#I am treating it like a podcast

[cuepickle]

This guy bans you for life wyd?

[nerdetiquette]

Idk if this is a hot take or anything but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Jon didn’t have any friends (besides Martin) basically the entire series.

Sasha was nice enough but she was strictly professional. Tim was reasonable in the beginning and I like to believe they were friends but honestly he’s pretty wary of Jon s1. Melanie hated Jon the whole way through. Georgie was there for a bit before things got too messy, but the way she treats him s5 is like a time bomb. Basira treated Jon like a stove with a broken gas release, and Daisy, my god Daisy. I could go on and on about their relationship but it was really clear after the trauma she inflicted on Jon he could never truly trust her.

They all feed into the theme of Jon’s inhumanity, but I remember listening and being confused because I always saw ppl treating this like a found family when they never were.

[thatcoloradosunrise]

Thinking about who the hell Walden Orlock was and why he's important to Baxford Wanion.

When Baxford took him away from Broken Rock, he was the twenty-something son of a small-islet mechanic/machinist. How did he catch Baxford's eye? Was he already an expert pilot? A smuggler? Was it because of Walden's Fold sense ability? Does Baxford just collect young desperate people to build his power and reach?

It's not clear, in the canon. But when Baxford, powerful and dangerous as he is, sees Walden on the ground, he *kneels down* to make sure he's okay. He protects Walden's people as his own. He cares about Walden and trusts his judgement.

What if it started with that "lined" storage room on The Slug? [insert "I've connected the dots / you didn't connect shit" meme, but hear me out] I've been thinking too much about this tearror-proof room. Throughout Midst it's implied that there's nowhere that's Fold-proof, those little microscopic organisms suffuse through everything. That said, something could probably still be tearror-proof. Tearrors are excited, activated Fold, and behave differently than resting Fold. Cue theoretical bocular explanation that has practical limits.

And Walden: son of a machinist, Fold-touched to be able to sense mass and movement in the Fold, whose islet and family were slowly, agonizingly killed by a tearror? I'm thinking he had the motive and means to overcome the limits and create that tearror-proof room, maybe with his family's help or... finished it without them.

So Baxford Wanion sees a young man with potential, and takes him away from that place.

[dawnlotus1]

So. I was filling in Dakota’s wiki for the Jrwiki mirahaze, writing his backstory etc etc. and while trying to sum up the fist accident with Katori on the rooftop I think I summed up Dakota’s entire mentality. (IMHO)

Above is an excerpt saying : “… not have enough strength to pull her up, instead opting to fall with her rather than let her go.”

What I’m saying is. Dakota values his strength so much because that’s the tool he uses to save things. Protect things, preserve what he cares about. For him this strength is usually physical but sometimes mental, as he lends his enthusiasm to others. For him, he never wants some undesirable result to be outside of his control so he has to train so he can exert enough control over a situation to be able to change it.

However when this exertion is still not enough, or is often times the case that the situation lies in someone else’s hand usually because of mental reasons (like the “it” being a choice belonging to another), then Dakota cannot have control.

For most people this is a loss. You lose, the person in front of you makes a choice you didn’t want them too.

But for Dakota letting go isn’t something he can do. And when you don’t let go, then the only result is that the choice being made by the other is also made for you.

Aka, if she falls, you fall. And if someone makes a choice that changes things, and you can’t let go of that person, then you have opted to change as well.

This of course has had its varying effects positive and negative on Dakota. But he doesn’t care as long as his hand never leaves that of what he cares about.

Additionally this means that if William chooses to go “evil”, I don’t think Dakota will let go. Because he didn’t have the strength to “pull William up” - for him the only result left is to “fall with him”. I think if William goes to some morally grey place that puts him on the “dark side” I think Dakota will too. In his own way.

He’s tied a rope around himself like a climber in a group expedition. This rope is there so that when a teammate falls, his strength to hold on steadies the both of them. But if his strength fails, then both of them, or all of them, everything he has connected himself too, falls as well. Unless of course those connected to his rope cuts it before that happens. This is what he fears the most.

[storybook-souls]

*thru clenched teeth* i am allowed to do the thing that is kinder to myself even if i don't "deserve" it i am allowed to--

[essektheylyss]

I am obsessed with how narratively convenient Lark's divinatory abilities are. She's the only one of the protagonists who is both pragmatic and has a working sense of self-preservation, so having some internal impulse that is actually the guiding hand of the cosmos pushing her into doing the REALLY stupid shit is both necessary and really useful.

Like, I am the type of writer who kind of scoffs at the idea that characters are beyond the writer's control and will completely screw over your outline, because on one hand, a sensible outline will follow the characters' personalities and tendencies anyway. Obviously in an ensemble cast you will need to do some wrangling, but in theory your characters are responding to varying degrees of stimuli in order to maneuver them into the places you need them to be for things to all come together in the end.

But more importantly, "curse from god" is the funniest and easiest way to push any character to do things beyond the realm of reason when necessary, and frankly, what the fuck is the point of playing god if you don't embrace that?

[gaybearwedding]

i’m curious: do other off book/pibe fans imagine what the characters would look like as real people? bc i have some pretty extensively thought out designs that do not look like zach and jess at all 😭

[always-andromeda]

Hey gang, here’s the moodboard for this morning! 😀👍🏻

[korrolrezni]

Me, after not listening to Malevolent for three days:

[mr-tll]

i know that i'm reading too much into it, i know that it's just me over thinking every possible outcome of everything kayne says, but at the same time i don't trust the man enough to take him seriously and yet anything he says may be true cause kayne's more (?) powerful (??) than the kiy. john and arthur are now too near and dear to my heart to just ignore any inkling of possible foreshadowing.

[b-rainlet]

The way women experience horror is so much more interesting than men

[gideonisms]

It's so funny whenever someone discovers that people like to have emotions about fictional characters recreationally and like loses their mind. what, people are actually lusting for the undescribed tits of ianthe tridentarius on the internet?? that's so weird no one has ever been horny on the internet before!

[oglegoggle]

Fuckin…. I honestly don’t get the sorts of people who seem to think that the point of doing activities with friends is exclusively for the activity. Like no? The point of activities with friends is the time with friends? I dunno maybe I’m an odd man out but I really don’t give a fuck what we’re doing I’m just glad to be with those I care about.

[sikuyacole]

Quick describe your favorite oc(s) in ten words

ru, my genderbending oc:

blue

dual

confused (about a lot of stuff)

(formerly) gifted

burnout

gender

boygirlfailure

gaymer

friend

(a living) oxymoron

[damnfine-dalecooper]

latest unhinged lyric interpretation is that "you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me" is about joe not only not being able to cope with her level of fame but also not even really being able to comprehend how it's affected her to live with that level of fame since she was basically a child

[leafatlaw]

Bitb really is the epitome of “the love was there, and it changed everything”