#i love my red string and cork board

[thetoastedalmonds]

But that's just a theory

A...tumblr..theory......?

(Accs this relates to are @ask-twisted-samurai and @holy-mothers-servant)

[time22kill]

oakworthynators please stretch before making huge reaches about todays ep in regards to them 💕 /JOKE

[kakusu-shipping]

Hi, I would like to understand why do you ship Mario and Luigi? You don't have to answer if it's not comfortable for you. 🙂

This soooooo immediately reads as a bait question, but I'm trusting you here anon I'm trusting you asked this in genuine good faith which I don't know why you would but if you want to know;

The short answer is Because I Want To and I Like Them. Plain and simple, there doesn't have to be a deeper reason. Sometimes we just ship things because we want to. Understood? Okay cool.

A slightly longer answer would be because they're the kind of Ship Dynamic that brings me the most comfort. I love a ship where they are each other's other half, they understand eachother and support eachother and just get eachother in ways no other person ever could. Loving eachother, being together is all they've ever known, they can't imagine a world where they're not together, side by side.

Platonic or Romantic aside, Mario and Luigi are a perfect pair, that's their entire thing. Mario is Reckless and Headstrong, Luigi is Calculating and Sturdy. Mario charges forward, Luigi holds the line. Mario picks mushrooms out of his spaghetti, and Luigi eats them. They fill in the gaps the other leaves, they compliment and communicate and trust one another undoubtedly.

I love a love like that. Of course it's you. It was always going to be you. It could never be anyone but you. I am not me without you, and you are not you without me. They are eachother's everything

They are a bonded pair, do not separate.

[dyelwi]

Did a quick outline for my ace attorney color symbolism post and. Wow it’s gonna be a lot!! Will probably start actually working on it this week and hopefully the power of my ace attorney special interest will help me power through to the end fast!!!!

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

I miss chnt bro

Wanna play chess?

[ghost-onthealtar]

Incredible how after like two or three videos an entire group (of mostly teenage girls) absolutely clocked those two british idiots as gay.

[ectoplasmer]

recent brainrot. private investigator ryou

[nipuni]

Nipuniiii!

Did you see the new drops for Dragon Age?! How are you feelinggggg

Hello, I did!! All the news caught me in the middle of a migraine episode that I'm just starting to recover from so I've been just watching and liking the posts I find but I'm excited!!

The game looks really good. The stylization and tonal shift of the first trailer was odd but it looks great in game honestly. It made me so nostalgic for Inquisition. Solas looks amazing and exactly how I was hoping he would!! The Tarot cards are back and all the companions look fantastic. Everyone looks so fun to draw which very important to me!! I love Emmrich already. I heard the character creator is very extensive and that you have to create your Inquisitor in it too and I like the implications of that. The prologue looks like it mirrors Inquisition's almost exactly. I'm already seeing parallels and symbolism everywhere I'm pulling out some red string and pins for my cork board as we speak.

The combat looks fluid enough, the environments have a lot of verticality and grandeur to them that I enjoy, the fashion is amazing, the offline and more linear playstyle sounds promising, the facial animations look terrible but the hair looks impressive. As for the story, it looks like it's going the way I hoped it would! The prologue had a lot of awkward overly expository dialogue but it's understandable given the circumstances I suppose. I know we were all expecting the Evanuris to be released and the Veil to fall in this game but it happening in the prologue took me by surprise lmao. Rook just immediately making everything worse five minutes into the game is so funny to me.

The scope of everything and the amount of locations and factions seems so ambitious. I have to wonder what really happened during production because at one point it really seemed like Bioware was going up in flames and half the team was fired and now people are talking about how amazing an experience this was and how it was the best team they have ever worked with and I'm so confused. I guess it's not long now until we find out.

The game looks bigger than ever, so I'm excited and a bit apprehensive. I'm hoping for the best and I look forward to it!! 🥰

[power-handmaiden]

Day 30: Reamed By My Reaction To The Title Of This Book

A little treat from my past self of years ago, I happen to own this one in audiobook form. So, yeah, I'm obviously going in with an existing affection for this tingler. It deserves it though!

Listening to this one today, I think of the ever-present discussion over how "serious" tinglers are, and Dr. Tingle's recent explanation of how they are meant to be absurd with funny moments, but not comedy. This tingler is a great illustration of that: we start with a wild premise and completely explore the logical consequences of it: if the protagonist is reacting to the title of a Chuck Tingle story that he is in, he must encounter the quirks of living in the Tingleverse, learn that he is a character with limited time in a short story, and deal with the emotional weight of such a revelation in a heartfelt way.

