#vt theory

[lunadreamscaper]

Did any one else piece together that Johnny Ghost was probably adopted. Since, ya know, he started out as Gregory Casket, then ended up in an abandoned mansion with a ghost alone in the middle of nowhere. To his name “suddenly” being Johnny Ghost?

Also the multiple dad thing. I assumed the ones named Johnathan Ghost were made up in his imagination since it sounds like Peewee died when Ghost was young. Though it could be like, his different dads that he had going through the system for a bit before Peewee (who he inherited the McDonald’s from.)

(Thoughhh Some people like to think he had like multiple dads at once. At least two. Which is cute. Not my headcanon but I wanted to acknowledge it since it’s a valid take <3 )

Not much is spoken about his mothers or if he had more than one. I just know at least one of his mothers was shit. (Johnny Ghost UN-retirement video lol)

Got a little off topic but that’s the vibe I’ve gotten. If that’s not what others think I’m genuinely curious to see what you think happened instead? Bc I can’t see it any other way wheeze 😭

[codacontainmentbreach]

A great big spiel of Timothy Casket theories—

I love how the combination of Johnny Ghost being an unreliable source for anything from his childhood and the original Cardboard Friend video having a million contradictions about Gregory allows us to come up with basically any theory and have at least one canon statement that lines up.

Example: Johnny Ghost claims his father died before he was born and he lived alone with his mother, but Gregory claimed both of his parents left him (and then his grandparents). So you could headcanon pretty much anything about them. I want to explore the possibility of Timothy Casket being alive, at least until Gregory met Box Friend.

Running with the idea that his father was a bad person, probably with very dark secrets, and if he actually were alive after Gregory was born, he was also a bad parent.

I see some headcanons that he would have been neglectful and cold outside of providing financially. IMO it’s possible that his dad was also a cruel and unsafe person beyond that, but Ghost doesn’t remember at all. T. Casket was probably the reason why a demon like Cardboard Friend was drawn to the house where Gregory was left alone, I’ll elaborate on that in a bit.

I think Gregory’s parents separated, and he was sent back and forth from his mom’s to live with his dad sometimes because his mom wasn’t as financially stable. I think he grew up a little poor without his father’s income (after T. Casket either dies or abandons the family), as much as Johnny Ghost denies it.

His dad would leave him alone for days at a time, and the house had so much negative energy that it was a beacon for demonic forces which brought along Cardboard Friend. I also think demons are drawn to vulnerable people, such as neglected / mentally unstable children like Gregory.

I think Jimmy Casket is a product of both Timothy being either neglectful or straight up evil and CF driving Gregory crazy on purpose, except it worked way too well and now Jimmy Casket is a paranormal entity manifested by them that CF is terrified of.

I would love to see a fic of PIE investigating a haunted place, and when they see the ghost, it’s an older man with dark eyes, silver hair, a black coat and umbrella, and calls Ghost “Greg.” oooooooooo spooky oogoolaboogaloo

[maddiefriendlovesbilly]

This is not coherent at all but we have (slightly weak) evidence that jimmy casket that is passed down from parent to child (tommy to gregory/ghost) in the casket family. When tommy died, he gave jimmy to ghost. Jimmy has possessed and/or impersonated (implying they look similar) princeton quagmire. Mayhaps. Quagmire is related to Johnny Ghost ? Yes. 👍

[huntersapprentice]

one of these days, I kinda wanna ramble about how veggietales characters are 8 times out of ten shown to be as large as humans and not as actual vegetables

[overthinkingtaleblr]

I know some people want to see CBF as good, but it ends up malicious in my headcanons no matter what I do. I have some theories for its creation, though. (I use it/its for my idea of CBF btw)

- Billy Acachalla/Ernie Ghost accidentally creating CBF while trying to give Gregory an imaginary friend and it would up incredibly possessive <- current fave

- CBF is a creation of the Housekeeper/the Whisperer. Its purpose is unknown, but seeing as the Whisperer is an entity of Chaos, im not sure he needs a reason. Since the Whisperer is also represented by death and undeath, it is constantly absorbing the life of whatever is around it, including wildlife and plants. <- gonna use this in a fic

- one of the canon explanations is that CBF is a version of Toast that got really Fucked Up. I think this could be rotated like a potato.

