#it may be jover...

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doctor recommended no garlic, no onion, no peace, no love. no mango. no joy.

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HAPPY NEWONDERHOY YEAR 🍡

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[Brief] Thoughts on Film Theory's Analysis

I was gonna post this on my priv twt.. but moots convinced me to post it here so here we are.. beware of spoilers, gore, bla bla bla ..

FIRST OFF I'm gonna start by saying, I AM ESL. I may or may not have misinterpreted some of his words, but this is mainly how I thought of his analysis. This is not meant to be ill-guided or rude ! so sorry if it comes off as this way. I will be very repetitive.

Another thing, most if not all of the information matpat gave out i alr discussed with a few mutuals on discord about a few months back so this is not new territory to me 😭😭 I thought most folks would already knew the concept of how the brain deteriorates overtime But honestly, that indisposition shouldn’t even apply to omni man??? matpat tried to compare an immortal Viltrumite's psychology to that of an aging human's, which can be misguided.

Let's start by how he compares Nolan's brain to the average aging human's brain so the audience could understand his psyche more and how empathy declines overtime. First and foremost, Nolan is not a human, second; Nolan wasn't raised with empathy or around an empathetic environment - it was an alien concept to his race. Something frowned upon. He was raised from birth to conquer and destroy without remorse. His brain never developed those neural pathways for empathy in the first place. It's not that they deteriorated over time, they were never even formed.

By the time he came to Earth, all this familial stuff was new to him. Sure, he knew he was gonna outlive them, but He didn't think he'd get attached. HE didn't process that he'd grieve over them when the time came.

Interacting with humanity for the first time ignited unfamiliar emotions in Nolan that he didn’t know how to process.

His time living amongst humans caused conflicting feelings he’d never experienced in his centuries of systematic slaughter. Loving Debbie and Mark went against everything he was taught, but he couldn't help it. For once, the lives he was manipulating to further Viltrum’s goals meant something to him. He developed a [what he presumed, NOT what he felt about them in reality, his love for them is far more profound than he assumed it to be which we later on see in the last ep of s1 and the second season] petty facsimile of love for his ersatz family.

So no, his capacity for empathy didn't decline with age as MatPat claims. His empathy was stunted from the start. An underdeveloped skill, not a deteriorated one. We had characters like Debbie to help him understand those notions, help him grow it. With Mark in the mix? it only amplified that development.

Viltrumites are societally and culturally predisposed to violence and domination. Nolan was never accustomed to forming emotional connections or grieving loss. Those were entirely new experiences for him after arriving on Earth. He was not jaded. he was grown into jamais vu in viltrum.

This is why the whole conflict in s1 happened, he was treading between double lives he wasn't sure of. He was conflicted because his past values were refuting with his new experiences. He found love on Earth, he found himself unable to accept how he'd lose Debbie. Of How jaded Mark might become. Everything he said to Mark till that point was his own self-projections, his own fears, doubts.

While the video did provide some interesting facts about neuroscience and aging, the application of those facts to Nolan's character was inaccurate. IT is educational for those who don't know, but it isn't recent news that the brain begins to deteriorate overtime so this video wasn't that informative which kinda disappointed me. Their analysis lacked alot of information about the Viltrumite race and Nolan's character. Comparing him to humans with normal life experiences just doesn't work. His immortal nature combined with a lack of empathy from birth created a psychology unlike anything seen on Earth.

SORRY FOR RANTING ALOT AND OR IF IT SEEMS LIKE I'M GIVING MATPAT SHIT ... i really liked their analysis on immortal so i'll give them that. Immortal, unlike Nolan, was born human. He has lived among humanity for over 3000 years, inhabiting different identities of public and devoted historians. Because of this, his psyche developed quite differently. Immortal knows how to form connections, experience loss, and adapt to social changes. His perpetual existence didn't harden his heart like Viltrum's brutal culture did to Nolan. Instead, Immortal's immortality allowed his empathy and compassion to blossom.

Humans are social creatures. Our brains have evolved to seek out interpersonal relationships, crave affection, and find meaning in community. For an immortal like Immortal, social interaction is vital to staving off boredom, depression and detachment from humanity.

By inhabiting mortal lives, he stays tethered to the human experience. He continues learning, growing, and developing empathy.

This is why he's devastated when the guardians die.

This is also why he goes fucking mental and tries to kill Omni-man.

