#worm time babey

[fuxkyoufurb]

we have some lovely new friends joining the family, courtesy of one of my beloved boyfriends!!

i still need names for these two boys, but theyre so very in love already!

[avatarofthewhateverthefuck]

It's getting hard thinking about new taglines... I guess intimate facts about you and your life based on what entity you wish to consume you the most!

Today we have one of my favourites: The Corruption!

Liked one too many posts about wanting to lay down in the forest and decay

Probably had a worm jar as a kid

Still rescue worms from the sidewalk

You carry bugs out of your room instead of squashing them

Remember that one guy from Dracula who ate bugs?

You enjoy Franz Kafka (once again, bugs)

You’ve considered studying a really obscure field for pretty long time, but you know you wouldn't make any money off it

You enjoy fanfiction with vaguely toxic relationship dynamics (no proships, just very vaguely unhealthy)

I feel like you consider mud a very nice texture

You're favourite party game is Werewolve (or Mafia, whatever works for you)

[fuzzy-worm-spaghetti15]

My mum just came in to my room as I was cleaning out my cosplay cubby hole and trying on some of the stuff in preparation for a con coming up. She opened the door to me wearing a plague doctor mask with a Toph Beifong headband, I am also currently wearing a top that says ‘consciousness is an illusion, it’s worm time babey!!!’ written in comic sans with fuzzy worms on the shirt.

what a sight to behold

[squ1rmyw0rmy]

CRAZY fun fact!

did you know that worm on a string are also known as "squirmles"??

thinking about it we should possibly call squirmy "squirmle" as a little nod to that fact, plus it would be a silly yet fitting nickname for them!! ^w^

- leaf <3

[juicydangler]

I'VE DONE IT! THE ULTIMATE EXPIERIENCE OF WIZARD HATS!

I present to you, wormzard.

[fawnuh]

Giant worm moment

(his name is Jimmohy)

I made this little guy for a friend

[nichet-crochet]

Premade crochet worms are now available in my shop!

The crochet pattern for them is now free!

[fuxkyoufurb]

WORM TIME BABEY THIS IS BILLY JOE WORMSTRONG

[drowned-hubris]

[diomedea-epomophora]

i made this weeks ago

[squ1rmyw0rmy]

me when its worm time!!!

(every time is worm time babey!!! >w<)

[wormothythejester]

WÖRM DAB!!

Get dabbed on, lol

[nofckingcluebro]

So, waaay back in september I ordered a bunch of worm on strings, but they never arrived, so I tried ordering some again and today:

They're finally here

[somanyfuckedupiftruebooks]

Interesting how many statement-givers who have no knowledge of the Entities still seem to instinctively reach for the power of the Eye when it comes to defending themselves from other Entities. 'If I can just watch this closely enough, I'll be able to keep in control of the situation. If I can just figure out what is happening, I'll be able to keep myself safe.' Nope, but good try I guess.

Okay, theory time!

First up, I completely misremembered this statement. It seems like the vase works by fucking around with your stuff, mostly taking the things you own (not just stealing them, but wiping them from existence Stranger style) but also occasionally giving you things or just messing with your and other people's memories of what you do and do not own. Then at some point (when you're scared enough) everything that was taken comes back and Mr Bad Fingers climbs out of the vase (which is actually his house) and steals your husband (or whatever you value most, probably). This is not how I remember this statement at all.

I thought the vase just took more and more stuff (wiping it from existence each time) until it was... full I guess? And then it spat everything it had taken back out agin, but a Distorited version of it. So the copy of Catch-22, for example, would be written in some sort of incomprehensible nonsense language. The shoes would no longer be wearable by human feet. Etc. Etc.

So I thought what happened was that David disappeared before the end of the statement. He was the last thing the vase took before Andre started watching it around the clock. And when the vase started spitting out twisted monster versions of everything, a wrong version of David was the final thing to come out. The statement giver fled and we never really found out what happened with the new and improved Spiral!David.

...until we meet Dr David in Season 5.

My headcanon was that Dr David was the Spiral version of this guy, building on his actions here of gaslighting his husband and trying to have him committed. Maybe he even really used to be a doctor, Andre doesn't mention what David did for a living.

Relistening to this statement has made me realise that this headcanon maybe doesn't add up as neatly as I thought it did. But I don't give a shit because I still like it. There no canon but what you make, and I say that Dr David is what was left of this episode's David after the homophobic vase was done with him.

Yeah, I'm sorry dude, but if it's still taking things then I really doubt it's gone. We know from the post-statement that it never took Andre himself (otherwise his own name wouldn't be on his marriage certificate) but I strongely doubt that this guy's ordeal is over.

