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[ninjasmudge]

What are your thoughts on the two other monkeys? Idk if you ever heard of them, but it's the Red Bottom Ape and Long Armed Gibbon.

i actaually had some pretty lore heavy origin story hcs for those guys a couple of years ago, but i dont think i ever posted them. ill put some of the old art here and paste the lore under a cut cause its LONG (replaced the old swk and maq in the last pic with some more recent ones bc my hcs for them changed so much lmao)

their lore was well researched i spent days on it but it was a couple years ago lmao, its based on the principals they represent plus which of yin/yang they represent

long armed gibbon- can seize the sun and the moon, distinguish the auspicious from the inauspicious, and manipulate planets and stars

gibbon was born when a seed from a fir tree fell from heaven to earth. it landed on top of an eroded mountian and a tree started growing. after several hundred years, when the tree stretched high enough and was wise enough and the pine cones had gone from dark purple to blue, the trunk split one day at sunrise on a blue misty morning and gibbon walked into the world

red-buttocked horse monkey- who has knowledge of yin and yang, understands human affairs, is adept in its daily life and able to avoid death and lengthen its life

horse was born from a drop of water flung from a trough in heavens stables (part of the reason swk was so pleased to guard the horses when he went)

when she fell to earth she became a river that people often visited and talked around and played in. from this she came to understand human affairs. she also found she could help creatures avoid death or prolong their life by feeding their crops. when she knew enough, she climbed out of the river at sundown and walked into the world

sun wukong, the wise stone monkey- who knows transformations, recognizes the seasons, discerns the advantages of earth, and is able to alter the course of planets and stars

stealing from nezha reborn where the myth goes that when nüwe patched the sky, the leftover stone was where swk came from, but im changing it to one of the tiles that was used to create the furnace was dropped, leaving a monkey sized gap where he could later on slot into to keep himself alive in there. the tile was knocked out of the basket by the wind and fell to earth and this was the only one that landed on ffm. you know the story here, he absorbed chi from heaven AND earth which is why hes so powerful

six eared macaque- who has a sensitive ear, discernment of fundamental principles, knowledge of past and future, and comprehension of all things

macaque was born very suddenly when a piece of moon rock broke off and fell to earth on a new moon. the resulting meteor created a huge and sudden flash of light in a forest which created hundreds of stark shadows at once. the shadows condensed and the resulting being wouldnt have lived if it hadnt been a new moon because he needed the next hours of darkness to collect himself into a full being. but before the night was done, a new monkey was born who was able to hear everything in the radius he had collected shadows from, which if youve ever seen a meteor flash, is a long way

somethin interesting abt the things that created them- swks tile was actually heavenly, which is why he represents primarily yang (heaven). his was the only one that was CRAFTED BY heaven. gibbon and horse are both from something that fell from heaven and then the earth changed its form (the tree grew on earth from a heavenly seed, and the drop of water became a river) whereas macaque, representing the yin is fully of earth, the meteor that created him was from heaven but he didnt directly come from the meteor, he came from the shadows it created on earth. his only connection is to the earth

[imoenhatesthis]

@uhohlily got terminated

To Lily Orchard & Co.,

All I did was look at a mod you're currently recommending to people on your blog and channel, and also read your fanfiction. These are things you want your fans to look at, right? Well, I found it disturbing and made those posts.

I was content to post that evidence and fall away to the ether in a couple days. You hoping to bury this evidence makes everything more suspicious and even malicious. This is a mod you do not properly warn your fans about. You've reported the taboo content is minimal and can be avoided--it is not and you cannot. You've said that you did not know about the two author's other work, both on the mod and outside of it--you at the very least do now. You vagueposted about me, I know you do now. This is about doing the right thing: report to your fans accurately what the mod contains, all of it, so they can make their own opinions. And disavow the work of these authors, especially on your channel. You've said that you don't like people fetishizing these topics, but currently, you're supporting two people that do.

No one can stop you from playing a game you like or a mod you enjoy--but stop lying.

[coridallasmultipass]

brocal for the ship bingo?

The OTP to end all other OTPs... (Man. This wound up being basically Cori's Masterpost of BroCal. AKA... this got long and has some images, since I realized I can post my own art directly instead of just a text link to it lol.)

