#and again this is pure speculation

[bisexualenbyblueberry]

Okay, I know I've brought up the Terry redemption arc thing over and over and over again, but I literally have entire scripts written down predicting exactly how it's going to play out, so you'll just have to work with me here, okay?

SO.

I'm a notorious overthinker. And what's better for overthinking than the symbolism-filled dream spaces?

But in this one scene in praticular, (no idea if I spelled that right), Viren watches Claudia walk off into a sea of blood, symbolic because she's going further than he did (thanks for someone's text post I just saw for pointing this out), but as she goes, she's holding a tiny blue flower- the same flower Terry gave her.

And I'm probably reading waaaaaaaaaaay too much into things, but what if that flower was a symbol for Terry himself? And everytime she pulls off a petal and it lands in the sea of blood, that's something evil she did (i.e. fighting the dragon, pretending to give Rayla's parents back just for laughs) that made him trust her less, but she's still got the flower, because he forgives her immediately.

And eventually, she drops him. What's going to happen? She's gone further than he (Viren) has, probably meaning that she'll even more evil things in the future. Is he (Terry) going to leave her? Or is she going to kill him, maybe out of anger, maybe for a spell, or even something else?

I really hope she doesn't kill him he's too good for her and instead he gets to go on his little redemption arc

[dawnbreakerluna]

I just have this strong inkling that Sylus is gonna be a strongly multi-layered character. Like yes, he is a villain, and probably with good reason. Considering how the current timeline/story is so deeply woven with the myths and other phenomena we may not know of yet, it's likely that Sylus is this anomaly who exists to bring an unexpected sequence of events that hasn't been foretold by any prophecy or past life.

Knowing that Xavier's role has allusions to time and time traveling (the current timeline we play in is the past), he's essentially breaking that prophetic rule, in a way. Going back to the main timeline to try and save the MC, destroying the protocores in Onichynus' possession...

But everything that Xavier's purpose is, maybe Sylus has exceeded that already or intends to, at least. Since he's been watching the MC this whole time, and has seen her with Xavier/Lumiere... the central rivalry will transpire between those two. I can also see a rivalry between Rafayel and Sylus, only because Raf seems to have the deeper connections when it comes to networking and who does what, etc. (And with Zayne who became a cardiac surgeon with the intention of saving MC, it's likely a tense rivalry between him and Sylus would gradually turn into something of neutral ground.)

Anyway, my point of it all is: Sylus will break the pattern. Whatever curse there is that has been placed on MC, his existence seeks to rid of that curse by any means possible. I do truly believe he wants to let the world burn for her, and the protocore experimentation serves a greater purpose of trying to save her...

[project-sekai-facts]

The shiho is 2*! This increases her chances of being the anni. Or does it make it less? since An is also an option. And Kohane was the 3*last year. Also, doesn't vbs have a ton of limiteds by now?

Shiho has to be Leoneeds anniversary card. They already have their anniversary reward card (3* Honami), Ichika was 4* last year, and Saki is 4* on the current event so it can't be her. She won't be the banner character but she will be rateup.

Banner character will be either An or Nene, honestly I'm leaning more towards Nene because there's a chance we could get Akito5 for October and if that happens An is likely to be 4* on that. Also An has been on two mixed events in the last month or so, so I kinda doubt her appearing on another one (ignoring that Nene appeared on almost every mixed event in the first half of 2023 but that was done to spam her with reward cards which An doesn't need).

Still speculative, but I'm willing to be on Nene/Shiho/Toya/Mizuki + Haruka or Airi 3*

[itsraining-honey]

forever holding onto my theory that this is a corrupted pure vanilla 👍

[acquiescest]

irt the lrb what would you say if i said liam & noel spent new years 2023 together in paris

what would you say if i said liam bought the house in france (the one with noel's name carved into the walls) in march 2023 and that month noel talked about wanting to spend several months in paris

which could mean nothing

[wonder-worker]

richardiii and frideswide lovell? I am only just hearing of this

Hi! We don't know the truth and don't know the exact details, but yes, that's definitely a (potential) relationship worth discussing!

For those who are unaware, Frideswide Lovell was the daughter of John, 8th Baron Lovell, and his wife Joan Beaumont. This made her the sister of Francis Lovell, the future chamberlain and best friend of Richard III - who she may have had a personal connection to in her own right.

Frideswide seems to have been much younger than her siblings and was not born before 1363, most likely in 1464. She was orphaned soon after her birth, with her father dying a year later and her mother a year after that, leaving her to spend her childhood and adolescence in the household of her brother's parents-in-law. The first properly contemporary mention of her is found in the 1470 pardon Edward IV's government issued for Henry FitzHugh and all those in his household. Unfortunately, not much is known about her beyond that, including the kind of education she received.

When she was around 16, Frideswide married the 15-year-old Edward Norris, oldest son of William Norris of Yattendon and his first wife Joan/Jane de Vere. The teenage couple had their first son, John, in 1481, followed by a second son, Henry, a year later. The latter would be executed in 1536 as one of Anne Boleyn's alleged lovers.

Here's where it gets interesting. As we know, Richard III became King in 1483 after deposing his nephews. Michèle Schindler, author of the book Lovell Our Dogge: The Life of Viscount Lovell, Closest Friend of Richard III and Failed Regicide, has speculated that Richard may have been having an affair with Frideswide, aka his best friend's sister, during that time.

To quote Schindler from a blog post about Frideswide:

In 1483, Frideswide received a "reward" of 50 marks from Richard III after he was crowned king. Perhaps it was this, her support and closeness to her brother`s close friend, that caused a rift between her and her husband, and the couple was divided over political opinions which they needed some time to overcome. Edward`s father William, who had originally supported the Lancastrian cause, had accepted Edward IV as king, but rebelled against Richard [in support of the Princes in the Tower] in autumn 1483. Edward Norris may have supported this, though he never acted against Richard, while Frideswide seemed to support Richard.

However, there is evidence from 1484 which throws a rather different light on Frideswide`s marriage and her relationship to Richard. While her "reward" from 1483 could well have been simply a gesture of friendship by the new king towards his closest friend`s sister, their interactions clearly did not stop there. In August 1484, Richard granted her an annuity of 100 marks, a rather large sum. While this has traditionally been assumed to have been because of her father-in-law`s rebellion, leaving her husband disinherited, this does not seem to have been the cause. None of William`s other children, nor his wife, was granted anything by Richard.

Naturally, it could be that Richard chose to favour Francis`s sister over the rest of her marital family, but this is contradicted by two facts: one, that the grant was for unspecified "services" to the king, not, as that to other traitor`s relatives, as a compensation, a generous gift by the king. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, is that a second grant of an annuity of 100 marks was made from the same venue, dating from 10th January 1485. This grant was not a confirmation of the first, but was added to it, meaning that Frideswide received 200 marks yearly from Richard, a sizable sum, more than the Countess of Oxford, or even his own mother-in-law, received.

The key to this may lie in the fact that the second grant was dated back nine months, and appears to have been made just after Frideswide gave birth to her third child, a daughter called Anne. Very notably, the grants to her, for unspecified services to the king, have the same wording as one to Katherine Haute, a woman often assumed to have been the mother of Richard`s illegitimate daughter Katherine, Richard made years earlier.

Equally notable is that Richard made grants to Francis on the same days as he made those to Frideswide, as a compensation for equally unspecified services, and that Frideswide appeared to have lived with her brother [rather than her husband] while pregnant.

That Henry Norris, in later years, appeared to not treat Anne as his sister, and that William Norris, Edward`s father, later favoured Frideswide`s sons, even apparently helping them become established at court, but not Anne, might also point towards the idea that there was at least a question mark over Anne`s paternity, and that she may have been Richard`s.

If so, Frideswide was in a bad position after Richard`s defeat and death at Bosworth only eight and a half months after her daughter`s birth. It seems, though, that she and her husband Edward made the best of it, and even reconcilliated. In around 1486, Frideswide gave birth to her last child, a girl called Margaret, presumably after Edward`s sister. From surviving documents, Margaret seemed much closer to her brother Henry and her grandfather William, again showing up a difference to Anne."

Of course, we don't explicitly know if this is true - and if it is true, we don't know the exact details - but the circumstantial evidence is indeed very strong, and it seems very plausible to me. I would love to know more about Frideswide, who seems to have had a very interesting and tragic, albeit mostly unknown, life.

In short, it's very interesting and opens up a lot of possibilities, for sure!

[milligramspoison]

Okay so I wonder if they did filmed something in (or outside) the church and it’s just starting to come out -> hear me out.

Jules is a musician whose stage name is JULES IS DEAD, you can see their Spotify page here.

Possible chance they have a song coming out with a music video and Mikey’s in it? And it’s filmed in the Helena church? And the guy who posted the photo yesterday is either a fan or someone who works for Jules, like a manager or something.

I may be (and probably am) looking too much into things, but it’s not out of the question either.

Is it a coincidence that this guy posts his picture of himself with Mikey back in July then a day later Jules posts that video with Mikey which was obviously taken the same day as the photo? Orrrrr did Mikey do something with Jules?

Don’t take this as a confirmation, this is just pure speculation 🫶

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

my pet theory is that the reason jamie bamber never broke into the a-list arena of acting is because he could fill the exact same niche as tom cruise, just with more emotional range and depth, and cruise clocked him as a threat. jamie bamber could do top gun, but tom cruise could never do battlestar galactica, you feel me? so cruise had the long arm of scientology put the kibosh on bamber's career.

nothing to support this btw, strictly a vibes based conspiracy

[plan-3-tmars]

okay so before I go to sleep I just wanna mention a different speculation I have for purge march

so I said before that this could be solider imagrey, and the reason why Amane is dressed up in a marching band uniform is because of the running theme in magic that she has a more 'kiddy' outlook on the things happening to or around her but I think you could also look at it a different way.

Marching bands are all about uniformity right? Everyone has to play the right note at the right time to make it work, but ultimately they're all working together to play the same tune the leader tells them too. They're litteraly marching to the beat of somebody else's drum, it's a darker twist on the otherwise optimistic saying. Amane seems to be shown as the leader of the marching band, telling everyone else what to play.

I think this might be after Amane does that magical girl transformation at the end of Magic - maybe it's something akin to a higher rank, garnering more respect? She's seen as the optimal follower after her indoctrination so everyone else in the cult wants to, and should, follow the beat of her drum.

[hoboblaidd]

The last of my series of headcanons on Solas' relationships with the Evanuris is trying to parse out the precious little about his relationship with the gods outside of Mythal, Andruil, and Ghilan'nain. Please consider the following more speculation than anything else. As a baseline, I don't think there's any love lost between Solas and the Evanuris aside from maybe regrets about how the Ghilan'nain situation went down. He not only hates the Evanuris, but he fears them as well. They're all immensely powerful, probably more powerful than he is, and they each were terrible tyrants that carved out their domains on the backs and blood of their slaves.

Elgar'nan: Given what we know about the 'All-Father', even from Dalish legend, anyone would be a fool not to be terrified of him. He has immense power in the legends, matched only by his hair trigger temper. It seems that Mythal was the only one that could calm the storm of his vengeance. I think he was the absolute scariest of all them. Ghilan'nain is monstrously evil, but Elgar'nan didn't become the Odin of the Evanuris by being lesser than someone whose own apotheosis came much later. With respect to Solas, I'd wager that he was terrified of Elgar'nan. Lore-wise, we have the suggestion in Vir Dirthara that Elgar'nan was, unsurprisingly, leading the propaganda war against the Dread Wolf. As the 'king' of the gods, Elgar'nan would be most invested in quashing a rebellion that threatens his power.

Dirthamen: Speaking of a propaganda war, my theory is that the 'god of secrets' was in essence the secret police that we've seen in real life tyrannical governments. I don't think it's a stretch to jump from 'god of secrets' to 'creator of propaganda and thought police.' As such, Solas wouldn't be a fan of someone who punishes free thinking. Just see his impassioned opinion on the Qun.

Falon'din: Falon'din seems to have been the chief antagonist in the gods' infighting. Solas hates this mofo, not as much for his vanity but that it led to a devastatingly bloody civil war. Solas was likely in Mythal's camp during this war, and witnessed firsthand when Falon'din was finally subdued.