This tingler is a great commentary on the public reaction to tinglers as they were growing in popularity at the time of this story. I remember how the book covers and titles were shared widely. Even the title and the cover themselves pose a superficial message to all of those people who only shared the image and didn't ever delve deeper: yes, your gawking and shock have been noted. There is even a character who represents this phenomenon, inadvertently kicking off the events of the story. While the cover stares directly at all, for those of us who actually open tinglers, the narrative of this one also breaks the fourth wall and intimately reaches for the reader in a way that no tingler up to this point has. (Though I know several will in the future.)

All of that and I also have to note, PRESIDENT YULDOK MENTIONED AGAIN. "Pounded By President Bigfoot" also mentioned- IS "POUNDED BY PRESIDENT BIGFOOT" CANONICAL RPF? Also, is this the same Buck Trungle from "Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"" or a different one?? In addition to everything I love about this story, it also has me pulling out the red string for my tingler cork board. Truly one of the best!

[xxgoblin-dumplingxx]

My brain is scrambling to try and put together a list of what Selina’s trying to do. Some I do not like, some I’m interested in and some both. My brain is going to be that one cork board-red string meme.

Selina stood in the long 'gallery'. A long open walk way with plush carpet, not mildewed and dated ued by the big bosses in the company for conferences once upon a time. And sipped champagne.

By the time Bruce got here to "Rescue" you, you were going to be a hysterical mess. Sobbing and blubbering. Ugly and annoying. So satisfying. He wouldn't have the patience for that. It would show him you weren't cut out for this life. That you weren't-

She never even saw it coming. The steel fucking chair to the back of her head. "You stupid fucking cunt," you spit, "if you'd stop scheming you'd realize-"

"Ugh," Selina rubbed the back of her head and whirled around to strike out at you, "you would make this difficult." She'd have to settle for beating you into a sobbing mess. A different kind of satisfying. But before she could connect, Superman's hand wrapped around her wrist.

"I don't think so," he growled. "That's enough."

"I don't want him," you snort. "I don't even know why you want him. I love him. But every time he talks I wanna punch him in the throat... I even went to Metropolis and just left to give you a chance. If you fucked it up anyway, that's not my fault."

"Said what you wanna say?" Clark asked, putting her in cuffs.

"I'd like to beat her with the chair until it gets boring but," you break off and shrug, "it doesn't seem fair if her arms are behind her back."

"Gee, thanks," Selina huffed.

"It's better than you deserve," you snort.

"Shut up, I was never gonn let anything actually happen."

"I wonder if the 'It's a prank bro' defense works for anyone other than the Joker," you muse, looking up at Clark.

"I guess we'll find out. You'll be okay for a minute?" he asked. "I'll take her to the cops then come back for you."

"I can walk-"

"I know," Clark said. But he wanted a chance to talk to you. To make sure you were okay himself. BEFORE you had to face Bruce or the cops or the press. He'd been so frightened. And now he just wanted to get you home and tucked into bed where he could make sure you were safe.

[homestuckreplay]

psychoanalyzing rose’s mother (because rose won’t do it)

(page 903-910)

The Skaianet Laboratory Unestablishment countdown ticks from 1:43 down to 1:34. I see those 413s being snuck in. I am genuinely at a point where if I see a number that isn’t 413 I get suspicious.

I love Rose so so much. And I love that she’s into psychoanalysis (kind of). But her saying ‘this incongruous thing? I pretend I do not see it’ is just like her saying there is ‘nothing to psychoanalyze’ about her mother’s love of wizards (p.360). She’s going in with preconceived expectations and not willing to interrogate the unexpected.

Like. Let’s look at the facts. In this massive, empty lab with thousands of twinkling boxes and no people, somebody has left a pink plastic table and chairs, a tea set, a scarf, a pink and white bed with cat, flower, heart and paw print designs, a princess themed dresser, cat stuffed toys, and WIZARD DOLLS. Pretty pink masters of the arcane with their long beards and pointy hats. Kind of a giveaway as to which local wizard-loving woman might own all this.

Rose’s mom has brought all this down to the lab, where she either works or just spends time. And she’s probably lonely down here and trying to recapture a childhood, whether that’s her own or Rose’s. We know from the pretty princess doll (p.363) that Mom likes to buy traditionally girly gifts for Rose, so this could even be old toys of Rose’s that she doesn’t even remember, her mom still playing with them to remind her of when she used to play with Rose. If Mom works here, then she’s up at this meteor terminal thinking about how one day, her daughter and anyone else they both care about are both going to be in danger from this upcoming apocalypse. And maybe she wants to hold on to the time she’s had with Rose before everything changes, or maybe she wishes she could be the one being taken care of, miles from the nearest town and with no partner or other family at home. She’s looking for comfort, she may well want to escape her own daughter’s judgment, and ultimately she has to parent herself as much as Rose does.

All this very important content is immediately overshadowed by the tiny kitten. There is a kitten hiding in the teapot. A TEAPOT SIZED KITTEN. I thought I was over this but I am not. A SMALL KITTEN!

Page 909 is composed similarly to Jade’s furry thoughts on page 797, but with the opposite emotion behind it. But clowns is clowns, and I don’t think John is scared of finding a bunch of regular ass harlequins like Dad might keep downstairs. That also wouldn’t explain why John’s always been kept from going in Dad’s room (and I could be wrong but it seems uncommon to not even know what’s inside a parent’s room). I think John is scared that his dad has a different secret. Based on the contents of Dad’s safe (p.544) I wonder if Dad is an amateur investigator who’s been looking into some of the strange phenomena associated with Skaia. Maybe John is about to encounter red-string cork boards and more tidbits about meteors, and find out that his dad is way more involved in current events than previously thought.

In page titles, ‘ascend’ first appears on page 660 and ‘descend’ not until page 840 (though the word is used in passing on both page 358 and 361). ‘Ascend’ also appears on page 759 in Nanna’s prophecy, where she states that ‘together [the Heir, Seer, Knight and Witch] will Ascend’. On page 909 the narrator treats ‘descend’ as an expectation, but it’s a fairly recent one. It’s one of my favorite things about serial fiction to see these tidbits of patterns and lore be dropped in and then woven through the narrative as if they’ve always been crucial, until it’s impossible to divorce the two. But it’s still possible to see that Homestuck characters weren’t ascending on day one.

> John: Examine room.

[becauseplot]

Hi hello yes more thoughts about this hgduo pre-canon, hunger games/wars au(??) because my brain is rotating them at incredible speeds. (Obligatory cannibalism tw because yeah the lore do be like that.)

Bad originally finds Cellbit while the kid is trying to use a dagger to carve up a body to eat---key word trying. Bad stands back and watches him struggle for about thirty seconds before speaking up: "You're holding that wrong." (The kid jumps about two feet in the air. "WhhUH---") "Also you're not supposed to carve with a dagger, silly. You should really be using a knife. Here." And Bad passes him one of his hunting knives.

Bad mentally dubs Cellbit "Dagger-Kid" because he doesn't know Cellbit's name. When Cellbit later admits he doesn't know his name either, Bad officially dubs him "Dagger-Kid" or "Dagger" for short. ((For the rest of this I'll be calling Cellbit "Dagger")) ((Also I'm not 100% on this name yet but we'll see.))

I should note that I also think it would be funny that every time Dagger does something notable or reveals a new quality about himself, Bad tries to give him a new name. Like, they scavenge a piece of chocolate off one of their victims and Dagger loves it, so Bad tries to suggest, "Oh oh! What if we called you 'Sweets'! Or 'Chocolate'? 'Coco,' maybe?" all of which Dagger (playfully) rolls his eyes at. Bad rotates through nicknames regularly, but Dagger personally sticks with the first name Bad gave him.

Dagger was on his own for two months before he met Bad. He is injured and half-starved and utterly exhausted. The first time they make camp together, Dagger promises he'll take the first watch, but he nods off before even Bad can fall asleep. It's the first time Dagger has felt safe enough to truly relax, so his body just crashes. He sleeps for twelve hours.

This one's honestly more of a general qsmp headcanon I have but it goes here too: Bad teaches Dagger how to throw knives (for combat) and how to do knife tricks (for fun). Current-day Cellbit still remembers how to do the tricks, and he'll often use them as a way of fidgeting when he's thinking---with a pen or pencil instead, though.

One of Dagger's natural talents is stealth. He's not as quiet as Bad, but he's definitely good at it; his cat-hybrid traits definitely lend him a hand here, too. It's the main way Dagger survived before meeting Bad, stealing supplies out of camps while people were sleeping.

Bad, being a demon, doesn't need to eat, drink, or sleep as much as mortals do, and certainly not as much as a teenage boy. To him, it only seems practical that he gives himself smaller portions of their rations, or takes longer nightwatch shifts. But Dagger (who can scarcely imagine ever being not hungry or not tired, much less at the same time) is still grateful and feels somewhat indebted to Bad, even after Bad explains.

Dagger (a cat hybrid and a little more than a bit messed up) bites to show affection. Usually Bad's arm. Any normal guy would be injured by the force of Dagger's bite---Dagger doesn't really seem to understand that not-biting-hard is an option---but Bad doesn't really mind it.

(The truth is that deep down Dagger really wants to hug Bad, but he knows Bad isn't a very cuddly person, and yeah Bad might give him a hug if he asked but he's too afraid to ask so all that affection stays bottled up until it rises rises rises and he just doesn't know what to do with it anymore and it needs OUT---)

Bad thwacks Dagger upside the head with his tail whenever Dagger is being a "little rapscallion" and eventually Dagger starts retaliating. His tail isn't as long or flexible as Bad's but he definitely does try.

