#said: “You’re gonna need me.”

[thestarlightforge]

“Darkhold” Hanging Plot Thread

I used to think the “dark magic” Agatha had supposedly been studying when Evanora tried to have her executed was the Darkhold—perhaps to try and learn how to control her succubus powers, which I do believe she couldn’t control in the beginning (much like Wanda and Billy at first). Now, it seems like there’s no way that timing can be true, for several reasons.

It’s unclear if Rio and Agatha continued some toxic version of their relationship while Agatha was on her post-Nicky killing spree, but Rio said the Darkhold had hidden Agatha from her—and they were in genuine love for quite a while after Agatha’s Salem trial (at least up until Nicky’s birth).

Evanora believed Agatha was “evil from the moment [she] left [her] body,” so it probably wasn’t anything Agatha had done that prompted the attempted execution.

She clearly didn’t trade Nicky for the Darkhold… “No, Billy. Sometimes, boys just die.”

It seems like the “horrible truth” she couldn’t face was that even after Nicky died and she didn’t have to protect him anymore (feeding Death those bodies to stave off his demise), she kept using Nicky and her song to kill all those witches.

In WandaVision, when Billy and Tommy ask Wanda to bring Sparky back to life, it’s clearer than ever that Agatha is there investigating the Scarlet Witch because she wants to use her rumored power to actually do spontaneous creation—when she made Nicky “from scratch,” she had to keep feeding him bodies/souls to stave off his Death, but Wanda actually can best Death and has powers of creation that don’t require an equivalent exchange.

I feel like there are a couple fairly plausible explanations.

Agatha found the Darkhold and it led her to Wanda—which could mean she acquired it fairly recently. (This would be an interesting twist that opens it up for Rio & Agatha to have continued being in contact for those hundreds of years, even if toxically, and would assert her serial witch killing really was out of grief/a substance abuse metaphor. I think this is actually more likely, or else she may have found an ancestor of the Scarlet Witch, and it’s unclear if that’s a thing in the MCU—the degree to which Wanda was created by the Mind Stone vs. inheriting her powers matrilineally as a kind of Blood Witch, like Alice & as in Scarlet Witch comics.)

Going off this “Book of the Damned” motif— Agatha got it sometime after Nicky’s death, and it promised her Nicky’s resurrection in exchange for the souls of the witches she killed, i.e. damning them. (This would potentially mean she hasn’t seen Rio in a much longer time, strengthen the Darkhold/drugs metaphor MoM lightly explored, and assert it could have been corrupting her for decades—but I honestly believe it’s less likely.)

I don’t know what the magic was that Agatha was sniffing around in when Evanora tried to have her killed, but I’m almost sure it wasn’t the Darkhold, now—or if it was, she had the Darkhold briefly and then lost it for a good while. But regardless, it seems that she—like Wanda—was trying to use it to get her kid back, one way or another (by feeding it or by using it to find Wanda). And as Rio said…

“It seems like there’s a story there.

[anna-scribbles]

had a conversation last week with a 10 year old girl about the s5 finale and i can’t stop thinking about it. she said nathalie is the best because she loves adrien enough to lie to him about his father so that he stays happy. completely convinced that emilie was resurrected at the end and shocked when i suggested otherwise. i’ve been dying to know what the children think happened and it’s so interesting

[msfcatlover]

Pristine Cut is so fucking good y’all!

I’ve played through The Cage, the new post-Adversary Fury, and just got through Happily Ever After. I’m actually crying right now, Happily was so good, I don’t even have words. I hope nobody ever gets it as their first playthrough first route, because so much of the dread rides on knowing something is very, very wrong when the formula breaks, and every single character goes to such interesting places, and…

The worst part? Hearing the Narrator’s development and knowing it’s not my last chapter for this run. I’m so sorry, buddy. I’m so, so sorry. I’m going to reset you, and you don’t get a say. I hate that I’m taking this away from you.

I mean, honestly, everything about this chapter was “the worst part” in the best way, but that’s the point where I couldn’t hold back the tears anymore.

Thank you for the dance, Happy. I’m glad you saw the stars.

[doublel27]

I got a brief glimpse of Phum and Tan trying to out best boyfriend each other at the Loy Krathong festival and it was everything I needed.

Be crazy cringy simps. Peem and Fang are very, very into how stupid you two look trying to outdo I each other.

[wewontbesleeping]

he loves the folklore blanket so much lollll

[roman-roy-apologist]

i love you animal symbolism

[sunbunnyyy]

lan xichen is not a perfect human being. he is an older brother who is Going Through Some Shit by the end of the novel. did he always make good choices?? no!! have you????

[sailorsleepymoon]

Whole squad is in the discord vc except the one transfem friend before dnd starts and one of them refers to her using they asking if anyone knows when she’s coming. and you go. She said she’d probably be here but someone should message her :) also I noticed that we’ve all been using they/them for her but I checked her pronoun roles in a different server we’re all in and the only ones she has are she/her :) so we should proba

And you get cut off by the person who said it and one of the other people going “OH well I use they/them for everyone” and “yeah I just kinda always default to they/them” and “yeah same I just always use them” talking over each other and

And the impulse to bring out your academic essay from sjw university hits. There is the sharp impulse to go 🤨 you guys using they/them for her when we know her pronouns is degendering her and ultimately feeding into the larger structure of transmisogyny and

you ignore it and say ok well I think :) we should try anyway 💕 to use her right pronouns

And there’s the quiet consensus of like yeah ok that’s fair that’s true. and she joins the vc three seconds later

[frecklystars]

I might actually open my inbox for the first time in [undetermined specific amount of months] there’s over 500 unread asks in there ;-; I’m rly touched so many people have been reaching out to me even when I haven’t been here

[clottedscream]

every 2 or so minutes while coloring this i went “ugh” out loud

[sluttyten]

My afraid-of-romance ass has just been asked by another regular customer for my number and the stupid thing is that again I do think this guy is kinda cute and I really probably should say yes

[chekhovs-nailgun]

antis who stalk proship blogs especially to repost what they find are really wild.

either u actually adhere to what you preach (that interacting with fiction will make you reenact it if there’s not a big red sign saying “BAD” overtop of it) and you’re willingly taking the content out from behind the warnings and putting it in an unregulated place where minors/people more likely to actually do that will see it.

or you don’t actually think that’s happening, and you just want to be a bully. which is it? can’t have it both ways and you know it lmfao

[shima-draws]

Told my boss that NO I cannot take over customer phone calls because my anxiety will literally not be able to take it. And I’m being SO brave about it,

[redhotarsenic]

Man imagine whining because I called you a moron when you’re in fact being a moron

[skoulsons]

the father-daughter relationships where they start off pointing their weapons at each other not liking the other to literally flying home together in the span of like…two days. or less. no but really. I’m dying over here.

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

Auto-combat games with 15 different microquests that repeat over and over again for the rest of time making the game a never ending tutorial my beloathed