#i may be overthinking

[fuzzyoctoplushie]

YALL IM EITHER COOKING OR I’M OVERTHINKING AND SILLY AF

SO I HAVE A THEORY. That the Squid Sisters’ Summer Nights splatfest outfits are referencing Octo Expansion. JUST HEAR ME OUT

You rn probably: 🤨❓

So we know how OE opens up with an epic poem of sorts to read as a reverbed version of Calamari Inkantation fades in

The first line of that is “Pale summer moonlight shimmers on the sea floor”

And (of course) Calamari Inkantation is sung by the Squid Sisters.

KEEP THESE TWO BITS IN MIND

Callie and Marie’s outfits have shimmery clothing pieces, and new heeled boots. And to me, the boots having heels reminds me of Agent 8’s heeled boots from OE.

So we have the heeled boots, and the shimmery clothing. Now what does this have to do with my Theory?

This is for the Summer Nights splatfest.

“Pale summer moonlight shimmers on the sea floor”

So this specific line of text pops up first thing, along with Calamari Inkantation fading in when you start OE.

Am I overthinking this? Maybe- am I crazy? Find out next episode on-

It may just be a cute outfit choice in reality, but these are some things I thought of/noticed and wanted to share. Ty for reading!

(Also small bonus: their clothing is cropped like how 8’s outfit is cropped in OE but then again it’s summer so yeah cropped clothing lol)

Important message underneath cut

The original version of this post had used “Delusional” instead of “Overthinking and silly” in the title. An anon informed me how my use of the word was not appropriate for what the post was actually about. I sincerely apologize for not using the word correctly and perhaps insensitively. I have changed the title of the post to be more fitting, and without using delusional in it.

[vastlynormal]

hey hey hey, wasnt earth a libra? theres an "urgent miracle" under the libra symbol, does that mean earth will need an urgent miracle soon?

From the GO Easter Egg bts

“There isn’t a single prop or a single bit of costume that hasn’t been thought through” spoken over this thing:

It’s them and their bench:

And we are personally being attacked.

[shrieksatmidnight]

Something I noticed while playing Tales of Tribute: Is it me or does it seems like people are purposely drawing out their turn more than needed? Im not referring to decks such as the Psijic or others that require a bit thought behind the moves you want to make. The opponent seems to be purposely being slow about the move in order to frustrate you into conceding the match. I noticed this while playing during the Jubilee anniversary, with different opponents. Am I overthinking this?

Just to be clear the decks selected are not the beginner sets.

[idiosinkratico]

Did something.

[ryssbelle]

Inspired by these comics by @zivazivc and this comic by @chongotheartist

This has been chilling in my mind since I first saw ZivaZivcs comic and I finally got the energy to make it XD

[whimzycle]

you wanna know the fun thing that I noticed about Jack when I was rewatching rotg?

On both instances that Pitch was about to attack him, he froze up.

[subwaylesbians]

masai condescendingly referring to cleon as “miss”, and then a moment later cleon using it as an honorific when referring to cyrus, is such a slick way of acknowledging his hypocrisy without so much as breaking the flow of her argument

[crunchyspaghetti]

I’m so interested to know how other people perceive the team and Daisy’s arc in the beginning of season 4. I feel like I’ve seen a lot more of the “I’ll never forgive the team for how they treated her in S4” sentiment recently, which is interesting because I’ve never taken that perception away from that storyline at all.

Did the team say or do hurtful things? Yes, for sure. (I usually see the aforementioned comment on videos on that one scene with Daisy, Mack and Fitz)

But does Daisy also do and say hurtful things? I honestly think so.

That’s what makes that part of the season so phenomenal to watch, story wise. There is not black and white, good or bad, there just is. That is the reality of grief, that is the reality of mental health struggles, that is life.

There are no “right” answers when coping with the impossible, honestly. I think there are healthy and unhealthy ways to handle things, sure, but it’s not really a moral issue, on its face.

I mean, between the team and Daisy there are some rough interactions. Fitz is certainly a little hypocritical when he’s criticizing how Daisy handles things, given that he wouldn’t have reacted well if it had been Jemma. But He has been there for Daisy, up until this point at least, with Ward, her powers, they’ve been through a tremendous amount together. He feels abandoned and, yeah, he’s expressing it in a less than ideal way. But he cares. You know he cares about her. He and Mack wouldn’t be so angry if they didn’t care.

Mack is upset when he finds out Yo-Yo’s stealing the bone pills for her because 1) he’s been lied to for months, and 2) more importantly, it makes it seem that Daisy doesn’t trust him enough to directly come to him for help. That’s the thing. He would’ve helped her, probably given her anything she needed medically. She never needed to get Yo-Yo to steal any of it. It’s frustrating, it hurts. Mack is genuinely a deeply loving person, you know it’s killing him to not be able to get through to her.

