#i have. many thoughts

[alcordraws]

Some thoughts I wrote down during my English dub rewatch. Have I mentioned how much I love the expressions in this show??

[nok-joke]

I think people should consider Viktor with more Zaun kid habits,

viktor sitting on tables and stuff. sometimes you see him sitting on railing or that he's?? Somehow gotten somewhere weird you're not supposed to be? And jayce is just like "WTF THATS DANGEROUS HOW DID YOU GET THERE?" and viktors just like "it's only dangerous if you're stupid"

Jayce is telling childhood stories about getting into trouble and Viktor is nodding along like "i never was able to climb as well as the other kids, but I have spent my fair share of time crawling through pipes and vents" and jayce just "you what"

One day jayce forgets his keys to the lab and so does viktor but viktor is just like "don't worry I got this" and either lock picks the door, or disappears for a while and reappears inside of the lab. Whether through the vents or like a window or smth.

Jayce looking at some food like "im.. not sure if this is still good, we should throw it out just in case" and viktor just. Takes a bite, shrugs, and goes "no, no, still fine", or viktor just having weird food habits and jayce just. Stands there debating bringing Viktor a real lunch.

Sometimes jayce finds viktor working sitting under the desk and he has come to accept that sometimes viktor can just think easier down there. Gets him a pillow or smth to sit on. Debates testing if enclosed spaces feel more comfortable by seeing if Viktor would sit in a cardboard box (he would)

Jayce is like "oh we are using some chemicals for this, probably need masks so we don't inhale any" and viktors just like "this is pussy shit. Watch this" and commits 18 osha violations.

heimerdinger has regularly longed for the ability to be able to scruff Viktor like a cat bc of the random things he gets up to.

Viktor having a bad habit of nicking small things he thinks no one will notice being gone because that's just how he grew up. It's just part of the life style really.

Viktor being a lot more blunt and open about taboo topics and occasionally rolling his eyes at Piltover customs or how they do things. Once he's truly comfortable around Jayce he will jokingly tease and complain about the differences. Poking fun at how easy it is to embarrass Piltover folk with taboo topics or smth like that

[skulandcrossbones]

The new first mate always kills the old first mate. It's always been like that. It's about trust. -> ofmd 2x02: red flags

[amelikos]

I want a whole movie about the original Explorers..

[sunjestic]

Yeah my day’s going well, thanks for asking.

[rubyloops]

tonight i am thinking about mark hoffman and angelina acomb and how they mirror william easton and pamela jenkins. pamela and angelina don’t share surnames with their brothers, evident in half-siblings. both of the sisters are their respective brothers’ only family. and they are all afflicted by the tragic siblings curse, with mark losing angelina and pamela losing william. i feel sick

[yourdeepestfathoms]

Oxenfree Headcanons but they’re just about Alex being freed from the loop by Riley

Being brought back to reality is incredibly jarring after spending five years in the loop.

First of all.

Panic attack.

This is not a part of the script. This has NEVER been a part of the script. She’s given up on getting free a long time ago, but now she suddenly IS FREE, and it doesn’t make sense.

Cue Riley having to quickly calm her down.

Second of all.

MAJOR sensory overload.

She’s so used to the loop, reacting to the exact same stimulus, that so much other sensory input is extremely overwhelming. Her senses have basically heightened, and now everything is too much, too much, too much.

The sun is too bright. It feels like her corneas are being melted off or her eyeballs are being carved out with hot iron tools. Colors are so vivid and vibrant, and it gives her a headache.

Every single sound grates on her ears. The splashing of the water, the chatter of other people, the blare of the ferry’s horn. Even Riley’s voice, soft and gentle, is enough to make her ears bleed.

The smells. Saltwater, gasoline, wet grass, smoke from a burnt out campfire, baked goods from a storefront, even her own unwashed body. It stings her nose and makes her nauseous.

And the sensations.

Oh god, the sensations.

Every single touch is mind-shattering agony.

Her skin is so unused to feeling anything beyond what’s scripted in the loop that everything is foreign, terrifying, and painful.

Riley supporting her weak body is like being stabbed right in the arms.

It’s so bad that even her hair brushing against the nape of her neck is like dragging a serrated saw blade across an exposed bundle of nerves.

She feels so raw.

But that’s not the only thing she feels.

She can feel everything going on inside, too.

Her biological processes completely stopped while in the loop, and after awhile, most of her organs stopped functioning, too. The Sunken would keep her alive, after all, so there was no need to expend energy on things that didn’t need to work.

But now that she’s out of the loop, her entire organ system is rudely awakened like they’ve just been shocked by jumper cables.

And she can feel all of it.

In her stomach, her small intestines writhe like eels.

In her chest, she can feel her lungs expand and deflate.

When she speaks, her vocal cords rub together like the slimy legs of a cricket.

She’s acutely (and uncomfortably) aware of every vein transporting blood through her body, every twitch of her diaphragm, every beat of her heart.

Her fingernails connected to her nail beds, her hair sprouting from her scalp, her teeth growing in her gums—she feels it!

And, for a moment, she considers asking Riley to throw her back into the loop like she’s a fish being returned to a lake.

Sure, the loop was a fate worse than death, but at least she doesn’t feel like this.

But she endures. She has to.

She just wishes her body would make it a little easier.

So, she’s freed, and everything hurts!

But despite this, she still can’t bring herself to pry away from Riley, who she’s been clinging to ever since she got free like the woman is her lifeline.

And, to her, Riley very well may be one.

Alex is so afraid that if she lets go for even a second, her connection to the real world will snap, and she’ll be right back in hell.

But they can’t stay like that forever, and when Riley eventually coaxes her to let go, nothing happens. She’s still solid. She’s still stable.

Walking is kinda hard. I feel like gravity in the loop and gravity in the real world, as well as gravity in the void, which she definitely spent time in, is very different from each other.

It certainly doesn’t help that when she stands, she can feel the aching drag of her tendons in her legs and the discomforting creak of her knees trying to support her.

For lack of better words, she looks like a baby horse trying to walk for the first time.

Maybe if she wasn’t in such a deep daze, she would have cared more about how silly she looks.

Because, oh yeah! She is still heavily in shock. What happened, being set free, hasn’t really caught up to her just yet. She’s only dimly aware of what’s happening to her.

But the pain? The pain she’s fully aware of.

She doesn’t get mercy from that.

Because when is the world ever that kind to her?

Anyway.

The early morning this is hypothetically set in is pretty cool, but Alex is shivering like she’s naked in Antarctica.

Her body isn’t really used to regulating its own temperature.

So she’s just so cold.

Riley gives her her jacket to try and keep her warm. The last thing she or Jacob need is the poor kid keeling over from hypothermia.

Speaking of those two!

They have obtained a void child! What now?

Well…neither of them know.

When they went to the island, they were expecting spooky ghost shenanigans. They were expecting weird cult bitches. They were expecting the concept of time being majorly fucked up.

But a tortured child trapped in a time loop? They never could have predicted that.

It’s kind of like unexpectedly picking up a puppy that’s being sold on the side of the road, but no. It’s really not. Because at least caring for a puppy is common knowledge. Something you can get the supplies for with ease.

What the hell do you do for a teenager rescued from the void?

They decide that’s something they can mull over later. Right now, they need to get the hell out of dodge.

So, they decide to take Alex back to Riley’s house and go from there. What else is there to do?

Operation Disguise A Girl Who Went Missing Five Years Ago So She Won’t Be Recognized: COMMENCE!

Alex has Riley’s jacket on, so that’s one thing covered, and Jacob tucks all her hair up into a hat to hide that, too. And then she’s told to keep her head down and don’t talk to anyone.

She’s fine with that. She’s not really in a talking mood, truthfully.

Jacob probably has to carry her to the ferry because, like. Homegirl is having some trouble walking. Also still having a sensory overload. Also still in a lot of pain.

Alex has another panic attack while they’re going across the water on the ferry because she’s never made it to the other side. So she’s just waiting for the illusion to shatter, and for the void to press itself in again.

But that doesn’t happen.

That’s what makes her a little more lucid. Everything starts to feel a little less like a dream and a lot more real.

Riley keeps assuring her again and again that she’s safe, that she’s okay, that she won’t let anything happen to her, and that she definitely won’t let her go back to that horrible rift, and Alex is just so daunted because it’s been so long since anyone has treated her with kindness beyond the scripted lines spoken in the loop.

The moment she gets to the car, she passes out. Somewhat from the pain, mostly from fatigue.

It’s been FIVE YEARS since she’s had a nap. She is EXHAUSTED.

Riley and Jacob are pretty shot, too, but they shake it off for the sake of the girl. They can rest later, once this is all settled.

They go pick up breakfast and then have no idea what to get Alex. And they don’t really want to wake her up because she’s clearly tired.

“A sausage, egg, and cheese sandwich sounds good enough, right?” “What if she’s a vegan? Or a vegetarian?” “Shit, you’re right. Do you think she is?” “I don’t know! Should I wake her up?” “No! No. Let her rest. We’ll think of something.”

“No, Jacob, we’re not giving her coffee. I think coffee will stop her heart.”

They do eventually have to wake Alex up when they get back to Riley’s house.

Riley gives her a little tour.

Alex, although tired and dazed, gets the gist.

Now that she’s awake, they give her the food they bought, but she isn’t up to eating very much. Even though it’s been five years since she’s eaten anything (or drank anything, aside from a little alcohol in a few of the loops), and even though she should be hungry, the mere idea of food makes her even more nauseous than she already is.

But Riley convinces her to at least eat a little bit, just to have something in her stomach, and Alex complies.

She has to stop after just three bites, though, because the tastes are so strong they burn her mouth, and she almost throws up.

But at least she’s eaten something.

Riley then convinces her to take a shower while Jacob runs to the store to get her some clothes that he hopes will fit. After all, they can’t have her lying around in the frankly disgusting clothing she has on.

Even though she’s extremely exhausted, a shower does sound nice, so Alex agrees.

