#I think its so stupid and a baseless theory

[elainsgirl]

People think Elain is evil because the cult leader said Elain giving Azriel ear muffs is suspicious because he’s a spymaster who needs to be on alert 24/7.

Then saying Gwyn probably got lessons from Azriel in spying when they were having dagger lessons which is why she was able to spy in the tree in the Blood Rite because Azriel taught her. (They then try and parallel how Azriel also sat in a tree so they think it is endgame material).

Also said that Elain walking up to Nesta without being heard on the Winter Solstice (58) was “odd and suspicious”, too.

They’re trying desperately to make Gwyn out to be a non suspicious “spy” while ignoring that Elain was the one who was showing spy qualities in that moment with Nesta. (They ignore Azriel’s actions around Gwyn being suspicious and instead try to pin it on Elain and make her to be the “bad, suspicious, evil” character).

For a spy master who needs to be on alert 24/7 - its not really a good thing then is it, if his shadows are off singing instead off listening and paying attention to the world around them.

I said it before, I’ll say it again - Elain giving Az earplugs who then meets a character that gets his shadows singing AND whose song is literally described as “beckoning” is basic, elementary foreshadowing. Any 12-13 year old would be able to tell you that is a warning for Gwyn, not Elain. And even if you want to take that scene on level - she got it for him as he lives in a house w two thirsty mates. That was her intention, if she got it out of the blue then sure. You can label it as suspicious but this is why context - which that whole side like to twist/ignore - is important.

See, gwynriels’ know the single dagger lesson Az gave Gwyn isn’t important or even special hence why they have to add made up fanon onto it. That point is baseless, usual for gwynriel. Its sad how they have to connect everything Gwyn does back to Az, as if they don’t see her as her own person capable of common sense. Idk who needs to hear this, but warriors don’t usually just charge into battle/fights without thinking. They have to observe and wait for the right time - Gwyn was just showing typical warrior traits. Here’s my thing: If Mass had the time to compare Az/Elain to the same spy straits on two seperate occasions why couldn’t she do it for the supposed endgame couple, gwynriel? The couple that is “meant” to be a spy?

Why have Feyre say Elain has Az - THE spymaster- beat at secret keeping whilst gwynnie couldn’t keep a secret for a day? They want Gwyn to be Elain so bad, they’re just making themselves look stupid at this point.

If Elain sneaking up on Nesta is “suspicious” - why are they not saying the same for Az - who had also suprised people with his presence?

So when a woman does it - it makes her questionable yet when a man does it…it raises no suspicion? We all know what word describes that situation.

Gwyn isn’t going to be a spy. Why on earth would Sjm write 800pg of Gwyn becoming a valkry with valkry friends to now have her switching up and being a spy? Mass also has the fmc’s friends sharing the same role as the fmc. Gwyn’s friends aren’t going to be spies either and Nuala & Cerr are Elains canon friends…so that itself disproves Gwyn becoming a spy. This is just another case of them realising their ship is easily disproven hence need Gwyn to be the new Elain and steal elriel theories where they can replace Elain w Gwyn - for their ship to not look as baseless as it truly is.

[spookypartycrit]

okay now why are we throwing around baseless accusations now besties?

I have numerous issues with whomever made those posts that have zero evidence and are just trying to start needless drama. (no need for vague posting, their name was gooey eggyolk for those unaware)

One: the users involved in the “grooming” post have all made it very clear that they are all adults. So no need for the “minor alarms”, there are no minors to be found.

Two: They had zero evidence of such behavior being performed. At worst, there was *some* light sexual jokes being thrown around in public posts, which was all in good fun.

Three: Grooming accusations are serious. No one should be throwing them around unless they have solid evidence. And like you said, they didnt.

Four: Running away when someone even dares challenge you? When someone dares to ask if the so called “sources” you have are trustworthy or even exist? Cowardly behavior.

Five: Im not even certain that they have “contacts”. That could be fabricated too.

Six: Very suspicious that the same person making these call out posts are also in dddne user’s likes. I dont usually like searching through likes for that kind of dirt because i know people can just like shit without thinking but the fact that the account was made like today makes me think foul play…

Seven: Theories on why this is happening. Could it be that this person is trying to “end pc rpf once and for all” by going after the “big names” in our community? If so, dude, I promise Nick isnt going to suck your dick for ending people shipping him with his pals. I promise you this much.

Could it be just a random seeking drama in a community for no apparent reason? possibly. its a non zero chance. but the fact that this profile was made today and was already causing problems leads me to believe theyve been “gathering evidence” before…

Regardless, I hope this serves as a lesson to everyone that this (claims made without evidence) is what unnecessary drama is. Again, it is important to call out people for bad behavior, but only if you can provide evidence for that bad behavior. Otherwise, you get a 20 minute coke rant from yours truly.

(Idk where I was going with that conclusion truly it is 3am here so idk if thats a coherent paragraph.)

-💚

dude i regret going on break cause the wierdiest shit has been happening and i feel like i shoulda already been on it. theres been alot of the one thing i cant stand. vaguing

i hate vaguing with every fiber of my ass, and i got a pretty big ass,

but seriously all ive been seeing from the corner of my eye are people vaguely going "somebody here and or alot of people are freaks and wierdos!" and im like "okay can i get some proof" and then i get a whole lot of avoidance, and exuses. wtf am i supposed to do with that.

like with the first dude. it was alot of accusations of "sources" without a single screenshot of proof. and even some of the claims i did know i know werent true, cause i looked with my eyes and didnt see anything of what they were saying. and the claims i couldent varify? no proof at all. the source hidden right between the accusers asscheeks.

even when my anons tell me stuff i usually go investigating for proof [tho i trust my anons to point me in a right direction] and after doing some investigating myself on all these recent accusation i couldent find jack shit, and it so annoying, now you got people running around on here talking about "i know something you all dont." and its like okay? care to share a screenshot with the class? care to inform us of what you found with evidence i can take a look at?

its fear mongering at best and a intentional pysop at worst. random ass accts coming in here claiming to know things. and act like we are all fucking stupid for "not putting the pieces together" no nimrod idk what your saying and you refuse to elbaorate.

and everyone i try to dm? oh dms are off. or i get ignored or thier accts disappers into dust the secoond i click on it.

if nobody wants to sit down and give me actual proof that i can look at then wtf are we doing. quit being fake demons and just post what you know.

[ryemiffie]

Okay so y'all know how Rick talks about (at least in the earlier seasons) how much he doesn't see a point in the education system, how he doesn't believe school is beneficial especially not for a genius like him but also just in general it's not helpful to people of average IQs and theres no point in going. We see him use this as an arguement as to why it shouldn't matter if Morty is skipping school to go on adventures with him, which on its own totally makes sense within the canon world and to the watchers who only have the limited understanding of the world and character that they do at this point. But then I thought back to a small detail from the final episode in season 7 "Fear No Mort"

Now warning going forward, if you somehow haven't seen this episode yet then don't continue reading as there will be spoilers!

So in this episode we see a set of circumstances in which Diane, Rick's beloved late wife, managed to survive and ends up with the Rick and Morty we follow in the show. Now in this episode due to this very specific set of circumstances we're able to catch a glimpse at what Rick and Diane's marriage or at least dynamic would have looked like, and even some small details about their history and relationship habits, which was really cute and also great material for the theories and headcanon makers, it was fun! Until..

At the end of the episode we of course find out that this was all a fictitious scenario made up in the fear hole to scare the shit out of Morty and that Rick had never entered the hole in the first place, meaning nothing that happened between Rick and Diane in the hole was genuine nor technically canon, including any history detials we got into Rick and Diane's relationship.

But what if that wasn't the case? It would be easy to assume that the pieces of Rick and Diane's relationships we saw between Morty focus scenes weren't real and were just there to help carry on the illusion for the audiance that this is real/Rick is in the hole, but I don't think it's as simple as that.

The hole's most terrifying feature is that it goes into your head and gathers intel on your life and things you know in order to make the most accurate to you simulation that will fuck with your head the most. That means there is the chance that those details about Rick and Diane's relationship were things Morty had learned at some point, whether during a drunk Rick rant (Rick said himself he gets stupid and emotional when at certain levels of intoxication), by looking through Rick's stuff when he wasn't supposed to, perhaps something at the citadel, whatever it may be.

Which means! The small detail that Rick read Diane's thesis paper, presumably while they attended college together, which implies they likely met while attending the same college, would be true under the context that this is all based on actual things Morty has learned about Rick and his late wife.

So now let me return to my original point. If Rick looks so far down at the schooling system than why did he seemingly happily attend the college where he met his wife? Because I'm thinking he didn't actually hate school that much, I just think he doesn't like the idea of Morty going to school cause what if he meets his own Diane there like Rick?

No matter how much Rick denies it he obviously has some sort of care for Morty Prime, even if it's just not wanting him dead. I think the reason Rick pulls Morty away from school so often -besides just wanting his help for adventures- is that he never wants Morty to have a chance to form that sweetheart love that broke the old scientist's heart. I mean there are cases where if Morty is just staying home than Rick doesn't care if Morty comes along or not, but if Morty is in school? Nope, come adventure with grandpa!

I don't know, I'm aware this is stupid and pretty baseless but I'm tired and this was fun to think about lol

[horizon-verizon]

Sorry, but I really have to say it, I can’t take it anymore.

A lot of anons you’ve been getting and answering are so incredibly annoying and disingenuous. It’s not a you problem, it’s those weird people. Aside from the fact that they clearly did not read the pov chapters of the characters they hate, they also tie themselves into tight knots because of theories not rooted in canon. Drawing half-assed parallels between characters that don’t have anything in common, coming up with baseless theories and then foaming at the mouth about them as if they’ve been confirmed by George himself. This is weird. Obsessive, even.

