#Because mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[qingwaaa]

Me when me when I’m a grasshopper

[i3utterflyeffect]

anyway. thinking abt chosen and king interactions right now.

[0rangeyougl4d]

Microwaves be like "MMMMMMMMMMBEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP click. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" because I didn't microwave for long enough and needed to put it in for another 30 seconds

[asterclaw]

Hellebore: How do you show affection?

Pansy: What was your most memorable birthday? What made it be so memorable?

Zinnia: Give a random fact about yourself.

🌱🌾🪴🎶

LMAO the emojis that's ur signature at this point

Hellebore: I'm trying to annoy the shit out of the person I also can be very touchy all of a sudden

Pansy: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm honestly? I don't remember any of them like, ofc i remember some teeny-tiny bits...buuuuut- I'd say my 14th one? Mostly because the next day my father left (not a divorce or anything, just some job stuff) and he hasn't returned yet, though he might... somewhat soon?

Zinnia: I... I talk to... air? I can walk around the room and silently talk for hours

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Imagine the following:

Webshit having to be a (barely) passable father to Banshee after she initially got disowned by Plague because he was the first cat she stumbled across and needed help. And he just feels the Tiniest of obligations because while yeah, he didn't ever expect to even Meet Banshee, he did help bring her into this situation so maybe sorta kinda he Is obligated to help? Maybe with a little goading from the pity pals, he reluctantly patches her up and sends her off in a safer direction.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

@starfalcon555

[acorncake]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm sheriff eating hank for revenge cuz hank killed him- ye

I decided to use bull. Its been awhile since he nommed h4nk..

Oh yeah, bull has 4 stomachs now because why not lol. Leads to multi tum shenanigans

[drmazel]

certified maria tma speculation (TM) (lazy version)

this turned out way longer than i thought it would. it’s a collection of snippets from tma transcripts just barely hinting at a speculation i have so if you don’t care then scroll fast!

i don’t feel like spending a bunch of time coming up with some speculation and theory when 1) i could be wrong and 2) i just wanna have fun but! for no reason whatsoever here are just some fun and cute quotes from s5 that i haven’t been able to get out of my head that don’t seem to have really been addressed much if at all in the narrative yet and i definitely don’t think are just pressing at the edges to come back and smack us in the face as the finale approaches <3

not that i think they’re all necessarily tied together but mmm a few of these taste of Essence of Foreshadowing yummy! a.k.a. (jonny voice) martin is not going to be okay

MAG167

Jon: W-Without trust. W-Without a reason. Gertrude needed both the purpose her mission gave her and the control her position allowed. To be here, like us, without a – a reason, without someone to ground her? She – She’d have power, but – no control. No real purpose. Perhaps she’d have dedicated herself to a doomed quest like us but – No. I think this would have broken her. And she’d have resigned herself to – ruling her domain.

...

Martin: So. If you say Gertrude wouldn’t have been able to go on without a reason –

Jon: Yes, Martin, you are my reason.

MAG170

(sudden lucid moment amongst a cloud of forgetfulness) Martin: Why. The Eye has won. It can already see everything; it wouldn’t need a – w-wouldn’t need a –

MAG171

Martin: Don’t do that.

Jon: What?

Martin: Don’t use me as an excuse.

MAG172

Martin: If you look, and I was – influenced, then how can I trust anything else? How can I believe any of my thoughts and feelings are really mine?

MAG176

Jon: I don’t like betraying someone’s trust like this.

Martin: It’s not a betrayal if you’re doing it to help.

Jon: I’m not so sure.

Martin: Look, if it was me in her shoes, I’m sure I’d forgive you. It-It’s for the best!

MAG177

Basira: And if I killed you now?

Jon: You couldn’t. And even if you could, it wouldn’t be enough to undo what’s happened to the world.

MAG178

Jon: No-one gets what they deserve. Not in this place. They just get whatever hurts them the most. Even me. [personal note: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bark snarl bark bark bark bite bite snarl grrrrr!!!!! bite!!!]

MAG179

Jon: Hmmm. Apparently. I mean, I know it sounds strange, but it… it felt right for Daisy to be able to hurt me.

Martin: Dream logic again?

Jon: Mmm. The… resonances from our relationship before the change carried over and –

MAG181

Annabelle: Don’t worry, Martin. We’ll meet again. Hopefully when you’re feeling a little bit more… open-minded. [personal note: SNARL GROWL BITE BITE GROWL SNARL wife GRRRR BITE!!!!!!!!!]

MAG183

Jon: Well, you’re a watcher, Martin. You worked for the Institute, you read statements. The Eye is… fond of you.

MAG184

Jon: What was I supposed to do? I owed you. Didn’t want to just watch you suffer.

Martin: It’s what you’ve been doing for everyone else. It’s what you’re expecting him to do.

MAG185

Jon: Either way, even if I wasn’t here, I don’t think you’d be in any danger. Not anymore. I wasn’t sure when we first started out, I hadn’t properly, er… looked into it, as it were. But now I’m certain.

...

Martin: Even though I didn’t ask for it? Did nothing to deserve it?

