#ive talked about them and binary stars before but OH FUCK HO UTFDFUVKVHHJH FFUCK

[bi-demon-ium]

(via @mvshortcut) #hmmm good thoughts#okay this might be a reach but#ok so like in season/book 1 with the whisperer#Curtain uses code words to transmit the hidden messages#like to steal a book example the phrase 'poison apples poison worms' was said in conjunction with Jillson's lecture on government#and so simply saying that phrase evoked the memory of the lecture and all of its content#like a magic word#and that's how curtain transmitted all of the information in the seemingly nonsensical hidden messages#so I wonder if he's reusing that tactic somehow but minus the whisperer#like maybe the phrase 'north star' is a trigger word connected with some subliminal message or memory or something#and it activates the happy feeling#maybe activates a hidden set of 'be happy instructions' hidden his book/tv show somewhere?#idk why it worked on nicholas assuming he hasn't read the book#or maybe he has#but also curtain does repeat 'let us seize the power together' or whatever he said I can't remember#from his earlier attempt to brainwash nicholas in ep 2. which I think is significant#so like. conclusion: hnngrh#mbs s2#mbs s2 spoilers#ld curtain#nicholas benedict#sorry for the length I got carried away#OH and the thing about constance is interesting I just have no brain cells left for that one but. good thoughts

NO NO NO THAT MAKES SENSE IM INTO IT

also i just had the most vivid like. maybe normally it's the book thing but maybe this one is crafted particularly for him--he was expected to be there after all--and connected to some sort of shared memory like. god imagine we get a flashback to the twins as little kids just like. stargazing together. even more painful if they joke about "the dance of the celestial orb" or some shit. but like one of them points out the north star (oh god consider one of those cheesy but painful "we always look at the same moon" / "it can guide you home, always" shit oh god oh fuck) so like it's linked to a good memory oh and also oh GOD OH GOD FUCK

FUCK IVE CONNECTED THE DOTS

THE NORTH STAR ITS ONE OF THE. ITS ONE OF THE BINARY SYSTEMS. ITS TWIN STARS HELP IM CRYING OH GOD OH FUCK

as i said in my liveblog i don't know how or why but i feel like specifically curtain saying "north star" is going to be important ("i simply choose to open the valve deep inside of me and let my true happiness, the happiness safe from all intrusions, that be my north star") namely because:

if i remember correctly, that's about when mr benedict got whammied

it just sounds significant and specific enough it could be meaningful

so far in the theme and just a few times like in constance's whole thing with her "parents" (still not convinced that isn't either true or like, has a grain of truth in it or some shit--or possibly--actually let that be another post hang on) we've had like. the arctic and the north and all that mentioned a lot? so this feels. also significant. and relevant.