#nonsense theory i know.

[stringless-arthur]

(shuts the computer after the norris statement from tmagp1 finished playing) and here's how parker yang malevolent can still win

[nirvanaida]

What is UP Brooklanders?! i have been murdered

[lorax-devito]

I reckon this scene is mike coming out to El and then she looks over the side if the building to see Will and they both giggle and she forces mike to make a move on him

[fungifanart]

Y'all voted for it, so here it is!

Welcome to Fungifanart's explanation of his Amnesiac Crowley Theory!

(AKA, the embodiment of this image)

I think we can all agree that the parallels between Crowley and what we know of Raverne are too obvious to ignore, but one major problem with the Crowley = Raverne theory is why Lilia wouldn't recognize him.

One COULD make the argument that it's been so long that Lilia doesn't remember what he looks like, but if he can dream about Maleanor, whom he loved, with her face still in full detail after 400-ish years, then that doesn't make sense, since Maleanor herself says that he loved her and Raverne equally.

So why doesn't Lilia make the connection?

WELL.

My proposition is that Crowley's mask is his battle mask that he had as Raverne, which Lilia has never actually seen him wear.

"Fungi, what the hell are you talking about? He's a General. Why wouldn't he-" LET ME EXPLAIN.

Raverne was a noble, right? And Lilia himself says that a noble like him going out onto the frontlines would be "Unthinkable" under normal circumstances.

And this lines up because Lilia has no such noble status, with the same going for Baur, so them being out fighting is nothing out of the ordinary.

So it's possible that Raverne's role was more of a head strategist/tactician until now.

This, combined with his clothes being assumedly different from the ones he wore back then, makes it plausible that Lilia wouldn't recognize him.

That being said,

What we DO know about Raverne at the time of the Silver Owls' invasion was that he was SUPPOSED to be the one delivering the letter to Hendrick, but randomly disappeared, forcing Lilia to deliver it instead.

"Why?" You may ask? "Isn't it because Crowley’s a flakey coward? You may also ask?

Possible.

However, MY theory is that he was ambushed by the Silver Owls and defeated in secret.

It's a sound strategy: Eliminating one general in secret to goad out the other one and leave your target with less military personnel at her disposal.

And, as you may recall, the Silver Owl Citadel was conveniently positioned close to the sea.

So if we assume that Raverne got all the way to the other castle before getting ambushed, then the likelihood of his assumed-dead body being tossed into and carried away by the sea increases exponentially.

Leaving him in the perfect position to wash up on the shore of Sage Island with no memory of who he is, which is why he stayed there rather than immediately finding a way back to help his wife and kind-of-boyfriend and their unborn child.

(This part's fully delving into crackpot theory territory, but this may also explain his very name "Dire Crowley" which is...pretty unconventional even amongst all the other names we've been working with. Because, as much as we all know him as our shitty crow dad/uncle, he does cut a rather intimidating figure in a void with just the mask alone so Dire (Scary) Crowley (Ravens and Crows are similar enough to get mixed up) could be a reasonable temporary for him or the people that found him to come up with in the absence of knowing his real name)

[falmerbrook]

I don't think I have it in me to be a youtube Video Essayist (like, I have the autism for it, and i love pacing around my house pretending I am, but I do not the mental ability to handle pushback), nor do I think i have the thorough academic/analytical knowledge on this topic atm to handle it the way I'd want to, but every time I see discourse about the topic of lgbt characters in video games I yearn to make a video about queer characters and tes and how tes handles them

[communistkenobi]

there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

[steampunkhobo]

If you don’t think Young Mungo had a happy ending don’t talk to me 😤❌

[grapefruittwostep]

My car battery died at work today and opening the hood summoned one hundred construction workers who all had OPINIONS about what was wrong

[warlordfelwinter]

ooh baby now thats what i call fashion

[thelassoway]

Ted Lasso S01E01 Pilot || Ted Lasso S03E03 4-5-1 & S03E07 The Strings That Bind Us

[chaoflaka]

Another underrated scene I want to point out.

But in case no one remembers, this is when Tien is attempting to reseal King Piccolo in a container during the confrontation. The moment the containement is revealed, one of his offsprings/servants, Drum, almost immediately disappears from sight.

And soon after, right before KP starts to get sucked in, Drum shields him in the Nick of time and gets captured instead. Have KP not destroyed the container, Drum would have fully been sealed within.

Now I kind of doubt KP did this cause he cared about one of his children (given he one time blamed Cymbal and Tambourine for being worthless over being killed by a human being) and more so did it to not lose a soldier.

But I was incredibly impressed. Even just few minutes after having been born, Drum was willing to risk his life to protect his king. His father. Which is stangely wholesome for an evil being supporting a heartless tyrant.

It makes me wonder if Piccolo Jr. subconsciously recalled back to that memory the moment he rushed over to protect Gohan from Napa’s blast.

[ashirisu]

All my love to fans of the coffee theory, but I will never be able to get behind it. It will always be better and more interesting to me to assume that Aziraphale is actually just a complex character who makes mistakes as a result of his trauma.

He’s a sweetheart and of course we don’t want to think less of him, but it’s a disservice to the story to act like warm, soft, and loving characters are incapable of making poor (if well-intentioned) decisions through the lens of their negative biases. A sneaky miracle brainwashing in the final fifteen robs him of the agency he’s spent the last six thousand years painstakingly developing—not only does it take away his ability to make his own decision in the moment, it also completely ignores the impact that millennia of indoctrination has had on his psyche.