Jon: ‘Deserve’. Huh. Now there’s a word that always causes trouble.

Martin: Don’t be patronising.

Jon: I just mean that nobody here deserves the position they’ve found themselves in, not really. I suppose a few may have asked for it, sought it out even, but far more didn’t. They just made the wrong choices for the right reasons. Or even the right choices. But ones that still led them here in the end.

...

Martin: I guess we should get used to it. Knowing that all these awful things are happening for our benefit.

MAG186 (this is a big one that ties a lot of my scattered thoughts together)

Martin: So, this price. What do you think? Are we going to have to kill John?

Also Martin: I don’t know because you don’t know. But it seems like something we should at least consider.

Martin: I… have thought about it. And… I won’t. I don’t think I could. But anything else? Any other price? I’ll pay it.

Also Martin: Even dying?

Martin: Yeah!

Also Martin: Jon’s as bad as we are. He wouldn’t let it happen.

Martin: It’s not his decision.

Also Martin: Fine. So flip that round, then. What are you going to do when he tries to sacrifice himself, because you know he’s going to try?

Martin: I don’t know, all right? I don’t know.

Also Martin: And that’s okay for now, but I just want us to have thought about this stuff properly before it comes up. Because even if that’s not it, chances are it’ll be something else you don’t want to do, and we need to make a proper choice. We can’t just react out of shame or fear or whatever.

Martin: What, like with Peter and Elias?

Also Martin: Yes.

Martin: That was a proper choice?! I chose wrong!

Also Martin: But you made a decision. Your own decision. Regardless of the outcome.

...

Martin: But I can’t keep existing like this at their expense. It’s not… it’s not right. Whatever happens with Elias, W-with the rest of the world… I can’t live on the misery of others.

Also Martin: They’ll suffer either way.

Martin: I get it, okay? I can’t decide what happens to them. But… I just might be able to decide what happens to me. And… And if it comes down to it… I’ll get John to destroy me like the others.

Also Martin: You don’t really believe he’d do it?

Martin: I don’t know. Maybe?

Also Martin: This took a dark turn.

Martin: Yeah. But… this time, it doesn’t feel like despair. It feels like resolve.

MAG188

Jon (statement): She looked at the eye, and the eye looked back. Carmen’s arm shot out, thrusting the tip of the blade right into the pupil. But it did not cut anything, for there was nothing but empty blackness. Carmen’s knife, then her hand, then her forearm passed into the void of that pupil, her skin bristling with the cold. And then the iris closed around her arm, the thin flesh of the tightening muscle clenching with astonishing strength as it held her in place. Then, inch by inch by inch, it began to pull her in. But her flatmate simply shushed her. Her terror was pointed and crimson, and tomorrow she will wake up hating London and worrying about how many characters there are.

MAG189

Jon: No, Martin, listen, what I’m saying is that whichever way you cut it, ultimately it just comes down to who The Eye chooses. [personal note: MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM]

...

Jon (statement): They can all hear him now. Any words he speaks will ring out through the chamber. He wants to talk of the people outside, the bruised and abandoned ones that suffer and die to slake their appetites. He wants to cry for restitution, for justice, for a future, for anything. But all eyes are on him and he falters. He remembers the cold, the hunger, the ache of concrete beneath him. He is afraid. And his chair is so very comfortable. The minister coughs, once, uncomfortably, and sits down. [personal note: wow if only there was a character that had a thing about comfortable chairs this season? anyway,]

Act III trailer

please go read the rime of the ancient mariner or the wikipedia synopsis or something. for real. like for real for real oh my god i can’t believe i didn’t think of this of course jonny chose that shit on PURPOSE

MAG191 (of course)

Martin: And you have to promise me you’re going to do everything in your power to live. That you’re not going to sacrifice yourself at the first opportunity, just because you feel guilty about what happened. [personal note: see MAG186. Jon isn’t the only one that feels guilty that this happened, and I can’t stop thinking about how this promise did not go both ways.]

MAG193

Jonah: Enough. Tell me, why are you here?

Jon (statement): I… I don’t know.

Jonah: Were you drawn here?

Jon (statement): Yes. I was.

Jonah: Against your will?

Jon (statement):No.

Jonah: Then why did you heed the call?

Jon (statement): Because… this is the place I know I should be.

Jonah: Good. The job is yours.

[personal note: OBVIOUS parallels with jon and being promoted to archivist then being promoted to Archivist, but my “martin is not going to be okay” brain is very guilty of reaching for connections and i do see this parallel with the conversation between jon and martin in MAG039 about why martin hadn’t quit. inch resting.]

anyway i said i don’t have the mental energy to come up with some long speculation and i DEFINITELY don’t now after pulling all this out of the transcripts. i could be wrong i could be right i could be somewhere in the middle, but i think it’s very possible that jon tries to accept the eye’s “offer” to take jonah’s place, martin doesn’t let him, martin does it instead then something i don’t even want to think about happens because he does NOT want to feed off of people’s suffering as has been repeated over and over. i’m probably way off but i’ve just been thinking about it and needed to get it down somewhere. maybe i’ll reblog this on thursday after the release of 194 with an update, who knows! whether i’m right or wrong both martin and jon will be fine tho <3

[kalethemonster]

okay, who else is just fan-girling over sissy and vanya?

because mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lemmie just

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[thesoundofmadness]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm fuckin hate when my dad’s girlfriends are like “oh I love you” to me because mmmmmm you don’t even Know me and I don’t Know you like bruh

[shifting-motives]

I WANT ME A BIG AND SWEET MAN;;;;

[devils-divinity]

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[halfusek]

Also, "Never Wrong" by Disturbed. Or, what Grant probably wishes he could muster up the courage to say whenever Joey's trying to tell him they don't have financial issues.

omg a Grant song! hell yeah!