And that's basically confimed right here. We don't get to actually hear the rest of the follow up, but by opening with the marriage certificate putting everything else in a new light, we know that Jon was about to tell us a bunch of weird stuff about what really happened to Andre.

Elias is buying artefacts from Salesa? Please tell me Peter took him on a weird date to one of Salesa's improvised warehouse showrooms and bought him a bunch of cursed shit. Weirdly, that might even be too romantic for those two...

I see you 👁🕷

So the Web has been waiting for the perfect moment to trigger Jane's assault on the Archives, and it's notable that it happens in the middle of Jon talking about Salesa. I know Salesa deliberately stays un-aligned from the Entities, but I think the Web is fond of him. It would snap him up in a heartbeat if it weren't for the fact that he's already so useful as an unaware puppet.

Dear all fanfic writers (including me, I'll admit I am guilty of this) and fanartists who depict Jon as being helpless and overwhelmed with fear at the very sight of a spider: please pay attention to this scene! The first time Jon ever encounters a spider in canon he doesn't freeze or run or jump up on top of a desk, he immediately chooses violence and kills it so hard he breaks the wall down.

And I would say the line about Martin giving multiple lectures on their importance to the ecosystem implies that Jon routinely kills the spiders he sees around the Archives (because trust me, any large space full of old paper will have plenty of spiders). They have had enough arguments about it that Sasha immediately knows not to get the two of them started again.

I'm sure this is nothing to be worried about :)

@a-mag-a-day

Mag 38

We love a man who's well organised <3 He has experience with needing to get the fuck out of dodge and I respect that.

Surely these can't all be Leitners? It would be insane to store them like this, right? And as far as we know Salesa isn't a moron.

Although it is cool to think that he stole them all from (laughed out of town cowboy motherfucking) jurgen leitner after his internship ended. Punitive damages.

Homophobic vase??? Already??? I didn't know this was a Season 1 statement! I thought this motherfucker showed up in like 3 or 4.

Anyway, great to be like, 'This disorienting vase had a pattern so impossible that it gave me a headache. It was amazing and I bought it immediately.'

What is with people in TMA wanting cursed shit in their homes? (Remembers thst I have a framed bat skeleton on my bookshelf next to a Japanese puzzle box full of replica human teeth and directly opposite the lovechild of a porcelain doll and a rusty tin can that I have to keep nailed to the wall) ...nevermind.

Hello David, the gaslighting king. I had a headcanon about him that relistening to this episode may have ruined, but I'll expand on that later.

Wild that Salesa now seems to be afraid of that vase. I mean, it makes sense from his POV. He just received a photo of what is obviously a Spiral artefact that he has absolutely no memory of but apparently owned at one point. Fear is an appropriate response here; he's obviously only narrowly dodged some kind of bullet.

But what about when he had the vase originally? How did he get it? Did he not know what it was, or what it did? I know he lives a dangerous life, but it seems deeply reckless to be a person who makes a living by aquiring and selling goods and in any way interact with something that makes it impossible for a person to keep or own anything. If he hadn't somehow fluked his way into passing the vase along without consequence, it could have destroyed him.

Actually you know what commentary cancelled. I am being such an idiot. I am asking how and why Salesa came to own a thing cannot be owned and (at a minimum) distorts the memory of anyone who tries to buy or sell it. Salesa had never set eyes on that vase until the exact moment that Andre wanted to buy it, then he lied and pretended to know what it was until the sale was over (because he's a criminal) then he promptly forgot it ever existed.

These certainly do seem to be the actions and thought patterns of a person who is mentally well.

Again, I've said this before, but Spiral statements like this get under my skin because they feel so unfair. Of course a person will start losing track of their sanity if you mess with their literal reality to the point at which they can no longer determine what's real. David isn't gaslighting Andre, Andre isn't losing tough with reality, it's the vase's fault for changing reality around both of them! And even saying that sounds crazy!

Alright Salesa, no need to be a cunt about it. This could have very easily been happening to you.

You see this shit? How can this not break your heart? He's not wrong; it's the vase's fault!!

I don't know why this kind of thing bothers me for the Spiral specifically when all the Entities do basically the same thing. It doesn't feel unfair for the Buried to eat cave divers alive, or for the Lonely to isolate depressed loners, but when the Spiral takes people who are perfectly sane and fucks around with them until they are paranoid delusional messes it just feels like bullying I guess.

It's not fair how crazy he sounds when he is accurately describing what is literally happening to him!! The Spiral can fuck off.

Keep these details about David in mind for the theory I will be expanding on later.

[predictament]

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