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Also seeing Jay and Alex acting so laid-back and relaxed is jarring, I'm so used to them being dour and miserable all the time from the original series. The Operator really did a number on them huh T_T

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Desperately hoping for a better ending for Alex this time around (I know full well it's not happening) T_T

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Marble Hornets in 2025!!! And it's got my favorite character Alex Kralie in a leading role!! What have I done to deserve this?!?!

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there is no "next time" though

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Do you think the operator is actively homophobic or just generally ambivalent to sexuality?

i would have said the latter but i'm trying to imagine what "the operator being actively homophobic" would look like and now im just picturing him lurking in the background of westboro baptist church protest photos

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Do you think the operator is actively homophobic or just generally ambivalent to sexuality?

i would have said the latter but i'm trying to imagine what "the operator being actively homophobic" would look like and now im just picturing him lurking in the background of westboro baptist church protest photos

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We smokin those Hedgespun Habanero Hoagies. We smokin those Arcadian Ayahuasca Applejacks. Hit the blunt so hard it permanently lowered my Clarity. I shot a load through her Gate of Horn. Last Huntsman stepped to me got his Heart turned into toilet paper. I'm built different. Privateer tried to jump me and I turned his Seeming into a Definitely. I'm feral. I'm worse than a Beast. My Kith don't even have a Blessing, that's how fucked I am. My stacks so thick I got the Coin Regalia askin me for a loan. This shit ain't nothin to me, man.

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I honestly don't understand what people have against season 4 and 5 of camp cretaceous.

Well, I do understand it ish, because of the brads and the bioms, but story-wise I don't really get it. Personally I think they're just as awesome as the other seasons, but just different.

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Credit to @bigfatgirlkisser on tiktok and my friend for clips above :3

Erm pause to read lowkey

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I love how complex the narrative of marble hornets is , but it brings an unfortunate problem to the table when it comes to character analysis

the "who's to blame" situation. where without fail someone will try to pin the blame on one of the characters for the events of the series. which completely misses the point ! The operator is the reason why marble hornets takes place , its not Alex and its not Tim either. reminder that every character in this series is a UNRELIABLE NARRATOR !! none of them know the true reason as to why or what is happening to them.

I've seen way too many people take Tim and Alex's word at face value , as if they aren't being messed with mentally by an eldritch faceless being the whole duration of the series. Yes ! they lied , Yes they did horrible things to each other and lead their friends into dangerous situations. BUT it was not with intention. All of this was out of their control , no matter what

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A key (and in my opinion often ignored) theme in Marble Hornets is people's literal views of the world being wrong, with people's lenses being fucked up, with the camera often being a conduit/representation of it, with what our protagonists chose to cut out or leave in, shaping our worldview by proxy.

One of the more explicit example of the main idea here though is with the titular Entry 59, as for the whole series up until then we have more or less been glued to Jay's eye. Yet in this installment, we are forced to reconcile with the fact it was actually wrong, with Tim poking holes in his logic (the perspective we have been spoonfed) while also pointing out how destructive his choices are. Until now, we have been following Jay step for step but now we are forced to see Tim's pain at his actions, and how Jay's choices are ultimately cancerous.

I think this holds true in many different cases though, with another rather explicit one being Alex's belief that he has to be the sole one to end this and his determined shouldering of this burden alone. His vision too is warped, extensively! And this theme only gets more explicit when he loses his glasses in Entry 67, when from there on he becomes more and more of a violent, vitriol-spewing husk.

Another example of this though is Brian in my opinion, who we don't get in the head of as much, but who clearly has a lot of very firm beliefs! Many of which are questionable, along with his sense of reality and his vision. After all, whenever we see his camera, (his eyes/perspective,) he has usually put filters over it, or in some way distorted it. (Usually Black/White filters especially, which imo make sense because well, he has black and white thinking.)

I believe that artistic choice is in some way metaphorical/representative too, like Alex losing his glasses. Brian's smart and makes a lot of plans, sure, but he is stuck in following a false dichotomy or some kinda black and white thinking—whether that be due to his Operator exposure and/or his death and/or a possible head/brain injury—which leads to him struggling quite a bit with his execution, and a fair few of a his plans seem to honestly fall through because of it.

(Jay never led him to the Ark, and Masky left him—probably due to him hurting Tim. Just as two examples.)

All these characters are so rooted in their beliefs and perceptions. It is impossible for them to understand another perspective or compromise in the slightest. The only character who is excused from this honestly is Tim.

Tim is the only person we see earnestly consider other perspectives, specifically Alex's. He is the only character we see properly try to understand and sympathize with other people, even Brian who he blamed for Jay's death, and well, Jay himself too despite everything. I can't say he lives because of it, but I think it is interesting that out of our main quartet, he is the one who lives.

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Something interesting about Marble Hornets that I think is really noticeable when you start watching some other slenderverse series, is how there are no moments of signage on screen.

That might sound stupid but I am serious.

We never see a CVS or Gas Station's brand, or as far as I know a town sign. The closest we get is, I think Benedict Hall? But despite all the time they spend in motels, we never see a names, we never see even really see anything identifiable.

I am sure this is just so they can choose locations as they please and go, "this is down the road," without there being an inconsistency, but I find is fascinating. It all lends to this really dream-like quality. There's no people, no signs, just our characters playing life out on an empty set, with the only people we see being them or plot devices. It is a hauntingly isolated nightmare.

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Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain

Scott Lynch:

I was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you’d expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird and Snuffleupagus had witnessed the the passage of a soul to the ancient Egyptian afterlife, complete with the weighing of the human heart against a feather. I shit you not. For all those years, I just assumed that I was nuts, or that I was conflating a memory of a childhood dream with a childhood television experience. Not long ago, I was trading Sesame Street memories with that girl I like, and I determined to Google-fu my way to the truth. In the 1983 special Don’t Eat the Pictures, assorted humans and Muppets are stuck overnight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While Oscar, Bob, Cookie Monster, Olivia, and some small children are having the sort of mild and educational adventures you’d expect, Big Bird and Snuffy meet Sahu, a 4,000-year-old Egyptian prince (!) condemned to wander eternally in spirit form (!!) unless he can answer a riddle posed by a demon (!!!) that appears to him each night at midnight. I am not fucking with you. This really happened.

There’s Sahu!

ACTUAL DIALOGUE from Big Bird: “Oh no! The demon’s gonna be here any second now!” And here’s the appearance of that demon, played by James motherfucking Mason.

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Just a suggestion, but you could try solo roleplaying? I've had quite a bit of enjoyment playing Mage and a little bit of Changeling solo using MythicGME.

Your enthusiasm towards Chronicles has made me way more interested than I thought I'd ever be and I thank you for that

The drawback is that now I'm desperately looking for people willing to play Deviant, which is proving to be a living hell

Well, first— that’s incredibly kind! Sharing this setting has been something I’ve been very passionate about for years, and I think many folks who know me could attest that I’m quite vocal about it. To hear that my blog has managed to get folks into Chronicles of Darkness is really quite meaningful.

Secondly, uh, sorry. I stand by the first paragraph and all, but I do know that by sharing the setting I am also trapping people in a prison I know quite well— wanting to play the games and not being able to. I feel your pain.

Would that I had a solution, I would offer it! Instead, I can only say: Welcome, and my apologies.

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fuck it we ball