#is this gonna become a normal tag for me..

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Along with the widow and the cultists in the mine, there's also the repeating in season 5 a few times of cultists/ acolytes as victims. The witch was raised as an acolyte to Mother Darkness and some of her language about her doesn't paint Mother Darkness as the best mom. The townspeople had a hungry being living in the woods around them, who they could either feed every so often or risk one of their own being pulled in whenever Horig wanted. Evrard tells of his father wanting to understand the world beyond his and how he died, how he spent his childhood in a castle haunted by his family's history and worship. Lillith is implied to have been indoctrinated a bit.

Then at the end of season 5 there's the reveal about the Lesters. And as you mentioned (and I touched on in the tags), that kind of paints picture that they were also preyed upon and lured into it. We've talked about the poem in 20 before; I initially thought that perhaps the issues there were probably the tendency for depression and alcoholism that Arthur seemed to inherit. Perhaps it's both. Maybe they were in bad place and they turned to faith to aid them.

ALSO your tags are amazing:

#ooh yay i'm so glad u matched my energy lol i was nervous sending that ask like. is this anything. is this nothing

honestly the biggest reason I didn't answer this ask right when I saw it was because I couldn't think of anything to add. I agreed with everything and was like "what do I say just 'yeah' and hit post???" did think of some more to say but I am in complete agreement.

#BUT YES. GOD.#''revenge against a figure similar to ones who have hurt him and a way to end the man he's wanted dead for 10 years'' lies down forever#god. if lesters/larsons parallels become any stronger i will simply have to. fuck i don't know. do Something. they're so. oouughg.#why don't you become the most vicious and violent version of yourself to kill this guy who is the worst parts of you#while also simultaneously being the parts of your parents you've never gotten to be fully angry about bc you still loved them#in an attempt to get revenge for a innocent victim that is also your daughter and also the hurt-scared-child version of yourself#what the FUCK man. insane!! like literally!! how the fuck am i supposed to be normal about that!!!#thinking again abt how larson said addy's key virtue was being ''faithful'' vs. ''to me you were the sun''

become the most violent version of yourself to kill this guy who is the worst parts of you while simultaneously being the parts of your parents you've never gotten to be fully angry about because you still loved them! getting revenge for both an innocent victim who is also your daughter and also your child self??? yeah how are we to be normal about that. (and he forgot???? he forgot about that??? do you think he may be remembered a bit when Larson talked about sacrificing Addison?) and yeah faithful and to me you were the sun. Ooooghg

and lastly:

#also re: the key difference being lillith's presence. just gonna. put the larsons-worshipped-nyarlathotep theory down here. again.

WHAT

okay so. Yeah that does .. amHM>MM???? aokay.

so. Yeah. Blackstone. Kayne's presence in season 3. Hatred of Wally. Um. I was thinking that you know that was Azathoth in general - fallen stars being Azathoth's 3 stones - with some yog-sathoth sprinkled in (since the Creature is described similarly to the Creature in the Dunwich Horror or whatever it's called and that one was Yog-sathoth's kid as well) but um. huh. thinking about this now and OH What that adds to that part of 40???? Taht's possibly his god? and the "please" and then "WHO FUCKING CARES" (get rekt Wally) but also!!! that's his god. saying he hates him. Oh! Hmm! I want to hear more about this expect an ask in your inbox that's basically me going ??? in 2 minutes

okay this is such a tiny niche thought but re: the "arthur was meant to be sacrificed to lillith" theory and specifically him being a parallel to addison. i've never known whether it was intended but i've always been very fond of the fact that Arthur Lester and Andrew Larson have the same initials, as like, another narrative nod to their connection.

...you know who else has the initials AL, though...

if you take into consideration the fact that andrew is an alias, a mask, it could also be considered a way to signal that the parallel arthur sees between them is mostly his own invention/projection and not necessarily an accurate representation of reality. BUT... addison. is not. an alias.

anyway idk i need to sleep but i just thought that was interesting maybe. lillith sacrifice arthur theory good yes.

oh I love this

I've also liked that Larson's fake name had the same initials as Arthur's. A.L. And Arthur sees Larson as a reflection of himself, two sides of the same coin, cut from the same cloth, two men who killed their daughters. Andrew being a fake name does nicely pair with it being a false reflection and mirror and parallel. Arthur at his lowest point sees someone the slightest bit similar to him and composed of everything he hates about himself and the world in one single body and views killing Larson as a way to give Addison(Faroe) justice, revenge against a figure similar to ones who have hurt him and held power over him, and a way to finally end the man he's wanted dead for ten years.

But its a fake name. A mask. Addison is not. Wallace Larson is nothing like Arthur. Addison...

It adds a little something to the "Lesters were going to sacrifice Arthur" theory. Trusting sweet little Addison, the last of her siblings, alone in an empty house with a father driven to the Order by grief and wants, who was sacrificed so Larson would live and have power. And the lillith sacrifice theory works well with the "another pair of devotees asking things beyond them to grant their wishes" or however Kayne phrased it and "She spares you, Artie. What kindness!" (Don't need the transcript for that). Religious overbearing parents, (possibly mentally unwell), a young trusting child (to me you were the sun), and a god asked to grant a wish. The difference is Lillith (and her issues with her dad) instead of I don't know Yog Sathoth or someone.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

RIP Will Campos the only person who was murdered this episode.

