#late night ranting

[linilunilumi]

Folge 1060 & 1061 (und wie Schloss Einstein an seinem eigenen Format zu versagen scheint)

Ne sorry, das lässt mich nicht los. Ich muss mich nochmal aufregen.

Ich weiß, wir woll(t)en alle sehen, dass Noah sich gegenüber Ava öffnet und über seine Gefühle und Colin redet und ja, wir brauchen diese Charakterentwicklung auch dringend! Aber Ava ist nicht nur Noahs Sorgenfresserin, sie hat auch ihre eigene Persönlichkeit, ihre eigenen Probleme und ihre eigene Storyline verdient. Der Fokus der Folgen schien dabei auch bereits eher auf ihrer Story zu liegen als auf der von Noah (dass man in einer solchen Serie die Handlung und Gespräche am besten so gestalten könnte oder sollte, dass beide Charaktere was davon haben, ignorieren wir jetzt mal kurz). Das Problem: auch für Ava waren die Folgen unglaublich oberflächlich und nichtssagend geschrieben!

Der Plot aus Folge 1060 war dabei eigentlich im Gesamten unnötig. Die Handlung besteht daraus, dass die beiden zu Avas Missfallen damit beauftragt werden, zusammen eine Kung-Fu Choreo einzustudieren. Ava täuscht beim Training vor, nicht damit zurecht zu kommen, weil sie von Noah und Joel unterschätzt wird und glänzt bei ihrem gemeinsamen Auftritt aber, sodass die beiden - zu Noahs Überraschung - eine sehr gute Note erhalten.

So weit, so gut. Keine sonderlich neue Idee, aber ergibt handlungsmäßig zumindest Sinn - jedoch nicht für Ava und Noah!!

Warum wurde sich der Plot für die beiden ausgesucht? Es hat nichts mit ihren eigentlichen Problemen und Persönlichkeiten zu tun.

Noah wurde bisher nie als jemand dargestellt, der andere (oder speziell Mädchen) als in irgendeiner Weise unfähiger oder minderwertiger behandelt hat - also kein Erlebnis, aus dem er lernen müsste. (Wenn schon eher Joel, der mit dieser ganzen "Sportmuffel"-Geschichte überhaupt angefangen hat...) Und Ava schien bisher auch nicht wie jemand, die Probleme damit habe, sich zu beweisen - für sie also auch kein großes Hindernis, sondern einfach ein kleiner Spaß? Rache an Noah?

[Und sollte sich herausstellen, dass die Story für Ava doch wichtig war - Minderwertigkeitskomplexe wegen ihres Bruders oder whatever - dann hätte man halt (so leid es mir auch tut) jemand anderes als Avas Partner nehmen müssen, damit Noah dann parallel dazu seine eigene Story haben kann. Simon als Sportler-Macho wäre (again: so leid es mir auch tut) die perfekte Wahl dafür gewesen.]

In Folge 1060 hat Noah knapp 7 Minuten Screen-Time; Ava etwas weniger als er, da Noah auch noch eine Szene mit Joel hat. Damit entspricht das zwar (knapp) der typischen Dreiteilung einer Schloss Einstein Folge, aber wir erfahren trotzdem NICHTS.

Wir wissen nach der Folge, dass...

... Ava gut in Kung-Fu ist (woher erfahren wir nicht) und scheinbar Spaß daran hat, Noah eins heimzuzahlen. ... und dass Joel früher ein Sportmuffel war, jetzt aber nicht mehr und sogar ein Kung-Fu Workshop belegt hat.

Joel! Um den ging es diese Folge gar nicht. (Auch wenn ich für jede neue Joel lore dankbar bin!)

Gut, damit haben wir eine gesamte Folge schon mal verschwendet.

