#The Cult of Humpty Dumpty

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Horror Movie Review: The Cult of Humpty Dumpty (2022)

Guess whose back? Back again. Humpty’s back. Tell a friend. Or don’t, as they may not thank you for it.

Guess whose back? Back again. Humpty’s back. Tell a friend. Or don’t, as they may not thank you for it. Directed by Jack E. Bell, with a story by Sam Ashurst and Scott Chambers, The Cult of Humpty Dumpty is the sequel to 2021’s The Curse of Humpty Dumpty. A Jagged Edge Production film that turned out to be pretty good. So good, that this sequel was something to look forward to, which isn’t always…

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Even ignoring that "public domain is bad because people make lazy horror movies" being so intellectually lazy and downright stupid argument that I keep seeing.

This is a Pinocchio horror film from 1996. Should Pinocchio not have been public domain then? Because someone made a serial killer Pinocchio movie? Of course not thats a silly argument, we wouldn't have the Disney movie otherwise or Del Toro's brilliant rendition of Pinocchio or Pinocchio as a character in Shrek.

There was literally a movie called The Cult of Humpty Dumpty that came out last year. Look up any public domain character followed by "horror movie" and you'll probably find a dozen movies.

It's gonna happen and I'm sure it's not gonna be different with Mickey, I mean hell theres been creepypastas for years about Mickey Mouse, but that isnt to say that the public domain shouldnt be a thing.

I saw people scoff at Blood & Honey and say that Disney should've bought the rights to the original book. Like I just cant with arguments like that.

Nobody is forcing you to watch these movies and nobody is stopping you from trying to make something better in whatever medium you can think of. thats the beauty of the public domain. It's not the corporation's properties...its ours.

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My thoughts for Retrace XLVII - Retrace XLVIII

Okay, so after these two chapters, I had a sudden realization that Oz is actually super smart. To say, I knew he was smart but to ad-lib or basically bullshit his way into the mansion in the possession of an influential guy from a neighboring country is just... wow lol.

I was cheering for him all along because he really, efficiently managed the whole Isla Yura business all by himself. The very reason everyone got to get into his secret castle was Oz. Isla Yura, being a person of another country, meant Pandora can’t even have a seize-and-search sort of warrant either.

The plan went something like this—

a. Jack Vessalius No.1 fan, Isla Yura would extend an official invitation to Oz to visit his mansion (where they suspect the third seal is hidden) if he brings out his inner Jack from within him.  

b. Oz does a perfect personification of Jack and recites a poem he had memorized from the papers given by Ryatsu (hold on, this means they had really formed a cult revolving around Jack??? I wasn’t wrong?!) Even their emblem is based on the description in the poem. 

I believed it was Jack, okay? I really believed Jack had popped out when Oz tried to stab himself. But then—

—he got me good grrr! I love his expressions here, and yes, Rufus Barma you too did your part (sigh he is needy for attention lol)

c. But the next problem is that only Oz has been invited to the mansion and he needs to get everyone in there so that they can hunt for the Seal together. A problem which he once again handles resourcefully. Well it isn’t exactly a lie that his first Coming-of-Age ceremony had been interrupted by the Baskervilles and that he never got to the end. 

d. Isla Yura offers to organize the second Coming-of-Age ceremony at his mansion (for his own purposes too ofc) 

e. annnnd Mission Complete!

I had the same expression as Gil here lmao—

2] When Alice sniffed at Elliot, my first thought had been—ooooh, more evidence for my Elliot being next Glen theory???

(unfortunately that theory is debunked now ofc) but this too was quite a bit of foreshadowing.

It’s a neat detail that Alice, a chain, could detect the presence of an illegal chain inside Elliot that he himself was unaware of; however, she couldn’t place it right away (had she figured it out earlier, could the tragedy have been avoided, I wonder? But the hand will continue to move whether they like it or not, right? Maybe, they could have killed Humpty-Dumpty before the hand moved back to the starting point? idk. Just me still sad that this too-precious-for-this-world boy was to meet with such an end *flips table and jumps out of the window*)

3] What a beautiful picture!

Somehow it makes me more worried about what’s coming up for them for the future :(( already one down, ten to go lol 

Oz is the only one smiling properly at the camera; Gil and Alice bickering as usual. Sharon wants Alice to call her Mom Big Sis. Break is trying to act cool and failing. Reim, smile properly at the camera, what’s with that :> smile lol? Uncle Oscar has adopted the entire town by this point, I am sure. Somebody pat Echo's head please! Elliot, cut out your tsundere act and join the others!