Maybe she can wash away all the trauma sticking to her skin like glue.

(Ha.)

(As if it would ever be that easy.)

Parting with her jacket is a bit difficult, but Riley swears up and down she’ll give it right back after it’s washed, which she does while Alex is in the shower.

In hindsight, perhaps letting the barely awake girl in a ton of pain take a shower unassisted wasn’t the best plan.

The hot water is like an assault on Alex’s sensitive skin.

It’s so excruciating that she literally goes blind for a few seconds.

Long story short, she blacks the fuck out, and Riley has to go do ANOTHER rescue mission to help her.

After that whole ordeal, Alex is dressed in the clothes that Jacob bought (he had to guess on her size, but it was good enough), got her newly washed jacket back, and then promptly conked out again, this time in an actual bed.

Meanwhile, Riley and Jacob slump into the couch and reflect on what the fuck they’ve gotten themselves into.

Here’s some fun appearance things as a bonus!!

A majority of Alex’s hair is chopped off because it kept bothering her (see the part where her skin is so sensitive that even her ponytail brushing her neck hurts). And they need to try to make her look not like herself.

They don’t go to a hair salon, as they’re afraid she may get recognized, so Jacob very confidently takes scissors to Alex’s hair while Riley supervises anxiously.

The result is…very messy. Even when Jacob was looking at a WikiHow article on how to cut hair (with pictures!). There are uneven parts and it kinda sticks out weirdly, but Alex doesn’t really seem to mind.

They also have to re-dye her hair. Alex doesn’t care what color, so Riley and Jacob argue over what’ll look the best. Alex gets a little kick out of it.

They settle on green.

Okay, so y’all know the whole glowing red eyes thing? Well, consider: Alex’s eyes are permanently red. Like, the irises. It’s like they’ve been branded by the possession she once went through.

Also consider: Alex, covered in scars from injuries in past loops.

[thedeafprophet]

The thing is I think January doesn't believe in g-d but in a very specifically bitter and cynical jewish way. The customs and the cultures still hold a very important place, evidently, and fundamentally shapes her world view.

But i can't imagine a concept such as belief would come easy to her

[esteemed-excellency]

I have to try to get some sleep because it's super late rn, but I will elaborate on hiram's soul tomorrow

[callingsauls]

haven’t finished the last 3 episodes yet but im already envisioning how i would rewrite arcane season 2

[ludinusdaleth]

theres something funny to me about a lot of fandom demanding this cr campaign be fully pro-exandrian gods, and using full blooded paladins as examples of how to enact it, ignoring deanna's humble take on faith. meanwhile. matt is smacking yall with how issylra’s rich religious institution they want to see take a righteous lawful good spotlight is a deeply fucked genuinely imperialist system

[pokerized]

lloyd and whitney… lloyd and whitney.

[pastacurls]

In a perfect universe that pidgeon lady from home alone two adopted Kevin and they feed the birds together every day. Also uncle Frank gets set on fire.

[thedeafprophet]

would love to hear any other impressions you have of that story!

I enjoyed it! I still think Reunion was more fun, but thats probably down to particular tastes in the matter.

I actually really enjoyed the further insight into the servantry at The Palace which i was not expecting to get a look into. Similar to one of my fave aspects of The Bloody Wallpaper, I really just like learning about the day to day operation inside of these places. Also the like... casuality of the cage gardens and people working there made the horror of the place all the more strong. wow

Another thing I found interesting was the theme it, while maybe not introduced here, was the generational aspect when it comes to the themes of trauma with the red honey? The idea of children and a parents affect on them i'd say is just as much the theme of this ES as the trauma/horrors of war aspect are imo - perhaps you could argue they tie in together,

We see it with the in the old nursemaid laundry room,

"Children need love.....' "....They're all still searching for love, you know. One of them calls it romance, another calls it glory, but every one of them is looking in the wrong place. "

This is further brought up when we learn about the contaiminent from years ago (perhaps the bad batch referenced in the gift?) with the hive still troubled from it.

"Bee societies are complex. Trauma echoes through the generations."

Which i think ties in to the theme pretty directly....

And this all culiminates together with The Princes' memories - his mothers neglect as a child being what leads to his aims as a teen, which leads to the horrorible action in the war, and other gettings hurt, which leads to his own corruption and self pain. Its generational. The hive remembers.

The red honey ties into all of this, and serves as a representation for the way this will consume people. The honey that was given to children to keep them quiet.

While of course adults must be held accountable for the actions they make, we see through this that the palace's children had very, very little say into who they would become....

Which I suppose to say this all ties back around well into my underlying belief of a major them in the whole of the FL - the cycles of abuse and neglect.

All that is to say i have been given some good lore content and further things to think on, and will likely be incorporating the palaces staff and the cage gardens into my fics at some point.

and also fuck vicky. worst mom award goes to her.

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

IT'S HAPPENING EVERYONE IT'S HAPPENING!!!!

OKOKOK SO-

Based on the clues we have thus far, what are the final guesses for the gimmick this season? 👀