#can i present a theory

[autla]

Jason you don’t have space to talk

We all saw you wear this

[through-a-blackhole]

I think the most heartbreaking part of this is because in the first picture, that’s Future Natsu doing the forehead touch with Future Lucy, and he promises her that they’ll be okay.

But in the second picture, that’s Present Natsu doing the forehead touch with Future Lucy. Present Natsu who had no idea that Future Natsu did that with Future Lucy. He did that gesture out of his own love and gratitude to Future Lucy for going back in time to protect their future.

And the reason Future Lucy is crying in the second picture is because she remembers how her Natsu from the Future did the exact same thing. And her Natsu is dead. And this one, still alive, made her remember how her Natsu did this gesture and she lost him after.

In this one shot alone, you can see the love, sadness, gratitude, and fear that Future Lucy and Present Natsu is experience.

And I just love them so much more for it.

[spitblaze]

Transfems are not 'privileged' for being forced to live in hostile panopticons and transmascs are not 'privileged' for being forced to live at the bottom of isolated wells and any 'benefits' that either incidentally incurs are canceled out if not outweighed by the drawbacks. Are we done here. Can we all please just go home

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

Honestly, I think that if Kotoko doesn't have any kind of tragic backstory or deep-ridden trauma and did have a relatively normal upbringing like she says she does, it will probably heighten my enjoyment of her character and her narrative even more. I've said it before and I'll say it again, my favorite thing about Kotoko's narrative and role in the story and why she is my favorite prisoner is the fact that she is the perfect encapsulation of what I think Milgram is trying to teach. It is unfair to put her, or any of these prisoners into boxes of good and bad because both are cruel oversimplifications that only serve to dehumanize them regardless of if the audience's intentions are good or bad. By dehumanizing them and partaking in the fucked up justice system that is Milgram, you are emotionally distancing yourself from them. When you emotionally distance yourself from these people, you become more ignorant to the possibility that you could do the very thing that they're doing. That Haruka, Yuno, Fuuta, Muu, Shidou, Mahiru, Kazui, Amane, Mikoto, and especially Kotoko could all be you and you won't know it before it is too late. That is why even within this system that pushes black-and-white nuance-less thinking, the narrative itself encourages you to look beyond the surface depiction of these prisoners that we are presented with. Because in the words of one Will Wood - "If you were in my shoes, you'd see I wear the same size as you" But what does any of that have to do with Kotoko and her backstory? Well, @/archivalofsins / Gunsli made a very good post that explains exactly what I'm going to talk about in more depth, but I'll give it a rundown nonetheless. It would be very easy for someone to look at a person who has gone through tragedy or trauma who has done bad things, and say in response: "See, I can't become like that because she is abnormal. I could never do that, that would never happen to me.". Now I would hope that you don't need me to tell you that this way of thinking is a white lie cake rich with ableist frosting, but that is a discussion dug into by Gunsli's post. And I do believe, if Kotoko is revealed to have a tragic traumatic backstory, this will happen to her. Because it happened to Amane. And that is why Kotoko having a 'normal life' would be so important to me and, in my opinion, heighten her already amazing narrative and writing. Her role in the story is to be a audience parallel, she is an embodiment of the system and mindset Milgram as a story criticizes and her actions are a direct consequence of our involvement in it. Milgram is already not subtle about this fact, but Kotoko's ordinary upbringing is the thing that fully hammers the nail in the wood. Anyone can become like Kotoko Yuzuriha, trauma or not. Her beliefs, her bigotry, her fascism, her violence, and her fantasy to be the chivalrous hero who protects the weak are not things that are alien or only things that form within an "abnormal" brain. In fact, they are very normal things that a lot of normal people across the globe perpetuate wholeheartedly whether they realize it or not. Kotoko isn't some one-of-a-kind individual She is literally just a girl

[rayroseu]

oh book 7.6... reveal onto me the visage i seek... let it be that Meleanor Draconia lives (or atleast be heavily hinted that she's returning in present time-)and no sword shall pierce against her beautiful being 😭😭🙏🙏🙏

