#dghda spoilers

[jus-alilcomforblelad]

falling into the abyss of television static like in that one episode

[bitchinthematrix]

Amanda Brotzman took the Rowdy 3 to see Barbie, and was too flabbergasted by how still and quiet the boys were being to pay much attention to the movie.

they stayed completely stationary and engrossed in the film, up until the last joke before the credits rolled. Amanda looked over at them, only for Vogel to be the only one there. The other three dipped before Vogel could ask them what a gynecologist is.

Pricks.

[frenchfriedgiraffe]

friedkin being basically the only other person who seems to (slighty) understand people’s holistic abilities (aside from the holistics themselves) is such a good fucking ending for his character. for the entirety of the show he was reduced to a “dumb idiot”, so much so that when he pulls a gun on ken in the final episode, ken just tells him to stop being a moron. thats how much he’s underestimated by all the other characters, even when threatening someone they just assume he doesnt know what hes doing. but despite working for blackwing for years, and eventually “running” the place, he still has a sort of redemption at the end, proving that he can push through everything he’s been told, proving everyone wrong about his intelligence. “you can’t control it, that’s not how it works” damn right friedkin. rest in peace you would have loved audiobooks.

also: in the backstage, todd and amanda both have black blobby eye thingies. but friedkins eyes are red. idk what that means but it measn something.

[lavinialost]

i think I’m on to something here

[lichanicksstuff]

I'm currently watching Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency and the second season is basically:

✨️Living the dream!✨️ (gone wrong)

[clockworkcheetah]

todd doing the Apology Dance™️for dirk after a spat

[12654254]

happy times

[djarinsdragons]

Spoilers for Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (for anyone who never watched it)

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So I’ve been rewatching DGHDA & I’m also working on some DGHDA drawings. Well the one drawing I’m working on has Martin in his Blackwing jumpsuit & I’ve just realized something, Mr. Priest said that Project Incubus (the Rowdy 3) was originally just 3 & it went to chaos when Vogel was added into the mix. But if you look at the Project Incubus logo, it’s a circle with lines coming off it like 4 stick figures (pictured below). So clearly, there was always supposed to be 4 members of Project Incubus & not 3 like Mr. Priest makes it seem.

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#5

I love how vampires in tma are depicted as the most grotesque creatures that the human mind could ever imagine. They're super difficult to kill and they're generally really fucked up.

And then vampires from wwdits are:

Horny

Goth

Queer

Oh yes.

And dumb as fuck (affectionate)

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Okay but I want mooooooree of Makkari and Kingo's friendship. I'm talking about them watching all of Kingo's movies and Makkari being so hyped and Sprite joining in just to roast Kingo's ass. Or Kingo teaching Makkari what an iPad and a Kindle is.

And more of the girls friendship too. Like, yeah Thena kicks ass but she will never skip Self Care Saturday Night™ with the girls.

Give me a timeline where they're all living "a la 2012 Avengers" and they have movie night, where Gilgamesh is the cook of the family, and where Sprite and Druig have abandoned society to live in the vents. I want found family. Give me the found family.

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Viktor 🤝 Finn

Not having a last name and stealing their husband's

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#2

Trying to contribute to the greatest fandom in the world, since writing and making art takes me A LOT I'll just gift you this.

263 notes - Posted November 23, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Me, now that the Shadow and Bone season 2 teaser trailer came out:

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#5

Can’t believe how… real Heartstopper is. I mean I’m only on episode 1 I’m not even talking about the plot, the setting and dialogue is literally just….. being at secondary school in the UK. It’s ridiculously realistic hope there’s a nice Spanish teacher

83 notes - Posted April 26, 2022

#4

Okay I was rambling about this in someone else’s post so let me just bring it here

I really appreciate Tao for many reasons but one of them is that he occupies a particular Type of Student that I see in schools all the time. Tao fully Cannot Shut Up Ever.

And it’s refreshing to see from a victim of bullying* because TV tends to only show the ‘say nothing run away’ type of person but high schools are full of people like Tao, who are told they make things worse for themselves because they talk back.

The chorus of sarcastic “oooooo”s from the rugby boys when Tao returns Harry’s insults - that’s realism baby. It’s the behaviour that makes teachers say “you’re giving them what they want”, “they’re just doing it for a reaction”, etc. Most media will have the Charlie type faced with these comments from adults, nonsensically because ??? he’s so used to being insulted that he really does just walk on by. But writers know that teachers say it so they’ll include the lines even when it doesn’t make narrative sense. Rarely do we see somebody actually “fEeD” the bullies and get laughed at more - because it’s easier to sympathise with Charlie who ducks his head and refuses the conflict than with Tao who says “and what???????” Even as viewers, we think “Yikes Tao” a little bit even though we know the “bring it on yourself” spiel is damaging garbage.

