#such a great theory

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[bruciemilf]

We truly underestimate how THIRSTY gothamites would be for Batman.

First off: The fact that Gotham citizens haven’t mass migrated to other cities tells me they’re absolute freaks. Yeah, you can get an apartment for 13$/mo, but chances are, Joker’s either gonna be your roommate, or neighbor. Not worth it.

Secondly: He’s big tiddy goth gf personified.

He cannot get any work done because he’s catcalled. Constantly. Sometimes during interrogations.

“You can tell me where Penguin’s next hit is gonna be, or I can smash your fingers.”

“Smash ME!”

Bruce, with the biggest sigh ever to exist: Please go back home, random civilian.

It gets particularly worse after he starts adopting the batkids, because now, not only has he achieved gravity shattering MILF status, he’s so busy with child rearing he sometimes forgets to shave.

Gotham twitter starts going crazy for the #Batbeard, and it gives the batkids severe brain damage. Everytime someone tweets about wanting to ride Bruce’s face, a piece of their soul dies.

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[olessan]

In light of recent revelations about the ghast life cycle... amphibian?? ghasts in all their ugly majesty

Theories below:

Toughened skin as adult, to retain water in nether climate

larvae hatch with a small amount of buoyancy - from gas?

ghastlings can still land and spend most of their time consuming water, snow, and ice in order to grow

do ghastlings feed on algae and other microbes, and plankton? Do adult ghasts filter them from the nether's congested air?

ghastlings that don't get enough water become ill and go into a semi-dormant stasis, at which point players find them?

9 tentacles - 2 arms, 2 legs, 1 tail, 2 barbels, and 2 gill appendages

highly derived and in order to float, they have very shortened spines and likely have massive gas bladders deep inside their body, which require water (the gas is a digestive biproduct)

species' eyes are highly light-sensitive after adapting to the nether

[iwasbored777]

That fan theory that Shadow saved Robotnik's life at the last second by teleporting and that Shadow, Robotnik and Stone all live together now somewhere is my favourite fan theory because this is how I imagine it and I truly hope that the fourth movie makes this canon:

And I think Shadow and Stone would be buddies cuz they have some things in common like the badass motorcycle skills for example.

[hinamie]

green

[sockiepuppetry]

The dark lore of transformers animated

[creature-wizard]

Check your conspiracy theory. Does it sound anything like this?

There is an ancient global conspiracy plotting to create a one world government.

The one world government will be headed by a single leader.

The conspiracy intends to make everyone follow a religion it created.

The conspiracy is trying to destroy all true religion/spirituality.

The conspiracy deliberately stirs up conflict and starts wars.

The conspiracy deliberately does whatever it can to confuse, exhaust, and demoralize the people.

The conspiracy creates and/or manipulates art and entertainment to control and brainwash the masses.

The conspiracy uses mind-altering substances to manipulate and control people.

Progressive policies (EG, religious tolerance, equality) are part of the conspiracy.

Communism and collectivism are part of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy manipulates the economy to our detriment.

The conspiracy wants to do away with the gold standard.

The conspiracy wants to do away with the free market.

The conspiracy intends to tax the rich, which is bad because taxes are just legal theft.

Teaching people about the mistakes and atrocities committed by governments is part of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy creates new religions and spiritual movements to further their agendas.

All secret societies (EG, Freemasonry) are part of the conspiracy.

Presidents are manipulated puppets of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy manipulates anyone with a high political position.

The conspiracy grooms world leaders.

Agents of the conspiracy are planted everywhere, in all levels of society.

The conspiracy kills anyone who might expose their plans in ways that no one would suspect are actually murder.

The conspiracy follows/uses the Kabbalah.

Literally all of these were claimed in The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, an antisemitic hoax used by the Okhrana to justify violence against Russian Jews. It was used by Nazi Germany to justify the Holocaust, and today it still serves as the blueprint for most conspiracy theories - even if modern conspiracy theorists try to hide it, downplay it, or rationalize it with another, equally absurd conspiracy theory.