Wasn't actually expecting this to wind up with a bingo? But I got basically 2?? (Will explain the lighter heart later.) This is A LONG post, and definitely gonna get SUGGESTIVE, bc man, am I obSESSED with BroCal. I'm just gonna go thru each checked box, since I don't know how else to structure this post lol.

Read More to save ppl's dashboards:

I want them to make out with blood: OKAY. I HAVE A WHOLE THING PLANNED FOR THIS CONCEPT. I AM NOT GOING TO GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT IT JUST YET BC I ACTUALLY WANNA WRITE IT. I'm obsessed with this one fanart of Bro licking Lil Cal, and it spurred on an idea I outlined and really wanna write: https://coridallasmultipass.tumblr.com/post/739969858334294016/hiiii-mutual-i-am-secrecy-asking-if-u-have-anymore

((Sorry for the plain text links, Tumblr app is NOT cooperating with me right now to add hyperlinks. I'd post the image directly if that one was mine.))

Basically, I just really need to see Bro and Cal making out with blood in their mouths, and I started a whole convoluted, unrelated outline in order to make that hapen. It'll probably just be a really short thing that ends at the uh climax, since otherwise it's gonna end up sadstuck. And I don't like sadstuck lol.

Undeniably t4t: Bro and Dirk are always trans for me, and Lil Cal's got that uh... what percentage did I calculate it out to be? 13% of Dirk is in Lil Cal [ My shitpost calculations: https://coridallasmultipass.tumblr.com/post/746702663327072256/i-ran-out-of-tags-rambling-about-this-so-im-just ] so Lil Cal is at least 13% trans because of that much of Dirk being in him, plus however you feel about the other components being trans. LMAO this is ridiculous to type out. Moving on.

EDIT: FUTURE CORI INTERJECTING WITH A:

"Lil Cal Top Surgery Healing Progess: Day 1"

Terrible for each other affectionate/derogatory: I don't even know where the affectionate/derogatory split occurs. I multiship BroCal as both Bro/normal puppet Lil Cal and as Bro/evil juju puppet Lil Cal, and whatever combination in between or outside of that. Terrible in that Bro is so obsessed with Cal that he doesn't have normal relationship/social skills and uses Lil Cal as both a crutch and motivator alternately, in a terrible cycle, or maybe rather... spiral. And also terrible in that Bro is caught in the allure of playing the role of puppeteer while also being a puppet for the darker parts of Lil Cal, whether he actively knows it or not. (Honestly though, I feel like it's dismissive if you try to blame all of Bro's faults on Lil Cal like this tho, which is why I tend towards liking Lil Cal as just a regular puppet a lil bit more. Or at least, a regular mildly supernatural puppet since that can be a little more entertaining if Cal can get into mischief while no one's looking or give off the vibes of his mood more directly, rather than like entirely inanimate or 'just LE, trapped in a puppet body.' Again, I like all of these concepts.) ((I mean that can also be a whole post of its own, like, by the time Bro gets ahold of Lil Cal, are any of the other components still alive in there? Like, are ARquius and Gamzee still in there or did Caliborn kill and consume them entirely? Idk how it works, man. This is why I like Lil Cal as his own person, maybe just influenced by the feelings of the others. LaCroix: CalGamARquius essenced water. Lil Croix.))

They need to get weirder with it: YES YES. 1000% YES. I need entirely shameless Bro doing entirely shamless things to Lil Cal. I want them inseparable and doing unspeakable things to each other. I want Bro taking full advantage of Cal having a puppet body and all the intimacy that comes with making repairs and being elbow-deep in stuffing.

