#and maybe it’s my tinfoil hat

[lostryu]

i do think it’s funny though because @/dykepridee is not only harassing lesbians (they have crawled onto multiple posts at this point with their copy/paste, seems to be the opposite of pride tbh) but also thinks that misandry is real (i mean why else would you call me an androphobe? probably because it’s less obvious than misandrist) and has gone on record to support people who ID as transrace, transabled, transage, and proshippers/maps who are pro contact, ect.

like i am sorry this isn’t a good look for someone who supposedly ‘supports dykes’. at this point i’m just assuming that they have a dykebreaking kink or whatever because of who they’re in contact with, how they post, and the fact that they’re going out of their way to harass lesbians with a copy/paste.

i’ll probably trawl through their blog later after work because, yeah these are big accusations, but i can say i’ve seen them positively interact with the above before, and support those types of identities.

[theriverbeyond]

I would love to hear about your theory that John moved the solar system!? I’m so curious about the potential evidence!

THANK YOU FOR ASKING this is my pet theory. my baby. my lovingly crafted tinfoil hat. also pinging in @liesmyth for insight/if i forgot anything

the theory is, John moved the solar system to Elsehwere, and the Mithraeum sits in the Milky Way galaxy, where our solar system used to be.

BoE was searching for the Nine Houses for thousands of years. until proven otherwise, they are canonically the descendants of the FTL ships John let escape. so: they know where Earth is! they know where the solar system is! they had 5,000 or more years to look, AND they had spacefaring tech! why couldnt they find it?

The Mithraeum is described so lovingly it makes my brain itch. the way John calls it "home"? listen. idk it is vibes

it is "set in the midst of a circumstellar disc", "an ancient jewel within so much dead gravel". what else is a "circumstellar disc"? the Milky Way galaxy. vibes

as we learn in HtN chapter 14, the Mithraeum is "lit by thanergetic starlight". not thanergy starlight. thanergETIC. the only other thanergetic star system we know of is..... Dominicus. our sun, killed and reborn. when the cohort/lyctors flip planets, they aren't capable of turning them thanergetic. and yet!!!! the Mithraeum is surrounded by thanergetic starlight. (like yes John said that they "nuked the stars with thanergy and now they'll shine forever" but he's a lying liar who lies, and we KNOW that killing a planet with thanergy doesn't turn it thanergetic. so like..... what is up with that)

John CAN TERAFORM. in NtN, John 19:18, he is described as "rais[ing] up parts of the earth that had been covered by sea". we know he can control the human body but this is a WHOLE new dimension and level to his powers and its implications are wholly unexplored. i can believe that he has (or had, at the time) the power to move a solar system.

The Mistborn Connection. John & Rashek parallels are just really strong and i can't ignore that. Rashek moved the planets around and therefore I think it is not impossible that John might have as well

so the question next is: why? why would john do this? and i think there are 2, potentially overlapping options:

fear and guilt, like a child hiding the cup they broke. John did not do this out of malice. he was scared and overwhelmed and fucked things up because of it, and maybe he hid our solar system because he couldn't bear to face the consequences or awknowledge the true extent of what he had done

it was an accident. John ate everything, killed everything, and he was absolutely not in his right mind when trying to put everything back. and not only that, he went to medical school, which as i (someone going to clinical science school) can tell you, means you know jack fucking shit about astrophysics and planetary science. he's only human, even if he became a god. he was unqualified and very stressed.... anyway let me tell you. if that was me we would all be soup

like i KNOW this is kind of ridiculous and weird. and it is tinfoil hat enough that i wouldn't be pressed at all if it turns out to be totally nothing. but like. it COULD be something, ya know?

[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

[mostlylurkinbarelypostin]

Mike and Will’s Movie Date

Season 3 has BIG hair, and by that I mean it has A LOT of secrets.

One of which is whatever happened when the power went out at the movie theatre. If you watch back the scene, you’ll see that Mike and Will are the only ones not stoked that the movie is back on. They look, dare I say, disappointed?

It looks really sus. Literally everyone is out of their minds excited that the movie is back on. Mike and Will though? Not so much. They look bummed out (as seen in these screenshots that may be the worst screenshots ever taken).

They even zoom in on Max and Lucas to show us how they should be reacting.