ALSO CAN THEY REVEAL LEVAN AND MALEFICIA NOW.... 😭😭⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

arguably the most important persons in meleanor's life,,, her mother and her husband ‼️ and BOTH are missing in action while she protects Lilia and Malleus 😭😭 like THAT'S suspicious.... theyre implied to be one of the strongest in this era yet theyre on standby and FOR WHAT....

i hope this chapter reveals some sickening plot twist about malleus parents' "death"🙏🙏🙏😎😎😎💔💔

[sketchingstars03]

*sigh*… chat hear me out…

[demodraws0606]

Okay so I have made a really bad post trying to descredit Eden taking the tape as something super important so I'm just gonna drop the actual post I was preparing instead of trying to catch Eden!Culprit theories with a half baked post.

The main issue I'm having with Eden!Culprit theories right now is mostly because of stubborness that since Eden took the tape then she HAS to have done it even though if she was the culprit it would make 0 sense as to why she wouldn't just take the tape after Teruko and Ace left the room ? Like someone could've easily told her to take the tape, it's not that hard and it just makes more sense with the other evidence layed out for us.

The main reason I accepted Eden as the culprit before is because there were no possible culprits since Levi was pretty much confirmed innocent and there was still a likelyhood of Eden working for someone. However, this pretty much now rendered null and void. I swear all of this makes it sound like I have some grudge against this theory but I really need to put this subject to rest before the answer is probably revealed to us on friday. I want to make sure this theory is dead in the ground even if it's just for me personally, because it just has too many holes for me.

Also sorry if this seems mainly just a repeat of stuff I've already said, I'm not really good at structuring my posts :')

I've seen the argument that Arei actually wasn't knocked out with the turpentine because why would they bind her wrist then. However, we know she had to have been knocked because there is no struggle shown, either on her body or the floor of the playground. Weither she was suffocated or knocked out, the tape was still used on her wrist so this can't be something to be used against the idea of turpentine knocking her out. This means there is high likelyhood that it was used because it would make no sense for the culprit to just suffocate Arei before killing her (and again suffocating would show more signs of struggle than what we see on the crime scene).

There's also no other items that Arei could've been suffocated with other than the rope which would've left marks, the ball of starch clearly is stuck together most likely by turpentine which means it would've been used to knock out someone.

This would mean the culprit had to have used the turpentine to knock out Arei as well, meaning the culprit had to have gotten their hands on the turpentine.

I also refuse the idea of Eden trying to kill Ace, not only because I just find it ridiculous from a character standpoint but mainly because we know it was Hu's murder weapon that was used against Ace (the wire) considering there is no evidence of any other wire existing in this killing game that would be sharp enough to slice someone's throat. Hu's wire is part of the weapons which is evidence alone that it would be sharp enough to harm Ace bc otherwise what purpose does a wire serve. I don't believe for a second that Hu would just have her weapon lying around for anyone to yoink, unlike the turpentine which we know had to have been used by Nico and Rose when they were painting together.

In fact the story has made it clear how complicated taking someone weapon's is by having Arei's weapon only being available after she discarded it. The same can be said of the turpentine which was used out in the open and would make it easy to take with Rose's absent mindedness. If taking someone's weapon was just as easy as that, they wouldn't have given us the scene of Arei throwing out her rope like that in the first place.

Eden also has no reason to want to replicate Ace's murder onto Arei, there's basically no logical motivation behind that. In fact the progression between Ace's attempted and Arei's succesful murder proves alone that it's the same culprit (if the turpentine's existence wasn't enough). We can see the progression of the culprit trying to avoid the same mistakes they committed with Ace's failed murder (trying to snap Arei's neck to avoid the possibility of her getting saved last minute like Ace, bounding her hands potentially to make her more stable to lift upwards).

We don't even know if she figured out how the murder even worked considering it was completely undone when Teruko and Eden saw it.