- Imaginary friend given form

- dead sibling/cousin/ghost who previously haunted the house of either Jimmy or Gregory

- Jimmy Casket Himself before possessing Gregory

- Demon

I wanna hear some peoples CBF headcanons I'm currently desperate to watch my favorite video, The one with ghost and CBF but supporting the channel :(

So I just wanna read others stuff

[gabriellerudessa]

Time for Angsty Fallout Theory Time (my brain cooked while I was sweeping the house lmao)

I'm partial for theories that VT experimented on Coop soon after the bombs, because of his "something like that" when Lucy asked if it was radiation that made him like that

Coop seems to be absolutely certain that Janey (and possibly Barb) is alive, considering his talk with Sorel, despite being 200 years. At the same time, the moment he confirms it's Hank Maclean indeed, he doesn't seem to even consider the possibility of asking Lucy about her Vault or how her father got inside there. There's also the matter that he was outside of California, meaning, maybe he KNOWS Janey is not there. He only went back because of the Bounty on Wilzig - either because of the money to help in his search, OR because he hoped Wilzig, being an Enclave scientist, would have good info to help his search.

Now for the theory

Janey possibly went through the same experiments as Coop, and that's how he knows with certainty that she's alive: he know she would be like him or at least similar.

I can think of two possibilities: Whenever it happened, with the craziness of the bombs, I could see it happening because people didn't know she was Barb's child, but then Barb discovered, came, took Janey away. (or just VT itself took Janey away because the experiments went better with her)

OR, extra angsty: considering that BUD, in good standing, ended up as Brain on a Roomba (I made a post about how I think that wasn't the plan for him or even Vault 31)... Maybe Barb wasn't in that good standing if it came up that there was a leak because of Coop, and the THREE of them ended experimented on (oh the drama of them being made to spend time and talk after both divorce and bombs *chef's kiss*), and Barb and Janey were taken away because they showed better results.

Maybe even HE was the one taken away, for further experiments or whatever, but don't know exactly WHERE he was for starters.

No matter which one, the important point is him and Janey undergoing the same experiments but being separated, so Coop knows for a fact that she's alive even after 200 years.

Anyway, can't wait for having my heart dilacerated with whatever they'll come up regarding Janey in season 2 lmao

[orionsces]

Calling all the VT fans!!!

Some pals and I are making a VT P.I.E iceberg!! If you're able please drop obscure facts, theories (either yours or someone else's) then please do so!! Even getting some help with more research with topics that would be really appreciated!!! Somethin' even like a tiny interview would help us all out a whole lot!! If you do have an possible entry you wanna submit, please remember to give a link to the video, timestamp or overall some good proof of the entry!! We're trying to make this as well-researched as possible ^_^

Thank you from all of us!!! Either contact me or my pal @pupley !! We actively encourage ramblin' and as much detail to any of your possible entries or to the VT insanity!!!

[democracyunderground]

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is taking a front-and-center role in the efforts to push Democrats toward becoming the party of economic populism and to challenge President Trump.

The Connecticut senator has emerged as one of the loudest and most prominent voices among party members looking to convince Democrats to change their focus around America’s working-class coalition, arguing they’ve lost trust with the voters they desperately need on their side.

Without an obvious leader to counter Trump’s early return to power, Murphy is one of the figures seeking to fill that void as the party tries to rebuild from the ground up.

“He’s really interesting right now,” said Matt Duss, a former senior policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has worked with Murphy to co-sponsor legislation in the Senate. “He’s articulating a really powerful theory of the case about rebuilding an American political consensus. And he’s doing so in a unifying and constructive way.”

In the frantic first few months following Democrats’ electoral defeat, Murphy has seemed to do the impossible — gain an equal amount of praise from the two polarizing sides of his party. The lack of enemies has garnered attention as lawmakers, party leaders and campaign operatives start to work past their most glaring problems toward renewed relevance.

“For him to be joining this, I think is notable,” Duss said about Murphy’s anti-corruption message directed at his own party. The senator is “seen as part of the Democratic mainstream, not known as this radical,” he continued. “It’s a sign that the Democratic Party more broadly has lost its way.”