[meamiki]

vtuber loop !!!

[reverse entry au? the reverse isekai part of it? tangentially related to this post here, and also the last part of this post too]

[thwispsings]

the idea came to me in a migraine induced dream but now im obsessed with the concept of a mu qingfang who knew the abuse bunhe was going through at the hands of og!shen qingqiu/shen jiu and did his best to treat the kid whenever he could (and bring his concerns to zhangmen shixiong, which were obviously very much ignored) and his constant worry over the situation means that when the qi deviation happens he is suspicious of shen qingqiu’s changes for all different reasons and very much protective of luo binghe -who is a sweet child and an earnest disciple who seems to always find the most incredible medicinal herbs to bring to his mu shishu as thanks for the care bestowed upon him- which means that when the whole shen qingqiu dying thing happens instead of bad mouthing luo binghe or fighting him at every chance he does his best to come over and keep an eye on things to try and help him and make sure luo binghe won’t kill himself trying to bring shen qingqiu back because he remembers that earnest kid and he’s witnessed luo binghe’s devotion to this shen qingqiu first hand and knows there is no way that the kid who cried when ning yingying found a bird with a broken wing and begged mu qingfang to fix it and the kid that would always borrow medical texts and try to find new herb combinations as if it was a game between him and qian cao disciples is actually doing anything nefarious to shen qingqiu’s corpse.

anyways in this essay i will-

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ʍou uʍop ǝpᴉsdn ɯᴉ ǝuoʎɹǝʌǝ slooɟ lᴉɹdɐ ʎddɐɥ

[quadrantadvisor]

Sometimes I still think about The Owl House Gang all trying to watch ATLA together but then Zuko's backstory in The Storm retraumatizes Hunter so bad they have to stop

[torchiiko]

list of Problems for today

its hot. it will continue to be hot the rest of the week & probably forever. this is grounds for murder

im sleeby. my dog woke me up at 3:30 am & i didnt get to go back to sleep. if i sleep/nap now i will likely wake up stupid early agan & i hate being on an early schedule

still nervous to get back in my bed bc of the spider from earlier & when i Do get back in im gona be paranoid abt it for hours

its hot

i havent locked in to finish artfight prep & i just remembered i have to get all my bookmarks into a google doc so i can access them when the sites down. which it will be much more frequently now that its so close to starting

i may be unable to lock in ever again due to Temperatures

i miss tenna

the fan i have for additional cooling gets very loud & squeaky at random

its hot

parents. this is also grounds for murder

[acourtofquestions]

“He'd deceived her, had lied to her. This man who she'd believed held no secrets between them. She didn't know why it made her want to shred everything within sight.”

— cause um… as you just said Miss Manon YOU CARE (& it’s even giving Chaolaena vibes in the I CARE way)… so like all I’m saying is you love him duh?

[aviyx]

in a post rotj universe where it becomes public knowledge that luke and leia were vaders kids

[mermaids-and-dastardly-deeds]

Just got done finishing painting my room. Think it lowkey helped heal my inner child? Might cry about it tbh.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

I may be laying on the floor staring into the void, merely vibrating as my brain rots about Veilguard, Rook, the companions, and Solas.

...this is the perfect excuse to replay my canon route.

Apologies in advance: I'm about to make my brainrot replay a problem for everyone and everything in my vicinity.

[astranauticus]

idk what is it about that one throwaway line from han sooyoung about her writing 10 chapters in one day that finally broke me but oh my fuckin god i love her so much

[metalgeartwo1990]

compilation of wing being the sole winner of the idgaf war

[skittles-rainbow-cat]

wow i am fucked up

[wereh0gz]

Ok so like. A thought I've had bouncing around in my head for a day or two now is Ruby being very, VERY envious of Sonic, at least when they first meet. Like to the point where she can't look at him directly

Because here they are, looking at a person who also had Dark Gaia Energy forced into his body, who is a beast, who is sick, just like them... but he can hide it

He can feign normalcy. He can hide his monstrosity. She can't. She can't turn back into a normal mobian during the day like he can. She's stuck in her monstrous form and suffers every day because of it. She doesn't get any real normalcy

It's not like Sonic actually has it any better. He's still sick, just like they are. And there are times where his condition becomes obvious, when the sun sets and he forcefully transforms. But it never stopped him from being a hero, from having friends, from being loved by the world, from living the life they wished they could have

And maybe she resented him for it. Just a little

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

i promised myself i wouldnt Cry when my best friend leaves tomorrow for their flight back home but i think that's an inevitability so im starting a petition to make kidnapping legal

I've had the fortune of meeting some online friends in person and as soon as I get home I just get ANGRY like

WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE CANT JUST GO GET BOBA AND HAVE A PICNIC AND GO THRIFTING AND GO BOWLING BECAUSE YOU LIVE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY. THATS NOT FAIR