June & Sylaise: We really have nothing about their relationship to Solas. Sylaise's "sphere/Somnallium" that she gifted to June was built or powered by a violent sacrifice of priests and slaves, and June made weapons for Andruil, so I can't imagine he's chill with them.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I've been thinking about Old Boss, Dazai and Mori a LOT, as of late; and I think it would be neat if Old Boss' madness made Dazai so miserable, and that he too thought the only way to stop it all was to kill him. Except this thought made him feel trapped and even more miserable, so much that he tried to drown himself. But he got lucky: he met Mori. A person who can do the job meets a person who can provide the enterance and the cover, isn't it grand? (1)

Hey, sorry it took me a little bit to get to this. I was in the middle of exams and I wanted to make sure I gave your ask a proper answer.

You know, it's really interesting to me - you've outlined this version of events, which is different to what I think went down but I can't really refute or support anything because we just don't know enough.

It's insane how little we know about the mafia in general, actually, given how many of the supporting cast members are a part of it. We get mentions, sure, and little tidbits of info but not nearly as much as we get for the agency. I wonder why it was so important that the mafia be a part of Natsume's framework over any of the other criminal organizations in Yokohama. Is it influence? Power? Or is there some other reason we don't know?

I'll try to lay down what we know for certain, and particular inferences we can make leading up to the old boss's assassination:

The Old Boss:

He was the boss during the chaotic years directly after the war and likely during it as well

He threw the city into turmoil, especially in the slums, through such orders as "killing a bunch of redheads because one vandalized his car" or "poisoning the inhabitants of an entire building because he thought a rival executive might be there"

The end of his reign was so terrible that he turned the city's inhabitants against each other in a kind of Orwellian dystopic "report your neighbours for dissent" command

He has history with Dazai ("If only we could chat about old times" line from Fifteen)

He was suffering from a kind of paranoia from his illness and his orders became increasingly more erratic and needlessly violent, culminating in his ordering of the deaths of anyone who opposed the Port Mafia on his deathbed (roughly 8 years ago)

Mori:

He was a medical doctor during the tail end of the Great War, roughly 14-15 years before the events of the main story (when Yosano was 11 years old and he was 26)

He drafted her with the intention of creating an Immortal Regiment and appears to have advocated for the use and manipulation of abilities to turn the tide of the war

After the war, between 12-14 years ago, he worked as an underground doctor with Fukuzawa as his bodyguard - he was already acquainted with Natsume at this point (they both refer to him as sensei) and interested in establishing Natsume's Tripartite Tactic

How he came to be an underground doctor is not known - was he disgraced after what happened with the soldiers on Tokoyami Island? Was he purposely trying to work his way into the mafia?

12 years ago, he fought with Fukuzawa to try and take Yosano back for his plan to overthrow the Mafia (he was 28, Yosano 13, Fukuzawa 33, Ranpo 15)

Somehow he became the old boss's personal physician. I literally do not know how he managed this.

8 years ago, he approached Dazai, as seen in the recent Fifteen manga adaptation, as his physician, and promised Dazai a painless death if he agreed to "help with one little thing" (which is clearly to be a witness for the death of the old boss)

Dazai:

He wandered for a bit at some indiscriminate time, where the Sheep made an offer to join them. He refused.

His youngest appearance is 8 years ago when he is 14, in the recent Fifteen manga adaptation, where he is shown secured to a hospital bed after attempting suicide - it seems likely this was not his first attempt. He meets Mori for the first time in this scene.

He somehow is close enough to the old boss to be a valuable witness for Mori, someone whose word would be believed by the mafia. He was already suicidal for unknown reasons and was assigned the current mafia boss' personal physician to treat him. Hirotsu assures Mori that Dazai "understands why he did what he did", as though Dazai would have some reason to be angry with Mori over the old boss's death. Higuchi's "your blood is mafia black" line. If it weren't for the fact that he was not part of the mafia at that point, and had apparently not seen death up close before the murder of the old boss and the events of Fifteen, I would say it's practically a given that he's a blood relative of the old boss, perhaps even the "rightful heir" to the mafia. However, given the conflicting info I just gave, I really can't be certain.

