#but thats another can of worms

[randomfandomsgobrrrrrr]

its really cool how in tma they had a lot to do with books and words and statements, meanwhile in tmp we are in computers and there's alot to do with websites streamers youtubers and social medias

[rotting-guy]

am i the only one who is extremely uncomfortable with how common it has become for parents to film their babies and kids and post it online? like i feel like it used to be common sense to NOT do that, or at least censor their face or something. im probably not saying anything new but even forgetting the obvious issue that pedos are unfortunately everywhere and you're just making it easier for them, it just gives off this message to your kids that nothing is private, people will film their toddlers doing normal toddler stuff and post it on their very public influencer account when stuff like that just used to be in the family VHS or photo album or whatever. we complain enough about every social media doing everything to steal our data and invade our private life, but you sure as hell are helping it.

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

oh ye children of lands that probably know more about this than i do

i humbly ask your opinion

so ive talked before abt how bad my knees are, right?

so i finally went to the doctor, he was really nice, said something something something its a problem with my plica, which are little folds in the lining of my knee left over from growing as a kid. and theres no treatment except for a really invasive and potentially useless surgery.

but!

that doesnt stop me from being in near-constant pain!!!!!

and i have a velcro knee "brace" thing, but mostly what it does is make my knee sweaty and sometimes hurt more. and also both of my knees hurt, and i only got one brace.

all this to say, i'm going antiquing with my brother this weekend, and i know for a fact that a few of the antique stores we're plannin on goin to have one of those like buckets of just. antique canes.

do you see where i am going.

i have this thing in my head. that tells me that a cane might help. but then it tells me that it would make me look like im faking it to get a cool cane. (which the looking cool thing would only be a bonus tbh)

so i humbly ask of ye, oh cane users and really bad leg pain havers, what do i do? do i ignore my pain, potentially to the detriment of my knee lining, or do i get a cane and look like i'm faking?

[mouseratz]

I think something that a lot of people fail to accept is that.....people need to be treated like human beings regardless of situation. "fat people are ok....if they're healthy" "addicts are okay....if they're successfully recovering" "homeless people are okay.....if they're trying hard enough/they're not addicts/they're not gross" . like none of these conditions take away somebody's humanity. but when you add these "ifs", you do make respecting someone else as a literal fucking person conditional. empathy or just any level of understanding is seen as something that has to be Earned in these situations . and it sounds so simple, even obvious, but then you think about it and it is just a really widespread line of thinking.

[ashrui-27]

the strugglerrrr (bonus under the cut)

[themistas]

going to scream. when castiel goes bonkers as god, powered-up over 9000, dean gives up on him one hundred and thinks he's no longer there. but sam, the blood-addict, lucifer's vessel, the freak, the one who is supposed to be evil, who has succumbed to 'darkness' here and there, knows, and doesn't. and castiel is still there, and in need of help. and what would have happened had sam not been there.

[mustiels-art]

CW: Blood, Implied Car Accident or Injury

One of John's reoccurring nightmares involves the scene of his own death, but it's difficult for him to figure out if he's inside the car or outside looking in. Often, it's both.

[queen0fm0nsterz]

What do you think are glitches remains?

This question is so simple on the surface but the second you start looking into it... the implications carried are certainly intriguing.

So. The Glitching Remains are, by definition (and presumed by their name), remnants of the past. They are what's left of someone who has been long gone. If you want a direct comparison somewhere else in the games, the Nomes and the Shadow Children are similar to what the Glitching Remains are supposed to rappresent.

The Nomes are a more... "universal" kind of remain. They are what is left of the body after it is ridden of its identity. They are still the result of death - see as the Lady cracks RK's bones and twists his neck during his transformation - but rather than being spiritual, they are the physical manifestation of it. Nomes have been around for a long time, predating even the Lady herself, so you could use this to point at the fact that this practice of creating/leaving remnants behind has been around for a long time.

(Concept art of RK and the Nomes in the Maw and a screenshot of the Nome in the Necropolis.)

Considering how they are treated in the Maw, I would not be surprised if they were also created to be workers elsewhere. Their number is quite elevated in the Nest - place which is implied to have held large numbers of children in the past - and wa have reason to believe that the Necropolis might have had some Nomes as well.

The Shadow Children are, however, a much more direct comparison to the Glitching Remains. Officially referred to as "the Masked Remains" in their theme, they are a spiritual counterpart of the Nomes: they are what happens when you force a remnant to live outside its body.

(A Masked Remain being blasted away. They are oddly adorable.)

I say "force" because they are not born spontaneously: unlike the Glitching Remains, they need to attach to a physical object to survive even as shadows. Once their mask is destroyed, they don't reform. This is what makes me think that they are not naturally formed, but rather created.

(I also have an ounce as to what their masks are made of... but this is not the time. Still, ever since I saw that petrified child in a cage in the Residence, I have not known peace.)

A parallel is drawn between the Nomes and the S.K. in Very Little Nightmares, where their Jack-In-The-Box can be found next to some Nomes mourning in front of pictures of children - considering the context, presumably their former selves before they got transformed.

(Tears. Many tears.)

The Glitching Remains are similar in spirit, but different in practice. Nothing sways them: they are not weak to light like the Masked Remains are, and they don't need to have a physical object to attach to in order to persist in the physical plane. That being said, they are devoid of freedom: none of the remains we meet walk away from places and some even appear to be "trapped".

