#it’s only 6 episodes and this is only the first season

[howmanyepsofmlseason6areleft]

In classic Gloob fashion, they've decided to overtake everyone in the airing war and are premiering season 6 this week... a day before Disney channel USA!

Raise your hand if your surprised! No one? Okay!

Anyhow, Gloob announced via their Instagram that they will be premiering Season 6 this Friday, January 24th at 7:45 pm Brasilia Standard Time.

Now, the only confusing part is they didn't say what episode this will be, making updating the airdates post hella hard lol. I'm assuming it might be Illustrhater since that's the first one airing on Disney +, but since I don't know for sure, and anything can happen in these international wars, I've updated the post to say 'unknown' for the premiere as a placeholder until we have it. I'll make sure to update y'all once we find out though.

Anyway.... now we're DEFINITELY back for the new season lol. Here's to many more chaotic airing wars to come, and see y'all Friday!!

Update: we got confirmation that they are indeed airing Illustrhater! Thank you @goldensmilingbird for pointing it out to me:

Hype!!

[tiredsunrisesmeta]

These Jayvik and The Phantom of the Opera parallels are becoming serious business to me! After reading this analysis of Viktor and references to The Phantom of the Opera by @avelera , I've been thinking about other possible references and parallels to The Phantom of the Opera in Jayvik's story. These are some possible ones I've found.

Backstage after her triumphant debut, Christine confesses to her friend, Madame Giry's daughter Meg, that her singing has been inspired by an unseen tutor she knows only as the "Angel of Music" - Wikipedia

[CHRISTINE]

Somehow I know he's always with me

He, the unseen genius

[MEG] Christine, you must have been dreaming

Christine, you're talking in riddles

Stories like this can't come true

And it's not like you

[CHRISTINE]

Angel of Music, guide and guardian

Grant to me your glory (who is this angel?)

(This) angel of Music, hide no longer

Secret and strange angel

He's with me even now

In many ways, Viktor was Jayce's Angel of Music. Viktor was his guide and guardian because not only did he save Jayce from death (twice), he also inspired Jayce's dream to bring magic to the people since he was a child. His dream of hextech was inspired by the mage, who was Viktor all along. Even after Jayce meets present-day Viktor and becomes partners with him, Viktor's dream and insistence on focusing on helping disadvantaged people with hextech helps guide Jayce as well.

There are also multiple references to Viktor as a "voice" that "calls out" to Jayce, inside Jayce's mind. The crystal (given to him by Viktor) Jayce wears on a bracelet is described in extra canon material as "[calling] out [...] with an otherwordly hum, imperceptible to the ear, yet heard deep within the caverns on the brain." In season 2, episode 6, after Viktor watches Jayce kill Salo and comments that another will is at work inside of Jayce, he says the other will was "like a voice." The other will is Viktor. The very first time we see Jayce's memories of the mage who saves his life is when he's knocked out by the hex crystal explosion. The memory comes to him like a dream. These descriptions bring to mind the song "The Phantom of the Opera," specifically these lyrics:

In sleep he sang to me

In dreams he came

That voice which calls to me

And speaks my name

And do I dream again?

For now I find

The phantom of the opera

Is there inside my mind

In turn, Jayce was also Viktor's muse as well. Viktor saw promise in Jayce's theories & research. He was the first person to give Jayce a chance to pursue his dream, the first person to give Jayce a sliver of access to the power & influence he would later gain as the Man of Progress. Jayce becomes the face of hextech, the one who goes on stage while Viktor stays in the shadows, looking on proudly at Jayce & their shared work. This is much like Erik/The Phantom, who from the shadows is the first to nurture Christine's musical talents & orchestrates her rise in the ranks of the Opera house. This dynamic is described once again in the song "The Phantom of the Opera":

I am the mask you wear

It's me they hear

Your spirit and my voice (my spirit and your voice)

In one combined

But there's even more possible parallels and references!

