“Fiat lux! If you want to talk improbable, let’s talk about this”—a scrape of stone on stone—“being three thousand and some years older than this.” A heavy clunk.
“Inexplicable, Warden.”
“Certainly not. Like everything else in this ridiculous conglomeration of cooling gas, it’s perfectly explicable, I just need to explic-it.”
“Indubitable, Warden.”
“Stop that. I need you listening, not racking your brain for rare negatives. Either this entire building was scavenged from a garbage hopper, or I am being systematically lied to on a molecular level.”
So like one common theme when discussing bullying is the tendency for bullies to project their insecurities on their victims right? like them taking their own shit out on the people they bully?
so i know that may not be exaaaactly the case with Max Jagerman in Nerdy Prudes Must Die like the dude even in the afterlife just really fuckin likes terrorising the shit out of people due to his god complex BUUUUT what I found very interesting was when in the Nerdy Prudes Must Die sequence, he was telling Richie to repeat after him: "Who will pray for me when my body's gone or until another Richie comes along?" And mind you, this song comes directly after another musical sequence about all the teens in that high school being so fucking happy that Max was gone. And like, well yea you can't blame the kids for being happy that Top Terrorizer #1 is gone and that they don't have to abide by his social strata anymore - but then again, having nobody pray or give a fuck about Max after him being mysteriously missing for 2 weeks is,,kinda fucked up for Max no matter the kind of person he is. So, to see someone he victimised get the attention and appreciation I would assume Max would've wanted from his team especially after being missing for so long - it really does seem to me that he was projecting onto Richie when he was about to kill him and making him feel how little he will matter to other people when he dies - like what he could've felt after literally everyone considered the high school "objectively better" now that Max was gone.
Which makes things a whole lot more interesting when Max snaps out of his WHO WILL PRAY FOR YOU solo when Richie belts out I'M NOT A LOSER - henceforth defying the idea of worthlessness Max was projecting onto Richie. So damn.
right so you guys ever think about the spectre telling the narrator that hes more similar to her than to a person?
what "her" was she referring to? the fragment we call the spectre? the way he can only be perceived, not perceive himself? the ghost of him, the ghost of her? all of her?
im just. thinking. i always think about spectre. she has. a lot to say that i think is overlooked in favor of more common favorite routes like moment of clarity and the tower, but shes one of my favorites, and shes one of the only ones who SEES the narrator, save for wraith, who is. also her. or nightmare. and she says that hes not really a person. like her.
of course, that makes sense, we think shes a ghost and dead, so she is. but him. is the echo a ghost in the classical sense? is that what she meant? or are there layers?
she says he's not really like a person. what is a person to her? is she comparing the narrator to the "shards of broken glass on the floor" are her interactions with us and the voices the only "person" she knows?
i love love love when this game separates the narrator from us and our voices. i love it so much i think about it daily. props to tower for "layer of grime" that fucks so hard.
i don't have a thesis im just. thinking. how much of the narrator is left. really.
listen. yes it's pretty frustrating but i think it's so funny how they had aerin be an official LI, made his route fuck so hard even previous haters wanted to fuck him, and then had him dip in the same chapter that he had sex with MC for the first time. and then he's just been gone like it never happened for 9 chapters and counting. like i know ill get death threats for this but i genuinely think this was one of choices' funniest moves. what was going through their minds. 10/10 no notes
Please explain to me how tech is alive my brother keeps trying to convince me he's dead
I could go the hard way and explain in minute detail every single thing that points to Tech being alive, but I won't do that, cause I would probably spend hours writing a 40 pages long essay, so instead I will point you to my two completely delusional takes that are so out there that people have been converted to Techisalivism just through sheer absurdity of it:
The ass theory
Domicilegate
That's all I have to say and if your bro doesn't believe you after reading these, a 40 pages long essay certainly won't do that either.
each episode ishiro wears a suit, but they are not all the same suit. if you look closely, you can see that they have color, pattern, and/or texture differentiation amongst them. while he may have worn a suit over at times, and will likely do so in the future note that they are not all the same.
episode 1: plaid suit - plaid is barely visible in most scenes but it is there
episode 2: plaid suit - made from a different material from the other suits (possibly wool?)
episode 3: plaid suit
episode 4: pinstripe suit
episode 5: plain/standard suit - seems to have stripes in some lighting however, but that may just be the material
episode 6: plain/standard suit
will have to revisit this after seeing more of his suits and looking into suit construction/fabrics/patterns further
You know, it's kinda funny that Cuttlefish (Cuttletavio fics nonwithstanding) is so often underutilized or just written out entirely given that he has great potential to be a foil to Captain 3. Think about it. Most Captain 3s in the world have self-destructive tendencies of some sort, but I've seen stunningly few fics examine why that is. People don't just act and believe the things they do because that's just how they are, it's shaped by their experiences and—well, what other people tell them. So, where else would Captain 3 get their self-destructive tendencies from then Cuttlefish? He's their mentor, and he's seen the destruction of the Great Turf War firsthand. Of course he would encourage self-destructiveness and maybe xenophobic tendencies towards octolings. It's all he knows. When Captain 3 breaks away from these beliefs, he stands in contrast to them as someone who won't—who can't let go.
anybody remember the stephanie brown essay I was working on under a research grant fully last summer? yeah it’s not done yet it super needs to be done and I’ve been avoiding working on it for weeks. someone tell me to just do it already