Well, let me end this small post with this picture of Elliot and Oz nostalgic fist bump TT_TT me sobbing over all the what-could-have-been-s

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watched winnie the pooh: blood & honey with @henrylevesconte and @traumanatrix last night and i gotta say this studio is really revolutionizing tubi horror but u can tell their grasp on film is getting better w every movie they put out because the quality between B&H is vastly different to cult of humpty dumpty

the only issue is that this studio really drops the ball when they make a sequel (easter killing vs easter bunny massacre 2 - such a downgrade), so i'm excited but worried for when the sequel to B&H comes out next year

anyway B&H is a very different horror based take on the fable of winnie the pooh, i think it does a very good job of not taking itself too seriously while still being scary. there were several times i was very unnerved, but never really outright scared (no jumpscares really). definitely would recommend people giving this movie a try if you want a horror movie that wont scare you too much

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I hate hate hate my friends cisnormative amab newly nb spouse like every time I see a picture of them I feel like the furious little Chihuahua that bit the white girls eyelid off

And maybe it's my friend's fault, for the information they've given me about them? They waited to get on hormones because they're worried said spouse would lose attraction? They yearn to explore queer love but their spouse is like "well actually if you love anyone else we're over"

And like my friend is autistic and has never had a job and they both grew up in a Christian cult so my friend has the gender trauma of "you'll never be nothing than a breeding vessel and a mother" which is magnified by being stuck in the house all day. They have no one else. They're chained to someone that looks like an evil cisnormative redheaded humpty dumpty which pains me to say as someone who loves redheads. I don't even say evil lightly, they actually look like someone who tried to k-ll me when I was a teen.

Like this MF actually says corny shit like "I have RSD so if you don't fuck me rn I'll take it as you hate me waaah" while my friend is processing sexual trauma and struggling to breathe from the crushing weight of deconstruction. I hate them like it's clear they haven't unlearned their patriarchal Christian cult programming.

And my friend is so loyal and stranded they just have to settle and yearn for eternity.

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dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy (asteroid 3671)

“when talking about such a popular god or goddess i am going to for warn paraphrasing - of course all these stories have more details and all these popular gods have stories within stories. i would love to share them all/in detail but i would need a book and a lot more time to write it. my attempt in writing these posts are to inform you on the high level story of the god’s or goddess’s life. that being said if any one of the events regaled in the post pique you interest - please let me know i don’t mind giving a more in-depth tale of any of the events mentioned.”

Dionysus is the son of Zeus and the mortal, Semele. This is considered a rare occurrence for such a high ranking god to have a mortal parent. Hera had tricked Semele into making a wish to physically see the immortal’s true form which ultimately ended with her burning to ash after just one look. The fetus Dionysus was saved, after being found amongst the ashes by Zeus who stitched him to his thigh until he was fully formed - this act is was made Dionysus immortal. Hera was disgusted by Zeus having stitched a wedlock fetus to his thigh so she began her plot to have the thing killed as soon as it was fully formed. She had titans tear apart the young Dionysus - Rhea, Zeus's mother, found the child pieces and put him back together again (lol Humpty Dumpty). When Rhea returned him to Zeus, Zeus immediately arranged for the child to be raised away from Olympus. He gave the child to mountain nymphs to raise (there are many stories that say it was Hermes, Rhea, Persephone, etc. but the nymph kind of makes the most sense based on his wild nature and popularity amongst the woodland creatures). As a child he discovered how to make wine - he went around the world sharing this knowledge. Somewhere in his travels, Hera hears of Dionysus being alive and strikes him with madness which causes him to wander around in a haze until Rhea heals him of Hera's curse. In his travels, a cult began to form around wine and the creator himself. Dionysus also was kidnapped by pirates in his travels due to his beauty as they wished to ransom him thinking that he must be royalty. Dionysus told them that he was a god and to release him and when they didn't believe him, he made the boat swarm with vines and pushed the pirates overboard. It is thought that Dionysus turned these pirates into dolphins. When arriving on shore he discovered Ariadne, recently abandoned by Theseus, who he fell in lust with at first sight. Soon after they were married and she bore him a few famous children. Reestablished in Greece, Dionysus's cult grew more rowdy in nature - there are stories of followers killing animals and eating them raw, people being pulled limb from limb, people driven into madness, etc. Needless to say wherever Dionysus is there is chaos. IN MY OPINION Dionysus in a chart represents a) premature birth (harsh pluto, uranus, or moon aspects may be reflected in your persona charts 1h - pluto, aquarius, and/or capricorn - i only know one pre-me baby so lemme know if you see other stuff in your chart if you are a pre-me yourself), b) your connection with your father, c) having a lot of enemies and followers, d) wine preferences, and/or e) the drama your presence causes.

i encourage you to look into the aspects of dionysus along with the sign, degree, and house placement. for the more advanced astrologers, take a look at the persona chart of dionysus AND/OR add the other characters involved to see how they support or impede dionysus!

OTHER RELATED ASTEROIDS: zeus (5731 / h42), semele (86), hera (103), rhea (577), hermes (69230), persephone (399), and ariadne (43)!

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Twisted Wonderland playlist Update!!

Hey, it's been a while since I made my original playlist, and I came up with more ideas so let's update it. All songs are based on the song's vibe and/or lyrics. If I add more songs I'll either make another post or reblog this one. Reblogs are appreciated!

