#I can't be nice to these theories

[dirtytransmasc]

Have you seen the new theorie about Spider becoming the next antagonist? Spider could discover that Neytiri killed his mother, or Quaritch could win him over. It would be shocking, but it would make the story interesting.

there is no world in which Spider would ever become an antagonist. it's never been a facet of his character to be angry or malicious towards the Na'vi, even when they've earned his ire interesting story, maybe. but it's such a disservice to his actual character. Spider didn't save Quartich out of anger or to hurt anyone. he knows his parents were killed and deserved to be killed. he would give his life for the Sully's and for the people, tried to even.

sorry if I sounds rough, this anger isn't directed at you, but I hate this "theory" so much, I sprout teeth and claws. because it shows a complete lack of understanding of Spider's character, morals, beliefs, goals, ambitions, and drive. his entire existence is committed to Pandora and Eywa and those he loves, his siblings namely. he puts up with all he's endured because of this love. his holds mercy on his father, because he believes in mercy, he believes in kindness. he wants to be one of the people, he wants to be one with Eywa, even if they don't accept him. because he knows he belongs. he could never turn his back on his people. he could never be like his father. could never harm an innocent or take without thought.he had kept going because of these beliefs. kept fighting.

Neytiri has hurt him, but he will never hurt her back. he can be angry. but he will never be an antagonist. he will never hurt his siblings like that. he will never hurt his people like that. not unless he gets brain injury so bad he has full blown amnesia. and I don't even think Q would do that to his son, turn him into an angry villain of a boy. because Spider is the only thing that makes Q soft. he accepts how Spider is, truly how he is. sure he might not make him re-remember Jake and Neytiri in the best light, but he wouldn't make a weapon. he'd probably just run off with the kid. he has too much respect for him and for his loyalty. making him someone angry takes away what he sees in that boy (and this is not hyping Q up. he's still awful. but he's it cartoonishly evil, and the only good thing about him is his attempts at raising/loving Spider. and it's not great, cause he's still himself, but he is more then evidently trying).

Spider would have rathered dying over giving the RDA information. nothing with change that about him. that is his core. goodness without a need for reciprocation (he deserves it, but he doesn't expect it)

and with what we know from leaks (not the trailer. dw), between the tattoo and gaining the ability to breathe, he will be getting the acceptance he's always deserved, and I can think of nothing that would drive him to abandon it.

a Spider who betrays his people is no longer Spider, and I can see no world where James goes that direction.

people just want to hate him. being completely frank. they want to hate him or they want him to be the bad guy. they don't understand him. they don't want to understand him. the only way they can "understand him", is for him to be inherently evil after 16 years of showing not a single drop of bad blood in his bones. that or they hate the Na'vi and want him to be just like his daddy and continue his harm against the Na'vi.

so I hate those theories. they're baseless. bad story telling. and have negative intentions towards one or more of the characters in the franchise, with no understanding of what makes any of them tick.

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) I literally said I was gonna post this month's ago and then never had the wherewithal to describe it and so I didn't Lmao (said with pain). But since I'm thinking of opening my commissions I figured I should remind ppl that I. Yknow. Can draw.

Lots of Steph here (I had major art block making all of these and my brain worms for her kept me going) + some sprinkles of stephcass for Cass nation to enjoy!

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TBHX's beautiful cinematography

I'm a bit late to the tumblr discussion but I'll just share what I wrote on another website when episode 1 came out. WHEN LIN LING ACCEPTS PLAYING THE ROLE OF NICE. They used the black smoke to represent Fear, the emotion that gave power to his boss. In the final part of the fight, after a part of the roof falls and Lin Ling starts to doubt himself, the black smoke engulfs him, showing that he is scared and discouraged, consumed by the Fear. This fear consumes his outer shell (Nice) to reveal himself as he is, or at least how he sees himself at this point: just Lin Ling.

Right after this, it starts the next incredible scene where he remembers everything his boss said and then himself jumping from the building. This scene is entirely in 2D, because we saw before that 2D represents his thoughts, his inner self. Instead of thinking of Nice jumping off the building, now he sees himself jumping and there is a slight change in focus during this scene where: 1st Nice is blurred and 2nd Lin Ling is blurred right before the jump.

It represents them changing roles. Before, Lin Ling played himself and now he is Nice. Lin Ling "died", but Nice lives on. Next, we see Moon extending a hand to Lin Ling saying "I know you can do it, believe in yourself". And he even mentions that this goes according to his own beliefs, that anyone can be a hero.