During their fight in the council room in season 2, Viktor brings up Jayce benefiting from Viktor's limited influence & knowledge within Piltover's academic & political worlds when they first started their partnership. He tells Jayce, "You once benefitted from my knowledge of this place." This statement and the rest of the scene reminded me of these lyrics from "All I Ask of You (Reprise)":

I gave you my music

Made your song take wing

And now, how you've repaid me:

Denied me and betrayed me

This isn't the only detail about this scene that reminds me of the All I Ask of You and Reprise scene in The Phantom of the Opera. In this scene, Christine and Raoul sing to each other about their desire to share one love and lifetime together. The Phantom hides behind a statue, eavesdropping and spying on the lovers' exchange. Similarly, in the council room scene, Jayce and Mel talk as Viktor hides and eavesdrops behind a pillar.

A notable difference between these two scenes and an indicator of the ultimate difference between Jayce and Viktor's story to Christine and Erik's is that Jayce and Mel, unlike Christine and Raoul, are having an argument. They do, however, hold each other at the end of the scene after fighting Viktor, and Jayce apologizes to Mel for their argument later on. Nonetheless, they still go their separate ways, which is marked difference from Christine and Raoul's arcs.

In the musical, the Phantom brings Christine to his lair twice. Christine descending into the Phantom's subterranean lair has been described as a descent into the underworld. Similarly, Viktor also brings Jayce into his "lair," domain, or underworld twice. The first time is when Jayce's touches the anomoly and is transported into the apocalyptic future, where he spends most of his time stuck in a cave until he meets Mage Viktor. This first "descent into the underworld" parallels Christine's in that both Jayce and Christine descend to the underworld (into Viktor's apocalyptic future and into the Phantom's lair, respectively) and meet their Angel after looking at their own reflection in a "mirror." Christine sees her reflection in an actual mirror, then she sees the Phantom and reaches out to him. Jayce looks at multiple reflections after he touches the anomaly, which is something Viktor has made. These lyrics from the song "The Mirror" fit these two sequences:

Flattering child, you shall know me

See why in shadow I hide

Look at your face in the mirror

I am there inside

Jayce's and Christine's second descent into their respective "Angel's" lairs also share similarities. Both, for example, happen because of a trap/deception of some kind. In order to defeat the Phantom, Christine is used as bait to lure the Phantom out. At the same time, the Phantom also decieves and traps Christine by secretly killing Christine's male co-lead and replacing him on stage.

Similarly, Viktor, with the help of Ambessa, tricks the Piltover army into believing he is still in his protective cocoon. They put all their efforts into destroying the cocoon, to give Jayce time to power off the hexgates, only to find out Viktor is not inside of it but is instead already in the hexgates with Jayce! Just like the Phantom was already on stage with Christine! But just like Christine is also ticking and trapping the Phantom, Jayce, too, has most likely predicted this turn of events and understands his role as bait and a honeypot to lure Viktor out. Viktor is successfully lured partly because Viktor wants to "evolve" Jayce with his own physical touch, not using his robot puppets or his strings of light like he uses on other characters. In this plan, Jayce will be Viktor's undoing, like Christine will be the Phantom's undoing. It brings to mind these lyrics from "Notes.../Twisted Every Way":

We shall play his game Perform his work, but remember we hold the ace For, if Miss Daaé sings, he is certain to attend

[...]

[CARLOTTA] She's the one behind this! Christine! This is all her doing! [PIANGI] This is the truth! Christine Daaé!

[RAOUL] This is his undoing [ANDRE/FIRMIN] If you succeed, you free us all— This so-called "angel" has to fall!

Much like Christine, Jayce is once again taken into his angel's lair. This time, it isn't the apocalyptic future but instead Viktor's hivemind astral plane.

Another possible POTO reference can be seen when Ekko's Z-Drive partially unmasks Arcane Herald Viktor. Ekko's Z-Drive has Powder's monkeys who play cymbals inside of it. These monkeys resemble the music box in The Phantom of the Opera that plays a role in the scene where Christine unmasks the Phantom for the first time. Similarly, Ekko's Z-Drive cracks open part of Viktor's mask. It's after this that Jayce is able to embrace Viktor, and we see Jayce's memories of Mage Viktor, who, in so many words, "expresses his longing to be loved." After this, Viktor's mask shatters completely.

This is when Jayce, unlike Christine, does not leave the Phantom to be with Raoul, even when Viktor says Jayce must leave. He stays together with Viktor, ensuring that Viktor is not alone in death or wherever the rune takes them.