The 51-year-old senator has generally taken a supportive role in the upper chamber without angering his colleagues. He’s an easy vote for most of his party’s legislative agenda and isn’t perceived as a rabble-rouser on either side. He’s progressive but isn’t considered too far left. He has effectively kept a steady profile during times when the party has descended into finger-pointing.

Now, he seems pleased to step into a more adversarial role that some say may put him at odds with more corporate-friendly Democrats. The more he pushes corporate reform and an anti-billionaire message, the more he could collide with Democrats who don’t see their reliance on donor money as the root cause of their troubles.

So far, the crux of his critique, which he launched on social media following Trump’s reelection and has since spread in interviews and policy memos, is that the economic menu Democrats are offering voters is stale. Voters have shifted away and see the party as incapable of meeting their material needs. Democrats, he argues, have become more isolated and detached from their base.

Murphy wrote in a postelection letter that a “populist message of power de-concentration is a truly unifying message, across income brackets and political ideologies,” asserting a plausible path ahead. Observers note he is trying to make the case earlier than others that Democrats need to stand in clear opposition to the ultrawealthy people and priorities favored in Trump’s Washington.

Both wings of the party seem to have accepted Murphy’s prognosis. So far he hasn’t appeared to alienate the ever-skeptical left, who often accuse “establishment” Democrats of moving toward their side for political gain. In 2020, for example, a variety of senators became more progressive on various hot-button policies to try to win the presidential nomination against leaders like Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Murphy has been welcomed among Sanders allies who want to see the movement they helped build coalesce around a new leader. His ability to fly under the radar until more recently, some Democrats say, could be a hidden asset.

“He doesn’t come top of mind, but that’s not a bad thing,” said a senior Democratic strategist who talks regularly with the activists and grassroots coalitions Murphy would need to court to gain more influence.

“He can win them over, especially if he has Bernie’s blessings,” the strategist said. “What people on the left and right respect about Bernie is he [is] principled. So if Bernie embraces him, that’s it, he has that electorate locked up.”

The search for Democratic leadership is just starting to take shape as the party debates why they got wiped out so badly in the 2024 election cycle. Some are getting noticed for taking a cozier approach to the GOP president, such as Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who met with him at Mar-a-Lago, while others are publicly chastising how his leadership model resembles an “oligarchy.”

Murphy is not shy about going after Trump when he sees fit. On Sunday, he warned that “democracies don’t last forever” in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” calling the current state of politics “the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced.”

“The president is attempting to seize control of power and for corrupt purposes. The president wants to be able to decide how and where money is spent so that he can reward his political friends, he can punish his political enemies. That is the evisceration of democracy,” he said.

Democrats say balancing talk about the real-time threats he sees to fragile democratic structures with the economic plight for millions of people is one path to breaking through in the Trump era.

“Let’s make sure we choose the right enemies,” Duss said. “The enemies are corporate elites that have captured our political system. The elites have gamed the system for their own benefit. There’s a reason why Trump gets traction when he says the system is rigged. It’s because the system is rigged.”

“But it’s rigged on behalf of people like Trump and his flunkies. I think part of the message we’re hearing from Sen. Murphy and we’ve heard for a long time from Sen. Sanders is Democrats need to be less timid about saying that,” he added.

Democrats who are more evenhanded in their approach than the activated progressive left agree that he’s cutting through much of the discussion about next steps. Mixing an economic populist message while articulating the corruption concerns around Trump could start to catch on.

“Murphy is tapping into the outrage and urgency that millions of people across the country are feeling better than almost anyone else in the Senate at the moment,” said Doug Gordon, a Democratic strategist. “He is smartly abandoning the cautious, poll-tested, talking point-based way too many Democrats have communicated the last several years.”

