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[wheelercurse]

The Upside Down is a tesseract.

(time theory)

The writers tweeted a picture of the book Wrinkle in Time, which its title refers to a tesseract. You may ask, what's a tesseract? The basis is that a tesseract is a fifth dimension (the fourth dimension is time). Even in the book, to explain it, they use the same metaphor that they used in Stranger Things about the flea.

Here they're only using this concept to travel through dimensions. In ST, creating gates with so much power that tore space and time. And in the book, in a very similar way, to make a shortcut go to point A to point B.

We know that El has the power to create these gates, so Vecna is interested in her. And she also was the one who sent Henry to another dimension for the first time. But if you pay attention, this dimension didn't look like the Upside Down, so it makes me believe that these aren't the same place.

One is blue with spores and looks like Hawkins on November sixth, 1983, the day Willl disappeared (remember that the Duffers said this was important, and they will explain it in s5). And the other has warm colors and looks like a desert with many rocks.

My theory is that Will created the Upside Down while trying to hide from the Demogorgon. As in Wrinkle in Time, not everyone has the power of tesser. And Will manipulated time and space to create this fifth dimension.

We have seen how the Upside Down can affect the real world via the lights. They use light particles to communicate with others. A similar way that Interstellar uses the strings in the fifth dimension (also a tesseract). But in Stranger Things, they have only used it to communicate in the same period of time (the present), but what if there's a way to also communicate to other periods of time (the past)?

In Interstellar, the tesseract is an enormous structure used to communicate through gravity. Still, it's Copper's love for his daughter that allows him to see her in the past and communicate with her in this exact period. Because the premise of the movie is love transcends time and space.

ST also uses the trope of the power of love. So where I'm going with this? Our heroes will find a way to communicate with their past selves to try to prevent things, but I don't think they will be able to change the past even if they try.

My reason to believe that they will also play with time is that our villain literally has a clock motif and is obsessed with time. Also, there have been some references about time travel. And going back to season 1, the night Will disappeared, the lights in Mike's house were flickering. And the light in Will's bike also started to flicker, so he was able to notice the Demogorgon. Maybe it also was a warning. Still, if we continue with this theory, Vecna was living in the other dimension, not in the Upside Down, so he wasn't the one manipulating the lights because Will hadn't created it "yet." So who was behind the flickering? Our heroes in the future.

This isn't a new theory; I know this is the basis of flickergate. It's cute the idea that they were kissing in the Upside Down, but I think they were trying to prevent Will from leaving. Like in Interstellar, Cooper uses Morse code to send the message "STAY" But in both cases, they couldn't stop it.

Remember the iconic scene with Joyce and the Christmas lights, when she painted an alphabet, and someone warned her to RUN. Some people had questioned how Will was able to see the letters when the Upside Down was stuck on the day he disappeared. So, what if it wasn't the Will who was stuck in the UD and was someone from the future that was trying to save her (maybe Will but his future self).

There may be more examples of lights flickering, but these are the two that I remember right now.

Also, we know that Will could call his house via the phone. And in season 2, when they discovered that the way to defeat the Mindflayer was by closing the gate, the phone started to ring, so Will knew he was in the Byers' house. Maybe Vecna also will figure out how to use the Upside Down and try to intercept their plan, calling the house at that time.

Bonus: Arrival was in the s4 movie list inspiration. A movie that also plays with the concept that time is non-linear. The key to communicating with the aliens is understanding how they perceive time. You can read more about it in this analysis of the movie.

In conclusion: The Upside Down is a fifth dimension (a tesseract) where you can communicate with others dimensions, not only in the present.

[arainaizevran]

the only time minthara "good" recruitment doesn't work is if she doesn't have any lines at all addressing halsin or wyll or karlach or fixing the shadow-cursed lands, all of which are impossible if the player recruits her the "normal" way.

but those lines exist. way back in release patch 1. those weren't added in future patches. it's always been there.

so i don't get how making minthara recruitable in a "good" run is watering her down. even when she's recruited in a "good" run, she's still pretty damn evil (compared to your average tadpoled companion).

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: writing writing writing

[brittie-frog]

There was a theory a while ago I saw that the eggs weren't meant to last this long and was meant to help them/spy on them originally but because the players cared so much for them and protected them, they lasted.

And with the way that the new tasks and sweets are it seems that they want the eggs to die again. But if they wanted that why give them their lives back before?? And what was the point of adding Chunsik if he's just gonna die in a few weeks. It's just forcing the players to have to be on everyday again and starting on a week when a lot of them can't/won't for their own mental health/social life.

