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[captain-space-kin]

Some of y’all need to calm down about people who are not that into lostshipping. I don’t see y’all raising the pitchforks at people who don’t like Lava, or literally any other ship for that matter (not to say that it doesn’t happen, cause fandom is fandom but still). But god forbid someone isn’t invested in Lost, that must mean they’re homophobic! Or whatever other label we can ascribe to them that makes them a Bad Person tm

I’m sorry but if people are allowed to ignore Jaya/Pixane/Kailor, I think it’s fine to ignore Lost. Especially since **AT THIS CURRENT MOMENT** they are probably the least compelling ship on the board right now. Hoping they get some development in season 3, but they are kind of just a pairing that exists for me at this point.

[fallenclan]

OTTERSLIP. man. at first his death made me laugh because of how he just barely outlived Silverbelly, outright refused to kick the bucket until she did, then i thought about it a little more and. Silverbelly died outside of camp. if i recall correctly the text was something like "Silverbelly takes a walk out of camp and is later found dead, a peaceful smile on her face". so it made me think about Otterslip possibly having something to do with it. eventually i decided no, he didn't, but i do think that it's fairly likely that Yewberry would have that thought as well. and maybe he didn't come to the same conclusion i did.

and where did Littlekit, a one month old child, get turkey feathers, you ask? don't worry about it

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[mvrphysart]

can everybody PLEASE stop fucking lying about fanfic contents??? i just read a fic tagged as fluff that ended in explicit fucking suicide, and in the end notes the author wrote “i said fluff? i lied :P” LIKE THAT’S OKAY.

i don’t usually do vent posts but fucking hell, is it so hard to tag something as it really is?!

[henrysglock]

You Speak Basic, Doc?

So. As a follow up to this post about the 2.08/2.09 HNL lights, I want to talk about something Wilbur just brought up in the server:

Very good fucking question. Why did he leave? And how did he end up in the stairwell that leads down to the basement?

Specifically, it's the same stairwell Bob just went down to reset the breakers and take the lab off lockdown:

(Which also, coincidentally, seems to be the same one El runs down in NINA to get to Henry and the tunnel out of the lab)

So...okay, cool. He was on his way to or from the basement after having left his little safe space in the upstairs security room.

That, however, brings me to another question: What is there for Owens to do in the basement?

Bob, as I said, went down there to reset the breakers and unlock the doors, because when the power cuts in HNL, the doors all lock. It's a lockdown.

So really...what else is there to do in the basement, besides no-scope demodogs and go "ooh" at the weird, pulsing mega-pussy gate? Owens doesn't have a gun, and he's been staring that weird, pulsing mega-pussy gate in the face for like a year now. Which means...it's probably not that.

So...could he have been trying to reinstate the lockdown by flipping the breakers Bob had fixed?

Well. Let's think about the "why"s of that.

First off, Owens knows firsthand that a lockdown isn't going to do shit against the demodogs.

A) The tunnels already allow them to circumvent the lab exits. Owens is aware of said tunnels.

B) The demodogs can smash through polycarbonate. Owens literally sees one do so.

So they could easily just tear right through any doors in their path. A lockdown makes no sense...for creatures.

No. Lockdowns are primarily for humans.

In fact...If I had to bet, the lockdown protocol in HNL has to do with the whole "keeping people from escaping the child torture basement" thing we see in ST4.

But...the prison-basement ended with El in 1983, right? So the question remains: What would Owens be locking down in the basement, and why hide his reasons for going downstairs?

Unless, of course, the prison-basement didn't end in 1983. And, of course, unless there's something worth securing down there that we're not yet privy to.

And along those lines: Why are so many demodogs staying in HNL? Why concentrate in the lab, when the tunnels will take them anywhere under Hawkins in pursuit of Will? There were more than enough to spread out and search. If it was about guarding the gate against El, they'd just leave some at the entrances, or swarm wherever she happened to be (which is where Will is, coincidentally). I thought Vecna could read minds even without an open gate. If he's supposedly involved in this...then why not just swarm the Byers house? Why still concentrate in the lab after they find out where Will is?

That is to say...what are they looking for, specifically in HNL, after they've found out that Will's left the building?