[PHANTOM]

Say you'll share with me

One love, one lifetime

Lead me, save me from my solitude

[CHRISTINE]

God, give me the courage to show you

You are not alone

Jayce was given the courage to show Viktor he is not alone. They will share one love & one lifetime (timeline). Jayce saved Viktor from his solitude.

[startedwellthatsentence]

Fun potential Doctor Odyssey plot:

Avery and Tristan don’t realize that Max doesn’t know he’s bisexual. They think that he’s bi but just monogamous aside from a few threesomes, and that’s why he’s resistant to the triad proposal. They don’t know that he thinks he’s straight. They assume that he’s been openly bisexual the whole time.

Think about it:

Max’s first interaction with Tristan in his quarters was SUPER flirty, as was their gym discussion in episode 2(?).

Tristan presumably tells Avery about Max going to the “Boys Butches and Bis” poker night.

Both of them saw how he was with Ken.

He very clearly wanted to sleep with both of them in episode 6.

He does the “one woman -> one person” dance when he says he’s too traditional for a poly relationship. (Being old-fashioned can also explain why he doesn’t know gay slang — he’s not straight, he’s just boring.)

Avery sends Tristan to Max to convince him to join them after they discuss how into the sex he was — they both see Tristan as a viable alway to appeal to Max’s interest in the relationship.

He’s being emotionally taken care of by the older queers (Rosie and Corey) at the end of episode 8 — they’re offering to take him off ship and get his mind off things.

Tristan and Avery have also never said they’re straight, iirc. Tristan verbally revels in gay male attention, and Avery likes to flirt/dance with women. It is still 100% possible in the canon of the show to read Avery and Tristan as two bisexuals who think that Max is openly signaling that he is also bisexual. Avery could think that the only hurdle they need to get over is getting both men on board with the poly thing.

Meanwhile Max is still convinced he’s a straight man who has no idea that he was attracted to Ken or Tristan or any other men in his past. He doesn’t know that everyone on the ship thinks he’s bisexual. He works it out and tries to come out to someone by saying “I’m bisexual” as a big reveal and they’re like “Yes. What’s up?”

[lar-arts]

Hello?!?!? I want to hear about your watcher thoughts what do you mean "i didnt always have mouth?" "Is_experimental: false"?!?!?!‽‽‽

Anon thank you so much because now I get to ramble. Now, for the sake of being tidy I will start on my general watcher thoughts and then move on to how that relates to Grian and the last post I made.

Watchers exist outside of time. What they do is not time travel, they just work outside of our perception of time, being able to access different points in a timeline the same way we could while watching a video. This means that they don't experience time the same way we do (and this is important to remember)

Watchers in general can only watch. They cannot interfere with servers or players in any capacity, for the most part. The few that do, can because they have spent time watching over the code of a server instead of just the server itself, for all watchers have the ability to manipulate code but few actually know that and take the time to learn how to.

Watchers aren't gods. And I mean this in the sense that they don't have followers, there is not a watcher religion. The titles they have come from each other, not from any player choosing to follow them.

Players in servers that have been tampered with by watchers may regard them as gods and sometimes even create cults dedicated to them, but this is not a widespread phenomena.

Now, Grian Xelqua.

Grian used to be a player, technically. But due to Watchers not abiding by our rules of time, when he became a watcher he was always a watcher. When I wrote "Did I always have no mouth?" it was a reference to how becoming a Watcher changed him so thoroughly that now in his past he was already one (my Grian design has no mouth, so I thought it would be nice if original player Grian did have one. But you don't need a mouth in order to observe)

Grian, having been a player and an admin at that, has the knowledge on how to interact with code. Being what he is now helped him understand it more and get better at manipulating it, but his admin background helped a lot.

That knowledge is what gave him the tools to be able to make himself a "player"

"Player", because he is not really one. His body and consciusness are not tethered to his player form or disguise, it merely is a suit that allows him to interact with a server in ways that he can't in his watcher form.

