#Sfthposting

[bbatcat-09]

Sometimes Tom reminds me of one of those inflatable tube guys

Spot the difference

[insoucianceart]

I’m. I’m gonna need a moment.

[brunette-gremlin]

Reasons to watch 'Sorry about my Nan':

This unholy love child of Midsommar, The Hangover and Saw was specially created by Tom and Luke before they even walked on stage and forced poor Sam and AJ to bend to their will in participating in this fever-dream of a very chaotic A24 movie.

Also, it should be concerning when AJ and Sam are playing the straight men of this play. Probably one of the best performances by AJ, ever.

Another iconic femme Tom role. Another iconic senile Tom role. Another iconic old Tom role. Another iconic supernatural villain Tom role. Also admiring his willingness to get naked on stage.

Sam was definitely repressed and in love with his bestie but even moreso is his absolute despair of having to participate in this batshit performance, both as a character and a performer. Jamie deserves better. Numchucks, numchucks, numchucks.

Luke really did make us believe it really wasn't Lucy in that one scene. He gobbled up the role of every minor character possible. Man really did make this into a fucking psychological absurdist horror by saying the most random shit known to mankind and eveything surprisingly made sense.

Oh AJ. I love it when his average Joe characters suffer. He channeled his inner Florence Pugh to join his beloved grandma in Bergheim with his beloved indoctrinated wife to join her his Nana's cult. Absolutely brilliant. One of the strongest characters ever improvised.

10/10. No notes.

[phantombegruvia]

in your post about sorry about my nan you mentioned a theory about how all the shows link together

my friend and i have been amateurly finding silly links between shows so i’d love to hear your theory ❤️❤️❤️

(feel free to ramble)

Ohmygoshhhh, okayokayokay, this will be a very ramble-y post so RAGH

This is my theory/headcanon about how the Astral Plane could be the thing that links [at least some of the] longforms together, especially the supernatural themed ones.

But first, I want to point out that magic has always existed in the SFTH-verse. This is seen in the existence of witches; Old Lady Margaery, the witches in Moist & Magical, The Dark Moons of Slough and for the sake of this theory I'm going to say that Miss Twiliger (Green Leaves on a Summer's Day) is also a witch.

There are also two types of witch;

"immortal" witches - however they can be killed (OLM)

What I call "generational" witches - witches whose powers get passed down from generation to generation (Moist & Magical)

Miss Twiliger is both. She's lived a very long time (but this is mostly because of her feeding on youth), and some of her abilities passed down to her son.

Flaschem Naschem is also an example of magic that has existed for a long time - Marigolds, Bluebells and Hugh is set in the 1870s. Maybe Margaery, or another witch, created the Bluebell King?

So, yes, magic has always existed in the SFTH-verse, but I don't believe that magic can just be created, it needs to come from somewhere;

The Astral Plane - the place where spirits rest. Where the supernatural is the natural.

The witches have some sort of connection to the Astral Plane, giving them their powers. And for the longest time, only biologically human females could access the Plane. That is, until Jasper was given his grandmother's abilities.

For the longest time, the supernatural was kept within the confines of the Astral Plane, only the witches being able to access the smallest fraction of the Plane. Only beings made of magic are able to see into it, but even then, they can only do so through death (The Grape Depression).

That is until the wall that separated the Astral Plane and the Human Plane was broken.

The Xavier family (The Leftenmost Window), following my definition, are technically witches, and generational ones at that. They, out of everyone I've mentioned so far, have the strongest connection to the Astral Plane so far. It was their story where the Astral Plane was introduced. The Xaviers physically went into it, we saw it happen once, but we know that the mother had gone into the Astral Plane at least once before - at the end of the Boer War.

This caused the wall between Planes to begin to fracture, and for it to further break when both Samantha and her mother went into the Astral Plane. This therefore caused holes in reality to form, allowing the supernatural to creep into the Human Plane, and the non-connected to see (and sometimes enter) the Astral Plane.

Holes can be torn when a pilot goes too fast, and causes him to be stuck in the Astral Plane (The Pilot's Final Flight). Maybe a haberdasher sees the ghost of his old bosses daughter (The Meringue Haberdashery). Maybe a young boy discovers a hole in his wall leading to one of the Astral Plane's most sinister inhabitants (Strange Noises From The Hole In The Wall). Maybe the Astral Plane also serves as a prison for the most devious of phantoms (The Phantom of Hornchurch). Maybe the Astral Plane was the home of a little girl of extraordinary powers (She Came From Beyond). Two friends forced to trial their friendship in some sort of twisted performance on a stage where death isn't permanent (Sorry About My Nan).

The Astral Plane could also have different names; The Beyond, Hell, maybe even The Vault.

Overtime, the inhabitants of the Human Realm learn to control the Astral Plane, even without being connected to it. Mary invented time [astral] penetration (Murders in Space). An aspiring TV presenter could have gotten his hands on this technology - going back in time to a time where television was first taking off, making it easier to become a host (Beetroots & Murder), maybe experimenting with it more and going forward in time a little, and continuing to be a competition host (Burglary & Bobsledding), maybe he accidentally travelled to a different timeline, where the Xaviers never intervened with the first world war, and found himself in Germany, 1916 (Ballet on the Battlefield). Maybe André Beetroot is connected to the Astral Plane more than we know.