While disheartening, it’s understandable when people start hating characters because of said character’s annoying and vocal fans. But let’s not pretend that just because you can come up with theories where you villainise a character or other to justify your weird hatred that it somehow makes sense.

And to be clear, I’m not saying you can’t have absolute favourites, that you can’t be ride of die for a character. You can even ignore any other pov but the one of your fav. I have my favourites as well, it’s normal. But how can you talk stupid shit about a character that you don’t care to read about? You call the antis of your favourite “brainless”, but you act just like them towards other characters and their fans. This is called hypocrisy, btw, and you’re contributing to the disease in this fandom just as much as them.

Truly, I don’t want to be rude or whatever, and this is not meant as an attack to you personally. I’ve just seen like 5 of those insane anons in the asoiaf tag and I had to say something. I hope I did not somehow hurt you, though, tumblr user horizon-verizon, that was not my intention. I wish you a very good day.

Since I don't know exactly which "antis of Dany" you're saying I'm acting like, I don't know if I can take this ask's points to heart, anon. I was under the impression that I've been fair to Jon Snow, Helaena, Alicent, Catelyn, any of these characters that you could be saying that I am not very fair towards; the last Jon snow post (at least my own answer) was about him not being TPTWP...bc he isn't. It's quite obvious in-text. If that anon who said that he was boring offended you and you were offended that I didn't say that they were being too extreme, I can't really help you there. I still said in that post that Jon was important...just not in the way some people try to say. And yes, i still read his PoV chapters, I have said that I just tend to read Dany's and reread them more often. Not that I never read him, that's a gross exaggeration.

Jon Snow is not and never will be Azor Ahai. And never was/never will be TPTWP. This is fact, not "opinion". It's not about "favorites", it's about reading the books and understanding patterns of thoughts and references and reading mythologies and seeing patterns of human behavior within the text. And this isn't "extremism", it is simply reading the books. (As if I ever tried to tail Dany antis in the first place?)

If not about Jon and about how I refute TG's numerous and various points about Jaehaera or Helaena or Alicent, do you expect me to agree with their factually incorrect statements? you know that some even think Jaehaera was supposed to be Azor Ahai or GRRM means to invalidate his entire years worth of writing Daenaera to be mother to Aegon III's kids, right? Am I supposed to say nothing to these egregious absurdities?

All to say that since you still remain vague about what exactly your point is coming from and which character(s) you think I'm being grossly unfair to, I can't really take your points under any advisement. It certainly makes it look like I don't bring up material to back up my claims for all my thoughts about ASoIaF and its fandom, which is certainly not the case. You may look under my "example of green stan nonsense" to see what people say from their own posts.

[beesmygod]

BLOODBORNE LORE Q+A PART 4: SETTING ODDS AND ENDS

part 1

part 2

part 3

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this part is a little drier compared to the other 3. it's a quick mop up on any remaining minutiae about the setting before we move onto events and characters/bosses. that's the real meat and potatoes. bear with me talking about game mechanics and tomorrow ill talk about the stupid mensis ritual alright. arent you excited to hear a new baseless theory about micolash's birthday party or whatever.

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THE HUNTER ASKS:

i think most statues weren't people. but something about the human experience of obsession turns the blood in yharnam first into syrup and then into stone. the item description for the frenzied coldblood reads:

A strong will produces thick blood. Doubtless, the product of obsession, a potent source of human strength.

i think this item description is the only bit of explicit text that ties together the idea of madness inducing what the game calls "crystallization". the blood shard item descriptions confirm that after death "a substance in the blood hardens" and another upgrade material, blood gems (name self explanatory, the page is annoying to navigate) are very rarely found in coldblood.

there are hints, however, that being driven mad with bad eldritch vibes causes problematic instantaneous crystallizations. your example of the poor saps at yahar'gul is a good one. whatever happened when the brain of mensis was called forth* really flash fried the whole town in a new kind of way.

*SPECULATION!!! we can try to establish that timeline when i talk about rom.

side note: there's some women skeletons who are pushing their kids out of their way like they're george costanza hearing the fire alarm and it makes me lol every time i see it. i think its bc the little boy skeletons are wearing a little fancy lad outfit.

theres also the spikes that form in your blood when you become "frenzied", a debuff that obliterates most of your health in 1 second. when you are in danger of being "frenzied" (this happens when you look at or are attacked by certain enemies whose appearance or sound is so horrible it drives you insane), spikes shoot out of your head.

i thought this was just a gameplay mechanic to visually indicate whats happening if you miss the audio cue or the meter. but it turns out there's several unlucky bastards who peeked at the brain of mensis and got riddled with enormous spikes that came from the inside out.

imagine a monster that is so scary your blood tries to escape your body at maximum velocity. but its just mother brain from metroid.

i think most of the eyes from various corpses were pecked out by the enormously fat crows all over the place and then excreted/barfed whatever way they do in nature. they swallow rocks irl to digest shit because god forgot they need to be able to eat food to live.

THE HUNTER COMMENTS:

i clued in shawn to the original version of the lamps from an early version of the game: a chair you sit, sleep and dream in. once you know this pointless factoid, you will start noticing the frequency of really weirdly placed chairs in the game. its a chair game. adeline is strapped down to a chair. annalise sits on her throne. the spooky skeleton gatekeeper for the forbidden woods is in a chair. chairs.

THE HUNTER SAYS:

CANON! for some reason the english translation neglects to mention that its in your own handwriting which is like. part of why it would be spooky. otherwise its like iosefka left a note to herself to kill god later.

THE HUNTER SAYS:

lmfao these damn things. i dont even think about them bc the really just read as background filler but they were at one point in development going to be something important. the internal game files indicate that they are "shrines" and a cut enemy called "shrine knight" exists in a near finished condition. these concepts seem very far removed from the end product so its wild how done this enemy is. cainhurst stuff??

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ok, next time i have questions to answer about bosses in the game, bosses cut from the game and doggies. theres a great question in here about who names bosses. honestly like how tf do you (the hunter) know that's a cleric beast. you just got here. you dont know anything. a coconut fell on your head and you dont remember your address

[voiceofsword]

hiii can i ask you about cannibal niki?? what ya think bout him?? (in theory, where Niki's parents were the ones who 'ate fish' in the cult of Shinkai!!) and if ya open to request can i see a lil rinniki kiss?? on cheeks or something like dat just a smol doodle🤲 (AND SORRY ABOUT MY ENG IDK HOW TO WRITE😭)

hello anon! putting this behind a readmore again bc it might be a little long (it is) but i assure you the doodle is at the end of the post! sorry if i sound at all hostile during any parts of this post i tried to look back and change the wording for a lot of things, but like that other long ass rinne post i made it's smth i feel very strongly about! 🙇

i’m gonna keep it real with you, i’m not particularly fond of that headcanon! i feel like i’ve mentioned it before, and i respect anyone who likes it, but i see it as sort of edginess with no concrete basis besides gags and a crucial main story scene (that i think disproves it), therefore i don’t rly like talking about it or discussing it. i’ll go on to explain where i think the origin for this headcanon lies, bc while i do think it’s something that can be extrapolated from the story, it’s not necessarily the “truth” behind niki’s parents, or him being a cannibal, or anything like that.

in the main story chapters 136-140 eichi goes on to explain crazy:b’s weak points: if worse comes to worst, alkaloid can use these points against them to take them down. in 139 specifically, eichi says that niki himself is hard to exploit — but they can use his father’s infamy to their favor. niki’s father was a famous chef known for his cooking tv programs. he had a period of popularity which was quickly ended when rumors were spread about him using human meat during one of his shows, and thus he was sworn to never be on tv again. 

you see, it’d be perfectly reasonable to assume niki’s father is a cannibal if eichi said this in all seriousness. however, taking context into account and how during this and the previous chapters eichi is going out of his way to make crazyb sound as bad as he feasibly can, it shows that this is their last resort and that the smear campaign needs to WORK. ES needs to make crazy:b look as bad as possible to make them give up. also eichi is kind of known for making his speech grandiose and generally making things sound more severe than they actually are, this is enstars 101. and even so, eichi himself softens the claim immediately afterwards, saying that these accusations were made at a time when tv stations were trying to get the idol industry back on its feet — they made that up, because they wanted to make sure there was no competition on the same network! and he follows that up with saying “yeah lol that’s pretty normal in this industry”. 

i won’t make any mention of the shinkai cult here because there rly is no ties except for…the cannibalism, i think? i also feel like what kanata talks about in meteor impact addresses something that may or may not have happened a long, long time ago, and at a very dire time rather than something reoccurring — and i doubt niki’s parents were even alive. i havent seen this spoken about anywhere else so im not sure where you’re coming from, sorry anon :( 

that aside, niki also seems to be at least somewhat aware of what happened, and the ramifications it had on his own life. you have to understand, niki’s parents left the country when these allegations started popping up, and niki’s been on his own since then — niki’s not stupid. if his parents didn’t tell him, he pieced it together himself. he knows what happened, and generally makes light of the situation and having to live on his own because that’s just how he is; these events have helped shape how niki is, on a fundamental level. but all of that aside, he more than anyone knows that his father would never do something like that, that all of it is baseless lies made to hurt him:

when i say these things shaped him, i mean that the incident has made him feel like, regardless of whether the allegations are true or not, his father caused a lot of trouble to many people. niki idolized his father — and seeing this happen to him, niki is left to think that he, too, is bound to cause people problems, both bc of this, and his constitution. he makes it a point to be like i don’t want to be like my father, again, not because of the cannibalism, but because the whole ordeal had very lasting repercussions on niki, on their family, perhaps even for any chef that might’ve pursued a similar career path to his father. i find it hard to believe that it was a one and done type thing; tabloid news and everything. he probably had his name run through the mud. 

