#i'm beginning to suspect the magnus archives might have a very mild homestuck accent | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

morganmnemonic · 4 months ago

Text

Having just come out of season 4, with people repeatedly saying "don't wait too long" and variations thereof to both generate a general atmosphere of creeping dread and highlight the parallel between martin's arc and basira's in which they both work with the enemy for the sake of their favorite person for just long enough to doom the world, I have to wonder what the hell they meant with this

like. what are you trying to say here?

#the magnus archives #tma liveblog #i dont even know what arcs we're comparing #is it about martin and elias?#sasha and melanie?#tim and jon??#is there some secret about the institute kill switch that can only be gleaned by comparing it to martin faking his cv?#i think im reading too much into it #i'm beginning to suspect the magnus archives might have a very mild homestuck accent #dave breaking dirk's sword to decapitate him feels thematic because of the way it echoes prior events #but i couldn't actually put into words what theme those echoes are trying to convey #if i thought about it hard enough i could probably analyze what decapitation symbolically represents in dirk's arc #but that analysis would have more to do with my imagination than homestuck's writing #in the same way i'm not convinced that the echoes of 'its not even a good lie' mean anything in particular #but you can't just spend a season echoing dialog meaningfully and then not expect me to read into it #when a character says word for word the exact same sentence that another character said 60 episodes ago #it feels important #i just cant make any real sense of it #yet #there's many arcs that if i look at it at just the right angle it could theoretically be setting up for #i'll just have to wait and see if any of them seem relevant to what happens in the rest of season 5

4 notes · View notes