#but i guess we'll see

[jackstheprinceofhearts]

jacks has done sm for Evangeline but I’m trying to figure out what she’s done for him! Seems so much less in comparison 😅😅

honestly i think they need to have a lot more development in their relationship in the next book 😭 i hope stephanie makes some changes

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

I for one, am very excited that the special will be taking place around the time of the episode destruction

I’m happy for the ladynoir stans who will get to see more interaction and affectionate scenes

I’m happy for the adrinette stans who will get to relive the denial stage of early season 5

I’m happy for the marichat stans who will get to return to the mutual pining arc of the first half of the season

But most of all, I’m happy for the Ladrien stans, who once more get to look forward in denial to a scene will definitely happen this time

[chaotic-kitty]

Regarding Techs death.....I think I figured out why I've have difficulties comprehending the idea that he is dead. ((Besides not wanting to let him go / denial))

That's because we literally didn't see a body. We saw his goggles, sure, but that's not actual proof. As far as my brain is concerned, he's still falling (cue loki falling meme). Because that's the last we saw of him. We didn't see him take his last breath, or hit the bottom, or drown, or get crushed, or anything. So because we didn't get to see him actually die, we only saw him fall. My brain just does not understand, doesn't comprehend it. It understood the implications (hence the many many weeks of tears and heartache) but that's about it.

And that's one of the reasons I think I need something more with his story, to prove that he lived or that he did in fact die. Because if not, he'll forever just be falling in my memories 😭

[cookinguptales]

today I am also thinkin' about how funny it would be if the show never actually shows the scene between Guillermo and Derek in its entirety and instead Guillermo just comes back at the beginning of s5 all vampiric and the whole season is the other vampires having to get used to it

and then we finally see the scene between Derek and Guillermo and it turns out that Derek did refuse to do it, or it didn't work, or some other mishap happened and Guillermo has literally just been faking it this entire time.

like! we know that Nandor never noticed that Celeste wasn't a real vampire! I bet Guillermo could fool him, especially if he's upset enough.

[idiotfish]

Too shy to post this on my Instagram so I’m posting it here @all my lesbian moots what made you realize you were a lesbian. I’ve been questioning for months now and Idk why I’m so uncomfortable with the thought of switching labels 😭 I’ve been using bisexual for years and I feel like my attraction to men is completely nonexistent at this point save for like. Two or three fictional characters. So I do feel like lesbian fits me more I just don’t want to go through the hassle of coming out yet again to my parents and having my mom not take me seriously and my dad not acknowledging it

[theres-music-in-you]

Noticed this in the video that the Spain production just posted... perhaps Christine will get a wedding dress there? I know in Italy there was a wedding dress but she didn't wear it.

[veryintricaterituals]

שנה טובה!

Shana tovah umetukah to all my mutuals and friends, and to all who celebrate, let this next year be sweet and kind to all of us.

[animebw]

Thinking back on The Last of Us now that it’s over, as good as it was, I think it also ended up revealing that this story was more attuned to the medium of video games than many of us gave it credit for.

Like, it’s one of the most common criticisms of the original TLOU game, right? “Oh, it’s just a movie with random fights every once in a while that’s ashamed of having to be a video game in the first place.” And to the show’s credit, it does a fantastic job of condensing and recontextualizing the game’s more standard gameplay-oriented sections to fit the demands of a TV show. So much of the early game is very slow-burn character growth over many long hours of fighting infected and raiders, coming to care about Joel and Ellie by spending all this goddamn time living in their shoes. But with a more time-sensitive show where every minute must be important to the story and characters, it’s able to trim that slow burn down to its most critical moments without losing any of the oomph. I think episodes 2 and 4 especially do a perfect job taking hours of game content and condensing it down to its true essentials, communicating in just a couple hours what the original game spent much longer getting you invested in. And episode 3 takes such a huge divergence from how things played out in the game that it’s fully able to stand on its own, maximized for the demands of TV show storytelling in a way that wouldn’t work in a game nearly as well. If you’re one of those people who see TLOU as a movie that’s ashamed to be a video game, you’ll find a lot of evidence here to support that theory.