niki consciously tries to not make trouble, he laughs off his insecurities, he tries not to take up too much space, even now. gotta keep his image clean but it's also like. obviously hes not really going out of his way to expose himself and be in the culinary world more than he needs to. he carries the weight of knowing his family name is taboo so that just kind of bleeds onto how he perceives himself and what he does — that coupled with his condition makes him feel like he deserves the bare minimum. bc of these things happening, i can also imagine his parents drilled the idea into his head before they left — to not cause trouble for others if it’s the last thing he does. kind of on the nose, niki does mention during one of the flashbacks that his father told him human meat is the one thing he must absolutely never do. which is like. well, yeah

also (tapping mic) part of the reason rinne causes so much trouble for him is because he wants niki to see that it’s ok to cause trouble for him back — that if niki goes out of his way to do stuff for him, even if begrudgingly, rinne can pay him back in kind. one of rinne’s main drives is that he wants to be able to dismantle this idea niki has in his head that he’s less deserving of good things because of his past, and his body. i’d even go as far to say that it’s an integral part of their relationship and both of their characters. um anyways

people are allowed to think or portray him however they want, of course, but i think saying that his father is a cannibal and thus niki is a cannibal too feels like completely dismissing parts of his character for the sake of making this otherwise “wholesome” person be more 'edgy' and perhaps aligning more to their tastes. i can’t police how people perceive him but i think a lot of where this stems from is wanting to have a character to project specific aesthetics onto, latching onto small bits of his story and lines without really looking at the full picture. 

niki tries so hard to be someone who can move past these allegations and still struggles with thinking that he can do what he likes lest he be like his father, so, idk. i personally don’t like to engage w/ or see these interpretations. to each their own!

also as to why niki makes jokes about eating people and it’s somewhat a recurring gag with him: well personally i think he’s just a little weird. it’s done in a cutesy playful way like "omg u smell so good i could eat you right up!" and its more like... a compliment. (esp coming from him w his rly good sense of smell and taste) yeah its joking abt eating ppl but not joking abt cannibalism itself its all theoretical eating. (have u never joked about wanting to eat someone up…or wanting to bite ppl.. i think it’s kind of like that. it’s just that they juice him for the bit)

also to thank you for your patience. here’s the doodle ♡

[lemonhemlock]

Sooooo tired of the Team Black allegations. For the 1256th time, they either do NOT like Helaemond and dislike it as well OR don't care about it at all. Sure, there are some self declared Helaemonds out there who say they are Team Black but they're like…five people??? Why is it so difficult to admit Helaemonds are 99% Greens? Otherwise yes, there are trolls who will love the drama of the kids being bastards or simply the idea of the Green side having its own incestuos affair because it will paint the fans who hate incest as hypocrites (and many are for sure since they ship Helaegon, sorry, but it is the truth) as they will have to defend Aemond from it but do we have to care about them and their opinions? They're going to find stupid and baseless reasons to hate the Greens regardless of Helaemond becoming canon. F**k them. Also, this whole Team Black thing is very transparent and reminds me of the times when Al*smonds and antis were accusing Helaemond shippers of being secretly Team Black because they want to justify Blood & Cheese and paint the Greens as hypocrites. Yes, this happened.

Thank you for pointing out Aemond's duty to his Baratheon betrothed. You're actually one of the very few Green bloggers who do so. For some reasons most forget, or pretend to, about this which is…very telling! I also hate the theory that Aemond will stop caring about duty after Storm's End and B&C. Although not impossible like you've mentioned, for Aemond to act as if he can go and do anything is very child like behavior and feels like it would be really bad characterization and, at least in my opinion, will make him really, really unlikable as a person. No matter how awful he will be feeling about himself, his remaining family still depends on him honoring his promise to the Baratheons. It's literally a matter of life and death, he can't just say "Fuck duty, fuck everyone, I will be marrying Alys because I can and want to" and expect no consequences, especially militarily. Why should the Baratheons accept such an insult? Having bastards is one thing, he would very easily get away with it being a man, but marrying a bastard servant twice his age? Do these people think he can marry Alys and, if he wins his battle against Daemon, return with her as his wife to King's Landing afterwards? Do they think the remaining lords should simply accept it?

I'm not kidding, if they go with this interpretation, with Aemond not giving a fuck anymore, I will only 100% ship him with Dark Sister. I'm not sure I can bear how insufferable antis will become if Aemond will be leaving his remaining family's fates to the Blacks for a woman, because this is what the whole affair would essentially be even if they will claim it to be a tragic love story and go after anyone else who disagree as they're doing right now. And I hate even more how the same people who use the duty BS argument against Helaemond claim that he married Alys BECAUSE he is DUTIFUL and didn't want their kid to be a bastard. It's just baffling. The hypocrisy is amazing. Yeah, I get it, we should like it because love >>> duty and Aemond still became a kinslayer despite following his duty so why he should care about it anymore? but regardless, these people we are talking about are royals whose actions have deep repercussions across the entire realm. They can't do whatever they want even if it's in the name of love.

Also the idea that we should protect Helaegon from the infidelity allegations when show!Aegon is out there cheating (and raping women) on Helaena is just sick, and dare I say misogynistic. It's simply insane to expect her to stay faithful to him no matter what, especially if there is someone out there who genuinely loves her and vice-versa. Why is it that every time a situation like this comes up (the man cheating with other women) it is ALWAYS on the wife to remain faithful?

I have to say that this post had me in stitches, so thank you for that. I basically agree with everything you've said, love the passion & also, you're going to love this, because I was on Four Storms alert ever since my first Aemond/Alys post. [For any new visitors, there's more in my tag + this particular post that delves some of the points anon is talking about, with contributions from many other friendly voices. Also, ofc, my Maris/Aemond cinematic universe. Alrite, enough shameless self-promotion].

Yeah, the idea that we should protect the sanctity of the helaegon marriage never really sat right with me when Aegon is out there cheating left and right and Aemond is making the beast with two backs with a random woman he's known for 5 minutes. Meanwhile Helaena is subjected to indescribable trauma and gets a horrific ending, but she's not even allowed some measure of reprieve after the showrunners made sure to depict even her book!decent!marriage as sketchy. Personally, this concept of unconsummated courtly love rings rather too flavourless to my ears, as well - what can I say. To each their own, but it's kind of unfair to Helaena.

A further observation I would like to make is that I, too, often find this discourse on Aemond's sense of duty lacking, because many fans seem to treat duty like a switch. "Aemond is dutiful up to X point in this linear timeline I've decided upon (and any alternative interpretation is blasphemy and should be vigorously suppressed), after which his sense of duty completely dissipates because I need to make his relationship with Alys ~romantic~ and he basically doesn't give a shit about his family or political responsibilities anymore." I actually think helaemonds have the right of this, because they're always more likely to paint Aemond as a conflicted figure, consumed by a very byronic inner turmoil, who's always teetering on the edge of doing what's right by his family vs experiencing the freedom of giving into his own desires for once. It is within that precarious balancing act that you can build the most compelling dark princely figure that makes the girlies' hearts a-flutter! Whereas the first interpretation feels very robotic and soulless to me, yes, perhaps even shippable with Dark Sister.

To close off, nothing would ever justify Blood & Cheese, even IF Helaena's kids would be Aemond's. The retributive "payment" for Luke's life would be Aemond's life aka his actual killer END OF. "A son for a son" does not make sense and is not justified - that was always the point of it. Needless brutality, the horrific inhumanity of it. Killing off innocents who had absolutely nothing to do with the act is not how people enacted retributive justice. I'm pretty sure Hammurabi would agree with me on this.

[morsking]

you see, this is great about disco elysium because in a lot, and i say a LOT, of political theory irl you’ll find some pseudo-scientific philosophical bullshit that in some form or another tries to justify colonialism (hegel, being a core example) and as sad as it is even revolutionary politics are not immune to this meaningless posturing, because we live in a world where anyone can say anything and someone will believe it fanatically, because material discontent paves way for the disgruntled to find SOME justification in the fabric of reality for their plight and in fringe communities the first thing that will find them is some discriminatory conspiratorial bullshit. look at r*dical f*minism for example. without intersectionality you loop back around to eugenics, essentialism, conforming to the gender norm, and aligning with f*scists with all the bigoted -isms that come with it.

but i digress.

infra-materialism in disco elysium is a plausible example of how you can come up with all kinds of bonkers far-out navel-gazing about human physiology in relation to the political and material reality. and the worst part is, it didn’t come from nowhere. while the idea that you can just distort the laws of physics and change material and political reality by thinking is ludicrous, the fact of the matter is that humans are social creatures. we will pick up on whatever social trends and values are dominant in our surroundings, because... that’s just how we evolved. monkey see monkey do because monkey survive better in group so if not in group then danger you die! and the bourgeoisie exploit that evolutionary instinct, they create in-groups and out-groups in order to form a social foothold from which they can establish and preserve wealth disparity that benefits them. if everyone is convinced to agree that authority founded on wealth and influence is normal, then naturally they will seek to fulfill the systemic expectations of the institutions that enforce them. their ideas directly influence the world around them by creating a political reality, so naturally revolutionary politics within schools of thought are dedicated towards disseminating dissenting points of view, making the abnormal out of the normal by exposing the inner workings of class conflict and convincing people that it doesn’t have to BE this way. if we think very carefully about where we are and what got us here, the proverbial evolution of history of class conflict, we can direct where we can go, and we can arrive at a world free from class conflict by overturning the world order, the authority, that divides and subjugates the masses. 

