#Samama Khalid

[redstringredeye]

He’s just like me for real

[senaridaes]

Patiently waiting for the fanart of Sam wearing sunglasses and that one shirt that says "I'm not a step dad, I'm the dad who stepped up"

[just-a-lidle-creacher]

this episode killed me. celia is a MOTHER? sam used to VAUGEPOST? gwen is literally JONATHAN SIMS? lena is basically ELIAS BOUCHARD? SOME OF THEM ARE BENEVOLENT?????????

[melandrops]

Sam broke up with Alice.

He broke up with Alice because she didn't know how to take some things seriously. She didn't know when to turn off the jokes. She made one too many jokes about something that wasn't funny and Sam got sick of it.

Do you ever wonder if Alice sat alone in her flat, wishing she was a different person so that she could be what Sam wanted?

And now he needs a job and she wants him back in her life. As a coworker, as a friend, anything. She'll take anything. She misses him.

She's learned her lesson this time. And now every time Sam tells Alice to "turn it off" she does so without any hesitation. She shuts right the hell up. She doesn't do that with any other person in the office. But for Sam, she'll try and be what he wants her to be.

And he goes and gets a crush on his coworker. Not Alice, though. Never Alice. No, he gets a crush on the beautiful, emotionally available girl that he has no past with and all the promises of a future. And she has to watch him bounce around her in a twitter pated mess, trying and failing to flirt and she remember what it was like when he was flirting with her. She remember that sweet, earnest care he gave her and how he too once offered her his good teas.

Maybe it wasn't enough just to be coworkers, to be friends. But it's too late now.

And now he comes back from his date, drunk and happy and looking like he's just a few more dates from getting lucky. She probably doesn't make awkward jokes because she doesn't know how to be real and authentic. Celia's probably perfect for Sam, the way Alice never was.

And now all Alice has left are the jokes, so she makes them and she hopes they hide everything.

They don't. Of course they don't.

"Be professional."

And now she's standing there. The ex girlfriend who's not over her old flame and everyone in the office knows it. She's standing there alone and Sam has robbed her of all the jokes.

Who is she without them?

[ceaseless-watchers-special-girl]

i'm... *inhales* happy you're happy

bullshit detector: BEEP

[riveracheron]

so sam’s initial test grades for - what seems to be the magnus entrance exam, i think? were part of the ARG.

and knowing he was rejected from the institute puts his score into an interesting position

because sam had the highest recorded empathy of any of the kids at a 98% empathy index.

and if he was rejected…

are they looking…for low empathy kids? for what??

[mintytea-exe]

the episode starting with developing the chronology of Sam's bad luck and then launching into a casement immensely focused on luck doesn't look good for Sam at all

[starsandwriting]

SAMAMA KHALID YOU ARE SO REAL for being an overachieving gifted kid and getting hung up on the first people who rejected you. You are so unbelievably real for that

[thswrtchdthng]

"the most pathetic vague-post she had ever seen"

I'm sobbing I need to see that

Sam having a sadboy era sounds so fucking funny

[squiddymaru]

I draw nothing for a while then BOOM! Protocol is consuming my waking days (Not complaining).

[brainbleedo]

No I will not be elaborating.

[ghostnotoast]

I'M CLAWING AT THE WALLS BECAUSE OF THE PARALLELS BETWEEN SAM AND OLIVER BANKS PLEASE

Does the story of Sam's breakdown sound familiar to anyone?? It really reminds me of Oliver Banks' story

Oliver got a job at Barclays, but he ended up having a nervous breakdown, which was the start of his fall to The End

After a while of being unemployed, he got a job at a crystal shop where he worked with Jane Prentiss (who fell into the corruption eventually)

In this case, Sam's crystal shop would be the OIAR

Oliver mentions breaking up with Graham Folger and Graham lost his parents in a car accident

ANDDD WE FIND OUT ALICE'S PARENTS ARE ALSO DEAD AND SHE'S SAM'S EX DO YOU SEE THE PARALLELS POOKIE

In tma, Graham got replaced by the not-them, so is this foreshadowing something will happen to alice god I hope not (but its also implied in tma that Graham knew more about the entities then he let on, same with Alice, remember the no glitch when she said she 'knows'?)

In this case, would Sam have his own 'Jane Prentiss'?

So far, we've been trying to draw parallels on the OIAR staff and the original archival staff,

but what if we've been making parallels with the wrong characters?

[aliet-jayne]

I've seen a few "I'm the only normal one here" jokes since tmagp started. I disagree.

[murderandcoffee]

I wonder what the final straw is going to be between alice and sam. a flippant remark or too-sharp dig from alice? another step back or half-hearted appeasement from sam? differences in beliefs, in motivations, in coping mechanisms? a monstrous entity, or a coworker?

how will they finally fall apart? what will be the final strike that drives a wedge between them that neither of them can overcome?

[melandrops]

yeah if i was her i would be throwing things

[thermodynamic-comedian]

what i think oiar employees listen to at work:

alice - welcome to nightvale

sam - white noise or r&b playlists

gwen - malevolent

colin - death metal

lena - the scp foundation database

celia - the magnus archives