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[myfriendgoo94]

Happy Thirsty Thursday 😛

[treef-greef]

touya pillleeee

[prismatiger]

Tell me your opinions on the stuff. Any stuff.

Grins. Smiles, even

I'm using you as an excuse to infodump my theory about the Island because I've had no in to do that, and my theory is pure opinion. Anyways:

THE ISLAND IS STUCK IN THE FUCKING FUTURE

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Hi so you might ask me. What the fuck do you mean by that. Well. Let's start with what we know about the Island, the King, and Wish Craft. (long ass post under cut. sorry)

The Island was redacted from the perception of outside world, via Wish Craft.

Wish Craft has the power to enable Time Craft. We see this primarily through Siffrin's timeloops, but also through the King's powers.

One of the King's powers is to show the saviors a "vision of the future."

...And this same attack is deflected back at the King by Mirabelle in ACT 5, in which the King is able to see the Island before being frozen in time.

...So. The King's "vision of the future." We're never told explicitly what this vision is. All we know is that it's apparently powerful enough to wipe the party in one hit, hearing it from a distance hurts your head, and that whatever Siffrin (and Loop) saw, they don't seem to actually be able to describe it. Even the King himself doesn't know what his vision entails.

We don't know whether the party all sees the same thing when struck by the vision, and Adrienne's answer to the question about it in the Reddit AMA is. vague? It's not a "no," and the specific wording makes me think the answer might be yes. But that's me reading into it.

Now. What do we know about the Island's redaction? The Island was affected by the wish recently, as in "like a decade ago" recently. We know that nobody in Vaugarde or the rest of the world is capable of thinking about the Island, anything closely tied to the Island's culture, or people on the Island for very long. When they do recall these things, they slip right out of reach. Particularly, the consequence for trying to think about the Island (or, more specifically, break the wish that forces the Island out of perception) is significant pain, localized in the head.

And that said pain is enough to become lethal, if pressed hard enough.

From here forward I'm running with the assumption that the King's "vision of the future" is not personalized to any individual, and is unchanging throughout the course of the whole story. Now. Remember the end of ACT 5, where the King gets hit with the deflected "vision of the future", and instead of dying, he recalls the Island and gets frozen in time? Very odd, yeah? Why wouldn't the King just die like everyone else does? He even does take 9999 damage when trying to say its name, like Siffrin does, and like the party does when they're hit by the attack.

Well. We know that he has a "true wish" that the ability to freeze Vaugarde in time grants. I don't think it's at all a stretch to guess that the King's "true wish" is to be able to remember the Island. My personal guess is that the King (and Siffrin) brought this "true wish" into effect via the "SAY ITS NAME" sequence- he even tries three times, a significant number in wishing.

The King (and Siffrin's) wish breaks, because it can't be fulfilled in this moment without breaking the wish to prevent the Island from being thought about. However. Consider the conditions at the end of ACT 5- the King sees the vision of the future reflected back to him, and what he sees is the Island. He remembers the Island, fulfilling his own wish, and is frozen in time. I consider this a compromise between his wish and the one binding the Island- the King gets to remember the Island, but nobody alive is able to think about it, because he's frozen in time; it's like the Universe is correcting itself (I WILL GET BACK TO THIS). The wish of all of Vaugarde to defeat the King is fulfilled, since he is no longer a threat, and Siffrin's wish wraps itself up soon after.

MY POINT BEING. The King's attack is a vision of the future. This "future" is of the Island, in some uncorrupted state. The saviors see it when he attacks them, and he sees it when it is deflected back to him.

The logical next question is "okay, so the Island exists in the future, but how do you know time shenanigans are even related to the Island?"

Recall a very odd series of interactions throughout the game, in which you try to interact with a piece of equipment that you already own.

The game rewinds slightly, before the item disappears, as the Universe corrects itself.

This is awfully similar to two particular events: looping back without seeing the death screen, and talking to the Daydreaming One about her sister. The latter is more interesting to me for the purposes of this theory.

In both instances, something is misaligned within the Universe (an item existing in two places, someone remembering something they're not supposed to) and it is corrected through some sort of rewind. Also compare the dialogue above to when you try to give Mirabelle the Stylish Bow when you already own it.

The world glitches, but Siffrin defuses the situation before the Universe has to intervene. Omitted from the screenshot is the fact that Mirabelle's portraits switch to happy from "catastrophically anxious" with no transition after Siffrin shows her where the bow is. Important to note is that when Mirabelle tries to recall receiving the bow, her head hurts, much like how trying to break the Island wish causes a headache.

The Universe leads you away from perception, and you can only follow.