[roukabi]

it's for real this time you guys trust me it's really gonna happen

[vulpixelates]

i know it will never happen but i so desperately desire an origins-type playable backstory thing in all games but especially veilguard. i feel like it added so much depth to origins and made you feel instantly connected to your character in a way that gets lost in games like inquisition where you fill in the blanks as you go except for the bare basics. like, i do enjoy the freedom to willy nilly decide where a character was before the events of the story from a creative perspective, but the playable origins were just so good! especially when you go back to where your warden is from and can engage differently with the arcs there

[rainfeather13]

I see your eldritch Elrond head cannons, and I raise you: Elrond stealing the features of people he likes (his first victim; Maglor’s moles)

[clownowo]

Sisters :]

[getoutofmytardis]

drew these many moons ago in a frenzy. figured i’d fix them up at some point. did not get round to that lol. maybe one day! in the mean time behold my beloved ghosts<3

[patchwork-crow-writes]

God DAMN this is inspired. I'd like to add another thought to this as well, if that's alright!

The parallel you draw between dark fountains and fountain pens is almost too elegant to be real: using a sharp object (blade/pen), you stab into something (the earth/paper), which causes a dark substance (darkness/ink) to spread out, which is then channeled by the (knight/writer) to create a new world. It's freaking POETRY (well technically it's prose, but you know what I mean :P).

But I think you could also use this metaphor to help explain what the Roaring might be.

You also talk about the balance between fantasy and reality... or in this case, dark and light. And the same is true for artists in the real world. How many times do we lament that, if only we didn't have this inconvenient thing called reality to attend to, with all its obligations and responsibilities, we could be truly free to create as we wish, without earthy fetters to hold us back? Personally, I've lost count.

This is what the Knight represents: the will to create, no longer shackled to worldly concerns, who as you say is unwilling, or perhaps unable, to stop imposing their fantasy onto the real world.

But the thing about art and fantasy is, it needs reality in order to exist in the way it does. Both in the sense that these things are inspired by the real world, and that they act as a temporary escape hatch from that same real world.

So what happens when fantasy overrides reality? The darkness overtakes everything; the inkwell spills out onto the page. This is the Roaring: a state of being where fantasy has completely overrun reality, to the point of utter absurdity and meaninglessness.

Cosider the line from Ralsei's explanation of the Roaring:

The surviving darkners, crushed by the darkness, will turn into stone.

That doesn't seem to make too much sense on first reading, and I puzzled over what it could mean for a long time... but once you apply your Fountain pen metaphor, suddently it makes perfect sense. There needs to be contrast for fantasy to exist in the way it does. darkness impressed upon light, black ink projected onto white paper. It is that contrast that allows you to read the words of a fantastical novel, or admire a piece of art, or listen to beautiful music. Similarly, to properly appreciate the wonder of fantasty, you need the mundanity of reality to contrast it against.

Take away that contrast, and all you are left with is a meaningless nothing. The overflowing darkness of a spilt inkwell would completely engulf the words, breaking all narrative and rendering the entire medium completely incomprehensible. If Darkners help to impart meaning and narrative to a fantasy world, then them turning to stone is the point where they are no longer able to serve their function, because the medium has been completely overrun.

...now consider a rorschach test. Blots of ink on a page that don't appear to symbolise anything, but might suggest certain shapes or meanings without directly alluding to what those might be. In a world where nothing makes sense anymore, our subconscious might try to ascribe concrete meaning onto these, but fail. And thus the Titans - beings of darkness that defy concrete comprehension, their monstrous forms the stuff of nightmares.

In such a world, our primal fears and anxieties would overwhelm us, with no more comfort to be had in the stories that once were. Fantasy would no longer be an escape: all that would be left to us is the cold, hard light of reality, the true horror of having to see things as they really are. No meaning, no purpose, just a slow, joyless march towards death.

...wow, this went on a little longer than I was expecting! Sorry about that :P I hope this was interesting to read at least! Thanks for sharing!

Since we've got plenty of time to reflect, who do you the Knight is? (I'm very much hoping it's Papyrus)

Okay! So! 

While I uh, think that Jaru is super wrong on almost all his theories, I've got one major exception where I think he is correct, and that’s the identity of the Knight:

(This is kinda long, so going under the read more)

Namely, that the Knight is Gerson’s soul tied to a particular object and brought to life in the Dark World. Although for me personally, I’m going to tweak that idea quite a bit because I think it can actually tie in really nicely with my current theories on Ralsei’s identity and nature. 