Track list

Over all

- Mad at Disney by salem ilese:

- Im not ok by the weathers:

OB overall

- Branded by NateWantsToBattle

- killer in the mirror by Set it off

- Control by Halsey

Yuu

- Drama by AJR

- Help me by Or3o

HEARTSLABUYL

Queen of broken hearts by Blackbear

Welcome to Wonderland by Anson Seabra

Riddle Rosehearts

- St. Bernard by Lincoln

- a big world by Joel Adams

- Monster by Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber

- Aishite by Kikuo

- (OB) Walls could talk by Halsey

- (Post OB) Kings and Queens by Ava Max

Trey Clover

- Figure it out by Blu DeTiger

- Magic by Linda Diaz

-Put your records on by Ritt Momney

Cater Diamond

- Bang by AJR

- Lies by Will Jay

- Levitating by Dua Lipa ft Da baby

- Humpty dumpty by AJR

- Pretender by AJR

- Dancing in my room by 347aidan

Duece Spade

- Raging on a sunday by Bohnes

- Lights out by Mindless self-indugence

- U should by CHIKA

- Hey look mom I made it by Panic at the Disco!

Ace Trappola

- Magic in the Hamptons by Social House, Lil Yatchy

- Troublemaker by Olly Murs

- Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Expierence

SAVANNACLAW

- Rebels by call me Karizma

Leona Kingscholar

- 18 by Anarbor

- Sweatpants by Childish Gambino

- message man by twenty one pilots

- (OB) WHY by NF

- (Post OB) Viva la vida by Coldplay

- Lazy song by Bruno Mars

Ruggie Buchie

- Teenagers by MCR

- Why Worry by Set it Off

Jack Howl

- the judge by twenty one pilots

- the Fall by half•alive

- Role models by AJR

OCTAVINELLE

- Looking like this by Lyre le temps

- Bust you kneecaps by Pomplamoose

- The fine print by Stupendium

- Greedy by Or3o

Azul Ashenghrotto

- Do myself better by Davy Boi

- Alone by Nico Collins

- Whisper by burn the ballroom

- Oh No by Marina and the Diamonds

- (OB) Animal by Chase Holfelder

- (OB) Emperor's New clothes by Panic At the Disco

- (Post OB) survivin' by Bastille

Jade Leech

- Ballad of Mona Lisa by Panic at the Disco

- Twisted by MISSIO

- DEATHWISH by poutyface

Floyd Leech

- Dancing's not a crime by Panic at the disco

- Let's kill tonight by Panic at the Disco

SCARABIA

-Choke by I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

-Prisoner by Miley Cyrus and Dua Lip

-Hypnotized by Set it off

-Monster by Dodie

Kalim Al-Alsim

- Tongue tied by grouplove

- Stupid for you by Waterparks

Jamil Viper

- Angry Too by Lola Blanc

- Thanks I hate it

- (OB) Intro 3 by NF

- People I dont like by Upsahl

- therefore I am by Billie Eilish

-me myself and I by Vinyl Theatre

POMMEFIORE

-How to be a heartbreaker by MARINA

-GRRRLS by AVIVA

Vil Schonhiet

- Genetics by Meghan Trainer

- Lemons by Brye and cavetown

- Mr . Crazy Villain by Teniwoha

- Readymade by Ado

- (OB) All eyes on me by Or3o

- (OB) Ballad of Sarah Berry from 35MM

- (OB) Castle by Halsey

Rook Hunt

- Unhealthy obsession by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

-Bubblegum bitch by Marina and the Diamonds

Epel Felmier

- I'm just your problem from Adventure time

- Boys will be bugs by Cavetown

- Misery Business by Paramore

- Dramaturgy by E ve

IGNHIDYE

-Gasoline by Halsey

-Deviltown by Cavetown

Idia Shroud

- feel something by Bea Miller

- Overwhelmed by Royal & the Serpent

- Normal by AJR

- I built a friend by Alec Benjamin

- Gira Gira by Ado

- Isolate by Sub Urban

- Borderline by Nico Collin

- Lotus Eater by Foster the People

Ortho Shroud

- 50//50 by Vantage

- Flyday Chinatown by Yasuha

- Miku by Anamanaguchi

DIASOMNIA

-Oh Raven by Unlike Pluto

-Sodier, Poet, King by Oh hellos

-Turn the lights off by Tally Hall

Malleus Draconia

- the Moss by Cosmo Sheldrake

- Play with Fire by Sam Tinnesz, Yacth Money

Lillia Vanrouge

- Blood by MCR

- Come along by Cosmo Sheldrake

Sebek Zigvolt

- Wriggle by Cosmo Sheldrake

-Thunder by Imagine Dragons

- Warriors by Imagine Dragons

Silver

- two birds on a wire by Rehina Spektor

-Everything stays from Adventure time

EDIT: I updated the YouTube link

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Do you think Saeran would ever have actually gone through with any of his threats towards MC? Or do you think it would always be all talk even if MC started pushing back and intentionally trying to anger him?

I have talked about this many times because a lot of people seem to really truly misunderstand his character to a degree that it is kind of sad. It just really hurts me to see people limit him to being someone who is angry.

He is an angry person, it isn't wrong to say that he's mad, but if you only think of him as his anger than you're discounting everything that he's been through.

If you're playing through the route, you actually have to use language when you speak to him about everything to say that you understand that he is more than his anger. You don't have to outright forgive him for his actions. He actually would prefer if you didn't forgive him right away because he surely does not forgive himself.

But, if you look beyond his anger, then you'll see who he actually is. Someone that uses anger as a sword and a shield. He uses it to protect himself and Ray. If he is the biggest monster than the monsters that haunted him cannot get him.

The problem with that is that he cannot have any meaningful relationships because he stops everything. He may stop the bad things, but he stops the good things too.