My theory that I keep circling around is that through Wish Craft, the Island has been displaced temporally. The denizens of the Island, as well as the Island itself, still exist, but they are in the future. The Island is still loaded into the world, like how equipment is before you try to interact with it, and the Island cannot leave this quantum state, because it never actually went anywhere. The magnitude of the redaction event is so severe with the Island, because it is so much larger as an entity than a sword or a bow. There are of course things I don't really have pieced together, like why somebody would wish the Island into the future, how far into the future it is, or why equipment behaves this way. But it's the only Island theory I've seen that I have some level of confidence in, so I might as well lay out my cards for it.

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS COOL THING MY AMAZING BOYFRIEND MADE!!! IT'S ME HEHEHHEEHE THAT'S ME I'M A SUBCLASS HEHEHEHE

I've created two subclasses, loosely based on my amazing boyfriend @some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat! The first is for barbarian, the Path of the Clay Guardian. The original golem has always been a defender, a guardian, and this subclass lets you coat yourself in clay and arm yourself with divine determination to protect others. Also you can be wolf-like if you want to be, because that's my boyfriend.

The second is a sorcerer subclass, the Dreamer. Maybe you got hit by a corrupted Dream spell as a child, maybe you became aware of some eldritch entity dreaming the world into place, maybe you just happen to be literally correct, but you believe that the world is all just a big dream of yours. Why SHOULDN'T you be able to do magic in a fake world? Hope you enjoy, and please bear in mind these have not been playtested or balanced whatsoever. Please feel free to leave critique or comments!

[heartorbit]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NENE 🐠💚

[satans-knitwear]

Lunchbreak with the babies

[bogkeep]

originally for my thesis i was gonna like, focus on each aspect of the prague astronomical clock like its history, its function, and its design separately - but even other than this scope was way too big for me, the design IS the function. like, obviously, It's A Clock........ but! the reason the face plate has multiple colors is because they represent the time of day. the blue field is day, the orange is dawn and dusk, and the black circle is night. the placement of the sun symbol indicates the placement in the day cycle. I Know I Know It's A Clock Of Course It Does That but it's different to how we're used to reading clocks in this day and age.

anyway it reminded me of first year of watchmaker school, when we were learning to blue steel, a process that gives steel a specific material quality and also turns it blue. you might see high end watched that have blue hands and blue screws, for example, and it's not Just for the aesthetic, it's a sign of quality, but it has BECOME a preferred aesthetic BECAUSE of the quality. my teacher asked me if i, as a former art history student, knew whether it was common for something to Become Beautiful because it was a Desired Quality. i didn't have a good answer at the time but i have clearly not stopped thinking about it. i think it's a kind of survivorship bias - something can be the most aesthetically pleasing and beautiful but it won't really matter if it crumbles to dust within a couple years and there's no way for future generations to appreciate it. it doesn't make it less beautiful, only that we have no clue it ever existed. so in that sense, the beauty of functionality persists

[pigswithwings]

Drew your little guy 👍

HHHOOOOOLEEE SHIT???????????ARE YOU KIDDING ME FOR REAL THIS IS SO NICE... WHAT THE FUCKCJ

[inej-qhafa]

TRANSATLANTIC | 1.01 “Hiding Hand Principle”

[freckliephil]

😶😶

[dykesquirrelstar]

also! Moonpaw being canonically a chimera (with proof to back it up not just a statement) that means she's not a tortie!

she's just a self black cat and a red cat mixed together. which means she only passes on one of the two colours to future (if any) offspring.

and fun fact abt chimeras, the traits they pass on depend on which colour their reproductive organs are surrounded by. so if theyre orange she'll pass orange onto kits, if theyre black she'll pass black onto kits!

ALSO ALSO!! She looks like a cream/black chimera, since her red colouring seems to be lighter. which means half of her is diluted. which also is another note in the bucket for "real chimera" along with the eye colour

[jerrsterrr]

not to be gay but ohmy go

[tonycries]

Toenails did you know that nameday doesn't mean birthday in Bulgaria? It's a special day of the year dedicated on names. Like today 07.01. is Ivan's day, named after Saint Ivan. And people with my name also celebrate today. Cus my name is Jeanne, and it translates from French to Ivana, which is a traditional Bulgarian name, that is the female version of Ivan.

THAT'S IT BYEEEE–

send- 07.01.2025

received- ???

WOAHHH what that's saur cool omg 😮😌 How do y'all celebrate - is it like a second birthday almost orrr? And ahhh I love learning about other cultures, thank you sm for sharing lovely ☝🏽☝🏽

[sluckythewizard]

FORGOT I CAN POST STUFF HERE. HERE, CHECK OUT THESE BEASTS I SCRIBBLED UP A WHILE BACK

[i-had-a-bad-feeling]

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP GIGGLING KICKING MY FEET TWEAKING HOW IS THIS ONE OF MY MUTUALS IM GENUINELY CRASHING OUT

[sonicunleash]

i like to bring a "you should play In Stars and Time" kind of vibe to the junction.