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This is my dream and you’re all living in it

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Finished this B4 my trip yayy

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I just got caught up on the most recent update! What are your thoughts on the werewolf lore and what more we've seen of Spender/Garcia?

I truly liked it!!! Werewolves have always been a special thing to me and the way pnat handles it is one of my fav ways, the concept of the moon affecting them every night even if they don't transform is something rarely done and it adds a lot to the way it affects you everyday.

Werewolves and Vampires in the story are supposed to be parallel in some way, both being curses and each other's only predator. They've shown us a lot of how vampirism destroys you (stops any type of metamorphosis, emotionally stuck, bloodlust, classic vampire stuff...) and I'm really curious how the other curse affects you. Vampires are supposed to be nearly extint while werewolves seem to be like a plague the way Shred shows off how many she has killed, not even an animal but more like a trophy.

The preparation is also one of my fav parts on werewolf tropes only above the morning after full moon, it's a type of vulnerability and trust that's obviously hard for Jean.

Jean constantly saying he's a lone wolf and he's alone in this is just a way of distance himself from Spender, he doesn't want to be a burden, and as long as there's a curse, there's a burden and a reason to not get into a relationship. It being "casual" is just a way of not feeling guilty if something happens to him that affects Spender, they only have each other, they're both used to loss and how it comes from closeness.

Both need each other to live a normal life, Spender to keep an emotional stability that his tendencies to isolation doesn't let him and Jean needs Spender to be himself most of the time. This way they keep a "superficial" ordinary that let's them to keep their lives mostly in the dark to the rest (a "fake life" like Lucifer says). This dependency is obviously not equal, Jean needs Spender more than he needs him but that's another topic. Their relationship also stays up because their problems come from different issues , they only see the supernatural and paranormal worlds from outside and can't participate in the other. It's easier to see lycanthropy as just a medical condition when you haven't been instilled as a kid that the only cure is death and possession as just a "shadow whatever" when you can't see what it does or look closely to the unreachable pedestal where he has been put. This makes that they can't fully understand each other's condition and make the loneliness they feel persist, and again it makes the need to fill that gap by supporting each other harder.

Although Spender has secrets, he can still empathize with other mediums, he gets fulfilment with teaching kids trought his experiences, he had Francisco when he needed someone to help him control his shadow spirit. Jean did not only had no one who could understand what was happening to him, he has the constant reminder that the only person who could had come to help has been on something worse than death because of him, Mina leaving the same day he learns this didn't help either, there's a reason why he's the only one who looks so different from 6 years ago.

Also you can't talk about their relationship without mentioning Mina, Jean misses her way more than he let's see. Rick can find her in dreams, know about her from other people or meeting her for work reasons. She was his best friend who knew all his secrets and shared everything with then one day she went for reasons all knew more about than him and he hasn't seen her since, and while Spender and her don't make up, she won't get close again.

Spender and Jean ended up together because they're the only people they can truly be vulnerable and have intimacy, Mina can't have that type of relationship with other people both because of all her secrets and her trauma from the witch, Day is trying to force herself to fill that role but that's another topic.

She has a savior syndrome that consumes her, and all she's doing is in a big part because she wants for both of them to "have a normal life" like Gwen Burger said, and she probably thinks it's her role since she's the only one who can have a "normal life", she isn't possessed nor a monster, all her scars are mental and she's doing everything to ignore them. Also I think that Jean and Rick are the ones that have dismissed said scars without noticing ("thanks to the savior of Mayview and Mina for beating up an old lady")

Her need to save them without asking them will have a heavy weight when we take into account the current cousinhood bunisses, mixed with Spender's resentment. He wants to keep everything under control and prove that he can save everyone without help (including Mina's) because if he can't, he can't save the town. If he won't even accept help from Mina for some burns do you think he would let her help a problem he's been working alone with Jean for years specifically because she was gone? I think this will erose their relationship both in this chapter and the next.