The major thing that he struggles with during his experience with you is that he does not know what he wants. Ray knows what he wants. It may be a contrived fantasy to some people but it was still a tangible dream.

He knew what he wanted.

Saeran can't say that. He's not allowed to do that. He's supposed to be stronger. He's supposed to be better than that. He's supposed to have a better understanding of how to be strong. So, what happens when he realizes that he has more feelings than anger?

His entire existence is supposed to be about revenge and feeling that anger inside of him. It's just anger, right? But, when he feels more than that anger, it's dangerous and it's not okay by the eyes of his savior.

He and Ray fundamentally understand that the cult is not a tangible place to survive. It's the only place that they have. They just accept it because she did not abandon them like the other two seemingly did. He gives his whole life to that because they feel like they have to do it to make up for her "sacrificing" herself for them. Both he and Ray.

Saeran says big things. He always says that he's going to do something but he never goes through with it. He keeps pushing off the idea of hurting you in such a way, but he does not exactly realize why he's doing that at first. He laughs it off and says that it's not worth wasting on you. But is that really truth?

He does not realize that he's pushing it away more and more until it occurs to him that he wants you in the way that Ray wants you.

In the way that you want Ray.

But you don't see him as Ray. Ray was the only one that was allowed to feel those emotions. That's why he tries to pretend to be Ray. That's the only way that he can be vulnerable. It doesn't come out the right way and it's not the right thing to do but it's the only thing that he knows to do. He's trying to make sense of what's happening to him but everything that he tries just makes it worse.

And as everything starts to get worse and worse, you can see him try to protect you from his savior. In the same way that Ray tried to protect you. In their own way, the two of them really try to make sure that you were safe in the realm of what they were capable of. Despite the fact that they knew what would happen.

I sincerely don't think that he actually would have gone through with hurting you. Not in the ways that he threatens. I suppose if we were to speak about the context of the second bad ending, I can talk about that a little bit. That ending of the situation of too little, too late.

His tormenting you to try to remain in control of himself goes too far in that ending. You wind up breaking and there's no way to put you back together again. You wind up breaking and there's no way to put you back together again.

You're like Humpty Dumpty.

He can't fix you.

If you can be broken, then what's the point? If he has no feeling anymore when he's with you, what's the point? Is there any hope in this life when all he has is this numb feeling in the anger inside of him? What's the point?

When he tries to torment you in that specific ending, what he's actually trying to do is to get you to respond again. He's desperately trying to get the real you back. But he's not going to get you back because you've given up on everything and there's nothing left but a dull void in your eyes.

That's a broken ending for the both of you. Too little, too late. There's no hope in that ending. It's not torture for the sake of torture in that ending. He's torturing himself and you're being tortured. It's just hell in a handbasket.

I've talked about What If the Savior let him give you the elixir. That has a similar outcome to the second bad ending. It would be hopeless. And I have to post that you can read here about these feelings that he's going through:

Anon covered his desperation here pretty good on his threats. This Post in comparison is me talking about how people misconstrue both Ray and Suit Saeran.

Now, I don't think I've ever really elaborated on the idea of what if the MC fed back into what he wanted. You see, part of what he wants is that someone tangibly and realistically tell him that what he's doing is the right thing.

What that means is that the theory of darkness and anger that he has, is that anyone can be broken and can become a devil. It's what his savior has instilled into him and to some degree, his own mother.

If you were to angrily lash back out at him and act in such a way that you show violence, it just proves the theory that you don't really care. It just proves that even someone that has kindness like you can be broken and twisted up inside.

It's simply proof that it's only an inevitability that people are going to be broken and realize that the only way to live is the way that is what his savior wants. It's going to make matters worse and it's not going to fix anything.

You cannot respond to his outbursts by using anger. It's understandable to want to, but it's not going to change the situation and it's not going to make it better.

Because the lesson here to learn is that kindness is not a weakness and that compassion can go a long way when you see someone struggling and wants desperately to help themselves.

That's a major difference between Rika and Ray and Saeran. She does not want to acknowledge that she needs help and she buries herself into her ways and hurts other people. But there is a part of Ray and Saeran that clings to the idea of kindness and Hope. They are both willing to go against what they have been utterly coerced and brainwashed into believing. Even when they're scared.

The willingness to have faith and to want better for yourself is kind of crucial here. So, I don't think it's the best idea for an MC to lash out at him. That I don't think it's the end of the world if it happens. It all depends on context. I have done a few things where he's had arguments with his MC, but never anything like lashing out, throwing things at him, or getting angry with him like that.

But, that just depends.

Either way, I hope this somehow answers your question a long-winded way.

[majachee]

For the character thing you already knowwww- Elliot Nightray <3

Putting this behind a read more cuz I go even MORE into spoiler territory and I want more of my followers to read Pandora Hearts LES GO

First Impression:

Stinky teenager >:( stinky

Impression Now:

YOUR HONOR THAT WAS MY SON, MY CHERISHED LITTLE BOY-

I can't even articulate my thoughts on Elliot man, but he triggers my older sibling instincts. Just... wow. Wow. Had to put down my phone and process when I got to his death. Oh my god.

