#category: statement

[archive-of-fear]

Name: Dissected

Source: Torchwood

Category: Statement

Entity: The Stranger

Description: Statement of Martha Jones, regarding an autopsy on a corpse brought in by a former colleague

While the title and setting would suggest a more End aligned tale, this story is primarily Stranger-coded. The corpse itself is actually a shapeshifting alien, attempting (and nearly succeeding) to mimic a "normal" human corpse, even subtly changing its appearance based on what those around them have said they expect a corpse to look like (e.g. making its hair and fingernails grow longer in response to Gwen repeating the common myth that they continue to grow after death, and then retracting said features once Martha corrects her). Martha hypothesises this could be a tactic to infiltrate and eventually take over UNIT:

"Okay, let's think: you're an intelligent chameleon arriving on this planet; you know we'll detect your ship - use that. Pretend to be human - pretend to be a dead human - get yourself smuggled into an organisation adept at dealing with aliens. First, you take over the experts, and then the organisation, and then the whole system!"

However, before this revelation, a swab from the corpse's mouth registers two sets of DNA, one of them being Gwen's, making Martha become suspicious of her former colleague being a shapeshifting infiltrator. Gwen mirrors these suspicions back at her and the two of them interrogate each other, trying to prove the other is a fake, but end up realising how little they know about the other and how much they've drifted apart.

[isogenderskitty]

people who’ve only seen hatchetfield: starkid has like practically no gay characters :/

the avp trilogy which has been sitting right there for probably most of their lives and is the foundation of everything:

plus these less explicit more headcanony (but like, BARELY) examples that i really think are worth mentioning as well, i have receipts don’t tempt me i will literally make an entire video about this stuff (and i might actually):

[doublel27]

I thought joong was straight? He is quite into dunk lips but beyond that i thought straight. I don't even read him as bi?

Look, I neither actually know nor care what Joong’s sexual orientation is. That’s between him and whomever he chooses to tell. And most of my Joong knowledge is adjacent to my knowledge of FKT, AouBoom, EarthMix and DaouOffroad because he’s close with all of them. I more know of him then know him, so I could be missing stuff.

I would say, in regards to your ask, Joong doesn’t appear to have the painful knowing that often comes along with growing up queer in a society that doesn’t want you to be that a lot of other queer people use as a tell to identify each other. The thing that makes us, as queer folx, hesitate or get shy when it comes to things straight people wouldn’t think twice of. And while I do use that in my analysis sometimes, I also know members of Gen Z across the world actively work to resist that shyness and that shame that comes with internalized homophobia and honestly the real-world consequences that can come from being proudly out.

What I do know is he is 1000% into the fanservice portion of his job. Now either it’s his job and he’s having the best time being gay for pay, its his job and he’s excellent at pretending to have the best time pretending to be gay, or he is just shamelessly queer and has said fuck the knowing.

This man is out here yelling into full concert audiences “where is my teerak” and when the audience yells back saying SHHH! he didn’t ask for them, he asked for Teerak! He’s hugging and kissing Dunk at every opportunity and posting various shots of Dunk’s bare waist in crop tops during this THK filming area. He strikes me as the kind of man who reads the RPF about himself. In The Heart Killers book fair panel this past week, he talked about his love of reading BL novels and imaging himself and Dunk in the lead roles. Take that for what you will.

He also expressly stated in an interview alongside Dunk this week that he insisted on being paired with a partner the same height as him. Specifically stating, he thinks it’s a stereotype that one member of an imagined pair/branded couple is always bigger than the other and he didn’t want to lean into it. He wanted to go against that narrative.

As @firstkanaphans and @respectthepetty pointed out, he has a shit ton of queer friends and has close relationships with the members of GMM that are most likely to be clocked as queer (whether they are or not is also not expressly public knowledge and some folx that people clock as gay are straight because femme isn’t exclusive to gay men) Which again, either he’s the most down for the cause straight dude that exists or he’s also queer. My stance is considering he and Daou talk about how close they were to starving trying to make their first shot at being idols happen, I hope they’re having the best time in Thai BL fanservice land being shameless and getting that money.

To end, let me paraphrase my beloved Kit Harrington: to believe you can tell the level of queerness someone embodies just by looking at them or listening to their voice or looking at their hobbies, you’ve missed the entire part of Heartstopper.

Which is why I keep all my speculating to mostly private convos and tumblr where I can pretend celebrities don’t live because we’re all mostly anonymous on here and this site is hell to search. Don’t @ folx on Twitter or on their IGs or their TikToks. Don’t try and out people with YouTube videos. Let the Schrödinger’s Gays enjoy their boxes.

I know I have other anons (I see you. I am maybe coming soon) but this required less work on my end to compile my answers.

[bisonaari]

I need people to understand the difference between joke songs and comedy songs I swear to god

[marstyler42]

What if the organizing of the cases in the O.I.A.R being different from how they were organized in TMA with the original 14 entities is causing a remanifestation where the separations between the new entities are completely different. What if by organizing the cases and they are single-handedly driving this universes interpretations of the fears. They aren't categorizing existing things, they are creating the boundaries.