Playing with them like dolls cute/psychological torture: This is the same divide as with the 'terrible for each other' point, so I'm just gonna go with the cute one, since the torture one is self-explanatory. I want them fucking married. Like. Full mushy cute romance type of relationship that Bro has never felt for any of the people in his life (cough aromantic cough). I made this comic not too long ago, and I often fondly look back on it, because I adore the concept of Bro being lovey and romantic and everything out of character around Lil Cal because he feels safe and loved and comfortable around Cal:

[ https://coridallasmultipass.tumblr.com/post/750602227910131712/brocal-4-lyfe-so-i-had-this-idea-of-dave-being ]

I made a post a long, long time ago (not gonna link that one bc it was personal and I was being very obviously mentally ill ["C'mon, like you're not being obviously mentally ill while typing paragraph upon paragraph about BroCal still in 2024 like 10 years later??" Fair.]) But the gist of it was that, like, having objectophilia or objectum sexuality is like, from an outsider pov, it's a way to express love to yourself. You filter all your self-hate through the object you love, and you get back unconditional love in return.

Lil Cal is never gonna hate Bro, no matter what Bro does. As a regular puppet, Lil Cal doesn't have the capacity for hate. And so that only brings them closer, since Cal is never gonna reject Bro for any reason. (Back to being a crutch. RSD is real, and Dave is probably a big trigger for that since he's not on the same wavelength of weird as Bro [not blaming Dave, obviously, this is a post about BroCal].) Bro can experience receiving positive attention from Lil Cal, without feeling 'fake' or uncool by expressing that same attention or affection directly to his own self. (Things are always done through multiple layers with the Striders, aren't they?) ((And I'm not saying Lil Cal doesn't love Bro, or that their relationship is just pretend - it's real, I'm just like, 'What's going on behind the curtain in the mundane situation?/ How is the relationship appealing?' Lil Cal luvs Bro 5eva 4 lyfe and that's a hard fact. Could cut diamonds with that shit.)) Example: maybe Bro is dealing with a bout of body/gender dysphoria and is trying to take out his frustration with working out, and it's not helping, even if he's powered through a set better than normal. Then, he notices the way Lil Cal is watching him, and he can feel the excitement seeping off Cal. He can sense the echoes of a wolf-whistle ring out through his mind, and it's like. Okay, none of that shit from before matters, he's got all the validation he needs right there in Lil Cal. Maybe flex in Cal's direction, Bro?

Oh, so back to being cute: isn't it wonderful how the template maker phrased it as 'playing dolls'? But yeah, I want all the mush and everything. Bro has a whole wardrobe for Lil Cal for every minor event that occurs in the Strider household. I want them going on genuine dates. Maybe even... holding hands. Bro blushes for the first time since he was 16. He even gets to take Lil Cal with him when he goes out to DJ or put on a show. Not to mention the whole website business. (I've talked about Cal's role in that before, but I'll mention it in a moment...)

They will die in a heart shaped pool of blood: I mean, kinda did happen, even tho Lil Cal didn't perma die right there. I don't think this one needs any explanation, since it basically happens in canon.

'You should see the other guy...': Okay, so. About 11 years ago, I had a really great idea. About how smuppets enter this world. I expanded on it in the following more-recent post (adult only content lol): https://coridallasmultipass.tumblr.com/post/741683686717669376/back-in-the-day-my-friends-called-me-insane-when-i

To sum it up, whenever Bro makes a new smuppet design, he then gives it a video debut on his website, where uh, Lil Cal births the smuppet like it's a horror movie scene, fake blood and poly-fil gore all over the place as the smuppet crawls out from the viscera. Bro then gets to play aftercare by lovingly and gently cleaning up and restuffing Lil Cal as they get to admire their new creation and rake in the dough lol.

So it's technically not a 'you should see the other guy' kinda situation, but it does involve one of them being... idk what word would describe it. Injured by the other? Usually a character loses a fight and says this to act like they got out of it better than the other guy, but... We could have someone knock on the door during the filming of a scene like that, and Bro has to answer it with fake blood up to his elbows, and be like 'You should see the other guy.' (But obviously, that's a terrible idea and would cause more trouble than it's worth... Maybe worth it for a persistent door to door salesperson, though.)