Favorite Moment:

Loved him throughout the Headhunter Arc/The Feast, really. But his death sticks out to me the most. He's had meaningful and interesting moments outside of that, yes. But the mystery and big reveal did something to me... just, realizing what was happening with Humpty Dumpty, that he killed his own family unknowingly to protect Leo who WAS GLEN REINCARNATED???? HIS MOM BEING PART OF THE CULT THAT TURNED ORPHANS INTO CONTRACTORS???? "HUMPTY DUMPTY, I REJECT YOU" ???? A

Story Idea:

Don't really have one, sorry! ^^

Unpopular Opinion:

Don't really ship him with anyone, actually. Maybe it's because of me being an older sibling myself, but shipping characters younger than me together makes me... feel off. Only when I do it though lmao I don't care enough to look at other peoples shipping habits. I do me, yk?

Favorite Relationship:

OOOOOOOOH man his relationships with Leo and Oz are SO GOOD like MAN. Love him and Oz bickering over their favorite book series. Its just... a silly and cute little thing. I like it. It's cute.

Favorite Headcanon:

I don't have one sadly 😔😔

All in all, I love this kid and I still cry about him to this day 🥺🥺🥺

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Illustrate the following scene: “The young cultists practiced summoning minor sylphs in preparation for the great day the cult would collectively summon their master into the world. Disastrously for this group, however, one of their number summoned Humpty Dumpty.”

[fivekrystalpetals]

Not having your live reading of Pandora Hearts will be sad ! I loved seing your analysis, I'm happy you enjoyed it :3

Awwww thank you so much ❤!! yes it’s gonna be so sad for me too to not have my weekly live screaming sessions,, nooo this masterpiece of a story got over ;_; as they say, every good thing has to come to an end (nooooo~) so we gotta enjoy it till it lasts ;_; [I want to reread it again, but not anytime now... I need time to recover, sadly it seems I am getting increasingly upset and frustrated seeing A Certain Someone’s logic and arguments so I need some time to get over it and read again with a clearer mind; lol I generally don't get this upset over a fictional character but this guy’s character resonate a lot with someone ik ig that’s why I associate one with the other in my mind idk]

Break continues to be my favorite character which is honestly a surprise bc I tend to change my favorite midway through the series (I am not faithful shhh); Lottie and Lacie come a close second (well-written female characters tho they had not enough screen time (at least not for me, I wanted to see more of them!), they have lots of gaps and flaws I can develop on in my mind and in my fics if I ever post anything) 

The two Alices, Oz and Gil: they are my babies now I adopted them, already signed adoption papers and all 💪 (once again, a surprise bc I hardly ever care about the main characters but these four are just... made-to-be-loved how dare anyone hurt them?!?!? *looking at a Certain Someone 🔪🔪* I just wish we saw more of Alyss and her thoughts, likes, dislikes etc. before the end. Since Cheshire loved her but was dead scared of our Alice, Alyss must have craved for meat less lol) 

Fun fact: my favorite arc in Pandora Hearts still remains *drumroll* Headhunter Arc my beloved <3 

not only was it mochijun’s super self-indulgent glamorous-makeover-for-all-my-characters arc but also has some of the best cliffhangers, plot twists and lore—humpty-dumpty (this chain damn!), Fianna’s house and their eerie ritual of making contractors out of little homeless kids, the doings of Isla Yura, his cult of Jack worshippers and the Nightrays (except Elliot ofc) all gave me chills and thrills, kept me to the edge of the seat,, say, if you see, I have less live drafts for that arc, it’s because... I was so invested in the story I couldn't even bother to pause and log on to tumblr; I just had to get to the end. It was like a standalone, little whodunit+thriller story arc with Eliot as the detective/protagonist set out to investigate his family’s curse ;_; and then the final reveal of the actual criminal (Retrace 61) 😭 (something I had guessed at in the beginning from Lottie’s words but the rat is just that good at distracting us from the truth =_=)

The rest of the story is, well, do I need to explain aghfhshfg why is this story so compact and coherent and filled with so much foreshadowing right from the first panel of the Retrace 1 that it still gives me goosebumps (I was actually talking about Retrace 76/77 with my friend (no, not specifying names or giving out spoilers, she hasn’t read PH yet and I am slowly luring her in with a carrot into this rabbit hole)—kinda like: See? I think I have uncovered a huge conspiracy theory— you know the suspected immortals in our world? I think they never die but go full Benjamin Button mode back and forth! She is super interested to know more and I am waiting to cast The Question: *conspiratorial tone* Do you wanna read something with a plot like that?)

ahhhh lol I was rambling but thank you so much for sticking around with me til the end, reading my analysis and posts (most of them were my incoherent screams fgsghghsj) and for this ask! It was so sweet of you <3 <3 And although I ran out of my live drafts, I do plan on writing a lot on the other characters too (in fact, I have three posts—character analysis of sorts—about Oswald, Gil, Vince and the Baskervilles in general—in my drafts and then, a few others in plans.) I will also be screaming (and probs writing fics bc what else to do when a ship takes its roots inside your head) about my favorite ship ahem ahem, which no one but me likes 😭😭, so that too.

