#I have gone off the deep end

[thisbreadisnotgucci]

Hey so am I the only one that thinks the way Wade introduces Logan to Blind Al at the end of the movie is soooo bringing your boyfriend home to the parents coded??

Also when Vanessa says “You’ve been busy” or whatever and looks at Logan?? Hello??????

[kiddraculas]

what if minion was named filet minion and they unleash unspoken horrors and listen to weezer

[arbitrary-numb3r]

A missle somewhere: Target Acquired

Me: *dies*

the fact that i’ve read only 8 books but over 250 fanfics this year absolutely terrifies me. like when i open goodreads i’m like okay damn this is pathetic but then i open ao3 and see the number of bookmarks i have (because i use them as my what i’ve read list) and i’m like damnnn girlll??? you have a problem what the fuck

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

[sandflakedraws]

self control lost. its posting flickory hours

bonus delta :

[rocketbirdie]

WHEN THE BASSOON PART FINALLY KICKS IN AT 195 MEASURES

[pupmon1]

Loop killed their family

And no. I'm not talking about the cannibalism dream or anything like that. Loop killed their family...and nothing they did in their loops matters.

Because Siffrin's party is distinctly different from Loop's. They wear their faces...but they're wrong, turned on an axis Loop can't understand.

Mirabelle was such a ball of anxiety, every turn she needed to remind verbally herself to calm down, to stay positive.

The Housemaiden is anxious yes but she didn't constantly reaffirm herself, only exploded after the reality of the house finally crashed on her.

Isabeau was an idiot. Jealous over barrels and more than happy to run head first into weird floating water and locked doors without even thinking, and not a care for romance or books.

The Fighter is smart. He hides it, yes, behind the big dumb jock routine, but barely. He cares for romance and literature and is always aware of what's going on around him, even if he pretends not to.

Odile is jaded, quiet and joking but distant. She doesn’t always notice what's going on, more focused on getting to the end than wasting time.

The Researcher is astute to a fault. Always watching, always waiting, always listening...and always kind. Even the sharp words are only laced with laughing gas.

Bonnie is quiet. They're mostly out of the way, here because it's safe and they don't know whatelse they could do to help. They want to help, they just don't know how.

The Kid is loud! The Kid is loud and rambunctious and wants to help even if they can't. They still try. Every step they still try to help, with cooking and items and cheering from the back, they help. Because no one could ever stop them from doing so.

The first version of the party is gone. It doesn't matter what Loop did or did not do during their loops. Their family is gone...because they ate a star and erased reality. And when it all reset, the party met a new Siffrin. And Siffrin...met a new party.

[sciencewife]

He’s going in my soup later /j

Saw this post and I knew what I had to do to him

[dyingtobehim]

things to start calling patrick

[junedenim]

beneath the boardwalk coded (aka photos i've convinced myself jane took)

[dwtdog]

so girlie did 1. a fully scripted first stream and 2. a Written Response and she STILL doesn’t have her story straight???????

[music-orthemisery]

As we know, p2 movie lore goes deep, and there's a small but fun tidbit I've been obsessing over lately.

In 2021, Pete shared on his podcast that he and Patrick "went and saw" the movie Josie and the Pussycats, and were SUPER into the music (which is valid - the soundtrack is an absolute BOP). So into it, in fact, that it influenced them to work with Babyface on IOH:

Source

However, the movie came out on April 11th, 2001 (source). With FUTCT coming out in 2005 and IOH in 2007...that does not equate to Pete and Patrick being able to "go and see" the movie in a theater.

Therefore, this timeline doesn't make sense (typical)

And I have ~*THEORIES*~ (also typical)

(more p2 brainrot and yapping under the cut)

Let's just get this out of the way now - yes, Pete is notoriously bad with dates and timelines (Mr. "I said I graduated high school in 2005 and my bandmates needed to correct me"). So, it's perfectly reasonable to think that he's just messing up the context and that they just watched this movie together at some point - probably on the bus while touring or something.

I'd argue, though, that Pete is VERY good with distinctly remembering impactful moments and bits that "spoke" to him at the time (Mr. "he was standing there in shorts, socks, and an argyle sweater").

Pete presents this story as him going to the theater with Patrick to see this movie and absolutely geeked out over the music. If that's how he remembers it, that indicates they went and saw it together when it released...in 2001.

This movie.

While the exact early-FOB timelines are unclear, it's highly probable they had met by the time it released. The movie was also in theaters for 37 weeks, so that provides a HUGE time range (April-December 2001) for this to have happened, and FOB was definitely...something...at that point.

(In my mind, I like to imagine that they went around Patrick's birthday, but I know that's likely the mold talking. In reality, they probably hit it up at the cheap-y theaters...which existed back then...such simpler times...)

If this is the case, then that makes this story even more insane to me. It means that, in 2001, p2 went and saw a movie together and it was so impactful to them that SIX YEARS LATER they maneuvered their success to work with the soundtrack's executive producer for their own album. What was it about seeing this movie together that it created that lasting of an impact?

