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This scene is sooo and i have so many questions about it. why does ramiro tell anker that his sins will be forgiven even though he knows anker (probably) doesn't understand portuguese, so there's no need to keep pretending to be a priest? why does he say that?

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okay 1899 friends, if i were to make a drinking game for the show, what should the rules be?

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DARK fandom @ Jonas x Martha:

DARK fandom @ Noah x Elisabeth:

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I'm rewatching 1899 now for the 3d time and my brain is spitting theories that are all 100% valid now since we'll never know, ok?

🜃 This theory, that the show is heavily influenced by Jungian philosophy, is still what I believe is the core of the story. However I'm now leaning towards thinking that Virginia is Eyk's wife. She is much closer to him in age and the role of a mistress also can leave a wound of being not chosen (yes I'm thinking of Hannah from Dark).

🜃 I think that, for the second season and the second level of simulation, the earth symbol means Earth. Something happened to it, and the Prometheus is maybe one of the ships destined for another planet(s?). That' would explain the persistent motif of betrayal and taking a dead man's name and place -- people would do a lot in order to get on a rescue ship. Notably, the stories of Julien, Olek and Lin Yi could be explored deeper here.

🜃 Based on the visual emphasis on the episodes' titles and their weird simplicity, I decided that it'd be cool if for every season the names of every episode were the same. Like, s2e1 - The Ship, s2e2 - The Boy, etc. The events in an episode would not be the same (that would be a very boring show) but would have references to the previous episodes, building up layers of meaning. Idk if the showrunners actually planned that, I just think it could be a very neat idea for such a cerebral show.

🜃 Following this, I think it's pretty obvious that the second season would be in another layer of simulated reality which is the space ship. The first episode of the second season, titled "The Ship" would be about the space vessel Prometheus, the second, titled "The Boy" -- about the ship's computer, probably modeled after Eliott (see another Eliott crack theory below). The last one, "The Key", would be about another key to get out of the simulation -- which is Ciaran (KEY-ran). The third season would take place in a real reality, with the last episode being the key to complete understanding of the story in all three layers (and it has to do with Eyk).

🜃 The Eliott crack theory that was promised is that he is made in the image of Ciaran. Yes, I am the one who said that Eliott is Maura's inner Child in season one, I stand by that. Maura identifies with men a lot, both in relationships and on a deeper personal level. In the 1899 simulation she has studied for a masculine profession, wears pants, has no particular sentimentality towards children, etc. In the 2099 she is the only woman in the chamber with hair cut short, which also makes her stand out. If her family story is true, she was probably raised without a woman's influence, making her identity lean masculine. So her Animus is a guy and her inner Child is a boy, that's fine. But upon rewatching now I am not 100% sure that Ciaran is alive. The question: "What have you done to my brother?" was poignantly repeated twice. Maybe Ciaran is dead and papa Henry made him into Prometheus' board computer (and that makes him capable of knowing what did he do with the people on the ships!). That could also help with not explaining why Eliott's/Ciaran's actor grew up between the seasons, as he is made in the image of Ciaran at different ages.

🜃 With that said, I don't think that we wouldn't have seen more of Daniel in seasons 2 and 3. Aneurin Barnard is too much of a cutie pie and a talented actor to not hire him for later seasons. Maybe we could get cool scenes with Maura visualizing him at the time of need and maybe even conscientiously going back into 1899 simulation to learn or find something. After all...

🜃 ..."What is lost will be found" is about integration and wholeness. Jungian philosophy and art based on it is often about going into the depths of madness/subconscious to the point of seemingly losing all sense only to come back out of it healed and wiser than before. I maintain that probably all the characters experienced some sort of disintegration of psyche due to trauma and had the misfortune to experience that disintegration in the collective subconscious on the 1899 level. Remember how in Dark the triquetra was not only a cool symbol but also a graphic expression of oneness of past, present and future; the loop itself as it is a knot; and the entanglement of three worlds/timelines? Maybe the Earth symbol also stands for multiple things at once, one of them being a broken whole? The slash cuts off one of the corners of the triangle, after all. And I believe that, at the core, this story is about healing that cut and becoming whole again.

🜃 The third, "real-real" season would probably take place in 1999. Though it might contain flashbacks, too. The abundance of references to 70s and 80s is fine because that would be the time of most characters' childhoods and youth. My pet theory is that the simulations are to stimulate character's brain activity because they are all a part of human supercomputer program. It's a rarely explored old-fashioned sci-fi idea, that people can solve problems and work through data in their sleep which produces intense dreams as a side effect. My strongest argument for this? All the references to "Alice in Wonderland", a book that is notoriously all about math under the guise of nonsense adventures.

🜃 Of course, there is going to be something even more sinister about the whole putting people to sleep to see nightmares scenario but as per tradition, the twist is that all the horror was for love. And we would cry about it, and never feel normal again.

?? The one thing I really can't decipher is what's up with all the Alien references. Like, what are they about.

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Landon saying "We do what we're told. Down here we don't ask questions," foreshadowing his own fate.

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one thing i've noticed about the 1899 fandom here on tumblr is we don't seem to have any ship names for our ships? like all we do is put the character's names next to each other with no spaces. i've seen angster used as the ship name for Ángel and Krester but tbh that was mostly at the beginning of the fandom and i havent really seen it used since then

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we all talk about egon harassing and accusing of satanism and falsely imprisoning ulrich, because he kiiinda looked like a child murderer just a little bit

but we never talk about egon fully believing and moving forward with hannah’s testimony, because she kiiinda looked like someone he loved

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HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY TO BELOVED 1899

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reblog this and tell me whose outfit in 1899 is your favourite

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D A Я K + Children killing their parent

+ A parent killing their child

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ㅤㅤㅤㅤ❝𝐑ɪɢʜᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ʜᴇʀᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴄᴇᴀɴ ʜᴀs ᴀ ᴅᴇᴘᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴀʟᴍᴏsᴛ 4,000 ᴍᴇᴛᴇʀs. Mᴀɴ ʜᴀs ᴍᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴄᴏʀɴᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜɪs ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ. Bᴇᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴀʀᴛʜᴇsᴛ ᴅᴇsᴇʀᴛs, ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴏᴘ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜᴇsᴛ ᴍᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴs. Bᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ ᴜs ɪs ᴍᴜᴄʜ ᴅᴇᴇᴘᴇʀ. ❞

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The best thing about Dark is that the kids in Winden are constantly going missing, but all the parents are still like. I don't care you have to go to school through the dark creepy forest, hop on your little bike and start pedaling because mommy sure as hell is not gonna give you a lift!

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Regina ♥ Aleksander

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Dark (2017) text posts 5/7

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