#Looking at you Chester.

[turtlemurmurs]

tfw your boss follows you on your honeymoon/afterlife

[yeeeoldbitch]

I hope the third voice is Elias and I hope it does turn out theyre just living in the computers because how funny would that be?

Like you kill your boss and finally think youre going to get to live with your boyfriend somewhere happy free of the horrors but instead you live in an ancient computer system reading out new kinds of statements AND your shitty boss is there

[nyxiotart]

Jmart's been computerized

[moonamite]

Real talk why’s his mouth got the texture of a freshly shaven pussy.

[fanartsandstuff]

Please Let Them Be Little Bit Evil

[thatweirdkid6]

Random ass picture of idk

[whack-patty]

Today we binge Life of Luxury. I aspire to have the gusto of parker telling a floating corpse to respect women and the audacity of chester going to bed in a strangers house with sunglasses but no pants

[chester-benningtons]

This is not how you deal with the backlash. Threatening fans and telling them that they’ll lose his respect if they don’t get on board? That’s just unprofessional and petty. And him saying he understands how difficult it is for fans to accept the new singer? It just seems so insincere and tone deaf.

[starryluminary]

I like imagining this was a whole event to them with props and backgrounds and the like. It feels homey and like they’re a family

[mrmosseater]

how fake brawl stars yaoi likers feel when REAL deadsilent fans come at them

[junkyardspider]

Hey there stranger! Would you like to,,,

roll my dice???

[v0idwraith]

Chester: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT GO TO THE FUCKING MAGNUS INSTITUTE

Sam: What was that? Go to the Magnus Institute? If you insist!

[tatzlewurm]

Pigswick WLW and MLM solidarity! 🏳️‍🌈🤝🏳️‍🌈 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Here’s Belladona Crisp and Chester Droors as requested by @feste-the-mad :D !!

[spookythesillyfella]

sorry to vent art guys . i promise that next time ill bottle up my emotions and keep them to myself like a good little boy

[micromime]

what you sitting on, boy

[emeraldmew]

Hey, sis.

#also someone remind me to make my Cosmic Horror Toddler theory into something coherent

Whenever you have the time.

Okay. So bear in mind we're only like seven episodes in and I have no evidence and really no thought behind this beyond "would that be fucked up or what?" and "ooh I'd love to see what an eldritch abomination growing up is like."

There are also like, all of the spoilers for the original TMA below so like, if you're just listening to Protocol you might want to skip the rest of this post.

Tenuously connected point 1.

One of the things from what Jonny and Alex have said about Protocol is that it's supposed to involve exploring "what makes a person" right? And we also already know Jonny's answer to this question from his, uh, cannibalism discussion.

Short version: a "person" understands their actions as something that actually does things to the world around them beyond simply fulfilling a want like hunger/capable of choosing to do evil.

Tenuously connected point 2.

In the Archives universe, a point is made that the Fears "don't think. Not like we do." They work off instinct.

Tenuously connected point 3.

While I never looked into the ARG before Protocol's release I have since looked into the summaries of what it revealed. Among other things the ARG revealed Magnus Institute of Protocol was studying children via... psychological experiments of dubious morality. Aside from this being why Sam is snooping into the Magnus Institute (for those who haven't looked into the ARG yet, his name is among the children researched) the experiments are pretty much looking into how children at various stages of development display empathy and whether they conform to orders or choose not to and stuff like that (I'm sure I am not wording this part right someone with a better background in psychology can probably expand further).

Anyway, my point is the idea of choices and such is being studied in relation to psychological development in children.

Tenuously connected point 4.

The way the cases so far have played out in Protocol does seem to show a difference compared to Archives.

Smirke's original categories don't seem to fit quite right anymore as each of the cases seem to have stuff that doesn't cram into the original boxes. As the blurry categories were already a major point in TMA regarding creating the Eyepocalypse and even Sam calls out the categorization the OIAR use in the first episode this isn't surprising. But it does suggest that the Fears have changed from what they were before.

Quite a few people have also suggested that in the cases we've seen sometimes the incidents seem to fulfill a desire (in a monkey's paw way, of course) rather than simply finding a random victim. This might suggest the presence of intent rather than only instinct.

So what?

I'll admit it's just sort of my own "ooh wouldn't that be messed up? let's explore that further" thought process doing the talking here, but The Thing that was Fear has existed since things could feel afraid. It's ancient. But it's also a cosmic horror entity that has been shown to grow from it's initial state to what we saw in Archives (see ep 200).

It's something on a cosmic level. Maybe it wasn't done growing. The Fears don't think "like we do"...

but neither do babies.

What if by Protocol the Fears have developed more after leaving their cradle? To a point where they can at least begin to think or choose.

What if the Fears are eldritch toddlers and they're learning how to play?