#maybe there's something i'm missing idk

[cookingthoughtsorcookingcopes]

You know when you put 2 cookies next to each other and they have extra dialogues?

It's adorable

Why did the polychampions not get that

[excitedbubbles]

Dr House's Path - a deranged analysis

it's nearly 6 in the morning but i just love taking things too seriously and also talking about things i like. so today i would like to bring this roblox game to everyone's attention:

Dr House's Path - a shitpost disguised as a horror game featuring dr. malpractice himself having turned into some sort of god, and now you are a victim of his godhood.

you may or may not have seen it before since it's been posted on tumblr already. as mentioned, it's very much just a shitpost, however there's one specific part that had me very intrigued. to understand it, though, i need to describe the entire game. i'll add a cut for those who either care or don't care about the rest of my spiel.

when you start the game, you spawn at the bottom of a staircase. you have three options:

-go to the left corner and climb up the wall -go to the right corner and teleport to the top of the stairs -climb the stairs to the top

if you go to the left corner and climb up, you will teleport to a cart ride. there's a sign that says there's a special prize if you win this challenge. if you fail the challenge by falling off or dying somehow, you are kicked from the game. if you sit through the eternal cart ride and make it to the end, gru despicable me is waiting for you and invites you into his home for the prize. the prize is a jumpscare where a jpg of house's face jumps all around the screen. some text says "YOU IDIOT. killed by gregory house." before kicking you from the game.

if you go to the right corner or go up the stairs, you are met face to face with "god" (a jpg of house's face). house will lift you into the air and ask you 4 questions (paraphrased):

-do you have a dead cat? (yes/no/why?) -does it hurt? (yes/no/why?) -who da man? (house/me/why?) -you're really annoying (i know/can i try again?)

if you answer "why?" to each question, your screen fades to white with a stock image of a guy in a hospital bed, with edited audio of the "he's in a coma mrs. griffin" family guy bit playing over it. after some time you'll be kicked from the game with an error message that simply says "die?"

i think (i really dont remember what i pressed) if you answer yes, no, me, and i know, you are sent to heaven. a white beam appears and you teleport into a blue and red field called house's heaven. it is empty except for another beam of light, and when you step into it and ascend, you are sent back to the bottom of the staircase. there never was a heaven.

HERE'S WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING.

if you answer the questions wrong, you are sent to hell. a red beam appears and teleports you into a fucked up shitty roblox recreation of ppth. a house nextbot will constantly try to kill you, but you will always respawn somewhere in the map so you can try again. if you walk up to the exit you will find a locked door, a keypad, and this note:

"first letter" that's a number you moron.

anyway, as you walk around the hospital, you'll find the rest of the notes (note #4 is not pictured because it literally just says "here's the 4th number it's 9" and that's boring):

(this one's super hard to read because the bot kept fucking killing me before i could get a good angle, it says "The place before was just a time between, a purgatory. The fifth number is 0.")

when you put all the hints together, the resulting code is 195906. does that ring any bells for you? 195906 -> 1959/06 -> june 1959

i think it's supposed to be house's birthday. well, it's actually hugh laurie's, but we're overthinking here, so let's just pretend it's supposed to be house's (it's only a month off according to the wiki, which i still dont really accept as canon but whatever). house doesn't like his birthday, why would it be the door code? keep this in mind for later. i also want you to keep notes #3 and #6 in mind, as well as the font in each note.

when you input the code into the keypad, the door unlocks and you're greeted with blinding white on the other side. you step inside, and...

you're teleported back to house's heaven. which teleports you back to the bottom of the staircase.

you're stuck in a neverending loop.

the ppth map is actually a separate game instead of being contained within the main game as a level (house's heaven is the same way but there's nothing interesting). and check out the description:

someone's talking to cuddy about people missing from the hospital. one could argue the "any of them" includes house and the player. curious.

so, what does this all mean? thank you so much for asking. here's my theory:

a lot of dialogue on the show talks about how house thinks of himself as better than god, or even as a god himself (i.e. wilson in s3 not telling house about that one patient because he feared he'd think he's like god). what if one day he went too far? in the pursuit of saving patients and perfect diagnoses, he made a deal? a stupid one for sure, and perhaps out of character but this is a shitpost we're analyzing so put down the pitchforks.

