#Henry was a medic

[luckyreds]

Something that makes Bill finding out his brother got killed through Johnny’s letter more heartbreaking was that it had already been 5 months since it happened. Nobody told him. Not his mother, not his girlfriend, nobody. He had written several letters to his brother with no response back and Bill thought it was because of the distance between them. Not that his brother would never respond again. The fact that their older brother Earnest probably wouldn't find out until he got back from war because he couldn't read or write. The fact that Bill realized Johnny's wife knew before he did. When did they plan on telling him? Never? was he supposed to keep writing letters to Henry until the penny dropped? why he never got any back?

(Also can you imagine being in Henry's company, being his friend getting letters from his younger brother for months after he passed away, his name getting called out by a runner as a constant reminder of someone they lost? I don't know what would happen to those letters, are they sent to the family instead?)

[nibinsects]

am i late

[jaedoesart]

Dave finally snapped-

[fruchtfliege]

babe, don't cry... Teen Wolf Psych!AU 👀

[agenderhyde]

trying to decide if i'm splitting hairs by clarifying that j was a chemist and not a medical doctor, or if it's worthwhile b/c of the scientific developments of the era, including the creation of the periodic table

[pookielious]

I would like to talk about the seer amount of chaos happening after they leave the German side in the last patrol like just about everyone is screaming, freaking out, vest and jackson crying ,vest and heffron trying to kill the prisoners all while Jones is trying to keep everyone calm and keeping them from killing the prisoners to ensure they won't have to go through the same thing again

then the way everything immediately went quiet when the medics came in all of the screaming came to a immediate halt and I really think that detail is neat the way they all just stopped and watched as the medics did their thing

[a-snake-makes-moodboards]

Henry Hidgens x Gregory House from House MD and the Hatchetfield universe moodboard with medical, theatre and romantic anger inspo

requested by: my super cool moot @ender-of-the-sender!! ty for the rq, you kinda cooked with this ship ngl

[divider creds: @animatedglittergraphics-n-more]

(all images were found on Google images, apart from character images, which were provided with rq)

song to go with it: 'Disease' by Lady Gaga (I know I've already used this song with a board in the past but I HAD TO FOR THIS ONE)

Reblogs are appreciated, requests are open!!

[melanodis]

certificate of insanity

no text ver

[risetherivermoon]

i think it says something about how much of an oak family fan and psycho analyst of their relationships i was a year ago compared to now, as i am now medicated and healing from being agoraphobic, and like- now i just cannot even think of this family without feeling horrible

[soursweethart]

CRINGETOBER DAY 10: SHIP DYNAMIC

Ignore that I wrote "Copperbottom" instead of "CopperRight"

[a-library-ghost]

I genuinely think I’m mentally well until I encounter the raven cycle on the timeline

[henrysglock]

High Existence and ZeroSpace: The First Shadow and NINA May Be Massive, Immersive Drug Trips

The blurb in last Friday's video from TFS sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it. I found a lot of sites quoting The Alchemist about the universe conspiring to give you what you truly want (which is similar and it's probably what I was thinking of when this blurb registered as familiar), but I couldn't find this exact quote:

Well...not at first, anyway. I decided to stick every word I could make out here ^ into my search bar...and I found where the blurb comes from:

This blog post is quite literally the only source I could find for it, and the whole damn thing is directly lifted.

Right off the bat, the site fucking jump-scared me:

And it doesn't end there. Let's dive in, because this rabbit hole is a trip unto itself...no MDMA​ ​required.

1. The Fucking Website...#1 (HighExistence.com)

High Existence is a sort of drug-induced-spiritual-trip centered self-help site.

It's got blog posts and podcasts and all that jazz. Here are some of the highlights:

Wow! That was...a lot. A lot of words from the word show, too:

Wholeness, heroes, ancient aliens, prisons of politeness, and the fucking Shire, too, I guess. Why not?

(An Aside: I've included the VR in here too because of the sheer similarities between Henry's experience with the Shadow in VR, El's experience in NINA, and The First Shadow in general.)

Like fuck it, why not keep going, these posts date back to at least 2017:

And don't let me start in on that Creel boy and Faust...