“People want to see action and fight, and Murphy is tapping into that,” Gordon said.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont took Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, to task at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Sanders grilled Kennedy over two children’s onesies sold by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy founded. Sanders displayed images of the onesies, which feature the slogans “Unvaxxed Unafraid” and “No Vax No Problem.” “You’re coming before this committee and say you are pro-vaccine—just want to ask some questions—and yet your organization is making money selling a child’s product to parents for $26 which casts fundamental doubt on the usefulness of vaccines,” Sanders said. The senator then asked Kennedy if he would demand the nonprofit to take the product off of the market. Kennedy asserted that he had “no power” over the group after resigning from the board, but Sanders noted that he still had influence that he could wield over the management. “Are you supportive of this clothing, which is militantly anti-vaccine?” Sanders asked.  “I am supportive of vaccines,” Kennedy responded, without committing to opposing the onesie sales. Kennedy’s claim to be in favor of vaccination also does not line up with his long history as a public figure. He has repeatedly lied and misinformed the public as part of his crusade against childhood vaccination.

Children’s Health Defense has been a key part of Kennedy’s anti-vaccination efforts. The group has purchased anti-vaccination advertising, promoted anti-vaccination policy in multiple countries, and has campaigned against public health initiatives. Kennedy and his group have regularly embraced junk science and thoroughly discredited conspiracy theories. Kennedy has been criticized for his role in accelerating a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa, which killed more than 80 people, after he advocated against vaccination during talks with local government leaders.  

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tore into RFK Jr. over selling anti-vaxx baby merchandise via Children’s Health Defense.

[lunadreamscaper]

Shattered Reality Theory?

- taleblrlorekeeper

Hi yes hello. I’m about to go autism hyper fixation mode let’s go

I call it that as if it’s a well known theory BUT ITS nOt bc I haven’t shared it yet

So basically this theory explains a lot of continuity errors and contradictions and the faulty way the VT world works Imo. (Which irl is only like that bc the irl creators didn’t keep track of everything but that’s fine) But basically what I believe/vibe I get is that the main dimension where all the main event happens is a larger fragment of a reality that’s now shattered. And other dimensions like the 13th Dimension like the Anti-challas for example (and the hundreds of other numbered dimensions 😭) are other shards of that reality. So basically the whole thing is barely functioning.

And also, it might not have a proper after life or “ghost dimension” … or “veil” and that’s why ghosts are so common and capable of ridiculous things??

Also an alternative minor theory attached to this one is that sometimes the reason that characters come back from the dead is because there’s no space for like more souls in the afterlife(?) or where ever ghosts are supposed to go. But also I’m kinda iffy on that one.

Basically the VT world(s) is like a broken world- similar vibe to when a planet is thrown out of orbit.

Funny enough though is that in the VT 5 year anniversary stream Johnny Ghost from the future/Alt time line tries warning Present Day P.I.E. (Ghost was retired at the time) that they need to get their Ghost to rejoin P.I.E. Because in future Ghost’s future Housekeeper “shatters reality.” But that implies it hasn’t happened but will- so idk but genuinely is a fascinating coincidence (there’s SO MUCH lore in that stream btw bahsjd)

I do believe that the Divine One (a canon deity made of 13 beings that also created Housekeeper) may have tried fixing or adopted their shattered reality?? And maybe housekeeper got mad and/or jealous and started causing problems idk tbh 😭

Also another part of how i picture this broken world is that sometimes it tries to fix itself (either that or it’s the divine one) so it’ll like repeat events and it’ll change what happened (which would explain certain contradictions. Example: Ghost originally being afraid of birds. Then way later Ghost is completely unphased by birds but Toast is terrified of them?? That happened in an anniversary stream too but it was either year 3 or 4)

Basically a bunch of cosmic horror / reality stuff 😭

(I picture it a lot like a dirty/scratched/broken CD that’s bouncing around, replaying or stuttering or skipping around in the cd player kinda lol but also it’s floating through space deeper and deeper into the void while grabbing the attention of interdimensional higher beings that see it as a cool toy)

Also Acalacams (if you know what those are) kinda tie into this as well as the Divine One but I’ll get to that later

This is also my personal headcanon but I’m curious to see what others think :3

God I hope this made sense 😭😭

[eretzyisrael]

by Kylie Ora Lobell

Dutton is just one of many journalists who has chosen to ignore facts, instantly side against Israel and spew lies to the public. From the outside, it looks like Israel’s supporters are losing the information war, as there seems to be an endless wave of fake reports about the country, always putting it in a negative light. 

But Murray, who has been in a similar fight for years against progressivism in the West, is convinced he is making a difference. To him, there is a reason to keep fighting.

