#this feels noteworthy I think.

[meowsticmarvels]

okay i MIGHT just be crazy here but i recently replayed 999 since i bought the ze series Again on steam and like. some of these lines feel a little crazy in retrospect knowing that younger akane is watching the events of this game and is revealed tonbe the narration text. does this mean anything to anyone

[justarandombrit]

I love compilations like "Starkid breaking the fourth wall" because you always know what's coming:

. That one moment in Twisted (Subliminal messaging)

. That one moment in Starship (Damn that G.L.E.E)

. That one moment in AVPSY (The same Hermione you know and love)

. The end of TGWDLM (WHY ARE YOU CLAPPING)

. A few moments in AVPM (Voldemort threatening A.J when he starts playing the piano, when Voldemort just walks around the stage door, etc)

. About half of Firebringer (The fourth wall hadn't been invented yet)

. All of Trail To Oregon (The fourth wall still hadn't been invented yet)

. Red Vines (what the hell can't they do?)

[wayfinderships]

Very funny how at the beginning of the year I would tell myself stuff like I'm gonna post here more often! With no shame!

And in reality I get scared and immediately crawl onto my little cave-ajdnsdjdn

[cingulata]

Since it's Dave Goelz's birthday, here's one of my favorite Dave quotes of all time (from this interview):

"I like you, you're sick enough to stay around."

[maraschinotopped]

ive been staring at the naqtube channel page just doing analysis thoughts in my head for like 15 minutes and ive just been hit with the realization that Damn this is not normal. normal people dont do this. either the mental illness or the mild sickness is doing something to me right now.

[sandycookie]

fellas the book 7 update…. *crying*

(refer to the tags for my rambling, just to minimize ppl accidentally spoiling themselves)

[nabaath-areng]

I neither believe nor don't believe in ghosts because I can't prove anything and, like the questions of the universe, I'm comforted by the conclusion that I don't need to know everything. But I swear I don't know how I maintain this conviction with everything weird that keeps happening, especially the last 2 weeks in particular.

Last night we heard a loud BANG and when we got to the kitchen, three drawers were pulled open to the point where they nearly got stuck. One of these drawers in particular is hard to open and yet there it was.

Today I woke up from the fire alarm blasting, only for it to stop like nothing happened once I'd gotten up. I checked both it and everywhere in the house but nothing was out of the ordinary.

And after years upon year of footsteps in the stairs with nobody there, various dreams about things none should have had knowledge about beforehand, and other weird signs such as a laptop randomly playing a section of a song we've never heard before that goes "Don't you worry 'bout a thing" while we are in the middle of the worst crisis of our lives...

Or hell, like that time recently while looking for my bee suit and I found it because, I kid you not, something stroked across the velcro around the helmet back and forth. At first I thought it was like, falling or something but it's only to keep it closed around the neck, that sound wouldn't be possible unless you actively went with your finger and stroked.

I don't know. I guess this is why I'm not outright sceptical of anything that might be beyond my comprehension and understanding lmao

[zedif-y]

there are times when you write something and it's not your best , but somewhere out there whether you know it or not you just made someone really happy. so it's worth it i think

[llycaons]

like wwx IS compassionate, but I don't think his extreme self-denial comes naturally or is healthy, and having him never talk about himself or his needs in such a long work where he processes a lot just reinforces the pervasive in-universe social expectation on him to never prioritize or talk about or attend to his own feelings, to the benefit of the gentry he was raised and educated with. because he's lesser, right? why should his feelings matter?

it's just frustrating - it feels like naturalizing the extremely unfair classist social expectation he struggled with throughout the story, found respite from only in a select few people and in a very few specific ways, and ultimately escaped, having entered into a relationship with an extremely high-ranked and well-regarded member of the nobility who would do anything for him, prioritizes him and his wants and desires and feelings, and loves him absolutely selflessly. like the fact that lwj is so highborn is actually really important innit. or am I just talking nonsense since it's 3 am

[goldensunset]

re: the music rant I tagged you in I am so sorry for tagging you in my double-dose caffeine fueled haterism explosion post. truly was off the shits and did not realize how much random garbage talking points I was ready to spill on the first person to ask

but i love haterism…..