Okay, I want to go back to the witches now, I couldn't find a suitable place to out this bit so I'm putting it here. A lot of people headcanon that the football family in The Neighbour's Under The Bed are related to the Xaviers. But I raise you this, what if they are related to Jasper (And Mr. Rumple (Priscilla's Final Petal))? I already said that Jasper was the one to break the mould and allow biologically male humans to also be connected to the Astral Plane. And, as I said, Jasper is a generational witch, his powers gets passed down to his ancestors - but what if it weakens as generations pass? What if Rumple caused their bloodlines connection to dim when he banished Annabelle?

Anyway, TLDR; everything is connected through the Astral Plane, the Xaviers are witches and accidentally caused all the horrors™, all of SFTH's horrors™ are originally from the Astral Plane and André Beetroot is our favourite camp time traveller.

Thank you for reading if you did and let me know if you have any questions :)

[arium-db]

Tom went and made my two hyperfixations (Cabaret & stfh) collide so i was FORCED to draw Tom as Cabaret’s Emcee. (I am never getting over this btw)

[moonsanoverthinker]

I’m back with more text posts!

[red-retro-rose]

There are three certainties in life:

Death

Taxes

And Sam unbuttoning his shirt when the genre is telenovela

[downthesea]

at the stag do. straight up “losing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. My friendship

[ganiedethewitch]

hey yall check out this screengrab I got from accidentally pausing today's scene flurry

[caden-ccc]

WE HAVE ETHEL LORE HELL YEA

I love old lady margaery and ethel being in the same "coven"/witches group.

[drownedscribe]

Another round of live chat comments from the boys! I believe it was AJ and Sam this time round :)

[cassiopeiasfreckles]

Melting butter, a cavalcade of sugar, one million chocolate chips!! And a glass of milk to wash it down

[phantombegruvia]

Rewatched Sorry About My Nan yet again, I have several more thoughts, mainly about Jaime. So I'm going to ramble! Again!

I've seen a lot of people point out his absence in the final scene, and say he's dead. But I don't understand why he would be. He seemed to have fallen for Ethel's manipulation by the end of the trials, even chanting "STAG" before Jim does, so why would she want him dead? (Unless the Jaime we see at the end of the third trial wasn't the real Jaime, and was actually Tom's Cabaret character (I'm calling him Emcee again), but that's another can of worms that we can deal with later)

I want to build on @cook-a-little-chicken 's theory a little, who says that the wedding was part of the trails, but also that Jaime had become part of the show. I just want to provide a little bit of evidence before we talk about that.

First of all, when Emcee asks for Jaime's name, he messes up and says "Michael". And secondly, he thinks that Emcee is Ethel. This is obviously a mistake on Sam's behalf, but in the context of the theory, it's pretty grim; Jaime is losing himself. He's seeing Ethel in places where she isn't, he's forgetting his own name, choosing a common one in hopes that he's right.

Emcee never introduces himself, never addresses himself - he may not remember ever having a name. Wilhelm introduces himself, maybe he's not been there as long as Emcee? Or maybe he chose Wilhelm because of the Wilhelm Scream - a classic sound effect many movies and TV shows use, and have been using since the 1950s. (I can't put into words why this makes sense to me and why I believe it's relevant, it just does)

Back to Jaime, he cared when Wilhelm "died", staying with him before getting dragged into the next trial. Maybe this was the first time in a while that somebody had shown them kindness? Maybe it was Wilhelm and Emcee who wanted to keep Jaime there.

And if anything, Jaime was the one to pass the trials, not Jim. Jaime was the one who wanted to save their friendship, choosing to not attack Jim, or admitting how he really felt about Jim's wedding. Jim, on the other hand, was ready to kill Jaime, not caring about the consequences.

Maybe Ethel doesn't have as much control over that world as we thought. She still controls everything, but still the inhabitants of that world have some sort of autonomy, they can go off script if they want (Wilhelm pushing himself in front of the sword, Emcee saying that he didn't like Jim and Jamie's performance). They decide who stays with them, who stays on stage, who watches the show. The audience of 403 may have become 404 by the end of the play.

Anyway, that's all I can coherently type before my mind melts, so.. (I say as if any of this makes sense)

Also! I have a theory/headcanon about how some of the longforms link together if anybody wants to know that let me know hehe :D

[arium-db]

Dinosaur with guns???????? Indeed.

[luciferrswolves]

*ahem, headcanon time*

Ethel is like a fucking eldritch being (I think this is the right context for that) or something who has lived like 2000 years and just goes around altering people’s memories to make it like she is the person’s grandma/mother depending on the age. She then fucks with their brains but overall they end up becoming a better person.

This sort of explains how she was at the Bachelorette and Bachelor’s party at the same time (yes they could’ve been different days but I choose to believe they were on the same day/days) because she could’ve just fucked with their minds a lot to the point even she got confused and messed up her trickery

I also need to know what Ethel did to the farmhand to make him commission a statue of her for his farm. Like what improv game did he have to play? Change? Genre? Oh Ethel totally made him play Genre and forced one of the genres to be porn istg

[webefandoming]

Ok, I don't have their patreon so I can't watch this. I would like to politely ask, however, what happened? What am I looking at?

Edit: oh my god I just realised this is "I'm sorry about my nan" I'm dumb, I haven't been able to watch it yet