I doubt it's the movie itself. It's campy, it's silly, it's fun. Genuinely a Y2K time capsule.

(Yes, that's Seth Green.)

And, yes, the music is great! I've been bumping it during my commute recently and it's super fun. However, they've cited SO many other sources of inspiration, and it really is just like...fun pop-punk. It's not wildly different or unique. What was it about this that stuck with them?

I have no other choice but conclude that it's the MEMORY of this event for them that creates the significance of it. Hanging out in the early days, going to see this silly movie together (likely with full intention to make fun of it), and then being so into the music that they end up geeking out together. Thus adding more fuel to the fire of their creative spark and soulmate-ism that was, at the time, likely exciting and scary and confusing and UGH EMOTIONS!!!

I mean, how wouldn't that create a lasting memory you can recall the details of 20 years later?

Patrick has said (and it's also quite obvious) that Pete thinks and relates via movie references. So, of course he's going to remember this. Of course he's going to treasure the memories of hanging 1:1 with his favorite person in the entire world. Of course he's going to use his newfound fame so Patrick can work with the people who have inspired him.

Of course he's going to try and make the dreams they had in 2001 a reality.

"I got dreams of my own, but I want to make yours come true."

[bardace]

pray you, love, remember

drawtectives s2 spoilers below the cut!! (notes on the flower symbolism)

[theotherrichardpapen]

...because any moment may be our last. everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

[chevelleneech]

‘bucktommy shippers are moving to ody3. awful news for the fandom when they decide avery’s getting in the way of their fated m/m ship’ …as if buddie shippers aren’t the ones who have displayed disgusting behaviour towards both buck and eddie’s past female love interests, not to mention the aggressiveness and violence they displayed against buck’s male love interest. I don’t think bucktommy shippers are going to be the problem here.

I have been vocal about both BuckTommy and Buddie shippers acting an ass, actually, so this isn’t the gotcha you think it is. I mean, I’ve argued plenty with people about how the actress who played Marisol being questionably awful didn’t mean she deserved to be treated the way she was. Particularly when Ryan Gúzman kept his job in the show, despite his actions as well.

However, BT are right now currently claiming 9-1-1 and Oliver are biphobic, claiming the show sacrificed God tier queer rep (ignoring Henren), and calling for Oliver to be fired all because a side character who has a racist and misogynistic past, played by an actor with the same, ended his run on the show.

This ain’t about ships, it’s about the people who love LFJ for literally no reason other than portraying a gay character in a minor role, leaping to the next queer ship they can find as some sort of cancellation prize.

That said, a large many of BT shippers claim to have been Buddies, so you’re talking about the same group of people. You can’t separate former Buddies from current Buddies just because you want to defend BT fans. The same folks who were harassing actresses left and right in “defense” of Buddie going canon, are some of the same people who jumped ship to support BT, and are now the same people “defending” LFJ.

The ven diagram is a circle, so no, I do not want BT shippers moving to Ody3, because aside from them being misogynistic and willing to let racism slide so long as it means being racist toward someone they don’t like (Aka them saying Ryan should have offed himself, yet they’re fine with LFJ and Tommy’s actions), they’re also revisionists. They claim things happened in 9-1-1 that in fact did not, and I do not want to see the inevitable revising of saying Max and Avery never worked or whatever.

And to be clear, I do understand that fandom as a whole is a pretty toxic place to be, but BuckTommy shippers are blatant liars. They have fully rewritten Tommy’s importance within the 9-1-1 universe, sidelined Hen, Karen, Michael, David, and Josh’s relevance as queer characters, and are currently claiming Oliver Stark — a man who has been nothing but happy to portray Buck as bi — is being a biphobic clout chaser for not “protecting” a fictional character that isn’t even his own’s, existence on the show. They are telling a man to “finish the job” in reference to his suicide attempt, because they didn’t want the FICTIONAL CHARACTER he plays on tv to ruin their ship. They accuse Buddies of demanding fan service, yet are petitioning to have Tommy reinstated in the show, and demanding Tim Minear listen. They are accusing the cast of being bullies because LFJ didn’t get a tear jerking send off.

Yes, the way women are treated across the board in fandoms spaces is awful, and should continue to be called out. Which it is, but to act as if BT shippers aren’t and haven’t been awful people this entire time as well, is straight up bullshit, and no other fandom needs that energy. BT fans are seeking a queer ship to latch onto, not a romantic ship to enjoy. They want to see Tristan and Max fuck, not watch Ody3 blossom, and I’m not going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Not when they’ve shat the bed so horribly just because a RECURRING CHARACTER with not even sixty minutes of screen time, was written off.