[sskk-manifesto]

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[atomiqueen]

lucy definitely wasn't thinking about how it would affect norm when she brought him to that storage space and told him to get inside. the only thing on her mind in that moment was keeping him safe. she didn't intend to make him feel weak or inferior, she only wanted to protect him as quickly and efficiently as possible during the ongoing violence. because she loves him.

[episodeoftv]

Suggestion: how about "best Season 1"? A lot of shows I watch come back completely differently in season 2 and it makes you wonder what happened.

I want to stick to episodes with this blog‚ but that does sound like fun too.

Actually nvm I thought about it and now I’m getting excited about this concept

I’m gonna keep this out of the running for the next bracket‚ but I might come back to it later (this is not me calling dibs or anything so if someone else wanted to pick this idea up‚ then feel free to)

[galacticlamps]

actually ascension needs its own post since that's the one with the most details to speculate over and im starved for soho talk so i will talk to myself if need be

First the cover again, because I kinda can't get over it:

my only thing is that I had been hoping we might get Lizbeth on a cover again since she's never been on one of the boxsets before, despite being the 2nd person credited on all 4 of them (even if that's just alphabetical, still, she's the only one of the four main characters who never makes the cover)

But letting that go...

I know we already kinda knew the brief for this one but damn I didn't expect it to go quite this hard. Maybe that's just because the Parasite & Ashenden covers were (comparatively) similarish to each other and I was so pleased with Unbegotten's, and then got so used to it as the placeholder for Ascension while they kept postponing it, I wasn't expecting anything this colorful or detailed or with what I can't help but register as Fun New Outfits even though these are still like, pretty damn basic as far as costumes go. Still, it's a different vibe from everyone in suits and trenchcoats on every cover, technically. (Oh the woes of being an audio fan such that two characters owning sweaters actually does qualify as new information)

On top of just being visually delightful though, I know we knew religion was gonna be a fairly big part of this one, but I didn't actually expect to get quite this much of it - though I'm glad of it for a number of reasons. The BF twitter already made the ineffable joke so I don't have to, but also yeah I did very much spend all of season 2 episode 4 of good omens half convinced Samuel Barnett & Dervla Kirwan were about to pop up around any given corner (if you will go around being gay supernatural and horrible at your messy bureaucratic jobs in midcentury soho then I'm sorry, this is where my brain's gonna go) - so, fuel to that fire. But in terms of actual important things, at least one of my Soho wishes looks to be being granted because we have a Rev Edward Folgate on the cast list, which must mean we're finally meeting Norton's father, even if his mother & brother don't appear (which they could, technically, I've definitely seen BF not list all the doublings on their cast tabs before). Religion, domesticity, and the nuclear family are all things that absolutely fascinate me when it comes to Norton's character, so getting any amount of story involving his father & his church is something I've been actively hoping for for a long time now.

(I will say I'm a tiny bit bummed Saffron Coomber isn't on the cast list to play Mia again, but I kinda figured she wasn't going to be since Greg Austin's Armitage, who's making his first recurring appearance after originating in Unbegotten, was listed ever since the boxset was announced - presumably if she was also returning, that would've been handled in the same way. But since Unbegotten ended with Lizbeth and Mia going on a date, I still held out hope. Who knows though, maybe things did go well for them and Lizbeth just has a better work/life balance than Norton so she can date someone without them getting dragged into every scifi plot. I know that's not a very common accomplishment for any Torchwood agent, but a gal can hope)

At this point I know I'm completely in the realm of speculation & even wishful thinking, but I'm really really hoping we get some more clues as to Norton's overall timeline in this one, and I have a feeling that even if there's nothing as direct as dates given, the events of a plot like this one are going to heavily influence my personal interpretation of it.