So no worries, PH brainrot is going strong! my reactions on tumblr is actually minimal,, only about 10% of how much of a nuisance I was with people here irl at Certain Points in the story lmaohgjsgj

[prodigaldaughteralice]

“Ten Songs I’m Obsessed With”

Tagged by @yourfavouritedoll for what is possibly the best tag meme ever. I just get to... rant about music. This is amazing.

1) Way Down Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell (ft. Justin Vernon, Ani DiFranco, and Ben Knox Miller) “Winter’s nigh and summer’s o’er, I hear that high and lonesome sound of my husband coming for to take me home to Hadestown.” This entire concept album is stellar-- and I’m hoping to go to New York this year to see the Broadway staging, if I can swing it-- but Way Down Hadestown is kind of the perfect microcosm of the show as a whole. One of those massive multiplayer numbers where everybody’s passing each other in their own stories which the audience knows will collide. It’s beautiful.

2) Humpty Dumpty, Aimee Mann. “Baby, I’ll grant you’ve been more than patient saying it’s not a catastrophe, but I’m not the girl you once put your faith in-- just someone who looks like me.” One of the most accurate windows on self-loathing depression I’ve ever heard, delivered in Aimee Mann’s gorgeous, low, smooth voice. The idea that you’ve become someone else, or just a fragment of the person you were, with no way to go back, and people around you are just humouring you-- it stings, but it’s good to hear fantastic art made from that same pain.

3) Planetary (Go!), My Chemical Romance. “You keep eternity, give us the radio!” It’s a little hard to pick a single song, because different MCR songs have grabbed my soul at different times, but this one’s really got me lately. This is a perfect fist-pumping anthem of trying to make something real and I adore it. (side note: Three Cheers is my favourite aesthetically, The Black Parade is my favourite conceptually, Danger Days is my favourite musically.)

4) Play Me Backwards, Joan Baez. “As the night begins, there’s a pop of skin and a sudden rush of scarlet. There’s a little boy riding on a goat’s head and a little girl playing the harlot...” This one has been with me since I was a wee girl-- the album it’s on, also called Play Me Backwards, was one of the first CDs I had. It’s a heartbreaking little slice of childhood horror, based on imagining the 80s daycare satanic cult panic was true. Joan Baez’s voice absolutely slays me, and that bass line is amazing. This is one of the songs that comes out of my mouth if I start singing without deciding what I’m gonna sing first.

5) Belispeak, Purity Ring. “Drill little holes into my eyelids that I might see you, that I might see you when I sleep.” In contrast, I only got into Purity Ring this past year, and their strange, dreamy, atmospheric sound really works for me. This one is an unsettling portrait of the relationship between a growing child and her possessive grandmother, and it gives me intense Red Riding Hood feelings. Red Riding Hood feelings go a long way with me.

6) The Point of it All, Amanda Palmer. “And you’re learning that just ‘cos they call themselves friends doesn’t mean they’ll call.” Another one of the songs that pops out of my mouth if I haven’t decided what to sing, it’s an aching plea to a depressed friend-- or possibly parent-- to come out of their dark place, with a heavy dose of metaphor and sarcasm and sadness. I adore Amanda Palmer, her songwriting and her voice and her piano, and this song-- off her first solo album, which was produced by Ben Folds and showcases all of the above-- is one of her best.

7) This Side of the Blue, Joanna Newsom. “And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers, and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words as across the sky sheet the impossible birds on a steady, illiterate movement homewards.” Joanna Newsom enchants me always, but this was the first of hers I really fell in love with and it’s still my favourite. A beautiful, sparse meditation on what we do and don’t know and what’s even possible in this life. I named two of my middle school OCs after this song. (No, neither of them was Gabriel. I should have named one Gabriel. Instead they were Jaime and Reyloo.)

8) I Know Places, Taylor Swift. “You stand with your hand on my waistline, it’s a scene, and we’re out here in plain sight. I can hear them whisper as they pass by-- it’s a bad sign.” I’ve been told that I “don’t fit the profile” for someone who listens to her, which is both kinda insulting and flat-out incorrect, since at least part of “the profile” is just... musicians. She is an absolutely tight songwriter who knows all the rules, knows when to break them and when not to, and it results in these very perfectly crafted pieces of music. This one not only shows that off, it tells a very relatable story about queer anxiety-- even if that wasn’t the only intention. Plus the contrast between patter in the prechorus and drawn-out melismas in the chorus is really fun to sing.

9) Oceania, The Birthday Massacre. “A sleight of hand, a flash of light, our seasick days and homesick nights. When tomorrow comes, there’ll be no end in sight.” A gorgeous tale about three siblings wandering the earth, seeking atonement for their past lives. My tinfoil-hat theory is that it’s a sequel to Divide, the first song on the album, in which mortals stole the eye of the Graeae and were punished for their hubris. (both songs have prominent mentions of “the world below”! “The fates will divide in three a sight that we can’t unsee” implies there were three mortals, as there are in Oceania!) The gothy synth-metal-rock-dance sound that TBM has honed over the years is absolutely fantastic. I wish they’d tour around here.

10) Deep Red Bells, Neko Case. “When speckled fronds raise round your bones, who took the time to fold your clothes and shook the valley of the shadow?” Neko Case is one of my absolute musical idols, and this sweeping piece about victims of the Green River Killer just slays me (ha) every time. Just abstract enough to really pack in the eerie, laden with weird visual details that hammer in how Neko was a teen at the time, giving you the feeling of hearing about this horribly real bogeyman in whispers at school.

