#I keep thinking about the implications

[bonemeal12]

i wish there was more CRAYDL in Impulse (1995). I need more CRAYDL in my life.

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[dansemacabre]

(tw unreality!)

ayo new theory just dropped and bad news! the implications are cosmically horrifying

in the bulletin from time baby in book of bill, he says bill is a “danger to narrativity”, and that he risks the fourth wall. this kept bothering me. why reference the fourth wall here? why have time baby reference it? yeah the heaven page and shit is a bit meta, but thats just how bill talks, right? Well i was a fool

when you put “seven eyes” into the lost files site, this warning pops up from the oracle question mark? from journal three:

the therapese at the bottom translates to “set coords for dimension: r34lity”.

and putting r34lity into the website gives us this image:

the text below it reads they found a new home. those are “real” fucking images. the henchmaniacs are in our “reality”. the cryptids page might not have been a goof goof bit- they were “real”. (“real” meaning our reality in the book of bill sense of it but still our reality. is that tracking.)

none of the rest of the cast actually references us as a specific audience, or the fandom, or acts like we know them at all. the cast addresses everything they write to a mystery “reader” who needs to be saved from the book’s influence.

meanwhile, in the book of bill:

because bill’s not talking to a mystery “reader” who’s reading this book.

bill fucking sees us.

bill sees reality. REALITY reality. like this earth the one with alex hirsch and gravity falls the show and tiktok and shit. book of bill is a book in our reality for us the reader. (ie. there’s a reference to “they both reached for the gun” if you put gun in the website, which would only make sense if bill was sentient in this “reality” right now.) and someone is trying to get here to hide from him. maybe they’re already here.

[halflifebutawesome]

I am a good person. I am a powerful person, I don't believe in evil. I think that evil is an idea created by others to avoid dealing with their own nature. I understand my own nature, good and evil have nothing to do with it.

[lumons]

thinking about how all the heroes in thunderbolts are physical hand to hand combat fighters and how this is more than just their fighting styles/abilities/skills but also a greater very pointed metaphor for their unhealthy coping methods.

throughout the movie punching stuff doesn’t get them as far as they would all hope. they can’t easily escape the incinerator, they can’t easily climb the elevator, or fight together, but beyond that they are battling depression and negative thoughts by punching it all down as yelena puts it. and of course yelena also gives this piece of advice to bob, who has never really known how to deal with his own dark thoughts and, when presented with the chance, he starts punching the void. but especially then it becomes the most clear it has ever been — punching and shooting shit is not the way out. it’s what the void wants. it’s the repetition of this violent, self-destructive cycle. the void slowly starts to take him over that by the point yelena comes to pull him into a hug he’s only moments away from being entirely consumed by the darkness. and ultimately it isn’t the punching or physical combat that wins out. bob’s dragged away by a tight embrace that perhaps opens him and the others up to a new perspective or realization about what it takes to overcome their struggles.

[tboymordred]

“Seeing it now, this crown of swords...Guinevere is the only one who knew where it was.”

for @queer-ragnelle's May Day Parade (May Queen Guinevere)

[turtleplushi]

A few narrators. Some of them are even in color (kind of)

[commsroom]

this is a sensitive topic for me, so i really hate that i have to make this post, but unfortunately it keeps becoming relevant: stop infantilizing hera, and stop making excuses for it.

"well, she's literally four years old" she's been fully conscious with an adult mind for most of that, awake for most of that, and in multiple places at once for most of that. do you think that is comparable to a child's life experience, or is it maybe representative of something else?

i assume you understand why it would be wrong to call lovelace "literally two" because the fact that she is a clone is textually representative of the trauma she's been through. i also assume you understand why hera occasionally making flippant or frustrated comments about her own struggles living as an AI is different from the text telling you who she is or how you should regard her. it's science fiction, and it's a show that uses science fiction concepts in ways that resonate with real ones. the ultimate fact of the matter is that hera could've been in a lab for 30 years, or for 200 years, in a different setting, and be written the exact same way: as a sheltered, isolated adult woman without real life experiences.

hera is not a child or teenager in a natural stage of development. she is an adult who never went through the usual stages of development or life milestones, who has adult friendships and responsibilities, but who feels she is permanently ill-equipped to handle her life because no one ever taught her how, or gave her the space to make mistakes. if you don't understand why this distinction is important in discussing her trauma, that there are real, adult people who feel the same way, people who feel they've only been alive for four years, women who were never girls... then i really don't know what to say to you.

and i guess i have to say it: it's inherently infantilizing to say her peers see her the same way they see an actual child, or to say she needs them to be parental figures, especially eiffel of all people. "adult women have parents too" not ones that are 30 year old men! and parents have responsibilities to children, even adult children, that are different from the responsibilities two unrelated adults who care about each other have. it fundamentally reframes hera's most equal relationship in a way that diminishes her autonomy within it. (and if you're arguing it's all equal anyway, then what does it add? why don't you consider friendship as important?)

i know some people will dismiss that point because i view eiffel and hera romantically, but i've never argued you have to. if you want to go down that road, it says some pretty awful things about the couple of writers and actors who also view it romantically if you think she was meant to be viewed as a child, much less comparable to his child. you're inventing problems that don't canonically exist.

i just don't understand why you would make it about eiffel at all - and eiffel does not have the right to be a parent; the only thing that will heal his relationship with his real actual child is in relation to his real actual child - instead of discussing what a disabled, isolated, traumatized adult might be able to offer a disabled, traumatized kid. isn't the whole point of hera not being like pryce about breaking cycles? why make her a passive figure in her own story when her entire story arc is about taking control of her life?

there's no utility to this line of thought that doesn't further demean and alienate her, while implying she isn't ready to be a fully autonomous adult person. i don't think most people mean to be ableist, but hera is canonically a disabled woman, and i don't like where that line of thought leads. and yes, she's just a fictional character and can't be hurt by it, but everyone brings some real-world biases to how they engage with fiction. she's written as a marginalized adult person, and her womanhood is textually tied to defense of her personhood and autonomy (as well as a parallel to lovelace, also a marginalized woman.) to paraphrase minkowski - "you are going to show [that woman] some goddamned respect."

