#sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension

[paintsplantspaws]

Modern AU:

The Assasins creed men are playing truth or dare. At Midnight.

Connor: Malik truth or dare?

Mailk: truth

Conner: Do you like movies?

Malik: NO

Mailk: Desmond Truth or dare?

Desmond: (thinking what’s the worst that could happen?)

Desmond: Dare

Mailk: * grins evilly* I dare you go to Walmart and buy the Barbie movie. You need to go to a li e with a lady. Right as she scans it you need to burst into the Barbie theme song and I need to film it.

-15 min later -

A poor innocent Walmart cashier: Did you find everything ok?

The register: Boop!

Desmond: * screaming at the top of his lungs in a girly voice*

IM A BARBIE GIRL IN A BARBIE WORLD

LIFE IS PLASTIC, ITS FANTASTIC

YOU CAN BRUSH MY HAIR,UNDRESS ME ANYWHERE

IMAGINATION YOUR CREATION!

Walmart cashier: * is already questioning if he’s on drugs*

Jacob: *wheezeing* louder for the people in the back!!

Desmond: COME ON, BARBIE LETS GO PARTY

Mailk: *is simply smiling* ok that’s enough Desmond I’m sure that your questioning your life as much as the cashier is questioning your sanity.

Cashier: is horrified beyond comprehension.

Desmond: ok can I get my clothes back to? Wearing pink dress and a massive pink bow on my head is killing me.

Jacob: I want a picture with you first!

Desmond: fine

STEAL THE LOOK:

Barbie! Desmond:

[gachagon]

ITS A PERSON? OH MY GOD WTF SALEM?? YOU TURNED A PERSON INTO A FUCKING GRIMM??? AND MADE IT YOUR DOG???

[wyrtig]

[franpun]

I love him OUUUUGHHHHJJ HE IS SO CUUUUUTE.

onippeP onippeP onippeP onippeP ekaF frtxjpi hcbattz hdihjps

[thatguywhodoesstuff]

My Honest Reaction to the new Murder Drones Teaser:

In all seriousness, I cannot wait for the 29th. Things are going to get gruesome, none of us in the fandom are going to be okay, and it’s not even the season finale.

[erinalexisisgay]

Best character

[talefoundryshow]

Happy fanart friday! That... is... Don't you just love the... uh...

(A wonderful community gem, that's what it is)

[trashiemaxxie]

Thank you Master!!! I am disposable!! 🐾🎀🧸

[okayigetitifuckedup]

Yall, quit telling me about shit that freaks me out. The lab-grown human brain cells that thought they were butterflies were way too much and now I'm having intense mental anguish. Now I've found something worse and I feel the need to consume copious amounts of alcohol

[lotus-duckies]

there's something so endearing yet so horrific about the turtles exploring the tcri building

They desparately want to know, to understand where they came from and why they are Like That

but then they look and it's like being in the Backrooms

There's nothing here, there's no life even in the cracks of the walls, you're Nowhere, and the evidence of anything being there becomes strange, distorted. You can't read this writing, these pictures are foreign and indistinct.

You don't even know if you can find the way out, because it doesn't end

[spartanlocke]

Unfortunately I do not have my asks open but I do want to add: I closed them because it seemed people just disagreeing with me over fandom things couldn't do so without being aggressive. It's ok to disagree with me, to dislike me or even think I'm a complete idiot who has no idea what I'm talking about, but if you can't do those things without harassment, then I'm not even going to allow you the catharsis of sending a hateful ask. And to be honest, I've long suspected tumblr's cyber-bullying problem - which has only gotten worse over the years - is largely due in part to tumblr staff barely (if not at all) regulating their website. And seeing how twitter's own problems have also worsened since Elon Musk decided the only ban-worthy offense is calling someone cis, I believe my suspicion is confirmed. (Not even joking, I used to see people suspended in a day for harassment. Now I report literal death threats and suicide bait and don't even get a response from twitter staff.) It's not that people don't want to socialize or talk about their favorite things - they do! It's that bullies on social media have become so drunk off the concept of anonymity that they think they can do whatever they want - harassing, stalking, threatening and doxxing - without consequence. To the point where even if you don't do anything necessarily wrong, they will make up something for them to get angry at and attack you over it. And DMs and inboxes are one of the most direct ways to do that! I think the sad truth is that social media has become so dangerous that while people do want to interact with their fandoms and communities, sticking to closed circles and Discord servers is simply the better way to stay safe now.

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

[valky-uniguri]

Ah sweet, man(tis)-made horrors beyond my comprehension

[vlly-of-despair]

Ghosts in the Computer? It’s not what you think…

Ok I have very little to back up most of this BUT (spoilers for The Magnus Protocol so far)

I don’t think John/Martin/Jonah are stuck in the computer at all. I think they are stuck in the FEAR WORLD. Think about it, when John got sucked into the rift with Martin, he already became the Pupil and was bound immeasurably to all of the Fears, which mind you, are simply ONE being which can be extended to different ‘categories’. By the end of TMA, John wasn’t human at all. Martin even asks him,

“How much of you is even left now?”

“It’s still me, Martin. I’m still here.”