His eye is focused on in all adaptations of the scene with the death of the old boss. His eye goes dark in every single one. (The original chapter 30 manga panel is interesting because it looks like the darkness is seeping into it...)

There's so little here for how important this event is. Just as we still don't know much about the great war, we still know very little about the mafia and the old boss - even Mori and Dazai are still very much mysteries.

With how much we still don't know, I think the story may end with us cycling back to the mafia and finally learning the answers to all these questions that were introduced so early in the game. At least I hope so. Thanks for the ask!

[hermajestytak]

Since Invader Zim debuted with The Nightmare Begins on March 30, 2001, we as a fandom celebrate Zim's birthday every March 30th

IF you also headcanon that The Nightmare Begins takes place on March 30th (since it doesn't have a specific day, month, or even season that it takes place), then that adds a couple of fun things:

The Great Assigning for Operation Impending Doom 2 took place on Zim's birthday (no wonder he was so entitled)

Zim and GIR both have the same birthday

Zim's mission and GIR could be seen as birthday gifts from The Tallest

[quibbs126]

So I only just realized that the Golden Cheese update is not in fact the 5.0 update like some people were thinking before it came out, but rather the 4.11-13 updates, meaning that the 5.0 update will be either the holiday update or more likely, the 3rd anniversary update

Well there (probably) goes my theory that the 3rd anniversary update would be something not as plot relevant. I mean, yeah it’d probably be plot relevant, but not as much as City of Wizards (aka no new Story Mode). With it likely being 5.0, it probably will be, or even the trip to Beast Yeast

I mean, I assumed since GC was 5.0 and the 3rd anniversary would be only two updates later, it wouldn’t be something of the same importance

…I wrote this draft an hour ago before I went out and now I can’t remember where I was going with this. But yeah, GC is not the 5.0 update and so now I imagine the 3rd anniversary really will be pretty plot relevant, whether it be a new Story Mode or something else

[unproduciblesmackdown]

orvphil: so real

for example used analysis on the following instances

orville's physical reluctance & difficulty kneeling to propose to jane vs. readily swinging right into such a kneel with phil during 'til we meet again

'til we meet again

(see above) noting the "both immediately becoming So happy to be doing this" and "staring at each other for an unbroken ten seconds after finishing the song which was evidently beyond simply a [hold for applause] thing"

having indeed an adorable little meet-cute, which may not be an integral part of every eventual writer/lyricist & composer partnership

when phil drops in at wingate manor and he an orville have a private little wave to each other like =)

sitting next to each other sharing a hay bale and orville gets drinks for them both and phil walks orville home

lucky day

the choreography where orville's at the piano and phil swings it out while rotating it and orville's "walking" while sitting to one side to help (my analysis: going ohhhhh ;w;)

both simultaneously answering "his" when asked whose song it is like the earnest effortless mutual admiration and appreciation huh fellas

margaret talking about protecting your heart from these theatricals; orville Is one of these theatricals, and he loves it; phil watching him / reacting in this moment including his little "hell yeah" move like he had for orville going off in lucky day

their general enthusiasm together / for each other / enjoyment of being around each other and increased ease of operating when around each other

phil wishing orville could hear his music and talking about how orville ruined his own night to save theirs, then remarking "...what a guy!" mmhm

🌈🌈🌈

[incarnadinedreams]

I think I should clarify that when I say I think the full depth of the Jiang Cheng brainrot was accidental on MXTX's part. It's like... obviously there was a lot of care taken to create this intense complex nuanced insane feral situation of grief and sacrifice and pain, to carefully structure the reveals and reframe the characters and situation again and again.

But I think it was an unexpected critical strike and was just a little more effective than expected (based on her expressing surprise over the general level of attention Jiang Cheng got in comments etc).

Like it seems to me that she intended to crank it up to a 10 but failed to account for the fact that Yunmeng Shuangjie feelings amplifiers are very, very special, these ones go to eleven. Right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven... it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. These go to eleven.

[dredshirtroberts]

i was going to say i hate when i'm right but actually i enjoy the sensation of being correct even if i don't like the thing i was right about. So I'm very happy to be right so often, actually (especially now that no one in my life is actively trying to gaslight me)