Watching supernatural is like willingly sitting down to get hate crimed for two hundred and forty hours by an old man, a gay angel, and their pet moose.
So does anyone else think about how in the in stars and time achievements you get the "welcome to the show" achievement after you made your wish trapping you in a timeloop or am I the only one-
He's never lasted longer than the session Jimmy dies in, BUT HE'S MADE IT!!!! HE'S GETTING THAT EPISODE 7!!! Hell, maybe even an episode 8 if I want to be ambitious.
For some reason, Lankmann can notice himself having more of a taste for meat now.
He's eating a lot more meat products. He's had liver for dinner for the third time this month even though he used to never eat liver. He has steak stocked up in the freezer. He's actually looked at his few cookbooks for the first time to look at how to prepare ribs. He doesn't know why most people discard the bones after, they were actually delicious.
He figured that, it was probably just some deficiency. Or something psychological, since he hated being raised vegan and it might've fucked him up. He doesn't really care either way.
Though, it does concern him how whenever he looks at someone's exposed flesh, anything from an accidental cut to the most gruesome veldigun attacks, he can feel himself need something to eat regardless of if he ate just before.
I'm still and forever absolutely insane over the line "if we join our hands in prayer enough to God I imagine it all starts to sound like applause". There's the initial meaning, of course, of the sheer amount of prayers sounding like a round of applause, but I also love the metaphor behind it.
Prayer strengthens your connection to God, reinforces the bond he has with you. And so every time you beg God for a little relief, a brief respite from the trials of life, you're really increasing the strength of your faith, the power he has over you. It becomes a cycle, almost an abusive relationship, where every struggle God sends you just drives you deeper into his arms.
But it also implies that God doesn't know what he's doing to you! It sounds like applause, because he doesn't know better than to fall for this perversely positive reinforcement. The all-knowing, all loving God is forever making you suffer, because he truly believes that it is what you want. And the harder you try to communicate otherwise? The more applause God hears.
so my brain keeps drawing genloss parallels to songs now so...
I could write an essay on both of these in full but I'll spare you for now...
THE MAIN CHARACTER - Will Wood
I can imagine a great little animatic to this hehee if only i could animate 😭
I imagine the person talking in the bridge is Hetch and then everything after the 'it's nothing new' line is Ranboo responding. Just this whole idea about loyalty and not breaking out of Showfall's grasp and the way that you can kinda connect the 'court fool' and 'the witches' to sneeg and charlie. Also the whole thing about 'doing what we need to to get through' implying that Hetch is also under some sort of control from the founder and also trying to belittle Ranboo for their decisions even though they weren't his own. Then the 'it's nothing new' line referring to the you guessed TIME LOOP. (I LOVE TIME LOOP SO MUCH ITS SO SILLY)
Leading back into the chorus. The creators not being seen as people gets called back to there 'So God forbid I'm seen just as an average human being'. This line also eludes to 'The Hero' like Ranboo being given a role and now they're expected to live up to what people think of them. Ranboo commenting on Hetch's two faced nature with the whole 'I mean imagine if antagonists lacked any evil scheme' bit and how he truly believed Hetch was going to save him. And you can kinda see the last line ('I'm the main character and you have to like me') as a way for Ranboo to justify all the pain he's gone through like "it would all be for nothing if they didn't like me" kinda thing.
COUNTING SHEEP - Crane Wives
I am not convinced this song was not written about genloss/j
This I imagine is the restarting of the time loop. with 'morning coming a day too soon' or thinking that you're dead and to quote the show that 'it wasn't supposed to be like this'. Back in the tiny room being the cabin.
I'll skip the chorus and get to the next verse for now...
The sunlight filtering in and Ranboo's dread of waking up has started to set in as it means that he is going to experience everything all over again. The sunlight could also be referring to the ending of ep 3 where he can see sunlight leaking in from outside but still chooses to ignore it. This could also imply that he was never fully broken out of Showfall's control until the end just so Showfall could get him to follow the story they needed. This leads into the cycle beginning again and the alarms ringing being his awareness that something is wrong and he will be stuck again forced through the same fate over and over. At this point I'd imagine that the mask has turned on meaning the something in them that is fast asleep is themselves and this fear of trying to break free sets in. I also imagine the 'it's a losing battle' line to be representative of Showfall almost mocking Ranboo as he struggles to grapple with reality (him yelling no as the mask turns on again in the first ep).
SO THE CHORUS
Having the wool pulled from your eyes is to see the truth. The mask in this case we can refer to as the wool. I'll let this kind person pn Genius to explain the whole sheep metaphor...
You see where I'm going here??
It's basically referring to how as soon as the mask has relinquished some amount of control and Ranboo is able to see how others are being controlled and deceived ergo eating their fill of sheep. I also really like the whole analogy of sheep because like the whole idea of those trapped in Showfall's control being unable to forge their own paths and make their own decisions. This also aligns with how the Showfall employees are just drones doing whatever the founder needs them to.
ANYWAY UHH THATS BEEN MY SECOND 600 WORD ANALYSIS HAVE FUN GUYS. (can you tell I'm an English student yet...)
🔤 again. i understand it now. fuck it's good. i haven't played yet but i'm so antsy to fully realize a charlie deck just for the hell of it
for context they sent me this image last night:
HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so glad you're enjoying it so far I hope you continue to! Please please please keep me updated I've been obsessed with this game for a whole-ass decade (especially if you make an alpha beta charlie deck because laksjlkjfal;kjgfakjf-)