Even the timing of when Eden knew about the clothing is off. We know the ball of clothing is probably sticky due to the turpentine because there is no other leads to explain why this ball of clothing is even a thing in this murder case. Turpentine is both clear and sticky, which would explain how the ball of clothing is both clear of stains and sticking together like that. Considering also that we know for a fact Ace was knocked out, and I don't think the culprit straight just shoved a jar of turpentine on his face, they most likely used some sort of tissue to smother them with (meaning it couldn't have been used to asphexiate Arei). This means the ball of clothes was used in Ace's attempted murder.

Eden only knew about the clothing change from Hu, we can only assume the same day that Ace's was murdered and probably not long before the attempt. This both clears Eden going to the changing room as the ""ball of starch"" was most likely already created before that, the only arguemnt it could be used for is that she was trying to retrieve it but it barely makes sense.

In terms of the timing of when Eden knew about the clothes and Ace's murder, if Hu only told her the same night that Ace was almost murdered it makes the timing insanely more difficult to justify. Unlike Hu who would have the pieces ready way more in advance.

All of these contradictions cannot be debunked by saying "well Eden took the tape", as it could easily be explained by the culprit asking her to take the tape from the gym or her just taking it without purpose and then the culprit getting their hands on it later.

The Eden!Culprit theory is barely hanging onto one piece of shakey evidence that can easily be broken by one justification.

If Nico can't be the culprit despite having the turpentine (well I don't think they do but 99 pourcent of Eden!culprit theories rely on Eden not really committing the attempted murder of Ace) then Eden doesn't have to be the culprit taking the tape.

The only way you can argue Eden is the culprit is if she tried to kill Ace, however this is impossible because of Hu's weapon. This is basically the summary of my main issue with the whole Eden!Culprit theory.

[kaurwreck]

oh, i figured out aya's skill.

[trans-androgyne]

“Transmascs just can’t handle transfems talking about transmisogyny!”

The talking in question: “Transandrophobia truthers are raging transmisogynists and should be killed”

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Have you noticed that in both Frank and Julie's descriptions, it says 'In the storybook record, "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours," it is implied Frank and Julie could be a couple.'

Could this tie into your theory irc of how the show is like trying to force Frank and Julie to be a romantic couple even though that they truly view each other as best friends?

oh i mean. yeah! it's practically fact at this point, isn't it? especially now that That's been put into their bios

[redpenship]

hi, due to major plot changes i have cut the following scene between eggman and starline from buzzsaw 2. i had a lot of fun writing it so i'm posting it on tumblr :)

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At their next meeting, Starline expected to hear more about Ivo’s theory. Instead, he walked into a room with a wall-sized whiteboard and a question crawled across the top in marker: 

IF ALIENS EXIST, WHERE ARE THEY?

“Good research requires theory falsification. I am sure you were taught this in a research methods class, but I will go over it since you displayed an inability to use it in your paper,” Ivo began. He gestured to a table close to the board with a bin of erasable markers. “Grab a marker and come here. We are going to falsify mainstream academic dogma together.” 

Ivo was holding a red marker, so Starline took a blue one out of the bin for better contrast. He moved to stand beside the board and gave Ivo a doubtful look. “You want to falsify dogma?”

Below the question, Ivo wrote something else: 

Accepted Answer: All life in the universe resembles Earth. 

“This is the mainstream answer to the Fermi paradox. Humans used to imagine that alien life would exist in all kinds of different forms. Now, most people believe that life can only develop in extremely specific conditions, leading it to be a very rare phenomenon. Why did they come to that conclusion?”

“Terra and Earth are extremely similar to each other,” Starline answered. 

“Right. Sixty years ago, it was inconceivable that we could just waltz onto a planet and find the same flora and fauna as back on our home world. But we did, so we have found an answer to the paradox: all life is the same! Now, let’s look at yours.”

Starline’s Answer: Humans and Mobians descend from a common ancestor. 