But then we get to the late game. And suddenly, I find myself wanting. Yes, it’s still good and smart and makes strong adaptational choices and all that, but Joel’s injury without having to play through his rapidly deteriorating consciousness while Ellie takes charge to protect you as you’ve protected her for so long? Winter and David’s fight without that nightmarish escape through a blinding blizzard? The giraffe scene without the option to stay and linger on the view as long as you want, desperate to live inside the peace of that moment despite knowing you’ll eventually need to pull away? These moments have etched themselves into my soul. No matter how many years pass since I first played The Last of Us, I will never forget how utterly this game was able to wreck me through these incredible moments of gameplay and story dancing as one. And as good as the show is, it just can’t quite reach those dizzying heights. It can’t capture the visceral awe of experiencing this world and this story play out under the control of your own fingertips. The Last of Us is a video game; that much is undeniable now. Maybe it’s not the most interactive, but in the moments where it embraces its medium, it proves itself a true exemplar of the form. And though the HBO show was fantastic, the game will still be the definitive form of this story for me.

[completeoveranalysis]

So isn’t the scene where Sakura is disappearing she says to Syaoran, “As long as those two are alive, it isn’t over yet…” What do you make of that and what it means for our favorite clone children?

VERY good question. In typical CLAMP fashion I don't think there's any way to know EXACTLY what she meant until it gets revealed later, but my current assumption is that as long as Character X and Character Y are alive then future events will work out in their favour.

As for who they are? My first assumption was the non-clone versions of Syaoran and Sakura, but it could also be Lava Lamp and Watanuki.

In true CLAMP fashion it could be pretty much anyone, but those would be my first guesses.

[emiliosandozsequence]

there's some pretty significant similarities between my space opera novel and my dystopian trilogy, but i Don't care <3

[jinxofthedesert]

Just got done with my first oral surgery. It originally was only going to be one but they decided to break it into two parts due to a lot of reasons.

Egh. I'm just glad I get to go home and sleep. Early morning appointment's are always exhausting.

Can't wait for the numbness to wear off, I'm sure that's gonna feel great for the next few days lol.

[the-stray-liger]

Shit I forgot they were saying the water around my area was contaminated and smelled of gasoline. Lets hope they havent cut it off at my place

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

So like, what if season 6 starts off with the 'perfect world' that season 5 left off with. A world where no one is ever upset and since the defeat of Monarch, Ladybug and Chat Noir have found themselves with nothing to do. Despite the fact that everything appears perfect, that they are in a seeming Utopia, Marinette finds the whole thing unnatural and unnerving. When no one gets upset, when nothing ever goes wrong, when disagreement never breaks out, Marinette finds the whole experience uncanny and not lifelike. And what if this lasts a couple of episodes, until she and Chat Noir come to the conclusion that something is very wrong and that this state of perfection cannot last long. Though the world is covered in golden light, it is very much gilded and there must be something under the surface that they're not seeing. So what if they discovered that when Monarch made the wish, he set the world out of balance and soon, that balance would need to be restored or something catastrophic will come to counteract the perfection. A force that they will have to contend with throughout the rest of the season.

And what if the season ends with Marinette making a wish to restore said balance and in turn, gives up her memory...

[chirpsythismorning]

What makes you think the evidence for Henry being El's father are misdirects? There's a decent amount of evidence for it and so wouldn't that be a waste of time? If it's not the direction the show is going?

At this time, I think a lot of the evidence does come off as mis-directs, because most if it's fairly easy to pick up on, with a great deal of casual fans being able to notice the obvious parallels between Star Wars and Luke/Darth Vader with El/Henry.

I shit you not, literally just a few hours ago on Reddit someone posted this theory as one of their top ones for ST5, among Will dying, and Mike and El getting married in a time jump...

Basically, this theory comes up a lot in very basic GA spaces, bc it's an easy guess and this was especially the case right after s4 dropped.

I also think them going about it this way was sort of necessary, because more than anything they don't want fans to figure out who her real father is.

And how they do that, is by directing attention elsewhere.

The point of a misdirect is to trick your audience into thinking the answer is as simple as its being presented as, leading fans to hypothesize the most obvious deduction at any given moment. But what you end up really getting, is a dead end.

They're making choices intentionally as misdirects, knowing exactly how fans will react and what they'll assume, and then use that to their advantage to follow through. Maybe it's to buy time, maybe it's to distract fans from stronger more subtle evidence to the truth elsewhere, or maybe the moment itself is telling us the truth subtly, but because we're so distracted with the obvious, we're missing it.

Exhibit A:

One of the more popular theories floating around between Vol. 1 and 2 for ST4 was the theory that Eddie was a lab kid. And it's because we got this dialogue about how Chrissy apparently didn't recognize him now in HS compared to middle school, because he had his head shaved and didn't have his tattoos yet.

Predictably, when fans heard the words hair was buzzed and tattoo in the same sentence being brought up in relation to Eddie's past, they started to question if it was possible Eddie could be one of the kids that was in the rainbow room during the massacre back in 79'.