Thank you so much for tagging me for this, the most fun tag game EVER. It’s also a good bit of work, though, picking, so nobody feel obliged. I would like to tag @poisonforpigeons, @melloproductions, @ds-litee, @starsailorstories, and @kienansidhe!

[ommiotoast]

Eggs

Egg sauce

Egg omelette

Egg pudding

Deviled aggs

Eggs from the cult classic game Pathologic

Egg from behind that one tree in Deltarune

Easter eggs, both in chocolate form and in the form of sectrets hidden in video games

Eggplant

"egghead" - insult used by the mlp character raainbow dash to refer to twilight sparkle

Humpty Dumpty the egg

Ostrich eggs the largest eggs in the world

Eggs

-pizza anon

Egg shells are nice to paint on have you guys ever tried it?

[2whatcom-blog]

Was Thomas Kuhn Evil

In 1972 Thomas Kuhn hurled an ashtray at Errol Morris. Already famend for The Construction of Scientific Revolutions, printed a decade earlier, Kuhn was on the Institute for Superior Research in Princeton, and Morris was his graduate pupil in historical past and philosophy of science. Throughout a gathering in Kuhn's workplace, Morris questioned Kuhn's views on paradigms, the webs of acutely aware and unconscious assumptions that underpin, say, Aristotle's, Newton's or Einstein's physics. You can not say one paradigm is more true than one other, in keeping with Kuhn, as a result of there is no such thing as a goal commonplace by which to guage them. Paradigms are incomparable, or "incommensurable." If that had been true, Morris requested, would not historical past of science be not possible? Would not the previous be inaccessible--except, Morris added, for "someone who imagines himself to be God?" Kuhn realized his pupil had simply insulted him. He muttered, "He's trying to kill me. He's trying to kill me." Then he threw the ashtray at Morris and threw him out of this system. Morris went on to turn out to be an acclaimed maker of documentaries. He received an Academy Award for The Fog of Warfare, his portrait of "war criminal"--Morris's term--Robert McNamara. His documentary The Skinny Blue Line helped overturn the conviction of a person on demise row for homicide. Morris by no means forgave Kuhn, who was, in Morris's eyes, a nasty particular person and unhealthy thinker. In his ebook The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Actuality), Morris assaults the cult--my time period, however I believe Morris would approve, because it describes a bunch sure by irrational allegiance to a domineering leader--of Kuhn. "Many may see this book as a vendetta," Morris writes. "Indeed it is." Morris blames Kuhn for undermining the notion that there's a actual world on the market, which we will, with some effort, come to know. Morris desires to rebut this skeptical assertion, which he believes has insidious results. The denial of goal fact permits totalitarianism and genocide and "ultimately, perhaps irrevocably, undermines civilization." I really like Morris's movies, and I really like The Ashtray. It's an eccentric in addition to lethal critical ebook, a combination of journalism, memoir and polemic. It options Morris's interviews with Noam Chomsky, Steven Weinberg and Hilary Putnam, amongst different massive photographs. It's filled with illustrations and marginalia on all method of arcana, together with pet rocks, the Sapir-Whorf speculation, Borges's "Library of Babel," The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Humpty Dumpty, unicorns and the pink fairy armadillo. These obvious digressions, whereas entertaining in their very own proper, serve the principle theme. The armadillo, for instance, helps Morris make some extent in regards to the evolution of scientific definitions. A pink fairy armadillo is a pink fairy armadillo, whether or not outlined by its DNA or morphology. Effectively, duh, you would possibly suppose. However in keeping with (Morris's model of) Kuhn, there is no such thing as a goal actuality to which language refers. All we have now are phrases and their ever-changing meanings. We're "trapped in a fog of language with no way out," as Morris places it. That is radical postmodernism, which holds that we don't uncover armadillos, electrons and even Earth, we think about, invent, assemble them. Postmodernists cannot say "truth," "knowledge" and "reality" with out smirking, or wrapping the phrases in scare quotes. Morris calls Construction a "postmodernist Bible." As a substitute for Kuhn's perspective, Morris gives us that of thinker Saul Kripke. I've listened to philosophers yammer advert nauseam about Kripke's magnum opus, Naming and Necessity, and I sat in on a seminar with him in 2016. He was frail, confined to a wheelchair, and he mumbled. To the extent that I understood him, I used to be underwhelmed. Kripke appeared to push philosophical fussiness over definitions to absurd extremes. Due to Ashtray, now I recognize Kripke's achievement. He sought to determine that the issues to which our phrases refer exist independently of our conceptions of them. To a non-philosopher that may sound like a truism, nevertheless it contradicts the postmodern competition that phrases and ideas are all we all know. Simply because we invent phrases and their meanings, Morris insists through Kripke, doesn't imply we invent the world. I agree, to an extent, with Morris's tackle Kuhn. I spent hours speaking to Kuhn in 1992, when he was at MIT, and he struck me as virtually comically self-contradicting. He tied himself in knots attempting to elucidate exactly what he meant when he talked in regards to the impossibility of true communication. He actually did appear to doubt whether or not actuality exists independently of our flawed, fluid conceptions of it. On the similar time, Morris beats Kuhn so