#plot drop 6

[whambam-ink]

Chronic shipper brain disease aside, my greatest hope for the HD re-releases of AJ, DD, and SoJ is that it reels in some more naruodo enjoyers / tolerators.

Not shippers, per say (although that would be nice), but at least people who see their fun broken-but-then-mended hero worship dynamic across all three games,

look at the fan art and fan fics made about it, and go, “It may not be my thing, but I get the appeal,” instead of picking up their metaphorical pitchforks because of an 11-year age difference between two unrelated adults who met as adults.

[everysinglepheel]

screenshots grabbed from this video

my favorite gen 6 quote dfgsfdg the writing in this game was definitely an experience

[thefirstknife]

THOUGHTS

My thoughts are that I am insane right now!!!!!!!!

I was in a raid when this happened and then just like a few friends alerted us to come see the channel and we straight up did not believe them. TFS teaser THIS EARLY?? And then they also ofc said "Cayde is there" so we were convinced that they're messing with us.

But then we watched it and like, Cayde being there is the least of my concerns tbh. THE ENVIRONMENT???? It's the other side of the portal! It means we go through at some point in the next two seasons! This was expected of course, but I didn't think we would see anything about it until the actual campaign, definitely not this early. Like, seeing what it looks like on the other side is a huge teaser. I genuinely did not think we'll see a single glimpse before TFS, not even maybe during reveals and trailers later.

But Cayde being there is actually also important. He's not looking right! He has a weird glow on his eyes and other places, including the way Ace of Spades looks; some sort of weird gashes of light-ish tint, almost Taken in nature? But brighter. Kinda reminds me of the way time rifts look on Mars.

The fact that he has Ace in the first place is also suspect; we have Ace. Like, that was very much a huge plot. He can't have it back, not broken up like this, unless some truly WILD shit goes down in the next two seasons and YW like... dies or something. This, alongside the weird lights on him and the gun, seems to be indicating that he's not real. Like, he's obviously him and he is corporeal in some form and he speaks the same and knows who he is, but I think he's a memory that Ikora can access. (more under for length)

Which ties into the place they're at. Me and others have speculated before that what lies on the other side of the portal is the original garden from Unveiling, or some sort of a similar place outside of space and time. This can be neatly tied in with what we know about the Darkness and what has been the most important plot thread since Lightfall: Darkness is memory, emotions, psychic. It's history and time. I've spoken a lot about this recently. Lore has been focusing on it as well, most notably with Inspiral lore book from the raid that showed us two different ancient species that were capable of using the Darkness to access the collective consciousness and the memory of their civilisation, but this has also been brought up before, for example with the Psions who communicate in a psychic way and have an ancient religion that allowed them to contact their ancestors.

This is also heavily reiterated this season with Ahsa who has a similar power, as well as the Pyramid ships, the portal and the Veil who can all affect people's consciousness and give them access to their memories. One particular interesting bit is the ship from this season called Akashic Revelation. In it, we see the Titan, Joxer, making an attempt to pass through the portal. As he gets near, he goes through a massive whiplash of spacetime distortion and ends up having flashes of memories of his life before being a Guardian. The memories continue as he passes through, but we know what happens to him later. He is found outside, bent and broken, fused with his ship and dead. But the portal triggered a flash of memories of his past. Not only that, but the name of the ship is important as well: it refers to something called akashic records, an occult concept of there existing a compendium of everything that ever happened in the universe: all of past, present, future, all memories, events, emotions and people. Joxer seemingly accessed it as he touched and passed through the portal. This is absolutely a wild word to use here, given what we know of the Veil being the "mind and memory of the universe" and everything else I've mentioned.

What I'm trying to say is that the best way to tease about us gaining access to the source of the history of the universe is by showing Ikora speaking to a dead character who only exists as an imprint in the history of the universe. The potential here, if we're on the right track is huge. Not only is this super exciting on its own (a connection to everything that ever happened!), but it also brings the potential that other dead characters might also appear in some shape or form, to help us or tell us more.