This is a successful example of a misdirect, because as we all know, that didn't happen...

And so, what was the point of this line of dialogue then?

I think this fits more in the category of not only being a misdirect, but also that it has double meaning hiding within it.

I mean, look at the word Eddie uses to start off that line of dialogue...

Different?

We already know that this word is associated with Will and El (and Henry).

Think of the way they played with In the Closet (At Rink O Mania), by having Mike exhibit closeted behavior, followed by El in the employee closet. They were giving a score with a title that applied to both of these moments and both of these characters. And they basically did the same thing with Being Different.

While it is Will's song and it's about his feelings, he is using El's name and not only that, but the scene directly after transitions beautifully through the light and takes us to the aftermath of the lab massacre. They literally cap off two El scenes on each side of the van scene... We get an El scene with her gaining her powers again, then we get the Will van scene, then we get a scene of El remembering the events of the lab.

My point is, that word different being put there on its own is already suspect. It just is. I feel like it's not too hard to admit that the word different is related to Will at the very least, and you don't have to think that has anything to do with Hawkins Lab implications if you don't want to bc we were given the impression it had to do with his queerness already (why the word's also been associated with Henry).

But where it gets complicated is that we know the word also applies to El. She also used the word different to describe herself and it was being applied to her having powers.

And then you add the buzzcut/tattoo blast from the past reference, and it's sort of starts to click why they did this.

Everyone was focused on the Eddie aspect to it, claiming he could possibly be 002, only for it to not lead to anything and drop off entirely post s4.

And what we have left, is yet another potential twelvegate/willel twin proof that gets added to the pile of evidence that flies under the audiences radar.

When it comes to the Henry being El's father thing, I think that it applies in a similar way, in that by making these big moments between them thematically parallel an iconic father/child duo, like the most historically iconic, fans pick up on it and the idea enters their mind and it sort of distracts them. And even if they end up not believing it, they leave the situation sort of satisfied enough to drop it.

This is what tends to happen on Reddit with active fans over there. While they might have humored the Henry/El family evidence initially, they've stopped and resorted to dropping the arc of El's father being revealed entirely. It's weird bc a lot of them insist that it's already been dealt with on the show, when it hasn't? In literal canon, there is no actual conversations about who El's real father could be.

And I think that's just another example of a misdirect doing exactly what it's intended to do. It gets you to consider something that is almost too obvious to ignore. And then either you subscribe to it confidently, or then you drop it, only to drop it all.

Day by day, I grow more convinced that barely anything is what it seems on this show. All of the signs that Kali was potentially a pawn in this whole unraveling of events? The fact that we've got BTS of Henry at the Nina location? The fact that we have Henry saying stuff to El in the lab about how Papa lies, followed by shots of Brenner watching these tapes back, with the implication that he's the one choosing what they show her. He literally goes to a room full of tapes and picks them personally, and is feeding a narrative to El that is based on what he apparently wants her to take from it.

It's all very odd.

I don't think how they framed Brenner's arrival and behavior in general during the massacre makes a lot of sense either? Those scenes come off as a mess of shifted probabilities or timelines/loops more to me than one concrete event. After all, it was shown to us so many different ways, even with different coloring at times. Like... it's odd.

I will say that the time implications really make it hard for me to feel 100% confident about anything that we've been presented. So we can only go so far I guess. Same with Will's powers theory. We're all fairly certain it's happening, as there is plenty to hint at it, but that doesn't mean we know how exactly they're going to do it. And so it's fun to speculate and go as far we can I guess.

I am looking forward to The First Shadow play! I think that whenever information about that is revealed, considering it's canon it will inevitably be available to us in some shape/form in the future, I'll probably have a better grasp on where my thoughts are in regards to the whole dad revelation, whether it's Henry, Hopper, or otherwise.

For now I'm humoring about a solid 100-200 theories at once bc many do have a lot of interesting ideas linked to them. But I don't feel confident about more than like a few, with byler being the highest, followed by birthdaygate, twelvegate and then joyce + hopper = willel twins gate or whatever. And then the rest of the theories out there sort of fit somewhere within a spectrum of me considering things based on evidence more than anything else.

I'm honestly just excited to see which theories end up being right in s5. Because there are so many out there that somebody has gotta be close. Whether it's little arcs we have in store or big ones, I look forward to being shocked by the theories that ended up predicting closest to canon.

[volinare]

my job title is package handler and im a hazmat worker

[wingodex]

okay so the whole thing about robot bodies was obviously a joke for the audience but i do think it was kind of wild for parker and hardison to be like fuck til our dying day, it's not enough, we want forever with you