[bipanicoverthegravessiblings]

oh no I have a type

[death-limes]

my sister keeps insisting i need to make a video essay about h*zbin/h*lluva/v*vz*epop but as cathartic as that would be i can’t help but think it would just make things worse…. im not even sure i have enough to add to the conversation to justify making such a thing

it runs into the territory of the “____ is Garbage and Here’s Why” video essays that at worst are just bad-faith CinemaSins ripoffs disguised as essays & at best are just redundant rants that don’t seem to have any real purpose or say anything insightful

[archive-of-fear]

Name: 73 Yards

Source: Doctor Who

Category: Statement

Alignment: The Lonely

Description: Statement of Ruby Sunday, regarding the mysterious old woman who follows her everywhere.

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Upon accidentally disturbing a fairy circle, Ruby is suddenly alone, the Doctor instantly disappearing from right beside her. She notices a strange old woman in the distance, but every attempt to get nearer is futile, with the distance between them always remaining 73 yards. Any attempt by another person to approach the woman to try and speak to her, causes them to react in horror and disgust at Ruby, fleeing immediately. Even her own foster mother abandons her after doing this, despite her and Ruby having a strong, loving relationship prior.

Eventually, Ruby settles into her new empty, Lonely life, never being able to get close to people due to the mysterious woman driving them away; either directly by talking to them and turning them against Ruby, or indirectly as they feel that Ruby is constantly distracted and unable to fully connect with them, since she is constantly preoccupied with the woman. Even when Ruby thinks she has fulfilled her purpose in this strange timeline - weaponising the strange woman to make a dangerous PM quit shortly after being elected - the woman remains. It's not until Ruby is on her deathbed when the woman finally closes the semperdistans between them. Ruby seemingly dies (alone of course), but then wakes up on a very familiar clifftop in Wales 61 years prior - she had been the mysterious woman following her younger self for all those years. While older Ruby is able to prevent her younger self and the Doctor from disturbing the fairy circle and starting the loop again, there's no telling how many times this cycle happened before it was broken.

[statementlou]

Louis might not be chucking bricks at No. 10, but people are responding like he’s never displayed leftist politics or challenged a government position on anything. He supported demands to the government about a fix for UK touring musician post Brexit and Marcus Rashford’s petition about food insecurity. He fought the police about their social media use in 2018 and criticised the UK government position/support for factory workers in the pandemic. The things he speaks about are usually UK issues and meaningful to him or his family and friends. He’s also most likely to speak when he isn’t working. Also that specific anarchy has a punk anti authoritarian message as well. That statement fits Louis pretty well. He has been a poster boy for not sitting down and shutting up and doing what you’re told since 2012. If he was he probably wouldn’t have a solo career and he definitely wouldn’t have sold out the O2.

I like this point about him speaking out more when he's not working, I think that's a really great and useful observation and makes so much sense. I feel like it makes sense in two ways right now: like first, I don't blame him for not wanting to do things that would jeopardize how beautifully everything is going for him right now after the number of setbacks and troubles he's had to get here, it must feel so precarious. And knowing for a fact that any political statement you make will spawn a dozen tabloid stories and all kinds of outrage is bad enough, but add to that the fact that it's simply impossible to predict which thing will turn into a huge viral mess- it's a lot. And second, he's not just working, he's been on TOUR! I've been around musicians my whole life and one constant is that tour is time outside of normal time and life, it's a bubble, it's only paying attention to right where you are and what's in front of you and the people there with you and everything else is put off and neglected, is for when you get home (and have massive post tour letdown depression and fatigue). I'm not saying he can disconnect with the outside world entirely... but putting everything on pause? I would be surprised if it were any other way, and I would be surprised if he's been following the news and counter news and so forth closely enough to feel comfortable speaking out publicly about anything when it will be so scrutinized and picked apart. I would add to your list supporting the rail strike (something we wouldn't even know about if it hadn't been tossed in as an aside by an interviewer in the print only version of a piece, he didn't post about it or anything) and attending and posting about the BLM protests (not to mention telling people to pirate his stuff come on how punk is that), and I agree he is much more likely to speak out about UK issues which makes sense: most people are most moved by issues that are close to their lives in some way, and it's his brand. And I agree that even though as an anarchist I love talking about what anarchism as a political ideology actually is, the symbol does also have a common meaning in the world as just basically standing for anti-authoritarianism, and Louis as a guy who rejects authority and the status quo is nothing new at all and one of the reasons we love him, and in the last few years I feel like he's been going further in that direction both aesthetically and politically, and we love to see it! Plus he has pretty much always sported this slightly punky aesthetic to some degree, even when he was being dressed up like a little ken doll he snuck in skater looks and indie band tees and so forth (something something it's part of why his fanbase was so primed to love his new sound and it wasn't the risk he feared it was because people were always drawn to him who were already into that aesthetic even when his sound wasn't that yet) it's not like it's just a brand new out of nowhere side of him or something.

