being autistic anyway#doctor who#dw#ndw#dw theory#lavender thoughts#SHE CAN'T EXIST SHE IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE#you called clara the impossible girl but that's amy#and THEN the fact that even after it's all set right#she remains shaped by -- remains deeply traumatized by -- a timeline that never happened; a reality that never was#AUGH !!!!!#some wounds just can't heal even if the thing that caused them never existed in the first place#some wounds remain as a TRACE of the other time just as you yourself were once#THE mental illness rep of all time#and in the big bang of course the doctor had to take the shortcut because if they'd all gone the long way round#she'd have been gone before he got there#as starless universe's little amelia disappeared.... it could be millienia but from another perspective it HAD to be moments#they made it only in the nick of time#and the doctor knew that#pond#the life and times of amy pond#lavender writings
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I love this gay ass show with its literally life ending injuries that heal immediately, but only when convenient to the plot, and its ridiculous use of modern phrases, and its laughing in the face of historical accuracy, and its kissing the face of the fans instead of trying to outwit them, and the way everyone involved in the show seem to go 'I KNOW RIGHT! I'M EXCITED TOO!' instead of mocking the fans
#i have so many feelings#i can't quite express the way everyone involved seems to want us to love the show#like when you love something so you show it to a friend and vibrate with excitement while you watch them love it#so that you can scream about it together#it feels like djenks and the writers and the cast and the crew are in on the joke *with* us#which contrasts so sharply to the way so many fandoms find themselves to *be* the joke#the joke being how much we love the show#the fact that everyone involved cares *so much* about the show is really obvious#not just this is a fun show but this is a *meaningful* show#i truly have never felt so much like i have a community as i have with this show and the fans of it#it is also one of the only shows i can think of (maybe some of neil gaiman's adaptations?) where the trademark over analysing and meta#and theories of the fans isn't ridiculed#this ties back into the being in on the joke thing#back when we didn't know blackbonnet was going to be *canon* canon#and djenks reaction to us freaking out that we were RIGHT was basically#well yeah?#i want to write a love letter to everyone but i don't know how#ofmd#mine#our flag means death#david jenkins#ofmd s2#ofmd 2#kissing david jenkins on the mouth
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a prof in the department retired last year and was like just raid my office for whatever you want idc im not cleaning it out so it was like book whalefall. and because nobody in my department cares about theory i got to take all of his books on states and revolutions. I’m finally getting around to looking through them and he had some gooooood fucking books dude, I got Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson, States and Social Revolutions by Theda Skocpol, Social Origins of Dictatorships and Democracies by Barrington Moore Jr, an edited collection on apartheid, and a book about settler colonial policy in Canada
#Bourdieu specifically engages with Moore & Anderson & Skocpol in his lectures on the state so I’m excited to read them#my comp reading list was incredibly annoying bc most assigned works just talked around western Marxists without actually addressing what#they were saying. so I’d like to round that out#I don’t have any particular allegiance to western Marxists in general but the discourse in my part of the field is deeply right wing#and anti-theory. and I want to be able to better know the context of their arguments
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ignoring the obvious. is anyone else really fucking intrigued/confused by this room
it is so STARKLY different from the rest of the phouse like it has fuzzy padded brown walls?? like they have a reason for every design choice in the phouse so why did they go with fuzzy brown walls in here and here only (it seems)??/?
drop your ideas below
#only semi-explanations i can think of are:#1. it isn't their house and it just so happens that they took multiple photos that they then posted in the same non-phouse location#(likely family's house if this is the case cause when else would they be this relaxed at someone else's house/whatever other place lol)#2. this is one of the “secret safe rooms” dan alluded to in.. A Video i honestly don't remember where lol pls if someone knows tell me#(i do know that phil also showed a secret door in i think one of his “answering questions i'd normally avoid” vids? or a tiktok i forgor)#and for those curious: first pic is from 9:46 dan's bday livestream and the second one is 10:45 wdapteo 4#and in case it matters (dk why it would but just a fact i learned while retrieving these images):#for the first image afaik we don't know the day it was taken but we can safely assume it was taken before nov 27 2023#cause that's when the catboy photos were posted & this image came up right before that one when phil was showing off the yearly dan pics#so sometime between june 12 & nov 27 2023 (since phil would've started collecting new pics of dan after his birthday had passed)#and then the second image would've been sometime between feb 21 and 27 2024#because the last text that has a date that we see before this one is from the 21st#and then the texts we see immediately after that are from when dan was doing wad in frankfurt which according to phandom wiki was feb 27th#which gives me the idea that it's proooobably not my first theory?#since why would they be at family's house at such random times of the year#ANYWAY that's all from me please drop your thoughts i'm curious to hear#forgive me if we've already had a moment like this and figured it out and i'm just late to the party. but theorizing fun so idc#dnp#phan#amazingphil#daniel howell#phandom#me post#photo
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Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !
Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)
I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!
someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)
uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE
#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 4 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 4 spoilers#mel is so cute but mal fits with the rest of the draconias better#eng version no you were supposed to save me not make things MORE confusing#anyway raverne huh#that uh. that sure feels like it's supposed to evoke raven doesn't it.#what does it mean WHAT DOES IT MEAN#hold on i'm going to flail around embarrassingly about anime character theories now#(okay first a disclaimer: i do think we need to sit down as a fandom at some point)#(and have a discussion about exactly what is actual canon versus meta speculation versus jokes)#(because i think there has been. some confusion. over that re:crowley and raverne specifically)#(but i do feel justified in being like THEY ARE PROBABLY CONNECTED SOMEHOW RIGHT?! right now)#like i really don't think it's as simple as crowley being raverne but with memory loss or something#(and if they pull that on us i'm going to need an EXTREMELY good explanation to go with it to justify that)#they've gone out of their way several times now to make a point about them acting and sounding different and it feels very intentional to m#(and once again: i super 100% absolutely do not believe that lilia wouldn't recognize him with the top half of his face covered)#i just think the contradictions are a lot stronger than the connections right now but there ARE some connections and i'm 👀ing at them#to be fair the connections are mostly meta like crowley being diablo/raverne being evocative of raven#also the general 'raverne mysteriously disappeared and apparently had distinctive eyes' thing#versus 'crowley's past is unknown and he never shows his eyes'#(i will argue that crowley DOES seem to have some kind of canon connection to briar valley)#(since he is clearly some sort of fae and the masks are a briar valley thing)#and that is kinda it right now isn't it#okay hold on i had to delete some tags because i used too many (thanks tumblr for letting me know and not just vanishing them OH WAIT)#so tl;dr: i'm in the 'crowley is connected to raverne somehow but it's more complicated than just him being in disguise' camp personally#but that will probably change as we get more info and also don't take this as an anti-speculation thing because i love theories HOORAY
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SO WHAT IS THE TRUTH
#character designs#it was upside right and then switched to the opposite#what the Fuck happened#aaravos#tdp aaravos#s6 spoilers#tdp#tdp spoilers#the dragon prince#key to his heart theory#adds fuel that the Fall and the heart removal were 2 different things tho. Maybe#guessing it switching the other way again to the OG right side up is Part#of the character design change that's been hinted for him at the end of S6
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ig ooomfie said i should draw xuanli and i kinda went crazy abt them whoopsydoodle
#xuanli#jin zixuan#jiang yanli#TALL! CHUBBY! YANLI! AGENDA!#mo dao zu shi#mdzs#jiang yanli most beautiful on the planet the yunmeng bros were right abt this idc if they were speaking out of loyalty to their cool sister#they were CORRECT! and i will draw her as such!#anyway whos ready for me to ramble abt yanli in the tags bc i have a lot of thoughts abt her#specifically abt how in my heart of hearts she does have SOME level of cultivational YMJ/MSY training - i know for a fact madame yu isn't#gonna let her just fuck around all day! i just think eventually they realised it wasnt doing much and stopped making her#i do like the hc - or i guess theory bc ive seen some p good analyses for it :)- that the reason yanli doesnt really participate is bc she#has a disability or smth that prevents her from being able to do everyhting the other jiangs do#but i also think that shes fine with that she doesn't really wanna do all this anyway! her disability has aligned in her favour really!#i ALSO love when ppl take yanlis lack of martial/magical skill and make her good at the administrative and political stuff!#someone in this house has to be!#jc scowls his way through every meeting WWX's negotiation skills start and stop at flirting#fengmians a helpless lil yesman and mdame yu terrifies everyone in her path - someone has to be the politician of the house!#lets be real shes an eldest sister its absolutely gonna be her. eldest sisters know more about conflict resolution than hostage negotiators#i like when she gets to actually show this in canon like. shes polite all the time but shes FIRM when she needs to be and she will get what#shes aiming for TRUST AND BELIEVE!#anwyay in the order of yunmeng sibling heights its wwx -> JYL -> jc but theyre all a lil insanely tall and thats the real reason theyre all#high on the attractiveness rankings. every1s a lil bisexual for them#jzx whos 5'10 and telling everyone hes 6'0 when he meets jyl: h..............heh...h.ey.y.y...