In Folge 1061 sieht es nur wenig anders aus:

Noah und Ava haben plötzlich so viel Spaß zusammen, dass sie als Strafarbeit eine Tanzstunde für den Sportkurs organisieren müssen. Noah findet das in Ordnung, aber Ava ist von Anfang an nicht begeistert und gibt schließlich die Aufgabe an Massuda ab. Die Sportstunde verläuft klasse, aber Herr Hauser möchte ein ernstes Wort mit Ava reden. Die bietet an, eine andere Übung zum Thema Zusammenhalt zu bewältigen, aber Hauptsache sie müsse nicht tanzen!

Hier kommen wir endlich Avas Geschichte näher; aber es passiert trotzdem nichts und wir erfahren trotzdem nichts.

Um genau zu sein, erfahren wir bloß...

... dass Ava nicht tanzen möchte.

Keine Begründung, kein gar nichts.

Und das hat dann auch nichts mehr mit Spannung und Geheimnisse aufrecht halten zu tun, nein. Dann ist die Sendezeit einfach schlecht genutzt.

Dabei geschieht das Ganze in gerade mal knapp über 5 Minuten Screen-Time von Ava, dieses Mal mit etwas weniger Zeit für Noah. Hier sind wir dann auch schon weit entfernt von einer gleichmäßig aufgeteilten Folge für drei Handlungsstränge.

Dabei wäre das gewählte Setting eigentlich gar nicht schlecht! Gemeinsame Sportübungen, bei denen man Zeit miteinander verbringen muss, sich vertrauen muss, etc. Nur schreiben sich die Geschichten nicht von selbst, es müssen auch die dazugehörigen Gespräche stattfinden!

Das Mindset Modul - Herr Hauser sagt selbst in genau diesen Folgen darüber: "Mindset bedeutet auch, den Willen zu haben, sich ständig zu verbessern - in allen Belangen" "durch permanentes Üben, Körper und Geist in Einklang bringen"

Ja und wer könnte es wirklich dringend gebrauchen, Körper und Geist in Einklang zu bringen? Noah!

Statt ihn hier einen auf Vollprofi machen zu lassen, hätte Noah weiterhin mit seinem Kopf voll in Gedanken sein können und nach ihrem ersten kleinen Bonding-Moment aus Folge 1057 könnte er im Gespräch mit Ava etwas Luft rauslassen und versuchen, Klarheit für sich zu schaffen. (Er muss ja auch nicht direkt seine unsterbliche Liebe für Colin gestehen, aber einfach, wie es ihm geht, was ihm Angst macht usw. usw.)

Genauso in Folge 1061, da sagt Herr Hauser zu Ava: "Beim Tanzen lässt man sich aufeinander ein, man verfolgt gemeinsam ein Ziel, man stimmt sich ab. Damit hast du offensichtlich Schwierigkeiten."

Ja und wer hat dieses Problem noch? Noah!

Perfekte Grundlage für entweder weitere bonding Gespräche oder erstmal ein wenig Stress, weil die beiden es eben nicht schaffen, sich aufeinander einzulassen.

Und dann? Baut man darauf auf!!

Momentan ist einfach jede Storyline in mehrere kleine Kapitel aufgeteilt, die innerhalb einer Folge möglichst abgeschlossen werden müssen - demnach schafft man es in diesen 5 - 10 Minuten pro Folge auch keine tiefgründigen Geschichten zu erzählen, weil man bis zum Ende der Folge ein halbwegs rundes Ende gefunden haben muss und in der nächsten Folge dann wieder von Neuem anfangen muss.

Ob das der Grund ist, weshalb die ersten Folgen der Staffel schon wieder wie vergessen wirken? Als hätte Colin nie existiert? Als hätte Noah nicht in seinem Bett geweint und deswegen 5 Punkte kassiert? Ich weiß es nicht. Aber es macht das Ganze definitiv noch schlimmer.

Und das gilt nicht nur für unsere Lieblinge Noah, Ava und Joel. Das gilt gerade für so gut wie alle.

- Wir sehen Massuda und Elly eine gesamte Folge dabei zu, wie sie versuchen zu lernen.

- Wir sehen Tahmina dabei zu, wie sie unglaubwürdig lang einem Einhorn-Luftballon hinterher rennt oder wir hören zu, wie die Lehrer:innen uns erzählen, dass Tahmi Probleme in der Schule hat, statt uns zu zeigen, dass sie Probleme in der Schule hat.

- Die Bildungsgeschichte über Aufarbeitung der DDR-Geschichte wird als Schatzsuche über die ganze Staffel inszeniert, statt sie in den Unterricht zu integrieren. In einer Serie an einer Schule!

- usw.

Die Inhalte werden auf die 25 Minuten künstlich gestreckt, aber gleichzeitig fallen die Storylines in Betracht der ganzen Staffel flach, weil man von der Entwicklung on-screen kaum etwas mitbekommt.

Dabei kann das funktionieren - und gleichzeitig lustig sein! Joel hat auch eine gesamte Folge damit verbracht, sich Ideen auszudenken, um Colin zum Bleiben zu überzeugen. Dabei wurde aber auch stets verdeutlicht:

> Colins Freundschaft zu Julia > Die dicke Luft zwischen Noah und Colin > Colins Entschluss mit Noah abzuhaken > Joels Freundschaft zu Colin > Joels Engagement > Noahs vorgetäuscht gleichgültige Fassade > Noahs Trauer über Colins Abreise

Seit Colins Ausstieg aber? Es ist zwar schön zu sehen, dass es Noah besser zu gehen scheint und dass er und Ava sich gut zu verstehen scheinen, aber... das reicht nicht. Nicht, nachdem was in den ersten fünf Folgen angerissen wurde. Und das kann einem auch nicht einfach unkommentiert präsentiert werden.

Warum geht es ihm besser? Warum war er so traurig? Warum kann er sich die Gefühle zu Colin nicht eingestehen? Warum will Ava nicht tanzen? Warum, warum, warum???

Irgendwie laufen ihnen hier gerade die eigentlich guten Storylines und der gesamte Aufbau des Formats aus dem Ruder.

Ich entschuldige mich für das Geschwafel; ich habe keine Ahnung, ob es Sinn ergeben hat, was ich geschrieben habe; es ist 03:09 Uhr und ich musste das einfach loswerden; auch wenn ich die Hälfte wahrscheinlich vergessen habe.

[anna-hawk]

I'm finally watching the last 2 seasons of TWD and omg can it please stop? I always wondered why people disliked the end that much and now that I've finally watched further than S9 (the show is already getting worse and worse up til that season tbh), I get it. I'm doing all this because I wanna watch the spinoffs, but I'm both bored to no end and upset about what they do with some (a lot) of the characters. It's like, "hey, let's just kill x character, it doesn't really matter, right?" WRONG! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

[ryderdire]

I think what gets me about thylacines is just. How much of myself and others i see in it.

Maybe it’s whacky but I see somthing who’s life is treated as less important because

it’s a monster, a dangerous beast, evil, “Sinful.”

And I look at the way the world looks at me.

how it feels like some people vaule my life less

because I am different I’m queer I’m neurodivergent I’m “sinful”

And I feel a kinda kinship.

But i survived.

the thylacine didn’t survive that view

. They’re gone they didn’t have the means to fight back angainst that like I do.

Their where just animals and I know that.

I don’t have much power in this world and I know that.

I want to do better by them.

I don’t want to forget those who didn’t survive that view.

And the stripes of the thylacine aren’t easy to forget

[torturedpoetspsychward]

the state of the world feels so incredibly draining lately

[last-words-ofashootingstar]

dial

i'm cast back in time, a soul aglow,

a four year old dreamer, standing tall on the step stool,

reaching for your sink with tiny hands, a world of bubbles i link.

eager hands forming wondrous gold suds,

immersed in a world, where troubles seem feeble,

and in that moment, you gently come behind,

a guardian angel, watching my mind unwind.

a whisper, a smile, assuring me you're here.

yet as the dawn breaks, reality awaits,

the pain isn't washed away.

do you visit me still? do you watch over and send me these dreams? i like to think so.

the scent of dial soap, it lingers on,

erasing fear, even when you are gone.

i can be brave, i just have to wash my hands.

for in my heart, i'll always be four,

on that step stool, forevermore.

[slechterick]

what the fuck. waarom zou je je vakantie in godsvredesnaam door tiktok laten plannen. waarom zou je überhaupt uren (meervoud!!!) in de rij staan voor een zakje patat. er bestaat geen friet op aarde die zoveel beter is dan die van een tent om de hoek dat het uren in de rij staan volstaat. in die tijd kun je letterlijk* van de ene kant van Amsterdam naar de andere fietsen en ruim tijd overhouden voor een bezoek aan het Anne Frank huis. en dan kies je ervoor om die tijd te besteden aan in de rij staan. voor patat. gefrituurde aardappelreepjes. je hebt een paar dagen dat je op vakantie bent en de bestemming kan bekijken. en dan kies je ervoor om die kostbare tijd naar de rug van de wachtende voor je te staren. ik snap hier dus geen snars van. ergens wil ik het kunnen onderschrijven aan tiktok brain rot, maar dat is een te gemakkelijke uitweg. dit voelt meer als blablabla leven door de lens van social media blablabla the Matrix blablabla iets in die zin

*vanaf Dierenopvang Amsterdam (~westerse uithoek) naar Science Park (~oosterse uithoek) is precies een uurtje. i know omdat ik maandenlang naar beide heb gefietst (niet tegelijkertijd) en tussen die twee locaties in woon. bedenk me nu ook dat je t kunt checken met een Maps app, maar die zijn niet altijd even accurate met tijdsinschattingen

[clownboybebop]

if you’re ever in the position to choose between giving up and accepting defeat, and actually trying to fight the ancient unkillable god that is about to peel apart reality like a string cheese, remember this: scientifically speaking, you might as well give it a shot!

1.there were trees at the beginning of the world! there were trees so long ago that they predate bacteria that causes wood to decay. when a tree fell, it would lie there in stasis and there wasn’t any way of breaking down wood xylem on a molecular level in that way.

2. it seems obvious to say, but wood eating bacteria are literally incapable of comprehending what they’re breaking down. It’s just not information conciously available to a microorganism. they don’t know what they’re deconstructing, where it came from, bacteria have no way to even fathom the existence of a tree as a concept.

3. Regardless of the facts above, the world we live in today is a world where wood inevitably decomposes

it is worth fighting the unkillable god no matter how pointless it seems. it is worth taking the risk even though youre trying to accomplish something impossible. the reality in which you live was also once reality in which trees didn’t rot. You live in a reality that allows for existence before the possibility of destruction. you live in a reality where uncomprehending microbes break down matter that is so far beyond the scope of their comprehension that it feels comical to specify something so obvious. you live in a reality that occasionally allows unshakeable physical truths to be altered with no warning.

It is worth fighting the unkillable god because trees are so old they predate the source of their destruction, and it still did not spare them. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because bacteria rots unthinkingly, because there is room in our cosmos for destruction without comprehension on the part of the destroyer. It is worth fighting the unkillable god because now and then reality retracts the promise of immortality without fanfare, and when that happens there is no mercy for the ancient. the unmaking is not softer for the desecrators ignorance. for all things, existence is endless until the exact point where it ends.

so you might as well try to kill the unkillable god. it doesn’t seem likely, but at the beginning of the world, trees didn’t rot. so you never know! you never know

[dichotomoustessellations]

I could have had it way fuckinf worse but ill always hate my parents for judging me and essentially complaining or scolding me that i need to have goals and never breaking down what the steps like that should look like but its because they didnt care what i wanted to do or what goals i had they wanted to be able to shit out a command at me and have me magically be what their version of successful is, along with a lot of other thinking they have telepathy douche bag bullshit

[catboybiologist]

So.