If Immortal had lived in isolation all this time, unable to connect with people, his psyche would likely resemble Nolan's more closely. Without social interaction, Immortal's brain would atrophy in ways that preclude complex emotions and moral reasoning. His sense of purpose would fade, achievements would lose meaning, and life itself might feel pointless. By engaging with humanity, Immortal gives his endless existence purpose and direction. He finds value in each temporary life, so loss still impacts him deeply. Socializing keeps his emotions and cognition flexible, which prevents the apathy and hardness of heart seen in Nolan. Nolan never had these opportunities in his early years, this is why it's more difficult for him to stray away from his indoctrination. It's that he's unused to it, underdeveloped.

60 years to Nolan would've been a year and a half, so what's 20 measly years on Earth for him? Yes, he found profound connections in that little speck of time, but Immortal's emotional capacity is far more extensive.

In summary, Comparing Nolan to a human, whether mortal or immortal, is kinda inaccurate. His Viltrumite psyche rules out him from possessing JADED human qualities. You could say he's desensitized to violence sure, but no.. unfortunately.. he does not have [boomer] brain. He has [indoctrinated alien-fascist brain]

Leave your own thoughts down below or through reblogs, I'm really interested on what others may think of this! (URGHHHNN... my hcs r slipping away from my fingers cuz now people r gonna accept what matpat says as truth.. someone gun me down from the hills..)

[huesofvioletandpurple]

"I don't find Cassidy Amber that interesting at the moment but I suppose I'll change my mind with chapter 2" <- sentences uttered moments before she took over my mind

[shooks-stupid-stuff]

egodeath: the disappearance of one's sense of self, or the removal of one's ability to distinguish themselves as an entity separate from their social or physical environment.

[naenaex0xx]

crying I really should've brought my headphones....

[sopafia]

My favorite professor fallows me on Instagram and I forgot that he sometimes looks at my story. I’m going to fucking kill myself

[danganronpa96]

Why didn't Ayano kill Chapter 4, since well….Senpai is her motive and well, I think she'd figure out pretty quickly that it's Senpai without having to see it?

What if there was a triple kill Chapter 5? Like dynamics wise and the trial itself? (DR69)

How would Yoshi likely react to the death of Mario, assuming Mario had Yoshi had a pet and all that?

Would the idea that after the explosion, the little killing game in the church would actually somehow continue but turn into a full blown killing game in the city?

How would the participants had reacted if Yuri had committed a murder?

Also, the Smiling Friends artstyle you managed to a T. It's really good and Pim looks so cute in it.

What if the entire cast was just Yuri cloned 16 times. What if Kaidou and Yuri have survived? How do pets work in a world of anthropomorphic animals? How did the participants not freak out that there were two anthropomorphic animals? Why do I have so many questions?

Anyways um, York again, loved Chapter 4. Sorry for the horde of questions again.

Hello 101 questions /lh

1. This one is pretty obvious. Ayano made a promise to Luigi in chapter 3 she would try her hardest to get the trust of others and help them out. She even showcased this during the chapter 3 trial when she was being falsely accused with her secret exposed. Ayano went onto be distrusted regardless, but remained determined to keep herself in line. She knew her Senpai would be the focus of any motive featuring loved ones, but that wouldn’t stop her from her promise. After all, trying to kill a situation like this always pertained the possibility of herself dying, and in that scenario she would not be able to protect her Senpai at all.

2. I don’t know, it depends who would die. I could see Parappa getting involved somehow, but not anyone else (unless Ayano decided to go to the 5th floor too). So it’d either be Fluttershy/Parappa/Ayano or Fluttershy/Parappa/Brian. I think the trial would become more complex, but also since three bodies would leave three times as many clues behind… it could go either way.

3. The Yoshi would be very sad, but I’m sure Luigi would go onto adopt it for Mario.

4. Not really. That wasn’t what I was going for in the story. The whole ‘new killing game’ was just meant to be a cop out to a) introduce Matt into the gang and b) introduce Gumi and how I wanted to portray her character. But it does sound interesting regardless.

5. The majority of them wouldn’t be surprised. Natsuki would feel upset and betrayed Yuri went the full way with it. Although, I’m not sure she would consider it as most people would suspect her in a trial (unless this was before she revealed her philosophy).