house made a deal with some sort of malicious entity that went very wrong, resulting in the disappearance of himself, patients, and potentially employees. the entity took the worst parts of house's subconcious and bolstered them to create the god-like being in the game, and cast aside the rest of him, the human part of him, into the ppth replica hell.

yes, i think the person who left the notes in ppt-hell was house, or what's left of him at least. the "hey, you, yeah you" in note #1 feels like a house-ism to me, and the use of "he" is referencing the "god" that sent him down here. note #3 is definitely in reference to himself as a doctor especially with the iconic "everyone dies" line, a principle he stands by alongside "everybody lies". note #6 seems to be the "god" part of house showing up, made evident with the change of language, font, and text color, and the message hinting at the futility of escape, because the neverending loop the player gets stuck in mirrors the cycle of self-destruction house constantly found himself in. he tries to change (help you get out), but one way or another falls back into his old ways (house's heaven/the staircase). note #5 seems to be aware of this, calling "the place before" a "purgatory" and the "time between", before succumbing to the hopelessness of it and letting the "god" laugh at his pitiful attempt.

so why does the door code matter? because ppt-hell (as well as house's heaven) is also part of house's subconscious. remembering his birthday, as well as the message in #3, is him trying to hold onto and remember his mortality, and perhaps his humanity. this manifested into small things like the door code, and perhaps even bigger things like the fact that the realm itself is ppth; it could've been a fiery pit or something, but house holding onto these things shaped the environment into what it is. perhaps it's only in the state that it's in now with that stupid fucking nextbot running around because of the fear and hopelessness that came from the "god" discovering his notes.

people have gone missing and become trapped in the manifestation of gregory house's self-destructive cycle, and his failure to change has left him powerless to stop it. when you're sent to house's heaven, it is empty, fleeting, and gives you a nice high. but then you're sent back to purgatory. when you're sent to hell, you suffer the lowest of lows, but you think you've persevered and found a way out, only to end up in purgatory again. again and again you enter these highs and lows, and much like house, you are stuck living this loop forever.

this is dr. house's path.

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Liam was a boy, and then a man, who suffered so much trauma and pain. He was bullied as a child and then lived a nightmare that I think none of us can really imagine of having that triggering experience replicated on a literally global public scale. He became a man who inflicted trauma on others. He was an addict who was unable to find a way out of that disease, and now never will, but who was open and vulnerable about his struggles. He was an incredibly talented musician and artist and an absolutely integral part of one of the most important bands of a generation; his voice and songwriting and skill in the studio shaped every aspect of what One Direction became at their best. He loved that band and being a part of that experience with his whole being and would never have stopped celebrating what they meant to us and to the world. He had problems and did bad things; that doesn't mean he was a bad person who didn't deserve to be loved and helped to heal- everyone deserves that- and the fact that that's not something that can ever happen now is devastating. I was very distressed by many of his actions; and I cared deeply about this man I didn't know and wished for better for him than this outcome.

I'm so deeply, deeply SAD tonight. I'm sad for Liam, who will never now have the chance to look back on this hard time and reflect on how far he's come, and for Liam's family, for his parents and his sisters who loved and supported him so much, and for everyone in the 1D band family and circles. And I'm sad for us. It feels like nothing will ever be quite the same, and that's hard and sad and shocking. It's a special kind of doubled grief, to mourn the loss of the person, and also of what he meant to us in this strange world of parasocial fanning, for the real him and also for the version of him that we made up and attached so much meaning to and for the escape that brought us. For him, and also for the easy uncomplicated joy of listening to those beautiful songs from happier times, which might never feel the same again. For the other boys, who we love so much and wish we could shield from suffering and loss and pain. For our fellow fans, who we also worry about the impact of this on. Everything about this is terrible, and I am sending so much love out to all of you. We are not alone, and it's okay to feel complicated emotions and it's okay to mourn and it's okay to care about how it effects you and your life, whatever you're feeling- it's okay. We are here with you. We are 1D family.

[sainz100]

2024 Brazilian GP | x

[kiwikiwiandkiwi]

HARRY BEING HARRY ON TOUR — Love on Tour: UK + Europe Leg, 2023

[atalienart]

✧*:･ﾟArt summary 2024

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[lemonyinks]

I still have a lot of love in my heart for the adaptations of MDZS, but the book is just...undeniably better.