Everyone on that team wants to help her, more than anything. They are begging her to let them in. I mean, lest we forget Coulson gave up his fucking job, in part, to keep chasing any lead he has on her.

When blaming the team for the rockiness at the beginning of season 4, you’re completely ignoring the fact that Daisy is actively running from them the entire time. She doesn’t want them to find her, and I really get it, honestly I do. I deal with things the way she does, radio silence, isolation, running away, being avoidant, self destruction, etc, etc.

Who could blame her, honestly? The anger and the self hatred and the guilt and the grief. Lord knows I’d take off, shut myself out. How do you even begin to manage that kind of pain, especially when it’s still fresh?

Well, you manage it any way that you can. For Daisy that means trying to atone for all of the pain she caused, which, are also things that caused her pain. Especially at the beginning of the season, it doesn’t matter how much she’s told that she is forgiven. Lincoln was at peace with his decision to sacrifice himself, Mack forgave her for hurting him while she was under the influence of Hive. Nobody is directly blaming her, except for herself. To try to heal from the pain she is in, would mean being able to extend herself grace, mercy. The only person who needs to forgive her, is herself. And she just- can’t.

She believes that all she does is hurt the people around her, which is what she is grasping onto to justify hurting herself. The hard truth of living that way is that when you’re stuck in your own, self harm, self hatred, shame-spiral is that you are the only person who can break out of it.

That’s a huge part about what I love about the storytelling of this arc. It’s genuinely some of the best mental health representation I’ve seen in a show like this.

Obviously, mental illness is not your fault. Being stuck in a bad place is not your fault. Daisy is not at fault for her grief. Her descent into isolation and a self-hatred, suicidal, shame-spiral does not in any way mean that she is a bad person. But there’s only so much another person can do when it comes to a battle that is completely contained within your own brain.

The team never stopped caring about her. Coulson, May, and Yo-Yo, specifically, never gave up on her. That’s important. She would’ve most likely been dead if they had stopped giving a shit about her. That’s significant.

But they’re not mind readers.

To go back to the scene with Mack and Fitz too. I think that scene is really important because it’s Daisy being confronted with the reality that her actions, her running away, isolating herself, really is hurting the people that love and care about her. She runs away to protect them from that very reality, of course, but how could they know that?

She doesn’t want them to care, and she hopes that if she just pushes them hard enough, if she bares her metaphorical fangs, they’ll stop. She’s accepted being alone, she’s accepted her own self destruction, because even if it hurts them at first, even if she’s absolutely miserable, they’ll be safe. Inside, she’s unwilling to admit that she needs them, and she’s acting in a way that allows her to avoid the cognitive dissonance of her actions (i.e. yo-yo stealing the pills they’d willingly give her if she asked).

But the fact that she’s hurting them doesn’t push them away. It just makes everything hurt more for everyone. She wants to embody that hurt, she’s cannibalizing her self to try to take on that pain but it doesn’t make anything better.

This storyline is not a case of right and wrong, if anything it’s an antithesis to it. It’s about how the ambiguity of life and grief and mental health are like tangled strings, messy and knotted, it’s about the love and effort and dedication it takes to hang on to/fight your way back to the people that love you, it’s about the strength it takes to carry on and forgive yourself, and, as May tells Daisy once she comes back, it’s about that: “you can’t choose who cares about you”.

[downsteepy]

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EDIT: NEW COMM TYPE!!

[ryemiffie]

Just a thought I had okay, just a thought I had!

Bill: Damn it Ford, it's like you bacame a whole new person when we broke up!

Ford: What?! We never "broke up"!

Bill: ..oh my amphibian in the sky, were you not breaking up with me? Was it just a regular arguement and I jumped to conclusions and you never really wanted to leave me??!

Ford: What? No! We never broke up cause we were never together!

Bill: Babe, that really hurts my feelings when you say stuff like that, if we're gonna make this work you need to start thinking before you speak.

Ford: ??

Ford: Don't call me babe! We're not together!

Bill: You never used to have a problem with me calling you babe before.

Ford: That's cause I thought you were doing it ironically!

Bill: Oh babe, that's such a classic you move.

Ford: Stop that!

[wolfythewitch]

I don't know who Ford is (presumably not Ford Prefect, but what the hell you can queer headcanon the whole hhg2g cast if you want, I'm not a cop) but is he the type who wouldn't feel the need for top surgery due to being so flat chested, but get the scars tattooed on anyway?