so while thoughts DO influence our reality, it’s only because our beliefs give us the impetus to act in ways that are meaningful and impactful towards our surroundings. it’s a pretty basic idea, but the genius is in how the game presents it. political writings are a product of their time, a lot of them will simply not have the clarity of concept we can have now because they tried to deal with a topic that hadn’t really been explored yet (or simply had heinous ulterior motives). it’ll sound like drivel, the opioid-induced ramblings of someone who’s never gotten laid, touched grass, or ever properly had a conversation with another human being (let alone one from outside europe). the game says “a long time ago, someone really fucked up had a bonkers fucking idea, but it wasn’t bonkers enough to dismiss, so all kinds of people who were more or less fucked up expounded upon it to reach a conclusion, and they found that while it was a stupid idea, it wasn’t entirely baseless, so now we have more insight about human patterns of social and political behavior that can impulse real change in our material reality.”

and i think that’s really cool. the world of disco elysium is a fictional one with all kinds of outlandish names, countries, geographies, and ideas, but its writers understand our world and our history so well that the conceptual familiarities between ours and the game’s are eerie in their thoroughness. this world HAD to be built somehow, it HAD to have had political developments to situate the player where they are now, and it was built brilliantly! it was built with the same ideological methodological chaos as ours! and yes, it does make for a very, very bleak world, because it’s rife with all the same atrocities ours is, along with the messy, unsightly, complicated people that orchestrated and enabled them. but the point is that perhaps, much like revolutionary politics would have us internalize, is even though we may be painfully aware of our reality and cannot solve every single problem, whether individually or collectively, it’s not meaningless. understanding what the issue is and how it came about is the first step towards making progress, and we should not be deterred by disagreements about the amorphous shape of what progress is, because human beings as naturally curious social creatures are flexible, inquisitive, and will find ways to refine a solution even if it takes eons. what is vital, however, is that everyone understands that they can start now. they can become a part of something now. we can band in solidarity and start that discussion and put in the work now. and it won’t be in vain.

[saintshigaraki]

won’t you give me your cruelest smile

↳ DARK ACADEMIA TSUKISHIMA KEI 

pairing: tsukishima kei x gn!reader

word count: 1.4k

excerpt: 

He makes no move to get up as he watches you pack. “You really don’t like me, do you?” He sounds far too pleased for your liking.

“No one likes you,” you snap back, stuffing the last heavy tome in your bag and shouldering it. “You’re an ass.”

a/n: @yamagucji​​ said dark academia tsukki and my brain quite literally short circuited 

tags: enemies-ish to lovers (more like academic rivals to lovers), tsukki being an annoyingly smart condescending history major, reader goes through the five stages of grief when they realize they might actually li- 🤢 like him, a reference to the classic ‘ooooh you wanna kiss me so bad it makes you look stupid’ 

If there is a single, minuscule, barely visible silver lining in having Tsukishima as a partner for your quarter project it is that, without a doubt, he is smart. 

You have to admit, begrudgingly, that his intellect borders on genius-level which is something you use as silent proof to attest to your working theory that there is in fact, no god, or at the very least not a kind one, because if there was they wouldn’t be blessing gremlins like the one sitting across from you with a gift like that. 

He’s quiet now (after about an hour of telling you all the ways your interpretation was oh so very wrong) and content to stare at you lazily, his eyes half-lidded and filled with his specific brand of cruel amusement that leaves you wanting to do nothing more than smack his black-rimmed glasses right off his smug face. 

You take a deep breath and try desperately to quell the utterly unique type of rage he elicits in you, although as always, nothing you do ever quite manages to bring your boiling blood to a simmer. 

He’s twirling his expensive black pen between his stupidly long fingers. Every once in a while the light catches on the onyx stone of his pinky ring which somehow manages to flash directly in your eyes every time. He notices, of course. He notices everything. Which makes you think he’s doing it on purpose just to be an ass.

Which, admittedly, is perfectly in line with everything else he does so, you come to the frustrating conclusion that he most definitely is doing it on purpose. 

“You’re embarrassingly easy to rile up,” he says, interrupting your silent seething, his voice deep and smooth and absolutely dripping with condescending satisfaction. 

Your eyes flash up from the book you’d been only barely processing just to be met with his own golden-brown ones. He’s smirking down at you, of course. You don’t think you’ve ever seen him wear any other sort of expression. 

You want nothing more than to glare at him but that would just be proving his point so instead, you snap your book shut. It rings out loudly in the empty library. 

“It’s late. Let’s start this backup tomorrow.”

He makes no move to get up as he watches you pack. “You really don’t like me, do you?” he sounds far too pleased for your liking. 

“No one likes you,” you snap back, stuffing the last heavy tome in your bag and shouldering it. “You’re an ass.” 

He tilts his head back, exposing his long neck, and laughs. It’s so deep you feel it in your own chest. You just barely manage to suppress a shiver, which thank fuck, because he would’ve most definitely noticed it and you don’t think you’d be able to live that down. 

You make your way towards the front doors but not before he manages to slip on his wool coat and catch up to you, with ease of course, his long legs have become your number one enemy over the quarter because he always, always, catches up with you when you try to speed walk away from him. 

The autumn chill immediately settles into your bones, your skin prickles unpleasantly. You can see your breath in the night air. A shitty end to a shit day. 

You both head down the cobbled street in strangely comfortable silence. He’s close enough that you can feel the heat he radiates and you’re silently thankful for it. 

You get to the fork in the path where he takes his way back to his dorm and you take yours but instead of peeling off left like he usually does he sticks to your side. 

You stop immediately and eye him up warily. “What are you doing?”

He rolls his eyes. “Asking idiotic questions doesn’t really suit you, you know.” 

You say nothing, content to narrow your eyes. 

He rolls his eyes again and lets out a long-suffering sigh. “I’m walking you home, try not to be a brat about it.” 

“You never walk me home,” you point out, suspiciously. 

“You are rather good at pointing out the very obvious, aren’t you?” and before you can respond he already had turned on his heels and started walking. You have to half jog to catch up. 

You watch him out of the corner of your eye with the intent of trying to read his motive but you get stuck on the fact that his cheeks are flushed rather prettily from the cold. 

“You sure do love to stare, don’t you?” he asks rather conversationally. 

You’ve never wanted the ground to open up and swallow you whole more in your entire life. Your cheeks burn hot even in the frigid cold. 

He notices. Of course he does. What does Tsukishima Kei not notice?

“No need to be embarrassed,” he needles cruelly. “Denial can be a brutal beast.”

You only barely manage to stop yourself from asking what exactly he means by that, what exactly he thinks you’re in denial about. 

But you know he wants nothing more than for you to ask so you take a sweet sort of satisfaction in not questioning him further, at least on that front. 

The rest of the walk back to your dorm is spent in less comfortable silence than before. There’s an odd sort of tension in the air, like a rope pulled so tight you can physically feel it starting to fray, getting ready to snap.

It comes to a head when, after getting to your building, instead of immediately going inside you find yourself looking down and shuffling your feet.

You know you should thank him, even if you didn’t ask him to walk you home. You guys never worked this late, you’d lost track of time (it’s scarily easy to lose track of time when arguing with Tsukishima) and you know it was nice of him to walk you home when he’d have to double back another 15 minutes in the freezing cold to get to his place. 

You know you should thank him. It’s the reasonable, polite thing to do. But it’s just so fucking hard to be reasonable and polite when Tsukishima Kei and his galaxy-sized ego are involved. No one in your entire life has been able to get under your skin as he has. It’s like he was perfectly crafted to be your own personal headache. 

You brave a glance up at him and find that he’s standing very, very close and staring, rather intensely, at you. A curiously amused gleam in his eye. 

Your mind stutters and then stops completely, going painfully blank. 

He’s so stupidly pretty. 

His skin is flawless, you’ve never once seen him with even a single pimple, his hair is the nicest pale-blond you’ve ever seen and it falls in perfect tufts against his forehead, but it’s his eyes that always make you shift from foot to foot. They’re such a unique shade of golden-brown, and now, shrouded in the dark and mere inches away from your own face, you’d swear on your life they were practically glowing.

“You’ve got something on your mind?” he asks, his tone anything but sweet. He’s so close you can smell the warm spice of his cologne and the ever-clinging scent of ancient books that seems to follow him wherever he goes. 

“I-” but you can’t seem to put together a coherent sentence. You don’t think you’ve ever hated someone so much in your life. 

Somehow, he’s managed to push in even closer. “You know what I think?”

No, you want to say, and I don’t want to know. Your heart is beating far too fast and you can’t explain why. 

(You know exactly why)

“I think you want to kiss me.”

And just like that the rope snaps and you’re viciously tugging him down by the collar of his too-nice coat so you can smash your lips against his. 

The kiss is brutal. Far too mean with too much teeth. At one point you taste the sting of iron and you can’t tell if the blood is his or yours. 

He backs you up against a wall without breaking the kiss. When he bites at your lip, no doubt cutting it open, you grab a fist full of his hair and tug cruelly and his responding groan tastes so sweet on your tongue. 

He doesn’t pull away until your lungs are screaming for air. 

He’s inches away from you, pupils blown wide, lips swollen (and a little bloody), and his hair is a mess. It’s the most out of sorts you’ve ever seen him. 

If you thought he was pretty before, he’s absolutely beautiful now. 

His smirk widens into a full blown smile and you understand now why he doesn’t show it often. It shows too many teeth, it’s downright wolfish. Predatory, even. 

