I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after
The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually
Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-
He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.
And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.
When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings
"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.
It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)
"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species
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they don’t let gale smoke not because the real guy didn’t yeah it’s actually because he needs something to bite and chew on at all times to temper the dreadful yucky hungering beast in the shape of a wet eyed 12 year old that lives just beneath the flimsy veneer of hypermasculine self control and yes the gay blue scarf told me that personally
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throw back to when a local pitmommy launched a freakishly long lasting campaign against me on nextdoor bc I told her I didn't wanna sit for her XL rescue bully, & also that it's heinously irresponsible to keep that thing in the house with her toddlers. I literally referred her to countless news stories of little kids being mauled by dogs they raised lovingly since they were puppies-let alone her giant beast that was quite possibly raised in some depraved dogfighting ring (though I'm sure the fuckass animal shelter tried to say it was a "bait dog" lol. newsflash, these dogs always go for the kill when theyre set off, if it was a meek little bait dog it would be dead). she literally implied I'm a racist (yes, really) for not wanting to read about her kids horrible painful deaths in the paper. she was like "I don't care about the stats, it's still 1 in 10,000 chance" hello?? if a plane had a 1 in 10,000 chance of crashing would you put your daughters on it or would you choose another goddamn airline that only has a 1 in a million chance of crashing???? fucks sakes
I truly don't understand why these people won't just get a fucking lab or a golden or any of the numerous breeds that are proven to be FAR less likely to snap & kill people out of nowhere. there is nothing you can get from a pit that you can't get from any other breed. I have a theory that they just want to feel like heroes for "saving" a dog that the evil bigots like me would refuse to adopt for silly reasons, like not wanting my family to be mauled. lol
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I think that Mike is going to be the fifth and central victim in season 5. When the Cali gang reaches Hawkins, this is their formation-
Mike is in the middle and there are five people. The formation seems pretty calculated, but it also isn’t the first time we’ve seen this type of formation.
Mike is in the middle of five here too. It’s interesting because these scenes occur in the final episodes, near the end, of the even numbered seasons. It’s an interesting overlap that’s for sure. I don’t think he’s going to be the one to be vecan’d on the hill, however.
They don’t have music so the only reasonable option for a vecna attack on that specific hill it would be Will because we’ve seen him escape without music. Mike has been able to pull him out and we saw in the shed scene that Joyce and Jonathan could break through to him as well.
Part of the reason I can see something like this happening is Victor’s use of “voice of an angel” to describe what broke him out of his vision and Mike is associated with the archangel. Anyway, back to central five. I think Mike will likely disappear just before the time skip and that it will be the inciting event for the time skip either at the end of episode one or two.
He’ll end up in the center again. The library.
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what was the One Scene for showstopper???
This one! I just loved the idea of the detective having whumper cornered, then just wanting so badly to see them in action that they stop and watch instead of saving the victim 🤌🤌🤌
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just as a general internet heuristic, if someone claims that a group they belong to is being systematically harassed by another group allegedly coordinating amongst themselves via private Discord servers, that person is insane
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This Day in 1D History - November 11
2010:
One Direction are very tiny, very cute, and very questionably dressed at the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 premiere in London
2012:
“‘In the nicest possible way I would much rather see any of us punched than Niall,’ says Louis. ‘If you saw someone go to punch Niall you would just go psycho…’ continues Harry. ‘I’d kill him,’ Liam states unequivocally.”
2014:
Liam and Sophia are simply stunning (as usual) at ATP World Tour Finals in London
2017:
🍑🍑🍑 at X Factor UK
2019:
philosopher Niall Horan shares his wisdom
Harry gets the zoomies at SNL
2021:
Harry is unbearably adorable spotting the “Tina, she’s gay!” fan at Love on Tour concert – San Jose, USA
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