#Trapped in a Spiral 🌀

[xtruss]

[this-cannot-continue]

everything 🤯 that lives💦 is designed ✏️ to end💥. we 👯 are perpetually ⏰️ trapped 🕸 in a neverending spiral 🌀 of life 💦and death. 💀 is this a curse? 🥶 or some kind of punishment? 😨 i often think 🧠 avbout the god ⛪️ who bkessed us 🙏 with this cryptic 😵‍💫 puzzle 🧩 .................. and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him🤠

[raw-liver]

Rating the Saw movies 🌀🧩

(just my personal opinions)

‼️SPOILERS‼️

Saw (2004)- 9/10

•one of the best movies hands down

•has so much potential to give so much moreeee but it’s a perfect 1st movie

•chainshipping

Saw 2 (2005)- 10/10

•my favorite saw movie

•has the BEST twist

•needle pit.

Saw 3 (2006)- 7/10

•not the best but still decent

•pretty good plot

•shotgunshipping

•sexy Amanda Young

Saw 4 (2007)- 4/10

•more John Krammer lore

•Hoffman era

•traps were very unique

Saw 5 (2008)- 7/10

• pretty good

•the traps are good

•love how the number of players gets smaller as it progresses

Saw 6 (2009)-6/10

•Rodrick Heffley.

•spinny wheel of death (one of my favorite traps)

Saw 3D (2010)-3/10

•good idea bad execution

•GORDON IS ALIVE

Jigsaw (2017)-4/10

•twist was alright, but not the best

•boring traps

Spiral (2021)-2/10

•it’s…..so bad

•twist was so predictable

•it is a sloggggg to get through

Saw X (2023)-8/10

•i lovedddd this movie and the characters

•John Krammer lore

•lots of callbacks which i love

•great twist

•AMANDA YAYYYY

lmk if i got stuff wrong or if you disagree 🫶 i would love to discuss

[secretly-an-automaton]

Sorting Ninjago seasons by Magnus Archives fear entities!

*Vague spoilers for both Ninjago (Masters of Spinjitzu, specifically) and TMA will ensue, there’s descriptions for the fear entities under the cut if you haven’t seen TMA as well as reasoning for my classifications

- Rise of the Snakes: 🪱 Corruption

- Legacy of the Green Ninja: 🔦 Dark

- Rebooted: 🎭 Stranger

- Tournament of Elements: 🕸️ Web

- Possession: 🪦 End

- Skybound: 🌫️ Lonely

- Hands of Time: 🌀 Spiral

- Sons of Garmadon: 🔥 Desolation

- Hunted: 🐺 Hunt

- March of the Oni: ☣️ Extinction

- Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu:🔪 Slaughter

- Prime Empire: 👁️ Eye

- Master of the Mountain: ⚰️ Buried

- Seabound: ☁️ Vast

- Crystallized: 🦷 Flesh

Explanations for entities and classifications below

The tl:dr is that the entities are manifestations of different common fears/phobias:

🎭 Stranger (uncanniness, not knowing, dolls)

🕸️ Web (arachnophobia, being manipulated, controlled)

👁️ Eye (eyes, being watched, exposed, judged, knowing too much)

☁️ Vast (large open spaces, falling, the ocean, giant creatures, space)

⚰️ Buried (claustrophobia, suffocating, drowning, being trapped)

🐺 Hunt (predators, being hunted, chased, prey)

🦷 Flesh (body horror, being consumed, dysmorphia, blood, cannibalism)

🔦 Dark (darkness, what lies in the dark)

🌫️ Lonely (loneliness, abandonment)

🪱 Corruption (bugs, infestation, rot, toxic relationships, trypophobia)

🔪 Slaughter (unpredictable or meaningless violence, war, weapons)

🌀 Spiral (insanity, madness, gaslighting)

🪦 End (death)

☣️ Extinction (cataclysmic disaster, world ending threats, mass extinction)

🔥 Desolation (burning, loss, pain, destruction)

Reasoning:

- Rise of the Snakes: 🪱 the catalyst of all of the “plague” to enter Ninjago (aka the overlord), opening a can of worms, Lloyd forms toxic dependencies on people (Pythor) out of necessity

- Legacy of the Green Ninja: 🔦 the Overlord’s whole intent is to spread darkness

- Rebooted: 🎭 lots of human-shaped but not actually human antagonists

- Tournament of Elements: 🕸️ the entire thing was a ploy, Skylor was manipulating them the whole time, no one trusts each other

- Possession: 🪦 …ghosts

- Skybound: 🌫️ team gets separated and Jay and Nya have to go on alone

- Hands of Time: 🌀 time travel fuckery in general idk man I can’t really remember this season. gonna be honest, this one was my throwaway

- Sons of Garmadon: 🔥 the Royal Palace is destroyed and the main antagonist’s primary motivator hinges on loss and destruction

- Hunted: 🐺 do I really need to explain this one

- March of the Oni: ☣️ pretty much all of the seasons have a world-ending threat but idk this one felt especially… world-ending-y?

- Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu: 🔪 senseless violence pretty much summarizes both arcs

- Prime Empire: 👁️ technology, being watched, y’know…

- Master of the Mountain: ⚰️ they are. literally buried. in a mountain.

- Seabound: ☁️ vastness of the ocean etc. etc.

- Crystallized: 🦷 body horrorest season. kinda corruption also but s1 is definitely not flesh so it is what it is-

[zebracakesarecopingmechanisms]

Assigning each ASOUE book a TMA entity (+why)

*Also taking the Netflix show’s portrayal/atmosphere into account.

The Bad Beginning: Web 🕸️

The Baudelaires are beginning to realize that things have been going on behind the scenes that they can’t understand; they are almost completely trapped in Olaf’s scheme til Klaus finds a loophole.

The Reptile Room: Hunt 🦷

The Incredibly Deadly Viper is initially percieved as a threat, if short-lived, and the Baudelaires are surrounded by dangerous creatures. Simultaneously, this is the book in which they truly realize Olaf is determined to keep chasing them.

The Wide Window: Lonely ☁️

Imagery of a large, empty house in a grey, foggy lake setting combined with the theme of grief. They are also without their guardian for a while after she faked suicide and was temporarily presumed dead.

The Miserable Mill: Dark 🌑

The Baudelaires do not know what happened with their parents here; information is being hidden from them. Klaus’ vision is literally impaired at several points in the story due to his glasses being damaged, in addition to the mandatory nightly “lights out” immediately after dinner.

The Austere Academy: Slaughter🔪

Vice Principal Nero’s fixation on the violin provides frenzied music, a common theme of the slaughter. The children are collectively cruel to the Baudelaires via Carmelita’s leadership. They demonstrate moblike behavior at the pep rallies.

The Ersatz Elevator: Spiral 🌀

The penthouse has hundreds of rooms and corridors in which one can easily be lost; there are repeating patterns on walls and furniture as well as the children’s clothing. Proportions seem exaggerated, ie the scale of the house, the limo, Esmé’s hat and fur coat, etc. The elevator is a false door that acts as a deception. Esmé is the first character to convincingly lie to the Baudelaires, and the contradictory rules of the In/Out system are nonsensical and confusing. And, of course, there is literally a Red Herring at the auction.

The Vile Village: Buried ⚰️

The Baudelaires are, in a literal sense, in a dry and dusty desert village full of sand. In addition to this, Duncan and Isadora are trapped together in the cramped, dark space of the fountain for the bulk of the story. In a more figurative sense, the Baudelaires are also buried under extensive suffocating and restrictive laws.

The Hostile Hospital: Eye 👁️

Heimlich Hospital contained files of information on nearly every conceivable subject; a massive gathering of knowledge by a man who ironically has poor vision. Olaf keeps a constant watch through the security cameras, and when Klaus is being forced to operate on his sister, an entire theater is seeing him.