But not everyone can do the Charlie thing. He confronts Ben when it gets personal, but he just ignores Harry and the bystanders as part of his everyday existence. That takes a certain quality - not inherently brave or cowardly - that some people (particularly if they feel that they’re only involved in a conflict to defend a friend - Tao, baby, even if Charlie didn’t exist they’d come for you) just don’t possess. When angry or hurt they lash out and - gosh, this show is so wonderfully made - even though Tao towers over some of those year 11s, you can see how ridiculous and little they find him when he gives in and talks back. Somehow we can see him through their eyes, even as we hate them. They looooove when he goes for Harry. Wind up the weirdo and watch him spin! Ooh, we’ve got him really mad now! What’s he gonna do?

Because Tao is kind of secondary to the bullying storyline, we don’t have to suffer through a teacher telling him he should just walk off like Charlie - and it seems like the school excludes the older kid without punishing the younger one at all, which 👏🏻 in this situation was absolutely the right call. Even though it’s not specifically addressed, I love that we have this kind of character in Tao. And the fact that it feeds in to misunderstandings in the friend group (Tao assuming that Charlie won’t tell him about Nick because he’s outspoken around the rugby team) is better still, narratively speaking. Just, very much wow to Heartstopper’s depiction of secondary school society, nasty year 11 jocks in particular, and mouthy weirdos especially.

I never got bullied. On this spectrum I was probably Isaac - I was friends with the kids who got bullied but never worth being on anyone’s radar (or particularly invested in anyone nonfictional). My boyfriend very much did get bullied and was quite Tao about it for years before despair drove him Charlieward. That evolution exists too, when you start to believe the teachers’ claims that you could stop this all by just not engaging (and, nope, it doesn’t stop it for Charlie anyway, and just feeds in to his feelings of worthlessness). Just, so much admiration for this portrayal, for a whole cast of characters with their own responses, and a narrative that never holds the victims accountable for being picked on, however instinct guides them to react.

*yes, they were bullying him as well as Charlie imo.

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Fill in the blanks: the year is 20 _ _ and Russell T Davies has just announced a new companion, a young white woman with blonde hair called _illie, playing a character called R_ _ _

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#2

If Yasmin Finney is playing Donna & Shaun’s daughter, called Rose because of The Memories bleeding through and I’m not saying I even believe it necessarily but if she is, then I am currently wondering whether the character is cis or whether a conversation happened at some point where she said to Donna, “Hey mum, what would you have named me if you’d known I was a girl all along?” and Donna put her head on one side and said, “You know… I’ve always felt like the name Rose was right somehow.”

Anyway that’s what I’m thinking about this morning although for the record it would be funny as heck if she’s just a random girl named Rose and the Doctor has to face facts that he might just have two friends with the same fairly common human name

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heartstopper is such a breath of fresh air, and not just for the obvious lgbt reasons, but for being a teen romance of any kind that generates high drama, shock reveals and cliffhangers out of normal everyday events that actually would and could happen in a uk school and just generally deals with teenage sexuality without sexualising the characters. like I know these are chiefly fledgling relationships so should netflix survive there might well be development in future seasons involving activity somewhere south of kissing but just honestly wow @ the detailed, thoughtful storytelling that series 1 manages without ever once even toying with the idea that any of these characters would, should or could be sleeping together at this stage in their relationships. beautifully delivered. 10/10 wonderful.

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[ehud1564]

I see your "Todd brings Dirk to family dinner and relationship shenanigans ensue" and raise you "Amanda brings the Rowdy three to family Dinner."

Think of the Chaos that would create.

[thesevenumbrellas]

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective live watch (part 1)

Frodo has changed!

This has exactly Guns Akimbo energy.

Frodo still has a really nice facial structure...

“I hate men” she needs a spa day...

Dude just tell everyone someone beat up ur car and they’ll cut u some slack.

OH ITS HIM! But not him!? Him from the future?

The lotto number thing would make more sense if I know what day it was supposed to be. Is that from the next day?

They really called a young priest and an old priest, huh?

I hope when I’m murdered the crime scene looks exactly like this.

You think it was Todd cuz he was late to work? That makes no sense. Why would him being late to work mean he murdered someone? That’s the weakest evidence ever. Also you wouldn’t tell your lead suspect that you suspected them during the first five minutes of talking with them. That’s just bad detective work.

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HE HAS HE GORILLA MASK?? HE DID IT?? AND THE CAT??

[protecticarus]

and i have 0 regrets

[urlocallesbiab]

a dghda s2/s3 theory: the universe meant for amanda to become an omniscient master of backstage knowledge, and friedkin took that place instead of her through a series of mistakes

(this post gets Very Long, but you can scroll right to the end for a TL;DR)

now, allow me to provide some context before i delve into an explanation

first, a precursory theory: if suzie boreton died like she was meant to, then lord triangle badevil would have became the mage's apprentice

in s2ep1 bart makes a choice not to kill suzie, even though she feels like she should; and then throughout the season the fact that suzie isn't meant to be a part of things is alluded to:

1) in the end of s2ep8 dirk gives his usual Case Solved speech where he explains how everything is connected, but he doesn't know how suzie boreton figures into things; she's not, technically, a part of his case