It's also wild that this is a teaser. Meaning this is the least spoilery they could get and it's already so wild that it's making me lose my mind. I would definitely advise people not to expect Cayde (or other dead characters) to suddenly "come back" in the sense they expect them to. I don't think he or anyone else will be properly "alive." So in that sense, I don't think he's "back" the way people may think. He'll obviously have a presence in the story, and that makes sense if the story is focused on Ikora. Ikora has never truly recovered from his death and if there was a memory she would access (consciously or not), it would probably be his. She has already involuntarily accessed him as a nightmare.

But given how much we're focusing on the psychic aspects of the Darkness, including right now in this season which is pretty much all about the psychic bond between an ancient creature that has the power to show people visions of the past and the future and Sloane, a bond we have to strengthen to learn more about what's coming and what our enemy really is... The fact that the whole campaign and post-campaign and all lore and quests were focused on explaining the metaphysical properties of Darkness and its connection to the mind, the psychic, the consciousness, the emotions and the mind of the entire universe... Well. It's building up to something. And us being able to communicate with people long dead is not only useful, but might be necessary to understand how to defeat our enemy.

All of this is ofc purely wild speculation. It's way too early to say anything conclusive, outside of just trying to gauge which aspects of the lore Bungie wants us to pay attention to and which aspects of the lore are being focused on. The Veil and the memory of the universe seems to be this year's theme leading us into the Final Shape so for now, that's the direction to go into.

Full reveal will be on 22nd of August, which is the start of the next season. We'll definitely know more then, especially since Deep will be done and most of the new Ligthfall quest audio logs will likely be done too. Until then, I know people will go into wild directions and speculation, mostly because it's Cayde. In the same way that I advise people not to think that he'll suddenly be alive, I'd also ask people not to be too negative about what may happen because we literally don't know. Cayde's presence is not an indicator of either good or bad. I'd also like for people to focus more on the actual important background stuff rather than zero in on a single character, but I know that won't happen lmao.

In a way, I wish Cayde didn't overshadow the completely insane scene of Ikora sitting in a garden-like place on the other side of the portal that nobody has been able to go through before (and those that tried suffered violent deaths after being having visions of everything that ever happened). Because to me, that's the true teaser here. I can't wait to find out more and I'll definitely be looking at the upcoming lore from Deep in a different light. Things are building up and I hope people will pay attention to the background stuff that's been going on about the Veil, memory, history and consciousness.

[beesvines]

What if I dropped out of college, got banned from this state, and then traveled with wild abandon across the US as a sketchy infomercial salesman

[disventure-rewrite-takes]

okay so I just watched a compilation of someone's favourite moments from ep 19

and I'm sorry but wtf is the Nina thing? like I wasn't a fan of her from the start, because I thought she was too gimmicky. and now she has...powers or something? i didn't see the whole scene so idk but it was weird from what i did see.

if I could I'd just write out Nina altogether, and not have the...curse arc?? I'm sorry but wtf DSVC?

also side note does anyone know what the deal with fiore calling yul a mushroom muncher? honestly I do always enjoy fiore roasting people but that felt iffy to me. maybe it's just me, but I probably wouldn't have that in there?? idk I'm all over the place with this ep

-🎃

no yeah that was SO STUPID??? i always thought nina herself was like. a stupid concept. they don't even do anything interesting with her ever. she's just like. a talking puppet. and now apparently she has superpowers. o....kay............????????

the 'mushroom muncher' thing is i'm pretty sure a reference to the fact that he got poisoned by a mushroom, i don't think (?) it's supposed to be offensive but. hey it's ONC. if they try, and god knows they don't but somehow it happens anyways, they can make anything offensive!