6. Thank you!! I think I can draw Charlie a bit better than Pim but I’m happy to hear you liked how I drew him too ^^

7. a) The Yuri’s would be very freaked out. One would snap first but you can’t ask me to identify who because, you know, they all look the same.

b) Kaidou may do a similar thing I described in this post (and by that I just mean from the 3rd paragraph about the bandages and down, as a sign of maturing). Yuri on the other hand would become like a typical DR antagonist, who’d have some moments in the trials but ultimately tries to skew things in the wrong direction in order to help let the killer win.

c) You ask the Bojack Horseman universe the same thing because I have no idea. Or maybe ask the MLP universe because it works with Fluttershy. I guess it depends on the theme of animals (if they’re all different animals then no pets).

d) Well Hayasaka and Kurumada did get a bit concerned at Retsuko at first, but just went along to accept it come meeting Bojack (slightly) because they all woke up on an island with no recollection why at this point they could start levitating and assume it’s all one big group hallucination or social experiment.

e) man I don’t know holmes you tell me

Hello again! I’m happy to hear you enjoyed ch4!! And thanks for the assortment of questions lol

[starcrossedandstupid]

At what point do I start seriously considering moving to Canada? If Trump wins? If Project 2025 passes? After that? I have citizenship.

[krillissue]

hhhhhhrrrgggg vampire wolfwood is consuming my thoughts (the demons are winning)

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Pray 4 me 🙏🥲

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day 2978

no :(

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【 👁️. 】 ― " I... " he falters. Swallows. Sighs.

They'd both gotten to this point because of him. Because he'd ignored his senses and had allowed himself to fall into his own avarice. Because he'd allowed Dante to grow close to him when nothing good could ever hope to come from such a thing. Because he'd known from the start that this could only ever end one way and yet he'd allowed the sound of soothing ticks to lull his reason away. So he had to still his tongue and stand by the decision he made. His feelings did not matter, and Dante's feelings... it pained him to hurt them. To be the reason for their distress. But... it was better this way. It's better that they hate him. Resent him. Wish they'd never had the misfortune of getting to know him... than it was to find him deserving of their sacrifice.

This was his selfishness, Dante. This was his selfishness, for he cannot stand the idea of you going through the same pains he had. Of you learning the same, hard lessons he did... His selfishness, as out of all the reasons for your demise... at least his... his attatchment to you shall not be among them.

" ...Very well, executive manager. " And that would be all he'd dare to say.

They're frustrated. The city didn't even have the chance to take anything from me before you thought to jump the gun and do it yourself. Couldn't be happy with me so you had to take that happiness with you, isn't that it? They're so frustrated. They want to take comfort in their bite and yet when it escapes them. It made them regrettable, or even feel bad for talking to him like that. Dante's tired of expressing for both Vergilius and themself. They've seen where it landed them and now they know. Selfishness was the terrible idea they heard it to be.

< ...You're impossible, fine, if that's... that's what we'll do from now on. >

[jsbluu]

left on seen - a park jisung smau

you, a first year college student at ncit university, "stumble" upon the twitter account of your campus crush, park jisung. you've had a crush on him since your junior year of high school, but he always seemed to have a flock of girls (one girl) chasing after him.

out of a boost of confidence (and maybe a little too much to drink), you decide to send him a dm. what's the worst that could happen? he has thousands of followers, it's not like he's ever gonna see it.. right?

wrong! will jisung reply to you and fall in love? or will you just become another girl lost in his dms. read to find out!

disclaimer: none of the characters in this smau depict the idol's real personalities. everything you see is completely fictional!

➨ pairing: park jisung x fem!reader

➨ posting schedule: wednesdays & saturdays at 5pm cst

➨ status: ongoing!

➨ genre: failed humor, suggestive innuendos, underage drinking, cursing, slowburn, “strangers” to friends to lovers, ANGST, sewerside jokes, an evil woman trying to come between them, jealous jisung, jealous y/n, for the sake of the story everybody is the same age, mentions of side effects from hangovers including nausea (absolutely NOTHING explicit as i do have emetophobia), random mentions of characters that are not technically introduced, SO much miscommunication it’s actually crazy, may or may not be a smut scene in this eventually..

➨ taglist: closed

➨ a/n: this smau was heavily inspired by "score that goal" by @/lqfiles! score that goal was the first smau i ever read and i immediately fell in love. thank you for inspiring me to make my own! i'd also like to thank by bestie/loml for helping me create this entire thing, from the title down to the plot itself, i lub you >_<

y/n's friend group | jisung's friend group | honourable mentions

chapter 1: party time!

chapter 2: 13 reasons why

chapter 3: it’s so jover :(

chapter 4: new friends!

chapter 5: first day of class

chapter 6: study buddies (not!)

chapter 7: awkward silence

chapter 8: rem

chapter 9: alley oop

chapter 10: shared pages

chapter 11: three’s a crowd

chapter 12: jisung’s tweet

chapter 13: yes or no?