You don’t really have time to think on it though before he pulls you into another bruising kiss. 

have some dark academia tsukishima headcanons while you’re here

he is without a doubt the most pretentious asshole you will ever meet and and you will HATE yourself for eventually finding him weirdly charming in any capacity

he is, of course, a history major which. if you have ever met pretentious male history majors you will know that this means he is a literal walking, talking, annoyingly tall headache

interrupts professors constantly. does it like he’s getting paid. will argue and argue and argue with them without that dumb condescending smirk ever, ever managing to slip off his face

(the worst part is, he’s honestly probably making a good point most of the time. but you’d quite literally rather die than admit that to him)

he is always walking around campus lazily flipping through leather bound books so old they’re cracked precariously at their spines, all on different ancient civilizations. you’d think that’d mean he’d be running into people but the student body collectively parts like the red sea for him which sets your teeth on edge.

he’s unbelievably arrogant and the worst part is its not baseless like you find yourself so desperately wishing it was

he IS smart, wickedly so. disgustingly, cruelly intelligent and he will use it to pick you apart piece by piece while that stupid fucking smirk stays glued on his face.

(you start to seriously question whether or not he’s even human because how can anyone keep the same, perfectly calculated expression for that long?)

always looks like he stepped straight out of some dark alternate universe vogue photoshoot with his constant rotation of black turtlenecks, long coats, and oxford loafers all tied together by the same 5 rings he’s never seen without, two of which are set with hefty onyx stones

you will be unlucky enough to be paired up with him for a project that will take all quarter long and multiple meet ups a week. when your professor announced your partner, you genuinely consider dropping the class and when you find out you wouldn’t be able to drop the class without switching majors, you genuinely consider switching majors

you don’t. and by the end of the quarter you’re really starting to question whether that was a good thing or not

[thepictureofsdr-archive]

ok i KNOW this isn't just me, you cannot convince me that charlotte and gideon would care about alastair spreading the rumour at ALL. the kids seem so offended on behalf of their parents, parents who probably wouldn’t give two shits about this. 

charlotte is the woman who had to deal with young will, gideon, gabriel, and jessamine, so what alastair did isnt exactly world shaking to her and now she’s literally the consul. she saved the world from pure evil while still young. if thomas and matthew complained to her about alastair spreading the rumour (especially if they mention they were still school children at the time) she’d probably tell them to go away and come back with a real problem or at least something worse than what their parents did at that age. she had to deal with such bullshit while head of the institute let alone consul that playground bullying is literally the least of her worries especially when the bully has done a complete 180.

same goes for gideon, jem actively disliked him when they were young which is all the information you need as to what kind of person gideon was, and he also had to fight genuine evil while still young. he’d probably hear about the rumour spreading and ask what else alastair did because “there’s no way in hell these kids are THIS pissed about someone simply spreading a rumour in school” gideon also knows just how important allowing people to grow is, so he’d probably be pissed at the kids for still shitting on alastair despite how much effort he’s put into changing. 

they’re literally grown adults and they know how rumours work. alastair wasn’t the source of the rumour and he didn’t change it to be worse, he simply told people, just like everyone else in that school because that’s what kids do. that rumour 100% originated from an adult in the clave, elias and sona really don’t seem like the type to gossip to their kids, so alastair probably wasn’t even the first person to talk about it in the school. yeah he told matthew in a dickish way but im not sure why matthew was expecting any kindness considering before being told the rumour, he insulted alastairs hair and told alastair his family didnt love him. matthew would’ve found out anyway, so do they hate alastair simply because he was the one to tell matthew? that would be stupid bc what if a friend told him? even if alastair was a prick you can’t exactly hate someone that much just for informing you of a rumour. this insane hatred they have towards him alone makes no sense whatsoever, why don’t they actively hate everyone else from the school? i don’t think we see them interact with old schoolmates but they seem to place all the blame for the rumour on alastair. matthew seems to blame alastair for the unborn baby situation (which makes no sense, no one forced matthew to do what he did but i understand how that would influence his opinion) but the other thieves don’t even know about that, so they just despise alastair because of playground bullying and the rumour? alastair was a shit bully anyway. i have a theory that he tried to be as nice as possible with the bullying bc he could’ve easily called james “demon eyes” but no he went for “goat eyes” 

i understand why they dislike him, but this level of hatred they have towards him is completely baseless, even more so now considering alastair has completely changed and especially in the grand scheme of things. i genuinely cannot comprehend why they blame so much of the rumour on him alone. charlotte and gideon would see that in seconds and i wouldn’t be surprised if they apologized to alastair for the stupidity of their children.

yes the rumour was horrific especially considering the time period, but do we really expect these two grown adults who’ve faced genuine evil to care about a literal child spreading the rumour, a child who’s apologized and genuinely changed? there’s far more important things to worry about and its kind of worrying that they’re putting this much effort into shitting on one person.

tl;dr the thieves blaming alastair alone for the rumour is dumb as shit and charlotte and gideon would not give a damn about alastair spreading it years ago while still a child especially considering how much he’s grown since then

[lepertamar]

DONT SHOW ANYTHING UNDER THE CUT TUMBLR AAAGGHH

cannot stop thinking about that discourse that happened where some other jewish person thought the popularly covered version of hallelujah was a ‘rewritten’ (and goy-written) version of the ’original’ (properly written by cohen) one, not realizing that actually the original song is all of the lyrics together, all of them written by cohen, and went on a whole smuggy self-satisfied rant about how Insulting and antisemitic it was that this fake stupid goy-washed christianized that had Terrible Sanitized Clunky Christiany lyrics had replaced Cohen’s far superior Real version and how no Real jew would be able to listen to it without Instantly Magically knowing that these lyrics (the ones just as Cohen-written as the less widely-known ones) were written by goyim and getting offended and hdssfjjdsgffhhjdfgddfsdgdssfsaa anyway i don’t believe in cringe but i’m just so fucking......

....people have so given up? im pretty certain ot wasn’t like this always

like ok this would be a baseless conspiracy if the person was like ‘ive made a conspiracy theory that secretly actually cohen didn’t write these lyrics uhhhh the goyim did and made him PRETEND he wrote them’ but.......like.....this is also not even like that! this isn’t even actually listening to the lyrics and having your own personal impression of its meaning and deciding ‘based on my own opinion/preference i decided there’s a Cover Up becuz i think these lyrics are goyische’.....there is no content-dependence here at all!!!!

like i understand paranoia and becoming convinced about something without evidence based on brain problems. but this is absolutely nothing like that!!! this is the opposite of that!

this was ‘someone socially-mirrored an incorrect but social-capital-advantageous implication that it was a true and documented but little-known fact that cohen didn’t write the popular lyrics, and therefore this person set a perfectly opaque and content-indifferent lens of a preconceived opinion between themself and the lyrics and, based solely on their previous assumption that the lyrics were written by a goy and not cohen, decided, totally irrespective of what the lyrics were, to say they supported the pre-approved answer of So Obviously These Lyrics Suck And Anyone Can Tell That Cohen’s Real Ones Are Better And Any Real Jew Can Smell The Goy Radiating Off It Am I Right. like.....

apart from the fact that this effect is so powerful it can convince a jew that lyrics like Well maybe there’s a God above But all I’ve ever learned from love Is how to shoot somebody who outdrew you is Christianized and Unjewish, it’s also that just.......people have intellectually given up! they really have given up on being able to react sincerely to themselves with self-honesty when some information comes to them (that’s including if they are too insane or paranoid to do logical deduction or get out of a delusion or realize the ‘information’ was batshit nonesense, as i have experienced being!) and have just.......decided that the authenticity-status of the person saying a thing (not the content of what they’re saying) is THE way to identify truthfulness or believability or relevance or even one’s own personal impressions/opinions!!!!! not deciding reality must conform to their personal feelings, but a million times worse — that one’s own personal feelings are determined by the other person’s authenticity-status!

and more than that, that anyone who uses different measurements to form opinions is Maybe A Fake, cuz all Real [jews/x/y/z/insert whatever category] would immediately mystically convenient grok the authenticity through the vibes.

it truly is no different from the trump supporters who support something when trump says it and then immediately denounce the exact same thing if one of the libs says it

[vynnyal]

Throwing random thoughts, headcanons, and a variety of pasta at the wall (but only those having to do with vessels and/or their biology this time): The Thrilling Third Installment™

...aka pretending i can be dark and dramatic jskhdfd

Thk's larger form is not the standard, but the exception. Thk was cited as being "raised and trained to prime form", which people take to mean pk assisted in the vessel's natural growth. However, that conclusion leaves a lot of unanswered questions, most important of which being “then what about Ghost?” In short, I think that train of thought is backwards. Vessels can't grow- they are ageless, and immortal. We know this due to Ghost, despite living as long if not longer than thk, being completely unchanged over the years. The only thing pk trained into "prime form" was thk’s mind and fighting prowess. Their body... well, I think it was mutated. Most likely either directly by pk, or ordered by him- and with the shenanigans happening over in the sanctum, I wouldn't be surprised if Soul was involved, too. In any case, it was in no means natural. Vessels are corpses reanimated by void; neither corpses nor void tend to make drastic changes on their own all that often. Whether pk predicted the vessel’s “issues” and intended to manually “upgrade” them from the beginning, it's hard to say. But... yeah. Unless Ghost goes out of their way to make themselves grow- if its even possible, now that pk is gone- its fairly safe to say, they never will.

...with that in mind, we are promptly gonna ignore that for the rest of this post lmaooo

Grown-up vessels wouldn't look like thk; while they are described as being raised into "prime form"... prime form, to whom? Rather than looking like an idealized pk soldier, it sounds much more fitting that they’d have an entirely different, natural adult form. Consider: their cloaks being longer and fuller, perhaps filling out into something with a more practical use to their “species”. Better yet, they could even grow up to be more beast-like. Feral vessels, YEhaW

The black egg temple is cited as being "built to sustain [vessels]", yet it can't be their lifespan that is sustained. Rather, it seems the egg is specifically designed to keep the radiance from tearing thk apart, physically and/or mentally. Ngl its p obvious, but worth noting.

Sorta-au where Ghost’s shade has 8 eyes, and/or is generally all-around more cryptid-looking.