As a character? I think he'd do anything to pass so tattoos would be too eye-catching

[sillysoliloquyshits]

Okay so while some do miss the younger Ne Zha for his cute crudeness, there are some reasons (in a literary sense) to why he would likely continue to be (cough hot) in his teenage/adult form:

(spoilers for Ne Zha 2) (TW: mentions of suicide)

1. Loss of innocence

After so much that happened, and especially seeing his mom die in front of him, the awful scene of him shredding out of his flesh is a painful visual of how dark reality and grief have killed his innocence and nothing will be the same after. As if his childlike self has died with his mom and childhood is over. (Some have said that perhaps Ne Zha didn't think so far and just wanted to destroy his own flesh and join his mom in death which makes reconstruction of the body something that naturally happened so yeah very dark-)

2. Emotional maturity (and rebelling)

Lady Yin's last words profoundly impacted how Ne Zha viewed himself, as previously with him trying to suppress his demonic nature and wishing he weren't the demon pill, now he has internalized on how he shouldn't deny himself any longer and be caught in his own insecurities, so as he said in the last few scenes, he's no longer going to hide either way. Ne Zha also realised the oppressive societal nature of labels and knows that just because he's exploding with demonic energy shouldn't dictate him as totally evil, so continuing in his adult form is a rebellion against what heaven tries to dictate him in the future, in which he's much more confident in his skin moving forward.

3. Almost nothing to lose

So the Qian Kun Ring around his neck was used to suppress Ne Zha's demonic nature since he wasn't supposed to be the reincarnated demonic pill, but now his spiritual identity is exposed, no point hiding it anyway, go all out in rebelling. It's a clear sign that Ne Zha has much more control over his fate and identity when he doesn't have anything to hide or lose.

4. Carrying on his parents' legacies/memories

It's my own theory but seeing that as a teenage form Ne Zha really resembles his mom much more and has his dad's eyes, perhaps subconsciously he really wanted to carry on his mother's memory now that he likely won't see her again, and keep living on as his parents wanted him to since the first movie. And with him becoming more mature and serious comes a more nuanced grasp on his own masculinity since Ne Zha has become more gentle and less scared of vulnerability (around a certain someone), so maybe it's also his way to carry on his mother's gentleness to him moving forward.

5. A kind of spiritual purgatory

The transformation is practically a baptism in fire, where the cauldron Samadhi flames were said to be the same flames Ne Zha innately emits. And with Samadhi in Buddhism meaning a state of intense concentration through meditation to help liberate oneself spiritually (which explains why everyone had to be in meditating position to ensure they're not easily turned into divine pills), it's under the cauldron's flames that Ne Zha also became symbolically liberated from his old fears and constraints and returned to his own original spiritual self (albeit demonic but in a good way). With newfound inner clarity and focus from controlling the reconstruction of his self and physical body, it could explain why Ne Zha was much more sane even without the Qian Kun Ring and even had much more control over it without reading any spells. Therefore with maintaining his teenage form, Ne Zha also learnt to become more honest in his spiritual state and sense of self unlike other spirits who hide behind their glamorous humanoid forms often.

Tldr again: the kid has grown up, yeah, but don't worry he likely hasn't changed much as people did realise Ne Zha in teenage form also pouts quite a bit like he used to so that's one thing that's cute 🥺🥺

[dahlia-tourism-board]

I'm currently browsing the Redacted merch page and I am so torn between buying everything of my fave boys and absolutely not wanting someone irl to clock that I listen to Redacted

[I am tempted by the Imperium and E&E Games stuff though]

[tohruies]

hihi mutuals… i think you should interact with this post if i am allowed to randomly gift you little moodboards + accompanying drabbles (?) about your selfship like… this 🫣

[cult-of-the-eye]

guys why would alice invite her ex and his new gf to her little brother's show? i've got a few thoughts

she's trying to keep sam from drifting off by establishing a neutral middle ground for everyone to be at, where she is still comfortable

she's lonely. she doesn't have anyone else to ask.

her brother needs the people? (not sure about this one cause it seemed packed later on in the episode but he was also asking for money so maybe she thinks he needs the people?)

this is a desperate last ditch attempt at keeping everyone together. she can feel the gap widening and she can't have that

she's also somehow keeping up appearances of unbothered by the horrors and therefore exempt from it

she's trying to establish a middle ground that is exempt from the horrors to save sam from whatever fate he might have

[thisonelikesaliens]

random notes musings on special episode 3:

"you're always thinking of action scenes"

(the double meaning should be pretty clear)

this is probably just me overthinking because 男一 (male one) is the term for male lead, but 1 = gong and 0 = shou should be common knowledge (i'm not getting into the discourse on that) so makes me wonder what exactly Xiao Long's play/movie is about, and even though Xiao Zhi clarified it was a family drama, Chen Li said this:

骨科 (gǔ kē) outside of the QL world is orthopedics, but within the context of danmei it is blood relations, usually but not limited to brothers. 偽骨科 (偽 = fake) is the stepbrother trope