“I think I make a lot of headway,” he said. “My view is that 1,000 lies can be corrected by one truth. Obviously social media is testing my theory in real time, but I still believe it. Whenever I’m in a debate with someone who is fervently anti-Israel, I tend to find that audiences appreciate you introducing new facts or little known or unknown facts to the debate. They appreciate that people are pushing back against this. Is there a percentage of the population who simply won’t listen? Absolutely. But the majority of the public is still available. They do listen. And it’s to them that I speak.”

When it comes to Israel, Murray said there are people who “absorb the mainstream media each night, and then they call for the killing to stop and think it’s being done by Israel. In such moments, it’s very important that a voice speaks up and gives courage to others to speak up as well. I have a favorite quote: ‘All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie.’”

Sometimes the lies and criticism come from the Jewish community itself, like when Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke up against the Israeli government, or Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) demanded “No more money to Netanyahu’s war machine to kill Palestinian children.” Why does Murray think this is happening?

“Chuck Schumer, whom I respect, is probably playing a domestic political game in the U.S.,” Murray said. “He’s an intelligent man, and he must know that every Israeli leader would be doing the same thing as Netanyahu [in the aftermath of Oct. 7]. If America had thousands of citizens taken hostage – relative to its size – and tens of thousands murdered in one day, America would be doing much more than Israel is doing, and Schumer knows that. I think it’s about a domestic political game playing out in America, which I regret, because this issue is above politics.”

As a staunch defender of the West and its values, Murray is compelled to support Israel because, as he said, it’s on the front line of the civilized world, defending the West. “Israel has recognizable ethics and culture,” he said. “It’s different, as all countries are, but it’s part of us.” What baffles him – and many others – is the fact that Westerners in America and Britain are supporting every country in the Middle East except for Israel.

“Israel is the one country in which Americans could live in the Middle East,” he said. “I’ve spent enough time in other countries to know this difference. A lot of people don’t. Israel is a core part of the West. When people ask me, ‘Why do you support Israel?’ I say, ‘Why would you support every other country but Israel?’” 

[lapdogchase]

wrt that poll abt tone indicators thats going around.w ell first of all tbh i think some of the hatred for them comes from cringe culture. but second of all. some of the criticism is totally fair like there are a fuckton of tone indicators and sometimes . there really dont need to be. and the abbreviations can be confusing i try to type out ones that arent s srs or j. tho i feel like most of the newer ones were popularized on twt so itmakes sense they wouldnt be written all the way out

like i think my prolem is when theres SO many and theyre redundant. i found a carrd with a fuckton of them that im gonna comment on To entertain myself sorry

like these 3 all feel redundant .. why do u need a different tone tag for Mostly joking than Half joking ? or for a Coping joke ? just use /j or combine with with like, /neg or something to get the tone across yknow? and /ji - first of all looks like /ij (inside joke), second of all why not just use /j

and like. why half serious or mostly serious or not serious when /j or /hj exist ? why /ns when it looks so similar to /nsrs, which means the opposite ? ive been using /s since like 2015 and /srs since like 2018 so ivegot those down and dont confuse them but i see why could be for some one who hasnt used them b4, why make it more complicated?

i like /g or /gen in theory- ppl have said its confusing bc gen could be general which i get, but for ppl familiar w tone tags tend to know what it means. genq is one ive used just bc. its fun to type tbh. and i think ppl get what it means but its not really Necessary. BUt genep and genc feel unnecessary when /g and /srs exist, and /gene is just, a word. that's just a word ! 😭

ojh my god. i should do a tone indicator tier list

as you can see my adhd meds are working

/nbr is funny bc half the time when some1 says theyre not being rude they definitely are. also there's already /g /srs and /lh. /nm is either helpful or deeply confusing Bc i try to take it at face value but sometimes i see it and im like. Why would i be mad ? and i start overthinking. but thats a me problem

i like this one i use it when i complain a lot Bc i dont want ppl to think im vagueing them i just love complaining

i love these ones. tone indicators for Being Mean To Someone. dunno if its on this list but ive seen /pa and /sbh (/passive aggressive & /somebody here, respectively) which is SO funny. i dont think theyre helpful really though except /neg Bc again. these all mean very similar things !!! why not just clarify extra things with a parenthetical