Yeah, John. Your consciousness and personality are still your own, but make no mistake my sweet man, you are full Eldritch horror now.

This could be the only conceivable way John could have survived being stabbed, then sacrilegiously torn throughout time and space. I mean, the spooky happenings and Avatars are described as this ‘Somewhere Else’ (🤨) bleeding into our world. But nobody has ever entered this other world, it’s beyond the human comprehension. Unless… perhaps you were to be the closest thing to a Fears’ grubby little Jesus and entwined further through tapes that stretched itself within this realm then ripped you through this passage…

Here is my current suggestion. Perhaps John is in the Fears layer in reality, the ‘Somewhere Else’ as I shall call it, by virtue of himself being in a sense, an extension of the Fears. As the Fears were categorized as different vital organs as a whole being, John may be an extension of this said being. The fears made manifest in a human-ish form; the fears brought in a sentient avatar. But make no mistake, John literally is fear now.

And perhaps this is what [ERROR] is as well, this mysterious creature ‘cloaked in whispers’ is John just… kind of body hopping into people (or even past Archivists which didn’t go as far along as he did in his lovely little Becoming) and trying to communicate with others who could understand him, maybe why he has recorders with him. These whispers are literally fear, he is wearing fear. He IS FEAR. And when he tries to speak, or speaks through another’s voice, he compels others to vomit up all their fear in incoherent ramblings because that is ALL THEY CAN SEE. The fear.

Fr3d1, or ‘Freddie’, on the other hand, is a device connected to the Somewhere Else long before John arrived there. My theory is that objects bound by Alchemy can act as conduits to the Somewhere Else and the Fears, such as the Fr3d1 program, and other cursed objects found throughout the series. And just as John could know into the truth of his world through the Eye, the land of the Fears can touch the minds of all worldly beings of this layer of reality, like a vast ocean… one in which John is fully submerged in.

The Magnus Institute program may have also been a program designed to seek out children who can nurture an ability to psychologically enter the Somewhere Else (as Hans Burger did in Ep 22 in his dream). Sam is being specifically targeted because HE can possibly have that capability to tap into that world and speak to John. It could also be an explanation for the act of ‘meditation’ causing reality jumps, specifically close to the Magnus Institute. Your consciousness briefly enters the Somewhere Else, and because this place resides in a world outside of the material world, you may fall back into reality misplaced. Slightly off center from your reality, and usually this journey is deadly…

Freddie, by its ability to touch the Somewhere Else, was a program designed with supernatural abilities to garner intell tied to this outer dimension. But now that John is in this dimension, he can manipulate the system to try to steer it in a direction which can ‘speak’ to the OIAR crew, try to explain his situation. You know, without the compelling, drowning, or scaring away the closest thing to allies he could have.

Now why are Martin and Jonah there? Well, for Martin, he was dragged with John and is only been able to stay alive this long because of him. He is an extension of John, and John is trying his darndest to keep him alive. The only problem is that Martin is mortal, or at least a hell of a lot more human than John. He probably can’t psychologically take the ‘I am living in fear’ quite literally, and this may be why all of the statements in Norris’s voice are about lost love, being lost in liminal spaces, or in hearing your beloved, only to be terrified by them as they are irrevocably warped into a horrific phantom of themselves. Perhaps that is all that Martin can see; that he is somewhere where he can’t escape, and John is terrifying. So very very terrifying, and wrong. He is incapable of comprehending anything else, he may even be in the Lonely state much like in MAG 170: Recollection. John can bare the weight of all of that perception, of fear, or knowing and seeing. He wished it could be horrible, but it feels ‘right’. Not for Martin though.

As for Jonah, my best approximation is that by virtue of being the previous Pupil and also being connected to the Eye so prolifically, even when dying, small remnants of him remained in the Somewhere Else as a figure of Fear much like John. However, he is much weaker on account of John both defeating him in their original universe and plain of existence, and the fact that ‘the Eye chose John’. Nevertheless, he’s still kicking around, his evil embers also fighting to communicate, albeit less so (his statements being infrequent). Perhaps the JMJ errors are the boys fighting for supremacy in the horrors mindscape. Jonah is losing, but he won’t go down and let John win without a fight.

Where does that leave us? Well, my guess is that our lovely Son of Fears needs to rise again, be called back to the material world through some sort of Alchemical ritual. Maybe by a dangerously curious guy whose life went downhill ever since he was rejected from the Magnus Institute for having a little too much empathy, but always knew his calling to tap into that power…

Hopefully he can unleash his judgement day, smite a few less than pleasurable Externals. And while he’s at it, return his boyfriend to the living world, and get rid of an annoying old man who just refuses to die.

[trashshouldnt]

ah sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension

[dragonanon]

The fact that we even HAVE to pay for water to begin with is absurd considering you literally need it to live! The ONLY reason we don’t have to pay to fucking breathe is because capitalism has yet to find a way to be able package it and sell it. But mark my words, as SOON as someone figures out how to, we’re all gonna be living in fucking Thineedville and having to buy air like this:

[wu-sisyphus-gang]

Penny: I have five billion nodes each with five synapses and they follow a beta binomial distribution.

Jaune: Aw sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension.