#the past 9 months
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zend-pixie · 1 year ago
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good time for a little reminder that this was a thing from an official interview if i'm not mistaken <3
Warning! Long ramble about Rex ahead!
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I've been doing a lot of thinking about this scene. I'll try my best to organize my thoughts!
(heads up: This is operating under the assumption that (basically) everything that happens in the movies is real.)
To begin with, we gotta address the irony of this line... Like, Rex, you do realize that you're just a piece of plastic too, right? And so is Emmet?
But before I look at that, I wanna touch on the line he says right after that,
"You still wanna go back to the Matrix when you know the truth???"
Now, I haven't seen The Matrix, I'll admit to that. But because it's ingrained in pop culture, I know the gist of it.
But anyway, one obvious truth from it is that once you're aware the world is a simulation, you can never really go back completely, not without sacrifice, because you know it's not real.
Now, call me captain obvious, but by his line there, he clearly can't be referring to his time on Undar--because Emmet hadn't experienced that, nor had he understood when Rex told him about it. I'm convinced he has to be referring to the first movie, and their experience in the Realm of the Man Upstairs.
While he was there in the first movie Emmet saw his world for what it was. He saw Finn playing with Benny's spaceship, hinting at the kind of control Finn had over his world. but Emmet himself interacts with Finn himself.
As far as Emmet knows... He's different. He's not under Finn's control. All of his friends? Things made up by a giant unknown creature. But not him.
He knows the nature of his world, but is still happy to rejoin it, so long as he has a place in it...
But then came Undar.
On Undar he sees, yet again, the absolute lack of control his world has. The moment Finn leaves the picture and Bianca takes over, it's as if he never existed in the first place. He doesn't recognize his friends, because the personalities he'd come to know, literally, the people he knew, were completely gone.
It's there that he realizes that they truly are pieces of plastic.
I can't imagine how fucking lonely that must have felt. To see how little your life truly mattered in the universe, that you could be warped and changed without recognition and be none the wiser, to know who you were was as inconsequential as a thought.
As far as Rex knows, he and Emmet are the only Real ones in existence. The only ones that can retain who they are.
Rather ironic, again, when we see how much Rex changes himself.
So when he says "You still wanna go back to The Matrix?" it's more so incredulity that he, as Emmet, ever wanted to go back, that he ever put any value into the world that was nothing but an illusion.
This could also explain why Rex was so quick to turn on Emmet in Undar. Once he saw Emmet wasn't going to change, was never going to give up on his fantasy world, he had no problem seeking to destroy him. In the Realm of the Man Upstairs, knew he would live on, since he's Real. He could get rid of this failure, further cementing himself as Rex, and move on to the next timeline to try again.
It's when Lucy enters the picture and brings back Imagination that things go to shit for Rex. Outside of the Realm of the Man Upstairs they're under the giant beings' control again. What happens here is out of Rex's ability to change.
And, sure enough, Finn has him disappear.
It's just... So, so fucking sad. Can you just imagine how many nights Emmet must have lain awake during those five years, bearing the weight of his knowledge of the entire world on his shoulders? Knowing everything was an illusion?? His home, his friends, Lucy, all just the product of a child's imagination???
No wonder Emmet was able to move on so easily once Rex disappeared.
It really was easier for him to forget the nature of The Matrix and just rejoin it and be happy. Having to deal with the weight of it would crush and mangle him, the way it had Rex.
#but guys holy shit you two COOKED#also if i remember right the op from the reblog wrote ''try try again'' and sigh i miss that fic so much man it was so good#though i completely understand if the hiatus was a sudden lack of motivation cause well; happens to all of us yk#but allow me to bow my little thanks. one of the best 13 chapters ive read in my life#tlm#fanfiction#(mention)#edit#im glad were going under the assumption that what happens is real considering the whole Breakdacing Minifig bit from the first movie cause#god the sentience factor has been tearing me apart for MONTHS the movie just keeps contradicting itself#the second one i mean the first one doesnt linger on this enough for a contradiction#but if were going under that assumption then theres still questions left to answer#small ones like the whole marker debacle (how?? did lucy??? get one?? before they even FOUND the relic room????)#or bigger ones like. does the time travel happen then or#is it just finn finding his old emmet#cause THEN the assumption is that its not real technically#and while that is implied sometimes in the movie that that is the case#theres also scenes where its implied otherwise?????#that rex rlly DID travel time???? irl?????#but like if he DID then does that mean when he made the ship he knew it couldnt physically ''take off'' on its own without the kid picking#it up. so he just got in and waited for him to find the ship and think its a present or something#honestly the ''imagination returning'' bit confused me too like is it just finn and bianca finding em and rex#but wouldnt...finn and bianca KNOW of all this.... if rex shot emmet out in space....#but they dont cause theyre having a talk and packing the legos up in the meantime......#i think i need someone to sit me down and explain how they see the movie with the Real Assumption cause this has been driving me insane for#the past 9 months#it shouldnt even be an assumption cause if none of this IS real INCLUDING emmet and rex then THAT contradicts the first movie#god i need to lie down#pixie talks
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sleeeepy-demon · 5 months ago
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doctors hate her its part 9 of horrible bg3 memes i drew on paint
part: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15
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bixels · 8 months ago
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maalidoesart · 11 months ago
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zewu jun
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definitelynotshouting · 3 months ago
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big fan of scar saying on stream he wants a "hotguy artbook" meanwhile in 6 more days,
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d4dj · 13 days ago
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alonelycandleflame · 4 months ago
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Thermidor (A redraw of my art piece from 2023)
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gen4grl · 7 months ago
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halloween in pallet
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iloveacronix · 6 months ago
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Boutta go sleep cuz my brain be lacking neurons rn but guys PLEASE hear me out
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Supportive brothers for life. Also taggin the historyshipping queen @kyokittymeow
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allthegothihopgirls · 4 months ago
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my dad came home real proud of himself last night, to inform me that in his workplace consisting solely of men who are older than 35, he played chappell roan over the speakers all day.
and he was walking around telling everyone "this is my daughter's favourite artist."
he was even more proud of himself for being the only one in the building to know who she is, despite being the oldest.
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gladumfdoodles · 5 months ago
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hey platonic scarian fans
i finally went through my ao3 and put all of my platonic scarian fics into one series
there are 21 works currently, but that will rapidly change over the next few months
don't look at the word count
just
don't
here's the series!! enjoy!!
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burstingsunrise · 2 years ago
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yeetushaitus · 3 months ago
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been feeling kinda constrained by my normal art recently so i did a silly color palette thing and just tried to have fun w it would do another one but its 4 in the morning lmao
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sisaloofafump · 8 months ago
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Finally read JLA: Shogun of Steel (2002). Perhaps more interesting than the canon superbat, is the fact that the genderbent Bat doesn’t have Bruce’s iconic no kill rule. Otherwise, it’s just kinda weird. Some cool character designs though! I enjoyed it :)
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doctor-octiddius · 1 year ago
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Rewatching "Our Man Bashir" and completely forgot about this. WHO DID THIS AND WHY.
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jeeyuns · 5 months ago
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the trick to having your heart broken
bucktommy | one-shot (3k) | rated t
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“He told you about our argument,” Tommy breathes, biting back a yawn close to winning today’s battle.
“It’s not much of an argument if one party already thinks they won,” Eddie snips back.
“How did you think making a life-changing decision without telling anyone was gonna go?” he continues, looking like he’s gearing up for the long speech he’s been dying to give since Evan shared his grievances with him.
Oh, so they’re playing it like this. Alright.
“Told your parents or your sisters about your will, lately?”
Eddie deflates.
“Touché.”
Or, two conversations bedside that break and remake Tommy's worldview.
read on ao3
title and above poem exerpt from "Meat Eater No. 5" by Carmen Maria Machado
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