Re: tumblr bans of transfemmes.

Let's ignore PhotoMatt for a moment. Manbaby tech CEO doubling down on a stupid decision and making himself look like more of an ass doing so is not a new phenomena.

Tumblr has consistently said, in both public statements and leaked internal communication, that they're essentially running a skeleton crew.

They keep saying that they don't have the resources to moderate, manually review posts, have any kind of appeal process, or anything. So, as people have widely received communications about, they seemed to have automated a significant portion of the moderation to operate solely on the quantity of reports (probably with a basic filter, eg quantity of reports regarding a certain post, within a certain timeframe) to automatically ban or shadowban accounts.

And so, they wipe their hands, both to the users, the public, and their own consciousness, and go about their automated operations.

All of this is likely true. Tumblr, at this point, is essentially abandonware internally, a kind of weird vanity project/dumpster ground for server infrastructure for Automattic. Likely, they don't want the bad press of "shutting down" fully. Or maybe the trickle of revenue they get here just barely exceeds operating costs, so why not keep it around?

Whatever is the case, the bans are a result of an automated process working in the background. I'm giving them some benefit of the doubt here, of course, we can't know anything for certain- but it seems like the individual bans are not based on any specific, manual action.

And that doesn't fucking excuse anything.

Because at some point, multiple people sat down at tumblr, and decided how to cut costs.

And they decided that the bare minimum of report abuse prevention was one of the first things on the chopping block.

Before the boops. Before GUI reconfigures.

They decided to cut something that is necessary to manage online communities.

They decided to cut something that ensures any targeted group will have any kind of community online.

And then, after all of that, the only manual intervention is doubling down on the shitty decisions that the automated systems make, and plucking reasons out of their ass for why they were the right decisions all along.

It's pure silicon valley brain. Blame the computer often and always. Use it to shield the active decisions you made when designing the computer that way. Treat it as a fact of life as opposed to something they actively made decisions for.

Is tumblr staff hitting the banhammer on each transfemme one by one? No.

Is tumblr staff deliberately crafting a system that allows TERFs and other conservative bigots to get rid of the "undesirables" for them? Yup. But they sure as hell are trying to not say the quiet part out loud. If they can always point the finger somewhere else, to the advertisers, to the automated systems, to the TERFs, then they can always have juuusssttt enough plausible deniability.

But being the "queerest place on the internet" requires concious acknowledgement that queer people will be targets of harassment, and you will have to protect against that.

Side note, this is why I do try to keep my blog at least somewhat SFW. Its one of the main reasons why I choose not to reblog all of the posts I'm tagged in- if the post is overtly NSFW, I've probably seen it, appreciated it, and consciously decided my level of interaction with it mostly based on how "tumblr friendly" it is. Is that bowing down to them? A little. It's also my choice. I value the community I have here. The pushes that y'all have given me gave me the strength to transition, and honestly gives me a lot of motivation to research HRT biology as much as I can, among many other things.

Yeah, I post pictures that are clearly meant to be found attractive in ways that are generally not socially acceptable , but never actual NSFW. I would like to think that I'm pretty safe from bans, but hey. Who knows. I don't want to lose my follower base, and the community around it.

And yeah, I'm gonna annoyingly remind you of the other places to find me, make sure to check my pin. If you don't know where to go, just find me on reddit and go from there, I'll post about it if anything happens.

[liesandnights]

The mortifying ordeal of admitting you do want to be loved vs the mortifying ordeal of not wanting people to pity you or feel bad for you vs the mortifying ordeal of wanting to reciprocate affection but being useless vs the mortifying ordeal of being careless with others and actually feeling bad vs the mortifying ordeal of being perceived as vulnerable at all.