Ivo turned to face him. “You believe that our planets have been touched by the same alien life form. This is supported by the same evidence as the mainstream theory, so we need to find a reason to prove why your theory is more correct than the other.” Ivo walked over to the left edge of the board and wrote a 1. in the corner. “We are going to think of alternate explanations that falsify the accepted answer but do not contradict your own. I will go first to help you see what I mean.” 

1. Space technology is impossible for most intelligent lifeforms. 

Ivo turned back to face him. "The Chaos Emeralds prevented Mobians from reaching anything close to space technology. If this is true for you, why not other civilizations as well?"

"Other life forms may exist, but they struggle to leave their planet," Starline observed. There could even be aliens with stable physics who couldn't build space technology due to physical limitations, such as a species of very smart snake-like creatures who couldn't build machines because they had no hands. Ivo was correct—there were many factors that contributed to humanity's ability to achieve spaceflight. What if those were more rare than alternative life forms?

Like Ivo, he decided to draw his first explanation from something they could observe between their two species. 

2. Scientific development destroys planets. 

“Development requires the exploitation of natural resources,” Starline explained. He rotated the marker in his fingers nervously as he felt the Doctor’s eyes on him. “Surely, not all species manage to leave their planet before it becomes uninhabitable. Humans may have been very lucky in that regard.”

Ivo hummed in thought. “I don’t know if I would say that science destroyed Terra, but let’s keep that as a generalization for what happened to humans there. It’s good enough.”

The next theory came from Ivo. 

3. Space travel is deadly. 

Out of fourteen interstellar voyages to leave Terra, only eight of them made it to their destination. This appeared to be a high survival rate on the surface, but if the destination had been unknown or farther away, it was possible that fewer of them would have made it as increased paranoia drove them to attack each other.

If this had happened to humans, it could have happened to other aliens, too. Maybe alien fleets killed each other in space more often than they travelled together peacefully. This would explain the lack of aliens flying around in space.

He came up with the next one. 

4. Colonization is not a norm. 

Starline held his breath as he waited for Ivo’s response. The human raised an eyebrow as he read it over. “Not a norm? Explain.” 

“Let’s say what humans did here isn’t normal,” Starline said. He struggled to find a way to elaborate. “Both of our planets have had empires and wars, but I’m not talking about imperialism. I mean actively looking for other planets to live on or exploit for resources.” 

“If an alien species is like humanity’s case on Terra, and presumably capable of long-term space travel, why would they not look for another planet?”

“You’re projecting your experience. The reason humanity came up with the idea of turning to space for a new planet is because you’re well-suited to survive in most climates.” Starline drew the outlines of Angel Island, the East Pacific cluster, and the United Federation. Inside, he shaded in territory until he hit the colder regions in the north, which he left blank. “This was the reach of the Knuckles Clan Empire at their peak. As you can see, they didn’t expand into regions with harsh winters. They had the warriors and resources needed to conquer smaller tribes in this area, but they couldn’t do it beause echidnas aren’t suited to survive in those environments. If you look at other historic Mobian empires, you’ll see that they never expanded beyond the climates they were adapted to. Humans can survive in a wide variety of climates—your ancestors could live anywhere on Terra. That isn’t true for Mobians. If we put Mobians in humanity’s position on Terra, I don’t think we would have tried to find a new planet. We don’t assume other places are suited for us.” 

After a moment, Ivo nodded. “I see. Thank you for correcting my human arrogance! I accept that some species may not find exploration as rewarding as we have.” 

It seemed as though they had fallen into taking turns, so Ivo made the next point. 

5. Some aliens preemptively eliminate other civilizations. 

“How much have you read about the voyagers?” Ivo asked.

Starline had never found history very interesting. “Not much.” 

“When they discovered intelligent life on this planet, the majority of them chose to spare you. However, a small group of them wanted to destroy you. They theorized that you would become more dangerous over time; it was clear you had no technology and would be helpless at first, but what about the future? What if you became vengeful over what we did to you? Once the technological gap between us closed, you would become a bigger threat to humanity. Do you think they may be proven correct in the future?”