@ the sharpshadow charm and the strange, 6-eyed creature their shade turns into: kudos to this post, they bring up something super interesting- the creature not only resembles the Shade Lord, but the lord outright becomes it during the Embrace the Void cutscene.

makes me respect the ol’ civilization a whole lot more if a single charm can turn a baby shade into a baby lord.

The concept of finding ghosts unconscious body, laying next to a corpse, while they battle in their dreams. Alt: when ghost enters the dream realm, their shade leaves their shell... And protects their body from harm.

If steel soul mode is taken as canon, just how did ghost and the shade meet? Alt: Ghost may never have “met” it at all, as it technically doesn’t exist in that mode- instead, its more of a metaphor than an actual entity.

What the vessels looked like- or were supposed to look like- before the void. Alt: a story following a child, alive and untouched, that somehow managed to be spared. They could even have a gender. Alt alt: the void intentionally spared them for some purpose, or even out of simple kindness- or at least, something that resembles kindness.

Re: the shade inexplicably having a nail: all the vessel's swords are crafted from “will-bearing rock”- of which i’ve come to lovingly call living stone- and as such, are of void themselves. That's how the shade seems to conjure up its own copy; it merely shapes it, from the ground, using void. And, while more of a stretch, Ghost’s nail being some sort of living stone/pale ore alloy could explain just how Ghost can do seemingly pretty crazy things with an otherwise ordinary nail. Better, while 100% a baseless hc, its material might actually enable Ghost to build it up and modify it to suite their size as they grow older. finally, a logical reason adult Ghost has an adult-sized nail-claymore. hdsfghjfghdsjf

On that same thought: Ghost outright invented the "art" of manipulating- or creating- living stone to make their nail. ...gimme a sec. The other escaped vessels have nails, too, right? Either meaning they also discovered this ability... or that theres some legitimate ground for the “vessel gang” hc. Or, yanno, i’m reading too much into Ari’s sprites but sHHhh

How did all the vessels know to race to the top? They seemed to be falling merely because they had just been born and had literal, actual baby strength; yet not only did they inexplicably risk everything competing to the top, they somehow knew death was waiting if they lost. Alt: pk just, bringing a fucking megaphone and telling them like a sports announcer.

What if Ghost made it, and instead of falling, they managed to joined thk at the lip? What would pk do? Push them off the edge??? Or just adopt them both?? Oh fuck au where they're raised as twin sacrifices. Or worse yet, they’re raised unequally, and one is trained only as an afterthought. As a backup.

Alternatively, pk keeps all the vessels au, only a few years later when they're grown. Pk now has a literal army of pure knights. Radiance is fucked.

Hm. If vessels were fully coherent entities from the moment of birth, why was there a crib in the white palace? Did... did they use it? I have a feeling team cherry made that asset before the abyss scene lmaooo alt: they did, uh, use the crib. Cue a very awkward scene of thk, clearly not a normal baby, staring at wl with like... idk, the poofy baby hat and pacifier. I can’t tell if the image is more funny or more sad rn shdfgfjsdgg

The og notes that inspired this post, in case my rambling makes more sense (and w/o the awful comic hjsfgjsdfhj): Oh oh OH i GET it now. The void is all about "will" and whatnot, right? And shades are "fragments of a lingering will"- will, like the one you leave after your death, but instead of inheritance its the vessels' desires...last regrets.... DAMN team cherry, that symbolism is clever as heck. That took me a while. Kinda funny how a will is, technically, a person's last regrets Like I knew they were last regrets but I didn't understand WHY. Duh, it's because they're literally Made Of Will. They are the vessel's "wills". I'm so stupid.

Ghost, walking thru the abyss, getting increasingly fed up / freaked out, ducking into a crack in the wall. They follow the crack into the Scream Chamber, pause, then exhale in relief that this was EXACTLY what they needed.

Ghost's shade rolling up its void-sleeves like “fuck it, ima defeat thk myself”

Why was thk's sword there? Was its pedestal decayed? Did it fall from their body? Was it place there as an afterthought, or hurriedly? alt: taking thk's sword before freeing them, but doing the mom thing like you're grounding them hdhfjchjch

I can’t believe it just occured to me now, but... as objectivley stupid as the vessel’s test was, Ghost... technically came in second place. What if that whole scene was a metaphor? Because really, it’s just too silly to take seriously. To do so isn’t too far fetched, either; many other elements in the game’s story are better taken as symbolic or metaphorical, anyways. Take the PoP cutscene- while it could’ve been a literal moment, where they just happened to find themselves standing around and took the moment to appreciate each other... imo it makes much more sense to read it as the concept of their faint ~forbidden love~ and parental pride itself. Or, better yet, the scene at the end of the 4th pantheon. Sorry, but I severely doubt that was an actual event. What I’m trying to get at is the significance of “second place” in the cutscene. My brain is too fried to chase down any other possible connections to this theme rn (if thats even what the theme is), but even without proof, the theory smooths out a few interesting tidbits related to just how Ghost could tough it out when all others failed. All except for #1, anyway. Either way I’m just happy to take this as an excuse to pretend that cutscene didn’t literally happen because like, l m a o

The story of a small group of vessels as they work together to escape hallownest. (aka the aforementioned vessel gang hc... im sure theres a more formal name but you get the idea). Its impossible to tell how long it took them to discover that near-invisible hole, the last exit remaining after the king ordered the abyss to be sealed up. Once they did, however, the remaining vessels were quick to make a desperate scramble to escape- only for the entrance to suddenly crumble shut, far, far too soon. The remaining 8 slowly made their way through deepnest, their numbers quickly dwindling as the jouney started to take its toll. The group was nearly wiped out by those terrible, spiney-legged creatures that used their own kinship against them. Only three finally escaped the deep, yet only two made it through the basin- the third, largest sibling, left to fight alone againt a hopeless battle, just to buy the others time. It was in greenpath, so close yet so far to their goal, that the second succumbed to the infection. It was a mercy killing, that nail through the heart. The last, after all of that, finally made their way to the very precipice of howling cliffs, hesitating for just a moment to gaze out upon the still-fresh ruins of hallownest. But only for a moment, before Ghost jumps down to begin their journey beyond this wretched place.

A vessel running from its shade as it tirelessly pursues them, the vessel refusing to put it to rest.

tw: suicide, + personal on main

Ugh ugh ugh ugh Either thk was fully conscious and in terrible pain for all those years... or they couldn’t feel anything at all. The former is horrible, but imagining thk waking up, chained, unable to do anything but wait for Ghost to heed their call? Did they turn their nail on themselves to help Ghost, end the pain, or some awful mix of both? For someone who has personally dealt with close friends and family that struggled with suicide themselves, hollowknight is one of the worst horror stories I've ever seen. And the fact that the story is so personal, so open to interpretation? The fact that each character is so genuine yet vague enough to be read completely differently to someone else’s biases? Its why hollow knight- the game, and the character- will forever be one of the most powerful stories to me.

in short, good LORD THIS GAME IS SO FUCKING SAD

[moe-lazyeye]

I know what you did, because I’m smart (botgd 2 oneshot)

Dixie glanced around the safe house as Blunt stood across from him with folded arms. “How very...like Scruffy to have a place such as this. It’ll make an excellent place to hide and house half breed refugees. Protective and camouflage wards by the Weaver himself...Your man is such a dear.”

Blunt didn’t say a word, and just starred his cousin down.

Dixie squinted a little, and then tsked once. “A horrible turn of events. But I have relief supplies heading to the rebellion in troves. As much as I can afford for free, and a discount for the rest. I intend to only make enough of a profit to replenish the depleted charity stock, and pay for my...task forces. Anyone they catch complying with that ridiculous ‘kill on sight’ order will have their head’s pasted and remains sent home in a box before they have time to reconsider the error of their ways...” He paused as the uncomfortable silence returned. “Oh good heavens Blunt what is it? Why are we here?” 

“So you can talk freely.” Blunt told him, and motioned at the walls. “This place is nearly invisible, impervious to sounds escaping to the outside...I want you to, at least once, admit what you did...” 

Dixie lowered his casually raised hand. “Oh? A confession? Pray tell cousin, what on earth do you mean?” 

“You know what Dixie, others treating me as a fool is fine, that’s what I present, and that’s what I like. But you’re different. You call me an oaf and dimwitted, but I’m as smart  as you are and you know it.” 

Dixie barked a laugh. “Oh my, this is rich. What a claim. And what makes you think that?”

Blunt’s fingers tightened on his arms. “Because I’ve been thinking about Opie’s arrest...and something else that Sweetbutt had talked to me about a while ago that I didn’t consider connected to anything...until now.” He began to pace a bit. “I kept asking myself, what would I do, if I were you...”

“If you were me doing what?” Dixie asked in a brazen challenge, only there was a small element of vulnerability behind the words. 

“Taking revenge against Darien.” Blunt answered, and Dixie’s expression soured. The larger man held up a finger. “Sweetbutt, Akkey, and I...we all changed a lot. We all went from bad people, to better people. Seeing Darien do the same made us see him differently than how you see him. It’s no mystery you wanted retribution for the genocide he caused. You don’t relate-”

“Yes, pardon me for not relating to the likes of Darien.” Dixie interrupted. “By the way, lovely perpetuated mess that we’re dealing with to this day on account of him.”

“You exploited Opie.” Blunt accused flatly, and didn’t let his cousin’s interruption take him off track. “You left your gun, and he stole it, just as you instructed him. He used it to attack Darien, and went on the run to maintain the element that this all wasn’t just a set up. You ‘discovered your weapon missing’ at a moment where you could have been killed by not having it, and reported it missing immediately, to deliberately link yourself to the crime. You’d be confronted, but there wouldn’t be enough evidence to convict, and in a twisted way, you’d seem more innocent by appearing as the initial suspect, only to be dismissed later...you used the rebellion’s mercy against them. There’s no way they will, or even could, give Opie a punishment even close to the severity Darien, or Indigo got. Especially since no one died.” He gave him a s tern look. “Am I wrong?”