Though, I guess I should also say, I'm not opposed to Bro beating on Lil Cal in or out of the bedroom. Or in the case of animate Lil Cal, Cal choking out Bro. In or out of the bedroom, lol. Depends on the situation, like I said I will ship this ship any which way. But my preference for animate Lil Cal is to be like a totally normal puppet around Bro (or mushy in-love with Bro) and then evil-murder-puppet towards anyone else in Bro's life, like a... toxic yaoi guard puppet. (New Phrase Achievement Unlocked!) Bro brings home another guy to have sex, who tries to stay the night due to the late hour, but the guy wakes up shortly after to see Lil Cal standing there with a knife in the dark, eyes glowing red. Panic ensues when the guest screams and freaks out, and by the time Bro's got a light on, grabbing his sword, ready for a ninja vs ninja fight (bc an intruder would've had to bypass all the traps), Lil Cal is just innocently splayed across the desk chair, no knife in sight. Relevant post (well, the caption on the post too, saying how Bro can't seem to hold onto any relationships besides Lil Cal):

[ https://coridallasmultipass.tumblr.com/post/741830516962164736/i-want-you-so-youre-mine-always-selfishly ]

Uh, lol, also Cal choking out Bro in the bedroom, adult only drawing: https://coridallasmultipass.tumblr.com/post/754328907438800896/i-wouldnt-wanna-be-my-ex-when-he-found-out-who

Thinking about them always and forever: Listen. My Tumblr as proof, I've had BroCal on the brain for at least 11 years at this point. Definitely longer, since I first started reading Homestuck. I fucking love puppets and dolls and plushies and I always have. Man, if I hadn't deleted Tweets (automated app I used to do, and I couldn't choose what to save) from when I was in high school, you could've seen me @ ing my fave band when they were taking lyric suggestions on a fan-inspired album, where I was telling them 'make a song where the theme is puppets' and, while I don't know if they saw that or took the suggestion (they had responded to me before bc they weren't huge yet), there is indeed a song titled "Puppets" on that album, and it was my favourite song on there. Point is, I was fated to ship BroCal before I even knew it existed.

Sicko 2 sicko communication: I mean, does this even need explaining? Bro and Cal aren't just on the same wavelength of freaky, they're the fucking source of the wavelength, and it's causing a feedback loop between them. And it does as feedback does, which is, it amplifies with time. (Going back to the spiral symbolism here, lol.) ((Actually, time can play a symbol here, too, I guess, but idk how to word it, I'm starting to run out of steam.))

Let them have a happy ending: God, I need this so badly. I know Bro's story ends in Homestuck, but like. Pls. Someone needs to officiate their wedding. Currently placing the dreambubble order, but I can't organize a wedding by myself. OH speaking of. In that lil comic I did above, where Bro is accepting Lil Cal's proposal, I had the Natural Born Killers wedding scene in mind. I was gonna draw that as a follow up, but I think I have too many WIPs going. Just two people on the run, saying "I do" in a scenic but completely ordinary roadside location. Idk why, I keep going back to that movie for things related to Bro (I mention it in a very important scene in a longer WIP I've been writing, as something Bro watched and internalized as a kid lol.) It's not the best movie lol. Anyway.

The devotion omg: I feel like I have already gotten my point across about this, but let me reiterate:

[ https://coridallasmultipass.tumblr.com/post/735842968450269184/in-the-name-of-iconic-magical-girl-anime-ill ]

Bro and Lil Cal absolutely beat the shit outta Jack Noir before he gets prototyped. And even then, they fight together till the death, like. C'mon. Nothing more romantic than fighting a losing battle side by side. Also, like, Lil Cal having his own protective chest for safekeeping as seen in the Strider living room? Like, you don't just have a protective case for any old thing, especially something meant to be handled, especially something that is regularly used to smack other things/humans. What I'm saying is, Lil Cal is durable and resilient, and yet, Bro still has a case for transporting Cal safely. Oh, wait, I just thought of something funny, what if Lil Cal goes feral like a cat, and basically the chest is like a cat carrier so Bro can drive without being constricted lmaoooo, I've been typing for hours can you tell?

Kind of homophobic: Listen. I HAD a Cal. Took him to college. Staked my claim on the top bunk bc I am royalty. Proceeded to not have anywhere to set my water cup and had to use a cardboard box as a table up there. Spilled water. Melted Cal's sharpie-drawn face. And then proceeded to cry. I have a WIP of Lil Cal 2, but that requires actually remembering to work on him. I wanna do better by the pattern, too, since I rushed to finish the first. I have all the material! I have the project started! So it's just a matter of reordering my WIP priorities, honestly.