[yggdrasilhypno]

I love the idea of having buttons programmed into a sub’s brain, showing them weaknesses they never knew they had. Maybe there’s a button that, when activated, gets them into the deepest and sleepiest state of trance and programming they could dream of. They’d struggle at first, but as that button is pressed just a tad harder than before, it’s like their mind is being held down by that very same button. Each fleeting moment of consciousness and intelligence being squeezed out by a single finger putting the slightest amount of pressure on their tiny little brains, feeling every drop of resistance pushed out by the realization of how easy they are now. And how could they not be so very easy? All it would take is a single button press and they’re putty in your hands.

Of course, that wouldn’t be their only button either. Perhaps there’s one that, when pushed, gives them a deep desire to obey any command, just like a good drone should. An off switch for the brain, if you will. A free state where no thoughts lie behind those empty eyes, only yearning for programming and command. Once it’s pressed, they’re nothing but a husk to fill with whatever post hypnotic suggestion you dream of, too far gone to disobey.

Maybe there’s one connected to their sex drive, keeping them needy and pumping them full of arousal with each press. Another, a simple pleasure switch. One press is another dosage. Another little dopamine rush. Another little tingle. Another pulse that gets them even more addicted. Not to mention a button to completely neutralize their bodily controls. A simple off switch, if you will. One click and they’re too weak to even more. Too sapped of energy to think or act. Your loyal puppet.

Of course, at first they’d try to resist all of these buttons. But, you could always mix and match. Throw a hit of pleasure on top of their trance button, just to addict them even more to you. Turn off their control of their own body only to turn on their drone state. Pressing every button at once would fry the brain, but I don’t think they’d complain much~

Each button, another piece to the puzzle. Another element to make them the easiest hypnosub. And of course, easier is always better~

[fantasyinallforms]

Man...I'm getting really sick of seeing AI in places it dosent belong. Go detect cancer cells and leave my damn art and literature alone. I need an AI fly swatter at this point.

[torturedpoetspsychward]

just saw a reddit thread debating whether florence pugh is attractive? FLORENCE PUGH. i wish a meteor would just take all of us out right now

[fategoflatass]

Babygirl, please. That same lukewarm water you keep on worrying about not being enough for him, that's the one thing that keeps him doing backflips every now and then. He fucking loves that lukewarm water, watch him become a pro swimmer in the near damn future, never ever leaving that lukewarm ass pool.

Well, now that's been said...

AAAAAAAAAAAAH SHE FUCKING INICIATED IT OMG YES GIRLIE LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

Also, a little extra teehee

God, I love them.

[sushisocks]

Thinking about Lenny and Sean.

Thinking about how Sean, representing the liveliness and optimism of the gang, has to be unavailable in Colter, just so that we, upon arrival in Horseshoe & his return to the gang, can really remember Colter as a dour opposition to the light, fun, easiness that is Horseshoe Overlook.

Thinking about how Sean is the last to be introduced and the first to die; how he HAS to be the first to die, as the most light-hearted, easy-going, fun-loving one of them. Every camp after Clemens Point is decidedly more dour, less light, mirroring what they have lost with his death. Even the two parties are noticably different, from Sean's party in Horseshoe being genuinely fun and full of hope, to Jack's party, while starting as well as one could hope, being marred by anger and sorrow; fights, and sadness, and quiet. It ends in a storm which cuts the party off; sends everyone inside and to bed, where Sean literally stays up singing and drinking until light. The game is telling us that things are no longer the same, through the environment. Things have changed, irrevocably, and they will only get worse from here on out.

Sean dies at the game's halfway point; end of chapter 3 of 6. He is the first to die of the gang members we truly get to know. It is surprising and jarring and grotesque. The effect is IMMEDIATE, although subtle, but absolutely there. Sean dies, and the dread starts creeping in. His death is the underlining of Arthur's kidnapping; Arthur might be fine for now but that doesn't mean things aren't getting worse.

