#red strobe

[darkwater-reservoir]

But listen, your life could depend on this. Close your eyes. Tight. Don't even open them for a peek. One glance and you're dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don't turn your back, dont stop running, and don't look. /ref

[crimson-iden]

I have a theory about strobes. Granted, some of it might be a stretch, but I have a few ideas at least.

I think strobes may have a form of blindness or some form of lack of vision built into their biology. They’re definitely alien, we know that, but I’d like to take into consideration the idea that where they came from may be a place with very low to no light levels, considering that strobes are sensitive to light, that being one issue I’m thinking about. A lot of creatures, say bats and some spiders, may come from areas with very low light levels, like caves, and it’s found that animals that live in environments like that tend to have difficulties seeing or have sensitive vision. This would make sense as applying to strobes too, given that they seem better off in the dark.

Some animals that live in naturally dark environments and tend to have forms of blindness also use echolocation, the use of sound to locate their surroundings. I think this could apply to the clicking sound that strobes produce when their strobe lights flicker. Think about that quote, “They see motion”, this would make sense with a creature using echolocation, as its surroundings would seem static, but the moment something moves, they’d be able to tell in some shape or form. By remaining still, you could likely avoid a strobe becoming alert.

So what about their camera lens-like eye and their lights? I’d like to go back and look at a tweet that Tucker made when he was attacked by a pair of strobes, he claimed that as he looked back at them, there was some kind of cylinder protruding from its head. I’ll come back to this. Also consider that strobes are described as kinda organic but kinda metal, cyborgs likely. I believe their singular eyes are actually cameras built into their heads, producing a constant feed that I think would stream back to the ships, which tend to be present in the same areas as strobes, this may be due to the limited range of their transmission, not to mention the fact that they likely do better in warm environments.

So how do they transmit the stream? By the cylinder, I believe it could be an antenna, some kind of dish built into the head that send the signal to the ships, and receives commands, I don’t think the ships harbour a pilot, more that they are ‘alive’ in their own sense, like a ships computer in sci-fi having the majority of control over the whole thing.

I think the lights that strobes produce are to illuminate the stream, that way the ship’s computer can understand. I personally picture the computer of the ship like the eyes of a fly, every separate section of it is the different streams of strobes in the area, I think it would also make sense, given that the ship can somehow tell where the body of a strobe is after it dies, considering that they apparently retrieve the corpse. That would especially make sense for a constant feed, so when a strobe dies it kinda immediately starts to send an alert signal that the ships can act upon.

Obviously there are issues with my theory, namely, why are strobes so sensitive to light if they can’t see it? How can they see light? Honestly, I have no idea, maybe it’s that the strobes themselves aren’t affected, but the light messes with the camera and causes a reaction by the ship, maybe some kind of stress that messes with a strobes brain and causes the reaction, which I guess would make sense since I imagine having a camera stuffed in your face would mean you have wires near your brain.

At the end of the day, it’s only a theory, and I’m sure it can be debunked and questioned, this is just how I’ve personally been processing the “biology” of strobes

[darkwater-reservoir]

It might actually be! I remember there was a tweet posted that apparently displayed the wtp ad danyon made. I was only able to see a text only version of it through Google at the time and as far as I could tell it was a video of the strobe they had under their control. The tweet was deleted shortly after. Not many people got to actually see it as far as I know and I have no idea if there even was a video uploaded

ngl would the wtp ad thingy that was deleted be considered lost media ?? or was it even made at all??

mmm

[pinofdnp]

it's golden like daylight

[thefrogdalorian]

Din Djarin + Chapter 6: The Prisoner

[mognetcentral]

[miyukimardon]

Red Pears -Still life

[writemeverything]

cw // self-harm

Hello, dear Astronaut.

Even if it might not be possible, I'd like to meet you even in a dream.

[gaymer-hag-stan]

My Current Prediction for the Eurovision 2025 Top 10 Based on Released Songs:

1. 🇫🇮 Erika Vikman - Ich komme - No other entry is creating as much buzz as her and no other entry seems to be an overwhelmingly clear jury winner that could possibly block her.

2-5. 🇳🇱 Claude - C'est la vie - ...Except this one, if we have anything anywhere close to a jury winner it might be C'est la vie

2-5. 🇲🇹 Miriana Conte - Kant - Fun, unhinged staging that will probably be elevated and good vocals also. She will serve

4-5. 🇦🇱 Shkodra Elektronike - Zjerm - Albania keeps rising higher and higher in the odds and this has the potential to do well. If Beatrice can prep the guy enough to give a better and less nervous performance to match her level of excellence this will do really really well

5-6. 🇧🇪 Red Sebastian - Strobe Lights - This was really high upon release but I see people losing faith in this doing well. Belgium has historically struggled with staging so it could be a shock N/Q again but, for now, I think it's still a contender.

6-7. 🇬🇷 Klavdia - Asteromáta - We have a lot of cleaning up to do with the staging and the juries will potentially snub her because of singing in greek instead of English, plus the ethnic elements which they tend to also snub, but if she can fix her stage presence the televote will reward her. Most songs are unhinged this year and, out of all the Balkan ballads, Asteromáta is by far the strongest

7-8. 🇪🇪 Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato - The plague will be hard to defeat and if he decides to put an effort in his staging this might even go higher. No words honestly...

8. 🇦🇺 Go-Jo - Milkshake Man - We need to of course see the staging, and this is far riskier than Kant lyrics-wise and Ich komme is in Finnish so a lot of people won't know she's Koming, but Go-Jo is very clear about his intentions to the general public so this can go either way

9. 🇵🇱 Justyna Steczkowska - Honestly, with both this one and also Kant I'm being very cautiously optimistic because both are leaning much closer to the disaster bop end of the scale but I trust in Justyna to give it her 120% best so hopefully it pays off.

10. 🇱🇹 Katarsis - Tavo akys / 🇳🇴 Kyle Alessandro - Lighter - I think either of these have good potential to close out our top ten. I'm leaning a little bit more towards Lithuania at the moment. Like Greece, Lithuania will for sure score some points from the juries but, again, this not being in English might make it struggle a bit plus the fact that it's not pop music will for sure cost them some points. Fans of this music style however will for sure mass vote it and boost its televote. For Norway, it's pretty clearly a televote bait and they almost always do well so I expect a good result

[darkwater-reservoir]

Something interesting I just realized is that the strobes give you cataracts...like the harvested are shown and described as having cloudy eyes which means they have cataracts. This also means they're basically blind too. I know we're not supposed to question how the strobes work but like I'm gonna think about it anyway

[crimson-iden]

I wonder what would happen if you put a strobe in one of those funhouse mirror rooms

[anotherescsite]

Red Sebastian

Belgium

[voltrons]

creating a playlist of songs that should play during the scene that parallels the first iceberg lounge fight in a The Batman-verse film 20 years from now after a comic accurate robin!dick has taken on the mantle of nightwing and is in a nudisco sex club spiraling mid-fight. trust me on this

[miyukimardon]

Red Pears: Still Life 1

[sinistersinister]