#little hope spoilers

[rin-the-shadow]

So aside from his Locked Trait Event being later in the game meaning that he has the fewest opportunities to get killed, I feel like John's event is the easiest to know what to do, since all you have to do is follow his arc and act according to his behavior in the scene immediately preceding it. It doesn't make narrative sense for John to go from "Come on, you fuck! I'm ready!" and attacking his demon with a sledgehammer to begging the others for help instead of trying to hold it off. Even if he probably would revert a little bit after the fact, he probably wouldn't do so while he's still riding the adrenaline high and probably feeling pretty good about having clocked it several times.

In watching other people's playthroughs, I've found myself wondering if people who aren't familiar with the idea of "confronting your inner demons" would have a harder time figuring out what to do. In the past, I've attributed my capacity to save everyone on my first try (with accessibility features enabled) to my love of Jacob's Ladder (1991) and some of the plot twists around the demons there and Jacob's arc inadvertently giving me extra intel someone who didn't know that film wouldn't necessarily have. But in hindsight, I do wonder if some of it was also a familiarity with the idioms around "inner demons" or "personal demons."

On an unrelated note, since I do heavily interpret that game through the lens of Jacob's Ladder, and since I tend to interpret Vince as being more aware of what's going on than he lets on, I do sometimes wonder if he had his own Silent Hill-esque experience at some point. I think if I were ever to write a Little Hope fanfiction, it would probably be about Vince's story. If I were ever to write one.

[paintedcrows]

*through tears* HER LITTLE POG CHAMP

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[mabelsguidetolife]

“wait, you guys are me?????”

[agathasblackheart]

Rio constantly yelling “why don’t you want me” and telling Agatha she loves her and that she knows she loves her back was just wow. Rio was truly distraught over Agatha not wanting her anymore. She looked so heartbroken when Agatha said “I don’t want to see you for the rest of my life and when I die” so Rio just didn’t collect her soul once she died. Everything about the finale and their relationship has left me reeling. I cannot function

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[nikkodikko]

"From beginning to end" a double page collage tribute to the horror podcast that forever changed my brain chemistry :]

[somnimagus]

out of the frying pan and into the fire and into another frying pan that's also on fire

[id in alt text]

[sabreurs]

sokka trying to get katara to give up on her waterbending bc it could get her killed. and katara refuses to give up and continues to practice anyway. bc sokka and katara represent the survival of both the people and the culture. sokka had the safety of their people thrust upon him by his dad, while katara is the only one in their tribe that can carry the weight of their culture. both are heavy burdens, and they're struggling with their roles bc they're just two kids trying to rebuild in the wake of genocide. but they refuse to give up, bc that's what the story is about.

holding onto hope, regardless of what you face.

[diamondcitydarlin]

               "I am gonna make you so happy." 🪲🪳

[drrav3nb]

AYO EDEBIRI as Sydney Adamu WILL POULTER as Luca THE BEAR SEASON 3 | Episode 10 - Forever

[rin-the-shadow]

Yeah I have now decided to headcanon that the reason Vince doesn't have a counterpart in the past version of Little Hope is because he already had his "Silent Hill" experience and so he is no longer part of the illusion. Also headcanoning that he sticks around because Tanya's soul was still unable to move on, and he didn't want to leave until she could.

Also it's entirely possible that the drink clouds his memory of his own "Silent Hill" experience, and the player's treatment of him in the game affects whether or not he takes the time to put two-and-two together.

[clanborn]

pretending moonpaw is black and white until further notice

[centaur-dreaming]

stOP HURTING HER!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

[siriusly-the-best-bi]

guys the kiss was so important especially from a narrative and storytelling perspective because it was literally Crowley taking everything that's happened between them, every unsaid intention and every unspoken promise, and making it physical.

He's taking their arrangement and every other bullshit excuse they've ever used to hide how they feel about each other and throwing them out the window to put their feelings into an undeniable physical action that holds a lot of meaning to humans in order to be absolutely sure that Aziraphale knows exactly what he means when he says "we could have been Us." He wants to be absolutely sure that there are no misunderstandings between them and know that Azirphale will be committing to this decision with absolute reassurance that he's been understood and rejected anyway.

he's taking a human action with so much meaning and so much importance, and he's using it as a way to desperately make Aziraphale completely and undeniably aware of what he's stating. No more charades and no more lies or cover-ups. There's no denying this thing between them now, and Crowley did it the human way. Because he and Aziraphale love humanity and it's everything to them in their own ways.

There's a reason we saw a kiss between Crowley and Aziraphale, and not Gabriel and Beelzebub, despite them both being undeniable foils.

and really if you just think about that isn't it so god damned beautiful?

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)