THESE R ALL THE SAME TONE !!! why not jsut use one single tone indicator for this !!! or none at all and just type the word !!!

need /nfl on a shirt in the aro colors so poeple know im not fucking interested in them. that aside. 1. whywould u need this ever !!! why not use again just /j if necessary.and 2. isnt the nfl a football thing

these r similar but i do like them, i think typing out a whole word again is a better solution so u dont have to scavenge google for the meaning but i think its helpful to clarify this and isnt synonymous with /j or /s or /lh

i think these ones are almost all just from the op's discord server or w/e, i won't bash that cuz if it works for them it works, that being said i dont think This many tone indicators for these types of things r helpful outside of that specific context yknow? also, /fx is really funny

ok i wont say that typing tics dont exist bc tics can be complex and vary by situation etc so im sure they can, but is that happening That much that u need a tone tag for it ? and also like. for /unin just delete the msg or say "oops sent too early hang on" or smth.. and as for vocal stim. first of all why is it /vt ? and second of all . why ... would u need that to type out ? bc if ur vocal stimming that would be. out loud? i.e. not in a chat where youre typing ???????@????>?,//???? BAFFLING. also in what situation is /gib necessary i genuinely cant think of one

ANYWAY.

None of this is to rag on tone indicators (/genuine) i think they can be helpful + i am always being gensrs when i use them. i just think some r a little silly & a lot from longer lists are unhelpful Bc theyre supposed to make communication Easier and Clearer + haveing So many tone indicators with Different Implied Tones WITHIN the indicators !!! makes it harder imo. bc if theyre to clarify tone why should i have to fight for my life deciphering why someone went from /mj to /hj yknow.

like this is all my Opinion and imsure these r all helpful for Someone otherwise they wouldnt exist but i rly feel like the system could be condensed a bit yk.

do i have a system in mind to suggest here ? well.

(also. this whole post is /genuine, /lighthearted, /not upset, and /not passive aggressive. and a bit /silly)

[dailyanarchistposts]

Notes: This article was written in early 1995. It first appeared in the Groundhog Day 1995 edition of Alarm, a journal of revolutionary ecology, Box 57, Burlington, VT 05402. The section on patriarchy differs slightly from the version in Alarm, as it was updated and revised by Judi, and given as a talk at the Willits Environmental Center in June, 1996. This edition was published in the Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter issue dated September 1997.

Revolutionary Ecology

I was a social justice activist for many years before I ever heard of Earth First!. So it came as a surprise to me, when I joined Earth First! in the 1980s, to find that the radical environmental movement paid little attention to the social causes of ecological destruction. Similarly, the urban-based social justice movement seems to have a hard time admitting the importance of biological issues, often dismissing all but “environmental racism” as trivial. Yet in order to effectively respond to the crises of today, I believe we must merge these two issues.

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

I believe we already have such a theory. It’s called deep ecology, and it is the core belief of the radical environmental movement. The problem is that, in the early stages of this debate, deep ecology was falsely associated with such right wing notions as sealing the borders, applauding AIDS as a population control mechanism, and encouraging Ethiopians to starve. This sent the social ecologists justifiably scurrying to disassociate. And I believe it has muddied the waters of our movement’s attempt to define itself behind a common philosophy.

So in this article, I will try to explain, from my perspective as an unabashed leftist, why I think deep ecology is a revolutionary worldview. I am not trying to proclaim that my ideas are Absolute Truth, or even that they represent a finished thought process in my own mind. These are just some ideas I have on the subject, and I hope that by airing them, it will spark more debate and advance the discussion.

[the-harvester]

8 Year Anniversary + Updates + Shameless Plug

Dang guys- 8 years since TH debuted here on Tumblr and on AO3.

There have been ups and downs, and times of plenty and times of quiet. And some of you have been here through all of it. And for that, we want to thank you guys.

TH exists for CZ and VT first and foremost, but having our little community has always made things a little brighter. We're so happy that this funky little roleplay found an audience that enjoys it as much as we do. Every comment we get, or theories we see people rambling about, make sharing our stories more fun. <3

2023 was very spotty, and it was a pretty traumatic year for us. Some pretty major stuff happened, and we were forced to move cross-country much sooner than we planned. But, we're now settled into our new place in hopes that we'll be working on making our lives better.