Then Lenny, who alongside Jack represents the future, and the gang's hope. Note how they're both acknowledged as exceedingly smart; Jack for his age, and Lenny just in general (though he is also young by everyone's standards), and that Hosea is fond of both of them. The critical difference is that Jack represents youthful innocence in a way Lenny doesn't; Lenny is fully aware of what the gang is, what it does, and why it exists. He is seen talking about and understanding the societal factors that have led him to this way of life; specifically pointing out the impact of slavery and its abolishment on his quality of life as a black man.

Lenny is the only one who can be seen challenging Dutch at an intellectual level. Lenny dies, and there's little rationale left in the gang. And we are immediately treated to watching the start of Dutch's more rapid decline in Guarma. Lenny is buried next to Hosea, the (arguably) oldest gang member, with the most experience to guide them. There goes the future and past of the gang; the only voices which arguably could've made a difference.

He is also, notably, the only death who is not given a cutscene. Blink and it's done, and you're left in shock and disbelief, watching Arthur stay until the last second to not let the youngest member of the gang die alone.

So what's my point here? Well, I think it's worth pointing out that these two, alongside Molly, are the ending notes of chapter 3,4, and 5, all setting the tone for the chapter to come. Each signify the further detoriation of the gang -- they lose something with each death; a life and gun, sure, but also what that person in part represented. Optimism, reasonability, compassion. And each death is brutal; sudden; jarring, in distinct ways. Then, at last, Arthur is the final death, at the end of chapter 6. The gang is already done, by that point.

I also in part think it's interesting that part of the reason Sean and Lenny die is their own flaws. Sean's easy-going inattentive nature leaves him wide open, too busy making a quick-witted quip to keep an eye out -- even when Arthur, the most senior member among them, makes it clear something is wrong, which SHOULD put one on guard in that situation. Lenny, who believes himself lucky and intelligent, also has a sense of arrogance and recklessness which has him running headfirst into danger without looking.

I love them a lot, but I think their survival inherently would mean a very different story from the one RDR2 is. Also think they absolutely would have sided with Arthur in the end, but those are both completely different rants I'll save for another time :'^)

[sabrondabrainrot]

Just finished "Dark Sun CONFRONTS SUN in VRchat" SO

it's late and I need to go to bed for the weekend plans but I HAVE TO WRITE THIS I think D!Sun isn't doing this for OUR SUN I think he's doing things for the CONCEPT of Sun. He just showed Sun all the worlds where Sun dies, mostly because of Moon.

I usually don't believe what villains say, but here's the thing. This is Sun to Sun. D!Sun is one of those villain's who won't share all the things he wants to do. He trickles out just enough to raise more questions but never give anything of importance away.

Neptor, in the last episode I just finished, did implode. He warned Neptor that is what would happen. He didn't lie to Neptor. He hasn't lied about Nexus. He still sees Nexus as a Moon but hasn't lied about any of his actions. Nexus has done all the things D!Sun warned Sun and Moon about.

So I'm taking what he says to Sun as the truth. I think he's telling Sun this information because it's the most opportune time. He told Sun all the things he CAN do. He fully believes Sun can kill his baby dragon WitherStorm.

He told Sun that he is capable.

D!Sun wants Sun to gain his own independence because I think D!Sun sees our Sun as his HOPE.

Dark Sun wants to SAVE all Suns. He wants to save the future ones from dying. Not just from Moon's (that's the main reason though) but also from other things.

We haven't heard of a Sun council, but I think what we're witnessing in the show is the lead up to one being finally formed.

It's canon in the show that Eclipse's tried to work together and ultimately fail.

I don't remember if Moon's were ever stated to try to make councils but it seems most go crazy beyond the point of return far too soon to form one.

Creator is the only person who made a working council and that's due to their own shared delusions. They, however, did not have strength in numbers due to their own shortcomings and egos. They thought they could be uncontested while they 'researched' WitherStorms.

Ruin, a singular amalgam, killed off the entire Creator council in one fell swoop.

ANYWAYS

I think that D!Sun wants to make a council with our Sun, because he's been watching their dimension for a long time. I think he was watching since before Moon even reset and created N!Moon.