Where is all the fucking content?!: For realzz. I was actually venting about this the other day (didn't end up posting it), but it's like, either there's no BroCal content, or there IS BroCal content, but I can't reblog it for reasons I don't want to get into on this post. I'm dying of thirst in the ocean, basically. Whatever. This just means I need to make more BroCal content myself, which I am more than happy to do. I've just had a rough past few months, so I'm glad I got to type all this post out, and hopefully I can get back to creating soon.

Last one! I hope this one makes up for the absurd length of the post, it's prob my new fave idea I just came up with on the spot.

[TW drink spiking by a stranger mentioned in this.]

Committing atrocities as their silly little activities: I think we all know what this means, but I am going to ignore that elephant with my special x-ray vision. Because this is a BroCal post. I'm digging deep to the meat and bones of this. Honestly, this could go multiple routes, it depends on how you take your Lil Cal.

One could place emphasis on the 'guard' part of the, ahem ahem, toxic yaoi guard puppet. Maybe someone is actually trying to harm Bro, and Bro legit can't do anything for reasons outside of his control - let's say his drink got spiked a while after he invited a stranger home that he thought was chill. As Bro gets shoved down on the futon, his memory of the night is only a few flickers. Familiar orange plush, roiling around above him like a dancing windsock. Flashes of Lil Cal's face all distorted and stretched wide like a funhouse. J-Lo and Ice Cube on the TV. But when Bro is finally able to fully wake up in the morning, everything is as if he just got home alone last night and passed out on the futon. Cal looks totally normal and content tucked under Bro's warm arm. Except when Bro gets up, there is a pair of shoes too big to belong to him at the door. Maybe Bro knows. Maybe instinct tells him to run. Maybe he does, but he's running towards Lil Cal, every time.

[monstriiss]

i know i didn't reply to anyone, but i just want to say thank you all for your kind words, you're so lovely and supportive, and im lucky to have such a cool crew here ❤️

[turtle-ly]

Your sister has a job in the king's palace. Something involving concrete. The pay is good, she asked you to join, but you always refused. How good could you be at hard labor? Yet today for some reason you accompanied her to work. You don't remember why, maybe that offer was tempting enough this morning. Your sister leads you into a room that leads to another room. Two rooms side by side. There is a structure, house shaped, in the second room. A bit weird to have a house inside a house, you think. There are holes, palm-sized, drilled into the ground surrounding the sides of the "house". Not that many, about 6 or 8, and you remember some in the first room too. You notice the both of you are the only people here. Which means your sister has worked alone all this time? She instructs you to pour concrete down the holes and now that she says it you notice the various bags lying around. Work it is, then.

The concrete bags are surprisingly light. Of course there is a weight to them, but it's certainly not as heavy as you guessed. Maybe that's why your sister can do this job despite her small frame. There are 2 more weird things about this concrete though. First, it seems to harden immediately after pouring. And second, instead of pooling at the bottom or adding slowly into a pile, the concrete stacked perfectly into a pillar upon landing, and reaches up to the hole that way. So it isn't hard to fill up those 8 holes after all. But you realize that if you turn your back on them for a while, the concrete blocking the openings of the holes actually... disappear. A puzzled look to your sister confirms this is normal, somehow, and the work continues.

After a while, your sister and you decide to take a break. Sitting on a chair near a pile of concrete bags, she waves you over with a secretive smile. Look down one of them, she says, pointing to a hole freshly cleared from concrete. You crouch down and squint. And immediately freeze.

You have glanced through the holes earlier, and found nothing right below them. But now that you take a closer look, you can see, diagonal from the hole you look through, is a Beast. A white lion, with wings and horns, its mouth muzzled by some kind of web or fabric, you're not sure. Despite that, the Beast stares, straight at you, and what's left of its mouth not hidden by the fabric forms a smile.

You jerks back, gives your sister a look that conveys your bewilderment. She shrugs in response, and tells you to get back to work.