The indoctrination (and Aziraphale’s learning to question it) is the core theme of the minisodes. In each scenario, he’s forced to question the moral code of heaven and accept that life on earth is complex, and even then, he still struggles to see the point completely. Crowley is still the only demon he doesn’t distrust on sight, and he only openly admits to there being “very light” shades of grey. He’s working on it, but he’s still got at least six more episodes of self-reflection to go.

In every conceivable way, this decision is actually a step in the right direction in terms of his personal character arc. Aziraphale doesn’t have all the information we’re working with as an audience, so we can’t expect him to see the extent to which he’s being manipulated and the full scope of Crowley’s feelings for him. From his perspective, he’s only recently come to terms with how fundamentally flawed the system is and is being given the opportunity to implement real change from the top—to let the entirety of heaven see the shades of grey he’s discovered and end the practice of eternally punishing anyone who asks questions.

Why would someone who’s finally allowed to openly love his best friend, who has just watched another angel and demon successfully find love by following his example, see that as anything but an absolute win?

Of course it hurts and of course it’s devastating, because we as the audience see the truth of what’s happening, but I promise it’ll ultimately be more rewarding to let this be part of his character development instead of a divinely-contrived backslide that leaves no more room for personal growth. Aziraphale realizing he was wrong and working to amend it (which he will, given his characterization up to this point) will make for a better story than him realizing he was magically forced to act contrary to his beliefs.

Our angel can be flawed and messily three-dimensional and we can still love him, it’s okay. I don’t think we should diminish him for the sake of an almond syrup MacGuffin.

[heynhay]

whats so funny is that you guys have no idea that in a week or two its quite likely ill drop off the face of the earth again. maybe even delete my whole blog. like all the great klance artists.

[note-boom]

After reading that Dead Apple Post and all the posts within it, I had commentary and theories and random points to make....but I couldn't really put in into a cohesive post, so instead just have them as bullet points in the form of questions

So, obvious one first. What in the world is up with Atsushi's ability? The thing is. It's him that's described as a guidepost to the Book rather than his ability and when he looks at that blue cube, he calls it himself. And yet his ability is supposedly the one who can guide people to what they most desire, as well as his ability being described as something that can basically devour other abilities

On that note...it's interesting to me that it's been pointed out how Akutagawa's ability can cut through any physical structure (matter) and even space itself (so Akutagawa has a space-matter ability) while Atsushi can cut through and basically unalive any ability (tiger devouring prey imagery anyone?). And then we have Dazai who is able to nullify abilities for a brief period of time, not obliterate them just cancel them out. Which is very interesting to me when we have this whole imagery of Dazai represented by sunset, the ADA represented by twilight, the PM by the night, the Special Division by the day, and Atsushi by the moon. The moon is within the night and it's what sort of...cancels out the power of the night. Meanwhile, twilight (ADA) is the time between sunset (Dazai) and dusk (apparently, it goes like sunset -> twilight -> dusk), and it just sits interestingly to me that the ADA people are framed as those "in between" two great forces (day and night), and Dazai the nullifier as sunset sits in between Atsushi the ability devourer represented by the moon...and perhaps something represented by the sun. And the question culminating out of all that: was Shibusawa (the chaos of "ability" itself) the sun to Atsushi's moon or have we not seen that yet? Or is Akutagawa, also represented with draconic imagery, supposed to be that sun or is he really the night that "backgrounds" Atsushi's moon, as we seen in their fights?

Thirdly, something to be said about shapeshifting abilities. All I can remember off the top of my head right now is Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, Shibusawa's Draconica's final form, Bram's vampire ability, and Atsushi's Beast Beneath the Moonlight. (And from the theory linked in the dead apple post that talks about a possible Fyodor ability being the ability to copy himself makes him a kind of...form-shifter as well?). That said, in all these four, the carrier of that ability doesn't just use their ability, they become their ability. That sort of distinction clearly sets them apart from other ability users, I think...it makes them something....other (it also brings up Tanizaki as a rather interesting point, not as someone who can shapeshift or cause shapeshifting but as someone who can pretend to do so through illusions). And Dazai has all this angst about him not being human, but the real question is how human are those shapeshifters? Lovecraft clearly isn't human, Bram's vampires definitely aren't, and Shibusawa was an ability that survived its user (we've seen some other abilities do that, but none of them are sentient). I definitely think Atsushi's 100% human, and I think his lack of initial control over his ability is a testament to that....but I do wonder if he has the ability to be a little bit other-than-human like the other shapeshifters seem to be.

Continuing the Atsushi thread...we've already established that his ability can reject wounds/regenerate wounds. And while I do think we have evidence that he's recovered from normal gunshot wounds and such things, there's also the thing about him having orphanage scars and how most of the times he regrows limbs etc. etc. it's because an ability wounded him. Do you think that Atsushi might possibly have the ability to recover faster from non-ability based wounds (and thus get scars out of it) but an actual power to "reject" ability-inflicted pain (so no scars)?

Also, the whole thing about singularities is interesting to me, especially considering Chuuya and his...instability. I wonder if there's a difference between curated and manmade singularities like Chuuya's and Oda/Gide's...or if Chuuya's (and Verlaine's) whole singularity experiment was an attempt to recreate something the scientists had already seen...namely, a singularity that could survive within a person without actually harming them. And could Atsushi be one of those people who contain a natural singularity within himself?

[youhavethewrong]

It's Like Gold Dust

[cherry-bomb-ships]

JUST HAD MY FIRST MEDICAL EMERGENCY ON A FLIGHT... WHAT ELSE WANTS TO HAPPEN ON THIS TRIP 💀💀💀