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oh wait
waitwaitwait
if mark is reintegrated now
does that mean he no longer can refine the data?????
and if he cannot refine the data, he cannot finish cold harbor, which means
he woN'T BE ABLE TO GET EMMA BACK AS A FULL PERSON
#severance#GUYS WE GOT ORPHEU'D#IT IS THE ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE MYTH#THEY WERE RIGHT#severance season 2#severance spoilers#severance theories
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Bleach TYBW Cour 3 Ep 34
#bleach#renji abarai#uryu ishida#lille barro#bleach anime#mine#i love the implications of this scene#because lille is sus of uryu he ended up watching him and renji the others were able to escape#also uryu has to know right????#so he obviously figured out that he has to make it seem like he took renji out or else lille will shoot them both or finish the job#i also like the theory over at twitter that renji was lille's target so uryu intervened from last ep
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hey guys remember blue eyes russia? yeah that was kind of cursed, anyways my theory is that some way or another a purple-eyed imposter managed to weasel his way into his position early on
as to what happened to the original? nobody knows oooooo
#kind of a crack theory#hetalia#hws#aph#hws russia#aph russia#hws gangsta#what age did they become representatives again they became representatives when they were like children right#i hope i have my gangsta lore right
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Yaz Sammy and Ben are literally the "its finally me and you and you and me just us
and your friend steve"
#has anyone said that before?#if yes they were right#jwcc#jwct#camp cretaceous#chaos theory#yasmina fadoula#ben pincus#sammy gutierrez
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I feel because of Jinx and Viktor’s popularity in fandom (having some of the most annoying fans in Arcane fandom) and the attention they receive in the show itself, people forget/don’t realise how bad they were done by the writers in s2
#saying this as someone who had thought jayce was reasonable for killing viktor in s2#the way they stripped all nuance from viktor’s actions and made jayce 100% right and the arcane/glorious evolution instead of highly flawed#and morally dubious/neutral#into just bad and wrong(tm)#was weird. it was weird.#i don’t want to compare to league because i do think adaptations should be judged on themselves for the most part#and i’m not too familiar.#but i think the ending should have been left open. like let piltover and zaun still be at war and the characters finding their place in that#also escalation from misguidedly transforming unwitting but willing people to viktor just deciding to turn everyone into an emotionless robo#was weird too#someone smarter than me do a deep dive idek#everyone became a centrist when faced with the true enemy; extremist zaunite (but like not even for zaun)#its not that i wanted viktor to be innocent. his actions in act 2 were morally dubious and he was destined to become darker and more extreme#but the way they did it was weird#and the way they resolved his character. it just feel so half-assed if you look past how emotionally charged and beautiful it was#do not even get me started on jinx… the ‘jinx is alive’ theory better be real because that’s the only way to salvage her character#but like i think they handled her character terribly for all of act 3#i think ekko and mel were done dirty in the way characters like lucas in st were. but i won’t get into that rn#jayce and vi also kinda felt reduced to their relationships…#arcane s2 act 3#arcane critical#arcane criticism#arcane#arcane season 2#arcane s2#viktor arcane#viktor#jinx arcane#jinx
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#the fall of the house of usher#mike flanagan#tfothou#tfothouedit#flanaverse#(mine)#(i was looking for a generic gif set to put my little thoughties in the tags but there aren't any???)#(or not yet maybe??? hrmpff so i'll do it myself then!)#it really is becoming a flanaverse - again there were little things and phrasings carried over from the other shows#i can only remember the carcass of a house right now but there were more#i can't wait to see everybody's little posts and theories and comparisons!!! 😻#what i haven't seen yet and will come up probably is the angle of the opiod epidemic#some speeches sounded like they came right our of the other netflix series painkiller#which makes me think those quotes might be verbatim lifted from real life although they are so out there that they sound made up (?)#i don't know enough about it but it struck me as too much of a coincidence#spoilers
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