You're "never ever wrong", always something more to sayYou're never wrong, well you never mind, I'll be fineYou're never wrong and there's nothing more to sayYou're never wrong, it's gonna end this time!You're "never wrong", you can never be containedYou're never wrong and you never mind, I'll be fineYou're never wrong, don't even bother to explainYou're never wrong, you'll never win this time!

YEAH BASICALLY

Feel the anger comingFeel my patience running...We'll it's plain to see thatYou have lost your damn mind!

not just Joey unfortunately hh ;; but ye

How could you let it end up this way?Is there really nothing more you can say?I'm not taking another fucking dose of your denial today!I'm not willing to deal with someoneWho insists that they can never be wrongSo just keep on talking to the wall because I'm walking away!

oh fuck yeah [crying] you tell him Grant pLEASE

The illusion has to end this time.

Yeah you were wrong, and now you'd better believeThat the game is coming to an end this time.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmM good

Feel the anger comingFeel my patience runningAnd it's easy to see you've made me lose my damn mind!

NOW THAT IS ABOUT RIGHT ASDNAKLNALKSA

If you shut your mouth, then we just might make itYou want a fight? Be careful what you're wishing forSo say it again! Push it again!

aaaa non nono nonoono no more pushing aaaAAA

it’s super fitting tho aa

[xandertheundead]

☕ lack of stanlon content

MmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm Baby. We are all aware of why a god tier ship like this doesn’t have that much attention. I won’t say it but we all know 😒 it bothers me too because this is such a great ship. They compliment each other so well and are beautiful and sweet. I pray to the cowboy in the sky that more comes along cause Stanlon deserves it

[nagahearted-blog]

 mmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM fuck

ngl I have on more than one occasion considered deleting all of my blogs and just not doing this anymore. even tho that’s not exactly. what I want to do.

idk my feelings about it are complicated and I go inactive because I’m trying to sort through those feelings but then I come back and I end up feeling Worse somehow? I DON’T REALLY KNOW and it kind of sucks and I hate it so anyway I’m sorry

[kaxen]

Kaxen's Got Another Ramble About Historical Accuracy

When I see a person write off "historical accuracy" types as stupid and whiny people you should never listen to, it's like... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

While not every project requires extreme accuracy, I think it's foolish to immediately go "not necessary!" with no introspection.

Because while some inaccuracies are mostly harmless, some of them are harmful to people, forwarding an agenda, and etc.

Like the stereotype that corsets are always horrible and painful is straight up harming actresses? A corset is supposed to be a custom-fit garment that isn't gonna fuckin' break your ribs. But if everyone assumes it's supposed to be painful, people get their pain dismissed as "it's supposed to be like that" and sit their ass through a 12 hour film shoot day in unnecessary pain instead of someone being like "holy shit, we need to check the fit."

And like some interpretations of history are definitely bent in a way that benefits systems that anyone who thinks they're at least somewhat progressive shouldn't be parroting blindly.

I also think it is foolish to lump together the historical 'accuracy' types and the historical accuracy types since like there is a difference between bigots who think nothing good can happen to anyone besides a cis-white-straight guy before 1990 and people who have like the actual fuckin' receipts.

And some stuff is petty, but it's like... I know it's more "marketable" or whatever to make historical figures modern conventional attractive, but *slams fist on table* SOFT PIGEON SHAPED MEN WITH HOURGLASS-Y PROPORTIONS MAKE ME FEEL BETTER AS SOMEONE WHO PHYSICALLY CAN'T ACHIEVE SUPERHERO MUSCLE DUDE PROPORTIONS (AND HELL MOST PEOPLE CAN'T AND SHOULDN'T AS EXTREMELY CUT ABS REQUIRE A COMBO OF NO BODY FAT AND DEHYDRATION AND BEING FLEXED ALL THE DAMN TIME) AND WE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND THAT THE VISION OF MASCULINITY IS NOT CONSTANT ACROSS THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF MANHOOD. PEOPLE JUST FUCKIN' MADE MANHOOD UP.

[miltalz]

🔥 shipping

OH MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM being the kind of person that unironically and seriously is like “X is CANON” because of interactions, whether sparse or frequent between two characters, is really annoying, and also being the type of person who come into someone elses content for a ship you KNOW you dont like and being like “this is bad/i dont know why people ship this/i dont like this but its cute” etc. is really fucking ridiculous like just let people LIKE shit its ok! its not that deep