The Carnivorous Carnival: Flesh 🥩

While the “carnival freaks” are of course not actually examples of body horror and are just people with deformities, they are still viewed as such by audiences within the narrative. Additionally, Madame Lulu is literally eaten alive by lions.

The Slippery Slope: Vast 🌊

In this case, the Vast mainly refers to the sky and heights, though the ocean is incorporated at the very end leading into the Grim Grotto. Falling off the mountain is a constant background fear; Sunny’s cage is thrown off the edge, and we see Kit do her little falling-and-flying trick with the dragonfly wings.

The Grim Grotto: Corruption 🪰

I was tempted to put the Vast here, but honestly the ocean itself was more of a unusual setting than a legitimate source of fear. The major conflict of the story was the infection/contamination of the Medusoid Mycelium.

The Penultimate Peril: Stranger 🎭

The Baudelaires do not know whether they anyone are speaking with is trustworthy, especially Ernest vs. Dewey.

The End: Extinction 🏭

The island is partially covered in garbage and debris, and everyone there is poisoned by the Medusoid Mycelium and will presumably be wiped out.

*Honorable mentions to the Desolation (fire, suffering) the Lonely (very few believe or help) and the Hunt (Count Olaf’s constant pursuit) as overtones of the entire series.

[ghoulishfreak]

Yesss Sir… so easy to get trapped, triggers and spirals are my weakness…

Don’t need to think right now…

-🌀

good boy💕 you're better brainless. dont think now. just stare and edge

[authenticityacctability]

In a terrible mental health spiral. 🌀

Then I try my deck.. & this card falls out. The modern witch guide along with it reads: “you’re feeling trapped, blinded, unable to take action because all your swords are stuck in the ground & they seem too difficult to pull out. But these ropes aren’t very tight, & with just a little struggle they’d fall right off. Don’t surrender to hopelessness & negativity. You might have made some mistakes that have gotten you here, but you have the skills you’ll need to get out of this situation.”

Daaamn.

Then I asked how I get out & drew page of cups, which basically said maybe new inspiration or a new friend was coming & not to be afraid to dive right in..

[moshi-roulette]

Despair Boy

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Please enjoy your stay in Gregory’s Hotel

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“LOSER!”

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General Info

Name:

Despair Boy

Nicknames:

Johnny, Spiral

Age:

11

Gender:

Male

Pronouns:

He/Him

Sexuality:

Aro

Birthday:

Mar 19

Zodiac Signs:

Pisces

Species:

Spiral Creature

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Personal Facts

Personality:

He’s known to be very brash and rude. He’s very stubborn and refuses to follow any orders he is given. He mocks those around him to the point it causes them misery and pain.

Likes:

Messing with people

Dislikes:

Time-out

Hobbies:

Mocking, pranking

Description:

“A horrible child and a brat. He is extremely disobedient and likes to mess with people. He even uses his appearance to trick people into trusting him before pulling the rug from under his victim and pulling a nasty prank on them.”

In order to get his soul, you need to grab one of his chains and trap him, his soul will pop out and you have to quickly get it. For if you are too slow, he will untangle himself before trying to attack you.

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Relationships

Parents:

Unnamed Grandma

Siblings:

None

Friends:

James

Roulette Boy

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Fun facts

Quotes:

🌀: “Kekekeke! Hehehehehe!”

🌀: “Can’t catch me!”

🌀: “Ow! Meanie!”

🌀: “I'M GOING TO GET YA!”

🌀: “WEEEEEEEEE!”

🌀: “Play with me! Play with me!”

🌀: “You look so ugly and you smell disgusting!”

🌀: “Ew! Gross!”

[ghoulishfreak]

Another moot has given me an edging challenge and scrolling through watching everybody get trapped in your words and your spirals and letting myself get trapped too I just feel so meltty sir…

-🌀

aww so many spirals and triggers on your dash 💕 you'll end up edging your mind away. just let yourself get trapped, accept your brainwashing. sink in that nice melty feeling. you don't need to think right now💕