We can't know for sure if we'll be posting chapters more frequently in 2024, BUT, we do want to assure people that our quiet never means the story is abandoned. We'll let everyone know if we ever plan on retiring it. We still have 2.5 arcs finished and ready to post at our own pace- we just never want the public to fully catch up where we are, so you guys don't have to wait even /longer/ than you already do for new chapters.

Anyways- that's all the updates for now! And now for a shameless plug.

If you like The Harvester and have any interest in reading more of CZ or VT's work- there's this tasty little nugget VT is working on called "Find Your Wings"! It's a story about a size-shifting """Super Hero""" [if you can call him that] that is struggling to find a way to exist in a city where his powers are against the law. None of his friends know about his secret life of fighting storm giants to protect the city- and he intends to keep it that way. But how long can that last? It's a story with strong LGBT+ themes, and talks about finding your place in the world and how important a support system is, all while being wrapped up in a flashy, original fantasy setting with elves, giants, dragons, and all sorts of other creatures.

The tumblr is here if you're interested in following its development! It is not a replacement for The Harvester, but rather, is being developed alongside it in VT's free time. It will be a physical and digitally released set of 2-3 actual books, but will also be posted chapter-by-chapter like TH once the first book is done.

Okay shameless plug time done.

Here's to 2024, everyone. Thanks for being on this ride with us, and here's to the new year. <3

Happy hunting,

CZ & VT

[sidewayspeace444]

That theory is dumb.. why would he sell his house to move in when they’re already “married” since September like😂

It’s just like the theory he sold his VT house because she was pregnant.

[fruitsofhell]

Call me the river in Egypt the way I be in denial, but I feel like "I'm not from Halcandra" could actually be a double play...

In the last part of that 4 part KSA interview, there's this really interesting section where Kumazaki is asked what the Void Termina and Kirby relationships are about, and his response is so interesting.

So the first thing he says is that he wants to be vague to keep it a mystery ofc, and then he goes on to explain the exact concept of why Void Termina looked like Kirby. He said it was imprinting; that Hyness had wanted to be there when it awoke to fill it with darkness, but instead its first reaction was to Kirby, thus taking his face. But when VT tapped into the well of darkness used to birth it, it turned for good.

Now that is insane cause it seems to completely blow the Kirby is Void theory out of the water, right? It wasn't born looking like Kirby, it copied Kirby's face...

But who else in this series is known for their ability to copy others?

THATS what I'm talking about. And if you want more proof, it's just the fact that Kirby and Void being related is also like??? The most thematically cohesive narrative lol? It would make no sense story wise to build up all these connections between Void and Kirby for it to just be for nothing. That's a double twist for a double twist's sake when the first one was more satisfying.

SO HERES THE THING WITH MAGOLOR!! We ALREADY know, his species is supposed to be related to Hyness who is undoubtedly related to the Ancients. There was NS channel post pointing at this, and the confirmation of Mago's lil ears, and the way the marks on Mago's hood look like Hyness' natural ear colors - like it all lines up.

And the other thing is... Magolor says he isn't from Halcandra, but we never know where exactly he IS from. It would come off then that he was born a traveller and scavenger maybe. And that nothing naturally lives on Halcandra's surface.

So put together that he's related to Hyness, has no home planet, and whoever previously lived on Halcandra obviously migrated - and I think my working theory is that Magolor is still related to the ancient Halcandrans but doesn't know it.

Maybe he's related to the long-ago exiled Jamba that then had their own detractors. That would explain a bit of his slack morals and magical abilities, as well as paralleling Hyness and his other quest for powerful relics of yore. Maybe the people who left Halcandra as it was collapsing spread across the galaxy and to deter people from returning to their home and repeating mistakes they never passed down it's existence. Which would make his rediscovery of it ironic.

My main problem with Magolor being completely and wholly foreign to the planet is that it takes away more info about him and the planet than it gives. I just like holding on to the idea it's all still related cause it feels more cohesive yknow... I also just love Halcandra to bits and will be hungry for content related to it until I get my 60hr Heroes of Yore RPG...