Especially when it comes to the depiction of the main couple. Of course, this can largely be attributed to censorship, but even still, I feel like the adaptations have a great misunderstanding of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji in general. Or at least CQL does. I have not watched the animation in years, meanwhile I recently binged both the live action and the book.

Lan Wangji is...deeply in love and deeply devoted to Wei Wuxian. I often see him depicted in the fandom as a stickler for the rules, someone who tries to force them onto Wei Wuxian at every turn. This might have been who he was when he was a teenager, but adult Lan Wangji - who knows what sticking to those rules so strictly leads to - is not like that. Like. At all.

For all he pretends to stick to the rules - telling Wei Wuxian not to speak while eating, no alcohol, no excessive noise, etc - he doesn't actually give two shits if Wei Wuxian sticks to them or not. It is more force of habit than anything.

He doesn't even care too much about following them himself anymore. In fact, he happily breaks them time and time again. The only thing that Lan Wangji cares about after he finally has the love of his life back is that that same love is happy.

I think this excerpt from the Chapter 116 Banquet Extra perfectly exhibits Lan Wangji's stance on the Lan rules.

(side note; it is unbearably sweet that he went out of his way to make sure his husband didn't have to eat food he didn't like, and also went out and got him something that would satisfy his hunger. He loves him so much).

He would do anything to make him happy. Anything.

I feel like the CQL really fails to express that. Changing the events of the Nightless City and taking away the first Burial Mound Siege causes a lot of problems in the MDZS story telling (maybe more on that in another post because it pisses me off) but I think maybe one of the biggest things it impacts is showing to us Lan Wangji's devotion.

While it is true that he was conflicted, emotionally constipated, and still tied down by the rules he was taught to obey for his entire life during the events pre 13 year time skip, he was still deeply in love with him and he has pretty much always stood by his side.

He spoke up for him, defended him where he could when no one else but Mianmian would (also maybe more on her). And when push came to shove, when it was him against the entire world, he made the active and violent (not said in a negative way) decision to defend him with everything he had.

He hid him away from pursuers for days, desperately trying to nurse him back to health even while he himself was also injured and exhausted. He even chose to hurt his own people in defense of him when it came down to it.

chapter 99

I think the Nightless City, while not his turning point, was what truly cemented it for him. It doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter what rules, Lan Wangji will always, always go against them for Wei Wuxian.

[ducktracy]

i hate how my particular investment in LT/these characters/history in general will have me sounding like some sort of "retvrn" bozo. or, maybe i just hate that saying "i wish things were more sincere again and that sometimes things that were older were in fact better" has been................... idek how to finish this thought Guys i'm getting overly emotional about LT kiddie records from the '50s. i'm getting emotional about how merchandising for these characters has sucked for the last 45+ years. i do not mean to sound like some sort of obnoxious "old stuff had SOUL to it new stuff is BAD we must RETURN" bozo. but guys. look at this

the appeal.. the whimsy

WHERE DID WE GO WRONG!!!!!!!!!

i legitimately get upset if i think about this for too long. what are we doing man

[flowersintheditch]

made a little scrap notebook to keep track of recipes that we like. it'll need more pages added later, but here's a start

[lazzarella]

Damn. It's been quite the year for AouBoom announcements! Three fanmeetings/fandays! Lead roles!! New official merch!! A logo!!!!! (Did I miss anything??) And it's not even the end of April yet...

(And this isn't counting the excitement they've brought from their reels/TikToks/P10L scenes/other moments that I am too tired to collate rn but I'm sure someone elsewhere has or will)

[lunabug2004]

Guys is it weird that I don't really like the manifestation theory or any theory similar to it like... at all??

I mean this with all the respect in the world but I just feel like it would be extremely similar to an "it was a dream/dnd game all along" ending, and those are some of the worst endings you can have (in most cases) imo. Even if just El was manifested in some way it would feel very strange to me...