TL;DR: Owens...there wasn't someone down there that you needed to lock down, right? Someone to be retrieved later? Someone the democreatures might have a vested interest in finding?

[snowspeeders]

well. reading kith and kin and i was having a great time until there was a whole ass r*pe implication

[kushamisaru]

I was blessed with writing hands not drawing hands but I'm feeling mentally ill about Remuria and how Remus' desire to save it brought it to ruin and how Egeria warned him he couldn't defy fate but her successor did that so imagine if you will, the dialogue from the last song in the autoharmonic music box score and the scenes I'll paint for you

"The ocean where tears converge shall never dry, but shall rise to the sky and fall as rain once more."

Neuvelitte with his back to the viewer, looking over a flooded Fontaine as he forgives its sins.

"Please tell me that all of our labors have not been in vain..."

Furina sitting on her chair, despondent, in the water, just as prophesied and shown in one of the cutscenes.

“Rest in peace now, after all has ended…”

The sword of Indemnitium rests on a stage, the focal point of a single spotlight.

Alternatively, you could put the last one in the second space and have the third one being Furina stepping out of the Opera de Epiclese, the sun shining down on her with the darkness of the Opera literally and figuratively behind her. Just, the parallels make me crazy!!

[monards]

i think the way rhinealice is universal in the fandom is incredibly funny. Do most people actually know about rhinedottir and alice beyond base level info? No. Do most people even care about them outside of vague jokes about either klee and albedo referencing them? No. But does anyone to interact with them automatically go "oh yeah. klee and albedo's two moms"? yes. yes they do

[st-dionysus]

Had like 8 beers last night, after the movie ended we started talking about cults that people have been in, also transsexual politics and Italian feminism.

[pissfizz]

Why do we not talk about the incredibly frequent vague to explicit suicidal references in like all of akitos comm songs more. Is my boy ok

[aroaceleovaldez]

good morning it is so very important to me that Nico canonically joined CHB before Will and also ran away after only a week, whereas Will couldn’t have feasibly joined any earlier than immediately before the events of BoTL.

[panfreaka]

idk if y'all would be prepared for what I wrote a few days ago

[catgirlsisterbreeding]

"No, like… on an extremely external, facts-based, theoretical level, I know she's not my mother. It's something I insisted on in the Domestication Contract, having that kind of like… basic connection to factual reality. But… my literal, externally-factual mother rejected me pretty hard when I transitioned, and she was heartbreakingly feral--she killed herself before the Affini arrived on her home planet--so… I never had a chance to reconcile and get my mother back. And uh... in that light, Miss Cydonia stepped in and used class-Hs and biorythmic hypnotics so that, like… on a very fundamental emotional level, she is my mother.

So yeah. I call her "mom" and I mean it. And she fucks me sometimes because it makes me happy. Is that incest? Maybe not in an externally-factual sense, but it 100% feels like fucking my mother to me so yeah, sure."

[superheats]

Listen. I think my argument is going to be that contemporary playwriting shows a desire for stories about and referencing incest and part two, backed up by the varying levels of covertness in varying (forms of) plays we've read, is that it is seen as so alienating or as so requiring a specific audience that there is a known (monetary) dis-incentive to being direct about it. in hindsight I don't know if this is debatable

[general-sleepy]

Finally watching Overlord with AD. Already noticed an interesting choice of wording, with the narrator using "Nazis" and "Nazi soldiers" instead of "German soldiers." You could argue it's less technically accurate, but serves a purpose, and it's a reasonable decision in the context of the story. Audio description is cool.

Edit: They use a combination of "Nazis," "Nazi soldiers," "Germans," and "German soldiers." The choice is still significant.

[longagoitwastuesday]

Going through the Utahim.e tag had me checking several times if at some point I had clicked on the G.ojo/Utahim.e one instead

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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not sure it's my post to make particularly, but I do fucking hate how the concept of white guilt gets weaponized within white people ingroups to throw at each other in order to goad each other into emotional passivity, detachement and inaction, it's just so extremely not what the concept is about initially and is actually still an extension of white guilt it turns out!!! as it's still reacting to that idea and concerned by trying to sever oneself from its perceived effects, regardless of what those are and what they do and what bigger picture they exist in!!!! anyway.