viciously that I really feel sympathy for him. Morris calls Kuhn a "megalomaniac," "perverse dictator" and "maleficent deity," who utilized his skepticism to everybody however himself. Being Kuhn's graduate pupil, Morris says, was like being the man in 1984 who, threatened with having his face eaten off by rats, says fact is no matter Massive Brother says it's. 2+2=5. (Satirically, Kuhn, in Construction, in contrast scientists to Massive Brother's brainwashed followers.) I might like to supply a number of factors in Kuhn's protection. *Postmodernism Is Progressive. Morris proposes that postmodernism is a gorgeous ideology for right-wing authoritarians. To help this declare, he notes the scorn for fact evinced by Hitler and the present U.S. President, for whom energy trumps fact. Morris means that "belief in a real world, in truth and in reference, does seem to speak to the left; the denial of the real world, of truth and reference, to the right." That is merely fallacious. Postmodernism has usually been coupled with progressive, anti-authoritarian critiques of imperialism, capitalism, racism and sexism. Postmodernists like Derrida, Foucault, Butler and Paul Feyerabend (my favourite thinker) have challenged the political, ethical and scientific paradigms that allow folks in energy to take care of the established order. *Questioning Science Is Wholesome. Sure, postmodernism can turn out to be decadent, questioning even the paradigms that underpin confirmed science, and social-justice actions. However it serves as a beneficial counterweight to our craving for certainty. Kuhn was proper that even probably the most ostensibly rational thinkers--scientists!--can idiot themselves into considering they know greater than they actually do. Scientists usually cling to paradigms for non-scientific causes. (In actual fact, that may be a main theme of my ebook Thoughts-Physique Issues: Science, Subjectivity and Who We Actually Are.) Kuhn's mannequin is all too apt for describing trendy psychiatry, which frequently acts just like the advertising arm of the pharmaceutical trade, or evolutionary biology, some proponents of which have made excuses for the persistence of racism, sexism and militarism. *Kuhn, Mysticism and Solipsism. One of many defining traits of mystical states--whether spontaneous or induced by meditation or LSD--is that they can't be described with odd language or ideas. Throughout a mystical expertise you're feeling, you understand, that you're seeing issues as they are surely, and but, paradoxically, you may have a tough time describing what you see. God, Reality, Actuality, no matter you need to name it's ineffable, as William James put it. Kuhn would certainly be horrified at this analogy, however Construction works as a form of unfavourable theology, which insists that God transcends all our descriptions of Him. Kuhn's philosophy additionally captures a profound fact about human existence, that we're all trapped in our personal little solipsistic bubbles. Language will help us talk with one another, however finally we will solely guess what's going on in others' minds. *Does Morris Actually Admire Kuhn? Towards the tip of Ashtray, because the insults piled up, I started questioning whether or not Morris is slyly, or maybe subconsciously, defending Kuhn. Morris's protection of goal fact makes no pretense of objectivity. His blatantly emotional, biased, over-the-top screed implicitly corroborates Kuhn's level that truth-seeking is an inescapably subjective endeavor. Morris conjectures that Kuhn, deep down, knew that he was fallacious, and that was why he defended his philosophy so fiercely. Maybe Morris bashes Kuhn with equal ferocity as a result of he suspects Kuhn was, in some respects, proper. A ultimate level. I've lengthy felt that philosophy, when it tries, or pretends, to be rigorously rational and goal, commits a class error. Philosophy is nearer to artwork than to science or arithmetic. Philosophy helps us see the world by another person's eyes, as novel, portray, movie or music does. In Past Good and Evil, Nietzsche mentioned that "every great philosophy" is a "confession," a "species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography." Construction is a good work of philosophy, and so is the ebook it spawned, Ashtray, which helps us see the world with Morris's obsessive curiosity. Morris, who calls his philosophy "investigative realism," writes, "I feel very strongly that, even though the world is unutterably insane, there is this idea--perhaps a hope--that we can reach outside of the insanity and find truth, find the world, find ourselves." Kuhn, for all his faults, goaded Morris into writing an excellent work of investigative realism. For that, if for nothing else, he, and we, ought to thank Kuhn. Additional Studying: I wrote about Morris's views of Kuhn in three earlier columns: Did Thomas Kuhn Assist Elect Donald Trump?, Second Ideas: Did Thomas Kuhn Assist Elect Donald Trump? and Filmmaker Errol Morris Clarifies Stance on Kuhn and Trump. What Thomas Kuhn Actually Thought of Scientific "Truth" Was Thinker Paul Feyerabend Actually Science's "Worst Enemy"? The Paradox of Karl Popper Was Wittgenstein a Mystic? What Is Philosophy's Level? Half 1 Jellyfish, Sexbots and the Solipsism Downside Expensive "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Much less, Mammograms and Warfare Extra A Dig Via Previous Recordsdata Reminds Me Why I am So Important of Science Everybody, Even Jenny McCarthy, Has the Proper to Problem "Scientific Experts" Science, Historical past and Reality on the College Membership Thoughts-Physique Issues (free on-line ebook) For various takes on Ashtray, see evaluations by Tim Maudlin, David Kordahl and Philip Kitcher. Read the full article