The bit of code that is in my drawing comes from a microsoft learning site, that has a portion of the player data from minecraft bedrock. "Is experimental = false" was not changed and is how it was in the og code, but I did change "is spawnable" to be true, so that the Grian body can be spawned by the grian entity known as Xelqua. I also changed the hitbox size to be blank because Xelqua does not really have a hitbox.

Now: Grian did not escape the watchers. They are not something to be escaped, more than humanity is something to be escaped. He just got bored of just watching when he knew how playing felt, so he decided he wanted to play again. He hasn't stopped watching, but his main focus is now on hermitcraft and playing. (you could compare this to when you stop watching a tv show but still come to tumblr to check what has happened in the new seasons. You are not actively watching it but you are informed in what is happening, and someyimes you even put on an episode you know is good) (he is literally just playing minecraft)

Now, having been outside of time, grian spent quite a lot of it being a watcher. He has watched over a lot of servers, and a large amount of "time" has passed for him. He is far older than he was when he first went through that end portal, and that's why he had to go back to check how he used to look, so that his player form could be as close to it as possible.

That is not the case for everyone else. He came back and not even a month had passed (he knew this. He chose the moment to come back), just in time for him to get to hermitcraft season 6, a server that he had been invited to before everything happened.

He got in tough with the members of evo, but didn't really tell them much about what had happened to him and what he now is. They know he was taken by watchers, and that is it.

Okey I have more things to say about Xelqua and why he looks like that and some more info on watchers but I think this does for now?

[tariah23]

Finished Supacell!!!

[rist-ix]

https://www.tumblr.com/rist-ix/749015401700229120 not you reblogging this when you ship bloom with the man who murdered her family 😭

Bloom's into ppl who slay! Hope this helps :3

[vanessakimballs]

RT is currently removing rvb off of youtube btw in case you wanna know how tone deaf they've gotten

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Chandler knows this but I am going to fistfight Samuel Dalton Reich in a Denny's Parking lot if we don't get some kind of Fantasy High: Junior Year promo content soon I am losing my mind please Sam just let me see my favorite losers again I will take a singular screencap to hold me over

[ech0light]

i completely forgot to post this but about a week ago i found seasons 1 and 4 at an op shop!

we weren’t in there for long so i didn’t get a really good look, but i’m fairly certain these were the only seasons on display. my guess is that the other three were in the store, just not on display, because only 1 and 4 is strange.

i’ve been watching the series on my mums dvd box set so that’s not an issue, but it’s cool that i have some of the show for myself now :]

[icomefromthemountains]

You’re expecting me to believe that the first 9 seasons and 5 episodes of m*a*s*h took place over the course rse of <189 days??? Hello?? Did nobody check this?? There had been 203 episodes by that point! HELLO???? Does this take place in an alternate universe where the Korean War started before 1950? HAWKEYE START FUCKING TALKING 🔪🔪🔪

[reikunrei]

had the realization today that the reason why early seasons of csi are, i feel, stronger than later ones is bc there's so many episodes early on where the person who commits murder has genuinely been a victim, did it unintentionally, or is otherwise a good person

meanwhile the Cop Show Syndrome takes over about halfway thru the show and they're either all "mentally ill" or do it for kicks

[raggydollsscreenshots]

Posting screenshots from The Raggy Dolls every day until ITV puts it on ITVX: Day 123:

[fandomsareforlife]

(Takes places when Lloyd is a kid.)

Nya: You know, people say I'm pretty charismatic.

Lloyd: Well, you always have a smile on your face.

Nya: Thank you.

Lloyd: What drugs do you take?

Cole: Lloyd, we’ve talked about this. You can’t just ask people about things like that.

Lloyd: Why not? Nya does stuff like that all the time?

Cole: Because Nya is the most charismatic and can get away with it. You can not.

Lloyd: Fine. *angrily stomps away*

Nya whispering to Cole: It’s coffee and DayQuil.

Cole: I can not say that I am surprised.

[lunarcigar]

Imagine waking up from a coma to see your ex girlfriend and your cop friend and they instantly have beef with you

[ridiculed-baker]

look at me, actually continuing the show lol

[joshuaalbert]

ok well I did not finish watching the chute because I had to get bewilderingly angry about cw’s the flash, a hobby I have had since roughly 2017. but maybe tomorrow.