[koukouture]

Emet Selch is so much better than me bc if I had to chase my bestfriend/ex situationship/whatever-the-fuck-they-were throughout their various incarnations for the next 12,000 years and watch them as they fall short of the glory they once had WHILE ALSO USHERING OTHER WORLDS TO THEIR ENDS- I would have actually killed myself.

I have a job to do bc of the god I helped summon??? One of my co-workers is insane and the other one is losing his memory??? My other bestie/ex situationship's soul is trapped ON THE MOON??? I wouldn't have just rebuilt a shade of my home- I would have crashed the fuck out.

Honestly it's kind of astounding how Emet is still standing after... *gestures* all of that??? Ik a big part of it is probably Zodiark, but the fact that he's still coherent and civil (when he wants to be) and capable of making 5D chess schemes is amazing tbh I would have lost my mind. Bro's mental fortitude is craaaazy.

[satoruxx]

“if you wanna return to the past we’ll rebuild our old house and move in together. and if one house isn’t enough, i’ll build you a whole maze. i’ll decorate it with everything you could ever want. it will be the most beautiful, stunning garden you’ve ever seen.”

caleb i love you so bad....

[jasontoddsno1simp]

I need us to think long and hard about how that Dynamic Duo concept art came to be. It doesn't matter that that's early concept art and the designs have changed; it matters that somewhere, at some time, the team animating the movie thought those designs were acceptable. And I want us to think about why.

Why is Jason a redhead?! He was blonde in a continuity that is no longer relevant to modern comic books (no, I don't fucking care that Infinite Frontier basically made all continuities canon again; no one is referencing a continuity that hasn't been relevant since the early 80s in 2025) and a redhead for one (1) book that was supposed to be the end of the road for his character.

Why does he look older and have more square features?! We know that they're gonna be a similar age but Jason has always been the younger, smaller one.

Why has Jason inherited Damian's more edgy red/grey/black color scheme for hide Robin uniform?! I know DC is hell bent on rebooting Jaybin because they can't admit that they fucked up by letting a grown ass man kill off a 15 year old for shock value, but damn!! Jason was not a bad boy as Robin; he was poor. He wore the hot pants with *pride*. I know people these days turn up their nose at the sillier costume choices from the Golden and Silver Ages of comics, but there could've been a better way to differentiate Jason as Robin.

Idk.

I'm not gonna call people who like these designs sheeple because, divorced from the Robin of it, they look cool. Its just not Jason. That's not my Jaybin. Why does Dick get to keep the essential parts of his character, but Jason is constantly being robbed of his?!

Yes, Dick's back story has been rebooted and updated over the years - the character has been around for 80 years - but these changes are always done with careful consideration to keep the core of who Dick is consistent. We get none of that with Jason. why does every time we turn around, Jason is being remade into a new character, divorced from the origin story we all know?!

These changes are not accidents. They didn't come out of nowhere.

I need us to think long and hard about why we're so okay with them warping a character we all supposedly like this way.

[wackywatchdotcom]

the idea gets to me.... bc like gangle is consoled in ep 4 by the fact that zooble cares about her. its a few things that help her but theres a reason the episode ends w that. the two care a lot but zooble is the one that looks more like they have things handled. but see im not so sure they do. they have their own deep problems, with the circus and themself, like all of them do, theyre just more active about their decisions. gangles struggles vary but having people around her who care helps. gangle has seen the circus before zooble. zooble has never seen the circus without gangle. the idea of gangle meeting someone and returning to a world without them hurts my heart. i like to think that she could manage, and that zooble abstracting wouldnt lead her down her own terrible spiral, because i think the ideas zooble would have impressed upon her could help her manage that loss. but gangles already struggling just in general. it could go either way

and like smth abt the idea of zooble specifically abstracting is haunting to me, bc of all of the cast members, they would be the only one to leave a physical part of themself behind. theyre able to move limbs that arent attached, but it seems like theres a system in place for these things- their head and body are the main constants and they can move detached things likely only at a specific distance or in a given time frame. they arent constant parts of the.. meaning that if they abstracted, theyd leave many many parts behind, something that doesnt seem like its always the case. even extra accessories in the rooms seem more for decoration- zoobles parts were a genuine part of them, so the idea that they genuinely left effectively a part of them behind when no one else can do this.... falls over

[spacedimentio]

Thinking about the immense pressure mission control put on HAL, watching his every action to make sure he's following orders.

Thinking about Dave, now utterly alone and unable to tolerate anything but calm classical music, experiencing this same pressure as he is watched for signs of insanity.

[essektheylyss]

Honestly, I'm very excited to find out what happened to Caleb and Beau, but specifically because Ludinus's current status is WILD for Caleb's epilogue in particular. It means his boyfriend is basically free and clear of everyone who has explicit material knowledge of the deal he made. It means the goal he planned to dedicate his life to is basically complete within six years. It means that virtually no one left on the Assembly cares much what kinds of changes he makes to Soltryce from here on out.

Ludinus is on the moon and probably not coming back, given the general expectations of the heroic fantasy genre, and the rest of it is a whole lot of "not Caleb's problem".

What does this man even do with the rest of his life?

[simcardiac-arrested]

you were anything but.

[baifengxis]

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