[rowanraven08]

Unsolicited tmagp rant no one asked for part 3 (hang in there guys this is a very all over the place one):

So. Idea. We know someone, presumably the OIAR, is listening. They’re able to tap cellphones and things too, not just listening through the office computers. It definitely could be the OIRA, they do seem like a likely suspect, they’re a government branch, they’d have the power, but what if it’s not them?

It’s not unreasonable to say the OIAR is connected to the eye, if the fears work the same in this universe (I’m running on the assumption they do) the it makes sense. Cataloging supernatural statements, sounds familiar. But we don’t know how long the recordings been going on. My thinking is that it’s Jon, maybe Martin? And Jonah, who is the most likely Augustus. So we’ve got two eye avatars in these computers, how do we know it’s not them listening in and tapping the phones and everything? We don’t know how much autonomy they have currently, I don’t think Jon (Chester) would choose to listen in, but maybe he’s making an exception since it’s a new universe? Or it’s involuntary, that he’s not able to control it, just needs to watch.

There’s also the case of Colin. He knows something for sure, whether that’s mainly paranoid driven conspiracy theories or actual information is yet to be seen. But it’s not hard to figure out whatever is going on is connected in some way to FR3-D1. Now the fact that Colin is sneaking some time on the computer in episode 10 is pretty telling. He knows he’s that messing with them could raise suspicion, seeing as he asks Celia to not tell Lena. He was using the work computers specifically so he needs to access something in FR3-D1’s program presumably. If he’s poking around in that code, digging through stuff he knows he shouldn’t, it makes me wonder if he knows about Jon, Martin, and Jonah(?). Because this man is thoroughly obsessed with this system, has spent nearly two years trying to figure out how it works. The voices have been reading out statements for a year.

I think the big thing about how much he’s noticed has to do with whether or not Jon and friends are actually coded in. Ofc with eldritch powers and stuff it’s possible they’re just there, consciouses stuck in there by spooky magic stuff. But to me at least, having their brains coded into this computer on its own is scarier. Think back to tma 65. About how you just couldn’t code someone’s mind into a computer, how the one story of a man who tried ended up stuck and awful and in pain. “The angles cut me when I think.” And I’m terrified that’s what’s happening to my boys right now, that they were somehow coded into this, and in pain because of it.

So if that’s the case and they have actual code there’s no doubt in my mind that Colin has seen that. And of course he’d know it’s not right, even if he doesn’t know for sure what it is. He also said that a YEAR ago (around the same time the voices would have started) he figured out it was “written with some kind of propriety German source code,” further supporting the idea that Augustus is Jonah. I also find it interesting the use of “propriety” here, maybe I’m looking into it too much, but a code isn’t something I’d describe like that. But the thoughts or brain of Jonah Magnus or something? I’d describe that as propriety. But if that is why it was in German, then they can affect the code in some sense, again, likely written in. He read what that code said, and if it said anything about Jonah, he would have seen it. He’d combed through this whole system enough to see something was written in German for god’s sake, IF THEY’RE CODED IN HES SEEN IT AND HE KNOWS.

I also find the interaction with Sam a bit weird, obviously, but I don’t mean the paranoia about being watched. When Sam brings up the email, he brushes it off. “If you’re going to get this worked up over a weird email, you’re going to freak when you see the real stuff.” I initially assumed he meant the statements by “real stuff.” But he doesn’t actually deal with statements. He could definitely mean the OIAR and how they’re (maybe) surveying them all. But just because the branch they work for is terrible and spies on them, that’s not really a good reason to brush off a weird INTERNAL email so quickly. Okay.

The OIAR is probably awful and evil. But they’re not gonna start sending emails from their servers from people who don’t officially exist. If I (someone who knows next to nothing about computers so don’t take my word for it) heard that there were internal emails being sent by someone not apart of the company, my rational assumption would be hacking, or some sort of security fault. But that’s not even a possibility to Colin, he accepts it’s weird without even thinking, and just says that there’s worse things. So if he’s not worried about it being hacking, I’m ready to guess he knows the emails are coming from the little computer men. So this isn’t a new thing. And I wonder if Jon tried sending Colin something before. So if a weird email is normal to Colin, and he knows where it’s from, then that’s probably what he’s referring to as “the real stuff.” Because the real stuff to him is computers, nothing else, to the point he dumps therapists cause they’re not tech savvy enough.

The bit in episode 1 is clearly suspicious too, “Best Colin can figure, something broke and whichever genius made the program ran some redundancy through the sound card.” BUT THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS. It was such a bad reason, that even Alice and Sam (who don’t have much knowledge of computers as far as I know) saw through it. Knowing Colin there’s no way in hell he’d come up with that theory and just be content to leave it be, and not spend all his time trying to figure out WHY. It was a lie, it has to be.

Now that was a very long and chaotic ramble, so uhh, to sum it up for folks who are smart enough not to read this, I think It’s Jon, Martin, and Jonah listening in and tapping phones, not the OIAR. And I think Colin knows they’re stuck in the computer, and is choosing not to tell anyone.