[margaretkart]

I don’t like how they add fake news that Bella Hadid is considered the most beautiful woman in the world according on Greeks. Amber Heard was considered more beautiful according to Greeks and I do believe that.

Ask the Greek society, they don’t find Bella thaaat beautiful, ok she is pretty ok? but I guess people just go for fake news to make Bella reach that status around the world. Going for Greeks. Wow thank you so much asking for our opinion USA.

According to some recent Greek articles Anya Taylor joy is considered the most beautiful but most Greek articles just repeat what foreign countries state as the most beautiful.

It's very ironic that we have very beautiful women here and yet i don't see people mentioning it, which is a shame, because not only ancient Greeks had the most gorgeous women.

(Tzeni Karezi, Katerina Geronikolou, Irene papas, Doukissa Nomikou, Ioanna Fylidou, Zeta Makrypoulia in order)

It's very bitter that many countries don't acknowledge us. They say phrases like "you look like a Greek statue", but don't mention modern Greek people.

[notstarcey]

If I keep finding different ways to sort and categorize TMA I fear the avatars and Gerry might hunt me down actually

[lazzarella]

Why do some people continue to watch Thai BLs if they think they're all total trash, they're all badly written and insulting the intelligence of the audience among other complaints I’ve seen? 🤔 some people act like it’s their duty or they’re forced to watch things they don’t like instead of an active choice they make lol

[sunreys]

something something, each person in the statements fixing themselves, changing themselves, into something new, something better, and having glee in that change, narrated by the echoes of people who were once changed against their will, whose descent into inhumanity was unwilling and fought against the whole way, told to those who will either push too far until a change is forced upon them, or who will embrace it.

[sleep-deprived-luka]

Whenever people discuss colopales intentions on pairing Mizuki with the boys in the first white day event, I always really want to add that Shiho was there aswell. Not to undermine their point, but it's the boys +Mizuki +Shiho

[textualviolence]

i was male socialized by the absence of any kind of male parental figure from birth to age 5 and an independent mother with a job and a phd. i've literally always felt like a man not in a trans way just in a i will inherit the world nothing will ever stop me why would it kind of way. Tho i guess in freudian terms i wasn't really male socialized either since there was no father to set any kind of example. Literally did not go through the oedipal stage at all and look at how well im doing. There was no man around to make me conscious of sexual difference and to this day its absolutely not real to me. Like patriarchy exist but its rules and principles are fictional they're not about real people....none of us are women wake up. unplug from the matrix

[archive-of-fear]

Name: Lockwood & Co.

Author: Jonathan Stroud

Category: Statement(s)

Alignment: The End

Description: A collection of statements by Lucy Carlyle, regarding her time as a psychical investigation agent at A.J. Lockwood & Co. Investigators.

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“There is an epidemic of ghosts in Britain. Their touch brings death, and only children have the power to fight them.”

Death permeates the alternate British society of the Lockwood and Co. series. Beginning five decades before the events of the first book, the existence of ghosts became undeniable as an epidemic of hauntings began. Dubbed “The Problem”, it has only gotten worse with time, with the number, strength and range of the hauntings continuing to escalate, with no end in sight.

Only children are able to detect these dangerous visitors from the other side, with this psychic Talent fading to nothing as they age, leaving adults next to useless when it comes to avoiding the deadly ghost-touch. As adults hide inside during the night curfew, children as young as 8 are forced to act as Night Watch or as Agents who risk their lives to fight off ghosts. Mortality rates are high and those who do survive often go on to become supervisors of younger Agents, forced into the position of sending children into mortal danger and being powerless to help them. This is a society dealing with basically the aftermath of an End Ritual and/or an End Domain, where death and the fear of death is the major driving force for most people. This fixation on death isn’t just only fear for some; there is also a thriving black market for Sources - objects (usually human remains) that a ghost is tied to and allows them passage into the living world from the Other Side.

MASSIVE spoilers for the final book below. Seriously, don’t look if you plan on reading this series (which you absolutely should and also check out the incredibly well done TV adaptation):

---FINAL SPOILER WARNING---

Turns out that the origin of this ghost epidemic was caused by the actions of the supposed “Hero” of The Problem, Marissa Fittes, who was the first one to figure out and codify (and profit from) most defences against ghosts. Her expeditions to the Other Side caused the dead to stir and make their way to the land of the living. She was obsessed with the potential properties of ectoplasm, the substance that ghosts are made of and what makes them so deadly, including immortality. Her frequent incursions into the Other Side to harvest and utilise ectoplasm, continued to greatly escalate The Problem, which only served to increase her wealth and fame as the head of the prestigious Fittes Agency.

Despite these constant trips to the realm of the dead rapidly ageing her, her experiments with ectoplasm allowed her spirit to possess the body of her granddaughter on her so-called deathbed. Now posing as her granddaughter, she continues her quest for immortality, escalating The Problem even further, which only increases her fame, fortune and power, giving her more resources to exploit both the dead and the living for her personal gain.