Taking this into account: I think the Glitching Remains are the physical manifestation of the strong emotional distress one feels before or during death. Or even a strong emotion in general. I say this because of the many places where the kids are found, implying their untimely deaths, but some of these kids are seen repeating actions which have nothing to do with that. Either way, I think that in nature, they are similar to what the Thin Man is: a "ghost" made of static which carries on thanks to emotion alone. They are not on the same due to the difference in strength, hence why the Thin Man has a more physical body while the remains don't, but the basic idea is the same.

(A few example of Remains who I think are in the place of their death/where their body lies. There is many more, but I picked the ones I think are most obvious.)

Earlier I said that I believe these remains to be formed rather than created: this is because, while we do see Thin Man has the ability to create Remains, the fact that he's been locked up for so long, as well as many of these remains hiding in places unreachable to him, has me reason that most of them are most likely not made by his own hand. Rather, I am currently of the assumption that the air of the Pale City (and surroundings) is so strongly plagued by the power of the Transmission that these Glitching Remains can form on their own.

However, when coming in contact with Mono, his first instinct when coming close to them is to "absorb" them (exact opposite of what the Shadow Kids do with RK, might I add!) and they have no reaction whatsoever, which is another reason for me to think that these Glitching Remains are truly the purest form of remnant we've ever encountered in the franchise. They only do one thing, and that's it. They don't move from their spot and they're not aggressive: they're just a fading memory replicating either their last actions, or their last emotions.

((... Kinda like the Thin Man, on a much lesser scale. Again, these are two sides of the same coin here.))

I think Six not reacting to them at all is also quite interesting. There are a few instances where Mono can absorb them right in front of her and she doesn't seem the least spooked. I wonder if she can even see them to begin with?

[miscellaneoussmp]

Wait, wait, wait, it just hit me. 3/4 dead eggs have parents on Bolas Rojas now. Charlie Slimecicle, Jaiden and Roier, and Max. Mariana is the only parent to a dead egg that isn't on Bolas Rojas. (I am not counting Q as he technically didn't make it to Purgatory). There's a tragedy there.

Nobody fought like this when their eggs were lost. Max couldn't get to Trumpet in time. Jaiden and Roier only got ten minutes with Bobby after they were promised more. Charlie Slimecicle keeps losing JuanaFlippa over and over again. It was a quiet tragedy every time. There was the sound of crying and screaming, all the tell-tale signs of grief, but it wasn't loud and explosive like this. The tragedy could be explosive, but it isn't, not yet.

Roier runs into battle now under a red banner with his sword still etched with their, his and Jaiden's, son's name. The tragedy won't be quiet this time. Ten minutes should be more than enough time.

If you listen closely, while in the unground base of Bolas Rojas, you can hear the quiet laughter of three children echoing through the cave network. They're having fun playing a game, too.

[lighthouseas]

begging people to understand that "mike is not being abused by ted and karen" and "ted and karen are not good parents towards mike and this is something that we are supposed to take notice of throughout the show" are two statements that can and should coexist

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

3l!grian is frequently depicted as a tragic figure and sometimes i wonder if we even watched the same series

[balladsaboutnothing]

One headcanon that I like is the headcanon that the battle Maniac somehow knew Carlo

Idk I just like the idea of him possibly having met him briefly in some form of like Stalker training program or something (since he does seem to be knowledgeable on the different movements of each Stalker group) and having been fascinated by Carlo's fighting and all that

I dont headcanon any member of the Black Rabbit Brotherhood went to the Monad Charity House mostly because I think that the Eldest acted as a sort of father figure to them and didn't trust any institution to treat them well. Still his remark at p for his moveset possibly reminding him of someone is interesting

I like to think that Carlo and Romeo might once they graduated went to places where Stalkers trained and all that and that's where they saw the battle Maniac (who I headcanon was like in his early teens) there like showcasing his fighting style and Carlo just went to complement him like "hey kid keep up the good work :D" and then Battle Maniac just sort of remembered that for the rest of his life

All that to say that I like to think that battle Maniac might have looked up to Carlo

[italicized-oh]

okay but. the way that the teachers in fantasy high are also tropes from the same teen coming of age movies that the kids are. like. no wonder we're out here finding so much to tap into w apparently little canon info. like true, in d20 canon, we've only got a few lines of dialogue for jace and zara and porter and eugenia and henry etc etc

but in the larger canon that fantasy high as a whole is building on, we have plenty to work with. im too tired to list examples rn but i know they're there. they're the intertexts for any fic that expands fantasy high beyond what we see in the dome. what i wanna know is if we're building from tropes of teachers or of students, or if we're creating frankenstein's tropes whenever however we feel like it

[blueishspace]

You know, If you watch Hermitcraft s6 with Watcher Grian in mind a lot of stuff works.

Like the time Impulse built the giant ass eye over Grians base and wrote a sign with like "because you watch everyone" and Grian was like: "That's true"

Or the entire way demise works, something that took two different machines to undo.

Or him knowing stuff he shouldn't because of watching the others videos irl. And more!

[collgeruledzebra]

idk if anyone's brought this up before but im pretty sure riz's description of the dying god is referencing the watchmaker analogy

[moonlilyshipping]

people continue to follow this blog????

if anyone goes through the old posts of this blog, my warning is that 2015-2017 were dark times for the sapphic community