After he holds her hand, the Fear is cleansed from him, with the power of trust. We see the black smoke go away

Then he's back to "reality" to continue the fight, BUT, there's a catch: The art didn't shift back to main 3D that represents reality, it's still 2D until the fight ends

Meaning that, NOW, he really is Nice. He accepted this fully. The idea of using the "thoughts" art in the "real world" is a metaphor for putting his thoughts into action. It's no longer just in his head, it became reality, he is a hero.

You could even stretch it a little. Right after the fight, when the helicopters arrive, light starts reflecting on Nice's face on one side... This is a pretty common cinematic resource to show moments of a character's transition, realization, awakening... like an eclipse of sorts.

So yeah, this sequence was really powerful and meaningful to the character. ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

[dimeadozencows]

What do you think happens to Ramb post sword route? My theory is he's killed by sword kris/"used up", based on how terrified that bunny was

That's a toughie!

I've always been under the impression that he gets kidnapped by the entity controlling Eram, because at first I only left the console room after I beat them and they fled.

But I soon realized that Ramb disappears way before Eram is defeated! One time I died to Eram and decided to leave the room before I finished the fight, and saw that Ramb was already gone. Since then I had no idea what to make of his disappearance...

This post and reblog explain it best, but essentially; Ramb disappears right as you enter the final dungeon. But everything in the S-rank room (dust bunny dialogue about ramb ect) only changes once Eram is defeated.

I wanna believe it's just coding stuff, I've had my hand at it and it gets messy fast, so I personally, generally, don't view it as something to analyze- but if it is intentional, it's INCREDIBLY interesting how the dust bunny comments on something happening to Ramb only way after he disappears-

And I've never thought about 8bit Kris being the one to cause rambs disappearance! It feels simultaneously anticlimactic and super fitting to me- like it's fitting BECAUSE it's so unceremonious. he really was used up. After everything he did, he ended up being nothing. And his fate isn't even shown to us, because why should we care?

As for what i think happened... Like I said in other posts I wrote about him, I'm not trying to answer the questions that ramb's story brings up- I can never come up with anything about what's going on with him that makes enough sense to me!

I like the thought that 8bit Kris was the one to kill him and "use him up", and I like the thought that whoever is behind Eram was the one who took him, but since he disappears way before 8bit Kris leaves and eram flees, idk what to think anymore!! Is that even something we should analyze??

Coding is very complicated and the loopholes it creates in stories are rarely intentional- but at the same time, the differences in when ramb disappears and when the dust bunny comments on something happening to him is viewable in game! You can leave and see ramb gone and the dust bunny doesn't say anything UNTIL Eram is defeated!! IDK CONFUSED MONKEY STARING AT COMPUTER.JPG!!!!!!

If you ask me, with this guy, It's everybody's guess- hsjdkf.

[copia]

right i'd be in Shock if any official ghost thing ever explicitly said 'perpetua is a trans man'. maybe i'm just pessimistic but it seems like a very unlikely thing to happen, especially with the direction the band is taking now. and it is a band, not a plot, at the end of the day. so idk. but allow me to live for a moment in a beautiful world where that's a possibility. if such a huge and relevant band, still growing in popularity, announced that their 'lead singer' is trans - it wouldn't matter that the real guy is not. idek what to say. a band that calls its fans its 'children' and acts like a religious organisation, announcing its support for trans people in such a prominent and novel way, following up what they've already done (the enter sandman charity cover) as support... maybe i'm just feeling dramatic because i'm in the uk rip. but my love for them would be undying

[ijustreallylikecaptainamericaok]

That's what it means to be a witch? Killing people to serve your own agenda? No. Not for me.

Are you sure?

I know many are utterly convinced that Billy killed Sharon and that this proves Agatha knows, but I don't buy any of that. Thing is, Billy doesn't have to directly harm anyone for Agatha to say this in an attempt to get under his skin and guilt trip him. Why? Because this whole thing was his idea and already two people are dead.

Now is that an entirely fair framing of all this? No. For one, it removes the agency of the rest of the coven and for another, it removes Agatha's responsibility in gathering the coven in the first place. But obviously, in that moment, Agatha's not trying to be fair. She's lashing out, because she's hurt and angry, understandably so.