He stared at the drawing of Angel Island on the board. “They already were. If humans governments weren’t scared of Mobians, they wouldn’t have signed the Convention on Cohabitation.” 

“Great observation! The islands exist to pacify you. By splitting you up and sending you to isolated territories all over the world, humans have ensured that you will remain weak and dependent on their assistance for survival. This makes it very difficult for the islands to assert their sovereignty.” Ivo leaned over and erased the territory drawings with his hand. “Let’s apply these concepts outward. If another alien race approaches this planet with the intent of being allies, will anyone welcome them with open arms?”

“No. No one assumes aliens have good intentions."

“Let’s say Earth and these aliens both had the weapons necessary to destroy each other. As we learned more about each other, do you think we would eventually use them?”

Starline bit his tongue in thought. The Earth’s experience with alien invaders had rendered it wary of other aliens. If Earth and another alien civilization came to know of each other’s existence, the aliens would eventually learn the planet’s history with other alien civilizations. This would make them worry about how Earth perceived them, regardless of Earth’s true feelings on the matter. Naturally, Earth would already be concerned over how the aliens believed Earth perceived them. The aliens would deduce this thought process eventually and worry that Earth believed that the aliens’ perception of the Earth’s perception of the aliens was hostile. The aliens would respond by fearing that the Earth’s perception of the aliens’ perception of the Earth’s perception of the aliens was also hostile. They would lose all ability to trust one another. And then they would enter a race to destroy the other civilization before they had a chance to strike first. 

The anwer to Ivo’s question was now obvious. “We would destroy each other,” Starline said. 

He thought over Earth’s invasion dynamic. As Ivo had said, one of the reasons humans spared Mobians was because their technological inferiority rendered them incapable of defending themselves. If aliens were concerned about their perceptions of each other, a way to relieve that anxiety would be to exclusively enagage with alien civilizations that did not possess the means to eliminate them. So, perhaps . . .

Starline pushed his marker against the whiteboard. 

6. Aliens only interact with technologically inferior civilizations. 

Ivo stared at the suggestion with an intense expression. His typical bemused aura was gone, and he appeared more serious than Starline had ever seen him. 

“Then we cannot allow ourselves to be inferior . . .” Ivo muttered. 

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an: ty for reading!!! <3333

[lucienne-thee-librarian]

Okay but also because I'm a pedantic bitch...in relation to that post I just reblogged explaining part of gay-on-gay bigotry...what if some people are just assholes who happen to be gay, or bi or trans? And they're all for oppression or just plain cruelty as long as it's aimed at other people? Like that's also something to consider.

I don't actually think, any longer, that "internalized self-hate projected outward and also suppressed envy for someone who's doing and being all the things you were convinced into not allowing yourself" is...all there is to this phenonemon. And I wish we'd stop fixating on that quite so much just because we want to be frankly, nicer than some of these people have ever deserved. It's always more satisfying on some level, to imagine your enemies as Tortured deep inside (whether it's because you feel a bit malicious or you just want to believe that there's a way to reach out and heal them with kindness.) than to admit that Sometimes They're Just a Shithead.

Now, do I think that complex can be a big part of it? Oh yeah. And of COURSE, different people have different motivations in different amounts and yadda yadda yadda. No group of people, ethnic, gender, political or otherwise is a Monolith. (For one thing, when it comes to these Pick-Me Gay/Trans pundits and Influencers, money and clout should never be left out as an explanation. Just saying.) But that's the point, isn't it? Any ONE explanation can't explain them all completely.