The two of you starts working again, this time with a lot of hesitance from your part. So the king didn't actually slay the Beast, after all, and is now attempting to bury it under this concrete. You guess the Beast is still quite powerful, and that's why the concrete pillars disappear, but whatever the king used to bind its mouth also binds its magic to the room it is hidden, otherwise your sister would be dead the day she took the job. You wonder if this concrete thing can even work when it disappears so fast, but the king seems determined if only through your sister's employment. Determined, or desperate. Either way, that's not your business now, isn't it?

[puddingjump]

art for the hyperdontia cover!

[rhalgrs]

I just started writing about some thoughts about the type of research that should be done regarding my last post and I. think perhaps I should summarize because it's getting long (500 words) and I'm not done yet

tldr I think it would be cool if more taxa in elpis were explored like slime molds (amoebas), bacteria, lichens, less commonly explored fungi, seaweeds, mosses, insects and microbes, the necessity of diseases and viruses on different parts of the environment + how they might moralize issues like this, etc and the role of geology on the environment (which my own elpis researcher would be focused on)

[viksalos]

oops oops realizing i have a tendency to hide basic and totally normal information about myself bc i’m always worried i will be punished somehow if i reveal it, which is both not conducive to making/keeping friends and also leads to inappropriate oversharing in other avenues 👍

[an-american-whore]

he tried to kiss me goodnight and I had to channel a very dark and buried piece of myself to force myself to kiss him back and tell him I love him. god I want to tear my tongue out and rip my throat out now. when will I ever be good enough for him. he's already told me everyone around him says I'm not good for him. his mom, brother and friends. everyone says how bad I am for him. will I spend the rest of my life trying to prove to everyone that I am good enough. that I'm worth a damn.

[m3nyas]

i need to get better at speaking and talking and remembering. i remember having a conversation with this guy and getting so heated because we were talking about ?disability or something and he said something along the lines of "look im just saying id rather not be in a wheelchair that id prefer to be able bodied" basically that being disabled is literally just being worse off. i get what he was saying but i couldnt articulate why it bothered me so much and how on an extreme level thought like this leads to eugenics but now im thinking whats even the point of thinking that. we all have different lives and we learn to live with what we have and some people dont care how they are living as long as they are accepted. whats the point of saying ohhh im jus saying id rather not be in a wheelchair cmon man like ok. well ur not. and if u were thats just how u would live. but there are people who already live like this way so why dont we get out of ur little thought experiment and think about creating more accessibility for those u consider less fortunate or whatever

[villain-sympathizer]

requests still on hold

okay so, i know i said id get back to requests after the new years but uh, my cat of almost 19 yrs who i raised from kittenhood is being put down tomorrow morning, so im going to be a bit of an emotional wreck for a while. ill try and do what i can, but just know im going to be really off for a bit

thank you all for your patience!

[shadyhouse]

fuckkk i did not mean for that post to be fully uncovered i put a readmore on it but it didnt show up 😭 oh well its posted now

[geminitiger]

i realized i dont really like mv teasers it ruins the surprise and hype sometimes like i always remember in 2015 that fatefull day one direction dropped the drag me down mv unannounced and we all collectively had a menty b,, like i miss that feeling and kpop likes to take a year teasing everything about a comeback and sometimes i like it but sometimes it dulls my excitement like can i please just listen to the album dawg

[goatedgreen]

HI yes I have a handful of questions answer however u want em :3

Abbi: how does she feel about Loreina at the start of the story versus now? What's up with their relationship?

Frith: does he ever tie up his hair? If so with like scrunchies, braids, ponytails etc.

Felix: does he have any rings or jewelry for his tail?

Annora: what sort of projects does she get up?

Maria: in the art I've seen of her, her left eye is covered and there's a little bit of a scar visible. Would love to know the story there or a hint maybes :3

THESE QUESTIONS ARE SO FUN!!!! okay ill try answer them as best i can without revealing too much :)

Abbie: at the beginning of our story abbie is unfortunately a bit of an unintentionally shitty sister :( because of her magic, she gets a lot of attention from their father, the king, while growing up. but because of this attention, she becomes a little sheltered, and a little distracted from everything else, that includes her younger sister loreina. theres resentment there, but abbie is basically oblivious to any of this until she runs away and starts the rebellion, assuming loreina was just an angsty teenager. when she finds out her sister genuinely hates her, she's devastated and tries her hardest to mend the relationship between them