And that's all I think, I'm probably leaving some stuff but this is looong add bc this are topics I've been chewing for a while, I hope I've made myself clear if you got any questions or anything feel free to ask I suck at explaining myself 🫡

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Noelle I care you so much

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If I had spent nearly half of my life studying monster hunting and had been the last half decade stuck searching a monster in secret I would feel so fucking angry if 2 dudes in ugly Halloween costumes not only had found it with 0 effort but reported it to the news

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Thinking about the paralelism on their relationship really hard

both Angel and Penny have spent their whole lifes trying to prove they're not like their father/brother, both think that person has ruined their lives in some way. Yet they've formed a ''bond'' so similar to them.

Penny doesn't see Angel as a master and Angel knows she just wants easy cash, he still wants to help someone in need anyway, that need to 'save' someone else via teaching is something he inherited from his father. yet he'll never recognize it because he can only see his worst side.

Penny enjoys the attention, she's spiteful, she can't see past herself and projects on other people, these are all Rick traits we've seen. She didn't have the support Spender had (close friends 'supportive' adults role models) and she has become the person she is today because she had to survive all by herself individually. Because she was left behind by someone who replaced her when he found someone who could fill her role.

The same way Francisco has so many people around him who see him like a father

Francisco sees the worst in Rick. he's a ticking bomb he's going to fail no matter how optimist he is. Angel sees the best in Penny, he wants to only think the best of her. Both on opposites sites deep down they just want to protect a child

Angel and Penny live solitary lives. they're been isolated by their families and the spirit world. Francisco and Spender are big figures on both worlds for different reasons, they're sociable and live full of people, they're big fish and public faces in the spirit world in ways that Angel and Penny don't want to be. And still in secret Angel has become the face of a cult the same way Francisco ""is"" and Penny has probably been affected by a Wight in some way like Spender.

They try to run away from who they don't want to be in a way that they have become a constant reminder of it

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Okay. Well their just saying it directly to our faces at this point

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small comic i've done on breaks while working on my Final Degree Project

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From a while ago or from early this week

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A fun little AU i just came up with is Dimitri leaving Mayview for Paradise Island, but continuing his supernatural adventures by studying under an Obeah practitioner. It would be a interesting way to explore the boundaries between the Paranatural world we know and supernatural belief systems from specific cultures.

It would also be fun to see how Dimitri deals with it; as far as we know, seeing ghosts and having magic powers hasn't caused any dissonance with his logical mindset, but the religious angle might throw him off a bit.

Most of all it would fill the Vibe-shaped hole in my heart 😭 miss this comic very dearly

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Ángel is right in that the language in which Francisco and the Consortium talk about spirits is de-personifying, but Spender is also right in that this is just another argument Ángel is trying to win with his father. If he wanted his daughter to open her eyes to the personhood of spirits, just giving her a haunted book wouldn't help. In fact, we know it had the opposite effect as under Francisco's tutelage Isabel saw Eightfold as a tool to be used and controlled rather than a partner. He should be the one teaching her about spirit partnerships, not just leaving her to figure it out in what he knows is a toxic environment.

Of course it's deeply ironic for Richard to criticize Ángel here (and Mina earlier) since he's doing the same thing with Penny

leaving her alone in a stressful, toxic environment and justifying it by saying her can handle it, that she's better suited to it, unilaterally deciding to act in both their interests without even truly consulting her.

The weird thing is that Richard/Ángel/Mina don't have to do it this way! They don't have to stay in stressful environments to just keep in touch, Ángel can just talk to his daughter, Richard can visit his sister, Mina can visit Mayview any time in dreams. All it really is (was) was a misplaced, self-centered sense of heroics.

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Girl why are you serving piglet??

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this was a brainstorming i had yesterday don't take it very seriously there are maaany things against it, also i know Lies is yellow already idk how would that work but Cherub is also v related to pink so.

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the sad thing about the episode where squidward teaches an art class is that spongebob receives greater recognition despite having no creative vision. his work is technically impressive, but his otherwise powerful imagination fails him, and thus he churns out derivative slop. the thomas kincaid of the sea.