[0aurelion-sol0]

(So before we start with this theory & new post of mine for a long time since my semi-hiatus, I want to repeat that I do not want any new informations about season 5 or anything related to it whether true or not, same for any leaks, set photos whether true not. I ESPECIALLY DO NOT WANT THOSE!!!!! or interviews that are the slightest bit too revealing UNLESS I haven't looked at it myself and even then, easy on any of these. I know something minor about this season & have seen two things about it but that's it, nothing more.

These theories & analyses might be proven wrong or false already or in the future but I don't care, I do this for fun & as a way to explore different possibilities about the story that can be interesting or could have been at least. I hope everyone understands this & will not be a party pooper towards me just to have a "GOTCHA!!!" moment... With that said, let's get into it, shall we ?)

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The Thessalhydra:

Back To The Future &... The Beginning.

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For this first post, I wanted to go back to season 1 as I found it was fitting to explore one of the earliest major fandom theories of Stranger Things since it's final season is on it's way.

"The Thessalhydra as the final threat from the Upside Down."

And while at first everyone at the end of Season 1 thought, obviously, that this creature would be the next threat in it's second season, the Mind Flayer poked it's head and said "not yet!", "I need to experiment with my minions first!" with a Vecna also slowly planning his own armageddon as well. And as much as I don't like him (& his season... 😒), he's here and he proves to be useful from time to time when it comes to theories or analyses because he still part of the show & can help up in terms of parallels, themes & plot.

But now, let's remember the last episode of season 1! The boys playing their new campaign about the Thessalhydra taking a similar turn to the one they did at the beginning of the first season (*wink wink*) & this time Will does a 14 (*wink wink*) & kills the Thessalhydra with a fireball. (*wink wink*)

Now if this wasn't a tv show with multiple seasons, I would tell you that the boys obviously staged the whole thing for Will to win so that he can be happy and because they're all very nice friends & also not repeat the same game at risk of making him vanish again especially if the monster this time is the size of the Empire State Building, (sorry with the luck these characters have, I simply can't believe they can have a happy ending such as this one. WILL HAD UD SLUGS INSIDE HIS BODY, WTF GUYS???!!!) but this is a tv show with multiple seasons. And now, it has definitely become foreshadowing for what's to come.

Especially since in it's fourth season now, we basically have Nancy having an apocalyptic vision of Hawkins with a large creature which is describe by having a "gaping mouth".

And if you look at her face here, she definitely did not find that thing beautiful in the slightest, though she is probably more terrified about the fact that she saw most of her family dead. 🤭

But would you look at that ?! What creature in ST fits that description ? Quite a lot actually but obviously you know which one I'm talking about, yes The Thessalhydra! And oh my god, look at what I've found on the Forgotten Realms Wiki:

"Thessalhydras were hideous and terrifying creatures. They had a large, reptilian body with a long tail, 18 feet (5.5 meters) in length, which ended in a pair of large, sharp pincers. It had no head, instead eight hydra-like heads, each about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in length, surrounded a gaping mouth filled with teeth and acidic saliva."

Well well, after that, it's difficult to argue what else could that large creature be!

End of theory! Bye guys! Thank you for reading!

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Except I also can do that... 😅 Because I have reason to believe that this future Thessalhydra is a creature we have seen before. One whose campaign mirrors another campaign from the same season.

Yes. I have reasons to believe that the Thessalhydra and The Demogorgon from Season 1 are one and the same.

Do you remember this ?

Of you course you remember this, what a stupid question. It's part of a series of trauma that affected us deeply as a fandom, for different reasons (at least for me) but it proves to be an even more important parallel than we originally thought.

I don't need to tell you about the thematic importance of the parallel or what it means for the characters, we've all already gone through that already, I am more interested in it's significance for the plot.

So El kills The Demogorgon & Henry the same way. By disintegrating them. But that action doesn't seem to end the same way for the both of them & El herself.

What is interesting is that the three of them dissapear in some form, Henry into an Upside Down gate but ends up falling forever through the Hellscape (a different dimension than Dimension X/The Upside Down though likely connected, the same way that Dimension X & The Upside Down probably are the same thing but it's not fully confirmed yet.) before ending into Dimension X/The Upside Down in some way. And we all know what happens from here on out, at least what we know of it since Season 4.

I have a theory for why he ended up there, what is the nature of that place and did not simply disintegrate like The Demogorgon who I also do not think simply disintegrated but we will not go fully through that in this post.