We keep getting little references to Gerson brought up here and there in both chapters: there’s a drawing of a turtle monster in the abandoned classroom, done by Alvin. It’s presumably either Alvin himself or his dad, Gerson, and I’m guessing it’s the latter. We have books written by Gerson in multiple places, a memorial bench for him, and then Alvin’s conversation about him in the graveyard by his headstone. Alvin also mumbles something about “did I do the right thing?” to Gerson’s grave. As long as you initiate a conversation with Alvin, the game makes sure that you don't miss that extra bit, which is a little telling.

We know that Gerson was originally a historian, and then later turned to writing fiction, and wrote a beloved fiction series that fans still send his family letters about after his death. 

What do we know about the nature of the Dark Worlds? They’re basically imagination and fantasy brought to life. While they certainly seem to have a full history outside of what we experience, with characters that remember each other even from other Dark Worlds, they’re only “given form” when a dark fountain is opened. Any Lightner with determination can stab the earth, and a dark, inky substance can spew from it and give a world of fantasy its own form. The Darkners frequently talk about how Lightners give them direction and purpose in their lives.

So…question! How many of you have used a fountain pen?

I have used those before. They’re quite sharp, and using them very often feels like scratching or stabbing the paper. Black ink spews forth, and from this black ink…you can create whole worlds of fiction! Worlds that other people can interact with! 

We know that Gerson wrote beloved fiction well into his old age. What if he knew his time was coming, but still had stories to tell? What if he didn’t want to stop? Alvin says how his dust was sprinkled on a hammer and buried in the earth, and that this is considered the appropriate monster cultural ritual for helping a soul pass to the afterlife. But Alvin also appears to have done something that is still really troubling him. Maybe Alvin, either at his father's request or based on his own wants, didn’t actually follow the appropriate cultural funeral rites, and somehow helped his father’s soul attach to a different beloved object…a fountain pen that he’d use to write down his story ideas. And if that object gets brought to life with a dark fountain, you could get the Knight: the soul of a writer, filtered exclusively through their favorite writing tool, unwilling to stop creating.

I think it would make sense on a few logical and thematic levels:

It explains how the Knight is able to get around and open the fountains: the same way that Ralsei is able to do the weird things he does. They’re both Darkners carrying Lightner souls, so they can bend the rules.

It explains Queen’s insistence that Lightners are the ones that can create fountains, while King hates Lightners but seems to fully trust the Knight…a Darkner with a Lightner soul can meet both those people's expectations.  

It sets up the Knight as a foil to Ralsei: they’re both the same kind of special Dark World being, both believing that they are fulfilling their roles and serving the Lightners, but coming to vastly different conclusions about how to do that. 

It explains the Knight’s motivations: not that he’s actually trying to destroy the world or anything, but that he’s trying to serve the Lightners. He knows very well how much joy and positivity his fiction has brought to Lightners in the past. How could more of that be anything bad? This is his purpose, what he was made to do. Not doing it is virtually unthinkable.

And I think that in turn keeps him following in the footsteps of how Toby usually writes his villains…rarely if ever fully malicious, but utterly convinced that they’re doing the right thing, or that they have no choice in the matter. 

And of course that ties in with one of Deltarune’s themes: the balance between reality and fantasy. The Knight has no more ties with reality, and therefore is focused exclusively on creating more fantasy and having it supplant reality, upsetting the balance between them. 

And this is extremely speculative, but I've been thinking about how Toby mentioned that chapter three will be a bit of an odd one out, that it's more about trying weird things than advancing a lot of plot. Kind of an interesting thing to note since Kris just made a fountain that should take us into chapter three. If the Dark Worlds are in some way shaped by the will of the Lightner that makes them, then chapter three indicates that Kris's will manifests more as just...trying out stuff rather than something purposeful. Kris makes a fountain because they really want to keep up this special hangout with their friends. But the Knight? He's making narratives.

[midnight333-studios]

@chloesimaginationthings FNAF movie art makes me go insane/pos

Especially the theory that Garrett will posses the Marionette in the FNAF 2 movie,

Inspired by their original art post, I redrew it in my art style!

I do but don’t want this to happen-

I want it to bc ANGST but also give my boi Mike a break 😭

[vermiciousyidreborn]

Fun fact for superbowl enjoyers! Kendrick Lamar hates Jews almost as much as Kanye does, he just doesn't use Hitler to do so!