To say that life & death are major themes for the soho crew feels wildly reductive, but even by Torchwood's standards and taking into account its origins as a piece of media with Jack Harkness & his newfound immortality at the heart of it, the living/dead status of this bunch has always been fantastically up in the air to me. Obviously Ghost Mission introduced Norton as kind of a ghost before revealing more obvious ghostly characters later on to which the title might have been referring, but his being from the past did beg the question of his survival into Torchwood's present era all the same, which Outbreak later alludes to much more directly, and his habit of showing up via hologram in multiple stories only further obfuscates any certainty we might have about where & when he definitely can be said to be alive and well. Then you've got Lizbeth and Gideon both being effectively 'brought back to life' via paradoxes that prevented them ever having died in the first place. Again, they are very very far from being the only Torcwhood characters this happens to (for a sprawling EU, it's really rather impressive how often & in how many different ways Torchwood as a whole manages to circle back to being about like. chaotic undead queers at the end of every day. though I suppose that consistency is part of why I keep falling in love with its different iterations again and again). That's without even getting into the question of Norton's dubious fate in God Among Us - and I say dubious because I know some people take that to be his ultimate death, but I personally think that reading something as vague as that as having any kind of finality rather goes against the spirit of this whole world/series, not just because I want him to live. (There are obviously other ways to make him survive/reappear, but I don't see this as a River Song scenario where we can safely assume one of his earlier-released adventures had to happen at the end of his personal timeline). But wherever God Among Us falls for him, he does very much meet God in it - or at least, a god, since the sentinel in Unbegotten is also described as a god of sorts, and even if he doesn't ultimately have the status of the god Jacqueline King is playing there, Unbegotten is still full to bursting with ghosts/undead/came back wrong/echo characters to continue underscoring that life/afterlife theme.

So all things considered, even allowing for the fact that we know Norton's twin hobbies are lying about himself and abusing time travel to suit his own ends/ever-shifting alliances, I find it difficult to believe we could get through a whole 6-part boxset about religion & death without something providing some kind of compelling evidence about where this adventure fits in among his other run-ins with apocalypses and gods and ghosts and dead-but-still-here characters/creatures, so I'm very much looking forward to any further exploration on that front.

And lastly, and least intellectually, I really want to know what the hell 20th-century Torchwood's obsession with Reginalds is. Reading through the cast list, I had to do two separate doubletakes over the character 'Sir Reginald Peebles' - firstly, because I had Reginald Rigsby on the brain, this being Soho (and the other Troughton brother being so active on BF's releases for this same month) - and secondly, because reading this in conjunction with the announcement for the July monthly adventure in which the new main Torchwood guy of the 20s is apparently called Sir Reginald Dellafield, there was a brief moment where I took that monthly release to be a tie-in with Ascension. I don't expect it to be, but damn. was it really so popular a name?

anyways, catch me thinking about those stained glass windows for the next couple months I guess (and knowing Torchwood Soho, for a long long time after it comes out as well lol)

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

the implications....

folie a deux meaning / folie a deux album cover / pete's bear hat(s)

[vydumaj]

I’m currently going through a minor identity crisis after, like, two weeks ago, at the age of 23, realizing I’m lactose intolerant. I drank some hot chocolate, got a really bad stomach ache, and thought to myself “it’s nothing, I always get a stomach ache after drinking hot chocolate”, remembered I got a stomach ache after eating ice cream two days before and then realized…maybe getting a stomach ache every time you drink hot chocolate (regardless of how little) isn’t…normal. it’s been like that for at least half a year, up to like 2-3 years… I guess I should’ve expected this since my stomach is super sensitive and my dad is lactose intolerant and also Thai (84-96% of Thai people are lactose intolerant depending on which study you look at) … at least lactase enzyme pills seem to work for me so I won’t need to give up ice cream lmao