I feel kinda alone here ngl

(btw pls lemme know if i need to remove the manifestation theory tag cuz i debated for a long time if i should tag it or not and i'm still not sure)

[raayllum]

rewatching 7x07 isn't enough i need to inject it into my bloodstream

[weirdghostcat]

"Despite everything... It's still me, right?"

Pit without his cape looks so different (ᵕ•_•)

AU-lore-dumping information with rambling below: ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧

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The CORE, which was once full of pure magic, turned corrupted and unstable after a bomb made it explode. Pit's and Chara's souls were sucked into the remains of the CORE, corrupting the CORE's magic even further. While Chara's soul stayed untouched by the CORE's corruption, Pit's soul and magic got stained. But he is still himself, despite those new funny voices and hallucinations feelings, right? ... Right?

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While the last Pit-got-corrupted-part is still a concept, the first half is set in stone in this AU. I'm close to finding a name, I swear!

The CORE does not directly provide them with magic, like in Horrortale, for example. It was once built to take all the monsters into a self-made-built dimension where -theoretically- humans cannot reach them anymore. It drains the magic from the human world to power up and to transfer it to their dimension for the monsters to use.

I say theoretically since there was still a way for Chara to got sucked into their dimension.

Because of reasons that would be too long to explain, humans found them and attacked while the monsters were celebrating a festival that they hold every year.

That's actually the day I'm focusing on the most right now since everyone's life changes after that. It basically revolves around the CORE's explosion, the reason for the festival's existence, Chara's real dad, and Pit... Papyrus is a depressed mess and will probably never recover from this.

But uhm... I really don't know how to properly show everything. Maybe I just make more lore-dumping posts and put them later inside my pinned post or something. This AU has a lot to unpack, and I didn't even really start with the other's character designs! Except for Chara, but her design has lore reasons.

[wereh0gz]

Ok so there's something that's been bugging me for a while and. I need answers

So the fandom wiki page for Sonic the Werehog (the first one that usually appears in search results right now) says that Sonic's transformation into the Werehog is caused by Sonic absorbing negative energy from the Chaos Emeralds

Their source for this is the game manual for the Xbox 360 version of the game, which say almost the same thing

However.

The game itself has. No indication of this being the case. Like AT ALL. If anything it HEAVILY implies Dark Gaia Energy is the real cause

The opening cutscene doesn't show any negative energy from the Chaos Emeralds being absorbed by Sonic (at least, that's not what it looks like to me). It actually looks like the energy being DRAINED from both Sonic and the Emeralds, being syphoned into the canon and then shot out at the planet

Not only that, but the transformation begins only AFTER the world is shattered and Dark Gaia is released, and Sonic's movement even mirrors DG's in this scene. And that's only the small details, ignoring the obvious things like Sonic only transforming at night when DG becomes active and its energy begins affecting people, and the transformations only stopping because DG took back that energy

If negative Chaos Energy WAS the real cause, then why would DG take back energy that doesn't belong to it? Why would it be the thing that makes it whole (or "Perfect") again? Why would Sonic's transformations after the first cutscene have the same purple smoke seen in the DG minions and in people who've been possesed by them? Why haven't we seen this transformation again after Dark Gaia was sealed if it wasn't tied to it?

It just doesn't make sense to me

I haven't looked into other versions of the manual or different translations or anything so I don't even know if this is in all of them, or if it's a mistranslation or something. If it is, it wouldn't be the first time there was an error with a Sonic game manual (the famous "Eggman is a feminist" thing from the Heroes manual was a mistranslation I believe. There were other errors but I can't remember them rn)

So yeah now I'm just confused. Is it Chaos Energy? Dark Gaia Energy?? Some secret third thing???

[inksandpensblog]

Still fascinated by how much hate Mitsi gets for the whole "dead fem-coded loved one backstory" thing and all the hangups surrounding that when Purple's mom is arguably a much more egregious instance of the thing everyone is upset about Mitsi for but she ultimately got a pass because...idk, she was The First?

[teddybeartoji]

i went to a ceramic class for the first time ever today and it was sooso much fun oh my godd ↓↓masterpiece below

IT'S NOT GLAZED . OBVIOUSLY anyway i really like how it turned out i'm pretty proud of myself hehehehe also i had to add the cat creature........ i had to.......... it does have a tail too btw you just can't see it:3333333 he's just a little guy!!!!