[Jason voice] "[Eddie] made a deal with the devil and now he has his powers!" (Also we get it, one of them is neurotic and the other is psychotic. I've been saying this since like...forever)

Of course, all that insanity aside, the Russian base arc has just...an insane amount of ST4 and TFS stuff packed into it in general:

(And this isn't even all of it. I know others [cough] Stav Heroesbyler [cough] have covered it even more...but bro it is THERE)

But most importantly for the NINA arc:

Three things: Dialogue doubling (there's the one I showed, plus a) Robin yelling "Wipeout!" at Steve which has the pipeline -> "Wipeout!" at Rink-O-Mania -> 002-005 bullying El in a very similar manner and b) Steve's "that's amazing" line about the water fountain -> "This is amazing!" not only from Alice irt the Creel house but also from Mike irt Will's painting on their way to save El from NINA. Again, these are just a few of MANY instances), makeup doubling with the bloodshot eyes, and my beloved: set/prop doubling.

I love that beautiful framing on the nearly-identical square clocks. I have so much to say about that clock, but specifically:

The clocks being set 9 minutes apart, which happens to be the exact length of time from the end of Vecna's voiceover in 4.07 to the start of the fight sequence in 4.07 (aka the length of One's frozen-clock monologue).

Not only that, but the clock isn't even right. It says it's 3:55, but it's definitely not 3:55 AM (see: movie theater scene) but it's also not 3:55 PM:

(And why do we have a clock in an elevator anyway? That's the real question. That thang only exists to deliver subtext, baby! It exists to connect the two scenes further!)

Anyway, as you all likely noticed, this site mostly deals in psychedelics, stimulants, and empathogens.

link

Hell, you could even pull One's bit on the ecosystem into it, since he's describing connections between beings that are being disturbed/destroyed by humanity.

Anyway, the site tends to center specifically on DMT and MDMA...so let's talk about those:

MDMA & DMT An aside: Interesting to me that psychosis here can be counteracted with sedatives. Makes me wonder if whatever happened in 1979 could have been halted if they'd just tranq'd One. Hm.

First off: Did I read that right? Piggy-backing? Damn, son. 4.09, The Piggyback, is pictured in that paragraph. So is Brenner's candy bit with the children -> "candy flipping" vs LSD use in Brenner's lab.

Second: Ah, how nice. Intravenous/injectable. Just like how El is constantly being shot up with...something...to enter NINA.

Now, nearly all psychedelics can induce psychosis, but especially so if they're combined with other psychoactive substances and/or if the user has a history of psychosis (either themselves or in their family).

However, MDMA specifically has been posited as a treatment for PTSD and retrograde/traumagenic amnesia:

link Like...wow. Okay, I guess!

tl;dr: One seems to have been tripping fucking balls during the monologue. Literally every fucking version of him. El likely is as well. Funny how that works. Was any of that real? [smash cut to the way blood pours down the walls and the dead children dance around in the VR version of NINA] And either way, Henry in TFS isn't far behind with his hallucinogenic moments.

The connection? Whatever the hell is going on in Hawkins Labs...and symptoms of drug use.

I was not expecting to get this much out of a single rabbit hole. But...that's life with this show, isn't it? And this is only Part 1.

2. The Fucking Website...#2 (Futurism.com)

The guy who made that original post that TFS lifted the blurb from (Jordan Lejuwaan) runs a couple different websites. The most interesting one is Futurism, which is basically an online version of the Weekly Watcher:

It won't let me filter by date, but it seems to have been founded in 2017, stemming from an infographic subreddit. (Now, it says it's a trustworthy news source, and maybe it is, but... Do your own assessment of that. I'm not your mother, yknow?)

Jordan Lejuwaan was also involved in something far more interesting irt Stranger Things...

3. Zero Space

Jordan co-founded an immersive, interactive theater experience called ZeroSpace back in 2018. As we all know, TFS was just in the beginning phase of its creation around this time.

