#i hate traffic lights

[mangostar]

i’m going to kill these traffic lights

[miyamiwu]

Red and Green; Up and Down

Red and Green are very prominent colors in the Yingdu Chapter. They are the two main colors in the OP:

red and green album behind the camera; red and green basketball court

They’re even more obvious in the ED with the traffic lights:

Red phone booth, green light; red and green lights (+yellow if you count XF lol)

But Miya, they are primary/secondary colors. Of course, they’re everywhere!

Okay, but look again at this frame in the OP:

Red on the outside, and green on the inside.

Now, look at the same basketball court, but as shown before the OP in YE1:

The colors are reversed. It’s now green on the outside, and red on the inside.

There is probably more to this discrepancy if we analyze the relevant dialogue in this scene for the pre-OP and in the lyrics for the OP, but I don’t have time for that right now. Let’s just take this as a signal from the animators to focus on those two colors.

Okay, so Green and Red are relevant, but what do they have to do with Up and Down?

In YE1, there was this scene where CXS passes the ball to LG, but it then unusually focuses on the camera and not on the ball:

Our eyes can’t help but be drawn to the camera…which is pointing to the down arrows on LG’s tie. And what are those arrows pointing to?

The green lane Lu Guang is standing on. However, this lane is red in the OP. Is it really pointing at the green? Or is it pointing at the red? And why focus on the camera first instead of just focusing directly on the arrows to get the message across more clearly? Camera + Arrows. What could they mean? This is something to think about...

Then in Lu Guang’s nightmare in YE3, Vein is chasing him in a green hallway, and he escapes into a green exit with a green down arrow:

He then falls into a dark room full of red:

The Green arrow from above is pointing down to the Red room.

So, does that mean Green is Up and Red is Down? I can’t say...

In the Bloody Storm PV, we have people descending green stairs:

Only the steps are green, though. We can say that there’s green light shining from above to make it appear green. This green light can also be seen on the backs of the men.

It is also worth mentioning that @rainibao has pointed out that, in the flashes, the people are ascending the stairs:

Moreover, the green light is lost here, and we’re left with a gloomy frame full of neutral colors against a plain red background. This also happens in the part of the song where the tension builds up and Vein is about to go crazy. This is definitely relevant, seeing as in the YE3 nightmare, Lu Guang finds himself in a red room and Vein finally catches him.

Something something about Green and Order (men obediently going down the stairs; Vein forcing Lu Guang down a green hallway), and Red and Punishment (men going up the stairs as the tension builds up, Vein catching Lu Guang in a bloody room).

Anyways… Is Red up? And Green down? Or, going by the green being light from above, then is Green up and Red down? I still can’t say...

Why does it matter what direction they are?

Because in Mandarin Chinese, time is viewed in a vertical fashion. The past is above you, while the future is below you. Knowing whether red/green is up/down can help us ground ourselves in this time travel show.

There’s also this:

Red light on Lu Guang; Green light on Cheng Xiaoshi.

I’ve always found the color assignment here odd because in traffic light language, Green means go, while Red means stop. Shouldn’t CXS, who is already dead, be the one in Red since his time has stopped? They even made it a point to color him in cold neutral colors without the green light shining on him, as if to hammer in the point that he’s dead (in contrast to Lu Guang who is in warm colors when not under the red light). (It was too difficult to get a screenshot of this, but I remember seeing a draft of this animation sequence where CXS was clearly transitioning from grey to colored, while LG was more warm to colored. If anybody can find that again, please send me a link!)

Anyways, if Green Cheng Xiaoshi is Dead, then does that mean Green is Future/Down? Red Lu Guang would then be Past/Up, signifying him going back in time.

But this doesn’t align with the nightmare sequence, where Green is Up and Red is Down… But then again, it was a nightmare. Can we even trust it? Can we trust anything in this show???

Or maybe Red/Green is constantly cycling between Up/Down. Maybe one moment Red is Up and Green is down, while in the next it’s reverse. An indication of time being a closed loop in Link Click?

I don’t fucking know.

There are no conclusions here. I just thought I’d point this out so I can have more people be just as confused as me hehe.

Dumping this to you, specifically, @protect-namine

[stewykablooey]

[bossalphadotpng]

[Let the game of life begin.]

I'm so excited as this is my first life series as i just got into this fandom not to mention it's right on time for life series s6!!! (As if I'm not trying to catch up to hermitcraft and empires smp and procrastinating on my assignment and thesis)

[sugar-on-fries]

Always in the spotlight

[catskull103]

LIFE SERIES DRAWINGS FIRST POST I'LL TRY NOT TO DELETE THIS!!!

Lots of Joel and Grian, been watching limited life, they are my two favorites to draw >:0 (sorry Tim i hate drawing your hair) I love the bad boys, I love Wild life so yeah have some drawings!! :D (p.s Grian has antenna and bug wings cause i heard him call himself a Sugar Plum fairy boy ONCE and I ran with it)

OKAY BYE

[runawaymac]

They’d stand at an intersection during a particularly foggy day and cause car accidents

[almayver]

Gods, SAME Po. Same

[fix-me-sixteen]

GUESS WHO SUCCESSFULLY WATCHED WICKED!!!!

[hwanghyunjinenthusiast]

Is Red Lights one of the best Stray Kids songs of all time?

[luna-spacedoodles]

NOSEY NEIGHBORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XP

[ID: Two digital Limited Life drawings, one of Pearl and one of Big B. Pearl is holding two diamond sickles and wearing a blue cat hoodie, she also has a cat tail, against a red background. Big B is holding a diamond sword and wearing an orange frog hoodie against a blue background. They both have happy expressions with closed eyes and stuck out tongues. /End ID]

[miyamiwu]

Left is Up; Right is Down

This is a continuation of Red and Green; Up and Down (aka Traffic Light Theory)

In traffic light theory, I talked about how, in Mandarin Chinese, time is viewed vertically: The past is above you, while the future is below you. Thus, Past is Up, and Future is Down.

However, Yingdu is fictional England. And in English, time is viewed horizontally: The past is behind you, while the future is ahead of you.

But as there are no Behind and Ahead in the four cardinal directions, let’s just adopt the two directions on the x axis, Left and Right. And since English is also written from left to right, then we can say: Past is Left, and Future is Right.

So, in the context of time, Left and Up are the same, and so are Right and Down. To summarize:

Past = Left/Behind = Up

Future = Right/Ahead = Down

(Remember the list above. It will be important.)

Miya, why are you talking about more directions? Was Up and Down not confusing enough???

Because Vein is fucking ambidextrous. That’s why!

In YE1, he uses his Left hand to hold a gun meant to punish Lu Guang for changing the Past.

But in the YE2 nightmare, he uses his Right hand in a Green room while chasing Lu Guang Down:

Then, in the Red room, Vein’s Left hand is emphasized when he pulls Lu Guang Back (Behind)

In YE3, when Vein reaches out to save Xia Fei who was Under(Down)-water, he uses his Right hand:

But after he pulls him Up, his right hand is completely hidden while his Left hand is in focus

Conclusion

Once again, I bring you no definitive answers. But there’s definitely something about Vein’s hands and how he uses them for his power (whatever it may be). I’m still waiting for a Vein-centric episode to confirm my speculations.

But for now, I’m dragging the rest of the fandom into confusion :3

[eightspringdays]

city where I live: 🚨🚨WIND WARNING ⚠️⚠️

me: lmao how bad can it be- *gets smacked with a fallen tree branch in the head*

[trekkiehood]

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[relaxedstyles]

The daily commute? Ugh.

[spilling-blood]

Google still thinks I am permanently a bot so I can't use google which is fine because fuck google.