After a few seconds, Will kinda starts to clap along but it looks kinda forced. So what happened while the power was out?? I wanna knooooowwwwww.

[mollrat101]

Loving the idea there’s a secret bunker in the wilderness (likely built by Cabin Guy) because of this podcast episode. 

Especially since Nerdist writer, Ro Rusak, also mentioned how yellowjackets (the insects) like to build their nests underground. Or some of them do, anyway.

That weird tree stump with melted snow around it. That might be the entrance to the bunker! And that might be where Javi is!

[earl-grey-love]

I appreciate my husband for responding to my 1am thought of "What if the Thalmor were the ones who caused the great collapse of Winterhold?" with full seriousness.

[canyousayineffable]

I know this is the last of our concerns right now but - what happened to Sandalphon?

[meowmeowmessi]

the more tebas shits on the PL the more i begin to wonder if he was secretly in cahoots with barto to stop messi from leaving spain to join city in 2020

[reikunrei]

very sad realizing im gonna have to watch all of stranger things again w my parents so all of the stuff w mike and will is at the forefront of their minds before s5 comes out bc otherwise they will literally be so blindsided by them becoming canon. like when we watched the van monologue in s4 my mom’s takeaway was “ooooh will’s sad bc he’s also in love with el!” ??????? first of all, his sister? gross. second of all, that was one of the most closeted speeches ive ever heard a character make??? mother. you cannot be this fucking dumb

[citrusinicake]

lrb mmade me realize im probs never gonna do whitepine analysis lmao

[malewifehenrycooldown]

hey so looking at the character select screen and there are three blank spots just left empty.

For the record the character select of DOA6 looks like this:

You mean to tell me there was supposed to be three more dlc characters? Because I have a HARD time believing the roster selection menu is supposed to look like that normally…

[vivaislenska]

Oops this is happening 😳. Sorry that I keep posting wips (blugh and scheduled ones, no less), but HE is constantly on my brain! !!

TBB S3 Spoiler comment: Because the “shadow” took a ROYAL beating in 3x7, and if “The damage [Echo] sustained on Skako Minor most likely wiped out all of [his] preset behavioral modifications,” then maybe… just maybe X trooper training won’t stick … my tinfoil hat is vibrating 🙏🏼😬.

[itswhatyougive]

Did y'all see this???? Maybe I'm just new to the Steddie fandom but I haven't heard many people talking about it

Is this possibly a way to support the strikes and still release hints about S5......? (Commercials are held to be acceptable work that can be done during the SAG/writers strikes)

excuse me?

Duffer brothers?

what does this mean?

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

[nenoname]

Details in Stan's letter that still haunt me

(how long will I continue thinking about a two page letter that's technically not even that long because Stan's handwriting is fricking large? .....you don't need to worry about that.)

The bro code only shows up in the Lost Journal pages, and to me Stan's message feels like it purposely echoes Ford's "miss you" in the college photo (and for some reason the message doesn't appear in the website version of the photo?) ....or alternatively Stan simply noticed how distressed Ford was about this entire thing and wanted to support him in a way so he can be sappy but without the kids knowing, or both!

Stan's claim about the Oregon lottery contradicts what the Lost Legends website said about Tate McGucket's ability to predict the winning numbers!! ...but also breaking into the Lottery HQ is definitely a very Stan thing to do and it's not the first time small gags have been retconned

Despite spending most of his letter nonchalantly destroying him, the taunt about ripping a dollar bill in half is the only part where Stan is directly responding to Bill. Maybe it's the two of them having similar ways of thinking but it's rather specific considering Bill taunts the reader about it...

And after Bill spends an entire book calling Ford Sixer despite normally using a pretty wide range of nicknames for him, Stan then spends his letter mainly referring to Ford as Sixer, even though post-Weirdmageddon he tends to use a mix of nicknames. And it's not like he'd gotten to see Bill himself for long, let alone see him steal that childhood nickname (that is only used twice in the actual show btw!). Did Ford tell him what happened or...?

With all this and the website's "still on your mind" message, what I'm getting at is my tinfoil hat theory of Stan somehow seeing some of the pages the irl readers saw, even when it should be personalised to the specific reader, and he's been lying about it for some reason. Considering that the book flat out doesn't make an attempt at convincing Soos, I find it a stretch that whatever Bill was telling Stan via the book was an attempt to convince him either.