chapter 14: she said yes!

chapter 15: two to one (to two)

chapter 16: the aftermath

chapter 17: blooming confusion

chapter 18: yikes!

chapter 19: damage control

chapter 20: plan a

chapter 21: a long overdue apology

chapter 22: it worked!

chapter 23: jisung is STUPID (ft s’mores and mark)

chapter 24: he’s a directioner?!

chapter 25: a little TOO friendly

chapter 26: the bet

chapter 27: party time pt.2!

chapter 28: mistletoe by justin bieber

chapter 29: go with the flow

chapter 30: they’re onto me..

chapter 31: please invest in a diary

chapter 32: IDGAF!

chapter 33: get that d!

chapter 34: y/nsung official date

chapter 35: hallway couple

chapter 36: step back

chapter 37: ..did he fumble?

chapter 38: plot twist

chapter 39: stinky flowers and tears

chapter 40: mission: confrontation

chapter 41: the showdown

chapter 42: message received !

end

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[ingloriousrat]

It just may be jover

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Lots of mentions of Renegade and how it fits into jover but I'm actually interested if/and how you think Carolina comments on it. I think the murder mashup with NBNC was also not just fitting but interesting.

Oh anon you've come to the right place because I am a certified Carolina stan and I have Thoughts about it.

She rather famously played it the day after I got home from Europe from my own Eras trip and I may not have recovered lmao. And I was sure I had never seen it but now I'm looking through my blog and apparently I did watch it and lost my shit over it so now I'm watching it all over again.

"Things only Carolina will ever know... He did it." is SOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! The way Carolina goes from the subject to the narrator??? ELITE!!!!!!!

I think Carolina absolutely fits into the headspace she was in at the time. This is what she said when it was released in June 2022:

“About a year & half ago I wrote a song about the story of a girl who always lived on the outside, looking in. Figuratively & literally. The juxtaposition of her loneliness & independence. Her curiosity & fear all tangled up. Her persisting gentleness & the world’s betrayal of it”

Given the timing of it, it would have been written right in the thick of evermore/early 2021/2021 Grammys/what would become Midnights 3am writing sessions, and those themes she mentions are very persistent throughout all her music at the time. And those are also all themes that come back with a vengeance on TTPD.

The part that really stuck out to me was "the juxtaposition of her loneliness and independence" because... That's really central to so much of what she was writing about. Wanting to shine but that very thing being the thing that was cause great turmoil within her and in her home. "Her gentleness and the world's betrayal of it" is also what shows up on SO many tracks on TTPD: Who's Afraid, Clara Bow, Robin, and even arguably some of the "love" tracks like loml, Smallest Man, How Did It End, etc. ETA: and I HATE IT HERE!!! Absolutely the quintessential song on this list!!! thanks @soberqueerinthewild

It's soooo curious to me that she wrote the song of her own volition and that she was the one who approached the producers (iirc) with the song instead of the other way around, which is an unusual course of events. Say what you will about the source material (ahem) but I do think it's rather telling that Taylor identified so strongly with the themes of loneliness and being cast out, being on the outside looking in and misunderstood and vilified, that she was inspired to write about it and see herself in the character.

So while I don't know if Carolina comments necessarily directly on Renegade and the events it portrays, I think it definitely comments on how she was feeling in general. Lonely, isolated, misunderstood, unheard. Wanting freedom but being scared of it at the same time.

Also, this is my regular reminder that the TTPD pre-release playlists on Apple Music are a gift of storytelling very much in the same wheelhouse as the mashups, and the fact that Carolina ended up on the Depression playlist is imo also very telling. The introduction she gives to the playlist I think might be one of the most concisely insightful glimpses she's given us about her songwriting process. She says (paraphrased) that she'll write when she feels lonely or hopeless because writing is the only way she can process the intensity of those feelings, and you can see why in the songs she put on it. So I absolutely think Carolina is part of the equation in that it was written alongside so much of the songs we know were part of this journey, and is very much part of the same emotional landscape we'd see in Midnights (e.g. Dear Reader comes to mind).

I'm not going to read too much into the murder mashup because I do think it was largely just a grand old time for her and she got to pull out the country cuntiness on the B stage. It was an inspired storytelling choice! But that being said: you cheating husband disappeared, well nobody asks any questions here. Carolina witnessed from the shadows but emerged ready to avenge. 👀 Again I think it was mostly fun, but I do think there were perhaps some shades of what she's felt in there too (something something it smells like infidelity lol).

Ah thanks for the trip down memory lane anon!