So...This was like a brick to the skull:

"Alice in Wonderland" (don't get me started: rabbit fuckery, DRUGS!!!!!, clocks/being later, Alice Creel, Fringe connections (Through The Looking Glass and What Walter Found There being the episode about the pocket universe where 20 years passed in 5 days...and also wherein we find out about him hiding away an Observer child that he will later time travel with to save the world from the Observer takeover...erasing himself from time/the timeline by doing so...there is SO much) not to mention the "one pill makes you larger/smaller" vs teen El and baby El...it's too much to try and fit in this post), "ALIENS AND LASERS", "stretch the perceived reality of the sense", "art, actors and your own mind converge to prompt MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS" (which was a common complaint about TFS: it leaves people with more questions than answers).

("See you on the other side" being an in-show line from Henry in the lab to Patty in the void, but this image is ripped directly from the same promo video that the High Existence blurb appears in.)

Here's a little taste of what ZeroSpace is like, but I suggest going to the actual page to see it in action:

It's heavily heavily reminiscent of TFS, even just in the content warnings...

Not to mention the actual show content SFX:

However, the goal of TFS isn't to stretch our senses. We're just watching. We are not the volunteer seeing the other side.

For most of the show, that person is Henry (except the first 5 mins, when it's Cptn. Brenner and his crew literally experiencing the other side). Henry is doing the experiencing. He's the one breaking the fourth wall by picking at/breaking the sets, the one running through the audience and leaving out the theater doors (only to end up right back on stage just like El in the Rainbow Room in 4.05).

With each bit of info I find out adjacent to the play, the more convinced I am that this is some secret third boy's experience in a NINA-like simulation.

Overall—

a) TFS most likely isn't wholly real, and it seems very likely that it's the same kind of simulation as NINA.

b) El was probably drugged up with some kind of empathogenic psychedelic going into NINA, likely with the goal of setting her up to form emotional connections quickly and deeply only to rip that deep connection away in order to bolster her abilities.

c) NINA is not, then, wholly based in truth. Parts of NINA (staring at the bullying from 002-005) may have been generated from El's memories of the outside world.

d) With NINA and TFS seeming so similar, I wouldn't be shocked if parts of it are just one massive empathogen trip (staring at how quickly Henry and Patty bond, similarly to how quickly Henry and El bond in NINA).

e) Whoever is in NINA with teen El is also tripping balls, most likely, and may have gone off the rails in that regard. However, that's in a simulation...hard to assign guilt or blame for things done in a fictional/unreal world.

f) Whoever was with baby El in 1979 may have been in a similar situation "moving chess pieces"-style instead. Read: drugged in order to put him in a situation where he would bolster El's latent abilities...and it went wrong (see also: Walter Bishop's orchestrated/fake massacre meant to bolster Olivia's latent abilities.)

g) Richard Brenner having been the head of narcotics makes me question which Brenner we're seeing at any given time: Martin, or Richard?

[uglygirlprettyboy]

hey hey hey if u like alex g or kimya dawson or adrianne lenker or field medic or june henry we should be moots!!

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Something about Greg House not wanting to get a new team because he got attached to his first team and they left him and refusing to settle on 3 doctors but instead he gets a team of 7 who he nevertheless gets attached to/connects to (albeit in a House way).

Like he has a grudging respect and admiration for Amber (cutthroat bitch), he actually gets along with Henry 'Bosley' and respects his intelligence which is a fucking miracle and a world wonder, he has a like recognizes like situation with 13 who he sort of takes under his wing, he's amused by Kunter, he loves to bully Taub and he admires his out-of-the-box problem solving and willingness to break rules, he takes delight in riling and insulting Jeffrey (this is House so it's like a love language for him). Everyone except the other dude, like I forgot his name and I forget he's there most of the time, idk what he's doing there..

[tomoleary]

Richard Tennant Cooper (1885–1957) Chloroform

Monster Brains

“Paintings commissioned by Henry S. Wellcome between 1910 through 1912. The artworks depict scenes of various diseases and medical procedures on the human body. Artworks found at the Wellcome Collection.”

Diphtheria

Bubonic Plague

Leprosy

Breast Cancer Surgery

Cholera

Syphilis

Henry Hill Hickman performing experiments on suspended animation.

Typhoid

Tuberculosis

[just-hyde]

"Intrusive thoughts"

@oopsarboreal @doinkadoinkk