I made a silly haha joke about the council of Suns a few weeks ago but now I'm actually seeing character motivation and proof on it.

D!Sun is a villain who's not really done villainous stuff...he's been a schemer and he can't be trusted...but he's not done anything horribly evil yet (besides Neptor, that was so sad, but compared to literally everyone else in the show he did the same thing that Old Moon did to that one Moon robot he built that went rogue in one day. Old Moon blowing that bot up was treated for laughs but what D!Sun did was treated serious, food for thought). He does cherry pick what information he gives but the strange thing is, he hasn't lied. Not once. Early on he flat out told Eclipse and Ruin what he was going to do to them when he put something in their heads. He just didn't tell them what it was. He also grabbed N!Moon and told him he'd scan his head and he did just that, then sent him home. We know he also took a chance to secretly move his dimension and save it during Ruin's revenge scheme. (It's unclear if Ruin's statement that 'Dark Sun killed another Dimension' is valid or not)

I think D!Sun picked N!Moon as the catalyst to making our Sun independent from all Moons.

Nexus is a Moon who started off completely differently from any other Moon. As far as Nexus was aware they were never merged, they never had to fight for dominance. He had the ever present shadow of Old Moon....but that's it.

He got to be a gentle sweet and loving brother to Sun and the rest of his growing family. He wasn't perfect, but with time he would have been a great family member. It was growing to be that way.

I think D!Sun was waiting and hoping Nexus would also go crazy. Like every other Moon he's ever watched. He called him 'a dead one'. We have no privy to how other reset Moons are. The chances are they all are doomed by their own narrative to kill their Sun or just go insane.

While he didn't cause Nexus' to go crazy...he was fully banking on it to happen.

After all, Sun is willing to forgive Old Moon for hurting him over and over because he can excuse it away. "Moon was trapped in my head so it is justifiable why he was mad and lashing out." "Moon had the kill code so it makes sense why he hurt me and flew into blind murderous rage." "I call Moon brother and that means something to me." Sun has always found SOME WAY to justify why he should forgive Old Moon. It's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

D!Sun I think wants to show our Sun that forgiveness can run out. There's also the added bonus N!Moon/Nexus promised to never hurt Sun or be like Old Moon.

He broke that promise.

This is also D!Sun's evidence that Moons are going to always be 'evil' or in the wrong.

D!Sun is also studying things that were thought to be impossible. He's taming WitherStorms and learning how to communicate with them. He's figured out how to make multidimensional star energy work. He's done the impossible over and over. He, like our Sun, has the uncanny ability to affect and change fate.

My entire theory is just this, I think D!Sun is trying to rewrite the universal fate of all Sun's and he's starting with ours. The one we know, because he hopes that he can break other Sun's free.

Free from Moons. Free from suffering. Free from death.

He states he just "wants to be left alone." but he's ALWAYS interfering. Even visiting Puppet's original world to go to the grave-site of the Sun and Moon that tore themselves apart.

D!Sun can't sit by because he knows too much. He knows too much on the suffering that occurs to every innocent Sun out there. He's still a Sun. He's just the Sun that loves other Suns.

It explains so much. It explains why he's bothering to do any of this. Explains why he went and killed Lord Eclipse/witness his downfall personally. It explains why he told Puppet to not hesitate with BloodMoon (the entity that's tortured Sun from day 1 with the July incident). It also explains why he's kind to Earth and Lunar, even joking with them while subtly hinting how to catch Goliath. Explains why he kissed Sun on the mo-

I mean....

Anyways that's my late night rambles typed this up 30 mins before bed hope it's coherent. I couldn't sleep unless I wrote this down. That was such a good episode.

I also want to go in to how D!Sun is super wrong and I think Nexus is going to subvert the expectation by snapping out of it but idk about that one. I have to wait and see. I would want nothing more then for D!Sun to be wrong about all Moons.