Wouldn't be the first time Stan's skimmed through a book and lied about what it meant to him.

(...Now I kinda wanna see a story about the family reading their versions of the book and making fun of it while Stan is improvising every single one of his pages and blatantly ignoring Bill's attempts to mock and taunt him)

But also I'm fascinated by the letters that only showed up on the website (aka the Soos+Wendy+McGucket+Pacifica ones). I'm assuming that Mabel had stuck them on after Stan's letter... but they were basically eaten by the book itself because seeing Stan's letter kick-started Bill's breakdown which takes up the rest of the book

[wordslikesilver]

I love what this DLC redefined about Melina. I never took to the gloam eyed queen theories, and now we learned about two incredible things in the DLC. The Minor Erdtree incantation finally explains in truth what the concept of Unalloyed Gold is, it is kindness without Order. I take this to refer to one’s love for a specific reason I’ll elaborate on in a moment. This explains several things. First, the flaw Marika discovered in the golden order was its compassion, its love and kindness. No matter what you think of the golden order as a regime, it still had that value of kindness deep down inside and that’s the flaw that goldmask identifies. The flaw within Marika herself that leaves her doomed by the narrative. It couldn’t be the Order that was the flaw, because that’s what failed Miquella when he tried to cure his sister of the rot. Miquella’s entire platform was kindness and acceptance of all. That’s the unalloyed gold that healed Malenia. Marika needed the Radagon aspect of herself to convince her Order was worth it all. And then she’d reached her limit and could take no more of it all. Enough. No more of this golden order. No more Erdtree. No more Elden Ring or greater Will or fingers pulling strings. Enough. And surely there was only one way in all the world she’d cope with the pain of losing Godwyn, of possibly even arranging his death so that the plan could be set in motion.

This is where the most beautiful tragedy of the DLC comes in. Miquella and saint Trina. He severs his love from his existence so that he could become a god. We learn that a demigod/god can sever parts of themselves that become living entities. This is how Radagon came to exist. But more importantly, this is how Melina came to exist. Melina, who fights with the grace of a black knife Numen woman, who keeps destined death sealed within her eye, who dreams of fire. Melina, who is kind and gentle and soft spoken. The girl who knows deep in her heart that no matter how grim it all may feel, there is hope and love in this world. The girl who can cast the ultimate healing incantation, minor Erdtree, and a version of it that we the players can’t even match in size and radiance. The kindness of gold, without order. Melina is Marika’s unalloyed gold, shriven clean from her body and given life. Her love, her kindness and all her weakness, turned into a young maiden who wants nothing more in all the world than to save her own mother from her suffering. Just like St Trina begs us to save Miquella from godhood, Melina begs us to help her free her mother from the prison of the Erdtree and godhood itself.

I love that this DLC recontextualizes Melina’s entire existence as Marika saying “If my love and my kindness are a flaw, then I will use them to burn this fucking place to the ground.”

Put on your tinfoil hat on for this last part but it’s too good not to think about, Melina fights like a black knife and carries destined death within her. Imagine if she was there that night to kill Godwyn. His mother’s love and kindness being the one to kill her most beloved child. Lower his guard, maybe. It’s so fucking raw imagining that and I lose my mind picturing the scene.

[acerby]

Time for me to be a tinfoil-hat Nostradamus for a bit. I predict one of these days HDG will break containment in a big way. Not in the “it was posted to a queer-friendly meme subreddit.” way. But in the people on TikTok are both loving and hating it in greater numbers than ever before. Like nuclear levels of discourse, and like category 5 media illiteracy. Like one of these days, someone will make a video essay about it. And we will have a lot more eyes on it. Lots of new stories and lots of hot takes. Maybe a lawsuit or two. But one of these days it may happen, we break containment and our little space is changed forever, for better or worse. So cherish it while it lasts before we all get canceled on TikTok. Maybe think about getting a dooms day bunker account or something. Now I have to go, I only rented my “The End is Nigh” sign for an hour and I don't want to lose my deposit.

Jokes aside if it ever does happen, I don't think it will be that bad honestly. It may suck for a week or two but I think we will live through whatever happens.