Dixie leaned forward menacingly. “Why would Opie agree to something insane like that? I took exception of his and his father’s situation sure, but it wasn’t personal. So why would I even seek him out?”

“Because you had the one thing he wanted. A chance for revenge. You found Rhenco...his tormentor, and traded his location to Opie in exchange for the job. Opie is smart too, he knew he’d get away with it. What makes it worse in some ways, is that because of your, often valid I’ll admit, criticisms, you and Grey managed to create something that fully utilized the rebellions lenient approach to matters, while still ensuring victim safety and justice. You literally exploited the last loophole before it was permanently patched up...You deny it?”

Dixie didn’t say anything.

Blunt gave an annoyed hiss. “Come on Dixie. The Brotherhood can’t hear you in here. Yeah, I know about them, Stonegit told me, and I’m figuring they threw a wrench in your gears in a way that forced you to take this convoluted approach.” His shoulders lessoned their tension a bit. “There’s only one reason you’d be willing to be so quiet over something, even if you erased all the evidence...and that’s if you were hurting...”

Dixie strode forward with a flare in his eyes. “Hurting? Try practicality. Let me tell you a little something about whether or not something is worth confessing to Blunt Elmiss.” He pushed a finger into his chest as he tilted his chin up at him. “You think I’d risk admitting to this insane conspiracy theory of yours for even a second? Based on everything I’ve seen? I make a bounty against a man who murdered hundreds of thousands, and the next day an innocent secretary almost gets his throat slit over people who ‘support the rebellion.’ I see the charred bodies of people, and children, I knew, people and children I was supposed to take care of. I spoke softly and I was scorned. I spoke louder and I was shut down. I became angry in my approach, and I was seen as a greater enemy than the man who killed all those people! Why?! I know why! Donz...Donz! Donz! DONZ! That name, thrown in my face time and time again, as if I were somehow Orskaf!”

He paced away as he threw his hands over his head. “Oh but then there was you. You, you perfect angel. You loveable trickster. You, who was, and is, and will always be just like me. But your cheery, stupid, wide eyed face has disassociated you with your grandfather long ago. And yet I, was linked to man who wasn’t even in my nuclear family! Yes! I’ll admit it Blunt, I was harsh, I was unkind in those very specific moments. But I was also silenced, in all but formality I was driven off the island, and the only thing I ever wanted to do for them was help. FUCK! I’m still helping them, and I always will! No matter how angry they made me, I saw the good past it, there was never any doubt...so why couldn’t the same be done for me!? You want me to confess? Well then first look me in the eye and tell me they’d accept me one day...”

Silence fell between them. Dixie blinked, and then slowly brought a hand up to grab at the front of his shirt. He seemed...shocked. Shocked at how much he had, and was, feeling in that moment. It was...hurt...just as Blunt had said. The man folded his arms and turned away. 

Blunt crossed his arms as well after a pause. “If I had known they were throwing your name back in your face...I’ve knocked their heads. I’m sorry...”

“Think nothing of it.” Dixie said in an attempted dismissal. “I understand, I act the part.”

“I might be mad at you for what I know you did...whether you’ll ever admit it or not...but in grand total...you haven’t done anything worse than half the people on that island...You’re a hard pill to swallow, and I think I hate you most days. And I think this is a valuable lesson for you to learn, that good deeds, and being good at what you don’t, don’t mean a lot when you’re an asshole to people.”

Dixie sniffed once as if in mockery, but there was a bitter edge to it.

“But.” Blunt held up a hand, and sighed. “I think you also showed us where some weaknesses lie. And I’m not even talking about the criminal justice. The rebellion...it used to have a unity about it, even if someone was a total dick. Akkey and Tree, Grey and Seasick, Greg and Haddock, Stonegit and Skye...there were so many people that had huge blow outs, and moments where they couldn’t agree on anything. But we were all in the mess together, and we were intent on seeing it through...I think we lost some of that. Dixie...I wanted you off Haligan because I wanted you here, where you could have help, where you...”

Dixie glanced at him.

Blunt searched for the right word. “Well where you had people that really loved you.”

Dixie blinked, and then glanced around as if he hadn’t quite understood what he meant. 

“You were ostracized by the one group of people you actually wanted to be friends with. A lot of it was your fault, and lot of it was theirs. There’s no some in this one. Everyone fucked up. And it hurt you. Because you never meant for that to happen. Even when you tried to make it right, you probably never lost a certain tight feeling in your chest...you’re not alone. Stones in particular knows what that’s like...”

With his back still turned to him, Dixie swallowed thickly. “Please Blunt.” He droned. “Just because you always called me by my right name, said you liked my dress when we were kids in front of all your cool friends who had seen it fit to throw dirt at me, doesn’t mean any of this monologue means anything coming from you...”

Blunt shook his head a little. “Your walls don’t have to come down right away, or even all at once Dixie. But its high time you knew that I saw them just as clearly as you saw mine.” He dared to step a little closer to him. “You saved my relationship Dixie, with both Stones, and Akkey...I can’t even begin to think about how I could repay you for that alone. At the same time, you’re an angry, violent person who maims people who stole something as lifeless as money. You can’t be both of those things...eventually you’ll have to choose one...” 

“Not a fan of duplicity hm?” Dixie asked coyly, but there was still that strange, uncharacteristic strain in his voice.

Blunt held out a hand, and when his cousin glanced at him, he saw it in his eyes. It was the same look he saw in Stonegit’s eyes, Akkey’s eyes. The trauma, the hurt, the baseless compulsive reaction to hide it all and bear it alone. “Come home with me...stay in the loft for a while.” Blunt invited him. “With Stones working so much and Akkey back out in the field...I could use the company...and so could you...”

Dixie regarded him, and then took his hand in-between two fingers. “Well...very well I suppose...”

And so Blunt walked out from the safehouse with his cousin. It was not the first time in recent history, nor would it be the last, that he raked the coals over this man for his poor choices. But there was also a sudden resurgence of familial protectiveness he hadn’t felt in a very long time, and he knew he would have choice words with others as well, and maybe even a demon, which was certainty saying something.      

[secret-engima]

I'm dying about the conspiracy theories! Is there someone that actually believes them, or sometimes has doubts? A glaive maybe? Does it become an inside joke at least, Ardyn making constant references to her Accursed status and all that, and Nox going with it while everyone else either sighs or thinks it's funny? 'The truth is' Ardyn says grandly one day 'I'm actually the founder king's older sister!' 'You could just say you don't want to go to the memorial for Mors, Ardyn' Regis sighs

Pffft *slaps table* I’m dying this ask made me legit wheeze.

Titus, being someone who was involved in Niflheim (if only briefly before Ardyn’s Spell happened) is actually one of the few who ... very secretly believes the conspiracy theories? Like- it makes sense to him in a really off the wall way. The way Nox acts, the scars, the lack of knowing how to Taur, the Quiet Days in the Hall of Arts. He’ll never ADMIT to it, but after watching the video in secret on one of his days off, he ... yeah okay. He might believe it just a bit. Again tho, he’ll NEVER admit it and will fiercely defend Ardyn from anyone who vocally does. One because excuse you that’s his Queen you’re slandering and two ... Ardyn is happy. Content. Alive and vibrant and loving. Does it really matter whether or not she USED to be anything other than what she is now? Titus frankly doesn’t think so, and so doesn’t care.

He does tend to make pointed comments on her status as a Normal Taur when she gets a little too trollish with her cryptid status, just to keep things under control.

No one else really believes it, though Cor has had doubts once in a while, but then brushes them off as stupid.

The Glaive are taking cues from their Captain on how to behave. Their superstitions would easily buy into the Accursed thing, but ... rule one of the old legends, if the monster falls in love with a taur (either platonic adoption like in the case of Nox or romantic like in the case of Cor) and loves that taur enough to shed their former skin as an immortal nightmare, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you provoke or try to remind the monster of what they once were. Ever. Nada. NOPE. You treat them like a normal taur and an accepted family member. Because yeah, Ardyn makes all sorts of jokes about it and finds the opinions of strangers amusing, but if ever pushed by someone with emotional leverage....

Well.

The legends give very good reasons while you never push a monster into reverting to its immortal, ravenous form.

So the glaives treat it as a joke too, they tease each other with in-jokes and laugh when Ardyn says something dramatic about her status as an eldritch abomination because yeah, it is funny. Because right NOW, Ardyn is just a normal Taur, the half-sister of their king and aunt of their Princes. The fact that she may or may not have ACTUALLY once been something Other is politely ignored.

And, as Libertus points out, she probably IS just a normal Taur with a bunch of mental eccentricities and not a former monster of any sort. It is exactly in Ardyn’s personality to make them doubt that fact just to see them squirm. The glaives all nod to this logic and feel their shoulders relax as suspicion washes away, because yeah, that makes just as much sense, if not more, than the “actually and eldritch immortal monster that gave up her mortality and monster form” thing.

Regis and Co and basically all non-Galahdians in the Citadel don’t buy it at all. It’s just baseless rumors. To be fair, they’ve seen some pretty crazy conspiracies before about other members of their group (like Cor being actually immortal via eating the hearts of his fallen enemies, the Lucis Caelums being vampires, Aulea being a witch that made Regis fall in love with her via a love potion, and Amicitia feathers granting good luck in romantic endeavors) so REALLY this is just the most viral of all the theories and Ardyn is just the kind of taur that likes making it worse. Not to mention all of the “Prince Nox is going to overthrow the king!!!!!” tabloid articles that keep coming out.