El though ends up in the Upside Down after being taken by the disintegrated part of the Demogorgon or by disintetrating herself (though it didn't really seem that way to me) which I think is probably because the Demogorgon used it's powers on her since he could open gates or send anyone to the UD in season 1. (We will also get into that but not in this post, same for why he was so different in Season 1, both physically and in the way he behaved.)

But the Demogorgon, from what we saw simply disintegrated and we never heard or saw any significant clue of it's existence again. Which again leads me to believe, if we follow the logic of what happened to Henry & to El in some way, it is still alive, somewhere.

And I believe personally that it is in the Hellscape right now, and in the same way that Henry got electrocuted while free falling in that place which marked the start of it's transformation as Vecna, I think the same is happening to The Demogorgon and is slowly being transformed into the Thessalhydra.

I think that El when she disintegrate something, she sends them into the Hellscape which is connected to Dimension X/The Upside Down as some sort of passage for someone who didn't enter via a gate the "original" or "right" way per say. Because being launched into Dimension X/The Upside Down in a state or in a way such as this one could be fatal so it's some sort of transition in a way.

And while Henry technically went through a gate, he was disintegrated before it's opening & that gate couldn't last more than a few seconds which I think is a result of the barrier between the worlds not being thin enough. Plus I think El gave way more strength into Henry than she did the Demogorgon with her powers which in turn also opened a gate behind him.

So as a result, he went into the Hellscape as some sort of "safer" transition between the two dimensions since as we know, and I hope, no gate before that has been opened in Hawkins before.

And as for the Demogorgon, again I think it's a point of it fighting back against El & using it's own powers against her plus again El didn't seem to launch the same type of strength of her power as she did onto Henry since she was standing much closer to the Demogorgon than she did Henry while also using an important memory of hers to defeat him.

Now as to why we haven't seen that Demogorgon or Thessalhydra in ST again, I think it's because the Hellscape was connected to the original version of The Upside Down, Dimension X in a way that it's not anymore with The Upside Down because what happened November 6th, 1983 changed more than just the environment but also the workings of those dimensions since the barriers between the dimensions are now thinner.

So I see 3 possibilities for the Demogorgon, to me it is still free falling through the Hellscape being slowly turned into the Thessalhydra or somehow ended up in Dimension X instead which is still connected to The Upside Down but is seperate it's own plane in some way since The Mind Flayer still come from there or is in a version of The Upside Down that is still Dimension X outside of UD Hawkins.

But still, some things are still up for speculation for how exactly it all works out in the end.

As I said at the beginning of the post, you take Nancy's description and apply to other creatures in ST like the Meat Flayer/Spider Monster (whatever you wanna call it) of Season 3, a gaping mouth with multiple hydra-like heads who in a way also gets defeated by fireballs via Lucas and it's fireworks which we see Will throw with him but the Demogorgon also fits that description with it's own gaping mouth blooming like a flower whose petals could look like different mouths coming from it.

And in a way, it would be ironic for The Demorgorn from season 1 to be The Thessalhydra because if we follow the boys' campaign, the very thing that took Will back then, that he couldn't defeat would also be the same thing he will defeat in it's final season as some sort of karmic consequence for The Demogorgon & The UD as a whole but also as a way to tie it's final season with it's first season in a more concrete way.

It started with Will and it will end with Will.

[werewire-petrichor]

my addition to the undertale memory website

[idon-twannabeperceived]

My. Class. Won't. Start. And it's been aFUCKING HOUR

[yume-fanfare]

we gotta normalize "i don't like this ship because it conflicts with my otp" again

[everi-daze]

Ratio isn't running in 3.0 because he'll be prevalent elsewhere in Amphoreus, trust me. /silly

[thedyingheavens]

I'm not afraid to admit I cried a little bit when I was laying on the sidewalk temporarily stunned. and I kept crying while speed walking to the bus stop a few blocks away. that shit hurt so bad, on top of an already miserable morning.

[stratostella]

my opinions on translation : i wish the average person who gets into smth translated/localized could have tl theory beamed into their head . bcause i know it'd be ridiculous of me to expect everyone to understand and i don't want everyone to HAVE to spend that time but man. if it were inherent,

[glorious-blackout]

Passed my driving theory test 🥳🥳🥳

[kdranime]

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[taraxippos]

My best friend keeps floating the concept of us moving in together and I'm like. Desperately trying to find a nice way to say "That will end in murder-suicide, probably"