2) in s2ep10 todd asks her who is she and why is she there, and accuses her of being "some mom from montana", which further drives the point home

3) king francis has no knowledge of her either, even though he seems to be able to know relevant things that he could neither witness nor hear about (like farah and tina defeating the mage)

so, suzie's boreton entire character arc exists by mistake; and yet the prophecy (as foretold by wakti wapnasi, and as spoken by panto trost in s2ep3) makes a point about the great dark wizard finding his apprentice — that means that role was meant for someone.

lord triangle badevil is a mysterious figure who plays a significant role in the plot (his men kidnap farson and later amanda in s2ep4, he kills farson and thus causes a massive shoot-out in s2ep7, and he kills some people in his attempts to stop the prophecy in eps 9 and 10), and yet we know infuriatingly little about him, his goals and his views, like he was meant to be explored but got forgotten about.

he has markings on his face (pitch-black with negative-space geometrical figures) which are never discussed, but seem to be the same sort of marks that appear on arms of both the mage and suzie boreton from magic overuse, and that seems to suggest that he is, in some way, a magic user, or at least was exposed to magic somehow.

all things considered, i propose that lord triangle badevil, a mysterious actor of evil and supposedly a magic user, was meant to be the prophecied apprentice & the big bad, but got displaced by suzie, who wound up in the narrative by mistake.

next, an observation: wendimoor's magic, pararibulitis and backstage are closely linked

it's not much of a novel revelation, but i'm trying to be thorough, so here

— both amanda&todd and later friedkin could access backstage through the magical portals between earth and wendimoor

— most powerful beings of wendimoor (wakti wapnasi, the great witch; king francis) seem to be omniscient or close to, and omniscience is a backstage characterestic

(they both know things about earth they shouldn't be able to know, like wakti about amanda's name, or francis about farah&tina's win over the mage; and metaphysical things that are nigh impossible to be logically derived from facts, like holistics being the tools to fix the broken universe)

— pararibulitis expresses itself as tangible magic within wendimoor, and is tied to wielding the water/portals and to the visions

— visions are also a form of mystical knowledge, and thus could be sourced from backstage

(the exact reasons of how/why the connection between wendimoor and backstage could've happened have no bearing on this post, but so far my working theory is that the explosive creation of a whole new layer of reality pushed at the borders of the universe and stretched them/thinned them out, and that's why it's easier to slip from the material world of the universe to the immaterial not-world of the backstage when in wendimoor)

now, a couple of tidbits about amanda and the mandelbrot set:

— her name, amanda brotzman, is a pun on "mandelbrot set" (the showrunner talked about this somewhere; i don't know the source, i've learned about this somewhere in the ao3 comment section)

— mandelbrot set's visualisation is the shape that appears in people's eyes when they're backstage

— it's the same shape as on amanda's s2 jacket

— it's a recurring shape in her visions

(a tangent: now, i don't know much about mathematics so forgive me if i get the words wrong, but mandelbrot set's boundary is a fractal curve, meaning that if you zoom into the mandelbrot set's visualisation's border, you'll find more of the same shape, ad infinitum. this fun quality of the set has no bearing on this specific post and theories within it, but i think such a plot-important shape having this "as above, so below" flair to it could have meaning for the pontetial s3 plot)

— the prophecy mentions she-who-sees-all who was supposed to open a door into a dream, allowing through it dirk gently and the boy; that most probably references amanda, her visions and her ability to create portals through water

finally, the theory:

— amanda brotzman, mandelbrot set, visions, pararibulitis, wendimoor magic and backstage are all interconnected

— amanda was supposed to be she who sees all; backstage seems to have granted hugo friedkin omniscience

— stangely, amanda didn't see any higher meaning in the stars when she was there, and her eyes were the same color as todd's; when friedkin got there, his eyes were red, and he was enlightened

— there were a couple of things different about how amanda and hugo accessed backstage: amanda got there only mentally while her body was elsewhere, she was there together with todd, and she was alive; hugo's body fell through the portal, he was alone, and he was either dead or dying. any of those things, i think, could be what allowed him to connect to the backstage's knowledge. (my personal interpretation is that it's the part about dying, just to sprinkle more angst and terror into amanda's s3 conflict over it)

— hugo got into that predicament (alone, dying, pushed physically through a portal) because he was grievously wounded by lord badevil; if lord wasn't there, none of that would've happened. and as i have argued above, i believe that lord badevil wasn't supposed to be there! it's a chain reaction of displacement — suzie took lord badevil's place, he ended up killing hugo, and hugo took amanda's place

TL;DR: suzie boreton was never meant to survive bart, she displaced lord triangle badevil as the mage's apprentice, lord wound up on earth and killed hugo, hugo fell through the portal and became the master of the knowledge that amanda was supposed to be, displacing her.

we can suspect that the place was reserved for amanda because of the ties between pararibulitis, magic, her, mandelbrot set and backstage, and because she was canonically refered to as "she who sees all"