Tbh, I think we need to consider some people are just bullies who happened to be born not cis or straight. And even if they were bullied at one point for their identity, they learned absolutely nothing from the experience except Don't Be On the Social Reject Side. So they moved their thinking just enough that "woman who likes women" "man who likes men" "I just happened o want to be a woman instead, or a man instead despite how I was born" could be put in the Safe category and they fight for that. Everyone else though, is still fair game and even a fair target. Some people don't just want power to escape oppression and live their lives in peace, they WANT to BE the ones oppressing. Like, do we ACTUALLY understand that LGBT people are humans too and that that includes the bad side?

It tracks a lot better too, when you consider that a lot of people like the masc4masc gays are openly racist and fatphobic. "No fems" Yes but also "No fats. No Asians." Christ, I could think of countless examples of white thin (and sometimes but not necessary cis) queer people doing that sort of thing. I'm sure y'all can too. This idea of some poor lost soul Tormented by Self Hate and Envy of the Freedom of Others doesn't do shit to explain that. Like, even if the two things coexist and they can, it doesn't explain that part.

I honestly just think the uglier but more accurate truth is that lot of queer people aren't all Hashtag Gay or Trans Rights or aren't Liberal out of any sense of justice AT ALL but only self-interest. Being an activist because you're a member of an oppressed group is like, entirely normal and fine of course BUT it becomes real clear when someone's framework of ethics and politics is PURELY "I think me (and people I personally like and approve of) being oppressed is bad" and literally not one inch deeper.

You can tell because if it was deeper, why would they find it so easy to turn around to a fellow queer/trans person to jeer at and humiliate and throw them under the bus if they think they're a Deadweight to the group by being a Weirdo I Don't Want to Stand Next to, Eww...or if they just don't personally like them? Why have you clearly spent absolutely no time unpacking any of the prejudice and biases around gender sexuality (or GOD FORBID race) that society throws at you.. at least no more time than it takes to rationalize yourself out of the category of Should Be Destroyed and Oppressed?

We are not immune from this sort of terminally self-interested activism. I just feel like we'd get a lot further as a society, as a community, if sometimes our analysis of bullies and assholes didn't fixate on finding some deep pain and trauma inside them, to explain their actions in a way that makes them look more tortured and less malicious (even if we say, even mean, that it's not supposed to be an excuse). Sometimes people are just racist, or fatphobic. Sometimes lesbians or gay men or bi or trans people just want to be judgmental bullies too.

Sometimes the reality isn't Tragic Villain Backstory. Sometimes, its just a selfish, deeply pathetic person refusing to become any less, because it's easier not to; even if you had a unique chance to see how the other side lives, a chance your straight cis bully peers didn't get by virtue of their identities.

[puhpandas]

as someone who isnt super excited for sotm for certain reasons I am really glad that like. it's clear that since ruin theyve been setting up for carnival and sotm IS carnival. so now that carnival is finally coming out, afterwards theyll be moving on to other plotlines since the main villain stuff is sorted out

I'm just rlly happy to finally see a clear direction for how the story is gonna be playing out with like "okay these games were leading up to this so after this will be open possibilites" instead of like. absolutely no info about each upcoming game and being left guessing before it releases and just having to wait and see what's in it and if anything you're looking forward to will be in it

it feels like they have a plan and a solid direction for what they're trying to do and after carnival releases thatll be all that buildup coming to fruition. & we already know from the Scott interview that theres another release 'beyond sotm' that's 'super exciting' so maybe thatll be focusing on another big currently untouched (which is basically all of them) plotline, or even the big campaign game that dawko has been calling security breach 2

[estcaligo]

Loosing my mind here

Spoilers for Ep.7 but not really

TWST I see what you did there

And it's in Taurus

haha RIP Idia ig

(Hercules and the Maze of the Minotaur mmm)

And Silver is Taurus hmm

just a coincidence

[fireheartwraith]

Happy birthday Kacchan! Celebration with the giga cover because I only had time for one piece and I needed to get this one out of my sistem

One day I'll figure out how to draw your face, Bakugou Katsuki... but that day is not today. For now, you will continue looking derpy 🩷

[jardinvrm]

a comic I made like three months ago that I just sorta forgot about