Like even Em's admin thinks it's unfair and she's gonna die because Bagi's not here the rest of the week, Mouse and Tina are variety streamers that have the awards this weekend and Niki basically only streams once a week. Like the best bet is that Mouse logs on in the next few days because she doesn't have to physically be at the awards as a vtuber so has no irl 'obligations' to hang out with friends like Tina. But Em also needs to be awake because all of them need the 'baby' to be there and she's sick and slightly burnt out after today so might not be up for the constant dungeon tasks they get - the admins are tired, what about the players who also have other responsibilities and irl lives aswell.

There has to be another option. It's the perfect mix in that it's bonding tasks to get the sweets but it's the worst way possible. If they can't be on to do the eggs tasks or can't do enough of them do you think they have the time to be doing bounties to be able to pay the extortionate price for emergency cookies?? And at least with the original cookies you could get massive excess to help each other but now like Philza would be able to get barely enough to save Chayanne and Talullah nevermind help out Sunny while Tubbo's dead. And yes BBH is addicted and bound to do them all but he won't have excess enough to help Leo or Pepito if their parents don't log in or Chunsik if Acau can't complete enough on Sunday. They're gonna have to lower the amount required especially if it's still that non-parents have to feed double because that's impossible with only 36 tickets/18 cookies available this week and 42/21 in a normal week since they skipped Monday. It would just be slightly better if the tasks weren't dungeons but collecting stuff still and they all lasted till Sunday night.

Apparently Chayanne's admin has said that everything will be fine but knowing all this information it was fucked from the beginning so there must be a lore reasons and nothing bad is going to happen because if Em permentantly dies from being "lassoed and beaten to death" in a split second and "neglect" (because her parents have busy irl lives for one week) I'm deleting everything and it would be on par with Trumpet dying from "neglect" which was in no way Maxo's fault and I wasn't even there for that one.

[smellpelt]

people start talking like they're in blazblue centralfiction when they go "AI" "art"

[letthebookbegin]

cats are so cool

[samanthamulder]

this time tomorrow germany could be the world champion in men's basketball. let that sink in.....

[alldayeveryday-candycandycandy]

Adding GlamFred's little self-conscious lines like "uh that wasn't me that was a recording" and "do I sound too excited?" Is so adorable bc he's so worried, like "no, I cannot be "cringe" in front of my new son"

[vigilskeep]

glad to know someone else isn't fond of the british female va for inky. no hate to the actress i think she's very good in mass effect but her inquisitor performance seems very meh to me. the way she speaks almost nasally(?) and kinda emotionless idk i just don't dig the vibe

she’s like fine i guess, i just find that inquisition dialogue rests so much on you quizzing the companions like they’re at a job interview and i find the way she asks those questions particularly flat and grating so i don’t want to have to listen to that every time i talk to someone

[gothgamergaara]

Lowkey just got turned on by an Amazon review for a waterproof blankets

[necessary-quotation-marks]

I don't want to think about that too hard. It might open a can of Why I Don't Let People Close to Me, and I don't want to answer that question anytime soon. Pretty sure it sits right next to the cans of Daddy Issues and Shockingly Depleted Self-Worth.

Eden Finley (Trick Play)

[lemonhemlock]

Seriously what so special about Daemon to be this popular? He is even more popular than Jon, Tyrion and Jaime lmaoo

Doctor Who is a cultural phenomenon worldwide. 😄 We're lucky David Tennant is not playing him, since he's the most popular Doctor.

[vanmarkus]

rbing this again just to say that some of the people bringing up polyamory/polygamy are kinda missing the point.

yeah ot3s are a thing but multishipping means shipping the same character with more than one character(s) separately, as in not within the same relationship. because they aren't real and you don't have to find a "morally acceptable" way for them to be with multiple people, so they "aren't cheating", such as being in a poly relationship.

"how can you multiship?" well you see honey, when two people love each other very much and neither of them is real...

[onglydooplemikeyway]

i leave for bass lessons in 15 minutes, do we think my instructor will accept the excuse of “i couldn’t practice because i was sick and my amp is in our cold as hell basement so it could’ve made me feel worse”

i mean probably not but it’s worth a shot right

[wishwandrers]

Thycius going from a sophisticated brat to a carefree killer is soo fun

[junigray]

Everything is a new skill.