[foxmulderautism]

looking myself in the mirror like am I really about to completely reshuffle the lover boy timeline just so i can get the single release of i want your sex in there and write beau’s live reaction

[momowoah]

The more I think about 7B the more I get upset actually because what the fuck was that

[aparticularbandit]

i just realized. re: the very long this post.

in ultimate ventriloquist's murder trial. the victim was monokuma.

like. nobody actually died. and junko would probably think that killing off the puppet that killed monokuma was an equivalent exchange. good bit, good fun, reset to center, no more puppets as people, the joke ran its route, good on everyone!

ultimate ventriloquist wasn't supposed to actually die. it was...it was a bit. a joke!

no wonder it gave junko the shakes.

....

this is either a case 2 or a case 4. i'm not sure which.

probably a case 4.

[gingerwerk]

whats it like to just come up with a silly little fic idea, write it, and then move on? what it like to not have to feel the need to only write 200k+ word fics steeped in deep lore and world building? is it relaxing

[croc-odette]

they did not make each dense geeky lotr book into one corresponding movie so that we could live in a world where part 1/part 2 movies exist just because someone couldn’t wrap up their own goddamn narrative....

[minalots]

I miss Stampede Saturday sm y’all it ain’t even funny at this point

[thepraetor]

who? @emmawrxght​

where? the inferno

notes: wow this is gonna be emotional huh

“Emma?” There is a thousand and one thoughts running through her head, a thousand and one fears and worries building a maelstrom on her thoughts as she looks at her friend. At the specter of who her friend once was, because Emma is dead. And it seems so is she. There is no other possible explanation, not one she can come up. Not when there is fire and brimstone around them, not when she knows where she is. This is hell, and she has found her way down into the Inferno. The last thing she remembers is a pressure beyond all other, a struggle to even breathe and then nothing but darkness. Nothing but fear as she opens her eyes to a dark realm, filled with the promise of agony and despair. Nothing with a sudden swell of regrets on her chest as she thinks of all those she left behind, of all the things she had left unsaid. She didn’t get to say goodbye, left the family she had found with nothing but memories and disappointments. Kay, Sabina, Gabe, Micah, Remi, countless others that she had promised to help and protect, left behind. Even Komos —  Even him. She had failed them, left them behind with nothing but the ashes of her failures, and yet she wasn’t thinking about that right now. She couldn’t, not when her eyes were stuck on the woman before him.

Not when she was seeing Emma for the first time since she had sent her to assumed safety with her statues. She hadn’t known it was the last time she saw her, she hadn’t known that the last she would see of her friend is her fear.

“Emma,” she gasps again as she scrambles to stand and throws herself at the other, arms coming to wrap around her as she weeps. “I am so sorry.”

She had failed her as she had failed all the others, failed to help her when she needed her, failed to reach out, failed to do anything for her. And now, it seems her regrets will follow her even after dead.

[luxeberries]

me, knowing that carol has short hair again sometime in season 11 and learning that she cut it in the first place because she felt unsafe: oh no what angst is going to occur that makes her feel like she has to cut it all of again

season 11 episode 24, cutting her hair short in the last fifteen minutes for no reason and without giving an explanation or even addressing it:

me: PLEASE

[f0x-gl0ves]

D...dragonfriends s8 finale... Dave....what have you created......

[just-emerald-star]

Me writing 6-8 episode seasons for my projects

eight episodes is not a full season of television

[tearfest]

ㅤㅤfor someone with such a cold, un-beating heart, she'd never felt more alive. the sweetness of their blood pooled against her tongue, the sweetest she'd ever tasted; cheeks reddening as she fed whilst theirs paled. she was careful with her consumption, focus locked in on the steady rhythm of their heart as the hand at the back of their neck tightened it's hold, fingers sinking into the locks at the neck's nape whilst her other hand naturally found it's way between their flush bodies — slipping under the waistband of both her pencil skirt and panties, sending the mixture of cotton and lace down her slender waist as fingers found her clit, moaning against their throat. " no one tastes like you... " could you fall in love with a taste?

closed starter for @hauntedhymns, based on this.