Ardyn totally says this one day. Just- grandly flings out her arms and cheerfully says that she is actually the older sister of the Founder King! Regis just rolls his eyes and says “Really, Ardyn, if you don’t want to come to the memorial for Mors you CAN just say so. I won’t mind.”

Ardyn lowers her arms and smirks, “Where would the fun in that be?”

[minijenn]

Sigh...

Alright, enough is enough. 

Time to give a certain someone exactly what they want. 

(long, drama-related post under the cut imo)

So since I would say around May or April, just about every single day, several times a day, I’ve been receiving a handful of negative guest/anon reviews on both UF and Keys on Ao3 and FF.Net alike. The crux of every single one of these reviews basically boils down to hatred for the Stonemason idea being used in UF2, specifically the idea that Yellow Diamond will be redeemed after it. To be even more specific, here are some things this individual (and despite using several different “names” to post these reviews under, I am well aware that they’re all coming from the same person) has accused me of: 

1. Singling Dipper out for “baseless angst” (when that’s not even true, that entire arc will stir up angst for just about everyone). Also says I’m wrong just for enjoying writing angst when its a genre that a lot of people like writing/reading, I’m not the only one smh it’s popular for a reason. 

2. Being willing to let YD get off scott-free for what she does to Dipper in that arc (something that I never said and even if I did say it in the past that’s not necessarily my current plan now) just because her and the other Diamonds were redeemed in SU canon (which again, I have confirmed that I’m not necessarily following to the letter and I’m still currently very much in the process of trying to figure out what I want to do in that regard)

3. The Stonemason arc being an example of “bad writing” and being full of “holes” despite the fact that its NOT written yet and WON’T be written for another few years or so at this rate

4. Claiming that the only reason why I’m willing to let YD off the hook for her actions is because I see her as “attractive” and a “wiafu”, despite the fact that anytime I say that I’m clearly joking, that’s what I do around here smh 

5. Making several blatant attacks on my person, including calling me a fascist, an incel, a pedophile, homophobic (despite the fact that I, myself, am bisexual), claiming that I’m “creepy” for writing fanfiction, claiming that I am a “middle age man” (I’m a 24 year old woman), claiming that I have no sense of morality, get off on torturing children/child abuse, and a number of other horrible, baseless claims 

6. Claims that Dipper needs to get revenge on YD by shattering her when that would stir up an entire whole other mess of problems, by 1. starting an entirely new Gem war no doubt since Blue and White would be livid 2. completely against Dipper’s character entirely and against the spirit of GF, SU, and UF 3. not at all “cathartic” and is really just simple, sociopath thinking expected from a small, immature child obsessed with the idea of “getting even” without growing from an experience and moving on to become the better person instead. Which of course, is probably what this individual is. 

7. Has said insane, immature, stupid shit like this. There really is no making this up: 

Mind you that this person has left these reviews not just on UF, but on Keys to the Kingdom, a KH fanfic that has nothing to do with UF, but these reviews are still very specific to UF all the same, which yes, does basically make this spam. And indeed it is spam because today alone so far, I have already gotten 6+ reviews from this single person alone:

This person also loves taking things I’ve said here on the blog in answers to asks from years ago out of context, never mind the fact that they might not be in line with ideas I currently have and/or again, are completely without context to what the original conversation was so they can twist whatever I said to fit their bizarre, hateful agenda. Here’s a taste of some of today’s fare, for reference: 

At first, I thought this whole thing was just a troll, but really at this point it’s become legitimate harassment. I’m not, nor have I ever asked, everyone and anyone to accept and enjoy everything in UF. I know some people don’t like the Stonemason arc, that’s fine. But I also want people to understand that I haven’t even written the damn thing yet. My entire plotting process for both UF and UF2 alike are always in flux, even from chapter to chapter, in both large ways and small. Minor details and big ones are going to change with time. Not that this person cares about that since they’ve already decided a long time ago that they hate both me and my work for whatever reason (seriously I have no idea what i did to them to provoke any of this). 

(also before any of you say “oh well Jen, just turn off guest reviews and this will end!” Ao3 and FF.Net don’t give authors the option to do that, so I’m pretty much stuck where I currently am with this whole terrible situation unfortunately)

Now mind you I do have a theory about who this individual actually is but I’m no going to address that here because stirring others to action against them isn’t my intention with this post. My intention is something I’m sure they’re not even going to listen to but I’d like to make an earnest appeal all the same, so now, my dude, let’s speak to you individually. Since you clearly want attention so badly in all this, looks like you’re finally about to get exactly that. 

Look. I get that you don’t like this whole Stonemason arc. Again that’s fine, you don’t have to like it. But you sending me these reviews every single day, day in and day out is not going to change my mind, especially given your downright malicious tone in every single one of these. Consider, just for a moment, that I’m an actual person behind this screen, a person with feelings and thoughts of my own just like you are. A person who is out here writing fanfictions because it is something that gives me a personal sense of enjoyment to see a story I’ve crafted play out, and enjoyment in how others interact with my work. Your reviews haven’t changed any of that, I’m going to keep on writing despite them and I’m going to keep on taking pride in my work regardless of anything you have to say. That’’s what being the bigger person is all about. 

 But before sending any more of your petty little reviews, just... all I’m asking is that you think about what you’re saying and why. Does sending these reviews make you feel like you’re superior to me? Is that really what you need to feel some sense of fulfillment? Because really, friend, you could find that sort of fulfillment in something much more genuine and wholesome. Read a book, watch a movie or TV show you really love, go outside and take a walk, hell even write your own fic if you despise mine so much. But just... maybe try to find something else to do with your time instead of attempting to tear other people down for no reason. 

I highly doubt this is going to change anything, hell you may not even read this to begin with, because again, you’ve already decided you hate me for some reason and that’s fine. Go ahead and hate me. I just want you to maybe do a little self reflection and consider that what you’re doing only makes you look bad in the end. 

And with that, MiniJen’s out. Peace. ❤

[sunshinetidings]

seeing this heritage post led my friend and i to have a whole bitch ass convo in our discord server that i will transcribe here because i refuse to believe that anderson fucks

involves: @woodenstringsandcrickets, @jazzforyourinnards, @tawhoreblews, @ha-youwish but pretty much only @woodenstringsandcrickets

keep in mind: we havent rewatched sherlock in a While

jamie: i love the sexually active part it’s so unnecessary

me: hes not sexually active and thats that on that he doesnt fuck he lied she lied too he didnt pay her money to fuck, he paid her money to lie and say they did she made bank off his virgin ass

jamie: he and donoven ||fucked||, aurora

me: nope! they lied nope! sherlock is dumb as shit hes fucking stupid okay i figured it out hold on i can explain the whole thing

jamie: in real life YES but in the show he has a massive fucking brain and is right all the time sherlock is the chad of science

me: they knew that sherlock would want to do some stupid show-off-y deduction so anderson paid donovan to agree to do some fake evidence shit to throw sherlock off his bitch ass rhythm huh

jamie: he is like written to be the smartest character do you really think hed be thrown off huh you really fucking think that

me: yknow how sherlock didnt pay full attention to all of his mary deductions? how he couldnt deduce anything from irene while she was butt-ass naked? there are flaws in his deduction and they took advantage of his bitchass that thinks people are always having affairs i think that while sherlock is pretty smart he is also a bitch ass motherfucker who is overconfident and convinces people hes right because of it even if he isnt

jamie: OKAY but both of those situations are weak to compare to this one

nikolai: you fucking nerds smh

me: sometimes his shits are so outlandish ppl just believe it bc he explained it but really it was convoluted and he isnt always convinced himself

jamie: irene- attraction, sex distracted him mary: he IGNORED the deductions but he still HAD them

me: uh oh ! irene too sexy no can deduce distracted! pozofasuhaksdcar

jamie: exactly this does not translate to donovan and anderson

tahoe: Idk who irene is but she’s probably too sexy for me

jamie: because those are are assholes who hes used to and likes to embarras

me: but consider this sherlock stupid want impress watson dumb man

jamie: fuck fuck you fucking got me fuck

me: he said: friend???? need him to like me. impress time

jamie: exactly

me: deduce…………

jamie: nonoono wait

me: that fucking ‘scratch near phone charge hole means drunkard?’ deduce………… need impress john

jamie: okay okay yeah that was to impress him but here me the fuck out

me: i here dw

jamie: then WHY were donovan and anderson embarrassed and didnt rebuttal

me: acting

jamie: also fuck

me: next question

jamie: THATS NOT SUPPORTED BY ANY EVIDENCE AURORA BASELESS

me: im smart my meat is huge and so is my iq

jamie: i know but consider youre wrong

me: > they knew that sherlock would want to do some stupid show-off-y deduction so anderson paid donovan to agree to do some fake evidence shit to throw sherlock off his bitch ass rhythm acting

jamie: okay but why would they do that

nikolai: [bush image]

jamie: what sparked them to do that

me: to bully sherlock

nikolai: [like he straight up just sent picutres of pres bush]

jamie: so they would be embarrassed?

me: they later revealed to watson the whole lie

apple: why

jamie: that was never a scene

me: so he would question sherlock’s ability

jamie: holy shit

me: it was all leading up to sherlock faking his death after they tricked him and he said that shit they reached out to him and they were like “dumbass we fooled you bitch” and he was like ‘hm. i can use this’ so when he started planning how he would fake his death, he asked them to tell john to sow the seed of doubt all for the build up when sherlock was like “its true im a fraud bye lol *jumps*”

jamie: youre just writing fanfic now

me: no thats it im done thats the whole theory THE TRUTH

jamie: you just plotted out a fanfic

me: anderson does not fuck and that whole bitch is my proof post s2 sherlock is a chad

jamie: fanfic tag- canon divergence: anderson doesnt fuck