Bad has a lot of stories to tell. Some true, some made up on the fly. He's always liked telling stories, and Dagger is a captive audience. He learns Dagger loves mysteries, and suddenly, all of his campfire stories are about spies, and detectives, and red-string cork boards and espionage.

The thing Dagger fears the most is that one morning he'll wake up and Bad won't be there because Bad decided Dagger slowed him down and thus abandoned him. He thinks about this near-constantly. (The thing Bad fears the most is that one morning he'll wake up and look at Dagger and start caring like he used to a long, long time ago. He does not think about this at all.)

[gackk]

TMAGP THEORY DUMP

coherency is not on the agenda so good luck trying to decipher this mess

I love overanalysing every episode of tmagp it’s so fun

POV: me having a look at these cases, maybe noting down some connections, pinning them up on my cork board, circling some key dates in bright red, connecting them all with string, and staring at them while moodily sipping bourbon

But like, house full of fog? Lonely? Maybe a victim of mag170?

Malnutrition? Maybe like Darrien #1? Possibly from a separate dimension?

Ok now I’m really clutching at straws but daffodils symbolise rebirth so.. she came back to life, or maybe was “reborn” in this new universe

Also GEORGIE

(“Who keeps taking Georgie’s face?”kinda ominous)

Anyway might reblog later with other thoughts but that’s all I have so far lol

[sparklingcid3r]

wut is paul like around seeing cherry w soda? like thinking about bob bc like his friend did legit die. but also about darry bc soda looks like him and gets tb happy and tht makes him miss darry. tht being said soda does not fw him bc he knows wut paul did to darry

TY for the cherry cola asks, they’re consuming my life so bad I literally made a playlist for them that I exclusively listen to while walking around campus🙏

This was also just a really interesting question bc usually it’s people wondering what Darry feels toward the relationship and I’m always down to yap about my fav loser bitch Paul 🥰🫶

At first I looked at your q and pulled a face like Man would he really think it’s that deep? But you’re right, it IS that deep. It’s just convoluted asl bc how do you explain that it bothers you that your dead bsf’s gf is dating the brother of the accomplice/witness (however Pony was described) of said dead bsf’s now-dead murderer.

I bet he’d feel a vague sense of betrayal from Cherry, but those two weren’t exactly close, especially after Bob’s death. Her dating Soda probably confirmed his own hatred of her and that he was right to tell her off during the manhunt for Johnny and Pony. Since he gaslights her during JFT (her and Pony never held hands), I wouldn’t put it above him to gaslight himself into thinking Cherry and Soda were going out while her and Bob were a thing or something outrageous like that.

UNDOUBTEDLY it’s all because of Darry. Paul’s got a cork board of pics of people in his life and every red string around the thumb tacks leads back to Darry. Paul’s world pretty much revolves around his ex now, and it’s not like he made it that way, like lowk it’s not even his fault lmfao. He can’t get away from the sound of the (wo)man that loved him fr (pls get that reference yall i trust u)

Soda never fw Paul and he has no problems airing those issues out w Cherry, who also drags his ass. They’re snakes together they HATE that man. She tells Soda about what Paul said to her after Bob died and he’s getting up like aight what’s his addy babe imma beat his ass

Soda would want to match Cherry’s energy bc he absolutely can when it comes to hating Paul Holden, but he doesn’t want to say why bc that would out Darry so he just eggs Cherry on and gets creative with the insults

I love cherry cola BAD guys it’s so personal for me they have my entire heart and soul🫶❤️

[81rye]

whenever i think about characters its like im a princess locked in a tower but instead of being a beautiful woman waiting for a true loves kiss im a middle aged man with a cork board on the wall and theres red string connecting all the photos and papers hanging up and im pacing around the tiny tower pinching the bridge of my nose stressed as fuck

[blinkingrecordsandtheories]

An Intro

Hello!! This is a completely sparkly new account that will be almost solely focused on...

The Magnus Protocol theories!!

(hooray!! an account no one asked for but I want to do it anyway)

Also keeping track of plot stuffs and 'OML THATS A COOL THING' moments

Over here I will be sat with my cork board and red string and having a '?!?!?!!?!?!?' moment every new TMP (the magnus protocol) episode! Except, I, will also be scribbling and furious so YOU might not have to map together all of it by yourself!! (if ya want) Super excited about this account :D

Will be having Ep spoiler warnings right at the start of each post!! TELL ME IF I AM WRONG ABOUT ANYTHING I will not lie to you this account is also here so I can keep track of my own ramblings!!

Pleaaase suggest, dear Tumblr user, what current theories you've seen and anything you think will be useful.

I WILL NOT BE HERE ON WEDNESDAYS AND THURS TILL 4pm GMT (majority of the time) cause PATREON SPOILERS are forbidden.

Have a lovely tragically gay day fellow eye rats:D ... also everyone else :]