Frith: during his time locked away, and then later as part of the king's personal guard, friths hair is not given a lot of attention beyond making it presentable to the public, this sometimes included tying it back into a low ponytail for important events, but normally it was just left to do its own thing. once he escapes that environment, he finds that people really like braiding his hair, and he likes the comfort of being able to trust people to do that, so its often found woven with pretty ribbons or flowers :)

Félix: surprisingly ive never considered that before but hes totally the type to want to accessorise like that!! his powers work in such a way that his wings and tail arent always present (early on) but as the story progresses and his extra limbs are there for longer and longer, he finds ways to incorporate them more into his look. he suits gold jewellery:)

Annora: before the story begins and all the characters are introduced to each other, annora is the only one of them (excluding abbie) who is aware that she is.... connected to Some People. like... Weird People In Her Dreams Who Are Actually Real People In Real Life. she isnt content to just chalk it up to over active imagination, especially when, after extensive research, she tracks down these people from her dreams and find out theyre real fucking humans in the real world (apart from the girl with pink hair, who she cant find on any search engine or newpaper clipping). basically shes a full blown conspiracy theorist, except the "conspiracy" is her own fucking life and powers that make it impossible for her to leave her house because Dear God these plants are so fucking Loud in her head, and the animals are Rude to her, even if they're not communicating in any language she can understand, and damn if she enters another mall with all those Feelings in it she might bite through drywall. basically shes just really into finding the truth behind everything, which makes her great at uncovering all the things covered up by the King from this magical world shes suddenly thrust into

Maria: well spotted!! yes, maria has a large scar going over her left eye and down her cheek. i wont say much other than, if a child approached you with eyes as red as the devil, claiming to be able to "see you when you arent there" and always knows a persons next move... well it might make you a little fucking terrified, and some people aren't inclined to run away from what theyre afraid of, but rather try to elimate the threat.

[fataliitea]

I just finished playing The Su1c1de of Rachel Foster and... hoo boy, really wish I'd done some research before blindly playing it.

some of the actual game mechanics are good, the sound design is nice, the map is confusing but kinda adds to the overall feel...

but really wish I'd known it was like That™️ before playing

[mummer]

just saw asteroid city last night, pls explain the proposed significance of the kiss!!

answering this publicly hope thats ok! cant do a readmore im on mobile *****asteroid city spoilers below beware*****

i dont remember anyones names so this is gonna sound partly unhinged. okay so the edward norton playwright and jason schwartzman actor (not character, in the black and white parts) are lovers right. tbh i thought this was kind of a gag and forgot about it. but later we find out that the playwright died 6 months into the production. i didnt make the connection that THAT’s why the actor-jason has to suddenly leave the stage and freaks out backstage about how he’s not sure he’s Doing it right. hes not talking about acting!! because he himself is literally grieving his lover while he’s playing a character who’s grieving his wife written by his lover so obviously it’s too much!!! actor-jason is trying to find meaning in his death through his writing but there isnt any meaning in death [gerris drinkwater voice] which is what the play is trying to say anyway. he doesnt think he’s performing grief right even in his own life!!! (and tbh it’s the 50s so he wouldnt be able to perform grief publicly anyway!!!!) the play starts with a car accident… anyone would search for some hidden meaning there, some sign…. so when he talks to margot robbie outside it’s not really about finding the CHARACTER’s motivations it’s about the actor himself being able to process the playwright’s death! and adrien brody director was probably also dealing with that too (him and norton seemed to be good buddies) so the whole “sleeping backstage” thing gets a bit sadder maybe? maybe everyone else got this in the theatre and im just stupid lol but crazy making stuff to me!!! the whole story is about sublimated gay grief that cannot be expressed?!?!

the tweet that caught me onto this was here which posits that the playwright’s death was a suicide but i think that’s pretty stupid and unnecessary because the whole thing about the play asteroid city is that death is random and meaningless. im pretty sure that’s what the alien represents— a shocking and absurd event that isnt outright evil or menacing, not something anyone can predict or make sense of, it’s just a thing that happens to you out of nowhere, it doesnt mean anything. he’s a little black figure, he’s death! giving and taking! aagh